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And e'en as prudent parents disallow Too much of sweet to craving babyhood, So God, perhaps, is keeping from us nnw Life's sweetest things, because it seemeth gnod. And if, sometimes, commingled with life's wine, We find the wormwood and rebel and sink, Be sere a wiser hand than yours or mine, Pours out this portion for our lips to drink. And if some friend we love is lying low Where human kisses cannot reach his face, 0, do not blame the loving Father so, But bear your sorrow with obedient grace And you shall shortly know that lengthened breath Is not the sweetest gift God sends his friend, And that, sometimes, the sable pall of death Conceals the fairest bloom its love can send. If we could push ajar the gate of life, And stand within, and all God's working see, We could interpret all this doubt and strife, And for each mystery could find a key. But not to-day. Then be content, poor heart ; God's plans, like lillies pure and white, unfold. We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart— Time will reveal the calyxes of gold. And if, through patient toil we reach the lan 1, Where tired feet, with sandals loose, may rest, When we shall clearly know and understand, I think that we will say that" God knows best." Et *torikEtlicr. Mrs. Preston's First Quarrel. BY OLIVE BELL At thirty, Charles Preston was a pros perous merchant, doing a flourishing busi ness, in a city out West; and was such a pleasant, upright fellow, that everybody— especially old folks and children—looked at him with partial eyes. All the marriageable ladies in his "set," watched him with covetous eyes ; but Charley was blind and deaf to all feminine blandishments until he met pretty Lucretia Waverly, the only daughter of one of his customers. She was a warm-bearted,vivaciou3 blonde; as fair and almost as fragile as a snowdrop; with eyes like twin forget me-nuts, and an abundance of silky, yellow hair, worn in innumerable braids—cornet fashion—around her shapely head. Just the woman to bewitch a cool, clear headed man like Charley Preston who had lived his thirty years untroubled by any love dream, and amassed a fortune that would have made him an acceptable hus band to any woman with mercenary motives. But Lucretia Waverly, was not a merce nary woman in any sense of the word.— She was the only and petted daughter of a staunch old country merchant, who, al. though he indulged his daughter in many ways nev4r spoiled her by too expensive living; and she would have married Char• ley Preston if he had been as poor as a church mouse, as readily as the prosperous city merchant, who loved her so devotedly, and gave her such costly gifts. She loved him—be loved her, and that was enough. So one sunshiny, October day, when the sun lay on the fields and hills around the old Waverly mansion like sheets of pale gold, and the garden paths were gorgeous with chrysantheums and fall flowers, the pretty bride-elect was married and said good-bye to her parents and dear old neigh bors. She had no fears for the future as she went out into the world by her husband's side, and the short honeymoon was like a dream to the young wife, who looked on the gay scenes around her with the inno cent eyes of a child. After a short sojourn in the East, they returned to the home that had been fur nished and filled up for them during their absence. Upholsters, paper-hangers and painters, had done their work perfectly and Mrs. Preston fairly clapped her dim pled hands with delight when she entered her parlor in her husband's home—a gem of a room furnished in blue and gold. . "Oh, Charley," she exclaimed — waltzing around the room, with her traveling hat in her hand, and the color coming and going in her pink cheeks, "this is the loveliest room I ever saw. And such pictures !" Her shining blue eyes took in the dainty bits of landscape and rare old Scriptural scenes at a glance. She dropped down on an ottoman, with a sigh of supreme content, and her husband Mentally voted her the loveliest picture is the room. "Come," said Charley, extending his hand; "if you are not too tired, we will look over the house together. I will have to be at the office to-morrow." They went, handin-hand, from one room to another, and Mrs. Preston announced the arrangement perfect. Even the stout Irish . servant girl in the kitchen, and the trig maid of all-work, who looked sh)ly at her young mistress, were inspected and said to be faultless. "We will be as happy as the day is long," was Mrs. Preston's self-satisfied assertion, as she went into her owu room—a cozy retreat, furnished in blue and grey—"and I mean to be such a good wife ; and will let nothing in the world take the place of my home duties." "Bravely said, little wife," said Charley; "and I warn you, Lucretia, not to encour age Cousin Henry Astor's wife in her visits or friendships. She will doubtless call on you in a day or so." "Mrs. Helen Astor'." said Mrs. Preston in surprise, "why I thought she was the sweetest woman I ever saw. I met her at Mrs. Gore's." Cr .I; 2 4 TM 1 0 "She is a very fascinating woman, but her attractiveness won't wear. I would not fancy seeing you much in her company." "Why ?" innocently inquired Mrs. Pres ton, as she laid aside her traveling wraps, and seated herself in a low rocker before the fire. Charley Preston's black brows knit in a slight frown as he leaned his elbow on the low marble mantel, and looked down into the smiling upturned face of his wife. "Because she is a vain heartless woman, Lucretia; and has led Harry a miserable life. She is a leader in society, a Woman- Suffragist, and if one is to believe her own story :a perfect slave to a despotic husband." "I am so sorry," said Mrs. Preston with a half sigh. "I shall be so lonely, and I liked her so much." 0 a 7 "Every one likes her, but she is none the less to be avoided for all that. Few people know her as thoroughly as I do. When she calls, treat her politely, on Henry's ac count; but do not go any farther." Mrs. Preston obediently promised to obey her husband's instructions, although in her heart she was sorry that Mrs. Helen As. • r " . i . ;" I; 0 as 14, • . 1 " (A.. HUNTINGDON, PA , FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1877. tor's name was to be excluded from the list of her intimates ; and when that lady called, which she did in a day or two after the above conversation, Lucretia's welcome was more polite than fervent. "I am so delighted to have you for a cousin," exclaimed Mrs. Astor, after the compliments of the day had been exchanged must really compliment Charley on his choice of a wife. In a season or two you will eclipse me." The little black eyed beauty laughed merrily, as a flush crept up into the fair face of the young wife, and familirrly seated herself on the sofa, beside Mrs. Preston, who suddenly thought of her husband's warning and looked confused, and felt at a total loss for something to say. Mrs. Henry Astor was a brunette of the most approved type. She had a clear olive skin, cheeks like damask roses, jet black hair, and eyes like twin sloes. Her lips were red as scarlet and her teeth white and small, while her hands, which were small and dimpled, were marvels of whiteness and symmetry. She laid one ungloved palm on Mrs. Preston's pink fingers, and said in a low voice : "My dear Mrs. Preston, you doubtless think you are a happy woman ?" "Indeed I do." honestly replied Mrs. Preston. The fashionable Mrs. Astor shrugged her fine shoulders. Her married life had been a miserable failure, and her husband strongly favored the anti-suffragist party. "Well," sighed she, "I hope the delu sion will last. I thought I was the hap piest woman on the face of the earth, when Henry married me. But married life is not just what we fancy it in the rose-colored days of our honeymoon. Mine is a perfect drag." "How is that ?" timidly inquired Mrs. Preston. "I have always heard your hus band spoken of as a kind, honorable man." "Pooh !" sneered Mrs. Astor, tossing a few feathery black ringlets out of place. A man may be all that, and make a very poor husband. Henry is as stiff and stolid as an ox. When he puts his foot down on anything, it's there. He gave me so much a year for my own use, and I have to live on it if Ido go like a beggar. He says it's the very last cent he can afford. But I pay him off in his own coin, don't I.' She laughed, a hard disagreeable laugh, and innocent Mrs. Preston looked at her wonderingly. "I suppose you would like to know how, wouldn't you ?" she went on, idly toying with 11,,r watch chain. "As you are in tl-e family I suppose I may as well tell you. In the first place I leave the sole care of the house and my two children to the servants. Secondly, I keep all my pleasant words and smiles for company, and snub him in every possible way. Then I flirt with other men who think I am an angel—and make myself generally useful in the woman's rights movement. Astor detests all such work, and I love it." She laughed again—a low musical laugh —as if married life and its cares and a loveless home were no trouble to her. Mrs. Preston, guileless as a dove, felt grieved and shocked. "How did it all begin ?" inquired the young with, an expression of deep commi's seration creeping into her blue eyes. "Just how all matrimonial differences begin," said Mrs. Astor, with a half yaivn. "Henry objected to my mode of dressing, and I resented that of course. I had mar ried a wealthy man, and I was going to dress. Then, he objected to some of my associates, and once, after I had been out four nights in the week, attending the meetings of a 'club' we women had or ganized, he suggested that I should stay at home for the future. I told him no man should rule me, and I went out when I pleased, and danced and flirted, and did everything to annoy him. He gave me fifteen hundred a year to dress on, and I managed to do it, although half the time I'm not fit to be seen." Mrs. Astor concluded her little speech with a tragic gesture of one little hand and an impatient toss of her handsome head. Mrs. Preston glanced at her rich and becoming carriage dress of soft garnet silk and velvet, and thought it anything but "beggarly." She was sorry for the handsome and really attractive woman, who told her sorrows and acknowledged her faults with such charming simplicity. In spite of her husband's warning, she be lieved Mrs. Astor and thought Henry must certainly be very exacting. "You do not know how miserable I am," went on the low, sweetly modulated voice, as Mrs. Astor put a dainty scrap of cam bric and lace to her eyes. "If I did not go out so much I would actually die of the horrors." "It is such a pity. I hope Charley and I will never drift apart in such a way.— Indeed it seems almost impossible that twn persons loving each other as we do, should ever disagree," said Mrs. Preston's earnest voice, for her love for her husband was daep and strong and fervent. "Don't be too sanguine in your expec tations," said Mrs. Astor sharply. "Some day you may wish you had never seen your husband's face. It might have been different with me if I had married a dif ferent man. . But Henry and I had nut a thought in common. He is quiet, generous, and one of your goodish moral men, who never did anything wrong in their lives; and I—well I suppose I'm just what that plain spoken husband of yows called me once—'a light-headed fool.'" Mrs. Preston blushed; and gay Mrs. Astor shook out her silken skirts with a laugh, half-scornful, half defiant, and added, fixing her black eyes on a fine por trait of Mr. Preston. "What an elegant picture of cousin Charley. Just the counterpart of one he gave me before I was married. Ah ! what happy hours we have spent together !" She drew a deep sigh, and glanced from under her black lashes at Mrs. Preston's face, wl:' 'iad paled suddenly. And to prove he , rtion, Mrs. Astor drew a card case '-er cket and displayed a small photo 'barley Preston. His wife did not _ to touch it, for it seemed to her as .. the cold, satin-like paper would burn her fingers. "You can have it if you wish," went on the sir'3n like voice, "for of course, all non sense is at an end between us now." Mrs. Preston shook her head and forced a careless laugh, as Mrs. Astor tossed the picture into a silver card basket, with a look in her black eyes which said plainly, "you have done your work." "I must be going, but I mean to come again, although I know Charley dislikes me. But then you know it is not natural for a man to have very good feeling to ward a woman who has jilted him." Mrs. Helen Astor laughed maliciously, and after some profuse wishes for the young wife's future happiness, she took her de parture. Pretty little Lucretia Preston snatched up the picture Mrs. Astor had so carelessly cast aside and rushed off to her own room for a good womanly cry. For her idol had feet of clay after ail. He bad declared over and over again that no other woman had ever held a place in his heart, and here he had been jilted by Mrs. Astor, when she was Miss Helen Fanshawe. "And he told me I was his first and on ly love," wrathfully cried Lucretia Pres ton, "and warned me not to encourage Mrs. Astor's visits. But I mean to let him see she can come as often as she pleas. es, and I'll get the whole story out of her." Mrs. Preston, in spite of her lovely face and gentle ways, had a temper which was apt to show itself in various unpleasant forms ; and after the first burst of tears she relapsed into a fit of the sulks, which Charley's fearful presence only increased. He attributed her silence and generally depressed appearance to homesickness, and after several ineffectual attempts to coax her into a brighter mood, he left her alone and buried himself in a book. Mrs. Preston sat in a shadowy corner of the pretty blue and gold parlor, feeling very sad and miserable. It was the first shadow that had ever come between her husband and herself, and watching the frank, honest face before her, she could scarcely think it possible that he could ev er love such a gay, thoughtless creature as Mrs. Astor, whom he had spoken so bitter ly of. "Lucretia," he said, looking up sudden ly, "was Helen Astor here to-day ?" "Yes," in a careless way. "Ah :" Charley Preston's fine eyes twinkled merrily. He thought he under stood the cause of his wife's sulkiness. But he was not prepared for what was to come. "She gave you a list of her earthly ills, I suppose ?" he laughed. "And a history—or partly that—of one of your love affairs," sneered Mrs. Preston, in a voice that astonished her husband, who thought her one of the meekest women in creation. "Mine ?" lie ejaculated, opening his eyes and dropping his book in amazement, "why I never had one, until I fell in love with you." "Charley Preston ! You tell me that af ter what I've seen and heard," with a half sob. "See here, Mrs. Preston"—Charley wa getting exeited—"if you are going to be lieve all that woman's balderdash, you have less di: , eriinieati:m than I thought you had." "She didn'6 tell me anything but the trait," blurted out Mrs. Preston. "She said :he jilted you, and gave me your pho tograph to prove it " My picture ? The treacherous vixen She never had such an article in her pos session." "There !" Mrs. Lucretia laid the dain ty piece of card-board on the table before him. lie looked down at his own pictur• ed face, then up into the angry face of his wife. "You believe I gave her that picture, questioned he." "She says you did," rather weekly re plied Mrs. Preston, awed a little by the set sternness of his face. "And you believe her, of course. Where she got the picture I cannot say, but I nev er gave it to her. What did she tell you about her own affairs ?" "Mrs. Preston went over Mrs. Astor's story as briefly and sulkily as possible. "If Henry objected to her spending mon ey he was forced to it, for he could not satisfy her extravagant demands on his purse, without ruining himself. The com pany he objected to were brainless fops, and gentlemen of doubtful reputation. Her temper ie vicious, and she is one of the smoothest, most deceiving hypocrites I ever saw. She will leave nothing un done to accomplish her ends, but I cannot imagine what purpose she has in view in telling you such a falsehood." "I suppose she thinks 'forewarned fore armed,'" doggedly replied Mrs. Preston, who was determined not to be so easily conciliated. `•Mr. Preston looked at his wife, a mix ture of doubt,anger and scrrow in his face. He mentally anatbamatized the woman whose serpent tongue had disturbed hie happiness, and he felt angry and grieved that Lucretia should so persistently believe and uphold Mrs. Astor. "No more of such nonsense," he ex claimed angrily. "I did not give her the picture ; and that is all I have to say about it." "I do not care if you hld given her a thousand ; only you mightn't have been such a hypocrite, and pretended you never cared for anybody, but me !" sobbed the outraged Mrs. Lucretia, as she burst into a storm of reproaches, calling Charley a hard hearted deceitful wretch ; and wished she had staid at home among her flowers and birds, and finally ended, by declaring she would go home to 'mother.' How far this senseless quarrel would have gone, or how many heartaches it would have led to, it is difficult to say; for both parties were thoroughly aroused. But floury Astor's coachman was sudden ly ushered into the room, with a message from his master, that chilled Mrs. Preston to the heart. -Dying ? Helen Astor dying !" Lucre tia's lips were white, and her teeth chat tered, as she repeated the nian's words. She glided swiftly to her husband's side, and laid her warm hand on his looking up into his face, beseechingly. "0, Charley they are about to be sepa rated forever," she whispered; while Char ley drew her closer to his side, as he re quested the man to tell him what had hap pened. Mrs. Astor, the man explained, had gone to a ball, with a married gentle- man friend, sorely against the master's wishes. The horses ran away—overturn ed the carriage, killing the gentleman, and it was thought, fatally injuring Mrs. As tor. "Poor misguided creature !" was Mr. Preston's only comment. "A home left desolate, through that woman's wicked wiles. Come!" looking at his wife, who stood like one stunned : "Get your wraps. The carriage is at the door, is it not Pat. rick ?" The coachman nodded, and backed out of the lovely blue and gold room, with eyes distended ; and after a few moments delay Mr. and Mrs. Preston followed him, and were soon in the chamber of the woman, who lay, propped up by pillows, in a great white bed, a ghastly horror on her white face, and in her glittering eyes. Her hus band, a sad faced man, with two curly headed children clinging to his hand, and the family physician, were the only persons in the room. "Lucretia I" whispered Mrs. Astor, as Mrs. Preston came forward on her hus band's arm, "I'm dying. God has punished me at last. I told you a falsehood—a cruel, malicious lie—when I said Charley gave me that picture." 4-1 e 4 44 ,i 1 . "0, how could you—we quarreled about it," cried Lucretia, the tears rolling down her white cheeks . .‘llow could I ? Why the devil helped me, child. I envied you—l wanted you to be wicked and miserable like myself. I bought it, and knew it would make mis chief between you." Her voice sank low er, and she closed her eyes. "I'm sorry," she went on again -For give me ; I have led such a terrible lite— fashion, folly, sin—has been my ruin. I've broken his heart, too—my dear, patient husband." She looked pitifully at her husband. In this last hour when her gay butterfly exist ence was about to end in the gloom of eternal de'pair, she felt the need of his loving care and counsel. All her past life rose up befure her like a horrid nightmare. "0," she cried out in mortal as "can nothing save me ! I have been such a'thoughtless wife—such a loveless moth er„ "Live :" said Charley Preston in a deep impressive voice. "and we will help you to lead a better life." "Too late—too late," she moaned," Good bye now, and leave Ina with Henry. and my children. I n2ver knew their va!ue, until now." Mrs. Preston kissed the pallid Lee, Charley took one last sorrowful look at the wretched woman, and they left the room, accompanied by the physician, who decla red she could not live an hour. The husband and wife. who had drifted asunder, were together at last. What was said, no one ever knew ; but she fell asleep on his arm, and awoke to life—a blessed, earnest, loving life—and so well and brave ly did she battle with her sins that had blighted her earlier years, that she became a wife, fatuous for her gentleness a,.1 r u rity. As fur Lucretia Preston, it is needless to say, she never doubted her husband's love or truth again ; for her first quarrel was her last, and no shadow of anp.: ever marred the lovely face again. citicet Let Your Neighbor Alone No p.'ople ;.re such a th.•r ugh !nee as wl.o arc perpetuAy nieddiing with tirc busihess s' their w ii, are always on the alert f.r anything piciou , —alwap ready to believe the worst of everybody . y Header if y.'.o 1).2!0 - in, t that unfortu, , ate clasi, WC i.•ty you. .13 it is impossible that you can find out any thing that is going on in your vicinity, you must be in a state of continual torture. A prying mind neels food, and without it suffers Then try to conquer the unhappy peculiarity. What is it to you if your neighbor does bring home a brown paper package and a covered basket ? YOu will live just as long if you never know what they contain. It is none of your business. And if your flighty neighbor, Mrs. Light foot, indulges herself in a new bonnet while her devoted husband wears patched boots, you need not fret about it; be is the only sueffrer, not you. No need of ma king a hue and cry over her supposed ex travagance. The money did not come out of your pocket, and consequently it is none of your business. What if the minister does call on Ann Smith twice a week ? Why exercise your brain about it ? Let him court away. Suppose she has an aw ful temper, and powders her face, as you says she does—her temper will not trouble you. Mind you own concerns. What difference does it make to you if bold Maria "cut" modest Mary ? You need not tor ture Mary by long stories of what you heard concerning the matter. •'I thought I would tell you, my dear. I speak for your good. Somebody should put you on your guard against that treacherous girl." As a natural consequence, modest Mary, her womanly pride aroused, shrinks into the back ground, leaving the field open to her victorious rival. So you crush a good girl's heart because you will not mind your own business. What if they do have three pairs of stockings over at 'Squire Hills ? Haven't they a right to ? As long as you don't do the washing, it need not trouble you at all. What right have you to watch their clothes line ? Employ your time better. It may be true that dashing Mrs. Gay signals to young Dr. Wilde from her back windows. But who gave you the privilege of watching a lady in her own home, where, if any place, her privacy should be sacred ? Her disgrace is nothing to you ; it is none of your busi ness. If we had our way, meddlers should be published like any other offenders against the rights of others. The Duty of a Woman to be a Lady. Wildness is a thing which girls cannot afford. Delicacy is a thing which cannot be lost and found. No art can restore the grape its bloom. Familiarity without love, without confidence, with,ut regard, is destructive to all that males woman tx• tilting and ennobliii4. 'The world is wile, these th 1 are sin They way be nuthing, but they am al. Nothini , ' ? It is the first duty ~; a woman to b , a lady. (;‘, .1 brce.linz is good sense. Bid w,,man is immorality. Awkwardness may t.: in eradicable. Bashfulness is coustituti Ignorance of etiquette is the result of cir cumstances. All can be condoned. and do not banish man or woman from the ainuni ties of this kind. But sell' possessed. no shrinking and aggressive coarseness of de meanor may be reckoned as a State prison offense, and certainly merits that mild form of restraint called imprisonment for life. It is a shame for women to be lectured on their manners. It is a bitter shame that they need it. It is they to whom all mooted points should be referred. To be a lady is more than to be a prince. A lady is always in her right inalienably worthy of respect. To a lady, prince and peasant alike bow. Do not be restrained. Do not have impulses that need restraint.— Do not wish to dance with the prince un sought; feel differently. Be sure that you confer an honor. Carry yourself so loftily that men shall look up to you for reward, not at you in rebuke. The natural senti ment of man towards woman is reverence. He loses a large means of grace when he is obliged to account her a being to be trained into propriety. A man's ideal is not wounded when a woman fails in worldly wisdom ; but if in grace, in tact, in senti ment, in delicacy, in kindness, she should be found wanting, he receives an inward hurt.—Gail Hamilton. 'HEN a young man's salary will not permit him to wear a 30-cent cameo head of some old pagan god or other at the fo cus of his full front save-washing-bill-neck ties, then the times may be characterized as impenetrably dense. The Shadow in the Valley. Up and down that valley through which Custer made his last charge—along that creek where so many of Reno'. nes fill dead from their frantic and "trigging horses—in the thickets sod along tM rar vines, a shadow lurks day and ask. Thr last scalp had hardly been torn Iran the bead of the cavalryman who had crept in to the tail grass to die, when this illation skulked into that valley of death and bey-' gan dealing oat retribution. The chief, Dull Knife, bad mach to any about it the other week, when be surren dered. He spoke in whispers when be re ferred to it and be looked suddenly around and was fearful that it sae softly nesting upon him to stab him in the bock. Crazy 11.)rseS men had nothing to soy ah.;ut it when they surrendered and when white men asked them who or what the shadow was, they shook their beide and whispered : .-We killed 'em all, but yet then is Nis left It is a white man. There is Meek. on his face and clothing. He earrings se. bre and two revolvers, and the nibs wind blows his long yellow curls over bin diosid ers. It is a spirit seat by the Grant Nan itoi to watch over the graves of the white soldiers White men have seen the shados. Hews ers. trappers. and scouts who have busk their camp free Bear that raDey, Won. which the big loonotaia welt skulks and prowls all night long, have felt the paw ence of the nsysterions shadow, or lesie seen it. They hare fed frees their Wash et3 at its soft step. aad they ban find at it when only ten feet away, and vet sees is glide off unharmed_ - It IS not a shadow of s e nti m ent, het being which demos& veneawee £,r the awful botrhery of that little bowl of be me,,--for the tw) brave brushers wb grouped therwelves unwed the nehie Caw ter and f•-nr.;ht to the death. each owe if ing within anus length of bits who fowl* fiercest ind lon'7evt. Whea the seldisew ,v.-. 1 not nf the Talley, leaving , near three iiiin•iresl =rare+ behind them. the wolves rn,4!ee , l fr..in em.,a awl ravine and .l-n. 1.) $1!;: up the fre-h eartbfand re- wed on the brave The .h.•. 1 ,w wa+ there before sir m, a ~, l izary. ruy.rerinits and vivlant thns- ,rrel monads It ,;;.r:inie I an.; -_:•-sturel at the seree ti: , 'd ur.on tiwni with rifle and rew , .lver. and saileL :6:13 w Its a bright keen is bred. 'rue wit;re.4 ran here anjt th e re. from t gnash:hz their teeth in an gt:r. but the ,h &do* parlu t oci. Th e y fort Led in groups in the cuiduipebt dark and waited for the 3hadow to tire oar, asie. - .p n. away. but it paced op and dw.vo ~ver the grry t 4. rt . ILin an.' un- w-aried, and daylight came to hurry the beasts to their lairs until another night. Limiters and scouts have bees there to see the sentinel beat over graves—seen it in the light of noonday, when Dien could not be mistaken. It is $ well beaten path, whisl4 runs from Bran to grave, curving and winding to take in every one, and now and then it wines sines enough to the creek for the wasp senti nel to hear the babbling of the waters. Scouts say it is a path beaten by balsas feet. The red chiefs say that a shadow or a spirit could done remain then is that lonely spot. having only the company of the wild beasts and the graves of butcher ed men. Once, when Dull Knife sad a trusty few were scouting to learn the w'lereaboate of their white foes, they encaniticd is the val ley for the night Tim shadow stok meow them as they slept, and when a fares scream aroused the band from clamber ire of the red men had been murdered—each bronzed throat slashed acmes with a bees knife_ The shadow stood a little ways of and jeered the living, who huddled to gether like frightened children. Wles they fled for their live* it pursued them with drawn sabre, and the chief has a sear on the shoulder to prove that be was streak by the blade. Next day, when a fell lomed of Indians marched into the valley weave the mystery and secure revenge, they sou no living thing The bodies of that dead warriors were cut and hacked sad gashed. Five of the poor cavalrymen whose braise had been beaten out and limbs dismember ed had been avenged. Before the crown of a single grave bad sunk down, Crazy Horse started to ems the valley at midnight with his lodges. The shadow coo fronted his bead and mock ed them, and as the red apes berried slaw in the darkness, vividly recalling the mad charge of the cavalry and the AGM des peration ed . the surprised villagers, the strange shadow skulked along with the column and fired shot after shot into the band. They fired at it, and pushed oat to capture it, but the shielow disappeared as shadows do. Two %pie's. a child or two. an old man and two warriors fell by the bu:lets whi.-h tho 4had..w tired. F rom th a t time the red ini.n avoided the varlev as ut.:ll i tip) hirs_444 w,mltl ne,t cr.,. it dirt it. -v.ti at hi:it when Ow +11)-iiine boat ttp.to 4.ga th, x st,-r4 •„1 the erce it . I hi. -11:1s1 rZ I‘3, n•►l be:at p►th+. isqr ;an i ch ."It thr.mitA 311 , 1 fire ilea; an i ¶'!. if it 14 m►t a +hs.4►w. h•►w 4.' 1 it live ? it erizr hunter, be- mind drank in the *tory of the aw ful tua.--ieri! and cin.r..ived thi4 wild plea of venceanee ? l'erhace oPie of that little hand of cavalrymen pi-a-aped death in gnome strange way an I recovered his itrenzit he wandered about among rocks and Tel anii bilk—recovering strength of hull* but not of reamm. Believing bienelf call ed upon to avenge his comrade*, he larks in the valley. living like the wild besets around him and missing no chance to strike a blow. It is not a month since two army mats crossed the lonely haunt, and baked bog enough to see that the graves had set hoes disturbed. They saw the pea of tie saw tinel leading from grate to grate. They saw the skelet , ns of the red mes Asia by the shadow. They were leasing doe eel. ley when their can were greeted by a mocking laugh, and from a bask of rook gram and dry weeds a quarter of a mils away, they saw the shadow heekowiag toes to come forward. The shadow oessod to be a tnan—a gaunt, long-haired henna be ing, dressed in rags, which had =se be.. an army uniform. It held up is the air and shook at them a carbine sod a sobre, and when they galloped sway. it mot a leaden ball whistling pit their heads.—N. Y. Sun. THIS iS about the time of year that Eve used to examine the foliage of irissess and pick out the prettiest far hat neer spring drew. She never relied epee the fashion magazines for her Apo, bee jai cut the draw bias or gored se bee simple fancy dictated. 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