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Show matter is personal with Vou. You will ad mt th.it it is some, h ir.,' "Ut of Die usual f it a mm who itas ridden sixty miles between two suns, and who ex pictstodi tiie same thing agiiu the next day, to go to bed w ithout supper, and tefue breakfast before starting." II-waited a 111. mile fur ti 111 to speak and then c mtinued. "1 am not an over Clasping 1111:1, so 1- am telling vou tor your own good, (hit after yu leave mv house its a giiod ninety nnles befuie I can insuie that you'll get a senate meal, should the notion lake vou to break your fast " Theie was still no reply. and not mmy :neu would Irive had the hard hood to continue toe onesided com eisaiion, hut Mr. Raplev hi. I au idea in his head, and in cm: ling the tiansient guest , lost sight ol pris oual ollenccs and continued ' II J ul: w dl give it a casual thought, you will see that such conduct will lead observant pe iple either to consider you a cumin. d, or else suspect you of having a "bee in your Im in it I". The man in the ch iir dropped li s chin upon his bifast, and placed one hand befote bis eves. "1 knovv,"c in iiuied the laudloid, placing plac-ing his hau l ; ' 1 : other's shoulder in biotheilv way, mat you did not sleep any last night, and I believe Vou ale nei- ' eighteen inches w ide, as though it had ' been opened at the side instead ol the . end Alter Sandy's last quaint remark ' there was ii lively skirmish 'hat ended I hv Sandv being obligtd to pi 1c up the I "hag-sack," "meat" and all, ai.d depart. 1 took tiie children and went back, . fixing everything readv for a stait I ' did not like the looks of the hoise mv I husband had traded lor at all. lie was ! sti ong.that I could see at a glance, but lie i had such along shankv apneaiance, and ! a way of laying Ins eais back rlat i n his i head to look at the wagon, a white i sneak show tig all auund the cob.ud part in his eve; and Irs tail looked, for all the wot Id, like rats had chew ed it. Sam thought as litlle f the horse as 1 : dd; and mutteied to h.nisell as he hitcb-I hitcb-I ed the 1114s and climbed 111IO the vaon. I "It will be the blithest sun we ever see ! rise when we Ret home with this hoise, I and see the end of this journey w ith 110 necks broken." The g'.od-by's were all said, Sam gave t!ie wind, clacked his whip and but that horse just stocd s'ill and locked at us as much as to say "If I don't choose to move what are you going to do about it?" To be continued.,. Before the Advent of Railroads. HV MRS. KLl.KN JAKF.MAN. j Written for die RKi..r.rFR. i (CoNTlN'l'lil),) j "Travelers musl be up and stiriiv; eaily," is an old leainMeis maxim; so making this an excuse. I w oke my husband hus-band and carefully broached mv suspicions sus-picions in ratd to :!;s. man ,u the rouiii oveiheail He appealed to be Isteniiig, but made no reply till he got to tiie door le.idy to go cut; then he mined to me and sa il: "I think I'll trade the liule gray to Hill Jones; he was ovei neie last u:gh: looking look-ing at her, and I could see be wanted her. He ottered me a stronger and a larger horse, and although older and not s j valuable from some other points of view, ttie animal is fresh and the gray is not lit to tiavel another mile. I'm goin over to see ban; and if I don't get back for breakl.ist don't wait tor me, but jusl put everything into ship-shape lor a start when 1 do come back; llu-re'k a good girl;" and without, in the least, noticing Hie (1 Mibts and leats that possessed poss-essed me, or heeding the tragic hints I tntew ou ,he went out and shut ihe do jr. I wonder if men know w hat depths of insulted, mutiiied, heirless anger such conduct may plunge the partner of then joys and srirous into. I ibink the studied contempt, or lofty indifference, exptessed in tich .conduct sometimes, and wiih some teniperments, results tragically; but in 111 ost cases, it lias a more ignoble result. Some v riien will seek another confident, and step oil the dangerous ground of divided lives; while others, too 'conventional for this, will stoop to nag and scold, poisoning the atmosphere of hoitirf as surely as the vapoucf a deadly swamp poison the air me breathe; but there is another and still a larger class of victims of this soit of thing, really noble and asp.r-iug asp.r-iug women, whose sensitive feelings le coil fioni indignities as they would Irom blows; and wrapping the cloak of silence around them, they smother the heavenly heaven-ly impulses of thought through speech, and sink tinder the thoughtless and often uniecognized power of dwarfing and suppression exeicised by husbands over their wives. 1 look the children tin and dressed them in nuody silence, and I did not know whether to go hack to bed anil have a good civ, or to act as if nothing had happened to mar myseienity. The morning was Dright with sun, though all around the hoizon lay dark masses of threatening clouds, piophecies of a slotm ahead, and the atmosphete was thick with ehctricity. I had just made up my mind to civ and relieve tny oveicharged nerves, when I iieaul the stranger descending the stans.A counler-irrilaut counler-irrilaut is often as good as an ant id Ac; so suppiessing the damp and gloomy d'jsire, I made a hasty toilet and w ent into Ihe pailor, hut the gentleman was not there. Just then tiie breakfast beli rang and I went into the dining room expectui to have a chance to sciutiuize the ii.teitstitig stranger, but he was not there. 1 grested my hostess, and. listened paueolly to a locg list of domestic troubles trou-bles that 1 was 11 tinteiested 111, until I got a' chance to euci lire ahuut mv fellow i tuisi. "Don't know nnytninjr about him and don't want to. He don't 1 jok like he had any money." Ha looked to me like a man af war with his conscience, I thought, but aloud I said: "Appear! uces are olien deceitful, deceit-ful, you must icniember, but the bulk ol evidence is in favor of ihe supposition that ihe man 'ias got money. He is well dressed, weais good clothes, rides a line hoise and has it heated like a pr nce." "That's all Hue," she teplied with a very signillicant toss of the head, "but I h ive an instinct tiiat is an unerring guide; and I can always tell whether a person has any money or not." I verily believed it was true, so I did not puisne the subject hi rthei; but waited half expecting be would open the door and walk in to breakfast, but he d;d'nt. When I had finished I Went 111 search of my host. When I found him 1 approached the subject as weaiily as possible, first Sjundiug the spirit and bias ol the man I was talking to, and then, as is common with women, made a plunge. ".'dr. Rapley," I said to my landlord after getting him as interested as I could, "I believe your guest is either guilty of some terrible crime, of which be lies in hourly tear ol being arrested, or else he is mad." To this I added a detailed account ac-count ol the kind ol night he had spent "I'll mighty quick settle the doubt.' he answered, and walked quickly toward the house; for we had been talking in the vegetable garden that ran along the outside ol the hotel building. We entered by the front door, for of course 1 f. Ilowed him, and we both saw the stianger silting on the porch; bis chair tilted back against the wall, his lace pale, his cheeks llabby; but his attire at-tire was neat, and there was not the least tiling in lys appearance that would justify the opinion 1 had fotmed. I followed the landlord in, mentally hoping he was not going to lay the matter mat-ter before his wife, and he was not; but be walked straight to the bureau and put a revolvor in his pocket. This terrified me beyond meastrre, for I felt 1 had set in motion a force I could not control. Why could not I have left this quiet stranger to pursue his journey without my inlerferance? but I could not answer the question. ' ther cra.v nor criminal, but are in trouble; I and if I can help yon, just spit it out." j . The man addressed r se to his feet land laiilv staggeied to a post of the porch, leaned against it and burst into j teats, with bis back tinned towards us. j I I ciied copiously behind the cuitain, i - and I slened w hile he. touched by ths 1 : sympathy of his Ivst, made broken 1 conlession ol bis in ability lo pay for bis; meals, and his tuiwillingntss to ask fav.ns 1 "D ) you think we ate heathens? come in and get your bieakf tst " i He went, and 1 was so delighted : at the tact and kindness manifested by i Mr. Raply that I was piepaied to second j anv thing be might suggest, j Hardly had 1 wiped the traces ol teats 1 j from my eves, when Alls. Raply enteied, tiling hersell into an easy chair and wiped her brow with the corner of her kitchen apron. "If Raplev wants that man waited on he can do it himself," she snapped; its I hard enough for a woman to have to ! slave her life out over a hot cook stove , ! without cooking for tramps, and feeding I beggars; and taking the bread out of I their own children's mouth, lodo it, with," she snapped. j S loud and angry was her voice that i I was afi.i J the 111 111 in the dining room would hear her, so arose and closed the ;door. j "I don't care if he does hear it, I want j him to;" she said louder than ever, her 1 anger raising with eveiy wold; and I was i ashamed that she was a w oman. "1 will g ) and wait on him if you've no ; objection:;'' I said, going towaid the ! dour. I "Sure I don't care what you do," she replied, as she snapped a sunshade: off a nail 011 the wall, and lioiinced out f the door, and out into the stieet. I went stiaight to the dining rocm, to find Mr. Raply and his )uest deep in a ! conversation of which 1 caught enough j to know, that Maikham, for ttiat was his name, was telling all of h,s histuty that i it was pr per lor h s host to know, in j the few biief, culd words ivhich rii'.m use j to tell the deepest soriow. ' .Mr. Raply nodded in my diiection and. I tiien..at iiis guest and mentioned each ol Sour names; and m .tiouiiig me to follow j him, went into t lie kitchen, "I want to ! ask a favor of you; go to work and make j up a good sized package of food, and j build it of such material as contains Ihe I most nittiimciit to the least space, and ! not too laige to go into a saddle bag; and do it b;:loie Julia cis b.cU." Tlit-n he went back to his guest. I did it, and when Mr. Marknam mounted his hoise, felt very much gratified grati-fied to know that he tiad it. He wrung the hand of Mr. Raply and said "I'll not loiget you my fitetid, and if I am successful you w ill hear from me again," and rode away. His destination was Pioche; with care and the rapid r.d ng be would be able to do with so good a hoise under him ! would enable him 10 reach that place . befoie (amine again overtook him. There is a sequel to this story.but I cannot can-not till it here. I have often wondered whom the laugh was on, when 1 fancied so vividly that a man w ho d.d not cat was eitbei a lunatic 01 a criminal. My husband had uotrelurned.aiid it was geitmg lathei late in Ihe day, so I hunted hunt-ed Sam up and asked him what the ptus-pect ptus-pect w as lor getting oil that day. He said "Not much, but guessed we mought as well get ready anyhow,"and proceeded to load and arrange such things as needed it;and,asthe Mother-in-law and Nellie had grown weary of waiting they, came over-to over-to see what was the matter. tVe explained explain-ed and the old lady began to lament. She said she kue.. well enough that if "he'd got to tradni' horses we'd jist sit light thai all day." - She got her knitting, I got a hot k, Sam gieased the wagon and fed the horses hors-es in the stable, and put oats into the-nosesack the-nosesack for the other animal w hen my husband should get back. Nellie cuiled herself up on a sofa and went fast asleep. 1 looked about over the ' group, and thought of the blindness ol humanity, and how Hie deepest tiagedies, and the most ridiculous iaices aie wiought out near us, and we do not know anything about it. Here was this poor Mr. Maikham, and his five act tragedy of loss, disappointment, disappoint-ment, misplaced coulidence, almost resulting re-sulting in dealh by starvation, for he had confessed to having eaten nothing for tiiree days transptr ng heie within the hour, and all these people entirely unconcious ol it. My husband returned shortly.and while he took a hasty lunch, and paid his reckoning, re-ckoning, I sallied out to find the children, who ha 1 gone to play at a neighbor's a few hours before, accompanied by the little daughter of Mr. Rani v. Mr. Rapley started out on to the porch with the m inner of a man "wh o could fiight, and who could kill;" and 1, prompted by what is called the noble impulse of investigation in man., and 111 woman curiosity, softly approached the pallor window, and stood behind the curtains w here I could see and hear all that passed on the poich, soothing my conscience by thinking that since I had undo, the pie, I ought to help eat it, Mr, Rapley approached his strange guest with a rough "Good morning." He opened his eyes, -looked up languidly, and relumed the greeting. There was absolutely nothing either of the startled cunning of the madman, or the savage menace ol a surprised criminal. crimi-nal. "Why don't you come in to breakfast?" said his host, drawing up a chair and speaking with the kindliest manner. He turned his large, dark yes on the landlord, and without so much as the lift a finger, said 111 a tone to repel all futlier attempts at conversation: "Because "Be-cause I did not want to." But "Mine host" was not to be. blufled off. "Perha" i're afiaid to eat for fear we, b- ng Mormons, and much slandered abro. d, will poisou you " "No. 1 ..a 1131 .ut d to assure his host. "Then," said Mr. Rapley still in alow friendly tone, "I must assume that the I saw them at a swing a block awav.and as I entered the yard the lady of the place and her son were having an altercation, alter-cation, and this is it as neaily as lean re member. They were Scotch people; the woman stood in the door, and had just handed her son, who stood outside, a sack with something in it. He took it in to his hand doubtingly, and asked. "And what is it you've gev me for dinner?" "Meat, Saundy, Meat. He attempted to thrust it back into her hand, and said very decidedly: "Mother, and I'll nor ate meat." "Not ate meat!" Sandy, refusing to take the sack, and asking in a tone of derision, "What will ye ate, Sandy?" "Mother, an I'll ate poy;" (pie) in a still more decided tone. "Poy, Sandy, poy? It's very little poy yer father had befote ye". But "Sandv" was not to be convinced even by that clinching argument, and j putting the sack on the step by his moth-I moth-I el's feel, started off with both shoulders elevaled, head bent straight forward, and his hands thiust into botn breeches' pockets. "Sandy", said the guttera! voice of his mother, an ye don' come back an lack it up, I'll ihrow a n.ke at ye". Oi'll not ate meat, and Oi'H not ate any more dinners out Iheauld bag-sack." The sack thus contemptuously spoken ol was about a foot in depth, and some |