and to convince them that there was lftTHEsraixof imagine all they have taao Is to make sunshine directly under the window-? 'I found thegeneral alone. As I told s nigh outworn. no power at our headquarters to help ademarfd and by the size of their own She looked intently for a moment. It the details and circumstances of the Have all the songs been said? You sang a little song to-day tnem them, while there was all the disposition numbers to carry it through. case, I saw that he was greatly interested was a thick, ugly looking moccasin, yesterday Are all the singers dead? wacse It wasT not sad, it not gay er in the worldthis was indeed a in it. No greater mistake can be made. 8m fully five feet long. While she was gazing Is all the music fled?^p Th n,ef distressing task. I donlk want such And the men only realize it after they, my dear the vicious intruder raised its He asked several questions and I lovernsometaas8lovers ain K&^Two may na 'JpThe sum and aim of life another one. fg g} have gone on such a strike, when they head, and returned her stare with a could see that he was thinking hard raeet IlllEr ^t? musy not meet againtill morn! i~40w} dreary struggle, rife Some of these people went from me as I talked. find they need funds, discipline and look of intelligence. YJ |H The tlie IfSlrtl ^4 With greed and sordid strife? to Secretary Stanton, where%x di experience, as well as numbers. -they ,"And the officer is with McDowell?" It was a moccasin locality, "and Mrs. JC other's eyes again? were sure .to get rudely put off. 8kl" "Yes, sir." Matson did not care a snap of her finger The possession of all these elements ^Man Livin but a vast a dull routine machine, -v S come and find them here *fr eac mornin W% And a few, no doubt, wentfrom him 1 for a few snakes around her front enables the brotherhood of locomotive "What kind of people are they?" t'v5% ^ke any vane. Be -HH to President Lincoln and it is quite ^te door. She was accustomed to find engineers to win victory after "Apparently, very respectable farm- vee Of narrow purpose mean? ?^^-Alasl on thactayou are not clear likely that his great kind heart favorably heartsewill shift as winds will veer, er-folks." them in her flower beds, and sometimes victory. The want of them resulted ^W -Oh! while one leaf swings high responded to their distressful appeals. ov they made their way into the in the defeat of the telegraphers, "Show them in, Captain,' he said. Against an azure sky I think some sudden craze, ecstacy,v house, but on this particular morning though backed by the knights of labor. The father and son were introduced, Ifisf^f'^n' In springtime's Of rather a different kind from any she was not herself. She turned her and I left them alone with the General. To members we say: Avoid strikes, ^gS&'i Some bitter spirit befell their days of these were the two, applicants that There breathes yet the sublime, head and saw another snake. Their interview lasted full an hour. wait, have patience, organize more togethet lie their ways *$j$ Whate was tha plaintive minor for? There beats yet living rhyme, I am about to tell you of.l^ When they left, he came out into the thoroughly, discipline your forces. mor With* an uncomfortable shudder the fls?*$ ''Tis still the yonng world's prime. They were an elderly,' gray-"haired office with them and I heard him tell IS*H* Remote, perhaps, the lover strayB When you move, let it not be too early nervous little lady walked across the man, bent, and rather feeble, and his Perhaps the lady eomes no more. them to come the next day at that in the seasonMay 1 is early enough Nature has high Commands, hall into another room, and looked son, a lusty youngfarmer-looking person hour, and be sure to bring the young Bearsm gifts with lavish hands then if you go for more pay, go for out towards the garden. What was To hi who understands! ^.ySo strange the numbers sob and swell 4 of two-and-twenty or so, who exhibited woman with them. twenty-five cents more at a time. that dark thing just outside the fence? ^*j^l No there's no guessing what befell. Cornhill Magazine. all the shyness and diffidence There was a droll smile on the General's Don't be too greedy, or you may get There could be no doubt about it. It "f*|p I* is the sweetest song you sing so natural to one not used to mingle face when the visitors had gone. &&EW.Notsad, and yetI cannot tell beaten. Don't publish any notice ol was another snake. with the men of cities when he finds |v J^yj^-Not glad, and yet'tis very well THE SNAKE KING. "That's a hard case, Captain," he your demands in the daily papers, or By this time Mrs. Matson's blood Lik love like life, like anything. a himself cast among them. said. it will flood your city with idle men was up. Calling Sally, one of the servants, Macmillan's Magazine. found them one morning in a crowd "Very, sir." not alone that it discourages building. she sent her to the kitchen to that filled my office. They came up BY WALLACE P. REED. The better plan is to send out a order the cook's boy Joe to make a "And I really wish we could give these shyly, in their turn, and tojd their Mtoes From The War. committee, canvass the sentiment ol circuit of the house and kill every people a pass down to General McDowell's From the Constitution. story. your employers, reason with them, snake in sight, command." It was a sultry August morning,and It was the old story it had been and by moderate demands and "So do I, General." In two minutes Sally returned with John Maston was up early. He had How the General Managed It. told a dozen times to me that morning. sensible action you can win them over. "But we can't." a face almost bleached. along ride before him to Pyramid, If you cannot send out a committee, "Of course not, sir." "Joe done gone ter de fiel'," she They had a relative in General McDowell's and his young wife urged him to start then mail them a circular letter but BY JAMBS FRANKLIN FITTS. "Yet perhaps there is something said "an' cook already killed two big command. They wanted to E a committee is the more preferable. better that we can do?" with the rising sun, Vid return late in snakes in de kitchen, an' done shet de If I had the slightest doubt as to the see him and wanted a pass to go words the older Something better! What on earth -A"truth do'. I see five uf urn in de yard an' these1 Weigh well the afternoon, in order to avoid the woulfdthe story thahere is nowtto occurred be tol down. not appear I could he mean? I started at him. one under de steps." unions of our brotherhood know full midday heat. *f "No," I said. "No passes aregranted "The telegraph is in order down to The situation began to assume a well their importance. to civilians, ft can't be done." The Matson plantation stretched I ^outside of my war experience, and for Falmouth, Captain, is it not?" serious aspect. Mrs. Matson at once They hesitated, looked at each other, ifchat reason I should be very careful for miles along the Alabama river. "Yes, sir I have heard from there had all the doors closed, and proceeded Satisfactory Collateral. and acted as though they wanted this morning." to inspect the surroundings from in satisfying myself that it is authentic. The nearest white neighbor was ten to say something more, but didn't exactly San Francisco Wasp. "And could not a person leave by every window in the house. miles off, and it took three hours to know how to say it. .The crowd As a janitor of a bank not very the boat from Aquia Creek to-night What she saw appalled her. The reach the village of Pyramid. was surging back of them, and I told It was related to me by one of the far from the Palace, opened the door and get up here in the morning?" fierce rays of the sun made every object them to move on. They did so and he was surprised to observe three rather Matson and his wife stood on the Actors in it, whose word is sufficient I began to have a glimmering of his appear to pulse and throb, and I noticed that their faces were full of tired looking citizens saated on the purpose. half-blinded as she was with the glare, broad piazza, looking down the sloping i tfor all who know him. He was at the dissapointment and grief. But I presently steps, the center one of whom held a "Easily, sir," I said. it took some little time for her to lawn to the road, where Black Tom Crimea captain in one of the New York forgot them, in dealing with others sealed envelope carefully in sight ol 4 satify herself that she was not mistaken. "Well, Captain, we haven't ft in our who pressed forward. was waiting with the horse and buggy. "^cavalry regiments, and an Assistant his companions. power to pass these poor people down All the morning the crowd came v- Adjutant General to the military Far away to the right wreaths of dense "Want to make a deposit, gentle- to aee this recre.-int gentleman but Twisting and twining among the and went, and it was not till atternoon men?" asked the cashier, who shortly ^commandant at Washington. He does perhaps we can bring him up here. fog indicted the winding course of the flowers she counted at least a dozen that there was an interval to arrived. "Step inside." Telegraph immediately to General McDowell serpents. They dotted the lawn in jnot court publicity of this kind, but river. Not a breath of air stirred the breathe and think otsomething besides "No, I want to negotiate a loan," object to the mention of his a request to send Lieutenant front of the house and were crawling 4 4 "^M semi-tropical foliage of the trees, and saying '-no," and reading and indorsing said the man with the envelope, "and in arrest to these headquar- along the winding walks. In the shady aiame. It is Colonel T. E. Ellsworth, official papers that came to me. the atmosphere was laden with the there ain't a minute to lose. I want ters." back yard it was still worse. The little When that interval came, nobody $5,000 quicker'n Hades can scorch a t perfume of thousands of flowers and -of Lockport, New York. inclosure appeared to be a living, wriggling The General's happy thought had remained outside the railings but the fsatner." mass of shining scales and glittering 4 Such an incident as it was probably solved the whole difficulty. I knew aromatic plants. two men I have spoken of. I remembered "What collaterals have yougovernment?" eyes. Many of the snakes were from the instant he named it that the I" aiever occurred again in the waror "What does this mean?" said MatBon, them at once. inquired the bank official. running under the house, but how many thing was done. 4 before it. When it was first repeated They were probably encouraged by as several negroes turned in from "Government nothin'. I've got had already reached that place of I sent off the telegram at once and J,. 'to me it struck me as being the oddest being able to speak to me alone and something that beatesbeen 4-ner-centsinallgsittin shelter the frighten 1 watcher was unable the road, and approached the house, before I left the office that night an I4v a I presume I was less peremptory, with nd at the same time about the hapfies hollow. You see to tell. answer came from McDowell's adjutant bearing in their strong arms a limp the stress of the day's business gone. poker game across the street, and General, saying that the officer thing connected with the war Mrs. Matson retreated to the spacious and motionless figure. "Well," I said, "what is it? Haven't there's over $4,000 in the pot. There had just started for Washington. hall and clasped her hands over that I had ever heard. When it has you been to me once this morning? "Oh, John, it is a dead man!" exclaimed are three or four pretty strong hands her eyes. It was a peculiar noise that When I reached the officethe next been read the reader will no doubt The young fellow came forward as out, and as I've every cent in the center little Mrs. Matson. she heard. It sounded like a gentle morning, the whole party was there think that it is worthy of a place in this bashfully as a girl. the boys have given me thirty minutes The planter ran down to meet the hissing, mingled with a rustling and an father and son, daughter (good-looking "Yes, sir" he said "Father and I to raise a stake on my hand. t, eries. men. They were all field hands, and occasional muffled flap, flap' What girl, too), and the Lieutenant. spoke to you a while ago, when you It's in this envelope. Just look at it, Jl Before beginning the story, I feel he knew every black face in the group. could it be? It was easy enough to He looked a little sheepish, but was were busy. We'vegot a relative down but don't give it away to these gentlemen. & 4hat the enjoyment of its perusal will "Hello, Sam. what is the matter? answer the question. The noise could on decidedly good terms with the girl. in General McDowell's army and we They're in the game, and came greatly enhanced by some inf ormatio What is up he asked the leader. only have been made by the scores, The General called them into his want along to see I don't monkey with the whic mayonot bethneedful to actorl al "Ter tell de troof, Marse Boss," and perhaps hundreds, of squirming, room. I heard some of the fatherly fi "it as who chief 4 "I understood you perfectly then," cards." replied Sam, nervously scratching his twisting reptiles under the house. talking to that he gave the Lieutenant. I interrupted. "What you want cannot was. "But, my dear sir," said the cashier, head, "I'se so plumb done put out The affair ended by a minister being For the first time in her life Mrs. **v possibly be granted." who had quietly opened the envelope James Wadsworth.brigadier general 'bout di* ting dat I dunno nuffin. called in and the marriage being performed Matson was thoroughly terrified. The father now came forward. His and found it to contain four king3 and of volunteers,was one of nature's true Dis yer white man must be sickerdead, then and there. The Lieutenant Obeying a sudden impulse, she rushed anxious, venerable face and trembling an ace, "this is entirely irregularwe anoblemen. When the war broke out dunno which. We found him was released from arrest, and ordered into the room assigned to the invalid. voice would have moved any one to don't lend money on cards." ilhe was already a gray-haired man. He down by de landin', an we jist brung to report to his commandin Aunt Lucy stood cowering in one pity, as they did me but Ihad to steel "But you ain't goingto see meraised was very wealthy, living on the broad him erlong." three days. corner, trembling with fear and unable myself against him. out on a hand like that'" whispered Nacres in the beautiful Genesee valley, "Is he dead?" gasped Mrs. Matson. to utter a word. I think they all remembered General "Sir!" he said. "Sir, if you knew the pokerist. "These fellows think of the state of New York which had descended "No, but he is unconscious," said Sitting upright in bed, with an unnatural Wadsworth with blessings. why we are so anxious to go down to I'm bluffing, and I can just clean out to him from his fathers. He her husband, who had been examining glitter in his eyes and darting General McDowell's army, you would the whole gang. You see we ain't took up arms instantly for his country. the stranger. "We must take care his odd little head from side to side, Gone Over The Rangre." try to help us." playing flushes, so I've got 'em right JFora time he was military command-ant of him, of course. I hate to go off to was the unknown guest. "My dear sir." I replied, "I can't in the door." pf^Wastritiston then, in command Charles Coulter, who went over the town now, but I can't help it. I'll "Ladee," he said in an unfamiliar help you. It is utterly beyond my -,-of a'division of the First Army Corps, "Can't help it sir. Never heard of range, pierced by fourteen bullets fired wait half an hour or go and see what brogue, "be not afraid. No harm ter power. General Wadsworth would tie took the place of the gallant Reynolds such a thing," said the cashier, and by the citizens of Colorado, was well turns up." dees house. Mesoon meself. Strange say just the same, if 1 were to take when he fell on the first day at the disappointed applicant and friends known throughout the West as one of The man was carried to a large and theengs alarm de ladee. Eets all you to him. Don't you understand, Gettysburg. Less than a year later drjf ted sadly out. On the corner they the original cowboys, and a desperate comfortable room and carefully put right." the Secretary of War has ordered that lie fell at the head of his division in met the bank's president, who was character when in the influence of to bed by Sam and another negro. Mrs. Matson waited to heai?no more no civilian snail go to the front, and the Wilderness mortally wounded. He himself just from a quiet little allnight Then Mr. Matson felt his pul&e and liquor. He was a cowboy from infancy. she ran frantically to the parlor and we don't dare todisobey that order, was brave as a lion, gentle as a wornjam. game at the Union. They explained took a good look at him. He di ove the first big herd of bolted herself in. if we wish to. I can sympathize with There were not many like him in the case again and the next cattle up the Santa Fe trail in 1857, The strange-looking, sallow face, lean "Ladee! Ladee!" yo'u, because I see that you are in righ command. The man who could moment the superior officer darted when cowboys were known as cow to the point of emaciation, with the It was the voice of the stranger out "real tiouble but it's not possible for ^conceive and execute the plan into the bank, seized a bag of twenties, tangled black hair around it, had a punchers, and did not include theological in the hall. There was a sound as of f'MVi me to do anything else." which our sketch describes, to save and followed the trio. In about weird look with its background of students and diplomats. Coulter, somebody struggling, and the mellow ...jflfche honor of a humble fami'y, and ten minutes he returned with the nag The old man looked the picture of white pillows. A small dose of brandy voice of Aunt Lucy was uplifted in who was a fine specimen Q manhood, I "*that at a time when great public events and an extrahandful of twenties, which despair. He turned desperately to was forced through the tightly closed vain remonstrance. was, like all great characters in American "were crowding upon everybody in au^tnoritysuch he flung on the counter. his son. mouth, and the man suddenly opened "Missus,oh,missu8," she cried. "Dis history, a Missounan. He was a man must have had "Here, credit rive hundred to interest his eyes. They were such shining yer Mister Man hab done got on his six feet one inch in height and "John, what, in God's name, shall v--the woman's and the warrior's heart account," he said to the cashier. black orbs that Sam fell back muttering: clothes.an' is er takin' on pow'ful. He weighed 200 pounds. He is the we do?" he cried. ^wonderfully blended. "Why, I thought you had more business says he bound fer ter go." fourth of his family to die with his "Sir," said the son, "won't you poker9" snap, sir. Ever play All honor to his memory. "Fo' de Lawd!" "Ladee, good-bye. I promised no rawhides on, although had he been an hear our story? I don't know as you "No, sir." The story will lose by the telling uncan Half an hour later Matson went to harm ter dees house. So I go. Goodbye, do anything to help us but it'll ordinary man he would have cashed ft less it is put in the language of him "Ah! thought notthought not. If his wife and said: good-bye!" do no harm to tell you, and. we won't in a good many years ago. His father %who narrated it to me. you did yon'd know what good collateral "Well, I must go. Aunt Lucy is There was another struggle, and a keep you long." and two brothers died on their feet, was. Remember that in future Bo let him speak in the first person. looking after our patient, and you will yell from Aunt Lucy, and then the I looked at my watch. The hour and the last male of the race is singularly four kings and an ace, flushes barred, do the best you can. The case does opening and closing of a door signaled was early yet there was nothing very a victim of consumption and are always good, in this institution not require a doctor. Some beef tea I was late in the spring of 1862 I the man's departure. pressing on hand. I had tune to sympathize likely to die at any moment. Coutler for our entire assets, sirour entire to-day and something solid to-morrow "^believe it was in the month that came From the back windows the mistress with the distress of these people began his career at fifteen in the saddle assets." will bring the fellow up. He is between the battle of Fair Oaks and of the house and the half-demented why should I not? chasing steers, and this was his occupation nearly dead from exposure and starvation." -y*the.beginmng of the Seven Days' Battles women saw the strangest sight that "Tell me, if ye wish to," said I. Only, during life, except for about The Old Fortr.sss at San Augustine, on the Peninsula. Everybody's mortal eyes ever beheld. I warn you before you begin, that two years when he cast his fortunes Attention was turned that way, and "But who Florida. Onward down the slope leading to I can't do anything for you." with the James-Younger crowd. He 'the whole nation was full of anxiety "Oh, yes," answered Matson, "you the river walked or rather glided the The father told the story. It was a hi," did not like the business of holding up Letter to Cleveland Leader. Jto hear what was happening, and. want to know who he is, where he is stranger. brief one but I doubt if anything like Pz stage coaches and rail way trains, however, This old Spanish town was foundet I ~*what was about to happen there. from, and why he is in this fix. It is From every clump of shrubbery and it was ever told to a staff-officer in and returned to the cattle business. in 1564, just seventy-two years after no time to question him now. He every tuft of grass darted a snake. Nearer by, down on the Rappahanmock, the same way. The&e persons, father When sober, he was a pleasant, America was discovered. It was t. 4 General .McDowellhhad an army looks like a foreigner, a Cuban or perhaps Tne man swayed two and fro,whirling and son. lived in the state of New inoffensive fellow, but when drunk *orp or a division, whic was expect thriving settlement when John Smith & I a Gypsy. He speaks a little English,and his arms.welcoming and beckoning York. The family besides themselves was desperate to the extreme and built his first cabins at Jamestown, to look after the safety of Washing- that is all I know. You need the legion of serpents. Whizzing consisted of one person, a daughter would commit the rashest of deeds, and almost two generations had lived not be afraid of him. He is as feeble through the grass, tossing their heads and a sister, still in her teens. which would cost other men their and died in it before the Pilgrims landed as an infant, and a little withered old and hissing all the while the excited The military commandant of She was engaged to be married to ft lives. He knew every foot of the county at Plymouth Rock. It has now a moccasins soon closed in upon the chap with the queerest little head in ^Washington and its defenses was Gen1 young man of their neighborhood, who from the Missouri to the Montana fort which was occupied by the Spaniards man. They twined around his legs, the world. It is long and narrow, and Serai Wadsworth. had enlisted that (spring as a recruit in during the days of the inquisition, ranges, and had many remarkable adventures. girded his waist, hung upon his arms looks more like a snake's head than The principal business of such an one of McDoweU's New York regiments, and in the dungeons of which and shoulders and wrapped themselves anything else." I ^officer was supposed to be to see that and was now at the front. skeletons have been found chained to about his neck until he was a moving "Oh, John, you frighten me!" |,^the city was* well governed and pro.^tected, One week before the discovery had On one occasion he became involved the wall. The Senatorial party visited M$4 tower of snakes! "But it does," remarked John and that miltary offenders come to that rural home that it was these dungeons, and with the aid of in a row in a Dodge City saloon and laughing, "and now that I think of f ^were properly taken care of. Onward, down to the river whirled threatened with disgrace. Let me a lamp crept into the cells which never fought thirteen men and got away his snaky eyes and his sinuous motion, jjyj In fact, the principal business that this strange combination of monsters. speak as delicately of this as the distressed see the light of day. We were shown without injury. During this fight two it strikes me that snaky is the best The distracted watchers at the big rwe had to do at headquarters in those father tried to speak to me. cells which had been waHed up, and men were either killed or seriously house strained their eyes to see the description tha could be given of him. ^days was to deny passes to" citizens The girl had loved "not wisely, bnt were told that there were probably wounded. In the row Coulter introduced end of it all. Ugh! It makes my flesh crawl to look jr nyho wanted to go to tl\e front'. too well". She was likely to become other eells under the great ramparts what is known as the back-action at him. But that is neither here nor fe We simply acted under peremptory The moving mass disappeared. a mother. which had not yet been discovered. moveknocking one man down there. When I get back I'll attend to ^orders from the Secretary of War. He There was a plunge into the yellow They knew that her lovers?ho, by In 1835 two skeletons in cages and shooting another at the same him." waters of the broad river, and all was aid, "No passes," and we had to the way. was a Lieutenantcould not were found here, and ii these old walls time. This is done by striking a man over! deny them, one and all. And giving his wife a kiss, Maston get a leave of absence at that time. could speak they would, I doubt not, in front with the stock of a gun and ran dow.n to the buggy, jumped in and But it seemed to me as though They acted on the impulse that tell many a tale of inquisitorial cruelty. shooting one in the rear. After this dashed off on his way to Pyramid. "Washington was filled with people told them to go to him, with her. So When John Matson returned late Every stone of the great fort is row the friends of some ofthe men who Lett alone, so lar as white laces -who wanted to go to the they were here, trying to get him to that afternoon, he found a perfect cemented with the sweat of human were injured started out to kill Coulter, were concerned, with a mysterious rfront.^They thronged the office right the wrong he had done. bedlam at his house. From the servants slavery. It was begun one hundred but failed to come up with him., Btranger in the house, Mrs. Matson "where'I Assistantt sa for severalGeneraleach nours day "And he'll do it, sir I know he will!" he could gather nothing but the years after the discovery of America, -as Adjutan the offi "^or a year or two he was very quiet felt a peculiar nervousness which &he the old man energetically exclaimed. wildest and most incoherent tales. and occupied 164 years in building. and then sprang up at Wallace by could not shake off. For awhile she cial mouthpiece of the military commandant. "He is a good boyhe 11 do what he His fainting wife was in the first stages It is made of Coquina rock, a sort of "rounding up" the town and holding busied herself superintending household They made up more than ought tohe'll marry herif we can of brain fever, and it was many a long composition of shell and sand, and it it for two*days with four companions. affairs, but finally she could not ^ne-halrp the crowd that came there, only get to him. But we can'tand* "day before she could answer his questions. would not take a very powerful naval During this raid Coulter walked into resist the temptation to pass the door f| *day after day. They came in all shapes supposing he was to be killed!why, 3hip to knock it into ruins. It is now a small eating saloon, frequented of the sick man's room and look in. g^-and ways. Some were bold andclamoroiis good God,-sir, I can't think of it!" "It is such a blank business, the occupied by Geronimo's band of the by railway men, as a young Consumptive There he was, swarthy and wrinkled, sortfe were coaxing some tear- "Where is your daughter?" I asked. whole blank thing," said Matson to Apaches, which are here under guard, t.^ful was eating a "graveyard stew," and looking more like a snake than and pleading some disposed to be "Over at the Ebbitt House, sir." his family doctor, "that I'll be blanked and during our visit we saw the Indians as milk and toast is called in that ever. The serpentine head raised itself rinsultin^. No ""matter one and all if I care to say a blank word about They were looking anxiously at me. and their famlies in as wild a section. The young man was reclining with an arching motion, and the had the sam^, answei\ There could be They saw that the story had moved state as may be seen on the western it." against the wall and had raised a little black eyes sparkled like beads no pass no civilian^ could go to the my sympathy and interest. Still, frontiers. The squaws carried about The doctor* was asensiblemah.' He spoon to his mouth when Coulter as poor Mrs. Matson glanced into the .Iront. what could I do? Glad as I would agreed with Matson that the best way their pappooses on their backs little shot it out of his hand. The young room. As for Aunt Lucy, she followed It was, easy enough to say no, and have been to help them, I saw^ jio way was to keep mum. Indian boys ran about half nakei, her mistress into the hall. fellow turned to flee when Coulter called |3n a peremptory way, to the sutlers, 4 out of this difficulty. and the braves and squaws sat upor out to him to stop, and placing "De Lawd hab mussy," she said, W^the adventurers, the idle sight-seers, Still, I was possessed withtne idea the walls of the fort gambling in the A Labor Organ's Advice to Workingnicxi. Inm near the wall, made a complete "but Marse John otter stay at home jfe*the' gamblers, and even the brazen that something ought to be done Indian fashion. Here and there could ysys Btidder trapsin' off ter town. Dat profile of his body with) ballets, grazing gTwomen who thought they had some though just what, I could not tell. be seen fresh beef hung upon the wall S From the Carpenter. man in dar skeer me ter deff." the skin half a dozen #unes. Wfbuslness with McCleltan'&^^jr McglDoweU's and jerked for drying, and outside of My mind reverted to one possibility- The lady of the house said something On one occasion Conlter is said to army. The greatest danger witlf^ new some of the tents were camp fires upon reassuring, and Went into the parlor, \rtYour case is have ridden 370 milea without leaving i But'the wives, the mothers, and the unionSj and at times even older which a squaw was cooking her "Stay here," Tsaid. where she vainly tried to amuse herself the saddle. He was a first-class children, who begraed with tears in meal. The sergeant in pharge told us a hard one. I don't promise that unions, is that they are prone to engage in various ways. their eyes to be allowed to go down to cattle man, and was as brave as any that the Indians were very quiet and anything can be doneloi* you but I in useless strikes. When the "How timexlrags!" she exclaimed, ly^ee their wounded or dying dear ones, who ever threw a lariat. Even after that they had not caused much trouble. think General Wadsworth ought to men get together and see a crowd they as she went to a window and looked Jpwho were too'far gone to be brought his body had beeri' pierced with fourteen They are given a certain allowance know of this. I'll lay it before him." out in the direction of the river. IjAto the Washington hospitalsto gi\ bullets in' the fatal fight, are apt to be carried away by f^lse of food daily by the government "The Lord bless yon!" exclaimed 5ijucn Iwfthese a firm but gtntie refusal, Did she see a snake basking in tfe h6. managed tfo empty* two guns and are,carelully watched. j3| notions of their own power they the old man. and wound tyo men,Denver News. ST*