l~ -f-4-tir nan "Wm vm wood and poles for corral bu&ding* I.OVE CONQFEKS.1? THE YUMA8. the truth ere long. He obtained an b\. greatly surprised to hear of your marriage. possible that a man who seemed so W H- They do ail the odd chores of the towijof introduction, after some difficulty, and noble, so refined as you, could have Ckaraetericttea of tfce Cfcllftren of the Yuma, and work on the river boaty' slowly made his way into the good given rein to his baser nature even for She paused, and her eyesrested upon lies upon the bare hillside, -Colorado BeaertA Dying Race. and as stevedores of the several land-^ graces of the mother. The daughter A shepherd youth in slumber lost a few years. I had idealized you, you Mrs,. Stanley's face. Milton Stanley's ings. They are less addicted to th His thoughts in dreams are wandering wide, had objected to meeting him, on the see. But my mother assured me you eyes also were upon both faces. The At the time of the American occupation Yet still by early trouble tost. fiery cup than any other branch of the plea of her delicate health and her indisposition were not worse than other men, that expression of Miss Hall's was not of California the Yumas were to How can he dream of love and light red race on the continent. to entertain callers. {ook, I would never find my ideal in rieasant to see. There was a strange be found scattered over all the desert Thus lonely mid the shades of night? /V In one respect the Yumas are not But Mrs. Mills overcame her daughter's morality and that if I loved you too, in Delphie's eyes. What did bottoms of the Colorado and its tributaries. v4 wards of the governmenti. e., thej objections finally. I must not scruple to accept it mean? "I do not understand to Nestling in the warm sand of Behind a cloud enthroned on high receive no government aid, nor art Pa ir Dian leans in maiden thought "What she needs," she confided to your hand. She had brought me whom you refer, Miss Hall," Delphie the river flats, and perched on the they under any resident government She ne'er has heaved love's gentle sigh, Milton, "is to be brought out of herself. the most convincing proofs of your said, quietly and coldly. gravelly ridges adjacent, the children Though by immort al lovers sought. supervisor. Too poor to be robbed, She has brooded constantly over past. My own seemed spotless beside of the desert then reared their villages, Miss Hall smiled. "Do you not?" But as she leaves her cloud to-night, they are left to their own resources her father's death until she has become itmy experience was child's play throughout all the sandy barrens traversed she said. "Well, perhaps his name Endymion,s face arrests her sight. and strange as it may seem, they are an invalid, and a morbid one. I compared with your own sin-stained by the Great Red river and its may recall his memory. With new associates better off and happier than those tribea am sure the society of an agreeable career. I said, I love him well enough feeders, and now located in what is one forgets old friends sometimes. Was it his brow so calm and pale, better provided for by nature and chaperoned gentleman will do her good." to be his wife, knowing all this from His fair young face devoid of ]oy, known as Arizona, Mexico and California. I mean Count Lancaster's by the government. That made her swift descend the vale, other lips than his surely if my past Delphie's reluctance to meet him of But all that remains of the youngest son, Albert." And linger by the sleeping boy? rises before him in the future he will course increased Milton's interest in Colorado Bedouins are to be found today Every particle of color left Delphie's Till lips that ne'er knew human bliss Faithful Mrs. Garrett love me well enough to overlook it. If her. And her languid indifference during on the California side of the river face as Miss Hall pronounced this Have tasted an imortal's kies. I forgive so much he will forgive so little. their first interviews added fuel to above Fort Yuma and below and about name. But her voice was steady as Cleveland Leader. But I overestimated the strength Love makes her choice, we know not why. the fire she had already kindled in his the mouth of the Gila. she replied, "I remember Albert Lancaster John W. Garrett had an iron will, True love will ever find its own of your love. I forgot that my judge heart. He was really in love with the very well but he is deadhe Though sickness rarely visits the Yumas, but his wife ruled him, although shfl Whether do n-leaning from the sky was a man." girl, and so he told Mrs. Mills one day, died three years ago." and epidemic never, though they did it in such a way that the old man Or reaching up to heights unknown. and asked her if he might try to win never kmew the waste of serious and "Yes, I know. His friend, Angus She paused, and Milton stood silent never knew it. During the forty years Diana's vestal heart is won Delphie as his wife. protracted war, and though, since the Merriam, told me all about it. He was and abashed before the beauty of her of their married life the two nevei When she beholds Endymion. advent of the Americans, they have enjoyed Mrs. Mills could scarcely conceal her with him the night he was killed." face in its fine scorn and the power of slept a night apart, and I think Mrs. The Academy. a full measure of peace and delight. She had investigated Milton's Then turning to Mr. Stanley she said: her eloquence. Garrett's death hastened that of hei wTife plenty, yet the tribe has steadily decreased social standing and financial condition "It was very sad, was it not? Of course He had always fancied that his husband. For some years back Mr. HEE SECEET. in numbers and, if the decrease and found him a most desirable alliance Mrs. Stanley has told you all about was ignorant of his past. Now to suddenly Garrett had been in bad health from is not checked, the native denizens for any ambitious woman. it? Yes, no doubt it was Fate, and learn that she had married him overwork, and the physicians had prescribed of the desert must shortly mingle "But you must approach Delphie kind Fate for you." Then Miss Hall with a full knowledge of those years of that his meals should be regular, BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. with its sands to disappear forever. most carefully," she said. "She is moved away to another part of the reckless folly and disgraceful adventures and that business should not be From the New York Mercury. In 1849-50, the Yumas are supposed strangely averse to the attentions of room. covered him with shame for himself talked at the table. Mrs. Garrett saw When Milton Stanley sent up his to have numbered some 6,000 souls. gentlemen, and has a queer idea that Milton Stanley looked his .wife full and adoration for the woman who that these rules were carried out, and Fifteen years ago they numberedby card to Alice Hall that morning, he intended she will never marry. You can of in the eyes without speaking for a could forgive so much, who could love whenever the lunch or dinner time arrived, actual countsomething over 3,000. course win her if you are patient. I second. Her face was snow white, but so much. it made no difference if Mr. to ask that young lady to be They now number in the neighborhood am sure no woman could resist you. her glance did not quail, though there Garrett was in the midst of the most She had known it all this time, and his wife before he left the house. of 1,500 all told. The cause of this But you may spoil all if you are too was murder in his. important conversation, on business yet never had referred to it once, and He had reached that stage of ennui frightful decimation should be ascertained. bold. Remember how sheltered her involving millions, with guests whom how petty and mean he seemed beside "Are you ready to go home?" she In the judgment of your correspondent life has been. We sent her abroad which comes to every man with a soul the President would delight to honor, her. His sense of wrong gave way to asked wearily. it can be ascertained and with a chaperone a year before her she would call them to the table and a feeling of overwhelming humility and "Certainly, if you desire to go," he who lives a life of license and freedom regiedied. father's death, to deatheducates be in in a gentle way would admit of no refusal. love. He looked up and reached out answered coldly. into the thirties. The apples of Sodom hi5* she ha not Pasqual, a grand old man of his Paris and since Mr. Garrett or his friend might his arms. No word was spoken on that homeward turned to ashes in his hands, and kind, the present chief of the Yumas. been in society at all, of course so she ask for just one minute more, but the drive. It seemed interminable "Delphie, can you ever forgive me?" every pleasure palled upon him. He is supposed to have long since passed really is a most unsophisticated child kind old lady would reply in the gentlest to both husband and wife. he cried. his centennial year, and, though bearing quite unlike most American girls of tones: '-These are our rules "and As they entered their bright warm had decided that marriage, being the "Can you ever love me again?" all the marks of great age, he is twentjr." Mr. Garrett has promised that they parlors, Delphie's face looked worn and She sprang into his embrace, and only experiment he had not yet tried, still erect and healthy. shall be kept." At the table it was the All this was sweet music to Milton's haggard in the gaslight. She sat down their lips met in a long ki& of reconciliation. was the one pathway to happiness left Whatever there is of government same. If the guest or John W. Garrett ears. Fate had sent him the very before the glowing grate and threw open to him. among the Yumas assumes the patriarchal would break out in some business ideal of his dreams at last. How delicious back her costly robes. Milton stood form, but there is so little to exclamation or suggestion Mrs. Garrett would be his task of teaching before her with folded arms, his face And Alice Hall was a girl whom he How French Women Dress. govern, and that little so wanting in \y_puld at once Qbject, and the Jnilroad that sweet girl the lessons of love. cold with anger, his eyes murderous. admired, a belle, of good family and u* aggressiveness of any kind, good or Presld'ent at the head oftlie table He sent her flowers and books, and "Well," he said and waited. The chief point to note about the popular socially. She would make a ill, that government is a myth so far would laughingly call attention to the delicate dishes to tempt her appetite, "Will you sit down?" she answered, dress of a Parisian woman, no matter wife of whom he could be proud. He as observation may determine There manner in which he was domineered and, by a superhuman effort, lemained motioning him to a seat. what her station in life may be, is its is a gigantic fellow who holds the office and would begin to talk of other subjects. away from her side himself for days. would settle the dilemma of his life at "No," he said, "I will never sit down appropriateness. She does not wear of constable by appointment of the territorial Mrs. Garrett was a plain, moth5rly Then he joined herself and her mother in this house again until this is explained as costly garments usually as the once and ask her to be his wife. alcalde or magistrate, of Yuma, woman, full of quiet charities asd on the beach, and begged permission satisfactorily. If my house is American of the same social class, but Yet, when he left the house half an and who acts among the Indians on as thoroughly wrapped up in her husband to read aloud to them from a new disgraced I never want to sit down they are always thoroughly suitable both sides ot the river. This fellow, hour later, he had not asked her the as he was in her. khe was book he had just procured. under its roof again." to her position and to the occasion on acting under the guidance and by permission wrorn. A French posted on much of his work, and during And slowly the wooing sped. momentous question and mentally "I have brought no disgrace to you," which they are to be of his chief Pasqual, with the her latter years he did much of his Delphie grew to watch for his coming, she answered, with a red spot flaming thanked the fates that he had not. elegante, for instance, will neither go chief himself, are the only limbs of the work at home in his library with several and yet she often refused to see into her cheeks. shopping in a velvet costume nor to a She was not the woman for him. law or government noticeable. telegraph operators about him. him when he came. Her shyness grew "But I have wronged you, perhaps. wedding or official reception in a cloth The fact was. when Miss Hall came Many of his caller^ she would receive Many changes have come over the with her interest, and Milton was more I should have told youI meant to jacket or cashmere gown. She never and dismiss without their ever bothering down to greet him, she had returned land, and many generations have and more charmed. tell youbut I was overruled." goes out on foot in superb and showy him. She was seldom absent from bloomed and fruited and passed away the pressure of his hand by a gentle "In this age of blase missis, it is refreshing "Go on," he said. apparel, or appears at a ball in a dark his room, even during the most important during the chieftaincy of Pasqual. The to see a young woman like your yet warm clasp of her own, and she She drew a long breath. "I was so silk made high in the neck and with conversation*, and she wound old man has outlived his nation and daughter," hesaidtoMrs. Mills. "But had taken a seat beside him on the youngonly sixteen"she began, long sleeves. Etiquette forbids her receiving herself so closely about every fiber of whatever the totem of chief may have I really cannot curb my impatience "when I was sent abroad with a divan. She had never before been even the most intimate of her the old man's nature that when she been when it came to him in the infancy longer. I must know my fate." chaperonea lady who had three guilty of such familiarity, and although gentlemen friends in her morning dress, died, about two years ago, his machinery of the present century, it is now the Delphie came into the room as he young girls in charge. We were to be he came with the unspoken intentions though this rule has been lelaxed of did not work and he finally merest cypher, having no semblance of spoke. Her mother drew her to her educated in Paris. Albert Lancaster of a lover in his heartso long as he had late in favor of the very superb morning succumbed to the loss. power, dignity or profit. side. was on the ship. He was young and toilets of brocade and satin and not spoken, he felt that she was scarcely All that remains of Pasqual's dying "Delphie," shesaid, "Mr. Stanley has handsome and he selected me as the lace, which have been concocted for modest to exhibit her regard so free- tribe may be found, as before stated, something to say to you. You know especial object of his flattey. I was In the Women's Gymnasium. morning wear by the leading Parisian grouped in little cantonments along y. Then in looking over a collection my wishes. Now let nothing influence startled and pleased and interested, as dressmakers. These, however, are the river bottoms at Fort Yuma. No Bos'on Transcript you but your own heartremember, any young girl at my age might have of pictures which lay on a stand near simply reception toilets for morning group contains abo\e a dozen families The first thing that impresses one your own heart. Nothing else is to be been. I never expected to see him by, he had noticed that she flushed instead of for afternoon wear. If she and many of them contain only three on entering the women's gymnasium considered for one moment." again after we left the ship. But one and looked embarrassed when he asked or four. Save the dog, they possess desires to go out on foot she dons the is their air of cheerfulness. Evidently day, a few months later, he met us as Afterwards Milton recalled the the name of one whose portrait represented no domestic animals, except here and simplest of costumes in dark cloth or it is a region where no one breaks records, we were out taking our daily exercise strange manner in which those words a man of striking appearance. there a scrawny mustang pony. They cashmere. Her purse or her desires and whose occupants disport under the supervision of a teacher. were said. am "A Mr. LedyardI knew him one wigwr build neither hut, tent nor themselves with a mind and body may make it and the same may be He bowed and smiled. I only blushed Mrs. Mills left them alone. For the Summer at the seashore," she said, but live or rather huddle together, in equally at ease. The effect of the gymnastic said of the dress in which she receives 'in return. Every week after that for first time in his life Milton Stanley frail shelters composed of sticks and suits is rather nondescript, and and hastily changed the conversation. several months he would manage to callers on her at "at-home" day. Her found himself trembling with fear in the showry and dried branches, supplemented by bits the spectator is at first constantly startled meet us. Now, like every man who has lived a theater bonnet much more presence of a woman. of old stovepipe and battered out coalojl by boyish figures in blouse waists dressy than her visiting^ one. For life of absolute freedom, who has tasted He stepped back of the chair in which "One day he came close behind us cans found from time to time among and Turkish trousers, surmounted by street wear she dons a bonnet of very she had seated herself. of every pleasure and broken all the and pressed a note in my hand. I the refuse of the fort and the neighboring feminine hairdressing and to an observer dark velvet or felt. In the matter of "Miss Mills, Delphie," he said, with read it when alone in my room. It commandments, Milton Stanley demanded settlement. Though sometimes of the costuming of the Harvard a tremor in his voice, "I love you I gloves and chaussure she is always irreproachable. was a respectful note, begging me to the utmost rectitude and the these shelters are roofed with gymnasium, whose only ornamentation want you for my wife. Will you let For evening dres3 the correspond with him. He desired to strictest observance of every rule of dried boughs, they are more often open consists of a pair of eye-glasses, me take care of you? You are the satin slippers and silk stockings precisely make my acquaintance honorably, as and clear to the sky. Thus housed the propriety in the conduct of a woman. the incongruity is heightened by an active ideal woman for whom I have waited. he had been unable to forget me since match the toilet with which they children of the desert dwell and men, gymnast with la.ee ruffles in her He had tempted innumerable women Can you learn to love me, do you that sea voyage. I was full of are to be worn. There was an attempt women and babiesromping boys and sleeves and bangles on her well developed to acts of imprudence and then despised think?" romance and folly, as most younggirls made at one time to introduce the growling dogs, sprouting maids and wrists. them for their weakness. He are. I heard all my companions She was trembling from head to foot. wearing of scarlet hose and black slippers grand-dads and granniesnestle together The feminine ta^te for adornment i3 had been the serpent in many a paradise, talking of love and marriage, and my He took her hands in his and bent with white evening dresses, but it in the warm sand, sans bed, not to be overcome even by athletics, noble young admirer seemed to me down and looked in her face. but had always gone forth, believing proved a total failure. Neither were sans blankets, sans everything. Yet and more than one pair of Indian clubs the Prince of Lovers. I answered his "You do love me?" he said. it was Eve who first suggested black slippers and stockings ever worn they possess and display the main attributes are jauntily tied with ribbon. They note and I dreamed of him day and "Yes," she answared almost in a in Paris Avith white or pale tinted ball plucking the apple. of happiness they are fat, are swung in the regulation manner, night. At last he planned an elopement. whisper. "Yes, but" dresses. That fashion, w^is n,oFrench cheerful, good-tempered, and contended.. "They are all alikeweak, frail, I however, and the girls pull chestweights I wae to meet him at a certain He caught her to his heart. it was possibly English, and unfortun vain," he sometimes said, and then, and swing on the flying rings time and placS ancl we were to be "You need say no more," he cried. ately it was American. pausing, remembered his sainted With as much skill aud much le,s solemnity While the higher marriage relation married, and I would then be Lady "You are mine." mother, and added: "No, there must than their brothers. They are would seem to be but feebly understood, Lancaster and live an enchanted At that moment Mrs. Mills returned. be another like her somewhere, one a pretty sight, with their free,' easy the family bond is complete and palace all my life. The very day I was Gen. Grant and Prince Bismarck. whom Providence intended for my movements and their fre^h color heightening filial affection may be found upon the to meet him I received a telegram announing They were married a few months Berlin Letter to Boston Herald. bride some sweet saint who is to lead with exercise, and are especially desert as tender and as strong as elsewhere. my father's death, and the later. Milton saw but little of his me up into a heaven of pure love and I asked the Crown Prince if he saw agreeable to the eye because of their They are a passhe" people, next day I learned that my lover had sweetheart in the meantime, save in I peace." infinite improvement upon the school much of Grant when in Berlin, and his the passions burn slowly, and the criminal been killed in a steeplechase the very the presence of her mother. Chafe as girl of a decade ago. instinct is dormant or nil. No Ah, yes! that was what he wanted. same morning. reply was: 'Yes and no and then he he might at this strict observance of discoverable moral code appears Some spotless angel on whom the There still exists schools, such as added that, while he saw him several conventional propriety, he could but "This is all the story, Milton. I gaze of man had scarcely fallen some among the Yumas Measured by the one we knew, where, at fortnightly intervals, yield gracefully, and in his heart was times, he did not see him often enough. have been foolish, but not guilty of unsophisticated embodiment of all the moral barometer, their stock rates low the pupils tied their sunbonnets a great joy thinking what a rare flower "It was difficult to find him at his any sin. I have lived to see how great feminine virtues, devoid of all the almost as low as that of the Caucasian on securely, and, under the care of several he had wona wife who had never my error would have been had I made hotel," said Fritz, "as he was always weaknesses of her sex, who should take savages by whom they have been teachers, walked down to the entrance passed more than half an hour alone that foolish marriage. It would have out sight-seeing when not attending receptions him, world weary and sin-stained as debased. Polygamy, however, is interdicted gate, walked back to the gardens, with even her accepted lover, and of broken my parents' hearts instead of he was, and lead him into happiness. or returning official calls." and never practced which in and out several times through course not that tune in the society of making them proud of my brilliant And it never occurred to him that I remember quite a military scandal fact, together with the observance of the prim, box-bordered paths, and then any other gentleman. alliance, as I imagined. And it would such a union would be unsuitableno, that occurred while he was here. The the family tie, would seem to indicate walked into the house again. At the For several months Milton was the have ruined my whole life." indeed. That was woman's mission officers and men on duty at the different the fragmentary existence of some definite end of the year, they were bleached happiest of men. He carried his bride "As you have ruined mine," Milton on earth. places had strict orders to treat moral principle, planted long anterior like go many f-talks of celery. It is to a quiet country resort, where she said, coldly. All my life I had an him with all possible honors, in to the coming ot the white man. As he went down the steps leading the good work of the gymnasiums to could regain her health and strength, ideal. A woman, spotless as snow, the way of salutes, turning out The Yumas are conservative in matters from Miss Hall's home, he felt a sense make such institutions anachronisms^ and where he could have her sweetness who had never loved, who was above the guard, etc. But the sentries of dress: tonsori.il art is also conservated. of anger and humiliation to think he all to himself. She seemed to growstronger deception, and whose name had never got it into their heads that the The men have nothing to had been almost betrayed into a confession Silk Rag Carpets. in the sunshine of his love. been associated with that of any man. ex-president of the United States shave, and both sexes permit the scalp of love by a woman who had Yet he often surprised her in tearstears I believed I had found her in you. I Ke^ York Herald would go about in great style in an covering to grow ad libitum. That of any memories connected with any which she could not explain. But Down in a dingy, dim and dirty little married you under this delusion. I open coach, like a sovereign, whereas the women showers down about them man which could cause her to blush was not that to be expected of abride? basement under a rickety old building have been a proud and happy man. I he was almost always on foot, and seldom in a hairy circle, broken only where and look confused at the mention of They invariably wept a great deal. So on the Bowery is carried on an industry have been a fool, a blind fool, to believe accompanied by more than one the hair is usually removed straight his name. Yet he had memories he he comforted himself. whose products are as beautiful you were worthy of the idolatrous or two persons. Well, the day he first across the eyes. The men throw their marriage9" could not mention in the presence of as they are fashionable. It is a new "Are you regretting our worship I gave you. You have deceived came to see me he sauntered along Unter long locks back from the forehead and any womenhosts of them. freak in fancy work and rather a sensible he would ask her, only to have her me from first to last. It was a den Linden in a nonchalent way, streaming in straight black lines down He rushed down to the seashore the one. cling to him and answer "Oh, no you carefully planned scheme of yours and and was past the sentries at the palace the back and shoulders, or falling in next day, to a quiet place, where he are so dear. I love you so," and after This new wrinkle is nothing more your mother's. I can never forgive doors before they saw him. Even long, thin plaits, after the fashion ot need not be vexed by the sight of a a time she ceased to weep and seemed nor less than a silk rag carpet. Old you." then they did not know him, and perhaps the ancient Egypt ans. Head-gear is crowd of frivolous and foolish women. very happy. silk dresses, sashes and ribbons are cut "I have not sinned," Delphie answered, would not have saluted him now known, but will never be popular. He did not know a soul and meant to up into little strips, the colors mixed They went into society and she was in a low voice. at all had it not been for the sudden The feet are always bare, except in the make no acquaintances aside from the indiscriminately together, and woven very popular and much admired, and "Caesar's wife must be above suspi- opening of the doors by the valets case of very old and infirm squaws, fishes on'VBlueFish Point." into a thick rug like a Turkey carpet. Milton was the proudest as well as the cion," he replied. who had been watching for his coming. when a strip of fibrous bark, fastened But before he had been at Surf Threads of gold and silver braid are happiest of men. Then the two soldiers came to a present, through the toes, over the instep and Suddenly she arose and faced him. Bay twenty-four hours he changed his run in to give the mass an occbsional General Grant threw away his cigar, around the ankles, with softened sinew She was very white and her eyes flared mind. glitter here and there. Then with Alice Hall had gone abroad almost lifted his hat to them and passed or green withes,formerly served as sandals. with a fire he never saw in them before. He met two ladies walking slowly on elaborate borders attached they are at once after Milton Stanley's marriage. indoors. The poor captain of the Now, howe\ er, sandals are usually Her rich wraps fell from her the beach one morningone a handsome hung up to act as portiers or window She returned a year later. guard, when he heard of this incident, formed of pieces of cast-away shoulders and her jewels glistened in matron in the early forties curtains. The two women met at a Mrs. 'Eg- was wild with rage and chagrin. He boot-legs, or saddle-skirts, fastened by the gaslight. She looked like some enraged one a delicate, refined looking girl bert's reception. It was Milton Stanley^ went so far as to punish one of the sentries, stray bits of bale rope, cordage, string princess. This little Bowery cellar is the only in her late teens. The latter did not first meeting with Miss Hall also and for this he was reprimanded or strips of rags obtained from passing place where they are woven. Little do "I, too, had an ideal once," she look at him, the former did. since that morning call. He .remembered in general orders. Wliat most struck boats or about the settlement over the the occupants of fashionable drawing said, "a man too noble to stoop to He had seen a thousand handsome it, and thanked the fates mentally me was Grant's utter disregard for all nver. rooms imagine that the pretty fabrics frivolity, with a will too mighty to girls, but never a face which attracted for saving him from the folly he things pertaining to the army. I had are made by the brawny Milesian, permit him to have been guilty of any The men are about the average of him, he said, after he went to his hotel. so nearly committed. His heart some trouble in inducing him to permit with spectacles and a black pipe, and act which I might not know. I met any white race in stature in fact a Who was she? swelled with love and pride as he looked me to give him a review of some of the that by the aid of two flickering candles you you sought me in spite of my reluctance short man is not to be found. Magnificently He was not long in finding out. at his fair, sweet wife. She was not garrison troops. set in the dust of the cumbrous to make your acquaintance. shouldered, broad-chested andstrong-limbed, "Mrs. 0. B. Mills and Miss Delphie as beautiful and striking as Miss Hall, loom he blends the colors together You insisted, you almost compelled with a springy gait and Mills, New York city." That was what "but she is a woman to love and trust with the eye of an artist. me to love you. I did love you. My a swinging stride, and straight and tall the hotel register said. A little inquiry and be proud of," he said, and went No English peer or peeress can be mother was your allyI confess it. as a larch, physically considered, the brought to light the fact that Mrs. over to her side. arrested for debt, need serve on juries, But do you know how she prevailed The yan-yan of the southern states Yuma is no ordinary man. Mills was the wealthy widow of a wellknown Miss Hall drew near them. on me to accept you as my husband, or be called out in militia, and they has been known to drop from the apex Like the camel, the Yumas seem to member of the New York bar. "I met a friend of a friend of yours without telling you the one folly of my do not swear on oath, but on honor, of its leaf, between sunset and sunrise, have sprung from the sands, or to have Ever since his death, three years previous, while abroad, Mrs. Stanley," she said, life? It was in this way: She had investigated enough water to fill a tea-saucer. The except when witnesses in any court. been made lor the barren waste. They the widow and daughter had smiling amiably as only a woman can your history, and she told "rain tree," thoi-gh growing in comparatively They can sit in any court in England are great, strong, muscular men, fleet been abroad. They had but recentlyreturned. when she is preparing to stab another. me of certain events .in your life, dry places, drops enough with their hats on, can wear a sort of and dogged, and capable of wonderful The young lady was in delicate "Indeed?" Mrs. Stanley responded, events which crimsoned my cheek with moisture in a night to make the surface uniform as peers, can carry arms, but endurance. health, but was highly accomplished and waited for Miss Hall to continue. shame while I listened, and caused me of the ground actually wet. These children of the desert are not in their pockets, and, if they commit and very amiable. "Yes. The gentleman said he knew to lie and weep through nights of wholly self-supporting. They raise treason or felony, they must be Fifty-eight pupils have been recommended This Milton proved to be less than of you through his friend. He was sleepless agony. I did not believe it corn, wheat, melons, pumpkins, yams tried by their peers. for graduation at the San Jose and vegetables. They cut and sell fife- state normal school.^ 'f *"jj 6 4 f4i *&> 3B ~UM vr 4K riS-^*-*: WA1-1 I