harping of the wind to* the pine-tope, ■ R ID E S B U Y W E D D IN G R IN G S .
Nut V nenvlahte.
and the finest tribute the tears of John
Mrs. Gadalamt—That Mrs. Hard«
Mills. Then the grave was rounded Q ro a ria « P ra c tic e W h ic h One J e w e le r head next door doesn't seem to have
T h in k s Mss i n A d v .n ta v a ,
over, the participants—all but one—
many friends.
“Isn't that a new wrinkle T* asked
withdrew, and that ulght the moon
Hostess (wearily)— No-o; I wonder
shone down on u solitary figure, sit the chauce observer.
how she manages it?—Judy.
“What?" said the clerk.
ting by a mound, his head bowed lu his
A W ««t I n d ia n l lu r r l c a i i a
“For the bride to buy the wodJIng
hands. “Too late, too late,” the figure
murmured. “We're rich, my pardner ring,” replied the observer, turning to Recently traveled up the coast at w il1 and
and me, and It wou’t do him no good.” look at the young woman who had Just acted lu an entirely difierent manner from
any other storm. Sometimes dyspepsia
Nor was Mills speaking Idly, for, gone out with her purchase of a 14- acts Die same way. I l refutes to yield to
karut,
gold-filled
ring.
clutched In the rigid lingers of Rube,
treatment which lias cured sim ilar esses.
The clerk, who turned out to be the Than Hostttter's Stomach Bitten should
John had discovered a fragment of
quarts threaded and bound by wires of proprietor also, laughed. “Not at all lu t<e taken. I t lias cured stomach trouble
this part of towu,” he said. “Tne prac for itself a century.
virgin gold.
The next day Mills was In Denver. tice lias been In vogue here for several
A train running from New York to
Ills first visit waa to a mining expert years and lias continued to grow in Boatou made over 80 mile« an hour re
somewhat familiar with the district. popularity until It has become quite the cently.
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5 . . . * V . V , , . „ . * 1 . . . . « . . . V . , * , . V . , , . . . X . , . .
Indeed, wneu a ninn
“The Millennium,” said John, pointing proper caper.
In France advertslug posters most
over his shoulder In the general direc comes lu here now and nska to look at
tion of Rocky Canon, “she’s fur sale. plalu gold rings we comddet- him a lit Hear revnuue «tamps varying in value
S this is simply a plain story of coursed melody moat fearsome, but The price is two hundred thousand. tle off color, and feci rather mean to w ording to size of the (mater.
John Mills, miner, no lntroduc- duly applauded. The usual theme of Take her or leave her.”
ward him, as though he were usurp
’ don, beyond a statement of the conversation was Sue. Gradually the
Next he took his way to a lawyer. ing a feminine prerogative, looking at
Identity of the man Is necessary. Mills two built up an Ideal woman, and a “Draw me up one of them papers,” hi the matter from a common sense
lived near Rocky Canon, and had often home that she was to adorn after the said, “maklu’ over to Susan Campbell, standpoint. It m » v ® s no cud or trou
»9
aroused the people thereabouts (or Millennium—for such they had named of Missouri, a half-interest in the Mil ble. A ring from a woman’s point of
within a radius of twenty-five miles) the mine—had begun to produce. Rube lennium.”
view la a matter not only of sentiment,
In c m s o f scrofule, self rheum, dys-
to a state of Interrogative curiosity would not listen to any plan that did
"What considerationT* asked the but also of adornment. She wants tier pepsie. nemtousness, ceterrh. rheumetism.
which had never been fully satisfied. not Invoice the membership of Mills man of business.
Jewelry, however cheap It may be, to eruptions, etc,, the circumstences m ey be
He dwelt alone. In a cabin not worth In the family.
Consideration? Why, for my pnrd- hf of the projx'r cut and the proper eltered by purifying end enriching the
describing, because Just such cabins
"1* raps an’ old feller like me ’ud be ner, of course.”
size. Now, what mau. I'd like to know,
blood nvith Hood's Sersepenlle.
It Is the
have often been described before. In the way.” Mills would say, and,
Necessary explanations followed, and can go In ami «elect the right kind of
When he first appeared he had said regularly. Rube would rebuke this the consideration was placed at $10, ring even If he has got the measure? greet remedy for e ll eges end both sexes.
Be sure to get Hood's, ^eceuse
nothing as to his origin. A tall, silent view.
which Mills conscientiously took out Not or.e out of twenty. It Is a lot more
man of forty years, he went at once
Yet Sue never wrote. “Mighty long of one pocket and put into another, satisfactory for all concerned for the
Into his chosen field, prospecting, ask trial an’ slow verdick,” Mills opined "It's best to have every thing on the I bride to come In and pick out what «he
lng advice, and giving none.
once. Rube convinced him that this squar’,” he thought.
: wants without troubling tho brlde-
Mills had a good eye for “leads,” and bordered on treason.
■ groom, except, of course, for the
“Want
»his
recorded?”
continued
the
had been moderately successful, for
Weeks went by, and the crucial test lawyer, when the dips, «purs, and money, lie always settles the bill; at
several times he had developed claims of the Millennium was at hand. The
A u O d d it y lu K a llr u u d liiE .
until they had begun to assume the hole for the “shot” which was to de angles had been described with tech least, I suppose he does.
"The
craze for fast time on railways
“You see, this Id a neighborhood
dignity of mines, had sold them and termine the character of the vein to nical nicety.
ia taking a new feature," observed a
‘Not fur a spell.” replied Mills. “Jest whero tho people don't stand much on
moved on. In 1891 he located a claim ward which they bad been laboring
prominent railroad official to a Star
give
It to me." An hour later he was the fine {>oiuts of etiquette. They In
that seemed promising, and for weeks had been drilled, the powder tamped
writer recently. ‘‘It is the shortening
on
an
east-bound
train.
sist
upon
the
ring
to
tie
up
the
contract
toiled at it single-handed. He was about the fuse. It was then, stopping
of lines and reconstruction of surveys
He reached a little town In Missouri. with, but two-thirds of these rings are in order to make a given line aa
strong and skillful, and his progress to wipe his forehead, leaving It grime-
remarkably rapid, but occasionally he streaked. that Mills delivered a speech As he walked the streets, he thought, unengraved and sell for from $2 to $4. straight as |«xwil>le between two {siinta.
felt a pang of solitude and thought he which, so far as recorded, was the with a strange thrill of affection, that It’s fun to see some of the women ! It is, in fact, a scheme to make time
he was where llulie had been “born when they first state their errsud. : by saving distance. A railway with-
ought to secure help, not only for the longest he ever made.
nnd raised.” Every villager knew the They beat about the hush and make i out a curve or a cutting ia, of course, a
forwarding of the work but the sake
“Rube, boy,” he said, “we’re pard
of companionship. One summer day ners. Understand? Pardners. This residence of Henry Campbell, and soon their wants known In such a coquettish . splendid thing from an engineering
as this mood was upon him. he heard shot tells whether we find somethin’ Mills was ringing the 1x41. The door way that I don’t wonder, sometimes, I standpoint, but it ia a very tedious
a voice at the mouth of the slope mark lously with gold or goes broke ag'ln was opened by a young woman—Sue! that tho young man, whoever ho may affair to the passenger. To thoroughly
ing the spot where he had started into barren rock. In any case, thar’s wages But surely not the Sue of Rube's be, has lost his head. Maidenly mod realize how extremely monotonous a
dreams and his own Imaginings. She esty. I suppose, makes them shy. nnd
the side of the mountain.
due you. an' a-comln.’ It wouldn’t be was pretty, in a careless way, but her they begin by snylug they are looking long journey on a railway without a
“Hello there,” said the voice, “may no squar' deal fur me to git rich and
I curve or cutting is, one must travel on
wrapper was begrimed, her slippers, for a plain gold ring for a friend with
1 come down?”
you only to draw pay fer days’ works; one of which protruded, displayed a a finger ’about tho size of mlue.’ When the road from Buenos Ayres to the
. Mills dropped the sledge Just then so, tharifore. I. John Mills, miner, as
Andes. Tliat railroad beats all known
poised for a blow and turned toward heretofore and ginerally known, do hole, and her hair was in papers. Mills they say that, I always smile; I know records for having 200 miles of tracks
the patch of light “No,” he answered; hereby make over to you. Rube Jack- was shocked and puzzled. The girl what it means.”—Chicago Inter Ocean. almost on a line, such as mathemati
said “Good morning,” and awaited de
cians descrilie aa the shortest distance
“I’ll come up.”
son, a full half-interest In the Millen velopments.
LEG EN D OF A P H a iR iE GRAVE. j between any two {«lints. No one who
As he walked, curving his long back, nium, to have an’ to hold, an’ yer heirs
“I’m from out West,” said the visitor
has not seen this remarkable stretch of
he saw outlined against a bit of sky a an’ assigns forever, amen. That’s a
—“Colorado.”
Then, after a pause, E e a e a t h tn e F lo w e r s L ie th e R e m a in s road, straight in front and liehind as
sturdy figure and a head surmounted kerrect form, I guess, and no lawyers
i f a '•« 'id le r'« Y o n n - W ife .
conscious of an important omission,
far as the eye can reach, even when
by a felt hat. the flapping rim of which needed nor papers, neither.”
Near the top of the highest knoll on aided by a field glass, can grasp what it
be
added:
“My
name’s
John
Mills.”
had been secured in front, and from
Rube grasped the hand of Mills.
“Colorado,” rejoined the young wo tho rolling prairie three miles south means or what an amount of wearisome
beneath w’hicli there escaped a wavy “Not a scrap of paper, John,” he re
man;
“I knew a fellow that went out west of old Fort Hays, in Kansas. Is a monotony it involves and entails.”—
mass of hair tossed on the breeze. The plied. “Your word’s enough for any
lonely grave in fl.o prairie gras». There
miner wondered vaguely why a boy man, and I thank you. You’ve been a there—Rube Jackson. Come In. I sup is a board at the head and another at Washington Star.
pose
you
want
to
see
paw.
Ever
meet
should be so handsome. Emerging good friend to me—me and Sue. I___”
Rube?” She almost laughed. ’’Rube the foot. Thtwe boards may once have
I m p r o v e d T r a in K q u lp m o n t.
from the slope he straightened himself,
“There, there,” Interrupted Mills, used to think I’d marry him; but gra borne an epitaph, but now they are
The O. R. A N. and Oregon Short
taking a full breath of the sweet moun it’s nothin’. It’s all right” He seemed
browned and worn by the sun and
tain air. Then he drew from his pocket bappy, and a trifle embarrassed, con cious, I never thought of it. Come in. storms of many years, and they are de Line have added a buffet, smoking and
Did
you
say
you’d
met
Rube?”
library car to their Forlland-Gliiosgo
pipe and tobacco, tilled, lighted, ab cealing the emotions by a sudden dis
"Him and me’s pardners," answered cayed at the ground and stand at an through train, and a dining car service
sorbed a few satisfactory whiffs, and play of energy.
angle, almost ready to fall. A prairie has been inauguarated. The train is
Mills, quietly.
said slowly: “Well?”
Not another word was spoken. Soon
“Do tell! And how’s Rube getting rabbit has made Its burrow nt the foot equipped with the latest ohair cars,
“I’m Rube Jackson,’ said the boy In all was ready, an open lamp applied to along?”
of the grave. Ail around It the grass day coaches ami luxurious first-class
return; “an’ I’m here for work.”
the waiting fuse, and the men re
’’Rube? Oh, he’s all right He’s had is full of purple «ml yellow flowers.
and ordinary sleepers. Direct connec
John puffed on. “Better come to the treated to the open.
Standing by the grave and looking tion made at Oranger with Union Pa
a streak o’ luck lately. Thought like
cabin while I yank a little grub to
In five minutes, pardner.” Mills ly you’d want to bear about It Well, north and east there lies stretched out cific, and at Ogden with Rio Grande
gether. I take it,” he added, starting said, “we’ll be a couple of them cap I must be goin’. Good-by.”
a landscape of wondrous beauty. The line, from all points in Oregon, Wash
down the path, “that ye’re prospectin' italist chaps.”
Once in the street, be took a paper green sod of the plains elope gradually ington and Idaho to ail Eastern cities.
without no stake?”
from, his breast—a document of legal ' down from the grave a distance of For information, rates, etc., call on
“And Sue, too,” amended Rube.
The boy did not understand this, but
“ie s , Sue, too,” assonted the senior aspect—tore It Into minute pieces and three miles to the cluster of long gray any O. R. & N. agent, or address W
he gave an assent, and started w’ith member of the firm. “You see, she’s scattered them In the mud of the thor and yellow empty buildings which were ! II. Hurlburt, General Passenger Agent’
Mills, who noticed that the sole of the nachelly one of them ‘heirs an’ assigns oughfare. “God knows,” he mutter the barracks and officers’ quarters of Port land.
visitor’s shoe flapped at right angles forever,’ which the document would ed. “that I’ve tried to lie squar* with Fort Hays when this was the far West
T h e H o t r o t h a l K la s.
with every step. “I’ll cobble it after mention, so be we had one.
my pardner, but It appears Rube didn’t years before there was a railroad In
supper,” w'as his comment.
First
Boarder—Did
you hear the re
Kansas
Beyond
the
fort
Is
the
town
He started for the cabin, but Rube leave no ’nelrs ar’ assigns forever.’ ”
port of the engagement of our land
“But about a Job, you know,” the lingered. “Better come to grura,” coun
of
Hays
City,
a
group
of
yellow
atone
“Paw, remarked Susan, that even
boy put In, timidly, stepping high on seled Mills. “The old hole won't be ing, “there was an awful funny man and red brick buildings.
Beyond lady’s daughter?
Second Boarder— I should say I did.
account of the loose sole.
stretches
the
prnlrie,
north
and
east, to
fitten to live In fur an hour.”
called here to-day. Said he knew Rube
I
waa
sitting in the next room at the
“Oh, that’s all right,” answered
the horizon line twenty and thirty milea
Rube seemed to assent, but he did Jackson out West.”
away. Diagonally across this stretch 1 i 1”10’ H“d i t wa* a , Vretty loud reP°rt.
Mills; “ye’re hired. Didn't I tell yeh?" not follow. As Mills reached the cabin
“Didn’t U dow no good of him,” re
you~ Richmond Dig{>ateh.
And they walked on.
there was muffled sound, a tremor of turned . e father. “That Jackso^ of level pis In runs a thread of vivid et me
In the evening they grew in a meas rock as the granite mountain quivered, place’ll never bring the amount of the green from northwest to southeast, the
ure confidential, although Rube did and out from the slope rolled a cloud of mortgage.”
trees that fringe Big Creek. There are
most of the talking, as Mills cobbled smoke. Mills was soon in the cabin
A few days later Mills was In the no other trees anywhere else In the
the defective shoe into a state of use getting supper.
office of the mining expert. '“ The Mil landscape.
fulness. Before bed-time Rube had
The legend of the lonely grave Is that
In twenty minutes the coffee had lennium,” he began; “take her er leave
told of Susie Campbell. She was back been made, the bacon fried, and biscuit her?”
years ago, when the Fort Hays bar
In Missouri, where he himself had been were crisping in the oven. Still Rube
“Ta_e her," exclaimed the expert, racks were full of troops, an army hoa-
“born and raised.”
did not come. “I wonder where he is,” trying to conceal bis jubilation. "Here’s pital steward brought his young wife
“I didn’t have much money after said Mills. “Boys Is so reckless,” and the papers and your check, all ready there to live with him. Each Sunday
father and mother died,” he went on, with an uneasy feeling he started back to sign. Where In thunder’d you go the officer and his wife wuiked out to
simply, “and Sue—her father has a up the trail.
this hill, and they used to ait down on
to?”
pile. I’ll bet old man Campbell has
the
shady side of It near the summit
“Rube, come to supper!” he called.
“je s t took a little business trip fur
two thousand dollars out on mortgage
His voice bounded from side to side my pardner,” answered John.—Argo and gaze for hours out at the landscape
right now.” He paused to note the of the canon, but there was no response. naut
below. Then they could see the herds
effect; Mills drove another peg, while The heart of Mills sank with the
of buffalo roaming over the prairie, and
Rube laughed nervously. “I. fell in love thought of Impending evil. Calling
once in a while a band of Indians scur
/
T h e F ift h A ge.
with Sue,” he continued, “but she again and again, he went to the mouth
rying across It
Until a few days ago I had always
wouldn't have It; that is,” he corrected, of the slope, out of which an acrid
One day the young wife was stricken
recognizing the awkwardness of the vapor floated, hovering in the air. “I’m supposed that there were but four with a deadly fever. Before she d!ed A n E x c e lle n t C o m b in a tio n .
The pleasant method and beneficial
expression, “she didn’t seem to be In afeard Rube went in,” conjectured ages In a woman’s life—the young, the she asked her husband to promise that
earnest about it. Not like me, any Mills, and hastily removing his coat still young, the well preserved and the he would bury her body near the top of effects of the well known remedy,
S trup of Flos, manufactured by the
how, but fln’ly she laughed and said he dropped It In a powder keg of water, elderly—but a man I know has added the hill, at the very spot where they C
alifornia F io S yrup C o ., illustrate
that if I'd get a fortune she’d marry swatched It about his face, and started to my knowledge a fifth age. It comes used to sit and look out over the won the value of obtaining the liquid laxa
in
somewhere
between
the
still
young
me. So I struck out West.”
derful landscape. He kept the promise tive principles of plants known to be
blindly down the slope.
and the well preserved, I imagine. I and there Is her grave. The only flow medicinally laxative and presenting
“Must be a fine gal,” said Mills.
At the foot of It, held down by a cruel said to him, maliciously:
“Hope it ain't serious. Has she got block, he found Rube, Inert, apparent
ers he could get to plant upon it were them in the form most refreshing to the
and acceptable to the system. It
“How
old
is
Mrs.
Blank?
Is
she
a
any holt on yeh?”
the wild flowers of the prairies and taste
ly lifeless. With a giant effort he al
is the one perfect strengthening laxa
Rube laughed again, “I wish she most hurled the block aside, and tak young woman?”
they are blooming there y et
tive, cleansing the system effectually,
“Not exactly,” he made answer;
had,” was his rejoinder; “but since I ing Rube In his arms staggered, stum
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
came away she hasn’t written. Sue’s bled, crept to the outer air. Ohi the “she’s—well, she’s at the age when a
A n n o y e d b y C o o k 'a H in g in g .
Just tryin’ me, that's what she’s doin’. blessed balm of that air as It touched woman always tells you, when she in
A lady on Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, to overcome habitual constipation per
It’s a way women have. When I go his face. He took one breath, laid his troduces her eldest son to you, that she who was suffering from a severe head manently. Its perfect freedom from
every objectionable quality and sub
back with a pocketful of money she’ll burden down, and fell beside It, prone, was married ridiculously young.”— ache one day last week was annoyed stance, and its acting on the kidneys,
Washington
Post.
be ready. Oh, I know what women motionless. The sun was giving the
by the loud singing of the cook In the liver and bowels, without weakening
are."
kitchen.
Going to the heed of the or irritating them, make it the Ideal
loftiest peak its farewell caress. Be
P io n e e r G re e k L e t t e r Society.
laxative.
John took a Inst stitch in silence, and low a bird was singing a good-night
The first Greek letter society—Phi stairs, she said: “Bridget. I have a
In the process of manufacturing figs
held up the reconstructed shoe. Thus song. The rosy glow passed; the bird Beta Kappa—was originated at Will frightful headache and I do wleh you
used, as they are pleasant to tne
began, between John Mills, miner, and was still; the shadows crept higher. iam and Mary in 1776, and among the would stop singing that song.” “All are
taste, but the medicinal qualities of the
Rube Jackson, boyish, hopeful tramp, But there lay the dead and the stricken. charter members were John Marshall, rolght, mum," was the answer. "Pfat remedy are obtained from senna and
one of the serene friendships which
other aromatic plants, by a method
The Inquest was short, resulting In Chief Justice, and Bushrod Washing song shall 01 sing?”
last until death. Let the limit not be the finding that Reuben Jackson had ton, associate Justice, of the Supreme
known to the C alifornia F ig S yrup
Co. only. In order to get its beneficial
placed even there; perhaps, strength come to his death by a dispensation of Court; Spencer Roane, who was con
S lav ery to F as h io n in C h in a.
effects and to avoid imitations, please
ened and renewed, they last forever.
Providence, “aided and abetted by his sidered the ablest Jurist ever produced
A missionary paper reports that the remember the full name of the Company
During the days the pair worked, own carelessness, for the which, he be in Virginia; John Brown and Stephen opposition to the Natural Foot Society printed on the front of every package.
speaking little. In the evening they ing a boy, we do not blame him.”
T. Mason, Senators from Virginia; and [ In China comes chiefly from tho woin-
FIG SYRUP CO.
read and talked, or Mills brought out
There was a funeral, too, picturesque Wllliam Short, Minister to Spain and en- who are afraid to go against ^ k . CALIFORNIA
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SA N FRANCISCO, OAL.
an ancient fiddle whereupon he dls- and pathetic, where the music was the Holland.
loo.
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