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Show I" the strange conduct o( the man in the roum above, uuiil me gray da-- stole iu at the windows; but imver once came ne ar the truth. To be continued. in trouble, and more than all, for going with the I cuntVss it was an unreasoning ansrer, but just as strong for all of that. She could not possibly have been of any as- -' sistance, in fact she was in the way; and fiom the hour of her starting with us until this morning, I w ould have lu'led ' ith delight an oppoitumty to have sent any one of our passengeis along wilhi another team, she, most of all; for her moessent gnef tor the daughier w ho was ill, had mad so unusual a draft on! my stock of human kmdness, that the fountain was neatly diy. 1 had got so tar that I thought her grief and tears! weie dealer to her than the daughter j who lay ill, but now I was mad at her; forgoing. . After the wag an, I tiied to eat a lit tie bieaklast, and answeied or parried the questions of the Mother-- 1 , as best 1 could, while the t ine dragged by on leaden wings. Teamsteis passed us going either way, louked us over compiehensivelv and compassionately, but said nothing. Thesuiing and trees d J not look half so enchanting in the e ld light of morn-ing, the children grew and fiet-til- l, and a breeze too cold to be pleasant sprang up and seemed to delight in lloV'illg us. We wandered around, something after the manner of chickens at dusk, whose roost has been pulled down dur-ing the day. About tw o o'clock ,when we were be-ginning to think the men were lost as well as the hoises, they rode into camp; having brought the horses fr.rn the stage station wheie we had met the "English Lord." Tliey had taken breakfast at the station, and after taking a hasty bite, and graining the horses, they hitched up, and we were once mote en route. "Where's the weeping woman?" asked Sam? J explained that she had recognized one of the men from the other camp, and had gone with them. "1 swun to goodness!" any woman as would go and leave a crowd when they wus in a fix, oughter have both her ears punched, and 1 hope they'll do it;" he said. The road was very bad. Alter traveling several miles we came to a small valley, Bituated but .1 few miles from a town. The road had once pass-ed through the center of this vale, but an enterprising man had fenced it in, dug around on the hill outside of his fence, enough to indicate where a road might be made at some future time, and then sat down in the door of his house to see his grain grow; but more especial-ly to see that nobody took down his fence and drove over the plainly visible road, As we neared the place a violent altercation was taking place between lEefore the Advent of; Eailroads. BY MRS. KLLEN JAKKMAN. j Written tt the KKt.is.tK. j ((.ONTlNlfcl),) Sam looked about him, here, there, and over his shoulder; with a face as expiessionless as a dough mask, aud lei hoed "What's the mittei?" , j j l ie seemed niteily unconscious of his appearance, or the cause thereof. j "vV'hy the blood on your clothes?" said one of the company, "Don't you know you're hurt?" "Hurt!" he said, and walked across to the other side of the tire, sat down on a spring seat, folded his arms and gazed contemplatively and serenely into the hi e. "Hurt!" he said scornfully, "it's a pity a fellow can't have his eats pierced with-out causing everybody to have a n lit." "Your eais pierced!" we exclaimed in a breath, and such an uproar of laugh-Ite- r as followed! "Why, man alive, you look more like you had had them cut off." said one man. "Chewed oil:" said another. "Who pierced them?" asked a thiid." "What were thev pierced with," said a fourth one, "a rack stake?" "More like the king bolt," said another; and through all this fusillade Sam sat seemingly utterly indifferent, alike lo the piercing itself or to the com-ments made on it. When we had talked ourselves out of breath, someone thought to ask him what he had had them pierced for. "For weak eyes," was the laconic reply. There was nothing irL the world the matter with his eves I near sighted-ness- , and I knew it. I went oyer to him aud took a look at his ear, fox only one had been pierced. "S:im," I said "what made you think piercing your ears would help your eyes?" " Them fellows over at the other fire said so." "Did vott believe them and give your consent to such nonsense?" "Yes'm." "tVell what on earth did they pierce them wiili?" I said, examining the wounded member as well as 1 could by the tlare of light made by the green cedar boughs thrown on to the embers, ' A shoe punch, I believe," he anwer-etl calmly. "A shoe punch!" we all lepealed, a ud I'm sure no one will blame us for laugh-ing, although Sam did uot see any joke in t. "Sam," said one of the men, "if you get cold in that ear you'll have the. worst head on you of any man .in the United Stales. You'd better get this woman to do it up with some sticky gum as soon as possible. "All right," said Sam in a dogged different way, "I'm 'greeable." ' " So I went and found a bandage, while some one else took a slick and-go- a little stickv gum off an adjacent tiee. Wecouid hear the men ut the other camp fire l.ttigh ug uproariously. A little indignation swelled in my bosom against them for what tliey had done. 1 could not understand how anyone who them-Belv- e hnti eaismrttv-t-Builtj- i- 0im!(i ftr.Joy such wantonly cruel spoil, but I said nothing. ."1 took n wet rag and wiped the blood from th wound. The man who held the pine knot to give me light fur niv work, made several tmcomplimentaiy remarks about '.he fellows who did it. finally he became so indignant as the, wound was laid bate, and the sounds of mirth from the other camp fire came to us fitfully, that he said.. "Why don't you go and shoot the fellow who did it Sam? we'll every mother's son stand by yon; he deserves it the wretch!" Sam looked up slowly, and replied "The devil may slaughter his own pork for all of me;" and as I had finished dressing the ear, with this as a good night, he started off to bed. We all went to bed. We slept at! least I did, that deepsleep, that isso near akin to death. The sleep that is so daik an oblivian that no dream may break ils silence, uo muscular action stir the body, no throb of love or anguish thrill through it, the sleep that is death's own twin brother. And vet it is bred by the most favorable citctimstances that surround life a clear conscience, sound health, moderation and fresh pure air and water. We got up at daylight, and the men of our party, afier making a fire and bring-ing water, went after the hoises; while we, the ladies of the parly, set about preparing breakfast. Most of our provisions were cooked, so the task of getting breakfast was com-paratively light. the owner of the ground anil the parly ol w ho had got that far, and no farther. Two of the three wagons driven by them weie natrow-tracked- , old fashioned Shuttler wagons, and their loads were high and bulky rather than heavy, and they were afraid to attempt the sloping rocky hillside, l'hey had taken down a pane) of fence, when the proprietor sallied out, a gun in his hand and a dog at his heels, and told them he would shoot the first man who attempted to diive ir; and assured them that the law would bear him out in it. 1'he road brought us veiy near to the contestants, near enough to hear the law point advanced; and Sam teniarked solo voce, "If them fellow s weie as smart al law as they are at doct'.in sore tyes, Ihey.'-- J punch a holj in that argument;" and to Mrs--. Cloudy, who sat on a front seat, the Mother-in-la- called out as we passed, "Good by, and good luck to you." We drove around the held, and all got out aud wall ed over the really danger-ous piece ol road. So sloping was it iu places, that while Sain sat in the wagon and drove at the risk of his neck, my husband rode on the brake-bloc- 011 the upper-hill-sid- to prevent the wagon Irom tipping over. That sort of things came to an end however as all things must, whether disa-greeable or otherwise; and the shades of night found us in a town where we w ere all more or less acquainted. The Mother-in-la- had a friend to stop with, and took Miss Nellie with hei; and we drove straight to the only hotel the place afl'oided, the keeper of which was" a distant relative. I did not like the wife of "mine host;" and under other circumstances would have peiferred doing almost any way rather than take up my abode under her roof, if only for a single night. However, I was so weary that I had no inclination to combat my husband's determination to go there, Mrs. Rapley, as we will call the hotel keeper, was a stingy woman. That seems a very small fault to dis-like a person for, but when it is culti-vated lor long yeais.it crushes out all Che noble impulses of the heart, and fosteis every vice that may slain a human soul. 1 don't pretend to say she was so bad as that, but she would buy a small bed- - niter u was reauy we arran;eu me wagon for travel, putting away the bed-ding and everything not needed about the breakfast, and then began waiting, and it is such hard work! J was tired in fifteen minutes, but had nothing to do but get rested again. Tue men who had been there when we arrived, came in with fheir horses, ate their breakfast, hitched up nnd roll-ed out, telling us as they passed, that "Your 'bovs' are on the track of their horses and '11 soon be back;" which was not very comforting. The 'ear punchers' from the other fire were als ) ready for a start by this time, and as they drove past us they rather tucked their head) down and looked, I fancied, ashamed of their last night's corrduct. Just as they passed us, Mrs. Cloudy recognized one of them as an acquain-tance from the very town where she desired to go, and where we were not going. She hailed him, and after a hurried talk, she came running over to our wagon, and scrambling into it, fairly made things flv. "You'r traveling so slow," she said as she threw her sack of clothes out, and made a dive among the bed clothes, "and he's willing to take me;" and she threw a quilt and a hair brush and a pair of shoes and a tin plate out after the sack; " and he's going right to Sadie's house and you ain't," and she seized her lunch basket and a pillow, and loading herself with the miscellany on the ground, trotted over to the wagon that was waiting, and shouted "Good bye; good luck," and was gone. "No apology necessary. Wouldn't have cared if you'd thought of it a week ago;" I said to myself, as I gazed into the wagon that looked like a vege-table garden does, when an energetic hen with one chicken has had a chance to scratch it over. The mother-in-la- the girl, whose name was Nellie, and the children had grown tired of waiting, and were eating their I reakfastand chattering pleasant-ly. Mrs. Cloudy ha i been a perfect wet b'a iset' all the way; but so contradictory is human nalure, that I was very angry with her for leaving us when we were stead, and make the under bed just a littie too small for it, the mattress would be one size smaller, the sheets would not quite cover the mattress, the blank-ets would not quite reach the foot of ihe bed, aud the quilts were loo small to tuck in. All such things were homemade in those days, and this is a fair illustration of her career through life. Everything was small and pinched, aud clipped at the corners. Her husband was what is known as a sharp business man, buthe was also capable of a generous inpulse now and then. Mrs. Raply looked quite glum, until I found an opportunity to assure her in a casual way that we expected to pav for our occommodations, and then she was all smiles. I had observed a very fine looking man in the parlor as I came in, who did not come to supper when it was an-nounced. , I asked my landlady if he were sick, he certainly looked pale and hollow eyed, but she said she did not know.as he had arrived only a few minutes before we put in an appearance. "He ordered his horse put up and well fed; in fact he went out and saw to it himself, as though he was afraid they would not do it properly." She turned up her nose with a little sniff of disdain, and continued; "There's something about the man I dont l.ke, anyhow, and I dout care whether he comes to supper or not." Iam glad to remember that her hus-band went and kindly urged him to come and eat, although lie as steadily and politely declined. Fate, in the person of Mrs. Rapley, gave us a room exactly under the one assigned to the meloncholy stranger. Contrary to my usual custom, I, had taken tea for supper, and this inclined me to wakefulness. Long after all other sounds were hush-ed, I could hear the man in the room above, walking about. There were other sounds, too, and although they are indescribable, through the common lan-guage of humanity, 1 knew that the man was either sick, or suffering great mental distress. Unable to sleep, II y there conject-uring a thousand things to account for The County Register! OF SAN- PETE COUNTY. ! l'.phraiiu, Utah, - June 26, 1890' W. K. REID. A T TO R NE Y A T L A V. MANT1 UTAa. Praciice in all tlie courts ol thtTeiritory. W. T REID. probate c" Land Attorney, Mam!, Utah. IDs had longer practice in Land mutters than any Attorney in the com ts. Win. ZAISKISKIE, PROBATE ATTNORKY. ' Mt. Pleasant Utah. Business promptly attended to. r. Mile? . r?j f " R x t . t - y O 1: J.3 :. r r :. ir; ' r .1 Q3 T. C. BAILEY, LAND ATTORNEY. Office next door to U.S. Land Oflkc, Salt Lake City. Obtains pattents for Agricultural, Desert anc Mineral Lauds. Correspondence solicited and infor-mation given. C. S. IV I L KES, .OFFICE IN V. 8. LAND OrFICK Bt'It.DIN'O. LAND AGENT AND ATTORNEY Obtain Patents fjr Agricultural and Mineral Lands. Geo. W. Parks, : E. D. It. TliuMpwia Lato Itecetver U.S. Land Oflloe, Attorm-y- , PARKS & THOMPSON, Land and Mining Attorneys. Oliice in U. S. Land Office Building. General practice in all Courts. Salt Lake City, Utah. K . rrwsra 4iSER!. William H. Bird, James Lowe. BIRD & LOWE, Land Agents & Attorneys, Offiice next door do U. S, Land Ofice, Salt LAkb City, V'tAh. WIU promote clames In contested and suspend-ed cases la ho Li dun ten at sat nk city, Utah, au 1 Wune al land Oitlee at Washington, I). C. Otiudii patents on ho .e.siead. resort ai d Timber culture Eut Aud upon coal and Mineral lands.- - (iueral luronimi.um relrtlcx toUuds luml-ibi'- with naps Plates and Dlugruiucs. . M. NELSONS BARBER SHOP.n' Hair cutting. 2rcts Shaving, 1501s One Door west of City Hall, I 3 4 Ephraim, Utah MILLINERY SHOP. Mrs. A. C. Lt.'isrii, Dealer in Hals and all G ods belong-ing to a first class Millinery Shop. One block west a.id a h ilf block north of Tabernacle earner. E;Viraim. 1 8 11 MILLINERY SHOP. Kiss Christina Peterson, dealer in Hats, and Ladios Fancy Goods, 2d.ors East of City Hall, Centre Street. Ephraim, Utah. 1 8 9 P e.H WiNtU. !; .'...-- LSl 'M. JENSEN'S Paotorapi Gillary. . Card S'ze - $t.oo per doz Victoria - 1 5 j Cabinet - - 2.00 First Class Woiis. i Ajeat tor JOr. Peter's Medicines. Kurtko and Uterine. Dj go;d wheie the Best medicines and i Doctors fail to cure.Maiu Street, Ephraim j (a ii EGBERT EODEH. Dealer in and manufacturer of Monuments, Headstones Tablets and Vaults. 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All work warranted, Manli, and Ephraim Utah. 2 i Cfrffir Y8ff&P "u'"l "y " Al'iy BiWPt'1w 3 fcn n ft trt 7; (t W :. 3 - 8!b.p3P Hi s 2 vi g - ..8: .. 3 & ' : - t ; READ AND RUN TO i F. L. SHEIVEH & ERO New Clothing House in the Beau-man- n and Anderson Building, Nephi, Utah. i Lot oi Flannelette Shirts for 40c. wcrth 75c. " ' Jt 65c " i,oo. 1 " NewVorkMnkunlaunderShiru, .50, I Overall. 5ttts. worth 1 Cotton Panfs 1.00 ' I Worringmen's Suits a.oo ' 50 Mens lilack Diann:ti StitU. 4,75 worth 9 00 50 " Fancy Braid Suiter ' ia.00 50 ' C asstmerehuit 7.50 ' 14.00 t Lot liny' Suits, Ic.oo worth $3.60 " " " 1 300 i.jo 1 " ' ,6.oo 1 "KnecI'anK.4 " .75 r ' Mcnfifean "100 ' 53 (iottrfii well bought is haif sjM is an old adae nnd is verified by our rapidly increasing Cade, Call and ex-amine our Mock, you will .it way be well wjtitedupon. V. L. Shrives & Kro. W H. Olsten ,M B, ' Ephraim. W. W. Woodring, M- - D. . Mt. Pleasant, ,: Physicians & Surgeans. Telegrams will ouly be an swered if made or endorsed by responsible parties- - f 2 3 ""' ' ' '" I THE MISSISSUTI MUD ISLANDS. There is nothins more curious on out coast than the mud islands at t he mouth of the Mississippi. They were lilted irom the bottom ol ihe sea; but how, is a mystery. Some have risen or subsided in a single dav. and the gas, coming from them a few feet below the turlace, keeps up a continual turmoil of the water above, while from all of them the gases which ra sed them escape though small but apparently bottomless craters. In some of these springs the water that shoots up is several degrees colder than it is iu the surrounding sea; and the crater of one of them, on Osgood's Island, has a mineral flavor, and is sold in New Orleans diug-store- s as a specific for rheumatism. Tin se islands never rise in channels of nnyaga-Lion- , but always on their edges. Some have a little vegetation, but tlie greater number are bare, On one of these, near the southeast pass, a brick fort, con-structed by the Spaniards over a century ago, is slowly sinking into the sea. On Gordon's Island still grows a grove ol a century old.and near them is a graveyard in which are headstonesbear-in- g Spanish names and dates of one and two centimes ago. As the delta strips work seaward, they keep an equal dis-tance inadvance; and thus rise wheie for-merly was deep waler.and often bring up fragments of wrecks lost mure than one hundred years ago. CLAYING WITH DRUGS. ! Th. Pt of A.lml..l.t.rln M..tli " "ho" MedloU Adlc. safe w fLW remedies that It i. adnnniMw wuhout skilled advice, f IT-- Per,' Bazar- - aai the P t,R."ly hot oil d ' 17, I t:UC!ura "f rhubarb. W hen a ' b?a MKiu illlcl. food, ' Z'UHr or euvms unr,, rhMulepbeme.wU0S8laravJ lodp hi U,c iai.ttl.at seems to bo ia thobowoli lorine express purie of making trouble, the poor mother--. m-s-t i(!.eu u tu Kiv0 lt at once a relieving and disdiaiyhiK rot.on; and lio puts tbs cjliia .,dc. llumeii,aU, entenca of death in Uoiui? o, the phvsie hvuiR an iiifl.uuu,u.ry U.nuenoe whieh is the vary thing to be avoided. And, on the! other hund, when the cUUd Rive evidece of a diarrha-u-l disorder t,f the bowols, tho poor mother Ihe, to her lueuu-in- closet, takes down the pi,u 0f tmxt are, aud ' aUuilros herself for sUippig the itnmediiuo ' symptoms, not knowing tiuu tho fever B!, distress and worse ensuu g svmptomi are due to the effort of tt.o chalk mixture, j which prevents the .vmeui from rcliev- - inn itself, aud that slits should have Riven instead an unloading and flour-ing doso of castor-oil- . That bo la de- terred from giviint tho oil by the diiliculty of making a child swaiiow tho nauseous druagl.t 19 not to be allowed iu her excuse; for the child need not know what i given, and there are many ways of making it tastclets besides that of administering it in capsules; for, when given, beaten up with the an egg, us if for what is called "egg-nog,- " with some sugar and a dash f lemon juiee aduod, era drop of essence of peppermint, the child will think it is having some unusual indulgence granted because it does not feel well, remembering to in advantage the old nursery lines; "Oh yen, not well ; you're very sick. I dou't believe it's true. You only want to coax mamma To make nice thing for you." Of course in tho wilderness, on remote farms and suburbs, tho mother of a family must, in spite of any danger from Igno-rance, keep many remedies on hand and ad-minister them as best sho can, because a physician is Unattainable there at short notice. But, in that case, as much her duty a. it Is to have the niedieiuos, it is to know how and when to administer thorn; and so the must make her own a suftioiont knowledge of the simpler and more com-mon ailments to be able to treat them prop-erly in their preliminary stages; and this Ought to be as much a part of every girl's education as , sewing, read-ing and the multiplication tablo. But when a doctor is in tno next street or within easy call, and drugs are at hand round the corner, a niuther is wiso who takes no more upon herself in this regard than she can not help, and contents herself until educated help can he had withmaking use of copious draughts of hot water and of soothing sweats. As unw.to as it Is to adinhiistor other medicines iu ignorance, it is to take tho va- - nous patent medicines prescribed oy uo one in authority, and conip mnded of no ono knows what those things that are recom-mended for the "blood" tonics, purifiers and universal cure-all- s nnule in reality, and as a general thing of tho strongest drugs and tho vilest alcohol, and capable of producing" the worst results in the system, even to the Inflammation of the stomach, the induration of tho liver, the weakening of the heart and the dogonoration of the kidneys, every one of which evils can bo wrought without the patient's knowledge of what is going on mitil the end approaches. The youth who is "treating" and being treated by his companions, with tho idea thaf be is making a man of himself, his father, who is taking a "little some-thing" for his stomach's sake before din-ner, are both, even If in perfect health now, doing the same thing for their vital organs that the paten t medicines are doing for those bo are not In perfeol hualth, aj.d both are the reaultof ignorance, and should be corrected equally. As no one nowadays would think of taking calomel in the huge doses formerly given, and icarve-l- y at all without a physician's ordor, and even then, possibly, with some doubt and questioning, bo it tuny come to pass that in time the patent medicine and the un needed stimulant will be looked at with similar distrust and disfavor. If one is so "poorly" as to feel the need of a stimu-lant, which is, after all, of but temporary relief; If one is miserable and does not know what the matter is the only course to be pursued is to call in a practitioner whose business it is to be familiar with such affairs, and who, with patience and obe dionce on the part of the sufferer, will put things into as nearly right shape lis it is' possible they should be. We are apt to say that to call a doctor is to make ourselvos ill, in accordance with the old epitaph begin ning: "I was well; I wanted to be better," forgetting that it would not have occurred to us to call a doctor at all if we had nut been ill already ; and that, at any rate, ono whose business lt is to know, as it is the doctor's, Is more presumably safe in the di-recting: of such affairs than one who, lino ourselves, know nothing about the way in which we are '.o fearfully and wonder-fully made. Eternal though the life beyond the Ki'ave, there is but one life here, and that has to be lived In connection with the body; and it would seem that at the slight-est hint of disaster to this so necessary body, we should put the care of ltint itho hands of those most skilled in such matters, and not run the riBk of partin g with it, or of doing it an irremediable damage. A HORRIBLE PENALTY. Before the barbai ism of Hindoslan liad been subdued by English law and custom, the following mode of assas-sination was not uncommon. The murderer would kill one of a pair of cobras and drag the body of the snake along the ground into tue bungalow, over the floor and into the veiy bed of the victim. After a few moments the dead snake, having accomplished the purpose of leaving a murderous trail to the sleeping couch of the victim, would be thrown away. The dead cobia's living mate would invariably follow the trail to the bed , when it would coil itself at rest. waiting to strike the sleeper There was an escape from the pen tentiary about 50' clock last evening, but fortunately the runaway was his liberty not extending over two hours. During the afternoon several convicts huddled close to the nail, ostensibly to keep in t,ie shade; but, as it transpires, in reality to shield Irom the eves of the guard some of their number, who were digging a hole through the wall. The men worked well; At the hour named one passed through the opening to the outside. The inten tion was for others to follow, but the alarm being given an end was put to further escapes. Off.cers immediately started in pursuit of the runaway, and by 7 o'clock he was rounded up in the brush near the pen and relumed to his old qtiaiters. Flynn has served a term of of two years for burglary, but yesterday's proceedings will deprve him of credits and prolong his liiipiisoniueul somewhat. 1 leiald 17. " |