Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1874, Page 6

err THE FOOL OF FIVE FORKS. aa PRET HAR(ES LATEST srory. Prom the Ne York Times.j He lived » I do not think th'sp2cultarity arose from any wish to withdraw his foolishacss from the rest of the camp, nor was it probable | that the combined wisdom of Five Forks ever drove him into exile. My impresston is chat he ved aloue from chuice—a choice te mete long | ¢ camp induged in any criticism of his | capacity. Hewat mach given to mooty aga to outward ances astrong man, was always complaining of ill health. Indeed, one theory of his isolation was that it afforded bim b. oppartaatti for taking medicine,of which he habitually consamed large qusatities His folly first dawned upon through the post-office window. . jong time the oi man who wrote home by every mail, his le ig always the same person—a woman. Now pened that the bulk of the Five & fence Was aen 4 pale hari The men received matter ot cow on the spot wit hore wer being in swernl. he lettess began wit: some were never c he tact that the only regular cor; Five Forks never received any re; at last qaite | Botorious. Conseyuentiy, when an envelope | ‘was received bearing the stamp of the ‘Dead Letter Office” addres<ed to the Fool, under the more conventional title of“Cyras Hawkins, there wax quite a fever of excitement. I do not know how the t leaked out, but it was that the enve- lope covtain. "8 own letters returaed. This was the first evidence of his weakness,any man who repeatedly wrote to a worn who did must be a fool. I think Hawkinssus- this folly was k amp, at he took in sym 1s and fever, whieh be at once , and affected a diversion w eventual y he cam old episrolatory perti- ters had a ‘new ad- ief obtained in the favored the fool- ly. whea Haw- t” in the hill-side near his litary cabin, there was but little surprise. “He will sink’ it all in the next hola.” was the Prevailing belief, predicted upon the usaal manner in which the possessor of “nigger lack’ disposed of his fortune. To everybody's as- tonishment, Hawkins, after taking out aboat eight thousand dollars and exhausting the pocket, did net prospect for another. The camp then waited patiently to see what he would do with bis money. I think, however, that it was with the greacest ditticalty their in- dignation was kept from taking the form of a personal assault when it becam= known that he had purchased a draft for eight thousand doi- Jars in favor of “that woman.” More than this, it was finally whispered that the draft was returned to him as his letters had been, and that he was ashamed to reclaim the money at thefexpress office. ‘Itwouldn’t be a bad specu- Jation to go East, get some smart gal for a han- dred dollars to dress herself up andl represen* that hag, and freeze on that eight thousand,” Suggested a far-seeing financier. I may state here that we always alluded to Mawk.ns’s fair ish and u unknown as “The without having, Iam confident, the least justification for that ep!- thet. That the Fool should gamble seemed emi- nently fit and proper. That he should oc sionally win a large stake, according to that popular theory which I have recorded in the preceding paragraph, appeared also a not im- robable of inconsistent fact. That he should, wever, break the faro bank which Mr. John Hamlin bad set up in Five Forks, and carry off & sum variously estimated at from ten to twenty thousand dollars, and not return, the next day, and lose the money at the same table, really appeared incredible. Yet such was the fact. A day or two passed without any known invest r. Hawkins’s recently-acquired capi- f he allows to send it to that Hag,” said One prominent citizen, “‘suthin ought to be Gone! It’s jest ruinin’ the repatation of this yer camp—this sloshin’ around 0° capital on non-residents ez don’t claim it!” ‘It's settin’ an example o” extravagance,” said another, | ‘ez is littie better nora swindle. Thats mor’n five men in this camp thet, hearin’ thet Haw- kine hed sent home eight thoasand dollars must jest rise up and send home their hard earnin too! And, then, to think thet that eight tho: sand was only a blu, after and thet it's lyin’ there on call in Ada bank! Wel say it’sone 0° them things a vigilance commi tee oughter look in When there seemed no possibility of this repe- tition of Hawkins’s folly, the anxiety to know what he bad really done with his money be came intense. last a self-appointed com mittee of four citizens dropped artfully, bat to outward appearances careless!y, upon him in his seclusion. lite formalities had been exchanged, and some easy vitupera- tion of a backward season a by enc! yarties, Tom Wingate approa «Sorter drop a other night, diin’t give him no sh ol—didn’t f, D ate, appealing Dick promptl: jars wasn't continued aac rate. | “You salt gain’ to be You said Cyrus hal i a “ dis- partickler investment you te make with it,” he contin- | easy indifference to his | | | | said twenty’ thousand thrown around recklessly suthin’ better to do with his capital,” sa ed Dick, with gratuitous mendacity. remember now wh Said he was goin’ ued, appealing w friend. Of co! at the Fo rubbing his | aeprecatingly “Ye didn't e lin’ in your le knee down brightening like ecbilt sation of gonene: if you migat die don't somehow don’t fetch yoa? “Nol” said Wingate with « curt and the air of authoritatively res his friends. “No, neverhad. Of this ver investment.” “And your bowels al! the tim? irregular continued Hawkins, b! g unter Wing eye, and yet clinging deepairingty to his theme Jike a ship-wrecked mariver to his plank. Wingate did not reply, bat glanced signifi- cantly at the rest. Hawkins evidently saw ture | ition of his mental deticiency, and said { Bpologetically, “You was saying euthin’ about my investment?” Yes,” said Wingate, s0 rapidly as to alms! take Hawkins’s breath away—“the investmout you made in—” «-Raflerty’s Ditch,” said the F sol timidty. Fora moment the visitors could only stara blankly ateach other. “Rafts one notorious failure of Five Forks! Rafforty’s Ditch, the impracticable scheme of an utterly unpractical man; K plan for taking wate place where it was: Wingate ait not rep! A kind nda kind o” feelin When Wrigh ach the spot, and ( as | Pills | ain:ae You was speakin’ got toa | Raiferty hed steckholders in its maddy | * said Wingate, after a joomy pause. “Vhet's it! I see it all now, ys. That's how ragged Pat [afferty went | down to San Francisco, yesta clothes, and bis wi's and four children wen im akerridge. Thet’s why them ten workmen | who hedn”’ a cent to bless themselves with was jayin’ billiards, last night, and eatio’ isters. het’s wher that money kum frum—one han- dred doliars—to pay for thet long aivertisement | Of the new issue of Ditch stock in the Times, Zortersay. ‘Thet’s why them six strangers were | oked at the Magnolia hotel, yesterday. Don't | Jou see—it’s that money—and that Fool!” } ‘The Foo! sat silent. ‘The visitors arose with- Out a word. “You never took any of them Indian V*g:ta- ble Pills?” asked Hawkins timidly of Winzate. “No!” roared Wingate, as he opened the dour. “They tell me that took with the Panacea they was cut o’ the Panacea when I went to the drug store, last week—they say that, took with the Panacea, they always effect a certain cure”—. But this time Wingate and his dis- friends had retreated—slamming tha oor on the Fool and his ailments. Nevertheless in six months the whole affair Was for; it eerie ae Sane Sacrame: P-fl visited 4 . To astonishment, and to the indigna- iF the Fool ste; forward ot- fered im that ity. Ido not know whether Capt. McFad: would have chesea voluntarily, but he was constrained, in the of a better man, to accept his services. ‘The duel never took place! The prelimina- | tertaining a large party. ries were all arranged, Spot indicated, the with their seconds, there was no interruption from without, there was no expla- wation or apology passed—bat the duei did not take place. It may be readily imagined that these facts, which were all known to Five Forks, threw the whole afever Eremater Beri pees one second left town, the next day. the fool remained. He ‘all questioning declaring bimse'f \e din honor not Neher in sort, con lucted himself with consistent bat exasperating folly. It was not until six mon-hs bad passed that Col. Starbottie, the second of Calhoun Bungstarter, ina moment of weakness superinduced by the social glass, condescended wm. I should not do justice to the par- did not give that explanation in the co- lonel’s own words. I may remark, in passing, that the characteristicjd gnity of{Jol. Starbottie always became intensified by stimulants, and that by the same process all sense of humor was utterly eliminated. “With the understanding that I am ad:dress- ing myself confidentially to men of honor,” said the colonel, elevating his chest above the bar- room counter of the Prairie Rose saloon, “I trust that it will not be nec for me to pro- tect mys It from levity, as I was forced to do in Sacrameno on the only other occasion when I entered into an explanation of this delicate af- fair by—er—er—calling the individual to a per- smal account—er! I do not believe,” added the cotonel, slight waving his glass of liquor in the air with a graceful gesture of courteous deprecation—“knowing what I do of the pre- ¢ | sent company—that such @ course of action is rejuired here. Certainly not—sir—in the home of Mr. Hawkins—er—the gentleman who repre- | sented Mr. Bungstarter. whose conduct, ged, sir, is worthy of praise, blank me!” Apparentiy satistied with the gravity and re- spectiul attention of his hsteners, Col. Starbot- tle smiled relenting!y and sweetly, closad his eyes half dreamily, as it to recall his wandering thoughts and began:— “As the spot selected was nearest the tene- ment of Mr. Hawkins, it was ag eed that the parties should meet there. They did so promptly at half-past 6. The morning being chilly, Mr. Hawkins extended the hospitalities of his houss with @ bottle of Bourbon whisky—of which all partook but myself. The reason of that excep- tion ts { believe well known. It is my invaria- ble custom to take brandy—a wine-glasstal in a cup of strong coffee, immediately on rising. It stimulates the functions, sir, without prosucing any blank derangement of the nerves.” ‘The barkeeper, to whom, as an expert, the colonel had graciousiy imparted this informa- tion, nodded approvingly, and the colonel, amid @ breathless silence went on:— “We were about twenty minutes in reaching the spot. The ground was msasared, the weap- ons-were loaded, when Mr. Bungstarter con- fided to me the information that he was unwell and in great Pain’ On consultation with Mr. Hawkins, it appeared that his principal ina distant part of the field was also suffering and in great Pain. The symptoms were such asa medical man would pronounce ‘‘choleraic.” I Say would have pronounced, for on examination surgeon was also found to be—er—in Pain, and I regret to say, expressing himself in language unbecoming the occasion. His impression was that some powerful drug had been administered, On referring the question to Mr. Hawkins, be remembered that the bottle of whisky partaken by them contained a medicine which he had been in the habit of taking, but which, having failed to act upon him, he nad concluded to be generally ineffective, and had forgotten. His perfect willingness to hold himse! Tesponsible to each of the parties, his genuine concern at the disastrous effect of the mistaks, mingled with his own alarm at the state of his im, which—er—failed to—er—respond to the peculiar qualities of the medicine, was most ming to him as a man of honor and a gentle- man! Afteran hour’s delay, both Toes being completely exhausted, and abando by the sargeon, who was unreasonably alarmed at his own condition, Mr. Hawkins and I remove our men to Markleville. There, after a further consuitation with Mr. Hawkins, an amicable adjuatment of all difficulties, honora- ble to both parties, and governed by found . ——e Pbetiove,” aided the |, leokin, colone! Lass, around and setting down his 2! «no gentleman has yet expressed himself other than satistied with the result.” Perhaps it was the colonel’s manner, but whatever was the opinion of Five Forks regard- ing the intellectaal os of Mr. Hawkins in this affair, there was very little outspoken criti- cikm atthe moment. In a few weeks the whole thing was forgotten, except as part of the ne- cessary record of Hawkins's blunders, which wes already a pretty full one. later follies conspired to obliter @ past, until,@ year later,a valuable leal was dis- covered in the ‘Blazing Star” tunnel, in the hill where he lived, anda large sum was offered him fora portion’ of his land on the hill-top. Accurtomed as Five Forks had become to the exhibition of his folly, it was with astonishment that they learned that he resolutely and de- cidedly refused the offer. The reason that he = a still more astounding. He was about to build! To build a house upon property available for mining purposes was preposterous; to build at all with a root siready covering him was an act of extravagance; to build a Louse of the atyle he proposed was simply madness! Yet here were facts. Tue plans were made and the lumber for the new building was al- ready en the groand, while the shatt of the “Blazing Star” was being sunk pelow. The site was, in reality, a very picturesjus one—the building itself of @ style and qaality hither:o unknown in Five Forks. The citizens, at first kepti during their moments of recreation and idleness gathered doubtingly about the lo- cality. Day by day, in that climate of rapid growths, the building pleasantly known in the viang of Five Forks as ‘the Idiot Asylam,"’ rose beside thetgreen‘oaks and clustering fires of Hawkins hill, as if it were part of the natural Again, some expensiveness and extravagunce of outlay quite in keeping with his former idiocy. Car- pets, sofas, mirrors, and, finally, a piano—tho y one known in ‘the county, and brought at expense from Sacramento—kept curiosity er heat. More than that, there were ar- ticles and ornaments which a few married ex- perts declared only fit for women. When the tarnishing of the house was complete—it had occupied twe months of the speculative ani ca- rious attention of the camp—Mr. Hawkins locked the front door, put the key in his pocket, and quietly retired to his more humble roof, lower on the hill-side. Ihave not deemed it necessary to indicate to the intelligent reader all of the thesries obtained in Five Forks during the eract! the building. Some of them may be reatily imagined. That ‘the Hag” had by artful c ness and systematic reticence at last completely sabjugated the Fool, aud that the new house was intended for the nuptial bower of the (pra- destined) unhappy pair, was of course the pre- vailing opinion. But when, after a reasonable time had elapsed, and the house still remained untenanted, the more exasperating conviction forced itself upon the general mind that the Fool had been for the third time imposed upon. When two months had elapsed and there seemad no prospect of a mistress for the new hous», [ think public indignation became so strong that bad “the Hag’’ arrived, the marriage would have been publiély prevented. But no one ap- peared that seemed to answer to this idea of an available tenant, and all inquiry of Mr. Haw- kins as to his intention in building a house and not renting it or occupying it tailed to elicit any further information. The reasons that he gave were felt to be vague, evasive and unsatis- ak He was in no hurry to move, he 5 when he was ready, it surely was not strange that he should liks to have bis house all ready to receive him. He was often seen upon the veranda of asummer evening, smoking a cigar. It is reported that, one night, the house was 0)- served to be brilliantly lighted from garret to basement; that a neighbor, observing this, crept toward the open parlor window, and, looking in, espied the Fool accurately dressed in evening costume, lounging upon a sofa in the drawing-room, with the easy air of socially en- Notwithstanding this, the house was unmistakably vacant, that even- tng, save for the presence of the owner, as the witness afterward testified. When this story | Was first related, a few practical men sugge ted the theory that Mr. Hawkins was «imply drill- ivg himself in the elaborate daties of hosypi- tality against a probable event in his history. A few ventured the belief that the house wa: haunted; the imaginative editor of the Five Forks Record evolved from the depthsof his professional consciousness a story that Haw- kins’s sweetheart bad died, and that he rega- larly entertained her spirit’ in this beautifull y- furnished mausoleum. The occasional specta- cle of Hawkins’s tall Ggure pacing the veranda on moonlight nights lent some credence to his theory, until an unlooked-tor incident diverted. all speculation into another channi Itwas about this time that a cartel is, rude valley, in the neighborhood of Five Forks, had become famous as a picti jue resort. Travelers had visited it, and that there were more cubic yards of stone c'lff and they had ‘travagact Thotorio mad loscdinate. toot ex! quotation; men and women who had never en- joyed & sunset, @ tree,or a fiower—who had poe sip eg or meaning of the yellow sunlight that flecked their homel, ight, sagen bor 1 sna neon night, to whose meon! their . or their dresses—came from thousands of miles away to calculate the hight Of this rock, to observe the depth of this chasm, to remark upon the enormous size of this un- Sightly tree, com and to believe with ineffable self- the one Five Forks, and a scamperiug of oceasional procession of dusty brows a particalar!: the Blazing an malar! tannel, there was some Hutter of mescae xiety. There was a considerable in- quiry for “store clothes,” a hopeless overhaul- ing of old and disused raiment, and a general demand for ‘boiled shirts” and the barber. Meanwhile, with that supreme andacity and ‘ious mines. mn the handsome faces and manly ‘at looked up from the ditches or rosa behind the cars of ore at the mouths of tunnels. Indeed, it is alleged that Jenny Forester, backed and supported by seven other equally shameless young women, had openly and pub- licly waved her handkerchief to the florid Her- cules of Five Forks—one Tom Flynn, formerly of Virginia—leaving that good-natured bat not over-bright giant pulling bis blonde mustaches in bashful amazement. It waea pleasant June afternoon that Miss Nelly Arnot, principal of the primary depart- ment of one of the public schools of San Fran- ciseo, having evaded her companions, resolved to put into operation a plan which had lately sprung up in her coarageons and mischief-lov- ing famcy. With that wonderfal and myste- tions instinct of her sex, from whom no secrets of the affections are hid and to whom ali hearts are laid open, she had beard the story of Haw- kins’s folly and the existence of the ‘Idiot Asy- ” Alone, on Hawkins’s hill, she had de- termined to penetrate its seclusion. Skirting the underbrush at the foot of the hill, she man- aged to keep the heaviest timber between her- self and the “Blazing Star” tunnel at its base, as well as the cabin of Hawkins, half-way up the ascent, until, by a circuitous route, at last she reached, unobserved, the summit.’ Before her rose, silent, darkened and motionless, the object of her search. Here her courage tailed her, with all the characteristic inconsequence of her sex. A sudden fear of all the dangers she had safely passed—bears, tarantalss, dranken men and lizards—came upon her. For a moment, as she afterward expressed it, “She thought she should die.” With this belief, probably, sbe gathered three large stoaes, which she could hardly lift, fer the purpose of throw- ing @ great distance; put two hair-pins in her mouth, and carefully readjusted with both hands two stray braids of her lovely blue-black mane which had fallen in Cnprpey | the stones. Then she felt in the pockets of her linen duster for her card-case, handkerchief, pocket-book and smelling-bottie, and finding’ them intact, suddenly assumed an air of easy, lady-like un- concern, went up the steps ef the veranda, and dewurely pulled the front door-bell, which she knew would not be answered. After adecent pause, she walked around the encompassing veranda, exat ‘ing the closed shatters of the French windows until she found ons that yielded toher touch. Here she p again to adjust her coquettish hat by the mirror-like surface of the long sash window that reflected the fall length of her pretty figure. And then she opened the window and entered the room. Although long closed, the house had a smell of newness and of fresh paint that was quite uplike the moldiness of the conventional haunted house. The bright carpets, the cheer- fal walls, the glistening oil-cloths were quite inconsistent with the idea of a ghost. ith childish curtosity she began to explore the si- lent house, at first timidly—opening the doors with a yiolent push, and then stepping back from the threshold to make good a possible re- treat; and then more bo! as she became con- vinced of her security ‘bsolate loneliness. In one of the chambers, the largest, there were fresh flowers in a vase—evidently gathered that morning; and, what seemed stiil more remark- able, the pitchers and ewers were freshly filled with water. This obliged Miss Nelly to notices another singular fact, namely, that the house was free from dust—the one more obtrusive and penetrating visitor of Five Forks. The floors and carpets had been recently swept, the chairs and furniture carefully wiped and dusted. If the house was haunted, it was possessed by a spirit who had none of the usual indiiference to decay and mold. And yet the beds had evi dently never been slept in, the very springs of the chair in which she sat creaked stitliy at the novelty, the closet doors opened with the re. luctance of fresh paint and varnish, and in spite of the warmth, cleanliness, and cheerfal- ness of furnitare and decoration, there was none Of the ease of tenancy and occupation. As Miss Nelly afterward contessed, she longed to ‘tum- ble things around,” and when she reached the parlor or drawing-room again, she could hardly resist the desire. Particularly was she tempted by @ closed piano; that stood mately against the wall. She thonght she would open it jast to see who was the maker. ‘That done, it woald be 90 harm to try its tone. She did so, with one little foot on the soft pedal, But Miss Nelly was too good a player, and too enthusiastic » musician to stop at \haif measures She tried it again—this time so sincerely that the whole house seemed to spring into voico. Then she stopped and listened. There was no responso— the empty rooms seemed to have relapsed into their old stillness. She stepped out on the ye- rauda—a woodpecker recommenced his tapping onan adjacent tree, tne rattle of a cartin the rocky gulch below the hill came faintly up. No one was to be seen far or near. Miss Nelly, reassured, returned. She again ran her fing over the keys—stopped, caught at a me! running in her mind, half ed it, and gh threw away all caution. Before five minates had elapsed she had entirely forgotten herself, and with her linen daster thrown aside, her straw hst flung on the piano, her white hands bared, and a black loop of her braided hatr hanging upon her shoulder, was fairly em- barked upon a flowing sea of musical recol- lection. She had played perhaps half an hour, when, having just finished an elaborate symphony, and resting her hands on the keys, she heard stinctly and aumistakably the sound use from without. Iman instant the fi of shamo and indignation leaped inte her cheeks, and ste rose from the instrament and ran to the window onty in time to catch sight of a do- zen figures in biue and red flannel shirts yanish- ing hurriedly through the trees below. Miss Nelly’s mind was instantly made up. I think Ihave already intimated that under the stimulus of excitement she was not wanting in courage, and as she quietly resumed her gloves, hat, and duster, she was not perhaps exactly the young person that it would be entirely safe for the timid, embarrassed or inexperienced my sex to meet alone. She shut down the piano, and having carefully reclosed all the wiudows and doors, and restored the house to its former desolate condition, she stepped from the ve- randa and proceeded directly to the cabia of the unintellectual Hawkins, that reared its atobe chimney above the umbrage a quarter of a mile below. Toe door opened instantly to her impnl- sive knock, and the Fool of Five Forks, stood before her. Miss Nelly had never before seen the man designated by this infelicitous title aud, ashe stepped backward in half courtesy and half astonishment, she was for the moment concerted. He was tall, fine-formed, and dark- bearded. Above cheeks a little hollowed by care and ill-health shone a pair of hazel eyes, very large, very geutle, but inexpressibly sad and mournful. This was certainly not the kind of man Miss Nelly‘had expected to see, yet atcer her first embarrassment had passed, the very circumstance, oddly enough, added to her in- dignation, and stang ber wouuded pride still more deeply. Nevertheless, the arch hyp crite instantly changed her tactics wlik the swift in- tuition of her sex. “Ihave come,” she said, with a dazzting smile, intinitely more dangerous than her for- mer diguitied severity. “I have come to ask Zour pardon for a great liberty I have just ta- eu. I believe the new house above us on the hili is yours. I wasso much pleased with its exterior that I left my friends for a moment below here,” she continued artfully, with a slight wave of the hand, as ifindtcating a band of fearless Amazons without, and waiting to avenge any possibleinsult offered to one of their number, ‘‘and ventured to enter it. Fiudiag it unoccupied, as 1 bad been to! I am afraid I had the audacity to sit down and amase myself for & few moments at the piano—while waiting for my friends.”” Hawkins raised his beautiful eyes to hors. He Saw &@ very pretty girl, with frank, gray eyes a 2 excitement, with ro red, slightly ekied cheeks glowing a little ‘under eyes, @ short scarlet upper lip turn back, like a rose leaf, over a lithe line of white teeth, as she breathed somewhat hurriedly tn her nervous excitement. He saw all this calmly quietly, and, save for the nataral uneasiness of shy, it man, I fear without a quicksn- a ing of bis pulse. eae it,” he said, simply. ‘I heerd ye as I kem up.” Miss Nelly was furious at his grammar. his Gla'ect, his coolness, and still more at the saspi- he waean active member of he r invisi- cle ue. “Ab,” she said, still smiling, “then I think I heard you—"’ “I reckon not,” he interrupted gravely. “I didn’t stay long. I found the ba round the house, and I allowed ab tet ok and kinder warn bat they ised. to keep still, and you 80 comfortable and that I hadn’t the wra) up in ir music. im away. ‘ hope,” he added earn: » “they didn’t let on ez they beered Pe They ain't a bad Blazin’ Star boys—thoagh they’re a little hard at times. eet er cet ae would a—s—a cat!” continued Mr. Hawkins, —-, with a faint apprehension of the inele- gance of his simile. “ finall; ough’ seem to these times—they’re ‘Jones's V‘ pound. If ye’ve ever took ’em a remember whe' the reg’lar dose is eight. They ain't but six bh re. But perhaps ye never tuck any,” he ad- ded, deprecatingly. 0,” said Miss Nelly, curtly. She had usn- ally a keen sense of th2 Indicrous, bu: some- how Mr. Hawkins eccentricity only pained her. “Will you let me see you to the foot of the billy” he said again, after another embarrass- ing pause. files Arnot felt instantly that such an act would condone her trespass in the eyes of the world. She might meet some of her invisible admirers—or even her companions—and, with all her erratic impuises,she was nevertheless a woman, and did not entirely deapise the verdict of conventionality, Shesmiled sweetly and as- sented, and in another moment the two were lost in the shadows of the wood, Like many other apparently trivial acts in an uneventful life, it was decisive. As she ex pected, she met two or three of her late ap- plauders, who, she fancied, looked sheepish and embarrassed, she met also her companions look- ing for her in some alarm, who really appeared astonished at her escort, and, she fancied, a trifle envious ather evidentsuccess. I fear that Miss Arnot, in response to their anxious in- quiries, did not state extirely the truth, but, without actual assertion, led them to believe that she had, at a very early stage of the pro- ceeding, completely subjugated this weak- minded giant, and had brought him triumph- antly to her feet. From telling this story t or three times she got finally to believing that she had some foundation for it; then to a vague sort of desire that it would eventually prove to be true, and then to an equally vague yearning tohasten that consummation. That it would re- dound to any satisfaction of the Foo! sue did not stoptto doubt. That it would cure him of his folly she was quite confident. Indeed, there are very few of us—men or women—who do not | lieve that even a hopeless love for ourselves is more conducive te the salvation of the lover than a requitted affection for another. The criticism of Five Forks was, as the reader may immagine, swift and conclusive. When it was found out that Miss Arnot was not “the Hag” masquerading as a young and pretty irl, tothe ultimate deception of Five Forks in general and the Fool in particular, it was at once decided that nothing but the speedy union of the Fool and the “ pretty shool-marm” was consistent with ordipary common sense. The singular good fortune of Hawkins was quite in accordance with the theory of his luck as pro- pounded by the camp. That after ‘‘ the Hag” fatled to make her appearance he should ‘‘strike & lead” in hisown house, without the trouble of * prospectin’,” seemed to these causists as a wonderful but inevitable law. To add te these fateful probabilities, Miss Arnot fell and sprained her ankle in the ascent of Mount Lin- coln, and was confined for some weeks to the hotel atter her companions had departed. Dar- this period Hawkins was civilly but tesquely attentive. When, after a reasonabie time had elapsed, there still appeared to be no immediate Ea the occupancy of the new house, pub- ic opinion experienced a singular change in re- gard to its theories of Mr. Hawkins’s conduct. “The Hag” was looked upon as a saint-like and long-su‘fering martyr to the weakness and incon- sistency ef the Fool. That,after erecting this new house at her request, he had suddenly ‘gone back” on her; that his celibacy was the result of a long habit of Legged org: and sebsequent shameless rejection, and that he was now trying his hand on the helpless school-marm was per- fectly plain to Five Forks. That he should be frustrated in his attempts at any cost was equally plain. Miss Nelly suddenly foand her- self invested with a rude chivairy that would have been amusing had,it not been at times em- barrassing; that would have been impertinent bat for the almost superstitious respect with which it was proffered. Every day somebod trom Five Forks rode out to inquire the healt! of the fair patient. “‘Hez Hawkins bin over yer, to-day,” queried Tom Flynn, with artful ease and indifference; as he leaned over Miss Neily’s easy-chair on the veranda. Miss Nelly, with @ faint pink tlush ou her cheek, was con- strained to answer, “No.” + Well. he sorter sprained bis foot again a rock, yesterday,” con- tinued Flynn, with shameless antruthtulness, “You musn’t think anything o’ that, Miss Ar- not. He'll be over yer to-morrer, and mean- time he told me to hand this yer bookay with his re-gards, aud this yer specimen!” And Mr. Fiynn laid down the flowers he had picked en route against such an emergen and presented respectfully a piece of quartz and gold which he had taken that morning from his own sluice-box. “You musn’t mind Hawkins’s wavs, Miss Nelly,” said another sympathizing miner. “There ain’t a better man in camp than that theer Cy Hawkins !—but he don’t an- derstand the ways o’ the world with wimin. He hasn't mixedas much with society as the rest of “he added, with an elaborate Clesterfieldian ease of manner,*but he means well.”"Meanwhile a few sympathetic tunnei-men were impressing upon Mr. Hawkins the necessity of the greatest attention to the invalid. +t won't do, Hawkins, they explained ‘to let that there gai go back t» SanFrancisco aud say that when she wassick an! alone, the only manin Five Forks under whos: roof she had rested, and at whose table she had sat,’’—this was considered a natural but pa-- donable exaggeration of rbetoric,—*« off on her; and it_shan’t be done. I: ain't the square thing to Five Forks.” And then the Fool would rush away to the valley, and be received by Miss Nelly with a certain’ reserve of manner that finally disappeared in a flush of color, some increased vivacity, and a pardonsble coquétry. Ando the days passcd; Miss Nelly grew better in health and more troubled ia mind, and Mr. Hawkins became more and mors embarrassed, and Five Forks siniled and rap%,ed ite bends, and waited for the approacuing denovemert. Andthenitcame. Bat not haps in the manuer that Five Forks had imaz- ined. It was alovely afternoon in July thata party of eastern tourists rode into Five Forks. They had just “done” the valley of Big Things, and, there being one or two eastern capitalists among the party, it was deemed advisable that a proper knowledge of the practical mining re- sources of California should be added to their experience of the merely picturesque in n ture. Thus far everything had been satistac- tory; the amount of water which passed over the fall was large, owing toa backward season; some snow still remained in the canons near the highest peaks; they had ridden round one of the biggest trees, and through the prostrate trunk of another. To say that they were de- lighted ts to express feebly the eatlus' these ladies and gentlemen, drunk with the champagny hospitality of their entertainers, the utter uoveity of scene, and the dry, exhilar- ating air of the valley, (ne or two had already expressed themselves ready to live and dic there; another had written a glowing account to the eastern press, depreciating all other scenery in Europe and America; and, under these ci cumstances, it was reasonably expected that Five Forks would do its duty, and equaily im- press the stranger after its own fashion. Letters to this effect were sent from San Francisco by prominent capitalists there, and under the abie superintendence of one of their agents, the visitors were taken in hand, shown ‘what was to be seen,” carefaily restrained from observing what ought not to be visible, and so kept in & bissral and enthusiastic condition And so the graye-yard of Five Forks, in which but two of the occupants had died natural cexths, the dreary, ragged cabins on the hill- sides, with their sad-eyed, cynical, broken- spirited occupants, toiling on, day by day, for a miserable pittance and @ fare that a self-re- Specting eastern mecbanic would have scorn- fully rejected, were uot a partof the eastern visitors’ recollection. But the holsting-works and machinery of tha “Blazing Star Tannel Company” was the “ Blazing Star Tunnel Co. | eon ge whose ‘gentle ly superintenden’ ad recelved private information trom 8: Francisco to do the “proper thing” for the party, Wherefore the valuable heaps of ore in the company’s works were shown, the oblong bars of gold—ready for shipment—were play- fully offered to the ladies who could litt and carry them away unaided, and even the tunnel itseli, gloomy; fateful, ane peculiar, was shown as apart of the experience; and, in the noble language of one correspondent, “the wealth of Five Forks and the peculiar inducements that it offered toeastern capitalists” were established pe meg ——_. And bere occurred a eng ine nt Ww! 5 an unbiased spectator, | am free to say offered no inducemants to auybody whatever, but which, for its bearing upon the central figure ef this veracious chrontole, I can- ‘not pass over. Tchad become apparent to one or two practical and sober-minded in the Ly it certain of the * Blazing tu nel—(o7 i. , to the exigencies of a fiat- tering annt iy imperfe “‘shered” and supported, and were consequently unsafe; insecure, and to be aveid- url x. on tnttont she caught at his hand. “Oh, cried; ** you belong here—vou know this dreadful place; tes me to him. Tell me where to g° 8" what to do, Limplore you! ie eyes to hers, and then, with a sudden c: saropeen the a bar he was carry + an Me “Annie! he gasped a She caught ai face to his with staring eyes, marmured ‘‘Good Gea, Cyrus!” and sank upon her knees before He tried to disengage the hand that she wrung with passionate entreaty. no! Cyrus, you will forgive me—you past? “God . mst the wal asped slowly, “is it you ? rR has sent you here to- day. You will come with me. You wili—you moust—save him ‘ Save who ?” cried Cyrus hoarsely. « My husband!” The blow was so direct—so strong and over whelming—tbat even through her own stronger aud more ceifish absorption she saw itin the face of the man, and pitied him. “T thought—you—knew—it!” she faltered. He did not epeak, but looked at her with fixed, dumb eyes. And then the sound of voices and hurrying feet started her again into passionate life. She once more baa bis band. “O, Cyrus! hear me! If you have loved me through ali these years, you will not fail me now. You must save him! You c You are brave and strong—you always were, Cyrns! You will save him, Cyrus, for my sake—for the sake of your love forme! You wili—I know it! God bless you! She rose as if to follow him, but at a gesture of command she stood still. He picked up the rope and crowbar slowly, and in a dazed, blinded way that, in her agony of impatience aud alarm, seemed protracted to cruel influity. Then he turned, and raising her band to his lips kissed it slowly, looked at her again—and was gone. He did not return. For at the end of the next half hour, when the; id before her the halt- conscious, breathing body of her husband, aafe and unharmed but for exhaustion and some elight bruises, she learned that the worst fears ol the workmen had been realized. In releasing him, a second cave had taken place. They had barely time to snatch away the helpless body of her husband before the strong frame of his res cuer, Cyrus Hawkins, was strack and smitten down in his place. For two hours he lay there, crushed and bro- ken-boned, with a heavy beam lying acroas his breast, in sight of ali, conscious and patient. For two hours they had labored around him, wildly, despsiringly, hopefully, with the wills of gods and the strength of end of that time they came ber, which rested its base upon the beam. There was acry for axes, and one was pare | swinging in the air, when the dying man call to them, feebi upright!” “Don’t cut thi “why?” — will bring down the whole gallery with How?” “It's one of the foundations of my house.” The ax fell trom the workman’s hand, and with a blanched face he turned to his fellows. It was too true. They were in the uppermost gallery, and the “cave” had taken place di- rectly below the new house. After a pause the Fool spoke again mora feebly. “The lady!—quick.” They brougbt her—a wretched, fainting crea- ture, with pallid face and streaming eyes—and fell back as she bent her face above him. “It was built for you, Anme, darling,” he said in a hurried ae ‘and has been wait- ing up ther for you and me all these long days. It's deed to you, Annie, and you must—live there—with him’ He will net mind that I shall be always Bear you—for it stands above—my ave!” ena he wasright. In a few minutes later, when he had passed away, they did not move him; but sat by his body all night with a torch at his feet and head. And, the next day, they walled up the gallery a8 @ vaalt, but they pat nO mark or any sign thereon, trusting rather to the monument that, bright and cheerfal, rose sbove him tn the sunlight of the hill. For they said: This is not an evidence of death aud psp and sorrow, a8 are other monuments, but of Lite and Light aud Hope, wherefore ll men know that he who lies under it—is The Improvement of Pablic Parks. When a portion of land is set apart for the recreation of the inhabitants of a city, it ought to be laid out to the best advantage, so that it will become & desirable place of resort foropen air exercise and enjoyment. Instead of stocking a park entirely with ma- ples, elms, and Norway spruce, a collection of trees, shrubs and flowers calculated to make a pleasing contraet with each otber, aud to keep up the beauty of the scenery throughout the summer, should be provided. “Trees and shrubs of an upright growth should be contrasted with those of a pendent habit. The color of the tading foliage in autumn should also be taken into account, and arrangements and disposi- tions made for producing the variegated and Seautiful tints for which the American forests are so remarkable im Oetober. Trees and shrubs should be adapted to the extent of th grounds in which they are set out. Very large trees in a small park are out of p'ace; they oo enpy too much space and by their spreadin, roots or overhanging branches damage every | plant of weaker growth within their rea. ‘The oak is a slow growing tree, of very beau- tiful foliage, which might with good eifect re- place the maple, a tree that is becoming too common in streetaand parks. In every Ateri- can park of sutflicient eize, specimens of the native Oak should be grown. Some of them are very valuable as timber trees. The white oak, , bas a very wide range extending Uf of Mexico to Lake Superior, and aces forms a lar; art of the fores:. cous bicolor, bas also a very wide range and is very hardy, ‘The red cak, quercus rubra, is a large tree of great commercial importance, inasmuch as it yields 8 great part of the red oak staves exported from the United States and Canada to the West Indies. Ked oak staves are also furnished by the scarlet oak, quercus coccinea, the biack oak, quercus tinctoria, and by the willow oak, quercus phellas. The fatter is a large tree with lanceolate leaves somewhat resembling the willow. There are several varieties of the European and Asiatic oaks which are hardy in this country and well worthy of a place in every arboretum or park. There are also numerous varieties of the elm, ash, beech, birch, cypress, ete., which are adapted to park ornamentation. Formerly, the whole of the Firfamily was known by the generic appellation Pinus, bat it is now divided as follows: Pinus, or Pine, Abies, or Fir, Larix, or Larch, and Cedrus or Cedar. A collection of this valuable family of trees, witb sufficient room for the growth of the specimens would be an interesting feature in a park. The Washingtonea gigantea of Cali- ws freely in the nurseries at Rochos- ter, N.Y. A specimen of this monarch of the forest would be an object of great interest in a city park. It would not be too large for euch a position in a hundred years. Did space permit, I might name numerous trees and shrubs that would be better adapted for ornamenting a city park and making it interesting to the public than are the present occupants of such places. Park fountains which are generally arranged to throw water in jets or sprays, might be ecan- mized and made to cast their invigorating showers over rockeri¢s ornamented with Alpine plants, And flowers of different hue and clime and root, In an exotic garden sometimes found. Squares, triangles, etc., are unknown a natu. ral scenery, and in laying out a park we should mitate nature as closely as possible. The ex- tent of an artifical lake or pond should not be seen at a glance; there should be something to interrupt the view and disguise the narrow limit of the water. Aquatic plants should be culti- vated 1n suitable places. Collections of mineral rocks, meteorolite, fossils, gypsum, ete., in the form of rockeries, would be interesting. Speci- inens of the mineral productions of every state or country sbould be seen, in its capital, and be alwaysaccessible to the public. A judicious coliection of trees, shrubs and ilowers, minerals, fossils, ete., tastefully and correctly labelled, would be interesting and instructive. Epwagp Mason, Detroit, Mion. ral — Western Ri * Sga-Sick, Your Howor.”—The Detroi! police court had the following lively scene the ir day: Flora Fieming, & young woman of twentr- boli a i the pone | smile she languished on the judge wou have ki'led a bear twenty yards om “Your name is Fleming, I believe *’ he asked. “Flora Fleming, sir,” she auswered with a “And you were—were?” “Sea-sick,” she interrupted, ‘nothing but seasick.” A with his front teeth out laughed until he all over at the strange excuse, and the three old women blew their noses in a doubting manner. “Miss Fleming,” said his Honor, vel, “I'm a lone old man, travelling towncd ths cus: You shoud not seek tode- set of human life, and ceive me.” both his bands, brought her | EDUCATIONAL, TUL1e9 Toh orth, ad cee ay EVEN, rose StubET Suen tie ° All interested In the Li to attend the first opening MEpr0an pe. -ABTMENT GRORGETOWN COLLE 2678 MEDICAL SESSION. COLLEGE BUILDING, CORK. TS # STREBTS, WASH 73. HAND 1aGI0N, v. C course will begin OOUTOBES) 6ru, and end arch. cble Young, M.D. Professor of ind Practice of Medicine,’ G and Medical Ethics. Fiodoanlo Howard, ss Professor of Obstetrics, Parperal Diseases of Wo: wen and Diseases of Children. Johnson Bliot, M. D., Professor of Principles and Practice of Sur: James B. Morgan, M D., Prof-sor of Ms- teria Medica and Therapeutics, and Medical Jarie- Prudence. J. Harry Thompson, M.D, Professor Of Diseases of Women, and Clinical Surgery. Beb- rt Beyburn, M.D of Histology. Micro- nd Clinical Burger Bure*ry. Charles V. Boarmac, ‘ke @. Young, M.D, oan, 10 EF street, No W., Warhington, DO. i MISS FLOR returned to the City and are prepared to receive t Papile in the Frerch Isngvage sud_in Music, ( Pianc Bing: Kesidence, S26 Lith street. rts end septs 2w* | BOOKS, STATIONERY, &¢. A SOTHEE LANGE SUFPLY oF SCHOOL BYeOKs, ‘Thos again making our Stock Complete. WABBEN CHOATE & 00., (FEERNON ROW, sepld-im Corner Penna. ave. and 10th «treet, <I HOOL BOOKS AND SCHOOL SUF- ar . WM. BALLANTYSE's, 49" SEVENTH STBSET, NEAR BE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ‘The bs Qod most complete stock of Bohool Books in the District, and sold. at the A Parent Book Cover given gratis to al! a SCHOOL BOOKS, WRITING BOOKS, SLATES, PENS, SLATE PENCILS, FABERS’ LEAD PENCILS, DBAWING BOOKS, BLANK BOOKS, PASS BOOKS, MEMORANDUM HOOKS, POCKET BOOKS. DIABIE: NOTE, LETTER, and CaP PAPER, Wholesale and retail, at the very lowest prices, at SHILLINGTON’S BOOKSTORE, IDENT'< COLLEGE. CAPITOL BILL, D. 0. Firet Annual Seasion of the seveval schools composing th Fostitation will commence 2 MON 4 + Octobe ‘The Instita: ready torecelve pupils tn following sc! Imsaical School, Machemat} School of Modern Languages, Sciences. Belles Let ness, Fine Arts, School of Dosisn. ttres, Basi: . Maric, Preperate 'y Bobool, ahd Behool of Special ttion, Brecial instruction is designet for persons wish ing private tuition in any partic ular study bh al! the schools for those ¢ engaged in business or professionally during the day. Particulars d to the Design of the Insti tution, Course of terms, may be on M..M D., President, had by addressi SILAS L. Loom LONSVILLE TWITCHELL: becrotary e736 Im No, 13 $4 street northeast, Senor STansT, (Formerly of Weshington,) of Wa hington and will take o Usic. sepai-lw &. PECK'S SELECT SOHOOL FOB mnence fts Fourteontt keel henotos 19th. Please call after September stb.” sepia. HEODORE KAUFM 01 nica m may be ol ined ‘arther in- by calling at 407 on ‘sepl7-Lm MS VEBNON INSTITUTE, 1030 1 Stauer. FRENCH AND GLISH BOARDING AN Rewoo! ror Younc Lapis AND Lit?ix @ Mre. O8. ks » Principal; motselle V. PRUD Besident Teacher of Zs : J ATIONAL IVEBSITY. For forther inf jon callas above. sel2-Im™ Cape ee ab ba Gree, Cone ooo —The exervises of thi ¢ and Day School will be feramed SEPT mee Both, Isis. For terms and cirouiars, 9 inci, iss Ltoy sree! sept-tm" SON BE INCARNATION CHUKOH SCHOOL, for Ladies. a dren, pew WEDHESDAY, Beptember ei. "hort yee the Principal, Miss MCLEOD, 1119 M stroct, corner of 1ath, northwest. sepl-Im™ E’Sitzor Chassicae ann MATHE TOAL SOHOOL Fou BOTS. et FouRTEsgnt# Staset, Berwean I'axv K, ) (Frank aere. The Twenty-fourth Annual Session of this Scheol Mill begin on MONDAY, the Mth of September. ine teas Cc! of Be) ber. fone erie ay ; x ‘er. For informeron stor ime pe | aueZ-tf [Rep and Obron.} — EAS, FRENCH STITUTE for young ladies, 915 —- ee: uM a omy) Sai KSo8, 14th of Beptember, 157: = . ie anew ly L4* SCHOOL oF THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGETOW The next term of this Scheol will commence o PEDNESDAY October 7, 1374, wita the following ry: JUDGE GEORGE W. PASCHAL, The Law of Real Pri + Pleadine Bvidence, Criminal Law and the Scitnce af Government, of instruction embraces Lectures, Hect- tations, and examinations upon the several titles of law, ther with il jons ee lustrations of actual Court Application for information, efther in person or by letter, may De made to ihe Beeretary + who will be resent attbe Ooilt ge bell, Gonzage Law Building, 15 F street, Wasnivgton, duily, from 5t07 p.m, 84-101 B.'T. HANLEY, Sec, of the Facuity, "Ts MISSES OSBURNE’S YOUNG LADiIss’ BOABDING soc DAY BCHOUL, ig " greets Corer of uth. besins Bepteuiber 7th, Superior advantages, Northern Teachers, M erate term ‘sugi2-Sm TON FEMALE SEMINARY 1Os7 eat erat ree eas Moe, at % h street corthwest. Mrs, BUTCHER end Mies M. C. DOUGLAS, Princi augis-2m GO8ZAG4 COLLEGE, Hs, bet. North Capitol and lst sts northwest ‘This Iuttitniion fe conducted by the Fathers of tho Society of Jesus. ‘The course of studies is the Pra cn ¥ jer. w Feo} Y, the 7th of September a ie angls-tOct] AMES OLARK,8. J , Prost. Oo” Bo. the lowest prices, af ROBERTS’ BOOKSTORE, 1010 7th street, above New York avenue, sepd-Im FAMILY SUPPLIES. Lovers of good TEA and COF! att to hear that they can bey Se onicteatel r) 4 ya omnes celebrati “S. ¥. CLUB” TEAS AND COFFEES St Biands Bow, 145 and at Oonter Market, ine. and ataemall adv@uce on wi ods marked with the 148 and 149 Center Market, Rast Wig. every Gay- sepis- Open Li 1 apd pari hd dozen, 9380; RHINE WINE, ef; RANDY BaSPRERRY STRUF, FRUIT Jaks av WHOLSSALE PRICES, TEER “GEM” FRUIT JAB, Al wholesale prices. THE MASON IMPBOVED FRUIT san, Al woolesaie “MASONS PORCELAIN LINED TOP” JAR, At wholceale prices. THE “MELVILL” FRUIT JaB, AL wlolosale price “WHILALL’S” PATENT FRUIT Jan. 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This Institute bas been in operation for thirty- eight years. The number of puptls is limited. Its location is pre-eminently healthy, is central, and is eesily reachei by railroad from Baltimore and Wasbington citics. For Circulais sadress . B.A AROHER, MBS. aug?-miw fam Bilicott City PO. Maryiand. ‘HE COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, DC. The Sroparstory Department opens September §. The Columbian Ociiege opens September 16. The Medical College opens October §, The Law School opens October 14, For Catalogues, containing fall particulars in re- curd to tems Sigs O. WELLING. UL: De _3y8-cotoc} President, + he, OLDENTOWN (N.J.) FEMALE OOLLEGH. Thorough instraction, Healthful and boautifai ¢ of the most carefully -conducted and dest-sustained institutions tn the Btate. For term: sto Bev. JOHN H. BLAKELEY, Ph. Mies, Tampiver Wai strest, New York, reopens her French, Euglieh and Gor- arding and Dey School for Young Lusdies and Children, Bept. 17. 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