VOL- xxxvi HUSELTOIN'S! Showing of FALL and WINTER Footwear * *:» ::: ****** The biggest, most carefully selected stcck of BOOTS ami SHOES we ever of fered is now assembled ready for the showing. Crowds are here all the time because the best shoes for the money are here all the time. We please everyb xly, no one disappointed, ask the thousands of people whom we shoe and see. The newest styles from the WORLD'S BEST MANUFACTORIES. Women's Shoes. Men's Fine Shoes We .how ali .the newest shape, and herein'tlXJS nian.sh kid skin ond box calf AA to at $2, 3.0° and 3-5°- These shoes are the mos j a at £,.50 2 00, 2.50, 3.00 and 3 50. comfortable shoe a women ever wore. P ( %> and 1.25. In McK*y sewed 75 cts. to ?i 50. r , ~ 0u Heavy Working Shoes Women S Heavy onoes. j n j.jp 0 j) j, ra j n 2 soles and tap, high cut Our celebrated calf kip and veal un- box toe at $1.50, ».'o, 250 and .3.00. lined at 85c, *1.25 and 1 50, then the oil Heavy yeal and oil grain Creedtnore's at grain, kangaroo kip and grain at il, 1 25 SI.OO, 1.25 and 1.50. and 1 50, you can't duplicate in Butler Heavy Boots a - •' 5°- 20 ' an '' 2 *s'->- Children's School Shoes. Qoy's School Shoes-Strong, We sell only the best unlined kip Dressy, Well Shaped heavy Sole tip only one pair to buy dur- Onr Jamestown kip, high cut copper ing the winter, no rubbers needed; then toe shoe; then liengal calf, cil grain and seethe heavy vea 1 oil grain, kangaroo crack proof calf, 2 soles and tap at J' o,3 kip; prices 75c, SI.OO and up to 1.40, 1.25, 1.50 and 2 00, can t be duplicated sizes 13-2; sizes 9-12, 50c, 75, ft and 1.15. in any store 1:1 Butler. We sell -Queen Quality" Shoes for Women and The Famous Mrs Jenness Miller's Shoes. B. C. HUSELTONS. it at Icr'a Leaning Slioo House. Opijosite Motel Lowry. IN WALL Patterson Bros., 236 North Main Street, Butler, Pa Wick Building. Peoples' Phone 400 SHE FE EE! Tt I § uf f 3£" Men don't buy clothing for the pur-/&" _iU / ]uf l j ' ,3 Cpo«e or spending money. They flesircofe. /L| U V\ ' |;to get the best possible results for thefC A • tCir A| \ 7 vnioney exjjended. Not cheap goods'®" /j rl 1 aiff jWT 1 £,btit goods as cheap as they can Li ("An/ fcP 'ij>'' "JBCyou want the correct thing at the cor-7?C il street price, call and examine ouoid. " \ H' iKj&f \ ! 1 ( . stock of Heavy Weights, Fall fj; \ * tj| ,7 7 Cand Winter Suitings and Overcoats of"WC" \ ''tt ~jl Oft )$(){(^ \ j- j" if j Fits and Workmanship * 'J : | Guaranteed. fjr / G. F. KGCK, 142 North Main Street, Butler, Pa ; poooooooooooooo<>oc<>so<>o<xK : I ( > That the dread house cleaning is over the next <> ( ) ' and more important work is picking a new carpet 4j ( I To pick a carpet in our well stacked c.upct rooms is -i pleasure, so say the many who have done Sj. 4 V . . We have the famous Hartford Axminister, Wilton . . Velvets, Jiody and Tapestry Brussels and Ingrains >1 in all the up-to-date patterns, only, and prices 1 that will astonish you. Then our China Mattings, r ' Floor and Table Oil Cloths, Linoleums, Rugs and r Art Squares, deserve a passing notice. Ask to ' f < ► SI.OO Axminister Rugs, ' ' Neatest thing for the money ever shown in Butler at r j DOFFy'Sstorel PAPE'S, JEWELERS. Diamonds, Watches. Clocks, Jewelery, Silverware, Spectacles etc. We have a large and well selected stock. We Repair all Kinds of Watches. If you have broken jewelery that you think 1 ryond repairs bring it to us and we will make il as good as new. We take old gold and silver the same as cash allowing the highest market price. 122 S. Main St., Butler, l'a, I^.lli. i.'iAHHY A »-L/-vIN .■' : SAPOLIO subscribe for the CITIZtN. THE BUTLEU CITIZEN. I NOTHING IS tETTER IMPOSSIBLE TO MANUFACTURE P A BETTER REMEDY. S Pennsylvania People Make Good Wit nesses of the Success it Has Achieved. . j There can he nothing better for back ; ache, nervousness, sleeplessness and all ,i ailments arising from kidney disorders r than Morrow's Kid-n;-oids. It is im- ' j possible to manufacture a better kidney remedy. Kid-ue-oids contain the very | I best ingredients that ?.n >;ood for ail • I ments arising from the kidneys. The i j vast nnm'ier of people in thi> city who I have testified to the merits of Kid-ne-oi.!s , I is sufficient proof that not.e of our claims are false. Mrs. Smith, 49 Madison Ave., Alle ghenv, Pa., . J ays: "1 have suffered for several years with I kidney trouble I had severe pain in my back and was troubled with nervousness and sewlling of the feet. I tried differ -1 ent kinds of kidney remedies, but they did not relieve me. When I sa%v Mor t row's Kid-ne-oids advertised I decided to try them. They stopped the pain in my . back, my nerves are strengthened and , the swelling has disappeaied." j Morrow's are not pills but 1 ! Yellow Tablets and sell at fifty cents a | r j IKJX at all druj; stores and at Redick & ; 1 ! Grohman's 'lrug store. 1 | Mailed on receipt of price. Manufac- | 1 j tured by John Morrow & Co., Chemists, j j Springfield, Ohio. Butler Savings Bank Hotter, Pa. Capital - {60,000.00 Surplus and Profits - - $170,000.00 JOS. L PURVIS President : J. HEXRY TROPTMAS Viee-Prefidei i WM. CAMPBELL, Jr <'a>i.,<r LOUIS B. STF.'.N 'leli^r 1)1 ItE<TOHS-Joseph L. ' urtls. .1. Hears Tro'Unutn, W. t». Branfiou, W. A. S!> in J si. CaciDbell. The Ilutit-r fillviuses liank the Oldest Banking Institution', n Butier County, ficneral liankinK transacted. We solicit accounts of ./il producers, mer chants. farmers and others. All b.isiness entrusted v r » us will receive prompt attention. Interest paid on tlm*- deuoslts. TH bZ | Baticr County National Bank, Butler Penn, Capital paid in - - fu0.000.00 Surplus and Profits - {'30,703.95 Tos. Hart man, J. V*. Ritts, Vice President; C. A. liailey. Cashier; ! John G. McMarlin, Ass't Cashier, i / general banking business transacted. ! liiter">t paid on time deposits. Moii'-y loaned on approved security. | We invite you to open an acount with this bank. 11l i:r.< T >U> -lion. Joseph Hartrnari, Hon. W. S. Waldron, Dr. .N- M. Hoover. 11. Mc- Sweeney, E. E. Alirams, ('. I'. <;olllns I. O I Smith, Leslie I'. Haziett. M. I'lnei; in, W. 11. Larkin, Harry lleasley, I)r. W. C. I Mi l andiess. lien Hawfltb. I V. Ititt» Braun's Pharmacy. Cor. 6th St. and Duquesne Way. Pittsbuiy, Pa,, L. D.Telephone 2s42. Wholesale and Retail. Importer aiidjobherof Urugs, • I'hemicals, Perfumes, Soaps, ! Hiushes, Etc The only house west of New York carrying a full line ol Meyers' Grease, Paints and theatrical goods Physicians' Prescriptions J Compounded Day or Night by "Registered Pharmacists" only. Wholesale and retail dealer in Lubricating and IHumniating Oils, Capital Cylinder, Dynamo, Water White and Standard Gas Kngine Oils, Gasolein, Ben zine, Paraftlne Wax and Petrolatum. Address all mail orders to W. F. Braun. Rare Bargains! We want to dispose of our present stock of '99 models, and in order to do it quickly ltnve cnt the prices from *y>, $35 and *4O to $22.50 and *25. These are strictly grade anil up-to-date bicycles, and can't be matched tor j)rice aii'l quality. Oon't miss this op[«rtuni ty 10 t»rocure a good wheel for little money. We hell sundries cheaper than and other house in town. WHITE, WALTER & CO., 303 S. Main Street. " H. 0. HAYS. L. H. HAYS PUT YOUR RIG UP AT |Ha\?s ftros.'l Livery and Sale Stable Best Accommodations in Town. West Jelerson street, butler, Pa • People's Phone 109, Hell's Phone 59 > HAIR SWITCH FREE /'J\ ~OH F.ASV CONDITIONS. flf I rit il.! i'|. (nit AII'I r .ill to u« Heiula Hffi I Ml I»I«* •• • V 'MI fi.fl' 1 • .!(»•#• to th«- % Yf\ tool '! M» *<) SfcSkVi •«• %v|ll male and S \f \ 1 • tj.aM r• N f HUMAN *' u 'W,,TC,H ,. 1/ A I'M •'»» "»• I . jjo,.. ,•, It t.. .. if if. Ml, d ' \rW> ,J y v ' i, "i V V \ ihf iHlirh m- »rinl )nM fr . f«>r jobr trim Mr. 1 DUH* lurntiMrr. ITLR.RLR.] r r* 4 lKM.ro* U.l oil.r, pi etui iik. > for *rsixS in'J <!•*%. Order hNm lt« li nt u!«<•«• or »rltH.|.«lu> r..r 11(1 |.|»|(l Mil MOKKI 11. A'Mrr.., Ladles' Hair Emporium, ChicaKO. yjiA VI'K1 1" S I'. V Kit AI. MltlCillT 4 \M» ™ IIOIH SI ix rvuiH to ri*pr«*s«ial us as Man- In this uiifl l»y count li s Salary - s'.**> a y« ir and « X|n risi s. Htralvfht. U>na- Ido. no noffli no low salary. Poult lon per manent. Onr r«*fi r«m is. any hank In any town. Il N mainly ofll' i work <'oii<lu<*t« <l at limn* Kin'losiss a l f •adflrcssi-d Htarn|i<r(L »*nv<?lo|H . Tin DOMINION ( MMI-ANV Dept. :j, Cblcaj^u. BUTLER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, IB9Q THEY TtIAT JIT IN DARKNESS /&W*Q A 3TORY OK THE AU3TRALIAN NEVER-NEVER. i v & z> ■■ jqhh /aackie Al/THOROFTHf.DCVILSPLAYGROI/NOAnD*3INNERSTVJA!N.'' u CJ> cofJ/^/u/r /S " £y r#co£/?/(/< A. jroK£s company. I • 1 CHAPTER V. "WHICH WOULD YOU PREFER?" Next morning Jack and I were rip at daybreak; the squatter's camp was also astir. Lnckily the horses had not stray ed far daring the night, so that soon we had them driven np, ready for a start immediately after breakfast. I was just putting the billy on the tire when Snowball, one of the black boys, came up and told me that his "white missis" wanted to see me. Instructing him to tell her I would be with her im mediately, and wondering what she could want with me, I ran down to the | creek and hurried through uiy simple I toilet. When I reached the squatter's camp, Norah Mackenzie was waiting for me. With a smile she took down a silver drinking cup from the limb aL a tree on which it had rested overnight, and taking a tumbler poured off a clear, amber hued liquid from the former in to it, throwing out what I supposed were the cores of the berries she had plucked on the previous day. I must have stood looking as foolish as an overgrown schoolboy who with a rebel lious spirit, conscious of the dignity of his coming manhood, is eying tho doc tor's nauseous draft, from which he knows there is no escape. She watched my face, held tie- glass up to the light, and with an arch pleasantry repeated these lines: '•Oh. tor ;t lrf-ukt r full of the warm souHi, The true, the blushful iiippocrene, With Leaded bubbles winking at the brim And purple stained mouth"— an<l in the same breath, "Just fancy tomething of that sort, yon know, and bere's a big eli. .colate drop you'll have as a r< \v;-.ril when yon'v; finished." I thought the comparison between tho draft that K. ats meant and this was hardly a fair one. I must have presented a very disc..neertf il spectacle, for she laughed heartily at me, but 1 drank the f ver cure to the bitter lees. I think if I had imagined it would prove as 1 itter again I would have swallowed it without a moment's hesi tation, coming as it did from her hands. Aft r all. it was not so very unpleasant. It h.'l a p?culiarly bi:ter, burning t: si';, but was not particularly disagreeable. "Where is my reward':" I » col. And now the l-ngth to whi--h this girl would go in pursuit of a joke* was fully exemplified. She held up the ch <■• olate drop between fingt r and thumb till it was on a level with that siren's face of her.-, and, tarn tho great, dark eyes full upon me till 1 could read the meaning in them and slightly pout ing her lips, she asked in a low voice that suggested the manner of address ing a child, "Which would you prefer?" I simply tnrned hot and cold, and the blood seemed to tingle through my body at the audacity of such a speech. But before I could stretch out my hands to her. which had been my first unrea soning impulse, she placed the choco late drop between my lips and was laughing beyond mv reach. It was well for her and for myself that she did escape. 1 was never so much the slave of an irresistible im pulse as at that moment. Just then the squatter came from his tent. "Hello, Parker!" he said. "Been tak ing Norah's medicineT Yes, it's good stuff. Repeat the dose tomorrow, and I'll wager you'll get rid of the fever. By tho way, we strike off from here M r r.f' % V, V*. * v • " 1 jt "Jurli," I cried, "tire vc to f/o on v illi Mr. MackenzieT" southwest through the bush this morn ing for my newVonntry up the Robin son river. Are you comftig with us?" "Jack," I cried, turning to my mate, who at that moment came up, "are wo to go on with Mr. Mackenzie to his new country?" "Yes, and thanks for the offer, sir," answered Jack, addressing the squatter. "I'd go to another planet and not take a return ticket, either, if I could get the chance." "Hello!" exclaimed the squatter, be trayed into an exhibition of surprise by something in the tone of Jack's speech. "You're too young to say such things. Don't you ever think of your father"— "Yes, 1 do," intesrupted Jack grim ly, with that old hard look coming into his face which I knew was the outcome of some hidden trouble. The squatter saw it and hastened to say: "Oh, I beg your pardon I I didn't mean to. However, I'm very glad yon are coming. Let's get ready." Then Jack and I, putting the pack saddles on our horses, drove them over into Mackenzie's tuob and rode on, not wishing to force our company upon the others more than was absolutely neces sary. It was now good and pleasant travel ing. Occasionally we had to go a little out of tho line we had adopted to keep clear of a thick tl-tree scrub or a clump of wattle, but generally it was a grassy open or lightly timbered country. Some times, for many miles at a stretch, we could imagine ourselves in a nobleman's park in some lieautiful old country county. There was the turf beneath <;ur feet—not, however, so green and velvety. There were tho great ancestral trees standing in stately isolation and the long dim glades in the background. The wagon could pursue a straight course in such places. Only at times that we were not in the old country was brought forcibly home, when, for instance, some emus on a clearing would crane their necks at our approach and scuttleoff into the scrub or a band of gray kangaroos came liounding right into the open in the foreground; then, on observing us, up on their hind quarters to get a better view before j hopping off again, beating a lals.red : tattoo on the ground with the 5 - 'Teat | tails. Once we halted and watched a pair of native companions—large gray birds somewhat resembling gigantic cranes—going through that remarkable dance which they indulge in occasion ally. It was indeed an extraordinary »ight. "I wonder now what the niggers call those festive creatures?" Jack remark ed absently "The 'barralga,' " she replied, rolling her r's. "Don't you notice the resem blance of the name to the cry of the bird?" I conl.l not help thinking of Max O'Rell's statement when talking of Friend Macdonald —"Show me peojile | who roil their r's, and I'll show you a people with backbone.'' After all, Norah Mackenzie was highland Scotch by de | scent. I It impressed me not a little to see the | thoughtful expression in the girl's | eyes when only that which amused would have been visible to nine woim n ' out of ten. I had not given her cre.l't j for seeing beneath the surface of things. And she was evidently one of those who have a dislike to be taken serious ly, for as her father and Jack rode on abreast, leading the wnv, she checked her horse until it was alongside mine and asked me, with the spirit of mis chief still lurking in her eyes, how I had liked the chocolate drop she gave j me that morning. I turned and looked at her steadily, j "I can't say it tasted quite so sweet > after the alternative you proposed. You'll play with fire until someday you , get burned," I answered. For now I was conscious Vf a strange feeling of resentment toward her. It was not pleasant to think that she should hold me so lightly and treat me as she might a child. I had till that morning almost regarded her as one, but there had been a dangerous glamour in those soft eyes when my arms had gone out to her as if by an irresistible impulse. Then I had ceased to look upon her as a child and began to regard her as something infinitely mere dan gerous. She checked herself in an uneasy laugh, and although I gazed right ahead of me I could tell that she was favoring me with one of her inscrutable glances. She was beginning to exercise a subtle influence over me, and perhaps she divined it, for in another minute her mood had changed. Thongh she spoke as frankly as before, she did not again venture upon such dangerous ground. As if by mutual consent we began talking about many things. It would be difficult for me now to say how it came a boat, but she had very soon learned from me the history of my checkered connect it n wjtli the law; how I had become a duly qualified practi tioner in England and ceased to be one when fortune came to me; how when on losing my money I had come out to Sonth Australia and soon had qualified to practice there, but how I had found it impossible to take to the work again, for, the old nomadic spirit within me asserting itself, I was drawn into that bush which had always exercised such a powerful fascination for me. Norah Mackenzie listened, as I thought, with a pleased look on her face, lint she made no comment. We were now abreast of Jack. The girl asked him if he also were a wanderer by choice and profession. "Certainly," was the prompt reply. "I'm a rolling stone of the first water. " "You seem proud of it, "remarked the girl. "That's so. " was the confident reply, "ever since a certain young lady told me- confidentially, of course that she preferred rolling stones to the other sort, because if they didn't gather much moss they gained lots of polish." "And what did yon say to that?" "Why, I rewarded her—on the spot," replied Jack, with the air of a man who had done his duty. "Yon see, as she was a sort of forty-second cousin, and rather good looking, one couldn't lx) ungrateful." That night wo camped on the edge of a pine forest, and to me it was almost as welcome a sight as that of the glori ous old ocean when one's eyes have rested upon nothing for months, and perhaps years, but the interminable glaucous green of the eucalyptus till they have ached for a change. Change means rest to the senses that have run too long in one groove. We had seen many tracks of blacks, and passed one or two deserted camps where those children of the bush had been within the last few weeks. But wo took the bells off our horses when we turned them out and so were not trou bled by any of these connoisseurs of horseflesh; probably they did not ex pect whites so far off the track. Norah Mackenzie produced her violin after supper and accompanied Jack, who at the request of the squatter gave us "Bonnie Mary of Argylo" with great feeling, and, on being pressed to sing again, chose that quaint, sweet yet pas sionate idyl "The Devout Lover" in which there is the real old world ring in both words and music. Then Jack and she sang together and, for the first time, perhaps, I was not a little envious of his accomplishments. It seemed to mo her manner was much more friendly toward him than it had been. Next day we passed through the pine country, and on (Tossing a little iron stone ridge we saw ahead of us a great, grassy, lightly timbered valley, surrounded by a bine range of hills whose sides exhibited an abrupt, pre cipitous front, which was scarred and broken into hundreds of little inlets and | bold headlands. Detached from the cliff j we could see great pillarlike rocks A i (> \m i i $ $ Norn j>ro<luced In r riolln nml a<co)n jxtnlnl Jack standing on end, streaked with snow I white quartz and a dull, furtive red j This valley looked for all the uv.rM if compassed by some rugged coast line It was indeed an old sea cliff. against whose terraced heights old ocean had thundered thr jngli the long ages, pierc ing its sandy base with innumerable gullies and caves and lea\ ins behind a wav worn rugged moan; .in side. And down this picturesque valley, dotted with giant fig trees, eucalypti and M. reton bay ash. ran a lovely, still succ sion of lagoonlike watet holes, friijo. ,1 by many beautiful specimens of tho pafni and marking the course of the creek. It was the sqaatter's prom ised land. CHAPTER VI. THE SKELETON IX THK CAMP. That night we kept the horses well in hand, but they were not interfered with. Next day we continued the jour ney, keeping w sharp lookout for tracks, so that we might discover the where abouts of the cattle the squatter had sent oil ahead. Toward the afternoon Snowball sang ont: "Master, track sit down- -one fellow cow and calf, 'nother fellow track yara man belongin to white fellow That one been fetch 'im tip." Snowball looked keenly at the ground, and where we could see neither a r-ign nor a mark he seemed to read his moth er earth as if it were an open book. "Which way you think it camp sit down. Snowball?" Norah Mackenzie asked. It aroused one's wonder to note how trippingly the pigeon English came from her lips. A breath of wind ever so faint just then happened to be straying down the valley, and Yarry threw liack his head and turned his broad nostrils toward it "I t'ink it that way. Alia same way that one bullocky go, me smell um fire, j I t'ink some fellow bin r«>ast um bul lockv alonga tire." "L ag way away, Yarry, yon think j it?" she asked soberly, but I could see j her eyes sparkle. She knew that this J | was a riddle, for one thing the Austra- j I lian blacks can never do is to estimate distance. They are utterly devoid of i that facnlty called "sense of number," ■ and their replies for they do not like to confess their ignorance—are often I ! very amusing. "Well, Yarry," repeated Norah Mac j kenzie, feigning impatience, "how , many miles you think it to where bul locky sit down ?" As I have said before, it was a riddle, } and Yarry scratched his head. Savages scratch their heads when puzzled all the world over, whether they are white or black. But Yarry answered with an air of sang froid and supreme conviction: "T'ree miles, maybe; might be two, you know Oh, well, so ben miles I tink it." And with this ambiguous piece of in formation Yarry smiled with a sense of superior intelligence and went on ahead to follow up the tracks. Yarry resembled a Scotsman or some gentle man of the legal persuasion in that he declined to commit himself to any spe cific statement. "Do you think the fellow smells fire and meat roasting on it ?" Jack asked Norah Mackenzie. "There's a lot of mi raculous stuff talked about these chaps; but I can't smell tire, let alone the roast.'' "That doesn't prevent them smell ing," laughingly replied thegirl. "Had we been born a few thousand years ago, when people hunted for a living, I've an idea that our nostrils would have been just as handsomely broad as Yar ry's. It's sad to think what we've lost through civilization, isn't it?" "Now that I think of it, you're right," commented Jack thoughtfully. "Of course the law of 'disuse' can ac count for the modification of our noses. You know your Darwin better than I do." "Never read liim in my life," was the candid rejoinder. "But you don't mean to say you dis covered that truth for yourself?" Jack persisted. "I did, 'honest Injun!' " she protest ed, with mock gravity. "But then it's perhaps not altogether a matter of in tellect. " Jack looked somewhat foolish. "There are plenty of proofs every where. Now, I daresay I'm what some of your bluestockings would call a very ignorant young person, because I don't know much about hooks and haven't got a hundred different theories on the tip of my tongue, but I do know enough to prevent my becoming a miserable agnostic like some of them. Evolution may Is: as broad as it's long, but it doesn't quite fill the bill that's to say, it isn't everything. It's only when one goes direct to nature and finds out how beautifully it all fits into our lives that one can see it's only a little bit of a great big design. Of course book learn ing's a great thing; it's only those who won't look beyond them, who won't take time to study the proofs for them selves, that I'm sorry for. I don't sup pos.\ however, it matters what 1 think." Here she "abruptly made a laughing remark about one of the black Is.ys and changed tho subject. Tho particular cattle tracks we were following were now lost in many others, and a number of fresh horse tracks 1M - came visible. We were evidently get ting near the place where the cattle were running. We skirted the base of a high, wave wuro bluff, down the side's of which a spring of water trickled, shaded by a group of magnificent feather palms; then we heard the crack of a stock whip and the distant ttellowing of a mob of cattle. We could distinctly smell a fire, and Snowball corroborated Yarry s assertion that he amelled "bnl locky" roasting. At length we came to a beautiful open piece of country bordering on the lugoonliko creek, and aboiit a mile off could sec a large mob of cattle being rounded up for the night and three or four mounted men riding slowly round them. We could see the bell tent of the drover, with a bough •bed in front of it, and a little farther off two or three other tents. At a large fire were two or three black lioys roast ing various parts of a bullock, or, as Gordon more correctly put it, "toasting banes," which lx.ro out Yarry's asser tion that lie had smelled this process at a distance of four miles. A tall, black j beard:*! rider, with a white pugaree i round his cabbage tree hat, came gal loping up. "Gibson, by Jove!" said the squatter as he pror-sed forward and shook hands Warmly with thedrover "How severy thing, Tom?" "All '< ). K.' A glorious country, as Favenc said Hut Ojiue right over to the camp and have some tea Miss Mac kenzie, to see you is a sight for sore eyes." Hw paused and looked shyly around. "And there's another of them," he added in an awed and audible aside as he caught sight of Elsie Gordon on the wagon, for Tom Gibson was a bachelor and susceptible. He xtraight way made up his mind to adjourn to his tent at the first opjiortniiity and put on a ».oiled shirt, a collar and one of those white silk necktie with which he promised some day to take civiliza tion by storm. It was only now I became conscious of the j.e t that I had Hot still" red from a recurrence of tie- usual attack of fever on the previous ila} Indeed my enemy hail been oomph : ly l< rgotten But it is always the way with us When we are ill. health ■ in to us the one thing worth living f">r. and when we are in its full enjoyment we lake it as a matter of conrse, quite forgetting the fact that we have anything for which to lie thankful. Now. with the exception of feeling just a little "off. " I was nearly my old self again When I told Norah Mackenzie, with a sense of awakened gratitude which I could bnt ill exj ress. that I believed her fever draft had made me a new man. she looked pleased and laughingly ex pressed the hope that the new man would prove an improvement on the old. Gibson and his men had Imilt in a group of acacias a neat two roomed hut, which was immediately handed over to the women. Gordon unhitched his team in theneighlx.rh.~sl >.f a great, shady tig tree, and Savile straightway got i ut his pans and paraphernalia to make an extra effort in honor of our arrival. Savile was really a culinary genius and under different circum stances might have made a name for himself. Jack and I were told by the squatter to keep to our own camp, a* Gibson's was a separate affair, for. simply having contracted as a drover to take the cattle on to his run at so much per head, his mess had no connection with ours. ' However, Gibson insisted on our being his guests for that night, so we men folk went over to his camp. His people as they relieved each other from sh.wljr riding round the cattle, would drop in. and it was pleasant to exchange civili ties and news such as it was with them, for only tb.iee who have l»*en for months and perhaps years in the lone ly bush can know how even to see a ! strange face and exchange a few friend ly sociable words with some one is a welcome break in the monotony of such a life. Strange to say, now that we had ar rived at the end of our journey I did not feel any particular sense of gratifi cation in the fact, for the squatter had gradually developed a very friendly at- 1 titude toward Jack and me and had rather encouraged us to ride alongside of himself and his daughter, with the result that we had spent a pleasant time together. It seemed to give Mac ! kenzie pleasure to talk with those who knew something of the rather uncom mon subjects that interested him. I think he found Jack the more congenial companion, and 1 observed with satis | faction that Norah Mackenzie was , pleased to see her father in such a cheer | ful and communicative spirit Indeed she told me that *he had not s<-en liim Hx"king so well and cheerful since he had started out from Tarragong and was good enough to ascribe it to his having found those with whom lie could converse freely on subjects that inter ested him. She seemed grateful to Jack, though why I could not exactly under stand, knowing tho obligation was as much on his side. Having finished supper, I was just wondering whether I was well enough to smoke—an attack of fever often, strangely enough, takes away the de sire from even an habitual smoker when my attention was aroused by a stock rider evidently just relieved from watch, tired and dusty. His small, grayish blue eyes had a cold blooded, shifty expression; the mouth, which is supposed to be the most expressive fea ture in the face, was large and loose, yet not weak; there was a hint of vin dictiveness and latent cruelty lurking in the down drawn corners and lines on either side of it by no means reassuring. What was intended to !»• a frank and straightforward way of looking at one impressed the olwerver as Ix-longing to a man who had no small conceit of himself, one who was studying his vic tim and watching his chance to gratify a mean nature. His voice was hard, but drawling, affecting a heartiness that his general pri*sence belied. Still his features were regular, and he was what some people would certainly call good looking despite these drawbacks. When he saw me, I tried to greet him in a friendly spirit, but felt on the instant that I was not one of those who would have the honor of sharing his gixsl graces. It occurred to me, however, that the healing hand of time might temper this deprivation. He stared hard at someone with what seemed to be fear in his eyes Turning. I saw Jack. I hail never liefore s.sn such a look on my comrade's face. First an angry flush mounted into it; then, as if some politic motive had arrested him. lie remained seated, while an ap prehensive, sickening, weary look took its (dace. It was evident that this man, whom his comrades called Daly, was a very unwelcome sight to Jack, and that he suggested some recoilcc tions which belonged to the "skeleton in the cupboard" series. Conld he be cognizant of the secret which had led Jack to sink his identity? When I saw the {Ms'iiliarly concentrated stare that passed between them, it was evident to me that from some motives of prudence they had tacitly decided to avoid rec> nition. N'or was I mistaken, for, when about an hour later, having gone down to the creek to have a swim which I always indulged in when the opjx.r tnnity offered and afterward, while •Irving myself behind a clump <>f thick tindergr. <wth, I heard a couple of men talking excitedly together and knew that it was Jack and Daly, who had songht this quiet corner so as not to lie disturbed "You're a scoundrel I'' I heard Jack say indignantly. "You were not con tent with fooling nie into traveling along with yon and your the ving mob, but you worked it so that I should in noeently show myself to the police, that they should get my description , and think I was one of the gang who ran off the horses. It was a mighty clever trick, wasn't it? Didn't they get on to you or your mat" - at all? I aid not want to play the part •>f an eavesdropper, so coughed P» attract their attention. But they did not hear nie and continued talkll*,: "Well, no, I don't think they did. was the drawling, half slurring reply. ( "You see, we weren't stieh fools as to , show ourselves as long as we coakl shove yon into it, my jo dandy Bnt I don't know what reason you have t" cut up rough. Tin-cops hain't got yon Many a better man than yon fla gi"t a ir4. Jjßf R I vV-y..' "I'll ...... hi.. ./. ./ n.11.1 I | warrant hanging over his bead in thi< ' ' country Dash it, y.m would gentl. ' men give t.ivwhfi such onfon»ded air*' What l»tt-r ar- y..u than me I d like to know?" 1 did not inr- t>> make my j.r- -- u.« Ins lira now Th«-y might think it strange and probably di-t redit the fact that I had tried t.> ». .jnaint tb»-ra < f it annacr. Besides. I might learn Some thing that wi nld enable me to be of as riatnre t<> Jark Ha«l 1 entertained a doubt of his honor I would r. t have list n»d to an< tht-r w rd. )nt tcvraM niy-elf there and then ami r:»ke<! mis representation Fr. in my vantage ground I could see the cruel crafty f»rf of Dalv a* lh* stotd with hu kamb in hi* pt* kets affecting a free ami f*.«T demeanor. "I'*e a minil to break ti.nr neck. y..n scurvy villain'" Jack exclaimed "Your ugly face act* a* an irritant! !>>n't yon kn>>w Ton re liable to get me into seriona tr. nblr through y.»u st- an drelism !" "Easy, easy:" Daly, smil ing in an ngly faahion. but not lt» king quite at his ease "There yon g.. again with yonr names. perhaps you'll ad drt-s ine more civilly one of these day* " '•By the way," Jack asked suddenly and ignoring Daly's speech. • "after I got clear of yonr mob and had left Norman ton, I heard something ab"«t Seit n having come to grief on the Flinders. Did yon hear anything about it? I'm sorry if it'* the cane, for I thought S. ston was the only decent fel low ann a# jua. He wanted me. just before leaving yonr mob, to wait a day or two laager so that we might travel together, bnt as be had money and I was stone broke and didn't know him well enough to quarter myself nj» n him I started off by myself Do yoa know if there km any trnth in the ru rnor!" And now at the mention of Sexton'* name a sodden change caine over Daly * face. It grew a sickly, gre»-ni»h yellow, and nntil he cleared hi* throat his v., no was linsky. Bnt he recovered himself "Oh, that's yonr game, is it. pre tending to know nothing about it? he drawled, with a queer, nglv took Bnt iu another instant, a* if struck by a sudden thought, he continued "Yon think I'm a walking information ta rt ail. do yon. f » yonr special hen* fit ? If yon do. yon're mistaken I'm not the f«»>l yon take me for Bnt look here, Far<|uharson. Tymlall or whatever yonr name is, it's no nse crying over spilled milk or making tronhle. If yon can only be decently civil tome, there's no reason why we shnnhin t both he able to live in the same camp together If yon go in for blowing the gaff. why. the facts are against yon, and they won't Wlieve it. Perhaps yon are not aware that you might ptwuibly get into worse trouble than yon dream about. Now. then, don't be a fool What name have I to call yon by?" "Jack Tyndall is my name. Bnt lo«>k here. Daly, don't suppose I care a fig fur yon or imagine that yon have me in yon' power, for the moment yon try any crooked games on with me I'll shot y..n like a dog' They say yon have to light the devil with his own wcajM and I'm going to do it'" "Rij,lic yon an*. Mr Jack Tyn dall ; Ift try and keep a civil tongue in your lt> ad, and there need be no trouble. 'Live aud let live' is nay motto " And -with an easy insolence Daly strutted off, not, however, looking quite at his ease. Jack looked after him with an ex pression on his face that Miope no one will ever see there again. I waited til| Jack left and then strolled l»»ck to the camp. What I had overheard was decubdly unpalatable News not intended for the ears of a third i«irty is generally so. If ever tht-r* was an unprincipled, mischief making fellow, that Daly was one. and I felt that if he staid in Mackenzie's camp long with Jack there would be tr»'Ul4e. I cauie to the conclusion that by con cealing my dislike to Daly and even trying to api>ear friendly with him I might serve Jack much better than by showing my diatru * Among the stockmen there was one named < hilcot, a quiet, gentlemanly fellow who gave me some interesting facts about the country He was (lib son's "first in charge " He told me that though the blacks had as n,, attempt to molest the men or file cattle they were just lying hnek to scire a gi-sl opportunity of making an attack of some kind The hill tribes were dlf ferent from those that lived on the plains, the former turning ont a re markably capable and warlike -penmen of the black fellow At fir-it » »it~< n had advocated letting the blacks coin# Into , the station, but he <"hilcot f<«eseein|C the inevitable consequences of snch a dangerous measure, had induced him to , abandon the idea ( "When I linve been ont with the cat , tie,' addetl Chileot, "I have s« n the | blacks follow and watch me all day | from betfind the rocks and the ( caves ami gullies. Judging from their | old canipe. I should say they wer» an , uncommonly strong tribe- probably several hundreds strong Anyhow it's natural to suppose that, having spoiled their hnnting ground*, they are bnund < to bear us a grudge. " < e I l»o as l unwcml Weltf Clara '»ne can't believe aw rd th« « men say any more. Mand Why not? tiara Well, there's Jack. He prom ■ Ised faithfully never to tell any one if I would permit him to kis* me just once, and in I»*h than a minnte he had repeated it —Chicago New* The < sss* "t Hl* nrllskl. 4* rimes Look here. Smith, why didn't yon call last night? I told y>n my daughter was going to sing some . t her new song*, and yon appeare«l <le lighttsL Smith I was delighted to know she was going to sing. Bi»*»n Tran script. Aee»«wte« For. Mr < 'rude lt<> wife at breakfast ta Me; <hir m-ighbi.r. Mr Len«. the se tr. Homer, tells me that they have dis | coven*! riK>r« spot* ' <n the sun Crude, Jr That's right. pi;p. 1 put t them tin r»< in a little scrap h» nnd ! f had j. nt. rdaj Hi- hnw n.l Tim« I I tor m «rraklac Part. "Marry me I" he pleaded. "Say Jon will marry me!" I "I)on't bo so importunate." she nrged "Olvs me time to think " I "No, no," he an»were»l; "yon have far t«»> much talent t«> be cast f r t « thinking |««rt." —Chicago V"A f V rm r« ml M. "There i* one truly remarkable thing 11 abont tlie French -lnt-list " "I suppose yon refer to the fact that 1 ho never hurt* hi* adversary ■" "No; h« dtieen't even hit the mno cent bystander " —Chicago Tiioe»-H»-r aid _____ I I n|dt Inc Vila ▼ "Yonr boy seems to be enjoying ex cellent h- kith 'i remark-d a neigh bor "Vet." replied Mr Bilkins, "he has j not complained »-f an ache >.r pain j Since »cht« 1 closed. **• «>hi.. Staff J. nr • tin) 4 No. 40 THE BIRD'S PETt-nOH J k . ' « • * >,.«» J o ,e rs» )m>{ -'I wmwt pml A*-' <" «»•«. ■ ■ m*• •«« -nse, tt -- oli m el jars M "A » M t .1 tif i . »• •• f i to mm Uwt mm 9» m >J (*m tfM >— fc j *m S "V *«*» and 4iv, Mm-*m Dm a#-* *«•# V mm 4 •r. 1 *tit fMHw wwer mm*i m* ■ • <laf * feet hi ww m n&mmi Mmmm «• m*-* fc? j**-* **f». at fev INprtl n. t Uui* Warf «tdi r..-t wbm mmSm rt* tw m mm %mt Uk* Hiwuy lathw !mh». i»W «ti*t «t»!i -m Ui*» ihcm. tmmmm .» In (*m mi mm. K • <H k- 1 :• ami S»wwe .*mm —< Itfw m Wmmmmrnm HENRY RANG OFF Hat Whea H» ).al H.<a» rhat Tk»r» Wm rimH». Apropu* t.f n»th:nc in pnrttrnlnr-n*> Its* it la- eieetrteity I henril a -tnur gtst t. II ->f a Uttle »eurre-art In bin shop i;.e oilier -taj lie KM alone and putting tip a paw scrip' .« Miarf hi* larsfe parvttla* srtwa xs lien a stylishly ttr» ssi it wn man • atrntl ami asked with snow n dteii • t.l t r the t»*(eph«ti»e He «*-xwoce»i h,- r In front „f it and retnrriftl to bis work. S'.ic took off tier duteik rim «p "centml" ami began: street. Te*. yen. Mr Hen ry Wee her Y>-* ye« lie# at >•». Mr WetterT Then ber voice Uanlened. "Henry, why <MC ytm ten a* fwt went to l*bila«telpntn Tbnrshr? What? you dal an* I know M tcr. lN>n't you stand there ami tie r» we like (hat- No. I won't; What tin I care for the girt In the nhfkmt mt fiee' You jnst atteml »« me sat! let her al»-Me: I'm in a -trng store They're not lisieninx at all. I want aa rtfto nation No. mlfttl. 1 srlll ant wait till yoa eonie b>tme tonight" By that time yonTB liave hatched ay a ine sto ry ami i»rought np a ■-••nple mf hi an s to swear to tt Mr* Waßaee says her hustsiml <aw yon at the ••bib Thnrs tlay nlxb' ami that yon were fnta« out tt> play jtoker all night Oh, no. he Isn't: He's a very nice man. ami tam much obliged to hint. Ton wnnhln't dare •!•> anything of the kind! Whnt? Ton won't, eh? Well, yon'll talk when you get home' Here, wait a moment. I •••n't shut sir— But the seanre was over, ami she pnid tier l."t cent* and stalked ant wtrh Hashing eyes that boded 111 for the lively Henry. C incinnati ILmpdrer W hat ••lasM'i rts»lt> ISS. "A BitJical sttalent In this etty." says (Mir U'asblngttai ■ ■ rrespoadrnt. "lie clares that if the •U'scrtpatann af Snin moil's Temple are act-nrnmiy gtrsai ia the Itlble ami by set ;lar authorities the total value of that edfflcw and Its contents must tiare exceeds I fSA.iW> MM*). In the first place, the vntne of the inatertnls in the rnngh snti matt*! at ami the Inbor at m.issi.tasiissi \)Sror<llng to TflM pamlls lo.isst men wer* encaged m dressing eetlar Imnher. wera en gagetl in cutting stone and «.(*• In I "earing hurtleiv for a period ef asssn year-, who. In athfitton to their aragis. recelietl ."s» cents a -Lay for food. V cttrtling to the same authority, whtrk ia comtliorated by Josephna. the ei'saslm of goltl were valued at talents which, retlm-ed to Amerlcnn aumey. ta et|iial to The voanata of stiver are calculated at S3jni.7l3.mM. the vestments of the prlewta and the rolte- of the singers at fH>.oßß.«wn». ami the value of the trutnpetn at gnhl was f 1 «'hlcngn Beeotd. I»sl«st I Ik* twsKsw. A swallow ta •-tinsblerrd one of the swiftest of flying Mrda. and It wne thought until a short time age that ae Insect could escape It. A naturalist tella of an evtUng cha*e he saw between a swallow and a 'lragon fly. which is among the ssrtfi rst of Inaet-ts. The Insect Hew with iiu retJlble speed ami wheeled ami ihwtged with anrh case that the swallow, leaptte itn ut most efforts, completely failed to over take ami capture it. Ulakee I ailing. The cutters of the great glove hnns» n at Hrussels ami la Franre earn even higher wages than the cnttera of the most fashionable tailors te London ami New York. So ihittcntt ta this art of cutting gloves that innnt of the prin cipal cutters are known to the trade by name ami by fame, and the pecul iar knives wht< b they nse> tn the bow ness are so highly prtaed thnt they are hamletl tlawu from generation to fen eration as brlriaMM. rhe ■••• l 1.-tt Klrtisal. Arrnrtllng to \ri*toHn> ituffon and Cnvier. the ■ lepitant :nay live fbr two centuries, .tfter bl» victory over r»- ru*. .\levamler <-<>nseernmd to the son an elrphant that bad f.-ught for the Indian monarrh ami gave It the name of Ajat Then, having attnehed an 'n arriptktn. be set It at liberty. The ani mal was found JTa» y-ars Inter, making its age easily somewhere between three ami foor eenturiee. Vet I* ta *•■ It h terribly bartl for a hey te ne> Uevf in the veracity of hie fitttier wlteo he bear* hint .le. tare that a* ene le truly happy ami mamM anlee* he has work to do \t. hison 'itobe rhe best evidence of merit tn the rem 4tnl recognition of It whenever tal wherever it may be found. — ttrain fag ■* largely the ntatiM of pe**- ple not washing tn admit 'hat thet -at too much. l«e»rolt Journnl File re» «n4 M« wm . "In Intlla only I woman tn every !«m te atde to rend." "Well. I don't beßeve mere than t In every <»f ->nr own women * able to reatl anything to 'lib* the >hry :-«di • iicago Tint's I(eraid. trial* m» mm IMW She What have yon n thnt terae pn> kef? lie % manoserlpt my new .-■..wdy I'm going to hnve It t*fM Pht- v\ bat agaif" nse re <.e«dh ar ha ft. t Mtise *** a m «» Higst.n How well yea rs hekin« thka morning. Jlgs»»n Jlgston Tee; I never hisheit te-tter • my life I'm b»tkfn« t,w * *<a whai •We* me tS. Tit Itlta "Doyttn tahe .ting tfcw» s«m mer. Blllv !" "T«s»: f get my mmn*»te .• •tgia* —-Ch* ,- ag»» R. • rd Trmm +m4l Irtwgbi lie 'u»s every' .>mt «• his H M' !*w liter . I'. ■!» real eetate "*?im cnae Herald
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