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A WOMANIU CAMP. MY SENOEITA. was1 and not in good health, had come on time," I replied. "I have & good seven-shooter, crawling toward rie. The snake Courtship in Greenland. to remain until the place could be and, with the driver to coming to bite me, and I was helpless. Courtship in Greenland is thus described aold out. A Kickapoo buck had taken help me, I ought to be able to hold Every moment of the reptile was as by the Manchester, England. I have knocked about a good deal Atlantic Constitution. a great fancy to the woman and my own." vivid as if the dream had been a reality. Courier: in my time, from doubling Cape Horn wanted to marry her, and her indignant One bright Spring morning in 187, "You Americans are so brave," murmured The serpent came vsry slowly, The preacher is invariably resorted as a sailor to digging as a minor, and refusal had called down the the senorita "but the brigands halting every two or three feet to rear when the diligencia rolled out of Toboso, to, both by young men and maidens, raid made that day. Her story filled fighting the Indians as a scout, and are very bold. I have seen them in its head and look about, and when it I found myself the only passen. as the matrimonial 'agent. A young me with indignation, and as the night the suberbs of the Capital." '/et the closest escape I ever had from was within ten feet its form changed. N ger. man came to the missionary house came on I was terribly impatient for "Senorita," I answered, "look at It was yet a serpent, but it had a death was with my eyes wide open and says to him: "I want to marry." Patton to return. About half past 9 this little toy and tell me if a highwayman I had a ride of forty miles before me small brown hand, and the hand and through my own stupidity. Early "Whom?" asks the missionary. o'clock I heard the gallop of horses, would care to face it?" cmtched a bulldog pistol. The pistol to the City of Mexico, and the prospect in the seventies I was down in the "Have you any one in mind?" and was ready to welcome my partner, I handed her my pistoL a weapon was pointed full at me, and I saw Indian Territory buying horses for of making the trip did not suit "Yes." answers the lover "but but before they had come in sight of the latest improved pattern. She that the bammer was shado. up "Whizz1" went a before my shipment East. I had a partner, the widow sprang up in great terror she will not have me. I want you to me. The driver of the dilligencia, one examined it with interest. and cried out: and we traveled with our own team speak to her." Gil Perez, had a villainous face, a face "Let me lay it on my seat here, and face, and then I saw behind me. The fi "Have you not spoken for yourself." in a covered wagon. That territory conceal it under my mantilla," she snake was no longer in front, but "Oh, sir. they are the Indians who suggestive of treason, strategeins, and "Many times, but she always 'No.'" isn't any too peaceful now, but in'72- suggested. "If we need it I can hand creeping up in my rear, and yet I saw have been on my trail! Don't let iSpoils, and every time it was turned "That is nothing," says the pastor it to you quicker than you could draw 3 you not only wanted a trusty rifle bun as plainly as before. He came _/ them take me away! Let me hide in in my direction I instinctively felt un-der "you know the ways of maidens. Does it/from your pocket." on clowlycautiouslyalways a little 1 with you, but you wanted the knack the wagon!" she like you?" 1 the seat to see if my valise was As it was really a good idea, I consented nearer. When within three feet of my "In with you quick, and they will of dropping your man first. Traveling "It is difficult to find out. She will readily. heels the pistol was raised to the back have to kill me before they lay hands till there. from ranch to ranch as we did, with tell you." We did not suffer for topics of conversation of my head, and I said to myself: on you," I replied, and shedis'appeared everybody knowing that we had money My valise was fully worthy of this The pastor accordingly sends for the but this girl, for she was "So I am to be shot. It is a large beneath the clover with astonishing to buy horses with, our situation -attention on my part. It contained girl, wno comes willingly enough, nothing more than a girl, made such bullet, and it will go clear through my celerity. was one requiring constant vigilance. knowing what the message means. $10,000 in gold, the result of my collecting a pretty picture in ber strange costume head. I wonder why he didn't bite The galloping came nearer and nearer, "Well, my daughter," he observes, There was never a night that both of that I found sufficient entertainment me? If I was loose I would make a and presently a voice hailed me: trip to Toboso, undertaken in to "it is time you snould think of marriage." us slept at once, and never a day that in looking at her. I was just beginning fierce fight for my life. "The camp tharhello?" fche interest of a wealthy American we were not on the watch for some to admit to myself that I was "Clug!" It was the sound of a pistol "Who is it?" ^client at the capital. "I never mean to marry," is the invariable madly in love with her, when the hammer striking on the center of a plan no get the better of us. In one "Friends." and conventional .answer. The interior of the vehicle was capable diligencia gave a lurch, and came to a cartridgea cartridge which had failed "Come in." trip of three months we had five different "That is a pity," says the minister, full stop in a dark and thickly-wooded to explode. In the same second of accommodating six or eight With that a half-breed and a Kickapoo watch dogs poisoned, and finally "because I have a good husband fof place through which we were passing. I was on my feet. A human figure came riding into camp on horse3 persons, and I longed for a fellow-passenger. gave up trying to keep one. You thee." stood before me. I gave my A' which had neither saddle nor blanket. might imagine that it wouldhavebeen "Who is he?" she asks. "El Tornado!" should Gil Perez. heavy rifle a half sweep, and Both men looked savage and sullen, worth while for some of the predatory The missionary then tells her his We had not left the outskirts of the "Merciful saints!" cried the senorita. the figure sank down with a and were well armed. The half-breed bands roaming the country to make namealthough she knows it as well I felt an uneasy thrill. El Tornado stifled shriek. Then I was fully town fairly behind us when the lumbering could speak very good English, and as he doesand launches out into the an attack on us, but the fellows reasoned was the bravest and most desperate awake, and I bent over the stranger, when he had come to a halt and looked old coach was brought to a lover's praise. He is strong, goodlooking, differently. A couple of men, brigand in that region. He had a to find it was the woman who should around, said- sudden standstill, the four hordes kindly he caught two fine short time before kidnapped a wealthy have been asleep in the wagon. She armed with Winchesters and revoivers, "We are after the woman who came whales when his companions took throwing themselves into a line across banker, and in default of a ransom was unconscious, but clutched firmly and determined to defend their own into your camp a couple of hours ago. Y] none, or whatever else can be said to had with his own hand blown out the in her right hand was the bull-dog pistol. the road, with the evident intention at any cost, are antagonists not to I see her horse over there." his repute. After the catalogue of prisoner's brains. I wrenched it away and carried of taking to the wood?. "By what authority do you demand be despised. Your western outlaw, his merits has been recited, the girl her to the embers of the fire, and when "Quick! My pistol'" I exclaimed. her?" HCarrajo!" howled Gil Perez from with very few exceptions, is just as replies: 'uEi I had secured ablaze I eaw that I had But a mysterious change had come "None of your business. We have hi lofty perch as he gave his whip a careful about getting a bullet into his "But I think him a good-for-noth- struck her on the head and given her over the senorita. Before the words come for her, and we mean to have vicious crack. '"Thou devil of a body as anyone else. ing." a bad hurt. I examined the pistol, were out of my mouth she had the her." {3ancho, 1 will cut out thy heart and "Ah, well," says the missionary, and when I found that the cartridge LI- weapon at full cock leveled at my "Do you mean that you will take liver and as for the, Perdita, I will One day in July, while we were on "thou art not wise. There is no lad had been tried by the hammer, it did head. her by force?" fla thee alive!" the north foik of the Canadian river, cau fling a harpoon as he can. shall not take me long to unravel the plot "Senor Americano," she said, "it is "I do and let me give you a piece of I laughed. When the driver talked and about 20 miles below Shawneetown, soon find him a wife." against my life. I bound the woman useless to resist. See!" advice. I see you are a tenderfoot. in this fashion to his beasts he was in one of the horses in our team He then wishes the girl a good day, hand and foot, and then kept vigilant Don't put on too many airs in this -a good humor. His lusty oaths and was bitten by a rattlesnake. I was A glance showed that I was helpless. affecting to de\ie\ that the interview watch until daybreak. She recovered county. It's a great glace to have frightful threats counted for nothing. driving, and I saw the snake as it Only four robbers were in sight, but is over. But she is sure to linger, and consciousness long enough before this, one's wings clipped in a hurry. Don't The cause of our halt was soon explained. lifted itself from the grass and bit the they were four against one, to say after a blush and sigh she whispers, but the only aid I extended was to attempt any foolishness with us. or Two, young women had horse twice on the leg. It was a hot nothing of the senorita. The men "So it is particularly your wish, HenPastor? loosen her hands aud place a dish of you'll never know what hurt you." signalled Gil Perez to stop. One of day, the horses well heated up, were all masked. One held the horses I do not quite like him," with water beside her. She did not address them was immediately bundled into and the poison took effect very soon. I had my Winchester in hand and of the diligencia, another stood guard a deep sigh, "but if you" At this me, and I had no word for her. the vehicle by her companion and the We bad no remedy for it, but were two revolvers in my belt. Had I over Gil Perez with a pistol pointed at point she virtually hands over the When day broke there was another driver. It seemed to me that some compelled to stand by and see the been a hot-tempered man, there would his head, while the two others, at business to the minister, who has to surprise for me. A Kickapoo Indian bir of the tropics, with an overpowing animal suffer and die. It wasn't have been some shooting before he had either window of the coach covered tell her that she knows she loves the lay dead under the wagon, shot glitter of gorgeous plumage, had quite an hour after he was struck before concluded his bombastic speech. I am me with their weapons and demanded lad that she would not have come if through the heart. It was a great swooped down upon me, and I naturally he was dead. In buying horses slow to anger, especially when human my valise. she had not thought of accepting him, mystery to me, but the woman was looked out of the window until I we Stipulated for delivery at certain life may pay the iorfeil, and I hea-id "The senor will hand it to you." and that nothing is wanting but to ask ready to clear it up. I untied her, could think of something to say. points, and thus had no spare ones him through without being roiled Could that voice be the senorita's? the blessing of God upon their union. washed the blood off her face and It struck me that the new passenger's with us. To make our tsam whole The woman was hidden away in the Undoubtedly it was, but it sounded ic The marriage, curiously enough, head, and then she gave the whole maid, for such the young wornan one of us must take the other horse wagon, and had not revealed her presence strangely. usually takes place upon the very plot away. Patton had been made a outside appeared to be, was a very and ride off and make a purchase. I to them by word or move. With three revolvers focused on me day on which the bride has emphatically prisoner bv a gang of outlaws in order picturesque affair. She had a rich had been over the route before, and I "If the woman chooses to go with within a few inches of my head there protested that she will never that I might be robbed. These men complexion, with fine black eyes,and knew that the nearest ranch was 12 you, well and good," I answered, as I was nothing to do but to make the have the bridegroom. knew of the tin box in the wagon. The her hair, arranged in a long, glossy miles up the river. It was now 4 looked the fellow over by the light of best of it. I quietly delivered the valise woman had been sent into camp with plait, hung down nearly to her heels. o'clock in the afternoon, and we are the camp fire. "If bhe does not you with its golden contents. The the story she told, knowing that she Story of a Circus Woman. Her head, neck and shoulders, were within half a mile of the stream cannot take her." door was opened and the senorita would get into the wagon. The two perfect'y bare, and her only garments and in a wild and lonely district of "Oh, we can't, eh? you crow pretty The circus woman who rushes into was assisted out by one of the brigands. men came to distract my attention, were a loose-fitting white cotton tunic country. We had with us in a tin loud for a spring chicken. Well, ask the ring, bows, catches a strap with She was instantly helped into and the Kickapoo crept up to receive and a petticoat of red and blue box in the wagon over $4,000 in gold the wench to make a choice," her teeth and is hauled to the top of a vacant saddle, and El Tornado exchanged the box. The woman couldn't find it, leaching to her knees. She gave me and the misfortune to our horse naturally The wagon was about ten paces the tent, wherw she finds rest on a a few whispers with her. and I mistook the Indian for a wolf -a saucy look, and kissedher hand to increased our anxieties. My from the fire, and in the shadow, although single swinging trapeze bar, has no Then he turned to me. and killed him. Then the woman iier mistress, keeping up a lively chatter partner insisted that I should be the not s.o much that I could not sinecure. A Newv York Mail and Express "Thanks, senor, for your attention concluded that I had the all the time. one to remain with the wagon, and he see it pretty plainly. I had made a Et reporter interviewed one of to this lady. You carry with you money on me, while I napped she crept had no sooner moved away than I began step toward it when I saw a black object After the driver had stowed away these queens of the air. She said: our best wishes, Adios! up to shoot me and secure it. She to make things secure. The very under the wheels, and, supposing the light baggage of the senorita, as "The art of balancing on a swing "Adios, senor," chimed in the lady, told the particulars as coolly as I relate first thing was to take the tin it to be a wolf, I raised my gun and he called her, and a parting adios had trapeze is more difficult than active waving her hand. them to you, and when she had box from the wagon and bury took a snap shot, carine only to send been exchanged between the lady and gymnastics. I began to accustom myself I grumbled out an answer, and the finished she asked what I was going it in the ground under the vehicle, a bulled near enough to drive it away. and the airy looking young wom^n to the circus ing at 7 years of a little cavalcade spurred off at a gallop. to do about it. Patton had by that and after that I staked out the The object disappeared with the echoes who was to be left behind, the diligencia age. At 7 I could turn handsprings. Gil Perez was of but liittle comfort to time returned, having raised such a horse, saw that every fierarm was in of the report, and as I walked along started, and was soon rumbling My mother was a slack-wire walker, me. He crossed himself several time3 row thar his capcors feared to detain rood oider, and beat around the camp to the wagon the two men, who had on its way. and her ambition was to have me follow and told me that I was lucky in escaping him longer, and he answered the \,o drive away any reptiles lurking not dismounted, accompanied me. Under the circumstances it was impossible in her footsteps, so to speak. from El Tornado with my life. question by picking up a rope and about. Standing within five feet of the vehicle 15 for'me to EO on looking at Somehow I had an antipathy to the Then he swore at Sancho and Pedita, starting for the nearest tree. I called to the woman and asked if There was no use in expecting Pation, the landscape forever. It was clearly slack-wire, but gradually I was and lashed the horses until they This broke tne woman down, and she desired to go with the men, and my partner, back before 8 o'clock my duty to make myself agreeable dashed forward at the top of their brought to the balance on it. At the she begged and pleaded so abjectlv she replied: pr latter. He would doubtless find a to the senorita. speed. age of 10 I could do a little walking on that we left her free to go where she "0' sir, save me from them, even if suitable horse at the first ranch,but the The task did not appear^ at all unipleasant the wire, but I always kept the wire would when we drove on. To have you have to shoot me." ranchman might be away, or there were to me after I had furtively swinging to and fro. In a few years taken her to Ockmulgee, Kickapoo or One night a week later I was coming "But you've got to come!" shouted a dozen other reasons to call for delay. surveyed the situation out of the tail more I could do anything on the slack any other town as a prisoner would out of the opera house with a the half-breed. We carried provisions with us, inn *of my eye. IE an excuse for opening wire, and grew ambitious to perform have been to cause us grate delay and Gilfriend. The president and a group of "bhe shall not go!" I shouted at and at about 6 o'clock I built a fire &> conversation had been lacking, other facts. I was between 17 annoyance, and it was some consolation officials came along and we made way him. "I give you two vilhans 60 seconds and prepared my supper, and was 'Perez was polite enough to supply it. to know that the blow I gave her and 18 years old when I first ascended for them, Suddenly a face that once in which to leave camp. Now about to begin eating when I caught ''The senor will be delighted to caused a wound from which she would to a high trapeze bar. A seen could never be forgotten flashed go'" sight of a horse and rider approaching know," he said, with a flourish, "that not recover for many days. She was network was spread under to catch before my eyes. Leaning on the arm They were close together, and my camp from the northwest. The the senorita will honor us with her nenitent enough as we drove away, of a distinguished-looking officer in a me if I fell. The more looked below rifle covered both.~ They looked ground was open for three or four company all the way to the city." but six weeks later v. as killed with colonel's uniform, was the senorita, the more certain I -ame that I straight at me for 15 or 20 seconds, miles, and as I had a glass with me I I managed in rather crippled Spanish her husband, a half-breed, while stealing my own senorita. could never get used to the high and then turned and rode away into made out, while the horse was yet a to express my almost delirious stock trom the Creek Indians. "What is the matter?" asked my trapeze. My instructor shouted up the darkness. I followed them for a mile and a half away, that he bore a ^pleasure, and wound up by saying friend. to me not to look down at all, bat to hundred yards, when they urged their woman on his back. Had she been a that I had been in a state of utter "That woman!" I cried, "who is keep my eyes fastened upon the ropes horses to a gallop, and rode to the squaw the sight would not have occasioned A Beautiful American Girl. 'gloom and despair over my solitary she?" north without looking back. I stood that supported the trapeze bar. I surprise, but the first look proven journey. The social sensation at Newport "The Senora Alvarez," was the and looked after them until I could should have known that before because that she was white and that her To my surprise the senorita replied was the debut at that resort of fashionables quick answer. no longer hear the beat of their horse's in balancing on the slack-wire I horse was jaded and coming slowly. an excellent English, and said that of Misses Winslow and Grant "And the man?" hoo's, and I felt rather proud of my As I held a glass on her I saw her turn always kept my eyes on a level in she was overjoyed to have an American the two American belles wbohav%ehad "Her husband, Colonel Alvarez." nerve in driving them away. It did and look back, as one pursued, and front of me. I obeyed orders, and began for a fellow-traveler. I such success London society. An "Taken aback as I was, I thought not occur to me until next long before she reached me I had become to try what is known as the simple "I like the Americans," she said, account of the great event says of ol what was'due to my friend. I told day that either or both of grately interested in her case. balance position. I slipped and "they are, what do you call it? Nice, one of them: As for Miss Grant, she him the whole story." them could have got the drop on me She rode straight for the wagon, wheeled through the air to the netting I think, is the word. Yes, they are so indeed is truly beautiful. Quietly, "I am sorry you have lost your up to the time 1 raised my rifle, and and when she finally came up below. I wanted to give it up then. .nice." senorita," he said, with a grim 3mile, unostentatiously she slipped into the that while they were making threats her horse was very much All my ambition seemed to ooze out "Talks like one of our boardingvachool "but keep your discoyery to yourself. Casino, ami, before many realized of what they would do they left their blown, and the woman's face of me. But I was made to go right up misses," I said to myself, and I have no doubt Alvarez does that she was there, she was dancing rifles lying across ther saddles. They seemed, to betray both hope and fear again aud try it over. That angeied then I made some suitable reply. sometimes take a hand in highway simply permitted me to force them with one of the several partneis who by turns. She was an average-looking 79 me and I became reckless. I succeeded There was too question about it. robbery under the name of El Tornado, out of camp at the muzzle of my Winchester, female, about forty years old, and hastened to her. She has about her admirably. Day after day I would The senorita was pretty. Tall as a and his wife helps him. She posted and that was a part of their as she drew rein beside me we surveyed something of that nameless charm daughter of thegods* with midnight go up and work four or five hours the gang about your visit to Toboso. plan. When I returned to the fire the each other for half a minute before with which Miss Austin and the novelists rhair and eyes, harmonizing well with steadily. Did I ever fall? Yes, once Everything that occurred was woman was beside it, her face betrayingfear either spoke. During that interval I of her time invested their favorite Iber brunette complexion, she was but, fortunately, I had the network to pre-arranged. But you have no remedy. and distres3, and as soon as I caught an expression on her face damsel-. Her head is like tne what I called, impressed as I was by catch me. How did I fall? I was engaged Alvarez is an officer of high came up she clasped her hands and which I did not at all like. It was a head, of a Flora cut in a cameothe her costume, a blazing beauty. She to be married to an acrobat standing. If you make the charge tearfully exclaimed: "Oh, you will sly, sinister look, but it papsed swiftly was not dressed for traveling, but perhaps features regular and clear-cut, dark and rider and in a foolish moment I that he is El Tornado you will be not let them take me awavyou will away, and was replaced by one of she considered a ride of forty eyes* a small, straight nose, asensitive turned my eyes down to the ring to shot as sure as fate." not!" anxiety. I was the first to speak, saying: miles a mere trifle. She was attired mouth, and, to crown all. a skin of that see him and, losing my balance, before Our American took the same view, I assured her that they had been after the fashion of the senoritaslhad creamy pallor which is the rarest I could grasp the rope I tumbled and, as my client showed no disposition "Well, are you in trouble?" driven off, aud that she was safe, and seen promenading in the parks at the and loveliest tint in the world. Her off very gracefully and fell in a heap to make a fight for the recovery "In great trouble, sir," she replied. her gratitude was unbounded. It was (Capital. Her hair was studded on the network below. I am married dark hair is worn in a twisted knot, of the mony, I took my departure "I have been living with my brother now 10 o'clock and after, and Patton ^srith flashing gems, and her dress was now, so I see enough of my husband withi ribbon wound in and out and a for the States without again seeing on a small ranch about 15 miles distant. had not yet returned. It was useless of some almost diaphanous material without looking at him while I per curl or two atop of all, and the small my senorita. Two hours ago a dosen drunken to expect him until morning, and I that seemed to gleam and shimmer CI form." bead is set on ber shoulders with an Kickapoo Indians visited the place, set about preparing the camp for *with the prismatic hues of the rainbow. exquisite grace. There was not, wounded my brother, and. set fire to the night. As there was a strong She wore the enevitable black Knew His Business. among all the crowd of women about the house, and would have assaulted probability that the two men driven lace mantilla which ladies are seldom Restored to Life. Apropos of book agent the Buffalo her, one as simply dressed as she, for me had I not fled on this horse. They off would secure reinforcements een without in Spanish-American her gown was made of nothing more Chicago Herald. Courier relates a story of one of the pursued me for several miles, and I and return during xfoe night, Countries, but if it was intended to effectually than plain white mull, and that, too, The W. H. Upham who is at the I tied the horse to the wagon, told the tribe who knew his business: conceal her snowy shoulders cut in the severest fashion. Long head of the Upham Manufacturing Here she broke down and began to woman that she could occupy the i was a lamentable failure as a disguise The door of a Hudson street cottage straight hne3 in the skirt,and a sash of company, which lost $800,000 by the cry and sob. What could I do but vehicle, and prepared to spend the as much so as the V-shaped opened in answer to the bell, and great fire at Marsh field, Wis., was the modi about her waist, a body cut ask her to dismount, give her my night on guard. She seemed to oppose ^bodice which was so liberally cut that the book agent inquired the lady of hero of a singular adventure when a square before and behind, short promise of protection, and say that this latter arrangement, doubting I found myself softly quoting. house was in. "I'm her." I have a young man. He was a member of a when my partner returned we would sleeves and not a, jewel or ornament if the men would return, and declaring little gem here, 'The Laural Wreath "Oa her breast a sparkling cross she wore, Wisconsin regiment which participated drive straight to the ranch and sacrifice ol any descriptioncould anything it was a sacaifice on my part 'What Jews might kiss and Infidels adore. of Poetry,' it's one of the "Don't in the first battle of Bull Run and our lives, if need be, to rescue her have been less like tne elaborate cos* she could not accept. I bundled her "*W My fair companion was not long in want it house full o* trash o' that 21 was thought to have been killed. brother and teach the Indians a lesson? into my wagon, however, promising, tumes in which, one imagines a belle felling me that she, was returning kind now." "Maybe you'd like something His comrades saw him fall and none She did not come down without that I might catch a nap after 1 or 2 attired? Yet, as she moved through from a brief visit to a sick relative. in the religious line, now. I can of them made any doubt of his death. considerable palaver, seeming to be o'clock if all was egiiet, and by I let the square dances, with acharming Beyond that she had little to reveal recommend this 'Eliza Sprisgin's Being the first victim of the strife in very sensitive about getting me- into the fire go down and took my circle dignity, hers was marked figure. /about herself. But she did not scrujple Faith Cure' as the most inter" "All his own neighborhood, there was trouble, and when she did take a seat around! the camp, with cat-like step. i She is classiean old-world goddess* to ask any number of questions. nonsense, every word of it don't believe great public mourning for him. A on the blankets prepared for ber, she A few coyotes and wolves came about, stepped into our modern lifean aDid I like Mexico? Was I traveling such stuff." "Ah, then your inclinations ST2S memorial service was held, in which continued to cry and lament and but nothing seemed to disturb me, one cannot help wishing that her ffor business or pleasure? What did run to fiction. Here's" a thousands of people participated, would not touch a mouthful of tood. and the hours passed away until 2 English fiance had been a worthier I think of the Mexican ladies? pleasing work, 'James the Lumberman and many eloquent eulogies were It had grown dark by the time I had o'clock. By that time I was very lc man, and that she might have worn I arfswered all these questions, as I a Tale of Tonawanda,' Pathos, passed upon him. Six months later eaten my supper, and It was now time tired and sleepy. I dared not stretch lb that title of countess which would hu" "None o' them things for me ^lazily and complacently watched the Upham appeared in Washington with to look for Patton. I songbt, as any out for a regular sleep, knowing that ks- you may's wellgo I don't wan't any of fluttering fan with which this beauti'ful a party of exchanged prisoners, but have suited her so admirably. man would have done under the the danger was not yet passed, but I ih 'em." "This little book on the 'Preservation creature appeared to do at least the Confederates had attended to his circumstances, to cheer the woman sat down on a kno.il about 40 feet JfJS of Female Beauty' is a treasure vr- hal of her conversation. In fact, I wants, and when the exchange took up, and by and by 'T, shte north ol the wagon to nap a little, The Rev. and Miss Marian Mordoek, bi I'msure" "How much is it?" "Only place he was sent home. i&m*&. i grew unnecessarily communicative. I a% gave over crying and seemed knowing that any noise of account pastor of the Unitarian Church ol sevenfcy-flve cents. I've sold 1,300 -.mentioned my visit to Toboso and more hopeful. She explained that would instantly arouse me. It VI Humboldt, Kansas, has received the copies myself." She took it, and before %^toldt of mwhich successin tcollecting an old she had removed to the Territory was perhaps a quarter of an hour before -deb for I was receive a good Ed ward N. Calisch, now of Toledo, is she was rid of him she'd subscribed degree of Bachelor of Divinity from from Clarksville, Ark., three years before, I actually fell asleep, and almost the youngest rabbi in the country. to Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress," the Meadville (Penn.) Theological lee. being a widow with one son* The instantly 1 began to dream. I dreamed He was born at Chicago in 1865. the*"Life of Daniel O'Connell" "And the senor is not afraid of rob- son had died within the year, and the Seminary. She is thirty-six years oi that I was tied to a tree on the and an illustrated edition of "Anonymus Rabbi Calich has accepted an $1,800 brother, who was an old bachelor, &ers?" hinted the senorita. plains and that a rattlesnake was aga and preaches eloquently. |1|| Poems." call from Peoria, IUW "Well, certainly not in the day-