5 i — ———————— Thy Lattle Hund... Thine is a little hand A tiny little hand But if it clasp With timid grasp Mine own, ah! me, I well can understand The pressure of that little band! Thine is a little month— A very litle mouth But oh ! To steal a Kiss, Sweet as the honeyad zephyrs of the From that same littlemonth ! wliat bliss south, Thine is a little ho art— A tittle fluttering heart Yot Is it warm And pure and ealin And loves me with ita whole untutored art, That palpitating little heart Thou art a little girl Only a little girl- Yet art thou worth The wealth of earth mond and ruby, sapphire gold and § sy tho FOR OUR LIVES. With few Hon 8 outs of Arizona are bia tough exceptions, the rouzh ;: men who: no more hire, « 1% os “i familiar with location of the in tell vou wher plaix the I DOW ng a 1 by haunt, and en made an whom, knew ever Indian bead ! a ned his rif the red-skin, on whom he drew a ld Skiro.' as he had nan Was never own to miss its mark, and ‘Adelante,’ when kn his horse, the the U was as fleet as wind aster gave the word me beautiful autumn morn the fall of 15871, Dave ed toride from the Pass to the San Cimon, thirty and myself start- Apa vtion, on the rancho st he werland mail st a distance of twenty-five or miles, slowly down the the , hundreds Threading our way vast canon of the Pass through mountains, where huge rocks above us on ei’ her sides of feet high, towered hand—their jutting, moss grown filling the gorge with a strange, somber | fi gloom—1 could not dispel frcm my mind a certain sense of danger. attacks So streng an im- pression had they made upon me that I finally said stories and rumors of Indian were then common. ‘Dave, | believe we are going to have : : efore we get through to-day ‘Trouble!’ replied Dave. ‘Ha! ha' ha! as though we weren't always havin’ troubl e! doe Yer haint scared, be ye, tor? He laughed so | above us ght th wudly that the rocks | ca sound, and echoed a doz artlingly distin ha's The effect was 80 that 1 that a band gly reps oneaany could scarcely believe but of savages were mockin of wa n y nig pone this trip ti ating Again | ht not do well to post 1 the The scout reined in his horse, and squar saddle, looked me our rash notes levity. sked Dave if following week ing himself in his full nthe ace, yer afeared, we'll turn we'll reach the Skiro and fail onl I was not cautious, at which San Cimon, Adelante me!" | protest that vrs suggestion Dave merely vouchsafed ‘L'm !" of incredulity and spurred his horse ter. into a br sk can After two or left the rock: and thence proceeded for « the three miles of riding, we Pass. or eight pian, + bush breaks the can see. My danger was gone or ¥ fast nesses the miles further across where scarcely a mound or dead ley el as far AS the YR fear of while irgotten, | I was listening to one of DD .ve's stories of adventure turned his head, and shoulder exclaimed, ‘Thunder’; in a | voice that sent every drop of blood sur ging back tomy heart, Well | tion from his lips meant : and the sight which met my eyes, as I glanced behind | me was not an sssuring one, Searcely a mile away, and coming at full speed, were eight or nine Apaches ! They had probably followed through the Pass, when suddenly he | and looking over his knew what such an exclama I saw Dave look anxiously at my horse’ It was a large, wonderful anima), porson of endurance, but not much speed. Too big odds for this ‘ere open plain’ #0 it's a ride for our lives,’ Dave said quietly, The San Cimon was nearly ten miles away! Could we reach it? I asked Dave the question as cooly as I could, ‘We've got tol’ was his only reply. on now. Settle yersell well in { onl | dred yards in | of his rifle | | We the y had wheeled about | ing away at full speed yer saddle, doctor, lean a little tor'ard, foller the motion of yer horse, and give him the spurs!’ Give him the spurs | did; tor I felt that our only safety de- pended upon the speed I could get out of the anima). Both animals seemed to feel how much depended upon their efforts, and to be quite as anxious to es | cape the fate in store for them, if captur- ed, as did we, their riders. Every hur ried wor 1 we spoke and every nervous areas we gave them seemed to inspire them with fresh life, Yetin spite of it all we appeared but to creep over the hasty glance over my shoulder told me but too plainly that the redskins were ‘gaining on had -the choicest of ull those stolen plain; and another us. The wretches uncommon fine | horses | and captured by them both in Arizona wad Northren Me Dave was holding A | my horss was making utmost effort y in we rode, lave’ Ce WwW i tudy ompre ana fla h ng novement ol ne | woe to | than two mil Nota w horse's b sounds moments lagge hear the golloj They three hun were not more than our rear. Suddenly their 1" 1 us yell broke on our ] we had Leard ft Dave exclaimed CArs t soun ym ther ‘Howl, He Suvsied, and again [ heard the report : then once more Adelante | was beside me “Taint no u ght ‘Ww hen we [4 1 with the h must fi 'em!" he exclaims to that turn yender give ‘em ou ' 4 vhizzed wretches ' iution of but t ther fi y our shots they ght of arrows one of which Arm which nvul. ] lin the font wnt be As | siru nnder fore | coul ' . struggi¢ d, still an into the ayiog horse's neck. Dave was fir got free, ing: and just as | biz own horse, hit by an ar row, backed nearly over me ut 1 re grined my feet, and taking aim, shot an Apache who, with drawn bow, was gallog ng forw ard to hoot Dave 1p 18 Ihe ras dle. Facing partly round to shoot at the others, that rid ell backward out of his sad I saw to my astonishment and were Wondering what it meant, we looked {round just as the three station guards with a ring ‘huzza! went past us at a gallop, in pursuit of the Apaches, Then we comprehended the situation, | The station men had Lesrd the yells {and the reports of our pistols, and hur riedly mounting, had ridden to the res cue, They succeeded in bringing down an Indian whose horse had been hit by one of our bullets ; but the others es. caped into a conon three miles off tothe left of our route, But they had been obliged to leave the bodies of their fal- len comrades behind them, We walked to the station, where Dave's arm was dressed and Adelante's hurts cared for. And thus terminated 1% OTe fortnrately than it might have done-—our ride to San Cimon, — Youth's Companion, Sn yA — Hancock's Romance, I was talking politics with from the west this week, and, on men- tioning Gen, Hancock's he told me a story of the gallant general that is & senator name, romantic enough to repeat. Soon after his graduation from West Point, when but a little past his majority he started from the west in company with a number They Louis, and while there Hancock met his future He of his customary morn the of army men, to see the country. stopped at St, (len, wife, { was taking one ing fashionable part horsebi k in the handsome rides on of 1 y young iaay ithout a thought of ti action, involuntiar tered the rdent after and was admitted by n the smit person y bi bosomed himself, and lowed to Miss Mary f ong fF St 1.an chants. The young lady s« | been strocl by the { ced her SAIN ywwer's heart, and tended to} est of the | tation to call was ex need say no more, 1 he {is simply the oft told ta months Miss Mary | Winfield Sex in the warmest estes tt Hancocl sm by all those | know her many charming and womanly This is but one of 1 | qualities, ANY ro mantic tales one hears here ne day, and their recital is one pleasantest features ——— A — A Humorist's Roman Ard: eo was an inval i the great uld a bal fort Mrs irdette, died at Age, AND her as be | possible com | the d Auren to Bu Her fat sughter of a, and wa irried fteen years ago her father (One day the old n scard Bob She : ) mn ensued th She pitated was stricken L EPAsI f down wit} They sent for I | ind her pale and lifeless {ere she managed to express od be DAN Was it they might be ma | and a of lergy sen marriage of the great humor jst was celebrated amid tears and sig) | the orange blossoms absent and only the pallor of a dying face looking out from the heap { pillows, Strange Lo say she immediately began to recover and he lsnon regained her With it, m lady : former strength, however, was an unaccountable r— A — Fortunes in Dogs the £350,000 worth of dogs { exhibited at the New York show, were Among } | some worthy of note. Two were 810), 000 dogs. One is a deer hound and the other a pointer, Of course no one won'd value placed on each by thei, Sespeetive] owners, There are several dogs suppo ed to be worth from $2,000 to #5, 0. The £10,000 pointer (Meteor) took the prize for dogs of that breed. His com- petitor was an English dog (Beaufort), and the international rivalry over the two was almost as Along ns at the walk. ing matoh. The ge B nglish contin. gent present maintained at the Eog. lish dog should get the first jrize, and the A he 4 that the American dog was entitled to it, Many bets were made as to which would get it, and when the judge decided in favor of the fhiuetions dng, about $5,000 changed ianas, { liver | ideals, most | city when nei ‘ng ! bal IaCK Of mental balan {at the | have but patience | will ind their continually studying how pay $10,000 for either, but that's the | ling them lower. Borrowing Tronblo. The real troubles of life are few; the imaginary sorrows are many. Most per, sons habitually forecast difficulty, and imagine evils that are at least in the fu ture if they exist at all, When the time arrives when the sorrow was expected it had vanished. Many have speculated on the reason for this, Why should so univereal an evil exist? out of apprehensions resulting from our | lack of prescience as to the future, or is it the outcome of disturbed physical | conditions ? will fill Db sll from disord the such mind with gloomy impressions sred health ? No doubt ig and All health. ¢ or , have much norance, Supesiition 1 do with such th . Apprehension understand, strange nd wny other thing caus Instance in Domestic Life temarkable s remarkabla tw be | where two far long for s and for a period of ti same table, rearing their chilbren ting them from the J T8 hey st ) and aad « nmon | {i Hot! fue ERIN wrted life poor nds hust wives being in ced understand ich more th Whe acy low as { n they other « ly. ba ha made sto ly made the ie is there the val the fact their | 3st Lhoy selling for one-half mer | to hold can wh soma men to them till that val have seen | will only te return, | down to fifteen I he stock had the same intrinsic value dur nion Pacific and since up to par or shout, ing the entire time. If people will and sense the stocks level, Men Lave been they could deceive their fellow men their values, either by puff ng the stocks up | higher thn they ought to be or depross And now, in my judg as Lo | ment, they are as far too low as they ! were before too high. realized by and by." 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