Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 26, 1874, Page 10

10 ‘ THE FOOL OF FIVE FORKS. Brot Narte’s Last Story. From the New York Timex 4 He livod aloue, 1 do not think this peontiarity \aroso from any winh to withdras hia foolishnoss from tho vost of tho camp, nor was it probablo that tho combined windom of Five Yorks ovor drove him into exile, My impronalon is that ho lived nlono from choico,—a clioico ho made long befora the camp indulged in any eriticlsm of his montal eapucity. o was much given to moudy raticonco, aud, nlthough Lo outwar! sppoarances a strong maw, wan always complaining of Il health, Indoed, ono thoory of bis solation was that it afforded Lim hottor opportnnities for taking medicino, of which ho habitually con- gumod Iargo quantitios. Tin folly finst dawned upon Five Forks throngh tho Post-Offico windows. 1o was for a long time ho only man who wrote homo by evory neil, Lis Jottors beinyg always dircctod to tha samo pardan, —n woman. Now it 8o happened that tho bulk of tha Five Forks correspondonco wag usunlly the ather way ; thora woro many lotters recoival,— the majority bemng lu the foralo hand,—but vory few answored. fr3Tho men rocolved thom ludifforently, or na matter of courno; a fow opened and read them on the spot, with & bavoly-represead ymilo of wolf~ concoit, or quite s froquently glancedoyer them it undisguised impationce, Some of the lot- ters began with ** My dear husband,” und somo woro never called for. But the fact thal tho only sogwlar correspondent of Kive Torke uover ro- coived any roply became at last quite noto- rions. Conscquently, whon an onvelope Was ro- ceived boaring the stamp of the ** Deud Lotter Ofico™ addressed to the Fool, under e more convontionnl title of * Cyrus Hawking," (here was quite o fover of excitoment. I do not know how tho seoret leaked out, but it was eventunily Jnown to Lho camp that tha onvolops containd Havkins' own lotters returned. Thuw' was tho first ovidonce of his woakness ; any man who re- poatedly wrote to & wouan who did not suswar wag a fool. I think Hawkine suspoctod chat his folly was knowu to the camp, but ho took rafugo in ymptoms of chills aud fover,. which ho at onco devoloped, and offccted & diversion with threo bottlod of Indinn chologogue and two hox- es of pills. At ol oveuts, ai thoand of & wock he resumed & pon, stiffened by tonics, with all his old epistolatory_portinacity, Thia time tho lettors liad n vow address, TIn thoso days & popular beliof obtnined in tho mines that Luck particularly favored tho foolish and unacientifie, - Consequontly, when Hawking struck a “pockat™ in t[lw ‘hilleide near bis soll- tary cabin, thoro was hut littlo surprive, o will sink it all iu the next hole,™ waa the pro- vailing boliof, predicated upon the uansl man- nor in winch tho porsessor of " nlgsur-luck‘ disposed of hi fortune. T'o everybody’s aston- ishmont, Hawkine, after taking ont abont $3,100 aud oxlitating Lh pookol, did not pronuect for auother. ‘The camp then waited pationtly to soo e hawould do with hin wonay, 1. think, how- ‘ever, that it wns with tho rreatest diffioulty their iudignation was kept from taking tho form of mersonul assault when it becamo known that ho had purchasod s dratt for $8,000 in favor of “that woman.” Moro than this, it was finally sshispered thnt the draft wne yoturned to him ay Lis letters had been, aud that ho was_ashamed to reclnim tho monoy at the oxpross offiee, ¢ IL wouldw't bon bad specilation to go Laat, got eome rvart gal for $100 to dresa hotsolf up and ropresent thot hag, and jost freezo onto that £85,000," wugeented n far-vecing financior, Imny ctato oro that wo always slluded lo Hawking® fair unlinown as *“Lho 1Tay,” withoul baving, T am confidont, tho loast justifieation for thut epi- thet. ‘Tiat tho Fool shomld gombidoomod eminent- Iy it and proper. That ho should vccarionally win a largo_stake, secording to that popular theory which 1 havo recorded in_tho proccding paragraph, appeared nleo a not improbable orin= coosistont foct. That he should, however, broak the faro-banlk which Ar. John ITamfin had set up in Five Forks, and_carrs off & sum varionsly eatimated at from 210,000 to $20,000, and not re- turmn the noxt day and 1080 the moue{'nl thosamo tablo, really appeared inerediblo. Yot such waa the fact. A day or two passed withont any Imown investment of Mr. llawking® recontly- acquired cn]lilnl. “Ef he allows to send ‘it tothat Hag," said ono prominont citizen, * suthin® ought to bo done! It's jest rainm’ tho reputa- tion of this yor camp,—this sloshin’ roumt o’ cavital on_non-rosidents ez don't clnim il “1's sobtin’ an_oxamplo o’ oxtravagauco,” said another, ez is little Luttor nor aswindle, Thaiy nior'n five mon .in this camp thet, hearin’ thet Hawkins hod sont homa $8,000, must jest rise upand eond homo their hard osrnings, too! And, then, to think thet that £8,000 was only o blufT, aftor all, anct thet it's lyin’ thore on call'in Adams & Co.'s bank! Welll Luay it's one o thom {hings u vigllnneo committos” oughtor loak into! " When there seemod no poesibilily of thi repe- tition of ITwwking' Iolly, the anxiely to kuow what he hud really dono with his money becsine intenso. As last s self-apoointed commitleo of four citizons dropped artfully, but to outward appearances carofully, upou bim in his seclu- eion. When womo polite formalities had buon exchanged, and somo ensy vituperation of a bnckward geason offered by ench of the partios; Tom Wingate approached 7he subjoct : “Borter dropped hoavy on Jack Ifamlin tho other night, aidn't yo? 1lo allows you didu't give him no show for rovonge. 1 said You wasn't vo snch d—d_fool—didu't 1, Dick 7 continued the artful Wingate, appesling to a confedorate. “Yes," meid Dick promptly, *You said £20,000 wasn't goin” to bo thrown around reck- lessly. You naid Cyrus had suthin' better to do aitly his enpital,” suporadded Dick, with gratu- ftous menducity. I disremewbor now what par- tickler investmont you said bio was goin® o make with 1t,” Lo continned, appealing with onsy - differonce to his frieud, Of conrso, Wingate did not_raply, but looked et tho Fool, who, with a tronbled faco, wus rub- bing nls logs softly. Aftera panso ho turned depx-cm.finfivy townrd Lifs visitor. “Yo didn't ouny of yo aver,hova sort of tremblin’ in your logs—n kind o' sbakinosy from * the kneo down ? Suthin',” he continued, slight- 5 brightoning with his topic, * suthin’ that be- gins liko chills, and yot ain't chilly, A kind o' cengation of goneness Lior, and o kind o' fealin® a8 if you might dio suddent 2 Whou Wright's itly don't somehow reach tho spol, and quinine Son't foteir you?" “No," said Wingate, with a curt_dircctnoss, aud the air of authoritatively responding for uia friends, * No, vovor bad. You was spaking of this yor Ipvestment.” y ** And yonr bowels all the time irrogular? " continued Hawkire, blushing under Wingate's eve, and yot olinging despairingly to bis thewmo, like a shipwrecked mariner to his plaulk, Wingate did not reply, but glanced significant- Iy at tho rest, Iawkina evidontly saw tlus re- goition of his_montal defleiency, and said logatically, ** You was saying snthin' sbout my investment 2" “ You," said Wingato, so rapidly 2 to atmost tako Haowking' breath away—* the investment you mado in —" : “ Rafforly's Ditch,” snld tho Fool, timidly. For u moment the visitors could ¥ xlare blankly at esch othor, “ Hufiorty’s Diteh,” tha one notorlous failnre of Five Forks | Jtuferty’s Ditch, tho impructicable sehomo of an uiterly uppractical man ; Rafferty's Diteh, a ridicalov plan for taking waler that could ot bo gok to u placo whero it wasn't wanted ! Raerty's Ditch, that had buried tho fortunes of linfferty und twonty wrotehiod stockholders in ity muddy depths ! " s “And thel's it—iu it 2 said Wingato, nftor « gloowy pause. “Thel's it 1 e it uil now, boys, 'Lhat's how ragged Dat Raffeity woni down to Bau Francisco yesterday In storu clothes, and Lis wife sand four children wont off in a kor- ridgo to Sacramonto. Thot's why them ton workmen of Ity ez hodn't a caut to blens thom- selves with was playin' billiards Iast night and ratin’ isters, 'Thot’s whar that money ki frum --&100—tn pay for that long sdyertiscwent ol the new isenv of Ditch utock o tho Times esterdny, ‘Lot why them six atrangors woro [oalkad ut tho Magnolia Totol yestorday, “Dow't yon see—it's thut money—and thiot Fool 1" "The Faol agt gilent. Lhovisitors vose without v ward. “You nover took any of them Indian Vego- talilo Pitls 2" axked Iawking twidly of Wingata, No," roared Wingulo, 83 he opened tha dooe + Thoy toll wa that, tuok with tho Psteens. thoy was out o' the Panacea when I wont w e drug-storo lust woeli—they sny thut, took wikis the Panacen, thay nh\‘fl{u offect n corting cure, But by this time Wingate and hia dsgusted friends had rotreated—ulamming tho door on tho Fool apd his ailments, Nevertheloss, in wix montha the wholo affair wan forgotten, tho money had hoen apont—the S Ditoh™ hud been purehusoil by ncum&mny of Doston capitalists, fired by the glowing doserip- tion of an Bustern toundt, who had spout oro drunlen i tut Five Lorks,—aud I thivk even Ino mautal candition of Mwaling might havo res wained undisturbed by criticism, but for s pin- ar fuctlent, by 1t was during an exciting political camipaign, THE CHICAGO I;AILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1874, when party feoling ran high, that the Irascible Capt. Mcl'addon, of Baoramontg, viuited Fivo Torks, During & hoatod disoussion in tho Prairio Itoso Saloon, sworda Ymnud botweon the Cnplatn and the Mon. Culhoun Dungatartar, ondiog in a challon The~ Captaln bora the infolix ropo- tation of bbing & notorious dnolist and a desd shot; tha Cantain was unpopulne § the Captain waa bolloved to have boon sont by tho opposition for a doadly purposo; and tho Captain was, moroover, n stranjtor. I am sorry to say that with Flva Forks this Iatter condition Qid not carry tho quallty of wanctity or revarence that usually oblains among otfier nomads. Thora wan conrequently some ltklo hesitation swhon tha Captam turned pon the erawd and aaked for #omo ono Lo nct s lun friend, o overybody's astonishmont, and Lo tho indignation of many, the Fool wtoppod forward »ng offered l.||mm¥l iu that eapacity, T do not know whetlior Capt. McFaddon wonld have chiogen him voluntarily, Dut ho wnn constralned, in tho sbsouce of o bol- tor man, to accept hin sorvicos. Tho duel nevor took placal 'T'he proliminaries woro all arranged, the spot indicated, the moen wore prosent with their seconds, thero was no i terruption from withont, thoro wns no- oxnlanns tion or apolvgy passed~but tho dnel did nob tako placo. 1t may bo roxdily ingined that theso ‘fuoty, which wore ull known to Five Forks, throw tho wholo commuuity futo o fover of cariosity. T'ho principaln, the surgeon, and ono second loft town thie nost day, Only {ho Fool remained. e rewinted all quostionlug—declaring himself hald in Lionor not to divulge—in short, conduot~ ed himsolf with cousiatont but exasporating folly, It wns not nntil six months hod pasod that Col, Htarboitle, the socond of Unlhoun Bomgstartor, in a momeut of wonkncess, supor- induced by the social glass, condesconded to explniun. I should not do (’IIBNM to the par- tien it 1 did not give thoe oxplanation in the Colonal's own words, I may romark, in passing, that tho characterintic dlr_:nltg of Col, Btarbottlo always becamo inteusifled by atim lants, and that by the some procoss all sonso of humor wag uttorly eliminated, #With the undorstanding that T am addressing mysolf contidontislly to men of honor,” snid tho Colonol, elevating liis chost above the bar-room covator of thio. brairio Rono Saloon, “1 trust that it will not bo necessary for me to prote myuelf from lovity, as T was forced to do in Sno- ranonto on- tho only other occasion whon I on- tored into au explanation of this delicato atfair by—ar—or—calling the individual to personal account—or] I do not believe,” widod tho Col- onel, slightly waving bis glaws of Jiquor in the air with n graceful gosture of courtcous dopre- cation—*Knowlng what I do of tho presont company—that sich a courso of ackion iu ro- quired hera, Cuctainly not—tir—in the Lotno af Mr, ITawking—cr—the gontloman who ropro- Jontod Mr. Bungstarter, whiose conduct, ged, eir, i worlliy of proiuo, blank me ! Apparnntly satistiod with the gravity snd ro- apeatful attontion of his listenors, Col. Starbot- I;n smiled_rolontingly und awently, closed his eges bnlf dreamily, 8 if to rocall bls wandering thoughts, and bogan: “am tho suot wolected was noarest tho tene- mont of Alr, linwkinn, it was egreed that the partics whouid meot thoro, They did o prompt- Iy at laff-pust 6. ho morning boing chills, Atr, Hawkius oxtended the hosnitalitios of his house with & _bottle of Bourbon whisky—ot whicls all partook bnt mysolf. The reason for that exeoption i4, I boliove, well known. Tt is my invariable custom to iako brandy—n wine- ginsetul fn 3 cup of slrong coffeo, immediatoly on vising. Tt stimulates tho functions, sir, with- out producing any blaule dorangement-of the norves,” Tho barkeapor, to whom, as_an export, the Oolonal bt gravfonsly iwparted this informas tion, nodded spprovingly, and the Colonel, smid 2 brandhicss silonce, went on: . #We woro about twenty minutes in resching thowpot, Tho zrownd was moasured, the senps ous wors Joaded, whon Mr. Bungstarter confided to me tho information that ho was unwell and m great Pain ! On consultation with Mr. Hawking, 1t appeared that bis prineipal in a distant part of the field was also suffering and in groat Pais. Tho rymptoms wero much ne n modionl man would pronounto ‘ choleraic.’ 1 eny wonld hnvo pronounced, for on examination the surgeon was alo found (o bo—er—in Tain, and, 1 regrot fo sny, oxpressing himsolf in Ianguage unbecoming tho oceasior, Hi improssion waa that somo powerfal drug had heon sdministered. On rofey- ring thoquestion to Mr. Tawkins, ho romombatod that the botiln of whinky pariaien by them con- Iained n medicine which o had heen in the liabit of taking, but which, having failed tonct upon him, ho had concluded to o gonerally in- oifactive, and had forgolten, s perfect wil- linguessto bold himeolf personally reaponsible to ench of tho parties, Lis genuino concarn at the disastrons offect of the misinke, mingled with bis own alarm at tho sintoof his fystom, which— or—failed to—cr—renpond to the poculinr quali- ties of the madicine, was most becomiug to Lim a8 a man of honor anil o gentlemanl After an hont's dolay, both principals haing complately oxbausted, and abandoned by the sirgeon, who wns uurensonably alarmeid at hin own condition, Me. Howkinsand I agrecd to romovo onr men to Markleville. 'bere, aftor 2 furiher consultation with Mr. Hawking, un amicable sdjustmont of all diflicnlkios, honorablo to both parties, and soverned by profound scereoy, was simauged. 1 eliove,” ndded the Colous), Tooking around and sotting down his glasy, *“ no gontloman has yot expressed hitsell othor thau ealisfied with the resnit." 3 Perleps it wns the Colonel's manner, but whatever was tho opinton of 1ivo Forks regard- ing tho intellectnal display of Mr. Huwking in thin nffair, thera was very litlla ontspoken eriticism ot tho momout. In n few weokn tho wholo thiing was forgotton oxcopt as part of the nocossary record of Hawking® blundors, which way already o protty full one. Agnin, somo lntor follien couspired to obliterate tho past, until, & yoer later, a valuable lead was din- covered in tho * Blazing Btar™ Taune), in the hill whoro be livod, and a largo sum_rag offored him for a portion of his land on iho Lill-top, Accustomed as Fivo Forks had become to the oxhibition of his folly, it was with astonishmont that they Jeurned that e resolutoly und docided- Iy rofused the offer. Tho renson fhst be pavo wna still moro astounding. 1l was aboui to build | To build a house wupon property availablo for mining purpodos was_ proposterons; to Luild at all, with a roof alrcady coyoring him, was an act of extravaganco; to build a honso of tho stylo o proposed was simply madness! | Yot hora wero fcts, The plaus wera made, mud tho Jumubar for the now building was alrendy an the ground, whilo (ho shaft of tho *Blazing Star” wa boing sunk below, The site was, in reality, a vory picturcequo onc,—the building itself ot o atylo ind quality hitherto unkuown in Tive Forks, Tho citizens, at fivss skeptieal, during thoir moments of recreation and 1dle- newn gathored doubtingly sbout the locality. Day by duy, in that climate of rapid growths, tho building plessantly known in tho slang nf Tiva Forks as “tho Idiot Anylum™ roso beside tho green onks and clustoriug fira of Iawking Hill, as if it wero part of the natural phenomana. AtInst it wan comploted, Thon 1r. Hawking procoedad o furnish it with an_oxpensivoncss and extravaganeo of outlay quite in keeping with hiiw former idiocy. Carpets, sofas, mirrors, aud finally & pisho—the only one known In tho county, and brought at great expousa from Sac- ramento—kept curiosity at a fever hoat, More than thnt, there wera articles aud ornaments which a fow married experts declared only fit for womon, When tho furnishing of the house was complsto—it had ocoupiod two months of tho spoculative and curlons attontion of the camp— 3% Ttawking lockad the Tront ook pat: Ao Koy in his pocket, and quiotly retired'to his more humble roof, lower on the h.ll-side ! 1 have not deemod it necessary to indioate to the intelligont reader all of tha theorles which obtained in Vive Forks during the oroction of tho building, SBomo of thom may bo readily im- auined. Thnt *the Hlag™ had by ariful coynoss and wyntomatio roticenco at last complately sub- Jugntad tho Fool, nud ‘that the new howse wau Tutonded for thio nuptisl bower of the (pre- destined) unhappy pair, was, of course, tho pro- vailingz opinlon. Bub when, after n reasonublo timo Diad clapwed, and the house atill romained untenantod, tho more oxasporating conviction forced ftwolt upon tho general mind that the fool had been for tho third time imposed upon, Whon two onths bad elapred and there scemed no_prospecs of mistrens for tho new houso, I think publio indiguntion hocama po strong thet had “tho Hug" ar- rived tho marringe would have boen public- ly preventod, But no oue appeared that seemed to auswor to this ides of an svailublo tonant, and all inquiry of Mr, Haskius ws to his intontion in building a house and not renting it or ocoupylng 1t, failed to elicit auy furthor information, Tho rewvons that he guve wore foli to hu vaguo, avantvm, a0l ynratinfoctory, 1o waw iu oo iy ‘o wove, b waul , wirea ho 1oas resdy, it miroly wue w0t cbeangy Snt ba abcald Jike 10 Lave hin Louse all ready o racelye Lim, Ho was ofton geen upon tho verauda of a summer ovening smoking u cigar. It It roported that ono nigh tho housio Was obeerved to bo brilllantly Hghtod *from garrol to basomont ; thag u noighbof, ob- serving this, oropt toward the open parlor window, and, looklng In, ospled the Lol accurately dresred in evening costume, Jounging’ upon & mofa In tio drawing room, with the cney nir of eocislly entor- taining o large party. Notwithstauding this, tho liougo was unmistakably vacaut that ovening, pave far the presence of tho ownor, s the wite pens aftersurd teatified, Whon this theory wag first related, a few practical mew suggustod the thoory that Mr. Iawking wan simply dellling himselt in tho olaborato dutles of hospltality sgainat o probablo ovent in his history. A fow venturod tho botiof that the houso was haunted 3 the imnglantivo oditor of tho Five Forka Kecord ovalyad from Lhe dopths of hin profeosional con- selonsnosy ntory thar Tawkina' swecthoart had diod, and that ho ropularly entortalned bor lglrlt in this benutifnlly-furnishod mausolonm. The accanjonal spootacle of Hnwhing' tall figire pao- ing thoe veranda on moonlight mighls lent somo eredonce to this theory, until an nlooked-for incldont divertod all speanlation juto suother chanuel, 1t was abont this tima thnt & corfain wild, rda valloy in the nighborhaad of Five Forka had hocomo famous ag o ploturasque resort, Trav- clora hnd visitad it, sud declared that thero waro more cublu yards of rough stono oliff anda watoefall of ‘groator helzhi than any thoy had visited, Curraspotidauta had wrilton it up with extravsgant rhotorio nud - iordinnte pootical quotation ; men and women who had never on- Joyed o sunset, o troe, or n flowor—who had Nover sppreciatod the pracionsness or moaning of tho yollow sunlight that ioked thoir hontoly doorways, or the tondernesn of & uldsummor's night, to whose moonlight thoy barod thals shirt-alooves or their tullo dressos—enmo from thonsanda of miles away to calonlata tuo helght of this rook, to obunryo the dopth of this chasm, to rowark upon the enormons atza of this nne sightly trog, and to bolivve witl inoffabloself-com- placency that thoy roally admired Nature, Aud Bo it cama to pnus that, n accordance with tho tnatos or weaknasuea of thae individusl, the moro prominent aud asliont poiuts of the valley wora christonod, and thero was a ** Laco Handkerobict Fall," snd the *loars of Bymipathy Calaract," and one distinguished orator's “Pexk," and #ov- eral “ Mounts" of varioua noted people, hving or doad, and_an * Exclamation Point,” and a *Valloy of Ailout Adaration,” And b eourae of timo ompty soda-wator bottles woro found at tho bnso of thio cataract. and groasy nowspapors aud fragmonts of ham sundwiches Jay at tho dusty roots of glout trees, With this, thore woro fro- quent {rraptions of olascly-snaven and tightly- orayated men and dolieate, flower-faced womnon, in tho ono Jong streot of Five Forks, and & seam- poring of mulos, and aa oceasional procossion of . dualy, brown-lien cavalry, A year aftor * Hawking' Idiot Asylum was comploted, one day thoro driftad fola” the vallay a riotous cavaleade of *sohioolmarms,” tenchiers of the Ban _Fraucisco pullic schuols, out for a hotidsy. Not severaly-speotncled Minervay aud chastoly-armed and mailed Pallnses, but, I fear for tho security of Five Forke, very luman, ofinnning, and mischiovous young womoi. At loagt, w0 tho men thoughty working 1w tho ditches and tunnoling ou the hill-side ; and, whon in tho interost of sclence and the montal advancameut of juvenila postarity, it waa fiually soitled thnt thoy stiould stay in ¥ivo Forks two or three daya far the sake of visiting thoe various mines, and particulorly the “Blazing Btar” Tunnol, thora was some fluiter of masculino anxioty, Thoro wag n considorablo finquiry for “ytora clotlies,” n hopeloss ovorhauling of old aud disused rannent, sud o genoral domand for *boiled shirts” and the barber. Meauwhilo, with that supremo audacity and impudont hardihood of the sox whon grogatioms, the sohoolinrms rodo throngh tho town, admir- ing oponly tho handyome facos snd manly figures that looked up from the ditches or roso bohind tho cars of ore at the mouths of tunnels. In- deed, it ia olegod that Jouny Forester, backod ant supported by soven othior oqually sinuoleys Joung women, iind_openly and_publicly wayod 1or handkorcinof to tho florid Herculos of ¥i Forks—ono Tom Ilynn, formerly of Virginin— Tenving that good-untared but not ovor-bright guwnt pulling hig blonde mustaches in bashful zmazoment. It was n ploasant June nfternoon that Miss Nolly Arnot, Principal of the primwry dn‘{mrt- ment of oue of the public achooln of san Fran- cisco, having ovadod her comprnions, resolved to put into operation & plun which had latoly fprung up in Lor courageous nud mischief-loving foncy. With that wonderful und myatorous ine ptinct of lior nog, from whom 1o socrots of tho aiTuctions uro hid, und to whom all hoarts ara Inid open, she bid enrd the story of Lawking' folly und' the existence of tho * Idiot Asylum.” Alone, on Hawkiuy' {Lill, »she had do- tormined o pouetrato its scclusion, Skirt- ing tho undorbruxh at the foot of the hill, sho mmnaged to keop tho hoaviest timbor botweon hoersoll uud tho “Blazinf: Star” Tunnol at ife baso, 15 woll as tho cabiu of Hawkins, half way up {ho uscont, until, by a’ circuitous route, at lasu eho reaclied, unobsorved, tho sumumit. oforo her roso, silent, darkeucd, and motion- lesn, tho objuct of her search. Here her courage failed hor, with all the cluracteristio inconse- uence of hier nox. A suddon fear of all tho augiors b lad safoly, passcd-—boars, tarant- 1o, drunken men, aud lizards—camo upon her, For a moment, a4 sho afterward_expressed it, #Sho thought she should dio.”" With thia he- liot, probably, she gathorod throo large stonoy, which she could hardly lift, for tho purposo of throwins & groab distanco; put . two boir-pius in her mouth, and carefully ro- adjusted with both hunds two stray Draids of har lovely bine-blsck mano which lad falion in gathering the stones. Thon sho folt in tho pockets of her linen duster for her card- caso, handkerchiof, pocket-book, and_amelling- bottlo, aud finding them intact, suddouly ad- sumed an nir of ensy, lady-like unconcern, went 1p tho steps of tho yorands, and_demurely pull- the front-duor bell, which she koow “would not Lo answored. Aftor a doceut pauso, sho wulted around tho encompaysing vorands ox- atining tue closed shuttors of tho Frouch win- dows until she fouud ono that yiclded to hor toucls, 1oro sho peusod again to adjust Lor coquottiut hut by the mirror-fiko surface of tho long eash window that roflocted. tho full lavgth of her pretty figure. And then sho opened the window and entered the room. Although long closed, the bouse had a smell of nowness ad of fest paint thes was quits un- like the moldiness of tho couvoutional haunted Tonso, Tho bisght carpots, the cheorful walls, tho gliktening oilcloths, wore quito inconsistent with the iden of a ghost. With cluldish euri. osity she bogan to oxplore the silont Louso, vt first timidly, —oponing tho doors with & violont push, and thon steppiivg back from the throsh- old 'to make good & pousible retreat: und then more boldly, ss ehe became convinced of ber wecurity and absolute lonolinass. In one of tho ohaiubers, the largest, thers woro frests flowera in & vass,—ovidontly gathored thav morning; and, what seomod atill move remarkablo, tho pitohers and ewers wero frouhly filled with water. This obligod Miss Nolly io uotice suother singulur fact, namely, that tho house was freo from dust,—tho one mont obirnsive sud penetrating visitor of Five Torks, 'Tho floors nud earpots had beon recontly wwept, the chmrs aud furbiture earofutly wiped and dusted. 1€ the houge was Launted, it was {:axugannd by & spirit who had pone of the uaual nuifferonco to decsy and mold, And yot the bods had ovidently uover been wlept iu, tho vory springs of tho cbiair in whicl she sat creaked wiifily at the novelty, tho closot doors opened with the rolustance of fresh puint sud vurnish, nod in spile of tho warmth, cloantiuess, and cheorfulness of furnituro and docoration, thore wus mnoue of the onso of tenancy and ocoupation. As Miss Nelly aftor- ward confossod, sho longed to **tumble thinga uround,” and whon uhe reachod the parlor or drawng-room agais, abe could hnrdly rosist the dosiro.~ L'articularly was sho tompted by a closed pisno, that stood mutely sgsinat the will, Blo thought'who yould opon i, just to seo who wan tho maker, That dono, it 'would bo no harm 1o try its tono. Shie did o, with ona little foot on the koft padal. But Miss Nolly was too good » player, aud too enthusinstio o wusician to ntop athlf meaunres, — Sho tried it ogain,—this timo s sipeerely that the whole Louss sovmed to spting into_ voleo. Then whe #toppad and lisoned, Thors wam no responho,— tho empty rooms goemod to havo volapsod Iuto their old stillnons. She stopped out on the verands,—u woodpooker rocom- mongod hub tapping on an adjacunt trao, tho rat- tloof u eurt in tho rocky guleh below tha hill camo fuintly up, No one was to be soon far or nosr. Mis Nolly, veassurcd, roturned, Sho again ran hor flugers ovor LLo keys,—stoppod, canght at w molody runuing in hor mind, Lalf played it, und thon throw nway all cautlon, Iio- fore five minntes had elapsed” sho hud entiroly forgotten hoerself, and with her liuon duster thrown asido, hor'straw hat fluug on the piano, lor whita hands baved, und & bisck loop of her Dbradded halr baugivg upon hor uhoulder, way mmf emborked upon s flowing son of musieal recollection, Bho had played perhaps halt an hour, when, having Just finislied an elaborate wymphany and rastinng hor Handd on the Koy, ene hoany Yory disumctly and unmisiakably thesound of applause from without, In an instant the firos of shamo and indigurtion Joapoed into hor chooks, and she ronu tromi the instriment audin to tho window, coly I time to eatoh sight of & dozen figuros [n bluo aud rod flannol hirts vanishing burriodly Parough tho Liscs holow, Misg Nolly's mivd was instantly madoe up, I think I havo alioady,Intimntod that under the atimulus of exciteuont sho was not wantlug in courago, nnd o8 aite quiotly resumed Ler gloves, hint, and dustor, sho wun not purhu?n oxnotly tho young porson that it would bo ontiroly safe for the timid, cmbnrravsed, or inoxporienced of my sox to meet alony, Sho shut down the piano, and having cavofully reclosed all tho windowa and doors, and veutored the house to its former devolutod condition, sho slepped from tho voran- da and proceeded direcily to tho cabin of the un- intellcotual Hawkiug, €hes reated I8 adobe %hllmnq above the umbrage a quartor of n mila olow, Tho door openod lnnlnnll{ t0 hor impnlalvo knock, and Lho Fool of Five Forks stood bofora hor, Minn Nolly had novor hefora soon tho man dosignated by thin Infelicitous Hilo, and an ho atoppod back in hinlf courtosy and half nutoniah- mont, she \wan for the moment disconcarted, o swas tall, finaly formed, and blaok-boarded. Above choeka littlo hollowed by eave and lil- Nionlth, shone a pair of hazol avos, vory large, vory gontlo, but meprnmlhly sned and mournfal, 'Thik was osrtajuly not tho kind of mon Migs Nolly hnd expectod to soo ; yob, aftor lier firat ombarrassment had passed, the very elrunm- Rtauces, oddly enongh, added to hor indignation, and sting hor wonnded prido st moia doenly, Novertheless, tho srch hypucrito {nstantly changed her tacties with tho swift intuition of her sox. “1 have come,* sho sald with n dnzzling smilo, inflnftely more dangorous than hor formor dipnified woverilys * £ havo como to ask your ajdun for s gront. lborty 31 have Juat taken. I holiovo tho uew houso on tho hill bovo us ja yours. I iwas so much plensod with its extorlor that I toft my frionds for a momont bolow hare,” who continued wifully, with n slight wavo of tio hand, a4 If indicativg o band of fosrless Atmae 7ona without, sud walting to avengo auy possiblo insnlt offorad to ong of their number, **aud ven- tured to outer it. Iinding it uvoccupied, as T had boon told, T am afraid I had the sudacity o pit down and amuso myself for s fosr momonta At the Kinno—whllo waiting for my Irionds." Hawkius rawed his boantiful eyos to hors, Io Haw 8 vnr{ protty girl, with frank gray oyes glis- tening with oxcitement, with two red, slightly freckied chooks ;iluwlm;nlmln under Lis oyon, With n shork soariot upper Jip turned back, like rosc-loaf, ovor a little Huw of whito teoth, o8 sho broathod somewhat hurriodly in her norvous ox- citomont. Ha s all thin calmly, quic:ly, and, savo for tho natural uncasinoss of a by, roti- cont vam, 1 foar withoub a quickeuiug of s pulso, “ I knowod it," ho snid, simply. * I heord yo 88 I kem ur." . Miws Nelly was farlons at his grammar, his diulect, iis coolness, and still moro at tho sus- Dicion thut ho was wn netive mombor of hor fn- visiblo claqu. **Ah," sho said, etill amiling, ** then I think I heard ou—" 4T ruckon not,” Lo intorrupted. gravely, “1 dldn't stuy long. 1 found the boys hanging round the Lonse, aud I allowed at firat I'd go in and kindor warn yon, but thoy prowmised to koop wtitl, and you looked so comforiablo and wrappod up in your music, that I hudu’t the heart to dis- turbyon, and kem away. 1 bope,” ho added carnastly, * thoy didu't lot on oz thoy hoerd you. "Thoy ain't & bad lot—them Blozin' Star bogs— tlough thoy'ro a littlo bard at times, But they'd no more hurt yo_thou thoy would i—a—a cat{" continued Mr.” Hawking, blushing with a faint approbiousion of tha inelegnnce of bin smilo. **No! no!” said Miss Nelly, foeling suddenly vory angry with Lorself, tho Yool and tho o tiro mule population of Five Forks. * NolI have behinvad foolisbly, I anppose—and if thoy had (¢ would havo servod mao right. Dut I ouly wanted to apologizo fo you, You'll fiud ovory~ thing as you loft it. Good-day 1" Sho turnod to go. v, Hawkins began to feol ombarrassod. **1I'd havo askod yo to it down,” fio said, finally, i€ it bed boeu & place it for & Indy. 1 oughifor done so, euny way. I dan't know what kept mo from it. But Lain't wall, Miss. Limes X got a sort o’ dumb agor—it's the ditehes, 1 think, Migs—and I don’t seom to hev my wita about 1mo,” Iustautly diss Arnot was all sympathy—her quick womnn's hoart was tototed. “Chn I—can auything bo dous?” she asked, more timily than she hiad bofora spoken. “Nol—not ouloss ye romembor sulhin’ about those pitls.” ~ Ho oxhibited s box containing about haif n dozen. “I forget the dircction— don’t seom to remembor tuuch, suy way, thess times—they'rs ‘Jones’ Vo?atahlo Compoutd. 1r yo'vo_ovor took "o yo'll romomber whother 1ho rog'lar dowe is oight. Thore nin't but six hore. Dut Y“flmm younover tul any," ho added, doprocutingly. “ Na," enid Miss Nolly, curlly. She hind usu- olly s Keen sonss of tho ludicions, but someliow Mr. lawking' ocoentricisy only pained her. “ Will you let mo see you to the foot of the hill," o Baid again, after” auothor cmbarcassing pouke. Miss Arnob folt ioatantly thint anch an act would condono hor trespsy iu the eyes of tho world. Sho might meet somo of horinvisiblo admirors—or aven her compunions—and, witl all ler orratio impulsos, sho wau novertholoss o wornau, aud did not ontively despise the vordict of couventionality, She siiled aeotly and as- sonted, and in another momont Lho iwo wers lost ju the sindowa of the waad. Like many othor spparoutly trivial acts in an unoventful lifo, it way decisive, ~As sho ospoct- ed, ahio met two or threo of her Jate applaudors, whom, sho fancied, lookod sheopish nud cmbar- rasgod: she mot wlso her companions looking for lier in #oma alarm, who roally appearod au- touished at hor escort, and, eho funcicd, n trifla envions of ber evident ouccoss, I fearthat Miss Arnot, in response to thoir anxious inquiries, did notstato entirely the truth, but, without actual assertion, led them fo buliovo that she bad ata vory early slago of tho proceodings com- plotely ‘subjugated this weak-minded giant, and had bronght lim trnumplantly to hor feot. Fiom lalliufivjthlu story two or threo times slio got finally to belioving that she had Home Toundation forit ; then to & vagne sort of dosire that it would evoutnally provo to bo truo, and then to an gqually vagne yourning to hasten thal consummation, That it” would redound to auy satisfaction of tho Fool whe did not stop to donbt, ‘That 1t would cure him of his folly she wau quite confidont. Indeed, thero uro yory fow of us—men or womon—who do not bolieve that ovou a hopeless love for oursolyes is mora con- ducivo to the salvation of tho lover than a re- auited affection for another, 'I'he criticism of Fivo Forks was, as tho reador oy imagive, uwifs and conclusive. When it wag found out that Mies Arnot was not ** tho Hag” masquorading a4 & young and pretiy girl, to tho ulliisce docoption of Five Forks in gonoral aud the Fool in partioular, it was at onco decided that nothing but the apeedy nnion of the Tocl and the * protty schoolmarm™ was cousistent with ordinary common sense. Tho singulsr good foriune of Tlawkws was quite in accordanco with the theory of his luck unprupnundnd by tho camp, That after “the Hag® faed to muke her apposrance he should “sirike a load™ in his own bouse, without ihe trouble of “tprospectin’,” seomed to theso casuists a8 o wonderrul but inevitable luw, To add to theso fateful probubitilies, Misa Arnot Iell and spraived her auklo in tho ascout of Mount Lincoln, aud s conlined for sumo_waeks to the hotel aflor hor companions had dopavted. During this pe- riod Hawkins wascivilly but grotesquely attentive, When, nfter 8 rensouablo thno hed olapsed, thoro still appecred to bo no tmmediate pros- poct of tho oceupuney of the now honse, publio opinion exporionced & pingular chauge in ropurd to ity thoories of Mr. Huwking' conduct, *The Hag " was looked upon-as a saint-like and long- wifering martyr to the wouknessen and incoii- slatoncy of the Fool. 'I'lat, after ereoting this now kouso at ber roquest, ‘bo bad suddeuly * goue back " on thut Ll colibuey wus the rosult of a long hubit of woak propowul and sub- voquont shamoloxs rejection, nnd that ho was now trying his hand on thohelplesi sehavlmarm, was perfoetly plain lo Tive Forks, That Lo should be frustrated in his attompts ar an; cost was equally pluin. Miss Nolly sud- denly found horself invested with a rude chivalry thit would have heon amusing had it nob boon at times ombarrassing ; that woild have boen importinont but for the slmost supersti- Lious respect withs which it was protfored. Lvery duy somubody from Eive Forks rode out to_in- wiro tho bealth of the fair pationt. * licz T wkins bin over yer to-day,” quosiod Tom Flyun, with arcrul ense aud Indifforence as ko loaned ovor Mivs Noliy's easy-clmir on tho veranda. Mivs Nolly, with & fulut pivk flush on_hor choek, was coustramed to auwswor * No.® “\Woll, o wortor sprainod his -foot agin rock " yestorduy,” continued Flynn, with shameloss untruthfulness. * You nius'n'l think auything o' thiat, Miss Amnot. Ho'll bo ovor yor to-morrer, and moautina ho told me to fiund this yor bookuy, with i ve-gurds, sud this yor speol- wmen!” And Mr. Flyon laid down the flowers he hnd pioked on ronto aguivgt Hirch an omergencs, und presented rospeotfully w pieeo of quurts and gold which hio had taken that moruing from luy own sluice-b S You maw'n't wd Hanking wayh, Misy Noily,” wald snother sympathizing mitior, *Lhora mn'L & belter tunn in catp thun that theor Uy Ha gtand tho ways o' the world with wimon, Ha huan’t mixod us much with socioty us tho reat of us,” ho udded, with un elaborato Chestorfieldian oasn of manuer, * but ho meaus well” Mexne whilo & fow othor sympathetic tunnel-men wors inprossing upon Mr. Jiawking tho nocessity of the groatest uttoution to the invalid, It won't do, Tinwlivg," thoy oxplainod, * to lot thut thoro wal go back to Hunu Pranolkeo und suy that When sho_wes sick and alouc, the ouly muu in Fiva Forks undor whaoso rool sho lnd restod, and at whose tablo eho hud eal"— this was consldored & natural but pardovablo oxaggeration of rhotorlo— aver (hrow off un hor; nud il shan't bo dona, It nin's tho squaro thing to Five Forka.” And then the Fool wonld rush away to tho vulloy, and ba reeoived by Miss Nolly with & cortiin” Foservo of manuor that finafly disappoared iu a flush of color, 2omo iu= oroased vivuelly,. and & pardonablo’ voguotry, And o the duyn passod; Miss Nolly grow botter iu health aud ‘moro troubled In mind, and A, Hawlkius bocame more and imore cmbaizassod; and Fivo Forls miled and rubbod ta hunds, and waited for tha_approachinye denouemont. And thon it cama. But not perlapy in tho maunor hal Fivo Forka Lad imagined. It wan & Jovely aflornoon in July that a parly of Jiantern tourinta_roda into Five Focks, Thov bad Just *dono ™ tho Valloy of Big Things, and, thoro belmg ono or two Tinatorn oapitlista among tho party, [Lwan doomned ndrisablo that n proper knowledgo of the praoticnl mining re- Wouroon of Cnlifornia aoind bo addoil Lo thois oxporioneo of the moroly picturenqiio In Natnro, Thus far overything lind bosn an! nlaclnr]y; the nmonnt of water which pamod over the Foll was lInrgo, owing to a pnckward soasun #ome muow wlill ' remnined in tho cnuons noar tha highest peals; thoy had ridden round ono of Lhe higgest troos, and throngh the prostrate trunk of “anather, To say that they woro dnll¥hluu 8 to express foohly tho onthi- siaim of thiese ladios and gontlamen, drunk with tho champagny hospltality ot thoir outortainers, tho uttor novolty of wceno, and tho dry, exhil- arating afr of tho valloy. One or iwo had alrondy oxprewsnd thomsolves rondy to live and die tharo; anothor had writton a glowlng Ro- count to ths Fantern preun, doprooiativg all othor ucanory in Linrope and Americn: and undor thess cifoummhtancen it wan ronsonably expuctod thab TFivo Forks would do itw duty, aud equatly im- prown tho stranger aftor its own fashion, - Taottors o this offoct wero sont from Snn Fran- cisco by prominont_capitallaty thore, aud under tho nbla snperintandanco of onn of their agouts, thn visitors wero taken in hand, nhown ** whnt wan to bo acon,” earefnily rostratned from oh- rorving what anght not Lo ho visible, nud so kovt m o blinsful and enthusiastic condition. And so tho gravegard of T'ive Forks, in which but twoof the ocenpants had died natural denths, tho droary, raggad cabing on thay bitl-sides, Wil *thoir’ snd-cyed, oyuical, broken-spirited oconpants, tolling on, day by day, fora misernblo plttance nud a fero thata self-rosnocting Tost. e mechanio would have reornfully rejocted, wera not a part of the Eastern visitory' recollec- tions, Thut the holatini works and machinery of tho ‘ Dlnzing Star Tunnol Company” wns—tho Blazing Star Tunnol Company, Whose *gentlo- manly Suporintondent " hnd recoived private in- formation from Han Franciaco to do tho ‘. propor thing™ for the party. Wheroforo the valuablo hoaps of oro in tho Company’s works wero shown, the oblovg hars of gold—ready for shipment —waro playfully offored to the ladies who.could 1ift and cerry thom nway unnided, and oven tho tunnol {tsolf, gloowmy, fatoful, and poculinr, wwas shown as partlot tho exporionce; and, in tho noble laugungo of one coriespondant, **tho wenlth of Five Forka and the peculiar induco- monts that it offerod to Eastern oapitaliats ™ woro ostablished boyond o donbt. And thon oc- ourred a littlo incldont which, as an unbinsod #pectator, Tam froo to say offered no induce- ‘monts to rnybody whatover, bat which, for its bearing upon the contral figure of this veracious chroniclo, T cannot pana ovor. Tt had becoma apparont to ono or two moro practieal and sober-minded in the party that cor- tain portions of tho “Blazing Star ™ Tubnucl— (owing, porhaps, to the exigencioaof a flattering anvnnd dividond)—ware _cconomically and im- porfectly * sliored” and supported,” and wero coneeniently unsafo, insoonre, and to be avoid- od. Novertholess, at a time when cbampague corkn Woro popping in dark corners, and_onttme sinstic voicos and happy Iaughter rang through tho hiif-lighted lovols and galleries, thore came a suddon and mystorlous silonco, A fow lighta dashed wifcly by in tho direction of a distant part of the gallory, and thon thore was a sudden sharp issuing ot orders and o dnll, ominous rwmble., Somo of tho visitors turned pale,~ono woman fainted ! Bomething had happoned. What? **Noth- ing,"~the speakeris fluent but uncasy,—* ono of tho gontlomen, in trying to dislodge o *spec- men’ from tho wall, had knocked away a sup- port. Thero had been » *cave’—~the gontleman wag caught aud baried below his shoulders. It was all ight—they’d got bim out In a momont— only it required great caro Lo keop from oxtond- ing the ‘cave.’ Didn’t know his name—it wns that littlo man—tho knsband of that lively lndy with the binck eyes, Eh! Hullo there! Hmfi hor. Tor God's sakel—not that wayl Bhe' Il from that shaft. She'll be killed I” But tho lively lady was alrendy gono. With staring black: eyes, iniploringly trving to pierco tho gloon, with hands aud fest that sought to battor and broak down tho thick darkness,” with incohorent crica and supplications, following tho moviug of iguls fatuus lighls shend, sho ran, and ran wiftly! It over treacherous foundn- tions, ran by yawning gulfs, ran past branching galleries aud arclies, Tan wildly, ran despaiving= y, ran blindly, aud at last ran into tho arms of thio Fool of Tivo Forks. Inan Inatant sho canght at his hand, * Oh, 8avo him!™ sho criod ; ** you belong horo—you know this droadful ‘placo ; bring ma to him. "Toll mo whore to go and what {o do, 1 implora soul Quick, bo i dying. Como!" o raised his oyes to hors, aud thon, with a sudden ory, dropped the ropo aud crowbar he was carrying, and roeled ngaingt tho wall. + Anlo " o gasped, slowly, * is it yon 2" Bhe caught at both his liands, brought her fnco to tis with sturing eyes, murmured * Qond God, Cyrus " and &avk upon hor knoos beforo lim. Tio tried to disongago the hand that sho wrang with pesionato ontreuty. “No, no! Cyrus, yon will forgivo me—youn will forgot tho past! “Qod hay sent you hore to- day, You will come with mo. wnust snve him! " “ Bnyo who? " cried Cyrus Loarsely. My husband ! " Tho blow wag 6o diract—go atrong and ovor- wholining, that even through Ler own strougor and moro solilah absorptiou shio eaw ibin the faco of the man, and pitied him. T thonglit—yon—lenew—Iit 1* sho fattored. Mo did ot speak, but looked at her with fixod, dumb oyes. And thon tho sound of distant voices and Liurrying foot started bor again inta pasionato life.” 5ho once moro caught his hand. WO Cyrus! hoar me! It you have loved mo through ail thoso yours, you will not fail wo now! You must #avo him! You can! You sre braye and strong—you alwsys were, Cyrus! You will save him, Cyriis, for my sake—for the anke of your lovo for wo! - You ill—I know it1 God blens soul” Slio rouo as if to follow him, bt at a gestaro of command sho stood still. Ho picked up tho rope and crowbar slowly, and in a dazed, blinded way that, {n hor agouy of impatienco aud alarm, seemed protracted to cruol inGinity, Thon ho turned and raiging her band to his hps kissod iv slowly, looked at her sgam—sud the next mo- ment was gone, 1o did not roturn, Tor at tho ond of the noxt half hour, when they bud laid polore hor the Lulf-conscious, breathing body of Lor hueband, vafo aud uubiarmed but for oxhaustion &nd sowo slight Lruises, sho learned that tho worst foars of tho worknien had been ronlized, In roloasing Dits a socond cavo had tuken placa, Thoy had buroly Linto to snatels awey tho Liolpless body of lorlusband beforo Luo strong framo o his rou- oner, Cyrus Hawlkins, was siruck and smitten Qown in hig E]luo. Tor two bours Lo lay thero, crushod and broken-limbod, with & Leavy buam lying scross his breast, in sight of ail, convcious and pa- tiont, Tor two Liouts thoy hiad laborod around him, wildly, despairingly,” Lopefully, with tho wills of gzoun and the strength of ginnts, nud at thoond of that tine thoy cama tosn upright timhor, which rested its bneo upon tho beam. "Thoro was w cry for axos, and one was alroady Awinging In (1o air, whon tho dying man eallod to thom feobly ¢ ::J\inu‘l gut that upright " hy 7 :‘fi \\'i); bring down tho whiole gallery with 6" 4 How 7" Ie's one of tho foundations of my house.”" Tho ax Joll from the workmnn's hiand, and with & blanchied fnoo ho turned to his follows, It was too trne. Thoy wora in the uppormost_ gallery, sud the **cave™ had takon placo dircotly helow {hio new liowio. _ Aftor a pauso the ool spoke aguin more fuobly. Wi lady l—quick,” They brought hor,—a wretched, fainting crea- turo, with pallid faco und_stresming oyos,—and foll baek 8 #ho bont hor face above hiny, 1t yean builc for you, Annie, darling,” ho sald In s hwriod whispor, *and bas been waiting for yuu and mo w1l thess long days. It deoded to you, Annig, and you must—live thore—with e ! Mo will notuiing that 1 shall bo nlways nour you—for it slands abova—mny gruvel™ And ho way vights Iu o fow winutos lator, when ho had pnzsod mway, thoy did nob move him, but sab by his_body all night, with & toseh at his foot and”houd, nd the nextday they wallod up tho gallory us a vault, bnt thoy pitt 1o muark or any slgn thoreon, trusblug rablior to tho montneul that, bright and cheerful, rose aboyo him I tho sunlight of tho hill, For, thoy sald: *'his 4 not an ovidenco of death, and gloom, and sorrow, o are othor monmnmonts, ImtIs's sign of Lifo, and Light, and Mopo, whovefore glill all men know thut he who liod under it—iss Kool I You will—you —Spoaking of tho probubllity of Parliamont's bolng callod on to way tha Lrinco of Waulen' dobts, thio Toronto ‘Globs suggosts that his mothor piy then. 1t also remurks thay “Tho monareliy 1 Evgland will tast just ns long ny thoso who bit on the throno will Jeb it. Tliore noed bo no linit to its duration_ if every ocou pant of it acts like the Queon. Dnt tho English nation in too tnstinet with domocratie fecling to ko it ufo for Royalty to triflo with its inuato lovo of homoly virtnos. Princon must bo reedy to mubo sucritieon like othor people for the sake of o eauso, At the vkino timo, vhould a suni bo sukud 2oz, we mioy b sure b will be glven," THE FARM AND GARDEN. Tho Knepinr of Wintor-Apples—Pute Uni; Thew lnto Cilu=Damp Collnrs —Ventintion—The Proper Size of tho Ohimnoy—Uoul and Coko for Fuol—filling Burrs—A Struagle with Anforeste ing of Land— Abwn Spring snd Wintor Whettw tiowing under Munure. Frow Our Aaricultural Correapondent, CrsavrAinN, T, Sopt. 3, 1674, TIE TEEPING OF WINTER-AUPLES, BErmana, 1iL, Sept, 11, 1874, 3, 4 Runat "—8in: Tai il want of infarmation i Togavd to tho keeiing of my winterappies, My ar in damp, and nol frost-proof, Can 1 put them It peach-Uoxam of which T havo & fatgs. supply o8 band, or would ft o bottor to b thom In barrein? An answor (brouglht T Timunk would mich obiige . 0, BawwipT, I.B,~1 haye the Rambo, Romo Baauty, Royal Sweet, Frankhouser, Little Romanite, aud Tuguset, .l Q8 Apples will not keop good fn o damp collar, If not froat-prool, as the warm periods that ocour in wintor, in that purt of tho Stato, will ripen up tho fruit, and a Iittlo frost will soon ruin it Tho Keoping of apnloy s & matior of tomporature, ‘and not & matter of growth, In thfs climato, apples aro loft out too Iato, and our warm an- “Lumus put thom through tho ladt ohanga prema. turaly, after which they decay. To somo oxtent wo dannot avold this, but wa. can do much to- wards extonding the timo, Pick them early, and pit In batrols, and place In o cool, dry room, tbrough whick tho air mny clrenlate, and, on tho approsch of cold weather, put them in o dry cellar or room that is trost-proof, =nd do not disturb them until swanted for uso, “'lio pinnoors were in the habit of pulting thelr wintor-npplos in pits, a8 wo do potatocs, In the most of our prajrie-soils, thoss pite must be abovo ground. A placo is selocted in the gar- don, mado amooth, and on this is o layor of uiraw, and the applos aro henpod up, putting not more than 25 or 30 busbols in a pit. Thoy aro covored with straw, and over this n fow inches of earth is twrown, After sovero cold wonthor gots in, an oxtra covering of earth, or, what is bottor, manure aud litter from the horse- stavlo, enfliciont to, provent froozing, I bave soon thoe Hawbo, which is & Into fall-applo, keop sottnd until April. The Littlo Romanito {8 vory commonly kept in this way, and taken out the 18t of May, and put In bairols for market or futuro uvo. One orchordist makes them into cidor ot that limo, aud golls 1t at 50 conts & gal- lon. I thinktho pitting of apples in this climate & good 'practice, capocially in the absonce of collars. Tho Suow-apple, which, at the North, koops nll wintor, is here an autumn-applo, unlosa oxtra cars g taken with jt. 1 usually haye thom na Isto as Fobruary: but thowo could gt into pile nod kept ualil May. Tho sppios will bogin to docoy soon nftor taking out of tho pus; ond the pits should bo opened in_sucoes- hion, boginuing with the Rambo, and taking the Littlo omunite Inst, Apples_aro ofton keptin a room in bulk, cov- ercd with straw, and excludod trom [rost. While the applo will cudure more frost than tho pote- to, yot, ou boing exposed to the warm air, it quickly decaye, The rouson why applos keop so niuch better at the North is the regular low tom= pernture,—tho warmn periods hasteniug maturity. Au spple that would keep at the temporaturo of 40 deg. until dlay, it placed in a room at 70 deg. will s0on ripen rendy for uso, sud 88 soon de- cny, Wao are baving a vorideation of this at tho present fvasori, 84 tho vory warm autumn- weathor is promaturcly ripening mnny of tho midwinter variotios, and = thoy are droppinyg from tho treos, ond must bo at onico put into barrels or pits, or thoy will nok keep any longth of time. Among these I yastor- day noted Wintor Russot, Jonathan, Stanard, Suow, and Dornine. DAMP CELLARS =ro deep collars, with bad ventilation. To avoid this, tho collar should bo mainly wbove grouud, not excavaling more_thsn 1 to 2 feet at most bolow iho surfaco, If the walls are made of brick, thero sboild bo o hollow space of 4 inchos ; and, in that cao, the wall neod bo anly 4 inchos ou each side ; that is, the wholo thiok- nees of tho wall, including tho hollow spaco, need ba only 1foot. The windows shauld Lo Jergo, kay wix lights of 10 by 12 gluss, with shut- teta on tha outside of theso; the cellar will noed no other protection in this pact of the State, but might fartber to the north, To keop such o collar cool in summer, we closo tho nhutters dar- ing tho warm part of tho day, aud open them at night. The cool mnight- air tomaine in the collar through the day, and at might [y roplenisliod with o o supply. Tho flues shonld go down into the cellar, and, by leaving the muvnp\}\e-hnlu open, & free ciren~ Iation i8 cronted, havo a milk-room 18 by 24 foot, in the cellar, that is thus ventilated, and the room i olways cool in snmmer, aud the flies a vo kopt out of it. TNE BIZE OF CNDINEYS, Ono groat fault in the conmstruction of chim- noys is, that thoy aro too small. This Is tho more noticeablo” when conl is used, as the soot will soon fil} up » small flne. For a G-inoh pipo, the goueral rulo is to make tho fluo iuside of the siza of o brick 4 by 8 inches; but a much botter ruls iy to double'this as tho amallost wizo” In order to catimate tho Azo of a flue, wo mnust flrst cousider tho number of wloyes or vont-holos that aro roquired. Wo will suppose that thore aro two rooms in tho cellar, and that the chimney rests on tho collar- bottons. We shall then need two pipe-holos in the chimnoy, eay two on tho fist floor, and_two in the chambers, This makes aix. Now six thnos 61 in 884 inchos, ‘I'bat will mako the chimnoy 16 by 24 inches iuside. Such a fluo will earry” all the wnuke, und do a largo amount of ventilation, In tho wintes-time, iu casn thoro is no stove in tho room, a stoppor should bo used to prevout firo from falling soot. If-the cook-stovo does not draw ood, you may be protty cortain that thio difticulty is u too small flue, or too small a pipo. A S-inch stovo should Lave & T-inch pipo, 88 our soft cosl woun fllls the emall pipa with soot. My cook-stove bns a Zfuck pipo mnd n Hlie 13 by 24 inches; aud we nover think of taking it down to clean it, R it nover goty foul, A neighbor was yory much troublod with & smoky stovo, aud the want of o good draught, and two or three stoves had been condomnod and seut buck for the want of good baking quality ; bus it was_ discovered that tho fiwe wan too wmall, and flled with soot, and tho ouly remady was to reconseruct it, This timo it was mado largo, and the diflicnlty at ouce dis- appented, Atove-denlers begin to understand this, but they have o dilliculs time in Cflu'inch‘f{ *their customers of tho fact. o have used Ili- nols coal in tho cook-stove for over twonty years, and much prefer it to the bost hick- ory 3 umn;l-u, of late yoars, cobs havoe been largely usod with it, especially in the summer, and at afl times to start the fire, A little kiudlinF with cobs is all that is required to havo a qulck firo, Whon tho cobs are partially cousumod, tho coal is addod, and tho firo is rondy for the cook. Dut Xilinois conl should always bo kopt under cover, and the floor of the coal-Lonso should bo of boards or hard-pounded olay, to Hust Ibmag. at abl. ‘timas b shovoled up,” thus mixing tho fino with tho coarso coal, for this fino conl, whon dry, burns vory froely, and is an advautago. Sowe paeaplo pick up the coal by hand, sud leavo tho fiuo coal to the last, whon it is of 1o value for fuol, and only fit to feod to the pigs, or bo thrown ott. Wo might call theso triflos the smull sconomies that go to make tho Kitehen all the mora plensant. HILLING BURRE—A BTRUGOLE AGAINST' INTEREST, Cuzpanag, 1L, Bopt, 10, 1874, Mn, “RUAAL"~Stn: Can yoi Lol mo the bost way to uiil bures? Ay lund fa fufested with thom, My farm lles on o sand-ridge, T planted 8 field of carrota; had the ground enicked aud oleau of weeds; #incd then tho” busrs huve como up and covered tho wholo nyce, Dormissiblo, yoars ngo T camo from England, with $500, and aued 40 ucres of Iand for $1.300, Twuiug fw dobt wely, and paylug 10 per cent futerest, T hed vevor held ' plovw bifore, ‘Tho rat year I ralued sbout overy othor day unifl “the lattor” part of July, Of courko {ho crop wis a fullure, und I did nu grow enough corn to focd my toam, ' Then followed tires oo eurn yours, with Jow prices, tho average boing about 56 conls & naliel, T buve 'hen able to Josen any debi ouly $200, after paging tholutercet; and it in thiv Jast flom thut keeps mo dows, I fool discouraged st times, but you tsko sich o pleassnt viow of farming that, ofter’ reading ono of your lot- ters, I foal tiko tryluy ngatn, Nuxt year 1 sball try your pln on potatoed, By laud neeits imsnuro, and 1 Avlals you would el o Low {0 got it for Isco that uanniro elbs o tho crop, Tiow will it do to sproad nunwre u dat-atebible, ad plow it in i tho fall, fur thy cori crop to follow 7 Lum frylnig o el & Lotter knowlodge of fanning, ad cut out *Cho Farm sud Garden™ and pubit jua sera-book for fulure referonco, K, ‘Plhoro aro soveral of tho burrs that como up to annoy the wool-growor, il of whichmust bo troated as weods, Bonto df thom are bionaial, whila othory are annunl, In tho fenco-gurnors they must bo cut at tho ground with o »hanhoo ar thoy may bo pulled up when tho grotnd fesort alter & rain. 1t genorally requiros two voars to clent tho lund of them, bul fhn task ju not o dificult ono. ‘o have tho horses' sancs and tuits flled wilh barrs s not quite in guod farmor-like twsto; wnd, wien one ban a fov slcoy, tho value of tho Yool is noriously dumaged by them. The worsl of thoso burrs s tho cottonsburr,~n velvet-liko leaf plant, growing from 140 3 foot iy, 1t has a yury ned wior, oud, wolons 1he Loe s vary sharp, it fs difflonlt to out thom off, A liitle nlclh of them hnd Loon neglocted for two of )lrna JoAra in tho corn-flald, and thts yoar I !’“fln'-'hfl 1t to potataos, and, in tho thorough culd o euat this ctop yanuires, thoy havo" dlsnpe Diarod. Tho noody camio ligro on shocop from o 0, and, hofars astontion was ealled to thom, (50 Eiok thoy Sant s e oo e o antto tha flols arme ora aro gotting 11d of them u:t[v. i THAT INTENENT. n{\)u nnhunuml thing, {19 battar to rent a farm Ihgor tunn to putaline, an thy iiterost is tua rusl 0 onls out and spaus tho mechine. 1€ cropt ro good at tho stats, and pricen woll up, it it woll cuonigh ; but onio or two bad crops st the atart mako tho cano hopoloss, A man with small family and only 8500 Ld hottor ront than to purchaso, aud Lo should rent for a certain part of tha crop, Tho corn-arop of 1872 g0 ex- alted quuplu‘n fdonn thot farms that had heow rontod for ane-thixd of tho orop in tho erib $¢ the landlord woro reuted for lf 40 16 bushsls of corn $o tho acro, and, in some Inatances, to he dolivored at tho dopot froo of cont. O some Tarms the entire erop was requirod to pay thy Tont, a4 the grop did not average moro than 13 busliols. A fow rents hava boen repostod at the Asmo torma this yoar, with an average crop of 25 bukhola, A fow of our host-loented farme aro rented for two-fiiths to the Iandlord,—thy reutor having honne, gardon, and o forr acres of 'umtum, freo, 1f tho oropa uro good and priccs iigh, tho landlord is wall paid ; but ho snore with poor cropa. With the prosent prico of land,, {um cost of bulldings, ropairs, and taxos, thia iund of proporty iy not na romunerativo as form- orly. It is bt afow yours since the atock-foodor twad to Lity the corucorap for 35 tha acro, and &. eld of corn violding 40 bushiols per acto war told abn ©* bit "o bunhel (123¢ conts), thon 4 neres was tho nllotmont for one goou haud inaking kim $200 for himgolf and toam. Yot i did nat requiro nll of iy timo,~—ouly from Apri fl(:: -{\lrl‘)'rl,d—t\l)‘x‘\‘v.(t‘léux;: e lllma olo that hio conle. i omo of the ymall farm agtgrogat- od gros of $100 to 4500, ‘T'hen, L\nmgvgnr.sthl taxos wero nob mors fhan' $3 to @ for an 80-aoro farn; but now, in this county, the taxes ara from f0 gonts to $1 per zera —tho uchool tax being tha most waighty 0 1. s:unural thlnginbut raltrond nnd Court-Touag v’i‘nx:s: Htuzu upin somo locations with wonderfal Womay considor the rnaning tn dobt fo fnrm something like ihe Durchan oldn l\:m;v'- ticket, In caso it wins, onois all rights but, i ono losos, tho vontura is lost, I know & wan who purobinsed 80 acros of land in this county, and paid for it out of tho firstcrop, tho labor fas cludod; but that is an oxception, 'not tho rulo, And quiite Tocontly nearly o0 nores viero purs chased, mostly oa eredit, and the crop of corg of 1872, of soveral thourand bushots, held fof tho prosont prico, which noarly paid the dobt And yot that land 'wns_purchnsed at $30 an ncro and not improved; but it hud been outlying Srnlrle for many years, and, on breaking up, pros ucod immouse crops of corn, Wailo farming is vory Srol\tn’blunttlmns, ther¢ aro many drawbncks, and the greatest of thoat {i 1o high rato of intacast paid (o tido over shorb emr. I havo often thought that the farmer dld not alweys oxerciso that common pra- donog that charnoterizes (ho businoss-man, & puned against thoao sbnrp cornors hat wo oftoy have Lo turn. 1In Jooking ovor the list of rovters and farm-lnborors who havo won largo farms, 1 @ind that these men have addoed piace to and thus escaped intercst. It is this that keept on accumulating, bad yoars ad well as good, Whilo city-property is heavily mortgagod for the making of improvemonts, we find the same stat¢ of things, at a lessgr rato, in the country, Thal monoy has beon mnda aftor paying the intor« ost, in tho aggrogato, is quite com tain; but, with present prices of farm: pgoducts, this demand for money * will grudualty fall off, and the farmor, like those o the Enstorn Stutes, have money to lond for other Dbusinose-purposes. Thon monoy at tbe Wes! will not commund 80 high a rato of interest. Sa long as farm and city property will pay 10 pax cont mtorost for monoy, Ho Iong the manuface turor must go short of capital; and it is thi that prevents manufactures in nll our emall towns, By and by this will be changed, ond thit will bo nuanufacturing s woll a8 o farmin Stuto, and tho 40-acre farms, liko that of o Chobango friond, will be mora valuablg, for they will_crouto o domond for tho more profitable, products of rural labor. BPRING WITEAT. anoa, I, Bept, 16, 1874, Mn. “Ronan »—8mt: Can you tell me why spring wheat ilocs 8o poorly In thin pirt of the State? 1 da 310t Weo why it ahould not do'ue well as in Wiaconsing We can sow it wch sarlior, snd the scason of growtk 18 noacly u loug, L 8. 3 Wheat is 8 bionnial, but olimate hns a modify. ing offect on it, Tha firat eenson the growth in inclined to bo rathor prostrate, and. disposed ta tillor out into mnuy honds; but, if sown in spring, the plant has not tims to tillor out, and tho heut of our climato forcos tho upward growth, and givos to the borry a thicker sking and the flour contuins loss” atarch and mora glutou, and is consequently bard to_grind. In Colorado the wheat is sowa in February ot Margh, and tho climate i cool, and it matureg alowly and in & natural way, and {8 ripe in August,—s full month Juter than with us. ~And then the skin of tho grain is very thin, and the flour is almost pure starch. In grinding, tha grain must bo danmpened in order 0 8o toughon the bran that it mey bo separatod from the flour. Tho object of sowing aprivg whoeat go_vor onrly i to givo it an opportunity to sproad ani tillor beforo the hot weather foroes the upward growth. It will sprout at & very low temporas ture, and may bo sown whon tho froat is coming: ont of the ground, and weuy farmers sow as soon oA the frost is out 3 or 8 inches, and whiles tho surfaco is yot wot.: The putting in of a crop while the soll is in that wet, muddy condition,! st a Iater period would bo ruinous; but the uightly frosts thet follow put the surface in fina {ilth, and no barm is dono. As spring whoat has lous timo fo tillor out, there must be more stools, to produce therm, and this dowands thickor sced' ing than winter Wheat. Ae wo go south, spring whoat is out of the question, a8 tho climate forces tho growth tooap- idly. Hore we sow winter wheat duriug the fimt aif of Boptomber, and it ripons the last of June aud the first of July, aud, in thosouth part of the State, threa to four weoks earlior. Bpring wheat: with us is about ten days later, mrryim it fore ward to the heatod torm, and thus maling it & vory nncortain vrop. We can tix no axbitrary rula, but il the cone, ditions of soil aud climato must bo _conddarn& snd among thom the snow-covering in winter, if- wo would make wheat-cnlture o sucoess. PLOWING UNDER MANURE. { It in & great wasto of waterial to plow under mouure, The whys and wherefores of this have been so fully got forth in provious letters that it is bardly worth whilo to go ovor the ssmo gronnd, As » gonersl rule, manura should ba used a# a top-droysivg. Rouan. WELCOME. 0 following poem, by Col, James W. Datnes, wag. "m‘ o vacom. Noldtoras tstmlon AL Caldwall, 0. Friends and comeades of bygone duya, Waloowne, a 3 Ya who sprang ut the frumpot's call, Datlsred fo oarth e tobel wall, |/ “Thou returiod to your former Ways, Govared with glory and crowned wilh bays ‘Walcomo, one and all 1 No war-loud backons you forth to-day § No blast of bugle nor sound of fsay & ‘No ¢annon's roar, no storn comunand, Dives trembling Peace from a stricken land But forth from the desk, the bonek, the plow, iy war-gcarred voterans gathier nov, o ranp ance mOrv oach coinrado's Band, “Ta battly with woman's weapon,—tho tougue,— And tosing sgaiy the songa that wo lllnq When we Ifiv\mlckfld in “Dixfe's Land,” TTow vivdly the memory plays Ovor the lucidents of e daye When wo fought with Grant ut Donelson, Or marchiod with Sherman to tho 8oz, O whirled up tho Vatloy with Hneridan, Or closed our lluoa *round tho gullant Log ! iacciod ‘neath tho licat of the Southern A, comrades, ono by ono, Dropped from the miks by tho dusty readsldo, Gusplng for water, aud attugglod und diad; Jluw wo batod camp-life's dreary round 0 uselcas duties, and cursed the eonnd OF thie buglo tiat woko us from drearus of home, 7o hear the roll uf tho hateful drum Tlow wo cracked our Jokos on the fallhful #ngey And confiscatad the Hobel pigs ; itow tho suller was minug aud o wore plus When wo robbod his tent-~aftor ho liad robbod ua 3= 0 duys of minglud pleanuzo und patn, dod grant that you ne'er may coue again Lot us drop a tear for thoso who fell; Manfully fought they, long autl welly 1t waa ot for them 10 sca tho timo When the bells of Teace shanld ring thelr eldmaf Thoy gave tholr bluod for the Nation's lifo, Thu wiomory of the dreadful trifo Shull pusw nway with thu coming yoars, Tut agos hionco will Nature's tear Bodew tho turf abovo thy head Of {ho huwmnbiest of our gallant dead, And whon wo ko from hors ta-day, Yiach to work In his ohosen way, Afay batrod aud malico b yepreasod, And poctional troubles be Jald at rent, No North, nor South, nor Eaat, nor e, Tuta Union of wIl; and, hand'iu haud, Firm and uuited Tet ua staud y Ad Ttobel and Yaukes, foes no more, May talk and lsugh of the daya of yoro Wlien they bivouaekaid fu ** Dize's Land,¥ i e —In twenty-five yosrs—18{0-'78—f werd 202,503 now lonscs bullt in Ln;;lxdv:? :':u 78 vow streels and 71 sQnaras woro forimed, The lonpth of those naw ul'eet: ufuwm," 2AWELASEA AU kLo Axispieq ioce, -