AGIRLJUMPED HIS CLAIM A year ago lust spring a man named B.-lden came to this ty. took 160 of land a built Two COU up acres himself weeks # later a girl to00k up the claim the west, and also b neighbors became slightly ed. but both were $00 busy to WHS an feHow, none too fond * \ ! Helen was an active, aggressive looking aud ambitious young woman. She did two days’ work to his had a fi and better farm at the « sixty days than he would have hs the end of a yearif had kept on in way that Lie was going After Belden had been about three mouths he became weary on | of the monotonous life, and gainge to & ‘own to have some fun, found so much enjoyment that he came pretty near When he had been gone longer than the time por ¢ forgetting to go howe. wi ted by the land law, Helen, who had been watching her opp rtunity, jumped his claim, apd in less than ten | stand hours had a shack of her own ing on the Belden re | last, and, fivding thst a won arm, jumped his claim, he said nothing. If it had been a man it would have been his duty to go out and fight to the death, but as it was a womnn, and a rather comely one at that, he thought he would say nothing and trust to luck to get rid of her. Ocerpying his own shack, he was not more than 300 feet from her habit held her gi ns aed an inter! th new |Kii1on 1 ugh she ha longed there, Relden’s wrath b | and when he gan to rise finally reflected on the com ments that would be made mitted a girl to E jump his ¢ Knoy ng that t uli a gir fF furious er of most settlers w brooy N - » interference with farmer, py went to town for consultation. . he talked with some of his friends who draok his whiskey. They shook their heads and said it was a mighty bad job Th n he consulted a inwe= yer who gave him some hope. Io the course of a day or two he got two of his friends and the lawyer to go out to Lis place with him to see what they could do toward patching up a settlemeat. Oace on the ground it was agreed that the lawyer should He an hour ard a half, and when he re- turned he said The girl was poeted, and he didn't see + what could be done about it. “If it go and see the girl. was shsent it was po use. was a man,” he said, “we could gu over there and throw him by | jhe beels into the ext county, but it | won't do to» harm a woman.’ The four talked the matter over, | and it was finally agreed that the | lawyer should call again in the morn - ing, and represent to her that Belden's friends were coming to his assistance, and that if she wanted to avoid serious trouble she had better abandun her shack aod leave his claim alone. lawyer started out on this errand the next day, but he was back again io fifteen minutes with a lump on his head the size of a horse chestaut | where he said she had hit him with an axe handle, & fier talking the matter over, every body being wad, it was decided that they would give her a scare as soon as it became dark, At & clock sll haods went over about to girl's new shack and surrounded it. | and The » reports bad hardly died away when a At a given signal they yelled fired their revolvers in the air. from moment shotgun wus discharged one window of the shack, and =» later another shot was fired from the other side of the The waited in silence tor a few minutes house, men when two more barrels This emvineced them that the girl was not to be frightened, and they crawl- pd away as stealthily as they could: | Il that night the girl's shotgun hungdered at intervals, until her ad verparies, who were vainly trying to leep, wished that it would explode, od blow her and her shack to king: lom come, In the moruving Belden's lawyer nd (€o friends started for town, raging the jumped farmer alove in is misery, After their departure Aden did some wors on the place, king care not to ron across the girl, [he | 91. A | it between his lips and stand with his | pack the | were fired, and thou, h they suw ench other they hot! i q 1ent y avoids da meeting Things wen! ¢ gin this wa n til fa!'l, Helen farm a good put of the worked on her ow time, and | Belden passed many days in bunting He hal na le ip his mind that he ut, aad ne bo ey | tha he Nin R118 WO i volin In this h and sid . ity, and ad up Oo town int in his arm tthout ith m attended Hh no | {0 ke 'D r al ser I= ed for | when he s to con and made big they were marrie GRAN used to walk smoke, oul ol Just at the rth House alone, wit} his head bent down left hand be little, holding a . ust a hind That was Lis favorite attitnde his him | cane, | and the striking figure was familiar to The hackmen on the streets would take off their bats as he everyboay. : went by and he always returned their { salutes. He would walk down past the Treasury Department, down fif | teenth to the avenue; thence past Wil up thirteenth toward New York ave nue, All the newsh ys, bootbiacks, {and would follow him in his walk, | waiting for him to throw his cigar | | stumps away. either be cause they were better than thos® or- dinarily found or he smoked them, and there was some dig scramble after the stumps Decause | urchin who got the stump would put | back up against the door post of t National “peanut gallery,” with his thumbs in the armholes of his [ the envy of all his admiring associates, | One day the General turned 10 two little urctine who had been following { him for several squares, watching | his cigar very eagerly, and asked them what he could do for them, “Pleesh mishter,” one of them re- | plied, snatching bis ragged cap off | and holding it with both hands in frout of him, while his companion got {close behind ; “plecsh, mishter, we only wants a smoke what the Presi. devt bash had.” The Geaeral smiled gool-humored. ly, dud taking an expensive cigar from his pooket—the only one he had left—he ent ic in two and gave, each of thvmbalf. Th: two little rascals ran off with (heir Learts in their throat, snd for wavy weeks were hel! iu awe aud reverance by the whole of urchindom.— Washingdon Star. | on Rats { lard’s past the National Theater, and | | Sexua and street arabs geoerally, knew him | | aches pains, sprains There was always al | Bervous, had | | weak spots { nity attached to smoking after him. The | } | | Protruding, 1B vest | and puff away with a dignity that was | } Wonderful. m the Pittsburgh Dispat h, Sept, 26th, 1580, “Very seldom do we LF read of an actual had gether that which was Monday investigated by a Dispatch reporter, who had heard in various quar- ters persons t iki of recovery been lo i, case where hope alto- to parallel friends of a hort of marvelous, | that had been performed, The plain facts in the ferred to, without ex tion, are the y AK they wer carne ng to their cure, seemingly lit i% Case ri guera i from the mother « the voungy mat his pa and ot munity William 1 of the tor ner per com you cmpioved at ¢ The ! La} va 1 “ ert iH. Axp - 15 Orns, | and Table Glareware at LOWER bug, mice goph t by “Rough | i | i ars. oo? ewer’ restores health | and vigor, Dyspepsin, lmy sence, | Dehiliten £1 i Rn 11 n Pain Cuaers Cholera, colie, « ramps, dinrrhos, i headache, neuraigia, | 20¢. 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