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Show 1 t; TEE ta$ Thv for you Know, the 1:k Tne make ,!C,you lowly pupi's. Wdi tv, wants to give her a , i, on during the we- k and thought perhaps coming The dear girl has you woii.ff on your u.nng so quite and the ff.i- - t Of tce-Ch.n- Ptt- 'Ut to , tell of ,.rtVm i i'l er e FlEl of nouE. C far-of- grand they iiohi md light my breath waffs. where eta. rJre anJ uIJ- - '" it i" I anils fall down, titter rlims. f falls corno Ia- th"'ranIroam. I - U t course. know, to spin and sew, re home. Vo! le I hear of noble deeds, a words that move mankind: rwil'ine hand that to other lands light to the poor and blind; cannot write, i .remit preach. the foam, I leaf to cross a I o. will spin and sew, . ind lsht he tire at home. f ; said Jap, dv But the colonels continued: husband comes, as the shadows fall, lcrom the fiehls it h my girl and boy, brings with it bliss F. loving kiss That hath no base alloy. meadow, fresh and TB the brown, of the scent loam; I catch the , Hcait, do not fret, 'tis something yet home. tire at the To light George Worster. d Colonels Widow, y. York Mercury. , says 1, tvell go up and call colonels widow. She must be wed settled by this time. Thecoionel's widow had taken the we-- Jap and the top flat and Jap, by the tne just underneath. vav, is all the faniily I have. Jap is jap, s tuoni da.vswhj io. the I-- ItT. cts of had e very extensive specimen of loveliness, but Jap is the staunchest and most loyal of humanity, I s of was about to say. Nevermind, Jap tbe sot; more human than a ra just t isageoddeal animals o( ut toit jreat many is Jap a Japanese and tfr r.y acquaintance. n its hea, jug as to nationality, long haired, Knows d by ft. Hack and white and loving. hanl lr a pretty woman when he sees her, will with a hypocrite 'tying ft, cot make friends ommaat .and has never met a policeman, not a ohkey e ial ia u ca-tn- til two-foote- took Jap under my arm and sse for made sure of having my latch-key- , it isnt very pleasant being tricked by is a spring lock on the door of your own apartment, as I have been once or ilk Of,; twice, and having to go through some and mount the lower floors kitchen isteaed to your own back window. v is tie: Then Jip and I climbed the highest n?ari flight of stairs and rang the gong bell ar. of the colonel's widows outer door. IVe had to wait some little time for as we stood there we and admission, il has could not avoid, honorable as wo always intend to be, Jap and 1, overhearing a hasty and fretful conversatit is u ion that was occurring within. Posswalk i the colonels widow and her ibly e daughter for she had a daughter had k wire forgotten the open transom above the door. is kt Youll have to go, Celia, said the e act.it widow. I can't get my dress buttwaik.'y tice st j go I th- become L of ti- motive ff b- eta j, form-i- t very aeh oned. "I cant go, tie petition i up . bell, rank of shoot ed a with lone by .1 then n the uonkey it soon d will isness. nd are indits time it the I and mother; my hair is all don't want to take it 1 down. I never saw the like. never will do anything I Celia. You ask you. I dont see who it can be, anyway, unless the hall boy with letters. It isnt time for the postman. Ten to one it's that woman downstairs with the dog old Oil, that horrid little dried-u- p maid? Now this wasn't very pleasant, but we couldn't very well retreat, we callers, even alter hearing such a verdict Jap looked up at me winked roguishly, as if to say: it isnt your fault, is it, dearie, that you're an old maid? Besides, as the colonels widow had taken the initiative in the matter of our cecoming acquainted, I did not feel so bad. and I had boiled her Jap tea kettle for her the day she moved in and loaned her our best r and taken charge of her music box and taken her groceries off the dumb waiter when si le couldn't get her own slide open and rung our messenger call half a dozen times in her interest pronounced. and step-ladde- Tve ertise and doing Just then the door opened and the stood revealed, smiling and idoyv with eight it tf fitted hire I rom bag ieis ate ary lien rles ver Ihs me positively delightful. Why, my dear Miss Dana! It Id only known it was you you shouldnt have been kept, waitingso. Come right in. Oh, how is little Jap? The cunning little creature! Walk right into the parlor. I wa3 dressing positively had nothing but a bath robe and poor girl, lias such a headache, she's just tying up her forehead in a towel, you know. of dissent, Jap gave a low hut he is a very grumble dog, and mannerly when I bade him sit at my side quietly he obeyed without ft murmur; only once in a while he would look up and wink at me, as if to say: Pardon the "Vernacular, but do request her mildly to come off. I think Jap was always a little prejudiced against the lady ever since the Ce-h- a, day I had first read aloud for his consideration from a very neat visiting . ard, Mrs. Colonel Archibald For-tescue- The widow was very tall and equally plump. She had a massive figure and a good-sizeface, surmounted by a crown of smoke-white hair. But she carried herself very gracefully, nuch more so than Miss Celia, a fiery blonde, who was thin and d ot stoop-ahotfidere- d. a wav of sitting and made a great many gestures. She talked with her hands ell as her mouth. You are just the one I wanted to ee, she said, with a glow of manner hat presaged an axe to grind. wow! said Jap increduously, re membering, perhaps, what we bad leivd before we were admitted. ."a18 dear little creature! Paid the Jfidow, how knowing he is. Yes, Miss I was i'ala down to see you, ad you notcoming come up. I am very Bxious to interest you in a little Shari tabls project that is quite engros-BP- j us at present. . Celia bas a class --JP10 widow had Tery erect IT C.XM1T !. 1ST F0KEVE2. I'v d.d not d.ne together 1. It was long past dark when Paul returned. Yens' lie sai l, that girl Great must be a: bones. I never knew any one o heavy and yet so thin. Paul, I eii severely. Y y , aunt, she diaggel me away off lip past the reservoir, then she had to stumble ami sprain he- - ankle. I iien she had to sit down an l be comforted. Jove, wb.it a time I bad getting her home. I m as hungry as a Imwk. But. the poor thing, I suppose she did hurt herself awfully. Had to carry her upstairs. Must benll bones. .I saved your dinner, my dear, I said more affectionately then. I'll go up presently and see what Cecil is doing lor tlie sprain. Did she faint? N no, I dont think so. T left Paul playing with Jap. And Jap gave me a wizked wink as I went out and ran lightly upstairs in my slippers. I didn't ring the bell at once, for I heard the widow and her daughter talking rather excitedly. You needn't scold any more, mother! cried Celia. I did all I could, and I don.t care what you Bay, Im ashamed of myself. I'll never play such a part again. What does he care T widow smi'n 'J p big-eye- red-haire- d Y. Atv It i e shall either go up the Hu Don r to the park. There an- . a s cla?-- and we three willtwelve niak 1 thin it the be the better place. Dos; pur accompany us." I looked at Jap and he seemed to t lauglmig quietly, so I answered that we would be quite pleased to go along and aid in entertaining Miss kelia a Celestial disciples. Thecoionels widow tilted her smoke-whit- e crown archly on one si le and clapped her hands. How very charnimg- By the way, do you make good caite, Miss Dana? Cake is s0 much nicer home made. The ice cream and otner things are easily houdit ana won t cost so much divided between the three of us. Some nice biscuits would be acceptable as well. Lould you furnish two dozen? Butter- ed, of course M for me? Ahem! I said, 'J lien the widow Y'oure sharply; certainly; anything an ungrateful creature, and if you sure. How very charming! I told Celia I never get married, I shant exert myknew you would come to the rescue self any more. It was your own sugto hurt your foot That dear little Miss Dana I said, I gestion I was only in fun, bobbed Celia. know her heart is as large and as "And I only helped you by sitting warm as as As her range oven, I suggested in- on the grass I. our after hour to keep that horrid little old maid from wonnocently. The widow regarded me keenly for dering where her lovely nephew was sitting there tiU I caught my death cf an instant, then laughed aloud. But what do you cold, thats all. droll Oh, you thing! What an idea! Ill die and then youll get all But such a relief! And how have you care. been since we last saw you; well, I the 1pension money dont care; youro always finding hope? fault because I dont get married. Id Im never ill, I said conscientious- like if I can go out on the And I have some news for you. streetto know ly. and a husband off a lamppick My nephew Paul is coming to visit ms post. Once for all, Paul Dana doesnt very shortly. Miss Celia spoke of care a straw for me, nor me for him, meeting him last Summer at Asbury and I wont scheme to marry his or Long Branch or somewhere. Hes money very rich and very proud, but never Will you hush, then, you too proud or rich to visit his little cirl? I might have known that dried-uold maid of an aunt. fop and his wizened old widow The looked a trifle flurried aunt with lazy wretched dog Ill throw her for an instant. that dog downstairs next time I catch He must be a charming fellow, it she said. Celia liked him so much. This was quite enough. What she stood to and began Jap yawn, lip of myself I cared not a pm, which I always take as a signal that thought when she abused Paul vexed me, but he is tired. So I made haste and when she threatened itto injure poor, abridged the visit. innocent little Jap, I drew the line. Next morning Miss Celia brought Shortly I crept downstairs again down a list of what I must take to and into my own apartment. the picnic. d Paul, says I. "never trust a Two dozed buscuit, Jap, said I. woman or at least, never We mustnt forget. One chocolate trust her mother. You are not in love cake, one jelly cake, some preserves. with Celia Fortescue, I hope? Paul jumped. Oh, well, its all right. Paul will be here and it may amuse him. Heaven forbid! Thats all right, I said. And then Paul, my nephew, is just thedearest boy in all the world. He's more than I gave Jap an extra dish of milk, poor twenty-one- , innocent! but a boy for all that and such a boy! I never saw a Paul Crime and Punishment. yet that wasn't handsome, and grand, and glorious of nature. Well, well, I am not sure but that we punish dried-uIm an old Im Pauls aunt. Paul arrived the day before the pic- too much, remarked W. Alexander nic and said, when I told him of it, Johnson, of the state that it really would he a jolly lark, board of secretarywhile talking; to charities, and he'd like to contribute something. But I couldnt think of anything more. a reporter about prison nuthods. he said, wrinkCelia Fortescue, Bishop P.obertson, of Missouri, in ling his forehead and trying to re- a speech once described justice as member. Oh, yes, I have it. Tall, thin lighthouse, ell, Aunt Polly? and like a pair of huge iron jaws that he began to laugh. opened and closed with mechanical But w hen we all set out for the park regularity. Nearly every fnan at the following morning he was demure some time in his lile does something enough for any one. We formed our that brings him within reach of those little procession in solemn silence, but it happens with many that Miss Celia leading with iny nephew jaws; when they are opening and and her mother and myseif bringing it is notwhile others less fortunate, closing, almond-eyethe of in the rear up are caught. He no but moreguilty, meek and lowly. of justice People regarded U3 with interest on illustrated the inequalities the street car and seemed to under- by a parable, taking two boys who were truants, and went to a farmers stand and smile approval. My nephew proved himself of great orchard to steal apples. One of the assistance when we had rtached the boys was caught while the other ran park. It always needs a man to away and escaped. The one who arrange and conduct such an affair. was caught was turned over to a The disciples ranged themselves in a constable and placed in jail, where row on the grass and saeg the Sweet he was thrown among criminals long Bye and Bye and kindred melodies, to fall under the influence of until the widows eyes were suffused enough his evil association. YYhen released was when lunch the with tears. And he was much worse than when ara thing of the past, she sat talking to rested, and he got deeper and deeper me in serious undertone, while her into crime. The other boy, with daughter and mv nephew took a stroll whom he had gone out to steal apat former of their meeting to speak ples. remained in school, was looked Asbury. to when I came upon as respectable, acquired an Indeed, the widow, think of it afterwards, was very much education, became a lawyer, and concerned about entertaining. iffie finally became a judge. Twenty-fiv- e bad such countless anecdotes to reyears after the apple late of her dear husband, the colonel. stealing the boy who ran and esCel;a was so like him, such a lovely caped punishment was the judge who nature! I couldnt imagine how al- sentenced to death the boy who had tered their circumstances were since been caught, ami whose punishment his death. Formerly they lived m had started him in a career of hard to do without crime. luxury. It wasYou Indianapolis News. you can t imagthings now. feeine, the lady said, how ones When I contrast the past lings suffer. Slie Thought They Were Snakes. with the now, it it hurts me here, if to as One of our townsmen relates that and she made little motions chuck herself under the chin and be- a friend of his, while stopping at the low the ribs. said. seashore, caught a number of very Heartache, you know, she we used fine eels, and thought, it would be Miss Dana, dear my Why, of to have the richest and proudest nice if they could be brought home. the land for our associates. There It was difficult to find just the best was Mrs. General Foster, you know, exmeans of transportation, but an old and the story became, through cessive supplement and ramifications, oil cloth covered hand bag was proan interminable one. The afternoon cured, and the eels placed in it. The had worn away and the China boys They man boarded the train, and placed had even tired of baseball. with a the one one, by came sidling up, carpet bag under the seat, and What shall we do with ourselvesthe tliouirht nothing more of it until sometime alter the trainhad started, expression that finally attracted . a woman who sat widows attention. is really when suddenly in front of him Dear me! she said, seats four about You thought it tlie on seat, drawing up quite late. I hadnt dear up Miss Dana. jumped are so entertaining, and yelled Snakes: The her Perskirts, Celia have gone? can Whv. where and saw one tell the young men man looked that way. of his eels slow ly wrighaps I had better tlie of themselves largest tl,ev can go home byand the there pupil pic- n gling across the car, and. nscommoI agreed with her time a general brignt-enithis bv with news was the received nickers tion throughout the car. he picked countenance. and and, remarkingtbnt pail Take the up the grip-ar- k. you, paid lie didnot care to stay in a car and dishes with me! Mhere where the conductor allowed snakes the good lady. .Dear so imprudent of to run about the floor," made his canCehabe? It Do her. It is nearly seven o cloth. for wav to the smoker, and has never use waiting any heard vet whether the snake was youtbinkitis Amerithem, dear M:ssDana. caught or not. Waterbury m I said, perhaps not. I No, can. take care sure Paul is old enciHi tQ onier enusei an pnrirely new and horrific torture, in all my experience un- V tt r'e ymirii tor mij. u y ir live t.-- f !:: W dJ-- o: li.r kn Atu il yiiur jin d w .i v -un iv ue-p.- ur hor, Ju-- it ui. .oi lnt Ur tM whn yoYr isnrioi t try l' .u i .1. itv tv ani ajiravati ur uuii'i.on d.nlv :i e, ; !.r i I Mi li t is Lir . n Hilary w ar.s are r :..it you ran v.invK And e Ulnjr An 1 ou u tui-- t.a it T1 Cl ) 1 1 uji, Irotla r. orda atv like a knife 11 m knot?. t i w knot t ';n h tung'e tuth, forever. sranjhien out cannt It Or disinter a cvi lone sweep your skr. with tiieehopk. helpp-Iene.iUi the wreck voil In. Romenjlvr that no erorin com.a Hut hu u tlearimt d iy: The darkest nijjht a morning, An end the longest way. Then take those words to cheer you, Vou li find them like t lever Tornt your sinkings irite up, And 9? unn.i and "It cannot last lorever. Lilia M. Alexander. Till! OPJJKATING TAli Lib A known, undreame i of. unbelievable. J shut my lips and teeth. 1 wont, ij Ohl oh a won't. I said, but 1 h: : It louder and louder, tint il it grew iuG a yell. It was quite involuntary. I: life ami all earthly delights had wait d upon silence, and grim death and upon a murmur, it would hive been the same. 1 had at last readied the limit of endurance. As they drew my arm now this way nr.d now that, it was as though they drew from every part of my body the whole of nerves in a fibrous system ma-s.aall my life and my soul rushed out of my bps in a horrible cry. Then came chloroform, which at first strangled me, and I tried to put it a wav. I doubted whether I should survive tlie operation, as I knew Iliad lost a great deal of blood, but I was not very particular about it. Presently a ringing noise and something like the roll of a drum was in my ears. Before my eyes were a stream of flashes and a i all which turned rapidly from the centre outward, bursting in fiery points at the surface. Brighter and brighter it crew uutil I was enveloped in a cold, white light, and I seemed to be borne out from myself in some way, and diffused in space. I was conscious still, and felt them working at my arm, but it did not seem a matter in which I had any special concern. 1 think there really was pain, but it was not localized. The person lying on the table did not seem to be myself, and I seemed to feel the pain as I would that of another person, by sympathy only. As I was surrrendering the lost poor remnants of consciousness I was impressed with the idea that it was death, and although I no longer cared, I was curious to know what the next scene would be like, if there wasanytliing to follow. At last came blank forgetfulness, but apparently only for an instant. I sat up suddenly and looked around. Mv arm was "one and t h i iturnp nicely bandaged. The pam was gone also. Of course there was great sensitiveness for a long time, but, so far as acute pain is concerned I have hundreds of times since, upon the approach of a storm, suffered far more than I did at any time within the next three months. The relief of Amputation was very great and posi: 1 - on of himself, an 1 1 sa her look annoyed. and of Miss Celia. we out for home. p,r.t we ! i 1 The f Ptiasft of th , SoMIfiV FvpMitnro PrseBtmJ. not oflea A Boldier, wounded in the arm at the battle of Besaca, through the New York Evening Post, gives a graphic of his experience a3 follows: As soon as practicable we were placed in ambulances and taken to the temporary field hospital. I was taken out and put on a stretcher. The hospital steward of my regiment had been a tent-mat- e and a good friend of mine. He first gave me a drink of whiskey and then had me carried up account to the amputating tables, and tried to get the surgeons to give their at- tention to meat once. Probably other cases were more urgent, for they did nothing with me until after dark. It was, as I have said, a hot day. I was covered with a blanket, but I was very chilly. Many times during the afternoon the steward brought me whiskey. I believe I drank more that afternoon than I had drunk in all my life before, and more than ever I have since. It scarcely had a taste, and did not make me warm. The blood oozed away slowly, not only soaking the back of my coat, but it wet through the stretcher and dripped upon the ground. The pain was pretty severe,-buso long as I could keep the arm perfectly still I could bear it. The fingers of my right hand ached with tlie weariness of holding them in one position, as I did in keeping my left arm entirely quiet. To change so much as the position ot a finger caused intense pain. Much of the time I was only half conscious, but without losing the sense of pain. Now and then I roused myself to look at the table where some poor wretch was undergoing mutilation. I did not yet know with certainty whether I should lose my arm or not, tut I thought it likely. They gave chloroform in all cases, but I noticed that the men struggled and moaned a great deal, especially as the surgeons sawed the bone. It was not a very cheerful afternoon, and my involuntary lessons in surgery were not more than half appreciated. It was, I think, about eight oclock in the evening when I was lifted upon the ty.ble. I had been wounded at one oclock, and my arm had become much swollen. I now learned for the that I had been struck in the elbow. I had only seen the exit, svoundnear the shoulder. The shot had hit iairly on the very point of the elbow as my arm was bent, pushed through the joint, the humerus for about eight inches, complet ly smashing it, and then on the inside of the arm. fassed outdirection of the ball it seems that it should have passed through my left breast. I seem to remember a blow there which partly helped to turn me around, but cannot be quite certain of it. The ball was probably much flattened, and so did not penetrate. I conclude, therefoer, that a r had singled me out, aud would have finished me if my arm had not interposed. With the regular surgeons were a lot of doctors or students from the north, t taking their first lessons in wounds. A good many of them seemed to find it necessary to examine my wounds with probe and Jingerexplora-tion- . It was not agreeable, but so far I bad made no protest. I had always first-tiin- e sharp-shoote- gun-sho- plumed myself on my nerve, and indeed had always a good record, in that respect, since childhood. I had once called in our suigeon to lance a big boil or carbuncle on my arm. He asked a comrade to hold up my arm so that 1 shouldnt jerk. This he declined to do, saying quietly that he guessed it wasnt necessary. I did not so much as move an eyelash as the doctor thrust in his lance. he exclaimed, soldier! Good with enthusiasm, and I accepted :t as the highest compliment which he could have paid me. I thought I could do the same thing over again, and I still tnuiK 1 might, so tar as the cutting I was, of course, was concerned. much exhausted from the loss of blood and from prolonged suffering, which makes a difference. Finally they began bending my arm in all directions, to see, I suppose, the extent of the fracture. I have never quite seen tlie reason for this, as they had determined that amputation was has necessary. I think no one who connot experienced it can form any of this operception of the terror swollen and ination. Greatly flamed, throbbing in every part like a sensitix e tooth, the innumera- ble pieces of bone grinding oip each tive. Maimed for life as I was, I could not help a strong feeling of satisfaction, after many nights sleeping on our weapons, with orders to be ready to move at a moments notice, at the prospect of a whole night undisturbed. As usual, anticipation had some advantages over the reality. A restless neighbor to my left, for we were packed pretty dose on the ground, managed to get against my arm several times, stirring up a good deal of indignation on my part, as he was only shot in the knee, aud no bones seemed to he broken. He was fidgety, nersouc, and seemed to be lacking in grit. I may not have been very charitable to him. Anyway, he died in a few days. Once, too, 1 awoke to listen to a great uproar ot musketrv fire, and wondered how our hoys were faring. They had clung to the hillside and had managed to throw up a little dirt in front cf them, and both lines had lain comparatively quiet for many hours. In the night the rebels charged them, and were promptly repulsed. Every five minutes, too, a great roar hurst out ot the woods and echoed and reechoed among the hills. It was a Parrot gun shell over to that threw a the station at Besaca. In the morning it was found that Johnston had withdrawn. 100-poun- d II. Lot Women I!. V. Tricks Anony Telegraphers. Speaking of country town said a veteran operate rt "reminds me of a story on nfysclt. I wms the '?tTrtnit' of the. railway station inn small New Jersey an dll timer came down there to work a wire in the division superintendent's office, which was just across the track in another building. ne da v 1 answered a call on my instrument and got a message from Master Mechanic McMartin, who lived down the track sixty miles, asking ne as a personal favor to take the handcar and go dow n the road about three miles to the farm of J. Bird, where I would get oOO strawberry plants, lie wanted me to bring them to the station and send them down by the evening extown-whe- press. Now McMartin was in special favor with me. Iliad two brothers working under him, and I naturally thought he was a great man. fso I said 1 would do it. "1 went home got a big clothes basket, rolled out the lmndenr, and with one ot the hoys that always hang around a country depot started out to find the farm of J. Bird. I had never heard of any such person, but thought I might have overlooked him. So I pumped away upa longgrade until I reckoned I had gone at least three miles. Then I hailed a man in a field and asked him where J. Bird lived, lie said there wasnt any such man around there might live farther west; so I went on a couple of miles until I found another limn, nnd lie was at least half a mile away in a plowed field. So I floundered over that stretch of broken ground and asked him where to find the farm of J. Bird, lie said lie haa lived in that county thirty years, nnd that no such person hud ever been in it so.l'er ns he knew there was no such lunn in that immediate section, un.vwny, I went back to tlie handcur in a qunntlry. I would have gone farther west, though I was alieady between eight nnd nine miles from town, and my linn a from pumping the handcar were blistered fearfully, it it hadn't been (or the old farmer s positive statement that no such man lived anywhere around. Finally 1 concluded that there had been some mistake and started back. It was mighty hard work and my bands were aw!ul sore, but I pumped nway, and at last I rolled up to the depot. There was a great crowd of young fellows there, nnd when I picked up the big clothes basket nnd stepped on to the platform everybody gave me a great laugh. Then the ohl time operator put his head outofthe window nnd Ming out: Gotthem strawberry plants? It didnt take me niore'n a second to realize tlie whole measly trick. The operator from the other building lmd switched on his ground wire, called me up and sent me the message nnd signed it McMartin. On the strength oi that 1 bad gone out on a bunt for a jaybird and come back w ith two dozen blisters. While I was gone he had circulated the story and the gang had gathered. I didn't hear the last of t lint sell for months, nnd I was so suspicious afterward that I wouldn't answer my own call ball the time. Thats what I call a low down trick; but Ive hoaxed young operators just ns badly since. Jt teaches em the busiNew York Star. ness. try If They Man t to. Ills Wagon New York Tribune. 7i as Too Wide. Denver New. One of the most absurd arguMany stories have been told on the ments used against a girl who wishes plains as illustrating the verdancy ami Eastern innocenee of pilgrims to become a physician, said a One of the best medical student in and tenderfeet. which the News now recalls is related is that in regard to the manner in which one petticoats the other day, the disagreeable sights and experien- of tlie old plains ranchmen up npar ces of the dissecting room, if they c o the South lass got a new wagon, not altogether overpower her forti- lie had an old one, which was pracworthless, and he had made tude, will coarsen her feelings and tically efforts to trade it off to pass-n- g many I destroy her delicacy. Bah, say, to trains nnd travelers, hut without No success, lie was getting considersuch mawkish sentimentality. one thinks it hardens n girl to nurso ably discouraged when a long pilat the ranch nnd a sick person, and yet I tell jou that grim nppeared The pilgrim the lor night. camped in ministering to the sick and the dy. was very green nnd, ns lie was bound ing and the dead, in the capacity of over the mountains, had many quesa nurse, I have seen sights ns ghast- tions to ask about the mountain how wido it was nnd wl. ether ly and performed far more distaste- pass, experienced much difficulty wagons ful nnd exhausting labor than I in getting through. He had a brand would have been culled to do if I had new wagon, which struck the ranchbeen the physician: nnd nil the time and lie determined to play man's 1 knew nothing of that keen interest a bold eye, game togot it. in the scientific part of the work Tlie next morning the pilgrim which I now h ive, which so absorbs saw tlie ranchman carefully my attention and thoughts that measuring hi.s wagon,veiy nnd very nawiiat is revolting to others is by me turally his curiosity was excited, and almost unnoticed. his inquiries were answered by the solemn assurance from the very Animals "Which fee Both Ways ranchman that the wagon was just Nat ure has enabled oome animals to two inches too wide to get through behind them as well as tlie pass. The pilgrim was see and in a peck of trouble. in front without turning around. his eyes rested on tlie old Finally The hare has this power in a murked -trap of the ranchman, which he degree. Its eyps are large, promi- measured and found to be two inches nent and placed laterally. Its power narrower than his own. Heprompt-l- y of seeing tilings in the rear is very proposed a trade. The ranchman noticeable in greyhound coursing, demurred. His wagon was old, to he for though this dog is mute while sure, but then it was narrow enough he running, the hare isahle to judge toa to go through the puss in casefczalt nicety the exact moment at which it should over want to visit the will be best for it to double. Horses Lake valley. The more he objected the more imare another instance. It is only to watch a horse driven in- portunate the pilgrim became, and variably without blinkers, to notice finally a trade was consummated, new wagon this. Take for instance, tlio.-- e on the ranchman getting-ththe tramways. Ut the driver even and pocketing a good round sum to went on bis attempt to take the whin in hand, boot. The pilgrim nnd ii tlie horse is used to the work wav rejoicing atiiisgood fortune in he will at once increase hi.s pace. getting n wagon which would go The giraffe, which is a very timid through the narrow pass; but when animal, is approached with the ut- lie readied the Western slope he must most difficulty, on account of its have realized how badly be bad been eyes being so placed that it can see as victimized, since the South Bass is well behind ns in front. When ap- broad enough to march an army proached this same faculty enables through, nnd not the narrow gorge, it to direct with great precision the barely wide enough for a wagon, rapid stormsof kicks with which it which bad been pictured to him and blue-eye- fair-hnire- d, d dum-found- obji-ct- s rattle- mc-esssa- which he was eo willing delends itself. i to believe, I |