V" 111.' JCMKvii Receipts and Expenditures of Butler County for the Year 1899. levV VM» TAX l m W W m a* * I I It 3 1 3 SaHTOSY* . <«p « »• « 1 -•?# '*♦ . *■* 1 V* J? }2 2 ImWi *•* 1 *♦ •** * *r" IGmi **»«:»«•» »•»« *2« «« 5 Smj* «* "•• *' •'•' " , ,T* '* C)iiiit<-« •» i ** t 771 t »« -» I 1 > H I **' .... -em vt* 1 7* IT •* ' **» *' CW«rk«M U4 »U 1 «»: * *•> * jj £ j*J ® I55F""* ss Sss m!? 31 iii l***** l "' 25115 ! JJ MS IH! i 4' «»«tt <«• PWLTN *'* 1 "J, .", R . llpP* - ••• •*** i • t -"* :1 ' 1 ! .* J! ftgy* ::: :::::: 2& • «£« »« >«» ««"f £Sm *«■" '»i:« »•»» "2 |#»~i—-rr ** *l' »** *> ** J '* rniii i sA« »> » 1 3 * *• f' 7. '* I f, r, i M.i.-vr l» (01 ;«M M W U »« _'» Ml ». M>44k*r» !"!. i*> V* 1 *37 «; »*4 *» «| £ fUSII 0 «•*»•*•* *' Vi: » »*•»• *• £ 5l «t*ktau. > 3*l *»»- 1 »I 4 *•» *•' •'• - ~?vi *•' P..,,,, "' SS* I 517 7« tol 14 »*» «»» 2 »>1 *5. £",. r MM l*» * »«•« 74 3:. I 4'Jit :« taZTrt »1 777 !««... V, '-4 •>» M « ,1 a.., v :v. im i ; .•» •::: m -1 - » *!« ; ifc.Sl i «•; 41 ti ") ' * ■ WmiMMMM «l- -II Im B 271 <« M 7.-. I*B W W«uh. M -**"• *"4 1«» «• 45* 4! »« 1 •» Worth .. !..! .. Stt f7« 1 43:! 35 •«* U -I "" I •*> :!> ' Hu: l~r Ww<> lw wuH 4*5 »w. 2 341 -*i 41»l *2 "4 2{» 2 j -M »»r«i «t»: «M » J1» IK «s» ». ••» * » z: •• .w} «ar>) * H.'l <CM 3 ',-M «■". .41 "♦ •»» *>• ) - - 4th wnn) 43". «*7 I »l". « "I •** *» •• ;« *■ - .t* want 4«t5« :t-*>l 3 113 I 343 S». 4.4 .»• .i «>•' (««trrvtiw Iwn. 13* i 743 «IJ *4 454 31 2.. « ( (or»iK>.|«w»<'«*ti*tr 41 421 !•* M 1 •' * . J 1 £»•».. «-„v S»M 7J« *3l 4* 4-it is »> I*■' «: | ..:: « *z jr: 1. £ ?i: I* «•> w» W- *2 4 ; <« TW » H«IW .U« 1»7 2-4 3.. 4.-4 4.. .■» JJJ kam> I'll}" 3W ' K » '"4 ® 1 •' "j. 1 r. 117 «M -*» 71 •*'* ®J N .' 1 w -f » Wt 11« 41# <«< 34. .1 •>. <*•> 4«> j , 7(t «1*» 317 77 217:13 1«" 545 !» | -7 151 1«7 1- 14Mt U tt 4» ** * illr >» M» 23»i SJ. •> » . |W H.>.ul.nr». *4 *». 434.- «» »«» » I Kanl.nr. V. 11« 24" <»3 » «. . » »» /' x3w» 25 w. 114 12 4'i H- 14 75 l«M Uh> b m m V. '" 1 #14457 4H.Hf i 4 «7 #ls 5W 4M ♦ Si*' 7 7"> f-t HR -TATI Wf'.VT ol TA\ l:4'.< UVKM AM) I'l I ■ 4i«»M l-'" AND PBK\ lul -. ® 5 I 5 * ¥a. I IHi»TKI«TV IXUABTIIM. B J £ J g c £ 7 * * : V I'uß'.nl l-<« » ««♦ ■ I" « « u ,Wi*rt «.<- 1 *- !2 Brorlv T V 14In.- « ■[ -Jli t*}miii-rvtw'k .hwH pli I- < —5 . » ■ Aligns I ** 1 .'»»• J"tiy *■': ■;- X'-~. <*lt».»,n. . u ItMdlr '' l ?' * '-I ' ' t lmrihiil » J Ki iiii.'dv **! *? r 1 ~ (Km< II I Rmw-ll r; " * . " ™. Lima. I' W V\ ulimau Jfr J ~ V amlyW. .* *1 *! 'Jj a . X.nuiir II U -lalkor » K * II rtwor --J *J| w« iw iff Umili'l Itiwnieti J«4in Jack l*W tt. 1<»»> «) St CI »J« 1 4"r»nk F«.r«wt*r ♦ '*• 41 • _ li.rm.mv I rr.l WrUtlr -* £ -\ <5 K«rnv< - Vl> I rank Hit.hii **l . „ ... « ... KSSIa I . *4.l'lit* 4# 77 U«». 221 24" Kin.Mii.iirf .1 1 Mnrt.r * ■ ~' m ... . <Vmn'K|Urix-stmr ' «-l" ''• 11 £ d 71 ? 1 i" Vr. * Tw|. Austin M< al» .'5 •- '' J •« * * ArlaK» .Unir* Orr '">■ W* -®- '*> f| M •'•"> • 1 > '* ?' " Biiffal.) J..1M1 Harblw* I( '± t't £ iV ti 1* S K-T- r lir ,.v i"i *> s; **: PftiL n *z*l ;t:£ t£S Si: 1,1 isr I':. r; Owrtk-Hl E.J. K.-nii«-dy g< JJ* **] **' '' 41 ' !|J (Vrrj Until >|.r..ulf a?WJ" J H MM) < Vmih.xjm>ti.*«lT.c U. - ll.'nry 4 .';j *' . [j) ■;• f. Andrew Kfrchlrr ' 2« J" « <v.T.r*.wHi IU4KH Adams.. '' JJJ .' J ... . - Ihnx-Eal Tlx .mas WalUnan 1/?' 2 «T, }} ?! rxr. VT s»l i» gs •,,« rsSJii |S mS |S || UnrXr San'ii.M Itartfvy ij:": «■ « 4Jj« » « «W t.TSSU^ k ':.. ::: ' 2 MWJd»<H4X i;. <».''TftiomiMKin.... gj !?J -j J*' J2 Grant. .lon€M* rK " 'J .'it, ji S }."^' r ;V.T, P E Hay I*' •-! W«S 4- »"» fll|.|H-ry lt.H-k 11. Ilatvard' •" » ?'i «Hi 2^'" hu niintt J oil IIIV'. Itaklaiif. «l; ;< ';* ;*! s '- 4 ' ... Vcf.nLM \V I Slalk«T. I ■*' h nfflon Aii«tin MeaN... ••• *?5? : S 4 ?| S £ 2 S K> iili 14 w HlMv.r* . lin . 8 .::: . 1 «1« 412irr ziu «» :: '." Kutl.-r Horonicli John S. .lack 24 9J ljj>| «> U ll*»-- tvnt.'rvlllf I rank I orr< it.T .... «g ;JJ f* !*' H' Oonm«|ii< n«,*ln|f.... < aspor Pell .... * }h " .'. "! di ' EvannUty t;«>. Klpp. r » «7 M I. ® .••••• Falrvlew Wm. Gllwon 'f (r ~ ... ."95 Harmon* Kr.d WHule ... .... WW •** J*J •» 1 41 19 Harrtavilli' I.S. IVw *>■» ♦ » ' f'- Karns City Ifatdprs 40 «» 4, n i n «l i Mlllentown J. Donahuo *»}" r. - .""! ''\ ' T., j! Mars (mn». B. Stuart.. .. .. !.».» 4'J HIH i|i tw IVirolfta I' M. Frit/ JJ J-J • ... ;{ 4 J ■ ForU*rsvllli' A. Hi-naliaw .Ji ™ 4 ' - „7 ?2 " Proswrt r. I . Newman I4< !./».►! B J ? Baxonliuric 'J. E. Muder JJ 4 ", '. ; ' J"' Sun>tiirv I 1 I'. Brown '•£» '• "" 10 94 V*l«ni'ia"J.'D. Stoop Mi"2 •j';; |J|- J' 1? J' 5! ■ InlliMli jWm. Allen Ziß M JO C» 1° -*- 1 - 1 ■'* i Ttrli' ' 2508 M ,V> aofioi 4:1 UK! tt 1"«7 :»i 77 Sl4:i 41 I ~ inn. TAX OF I-l»* AND PBEVIoFS. DISTRICT. COLLECTOR. ~ J? " ? _ ~ ['• Mtvperr {K.H:k 'Joaeph L. Cooper Mwl »j j j H'T j"i«i I.Hniast.T Ephrlam Krli •• ;• 1 1 Clearfield lIT 11. Duffy I*! 1' 444 4 2i- -I Mario,. James fJllchrist " 3» ?;> « I Win field Auitustl-reeliiK 'jJ j|J j-» W ■ Baxonliurg Horo Charles Raalje 1 ; > «• 12 M, 15 :: Allechenv lames Jolly I™i •' ... Butler Township. F. D. I'leri-e > -'•• "01'« -| Clinton James Riddle 38 t-. -01 »71 .... Clearfield E. J. Kennedy 1 » •■< • •■,..■• ;.• * " ■•■ Ch«»rrv !!• lCuss«*ll Doiiefjal K- walt man ;l!'4 V IMWjUI. »»» Marlon Joseph Vandyke II "■ ' •' ■ ... . Oakland I'eter Wliltmlre ; • ■■ ■■ I Venaniro II H Stalker ■ l * I" 47 <« »• *wi _ Hutler IM,roUKI. 1011.. S. Ja-k HI » 100 m .. a. 31 W 7,1 Ccntervllle boroueh F. Forrester 7- Connoquenesslnßlior.l aap«;r l-ell 1«> "> ... Falrvli.wlK.ro \. C.«i 11.son W »« Karns city horo l-raak llahhlt # «•; Mlllerstown born— J. J. J ••jniihue j- •» • •• • • I- -' l'ctrolla boro. I• «- I r,y. Hl* 1.1 -I, ■£ - ■»• HaxonburKhoro E. Muder •» £ •» J-, , - :••;• Adams. fames Orr »w s »♦» •»«, 1 r-* i»» Allegheny ... James Jolly .'I s !'* :i:l " ? ll JS Butler township FD. Pierce ■£ oh a..1,2a Ik Buffalo John Harbison »' '»•* •*>•»« J •' »•» Bra<iy Frank M«? Curdy A'~J <» •»' .. Clbiton James R Riddle -•» » » . ~ N i«. Concord Robert Adams ' / \\ M ««» «w» iVnter J.I). Smith ,r - t! 2 11 ,rj Olay lio»H*rt Conn "»7 07 4."» Ou «-it 10 Zi Cranberry Andrew Klrchler .1 15! }•.' Clearfield .E.J.Kennedy "4 .< 3B 4. IJk h, k« Cherry li™J r,, . I Sproul 1 ~ »'« •'». ina Connoiiuenesslntc R. K Henry 4» • • 37 56 I»•l< Doneiral F. Walt man •» 40 . ..... II 4" Forward CJeorpe Marburger lw 111 it 52 IJ° 1« ♦»'.» Fair view ... J. J. Camplkdl. iW 57 67 78! H ««) w '£* Franklin Alonzo M. Candless 4k 3-1 37 50 I »K JM; l.'ffi rsou .... >• M. Harr. 4«. 4. -i- i.. ..... la, k«m A. 11. Mick ley •« » 22 07 I l« II <W l aiicaster ..!. Samuel Beatty SI l« 43 l» 233 7ok Marlon Joseph Vandyke WW l.> on ,!• I» .4 3. It. Mwe? .. J.J. McGarvey 3.114 2110111 »» Middlesex E. O. Thompson J5 »f, . , r . ~ l' 1 Muddycreek , i-5 * ,C ' 2- i«i Oakland. I'eter Whit mire , • ■*! ••->l ■ l»". <ieorK ( - F. Hay .C. .»'» 2T» SO Parker Joseph Wa I ley >s la ltd od l> 10 2I» 1(1 114 HummU. ''if'iV Baldaur «J» »»•..« S Kit..m i v Koek H. Itovard .»4 1*» 44 73 -l' .Of Venan/o . .111. S. Htalk. r 20 78 I .Vi 10 SI W'i.Mnilim Austin Meals » « 37 3T. tt. !. }:. 13 ... Worth W. 11. I'lsor ll 152 I il.. Wintield J- M-Crulksliank 1 .Ik .11 2.i 90 I •>. 1103 Waihiiislon Austin Meals ... I*l7 Ik ■» II M 7'i 314 Hutl. rlK.ro John tf. Jack H'- •» « H#« *« »*• • Ccntervllle horo I I orrester 14 I« _ • 13 41 J asper le'l •• *p - M Evan l Ity iKiro ... Oeorue Ripper >l' K. J» ko I ir Fair view M. (Jlbson .. I» '•»> 4 73 10 31 Harmony boro. Fred Wcl K le 43..! . ... !> 4.. .CI us Harrlsvllle l«ro. J. H. I'ew jl 1 I" 4. .. K -irtiH Cit V lioro K. D. liodgfiM *»- ■» '*> v Z♦ ; Marn \*m> Geonrc 11. Stewart *! % lv 41 i!£ .V- Mlllerstownlior*) J- J. »)onal»ue h -> l.» PortersvllUi Ixiro... A. Ilenshaw 'i ~*k> I'riMite.'t boro (. K Newman » - '*> i.» l lVtrolla Imro. F. M. Frit/. Is no . 1H »» Haxonbors boro J. E. Mwler 17 « 744 >:> 1 ; Hniil.urrlK.ro P I'. Brown... 44« .4 ISO Valencia horn '• D. Btoup ... <OO .. H! 1 .. /.. li. uople bom IWllllauj Allen i:. :ei HI w •' - Ci : I " Total 31-7 I.V.s n". -u - ISMMWI W 34317 X ((.'ontinuccl on 2nd page.) THE BUTLER CITIZEN. • Bitter SiTtogn Bank Hutler. 1 Vi. CAL>L A! , « • • Suftatral I'ruttU - - ♦ij -*'"* J*l«4 I LI RVB PR^VWF J 111 XRV TRI'L TM W V RLVMRT.' \vy| CAMPBELL. J» «VtKr lov it -TK:s HHUHTI'Ks -J«»4 L «»»K » I*" I* » % . w Ifw 1 -V. >• •- + | TW ItetWt itviiai iMkk l»U* CMmi tKwwJwSttiul v-ii pKtiucwr*. m++- \ b43tiM-ct S4> a» « V M K Bailer Cdu&lj Sitim Baai, HUIIxt IVnn. Capital 'in - - S ; *-.o»<koi Surplus an*l c**.k.ca to*. Hiftnai, ;fnc»i«kiil; J. V. fcitts vice Pro: icnt; C. A. Bailc C?» r i I j»>hn a McMar ia, I Qtal rr. "y'nn r~i' trm*ww"Kt V%V litvlt* y*»u u> »{'*-nut * .%h lt« % UlilF.t T l lt> H»m. H:ift!iidn H«>n. iW. !*. Wal4roa, l*r >% V H<»m. «. Mo i >4v«u* v K. K. C. P. ' «>ihn* I. G .TH. L* N • P H /. 4-TT. VI H inetf IN. VV II L irkift. Harry ll» to •v. IT. W. C. \|< ( «R4] * SA. Heit TI VV .1 MURKX J v mi) *» jsiF jHatj Sale ' $5.00 $4.00 and $3.00 HATS AT isl.oo Jno- S Wick. Successor to El>. COLBERT, 242 S. Maiu St., Butler, Pa Opposite I'. O. .* v V: 3 Qt ( &-¥&C% -K. 7¥w. 'f^K J *1 lie < utaway I '.ial has returned to popular avi.r afU-r ;ir» absenc*' of several year- Fashion has added many new efTe<*ls which lake the cutaway suit strikingly handsome or any man may lie be stooped or erect. Vicuna, Lambs"NVool or Worsted in blaek or pray mixed for the roat and vest, with striped worsU'd of a lighter <*olor for the trousers. This outfit from excellent quality I of clot h, $». ALAND, MAKER OE MEN'S CLOTHES. People don't ljuy pianos for looks ah»ne. If they did any one of the pretty piano erases offered f«»r sale, with the tin-nan attachment lnsidc,would do very well and not cost much. A few month's use serves to show the dif ferenre lwtween :i gocxl and ;t bad piano. b»*- tw4 «*n a piano carefully made of excellent material and a piano made of pine or any clM'apst ufT, slapped together anyhow. The Chase Brothers is as g»MKi a piano as was ever made. You ma 3* see it any time you will come in. "Seeing's Free." Th«*y are firmly warranted in every respect. Vou ' run no risk. Should a piano prove » you are welcome to come and select another of the same styles and ire will exchange it wit h you free of charge at any t irne. Every thing in the music line cash or credit. Terms to suit you convenience. We can save you SHW.OO and upwards in the price of a first class piano. W. R. NEWTON, :t 317 South Main St- Butler Pa. i L. C. WICK, Dp.ai.er in LUHBER. yUANTKD lion* t man or v.• .man t<» t ravel " for large hous«-: • alary s*'*» mont lily ami _ I « , xi»4 , iis4.«,. with lncr*-ase: ix»sition perman -1 en t; inclose. He lf-addresse lenvelope MANAOKU. JliO Caxton bldg M Culcago. BUTLEW, PA., THE WSDAV, MARCH 13, lfcXX) Tanight H xi,-ur .■ r is out vf catGsin|r I -« >.'k Hiaiad*. Heart barn, .irl'nc.!;, take a dkv>e oi Hood'st PiUs |Mlm atptt will br mu'iVil wl »..! I* hngfct. aetn*- azk! n i ix i T 3U-. k.sd "•! «,vrk TY-us Ki# rip* rsemcv i :t v. . . :-. :'••!•- EI Ll - ~ TV. - i» tow on»'i«.">- Oo Kwtft cf V K (♦: '». r-iA or % pMNOM I IWJ~' ' * ill W ■wWol y -t T "~i. *r t Ma? E*x>r x-w El*'a il«*iii l a. «*■.-.«s *> taM g- *BL ■ 4 LL\ BROTHERS. • 5£ Vmru it . N-w foti K«t John Kei»i -Ir at. NC«B:B«BM Ely's « r««a» Koju » I e«a as 2*»iz " It »» Ui» exirv f.T catarrh if ** - i K»t. EratM *. P< - t~. Pi»w:Csntri.Pwt Church, H - a*. Bt'i Creani Ba.>; •> th" *b»w enr-' tot c-i'^r rh an . c*a :&«au *. rcaiy iw.r auj iuj iriu.:a drug 54/ RAILROAD TIME TABLES. j) UFFALO, KOCHESI i-.; sM PH I SHI R'J KY T new trunk inc between t ittsb -, r . ! Hutler. Bradford, R.>chester ana ; Buff.-Jo. •>n aQ'l .tft«r Jtn I. li**' train- will leave Butler. P i W St;i tmn a.- foB-iws. Staadaid Tinie jlO 13.1. ui V«tibuM Liiiiifeil. da nr. fr>r Dayton. Piinxsut.iwney Da- Boi- Ri'lsfwriy. Bradford, BuSalo and Rrx-hester. i p.ui. Accommodation, rveek lays [ only, Dnytoa. Pnnx«:i tawnejr. [>nßi<«. Fall«i Creek. t'nrwenKville. < lear Held and inter mediate stations K.l.'ia.tii Week .lays only: wi.xe.l train for i.'r»ii<sville. Daxton. Pnnssa tawney and intermediate point- This train leaves Pnnx.sntawney at 1:00 p.m. arriving at Bntler at A~> j p. rn . <>toppin«f at all intermediate stations Thousand mile tickets good for pas- I satfe Iwtween all stations on the B. K. .V I'R y and N*. Y. C. R. R Penn a. division) at 3 cents per mile. For tickets, time tables anil furthei information call on or address, W. R. TVRNF.R, Ai?t. Bntler, Pa., or EDWARD C. LAPEY. (ienl Pass. Agent. RiK'Lester, N. Y. I*., Iti'ssi-miT «V I> K. Trains depart No 14, at !l:15 A. M; So. 2, at 4 •"><» P. M. Bntler time. Trains arrive :No. 1. 9:50 A. M; No. 11. 2:~h~> P. M Bntler time. No. 14 rnns throntch to Erie and con nects with W. N. Y. & P. at Huston Junction for Franklin and Oil City, and with Erie Railroad at Shenan i{o for all points east. No. 2 runs through to i ireenville and connects with W N. Y. <k P. for Franklin and Oil City, and at Shenango with Erie R. li. for poin f s i i-t and west. W H. TURNER. Ticket A«ent. I >ITTSB JRG & WESTERN Railway. Schedule of Pas fenger Trains in effect Nov 19, ißcj9. Bi TLER TIME. I)«»|4irt. ' Arrivi . . .|' : ) \ -l.ltl-'ll 6SB LM • Allefboi] Expi - j M Oft *• • N u1 Mw v ... Ic, m 146 •• f"T Ik: "M Mall I fll AS ■ v Alleffcenj h..-i I Kpn - • M \. Expr«M 300 rJi 14 Chicigs szsrwi 3 10 pa l - U SMI \. \ Hafl '• *." 1 * • i '«• Allefhcoi nd n«-'a I iitlt Awoa 5 " " TOB Chi if Limited . 580 14 • ~ \ M Kane HIH> Bradford Mail a m - "»o i*.M darioß AAoamma&tikm 4 55 pji •4® AJI < Sevdu I and i lacolifrai 625 tm SI'NDAY TRAINS. Allegheny Kxproas H (15 A.»I !» M> A.M Allegheny A< • onaodati m . 5 •" PJ 608 M RiwOhw liiniiiiiilMtlmi ... 106 i H T66 « in in EaprMi :» 60 rji At t;oniiii«»«lati«#:i 7 (U pin Train at "».o;j p.m. leaver B. A 0. tlejct Pittßtmr| at 11.25 p.m and I*. A W., Allegheny at p. rn. Oaatisla,known m tin- theatre train,! will tears Boiler at • Ml p. ■ . srrMac »' \!i'_ j , at t.jh; i • tin nlaa Its re iulegbeny el 11 Bp ■ Pullman glceping cars on (%icago Kxpriiw betw»'**n i I'ittnburg an<i Chicago. Fur through tii ki-LH t«» all iM>intf4 in the west, nurth wesl er son lowest ead information regarding reotee, time of traifiN, etc. apply t*• W. 11. TI RNKK, Ticket Agent, H. It. K*YNoLI»S, Sup't, N h , Butl-r. Pa. Butler, JV C. W. BAKSKTT, 0. P. A.. Alleghery, Pa 11. O DFNKLK, .Sup't. W AL. Dir.. Alhtglienj Pa. PENNSYLVANIA WFSfEkN PBNNSYLVAMA DIVISION. S4iir.i>ui.r. IN Errncrr Nor. 20,1899. SOUTH. . WEEK DAYS . ' A. M A. M. A. >1 P. M. P. .1. ' BI'TI.KK 1,,■!.%.■ .. j . s (>:. In M. j Haiontmrg Arrlre 6 64! 6 3011 15j 3 0 Butler Junction.. " 7 27 A r » i 11 l«i 'li* . r » .'• > ; Botlei .luii' Hon Leeisj 731 - •• 11 >2 12 Natrona Arrive 7 4'» 90112 o| :;l 602 \ Tarentum 7 41 907 12 Oh .1 IJ ♦'» 4»7 ! Spriugtbile 7 52 9 Jti 12 19 il f>- .. . . (Haranont f6 30|12 86 106 Sharpsborg. -11 • •i• j- ii• Allegheny.. . . S2l 9 4ft 1 <l2 4 s r > 6 4-t j A. M A.M. P. M P. M P. 31. SUNDAY TRAINS.—Leave Butler for Allegheny j City aii'i princijial iutenne«liate Mtationa at 7:30 a ni Hii'l 6:00 p. in. NORTH. WEEK DAYS » A. M A. M. A. M P. M P. >1 Alhxgheny City. ..leave 7 00' H lo 4"» 10 0 I'/ s Shar|mhurg 7 12 9 07 10 . r «7 ( .41. 141. lit 11 Ol .... .... .S|niiiKtlale 11 IS ... . ,:;7 1 Titrentura 9 '.I 11 •» 4*. o 4«» i Natrona 741 9 ;is 11 :il fio n.M j Rutler J unction.. .arrive 7 4> 9 47 II 4.'. It /is 7 o<» j (hitler Junction.... leave 74> 947 12 - uumtnarg 8 15 10 00 12 41 i 721 CUT I. KB arrive » 4" 10 32 I 1" i 5 <X> 7 k» j A. M A. M. P. M P. .il P. M ; SI'NDAY TRAINS.— A11.*k»..-ll>- < ity f..r ltui- I ler ami piim ipal interuitHliate Htatioim at 7:15 a. ru. ami j 9*30 p. ni. roil TIIE EAST. Week* Duvii. I \ II \ >1 P. ■ I I M ; Bi 11 as iv 6 26:10 60 j Boiler .i -t .oi 7 27(11 40 186 - Boiler .i'i , Ir 74611 43 156 B2U 8 (*> I rnwooii a. 7 ill Ml 102 825 807 4 Ktakiminetee J't....." 755 U AO] t «»7 829 8 11 • Lew hborg •• B 01712 02 t I.« - tl 8 • PSoltoo • \i- ll 1-' 22 t »" - - 842 1 Saltal urg . " 851 U l!» oh 921 !i 09 ; BUnrffle „j 9 22] 180 6ti •52 »10 RlaintviHc Int " 9 I k'. 550 pi <n» .... & A1t.M.11.1 " II r, 1., sU< r. 4. r » . . Borriflborg .. . " I i 10 00 100 l" 00|.. . " I'hila'h-lphia " ft %.'< 4 'J-'- 425 125 .... P. M A. M.|A. M A. M. P M Through trains ft»r the eaal l»*ave Pitt-l urg (Uniou St at !• >11), iu4 f«»llows: — Atlantic Expruo, daily 2:50 • m Pennsylvania Liiuite<l 44 7:15 " , Doj nana 44 7^0 m M;iin Line Exprcaa, * 4 8:0(1 44 llarrinliiirg Mail, 44 12 45 P.M • PhilodelplUe fipno. * . . . i Mail aii<l Kxprem ilaiiy. F4>r New York only. Through baflel Mleepar; no coaches. 7:oo " h.t— lit I.x; r« *i, • 7:10 I lad fins. * 8^0 M Pittsburg IJmiteil, daily, with through c»»a< h«*s lo Mevi York, and sleeping ram to new York, Baltimore nml Washington only. No <*xtrtt fees n tin- train 1"00 " Piiii.i'i'ii Mefl,Soodeys sniy 8 10 aji Fflr Atlantic * 'ity (via Delaware River Bridge, all rail route), 8:00 A M, uml K:;i0 P.M, daily. For tictaile«l information, Thoa. E. Watt, l*as*> Agt. W«*stern Dutrict, Corner Fifth Avenue ami Smith lieM Pittnhurg, Pa. J B. III'TCIIISON, J. R WOOD 4«.|i«rul Manaat-r. Qeo*t "timf. Aiu't< J E. E. CAMPBEuT} = V TIN ROOFER, V jf and Specialties in Tin. j£ H. Main -i . Butli r. Pa. yr x>ooo^oooooo<x ...... _ I .r . V' . * - -r« -."5 fr^ c;r:3^r^\V, l u . • I IK.' L - ii ♦♦ f* A."S Li J\\ BT •« "* f ;-j OUST s; \\ SCHKFTVER- i.= J,a L A TALE OF LIFE IN THE ★ BOER REPUBLIC. •r. > • >•" i. i 4 CHAPTER L ku:- «> isiu> trrx. The full Alms KMua -V>*» l:»M ftva L- Use >»J SKO the w :e. pfatn. The dir. «>2y ra.rrt with l"s *■ ~s f stsistsd ""isr |\. ** &c<. • -•* JL f*- -L.* 2- ** .» gft. tUftf SOW bills that skirted tS- fha. the milk hashes with tktir bag; tettrifet leaves, atll w>rrv t.>ort~>i by & *«nl aad aa ala. >t opprv«sl*e beauty i« taey fci* hthe white E*ht. Is i >ii« >E •-v eeLy »x$ m*t ..«.;>*• ay of tfc« plain brufeea. Near the nam a suklH solitary ""kijpjv"* nwr. Aii-'Ot* ft fay there. a heap sf (w! iroa*T<>nes [ irl one cp>n an other. as o tar some giaat's icrate. ii ai<! 1 a t> -w tuft- of c K: .' plants tad sprung aii>< :•-£ its ssoses. aad on rile very sum mit a «*«"f of prickly pears lifted i their thorny arms ami nli (Hit, as from sirßm. tiii- oeealight on their J >inai| fleshy haves. At the test of the "k";>je" tay "be homestead. Srst the stone walU-d so»-*p kraals 3C') Kaf fl- huts. bt>(OD4| them the dwelling hou»r. a square rvd brtc!c building w * tl.tched roof E'.-u < :i its bare red waiis auil the wcoudt-n ladder that tr* - 4 h>f ~ a sff | mh -ri i % - \ f ; T/%h i: ryW 'm OLIVE SC'IIKKINkIi ("ItALPH I HON"). led up to the loft the moonlight cast a kind of dreamy beauty and unite ethe realized the low brick wall that ran In-fore the house anil which inclosed a bare patch of .sand and two struggling sunflowers. On the zinc ri>of of the great open wagon hor.se. ou the roofs of the outbuildings that Jutted from its side, the moonlight glinted with u (|itite |K'CUliar brightness till it seemed that every rib in the metal was of burnished silver Sleep ruled everywhere. the homestead was not less quiet than the solitary plain In the farm licit?:. < ' wood en bedsu-ml. Boer woman, rolled heat ep She had gone to always dlil, in her clothes. ■ night was warm and the room ■ lose, and ?he dreamed had dreams not of the gliosis and devils that so haunted her waking thoughts, not of her second husband, the consumptive Englishman, whose grave lay away beyond the ostrich camps, nor of her first, the young Boer, but only of the sheep's trotters | she had eaten for supper that night. ! She dreamed that one stuck fast in her throat, and she rolled her huge form from side to side and snorted horribly. In the next room, where the maid had forgotten to close the shutter, the white moonlight fell in In a flood and made it light as day. There were two small beds against the wall. In one . lay a yellow haired child, with a low | forehead and a face of freckles, but I the loving moonlight hid defects here, I us elsewhere, and showed only the iu i nocent face of a child in its first sweet | sleep. The figure in the companion bed be- I longed of right to the moonlight, for I It was of quite clfiulike beauty. The child had dropped her cover on the floor, and the moonlight looked in at ; the naked little limbs. Presently she j opened her eyes and looked at the j moonlight that was bathing her. j "Km!" siie called to the sleeper iu ! the other bed, but received no answer, i Then she drew the cover from the | floor, turned her pillow and, pulling ! the sheet over her head, went to sleep I again. ! Only in one of the outbuildings that Jutted from the wagon house there was | someone who was not sleep. The room was dark. Door and shutter were clos | ed. Not a ray of light entered any ! where. The German overseer to whom ' the room belonged lay sleeping sound ly ou his bed In the corner, his great arms folded and his bushy gray and I black beard rising and falling on his lireast. But one in the room was not j asleep. Two large eyes looked about in the darkness, and two small hands I were smoothing the patchwork quilt. ! The boy. who slept on a box under the window, had just awakened from his | first sleep. lie drew the quilt up to j Ills chin, so that little peered nbove it but a great head of silky black curls ! and the two black eyes. lie stared 1 about in the darkness. Nothing was visible, not even the outline of one I worm eaten rafter, nor of the deal ta ' ble, on which lay the Bible from which | his father had read before they went ' to lied. No one could tell where the , tool box was and where the fireplace. There was something very impressive to the child in the complete darkness. At the head of his father's bed hung a great silver hunting watch. It tleken loudly. The boy listened to it and be gan mechanically to count. Tick, tick, tick- one, two, three, four! lie lost count presently and only listened. Tick, tick, tick, tick! It never waited. It went on inexora bly, and every time it ticked a mau died! He raised himself a little on his elbow and listened. He wished It would leave <>fT. How many times had it ticked since he came to lie down? A thousand times, a million limes, perhaps. He tried to count again and sat up to listen better. "Dying, dying, dying," said the watch, "dying, dying, dying!" He heard it distinctly. Where were they going to, all those people? He lay down quickly and pulled the cover up over his head, but presently the silky curls rcapi<eared. "Dying, dying, dying," said the watch, "dying, dying, dying!" He thought of the words his father had read that evening, "For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leaileth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat." "Many, many, many!" said the watch. "Because straight is the gate, and tiarrow is the way that lyadetli uuto iii*. ±~~i few t* thai ebJ it." "|>*. few. fewr said ibf watch. i The fcwy w :ii> Lj eyes w -Je epem. f 11 s*w Nrf i* tim ab ag sireas of ; ir. a rrvat -iari :iat _a ooe kwtiur The* thry eaiase t» ;he <a:i pij* of the w jdi aa»i w „t over ii. saw pwsirtf ' : re _i3_. i>i "iiiere was a~i - i s_.it c i&•! si'.»p tisem. He- «rf b w t. j.t is*- -J.H ki-i rwL.—i sa : i.. " -• *" ~ •jfcl »;r-~ i 5 -Tl-* n ia-I p. Ott vT«. Tl.- RNNRX- aiMl of v""-.aa an*l |r«; a -tii *5 wefv ■ Tie** QOW ie tui«i mji n j llftl An«i t!ie vaccft ""Htem-tj. ecer ' Bttj. eteraitjr*' •*st-r tttem! thtznT crM the , ehihL AJJ»I aU the wtilie tbe watch kept ti.-i.-jn.' on. j*4st like Go*Ts wilL that never chasers or alters, run may do what yoa please. Great beads of perspiration stood on the D>y"» forehead He ei.nibed oat of bed ami la; with his face turned to the Laud floor. "O God. God. sa»e them."* he cried in ip.Qv, -only some, only a few. only for ; ea.-h n.- .. ent lam praying her* —oner* He folded his little hands upon his hea>L "Go«i. God. save them."' He groveled on the floor. Oh. the long. loßg ages of tho po.-.t. in which they had gone over! Oh. t ie long, long future. In which they would pa.- away! <> God. the lonn. long, eternity, which has no end! The child wept and crept closer to the ground. THE SACRIFICE. The farm by daylight was not as the farm by moonlight. The plain was a weary flat of loose red sand, sparsely covered by dry "karroo" bushes, that cracked l>eneatb the tread like tinder and showed the red earth everywhere. Here and there a milk bush lifted its pale colored roils, and In every direc tion the ants and beetles ran about In the blazing saud. The red walls of the farmhouse, the zinc roofs of the outbuildings, the stone walls of the kraals, all reflected the fierce sunlight till the eye ached and blenched. No tree or shrub was to be seen far or near. The two sunflowers that stood before the door, outstared by the sun, drooped their brazen faces to the sand, and the little cicadalike insects cried aloud among the stones of the "kopje." The Boer woman, seen by daylight, was even !e>» lovely than when In bed she rolled and dreamed. She sat on a chair in the great front room, with her feet on a wooden stove, and wiped her flat face with the corner of her apron and drank coffee and In Cape Dutch swore that the beloved weather was damned. Less lovely, too, by day light was the dead Englishman's child, her little stepdaughter, upon whoso freckles and low, wrinkled forehead the sunlight hud no mercy. "Lyudall," the child said to her little orphan cousin, who sat with her on the floor threading beads, "how Is It your beads never fall off your needle?" "I try," said the little one gravely, moistening her tiny finger. "That is why." The overseer, seen by daylight, was I huge German, wearing a shabby suit find with a childish liablt of rubbing lils hands and nodding his head pro digiously when pleased at anything. He stood out at the kraals in the blaz ing sun, explaining to two Kaffir boys the approaching end of the world. The boys as they cut the cakes of dung winked at each other and worked a» slowly as they possibly could, but tha German never saw It. Away beyond the "kopje" Waldo, his son, herded the ewes and lambs, a small and dusty herd, powdered all over from head to foot with red saud, wearing a ragged coat and shoes of un dressed leather, through whose holes the toes looked out. His hat was too large and had sunk down to his eyes, concealing completely the silky black curls. It was a curious small figure. His flock gave him little trouble. It was too hot for them to move far. They gathered round oTcry little milk bush as though they hoped to flud shade and stood there motionless iu clumps. He himself crept under a shelving rock that lay at the foot of the "kopje," stretched himself on his stomach and waved his dilapidated lit tle shoes In the air. Soon, from the blue bag where he kept his dinner, he produced a frag ment of slate, an arithmetic and a peu lil. Proceeding to put sum with solemn and earnest demeanor, he began to add It up aloud, "Six and ii is 8, and 4 is 12, and 2 is 14, and 4 is 18." Here he paused. "And 4 Is 18, and 4 is 18." The last was very much drawled. Slowly the pencil slipped from his fingers, and the slate follow ed it into the sand. For awhile he lay motionless, then began muttering to himself, folded his little arms, laid his head down upon them and might have been asleep but for a muttering sound that from time to time proceeded from him. A curious old ewe came to sniff at him, but it was long before he rais ed liis head. When he did, Iks looked at the faroff hills with his lieavjr eyes. "Ye shall receive—ye shall receive— shall, shall, shall," he muttered. He sat up then. Slowly the dullness and heaviness melted from his face. It became radiant. Midday had come now, and the sun's rays were poured down vertically. i|!ie earth throbbed before the eye. The boy stood up quickly and cleared a small space from the bushes which covered it. Looking carefully, Le found 12 small stones of somewhat *ie same size. Kneeling down, he arranged them carefully on the cleared space In a square pile. In shape like an altar. Then he walked to the bag where his dinner was kept. In It were a mutton chop ami a large slice of brown bread. The boy took them out and turned the bread over iu his hand, deeply consid ering It. Finally lie threw it away and walked to the altar with the meat and laid it down on the stones. Close by iu the red sand he knelt down. Sure, never since the beginning of the world was there so ragged anil so small a priest. He took off his great hat and placed it solemnly on the ground, then closed his eyes and folded his hands. He prayed aloud: "O God. my Father, 1 have made thee a sacrifice, i have only twopence; so 1 cannot buy a lamb If the lambs were mine, 1 would give thee one. But now I have only this meat. It Is my dinner meat. I'lease, my Father, send i lire down from heaven to burn it. Thou I hast sa:A 'Vfeancftr shall say unto | tiui iwniimlll. IV- thou _-a>t into the J sk-a. !..tlliiu; doubting. It shall be done." i 1 ask for the sake of Jesus Christ, i Amen." lie knelt down with his face up. a the ground, and he folded his tan is ujk-u his curls. The fierce sua poured down its beat ui-.n his bead and ujv.u his altar. When be looked up. be kxtew w Lat be sin-ukl «v the f' <T >'f God! For ftar his veTy teart si*v*l still; his brvath came heavily; be was half suf focated. lie darvd not k-ok cp. TL- a at last be raisied biosett. Above hiia was the qaiet Kae sky. aboat Lie the red earth. Tbeqp were the (toaps of siet ewes aad lus altar; (hat was aIL He np V I' *st be*»ke tie is.ie&se scziiaess of the bine llr lociel itvoe-J !a miieKhaerf Thea he bowcvl j az»i - > t -*■ kMger tiaa twfore. Whes he raided hiasseK tijf. aB was BEaitiend. 'jol; sea had nested the fat of the feie je.sc tc-B chofH. aad fx ra- dewv -p»>c ths sfcaaes- T_*ra the third httt he bwwed h£as iicll Ifbett at £ass he footed qii se&ue a..-.- ha-1 ft - the meat «• ■_« Be stood sp aa*i drove them away. T-rC. he pet hes ha» sc. his hut etuis and sat ia the shade, lie ciasfed his has.-Is aboct to knee*. He «: to watch wliat would com* to fsisa. The gS.ry •f the Lord God Alnlgixty—he k&ew be should see it I "Mi .!ear aa«l he sat there through the here* heat of tht afremo-jQ StiH he watched and waited when the son began to sb pe. and when tt neare»l the horixoa and tiie be-jjan to cast shad ' ows a*rross the "karroo" he still sat there. He hoped when the first rays touched the hills till the STin dipped be hind them and was gone. Then he called his ewes together and broke duwn the altar aad threw the meat far. far away into the field. He walked home behind his dock. His heart was heavy. He reasoned so; "God cannot lie. I had faith. Xo tire came. I am like Cain —I am not his. He wtll not hear my prayer. God hates me." The boy's heart was heavy. When he reached the kraal gate, the two girls met him. "Come." said the yellow haired Em. "Let us play coop. There is still time before It gets ijuite dark. You. Waldo, go and hide on the 'kopje.' Lyndall and I will shut eyes here, and we will not look." The girls hid their faces In the stone wall of the sheep kraal, and the boy rlaii:l»ered half way up the "kopje." He trouched down between two stones and gave the calL Just then the milk herd came walking out of the cow kraal with two pails. He was an ill looking KatHr. "Ah." thought the boy, "perhaps he will die tonight anil go to hell! I must pray for liiin! I must pray!" Then he thought "Where am 1 going to?" and he prayed desperately. "Ah, this is not right at all," little Km said, peeping lietween the stones and tiiiiling him in a very curious pos ture. "What are you doing, Waldo? It is not the play, you know. Vou should run out when we come to the white stone. Ah, you do not play nicely." "I —I will play nicely now," said the boy, coming out auil standiug sheepish ly before them. "I—l only forgot. I will play now." "He has been to sWt>," e«t«i frccklci Km. "No," said beautiful little Lyndall, looking curiously at bin; "he has been crying." She never made a mistake. THE CONFESSION. C ne night two years after the boy sat alone on the "kopje." He had crept softly from his father's room and come there. He often did, because when he prayed or cried aloud his fa ther might awake anil hear him, and none knew his great sorrow and none knew his grief but himself, and he buried them deep iu his heart. He turned up the brim of his great hat and looked at the inooti, but most at the leaves of the prickly pear that grew just before him. They irlintcd and glinted and glinted, Just "Tike his own heart cold, so hard and very wicked. His physical heart had pain also. It seemed full of little bits of glass that hurt. He had sat there for half an hour, and he dared not go back to the close house. He felt horribly lonely. Th«e was not one thing so wicked as he In all the world, and he knew It. He folded his arms and began to cry—not aloud. He sobbed without making any sound, and his tears left scorched marks where they fell. He could not pray. He hail prayed night and day for so many months, and tonight lie could not pray. When lie left off crying, he held his aching head with his brown hands. H one might have gone up to him and touched him kindly, poor, ugly little thing! Perhaps his heart was almost broken. With Ills swollen eyes he sat there ou a flat stone at the very top of the "kopje," and the tree, with every one of its wicked leaves, blinked and blink ed at him. Presently he began to cry again and then stopped his crying to look at It. He was quiet for a long while. Then he knelt up slowly anil bint forward. There was a secret he had carried In his heart for a year. He had not dared to look at It, he had not whispered It to himself, but for a year lie hail carried it. "I hate God!" he saiil. The wind took the words and ran away with them among the stones and through the leaves of the prickly pear. He thought it died away half down the "kopje." He had told It now! "I love Jesus Christ, but I hate God!" The wiuil carried away that sound as it had done the first. Then he got up and buttoned his old coat about him. He knew he was certainly lost now. lie did not care. If half the world were to be lost, why not he too? He would not pray for mercy any more. Better so —better to know cer tainly. It was ended now. Better so. 11c began scrambling down the sides of the "kopje" to go home. Better so! But, oh, the loneliness, the agonized pain, for that night anil for nights on nights to come, the an guish that sleeps all day on the heart like a heavy worm ami wakes up at night to feed! There are some of us who In after years say to Fate, "Now ileal us your hardest blow, give us what you will, but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children." The barb In the arrow of childhood's suffering is till* its Intense loneliness. Its Intense Ignorance. CHAPTER 11. VLANS/AMi BUSUUAN PAINTINQ#. At last came the year of the great drought, the year IHO2. From end to end of the land the earth cried for wa ter. Man and beast turned their eyes to the pitiless sky that, like the roof of some brazen oven, arched overhead. Ou the farm, day after day, mouth after month, the water in the dams fell.lower nml low ,l " the fields: the cattle, scarcely abie to crawl tottered as they moved from spot to spot !b s-earch of food. Week after week. nioatb after moath. the -an i <»»ked iViicd frdie the cloudless sky till the "Umx>" bashes were leaf k>s sticks broken into the earth, aad the earth itsrff was naked aad tare. 3S-1 only the inili. bodies, l.ke uU Ijjk. 1- cted their shrivel--J carers heaven ward. prayiax f-r the ra_a that never • •••••• It wrs ua an of a Ion; day ia tLat thirsty fmiaer that <m the «•*!*• i f 'he *k«pje" farthest frou the hone stead the two glrjs sat- They were s» -.2sewhat rrowv stare the days wL-t they i«4ay«d hide and seek dtm. tot Uaey were neiw children ct3L Their ci»» was of dark ocarce sspsX «£.=*■« t<oe > oaf :«* racM t- - r itij-s. a»l «a Uietr feel they wore loeeemade "Tri-sci***." They a; m*&er a sbeirtaf rock, am the surface <*f which w«-« scM staaMe «* «U B.i»iiaza their r*d and Mack f«xE*«ts oa-ira# i«e*3 p*e - f-ed thrw«c!s kef y*ars fuses wij>i lii raia fcy the egpmcesqar ««. ekpfeiia;t*. ihtßaeeraMS asd a <a*e . -cae»i beast s.i>Ti as a»j -v-m ee<=r &as seen sc eresr shall see The gsris sat with their bocks co the palnr 20. Ia their laj* were a few fan and i«* jiaat leaves, whfrfi by <:_t '.f raa»-h searching they tail ®ath nwi oaiier the n*rkA Km (»jfc ul tier biap browa kappje a a-1 beian vtgnroussty to fan her red fa. e with X bat her companion beat fc>w ov-r the leaves ta her lap aad at last took ap aa ice plant leaf and fas tened tt oa to rhe front of her Wne piaa- Idk with a pis. 'Diamoath mast took as these drop* •io." she sai»l, carefully bending over the leaf and crushing one crystal «Irop with L»-r delicate little naiL -When L™ she s-a i. "am grown up. I shall wear real diuwadi exactly like these la my [ hair." Her companion opened her eyes and wrinkled her low fan-head. "Where will yon find tliem. Lyndall? The stones are only crystals that we picked ap yesterday Old Otto says so." -And yea think that I am going to stay here always?" The lip trembled scornfully. "Ah. nor* said her companion. "I suppose some day we shall go some where, but now we are only 12, and we j cannot marry till we are IT. Four years. live—that Is a long time to wait. And we might not have diamonds if we did marry." "And you think that I am going to Itay here till then?" "Well, where are you going?" asked her companion. The girl crushed an ice plant leaf be tween her fingers. "Tant' Sannle Is a miserable old wo man," she said. "Your father married her when lie was dying because he thought she would take better care of the farm and of us than an English woman. He said we should be taught and sent to school. Now she saves ev ery farthing for herself, buys us not even one old !>ook. Slie does not 111 use us. Why? Because she Is afraid of your father's ghost. Only this morn ing she told her Hottentot that she would have beaten you for bfvaking the plate but that throe nights ago she heard a rustling and a grunting behind the pantry door and knew it was your father coming to 'spook' her. She Is a miserable old woman." said the girl, throwing the leaf from her. "But I in tend tO HO to ot'lwul " "And If she won't let you?' "I shall make her." "IIow?" The child took not the slightest no tice of the last question and folded her small arms across her knees. "But why do you want to go, Lyn dall?" "There Is nothing helps In this world," said the child slowly, "but to be very wise and to know everything— to be clever." "But I should not like to go to schoolP' persisted the small freckled face. "And you do not need to. When you are 17, this Boer woman will go. You will have this farm and everything that is upon it for your own. "But I," said Lyndall, "will have nothing. I must learn." "Oh, Lyndall! I will give you some of my sheep," said Em, with a sudden burst of pitying generosity. "1 do not want your sheep," said the girl slowly. 'T want things of my own. When I am grown up," she added, the flush on her delicate features deepen ing at every word, "there will be noth ing that I do not know. I shall be rich, very rich, and 1 shall wear not only for best, but every day, a pure white silk and little rosebuds, like the lady in Taut' Sannle's bedroom, and my petticoats will be embroidered, not only at the bottom, but all through." The lady in Taut' Sannle's bedroom was a gorgeous creature from a fash ion sheet which the Boer woman, some where obtaining, had pasted up at tho foot of her bed to be profoundly ad mired by the children. "It would be very nice," said Em, but It seemed a dream of quite too tran scendent a glory ever to be realized. At this Instant there appeared at the foot of the "kopje" two figures—the one, a dog, white and sleek, one yellow ear hanging down over his left eye; the other, his master, a lad of 14 and no other than the boy Waldo, grown into a heavy, slouching youth. The dog mounted the "kopje" quickly. His master followed slowly. He wore an aged jacket, much too large for him and rolled up at the wrists, and, as of old, a pair of dilapidated "vel-schoens" and a felt hat. He stood before the two girls at last. "What have you been doing today?" asked Lyndall, lifting her eyes to his face. "Looking after ewes and lambs be low the dam. Here!"- he said, holding out his hand. "I brought them for you." There were a few green blades of tender grass. "Where did you find them?" "On the dam wall." She fastened them beside the leaf on her blue pinafore. "They look nice there," said the boy, awkwardly rubbing his great hands and watching her. "Yes; but the pinafore spoils It all. It is not pretty." He looked at it closely. "Yes; the squares are ugly, but It looks nice upon you—beautiful." lie now stood silent before them, his great hands hanging loosely at either side. "Some one has come today," he mum bled out suddenly when the Idea struck him. "Who?" asked both girls. "An Englishman ou foot." "What does he look like?" asked Em. "I did not notice, but he has a very large nose," said the boy slowly. "He asked the way to the house." "Didn't he tell you his name?" "Yes- Bonaparte Blenklus." "Bonaparte!" said Em. "Why, that Is like the reel Hottentot Hans plays j i>n the violin: { "Bona|>arte, llonapartf, my wife is sick 1 in the nii'Mlo «' "-'" v w -* "- * - I - - i- tat f.r "It Is a funny name." "TL«-re -i- a >. viaj n«n call*-Boo* apart e okfe." *a:d the of the rrexit eyes. j *~AI know." said Em - poor pr. ; ■i wb-.ai ibe lions eat 1 sit/ i!~aj s so s««rry for him.™ ~IL »£- - • rrrmn Who r'tf I - r cji lis*- a.an I like Vest-" j *\a ' - - dsd be iJo?" asked £a, . eon- > thai si.- bad made a r.icita a--! Jiat I*t was not the zaan. *ll- was «ar man. oae." said l * - evminmatm riuwlj. "yet all tl-e i»- pie ta tfee world feared him. H«- vs» -- « l-r-m He was «jq a* nr. Yet bt was au»r ft - * fti at h«- fat was rzljr a L--: : ."ii. tl*s be was a ItruasaC • wt« a rra**aL tie* be s» MM When be- a tkbf to iiss -li tmrz-< U. He waited asii wa >d i>J wao#«L aati ft oau ft - hK * -He aisst lave tees. r«j iiffy." sa>f Fr_ ~l 4* *r>c tanw," «t>l LfaML -ft** S»r had what he said he woiH SukT*. asjfl that s N-rer thoa hetais happy. ii-r was their rr.*tr<tc. and all the penpie were white with fear <tC him He was «£■ aad they were aiaay, and tUey jjr»t i_.ii 'i. aat Ls-+r_ They w«* like the w*fcats when their teeth are fast hi a grvat dose. Ehe uwanfiy wlMttO." aa..l the "they v. *iUl not let him gs ene. sent him t» an Island In the sea. a Eoaeiy »tan*i. ami kept him there fa.-: He was one man. and they were many, .tad they were terrified at him. It wa.t diliunr -»aid the chOti. "Anil what then?" -aid Em. "Then he was alone there in that is- I:■ r 1. with men to watch him always,"* said her companion slowly and quietly, "and in the l«»ng lonely nights he used to lie awake and think of the things be had done in the old >lays and tb« things he would do If they let him g» again. In rhe day. when he walked near the shore, it seemed to him that the sea all around him was a cold chain about his body pressing him to death." "And then?" said Em, much inter ested. ~He died there In that island. He never got away." "It Is rather a nice story," said Em, "but the end is sad." "It is a terrible, hatefal ending," said the little teller of the story, leaning forward on her folded arms, "and the worst is It Is true. I have noticed," added the child very deliberately, "that it is only the made up stories that end nicely. The true ones all end so." As she spoke the boy's dark, heavy eyes rested on her face. "You have read It, have you not?" He nodded. "Yes; but the brown history tells only what he did, not what he thought." "It was In the brown history that I read of him," said the girl, "but I know what he thought. Books do not tell everything." "No," said the boy, slowly drawing nearer to her and sitting down at her feet. "What you want to know they never tell." Then the children fell into silence till Doss, the dog. growing uneasy at its long continuance, sniffed at one and the other, and his master broke ilorth suddenly. "If they could talk. If they could tell us now," he said, moving his hand out over the surrounding objects, "then we would know something. This 'kop je.' if It could tell us how It came here! The Physical Geography says," he went on, muf# MpUip and ennfusedlv. "that what are dry lands now were once lakes. And what I think Is this: These low hills were once the shores of a lake. This 'kopje' Is some of the stones that were at the bottom, rolled together by the water. But there Is this: How did the water come to make one heap here alone In the center of the plain?" It was a ponderous question. No one volunteered an answer. "When I was little," said the boy, "I always looked at it and wondered, and I thought a great giant was buried un der it. Now I know the wnter must have done It, but how? It Is very won derful. I)ld one little stone come first and stop the others as they rolled?" said the boy, with earnestness, In a low voice, more ns if speaking to him self than to them. "Oh, Waldo, God put the little 'kopje' here," said Em, with solemnity. "But how did he put It lierefr" "By wanting." "But how did the wanting bring It here?" "Because It did." The last words were uttered with the air of one who produces a clinching argument. What effect It had on th 6 questioner was not evident, for ho made no reply and turned away from her. Drawing closer to Lyndall's feet, he said after awhile In a low voice: "Lyndall, has It ever seemed to you that the stones were talking of youl Sometimes," he added In a yet lower tone, "I lie under there with my sheepT and It seems that the stones are reaQij speaking—speaking of the old things? of the time when the strange fishes and animals lived that aro turned into' stone now and the lakes were here! and then of the time when the llttlS Bushmen lived here, so small and so ugly, and used to sleep In the wild' dog holes and In the 'sloots' and eat snakes and shoot the bucks with their poisoned arrows. It was one of them, one of those old wild Bushmen, that painted those," said the boy, nodding toward the pictures, "one who was different from the rest He did not know why, but he wanted to make something beautiful; he wanted to make something, so he made these. He worked hard, very hard, to find the Juice to make the paint, and then he found this place where the rocks hang over, and he painted them. To us they are only strange things that make us laugh, but to him they were very beau tiful." The children had turned round and looked at the pictures. "He used to kneel here naked, paint lug, painting, painting, nnd he wonder ed at the things he made himself," said the boy, rising and moving his hand in deep excitement. "Now the Boers have shot them all, so that we never see h little yellow face peeping out among the stones"—he paused, a dreamy look roming over his face —"and the wild; tucks have gone and those days, anaj H e are here. But we will be gone soon? and ouly the stones will He on here," looking at everything as they look' now. I know that it Is I who am" thinking." the fellow added slowly? "but it seems as though It w«re theyj who are talking. Has It never seemed' so to you. Lyndall?" > "No; It never seems so to me," she answered. The sun had dipped now below the hills, and the boy, suddenly remember ing the ewes and lambs, started to his feet. "Let us also go to the house and see who has come," said Em as the boy shuttled away to rejoin his flock, while Doss ran at his heels, snapping at the ends of the torn trousers as they flut tered In the wind. [TO BE CO-VriXCSD-I Iflol I
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