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Show CHAPTER III. large gum trees waved their feaLtry Far away in the interior of New foliage in the evening air, and a icand South Wales, not many miles from the borders of South Australia, there is a lovely stretch of country which, at the first glance, a stranger would imagine to be one vast plain. It is a beauti- fully undulating country in reality, valwith low hills and and leys, belts and clumpd n't shea-oapine, and large lagoons, which, when filled by the winter rains, are the resort of the various wild-fowith which the country abounds. Some of the valleys contain vast stretches of dense scrub, whilst others present a tempting pasture for the herds of kangaroos. In some parts where dams have been made to save the water, there are huts and sheep y where yards, and solitary men dwell, tending the floeks committed to their care, seeing no living soul for months together, and wishing to see none. These hatters, as they are termed, frequently go raving mad, and the generality of them are moody, creatures who have almost lost whatever humanity they once possessed. Facing these great plains, and nestling under the brow of a lofty hill on the Barrier Ranges, was a station consisting of a comfortable dwelling-housbuilt from the boulders which lined the creek close by, a number of men's huts, a sheep and cattle yards and paddocks the last stretching out from the Range for several miles Into the plains. To the weary swagsman," who had ekirted the Range from the last station for over twenty miles on a blazing hot day, with his roll of blankets slung aerose his shoulder and his billy in his hand, the sight of Redmount Station was a moot welcome one inwide-spreadi- k far-awa- crack-braine- d e, wool-she- deed. The tall blue gum trees which marked the lrre.uBar line of the creek as It debouched from the gully In the hlllB were visible for a great distance, d and, to the traveler toiling on towards them, it sernred as if they were never to be reached. I3utf when one those trees were pruned, the knowledge of the certain food and rest to be obtained beneath them cheered the fainting spirits, and the hard days tramp was coon forgotten in the comfort of the traveler's hut and the stimulating draughts of smoking tea. . Mr. Charles Ilall was the owner of Redmount, and lord not only of hundreds of square miles of country surrounding it, but of the countless flotka and herds which grazed thereon. Here he lived with his wife and family, perfectly happy and contented, and far away from all excitement, political or "otherwise, their lives passed wholesomely among the rural pursuits and interests with which they were surrounded. What v.as it to them that there was a change of government in England, a fortune lost or won upon the Derby, or a new plot against the czar? What did they cure about the life of the old woil l? Less than nothing! A good lambing season, a heavy clip, a rise in wool, an occasional run down to Melbourne or Sydney, were matters of far keener interest to them than all the squabbles or rejoicings of the people of the old country. The owner of Redmount had left England, with his young wife, nearly twenty years previously, and, after the usual amount of struggling inseparable from a colonists life, lmd setted down and prospered. IBs family consisted of two fine grown lads and a girl, who were rapidly becoming more and more useful to him. The elder son. Jack, though only just nineteen, already stood to his father quite in the place of an overseer on the the run; younger, George, was still at college in sore-foote- background of precipitous hills formed a splendid contract to the plains across which Mrs. Hall strained her eyes in vain. The sun had just gone down behind the hills, and only the brows of the dark peaks were tinged with its last of sheep which had rays. that day been shorn were bleating as they streamed out from the yards where they had all day been imprisk oned. Horses grazed in the home close by, side by side with the while shouts from the yards told that the men had not yet d from their labors. Mrs. Hall called out pres?il:try, ently, as she heard some one moving al out inside the house, is that you, dear? Yes, mother, replied a tall girl as she stepped out through a French window on to the veranda. Poor dear mother, you must be quite knocked up! I am tired, darling, admitted Mrs. Hall. Has Jack come up from the shed yet? No, not yet, answered the girl; hut supper Is quite ready, and he wont be long now, I expect. I do hope that your father will come home tonight. He said he would be ten days perhaps. It is now a fortnight since he left. I wonder whether he will have managed to get a cook, said Mary, as she sat on the edge of the veranda at her mothers feet. All this cooking is quite wearing you out. You ought not to have to do it. I shall be all right after a good night's rest, and if only your father would come hack! Can you see nothing of him, Mary? No, not a sign, said the girl, hut here Is Jack, sooner than I expected. Now let us go into supper, and begin. A stalwart sunburnt youth strode up the garden path, and tossing his cabbage-tre- e hat upon a chair, threw himself at full length upon the grass-pla- t. Tiiou.-and- s pad-doc- milk-cow- a. cea-c- lithe-looki- ho exclaimed, Well, Polly, Im just baked, I ran tell you! I wish the governor would hurry home. Leaving me all the shearing to look after is no catch! All this broiling afternoon Ive been drafting out strangers, and working just like a nigger. Mothers bC'U working hard, too, said Mary reproachfully. And she doesnt grumhe, like you do. No, by Jove; but then the maters an angel! he answered, springing to bis feet and throwing his arms around his mothers neck. I hot no angel ever cooked dinner for seventy men, with the thermometer at a hundred and ten in the shade, without a murmur! Oh, Im not to he irreverent, mother? tVell, I wont, to please you; but upon my word it was a shame of that brute Johnson to go oil at a moments noat the very busiest time. tice, juNeer mind. Jack, interrupted Mrs. Ilall, as she leaned her head back over the rail on the lounge-chaand clasped her hands behind her neck. Dont talk so much, but look out with your young eyes and see if your father is not coming in the distance. Or, in other words," said Jack, Si dor Ann, sister Ann, laughing do you see some one coming?' No, mother, no one neither Bluebeard nor the governor. Talking of blue, I wonder what our new cordon bleu will be like. Drink like a fsh and swear like a trooner, I suppose, as they all do. Perhaps father wont have got one at all, observed Mary; and, if eo, I Pity you all, for Im going to try my hand at cooking. I stood with my noce close to the meat safe today to Sydney. break myself into the smell of raw Shearing had commenced and every- meat, which alv.aye make me feel more body on the station was hard at work. or less ill. Mrs. Hall had been busy the whole day Pshaw you might as well be an long cooking for the men, for they had girl! said Jack scornfully. English been unfortunate enough at thin seawere anything like a trump If you son, of all others, to lose their cook. kill as wrell aa cook Jennie Mr. Hall had been absent fron home youd for the past two weei-sBusiness had Smith does. Never mind; we don't want Mary taken him away to Mtlhoimip, hut that night he was expect' d horn". The to b" quite suth a masculine person aa day had been cxeee'l'pqly hot, thouh Jenn'e, intei posed Mrs. Hall; which forih a rejoinder from Jack It was only the middle .if riibi p hi on; Smith was no end of a and Mrs. Hall was so therou'iily tud ti t pood fellow, after which he suddenly out with her exertion Hint she vc iTmepihored that he was hungry, and resting cn a lounge chan' in the veranda, anxiously w;.rh'g the track added hurriedly round the foot of the Range in the But Im ready for supper, if you hope of seeing her husband in the are. Ill just run in and wash off some distance. From where she sat the ef this dust, and be with you in a few prospect was lovely indeed. From the momenta, and Mr. Jack swung himbouse a spacious garden fui! of shrubs self through the veranda and disaporange and lemon trees, and Er.rlisu peared within the house. with flowers, mingled evn'ms, e stretched down ttm to a bubCHAPTER IV. h over whea the bling stream. Higher up the gully Supper was ir . : hili-sul- well-nig- ng barking of dogs announced a late arrival. Thats father! cried young Jack. I thought hed be here tonight. Ill run down to the tuts and meet him, and elf he darted in the direction of the sounds. After the first ostburct of welcome had subsided, some fifty questions had been asked, and Mr. Hall had somewhat satisfied his hunger, he said And now that I have told you all my news, how have you been getting on in my absence? Shearing going ahead all right, Jatk? ce, father. Nothing much to growl about. Pretty fair clip so far, I think. But you havent told us yet whether you get the m.uried couple you promised to look out for in Melbourne Veil, I have, and I havent, replied Mr. Hall, leisurely lighting his It is the hardest job in the pipe. world to get hold of anybody. I saw several couples in town, but they wore all so precious independent that i made me quite savage. One lot would not come so far into the bush; another wanted to know whether I allowed beer and washing. One likely fellow had six scial children no drawback on the place here, knowing that he might leave me in a few months for five shillings a week more wages at the next station? At last 1 dropped across a veiy decent young fellow, just out from the old country, with a young wife and no encumbrances. But what did you mean by you have and you havent? Mrs. x poyl SLiGHTLV MIXED. Account of the Mummies in th rs. TPinkhcm, jCirm, 97 ass. Tjo 97 British Moeeum. It la yet unfathoiaed what was the that made a boy, writing an reasoning account of the British museum, sa? that the mummies were "Pharaohs soldiers that were drowned in the Red Girls mix their religion with sea. their cookery lessons, says CornhiL Magazine. A diocesan inspector, who asked, Why did Elijah pour water on To the sacrifice? was answered, asked he When sir. make the gravy, the names of the three creeds, he was told, Apostles, Lyceum and Farinaceous. Similarly, the early Roman Christians were said to have frequented the "Capsicums, and a famous Dore picture was described as In Christ Leaving the Petroleum. was board a trying inspector Croydon, to elicit the name of the weapon with which Samson killed the Philistines. What is The children were dene. his hand this? he suggested, laying on his cheek. They caught on in a moment. The jawbone of an ass, sir. Some ludicrous answers result from dialect. A hoy In the west was readher an zang ing. Her male zat Now. what is the suba zweet zong. Zider, zir. ject of the sentence? the readBlenheim of Battle In The The the line. to plowshare led ing Turns what out? ' turns them out. What are skulls. The skulls, zir. Bones of the ed without the mate on n, zir. , e Friendly Relations Established. Ilall. How is your suit with Miss George I mean this the man tells me his De Pink progressing? wife is in too delicate a state to do any Jack Finely. When I call now her work. His name is Thomas Baynes dog wags its tail. Stray Stories. and he says he can cook well and is FREE. handy about the house. I didnt see inform your renders that for the his wife, but I engaged him at seventy Kindly a sample box of next BO days ne will pounds a year, on condition that, if our wonderful f DROPS Salve free, his wife grew stronger, she should as- which never fads to cure Piles, skin diseases, sist you in any light work needle- Eczema and all and also old running fjjJOj chronic work or something of that descrip- sores. for It is a specific tion. No doubt when they get settled Piles, and the only one in and used to the life they will shake existence which ghe.-- instant relief and down all right. I must say I was taken cures within a few days. Its effect is wonto Burns, Scalds, Sunderful when with the lads appearance, so I hope it burn, Boils, applied Atwesses, Scrofulous Affecwill turn out satisfactorily. tions, Scalp Humors. Chafing Parts and Surfaces. Prepaid by mail 25 and 50e What a pity the wife is so deli- ltaw er box. Wide today for a free sample ot cate! said Mary. And when are they DROPS Salve to rho Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co., biota' E. Lake St., Chicago. 111. coming up, father? They started before me, but I overA book published in Japan 1,000 years took them on the road, returned Mr. notes at that time pood silk was alago Hall; and they arrived at Sullivans in twenty-fivprovinces ol ready e in the coach this even- that produced country. ing. I had no time to stop and see Truth would grow and be more healthful them, but asked Sullivan to send them and good looking if she got more air and on tonight in hie buggy, so I suppose exercise. will be here very shortly. they Poor creature! remarked Mrs. GREAT TAMMANY LEADER. Hall. How will she stand bush life (The Catarrh of Summer.) if she is such a sickly thing? You say New York, Oct. 11, 1S9S. they are young people? Drug M'Fg Co.. Columbus, O.: Yes, quite young. He told me he Gentlemen is good for cawas twenty-threbut he hardly looks I have tried it and know it. It tarrh. it. However, you will be able to judge relieved me immensely on my trip to for yourself very soon. Oh, theres he exclaimed, hailing a Long Bill! etation-han- d who had just come up to the veranda. How dye do, Bill? Has a buggy come up from Sullivans with a man and his wife for the station? Thats all right see them settled in the hut next the mens kitchen, will you? Give a look after them, and make them as comfortable as you can. They are new chums, not used to roughing it much yet, I expect, and no doubt will feel strange at the start. I have been to see after them, eir, replied Bill, eo far as the young man would let me, but he seems mighty independent, and says he can do for himself. Well, thats something strange in a new chum, said Mr. Hall, laughing; but it is a hopeful beginning. If Congressman Amos J. Cummings. you are passing his hut, tell him to get Cuba, and I always have a bottle in the mens breakfast at seven sharp to- reserve. Since my return I have not morrow. and I will go down and give suffered from catarrh, but if I do I him a look in afterwards on my way shall use again. Meantime you might send me another bottle. to the shed. Amos J. Cummings, 51. C. YTours, Long before midnight the whole staSummer catarrh assumes various tion appeared to be wrapped in slum- forms. It produces dyspepsia and ber, and not a light was to he seen. bowel complaint. It causes biliousness The very sheep-dog- s snored and and diseases of the liver. It deranges dreamed as dogs do dream after a tho kidneys and bladder. Summer cahard days toil, rounding up their tarrh may derange the whole nervous med-iea- 1 flocks and hunting back refractory system, when it is known to the as systemic catarrh. profession subjects to the yards, just as they had is a specific for all these forms been doing the livelong day. never disapof catarrh. Every human being on the station points. Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio, for a free book on summer slept Save one. Upon a rude bench outside a hut catarrh. near the mens kitchen sat a darkThere are few synonyms in tlielanguage eyed youth, looking upwards into the For instance, a doctor charges ?3 and a starry sky. physician" fo. The same J marks the difTears were slowly trickling down his ference between lawyer and attorney. face, and he rocked himself to and fro, There is a tombstone in a New England struggling to suppress his sobs. Preswith an inscription w hich reads : graveyard ently he arose, and, clasping his hands I wanted to be better. Here was I well, above his head, as if in the very agony lam. of his soul, he murmured How will it all end? Oh, merciful Supreme Court Sustains the Foot' Ease Trade Mark. Heaven, how will it end? Justice Lanehlln. In Supreme Court, Buffalo, ha ordered a permanent Injunction. alth costs, and a Then he entered the hut. full accounting of sales, to Issue against Caul B. (To be Continued.) Hudson, the manufacturer of the foot powder called Or lima to e public-hous- Pe-ru-f- ia rihKUAH no. 41.207 Dear F riend year ago I was a from weakness. female sufferer gTeat My bead ached all the time and I would get so dizzy and have that all gone feeling in the stomach and was so nervous and restless that I did not know what to do with myself. 3Iy food did me no good and I had a bad case of whites. I wrote to you and after taking Lydia E. rink ham's Vegetable Compound as directed, I can truly say that I feel like a new woman and cannot tell you how grateful I am A to you. I have recommended it to all my friends ami have given it to my daughter who is now getting along splendidly. Mayvoulise many tears to help our suffering sisters. Mbs. C. Carpester, 253 N. Y. Grand iSr., Brooklyn, Over eighty thousand such letters as ihi.s were received by Mrs. lhnkham during 1 S97. Surely this is strong proof of her ability to help suffering' women. IMPORTANT a.-k- , his. LAW POINT. Has Just Been Established for California Fig Syrup Co. An important decision has just been rendered in San Francisco in the United States Circuit Court, in the case California Fig Syrup Company vs. Clinton E. Worden & Co., et al. The principal defendant is a large nonsecret manufacturing concern. A permanent injunction has been granted enjoining the defendants from using the name Syrup of Figs, or Fig Syrup and ordering them to pay the costs and account for damages. The decision is of the greatest value, not only to manufacturers of proprietary articles, but to the public generally, as It affirms that the valuable reputation acquired by an article of merit, will be protected by the Courts, f.nd that the party who builds the reputation by extensive and legitimate advertising, is entitled to the full fruits of his enterThis confirms the title of the prise. California Fig Syrup Co. to this genuine and most valuable remedy, Syrup of the of Figs. And men's It's a sii k tears' are women's tears. That Dull, Awful Pain. (mo it. Avoid it. Tascarotg Candy Cat ti tic giv e quick ulier and prevent bead acLes if tautm in nine. Alt di uj.giMs lue, 2.c, oOo. li Pe-ru-- na e, SAIT LAKE CITY GIRECTOJY. IMPLEMENT GO, UTAH Mitchull rm! Spring lYagons. Kushforti I arm aums. a mi 1 ui Hiiirjr Colombia Crown K.ilh r Hearing Mowers, i n Rih ami M U Ko!I'r Him rinq; H r Oshorne KaUe. i Pure Mam! i w im1. Hearing Iffimigti Oil. Hriie for Panii itlarn. A. ! TTANTFO win that IM Cast of turf health i nits to 1. pans Chemical ork,for iu bui.nco hud l,wu testimonials. Dot b.MUPt. Co., 2ew IS YGOE? HflZI Send it by mail and lino it hound hollow ground, and sot ri'ndy fur use for cents. Me w linndiesput on forLic nts. Satetv Razors cents. Clippers sharpened . r, 11 Ho V-- 1 j yvN'v. 5 work returned leii.r-,- postpaid in rni! ART GRINDING Ht Uflrtii. ES 1203 Centra! Ave., CINCINNATI, O. ADLISHIVU-IN- Pe-ru-- Pe-ru-- na Pe-ru-- I know One Exception. theres a good deal said about sandy foundations, observed the metaphysical boarder, but sand makes the best foundation for a prize fighter. Still, objected the argumentative boarder, you cant build a prize fight on anything but rocks. Chicago Tribune.- - Clark's Foot Powder, and also against a retail dealer of Brooklyn, restraining them trom making or selling the Ir. Clark's Foot Powder. hkh Is declared. In the decision of the Court, an Imitation and infringement of "Foot Ease, the powder to shake into jour shoes for tired, aching feet, now so largely advertised and sold all over the country. Allen s. Olmsted, of Le Ro, I. Y., Is the owner of the trademark "Foot r ase," and he Is the first Individual whoever adtertlsed a foot powder extcuslve'y over the country. He will send a sample F Fee tenv one who writes him for It. tie decision in this case upholds his and renders all parties Hauls who fradulentlv attempt to profit by the extensive "Foot Ease" advertising. In placing upon the market a spurious and similar appearing preparation, labeled and put up In envelopes and hoxes like Foot-Ea- se. Blmllar suits w ill be brought against others wbo are now Infringing on the Foot Ease trademark and eoUtrou law i ,gUss. 1 trade-mar- Nothing but wheat; what you might call a sea of wheat. Is what was said by a lecturer speaking of Western CanFor ada. particulars as to routes, railway fares, etc., applv to Superintendent of Immigration. Lepartmer t Interior, Ottawa. Canada, or to C. J. 1223. Monadnock Block, Chlcagj,Broughton, Hi. Epvorth League NATIONAL COKYENTIQH. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., JULY 2023, 1899, ....ONLY..., Fare Round Trip Except that from One within 33 miles the exrursioupoints fare will be On. and One-thir- d Fare for Hound Trio not to exceed one dollar. .YIA. BIG FOUR wl b on Mile from all point. Jnly 19, 20. 81,ua From all points within 75 on 7 19. 80, SI, 8 riid'a 3, 189? P Ketornin tickets will h. leave to Jul7 th with atoproviso that If i.ekets are with Joint deposited Avent at Indianapolis not than July and payment of fee oflater cents 50 Sth, at time of deposit, tickets may b. extendedthe to Jidlanapolis to and Including August Uf X8U9 For full Information regarding tioltets, rate rutfS nil time of trains, call on agents Big Four Route," or addrets the undersigned. f.1.7 E. 0. MeCORMICK, Vus, WARREN J. LYNCH, 5 flue Iran Ifr. tut. e.s. Put, CINCINNATI, O, ik |