to practice law. Among tno persons
victimized was the proprietor of the St,
Nicholas hotel, who allowed Guiteau to
run. tip a big bill. His exploits as a
hotel and boarding house beat finally
got into the papers. Tho New York
Herald wrote him up extensively. This
seemed to be the chance that Gnitean
had long sought. Previous to that day
he had not appeared in the public
prints, but when the Herald denounced
him at length he proposed to sue Mr.
Bennett for libel, and did institute pro
ceedings against him, which were com
promised in some form or other.
He afterward returned to Chicago and
reaumed his career of dead -beat ing.
. He was exposed by the Times two or
three times, but continued on his course.
He threatened suit, and Tinted the
Times office several times. His viiits
grew tiresome, and one day he was
given the privilege of going downstairs
in double-quick time or being thrown
over the railing. He preferred to go
down the easiest way, and did not
bother the office again for mouths.
Ouiteau at times assumed the appear
ance of a pious person, and at such
times he was a regular church-goer,
Sunday-school teacher, and general
missionary.
A Lunatic After Mr. Blaine.
Washington, July 5. Daniel McNa
mara, supposed to be insane, appeared
at police headquarters to-day, and said
he was from . King . William oounty,
Va., but had been living in Phila
delphia. He announced that he had
been inspired by God to come here
and kill Secretary Blaine. He asked
where the secretary lived, and exhibited
a revolver. He is not clear whether
his mission is to assassinate Secretary
Blaine or General Arthur. He has been
sent to the insane asylum. He statod
when examined that he had been in
spired by the spirit to kill General
Grant during the latter's administra
tion, but was defeated in that object,
and said that if an opportunity were
given him he would explain the manner
in which Guiteau was prompted to as
sail the President.
PHiLADEbrniA, July 5. Daniel Me
Nauiara, who was arrested to-dav in
Washington, lives in Philadelphia at
Sixth aud Catharine streets. He came
from Ireland when he was fourteeen
years old. ne served through the re
bellion and afterward for live years
served in the regular army. On the
twenty-second of last October he was
sent to the Philadelphia almshouse,
but left there on the follow
ing day. Last January he
was arrested for throwing a brick
through a back window, his purpose
being to secure a commitment to jail.
The authorities disappointed him by
sending him to the insane asylum,
where he remained for several months.
Recently he has been employed at the
Baldwin locomotive works, but lost his
place a week ago. Then be conceived
the idea of going to Washington to
get a pension, and spoke to his
relatives of visiting Secretary Blaine to
secure that gentleman's influence in his
behalf. He left Philadelphia on Mon
day afternoon to go to the capital, and
before going spoke in strong terms in
denunciation of Guiteau's crime. Mc
Namara always had extravagant ideas of
his own importance, and when dis
cussing politics always became greatly
excited.
A Village of Terrors.
A Detroiter who had business in a
village in Washtenaw county drove out
there in a buggy, and of course wont to
the inn for his dinner. The landlord
made no inquiries until after the meal
was eaten and paid for and he then
found opportunity to inquire :
"Were you going out to 'Squire
Brown's pluce ?"
No."
" I didn't know but vou were a light
ning-rod man, and I was going to say
that the 'Squire had threatened to
shoot the next one on sight. We don't
go much on them tollers around here,
and I'm glad you are somebody else.
Maybe you are going over to Judge
Hardy's to sell him some fruit trees for
fall setting?"
" No."
" Well, that's lucky. Only yesterday
the judge was remarking to me that the
next fruit-tree agent who entered his
gate would want a coffin. Fact is, I
myself have got to do some kicking to
pay for being swindled on grape vines.
You are not a patent-right man, eh ?"
"No."
"Well, that's a narrow escape for
you. We've been swindled here on hay
forks, cultivators, gates, pumps, churns
nnd a dozen other things, and I'm keep
ing sixteen dozen bad eggs for use
when the next patent-righter shows his
face in this town. Perhaps you are a
lecturer V"
" Oh, no."
"Well, you haven't lost anything.
We never turn out very strong here to a
lecture. The last man who struck us
lectured on " Out Currency," but didn't
take in enough to pay me for his sup
per. You are not a book-canvasser V"
"No."
" That's another escape. We've been
laid out here so often that if an agent
should offer to sell a $20 Bible for fifty
cents we d suspect a trick to beat us,
Strikes me now you may be a lawyer."
"No."
" Good 'nuff. Last one who settled
here had to leave town at midnight, and
we don't want any more. Say, what are
you, anyway?
"A politician," replied the Detroiter,
"A politician 1 Then git ! For heav
en's sake I don't stand around here if
you value your life I We've just irn
peached our pound-master for embez
zling tho public money, aad the excite
ment is so intense that the Democrats
will ride you on a rail or the Republi
cans duck you in the water trough. Git
right up and scoot I " Detroit Free Press.
A correspondent of tho London Queen
expresses no little astonishment at find,
ing that the women of Leadvillo, Col
orado, dress in the latest fashion, and
wear materials every day which their
European sisters don on state occasions
only. "Even tho servants display thoir
Bilks on Sundays, and not a few adorn
themselves with lockots made of virgin
gold."
Advice.
" I mnst do m you do ?" yonr way, I own
Ib a very good way; and Btill
There are sometimes two straight road to i
over, onp under Hie hill.
You are trending the safo and woll-worn way
That the prudent ehooRe each time,
And yon think me rcckhies and rash to-day
rtocanse 1 prefer to climb.
Tour path Is tho right one, and go is mine,
Wo are not like peas in a pod,
Compolled to lie in a certain lino
Or olse ho scattered abroad.
'Tworo a dull world, mothinks, my fricud,
If we all went just one way,
Yet our paths will meet no doubt at the end,
Though they lead apart to-day.
Yon like the idiade aud t like the ami;
You like un even pace;
I like to mix with tho throng aud run,
And then rent after tho race.
I like danger and storm and strife;
You like a peaceful time,
I like passion and surge of life;
You like its gentle rhyme.
Youliko buttercups, dewy eweot,
And crocuses, framed in snow;
I like the roses, born of tho heat,
And the rjd carnations' glow.
I must live my life, not yours, my friend,
For so it was written down,
We must follow our given path to the end,
But I trust we shall moot in town.
GRACE'S DESK.
Margaret looked up from her sewing
machine for a minnte to glance across
the room at the quiet little figure sit
ting at the window a round, graceful
little figure, whose attitude of thought
ful gravity was full of suggestion.
And then Margaret, always more or
less crusty, but kind-hearted, gave an
impatient sigh and increased the speed
of her machine by a savage motion of
her slippered feet, and compressed her
lips and puckered her fcrehead all up
in a perfect nest of wrinkles ; while
Grace, unconscious of it, sat looking
out of the window at the gloomy pros
pect half-melted, dirty, slushy-brown
snow that was rapidly growing slushier
and more melted under the drizzling
rain tuut was falling ; and, of course,
thinking about Laurie Marcellus.
For several months Grace had not
thought of much else but him, and yet
there had not been an hour or a mo
ment of that time that she had not tried
not to think of him and grieve for him.
It had been very similar to the same
old story. Laurie Marcellus, handsome,
elegant, aristocratic, fairly well-to-do in
the world's estimation of riches, had
been Grace Warrener's most devoted for
several months, until by one of those
venomous waves of fortune's wand social
position and wealth had suddonly van
ished, and the Warrener girls found
themselves obliged to take in dress
making for a living.
Friends who had always been friends,
who redeemed the dear name,who knew
them for what they were worth, did not
desert them; but lirst and foremost in
the ranks of those who so conveniently
preferred to dispense with the society
of the two dressmakers who lied in
Appledore row was Mr. Laurie Marcel
lus.
He had dropped out of Grace's life as
a brilliant comet disappears from the
sky. He had called one eveniDg, the
same as ever, -with the sweet, caressing
tenderness in his voice the glad, eager
light in his handsome eyes that made
the girl's heart spring within her; and
she had never seen him since nor
heard from him.
That very next dav the crash came,
through which the great spice house of
Warrener k Uray suspended; and
month later Caleb Warrener died with
apoplexy, and as soon as decency per
milted the splendid mansion and furni
ture, the horses aud carriages, the sil
ver and jewels, all were sold under the
red flag.
Margaret came grandly to the fore in
those dark days, when her keenest grief
was to witness little Urace s dismay and
astonishment and suffering at Laurie
Marcellus defection; and yet her words
were usually more bitter and sarcastio
than gentle it was Margaret Warren
er s wav to use heroic treatment.
" He's not worth the everlasting fuss
you make auout mm, urace. im
ashamed of you downright ashamed
and he not your betrothed, either !"
That was true, so far as formal words
went. Laurie Marcellus had never
asked Grace Warrener to be his wife;
he had never in so many words told her
ho loved her; but he had known just as
well a-i he had known he was alive how
the girl's heart was all his own how
she loved him dearly and truly, lor all
her sweet reserve.
Grace smiled faintly when Margaret
spoke of the "fuss" she made about
him. ehe Knew well enough that the
"fuss" was only her grave, sad face,
her quiet ways, her listless manner,
that she tried desperately hard to con
quer, and in all the months that had
passed had not succeeded, and seemed
no nearer succeeding than in the be
ginningso nearly hopeless a task is it
for a woman to conquer thoughts and
heartsick longings for the man she
loves. Pride and shame may do valiant
battle for the victory, but pride and
shame are baby foes in comparison with
the giant they oppose woman's strong,
enduring love for her chosen beloved.
And so the dreary time' went on for
Grace, and by steady, persistent effort
she disallowed herself to be dull or
complaining, or a kill-joy. She reso
lutely determined to at least be cheer
ful and patient outwardly, no matter
what tho inward commotion. And to
daythis cheerless January day she
had only given a momentary rein to her
thought.-, enough to make her lay down
her sowing and lean her head against
the window, and wish she might never
have known tho sweetness of Laurie
Marcellus' love.
Until the uuusual whirring of the
ne wine machine wheel made her aware
that Margaret had observed her and was
displeased. So, with a little, desporato
effort, she forced herself back to the
basting of the satin fold in her work.
"I was thinking about that auction
ale at Dempsey's to-night," Margaret I
nam, biiuuss crossly, "ion want a
desk, you said, and Maggie Rich says
there's a very 'good one to be sold there.
I'll go and bid on it for you, I think, if
I ever under the sun get these bands
stitched on I It seems to me that those
Rich girls are not happy unless their I
-1 , . . 1 . i 1 1 I
uicooea iu uutHjiuteiy loauoa wim trim
ming." '
Grace looked up. with such sweet.
sweet eyes it was no wonder handsome
Marcellus had" liked to look into tho
pure brown wells of limpid light.
" You are so good, Margaret I I do
want a desk, if you are sure yon can
afford it."
"You needn't say if lean afford it,
Grace. You have as much right to the
money as I have. I'm going to buy
myselE a cashmere polonaise you can
have the desk if it is reasonable in
price."
So that was how Miss Warrener came
to be at the auction sale at the big
house on the hill that evening Demp
sey's grand mansion, whose prince had
taken a whim to sell out and spend a
few years abroad.
And the next day the desk was deliv
ered at the cottage in Appledore row,
and Grace put it in her room a small,
beautuul article, standing nicely in a
cozy corner, and just the very thing for
Urace s lew books and her stationery,
It was very handsome, and Grace
cried a little over it, because it brought
back so many thoughts of the dear old
days when she was surrounded by just
such elegancies of furniture, and when
everything seemed, somehow, to lead
to that one pivotal thought when ijau
rie Marcellus had been her friend.
So the months went on, and the two
sisters led their busy life, and Grace was
growing sweeter and paler, and more
patiently thoughtful, with every day
that widened the distance botween her
and her memories.
New friends gathered around them
true mends and there was more than
one opportunity for Grace to have
accepted a lover, onlv she had ho love
to give, no heart to win.
Her happiest and her saddest hours
were spent at her desk, or it seemed to
her that it was like a link to tho past ;
and one windy, wildly-stormy night,
five years after she had taken up her
cross, for Laurie Marcollus' sake, sho
was sitting before her desk making
out a score of bills to the " Misses
Warrener, artist dressmakers," and going
back to one other stormy, snowy night,
when she had said the good-night that
mean good-bye, although she had not
known it.
She was leaning her head on her
hands, her elbow resting on the slant of
her desk, when, with a little crushing
noise, it broke, revealing a shallow
aperture, of whose existence she had not
the slightest knowledge,
She looked in, and all the blood in
her body seemed to rush madly to her
brain ; for there, lying in the little
secret place, fresh and clean, as though
laid there an hour before, was a letter,
stamped for mailing, and directed
plainly to herself "Grace Warrener,
The Willows, and in Laurie Mar
cellus' hand writing.
She dared not touch it for a minute,
She feared she was in the midst of some
improbable dream ; she wondered if it
were possible she had gone suddenly
daft.
Was it a letter to her from him?
But how how could it have got there,
when the desk had been locked, in her
room, for years?
Then she touched it, half expecting
to see it vanish before her eyes. but
it did not vanish; it was all true
a letter, for her, from him, and it had
laid there all these years, so near, bo
far
She sank trembling on the chair and
opened it Laurie Marcellus' proposal
of marriage; his avowal of love; his
manly sympa hy and pitiful tenderness
because of her father s -financial trou
ble ; his caressing pleading to be al
lowed to comfort and protect her as his
wife shoidd be comforted and protected
and cherished. He betrged for an im
mediate answer, and he would come to
her at once if she loved him and did
not say him nay. But if if there was
no such blessed answer for him if he
had been presumptuously mistaken
her greatest kindness would be not to
answer him at all,
And she had just received it, after
five years.
Poor little Grace ! White and trem
bliner. amazed and bewildered, she sat
there long after Margaret had gone to
her own room, so unconscious of the
drama enacting so near her.
He bad loved her he had loved her
after all ; and Grace's heart thrilled at
that thought, slender though the con
solation was.
But of what avail was it now ? Where
was he ? What might have happened
in that long, fateful interim ?
She thought of it all, keeping virgil
with her thoughts that night. How the
letter had ever come in that desk she
had bought at Dempsey's, she dared not
imagine. Grace only realized that some
tremendous fate had discovered it to
her.
She kept her strange, sweet, pitiful
secret in her own heart for days, won
dering with every hour if sho could dare
take a step in the matter.
And then, one day, tne auctioneer
who had sold the desk to Margaret War
rener went to her and told her that t
centleman who had iust returned from
Europe desired to regain possession of
me uess soiu at ilir. ieiuyocj D iuuwui
as it had been a gift to Mr. Dempsey
from himself, on the eve of his depart
ure abroad, five vears before. And
Grace listened with dilating eyes and
throbbing heart, whose beats almost
choked her utterance.
"Toll tho gentleman to call here and
he may have his property."
And that evening, when she went to
the door at the sound of tho bell, and
opened it, with her face slightly paler
thau usual, Laurie Marcellus stood
there.
" I expected you como in," she said,
gently, while amazed and bewildered he
could only bow and obey.
Then she explained ; then he reme 3
boied leaving the letter in the desk, and
understood how, by accident nay, by
grim fate the slant was not fastened
and the letter had slipped into its living
grave to be resurroctod after all these
years.
"I do not know that I should toll
yon even now," she said, bravely, "for
I do not know whether von are are the
same or not. But," and she looked up
in his grand face, "I want you to know
did love you."
"
Ho stepped up to her, quietly enonch
for the minute.
"And now?"
" I am Grace Warrener still."
And then ho snatched her in his arms.
held hor to his heart, kissed her sweet,
pale face.
" I never have once thought of another
womon, my darling. When no answer
came I was crushed to the very eaath,
ana got my sell away as well as 1 could
So you aro my darling yet, Grace V"
And then .Margaret came in, hall an
hour afterward, in surprise that the gen
tleman required so much time to luuke
a bargain for the desk.
Texas I'niitiire Fields.
A correspondent in the Baltimore
American, who is visiting the immense
cattle pastures, describes a visit to the
one of these, tho Fulton and Coleman
Companies' grazing lands in Texas.
"We left Fulton after an early break
fast, on the morning of the 31st of May,
and wore soon out on the open prairie,
approaching the lands of tho Peninsula
Pasture Company, which are but a short
distance from Rockport. There were
but six in our party, four of whom were
ladies, with Col. Ueorgo W. Fulton as
pilot. Eight miles from Rockport we
passed through tho gates of the Big
Pasture of the Colemau-Fulton Pasture
Company, and entered on its broad
domain of 168,000 acres, or 200 square
miles, of what is regarded as tho very
best pasture land in Texas, We were
to st-.ip at the ranch, tho herdsmen's
headquarters, ten miles from the gate,
for dinner, and to rest horses, and after
wards to continue our journey to Mr.
Coleman's mansion, eleven miles fur
ther on making twenty-one mues from
the gate to tho honso.
" W hen fairly on our journey inside of
the Big Pasture, on casting the eye
around, the horizon was seen to bo as
sharply defined in every direction as it
is at sea. There were a few small inotts
of live-oak trees, anil some scattered
cattle browsing on the plain, but noth
ing else, not even fences, obstructed the
view. By the unpracticed eye there
was really no road to be seen, but dur
ing this and subsequent drives both
Colonel Fulton and Mr. Coleman
seemed to know every cowpath. These
cowpaths are made by the cattle going
to the lakes for water, as on such occa
sions they always walk in single file,
and pursue tho same course day after
day. This was the case before the new
pasture system was adopted, when an
instinct seemed to guide the cattle in
tho pursuit of water. Then there were
no artificial lakes, with the winter rams
stored in them for the use of the cattle,
as is now the case, and it often hap
pened that the distance between water
and the grazing grounds was twenty
miles or more. In a dry season thou
sands of them would dio from burning
thirst, and leave their bones along tho
cow-tracks, or, on reaching the water,
drink to such excess that death was
sure to follow. Now there are five or
six of these lakes on this great pasture,
one of them three miles in length and
from fifty to five hundred yards in width,
while the Chiltopin river forms its
northern boundarv.
Tho Coleman-Fulton Pasture Com
pany's lands are by careful estimate
capable of sustaining at all seasons of
the year about 35,000 head of cattle
aud horses, though at the prosont time
there is not more than half this number
there. Duriog tho past year the stock
of cattle was reduced to about one-half
the full complement, aud the grass
allowed to renew itself by seeding. The
pastures are consequently now covered
with a heavy coat of mesquito grass,
and the company are filling up the
pastures with cattle purchased from
Texas .and largely from Mexico. During
our sojourn a lot of 2,000 head arrived
from Mexico, and a despatch announced
that 4,000 head more, purchased by
their agents at SC, 89 and $12 per he id,
were on their way, this price including
their delivery in good order in the pas
ture. When they arrive the beeves will
be fattened, and shipped to New Orleans
as soon as in condition for market, the
cows will be driven to the Barada pas
ture of 39,000 acres, used for breeding
graded stock, and the male yearlings
driven to the Big Pasture of 105,000
acres, which is devoted to beeves and
stock for the market. The sorting and
separating of the cattle require experi
ence and good judgment, and a vast
force of men and horses. The prospects
of the company were never so good as
at present, they having just declared a
cash dividend of 4 per cent, for the past
six months, while they are very confi
dent of increasing it to 12 per cent, per
annum.
" YIper Men and Women."
At Guadalajara there exists an indi
vidual having a scaly skin exaotly like
that of a viper, even to the green color.
He has, besides, the viper habit of
changing or shedding his skin every
year. The skin comes off in a single
pioce, and not, as might be supposed,
in parts. Un the man s
Un the man s head mere is
not a single hair. A sister of this man,
who died a short time ago, manifested
mo buluo jmuuuuieuuu, uu iuu
close of her life began slowly to grow
- blind, owing to the viper s skin en
croachiug on the eves to sich an extent
that she could only see through a narrow
aperture at each eye. The same thing
is now happening to the brother, lie
can scarcely see any object, and the
head presents the repulsive aspect of a
viper. In Cuautla these unhappy beings
have been known as the " viper men
and women." and the phenomenon is at
tributed to the fact that their mother
ate an excess of viper's meat to cure
disease of the blood. In Cuba it is a
common practice for peoplo to cat
viper's flesh as a remedy for blood diS'
eases. iSant't f e Jm Mexican,
Minnie Palmer, the actress, is under
$5,000 bonds to hor managor not to
marry for five years.
HOW TO LIVE IN SUMMER.
8ome Jncllrloim Advice from nn Authority,
It is as yet a point of dispute whether
cotton stuffs are the best wear, many
approving of light woolens. For women,
nothing is sweeter in summer than a
linen dress ; it is a pity we do not pat
ronize linens more for adults ; for
children, cottons ; for workingmen,
worsteds. The heavy suits of men are
weighing them down in summer, and
clothes of serge are far preferable to
those of thick woolen cloth. Verythin
silk is a cool wear. Tho heavily laden
skirts of women impede the free action
of movement much, and should be sim
plified as much as possible for summer.
So also the headgear.
Infants, if at all delicate, should not
be allowed to go with bare feet ; it often
produces diarrhea, and they shoull
always wear a flannel band round the
stomach. Another important matter is
the changing of night and day linen
among the poorer classes. It is terrible
to think that a workingman should lie
down in the shirt in which he has per
spired all day at his hot work. Let men
accustom themselves to good washes
every evening before they sit down to
their meals, and to changes at night,
that they may take up a dry shirt when
going to their hard day's work.
Frequent changes of linen is abso
lutely necessary anyhow, a night and
day change. This change alone would
help to stay mortality among children,
if accompanied with other healthy
measures, such as sponging the body
with a little salt and water. Where
tenements are very close wet sheets
placed ngainst walls will aid to revivify
the air and absorb bad vapor in rooms.
All children's hair should be cut short;
boys' hair may bo cropped, and girls'
hair so arranged by nets or plaits that
air passes freely round tho neck.
Light head coverings are essential in
summer, for the head must be kept
cool. The most serviceable dress is
,that which allows air to pass freely
around your limbs and stops neither the
evaporation of the body nor the circula
tion of the refreshing atmosphere. In
Buminer you must breathe freely and
lightly; you cannot do so with your
stomach full of uudigestod food, your
blood full of overheated alcohol, your
lungs full of vitiated air, your smell
disgusted with nauseous scents, your
system unable to carry out the natural
process of digestion. All the sanitary
arrangements in the world will do no
good if we cat and drink in such a
fashion that we are constantly putting
on fuel where it is not needed, and stuff
ing up our bodily draught, as we would
that of a heating appliance. Our ig
norance and our bad habits spoil the
summer, that delightful season of the
year nothing else.
Activity, rest and recreation are
weighty matters in influencing our
health in summer. . We are not so well
inclined for activity, and yet nothing
will so much assist us as a healthy em
ployment of our energies, without over
exertion. Pity those who must exert
themselves to the utmost in this horrid
weather, and feel gratified if you need
only moderately use your strength.
Activity keeps the system going, the
blood in healthy circulation, the digest
ive process fiee from costiveness, the
skin open for evaporation, and prevents
all clogging of the machine. If not
forced to work in some way or other
bo active anyhow; occupy your mind
and exercise your limbs. Stagnation
will bring about lethargy and allow tho
atmosphere a greater influence upon
you.
On the other hand, full rest is as
necessary. The exhausted frame wants
more recuperation, the brain less strain.
the system more gentle treatment,
Things look often darker in hot
weather; heat weighs upon the upper
portion of the head, communicating it
self to the perceptive powers, and in
fluences the senses. We see pictures
before us, and fancy we have not the
power to combat difficulties. It is said
that more suicides are committed' in
hot than cold weather. A healthy
sleep in this hot season is worth
great deal to us; try to court it, and
never play with your life and health by
wuiiuuy neglecting it.
And what shall we say of that precious,
and, as yet, so little understood phase
of life, our recreation ? If there is one
thing mere than another to be encou
raged in summer, it is reasonable recre
ation ; that exercise between body and
mind which brings about harmony
between both ; that periodical abstain
ing from incessant labor which renders
us freBher for it ; that intercourse with
beautiful Mother Earth which leads us
to value natural aspirations.
Never pass a day in summer without
some calm half-hour for quiet and enjoy
ment ; life has only so many years, and
during their space we should live, not
vegetate. The time will come when
sanitary measures and means for enjoy
ing a higher phase of life will be thought
of more than laying up things that rust.
W e cannot here enter upon the mean
ing of recreation in a wider sonse ; but
it is not recreation to rush out of town
and stop at some place to drink beer
aud smoke all the time ; it is not recre
ation to push on in crowds for excite
ment out of doors ; it is not recreation
to overheat yourself and feel more
fatigued the day after than the day
before. 1 or recreation you want leisure,
moderate movement, happy thoughts,
kindly company, some pleasant talk,
cheerful mnsio, refreshing food and
drink, and, above all, a thankfml heart
that you are able to enjoy these ; then
no one could say that such recreation
would be against the highest religious
rules of living. Food, drink, dwelling,
clothing, activity, rest and recreation,
all are modi tied by tho social circum
stances under which we are living
Food and Health.
"Don't you thiuk'we ought to separate
our husbands?" said a lady to her friend,
"Do you not see how excited they have
become 1 hey are beginning to cidl
each other 'ox' and 'ass' and all soils
disagreeable things. "Ohr no,"
was
the calm reply. "Let them go on
they have known each other for more
Ithan twenty years, and ought to know
what they are talking about."
A Desperado's Triple Murder.
A correspondent of the DenverJOol.) .
Republican tolls how " Billy the Kid," a
notorious desperado, killed three cow
boys in Lincoln county, NewMexiooi
The escaped desperado, says the corre
spondent, rode up to a cow camp of
John Chisum'p, the well-known cattle
man, in the Panhandle, in which there
were four cowboys. Three of these were
seated around a fire cooking supper,
while the fourth, Bennett Howell, was
hobbling his horse, about twenty yards
from the fire. Riding up to the latter,
" Kid " inquired: " Are you working for
old John Chisum ?"
" Yes," was the reply.
Then here's your pay," a bullet from
the " Kid's " pistol piercing his brain at
the same time. Seeing the murder of
their comrade the other cowboys sprang
to their feet, but before they could draw
their six-shooters, that of the killer had
exploded twice again, and two more of
the cowboys fell. Pulling down on the
leuiummg, me muraerer suoutea:
"Hold up!" The command was promptly
obeyed. "Now," continued Billy, "I
want you to take a message to old John
Chisum for me. Tell him that during
the war he promised to pay me five dol
lars a day for fighting for him. I fought
for him and never got a cent. No w I in
tend to kill his men wherever I meet
them, giving him credit for five dollars
every time I drop one, until the debt is
squared, or, if I happen to meet him be
fore, I'll kill him and call the whole ac
count settled. All I'm living for now is
to get even with my enemies, and I ex
pect to be in this country until I do
that."
The " Kid " then rode away toward
the Pecos, and the cowboy, after seeing
that bis friends were dead, made all
haste to the nearest camp, where he
told his story and secured assistance to
bu7 the bodies of the murdered men.
W hile this story may be, and probably
somewhat exaggerated, still it is cer
tainly true in its mam facts, so far as
your correspondent, by close investiga
tion, is able to ascertain, it seems to
generally thought in this county
that Billy is hiding at the present time
somewhere between this place and
Puerto de Luna, watching the move
ments of Pat Garrett, who, it is said, is
about tho only man in the county with
nerve enough" to follow him alone and
waiting his opportunity to get in a
blow at his real or supposed enemies.
This makes sixteen men that are known
to have died at the hands of the " Kid."
Chisum, it will be remembered, was
tho leader of one of the sides in the
bloody war between the Lincoln county
cattle men in 1878. When this trouble
broke out Chisum hired tho " Kid " as
a sort of lieutenant, promising to pay
him $5 a day, as stated. The "Kid"
did valiant work, if you could denom
inate success as a murderer by such a
term, killing several men, it is claimed,
on the opposite side.
The Mustang of Australia.
The mustang of tho American conti
nent has its counterpart in the "brum
bie" of Australia, large herds of which
exist in the interior parts of Queensland
and New South Wales. These animals
are so numerous that they have often
been destroyed and boiled down for the
sake of their tallow and hides ; and in
some of the newly -settled districts they
swarm in such numbers that the squat
ters have to protect themselves and the
pasturage against thir inroads. Brumbie
stalkiug is a recognized pastime, the '
destruction of the wild horses being as
necessary as the destruction of kangaroos
or rabbits. The sport of capturing and
taming these animals, however, has
attracted a good many adventurous
spirits, who adopt tactics somewhat simi
lar to those adopted by the inhabitants
of Mexico and South America, ine
hardiness and size and strength of these
brumbies are remarkable, and when
trained they are of considerable value.
Their progeny, when crossed with Hiuro
pean horses, possess excellent qualities.
It is recorded that in one year no less
than seven thousand wild horses have
been shot on a single station in New
South Wales. '
The Chinese have6,982 ocean vessels,
with an.aggregatejtonnage of 4,353,698
tons.
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