VOL- xxxvi
HUSELTOIN'S!
Showing of FALL and WINTER Footwear
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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
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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
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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
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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