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4, The Countersign. T'ss am ins tress of day, our still 1;. room was shfacisrz brightly: The uses wind as it passed the donors Set each one "tying lightly. Ihs sentry «10- passed It. and fro. A faithful night-such keeping. Whiu in his tents behind hm stretched ills muons all were sisr pint. tiosr to and fro the sanity paced. Bis musket on his shoulder, liTll not a thought of death or was Was with this true young soldier; as, no '. his heart was far ax] Where. on a western pru . A ruetuinad costar: rtood That night The :cunterfign was “nary.” And there his can true love he saw, Ber blue eyes kindly burning; A me them, on her sun-kissed hm. lisrmrfs like sunshine gleaming. And beard hsr staging as she churned flrr mutter in the dairy, 1hr song she loved the best. That night The Lc-intenign was "Mary." ' Ur. ' for one kiss from. her ."' he righed. Vi her; up the ions road glancing, lie I led a slenderllttle form it» uh ulterior steps advancing, And as it neared him silently lie (and at it in wonder; Then dropped his musket in his hand. And hsiienzed, "th goes yonder?" Still on it came. "th one step more. be you man or: hild or Islry. L'nlm you sire tbs countersign. " Hall! who goes there i" “ “Us Mary. A sweet voice cried. and in his arms The girl hr left behind him ilslHainiing fell. O’sr many miles She‘d bravely tolled to find him. “i heard that yru were wounded. dear.” :he subbed. "sly heart was breaking. i could not stay a moment. but. All clhcr ties iomklnz, f trsvrlled, hr my sritl made strong. Ki'd heaven watching o'er me. L‘ntr‘i uuhurtand well?" “Yes, lore. 'â€" "At last you stood before me.‘ "They told me that! could not pass The lines to find my lover Er fore day fairly came : but i Pressed on ere night was over. And as i told my name i found The way free as our prairie " “Because. thank God i to-hight," he said, The countenfgn is ‘liarv.’ " «-9â€" A Milli AGAINST TIME I had been stationed on the main line of the great (Ientrul Railway for something more than a year, attending to all the day and night duties at that point with such an unfailing regularity, that no thought of pos- s.hle accident had ever occurred to me. The duties were not especially arduous, but the naponsibility was far greater. There was an express day and night, both ways, for which the main line had to be al- ways clear ; a local express each way, winch ran on the turnout, and waited for the through train to pass : a mall train night and morning which bad right of way; on}. orditu passenger, and half~s~dczen, perhaps, accommodation and freight. To see that the main line was always closed at the proper moment, that the turn- out was always ready when it should be, that the branch where the local made is was open, and, in short, that svnything was in condition for prompt and satisfactory working, kept me almost constantly at my post, though, as I have already said, the duties were not especially arduous. In order to be handy to my business, I lived in a cottage close by, from the open door of which, looking eastward, I could see any coming train for a mile away, and no- tice whether the signals of “ danger " or “ safety" were in their proper positions. One morning, just after the local had made up and gone, my wife came running to me with an alarmed face. Our little girl was missing. She had seen her only a few min- utes before the departure of the train, and had trade a hasty search for her as soon as him discovered her absence. She feared she knew not what. I calmed her with a few brief words, and, hurrying around to the station~bnlldlng, bs- gain .1 careful examination of every possible place where I deemed it likely the child might be (She was only live years old.) The search resulted in my finding her fast asleep on the sunny side of a pile of railroad ties, with her doll, half as large as herself, lying lwsldc her. That night I had a singular dream. 1 linzught I was in the middle of a vast plain. Zill‘Ough which stretched, broad and clear before me, the double track of a main line. Like ours, yet unlike, for evsry few rude I could see open switches and blood- red signals, that gave me an agony of appre- hension. As I looked again at the line, my eyes fell upon an e". iectâ€"a small form lying upon one of the rair: My child l With a mighty effort I awoke. :nrned over, and went to sleep, and dreamed the same thin again, with the addition that I seems mounted on a winged horse, and riding for life to rinse fh eswitches. Again I aw ks, bathed in perspiration, and ruined mysle sufficiently to get up and visit my little darlln 's crib, of course to find her safe. I Wnl ed the floor in my stocking feet for awhile, looked at the clock, and again turned in, to dream for the (him! Iinrr flu. mun thing : to start suddenly and broadly awake, as if the voice which roused the Thane of Cawdor had hissed in my car, as in his, “ Sleep no uwre ."' To awake. and find the first gleam of the incoming day glowing gray on the eastern wall. However, a visit to all the switches~mlne, not those of the dreamâ€"a dash. hesdfore- most, into a cool, deep, running stream near, and nwsrm breakfast, seemed to clear away whatever remained of the lingering ofl'ucll of my nocturnal visions, and I felt like myself once more. Between the passage of the down mail which stopped, and the through express which did not, there was an interval of an hour and a half, that was essentially my own. llut that morning a despatch had come for one of the directors, who lived three miles to the south of us, and as it so happened, the agent. whowas busy, request- ed me to take it, offering the use of his fast mare, which stood in harness under the shed --an animal remarkable for its s and endurance, as I ascertained ther ter. I had been to the director's house on one ui’ two similar occasions, and neither the agent nor myself deemed the time n to go and come any consideration when an hour and a half was at my dlspsssl. Besides, had such a course been necessary, he could lune tsch the keys and acted for me. lint the: e was no thought of that. idruvo leisurely over. enjoying the ride much, for the mare, " Fanny," was in ax. :‘clleut spirits, and the air was clear and bracing. i had delivered the despawb, received a brief word of thanks, and was already turn~ lug homeward, when the direct ‘1' came him- self toward the paling, calling out to me by name. i rsined up. " There is some mistake hers, Jennings," he said, with some excitement, waving tbs despatch. “ This should not have been sent to me, but to our agent." on "the. tion -. “ lie knows the contents, I Hippos. rt 0a reflection, I couldn't say, and so stat. ed “ 1hru go back toyour post stones, and give it to him. A special train of excur- sionlsts for llampstssd Beach will pass as 931) Link out for it." lie turned irisurely and sauntersd up the waiktswsrd the house, while, without a 1 word, lstsrtsdthemsrslstcatrot. A special tralnat half past nine ! [drew a nut rein who my right hand, sudtookmywatch from my pocket with my trembling 'sft. Sins twenty-two! Three miles of a straight rand-less. perhaps, a quarts: of a rolls of detour to the station, when I should reach the trackâ€"and the main line open to ms westward for the passage out of the mail E Three miles, and fight minutes in which to accomplileh 1:". k In my oath h on“ something about honL. hale-gigs did not fail use new. new not s viii _. seldom used, as I have noticedâ€":5 would the mare quietly on the flank. How can 1 describe that ride! I harshest: when charger met charges in the swirl and dust of battle, and men and burst: have therewasf â€"â€"but no words can fitly describe the fierce emotions of that solitary ride against time, where hundreds of innocent lives, all uncou scious of the peril toward which they were speeding, hung trembling in the balance. P walk. r, hut in M tlon. 11! till! me down wshl I "all new the tempest which swayed my shrinking soul, as, outwardly calm ant rigidly erect, with every muscle strong w steel, I held the mare firmly up to her work and, by voice and touch, electrified the noble animal with almost human conscious- ness of the necessities and peril of the occasion. Trees, houses, fences, gardensâ€"sometimes men, staring in wild-eyed astonishment-â€" flew past in ens unbroken flight. My hat was 05. in hair and board streaming in the wind, my ps compressed, save when emit- ting low cries of encouragement to the noble mm;andthus I reac ed a low rise of ground ' a view of the line for a mile or more on either hand. Up to this moment from the time I had drawn taut rein and glanced at my watch, this point had been the objective goal for which I was riding. If I could reach it before the whistle blew at the crossing below, there would be hope. If not-I shuddered at the alternative. I recalled afterward, and many times, how a thought of my dreamâ€"a long line of switchesâ€"swept across me than ! how my eyes for the first time swerved from their steady gaze at my horse's head, and flashed a glance up and down the whole visible line for the coming special ! Not in sight-thank God 2 Stay ! there is smoke on the horizon. But there is no stay in the wild rush of our onward course. With as unflinching nerve as when she started, the gallant mar- stretclses away down the ntls decllvlty, while every moment the lance lessens, and the on coming train gets larger and noisier as it nears us. I stand up in the wagon ; I urge to great- sr speed ; wave scarf and hand ; I shout, but my voiceb beyond my control. Ha l Joy unuttsrable l I am seen i A whistle lâ€"the agent runs out with a red flag ! two whistles 1 Down brakes! The train is saved, and comesto a halt not a do:- so yards from the open switch. Itvr as time. (Timeâ€"as they say in the racing-(alendar â€"seven minutes and a half. This I con- firmed afterward.) I complete the last quarter of the detour to the station more leisurely, but am in time to receive from the arms of the agent my sleepy little girl, whom he has snatched from the shadow of that misplaced switch, where she was lying fast asleep, with her golden curls directly on the rail. That dream again ! Shall I ever be thank~ ful enough 2 I am an older man now, and ‘have other and higher interests in railroads, but not on that line. That experience was too much for me. I left soon after, and my fortunes greatly improved. I My golden-haired little darling is now a woman, and happily married, and has a lit- tle darling of her own just beginning to And if you would like to see the gallant mare, Fanny, that won the Race against Time, and an affectionate place in my re- membrance evermors,'come out to the or- chard, and you will see her snjoylne a com. fortabis old age, potted and caresses. ny the whole family. SoImd as Ibegan: Dreams are not always true. ' f lNor, on the other hand, are they always a so. A FATBI‘UL DREAM. Al'lslon or the Sight and It» 5an Fulfil- rueut. Writing of dreams and their fulfilment, a correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Demo- crat relates this actual incident : We were eating breakfast one morning, when our nearest neighbor, the mlller's wife, came in. She was pale and excited,-and to our reat astonishment shs at once told us that or husband would be drowned that of- ternoon. She said: “Only last night Idreamed that my- hus- band was drowned in”th‘e mill-race, and that a man, riding a white horse, had come about dusk, and told me the ewe. S yrjmpresssd was I with the drea , that I warned 'my husband not to go near the mill tq-day, and I told him my dream, but he only laughed at my fears, and said that we no ion er lived in dark ages." . e thought at first that she must be crazy, but at last,she so far convinced the folks that she was not,‘tbat they consented to have me stay with her during the do , and I accomp-suied her to her home, she muttering all the way : “I Warned him, but he only laughed at me. I know he will never return home.” As evening came on, her anxiety increas- ed. The approaching darkness seemed to her he shadow of death, and her face grew paler as the last sun-tinted " cloud in the West gave way to the sli-ruling.tvrillght. Although I put no faith in the woman’s pre- diction, yst her strange murmuring had had an effect upon me, and it was With some- thing almost llke dlsa poiutrnent that I paw: the night close in, an no issues or appear.' For I was yo'ung, than, and fo of: the ’sx. clting and marvellous, without stopping to in sin: the cause. And ‘so itrwsrwivlr-s su‘dden shock that I again looked out of the window, more carefully this time, and saw a white horse come galloping“ over the hill at its utmost speed. , The, womap _saw'my emotion and quickly flew to the window. Down the short hill, over the stone brid e in the hollow, and up the long slope to tge house, we watohsd'lt come, together, and it would have been hard to tell which was the most excited ; for although no personal frei- ings moved me, yet I was in a slate of the utmost uncertainty as to the outcome, while the woman, although agitated by the ter- rible grief, yet had not a doubt as to what the mug; would be. And it was no sur- prise tosl er of auto see-the msu stopat the gate-sud walk hlowly up the avenue leading totbe house. , The lady met him at the door.» As I watched her standing there in the twilight, swa g back and forth in her agony, with her and on the door knob for support, I felt a great throb of pity at my heart, and at the same time a certain awe for the two who csizir‘ri‘plsyingso great a part in the drama of 'The'fact ‘hat the news ba'd'been‘ ei “ted all day, and had been foretold in a sun, which I knew of only as belonging to the mysterious past of King Arthur and Profs- sart's Chronicles, placed the characters beâ€" fore me on an equality with the magicians of old Granada. I shrunk bank, fee that the cold wind which came in throng the open d231, hard carrisdhms back hundreds of years, placed use Ldlfismtagu ‘Evsn tbs calm, prosaic insurer, with his snow-white hair. and has. seemed like some old user, as be his hand over his forehead, and tried to collect his scattered thoughts. The silence became tc'rlble. . ; mu. m ~ ~. 5 « . or . 1: “Speak i" she said, "I can bear It now as vrall as any other tins." And then the farmer looked up. ‘ “any.” lmkmefl‘hflsm" assists. and his was low and msan cred; “Madam, your. husband wants the ulvss turned into “at Me piston back of thsbuuz" "” ‘ " ' Tbs-he turnsdandrodsawsyasswlftly as be cause. Andstm thsrsars some people who do not hellevsin dreams! Dr.Joisa Hunter, the eminent surgeon, sdeptsdarulswhiehmaybscommaacsdto all. Wksuafrisusdaskadhlmbo‘r behalf besaahlshnaosamplbhsomoehintbsway cfstadyasddiosovsqlu his life. he asstsrsd,“hiyrulsls,dsilbsn secs» adequatelmvbsth wck hepatic-He. Iflsbsastpuscticabhl detect infill 4 M ass Nightmare: Bx‘wbghsgadim soap and] tbsthhglsdoaas. ethlsnlslmsllny success. shall be as wholesome, as Comfortable and as min. isa study which will receive the attention it merits until the “art of nursing" shall be fully remgniud as forming of the art of healing. so common ass. ture and ventilation; yet upon these very subjects physiolgisfs have written more pages, and physicians spent more breath, than upon all kindred topics course no inflexible rule can be formulated upon these points. An open window may be -alvation to a man in the burning stage of a fever ; at the same time it is fatal to one in the sweating stage. the thermometer, g ed and careful observation should regulate there essential conditions. the air of the sick-room as pure as possible, yet howiseldom, except in casespf contagion, do we see disinfectants about a sick-bed. .u”..‘._._.... . ........,..._...W The Sick-R our. New to mac-age a sick new so that it possibility of the e.se ad- prohably never beerfnl as the a legitmats and important Thranch No error of management in a slck~rocm is neg ect of proper tempera- put together. 0f With all due regard for Dad sense and enlighten- Every one admits the necessity of keeping Chloride of lime and carbollo acid are cheap and efisctive and something of the kind should always be used whrrwer fresh air cannot be freely admitted. . There should always be a towel-rack in the room, or just outside, where moistened cloths can be quickly dried. Cloths wet in are water even give out an unpleasant odor f left lying in a heap to mold or dry as they best can. Keep one stand or table for food or drinks and another for medicines. A clean new per” often renewed makes a better covering for such tables than a cloth. Have a basin of water always at hand, that when- ever a spoon or wlaeglass is used, it can be‘ rinsed immediately and ready fornss. Guard against irritating nolse,|creakir g doors, chairs or shoes, also against too much light and cross lights. Holes in window-shades and gaps in shutters are often first~class nuisan- ces. Many an invalid is tortured by a single point of piercing light, which seems, like a. faithful eye, to pursue him everywhere, and to which in spite of himself he is ever re- turning. . A little daily change in the arrangement of furniture, a little planning for such pleas- ant surprises as an invalid can bear, in the way of food, company and amusement, will often be more sflectual in hastening the convalescsnce of apatient that all the tonics that have been used in the building up of in- sh“, firm humanity since the days of Esculaplns. him“ of “lemma. A soft tread, a mild, psi-suasive word, a. m “tic hand’ 3‘ tut- ” “ban wa “y “ afraid, but in meeting danger we are afrai gen us 'lâ€"for detecting the interior aspects of disease, are invaluable adjuncts of good nursing. Clatter of firearms, rattle of dishes and nervspapsrs, loud talking and whisper- ing, are about equally abominable. . Growing plants are usually inierdicted in a sick-room, but cut flowers are grrat brighteners of its somberness. ..â€".â€"_._ Tear ‘cnd'Disease. Som emotions accelerate the heart, quick: en the action of the brain,'give new strencth and elasticity to the step, and greatly enliv- en the spiritsâ€"tbs efi‘ect being of brief dur- ation. Others, like hops,'for instance, have- a similar effect much lower in degree, but much more prolonged. » Still cthers have an opposite efiect. Among the last is fear. Many cases 'ars on record in which it has resulted in sudden death. Under its influence, as is well known, the face often becames pale, the heart beats violently, the breath is obstructed, the limbs tremble, the appetite is lost, and all other emotions are overcome. -_ . We speak of the man 7 as paralytecl with fear. There is literal 't ruth in this. The effect is due to the influenceof the emotion on some one of the cerebral centresâ€"the gan- gliga, or nerve masses, near the base of the brain, which govern the action of the various vital organs. , This influencels, for the time, of aparaiy Zing nature. . ’ Hence the capillary blood-vessels near the surface are collapsed, and the blood is driv- en back on the heart, burdeuir‘g both it and tbelung ;,irhile“the fsébretlpn‘ of ,the gastric juice ishrxeqtsdhy :3 paralysis of the great nerveâ€"the pneumogastricâ€"which supplies the stomach with its working force. Such a case is an extreme one, but it In t? s same iii-kind with, fear-An everyfdc , s... It low- ers the tonarof thhsystegn. 5 6 lessens the vitality. Even'this condition is nadiseased one, and if- protracted, the system would, sooner or later, give way under it. . .But the partlc a; point we wish to make is that fear ex the attacks of infectious diseases. The dis- eases are caused by minute organisms which éntcrfthe body’throughtha'stfimach or the lungs". They may be harmless, if the stomach digests them, or If the body has its full pow- er of resistance to infecticin _ _ - But‘just hr re is'the danger. from fearâ€"it lessens the normal resistance of the system, and especially arrests the power of the stomach to secrete the gastric fluid. It puts the system, for (the time being, where it is left by debilitating"dlseass, by drinking habits, by ovsr~eatlng,h excesses, by too continuousg chi , opby, anxious worry. -. If therefore, hs'b pletaflnhdes America, or smallpor pi’llv'ails,‘ dad's leiHis invite an attack by fear ; but repel it by keepln ‘abbh't‘fihr daily vocations with a cheerfu tr'ust'snd a baudof elptforyothtrspxhaving, ofcourse, done our hole dutyiu the mat- ter of hygiene} “ ‘ ' " ‘ " Cholera Morhus. . , At a recent gathering of medical men in Philadelphia Dr. W. S. Janney, late Coron- er of that city, made the startling state- ment, that “be healthy man or woman ever dies in this climate from cholera morbus." He repeated the remark to the editor of the Medical andSurgr'cal Reporter, sayin that the records of the Coroner’s office wou d sub- stantiate his words. lie explained that by “ healthy" he maaht a p'rirb‘orl {withâ€" organic diseases sndof aversge'sfi‘ssgtb wirihlity. " Such a persong' he‘said "when dying with symptom of cholera 'n‘sorbus. always dies frompoisoning (usually arsenic.) and the case is one of suicide or hemfmde." 'I'he err-Coroner first examined into these cases whens stout, healthy man oihis acquaintance died after an illness of thirty-six hours with cholera morbus. lie had been attended by four reputable hygiciahs, brill m had signed the den h octlfiut‘s.r"~1'etbe V tutsd- an investigation, and found eno arsenic in the deceased to kills down on. He afterwards met with five or six similar cases. Dr. Barthiow, in a conversation with the editor of the Reporlrr, said that ho had not the least doubt of the correctness of Dr. Janney's assertion. Another promin- »__. .. ' snt physicals stated his belief in these views. i and referred the muses of such attempts tr- P islity. think that a; long as they pass their drink fog water thrr ugh an earthenware jar with some mysterious filtering medium inside. the scans of the water or the ccndltion of their cisterns does not in the least mat ter. This is a similar delusion to the be- lief, which passes add it of its noxious qualities, or at least dimin. ish them. of filters, but we desire to point out that they must not be exclusively relied upon. Water filtration has inlts way had as much non- sense written about it as water analysis The great pointis to kes the water itself as pure as suspected, let the water be boiled for a con siderabls aied by pouring height of two or three feet from one vessel sing purposes. If a filter be inot vary fre- quently '; 3 deeply agitated by the prospect of war with .1 England, he made up his mind that when it es hven‘the'inost robust to, oisou with arsenic to counnbial unto gen Filters- hlsny poopie pin thei faith to filter, and freely current, that if you its to unwholesome water you rob We do not deny the usefulness hare pollution is possible. period. It may afterward be sari it several times from n to another, or by artificial means. If a ti]. tor be used, it should be of the simplest possible construction, and the filtering med~ fans should be readily removable for clean- and very thoroughly cleansed, it poilutcs rather than purifies the water. Courage. Who is afraid! Everybody! There is not a creature living who does not sufier from fear, reasonable or unreasonable ; upon the whole, there is not more fear in the world then there is need of. It is indispensable. We could no more do without fear than a watch could do without its msinspring. Some good and brave boys suffer from the fear of being afraid ; others, from the fear of being thought afraid. Having learned to admire courage and courageous deeds of heroes, when they find themselves alarmed at anything, they say to themselves:â€" " An. I really a coward, then? If I am afraid of a cow, a dog, a dark room, or it clap of thunder, what a sorry figure I should out if I had been a soldier .' But let us reflects moment. A boyâ€"even a manâ€"ought to be afraid of a big, strange deg coming thard him, with a red mouth open, panting and glaring. Perhaps he ought not to run away, because that is a dangerous kind of strategy : but he ought to be so much afraid of the dog as to keep a p lookout until he discovers the inten- Courage does not consist in not heir: of. That person is brsv who does a duty be mentally dreads, and many a gallant fol- low has'gone into peril trembling and pale with alarm. But home”! When the lab- J. It Acnnsdy, of Balti- more, formerly Sscretary of the Navy, was fifteen years of age, the country being then came, he would join the army. Ons thought ,held him back: He was awfully afraid of the dark, having been terrified by ghost stories in his childhood. In order to cure himself of his fears, .he used to go at midnight to an extensive forest near his father’s house, and walk aboutnntli mornln . This he did until he was as much at ease in the woods at two o’clock in the morning, as he was in his father's garden after breakfast. Although at first he saw enemi esand ghosts at every stop, he erss- vercd until even these startling exper ences ceased to alarm him. When the war was declared in 1812, he went to the front, took part in the battle of Biadsnsburgb, and ran away, will). the reel of his regiment! But his running away was glorious, too i " \Ve made a fine scsmper of it," he says. "-I lost my musket in the melee, while hear- ing oil's. comrade whose leg was broken by a bullet." Another proof that even heroes run away sometimes. If heroes, why not boys! hvery good soldier knowrr that there ape times when discretion is the better part c valor. PEARLS OF TRUTH. Help others, and you relieve yourself. Go out and drive away the cloud from a dis- tressed friend's brow, and you will return with a lighter heart. Love is the most terrible and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one that includes in its dreams the happi- ness of some one else. Words of praise are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. J udicious praise is to chlldrenwhat the sun is to flowers. Politeness is apart of guard which covers the rough edges of our character and pro. vents their wounding others. We should never throw it oil~ oven in our conflicts with coarse people. There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well. Measure a mafi's‘desires, he cannot live,iong enough ; ' easure by his good deeds, and he has not 1 ed ‘Tong'enougb’; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long. The most difficult 3prqviuce in friendship . is the letting a man see his faults and errors, which should, if possible, be so contrived that he may perceive our advice is given him not so. pinch to please ourselves as for his own advantage. The reproaches, there- fore, ‘of avfrisnd should always be strictly just, and not too frequent. He that does not fill a. place at home can- not abroad. lie goes there only to hide his insignificance in a larger crow <1. You do not think you will find anything there which you have not seen at home 3 The stufi of all countries is the ssme. \\ hat is true any- where is true everywhere. And, lots man go where he will, he an find only so mmh beauty or worth as he carries. So ion as dress does not violate the prin- ciples cf leauty or the laws of health, so long as it is made conformable to position, use, and circumstances, so long is it to be an- couragod, not only as a source of enjoyment, but as the fulfilment of a serious dutyâ€"for the love of dress, which is to the body what language is to thought, is as true an instinct as is the love of what is beautiful and good. ~ Tic trait of character is more valuable in a female than the pcuesslou of a sweet tem- prsr. idioms cs‘u never be made happy with- oirHt."-‘y~ltia like the flowers that spring up in our pathway, reviving and chrsring us. but .a man so home,“ night, wsarled and Enraby fhe toils of the day, and how sooth- g a word dictaiadby a cod disposition! It is sur shine falling on b heart. He is happy, and the cares of life are It rgotlen. Won . . ” Ir a sour user a sum mnrs' ruso' ni ass, 1r a sour sin a soar, also a son car?” he s I‘ bins and there ‘u A- ‘9' "i I I "u"- 0”‘ lArrah' Kathleen. rue \lariin‘. it‘s you that‘s 121: Lh-lhl‘ff. fur ruumon “.M The wt-fuevrilase,thepsldsoltheplscs: "“i‘ "if cabins in the Rocky Merlot-ins that speak in and tones to the man of imagination, and tell him stories of blasted hopes, of fruitless struggles, and, it may be of death. mountains are full of deserted cabins. stand on the edges of remote parks, they are hidden in thickly wooded ravines, they stand, isolated and lonely, on the fluttered flanks of rugg srr aying and sighing shores of highland takes, overhung by great cliffs, and where the sound of ripping water blends with the mysterious noises of an un boken forest, there will be found a cabin. And in open valleys, rugged and gray with sage brush, and desolate, a cabin is sure to be found. It may be old and partly but it shows that man once lived, and tell- ed, and suffered, in the big desolation. ed cabins of the Rocky ' if they could a iiiCiDEii'l‘S 1N Till) ROCKIES. [AI-Is. There a e things in some of the descrin The They ed foothills, with the tall pines above them. On the decayed, bland valley of Ah, the stories that the desert- hicnntalns could tel these huts, and they always interested me. Some years a Iewss travelirg in the westerly spurs of the Bitter Root Mountains. One day, towards evenin , an autumn storm swept over the range. ' he snow filled the air. The extent of vision was about fifty yards. I supposed I was in an unknown region, probably one that had never been trodden by white men. I rode out of the tim- ber into a tiny park. Standing among the trees that fringed its edge was a log but. The chinklrg had fallen from between the logs,_and therswas alarge hole in its roof; but it would shelter myself and my horse from the storm. Ientered it and led my horse in. There was not a thing in the cabin, ex~ cepting crucifix. which hung on a nail above where . the bunk should have been. the damp, old hearth, and sat suppsrlsss looking at the crucifix. I knew the story of its owner just as well as though it had been told to me. A Hudson Bay Company employee, probably a French Canadian, had built the cabin and had passed the winter in trap ing in those iii bland shiltudes. The cm x was the emb cm of his faith, and, in addition, It reminded the lonely trapper of the highest civilization he knew ofâ€"that which surrounded Fort Garry, and that lln- ed the banks of the Red lliver of the North, dark-eyed, bri ht faced half-breed women, with whom be ad danced at frontier ballsâ€" hoversd aroundthe crucifix. Often during the long winter nights he had gazed on the cru- I cifix and sighed or smiled as his mood might l have been. One day the trapper went forth and never returned. He perished in a storm, he was killed in a contest with a hear, he was waylaid by Spokane Indians, at nv rate he 1 ever returned. The large quantity . of torn, moth-eaten far that. littered the ‘; cabin showed that he had not marketed his} catch. After the furs had been torn and motheaten andssndered valueless, the cabin had been'plundered of cooking utensils by predatory visitors. Three years ago I found a “hall well-built cabin that stood in a deep and thickly wood-. ed ravine by a tiny stream of ice water. A few old sluice boxes and the denuded bed rock of a small pie or urine told the story- of a miner, who th. rght be had struck it rich, building a house and working for one season, and. then abandoning the claim. There was no blazed trail leading to this house. This indicated that the owner of the cabin did not banker for vistors, and made me suspect that the diggings must have prospected well. I tried the gravel. It prospected fairly, but It was so high lying that water in suflicieut quantities to work the ground rapidly and thoroughly could not be got on to it. The mine was worthless. I went to the house, and as I passed around one end I saw that the window had been broken inward. That Was odd. Why should any one break into a house throu h a win- dow when the door was fastened y a latch only? Curious about the;broksn window, I looked through it into the house. On the floor lay two dead mountain lions. I open- ed the door and examined the dead animals. They, judging from the condition of their skins, had got into the house the previous winter when the snow was deep and the _ weather intensely cold. The broken window [ showed how they had got in. Why they l sought refuge in the cabin, and what killed them, I do not know. Another cabin stood on the headwaters of a crack by a deep spring of ice water. This cabin was about fifteen miles from my highland house. I found it one day while deer hunting. It had not been occupied for years. There were holes in its roof, and some of the lower wail logs were badly de- cayed. In a box, pushed far back under 'a double bunk, were thirty or forty piceces of white china tableaux-gland a dozen plated forks. There was nothing else in the house. On my return home I told. my wife of the china, and she, womanliko, covr ted it. I promised to go for it in a few days and did. so but it was gone. Another hunter or min- er had fouudths'eabin’rzaudnbcing a promp- ter man thin I, hadfpeoksd-the box on his horse and carried it off; - â€"â€"â€"-‘-...â€"»â€"â€" - A Misuse of Clemency. We think that the circumstances are few under which. journal; of repute ought to interfere in the solemn decisions of justice; but conscious do arise" when silence would be biamesbie., We believe that, commutation of the death penalty in the case of Lolson hlongrain, the murderer of Policeman Cowan, we have a case in point. Cowan wss one of a reconnoiterlng party sent out by Inspector Dickens from Pitt when that Fort was surrounded by the Cross under Big Bear. This chief had come under the ramparts and 00011 invited Inspector Dickens to surrender b s arms and accom. puny him to the lodges, as Factor Nuclear: and others had done, promising his pro. tectlon in the event of compliance. “ I: you do not come " Big Bear said, “ my young men will burn down the Fort and do your people harm.” lnspectorlllokens, of course, sent the presuming savage about his business Meanwhile, (lowan and another along the prairie towards e fd'rt. l'sr- calving their approach a number of Big Bear's men seized weapons, and as the two horsemen drew near opened a‘murderous flrufupon them. ‘Ose maurode on and reach- ed the fort, though bit with several bullets ; but the other, Cowsn, fell from his horse up- on the prairie. lie lay bleeding and moaning here for half an bour,xwhs"n hfougralu came spandpointedannnathlshead. The wounded man put up his band, asif wardio the n away, and said, “Don't, brotherfl hugs heartless murderer fired, and not only once, but twice, into the head of the helpless man. The murderer was ap re. bonded, tried, and found llty, an ,on gracing him to death udge Roulsan “After the verdict of the jury, Lean do no more than pronounce g‘nient. By the evidence given you have been found guilty of murder under the mast shot-Eng rirrum- slant“. When the wounded man was lying helpless on the ground and lifting up his handspleading for his life, you cruelly shot him. I never heard or anything more crud than that a man who saw authorizing wounded and defencelsss should kill in. The law provldssthat mu death be poo you, and the sentence of the south, thatyoubobauged oaths 27th“ I , NWO " If ever man deserved death under the law, ftsnrslywasthlsmiscrsant; yet wslssrn tisstths Privy Council has cguidsoed his cuss, and commuted the death penalty. . A Good Corn Shellcr for 25¢. Amarrslofchospesss. of sac-icy, and of, press kids, he cont-heed in a bottle of that remedy, Putnam's Painless Corn um Itgoss righttcths roots! the mflmmqflckly butso painless. iythatnothbgh known of its operation untilthseara is shelled. Beware of sub- stitutaolsrsd for Putnam's Painless Corn, "1 Nhuss there‘s many a wear. handguns, nontoxic hhurr. Kathleen. you‘ve kill. me with them soft what be 50‘ I Ah. Ka- leen i will pleasure vrs'il alwst rvmsmbsr Your Friends will her or Tell You. W! I hive!” many 0‘ Fonha'blrrmts‘s only yenrselftbatoanmaksms but perhaps friend, will, that your ed oil'enaivs by your breath. though it be the very echo of wisdom and poetry, disgusts your hearers, and your laugh is but mirth to pieces of beaver and bear skins two , . . blocks of wood, and asmail corroded, brass gre’ Doc (my to '\ Dunelf' but ‘0 sonny 1b .1c fl Sage's ('atsrrh Remedy will heal the di- “' “ rum ssased mucous membrane, will bring re- lief to yourself and others. tats to employ it. band was so IIJI'd up that he was obliged to finish Brethy, his country property after her son's death, finished Bretby and left $590,000, besidrs clearing the estate. ‘ is a French saying that finds exemplilication in the ‘ policeman were (Lulstly riding. t The Dav You Said Yes- I‘r Kali-I s “L‘DM‘. fans» r would unzip it from Dublin to leak at years ism “theme cable. I. M shoes. their dark shining Irv-sass AI-d them suate dmp'n‘ eyelhs that near drew ma mad- names. And conquered mar-lately your we: lriah lad. 1%.. m'. it qua" how i met you, me darlln'. When poor Kitty (‘0)k, you "maul-er." wakin', An' how that state bisguard they call “ Johnny i‘arlane' Said bakinew nirrs 'id orme frnu our tallin' than n“. Shun s'l courtln' we were wheaws should have be. prsyln', .And lauehla' and glaorie' when tears should be sheddin' : But your knee, Kathleen. darlin'. thsrs runs an oule eayln . " Begin at the In he an“ you'll end in the “raidin'.r Ilere. Kathleen, me dulln'e meself; will you take use A poor honest lad or the (lens of the Sea: The hs est man in uuid Ireland as free. ‘s that, use darlln'. you re murmurin‘ so tender) Is it “ Yls i" Yls it is! 0):. Im mulbersd wid The day you said “ Yis" to your poor lrish boy. somebody, who isn't your presence is render the foul. fetid smell of utter, Every word you of anythin productive It is a duty you them. remove this cause of offense. Dr. Do not in si- 'I‘he late Dowager Lady Chesterfield's hus- iet Chester-field House, and was unable to seat, and his son had to sell Chesterfield House: but Lady Chesterfield, who had a life interest in the “ One Nail Drives 0m Another." in the way one disease will substitute itself for another and gruver one, in very many cases. Liver disease for instance will soon induce blood disorders, throat ailments, skin affections and eventually, because of impoverished blood, consumption itself, an. less, indeed, it be treated in its lnclpieucy and early progress by Dr. Pierce'e "Golden Medical Discovery" which acts as uspecitic in these ailments. accomplishing a rapid cure by its powerful ulterativc action upon the great organs of the body. A couple stcod before a jcwslor's, the other evening, when the young lady remarked: “ (ianic, don't you think there is some- thing psrfeotiy lovely about those Cit cks ? " " What do you admire so much about them?" he asked. 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