In Hehool Day*.
BtU Mia the scbool-booaa by Urn road,
A ragged beggar attuning;
Around It still the sumacs grow,
Vnd blackberry vines are running.
Within the master's desk is seen,
Deep-scarred by raps official^
Tlie wsrpiug floor, tho battered seats.
The Jackknifo's carrot 1 initial;
The charcoal frescoes on the wall;
It* door's worn sill, Iwtraying
Tho find that, creeping slow In school,
Went storming out to playing.
Long years age a winter stut
Bhoiie over it at setting;
I,it up its western window panes,
And low oaves' icy fretting.
It touehod tho tangled golden curl*,
Anil brown eyes full of grieving,
tlf ono who still bar steps delayed
When all the school were leaving.
for near her stood the little lioy
Iler childish favor singled;
His eap pulled down upon a face
Where pride and shame were mingled.
Pushing with restless find the snow
To right snd loft he lingered ■
As restlessly her tiny hands
The bluo-ehecked apron lingered.
lie sar '<er lift her eyes; he felt
The sof, hand's light caressing,
And heard the trembling of her voice
As if a fault confessing.
" I'm sorry that i spelt tho word;
I liato to go above you,
Itccanse tho brown eyes lower fell—
" Because, you toe, I love you."
•Still memory to a gray-haired man
Tho sweet child-face is allowing.
Dear girl! tho grasses on her grave
JUve forty years been growing i
He lives to loam, in life's hard school.
How few who pass above him
Lament their triumph and his loss,
Like her— becanse they love him.
—John 0. Whit tier.
MY ROBBER
Wo bad thought it all over; wo had j
disc n axed it from every (standpoint; we j
had argued it pro and eon, this new !
and important question [ which had .
forced itself upon our lives, hut at last!
we bad reached a conclusion.
Perhaps to others it wpnld appear
trivial. To us it was of mighty
moment, for it threw open our doors to
the admittance of a stranger—in other
and loss enigmatic words, a lodger.
We were alone in the world, Helen
and I, living in a pretty cottage loft ns
by our parents, just on the outskirts of
Loudon, in one of tho fashionable
suburbs, too; for our father had pos
sessed comfortable means, and had died
believing our future was well provided
for.
Unfortnnato speculations and invest
ments, however, had consumed so much
of our capital, that, withont encroach
ng upon it further, tho interest would
no longer support us.
For two years wo had struggled along
in the vain effort to make a dollar do
the work of a pound, antil we relin*
qniahed it as hopelces, and with the
future merged into a necessitous and
pressing present, the idea just expound
ed ooc. rred to us.
It was in Helen's fertile brain that it
originated. Hho was three years my
senior, but even that made her bnt
twouty-three, I was very prond of her,
for sho was very lovely, with a sad, far
off look in the groat brown eyes, whose
secret only I knew.
Sho never spoke Will Hastings's
name. They bad had some foolish
quarrel just prior to my father's death,
and aoon after the regiment of which
ho was rsptain was ordered to India.
I did not mean to spy upon Helen's
movements. It was quite by accident j
that, lying on the hall table, I saw a
latter addressed to him in bis London
quarters, for the mail to give tho post
man in the morning
I said nothing of my discovery, bnt I
understood my sistor's restless expect
ancy for the past few days, every time
it came the hoar for the postman's
rounds.
I shared it silently, but in rain. We
read one morning in the paper that the
regiment had sailed, hat from Will
himself no word reached ns.
It seemed strangely nnlike him, this
hard nnforgiveneas—bnt Helen had held
out the olive branch—ahe could do no
more. Only even yet, in the dead of
night, when she thought me sloeping, I
heard her sobbing in her room
But I am digressing from my sub
ject, and just now it occupied all oar
thoughts. We were sitting together at
the breakfast table, when we fltst folly
appreciated our own temerity at seeing
before as in the Time* the advertise
ment we had Inserted with such care.
How many times it had been revised be
i fore the printers hvd obtained posses
sion of it was a secret looked in oar
our own breasts.
••If he," the prcnorn r-frrring to
tho elderly gentleman for whom our ad-
vertiacmeut waa in oHe I, " < houid walk
in now, it would n> look ui.inviting,
would Itr ask* 1 He'en, forcing a smile
and glancing at the dainty table set out
wub its sparkling glase and rich old
stiver.
The latter was a small fortune in it
self—are oonltl hare lived upon it for a
year; bnt it was an heirloom. Helen
iind I must have been in sail want in
deed to have parted with a single pioca.
"No," I answered, cheerily; "let us
hope he will arrivent such an auspicious
hour as this."
Bnt iny hopes were to l>e blighted.
Paring tho ensuing forty-eight hours
we had many candidates, hut on ono
side or othor eomo obstacle was in the
way.
Our hearts sank us we reviewed tho
situation. Which ono of them would
we tolerate to sliaro our homo ? Wo hod
almost determined to give it up—to
struggle on yet a little longor—as wo
sat together in tho twilight, on the
evening of the third day, when there
came a quick, decided peal to tho boll.
Our little maid answered it. A mo
ment later a tlrm, manly tread crossed
the hall—a tall form stood upon tho
threshold of tho room in which wo
were. Tho stranger bowed courteously.
" May I enter ?'" he said, in a strangely
musical voice.
I bad been sitting on a cushion at
Holon'a feet, resting my head upon her
lap. I was conscious that her soft,
caressing hand had produced tho wild
est disorder among my loosened braids
as I sprang np confusedly; but save
that a pair of eyes momentarily regarded
me from behind darkened spectacles,
onr guest devoted all his attention to
my sister.
and dignified as she ever was,
sho bade him be seated.
"An elderly gentleman" onr adver
tisement called for; wo woro alone, and
so felt it would bo more suitable; but
was thia man young or old? His voico
was young, his step was yonng, bnt tho
spectacles ho woro made him appear
both old and ngly. Besides, in this half
light it was impossible to see.
I struck a match and lighted tho
lamp. He gave a Hidden start, and
tnrncd away his head.
"Pardon me," he said, "but I am suf
fering from an acute inflammation of
the eye; I cannot bear any light."
"Pat it out, dear," commanded my
sister, and I obeyed, my curiosity all
unsatisfied.
I stood listening silently as he and
Helen talked. He was greatly in need,
he said, of a quiet homo. Our advertise
ment had strangely attracted him, and,
though perhaps not as yot decrepit by
age, ho felt he might be safely written
down as elderly, especially sinco this
painful condition of bis eyes made it
for a time impossible for him to do any
thing save sit in a darkened room.
His voice was in his favor certainly.
His manner, too, was that of a man
well ltorn, well-bred. I could seo that
Helen looked favorably upon him, and
was not surprised when the arrange
ment was closed between them.
Rising to go, he [handed her his
card, and written upon it was his bank- j
er's address.
"You can make any inquiries there,
Miss Itar," he said; "and, nnleas I hear j
from you to the contrary, I will take j
possession on Thursday next."
Thursday I and this was Batnrdsy.
Only four more days for Helen and mo
to be alouo together !
Bearcoly had tho door closed upon
him than I burst into bitter tears.
"He shall not como 1" I cried. "We
will starve first!"
"Why, Dsisy, did you not like him. j
dear? Of course he shall not come, if :
you object; but ho offered us such very
liberal terras, and seemed so quiet and
nnassuming. I thought you would feel
as I did, that we had been roost fortu
nate. Let ns wait until morning," ahe
added, "before wo decide anything."
Her advice proved good. The full
glare of the day showed the thing in a
more prosaie and sensible light. The
very end for which wo had been strug
gling was attained, and I had l>een un
willing to accept it. My ingratitude
deserved to bo punished.
Tho next week, in the twilight as
before, Douglas Wage arrived. There
was a largo bookcase, several boxes of
books, a reading lamp, an eaxy-ebair, a
varied assortment of smoking parapher
nalia, as accompaniments, to giTO us
renewed proof of a masculine element
I under our roof tree.
For two weeks everything worked
smoothly. Except for a subtle odor of
! cigar smoke about the halls, and a
1 daintily-prepared tray three times a
| day, we could almost fancy no change
had taken place in our household.
I Mr. Sage asked that for a time his
1 meals might be served in his room, as
j his eyes could not aa yet stand the light.
It seemed scarcely right to leare him
1 all day alone in that darkened chamber,
nnabla to read, to write, or to do sngbt
to while away the slow, tedious hours.
It was Helen's suggestion that she or
! I occasionally shonld read to him.
"At his age and in his condition of
I health it really seemed our duty," ahe
said.
Low it fell to my share to carry
out her i-ugg-stion. Ho accepted my
suggestion most eagerly, and so it grew
a habit that I > honl 1 devote to him two
< hours of each day. For the test of tha
j time, as I have said, Helen and I might
1 forget his existence.
He bad bean with na a month, when,
one evening, we reocivod from London
a message that my father's filter, an
old lady, was very ill, and deal red that
ono of na Rbonld come to her at once.
I had been Buffering all day with a
nervouH headache; therefore, it fell to
Helon'alotto go. Tho evening aeemed
very long without her, aa I eat alone in
onr protty sitting-room.
Above my head I could hear our guest
walking to and fro. Ho aeemed atrange
ly restless to-night Had his reatloaa
neaa imparted itself to me ?
At 10 o'clock 1 closed the house aud
went to my own room, hut wus wakeful
and could not sleep, even after I had
prepared for bed; o, throwing on a
wrapper, after two wakc-fnl hours, 1 sat
down to read.
In the Timet, which 1 had careleasly
picked up, was a long account of a rob
bery committed in a house located in
j one of tho suburbs, where one of a gang
j of thiovea had obtained admittance aa
a lodger, thus opening tho way to the
others.
The whole thing had been moat
adroitly done, and tho police were on
tho track of tho thieven, who it was sus
pected were in hiding and disguise.
Disguise! Why did this latter word
snddenly brand itself npon my bruin?
Why did Douglas Hago's spectacles sud
denly loom np before me! Why did I
remember how many times I had in
stinctively felt the bright eyes which
were hidden behind them fixed acorch
ingly and scrntinizingly upon me?
A cold shudder ran through me. Tho
i silver. With what prido had we placed
( tho heaviest and richest nj>on tho tray
which served our guest! Neither hud
wo nought his references. His pay
ments had been made promptly and in
advance. Ho himself appeared so quiet
and unassuming that it had seemed all
unnecessary. But to-morrow—to-mor
row I should satisfy myself at once.
To-morrow! Ah, was it not already
too late? Just beneath my window
there sounded a loud, low whistle. II
was answered, I could havesworu, from
an open window within the house.
I sprang to my feet, and stood with
fast beating heart, listening to every
sound. For ati ne all was still, save my
own mad heart throbs.
A half-hour must have passed. Mid
night bad struck it seemed a century
iicfore, when suddenly I heard a grat
ing sound, at though a lock was being
filed.
Why was this necessary, when their
confederates conld throw open to them
the doors? for I no longer entertained
any donbt as to the real statns of onr
guest. Everything went to prove it.
His close confinement to the honse dur
ing the day, the uncertain view wo had
oTer obtained of his face, tho voioe of
yonth and assumption of old age, the
Sj>ecUcles which seemed so effectual a
digniao— all, all! But my enlighten
ment had come too late.
The grating sonnd continued, when
suddenly there came to me a desperate
courage. I was alone, an nnmarricd
girl, hut I would confront those mid
night marauders, possibly murderers,
and cow them by my very helplessness.
I threw open my door and passed
swiftly down the hall. Yes, Mr. Sage's
door was ajar. His room was empty. I
ran on down tho stairs. The dining
room was in darknesa ; but, aa I crossed
the threshold, a light flared np. Mr.
Sage stood beside the table, the ohnox
ions glassea gone, a pistol tightly held
in his clenched hand.
1 now saw him as he was, a man who
conld not hare attained his thirty-fifth
—a man both young and singularly
handsome, now that one conld sec the
bright, flashing eyes.
" Miss Margaret—" be began, in s
quick, alarmed tone, bat my wrath
conld no longer ba repressed.
"Coward! traitor I" 1 exclaimed.
But at that instant thorn was s sad
den noise ss the window was opened, s
blinding flash, s deep groan, then my
oourage fled and I fainted. When I
opened my eyes, Douglas Hago was hold
ing me in his arms, anxiously bending
over mo.
" Poor child," ho mnrmnred, ten
derly.
" How dare yon I" I cried, wrench
ing myself from him; then, catching
sight of s policeman in uniform, I
added, wildly, "arrest this man!" and
again fainted away.
A long fever followed. For days I
lay unconscious and delirious. They
would not lot me talk, even after I bad
recovered my mental balance. Fresh
flowers and rare fruits filled my room
daring the long period of my conva
lesce nee.
" Helen, yon must not!" I declared.
"It is wrong to be so extravagant."
Bnt she only smiled, and my luxuries
were more plentiful than before.
But one day, aa I was sitting, dressed
for the first Ume, in a large eaey-ohair,
there came a quiet tap at my door.
" Come in I" I called.
And then 1 thought my delirium had
returned, for in Walked my tobber. I
turned deadly pale, and felt aa th.mgh I
might again disgrace myself by faint
ed; bat somshow the flnt tones of bis
voioe reassured me.
Frcm his lip* I then learned mj mis
take. My delirinm had revealed it all
to him.
"Poor little girl!" he aaid.
And then he told mnliow.restleaa and
nnable to sloep, ho, too, had heard the
unwonted sounds and stolen down
stairs, pistol in hand, to discover the
canse.
My answoring signal, then, was all
my excited imagination, for Mr. Sage
had been barely in time to aavo the
thieves from entering, and to put a
bullet through one man's leg and into
another's shoulder, to guarantee their
capture.
A hot blush of i-hamc rose to my
cheek as I listened and looked into the
face of tho man I had suspected of such
viliiany. I understood now from whence
came the flowers and fruits, but when I
tried to thank him he would not let me.
" I cannot be absolved from my sin,
Miss Margaret," he said, "for do you
know I am not yet snre lmt that I shall
turn thief and steal from this house its
moat priceless treasure."
What could he moan, I wonder? Why
did hia words thrill mo with new, sud
den happiness? And, doubtless, my
reader has guessed; yes, guessed
rigbtly. But there is more yet to tell;
for ono day, when I had grown quite
well and strong again, Helen came to
mo with the old sad look gone from the
brown oye and a wonderful new light
there.
"The Eleventh has come home,
Daisy," she whispered, ' and I Lavo
seen Will. It was all a cruel mistake,
dear. He never received my letter,
Oh, Daisy! lam so happy I"
And then she broke down into glad
tears.
Well, Will was sadly impatient. He
said he had been cheated out of years
enough—-he must claim his brido at
once ; aud as I could not be left alone
to take care of the silver, Douglas said
ho must guard it with me—that I had
called him a robber and robber be
must prove himself.
"But, darling," ho added, "yon
share the crime ; for it was yon who
atolo my heart long ere you had given
me tho sweet gift of yours in return."
The Career of Han Rice.
Dan Rice, who wm the beat known
showmsn in the cocntry twenty-tlTe
year* ago, ha* exjterienced strange
vicissitude* during the lait ten yeara,
and baa varied his professional career
with occasional experiments in the line
of religions exhortation and temjier
ance crusading. Wednesday the court
of Erie county granted bis wife a di
vorce on the ground of desertion, and
thns terminated what was in its earlier
days a romantic union. In 1845 the
showman waa exhibiting in Qirard,
Krio county, and his attention was at
tracted by a remarkably Ix-autiful
child in her nurse's arms. He asked
her name, and on snltaequently fixing
his residence in Girard, ho kept up a
lively interest in the girl, who was the
danghler of a leading citizen, deacon
in the Presbyterian church and preai
dent of the local bank. At that time
Dan rolled in wealth and spent his
money lavishly, not only in the erection
of a magnificent house, but in adorn
ing the town.
Ho was married to an estimable
woman, who bad been on the stage, and
about fifteen years after his arrival in
Girard she sued for and obtained a di
vorce. Shortly afterward Dan carried
off his youthful inamorata, much against
the wishes of the paternal deacon, who
disinherited his dsnghter, but when
Dan failed in 1873 was reconciled and
took them to his honse. The show
nun's extensive property was sacrificed
piecemeal in unprofitable ventures,
and his life grew irregular. His pro
fessions of temperance and religion
were looked npoo as advertising
schemes, and his wife grew cold and
finally declined to see him. It is said
bo refnsed to oppose the divorce. Rice
began his career as a jockey boy for
Henry Clay on his Islington farm, and
at one time was considered worth half a
million, owning among other property
an opera house in New Orleans.— i'ktia•
(Mphia Tim*.
1 he Oldest Pensioner.
Maryland oan probably claim the
oldost pensioner in the United States in
the person of Mrs. Elisabeth Cretsor,
who resides in the Ninth district of
Baltimore conoty, npen the York road.
She was 103 years old in last Decern!
ber, and ia the widow of John Cretser,
of Captain Parry's company of Maryland
militia, who served in the year of 1812.
Notwithstanding her advanoed age she
can walk abont the house and attend to
household duties. She has the reoord
of ber birth and ber marriage to John
Cretser in the year 1801. Her sight and
hearing are good, and her mental faenl
ties are in an excellent state of preser
vation. On a recent Tuesday she was
driven to rcoeive ber pension payment
at Major Ad iron's office on Calvert
street, and he would not give her the
trouble to slight; ha carried her check
to her at the carriage, and found her
thoroughly cheerful and in the hnmor
for quite a talk. She is believed to be
the oldest pen touor, if not the oldest
person in the United States.
LAIIIEH' DEPARTMENT.
Artvlrr la UlrU.
Do not estimate tho worth of a yonng
man by his ability to talk aoft nonsense,
nor by the length of his mustache.
Do not imagine that an extra ribbon
tied about the neck can render tho de
fect of a sailed collar and untidy dress.
If your hands are browned by labor,
do not envy the lily llngori of Misa
Fuss and Feather*, whose mother
works in tho kitchen, while the daugh
ter lounges in the parlor.
Do not waste your tears on the imag
inary sorrows of Alonzo and Melissa,
nor (lift trials of the dime novel hero
ines. Beck rather to alleviate the woes
of the suffering ones of earth.
Hulrk-Hiiarl,, far Kail Tat In*.
All aorta of knick-knacks add to the
dressy effect of fall toilets. Quaint
jewelry, cocks' heads, or the entiro
bird in real, imitation, or semi-procions
jewels, tortoises, parrots and owls, tiny
silver mice, paroquets of green enamel
perched on a gold stick, with a pearl or
diamond at each end, together with bits
of gold lace, silk brocade, figured vel
vets, gold lace and antique embroidery
are introduced into costumes with mar
velous effect nowadays. Everything in
our mothers' or grandmothers' scrap
bag* and wonder chests is unearthed to
combine with cashmere, or satin, or
moire—things a hundred years old with
ribbons of yesterday,and ancient jewels
with fresh novelties. Nothing need lie
scorned or thrown away.— New York
Sun.
A Mountain Hrralne.
At one of the watering troughs, deep
in the mountains, we stopped at a little
cabin, and, at the clatter of the mail
bag on the loose planking of the low
porch, there appeared at tho door a
moat remarkable apparition—a woman,
short of stature, and of wiry figure that
spoke of long endurance. She had a
pleasant, sunburnt face, crownod with
a shock of hair, flying in a tangled free,
dom peculiarly its own. Her dress, of
failed calico, retched jaat below her
kneaa, and left in plain view a well
worn pair of high boots, from the same
lot as her husband's. This woman was
Mrs. McNulty, and. as th* stage-driver
afterward told na, waa, in her way,
qnitc a heroine, and much resjiected
through the mountains for her courage.
The origin of her earliest claim to noto
riety dates bark some throe years. In
front of her honse, on the atagc road,
is one of the most dangerous points of
the mountain highway, where the road
tnrns sharply round a curve and crosses
a narrow and unsteady bridge. Just
above ber bona*, late one afternoon,
some break had occurred in the harness
of the horses attached to the regular
stage, which was coming down the
mountain with city passengers. As the
driver deaeended from hia box to repair
the damage, the horses became fright
ened and started at breakneck pace
down the mountain. The courageous
little woman, listening at her cabin door
for the evening mail, saw, as the coach
dashed in sight, the danger which lay
Iwfnre the helpless passengers, and
flinging herself before the running
horses, by anperbnman strength,
brought them, trembling, to a bait.
The poor woman, bruised and wound
ed from being dragged by the running
horses, waa carried faintiog to her bed
and lay there for weeks, suffering from
hor more than womanly heroism. A
purse waa made np among the grateful
passengers whose lives she had saved,
and her name has grown to be a syno
nym through the mountains for bravery.
—San Francisco Argonaut.
rhiM SWM.
Polonaises remain in rogue.
Grenada lace ia the noreltj for man
tles.
Pointed waists laced behind are re
rired.
Fluffy hair is restored to faror for
ladies.
King Charlos collars are worn by
children.
00l ired pearl jewelry is fashionable
for fall drees.
The season promises to be one of
nnasnal brilliancy.
Two yards and a half is a sufficient
length for the train of an erening dross
this winter.
Soarfs of chenille and of black Span
ish lace are rery fashionable to wear
orer light dresses.
The "John" redingote, an English
affair resembling a coachman's lirory,
is still in groat faror.
Puffs of surah instead of frills arc fre
quently seen in the neck and at the
wrists of imported dresses.
There is not mneh chance for variety
in dresa; for instance, there are only
200 styles in silk stockings.
Monograms, ciphers and initials play
a prominent part ia the ornamentation
of toilets and their accessories.
Straight linen bands are revived for
collars; the cuff* to match are square,
and fastened with lioked buttons.
Large crosses are again very fashion
able as pendants, supported by a large
lbs* 1
cable chain half renting on the should
er*.
New walking jackets have the three
M ama of the back prolonged until they y
meet in a point below the waist, and the
skirts are added all aronnd the waiat.
Many bonnets of large size are '
trimmed with a wreath of rones or
other (lowers within the brim, while
feathers, pompons and plush or wide
ribbons trim the outside.
White evening dresses will still be
worn this winter, bat their color will tr
be the only touch of simplicity about
them, the richest studs being made np
in the most elaborate atyles.
Rosettes of six short loops are pretty
substitutes for bows. They are fastened
with silver or gold pins and worn at the
throat or at any point on the square or
pointed opening at the throat that one
prefers.
New linen collars are of the severest,
simplicity, and ar<- worn with no fasten
ing but a small brooca or a slender lace
pin. Children's collars, says the Uatar,
are bordered with Tnnis lace or have
their edges cnt out in squares and filled
in with Valenciennes.
The object in trimming a poke bon
net is to ahow its shape and conse
quently the ribbons are set smoothly
upon it and feathers carl away from it
so as to leave its outline in all its l>eanty.
Perhaps you think that it has no beauty,
but that is because you do not know.
The new way of arranging a flounce
is to nse the double box-plait, making
it five inches wide on the top, with aide
plaits an inch wide, and making the
plain spaces so wide that there arc only
nine plaits in the whole flounce. These
flounces are hemmed by hand, and a
three-inch plaiting is sewed under their
lower edges,
For boya, the court valet costume is
the style. It is a square coat fitted in
the back, high in the neck, and fastened
with small buttons of cut steed down
the front to the waist line, where it is
slanted off to the back, showing a com
jwratively long waistcoat with pockets
and cut steel buttons. The plain sleeves
are trimmed with aimilar buttons.
The American frock for small girls
in its latest modification is quite loose,
with a collar around the nock, plain in
front, plaited or gathered all the way
down at the back, while a aash or scarf,
c rotted over the plaits a good deal be
low the waist line, leaves the frock
quite loose, hangs a little ou the right
aide, and is tied in a large bjw on the
left.
Cheviot suits arc made up with long
jackets, with skirts provided with two
box plaits in the back, bnt otherwise
perfectly plain, and a little caps fastened
by s tab at the throat. The collar is
standing, the enflf a straight piece
slanted at one end, which is placed on
the outside of the wrist, and the pocket
welts are perfectly plain, ltattons and
rows of stitching arc the only orna
ments, and not too many of either of
these are used.
A Hard Town.
A correspondent of the Chicago Inter
i Ocean hawing readied the terminus of
: the Northern Pacific railroad thnw
deecriliew the new town of Glendive
and ita peculiarities :
Of coorae Glendive ia a hard town.
: There are no school-houses or churches
i or aewing aocietien or Sunday-acbools
; aw yet, and ihe saloon*, gambling dena
and dance-bouses are plenty, lint all
1 thia lmraan scum will float away an the
I track ia pnahed on, and the aubatantial,
reapectabjo citizen* will remain to make
; life what it ia at Fargo or Jamestown
l or Bismarck, peaceful and agreeable.
Lant December the flrat shanty was
built here, of loga, and not until June
waa a dresaed piece of timber brought
into Qlendire. Giro it time.
The cemetery of a new town has a
fascination that ia almost irresistible.
Several years ago a land agent, in ad
vertising the attractions of the region
in which he had some "town sites" to
sell, called attention to the surpassing
healthfulneaa of the looality by the
unique and somewhat startling an
nouncement in large letters:
"We had to bang a man to start a
graveyard here."
The burial places of new towns are
often authentic indexes to the character
of their population. Glendive ia now
about four months old, and in the ceme
tery over yonder there are nine mounds
all new. At the head of each there
is s pine board, but only two or three
bear inscriptions. The niuts graves
represent the necrology of the place.
Five contain men who " died with their
boots on "—murdered in b raw la; two are
Oiled with suicides—both women. Mag
dsleoa of the lowest class, who follow
<* the end of the track," There are
dozen* of such in this community ;
women who have followed " the nad of
the track" from Bismarck here, and will
go along with it, with the rough men
who shovel the grades, by the tie* and
spike the mils. Two of them found
" the end of the track" at Glendive,
and lie in unmarked, soon forgotten
graven, with a hereafter not more
wretched than their past-