, I"
. i.. ,t ; . .
OS ease thins rt
Of fca sad all Its smart.
Then sleep, dear, sleep: '
A ad not a sorrow
Hans; any tear on your eye shea;
Lie still and sleep.
Sad soul, until the sea ware washes
The rim o the sun to-morrow.
In eastern sky
But wilt thou cure thine heart
Of love and all its smart.
Then die, dear, die;
Us deeper, sweeter.
Than on a rosebank to lie di earn Ins;
With folded eye;
And then alone, amid the beaming
OC lore's stars, thou'lt meet her -.
In eastern sky.
-New York Tribune.
1
i
IN THE QUICKSANDS.
The story properly begins at midnight
-mm the San Luis Obispo coast, California,
twenty years ago, when the September
w nm ona aown upon o toners
catUe ranch, near the Pacific ocean, in
the ragged Santa Lucia mountains. - .-,
Stoner had been a Texas ranker, and
onld hold his own extremely well in
as Tonga frontier community. He
had carried off a pretty Spanish wife
tram the Chihuahua region years before,
ad brought her to the rocky California
oast, and had purchased a settler's
claim and an old adobe house built by
Spanish hidalgo half a centurv asm.
Here he farmed, raised cattle on the
nused government lands, and kept a
sort of hotel, for several mountain trails
jeenea at that point the broad highway
which led from the county seat, twenty
ilea south, to the northern settlements
i tne pineries, hie had five daughters.
, too the youngest, Theresa, known as
Tessa, a girl of 17. That added to the
attraction, and almost every night the
dark eyed, half Spanish girls sang and
danced, and old Stoner managed to hear
u sne news that was afloat, and some-
sow most oi the loose com of the re
gion ultimately found its way into his
pockets. He was a deep one, that same
pnratm Stoner, quiet, sly and patient,
secret in his methods and deadly in his
HOW.
utoners wife and his four eldest
daughters were uneducated and in com--ptete
subjection to his will. But Tessa
had more brains and enem than m
the rest put together, and quite as much
seamy, ana. so. te old Texan ranger
wook a certain pride in her, and had
even allowed her to attend a district
jscnool for two years. ,
This midnight when, as I have said.
8lory oegins, a person of a prying
uspoaon mignc nave discovered sev-
i uiraixtuig j riurmaaceu m progress
round the Stoner aboda. On
side of the house Tessa was leaning from
r winnow conversing in low. tones
with a blonde, fair haired and sturdy
young man on norsebaek.
"Tom, do you know . my father He
as not the careless, warm hearted
yon may suppose. I must admire his
ability, but that is all. I warn you,
Tom, there never was a more dangerous
a. He may be where he hears every
word you say, though if he is he will
o spes to you or me about it i. But if
a knew you cared for me he would be
your enemy. He has other plans for
me. He wants me to marry for money."
. T xrr i , . .
- t, micu iu ones oesn in irlvnl
teacher in the mountain district, miles
away, where Tessa had been .one' of his
pupils. Thrown upon his own resources
from his childhood, he had developed a
g, earnest cnaracter, and was al
ready so popular in the county that he
had just been elected sheriff, though the
jwmpw man on the u cket.
While Tessa and her In
ig, a scene of a different nature was be
ing enacted on the south side of the old
adobe, which overlooked a deep ravine,
and a camp of five or six men in afield
"ew. or several years these men had
tqtn t their summers there, ostensibly
'"st """"g exploring cue coun
try with their dogs and guns. Every one
'-. . m f
ww mo, ana most persons liked
em. Tessa did not
. Stoner. thoueh it Wan mVlnicrnt mm i..
the moonlie-ht on an nlA nkui
outside the door, smoking his pipe and
J""' cougn,' sinewy, grim
"That infernal knucklehead at the
camp ought to have reported before
-ww, ueu iougncinimse i he smoked.
A man came out of the brush and
spoke deferentially.
"Captfn, good eveniag." ' ; '-
"xou're late.-
-Dick was shot"
"Well?"
"Just as the driver th rowed off the
box. Shot by a passenger in the neck
and shoulder."
"He mustn't stay here to get us into
trouble. Take a boat and carry to
the point and leave hint in the cave
there."
"Yes, capt'n."
"How much aboard?" " '
"About $3,000 for the Josephine min
ers." "Send it over the cliff before morn
ing and IH divide it up soon. But you
be extra careful; that new sheriff is a
smart one." -
MAU right, cap-," and the 'man went
back to camp. --
A moment later, just as Stoner was
oing into the house, there was a low
thud of horse's hoofs, and Ton Warren,
the young sheriff, rode down the trail,
around the comer of the old adobe build
ing, into the country road that led to
the west He had at last yielded , to
Tessa's entreaties to "Go, go this minute,
Tom." . . -
Impassive as Stoner was, he felt a
ttle startled by the sight
"Where in the devil did you come
.from, sheriff? Anything up in this part
-of the country?" . ,..v, ... ...
"Oh, no; not a particle. "" I've been visr
iting my old school in th mountains,
and took the trail home down Cayncus."
. This was plausible enough, for there
- was a blind trial that entered the canyon
just east of the angle of the house.
.Stoner felt a little relieved. ; ' ;
"Won't you put up and stay with
jaUnightr
j "JIo, Mr. Stoner, I must go down
L US
to
Kestral to see my? friends ; there.', It's
only an hour's ride." . w
"That settles it," thought Stoner.
"Plenty of stout fellows to use as sher
iff's deputies there. He has probably
stumbled on traces and is going for
help." He sat and smoked and slipped
his hand baok under his coat "Easy to
shoot the fellow," he said to himself.
"Well, good-by, Stoner," said Warren
suddenly; "I suppose the beach road is
as good as ever?"
- "Perfectly safe; only when you cross
Toro creek keep on the sandbar. If s as
hard as iron. I crossed there today."
"Thank you. Adios." ; :
Simple, smiling speech, those words
of S toner's, and yet they were intended
to send Warren to his death more surely
and safely than by bullet of pistol or
pellet of secret poison..
Stoner took an extra swig of brandy
and went to his rest Warren rode down
the rugged hill to the bottom of the ra
vine, then turned seaward and at last
the wide gulch opened - broadly to the
shore of the Pacific - -
The cliffs were from 60 to 800 feet
high, and full of wlTwan rr&v 1 Wn-f-
ren drew rein on the beach, and for fully
ten minutes watched the ocean sway and
rise. His thoughts throbbed with dreams
of Tessa. He would take her away from
her narrow and hurtful surroundings.
He would force S toner's consent, marry
her and make her happy.
He rode rapidly south, and in half an
hour the mouth of the Toro appeared in
the midst of sand dunes. DrnaJn rnllin cr
in and the steady river rolling out Here
was the long sandbar, ten feet wide and
stretching across hardly an inch higher
man tne water surface.
Warren Was be&rinninfr tn Vulva onma
BUSDIClOns of Stoner. hnfc nnfc onh ua
lead him to doubt the simnla di
he had received. The sandbar looked
safe, but within a few days the sea, as
e toner knew, had swept it mightily,
torn out the long compacted bar and
piacea instead a auiveiwtr mass of onir-V
eauu, bo ireacnerous. mat not even a
light footed rabbit could cross with
out being swallowed nn and dnuvoii
Doauy aown. Warren rode nwiftlv for
ward. He had crossed i ndbnm nnn.
dreda of times. Some horses would
have been wiser, but the animal he rode
naa oeen bred in the valley,
.The apuroach to the bar vu hd tv
a few rods, and he galloped on. Sud
denly, in one heart breaking, breathless
descent noiseless, butunutterarilv
ful, Tom Warren's horse went down
down, and the soft slimy sand came mi
to his mane. He shrieked out that
ghastly cry of appeal and agony that a
desperate, dying horse will sometimes
utter.
Tom knew the DeriL He had drawn
his feet from the starruns and Vifwi
them up at the first downward t.nmr.
but the sand began to grab at him also!
He threw himself flat On hia hnpftc it and
tore himself loose from the poor animal,
over whose , back the . mingled sand and
water were running, as it rolled from
side to side in ineffectual struggles to
Tom SUread nimaalf
surface as possible, but slowly, resistteas-
xy. u te mignty .iorce drew him down
ward. The hard beach was only ten feet
distant but nraeticallv thA h m .
impassable. : He felt his horse sink out
of sight: the sand gripped his own knees
and arms, his thisrha and ahnnld -a Tw .
inches more and the end by suffocation
was inevitable. ' Dn to this tim i nd
not shouted; only his horse's wild death
am naa tola of the tragedy. What
was the use? Who would be passing
along that lonely road? Thm
of Tessa and of life. : He l-da-d Hut vrti fM
in. a' clear, strong shont for hVn
and again repeated..
rar off along the deep ravine there
came a cry in response, and a horse's
hurrying -feet and hope awoke in his
heart ' The margin of lifa wu fl
n tea now not lonew.- Vnstmr rt
fearless riderl - ?
"Tom, where are you?"
"Here, Tessa; don't come too near."
But the mountain girl knew the dan
ger, creeping down stairs for a drink
of water, she' had ud h ' fmtK
words to Warren, had thrown a shawl
about her shoulders, and run to the past
ure. X an She cav nsrht hr not hnn.
sprang uuon his unnaddlnd hanfe. nwi
a riatte as she passed the stable, and gal
loped at the utmost speed down the
ravine, booing against hona. far manv
minutes, had, necessarily elaneed oa
Warren started. ' "-
She sprangv to the arround and tn d
the rawhide robe to the one arm ha liiiM
above the sand. She folded her shawl
ana put it over her horse's shoulders and
tied the ri&tta round like a collar Thn
she led him slowly away from the quick-
e aus, ana vyarren mougbt his arm
would break, but; slowly, reluctantly,
painfully the sand gave up its prey.
- "Your father told me to take this rpad,
Tessa," said the young sheriff.
'Yes. I knew that and I Wnl
the men tell him today that the bar was
swept out" ' '' .J
There was a long smM hAfc
them.. ' : -
Teas,' go with me to San miA
Warren, 'and let us get married." . '
And Tessa went .
Old Stoner heard the newa a few
later. Within an hour he had "retired
from tinni IMS " TYm raunn -mm KmV .
up, the hunters disappeared, mysterious
: . i tr. a ....
iignia uea as intervals all nignt from
the points of the cliff, and the next day
old' Stoner himself "d ia am md
his family, the ranch and the live stock.
u waa saia iac ne made me best of his
way to Mexico and finally to Sooth
A rica. The world U large as vet
and men who have money can ramble
ever a Rood deal of it without fiuding a
past they wish to escape from. But
Tessa lives in her San Luis Obispo cot
tage, with orange trees over it and La
marque roses on the porch, and she
thinVa h- .if h i,.,r ;
-wv mtmo wuu u in
Cahfornia. Charles Howard Shinn in
eiiora s Magamne,
Of Omno No
First Female What are
husbands
good for, anyway? ,
Second Female-I
onu
that was good. Epoch.
Th Tovat Klnf of St la.
King Alexander is now 14 years of
age, and is rapidly ' developing - both
physically ; and intellectually. " He - is
only allowed to receive such visitors as
are agreeable to the regents, as the fol
lowing instance will show: The Metro
politan Michael attempted lately to in
trude on the royal presence without hav
ing announced his intention to the 're
gentThe consequence was that he
was not received, and since that time he
has not appeared at the konak. King
Alexander will come of age on' Aug. - 2.
1894. He is now going through a course
of military studies, and his present tutor
is CoL Miskovie. - The king is generally
present at the ordinary military drills,
when he is placed in command of a com
pany. He is also in the habit of driving
out - to the park of Castle Toptshider,
and on these drives he -not infrequently
passes his mother's carriage returning to
town.'1; i ; i-J .r.c:
The queen drives herself. Her son, in
the dress of a colonel.-salutes her in mili
tary fashion,' and-' the 1 queen in recogni
tion waves her hand, i A little -while
ago, when King Milan was driving with
his Bon, the- two monarch - chanced to
pass the queen, but on perceiving his ex
majesty she' turned away her head, and
the salute was .'not returned. ' King
Alexander is in constant correspondence
with his father, and - writes either in
Servian 1 or French... These letters -are
not altogether without political signifi
cance. Queen' Nathalie receives a large
number of visitors, and her nna n
the resort of politicians of all shades and
parties. - Occasionally she is present at
the theatre, where she occupies the court
box; but this only happens when it is
known that King Alexander will not at-
tena tne piay. uaiignani s Messenger. -
' r . Passes for "Deadhead.' ,
Had you gone into any of the offices of
presidents of great transportation com
panies recently you could not help notic
ing the pretty square cards, beautifully
lithographed, which littered the desks of
the presidents and the immediate sub
ordinate officers. . The presidents of all
the railroads, the presidents of all the
express companies and of great insur
ance companies, and all other men influ
ential in the business world, all had a
sachelful of these prettily - engraved
cards. - They were the annual passes
which entitle them to travel on every
road in the country gratis. These passes
came from all parts of the country, and
the filling out of the list takes the time
of one clerk one month before the be
ginning of every year, i . i: r:.
Of course the presidents of the rail
roads coming into New York and the
presidents of the express companies here
have to reciprocate, and they have also
sent out a wagon load of these annual
free passes. It should be added that the
Western Union issues quite as many,"
The railroad passes permit free travel,
the express passes the sending of free
packages, and the telegraph passes per
mit the sending of ' free messages, no
matter where the holder may be in the
United States. The designs on the panes'
are sometimes verv nreUv: and th nl.
lection this' year, as seen in Pre dent
Thomas C Piatt's office the' other day,
was a curiously beautiful mn'-nf tk
uthograpbic art , The most unique and
expressive is a card sent out by Mr. J.ohn
oey, or me .aams cpress company
On the' face, delicate) v mem d fii '
skull, 'and above it in fine letters is ' e
word "ueadnead.- New York Sun. ' v.
New rent for Aoscrta mm. T
Several Prussian offlw wmt tn VL
enna two weeks ago to show the Emper
or Franz Joseph and his generals the
tent ' used in the German army, and to
explain " its advantages.' The tent is
made to cover and to be carried . by two
men. Each occurjant on breaking namn
pat a away on nis nerson one half nr o
ciotn. mree sue i with - iron screws.
three hooked pegs, and a few yards of
tout .cord,, which are the constituent
parts of his share of the tent The cloth
of the tent is also used by the anldi A
protect them . from' the rain. The Au
strian , emperor, ,in a special audience,
expressed his satisfaction with the exh
moon ox; me tens, wnicn, it is to be ex
pectea will b: adapted . shorfly by the
aiu army. ijonoon i trfir, t
"' ,'' "A Oas CesapaaT T la-LT
The Gas Light and Coke 'company, op
era ng-m onaon, has been fined 100,
with roosts, for a deficit of one' candle
power in the illuminating power of the
company's gw' during- foggy' perio
The London Star says: "One candle
power means one-sixteenth, ot th ni
ard illuminating power; and the cost . of
aaaingmat additional power over the
wnoie oi me area supplied, by the com
pany Would be a good many times 100.'
. r ... . ... . . ..
a in me case or aauiteraaon of food, a
money fine is a mere farcical punishment
for offenses of this' kind, unless inflicted
orten ana Heavily. . ' ' " r
r -' ' - --'-.
":V -fcer'a- '.
Some features of office seeking are ob
jectionable,' but The Atlanta Oonstu-
uOn prints a letter from am annlintd
suggests at the same time that he seen
so oe reau v in need or an- nfHn -and .
uiy eviaenc uum Is not & man
whom office is likely to" seek: , -TftJi
wwmg u) moaest ayowai:
"To the ediTvr i "am 'a cand-nf it t i
njmoe ox sxuie l4.ommaiii loneer an Ask M
JTrens to. Cast a Voat in My Beehalve.
am a 1 Arm Man, t5eein cut bph in A.
saw Mm, and Knead the Offise.".
'"!T 5'ti'.,,'i t'K trle Cm a
The Paris G ai olhis -nvwnfl v ,.
an electrics cane has been invented which
will be found very useful by people who
are obliged to be out late at night in the
dangerous districts of Paria. 1 R
touching an assailant it will be possible
to give nun a snocx . wmcn will ' be of
great value as a means of self defense.; '
Copper Coated Telegrrapb. Wires. '
After exhaustive exrjerimnt-' t
m . a unuuou bo oUDSXl-
tute a copper coated steel wire in place
oi tne ordinary iron wire for telegraphic
and telephonic service.. It. is claimed
this will greatl v reduce the indnrdnnn
New York Journal.
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