ps IT Ww _— —— — - JIMS WIFE. . MC. Davi nthe Current] BO FONE OR I never saw his face, nor hers. But I SU} aes Saw his hand, long and thin and white, wit or peculiar to ts grown Inia Sark and human shutout from light and air. = It was midsummer, and the broad street, that ran down into the open plaza around which Comanche is built, was white with dust, and al ready reflected back the hot glow of a scorching sum, although it was yet early when I drew back the curtain that draped my little window and looked out, on the morning after my arrival. The heavy shadows of an immense live-oak cooled all the front of the low, irregularly built, log house into which I had come as a summer guest, but the big, square county jail, nearly opposite, stood naked: and bare to the Lg t, Abgpriing tie, het into. dts solid white stone walls and castingit out again in qivering tays that thrilled all the breathless arr, Everything was so still just at that moment; she herself was so motionless standing there in the middie of the street ‘with the child lifted in her arms, his little bare logs showing white against her rusty blak dress, and his head almost hidden bencath the faded yellow sunbonnet peovered her face; the sky was of so deep and strange a blue and the shadow of the single seraggy mesquite beyond her lay so sharp And black upon the dazaling sand, that | had a curious sensation as if | were looking into a picture. But only for a moment, A clattering group of horsemen, booied and spurred, rode past; she moved a step or two-out of their way, stopped a placed the child upon the ground, then stood ercet and hfied her face again toward the dark, narrow upper windows of the jail. And 1, too, look- fog up, saw for the first timg those long, bars! ‘ \ i dropped the curtain and torned to be smothered in morning kisses, as the the clildren, goxing, bright, came trooping in irom early breakfast. Toward noon of the same day I steps ped out upon the viee-htung galery. A glad, life-giving wind was blowing dows from the great, pusple. flat-topped moun- tains, just over beyond the bright sweep of open prairie set about the little town, and the mesquite-groves up on the hill- side were tossing their feathery branches in it joyously. The wonderful lapis lazuli blue sky was fecked with white masses of slow-moving elouds; one of these laid half the village square in the shade, in the midst of which I could see the town well, with its broad stone turb- ing, and the knot of men and boys grouped about it, their hats off and foreheads bmred to the wind. . A cowboy in picturesque costume came riding across the sun-lit half of k the plaza, and his gay Taugh floated on ito me as he answered a mellow halloo from far off in the distance. It wasa Junky gory and 1 stood reaching for wer that swung above my head, and letti my gaze wander in delight from purple mountains to golden valley and back again, until it fell suddenly upon a black spot in the street close by, and I realized with a shock thtt she was still there. The child lay at her feet, appuvelly asleep, a little white heap in dust; the hands had disappeared from the window-bars above, but just where | had seen her first she stood, t, slender, silent, motionless. The flower fell from my hand and the heart seemed all at once to go out of me, She was always there. When I lifted my curtain in the wan gray of early * morning, | saw her there, or | saw her trudging down the sandy road, with the child in her arms toward her dreary r.8/, their post. : Day after day the pitiless August sun Beat down ujah her as she Raps her station before that gloomy facade. Sometimes, but not often, she sat down proue in the dust, but always in the same spot—the spot where she bet could see those clinging hands, People went up and down the street; the tide of labor flowed back and furth: men rode in to the various courts and rode out again; w creaked by, covered with white canvas, from beneath which the curious eyes of sallow women and shock- headed children down at her. But nome of these things Soom to enter into her consciousness: ooked nejther to right nor left, and the weeks wearing away found her with face still tu upward to the lo beside her second pair of hands “That's Jim's younger brother,” they Joi Ir nigh hit Ax sence ped ther man, t'wanu't in a coos bioed murder neither. They've trailed about God knows how He knows when, keepin’ but'n the M's way, and wherever they've she's went toc, and sence vo here she comes in every little while BE and Kats round like this yer, Jim's her husband, you know," know! ¥ heart ached for her and 1 used to yet dread, to yee her face, But | did, though she once removed the i ae pide Ime in the twil gol n bo the easup in of the thioket, where she od slept at night under the dark Its solemn stars. But it was only sheri been | stairway, with the white aud : r | emerges into the pallid hands folded about the rasty iron | mirg y Ah, as if] didn't the limbs of the great, isolated, olive-colored live-onks; whistli through the dr lig prairie gaunt, with a moan into the streets of the town, The little town itself, all the warmth and color blown out. of it, Hoked de- sorted, for it was Sundny, every man was housed with his own in the glow of his hearth fire, As night came, the wind grew keener, with a su, ion of sleet upon it. The old stage lumbered in, arousing the dogs as it passed but ntly these dropped into stillness again. The lights behind the windows began early to disappear, and one by one went out, except in a house far down in a hollow, where the divine hour of a woman was approach. ing-—there only twinkled all night the feeble rays of a lamp, There, and in the square stone jail where the guards watched and dozed alternately in the hall below, and in the calls above the prisoners ' shivered on their scanty pallets.” Down the long hill, close upon mid- night, into the midst .of this stillness and gloom, rode two score and more of men. Grim, silent and pitiless,” with faces veiléd and belts bristling with wes. pons, they eame like phantom from some unknown Dark. The héavy thud of a ponderous beam upon the door of the jail! The gunrds within start to their fect. The prison. ers grasp each othér in a hush of expee- tation into which creeps the hope of de- liverance. Again and again the dull sound mingles with the ever-increasing roar of the wind and the dash of the rain. Then there is the crash of splintering wood and a rush like that of doom, silent and mighty, up the narrow stricken ganrds driven on before Deliverance? The solid key groans in the lock, the smoky lamp throws a ghastly glare into thecold cell. * * * And presently freezing night air a long, double file of men whose faces are | hidden, but whose clenched hands be- | oyster eggs don't bring quite as much a | | tray too well a lack of mercy; and in the midst thereof walk two barefooted, half-naked, shivering creatures, with the ropes already knotted about their necks And so silently hurries this ghostly procession up the wind-swept hill and across the barren heath, that not even the watch-dogs are aronsed from their | i | Rice, who bas charge of the oyster! slumbers, One old hunter, indeed, lifts his héad from his pillow with the in- stinet of danger upon him; rises upon his elbow and listens to the soughing of the wind, while the glow of the dying fire reddens the barrel of the rifle swung above his door, laughs contentedly as he hears nothing else . and drops back into dreamland. Behind, the jail doors are left wide open, but the other prisoners, frozen with horror, cowerbmek into their cells and pray. And out yonnder the work is finished; finished remorselessly and in silence. One of the victims indeed begs for the life of his Jannger brother, and the other prays that he may be shot Bat that is all. But white and cold alrea!; before death has had time to freeze the blood in their veins, they are left swing- ing to and fre in the frantic gusts of wind, while those veiled phantoms of the night mount their horses and . ride swiftly back into the unknown dark from whence they came. The little town sleeps peacefully on, and midnight bas not yet sounded. It is still the Lord His Day. ; And that murder has been “avenged?” old Ah, but over yonder, more than fifty miles away, that Sunday morning, a slender little woman had climbed into an old rickety, open buggy. 1 have told you that | never saw her face, but 1 wake no doubt that at that moment her face beneath the faded sunbonmet was beautiful; a lovely light, as of first outh aml first love, played over the nely pallor of her cheeks; her sunken eyes shone and a bonny smile her lips as she | forw and hered up the reins And started the y slow-moving hame on the long and wearisome journey. For “the boys’ bond had been signed. To-morrow they would be set be 05h nf ~and a respite meant eve No need now to look beyond the overwhelm- ing gladness of the one thought that to. morrow, they —he—would be free, and she would be there to receive them once more into light and air and life! Fifty miles, why, that is nothing! Across long and lonely reaches of “rough,” where the old horse plows his way yLiintally through heavy sands stumbling every and then : shin-oak roots rat twist YhelF looks, ugly knots over the road; through bits brown, rie, where the uncertain wheels over great clods of black earth, lumped by the cold into sharp masses as hard as a rock; down into ravines deep washed-out, where the shadows lie heavily, and where wild Sg, with eyes that shine, creep thily from crevice to crevice; over i 1) tom-lands, strewn with wreeks of overloaded freighters. whew ao dinons angrily the pale. paar 1 isons y UY Fifty miles, why, that is nothing’ It is cold and the wind stings her face like so many needles; her hands are blue and her feet are numb, Bat do you think she feels on her fore. head the frozen air which presently welts info a’ blinding, rain, as she sits fat Lovw | an the seat and urges the a A i, with long, pointed ears and glistening cont of fur, gathers hi up at the side of the road Ris pared to speed away, but ware of gold. A bird somewhere in the distance, as the jaded old horse breaks into a stumbling trot, throws out upon the frosty air a succession of joyous notes that are ganght up and answered by fotar sl urther His Eh back her bonnet an WS a rost- ful breath, Ah, there is Re Ta school-house and the snug little cottages on either side of the street; and there is the low log-house so full last summer of merry laughter and music and light and —why, what a crowd about the jail door! Oh, yes, they are there to welcome the boys; why, of course, and how kind! Only she longed to be the first to meet m The old horse slackens his Jun and Soeps on; she leans out eagerly letting the lines fall, and clasping her hands, while the color comes and goes on her ale cheeks. She does not see them! ut then her eyes are dimmed no doubt by the wind and rain and cold. Stand aside here, gentlemen! She has come 14 meet them: do vou not understand? She is lifted gently down and her fal- tering steps are supported as she moves blindly herd y The pitying crowd rts; two or three men rise freiedty from beside the things that lie white and stark and rigid upon the ground Wallt Well, the meeting is over, HATCHING OYSTERS, What the Infant Bivgives Look Lika w=Thelr Early Youth=Enemies. [New York Tribune} To investigate the mysteries of oyster | farming would open the eyes of the pig- breeders and chicken-raisers, and from what was learned of the business yesters i fry should be housed and reared. | good hen will lay 365 eggs in a year | good oyster, if well fed and cared for, | delightful orpbanhood. day, it may be safely said that it will | Ibe some years before “fanciers” will ! | take a fancy to this kind of pastime and | worey their brains as to bow oyster eggs | should be incubated, or how the young A Aj will lay 128,000,000, But there is no bonanza in this, for | doien as hens’ eggs, and it is not every | man who knows whether he is handling oyster eggs or not. In hatching the hen | sets on her eggs. The ovster eggs set themselves, ss were, and hateh into They hatch in from four to ten hours, and they are | never annoyed with wet feathers. They | are curious little things Professor it hatehery at Cold Springs, says that their | heads resemble a high crowned Derby | hat, while their tails can scarcely be dis. | tinguished from a hat of soft felt with | the brim turned down all round. | These | beings disport themselves in the water, | are free swimmers for three or four days, | and gradually assume the shape of round | clams, Finally they “set”.upon some | object in the water, a stone most likely, | if ove is at hand, and then take upon | themselves the the personality of the | br oyster. ! That the oyster has habits none can | deny, but itis not certain yet, not in | He feels warranted in saying that they Professor Rice's mind, what they are. are a moral race, attending strictly to their own business, eating to live, and living to be eaten. The oyster has two enemies that upon it diligently, ari? Appointed or that purpose, the star and thedrill. The former with ita five long arms settles down u the bivalve, clutches it ag one would clutch an apple in his hand, taki care that no portion of -the.. of the = shell remain ungovered. The enemy walches till the oyster fois bungry or “wants to breathe he instant the shell is opened, the star fish floods the inside of it with his gas trie juice, the oyster dies and is eaten It is not known how long an oyster can keep its shell closed under these eireum- stances, but Professor Rice found one that remained so for eight days under others. The drill is a salt ke Shvaiule that from a capsule deposited on the | of an oyster, and when of age it begins to bore its way into the bi. valves home. Once in he easily kills the wu ing thing and devours it. It takes the drill at least two weeks bore through a shell. New York's Night Schools, [New York Commercial Advertiest ) No fewer than 12,000 pupils reported last evening at the twenty-seven night schools, The fact affords excellent evi- dence of the ¥amtecost which is taken in the edueat advantages af forded by these schools to those who have no other chance of tuition. Among the pupils are to be found many grown men, whose early opportunities for re ceiving instruction were slender, or per- ed outirely wantitig. mass of the studious throng, nth ever, is com of hard-working la and of the night and lasses who feel their Yea wll them kidoen for 4 gladly avail The coumme con wenty schools’ for wok pot "500. The cutriculni The demand for stimulants is more ern! in this Sovntey thin dh nag been n our history undreds of thou. sands of t | of | genuine and have a sharp ring, as if | and ceased in 1873 Counterfeit Silver Coin. {Now York Times} “Every silver coin now in circulation its counterfeits. Even the buzzard llar has not been deemed unworthy of imitation. Trade dollars were coined from 1878 to 1878, They weigh 420 grains, Every issue has been exten vely counterfeited, wi are over 1%, Stains ; t VO A SOAPY, greasy ng. are made of yi metal and pulverized glam The two most dangerous counterfeits of the trade dollar are dated 1877, and bear the mint marks, ‘s,” and “cc.” are only three grains light and are ac tually worth 57 cents. They are made of silver, mercury, and German silver, and, except for a defective ring, are nearly perfect, Btapdard dollars were first coined in 1704, and then as now the mint weight was, 412.5 grains, Many of the old issues were counter- feated. The composition used was gon- erally German silver, Others were Bale of brass and plated with genuine suver, Coinage of the Bland standard dollar was begun in 1878, All the issues since that time have been extensively coun- terfeited, the usual composition being antimony and lead, heavily plated. They are made in a mold and are usually 100 grains light. There are, however, several eounterfeits of the standard dol lar which are west full. weight and are very dangerous. They are almost per foct imitations, The ring is a little de- fective. Half dollars prior to 1837 weighed 208 grains. From 1887 to 1853, the weight was 206,25 grains. The pres- | There are | | probably more counterfeits of half dol. | Most | brass, lead, pew. | ent weight is 102.9 grains, ars afloat than of any other coin. of them. are made of ter, and type metals in varying combina tions and preportions. The most dan | gerous counterfeit halves bear date of 1841, 1542, 1848, 1845, 1840, 1857, 1850, 1860, 1872, 1875, 1876, and 1877. Most these are lighter than the they were made of glass. The milling and reading is defective, and the letter ing on the shield of liberty 18 not good. A genuine silver quarter dollar weighs | 90.45 grains, Prior to 1587 the weigh was 104 grains, and from 1837 to 1853 the weight was 108.125 grains. The most dangerous conuterfeits are of 1858, | 1854, 1855, 1867, 1808, 1860 and 1861 Brass, tin, pewter and lead are the ma terials generally used. latter greasy, slippery feeling, they are not easily detected, The coinage of 20-cent pisces began in 1870 and closed in 1835. The gennine coin weighs 77.18 grains, and the few counterfeits which have been put in cir culation are vory poor pieces of work Counterfeit dimes are very. common, ass, pewter and lead being generally used.. The genuine coin weighs 35.58 grains. The counterfeits are usually very rough looking coins. The half dime weighs 19.20 graina. A few wretched «ounterfeits are in circulation. Coinage of the genuine began in 1792 Counterfeits of the B-cont piece are usually well plated and ealoulated to deceive. Coi bn 8 eet pleces began in 1851 apd on in 1878. The weight Is 11.52 grains, Some Valuable Timbers, [Memphis Apioal ) The tupelo gum and the willow oak are timbers that are destined to a com- Mining who has testad them thoroughly says the first variety is almost as soft and light as the cork of commerce, and is the whitest timber in the valley. Itis extremely light and can not be split, and at the same time aastolly manufactured from straw may possibly come into gen- the future. In the manu- fully for ordinary sh have no apparent wood barrels Frugalit ry the : 4 n wer o honest py who ana to retain ha honesty, to refrain from nis inex: which he ean not aff A dis of maxim, of their the goddess of | The counterfeits | are made in a wold, and exeept that the | Peding and milling is defective, and | that the counterfeits have a | “UNFAUNG ) EDY gueas DISEASES , -(TER,ITCH SORCS, PIMPLES, CAYHIPELAS WORM ITCHING By optome are moleture, etingia yr, itching, wore at wight, seems sa if plo worme wee orev jing about he rectum; the private parte are often affected. Asa aman, doa snd gx e cure, Bwavan's WYNENY Is superior fo any srticle in the market, Bold by dreggists, or send 50 cts. fn Sct. Sass 3 [mmenseBargains Are being offered from our New Stock wn LY ov DRY GOODS, Boxes, £1.35 Address, De Bwavyrr flow 1000, Pe / Theoldent and best appointed Institution | For circulars address. P. 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