Evening Star Newspaper, April 29, 1882, Page 7

ke Wow amrnicay woes okt wirnerep AND ‘WKINKLED —DRCORATING GRATES—“DIGITATED , STOCKINGS” —soMz Goop RECTTI Smootu Sap Inons.—To have your sad irons Clean and smooth rub them first with a piece of ‘Wax tied In a cloth, a scour them thei on @ paper or strewa with Coarse sit. Morus ry Canrers.—Persons tronbled with Carpet moths may get rid of them by scrubbing the floor with strong hot salt and water before Jaying the carpet. and sprinkling the carpet With salt once a week before sweepin Crarrep Haxps.—Powdered starch is an ex- €ellent preventive of chapping of the hands, When it is rubbed over them after washing and Gryin;: them thoroughly. It will also prevent the needie in sewing from sticking and becom- ing rusty. It is therefore advisable to have a @mail box of it in the work box or basket, and Bear your wash basin, AmmnicsN WomMeN ANp ComPLextons.— ‘rican women can stand a good deal ofmen- tal and bodily exettion without showing wear ll after fifty, if they take seven to eight hours’ Sleep, dress warmly and liye in warm houses, eat three cood meals 2 day and live in the sun, Besides keaping the air of their rooms moist. It is the sunless, dry, stale air women live in three-fourths of their days which withers and Wrinkles them more than the rapidity of the pace they live at. Bewice vor Ixriawxy Feet.—Tke first thing to be done is to take off and throw away tight- Gitting boots, which hurt the tender feet as much as if they were put into a press. Then take one pint of wheat bran. and one ounce of saleratns, and put it into a foot-bath, and add om of hot water. When it has become ool enough, put in the feet. soak them for 15 minutes, and the relief will be almost imme- @iate. Reyfeat this every mht for a week, and the cure will be complete. The burning, Prickly sensation is caused by the pores of the akin being closed up so tightly by the pressure ‘Of the boots that they cannot perspire freely.— Country Gentleman. Is Tae Oren anp Gannisnep Graves left empty of wood or cozis by the spring house ¢leaninz, place large furling fans of gill paper, a Yard or more across, fur fire screens, instead of the Japanese parasol, which has become rather tiresome. There are some ferns that will grow ay e BONES, ‘The April Fool ef Harvey's Siuice. L Abe Durton's cabin was not beautiful. People have been heard to assert that it was even, after the fashion of Harvey's Si Abe, however, was a stolid sion. suited his partner with him, and what they want? There was only one man inside the “Bones,” as he had been christened rude heraldry of the camp. He was its glowing depths, and occasionally fair Saxon face, with its bold simple crisp yellow beard, stood out sharp played over it. It wasa manly, resol Culean shoulders and massive limbs. colossal yawa. blow! Don't it Blinky?” Blinky was gravely from one of the ratters. an operation whieh the force of the wi you got any supper?” “Waiting and by the ‘side of the fire. “Damp be hanged! ly saturated. length of profixing their adjective with cible explective which emphasized their going man, on whose mind the remarks of an Unappreciative public made but little impres- He had built the house himself, aud it that was the proprietor, Abe Durton himself, or front of the great wood fire, gazing mooilily into faxot.a kick of remonstrance when it showed any indication of dying into a smoulder. against the darkness as the flickering light tenance. and yet the physiognomist might have detected something in the lines of the mouth ‘h showed a weakness somewhere, an inde~ cision which contrasted strangely with his her- “The Boss is late to-night,” he muttered as he rose from his chair and stretched bimself in a “My stars, how it does rain and and meditative owl, whose comfort and welfare were a chronic subject of solicitude to its mas- ter, and who at present contemplated him Abe was still talking when the rough door was flung open and a blinding cloud of sleet and rain came driying into the cabin, almost obscur- ing for the moment a young man who sprang in and proceeded to bar the entrance behind him, he said, in a slightly peevish voice, ready,” said his com ily, pointing to a large pot which bubbled “You seem sort of I'm soaked, man—thor- It's a night that I wouldn't havea dog out, at least not a dog that I had “Why, it’s Abe Durton and his partner,” sald the driv coming forward and i tures of Mr. Joshua Sinclair, the assayer to the mines. “I don't know how to thank you, The infernal brute got the bit between his teeth, and I should have had to have thrown Carrie out and chanced it In another minute. That's right,” he con- tinued, as Morgan staggered to his teet. “Not much hurt, I hope.” “T can get up to the hut now,” said the young man, steadying himself upon his partner's shoulder. “How are you going to get Miss Sinclair home?” “Oh, we can walk,” said that young lady, shaking off the effects of her fright with all the elasticity of youth. “We can drive and take the road round the bank go as to avoid the ford,” said her father. the plunge; ¢0 with a premonitory Tom ho blnsted out: Set oe beans in the He could not see what effect this communica- tion had upon hiscompanton. He was too tall to be able to peer under the little straw bonnet. She we not answer. He hoperriatd again. “ Mutton on Sundays,” Even this failed to asthe. any enthusiasm. In fact, she seemed to be laughing. Boss was evi- dently wrong. The young man was in despair. The sight of aruined hut beside the pathway conjured up a fresh idea. He grasped atitas a drowning man to a straw. “Cockney Jack built that,” he remarked. “Lived there he died.” “ What did die of 2” asked his companion. “ Three-star brandy,” said Abe, decisively. “I used to come over of a night when he was bad and sit by him. Poor chap! he hada wife and two children in Putney. He'd rave and call me Polly, by the hour. He was cleaned out, hadn’t ared cent; but the boys collected rough gold enough to see him through. He's buried there in that shaft ; that was his claim, 80 we just ped him down it an’ filled it up. Put down his ae too, an’a ee an’ a bucket, so’s he'd feel ‘inder perky and at home. Miss ‘ie seemed more interested now. “Do they often die like that?” she asked. “Weill, brandy kills mans bot 's more get’s dropped—shot, you know.” “I don't mean that. Do many men die alone and miserable down there, with no one to care for them?” and she pointed to the cluster of houses beneath them. ‘‘Is there any one dying now? It is awful to think of.” “There’s none as I knows on likely to throw up their hand.” “T wish you wouldn't use 86 much slang, Mr. Durton,” said Carrie. ‘ You know it isn’t aa lite. You should get a dictionary and learn the proper words.” “Ah, that's it,” sald Bones, apologetically, “It’s gettin’ your hand on the proper one. When. you've not got asteam drill, you've got to put up with the pick.” “Yes, but it’s easy If you really try. You could oe that @ man was ‘dying,’ or ‘moribund,’ if you ike. “That's it,” sald the miner oe eee ** Moribund!’ That’s a word. Why, you could lay over Boss Morgan in the matter of words. ‘Moribund!’ There's some sound about that Carrie laughed. “It's not the sound you must think of, but whether it will express your meaning. Seriously, Mr. Durton, if any one should be fll in the camp you must let me know. I can nurse, and I might be of use. You will, woy't you?” “And now I must say good morning.” said Carrie, as they came to the spot where a crooked pathway branched off from the track and wound ugly, and luice, have and easy. more did hat, and with tne sitting in Miss Varrie said nothing, but she managed to shoot a little demure glance of gratitude from under her long lashes, to have won which hon- est Abe felt that he would have cheerfully un- dertaken to step a runaway locomotive. There was a cheery shout of * Good night,” a crack of the whip, and the buggy rattled away in the darkness, “You told me the men were rough and nasty, Da,” said Miss Carrie Sinclair, aftera long silence, hen the two dark shadows had died away in the distance, and the was speeding gs by the turbulent stream. “I don't think 60. think they are very nice.” And Carrie was unusually quiet for the remainder of her journey, and seemed more reconciled to the hardship of leaving her dear friend Amelia in the far-off boarding school at Melbourne. That did not prevent her from writing a full, toe ned Lrchyen account of their here ad- venture to the same oung.Jady upon t! very night. _ “‘They stopped the horse, darling, and one poor fellow was hurt. And oh, Amy, if you had seen the other one in a red shirt, witha pistol at his waist! I couldn’t help thinking of you, dear. He was just your idea. You remember, 8 yellow moustache and great blue eyes. And how he did stare at poor me! You never see such men in Burke street, Am: and so on, for four pages of pretty feminine gossip. In the mean time poor Boss, badly shaken, had been helped up the hili by his partner and Tegained the shelter of the shanty. Abe doc- tored him out of the rude pharmacoyeia of the camp, and bandaged up his strained arm, Tl. A casual visitor would have noticed a remark- able change in the conversation of this commu- giving a His eyes and and clear lute coun- a demure ‘ind rend- ion was saying as Abe's gone other. him much you think. a it him “Well, what'then?” said McCoy. “Well, pretend the note is from her, d’ye She don’t fancy ‘we write hima know.” see? Put her name at the bottom. Let on she wants him to come an’ meet ner tn the twelve. He's bound to go. He'll think at she wants to go off with him. It’ be the biggest thing played this year.” There “Write It yourself, Jim,” said Shamus. “Well, what shall I say?” “Say what you think right.” “I don’t kno’ scratching his head in great perplexity. ever, Bones will never How will this do? garden molsteni: the point of it in the moon aie in the sky— me, Adophus, by the garden- “That's how the poetry comes in,” said iz." sald the miner, mouth. “‘When “There it is. That's bully,” from the com- PecAnd the stars a-shinin’ bright, meet, O meet ‘at twelve.” “His name ain't Adolphus,” objected a critic. ww how she'd put it,” said Jim, “How- ww the difference. ‘Dear old man. Cume to the twelve to-night, else I'll never speak i i ast fi a be ef his shattered However, they had no intention of going A few minutes must elapse, they knew, Harvey's sluice could be upon them. There was still time to force the door if oe succeed i the defenders. ‘hat Abe had pass. Black Ferguson knew the ground as well as he did. He ran rapi yous the hedge, and the five crashed thi it where there was some ap} ce of a gap. The two ‘These Pills are a special preparation, only for theoure of special diseases, as named, and for these discames they are worthy of atrial by all intelligent sufferers. ‘They cure Rick Headache, Nervous Headache, Dyapep- tie Headache, Nery ouspess, Paralysis, the miner. “It’s kinder fanciful, d’ye see. Sounds ‘darned sight better than Abe. Trust him for she means. I'll sign it Carrie. This eplstie was gravely passed round the room from hand to hand, a Ab boreem gazed u n as being a remarkable pr: faction of the howan brain. It was then folded up and committed to the care of a small boy, who was solemnly charged, under dire threats, to deliver itat the shanty, and to make off before awk only after that some light compunction visited one or of the company. juestions were asked him. It said shamus. another. “Ain't it playing it rather low on the girl?” ‘And rough on old Bones?” suggested oy was e had disappeared inthe darkness two However, these objections were overruled by the majority, and disappeared entirely upon the appearance of a second joram of whisky. The matter Mad almost been forgotten by the time that Abe had received his note, and was spelling it out witha palpitating heart under the light of his solitary candle. Bleepleamnces and Sold by all druggists. Price, S0.centaabor. Depot, 106 North Eutaw street, Baltimore, Md. By mail, two had found something even more the Joke which they had come to witness. The saw the faces of friends beside them— les, McCoy. There was a des- perate rally, ing fiery rush. a cloud of smoke, with pistol- ‘and fierce oaths ring- Ing out of it, and when it lifted single dark shadow flying for dear life to the shelter of the broken hedge was the only ranger upon his feet within the little. garden. But there was no sound of triumph among the victors; a strange hush had come over them, and a murmur as of gtief—for there, lying across the threshold which he had fought so gallantly to defend, lay poor Abe, the loyal and simple-hearted, breathing heavily with a bullet through his lungs. He was carried inside with all the rough ten- derness of the mines. There were men there, I think, who would have borne his hurt to have had the love of that white girlish figure, which bent over the blood-stained bed and whispered 80 softly and so vs hisear. Her voice seemed to rouse him. le opened his dreamy blue eyes and looked about him. They rested on her face. “Played out,” he murmured; “pardon, Car- rile, morib—' d with a faint smile he sank back upon the pillow. However, Abe failed for once to be as as his word. His hardy constitution asserted itself, and he shook off what might in a weaker anus, AND PIMPLES ON ALL PARTS OF THE BODY, boxes for $1, of #ix boxes for $2.50 to any address, De. Benson's New Ruwepr axp Favorrre Pas- SCRIPTION. DE. C. W. BENSON'S SKIN CURE 1S WARRANTED TO CURR ECZEMA, TETTERS, HUMORS, INFLAMMATION, MILK CRUST, ALL ROUGH SCALY ERUP- TIONS, DISEASES OF HAIR AND SCALP, SOKOFULA ULCERS, TENDER ITCHINGS, Itmakes the skin white, soft and smooth; 3 Temoves tan and freckles, and is the BEST TOILET DRESSING IN THE WORLD. 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She | down from the distant mountains, moaning and | the sick man’s room, or whether it wasthe little] Sgss885 ft ‘0O| MMM A A COO H pov lnarop uocieet tem aria Pare ale ye dum cimes of cae ‘first | the sides or the valley, there was a warning | had spoken kindly to him. But then she hed | Sizhing among the deserted claims, A creat | treat who tended him so gently. certain it = Ber window curtains. Pew be. matting | tea than would be supposed. He was a | Murmur, and a general clearing off of the cloud ; Sent him away betore there was any necessity ; | loneliness seemed to rest on the face of nature. | that within two months we heard that he. b: Comes for the center of the floor or to make a | &T Poscbins ga era Conca. and a/ of blasphemy, which was, I regret to state, an | She couldn’t care much about him if she would | Men remarked afterward on the strange eerie at- | realized his shares in the Conemara and gone ae ued eee Sool dado round the wall. Some new wall pa- crate siac bon yanieenie Boss should, | habitual characteristic ofthe workine popula- | do that. I think he might have felt alittle more | Mosphere which hung over the little town. from Harvey's Sluice and the little shanty upon BP, TT SOT Eee BRP Qttty Pers imitate the matting colors and texture to | graduate of an Cane Ce ee ee An ae Horeee ci e cheerful, however, had he seen Miss Carrie Sin- | It was in the darknesg that Abe Durton sal- | the hill forever. ¢| BRO TT oT FR kre Perfection. They give a cool effect to the erzetic curate, or struzsling professional man, | Abe had formerly been considered one of the | clair as she watched his retiring fisure free too | Hed out. from his little(™shanty. His partner. | I had the anvantage a short time afterward of Bed f £ ELEE z eas a : had not some latent traits cropped. out. in his | Most experienced valuators of an ore in the act, | garden grate with a loving look upon her saucy | Boss Morgan, was still absent in the bush, so | seeing an extract from the letter of a young 3 ‘eIsONOUS PLANTS.—In gardens poisonous e plants are declared by the Gardeners’ Magazine to be few in number, and of no great value for Gecorative purposes. A very large proportion Of the flowers that are in highest repute for beauty; such as the rose, dahlia, pelargonium. nia, wallflower, stock, carnation, and ula. are aitexether harmless, although for most part of no value whatever as articies Offeod. But as there are so many decorative Plants that will not injure. even if eaten, it is easy to excinde from garden acertain few 5 haye sometimes been associated with sad fatalit The rooting out of the ereat blue aconit« or monkshood. the root of whieh contains a viruient poison, and has yet Deen many times served on the table as horse- fadish, is therefore recommended. A Cuxar PLant Staxp.—We made a very ef- fective plant stand for our front yard last sum- mer in the following manner: A ceaar stake, two or three inches in diameter, was driven {nto the ground so as te stand firmly and of the Required height, a small pisce of board nailed ‘@cross the top, and another piece, a little larger, Railed over this, so as to make a substantial base. and a cheese box nailed to this. Then we Gilled the box half full by putting in a couple of inches of sand, and sphznum over it. The whole was then covered with the pendent lichen whieh grows on our swamp cedars, so as effectu- ally to conceal the materiais used in its construe- Gon, and the box filled with plants in pots, tall @nes in the center and smalier ones around them; With trailing plants to hang over the sides. It Was shaded by trees during the hotter portions ef the day, and such plants as gleechoma, alys- sum, ivy, Othonna crassifolia, etc., succeeded Ginaily by merely pressinz a handful of sphagnum around the base of cuttings and pressing them Into the spaces between the pots.— Gardener's Monthly. Morgan, who had founded the family w ish pieces of eizht gallantly won upon seas. It was this wild strain of blood, window of the ivy-clad English parsot tuck fields. Ins manners, the i sradually leamed that the little olution where pluck was looked upon as the Was that Bones and he had become most superstitious reverence upon the cisive mind of Lis companion. “That's better,” sai into the vacant chair before the fire and watched Come Abe laying out the two metal plates. here and sit down.” 2 His gigantic partner came meekly “What's up, he asked?” what's up. Look coat. in the Conemara mine. in that concern, my boy. We mi and clear something—but I think we'll spelling out the article in question, the lines with his great forefinger, ing under his tawny moustac! “Any news from Buckhurst?” asked the pot. character, inherited possibly from old Sir Henry which had caused him to drop from the bedroom leave home and friends behind him, to try his with pick and shovel in the’ Australian pite of his effeminate face and dainty ‘oush dwellers in Harvey’s Sluice possessed of a cool courage and unflinching res- ! which won respect in a community human attributes. Noone ever knew how it yet partnersthey were, and the large simple nature of the stronger man looked with an al- the Boss, as he dropped 4 himeelf upon the top of a barrel. ‘shares are up,” said hiscompanion. “That's here,” and he extracted a crumpled paper from the pocket of the steaming “Here's the Buekhurst Sentinel. Read this article—this one here about a paying lead We hold pretty heavily ight sell out Abe Durton in the meantime was laboriously and mutter- ing and proceeding to extract their supper from ‘Nothing much,” said his companion. “Cock- eyed Joe has been shot by Billy Reid tn McFar- face, and a mischievous smile at his bent head tlement. It had be y that lement. Tt had been commonly supposed that Se nee eras at he was able to estimate the amount of gold ina fragment of quartz with remarkable exactn This, however, was evidently a mistake, othe wise he would never have incurred the ‘useless expense of having so many worthless specimens assayed ashe now did. Mr. Joshna Sinclair found himself inundated with such a flood of fragments of mica, and lumps of rock containing decimal percentages of the precious metals, that he began to form a very low opinion of the young man’s mining capabilities. It is certain that what with prof ness Inthe morning and social ‘sat night the tail figure of the miner was a familiar object in the little drawing-room of Azalea villa, as the new house of the assayer had been magnilo- quently named. There was one cloud on Bones’ horizon, and that was the es appearance of Black Tom Ferguson, of Rochdale ferry. This clever young scamp-had managed to ingratiate himself with old Joshua, and was a constant visitor at the villa. There were evil rumors abroad about Black ‘fom. He was known to be a gambler, and shrewdly suspected to be worse. Harvey's Sluice was not censorions, and yet with Span- the high = no doubt, Iv. The Colonial Bar was the favorite haunt of the inhabitants of Harvey’s Sluice in their hours of relaxation. There had been a fierce competition between it and the rival establishment termed the Grocery, which, in spite of its innocent ap- pellation, aspired aiso to dispense spiritugus re- freshments. The importation of chairs irito the latter had led to the appearance of a settee in the former. Spittoons appeared in the Grocery against a picture in the Bar, and, as the fre- quenters expressed it, the honors were even. When, however, the Grocery led a window-cur- tain, and its opponent returned a snug ry and a mirror, the game was declared to be in favor of the latter, and Harvey’s Sluice showed its sense of the spirit of the proprietor by withdraw- ing their custom trom his opponent. Though every man was at liberty to swagger into the bar itself, and bask in the shimmer of its many colored bottles, there was a general feeling that the snuggery, or special apartment, ri | Should be reserved for the use of the more prom- there was a general feeling that Ferguson was a | jnent citizens. On this particular evening there man to be avoided. Miss Carrie seemed to hail | was an assemblage of notabilities in the snug- his appearance as a relief, and chattered away | yery. The rangers were the present subject of for hours about books and music and the gaye- | discussion. For some few days rumors of their ties of Melbourne. It was on these occasions | presence had been flying about, and an uneasy that poor simple Bones would sink into the ve 'Y | feeling had pervaded the colony. lowest depths of despondency, and either slink A fresh impetus had been given to the panic away or sit glaring at his rival with an earnest | by the report brought in today ty Jin Strag- malignancy which seemed to cause that gentle- | gles, Jin was of an ambitious and aspiring man ho small amusement. turn of mind, and after gazing ‘in silent disgust The miner made no secret to his partner of | at his last week’s clean up, he had metaphori- the admiration which he entertained for Miss | cally shaken the clay of Harvey's Sluice from his Sinclair. feet, and had started off into the woods with the “That loafer from Rochdale,” he sald, “he | intention of prospecting round until he could seems to reel it off kinder nat'ral, while for the | hit upon some likely piece of ground for himself. life of me I can’t saya word. ‘Tell me, Boss, | Jim's story was that he was sitting upon a fallen what would you say to a girl like that?” » | trunk eating his mid-day damper and rusty ba- “Why, talk about what would interest her,” | con, when his trained ear had caught the clink nage, and man was highest of partners ; clear de- over and i hold on.” following Abe, ris- that, beyond the ever-watctful Blinky, there was no living being to observe his movements. A feeling of mild surprise filled his simple soul that his angel’s delicate fingers could have formed those great straggling hieroglyp! however, there was the name at the foot, that was enough for him. matter for what, and with a heart as pure hics; and She wanted him, no and as heroic as any knight-errant, this rough miner went forth at the summons of his love. He groped his way up the steep winding track which led to Azalea Villa. The miner paused under the shade of the trees, and then moyed on to the garden-gate. There was no there. He was evidently rather early. moon was shining brightly now, and the cou one The intry round was as clear as day. Abe looked past the little villa at the road which ran like a white winding streak over the brow of the hill. A watcher behind could have seen his equare. athletic figure standing out sharp and olear. Then he gave a start as if he had been shot. and staggered up against the little gate beside him. He had seen something which caused even his sunburned face to become a shade paler as he thought of the girl near him. Just at the bend of the road, not two hundred yards away saw a dark moving mass coming roun curve, and lost in the shadow of the hill. It » he the was but for a moment; yet in that moment the quick perception of the practised woodman had real- ized the whole situation. It was a band of horsemen bound for the villa; and what horse- men would ride so by night save the terrorofthe woodlands—the dread rangers of the bush? lady named Amelia, to whom we have made casual allusion in the course of our narrative. We have already broken the privacy of one femi- nine epistle, so we shall have fewer scruples In glancing at another. “I was bridemaid,” she remarks, “and Carrie looked charming” (under- lined) “‘in the veil and orange blossoms. Such @ man, he is—twice as big as your Jack, and he was so funny, and blushed, and dropped the prayer-book. And when they asked the ques- tion you could have heard him roar ‘I do!” at the other end of George street. His best man was a darling” (twice underlined.) “So quiet and handsome and nice. Too gentle to take care of himself among those rough men, I am sure.” I think it quite possible that in the fullness of time Miss Amelia managed to ees herself Morgan, the care of our old friend Mr. J 5 commonly known as the Boss.—London Society. REMEMBER! ALWAYS ASK FOR FREDERICK BROWN'S GINGER, December 24, A. D.. Jncorporated in 1868 for twenty-five years by the lature for Educational and Charitable pape ‘which a reserve For a quarter of a century or more HOSTETTER'® STOMACH BITTERS has been the apecifia for Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Fover and Ague, a Loss 0 Physical Stamina, Liver Complaint and other disorders, and has been most emphatically indorsed by medical men ass health and strength restorative. It counters actaa tendency to premature decay, and sustains and comforts the aged and infirm. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally, apl LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY. PARTICULAR NOTICE. AM the will hereafter be under the df contra! of Generals G. T- BEAU! ASPLENDID OPPO! . RTUNI ‘TO WIN A FORTUNE. GRAND DISTRIBUTION, cee Tee See = id4tu MONTHLY DRAWING. LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY, ital ., 000, 000—to. 200 nas sijee been added. bl, 2 crerebelming porier vote the franchire S.DuE Of the premout Stats Constitution adopted It is true that on ordinary occasions Abe was as sluggish in his intellect as he was heavy in his movements. In the hour of danger, how- ever, he was as remarkable for cool deliberation as for prompt and decisive action. As he ad- vanced up the garden he rapidly reckoned up the chances against him. There were half a dozen of the assailants at the most moderate THE GENUINE—PHILADELPHIA. eg °5t RECEIVED av THE ITS GRAND SINGLE NUMBER DRAWINGS WILL ‘AKE PLACE MONTHLY. IT NEVER SCALES OR POSTPONES Look at the following distribution: “Diciratep Stockives” are DiscvsseD IN ENetaxp.—They occupy a conspicuous place in “the clothes of the future,” and the innovation hhas been cordially welcomed in many quarters. 4 medical contemporary thus gravely pro- Bounces in their favor. “They would be more omfortable, more healthy—giving better play to the foot and securing increased breadth and space for expansion across the base of the toes.” All this is very well. but the universal Bndigitated stocking need not fear its rival. It has long since driven out of the field the an- client stocking with a stall for tne big toe; and Ma two-toed stocking could not hold its own, what chance Is there that a five-toed innovation ‘will make much way? The toes are already eramped in the modern boot. and they would Be squeezed still tichter if digitation Is to pre- vail, for there is no hope that fashion will pre- scribe broad-toed boots merely to make room for the stocking of the future. Besides, busy People perhaps find life short enough already ‘without adding to the demands upon their time that of inserting each toe in a separate stall.— Phila. Les laue’s store.” “Ah,” said Abe, with listless interest. “Bushrangers have been around and stuck up the Rochdale station. They say they are coming over here.” The miner whistled as he poured some whiskey into a jug. ‘Anything more?” he asked. “Nothing of importance, except that the blacks have been showing a bit down New Ster- ling way, and that the assayer has bought a piano, and is going to have his daughter out from Melbourne to live in the new house Oppo- site on the other side of the road. So yon see we are going to have something to look at, my boy.” he added, as he sat down, and began at- tacking the food set before him. ' “They say she is a beauty, Bones.” His partner suddenly dropped his knife and seemed to listen. Amid the wild uproar of the wind and the rain there was alow rambling sound which was evidently not dependent upon the elements. “What's that?” “Darned if I know.” computation, all desperate and fearless men, MISFIT STORE, The question was whether he could coer them CORNER TENTH AND F STREETS, . at bay for a short time and prevent their forcing | A mice line of Fine Black aa ane Albert style; @ passage into the house. We have already ¥ in addition to ens mentioned that sentinels had been placed in the Buits for $5, worth $10, at the RE. main street of the town. Abe reckoned that} giits torgg, worth $18, at the MJSFIT STO! help would be at hand within ten minutes of the MISFIT STOKE. firing of the first shot. Suits for $9, worth $17, at the MISFIT STORE. Were he inside the house, he could confident- Suits for $10, worth $19, at the iy reckon on holding his own for a longer period 2 ) ot the ISFIT STORE, than that. Before he could rouse the sleepers Buits for $12, worth $22, at Lg STORE. and gain admission, however, the rangers would Suite for $15, worth $29, at the be upon him. He must content himself with ‘MISFIT STORE. doing his utmost. At any rate he would show Suite for $18, worth $35, we SS STORE, ous ae ee talk to her he could Suits for $20, worth $39, at the al ie for her. ‘MISFIT STORE The road along which the rangers were com- Suits for $18, fine Broadcloth, worth ped ing ended ata wooden gate opening into the Suits for $22, worth $50, Wyle upper part of the assayer’s little garden. This gate had a high acacia hi on either side of MISFIT STORE, edge Splendid Pants for $2, worth $4, at the it, and opened into. short walk also lined by SSisrit sore, impassable thorny walls. Abe knew the place Elegant Pants for $2.60, vot ai well. One resolute man might, he thought, FIT STORE. Fine Pants for $3.50, worth $5, xt the hold the passage fora few minutes until the Custom-made Pants for $4, worth #10, sf toe assailants broke through elsewhere and took i MIST STO! said his companion. of horses’ hoofs. He had hardly time to take the “Ah, that’s where it lies. precaution of rolling off the tree and crouchi: “Talk about the customs of the place and the down behind it, before a troop of men came rid- country,” said the Boss, pulling meditatively at | ing down through the bush, and passed within his pipe. “Tell her stories of what you have a stone-thow of him. seen in the mines, and that sort of thing.” “There was Bill Smeaton and Murphy Duff,” “Eh? You'd do that. would you ?” responded said Straggles, naming two notorious ruffians; his comrade more hopefully. “If that’s the|*‘and there was three more that I couldn't hang of it, Tam right. I'll go up now and tell | rightly see. And they took the trail to the right. her about Chicago Bill, an" how he put them | and looked like business all over, with their two bullets in the man from the bend the night guns in their hands.” of the dance.” Jim was submitted to a searching cross-exam- Boss Morgan laughed. »q | ination that evening; but nothing could shake “That's hardly the thing, he sald. ‘You'd | his testimony or throw a further light upon frighten her if you told her that. Te® her some- what he had seen. thing lighter, you know; somethingto amuse| There were a few, however, who were loudly her, something funn; sceptical as to the existence of the rangers, and “Funny?” said the anxious lover, with less | the most prominent of these wasa young man confidence in his yoice. “How you and me | who was perched on a barrel in the center of the made Mat Houlahan drunk and put him in the | room, and was evidently one of the leading pulpit of the Baptist church, and he wouldn't | spirits in the community. We have already seen jet the Preacher in in the morning. How would | that dark curling hair, lack-lustre eye, and thin that do, eh?” : cruel lip, in the person of Black Tom Ferguson, “For heaven's sake don't say anything of the | the rejected suitor of Miss Sinclair. sort,” said his mentor, in great consternation. te ESESEapZS i NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. .B.—Orders to New Orleans will receive X.B. addreased The, particular attention of (he. public th caled te drawing are sold ond srawnans vous Oe a “It's always the same,” he said; “if a man} him he rear. At an} e. it was his best Custom-made Panta, $6, worth $12, at the tJ Hi HO OT 5 at earnest made, for the door and peered | “She'd neverspeak to either of us again. No, | meota a few travelers in the bush, he's bound to | 2%, 12° Hie passed the front door, but: forbere Fine Spring Overcoats, $9, worth $15, af the $0 HH 8 8Hhoo Karrine Eocs Fresu.—“All it 1s necessary | Out earnestly into the darkness. Far away, | What I mean is that you should tell about tho | come back raving about rangers. “If they'd seen | to give any alarm. Sinclair was an elderly man, seated * WMISFIT STORE, God H Ht ‘boo Ht od Kum to do to keep eggs through summer Is t along the Buckhurst road they could see a mov- | habits of the mines, how men live and work and | Stragyles there, they would hae gone off with | and would be of little assistance in such ades-| Fine Spring Overcosts, $10, worth £20, af the wall nee rough summer is to pro-| ing light, and the dull sound was londer thaa | die there. Irshe is a sensible girl that ought to | a long yarn about a ranger crouching behind a perate struggle as was before him, and the ap- Spring Overcosts for $12 eo g2t ee 900. & ppp. Seo aaah. een wooden or ti, vessels, Roiding | before. interest her. tree. As to recognizing people riding fast | pearance of lights In the house would warn the | Fie Spring MiseiT 8: oO E B® from ten to twenty gallons, and a barrel. more| “It's a buggy coming down,” said Abe. “How they live at the mines? Pard, you are | among tree trunke—it 1s an impossibility.” rangers of the resistance awaiting them. 0 for Odd Vests, all colors, 75c., worth $1.50, at the $3E .BB eriess, of common, fine-ground land plaster.| “Where ts it going to?” good tome, How they live? There's'a thing I| Something seemed to be on his mind, too, for | his partner, the Boss, for Chicago Bill, for any 000 Eni Bow Begin by putting on the bottom of the yessel| “Don't know. Across the ford, I s'pose.” can talk of as glib as Black Tom or any man. | occasionally he would spring off his-perch and | one of twenty gallant men who would have it nace iacics or cine : kre “Why, man, the ford will be six feet deep to- | I'll try it on her when I see her pace up and down the room with an abstracted | come at his call and stood by him in such a wowHaAn K Tt EEE auna mee un the Leon pat = then, having | night, and running like a mill-stream.” “By the way,” said his partner, listlessly, | and very forbidding look upon his swarthy face. | quarrel!’ He.turned into the narrow pathway. ccs becectieae ie EIT STORE. Swe E BA ss E Xf EER .800y mall end doe, chee mbroken, set them! “The light was nearer now, coming rapidly | “Just keep an eyeon that man Ferguson. Watch | It was a relief to every one when suddenlycatch. here was the well-remembered wooden gate, | corte sae tet ene ae a bing low prise | Www Be Ssssg KK I ER up, small end down, e to each other, but = s : hat hi “ss 4 : Sapo of Www Ww HL KK TE 4 vding, and make the frst ls hen | TOUnd the curve of the road. ‘There was a wild | What he Joes. ing up his hat, and wishing the company a curt | ang there, perched upon the gate, languidl: Xo ‘misrepresented. W Ww BEE Sgss8 K “K Il EER Bad more platen and cayaue Stet laser. | Then | sound of galloping with the rattle of the wheels, | “I will; "Said his companion. Good night,” he walked off through the bar, | swinging his legs backward and forward, an = siaypctohononlictad stand upright. and set tn the wot tance “dpe ie ee watched Mie eet ratclied him that very night— | and into the street beyond. peering down the road in front of him, was Mr. MISFIT STORE, PURE AND UNADULTERATED. ae = “Bad job for the man inside.” ratches im st ie out of é house ot 1e as- “4 ” ‘om. d CORNER TENTH AND F STREETS, lager ot ease, rite enntster: followed by a] «Irie don't pull ‘em up before they reach the | sayer with anger and bated one ea arte oer | Seems kinder put out,” remarked Long Me- jean engine Gon Cee aoE ae Ae eee Oto meee 222__| | ‘Tho peculiar medicinal qualities of Whiskies istilied hae of a fens eee with, a = Ean <) | ford, he’s agoner,” remarked Abe Darton re- | ture of his handsome swarthy face; watched him 3 “4 er wi Master. Eggs ‘oy. “He can’t be afeard of the rangers, surely,” said Joe Shamus, another mau of con: uence, and principal shareholder of the El Dorado. “No, he’s not the man to be afraid,” answered another. “There's something queer about him the last day or two. He's been long trips in siznedly. Suddenly there came a lull in the sullen splash of the rain. It was but fora moment, but in that moment there came down on the breeze a long ery which caused the two men to start and stare at each other. and then to rush frantically from the finest growth of rye in the renowned Valley of the Monongahela, have attracted the attention of the ‘Medical Faculty in the United States to such a degreeas toplace itin very high position among the Materia Medica. ‘We beg to invite the attention of connolssourste our There was short time for explanations. A few hurried words announced that the Boss, return- ing from his little tour, had come across the rangers riding on their mission of darkness, and, overhearing their destination, had managed by hard running and knowledge of the country to clear the garden paling at a bound, pass in long rapid strides down the side of the valley, gestic- ulating wildly with bis hands, and yanish into the bushland beyond. All this Abe Durton watched, and with a thoughtful look upon his face he relit his pipe and strolled slowly back- ed and subjected to a temperature of at 8 degrees, if not 90 degrees. during August and September, came out fre and if one could be certain of net having a tempera- n 75 dezrees to contend with, I ‘gm confident exzs could be kept by these means MADAME WASHINGTON, No, 1211 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. the woods without any tools. ‘They do say that | arrive before th ‘No time to alarm Soocn beaks SW COMER eeaceoe oe aoe ae e woods without any tool ey do say ive fore them. “No known CASES containing one ali the year round. Observe that the es must | 2082 the steep incline toward the road below. | ward to the but upon the hill. the assayer’s daughter has chucked him over.” one,” he explained, still panting from his exer- <a rec gray be fresh laid, the yolks uubroken, the packin. “A woman, by heaven!” gasped Abe, as he “Quite right, too. A darned sight too good | tions; “must stop them ourselves—not come for UNRIVALED done in small vessels, and with clean” fine | SPT&MS across the gaping shaft of a mine in the Ill. for him,” remarked several voices. swag, come for your girl. Only over our bod- UPPER TEN WHISKEY. id land plaster, and care must be ‘taken | T¢klessness of his haste. March was drawing to a close in Harvey’s| | ‘It’s odds but he has another try.” said | ies, Bones,” and with these few broken words : Ro egg 0 presses on another as to break | _ Morgan was the lighter and more active man. Sluice, and the glare and heat of the antipo-| Shamus. ‘He’sa hard man to beat when he’s | the strangely assorted friends shook hands, and — ‘VERY SUPERIOR the shell.” He drew away rapidly from his stalwart com-jdean summer had toned down into the rich | set his mind on a thing.” panion. Within a minute he was standi: it- | mellow hues of autumn. Carcxes SaLap.—Boil 2 young tender chicken nd when cold separate the meat from the bones; at it into little square blocks or dice: do not about three-quarter inch lengths, saving the @utaide green stalks for soup; mix the chicken and celery together: and then stir well into specail of cinsnar rropertion of three table- spoonfuls of vinegar to one tablespoonful of oil with . Salt and a little mustard cause Put aside for an hour or two, or until just before serving; this is called marinating the chicken; it will absorb the vinegar. When about to serve, mix the celery and chicken with muddy road, while his partner down the side of the declivity. The was close on him now. as. terrified A horse by its own clatter. se it came tearing driving seemed to see the pale way in front of him, for he coherent words of warnit attem) an oath, and a down, saw a wild infuriated E horse figure ing and bare-headed in the middle of the soft was still toiling see in the light of the lamps .the raw-boned ligt ips. iW down clivity which led to the ford. The man i 2 “Abe Durton’s thie homie to win,” remarked Houlahan, a little bearded Irishman. “It’s sivin to four I'd be willin’ to lay on him.” “And you'd be afther losing your money, a-vich,” said a young man with a laugh. “She'll On that Apcee morning the stream looked 'y as it meandered down the valley; pretty, ‘00, was the long rising upland behind, He could | luxuriant green covering; and ‘tlest of all was Miss Carrie Sinclair, as she want more ever Bones had in his basket of ferns which skull. you bet.” ‘ho’s seen Bones to-day?" asked McCoy. “T've seen him,” said “He camp asking fora dictionary—wanted to write a letter likely.” “I saw him readin’ it,” said Shamus. “He came over to me an’ told me he'd struck some- Shing ane at the firstshow. Showed me a word storm and the iF who é i it E looked lovingly into each other's eyes, while the tramp of the horses came down to fragrant breeze of the woods. There were six rangers in peared to be leader, -others followed In a on the DRESSES MADE AND MATERIAL FURNISHED AT LESS THAN NEW YORK PRICES. ELEGANT GOODS NOW IN STOCK. ‘Ladies should call atonce and leave their orders be- fore the assortment of elegant fabrics is broken. OLD STOCK WHISKEY. For excellence, pureness and evenness ef quality, the H. & H. W. CATHERWOOD, mu - im th ith a elim dark hanging on to ce ee as Tee ieee <n cheese ASHIXGTON. ors ‘eupboard." ey in the air wi a ing on “ See eee MATE © postion of W6'| is teiaie. ‘Eom with akan pre “Gea rich man he snow, Lquppose,” sald the = . Gr leaves of celery with which to garnish, the | HOU which had made him the finest or Irishman. ANIEL G. HATCH & COMPANY, = dish. Stick a little bouquet of these tope ia the | Buzby in his day, had caught the rein immedi. “Well, he’s about made his pile. He holds a D = ! - enter of the salad. then a row around ft. Frog, | ately below the bit, and elung to It w hundred feet of the Con ‘and the shases | vow that he at least ahould never reach the door ABTISTIC HOUSE FURKIBHERS cen ites eens She conter to each of the four sides sprinkle | Concentration, Rie eaced (= ES to the gate and’ put his ae oF hurled itself into somebody home | hand bein, He tartal a sees DECORATORS, KILT suITS “ came thundering out from among Ss the chicken as in love, the miner was a tender leaves (uncut) ioment before servil a g E ze gb? ! i i HH SEE fi | and des- t i