m-IN THE QUICKSANDS.-
L,l TAYLOR was a typical
p j frontiersman. His father Lad
been a pioneer and his grand
father had been killed by Indians
"away back when Missouri an' Arkan
saw belonged to the French," to use
his own language.
Whenever Eli Taylor could see the
smoke of a neighbor's cabin ho became
possessed with the Idea that the coun
try was getting to be too thickly set
tled and correspondingly unhealthy,
and he bundled his family into one of
those huge wagons known as "a prairie
6choouer" and moved further west.
This he persisted In doing until one
day he found himself under the shadow
of the Rocky Mountains, and he woke
up to the fact that his wife was a
broken-down old woman and his
daughter Lena and his son Tom "about I
AS hlsr ns thrv was pwr coin' to ovr to !
be."
Young Tom Taylor had not inher
lted the gypsy love of change that had
distinguished his ancestors. lie was a
sturdy, sensible fellow and wanted to
settle down on a farm, where his moth
er could live better than she had been
doing, and where Lena could have a
chance to know more about books,
which she had learned to read In some
unaccountable way, and of which she
was very fond.
And so Eli Taylor In his 50th year
settled down to the cultivation of a
farm not far from what Is now Canyon
City, but which was then a cluster of
cabins where prospectors rested before
going over the mountains to South
Tark.
Here Ell Taylor and young Tom
worked with so much success that
within a few years they had a comfort
able bouse and outbuildings, a dozen
cows and as many horses, and, great
est of all evidences of prosperity,
money laid by for a rainy day.
Lena Taylor, though miles away
from the nearest neighbor, was not
destined to remain unknown and un
appreciated. The fame of her thrift
and her beauty was discussed about
the cainpflres of prospectors in the
mountains. Many of them had gone a
day's Journey out of their way to see
her, and the geueral opinion was that
the man who made a successful
"claim" to her hand would have, by all
odds, the finest piece of property in the
territory.
It has been said that poverty and suf
fering are the greatest tests of charac
ter, but we are Inclined to think that
It requires a stronger, nobler nature to
withstand a change In the face of sud
den prosperity than to meet reversals
with philosophy.
Eli Taylor, was prosperous, and with
his prosperity vanished his Inborn dis
like for settled communities. It was
ho who carried all the farm produce to
Canyon City and purchased there such
supplies as were needed by his thrifty
family.
Had he confined his purchases to
these supplies all would have been
well, but, unfortunately, he had a
chance to gratify his taste for strong
drink, and he yielded to It till the pas
sion became his master.
The saloons of the frontier at that
time were open gambling dens, "run"
by sharpers who plundered without re
morse the men they had first made
drunk.
One of these places was kept by a
man named "Mart" Estel, who had the
coveted reputation of wealth and the
unenviable reputation of a desperado
who had killed a number of men. He
always denied being rich, and when
questioned about his shooting exploits
he would lay his hand on his hip and
eny, wllh a chilling laugh:
"You can bet that when Mart Estel
finds himself lu a tight box he knows
how to fix the lock that will let him
out."
Estel's saloon become a favorite re
sort with EH Taylor, and he not only
got drunk there, but the news reached
hie family that he had fallen Into the
habit of gambling. The latter report
was confirmed by the fact that he no
longer accounted for the money he had
got from the sale of his produce.
Iyena and her brother begged their
father to keep away from Canyon City,
but, unheeding them and blind to the
tears of his luvulld wife, he persisted
In the course.
And now the sou and daughter, who
had been so eager to secure a perman
ent home, expressed an anxiety to move
further Into the wilderness, but their
father became stubborn, saying:
"You made me settle down here and
hero I'll stay."
When matters were nearlug their
worst a young ujan, dressed lu the
garb of a hunter, but with a refinement
of uianne that coivtnca Lena that
I
he was not "an original mountaineer,"
came to the valley in which the Taylor
rarm was situated and asked to board
there while he hunted and prospected
In the neighboring mountains. He gave
his name as "George Herrou," and as
he offered $8 a week for the accommo
dation and showed a willingness to pay
In advance, Mrs. Taylor and Lena
agreed to take him In.
George Herron was a handsome and
rather a melancholy young man such
a one as must appeal powerfully to the
virgin heart and lofty Imagination of
the frontier girl.
He was away a great deal often for
nights at a time, and when he returned
he but seldom brought game, though
he always had strange wild flowers for
Lena and curious specimens of ores,
which he examined with his micro-
Qpnnn n n rl oniric
Love Is largely a matter of associa
tion; it is not, therefore, to be wonder
ed at that Lena grew to watch the
mountain trail for the coming of the
young hunter, nor that the light of
gladness left her expressive face
whenever she saw him disappearing in
the rocky heights above the valley.
Of late Mart Estel had taken to visit
ing the valley, but it chanced that he
never came there except when George
Herron was away.
Eli Taylor had ceased going to Can
yon City; indeed, he seemed to have
lost all Interest In the farm, in his
family, and in himself.
Lena and her mother tried- to cheer
him, and Tom worked harder than ever
to make up for his father's losses, but
still Eli went about like a man whose
heart was broken.
The renson for this melancholy was
at length made manifest. One day
Mart Estel, accompanied by a stout,
florid man of 40 who looked much like
himself, came to the farm and held a
long consultation with Eli Taylor.
"I have kept it all from my children."
said Eli Taylor to Estel and his "corn-
'TOU IIA.VK MY ANSWER," SAID LENA.
panion, who was known as "Lawyer
Roggs," "but I reckon the best way is
to have them In and make a clean
breast of it."
"Yes; they might as well know It first
as last," said Estel, "and more par
ticularly Lena, for she's got It In her
power to square the account."
"How so?" asked EH.
"Dldu't I tell you how when last you
was down, and didn't you promise to
speak to her about It?" asked Estel.
"I wasn't myself then. I've forgot
nil about It, and I wish I could forget
that I ever came to this settlement,"
said the distracted man.
"Have your family in nnd let us talk
It over," said Lawyer Roggs, as he
drew some papers from his pocket.
Mrs. Taylor, Lena and Tom were
called In, and Mart Estel, without any
preliminaries, went on to tell how for
a year or more Ell Taylor had been
getting deeper and deeper Into his
debt.'
"I loaned money nnd did all I could
for Mr. Taylor," said Estel, "and at
last, seeing that he could not pay mo,
I took a mortgage on the farm and the
stock. The mortgage Is due, and If
Mr. Taylor or none of the family ain't
nble to take It up I'll sell the place or
I'll take It for what's due me."
"I don't know anything about law,"
said Tom Taylor, "aud I don't want to
know, but I've tried, and so have
mother and Lena, to work hard and
make a living up to this time. Father
had no right to mortgage the farm
and the stock, for they are more of my
making than of his, and I do not pro
pose to let any mau interfere with my
lights."
"Ah, my young friend," said Lawyer
Roggs, opening one of the papers ho
held in his hand, "your father has here
idk'rff !F!i -..Jssafll.
sworn that he owns this farm and the
stock; if he has sworn to what ain't
true, why, all Mr. Estel has to do is to
apply to the officers of the law In Den
ver and have him arrested for swin
dling and perjury."
On hearing this EH Taylor groaned
and his wife covered her face with her
thin hands.
"I have no more to say about It," said
Tom, going to the door, "only this
that the man who arrests my father
will undertake a life job, and the man
who carries out our little property
must do so by force."
After Tom had gone Lena asked:
"Mr. Estel, can't you give us time to
pay you? Father got only arm at your
place. He was not a drunkard nor a
gambler before we came here."
"And I didn't make him one orktbe
other," said Estel. "But I told him be
fore what I tell you now that Is, that
you can say one word that'll free him
from debt and make yourself rich."
"What is that?" asked Lena, with
forced calmness.
"Be my wife," said Estel, reaching
out his hand.
Lena drew back and the color fled
her face. Her simple life had made her
unconventional, so that she spoke her
mind without any thought of the con
sequences. "Marry you?" she said. "How could
I do so when 1 do not love you?"
"But you will learn to love me," iaid
Estel.
"That Is Impossible."
"Why so?"
"Because I love another."
"Who is he?"
"That matters not," she said, with
spirit, "you have my answer."
But I will not take 'no' for an an
swer. Think over what I have said,
and In one week I shall return; should
you then refuse me I shall take what
Is mine."
With this ultimatum Estel and his
friend left.
EH Taylor and his wife tried to make
Lena see that it would be to the ad
vantage of all if she accepted Estel's
proposal, but she firmly replied:
"I am ready to die to save either my
father or my mother, but It Is too much
to ask me to sell my soul."
Tom stoutly took his sister's side,
and when George Herron returned,
which he did that evening, they told
him all that had happened and asked
his advice.
"I can help you by giving you the
money," replied the young hunter, "but
my belief Is that these fellows are
thieves and are playing a bluff game;
if so, I think Tom and I can match
them."
"It's this young Herron that Lena's
in love with," said Eli Taylor to his
wife. "If It wasn't for him she'd have
Estel and we could keep the place. I
won't have him about here no longer."
In his blunt way the old man told
George Herron to leave, frankly ex
plaining the reason, and George said
in reply:
"If I cannot help you, Mr. Taylor, I
will not stay in your way."
The next evening, after a long talk
with Lena and her brother, the young
hunter shouldered his rifle and went
away, and Eli Taylor felt that hia
property would be now secure, in which
event he compromised with his selfish-j
ness by promising himself that he ,
would never get drunk nor gamble !
again.
At length the dreaded day came, and
with It Estel, Roggs and a number of
men they had brought to take posses
sion of the place.
They found Lena even more deter
mined than before, for she positively
refused to speak to Estel In the house.
"Will you speak to me outside?" he
asked.
"Yes; on the bridge over Quicksand
Creek," she replied. This was the
bridge on the road leading from the
farm to Canyon City, and the stream
which It spanned was filled with the
quicksand that makes traveling in that
region such a terror.
Fearing some harm, Estel's friends
followed at a distance, and the moment
he stood on the bridge with Lena they
saw a young man In hunter's garb ap
pear at the other end. They heard
this young man cry out: "We meet at
last, Belman!"
Estel seemed frozen with terror-
after a few seconds he laid his hand
on the bridge railing and leaped over,
m yujeci oeing escape, tut he found
himself In the remorseless srasD of thn
quicksands.
Roggs and others ran up only to see
Estel or "Belman," for these worn
only a few of his names, disappearing.
"That wretch," said George Herron
pointing to the stream, "murdered and
robbed my father two years ago In
Salt Lake City. 1 have been looking
for him ever since, but I hold von tn
witness that he died by his own act."
uitn.tueir champion gone Roccs nn.i
his companions had no further lntor.
est in his case. Eli Taylor was noror
troubled again. He changed his hab
its ana made over his farm to his son
though ho thinks that his son-in-law
George Herron, Is quite as flue a fel
low as Tom. New York Ledger.
The Cause.
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Asklns-What has caused the clmmro 1 is , " , n eplram
in Maj. Stiff's appearance of ate? He 1 1 7ok i 1 L PTh fl0metime9 in
used to look like! one born to connL d I D It t ns-"l nmh f'l
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PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
Seattle Market!.
Onions, 8590o per 100 pounds.
Potatoes, 20$25. ,
Beete, per 6aok, 75c.
' Turnips, per sack. 6075c.
Carrots, per sack, 45 00c.
. Parsnips, per sack, $1. . . . .
Cauliflower, 5090o per doz.'
Celery, 85 40o. . . V
uaooage, native ana California
f 1.001.50 per 100 pounds.
Apples, 85 50c per box.
Pears, 60c 1.50 per box.
Prunes, 50c per box.
Butter Creamery, 27c per pound;
dairy and ranch, 1822c per pound.
Eggs, 27c.
Cheese Native. 1212c.
Poultry Old hens, 14c per pound;
spring chickens, 14c; turkeys, 10c.
Fresh meats Choice dressed beef
steers, prime, 07c; cows, prime,
6Jc; mutton. 7)c; pork, C7c; veal,
68o.
Wheat Peed wheat, $23.
Oata Choice, per ton, $24.
Hay Puget Sound mixed, $9.00
11; choice Eastern Washington tim
othy, $15.
Corn Whole, $23.50; cracked, $24;
feed meal, $23.50.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$2520; whole, $22.
Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.50;
straiahts, $3.25; California brrnda,
$3.25; buckwheat flour, $3.75; graham,
per barrel, $3.60; whole wheat flour,
$3.' 75; rye flour, $4.
Millstuffa Bran, per ton, $14;
C-,rt...r i . ,i i Pip
m i i k .
xeeu viioppeu ieeu, $au23 per
ton; middlings, per ton, $17; oil cake
meal, per ton, $35.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla, 59c;
61c; Bluestem, 62o per bushel
Valley,
Hour Best grades, $3.20;
graham,
$2.65; superfine, $2.15 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 4l42c; choice
gray, 89 40c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $2224; brew
ing, $23.50 per ton.
Millatuffs Bran, $17 per ton; mid
dlings, $22; shorts, $18; chop, $16.00
per ton.
Hay Timothy, $910; clover. $7
8; Oregon wild hay, $6 per ton.
Butter Fancy creamery, 50 55c;
seconds, 4550o; dairy, 4045o store,
2580o.
Cheese Oregon full cream, 12o;
Young America, 15c; new cheese,
10c per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.253
per dozen; hens, $3.504.00; springs,
$1.253; geese, $0.007.00 for old,
$4. 50 5 for young; ducks, $5.00
6.50 per dozen; turkeys, live, 15
16c per pound.
Potatoes 65 70c per sck; sweets,
2c ptir pound.
Vegetables Beets, 90c; turnips, 75o
per sack; garlic, 7o per pound: cab-
bage, $1 1.25 per 100 pounds; cauli -
nower, yoo per dozen; parsnips, 75c
per sack; beans, 8c per pound; celery
70 75c per dozen; cucumbers, 50c per
box; peas, 33c per pound.
Onions Oregon, 75c $1 per sack.
Hops 1517c; 1897 crop, 46c.
Wool Valley, 1012o per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 812c; mohair,
26c per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheeD. wethpm
ami ewes, 4c; dressed mutton. 7c:'rj a 1 on
snrine lambs. 7o r lh 2 Woodard, Clarke & Co
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.25;
light and feeders. $3.004.00; dressed,
$5.005.50 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, 3.50$3.75;
cows, fa. 00 3.00; dressed beef,
66 Jc per pound.
Veal Large, 0J7c; small, 7 8c
per pouna.
San Francisco market.
AV00I Spring Nevada, 1012c pei
pouiiu; vregon, eastern, 1012o; Val
ley, 1517c; Noithern, 9 11c.
jmiistuns Middlings, $2224.00:
ujuii, tu.ou(sai.ou per 'n
Onions Si 1 verskin, 50 75c per Back.
Butter Fancy creamery, 24o;
do seconds, 21 23c; fancy dairy, 22o;
do seconds, 18 20c per pound.
Eggs Store, 2728o; fancy ranch.
2931o. '
Citrus Fruit Oranges. Valencia, $2
2.60; Mexican limes, $6 6.50; Cali
fornia lemons, $2.00. 800; do choice.
$3. 60 4. 50; per box.
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The pretty girl set her lips together
for an instant.
"That may be true," she responded,
rubbing the spoon suggestively ovei
her empty plate, "but I do not believe
one dish of it ever would make anybody
stuck up." '
And he had to order a second allow,
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