'r'\*4'SL f-OUR LITTLE 6HOST. FUNERAI?II A TENEMENT from che stock cattle, placing tnem WILDQAWIE MONTANA. tery. Nothing was said at the grave ThVtruth was made apparent different p'astures, and during certaii by anyone. They took the little box friend^ knowing that I was a lair- sfcqk' seasons, for the purpose of separating Oft in the silence of the night and pnt it in a great grave with half a Tlie Unostentatious Service my with the rifle, invited 3*t try the"*5*^ym Over Habits and Baamts of tae Grace~ When the lonely moon rides hia b, the bulls from the cows. They are all hundred boxes of the same kind of the Death of a Baby. hand at bringing down one of ful AntelopeHow They Make When w.ntry winds are whistling, f^f-y^ required to report promptly the resul) precious dust that had been already visiting antelope from where we stood. A'little girl in a red-checkered apron Friends wltii tlie Untamed Beef And we hear the owl's shrill ciy, of their observations and the condition laid away to restS ^gS^ I confidently unslung my Winchester,,' In the quiet, dusk} chamber, CattleA Preventive Against SnowBlindness. stood on tip-toe to tie two pieces of of the cattle to make a memorandum By the flickering firelight, In the afternoon^ the^three mourners and after throwing a cartridge into the 3f %f white rbbom to the front door-knob of Ribing up betweeu two sleepers, of all they find dead, disabled, or diseased, came home. The mother went up chamber took a fine aim at the forehead A Fort Keogby Montana," correspondent Comes a spmt all in white. the big tenement where she lived. It and they are neld to a faithful performance to her room and the little girl again of a magnificent buck, who was intently of The Cleveland Leader writes: Not of their respective duties aiid was in Rose street just around the A insome little ghost it is, stood on tip-toe at the door to untie watching us from the-short range of all the wild game apim^lg have disappeared Ko&j-cheeked and bright of eye, to a strict accountability of any neo-li the fluttering white. She took the corner. two hundred yards. I could see the from Montana yet I note a With yellow curls all breaking loose genee. Indeed, an almost military discipline ribbons up stairs, folded them carefully eyes of the animal plainly* but when I peculiar thing among the beef herds The ribbon' was Hmp and old, and iiom the small cap pushed awrv, is enforced in every department, and put them back in the box where attempted to glance along the sights Up it climbs among the pillow this year, the like of which I have hung in a lifeless way against the worn and it pervades every feature _of theii they had been at first. They were the For the "big dark" bungs no dread, both the forehead and the rear notch never seen since the days of the bison, panels of the door. Site stepped baek Aud a baby's busy fancy management, ribbons that her mother fiad worn the became so badly blurred that it was which once tenanted these hills and Makes a'kingdom of a bed. to note the effect and another girl about Mr. H. H. Campbell, the propnetot dav she was married.New York simply impossible to dzaw an acurate valleys in countless thousands. In of this ranch, affords his boys every the same age came out from a door FeaTless little ghost it is, World. aim. I lowered the piece, And, for a crossing the northwestern plains as far Sale the uigut as in the day: compatible opportunity for self-improvement the lower hallway and joined her. The few minutes, the whole panorama back as 1879, 1880, and 1881, it was an The lonely moon to it is fair, fc-Sf.^ss***** and self-elevation. He furnishes jMind Cure. spread out before me became a dancing two little ones were the only signs of .Si^i- The siguiug -.viuds to it are gay, every-day occurrence to run upon many them with newspapers and mirage, so that 1 was unable to distiaguish The solitude is full ot friends, life about the- great building that One of the most unreasonable and herds of buffalo, some of them so large periodicals to enable them to improve And the hour bungs no regiets steers from antelope and ^kt looked black and forbidding with its. best patronized humbugs of the day is that it would require all the way from Foi this happy little soul their education and to inform themselves ground from sky. My vision came back |t range of grated fire-escapes- giving it one to three days to pass through them. what is known as Christian science, oi Shines a sun that never sets of passing events. He permits no to me in a few minutes, but upon attempting I remember such was the case UL the the air of a barred prison. The second mind cure. It pretends to cure human intoxication, no card playing, and na A merry little ghost it is, the sighting process again Mi winter of 1875 while our command was Dancmsr gayly by itself comer stared at the first girl with bold fighting or quarreling on the ranch, diseases after the apostolic fashion, the same distinct blur came over the n53 On the flowery counterpane, chasing Sitting Bull and his myrmidons and by his own kind treatment of all eyes for a moment and said, pointing sights and rendered an accurate aim which it claims was not miraculus, Like a tricky household elf toward the British border. Lining the sets an example to them of kindness to to -the fluttering ribbons: impossible. I tried it again and again Nodding to the fitful shadows but simply the successful exertion, oi Red Water, and stretched out over a for?9* each other. The consequence is that As tney fliekei on the wall, with the same result, and then remembered "What did you do that a mind upon matter. broad expanse of country, was a Talking to familiar pictures, the boys are gentlemanly in their a pointer given me by an old "Baby is dead."" Mimicking the owl's- shrill call. tremendous herd of bison that must Its teachers, or practitionists, argue bearing, and there has never been a plains hunter some years before, which "Do yomiive in this house?** have numbered close on to 100,000 that in olden times devout Christiana charge of even ni sdenieanor against A thoughtful little ghost it is, was and is a thorough and positive antidote "Yes on the fourth, floor." head, for it took us nearly seventy-two were able to cure disease by the exercise anyone while employed upon this ranch. And, when lonel gambols tire, for snow-biindness. "Huh," with a sniff 6f contempt. With chubby hands on chubby knees hours to pass through this monstrous of faith and will power, and that Their quarters are ample, comfortable, "We live on' the first floor and we've Take a-piece of burnt cork, or if that Sits mkiug at the fire. mass of living creatures, who made there is no good reason why such and neat. Their dining-room and -Fancies innocent and lovely got a baby carriage."" Then comn i a more is not handy, burn a match and char a t'May I and little attempt to give us the right of kitchen are furnished with all the conveniences people may not do the same thing Sh.nes before those babj eyes conciliatory wayr little piece of wood Black the skin 1J way. Even the tourth day found us of a small hotel, and present now. Their plan of operation is ta Suuny fields of dandelions, *14 see it?" around and under the eyes, and also Brooks and buds and butterflies. wandering through the tail end of the an appearance of neatness which .would impress upon the mind of the patient "I gness so," and the two children, the whole length of the nose on each shame many a housewife in the midst herd, which was continually on the his ability to receive such a cure, and A lovely little ghost it is, hand in hand, went up the dark steps side, and also down the bridge of the *^*%5^ When crept into its nest, of the fashion and elegance of society. move in some direction. On this same thethe power of the operator to bestow it, to the little room fronting on nasal organ. Armed with this little %[j^C% Its hand on father's shoulder laid, The comforts anil conveniences which expedition we would frequently encounter and then induce him to act upon his street, where the mother and the womaniof precaution, no one need evef fear in SrJlSjjr Its head on mother's breast. surmount the resdence are stoking large bands of antelope, something faith. For instance, a lady is afflicted the next room were preparing attack of snow-blindness. My friend f|f|F It watches each famihai iace and instructive. It is situated near the like bunches of one thousand with heart disease. The physician and ith a tianquil, trusting eye, the child for burial. had a match, and as for the cork flpMi. foot of an elevated plain, which sradually And, like a sleepy little bird, Lead, more or less, but we always the patient unite in a determination well, we had little bottle between us, *^igfl| It was a bloodless little thing, the Smgs its own soft lullaby. slopes down to a neighboring ravine, tound it a difficult matter to approach that the disease shall depart, they concentrate and a portion of the stopper was 1%-m piece of clay th& women fondled in that and is surrounded by subdued and within reasonable shooting distance of the full power of their minds Then those who feigned to sleep before, quickly converted into charcoal. With lingering way they have with those picturesque elevations in the distance. Lest baby play till dawn, these gazelles of the plains, owing to in an intense effort to believe that the this I liberally "smutted" my nose ^f^'f they loves The mother seemed jealous Wake and watch their folded flower, A short distance above the residence is their keenness of sight, acuteness of disease can and will benay, is driven and eyes, and then tried to .see if I of the attention her friend showed the Little rose without a thorn! a remarkable spring or cluster of and nimbleness of foot. Once theout and as a result the lady is could discern an antelope across the child. She wanted to attend to And in the silence of the night springs which break out on the plain sighted by antelope, it meant a shot at longer afflicted. The absurdity of tne The heai ts that love it most eights with ordinary clearness. itf^ ?*xp last rites herself. She could not bear just above the head of a ravine which Pra tendeih above-its sleep, 4U0 yards and beyond, or not at all. method, however, is readily demonstrated to.have other hands to touch the little I was a total transformation. The *t#1^SJs^**0"| "God bless our little ghost!" torms a deep rooky precipice a few But now comes the remarkable discovr by applying it to strong cases. thing* No other hands but hers should animal stood out in bold relief ,and the yards from the house. Across the Louisa* M. Aieoft. ery I made of the habits of the antelope, For instance, if a man should have hia smooth the pillow for its last sleep. notch and bead of the sights were as -5^ brow of this a dam has been erected and which I believe are not put hand mashed to a jelly, or his foot There was no wild outburst of weeping clear and distinct as even the most l^tf A TEXAS CATTLE RANCH. which transforms the springs into a. down in any of the books which tell us, lacerated, or his skull fractured, therein oni her part, and beyond a certain fastidious on such subjects could clear pool or fountain with a solid rock and are supposed to know, all about no sensible person will imagine these querulou&nessy no demonstration of desire. bottom, and which covers nealy half Sue Million Acres oo Land Controll the ways, customs, aud habits of this affection. The mother did not even injuries could be instantly healed by I biased away at the same old foolish an acre. This fountain is as limpid ed by One ManThe Methods Employed. beautiful game animal. As remarked, cuy. She was too used to suffering for will power or any other human.agency. buckt who was still gazing in a sort f,\ and transparent as the waters of Castalia.clearer 00 yards was near for a thatz. She tallced reminiscentlv of the of wonderful admiration at us, and had than glass. From this The great Matador ranch is* situated There are some cases where people bundle oi white on the bed. She shot if discovered, although 300 the satisfaction of dropping him at the I large spring the water is conveyed by *K are afflicted with imaginary complaints, told how she never expected to raise it and 200 yards have been gained "pern the headwaters of Pease river, first,fire. We dined off antelope steaks pipes to a dairy-house arranged, with, caused by a diseased state'of the mind, that it ha*! always been thin andsicklv by close creeping and crawling it that night, and a juicy, delicious morit nd| comprises neaily the whole of every convenience, thence it is raised, and such ailments, it is not unreasonable that it was the best child in spite of all neither scented nor seen. On thesel was, too. While visiting my ^f jlotley county, about one-third, of by a hydrautlic ram into atall and spaccious to suppose, may be removed by that the world had ever seen that she other hand, buffalo might be apfriend at his ranch, I enjoyed more hefens, about one-third of Cottle,, and reservoir, from which, it can be merely mental process. Existing knew it could never stand the warm proached almost with impunity up to than ne delightful hunt Among the bofit one-foui th of Floyd county, and readily thrown upon the house in theweather simply in the imagination, it is only and a thousand little details 250 yards, but the ring of a rifle brings gam* bagged by myself may be men- I] bn|a.ns nearly three hundred more event of hre. It is also cairied by pipes that only a mother could remember necessary to convince the sufferer that tioned a gallant buck of the blacktail on a big scare, when off bound the b?g and distributed to the kitchen, bath, puaie miles than the state of Rhode and repeat. And every now and then they are gone and he is cured. But *$- deer species, with the most beautiful fellows at a 2:40 gait and are soon los*t rooms* and throughout the house,, slaWl. It comprises more than one she would begin again and go over its where there is an actual, unmistakable anileirs I have almost ever seen a to view in the distance aud dust of the thence to the different shops and. the nlfion of acie^ of land, upon which peculiarities, finding some new charm physical affliction, a concentration brace of mountain sheep, and any prairie, Now it happened while hunting quarters of the cowboys. The stream. heEe are more than one hundred thousndj to tell of. of all the will power and faith in quantity of cotton-tail and jackass bison that I became aware of this is then gathered up at "the foot of the head of cattle. The location of the universe could not perform a cure rabbits. fact, that antelope associate with, The other woman was sympathetic plains below, and made to irritgate ihia great ranch is one of 4 without the application ot material, But my best sport was in hunting and receptive, petting the mother and browse in company, and keep a sort l* echliar adaptability to the scale of a large vegetable garden* There tangible remedies and treatment. As antelope among the herds. The foolish calling her "Dearie" and "My dar- of curious friendship with the bio- un- is a large warehouse tor storing the perations wh.ch characterize it as one a cheerful disposition is conducive to a creatures seemed utterly and totally lin*" and flitting about the room putting wieldy brntes. I observed scattered all commissary supplies of the ranch, from }f flie most ^complete and magnificant healthy state of the body, it no doubt fascinated by the great big, .half-civilized things to rights with an air of proprietorship through the buffalo herds numerous which the rations of the employes are i ranches in the west. It covers the aids a cure of the patient to be hopeful steers, and in roaming over the that would have been hotly members of the antelope family, and weighed and distributed with military hree forks which foim the sources of snow-covered prairie searching for the and contented but such aid i& comparatively resented at any other time. The also that they seemed to be bereft of regularity. There is an ample and ?ease irver, with all their affluents and antelope, all that was neoessary was feeDie, and could not effect two neighbors living so close together fear when in buch good company, for well-supplied smith's-shap, a large fenfire water system, extending thence simply to spy a bunch of cattle and had been great enemies and had fought a cure of itself. ?ery seldom did I oberserve them take wood shop, and a complete harness \o the Brazos, and including some of there the game was sure to be found. royally over the petty privleges of the The case which recently oecurred at to their heels even when I rode down shop, where every part of a wagon or jhe sources of that river. It is thus While hunting on the upper Mizpah I fourth floor hallway. But all that was Tokepa, wherein a woman was permit* the bison and scattered them right and harness is readily mended and repaired. saw tracks of a great many elk, alsomountain turnished with an ample supply of forgotten and laid aside now. ted to die through the ministrations oil left On one occasion after sending There is a store well supplied with lion trails, the frequent and jsvater in all its portions. It is also traversed Pretty soon a young man with a one of these scientific quacks is to th about 600 buffalo scampering over all kinds of clothing needed by the employes, numerous evidences of coyotes and week's growth of beard and a furred by thousands of small streams point. She was afflicted in the lower and a first-class boot and shoe the hills, I saw a dozen or so antelope wolves by the million. The cowboys, silk hat came in softly without knocking ihat flow from the innumerable springs limbs with some disease, and was depending maker's establishment. Here, too, is a who hung in the rear and on the flanks however, were attending to. the latter, v' at the door. He said he was the Which burst from the canons gulche", on a so-called Christian scieoce postoifi.ee, which furnishes all the postal of the herd, seem ngly loath to take to andbusiness, for every now and then undertaker. Nobody knew how he had and bieaks of the plains. Its physical doctor, who was in attendance, to. curt facilities required and through their heels and seek safety in flight we would run across a fine chunk of found out about the death. He had a book her. No remedies were used but mental features are divided between the plains which the employes are supplied with I rode up to one buck, actually^approaching meat bloody and tempting to the with pictures of coffins in it. He stepped ones, and the disease was allowed -which compose about one-fouith of its whatever they may desire. to within twenty-five yards coyote palate, but which was loaded on tiptoe across the room and asked to progress to such a point that mortification ueo, and the basins and broken country, of him, and shot the fine fellow with with strychnine. I counted in one in a subdued voice whether to-morrow set in and death resulted. which consist of valleys, hills, and my revolver. This brings me to the Small Beginnings. place twenty-one coyote carcasses, but,. morning would suit for the funeral. However nice a theory may be built veiy divers ty of landscape, which point I have been endeavoring to Great results frequently spring from the miserable cannibal survivors could Then he said for $14 one could get upon a consideration of the powers oi om the cmjons aud basins often reach. In place of the buffalo, we now small and even insignificant beginnings. not even let their own children .alone, ave the appearance of mountains of a beautiful casket. He always called Christian faith, the days of miracles are have as tenants of our plains and vallevs A tiny spark may kindle a vast fire. for nearly all, if not ever yone, of the his coffins caskets. The neighbor took past, and no amount of human ingenuity thousands upon thousands of beef very variety ot shape, but are really That powerful oak which stands like a dead ones were mangled, gnawed, or him aside and cenferred with him, finally or science can resurrect them. That cattle. These animals run loose the uly remnants of the plains standing prissant monarch in the forest, was once half-eaten by their surviying relatives. gettiug the $14 casket for $11. fact cannot be shakea. All pretended year round, and from the freedom of I at in peaks hundreds of feet above the The snow was pretty deep all over the an acorn dropped by a scared pigeon. Then he went away, after leaving a receipt faith, or will, or word cures of positive the range and merely rounding up rruuudmg basins and gulches. These south Yellowstone ranges, and cattle The mighty Mississippi river sweeping for the $5 cash that had been bodily ills are humbugs, and those who twice a year, have become about as lord valuable shelter to the cattle had about all they could do to, rustle so majestically onward to the gulf of paid on installment. practice upon the credulity of the people wild and as free as their predecessors Lorn the bleak winds or "northers, as feed. Mexico, is but a little crystal rill at its The mother took the cold form of her to rob them of their money by such the bison. Let no unsophisticated i .ey aie called in Texas,' which sweep source, oozing out of a few rocks at a child in her arms and rocked it as she Our horses broke through the crusted means are impostors and swindlers. tenderfoot of the east imagine the beef lover the plains in piercing icy blast's hillside. A solitary fort to repel the had done so often in life. It had a snow, but "the light fingered gentry of There is no such thing as mind cure ot cattle of the western plains are similar from the mountains of the north and attacks of the savage aborigines, first long, white gown, with a b.t of lace the plains" found it sufficient to bear Christian science.Emporia Bepublican. to their cousins ranging on the oriental west. maiked the site where a commerical down the front. She took a wisp of their weight without breaking, and so Side of the Mississippi. Beef herding emporium, a city of wealth and fashion, pink ribbon and fastened it at the were having a high old time following A Wonderful Typesetter. by whites is not so very much unlike now raises its white-washed walls. baby's throat. The neighbors protested in the wake of our weak, oows and The soil of the plains cons sts of a Minneapolis printers have in their buffalo-herding by reds. The only that she must not do that it would young calves, ready to pounce upon ed loam, that of the valleys and basins midst what they regard as a phenomenal difference is the matter of branding One little word! Did you ever estimate never do. But the mother peristed either at the least show of "fail" More Jo* a sandy loam, and that of the hills typesetter. The gentleman's name is A cowboy exhibits marvelous skill and its power for good or evil? It has and the bit of bright color remained. losses had already occured from these [consists chielh of sand and gravel. The courage in the way he handles the Miln, and he hails from Sioux City. He been productive ot a life-long misery pests than the cold weather, deep The husband came home from work rope and iron, and 1 verily believe that prevailing rocks are gjpsum and limestone, is known as the "Missouri River Rush- or perhaps it has laid the corner-stone snow, and scarcity of feed had produced. at the usual hour and did not grumble if the buffalo were still here in place of the former composing the er," but his experience until very recently of a life-time of happiness. One word One cowboy while riding the at the cold supper that was spread for the present beef herds thecowpunchers principal strata. There is no sio-n of was confined wholly to country may have sundered the strongest ties of range, although well-armed and well him. He kissed his wife in away that of Montana would round them up as any volcanic action. Every formation freudship, or else, counted heart-cords newspapers. He was employed for a mounted, yet alone, fonnd himself foilowed he had not done since they were married. easily as they could handle the herds of us surlacial and the natural result of in the most undying affection. time on The Sioux City Journal, and by a score of the brutes for many They were a loving couple, full to-day. Even a wink or a smile, a significant fheat, air, and water. The plains subsequently went to Chicago. His first miles. Although it was not an alarm--' of the truest affection for each other, look or a nipaning gesture of the hand, work on metropolitan papers was in ing situation, yet it was a dangerous but the affection did not often find outward are coveted with gramma and mesqnit has been the signal of life or death to grass, while the basins and broken Chicago. He is now employed on a one for if any accident had occured. expression. He sat with his wife many an individual. such as being compelled to spend a country affoid the best mesquit pasturlage. Minneapolis paper. He was"put on a for half an hour and then feeling himself In like manner, the moral character a night on the prairie,, becoming unhorsed, in the way wentdown and joined case^ a week ago Friday night and A calf born on the range is brought life of happinss and usefulness, or an set afoot in anyway, or even, as the group on the stoop. She did notworked There are five different pastures for seven successive nights, putting up on the range until ready for market existence of the darkest misery and woe show of weakness or fear, the big gray x. care to leave the room. bulls and horses and two for beef up a "string" or 101,000 ems. The It has the same wild associations that wolves of the plains^ as fierce and as to multitudes of men and women, has work was on "straight matter," Miln He was working on a particularly urgent r&aUle, one of which contains ninety the buffalo had before it, and what bold as tigers, would have attacked been the results of good or evil indulged thousand acres and the other one job and went off with his tools as having had very little "phat" and no wonder if the yeariing becomes the theboth man and beast without the slightest in. Many hundreds of unfortunate usual the next morning. He kissed hundred thousand acres, and the var ed bonuses during the week. He can set same in nature and habits?- So delay. In returning from the ranch, *C people have looked back from the depths the mother of the little one again before classes of cattle are distributed throno-hout 2,000 ems per hour with comparitire cowboy in riding down and rounding weCf to the raiiroadV I fonnd the route of shame and degradation at the one he left. The woman across the the ranch during the different ease. Minneapols printers are thinking up beef cattle is really handling a lot had come completely eovered out of little act or deviation from the rio-kt hall came in early and put things to seasons. There are sixteen complete of putting Miln against any printer of wild animals who are simply incapable sight by drifting- snow. In some- off the which paved the way to ruin or downfall. rights. Then she disappeared for a and well-arranged corrals for morkinoand in the country for a week's typesetting of domestication, and only fit for coulees and gullies it was piled as deep| As they had sown, so they were little space and returned, dressed in a branding calves, situated in differs match.St. Paul Pioneer Press. veal and beet as eighteen feet and in traveling across "^M obliged to reap. newer gown of black. She brought a I eut parts of the ranch, and it requires Strange to say. the hills and valleys the trackless waste it was needful to be %^g Keep an eye on the small beginnings. bunch of ox-eyed daisies with her and more thau three hundred miles of fencing of Montana this year show a greater on one's guard, for there was a possi-^ A. U. Gibson in National Weekly. put them the baby's hands. The f,t A Very Sacred Oath. number of antelope than at any time to inclose the ranch and divide its bility and even probability of walking little girl who had tied the white ribbon They have no Bible in the French since the season of 1881. The correspondent pastures. Grew up in Texas. directly into these traps without knowing that served as crape to the front I There are about four thousand bulls has been riding over the south courts to swear on, and the crucifix Hon. GeogeDilley, of Texas, says Tlie it In fact, my horse didV while door-knob, came up wonderingly and Df diffeient breeds on the ranch, cornrising Yellowstone ranges^in aboat two feet which was used for that purpose has calmly and soberly wading along, come Neiv York Graphic, is a good example felt of the floweis. Then she took one Heretords, polled Angus, and ef snow more or lessand is running been removed. But now and then a to one of the places mentioned, and of the success which sometimes comes for herself. The neighbor and the undertaker .tortkorns, or Durhams and their across numerous herds of cattle along witness needs to swear by something, before either one of us suspected anything to the young fellow who in the early arranged the casket, the woman 7s advice itades.theOf favoiitevarious the mixtures of the Mizpah, Pumpkin, Powder, and a? in a judicial examination at Maurseilles of the sort, stepped into space days followed Horace Greeley iese strain is a cios of quietly slipped the bit of pink Tongue rivers was surprised and astonished lately of a man accused of murder. filled with snow, and found ourselves and went west to grow up" with the ribbon from the shroud. But the quick je common Texas cow with the shortorn, to find scattered all through A cab-driver was asked if he wallowing some twenty odd feet below countrv. He started west and southwest eyes of the mother saw it and would (whole,and then re-crossed with Here"ford. the cattle any number of fine fat antelope. could swear to certain testimony he with "the beautiful" piled in a mass, with hardly money enough to pay not have the child deprived of the bit The polled Angus is, upon the Cows and antelope were grazing above, beneath, and all around us. No" had given. He raised his hand in a his fare, struck into hard work on rail of color. It had always loved the the best adapted to the plains, side by side, on the most intimate damage was done, however, as the bed tragic manner toward Heaven, and exclaimed, roads and machine-shops, founded a bright string she pleaded. So the pink as their long hair protects them better and friendly terms, the former was a soft one, and a few minutes in stentorian tone: "I swear little place ot his own to make castings knot rested there. Jrom the bleak winds which sweep seemingly as wild" and unapproachable found us out of the drift and pursuing it. Monsieur le Juge, by the ashes of in a Texas prairie town, and fought A young minister camehe was "j jver the elevated ranches. as the latter, and all enjoying themselves the "even tenor of our way." my poor sister who died of the chol- fortune bravely until he became one of hardly more than a boyand read a I There about one tnousaud saddle and as only wild animals can. Neither era!" He had something sacred, if not thethe most prosperous business men in the chapter from the Bible and said a few vork-horses kept for the use of myself nor the friend riding with a Bible or crucifix.Independent. state. Last year bought a pretty little words of consolation in German. There ^CHe Would Bather Stone Him. ranch, and the average number of cow- mewho, by the way was owner of all island on Lake George from the state were ten or twelve persons in the )-*y employed during the entire year is "John, I wish you would rock the the stock we had seen and passed of New York, has built a nice summerhouse room. He prayed for the bit of clay in Overheard at the KenneL \bout seventy-five. Some of these are baby." through for miles,was able to approach on it, put his own steam-yacht the coffin. Then the undertaker's man "Don't disturb me," remarked the in guard-camps in different parts of the closer than a distance of two "What^ 1 rock the baby for took the coffin in his arms and carried on the lake, and goes up there now to faithful dog, pausing in his self appointed ranch, whence they saliy forth daily hundred yards. Antelope and steers it down to the hack that stood waiting "Because he is not very welL And see that all is ready for the reception and traverse the ranch every direction task of polishing a bone of the stood ns off that distance, and would at the door. The mother cried softly what's more, half of him belongs to you of his family from the Rio Grande to see that all is well with the catHe, thirteenth century|P"I am all in a allow no closer acquaintance even from to herself during the services, and her and you should not object to rock frontier. He is largely interested in and to give them whatever assistance snarl this morning." And the cat, mv friend, who was the master of all little girl stood by her side and stared him.'* every scheme for the progress and may be necessary. Others watch who was rather a micerly thing and that beef around him. The day was a at the minister. "There was no hearse, "WelL don't half belong to you development of his adopted state, is a the fences, some repair the wagons and kept her purrs to herself instantly got fine one. the sun shining brightly, and and only one carriage. The man put "Yes." regent of the Texas state ^university, harness, and some go over the ranch in her back up and remarking that she reflecting from the glassy, white-crusted the coffin in the front seat of the hack, "WelL you can rock your half and* and if any man could overcome the "quads of a dozen in charge of a vfore^man, felt a little ruffled herself, went away surface a glare of such power and the mother and her little girl and the let my half holler."Judge phenomenal democratic majority of carrying with them a wagon loadwith force that it caused my eye to water, to the dairy, saying she thought a neighbor who had been so Kind to her Texas in a race for govenor, George provisions, cooking utensils, and also gave me much pain whenever got in with it, one of the group waiting churn at the cream pans would tone M. Dilley would be that man. But he is branding irons, and stake ropes, for the Pacific Coast Wit attempted,to concentrate my gaze on on the sidewalk slammed the door, her up Only poor ignorant dumb not a politician, and loves the easy ways lurpose of branding the calves which A Hindoo invented 13Mfiddle,ao a Btedt^ any one subject I was actually afflicted and the carriage took its way over to brutes, who tknow no better, would JL^QilW ot be gotten to the pens, separJj^wiug of life in these later days. bat a Hindont play thefiddle,and &t,Utte^ with snow-blindness, although totally Long Island to Cypress Hitis Ceme- the cattle intended for marke talk in this idiotic strain.Eitrdette* unknown in IndiaAttn California^ unaware of it at the time.