UNITED AT THE LAST.
PITIFUL TALE OF AN EMIGRANT
FAMILY THAT PERI3HED.
The Terrlbln lltlMnrd of IBM lliwl fur
Knitm f It Vlrtlmn it Wlinle Knmlljr
, Whlrh I'rniii In limlli In lirnil Mn'a
Cove Ilariiln Knirt of it Motlirr.
"Tliutn rvml MimV rove rlfjlit brforn
jronrrynn," Kiiiil tlinolcl luiin ns hr Jiciliit
rl to a recess of lmlf mi ucro in extent
In tlio nouthcrti fiicc f tlm Lflllc Hncky
mountains. "Tliiit'n Head Man's rovn,
ami you hln boo tho Iron work of tint
wiwn lyln n1nit when yo nit closer.
When I lii'Ht liiiiked in liero tlnir was
fivo liunmii bodies lyliitf dead in tliat
waK'in. Mit mi my jiunl wo dni( a liix
grnvo nnd lini iecl 'em nil together lmelc
Agin that dilT, thar whnr tho rucks is,
Wo jiileil tho riK'ks that way no tlm
wolves couldn't Kit nt tho dead."
"Hut thero is nit headboard no
names," 1 protested ns I rode closer to
tho spot pointed out.
"Couldn't In! no names, 'enuso wo
couldn't tlnd any," ho replied, "and them
rocks is a prnvpsttin ns will last forever.
Wfl pit ctr mid sit down fur a smokn,
and Ml gin ye tho full particklers. I'vo
passed hero a hundred times in tho 1at
three years, mid it alius gives mo tho
heartache. Poor husband poor wife
poor children!
"It was this way," ho continued after
his pipo wns alight. "Me and pard had
our shanty down tho valley about a
mile. I'lenty of emigrants in the'r kiv
cred wagons used to como by this trail
and turn south into Wyoinin, or keep
west into Idaho. They'd como tivo or
nix families at a time, and they'd como
singly. Homo of 'em would tako sich
chances of Injuns, sickness, landslides,
etnrvnshuu mid death as would tuako
your ha'r stand on eml to think of. No
man kin begin to guess how many graves
thar boot men, women and children be
tween, tho Dakota lino mid tlm west
branch of tho Missouri river. I'vo
counted a hundred in a day's rido.
"Waal, ono December moriiin mo and
pard woko up to feel that thar was a
blizzard innkin ready to bust on us. It
had been cooIihIi but pleasant up to that
time. Wo could toll by the feel of things
what was eomin, and began to git ready
fur it. It was jest urter noon when a
woman walked into our shanty. Hho
was an emigrant. Right hero in this
cove she. hud left her husband and four
children to try nnd find somo help. lie
had bill sick fur three weeks mid was
little better than a dead mun, and she
bad bin drivin the team an tnkin keer of
things goner'ly. She orter to hov turned
back long before, but somo fool of a
'doctor had told tho man ho'd get well if
they kept on.
! "They had got separated from the
party thoy started with, and had tnndo
the last hundred miles alone. They
war out o' grub, hadn't a match left to
build a tire, and the woman knowed a
change fur tho wusg was blowin up.
She was a frail, lectio woman, and sho
bad gone through with nuff to down a
man, but she hadn't lost all her pluck
yit. As soon as sho told us the story we
got ready to go buck with her an bring
in tho outfit. We mudo a start, but we
never got thar."
! "The blizzurd prevented, eh?"
"Sho did. She came swoopiu down all
of a sudden, like some great bird droppin
from the sky. A fine snow begun to
fall, the wind started right in to blow a
livin gale, and I believe the thermom
eter went from 43 degs. above to 10 degs.
below inside of half an hour. We hadn't
any with us, but the change was sudden
an aniazin. Vou couldn't face that galo
to save your life. It jest stopped us and
turned us around before we had got fif
teen rods from the bouse. As to the
cold, it jest paralyzed you. We had to
go back, and arter tnkin a big drink o'
whisky all around and puttin on more
clothes we tried it agin.
"Me and Sum was as tough as b'ars
them days and could hev laid down in a
pond of water and let it freeze up with
us, but we couldn't buck agin that bliz
zard. When we made the second start
we got about half way up here, the little
woman lead in tho way all the time.
Then we had to stop. Vou couldn't see
three foot from your nose, and all of us
was freezin to death by inches."
: "And yon went back?"
; "We did. The woman was deter
mined to push on, and we just had to
pick ber up and carry her back. It was
,only by the Lord's hand pintin the way
,that we ever reached our cabin agin.
(We bad our ears, noses and fingers friz,
nd an hour arter we got bock water
friz solid in our cabin within five foot
of a roarin fire. The woman prayed to
God and appealed to us, but we knowed
it was no use. That was the blizzard of
1881, and I've heard men say it was 43
degs. below zero in this valley that
Intent
: The woman got nipped wuss than we
did, but her mind was on the family
'back here. She was bound to come back
alone, but we stood her off till about
dark. Then she made a bolt fur it and
got away."
, "And went to her death?" .
; "Jest as sartin as if she had jumped
off that cliff. The blizzard shet ns in
fur three days. When we got out we
found her within twenty rods of the
cabin. She had friz to death goin that
fur. Of course we knowed how it would
be up here. The horses had been on
hitched and turned oat They lay over
,bythat tree. The folks iu the wagon
had crowded together and kivered up
with all the blanket, but all war stun
dead and as hard as rocks. They never
saw that fust night come down.
, "He and pard overhauled the wagon,
ibutwe couldn't find anythin givinthe
name of the family, and so, like hun
dreds of others out In this kentry of
mountain and valley, Injun and wolf,
we kivered 'em in to sleep till the Lord
gits ready to call 'em fur judgment.
Seems awful that a hull fara'ly should
be wiped out that way, but they ar'
sleepin thar together, and I guess the
Lord'll know the spot even if thar is no
graves tun to mark it" New York Her
'Id. ; : ,
A VICTIM OF A CORPORATION.'
How a 1'rrsltleitt anil (iFttrrnt MnnNger
Wm I rnrrn Out by III Cnmnnnlon.
"Spenklng of corporations," said a
prominent St. Louis banker, "I recall
with painful reminiscence the first olio
of which I had tho honor to bo a stock
holder. It happened in lHO.t, nnd I wns'
just lifteen years of Bgo. (If course I
had no idea that it was really n corpora
tion in which I bad invested, but as I
look back upon the incident tho realiza
tion rushes upon me that I was a victim
of corporation me' hods.
"It happened in this wny. At a very
early iigo my tendency for mercantile
pursuits developed. At school 1 noticed
a very general demand for enndy mid
enkes nnd mi exceedingly limited supply
in tho market. Many of the children
possessed coppers nnrt nickels, but it
wns nenrly a inilo from tho school house
to the country town, nnd tho Isiys were
compelled to forngo upon tho neighbor
ing slignr cmio Melds and orchards to sat
isfy tho youthful stomach. After n euro
fill survey of tho market I decided that
tho school wns confronted by n condi
tion, not n theory.
"In n few days I had secured tho co
operation of half a dozen Isiys, with a
capital of thirty cents, in which I held
ten cents of tho slock, and was conse
quently named as president nnd man
ager of tho candy storo which wo pro
posed to open on tho grounds. We found
nil enormous dead mid fallen tree, whose
butt end ofTeretl little resistance to on:1
penknives. At noon ono day 1 notified
the stockholders that a meeting would
bo held immediately lifter school, ami nt
that meeting I, as president and man
Rger, cut nil opening into tho dead tree,
fashioned a shelf therein nnd attached i
door, whllo tho stockholders looked on
in admiration. I then proposed that early
in the morning each stockholder should
bring with him fivo rents' worth of
candy wherewith to stock tho juvenile
store.
"To my astonishment it wns moved
nnd seconded mid carried that tho candy
should bo purchased nnd delivered nt
once, so that tho store might havo an
enrly nnd perfect opening. Tired ns 1
wiu) I repaired to tho town, invested iny
ten cents in cheap candy, returned to
tho school grounds, whero already the
twilight was making ghostly figures
nmong the trees, nnd deposited my trens
uro in tho store. It wns quito dark when
I reached homo, and licing unable to no
count for my whereabouts tho presi
dent and mnnnger went to bed supper
less nnd with a back Htinging from tho
effects of a switch liberally applied.
Next morning I hastened to the school
grounds in order to bo first at tho core
monies. Imagine my surpriso when I
found there, seated in a row, all tho
stockholders. I congratulated them on
their interest in tho enterprise, nnd then
threw open the door of the candy store.
It was empty I
"For a moment I wns speechless. The
stockholders bent their bends and said
nothing. They looked suspiciously con
tented, nnd when I intimated that somo
good man among us had gono wrong
they were nil prepared to prove that a
daring burglnr had, iu the midnight
hour, deprived the corporation of its as
sets. "Ten yours later one of the stockhold
ers admitted that he had helped his
brethren in disposing of tho stock." St.
Louis Republic.
Shaving the llcaril In ItuMla.
Foter the Great thought to civilize his
savages by making them shave and im
posed a tax of 100 rubles on the wealthy
and middle classes and a copeck on
peasants and laborers. Now it was a
superstition among the poorer people
thut no beardless son of Adam could
ever entor heaven, and being obliged to
part with their beards the greut ma
jority treasured up thoir hairs to be
buried with their bodies. In dealing
with his soldiers the great Peter enlisted
the aid of the priests, who cunningly
pointed out the fact that they were go
ing to fight the bearded Turk and that
their patron, St. Nicholas, would be un
able to distinguish them from thoir ene
mies unless they sacrificed their beards.
This was all right, and the beurds of
the beloved Russians wont down before
the ruzor in deference to St. Nicholas.
But, unluckily for the priests, the next
little war happened to be with the
Swedes, who wore no beurds, and thus
it wus that the Rusuiun soldiers de
manded to be allowed to abjure the
razor, so that the holy Nicholas might
have no difficulty in arranging for their
protection. English Illustrated Maga-
Rsoent Applications of Taper.
The year 1801 wns certainly one of
those in which new industrial applica
tions of paper were most numerous.
The idea of using paper in place of stone
in the construction of houses is already
old, but paper tto take the place of glass
in windows, of clay in flowerpots, of
iron in railway rails, wagon wheels and
horseshoes, of porcelain in laboratory
ware, of wood in barrels, it having al
ready taken the place of that material
in small boats, paper in pulleys, are ap
plications as novel as bold. The manu
facture of window panes of paper was
first tried in the United States.
The panes have the appearanoe of
milky glass, and the property of inter
cepting the light rays while letting the
heat rays through, which makes them
suituble for greenhouses. It is estimated
that a paper window pane ninety-four
by sixty-three centimeters in dimensions
in a wooden sash with iron appliances,
will cost about eighty-five cents, and
last on an average four years. E.
Ratoiu in Popular Science Monthly.
Mr. Lnn'i Complaint Against Woman.
In the course of an interview concern
ing her candidacy for a seat in the
United States senate Mrs. M. E. Lease
gave utterance to the following: "The
strange part of this all is that of all the
congratulatory letters I have received
not one of them is from a woman. I am
the only woman ever suggested for the
offloe of United States senator, and it is
very funny that none of my congratula
tions should come from women," Kan
sas Qity Journal.
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Trousers that will leave our establishment
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hundreds of Overcoats,
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and thanking the public for past favors,
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