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Show bail, and i'Ojiecnu1d not do enough the urme iriXABi. Ben Prise oil an! traveliugal nights only. I reached the fur me. I got cases as fast as I on my own hook. How thatched hut. lived tobacco -t about daylight and and jucountry, his w ife Sally. ojendownto BIGBY'S REFORM CLUB is it with you? take them, and it was not long before lietween in hollow, sleep a had leen well! I har Thy voire. lay vears t In Lorti, other they dollar I a as prosperous as Iliad was that admitted how ski1 A The others dong two ridges. could not never fore-- ! I har it by the stnrroy aa and. though it and for As liappv; fore. P Folly why. When w.ntr' niuiiT are M.i auj ivild. ev. r, and aft era time I w as lying t here jioor There was n quartette of free nnd a week was enough. we can join handed, yet they hail nor known1 And when iiffnuht I t all to Thee done smoking, have vou we last at nervous I John resumed so nwake. wide Pigby, had Thus, got Alfred Baldi, in it ralrnit my fear and want till old age and sick uie, in the parlor." jovial spirits in Burville. and Johnny have that I made ti my mim! to go on. her $1() a week as the result of our deprived them of their ability to Sleep well, my child. leader N. Y. Ledger. was acknowledged the for not IHgby Iliad more. once started combined and individual exjwnses and cold winter's ork. And on this I hear Thy vop. dear Lord. thereof. IVter Slade, Tom Low den rum and tobacco. I, for one think I lieen walking very long, and. as you Fncle Hen and Aunt Sally sat n im:i:) wind, in tailing mmw night, associ-jiXethe fool. live through could manage to .and Sam Tepper were his of such be?, The heat the curlew may sujijiose, I was taking advanthe chime, over shivered midnight ind I could that cover without of bit well, murmur of child. it loir, winter anymore the of free rest my 1 every Franklin was able to General S)ep tage been had In stiff. gather They were fouryoting men, t stuff as they The guardian angels conteaud go, when I saw si long line of men of it, and for the sake of the and get, hedges, a the of an exwith from command Weill in great Oh, child, sleep hearted nnd generous, I would be w illing to put my the old mail sighed as he thought of riding over the plains toward me. put military Sabine on the i t r fo r en ov me n t . il L uses. of her Iass, I hear Thy oice, dear Lon!; dogs, pedition against j With them were any mini upa share of that $10 to charitable the alms house. winds be ntilled w as the bloodhounds 110 Hinging we The Ay. hail though Texas. of On a certain Monday evening they Here it is the beginning of December, coast for, expedition although If we could only get through the Though huwhed the tumult ot the dep in those days, there were lots of dogs not successful, and the ships returned were assembled in a small parlor o and the winter has opened hard. winter. But who can help us? Mv fainting heart with anguished chilled w ho would hark at a stranger if they are poor families not far away Uy Thy assuring tone ift thrilled Hut old Fncle IVn and his w ife were to New Orleans. On the way thither Inshton's tavern iur the purpose o There Fear cot, and bleep! one. we can bless with our symsaw which chill and of from bearoused were stujior as they Gentlemen, my heart seemed to there was one night a collision having a good time, pathy nnd help. We might organize hunger bv the tramp of fict and hum Speak on ppeuk on, dear Lord I didn't want, nnd steamer tween wont to assemble often. The season a benevolent society, or a missionary of a standstill. Although near Ami when the last dread night large voices; and shortly the door ojien-eWith doubt and fear anti terror wild, to eseajie at first, now that I had, it the light river-boa- t used lor headwas winter, and the beverage they society, on our own hook. Do you John Pigh.v nnd his three and hear let reOh, mjuI my expiring seemed to me doubly bitter to be is narrated followed entered. What of were indulging in w as a compound of begin to understand. thebe word Only cheer, heavenly companions quarters. taken. I do not know how to Thev understood him pcrfietlv: and Sleep well, my child! A tire was burning on the General Franklins of officer e hv an second cajit-urrum, sugar, milk nnd eggs, familiar- since the it to you, but he would lead they were ready hearth, and a good store of provisHut st a ff. the first. worse than was far ly known as Tom and Jerry. table. on the to follow. ions was opened out w hat could I do? There wasn I a tret' The Senator's Story. Our side was apparently smashed At the early stage of the wassail In fact, they rather liked the idea. The old man wondered and Tom for miles there was no broken in. A licfbre sense had leen submerged, Tliere was a charm of novelty and Lowden made answer. panic seizisl the crew; ca p' a in, ground nor rocks to hide in. Nothit that captivated Hast; Speech for Which lie Dearly 1ald. It's all right, Fncle Hen. This is Peter Slade had suggested that he originality about be jiilot, engineer, hands, all rushed lor fun to purchase Jack ing but that wide rolling plain, and t hem. It would Heform Flub. We've Pigbys tothe steamer. Most of our headhad a complaint to make against flour men of line riding slowly that and meat and tea and sugar stopjieil our rations of spirits and folfeel sick. he the as me of town, said the Well, wards me. It made Senator, oneof tin dignitaries quarters eomjiany and officers and fuel, nnd go around to assist the tobacco, and are going to invest thp and chance I had, ials the took his over were I reached was and fresh lie only a lowed the example. young result in a missionary enterprise. reading opened up and thereupon cigar poor mid medy. rlhoy where good feeling and We want to convert you audAunt-Sally- for a match, you may not think it, lav down in a hollow place cabin. The trash and of denunciation against Parson men, full of life and because I in the so and me, overlook of the fun might if we can. the had caroused only attention. hut I came mighty near being hung they my Meekly, the old clcigyman of waited. 1 could hear the shouts of cries attracted of the thing. Here was promise of Convert us, Tom?' t 'ied din hear and once. nearer, went men I as on k, the cauie and they place. tiny fun in niiot her direction, A Vl, (.,mvert you to comfort and 1 could he and ot one the find the stared. out, The whole party dogs, harking As near as I can Any for a moment to restore order, hut convert you to would go into it. jieace; and perhajis tell you I seemed to in vain. The soldierson the steamer do nothing. The matter was discussed and fin- the belief that there is a grain ot good less likely to be accused of serious send, the parson has just the same At shouted. to crime than our host a distinguished fairly melt with jiersjiiration. aa called us by name nnd held us up ally settled. lThey would make a left in humanity still. We mean came quite close. A dog last they w inter, Come on board! come on board! the in hand it the week beginning. at vou coming take and State Senator of Califor- saw me and began to hark. I sjirang You'n' square an a Hl of riit 1' h.s wiiiiijm. lawyer we if we can sinking! There's a great hole said .Jack, help and you shan't sutler Paring the week, nia it w ould have been hard to im- to v feet, and as I did so a man in your side!" Not certainly as had ns that, will look up the cases of destitution it. fired at me and shot me in the lie did certainly and suffering, and on Saturday The waves dashed our little boat, ud John Pigby. The hoys did not leave the cot un- agine. which is stiff vet. This shoulder, t lie but the I and meet asked. will How against the side of the steamer, and we was that? aged compare til they had heljted :U)mle to us very plainly, man was John Bogart, the dejnity the light jdanks of the will take our ten couple to a hearty meal, and had we was us Then I aides. I was When a he worst young chap brought against sheriff. Of course there was no tight was grinding and crashing. I can and do what we can forthose pili'd uj fuel enough to last until mv from lhirniimth, had nothing to fight with. Sher- easily understand how contagious is sheepskin that we were prostituting noble pow- dollars be must We when nnd most. came again: who are suffering they iff Hughes came uji, jnit me on a a 1 had a few dollars, I made as ers nnd opportunities to hast; sinfu methodical in this. We are not to they their of jmnie. It was with a great effort I finally withdrew the song town. restrained I 1 mined for a horse, and back we went to her Hat ears. myself from following the of of t in State. out their this work flattering, his in was charity a way sounding blessing pleasures. spend penny time I hail shackles fastened to This me. 1 knew, however, set some off went until on pow-r- s noble reformers example saved is so not the the went And to Sacramento, mv feet. My case was worse than by cutting that while, and then i bought especially mv that and and was of our place was with the general, own; done; useless expenditure their night's work I hung out my shingle before, because every one was now and I went where in search of him. He was detin n to came who of lie ns when during they cigar sejiarate buys they waited for business. It was lit- sure that I had killed poor Iob. I on the hurricane-deck- , Mat taring w itli a vengeance,' said week shall deduct it from his conseated on the and such found had clared that they I paid dearly for that hasty tell a cigar. What business is it tribution on Sal you mya smoking TomLowden. never by known too, quietly painted erally shingle, as they had unlay. to him. General, said I, aren't you goself. I soon after met a girl, lolly speech If we should he methodical, sug- before. of his? Naturallyinv capture soon became ing to leave her? During the succeeding week three Sinclair, the daughter of Robert Sinsaid Sam Pepper, what gested Peter, we must organize. Isay Aye. ns she has told I dont believe shell sink, I10 reand ol known, club the to do added to new members were anything so me since, was Folly, beside herself at not were There builder. a business is it of his? And then look ilof we are going clair, nearly plied. men who were willing to cut oft this kind, let us do it ship shape. herself for it Hut she is an abandoned ship, jit the hullabaloo they made over Peter's proposition was unanimous for rum nnd tobacco and de- many girls there then, and Polly had the result. She blamed her told one ns It business. But every all, her. mission sir; to esjieeially after relief the fellows of every one has left her. of the and to ibis fortign lv accepted, vote the proceeds they proceeded plenty mv running away proved rn.y Have they? are you sure? that ot town. the distressed to and shine she a took me, somehow was in connection with that that organize. poor The poor girl got sick with I'll make sure, I replied; anil goAnd ere long Digby's Heform club The organization arrived at, was as I was, and I was as much in guilt. Parson Meekly attacked us. They to take to ing to the had I found it deand nnd poor fear, in anxiety that institution a noted effective. They became ever a man could he. her bed. ns her with love I looked into the liad better look at home. I think simple hut nevertheless Then serted. could hardly elected John Pigby to serve 11s presi- place. The projectors I remember the engine Meantime, the time for my trial like me, though, not did Her own there is suffering enough under their of their evidence peojile the credit and treasurer; dent, nnd as secretary was coining mighty near, and I do looked so grim and stiff in its solinaturally enough, too, for I was on- not believe very noses that had better bo looked nnd they elected an executive com senses in contemjilating the result that a juryman could tude. Two a poor struggling lawyer, and they have been found in Sacramento mitteo of four, consisting of John of their three months labor. to first. to When I reported the state ofaffairs ly I Hay Dighv, Peter Simla, Tom Lowden and nnd twenty members lmd joined, and could do better. Her say that I was not guilty, in fact, to Franklin he consented to go. W e That's bo, said S'ude. thought Folly nearto amounted relief for fund the s harity begins at home. W hat do Sam Pepper. brother was specially against me. any twelve men would have senten- found a quiet place aft, nnd as the And then they settled their hill at ly $10 per week, nnd each man was blame ced me without hearing theevidence. waves tossed our light vessel uji to a star, John? pledged to pay in weekly the exact Poor Boh, perhaps I was to the bar and went home. shoulder bothered me not a lit- level with the steamer, he sprung him. cost tohaeeo and attentivehis the listened nnd matter. sum most in the spirits; Anyway, Folly My John Pigby had evening came, Saturday her deck. I attempted to foltoo, and Bogart, the jailer, used tle, he use tobacco, ho reform club met at Pigby s shop, and If he continued to I had found out that we eared to tell me, with a grin, I must get upon and ly, and during the conversation the vessel was not tossed but low, with his took a lower place in the company, for each other, and one night, wlun well iu time for the ceremony,' as he So I watched my bad turned his glass bottom up on ach member was ready when high enough. as a ot use the and beverage spirits they They had thought Cheerful, wasnt chance, and plunged the called we met luingihg. were we together, the tavern table. cause for walking expulsion. mil separated on Monday evening was sufficient it? where friendly hands into a port-holTliere may be truth in what you thev should meet with a sprit ot When peojile sawr the good that was Rob. lie begun calling me nil the One evening, Folly, who was get- caught me, and prevented me falliug to anxious were rescenes and the give names he could think of, frolic in their new work; hut being dune, they say, he slowly nnd thoughtfully on on the deck. ting a little stronger, was sitting she aid, and be connected with the mer- temper being none of the best, I had witnessed in the Hut our little steamer would nob plied, but people who live in glass which -they the porch of tlieir house, when club of the laws of the but current crew; the hail ry changed stn. n t sink. the Franklin at once ordered out mud. man "Houses should not throw" fit one. a saw walking w ore fixed; no money could come to icir feelings cut irely. secured the captain and not she does the said She not to has me boats, been We may object to furnishing money had always such as Tollv fund kept begging exeejit My soul!" exclaimed Sam Pepper, the and returned on hoard. hut the she crew, did know something it, evil why some of and at last I turned away, to these foreign missions upon the I never dreamed wlmt sorrow and saved by the donor quarrel, shell of the boat was She could The outer him. follow her made just in oar little habit, or by cutting off some useless her with him. As I left lsaid not llea that charity begins at home and suffering there is here follow him down crushed in, and she was leaking badleaving Shedid it. help Widto the luxury. we would meet again f a nil that but the question may come town. Last night I went until he reached a hillock ly, but the inner ceiling was unhurt. It was n bright Sabbath in spring- to him that make him ow Biisldots, and found her with 1 think the his sand I would of general never quite forback. Wlmt have we done for this n sick when explain just outside of theshetown. child, absolutely freezing and time. nnd it was given out that Parsaw for me of side this, On the turther persuading him to leave gave son Meekly was going to preach a words. charity at home? What have we starving." he which her. some him put up dig and things reform I sermon on Pigby's club, And 1, said Ton Lnwden. I was so excited that I could not done to alleviate the distress of the into his jiockets. Then, after filling we haven't found I'nele l.cn Driscoll and wife the old meeting house was filled to if And town? and I walked along the in the hole, our of home, he made his way back, go poor read The old The The Broncho. in the same plight. clergyman overflowing. five miles passing close to where the girl was I should road think, done anything in that direction if both for, "Fan St. JohnsHosjiel man is down with rheumatism; and his text from Some years ago I drove up tn a wo dont open our hand in charity when lie and Aunt Sully set uml cried there any good come out of Nazareth? from the town. Then I turned and crouching behind a pile of rubbish, him. she close that recognized stage station in San Ieilro Valley, in walked back, went to my room, andi so at all wlmt right have we to Htiy in like babies, with lour of going to the Como and see. And when he told him saw and followed him She again, and club llelorn of Arizona, and the Mexican stock tenPigby's what direction others shall aim then poorhouse, I tell you it brought the the story being tired out, went to sleep. walk toward tliejail. Reaching that laof its result the in rounding good tears to pictured my eyes. In the morning I was waked up building, he went into a little house der had lmd a hard ime good works? And so the reports were made, nnd bors, he proclaimed to all, Go ye herd pony His stock. murfor his arrested and the sheriff, stage at one side, anil Foil crept, softly up, up Plank were the looks that greeted then by planned how they could and do likewise. fellow had and looked they there stood The he Hob. crack between as a run been had until, poor dering were through his Once John Pigby nnd compan- been found in the street with his head this spivcli. The trio listeners best use their ten dollars. It seemed of the boards. two brush corral, under the shade of a taken aback. They hadn't expected like a drop in tin bucket, when set ions had fancied it would lie a proud blow from behind, What she saw was enough to covered with foam and dust, with when they had brought the crushed in by a he moment and want all the suffering takhim leader. against their with had this from and to the sheriff's house as his make her had found, but it would do old parson to recognize the worth of en. everything Tliere were a dozen witnesses to fast as shego belly drawn up almost to his Now look here boys, continued they walk. Hughes had could of the but their blessings labors; something. the to and to him I said had what to bed, but Folly insisted on spine, anil gasping occasionally John Pigbv, pushing his inverted On that Saturday evening the wid- those upon whom their bounties had No one had seen me during gone I felt quarrel. his in music sweet such bed of the fallen lmd made getting up and talking to her. as though it was his last, glass away to the center of the table, ow Bnshlot bent over the the my evening; on he before her die he duWhen heard story, wails of their ears, nnd the satisfaetionof put sure I should see him and leaving it there. I dont like sick child with weepings nnd had not seen me come in, ami al- his hat, went out and got three men done lmd dropped so blast ties The piped truly howling Ileft the station. I was afterwards black anguish. looked rather this overhauling that Parson Meekly without nnd the frost things he knew, and made his way with within. soothingly ujion their souls, they together nipped in my favor, them to the house by the jail. Here told by the stage boss, in a bluff matgave us any liettcr than you do, She suffered because she had forced found no room for that baser pride for me. The only thing was that tlmv walked little was and that enough, and I propose to shut him up. in, and quietly searched ter of course way, in answer to my beg. Ior herself she had which they lmd before that time was nothing of poor Hob's the room. shouted Sam Pepper: herself to there but inquiry, that he had pulled through rfither die than become a jumper, found in my possession. "thats the talk. I'm with you what I have Hod. have mercy! guessed child all right; you cant kill them critters. for her O, suppose you Well, I was locked up in the old Are you sure you have found. All of jioor Hob's things and now I nin perfectly positive that A wailing cry like this had burst they A Ididn't the tell Hallucination. to and truth, you Strange jail, courage Sam? his watch, liis money, a revolver from her lijis, when a tramp at her out of the trouble. As a saddle animal simYes, sir. A panic recently occurred at see my way his name on it, nnd his pipe you cannot. her attention, nnd with attracted door he to me in town believed one has no superior. The fount me in, said Tom. Every broncho ply the presently a gentle rap followed. She Shanghai in connect ion with the guilty, nnd there was some talk were hidden away under a board And me, mhled Pepper, bed. term under found is the that should never and a in the floor summons answered the lojie building of the cathedral. The idea about lynching me out of hand. When It was while shut the old fellow up were looking he in any other men ujion the stooj). motion the they four to exmake an I young applied abroad that the municipal coun. 1 sny every one, must programme, Jack? at the things that a step was heard, breed of horses. I have watched a She knew them well, for they lmd got in beloved bless her. vo bn I answered Folly, Well, Pigby, the door opened for a been school mates with her son who ei! wanted a certain number of hu- ception. over me still, although her father was one and planned that we take the wind out of had second. Before they could jump, the herd of cow ponies being driven returned. never bodies beneath the and to man sea to bury gone enough. of of (lie bitterest, Parson Meekly a sails by establishing And naturally undulations the where turned and run, only to the prairie came into the house; they foundation of that edifice; a general I had leen in jail about ten days, man had were a reform club of our own, nnd start- piled theythe in the Mike of backs the stout arms fall throng until the moving hearth into fuel on the uj dread of venturing out after night- when one day the door of my cell ing a missionary society on the same the bright the guard Hughes had left as regular and easy as the rise and tlames lcajicd nnd roared, oj'iened, and lollveaine in. How she basis. with orders to let any fall of the watery wave. The fothe bv sick child readied out its fall especially of going past the the door, and Sheriff Hughes to persuade Lh? managed for cathedral no one out; and w hen they xtrot, which is the habitual gait of all one but the embrace to arms wasted prevailed in, compound genial let her see me, I do not kuow, but to Jjook ye, boys; people liesido the warmth. nnd Indians, is back into the room plainsmen, hauled man the weeks with nil kinds of variations she did somehow. about us, hard are and his light in talking cultivated the him, parson where the light was, Hughes had easily They hr eight forth bread and tea and details. A similar notion was 1 am not going to tell yon what nnd we ll shut them all up in a lump. nnd itself nataccomodates his own frame of at cheese. and and sujiple butter deputy looking pleasure I sugar said to be at the bottom ol the riots sort of a meeting that was; could This Id like to Pit back in the most effemotion. the particuto John and l ight," said Sam Pejqier, who All urally Bogart. jail krejicr, which broke out last autumn at Se not if I would. Of couree, I told her ctive way, l il like to make them take horse lays claim to anAmerican lar his as them To make barges, sjiccial a long short, Hob's death regarded missionaries of story in FI. for I was innocent Foreigners the poor the hack track here in Burville which in my estimation in answer to the woman's ejacula- choice were accused of wanting and she sobbed out her belief in me Bogart was the guilty man, and lie other quality; and .th 1 ow a business." that is his wonderis We not are least, astonishment. of the in tions children tor some mysterious jwr as I held her in my arms. At last she took a more prominent part iiTs hearers were interested nmllist-rninful we nnd he had pieturesqueness. lie graces the John Pigby's Reform Flub, pose, and the mob seized and deenjn-tilte- whispered her plan to me. I was to ceremony than turned antieijiated. eagerly. Western and landscape, not because ha had out he work; inro As afterwards are it shoved a missionary in the public streets nine Fo and the dear girl Wlmt is it? Tell us how this is to suchgoing of the equine ideal, hut us reminds to folks as you are wo want to con- rean officials win were said to have eseajie, embezzled some money belonging file into my pocket as she talked. done?" of the soil, ami has comes lie because Hob t ci live from suffering been No one, she said, in Stockton the county, mid hearing that Have you the courage to do it? vert want to juirtiesto kidnaping victims to and burden and the heat the borne with if we an. So keejt uji dollars several thousand had innowas I to comfort, would ever believe that snjqily the want. This, however ssaid John. all that pale of roheart, and let us do for you seems more akin to the curious ik'-- s cent; and if I did not run away I him which he was taking home, he vicissitudes of will Well follow you, said Peter good which mance cling about the him would have in the what your own Willie ire for infantile victim which was would try to prove my innocence, had stolen uj Slade. As we see him frontier. Western done if he had lived. It'll he a com- charged against missionaries in the and if she succeeded we would never street and crushed in his head with Honor bright? the wagon he or the to hitched You plow ll often. We call have not iron lie an bar. us. might fort to famous Honan jrnchimation that marry any one else. Naturally, lsaid Yes. seems against utilia lsearil of ; init protest hud we living 1 it." he if not done the quar-shant want eanlidji and 1 would stand my trial, ns was Tln-j iroceil ed the Tientsin listen. his rid master, unlike rebut. The wilow"s sobbing, bursting which was one o' ii,e items in the in- nocent: but when Folly pressed mens rel between Hob and myself. In the tarianism; Hold on," cried Sam Pepper, turn borne the lias will not he lie iliscov-be when go. was the cannot I of did not body blessings morning dictment ngaii tiie Homan catho- to how I was to prove this,. the lift's fill up before we commence. W hen the the conqueror, I lie the Moor, was had that Spanish or suggested by tongue j'on. lics on the oeoas on of that outbreak. know. She talked and begged, and ered, and mountain-maNot with old Lusht on's Tom and the red Indian, brains are at, last I consented. S as Sheriff murderer, and, of course, the suggesWe shall voting men reached the highway, Sometimes children's glornS Jerry. returned .Jack. tion was taken up. He confessed the vaquero through all the soon burst forth: toleaxe had Sam she sometimes their emae lcjiper back, wanted Ve medicine, lor of for it cost another Hughes purwant the of their career; lint they will I would before lie died. as true heaven, as everything Bos, l wanted are side Incomjioundmnteri-nbottom eyes the Turn all glasses there with lieritage on insisted The pose. next day Folly gone, I did not like the job, but still I for photography. St. Janies Me not exchange the blessing of that me tie news, and naturally, lant deeds. The jiony must mc'rklj np for the present. ofNow listen. widow's iie,art for all the joys w orked away with the file, and as the telling jmor here at habit meeting are in the I am not going enter the new regime. lie must wear ever eatne in the old way at the bars were pretty poor stuff, I got one she was allowed to. the tavern three evtnings in the that about more that meeting, the collar of the new eiviiizat ioanfam. There's something tavern. out. 1 crawled through nnd to say anything them of m3 for if We our triehinous nnd know liquors expenses that week, park readied the street, and then made my but after we bad been together an earn liis oats by the sweat than fun in this. .or ar--d cigars are at least two dollars And his companions agreed with be well rooked, nil danger of the fa wav tdon it townrds the edge of the hour Hughes came in, saving he flank. There are no more worlds tM till he now v.rst will him avoidto an evening, arent they? be wanted tal to too. It conquer; the trichinosis, disease, congratulate me, him. town 1 was to strike out nreoss This was admitted by a nod. and was not long before 1 wa out OH ground. The Century. In another part of the town, outlie ed. Heat is fatal to all auir.al iu the hiding at I to plains addition in spend tjiis And outskirts of the village, in u poor t germs. 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