The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, December 26, 1890, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextS 1$ 4 1 I .. y'-r jLVirir ye toughs c.fiplcv pine, , W natl.o the Ivy oiinuiun vine, bpriice anil hemlock 10 the scnsa Like the M ni' f aiiMneensi', Bliiiir .vn In (ho holly grveii. Willi the herrl 'a e riot sheen Laurel til for hnVs t row, 1'rasrant box t.ring Mt'er now; All tlmt win tor f s d tliuire In onr Joyous fexst nmv shira, Bi'tipb and Ix'ri x, I. af a 1 vino We wiil utTiT ai His -Inine V ho for us in Into or tl Left Il. vUr- s m:i- i!o r), Left liis h,m. oltllisir irn, And hi i.i-.yktg 1 y- cum down. Bore a !i tie c i..i he Crail-. d in humility. Abide F. Judd. COMING BACK TO ATONE New Year at Bigj Stag Valley. Now year hail come to Big St.i . ailey. It pome with ilavs - of ts ; coM not micnimiioii in the win tors of those Southern mountains. The ajjaswitls were -contwl with snow and ice nl hard for ninles ami oxi'n to travel i.e trails that l(Ht abruptly over the mountain iloclivilie" wem impassible. save ior the aecuslomeil feet of the I. .11 viiest mountaineers. Joel Chcvn l'ie missionary preaeher Brother Chevne. they called him in the vallevs found riinu'iiltr in urging his raw- t-pveii, uoiiericu horse over the stony i-.tx-s ana ttiroiivrii the rockv beds o "-'n' ravines. - - Unt there was dancing at the Widow 'avis , anvl the young men and niaiil-v-i could not le expected to mind such jen.il impediments as the weather . S-w tt their path. Thev had conic ti ten miles and more, flocking from sutes to the settlement. As for 4 ny, she had come from the further eys. driving her ox cart twenty , . es over the fi-oz-n roads. It was : oniy mat Jinny wislieil to par- ,-.paie in me "ianein at Widow 'avis,'" where she felt, with some par- .-uiuaoie vanity, tnai sue was reason .-ly sure of being vthe prettiest girl .':uid the one most in d em a nil bv part ners. But she had not been to Big v s'lag vane3- since sue was small euough pass under her father s outstretched Vm. That worthy had been a person vn sor.ie enterprise tor tbese regions. He had mored to a spot somewhere . more thickly populated, leaving the oid log cabin where Jinny first had r.ied. in childish games with Cyrilly, whose lather, in turn had owned the Ncai.in bard by on the other side of the veek. He was dead now, as was lnnys own father. But where Jinny iaa oeen leu prosperous, with a tnia- ute frame house, having a coat of paint cn the outside and with a inule and a s of oxen and a cornfield or two . oniy me oia grandmother to pro- .e ior, vynuy s ratner naa snnt In- bad ways before his death and sold patch of land, and departed at last, vinw Cyrilly with hard work to lire. iut here Jinny drew np her small id, with its flaxen plaits there were rse things than barely having enough some days to bake "pone." .And io Cyrilly, truly the worst of these 1'iings baa come. THE PiBST PERSO.V WHOM SHE SAW WAS BROTHER CHEY5E. Passing slowly by the closed door of . the cabin near the icebound creek. - rT' tturned her face away from the pon of her childish playmate . riend. just as any one of her fur i - veivet clad sisters would have done oin t.ie sight of an erring fellow ortal. Tne door was closed. As .is hot natural, thought Jinnv. For hen every one from all the country - round was hastening, to the Widow :a is Cyrilly, not' being biddea, must -ide lier countenance. The sun had come out from the vouils when Jinny's ox-cart reached . ". e heart of the settlement and the first - rson whom site saw was Brother eyne, just dismounted from his , asjre horse. Jinnv blushed and The preacher was a voun? -One who stood tall in his stock- - .. . '.and whose blow gould "be as -ful.tispne from a '"blacksmith's i ' - trr arm. He had a strong, irregular . yKce in which the good and the" evil that swayed mankind held combat, liad one eyes to read the lines that character draws on mouth and cheek and brow. But Jinny's eyes were not attuned to meli readings. "She only knew that Brother Cheyne had fallen in the habit if stopping more and more frequently at the small frame house in the farther valley and talking to her in desultory undertones, while the old grandmother " lozed over her corncob pipe and Jinny, .ing j'onng and well-favored, be ":dea be'ing able to bring the husband ;horn she might choose some "stuff" 'tot to be disdained, it was but in the course of things that she should have ome to regard these visits in a certain bt wholly pastoral and other-worldly rht. The more that she was quite mscious that if there were any - hus ind she would be at all liable to lose it would be oneof a pnysiognomy anderfally like that of young Brother tevne. VYou'iins j,ev come to the dancin1, , " srffJinny . springing from the -!-eai 7Tt-lie ox-cart with a coquet ' . - ffect of not seeing the preacher's - '--retched hatid. A knot of 3-oung in store clothes for the occasion . od about the steps of the school use a few feet away closely regard- g the girl, who was fresh and bloom " . g. as though she had not -een jot . r"" ; ug over the conntiy since long before ic rising of the "late Winter sun, nny was conscious of these stares d enjoyed in her harmlessly so : isticated soul the footing of quasi ... piliarity upon which these young l might perceive that she stood with iy3chr. She rather accentuated w.1ippearance of ease, iDdeed, . fiothing of this effect might be y Brother Cheyne's face was set oes strange and new to her to-day, ras she looked more closelv --"-" - er cryiuettishuess droppei1 from hef nd she tossed her he and bit her ip. i r "I 'lowed j--'r no hurt tu ask "J-. , ol !l l'lr d'v slio could not have formy' simple heart Jinnv luirrit door of the Widow widow's son Dick louni . He had liecn witness of thuj -his own hopes. longseMm Jinuv and for some jnison""aT ways frustrated, caused him to say. "I Mow cz the preacher hed no cause ter look at ye that-a-way. Jinny, same cz if ye wuz iloin" somwot sinful, an we 'tins all, loo, a-dancm' in thisyere house. Ef he cay n't abide it, it wer belter fur him ter go farther on an' not stand lhar so solemn like." But Jimmy only answered tartlv: "An" er I wuz yon, Dick Davis. I wouldn't say words about them ca hed more book larnin' an' every other kind v larnin' than what vou 'una and we 'nns hev." Meaniime the man thus loyally be ing defended had tied and fe"d his horse, and now slowly passed down between the dozen clustering houses of the settlement toward the mill and the creek. The mill was now idle. The creek's frosty crust was locked between its boulders aud its overhanging clusters of evergreen laurel and knot ted roots and trunks of pine. The waning afternoon was Crystal still. Be yond the creek a small log cabin showed beyond a bare clump of oaks. Brother Cheyne walked with steady step never pausing. Two years it was since he had last been to Big Stag Valley. Two years since he had crossed the threshold of that cabin. The uowcrs f d-irWne h:d I,mi Ivit. V 1 BROTHER CHEYITS WALKED WITH STRADT STEP. tling in his erring soul all these two years. He who had preached the Word and exhorted men and women and children to follow it. he had been the greatest sinner of all. He had been driven ont into the mountains to wrestle with himself in uraver nivrht after night, but the demon in him would not be conquered: the timidity of hypocrisy, the worldly fear of the man wishing to stand before the hand ful of rough, honest creatures who constituted society for him. unblem- isnea, with proudly lifted head, kept him from the path of righteous retri bution, of lowly, abased, renentent confession. He had sought to stifle the glamor of the inner vices by goin hither and yon, by lingering at the house of Jinnv. by caressine- the thought that, had" things been different, here was a vouns girl who misrht have loved him honestly and with whom he could have lived in peace and plenty all his days. And. under such thoughts. the moral hbre in hurt had been more and more relaxed, and he had grown. though outwardly unehansred. an ever nferior man. But the Dowers of srood had nrevail- ed at last. He had come to Big Stag Valley this year when the ueoDle from all the country round, to whom he had for six years now been nnintermitent ly preachins, would be assembled at the house of the Widow Davis, the richest woman in the settlement, be cause they had so wre vailed. And when he had caught Jinny's iunocent ly provocative elanses iust now and read for the first time their full mean- ng, he had realized how arreat in this direction also had been his fault since he had bv an unloving and unlawful dalliance wermitted false hones to arise in this young girl's heart. "trod be merciful to me. a sinner. murmured the passions of the man at length subdued. He raised his deep eyes, around whose orbits were the igns of a moral struggle, such as few issue victors from, paused at the door of the cabin from which Jinny had tnmed awav her eves an hour before. ithin a few hickory sticks Harnett on the brick hearth. There was but one wooden chair in the cabin, and this was. drawn close to the hearth. A young woman, with eves great and brown and soft as a doe's, sat on the ehair. her lonr. slender hand rl.ned about her knees. At one side of tin- cabin a small square nnglazed aperture admitted such light to the interior as might struggle in when the door was closed. Beyond this window the pre cipitins mountain side closed in the horizon. The evergreen rhododen- ron bushes clunar to its flank. The dark pine stood sharolv in rlif Srafnst patches of snow. At the foot of the mountain the creek's tortuous course lay stagnant and silent. The oink lights that come with the winter sun sets of the mountains mingled with the blue shadows cast by the hollows where the snow lay.. Every now and" then Cyrilly lifted the brown e3"es that were like those of a doe that dies of some mortal hurt, and looked out at the still, cold pict ure framed by the little square window of the cabin. Down by the frozen creek, where the wild azaleas bloomed in yellow and while and purple glory with the days of June, was a tiny grave. At the door there was a stop, anil a hand was on the latch. Joel Cheyne came in, and cowering closed the door behind him. For an instant their averted eyes met. and Cvrilly's clasped bauds closed con vulsively. "Cyrilly,' I have come back to atone as much as oossible." The dancing was at its height. The fiddlers, on the raised platform con structed from several agglomerated wooden tables were warming to their work. The room was crowded, and Widow Davis kept Rick busy brinsriug in more chairs ami benches froiii the neighboring school-house. Rick, good, loutish youth, with a not unhandsome visage of his own and a pair of stalwart mountaineer's shoul ders, would have far liefer kept at Jin ny's side when the latter was not dancing, which, to be sure, was only for a short interval at a time. But Jinny was "powerful square to-night" was the honest Rick's thought. Her pretty face wore an absentlook and the dancing pKared to inspire het with but a moderate pleasu-rc. She had seemed "pert enough" when she first rode np that afternoon, but the life had gone out of her eves. To him. Rick, she was in mm short and indif ferent, and if he couldn't please her, said the young man to himself, with a not wholly ungrounded consciousness of eligibility, who could? He wore stare-clothes on Sundays and holidays; he rarely touched corn-whisk v. and' he was the only child of his mother, who, as has !een said, was the richest wo man in the settlement. V "Look-a-here, Jinny," he began. bul : e . -- -S" I'l .v ..;it)u;;ni, had airiipiir stopped play ing witii now suspeiuievl in the act 1 he other mnsiciaus had paused like wise. Rick, who was tall, pushed forward to iook over the heads of the men blocking the door. The first thing he saw were the powerful shoulders of Brother Joel Cueyne. "MT FRIENDS, I AM HERS TO DO RESTI TUTIOX." And now the blockade at the dooi was dissolving mechanically, each mat moving back as the preacher cam forward, and the cause of the aghast visages was no lonsrer a mystery? foi with white face Uyrillv followed hclc firmly by the baud of Joel Chevue. There was a death-like silence in th room. 'Sly friend.;' said the deep voice o: Brother Cieyne it had a curioush resonant sound as if some chord hac ceased to vibrate in it "my friends, am here to do restitution, so far ai may lie in my power. You see bef on Vou a man who. while he exhorted voo to lives of virtue, was concealing from :he world his own mortal sin. Too ong this woman has been shunned of ill, alone in her shame. Let the one, nitherto unknown, who should have thared the condemnation, bow his neck :o it now in the utmost. " Still no mil! spoke. Each and every $uest of the Widow D.ivis might have been turned to stone. I shall go from nmong von. Mv miuisiry may have done yon more harm than good. I have been a mis erable sinner and a miserable coward. ieiore vo-i. oeiore me week Is over this woman shall be my wife. But I see you now, perhaps, for the last time. No further words I could sav to you would lie of avail. To all I o'nlv say, God Almighty who pardons all those who truly repent be with vou through the coming year and all "the years that follow." He tu rued, and still leading Cvrilly by the hand, passed out under the frosty stars, to a new life, to a life ol still hanler labor, of daily expiation. by good works and the chastening of the heart, of the committed sin. At the V idow Davis' dancing had not been resumed. J he business of the night could not be continued. What had occurred was too unheard . e , . .... . . oi, too nnpreceuenteu. ine olil peo ple woaaeren h mey were dreamiu the young people were white and subdued. to Jinny the greatest change had come. She had trembled at first, but now she had grown very quiet. She saw Rick Davis at her elbow, and hei eyes no longer turned impatiently away irom nis as mey Bad done while before. "S n:3y an' you was good friends long ago. Jinny," ventured Rick, who was a kind hearted fellow, and who wished to say something commiserat ing. "Yes, we'tins was." assented Jinny, softly. Her pretty eyes were moist, A higher- power had touched her; her unconscious soul vibrated to some mysMions. un formulated perceptions oi me great moral world beyond and about her narrow, little, hitherto con- teutedly selfish life. "Yes. We'tins was." tsome note f softness new to hei voice fell on Rick's ear, and his heart beat tnmultuoiisly. "Jinny," he said, his voice thick with that pouuding that appeared to leap np into his throat, "the new veat is a powerful good time fur people e likes each other to think about marrv in'." ot knowing what he was about hail put out his hand. h And Jinnv all her graces gone, and slill very hi; mid gentle and sub dued answered: ;Yes. Rick." What To !. With the Hand. "My dear fellow." said a society woman of great candor to an awk ward, timid young Harvard graduate whom she w'as to present, "you have any amount of talent, you have posi tion, you have money, but you will never be at your ease never "show at your best, until you know what to di with your hands'aud feet. You must lose them, forget them, be unconscious of them." Thjs is easier said than done; and yet it is possible by the ersistent use of a few simple exercises which briu" relaxation ami freedom from stiffness and others which encourage flexibility and strength of muscle. Cultivate the habit of letting the arms fall ami place themselves as they will when standing or sitting without occupation. Learn to swing them, one at a time, back and forth, like a pendulum hanging from the shoulder, the elbow-joint straight anil easy, but not taut. Lift the length of the arm as a weight from The shoulder very quietly and slowly as high as it wiil go, aud bring it down in the same manner. The muscles across the back are wakened to a won derful degree. Try this movement singly, and again with both arms, fifty or a hundred times a day. With th arms hanging at full length, ele vate the shoulders slowly, mid turn them in a rotary motion toward the back. A daily practice of such simpb movements calls one's attention to thn varied actions and use of j .;nt and muscle; the idea of usiug the arm from the shoulder is understood, and tho habit of bringing different sets of mus cles into play in alternation and suc cession becomes second nature. This is the numbering of one's forces, and training them to do each its own part. It is a kind of personal massage, the virtue of which lies in the minute search for weakness. Ilabbiness. and lack of development in the smallest muscle, aitd the daily gentle manipu lation which strengthens it by action. No woi.ian wants that close-knit, sinew and knotty, woody fibre that many men seek to obtain from athletics. Jt is entirely opxsed to the offices or life to which nature calls her; she does want firmness with flexibility, staying power, ami endurance. Emm MoffM Tyng, in Harper's llazar. Artesian wells have developed such an abundant supplj- of water in the desert of Sahara thai French engineers are confident of being able ' to extend their railroad to a distance of a week's journey from Algeria right through the desert. ' " f'.J '."Tifddlo Of hi The merry, merry bolls raugr out upon the frosty morn. They chimed the son that angels lung when Chrltit the lord was horn: "O peueo on earth. Rood will to men." tho ehorus rolled nod died In far reverberations on this blesixxl Chrlgt- musuue. Ol bring- thn holly branches and the boughs v iiiiriieiou And twlno them both together here within the fire-lifrht srlow Forgetuiurall or bitterness, of rankling and pride. Let each tie reconciled to each this gladsome lOlUlABUUU. Vet alt the sweet old old fitoripM tnhl songs be Bung; the dear Thedros of Lire all ltfo'a Dure irold overlaid with what la Let pain and disappointment be ninini RAnetlHeit but chaste- and heart shall answer unto heart this Joyous Christmastime. Lotur, long our silvern-throated bolls shall unto every echo out their chime. Far-reaching waves of promise race and clime. And year shall follow after year until the One who died On Cal vary, shall come to claim bis own at , vui ictuiusuur, ary qar Huntington. A PRAIRIE CHRISTMAS STORK. In a log cabin on Thorn nsnn Creek In Central Kansas, lived a widow named Campbell and her only son Grant. Mrs. Campbell, her husband, two boys Grant and Sherman and daugh ter Katy, aged fourteen, just at the close of the Civil War had moved from Connecticut and, like thousands of others, taken up a Government claim of one hundred and sixty acres in thm "New West." The Indians had not yet been placed on "Reservations," and they were surly, defiant and murderous, ber.iusn of this intrusion by the whites into the country they claimed as their own. For three or four years they made raids on the sparsely-settled "region, butchering and carrying into captivity hundreds of inoffensive "homestead ers." Only a few months after the Camp bells had arrived, built their rude but comfortable cabiu, nnd begun to feel happv in their new and strange sur roundings, the Cheyenues made a raid . i. i. . i. . i - . wnuu-ii inn otate; out. iortunateiy. the Campbells received news of their coming in time to reach Fort Ells worth, thus escaping the furv and Vengeance of the Indians. When the Indians were driveu back the Campbells returned, and remained in a sort of faucicd security on their farm all that winter, adding little by little to their comforts through hard work and economy uutil the next fall, when Mr. Campbell and the boys had harvested their small crops. One beau tiful September morning the father had gone into the meadow of wild- grass witn a couple of neighlwrs to stack the hay cored the day before; Shermau had left home early for. the Tillage, twelve miles away, to make some purchases for the family, while Grant, who was only twelve years old, remained at home to cut wood and help his mother. . . Just before noon. Grant having beeu sent to the field for potatoes, Katy mounted lier little bay pony "Barty ' with her father's dinner, and started for the meadow, two miles away. The meadow was about three hundred yards wide. Hanked on both sides bv a heavy growth of timber. Katy was an expert and dashing young horsewoman. Her pony pos sessed a wonderful amount of endur ance. He was one of that small spe cies bred in Texas on the Rio Grande, famous for their hardy nature and abil ity to make long, wearisome journeys on prairie-grass alone. uhen the happy girl reached the meadow she saw. at its upper end, her father on a stack, and the two neigh bors pitching the freshly-made hav uo to him. She rode up. and had eotten within a couple of hundred yards of where they were, when, to her horror, she saw her father fall head first from the stack, and the neighbor nearest to him also tumble to the ground. At the same instant the report of two rifles rang out. Before she could utter a single cn. ten Indians rushed out of their am bush, all but two mounted. Regaining her dazed senses, but dumb with fear. she turned Barty's head, and fairly flew down the level "bottom" towards her home. She had not been quick enough, however, and in a few mo ments found herself surrounded bv the painted fiends. KATY MOUNTED HER POIfT. Pale with terror, she was led to the hay-stack, where she was compelled to witness one of the red devils wrench off the reeking scalp of her poor dead ratner ana mat ol the. other victim of the brutal murder. How the second neighbor escaped from the meadow the unfortunate child could never tell, her own mental suffering was so awful. To add to her misery, she saw the two Indians who were at first on foot go into the timber and presently emerge mounted, one of them riding the very horse on which her brother Shermau had started for the village that morning! After a short pow-wow, the savages rode off south, forcing the terrified girl to accompany them. And there we will leave her for the preseut, in viting the reader to return with us to the cabin and learu how things were there. Night came on, but, of course, neither Katy, Sherman or Mr. Camp bell arrived. Early the next morning, after Mrs. Campbell and Grant had passed the long, weary hours in horrible mental torture, the neighbor who had some how mysteriously escaped murder in the hay-field came to tell her the dreadful fate of her husband, son and daughter, - which he broke to her as gently as his rough, honest nature per mitted.! The tijext day there was a sad burial esienal Gtu tit. he was, suddenly I were, so laithlully .'e do the dut v the and earnestly did care of to the mother. tuo farm demanded, mid cater every want of his widowed The afternoon of the twenty-fourth of December canio, three mouths and a half since the dreadful tragedy that had made the once happy home deso late; and Mrs. Campbell was deplor ing the fact that she had no turkey for Grant wished he could gratify her, but he had no turkey and no gun. Just before sundown, as was his wont. no mounted tils horse and went out after the cows. As he was rldinc slowly along, his animal stumbled In to an abandoned coyote hole, throwing u : ... i ti i . ... . . mm nuuuiong out without Hurting iiiu iuiu me tan --oiue-stem ' with which the prairie was covered. Sirnnr as it may appear, he fell right on top of an immense wild turkey hiding in mo grass; nis nanus Instinctively ciutcueu u wneu no tumbled, to save himself. With great presence of mind and delight he clung to it. rose, drew his jack-knife, cut off Its head and tied tt behind his saddle, mounted, hurried alter the cows, brought them home, sunt them in the corral, and then rushed Into the house to his mother anil showed her his prize. a ne sun had not fairly risen next morning before mother and son were both up. trrant picked the turkey, and Mil. Campbell cooked it. By noon everything was ready, and just as Mrs. Campbell was going to place the turkey on the table, old Cyrus, the dog. who was lying in the buaue oi one oi tne Dig trees, suddenly sji up a juosi terrioie barking, which. oi course, caused both Grant and bis mother to go to the door, as Cyrus never niaue any iuss unless some one was coming. Imagine their surprise to see coming up me trail mrougti tne woods a mis erably thin-looking horse, on which sat a young woman, hatless. bare footed, her dress a mass of raffs. Mrs. Campbell stood with dish-cloth in hand, watching the strange appari- nun as 11 siow iv approached, wonder- jag who 11 couiu ue. wniie tirant was equally puzzled. Presently, as the visitor drew nearer, she cried out: . m . . 1 ., ... 1 11, - j -iuomer. on. motner. don t von uow iuer At the sound of her child's voice which a mother never fortrets Mrs. Campbell dropped her dish-cloth, fainted awav, and would have fallen MOTHER, OH, MOTHRR. DON'T TOD KX0W upon the ground if Grant had not caught her in his arms. Katy jumped irom her horse and rushed to the assistance of her mother, who soon recovered from her shock, and then there was a scene of uuspeak able joy. i They went into the house, while poor "Barty" was led to his old. famil iar quarters, and they all sat down to a dinner that was truly a feast of joy and of thanksgiving, for one of the lost was found." During the happy meal Katy told the story of her escape from the sav ages. Immediately after her capture she was hurried south as rspidlv th horse could go for five days ami niffhts. until she arrived at the Cheyenne camp on the Washita, beyond the Canadian River. Here, to "her sur prise, she was treatc! kindly, and placed in charge of some old -quaws, but nearly frightened to death, because she expected some horrible fate. But she was safe, for the Indians antici pated a large sum from the Govern ment for her surrender unharmed. She was watched very closely for weeks, uutil she appeared to become resigned to her position. Then they .. : 1 i. 1 . 1 relaxed their vigilance somewhat, nnd that was what the sensible girl was waiting for. as she had determined to attempt an escape, feigning coutent meut, though her meutal torture was almost unbearable. Katy had been an excellent scholar in the public M-lmols at her old home in the East. and. when s e arrived in Kansas, became an earnest Mmlent of Nature. She km- something of as tronomy, and a- perfectly familiar with the flora of l. r new home; she discovered, iudepemlc 11 ly of text books, that the "rosin-weed." which grows all over tho great plains of the West, always turns the edges of its broad leaves to the north aud south, their surfaces coinciding with the line of -the magnetic meridian, hence termed the compass or pilot-plant, and she used her knowledge to advantage, or she would never have found her way home across the trackless prairies, three hundred aud seventy miles away! One dark night, having taken her beariugs during the day-time for more than a week by the compass-plant, and now having the North Star for her guide, Katy carefully crept out while all the savages were sound asleep. She stood for a moment perfectly quiet. Not a sound disturbed the stillness. The dogs never uttered a growl; she had taken particular pains to cultivate their friendship. and they merely gath- OjSUc-.- 5pt TYING BARTT'S LARIAT TO A ROCK. ered around her in little groups, wagged their tails and then retired to their holes. She carefully picked up her saddle and bridle and walked cautiously towards the herd of ponies picketed beyond the creek. c.i.-tl in, which time fort' the dutiful sonr became a man, ( - -- 4 ..uffalo nnd ': -":'i"iie had hidden . . li ,. he ..0111 (nil to lime for this jour- then called "Baity" in a low voice. lie came trott inir m to her. so Pfiicci wa his nfiection for her. ami was just about fainting her with a welcoming neigh, when she dexter ously caught him by the nostrils, and, pressing them lightly, suppressed it. It would have ra sed the whole camp! Quickly putting on the saddle mid bridle and lying the iidget" behind, she wound the picket rope around his neck, and mounted, turning his head to the north. In a few moment' Barty struck a narrow trail leading in that direction, and commenced his easy IOM'. Katy could hear her own heart beat, so terrible was her excitement as she rode on in the awful solitude, every few moments looking behind te see if she was pursued. But on ami on she went, not a souud breaking the silence except the hoofs of her faithful ponv striking the hard trail. Daylight had not vet come when she reached the Canadian, thirty miles from the camp on the Washita, where she watered Barty. bathed her feverish head, and swallowed a few motitbfuls herself. Bv the time the sun was up she had made fifteen more miles, ami had en tered the broken country beyond the Canadian; here she knew that her pony must rest and graze. She turned off (he trail into a small canon w he 1-0 there was plenty of grass, aud where luckily she discovered a spring. Tying Barty's lariat to a irood-aized rock, she sat tlown on the grass near the S lrinr. ate some of hi.i- i.m.i ..,.,1 drank some of the water: then ir...l nature asserting itself, the excited and worn-out child fell asleep. When she awoke the sun Imd tho sky was overcast, and B.irtr no standing over her. Th hotvli.l... ,..l .i.ci uiuuiiu ner wimiv ior a mo ment before she could realiV.e hr siin. auou. and then, looking at the heav- ens- S:lw. 'o ber great sorrow, that she could not proceed, as her guiding-star was not visioie. A . I . I . 1 1 . . L iii.-n. auuui uaviiirnL. sue nn the Hillside several coyotes skulking along, nnd. not familiar with the cow ardly brutes, their presence greatly ui.ii iiiv.il hit. 00 sue uurrieulv ate a few mouthful, saddled her pour and rode back to the "divide" she ld left the day before. When she reached me trail she examined one of ih compass-plants" growing there nd lounu, to lier delight, that the trail. which broadened out at that point, ran in imh uireciion sue wanted to rn nnd she loped out on it at a iive-miles-an- nour gait. coining disturbed t ie mnnnlnnr of iici iiiiiiiiev out her own i.iim until iust auout dark, she arrived at the Beaver or iorth iork of the Canadian, eighty miles from where she had started. Here she rested until mill. night. Arter a good rest and i t . . . r ol, minion on iier inneir wir fiiMin tier dress now began to tear in rib- a . J J Dons. she had worn it so long, and she lost her hat before morninjr. not darintr to stop to look for it. two more tlnvs of travel brought her to the Atkansas. Bv that 1 im she presented a sorrv picture, and the faithful Biity. too. commenced tn show the effects of his har j work. She met on the Old Santa Fe Trail," whii;h ran close to the river tieri caravan" goinir to Mexico who L-in.l. ly fed -her and showed her the wav to Thompson Creek, only thirty-five miles away, where she arrived thn nii noou. iii lime to eat her shnre of th Christmas tnrkev. havin? made her terrible journey in live days! Ilenry In '!. WHY THE YOUNG NUN SMILED, Also tviiy the Tuna Woman ad Her Escort Left the Train. A gentleman riding on an elevated train in compauv with a handsome and fashionable young lady became much annoyed at the persistently offensive manner with which an ornamental young man opposite stared at his com panion, lne fellow tixed her with his eyes and his face was an expression of vulgar enjoyment which amounted al- most to grinning amusement. In vain 1 - 1 . , . , urn me gentleman scowl across the car at the insulting person. The latter did not notice the former's rage, having no interest in any oee but the cirL Finally matters were brought to a crisis by the young man, who. when tne young woman chaticed to turn her gaze in his direction, smiled deliberate ly at her and made a sign to her. This was too much for the seutleman to iiear, so he rose in his wrath, and. making oue step across the car, leaned over and muttered into the vouusr man's ear: "IP you don't stop I will throw yon from the train at the next station." The young man looked back into the infuriated eyes of the geutlemau with the most astounding placidity, aud re marked quietly: 'Suppose you ask the young lady to look out for her laundry' The gentleman turned and looked at the girl. On her lap was a bundle, the paptr of which had burst. Down at her feet reposed a crumpled stocking aud from the orifice caused Ity the broken paper projected the edge of tin unmistakable garment. Greatly taken back, the gentleman returned to his se: anil deMy picked the stocking from the floor, at the same time graso iug the bundle on the girl's lap. pre sumably with the intention of biding with as little awkwardness as possible tho telltale garment that was obtrud ing itself. Ho would better have left it alone, however, for as he clutched at the paper it burst entirely, and a pretty girl's laundry was outspread to the view of a car full of am ised see tators. The gentleman, now thorough ly uncomfortable, ha-dily jammed (lie clothing under his overcoat aud made the girl leave the train with him at the next station. A". I'. Sun. A Bold Project. The bold project of a ship railway to connect the waters of Lake Huron with those of Lake Ontario is now being agitated, in lieu of the long proposed I ship canal. The distance between these two great lakes is only sixty- seven miles by l he proposed route from Georgian bay to the mouth of the Hum our river, west of loronto, and it has been figured that 11 railway, with three tracks of the standard gauge, but with rails weighing from 100 to 110 pounds per yard could be built for $12,000,000. or about half l he cost of a ship canal of the same capacity. Tho land along the route reaches "a height of 664 feet above Lake Huron, so that there would be some very heavy grades or else some tremendously expensive work necessary. Tha proposed route, it is said, would save 4L'S miles of lake navigation and twenty-eight miles of canal between Chicago ami Montreal and would en able a propeller lo reach Montreal from Quebec in less time than it can reach Buffalo. The ex meted saving of three days in the time between Chicago and the seaboard is certainly a consideration which would warrant a large expendi ture if the project is feasible from an engineering standpoint. Railway Age, A PHI la Uo girl has ehai .-x of the Nashua. N. 11.. telegraph orjcel Soma Rtnuk- eadly Kncoau tera. The riata fc(U'l is not a new thing on the Mexican frontier. Indeed, there is hardly a big cattle range anywhere that has not lis stories of hard fights with the lasso. Such duels ate bound to be fierce. But so skillful and quick do these rope throwers become that such a duel not infrequently lasts for hours. Probably the best remembered fight of this sort was that between a Texan known as Kid Long and a lit tle Mexican who was only spoken of as "Gabilan" (hawk) on the great Lie vre range. They circled around each other, dodging the rapid throws, from 10 in the morning until after sutiset. When the horses had almost given out the Aexan threw at his adversary, who threw back so that his noose "passed over the other man a lasso and hand and caught him fair around the neck and under the armpit. In almost no time the Kid was out of the saddle and being dragged over the ground at a rate that knocked the life out of -him before he had gone a hundred yards. . The West, diirinir its wild and wool. ly days, and the Mexican frontier have had many remarkable duels. That between "Farmer" Peel and a soldier, near one of the forts in Utah, is anions the classics of the field of honor or what has answered for that in the cow towns and mining camp. The weapons were nnes, revolvers, and bowie- knives, the principals were placed on opposite sines or a Hillock, around which ran a road, and started to meet. X he curve of the lull prevented their seeing one another until thev were wiiuin a nunureu varus. As soon as . . . they saw one another they both fired. iflougn part or me rim of feel s hat was cut off and the soldier's sleeve was pierced, neither was hurt. Then thev 11 ft .1 . 1 . . J puueu tneir pistois ana advanced hriuv, Both dropped badly wounded when less thar. twenty yards separated them, They lay there squirming and shoot ing until both bad emptied their I weapons. Peel was desperately hurt. and his adversary had one ball through the stomach and several others dis tributed all over his anatomy. When they could shoot no more they lay for a snort time swearing, lhen feeL who was so badly hurt that he could not advance even on his hands and knees, began to wriggle toward the fallen soldier. He pulled himself along with his elbows, and with his one uninjured hand finished the sol dier with his bowie-knife. Farmer Peel already had the biggest private lavcjA&va ui aujr luau IU tuts TICinilV. This encounter spread his fame all over the coast, and when he went over to Nevada he receired everywhere the homage of lesser lights. They have lots of deadly encounters up there on the Comstock. There was one a number of years ago fought over a half mile under ground. According to the evidence given at the inquest by the survivor, the two miners were working alone in a drift. They were rivais ior me anection or a woman. and id a quarrel one made a drive at the other with his caudlestick. A miner's candlestick consists of a metal socket attached to a sharp steel spike, so that it can be stuck in the face of the drift anywhere. The second miner defended himself with his candlestick. and there, thousands of feet under the ground, they wrestled and stabbed un til one's life was gone. As thev did not come np hen they should have gone off shift others went down in search of them. Ihey found one deatl and the other unconscious from loss of blood. i he jury, of course, had to take the survivor's story of the affair and he was acquitted. A little blind canon in the Sierra Atadre used to furnish the Apaches with the means of formally settling their disputes. This gulch is fairly alive with rattlesnakes. When two bucks had a quarrel that they did not wish to settle off baud thev repaired to this gully, and while the remainder of the tribe stood around and watched from the hills od either side, the com batants went together to where the serpents were the thickest There, stark naked and weaponless, thev would wrestle. This would wake no every rattler in the elen. The aim of each was to force the other on to the angry snakes. It was not unusual for both to be bitten while thev strnvvried and rolled among the rocks. Each was bound to remain aud wrestle as long as his adversary had life or strength enough to struggle with him. A most remarkable duel was fought at Las Carnitas, N. M., many years ago. An undersized stranger came tff the town and picked a auarrel with Handsome Harry." a ffamhler re nowned as a dead "shot- Thev got out into the road and both fell" mortallv wounded. It was discovered that the strauger was a woman.anrt thonodi she never spoke after. she fell the storv be came known that she was a sister of a girl whom "Handsome Harry" had wronged years before. San Fran cisco .xaminer. H re at LtlacK Cock it too. In the islands of the Malar Archi pelago is foil. -id the great black cocka too, whose sivt-eial food is the kernel of the kanari ird. and the shell of which is said to be harder than that of any other nut. and to protect a kernel of most delicate flavor. The kanari tree grows to a great height and bears a fleshy fruit which iucloses an extreme ly hard shell of glass-like smoothness of surface. Within this shell are from one to three kernels covered with a thin skin; when this is removed the nut falls into a number of irregular flakes of snowy whiteness and delicious taste. The fleshy part of the kanari fruit is eaten by many birds, particularly by the large wood-pigeons, but oly the black cockatoo is able to get at the nut, which it does bv the great strength of its immense, sharply pointed and hooked beak. Taking a nut end-wise a its bill ami keening it firm by a pressure of the horny eud of its tongue, the cockatoo cuts a notch across the shell by a sawing motion of the sharp edge of the lower part of the beak. This done, the bird takes hold of the nut with one foot while biting off a piece of a thick leaf. This it wraps , V UMS V- l'"8 ,,M 8 heH froln s,,lJnS- w'"'8, it uses .the uWcrt l'nrt oS ,l l,-':k to hold, the mit "Qtl fh" ,,u",e,r ,art, to ,?ert ln. iroiiml the nut to prevent the glassy notch already made and wrench off a piece of the shell by a powerful nip. Again taking the nut in its claw the bird inserts the very long and sharp point of its bill into the hole just made and picks out the kernel, which is seizeil Hake by flake by tho horny end of the long and flexible tongue. More time is required to tell about this nut cracking than the bird takes to per form the ocration, for the cockatoo is a very rapid feeder and will consume a great maiiv nuts in an hour. A Forest Giant. Among a boom of logs at Leamy & Kyle's mill, at False Creek. Vaucouver, is a tree cut iuto four 24-foot logs taken from one tree, which is oneof the larg est specimens of tiie Douglas fir that has ever been cut in this province, whose record for giants of the forest is world-wide. These four logs were respectively 84 inches. 76 inches. 70 inches and 60 inches, and in none of them was there a knot or other defect. The total number of feet of lumber that can be cut out of this tree is 28.-614. riglitlng TOIIP the Ulata IwwBt . .: ccptly ;iu Wan Bui'ilr. -tain J. V. 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