Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 11, 1892, Page 21

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R()Cl\ll,S m_ilm from Ouray for my ore, coming up fora sucker”—I looked him over nd I i the vegetables and a squash—that 1 Tmade to my mine, not three foot wide | guess you at 45c each vipped open the bag. A vound, warty-look- : scemed to weigh a ton before Iwas four | on a nail Ho? Oh, 1 vy Togatls, 'Ho andi 'L [ ing. thing: 11k, & small oo ud Just eut out of the rock and ground. 203sibly avelessly. He drawed | miles on my way. I filled my pockets with Where are you going?” I says were orphans distantly , i B ated to Sir John ! protty mear as hard, rolled Pattence Stapleton in Romaner, hem, and the man with ‘em, wa ¢ | out o cigar & He set back | papers and books, and a bottie of brandy and ‘0 look for him’ bster of—well somewhere. John (Ivas . grayish color sposken it - Up in the Rocky mountains, in Colorado, | cheerful tc s of silen i 1 then, ug coolly. his hat sider him and :co. As I fixed my snowshovs, thestore- | “Why? What's he tus up. vas a vich orphan. T | raising, und s viclous-uppoaring. & 9,000 feet above sea level, T struck a vein of | ters? No.d never had a soul to write tom Jittle vings of b wling ‘round his | keeper came out “My ‘worst enemy ! oor one, and Sir John had a daugh- | compound us 1 ever sce. *The plam pud- good mineral and surveyed a claim. 1 built | Bt newspapers-a weok or a month old it | forehead. T ehiewed my eigar awhile o gt | “Queer thing, B hosays; “boutan | «Pard, youre a fool. If me. an old mount'i- | to S BSESR SRR a1y foriold and.” sings Tngalls, and e log cabini, and there, miles from || L natter v was comfort, and me, Tl ; ore you got buck from the saloon an { neer, hed'a hard flght for life half lour W'lated there was o young woman in | then we yod with Jnughter: Bubistha me a log sand t . setting up in that cabin, forgot by all human 3usted? T asks. what will it be for you? and the storm gy human_ habitation, T lived alone. ? turkey, ronsted in an oven sider t o, through them papers feel | “In the vernacular of the country, just se. The feller’s dead now. anyhow. ; She was a_sister to both of | s gaod and L veetables spiondid, mel elow me, like a thread, was Otto M s art of the great world, that,” he laughs. 1l +* he. : s s id sty e hie went back—sure e did, and you vhel we were yo s, but when wo | the young fellers was. the best compuny T toll-rond from Silverton to Oura September T got the blues so bad that | Rich folks, mebbe? up enough, wouldn't listen to no . | don’t budge a step.” ¢ grown, 1 fel with herand 5o | ever see, and you kin bet the dows didn't. e Thint cost £40.000 & mile, T clear weather, T | T quit work one day and went down to the | . “Haven't a' ‘soul to care whether T | Thought mebbo our mount’in _tr s 0 “You are sure he did not go back.” he says | did Larry, who always did as [did. We had gry,Ho s Lady Moud's pap, and a5 10 so0 the stages whirl along this, or, like | toll road. timing my trip so as to see tho di He looked linder far ard wnere ho could find ho: quictly, lighting the lantern. “Let go, 1 a bitter quarrel, e and T, und 1 told him | had brought him clear from England. Thag pould sco Lhe stages whirl 410§ Lh1s, ory IKC | gpag0 pass and to git from some passenger uy then, and I would bet agin | and them two-wheeled cabs with ajay up be- | 1 mean to stavt.” y Maud loved me and he, the cur, went | ywas the jolliest meal T over eat. and it wis 8 lino of flics, a mule-train pass on in single | something to read. A feller give me a book | heavy odds that there was a gal concerned Of he jumps like a fiash. 1| “Youre sosmart on snowshoes, you'll git ined everything to her father. I ) . . . : i d s sunshine to sec thent two, friends A0 lmes, 11k simall anta, & Beavy=') oallod Do ooe Bl Siat aaTs e f ook . T took a big shine to the feller, and | says, “Try it, young feller, yowll be back in | about a mile and then tumble over u preci- s ordered out of the house and came here, altorere oaded burro-train, Them reminds me of a { them old seafaring fellers was the gamest | After a while T offered him a job up to my Iclean forgot all about you | pice.” sall. Idon't know what Ingalls wants | - Wi T wolng mowt: Oh. dbbes Eroon foller. T sse. reading nbout & buses. s | €rowd T ever see.” Cuttle's Ty ¢ 10 work on s hin to throw in the i ray.” “I think not,” he says soberly; “if T do, it Tsuppose he came to-tell me he had | someth o Pard 1ives Witk e ol r Sea I ot b e, | know the book by heart, and Florenc He was will- The | dow't matter arried Lady Maud LT i e diyoe I et 1 e, Yon ealiing | Walter and that shop and R or dny Ed—that's | cpowd give three choory for me. : “Well, I'm not, going."” Bout uoon the next day T got up and fixed | yied hop. Sir ‘Way up’ there) He | 88 nateralus if T hed knowed ‘en ., 1 | name e . foras and mo was pards. | 105 Xferry. Chiisms . “lteep some of | *Iwouldu't let you e the turkey to roast and the vegetabbies, and | wrote. caliof hiafowis IoyaoiiaRen vy furnttoon woy up, there? e | set and read that over s R st Folks used o ne “Groundhog Bige, | that pudding for me till spring, it will be { _ “Oh, you wouldu't, grow! ou | st the pudding back ever tho five. Some- | o ti 3 thia mins 00 & Rt BN e e o domees | 1 could jest see’em come inter life, an ba | aud they nicknamed him “English E4, bit | 130 Snough» yells the stororseper, for | WOUldi't, hey. You young whippe ow, though it had a shape and was | and I'm carrying 1id his shares que is the salvation of the mountain | real folks in the firelight. Like to know | Lusually called him “Pard.” — Get alos you wouldn't take no soda in it.” 1’ard hadn't | You cub,’ you. Let me go. Il jest let , 1 didn't feel much confidence in | thougl, Tngalls would have never found fd miner, for the litt tures kin walk on | Dickens, the feller that wrote 'em. Dead, | You bet. I was a ignorant, old —erea- I mentioned soda and 1 wouldn't put it in, v you don't stir a foot out till I git fixed - Ed - was lying in a corner | pug for Polc m, 50 the old villain did the picket-edge of nothing and never miss a | 15 he? Wal, wal, he'll never know what | ture and he was college larned, but | though it was argued it oughter be done, ? ng off with a lantern and | jest wore ont. While T “was a-fussing | rood turn once, not knowing it, Yes, I'm foot and carry a load that weighs move than | # comfort he to me. When T git [ that wasn't . no diffrenco; he —was | igongin T callsand gooson, For three or | & dorg no brandy, no rope, nothing. round, I'see the new feller looking at me. | pretty well fixed, rich enough to dvink fook und carmy 8 ond that, welkhis more than | tho charnco T am going 'to- oy ©a { friendly to me as o a chum of his own class, | ¢ °H 2 epls and goos on, Tt thred O | ®ine dorg will seent him.” yVhcreRamEEglionasks SNE LM i champigme out 'of a pail—which s Ihghe, brown an dukin the shadders | Wreath of posies whero he i3 planted’ and | Mebbe more so, for when T got rheumatics he | 1% BUSh 7 1 Babt & Sookont for nials “Tho “dorg will be snowed in forty rods | said who saved his lif at tho visk of his | Westbmn —and Tw woing 1o Spend d silyer in the sunlight, meanders through | tell him them books he's writ beon | Was off to Quray—and cold, too—to git lin- | },us ‘my" progress was awful slow. [was | from tho houso,and n dend dorgiuforty | own, and hinted that Ididn's think thelifo | tho Chiistmas holidays with Pard,“T've the valley. How far down! Wall, one | more'na gospelto us miners in the moun- | Rerment, and played the nurse complete. Ho | %y ot o0 #5408 15 (ore {ttles, | minits if we don't kerry him.” an feller was worth saving, ind such | brought the dorg wiy seross the oeeat with Phice on thiat roud ie 4 cut torn frow a’ sottd | ta'ns, ana V1 say Icome clear from one. o7 | Was lots of compiny, and so was the dor ) SourRthatelianorela * | " He hung his head.~ 1 don't want you to | had better go back where they come 1o o slow. o Lady Mande: raeBR R alland a look down of 900 feet. | the newest states in the new world to give | Doc was the pup's name toole Just 08 | 1y turkey growed heavier i visk your he stammers, : ““But you don't know all,” he says wistful, | vou that, when the young fellers went awiy, t isa ticklish place, but we gets used to ¥ humble thanks, much invrest iu Cuty lls as me, and | o e O e oo baok: iLBNC ¢ siys, “you are all the thing T | his eyes full of tears. “Ed and Idid quarrel; | the pup wouldn't quit me and. is mine-now. them things after a time. Vhere was 17 Oh, on the toll-voad fOt mora hooks on -about the gamest old | Twawya likely pictur’ as I flourdered along, | 18 world to keor for. I I'd a son I | but 1did not tell i John.? = = | Werll probubly hav od dinner Christmas Tor six months in winier T was snowed in | there and smoked my olier, Blokwicl, 800 the eabing and dxinle | 54 wag ugly enough to fight my best friend, | S0uldn't love hix more'n you. . Come, Oh. you didw't sncers, <likely story. | day, but the vittles won't taste 1o better, nov 4n my lonely cabin. Tcould hear the roar of | gulch on the Uncapaghre sparling like u sil. | 108,11 that volume would make your mouth | ¢y1ious eogh, I put all my mad on that | We left the dorg in the cabin, with food | “Tiady Muud did, she told hie her hat | tho erowd be no mervier thim it was last iles through the crashing timbor, | Ver cord fur helow: and listoning to the wind | Wi We road him whil st, e Pork | coilor ahead. +Tike idoo,” Tl say, “of him whl ho might git —at it if | sheloved i and shie wanted to marey Wi, | ju Colorado, in_the Kockies, 9,000 feet and a while another sound that | whispering throu the. pin AR oA ST goflos ‘] hout no milk | 7\ 0"l this mount'in alone in snow- | We didwt come back, ~ and T | She is that kind of agirl, Sho neverhad a | the sea, About the plum’ pudding, wi Shu 5 Ve AR a R TRacE ARIONED. Who, pinds und the nov sugar. We was doing well in the mine, | {1 was pretty sure he'd break thie winder and [ secret from him, OF course he was angry | Live noihing (0 say. That subject's o tender 2 mongtious way king over Jagged | hard it echoes. This w. W ‘ but when you think of the ways vittles £ ; & git out if we were long ay. Park fixed a | and turned Ed out. T wasmean enough to | one ‘twixt Pard and me, i Py d 1068, BATAS B Sorlerpavter to be brought on the backs of them bu; Bout ten miles on my way, just as I was [ candle in the wi ire. | be glad at first, for I knew her father would yocks and ving with it a grand big ship; | and wa'n't no shod creature eithe et 0 . e s iR ol andle in t ) 4 . Ak i S G R i you it setting up for entrys—us Ed uscd | straight'ning up my back making an- | and then w out. Ihad tl orn tied | give Maud to me, but she grew so thin and crunching and rumbling, and a thunder of | mysclf, he wouldn't dare bo tosay. He was a cheerful foller, but given | other hitch on the turkey, T felt something | on my back and had made a rope fast to | unhappy, and took such a dislike tome, that | o 1% - rolling rocks, with a queer sense of w my gun—revolver, you know than T aes | s 6f, Hlacm——never spid o word ‘aboutbis rp ayiko s sace. L inowaky Whs B 105 pard Iwas sorry enough for the whole affair. T = The Woman's coll not where you may be, but furoff. ‘tnat's a | this wasa dorg. A Gordon andiy ||Mks Ehongh, it. for snow at Chrismus timo in thoso | 'Tho night was jest like a curtain of black | tried then to find 15, T give you my word L | students this year snowslide,” 1t begins on a moun ke, | thoroughbred. . White and bluck, with the | 'Bout Chris'mus time, and mount'ins means draknes, drifts, and death Tounie TieRnS £ drifts, and death, | velvet and_absolutely still. The air did, and then an unelercame from Australia, | fitn bits morc than 50 women in its”differ- creeping slow, white . g pring nnest eves T ovar Ao g snowed in by then but that y 3ut that didn’t stump me, Every inch ofthat | thick and wet and stupefying. 0 We goes at 12d used to brag ahput when he was a | ent departments AR oy b, YLD annse, Eathorlon | hisanestceyes T over fseo in e janlmal: | 1} 0ioui0n ghowahoss, wo. i ific | Toad was plain asamap in iy mind on. The snow being damp and packed s il and say ho would bring back a teunk | The Mion clinch, then T taking everything in | scemed friendly enough. e was footsore v Ho read ‘aloud in diff'vent | blunted by cold, atunnad by, the suow and that kep' us in the trail, but it was hard | full of gold. Well, he really did come back | cided to its path, cutting a clean swath, like a s and lean, and looked liko he'd come a long | YOIes: g it jest as real as live folks | davkness, T forgot Ingalls entircly worke and I was already wore out. At last | with lots of money, and he and Sir John then whirling, roaring, swullowing up a \ctus thorn out of his paa, | A-talking, when I “says sudden: “Tll doit, | mnst have passed closo by him. I we tumbled into the road and stops a minit, | are great friends now. He is a sick awith shrieking men, or a bar, hid and sleep- | and wa'n’t he gratoful? 1 kept a waten | BY gosh! enough to do to fight for my own lifo. OB | ' Ho never got as fur ns this," T s DR, OF (e Syvould | haye l.0omo . Tt ing for the winter. “round a turn of the ground for his own “What?" He kinder jumped, and the pup | goes, and game ehough to hang to the truck | 1 botter goon alone.” You stay here und | Ame with mo. I camo for | ~yqiq collc ved more than 2,000,000 whaut I mean by moving, for the air is full of ysoon 1 see four burros, heavy { ' up and licked my hand. = I waut solng tg be beut outer tht dinnier | Til shoot when T find him. ¥or answer | Lady Maud's suke. Sho said, if 1 would { ju5yyear, This, with what she lifted from it, and it lasts till, with o inufied thunder- nd walking behind thom a youngish | , *WhY.” says I, “Dll hoof it to Ouray and | forall the snow in Colorada, Hvers now auigrn, find " Fd she would give me the' old the misguided youths from Harvard and clap, the whole mass drops down into the | feller.” He was tall and broad shouldered, | 1Y it a chicken—a turkey if I can and ther whon Fgoblkldor loopy-audo gy h to one of us, it shall come to | affection. 1 told her I would be n knigh Princeton on rowing, base ball and foot ball, vul\«_ miles away. dressed like the most of us in rough ers, and a squash, and cranberr idee kep' coming, how slick it would be to “You stay here, I'll go.” the round table and find the holy -8 | enabled the Yale fellows to have pin money Thon the summer storms, when the light- | clothes, woolen shirt, sombrero und | We truck to make o plum pudding, Dl cele- | lio down and take a nap--that means nover | - He'd cut the vope that bound us and was | cup, you know.” . for dinner overy day in the year. ning don't seem o further o than a stone's | long boots. He ~was bronzed . some, | Prate. Iean't hear of them Dickens fellors | €1t up, hut free to death—the old turkey | off fnter the dark,” T knowed one of ‘us must | 1O 8, \isarior prize wioner, oh A pamphlet devoted to gossip about und throw, und glares and blinds and goes streak- | had curly hair, pleasant blue eyes ug no more and try to Aill myself up on | would ‘sling around und fetch me u smart | huve sense, and if wo lost that little trail up | “Though that s o comical comparison for | 1 WIS CIVAE L RECH G "Iadieal ing ribhons of fire over the pines, while { and a strageling mustache tryiug hard to | §01t horseand slops. Tl git one good fecd if | slap in the face, 1kindergrowed to think | mountai done fur, 501 waited. 1 [ Ed, who looks like a r e been | A artment of. tho T of Michigan, ing ribbous ot firo gver the plnes, while | and a ‘straggliug’ musticho trying A e the old bird wanted to be roasted aud git up | yelled to him to try and keep inside from the | watching him, but women generally like big | flepartment of the U Miciigen, don't that thunder boom !—i-playing catch Good day.” he says, halting the packof | _ 16 Will _be the latter,” ho s to tho cabin to give his remaius for tho cole- | edge of the road ;" but I doubt if he heard, | stupid bears.” 20, gltth Chappel. The frontispicce vsa church neross the crags—the last ono sending it | animals ks for helpiug the dog, 1t | Sober enough; ‘“you couldn't makev w bration, 1 the air was so deadened. The time I waited | “Thank you, s i, gltting up, 14 G foreground with o graveyard ot one R ey PR AR T e b AR [ i ome mot 1o ook whin he | ite market of ' yourself over three feet of | T got along all right tillIgot to where I | seemed Tmade’ fast the rope to a | didn't save your miserablo life to be abused, | 1 th in ecanyons, and_each new roar and each | linped snow on the edge of a precipice.” ought to_turn off to the (trail, and there T | tree ne ail, and kept one end of ivand | Lucky for you you werealittle fellow,or | Sides = e past ono mingling together until there's A U | ST light and easy on snow shoes.’ dussent loave the road. | T wasn't sure where | made trips down ais fur as L could where he | you wouldn't be here. 1 $ Mhe University of Clicago continues In fury of sound, like nothing else on anger in these parts IR - ever, 3ut,” hie interrupts, “what's the matter | it lay. 1listened and I heard the muflled | went, but dassent let go. Bymeby Iwas so | = “Gawme, though,” Iputs in, “the gritof | good lu e Irs jmv]-‘ \"\_lm‘ 8, Wi :'l\\“u Ririagen i tiow pariats. o | with my goin soulid of a zun, and this 4 followed, wonder- | sleepyand numbed I thought Tdreamt it, when | hin starting alone up these mountins.™ | Shiamond Joe' Keynolds, hs presented tho Agin, one day y mount'in peak, o [ oerigands ho suswers, setting downona | "éyou afi't,’ \swers, bringing to mind | ing where Pard got his sense. 1 stumbled | Isce a faint, ghostly light acoming ‘aw fu | 1d and him looked cach other like | institution 200,000, while tho ingtith., gray cloud kinde ng, low, it's soft and i 3 mopping his Torohoad his attempts to walk on snowshoes and his | up the mountain sic hollering, and soon I | slow and something big behind the light two animals 'bout to fight, then Tseen ‘em | tion will also benefit to the amouut of 0,- full of crinkles and rolls like cotton batting e Bty g | wabblings, “-you ain’t no bird on ‘em, Pard.” | got a answer and the happiest sight of my 've got him,” says Id, panting. of fell | lock hands and I knowed their cyes was | 000 from the will of the late Willlam B, 7 in o heap; araionlilin | . 0 B8 30 96, By Showdy, am ] anywhere | e laughed then like a boy life—I see n big yaller glare. It was Pard | across him in the ‘snow about four miles : Ogden. air, und the gr plaid, , pove: the' sun | BSALEIO BAIM0EE WAL BAINGG DAyl | 1t's o deal,” 1 s “and termor he | a-burning kerosene. down. 1 think he is dead brought you her photograph. She dou't shine on it, gots black us ink. It gots | o WO b F BANs Ciu 3 el 24th, I'll set off [ \d it's cheap,” 1 say ironical, for it | Hehad him on his back and luckily the [ sent it,” says: Ingalls, hunting around, “but | w closerand lower, and all of o sudden turns | DS SUICE LS D Y and we'll set up and till morning. I'll | ain’t. Iie laughs and takes all theé truck | stranger was a small, light chap, but into o sheet of dazzling silver. Now under Q1 OUSLXRAN K0T 4 w | then goe v is ov kettle. Wo'll have the dinner, after all l ad. T set pe, looking down the apolis Board of Education de- introduge corporal punishment in the public schools. At present the highest punishment inflicted in any of the schools is expulsion Au unique development in - an_educat y is the night school for jocke it | —but I must have lost it." by the chief men of the STy it was awful. We took him between “Here 'tis,” 1 suys, it dropped outer your | tenbu J.The pup numbering over us—there was no time to try to bring him to last night and I'set it by the fire to | 200, range from 6 to 20 years of age and more life, for the storm was thicker every minute | dey.” The heat and wet had mussed it so | than half of these are colored. A fine splite but we the brandy ourselves and | you couldn’t tell what the pi second wateh is among the prizes for high then start never seo sich strength as | | *“Too bad,” sighs Ing: to give | scholarship. i that pard of mine had. He held most of the | it to you. I brought it all the way Six hundred pupils attend the sessions of feller and didn't seem to touch airth atall o g her face in my heart,” laughs Ed, | the New York trade schools. Sessions are You'll do,” I says, Ha, flew around look- t, the last of the way he dragged me | and then he fell to singing now held four evenings of each woek. After s, molasses to ,make it | ing at the stuff I'd brought, found some Ve were pretty near beat out when me Into the the 1st of January day sessions will be held, all along its course. his schemes. Stranger, last month theve | brown, and spice mixed and cooked cloth and made a bag intg which he put the ! we heard Doc’s howl, that put new For the bluck ‘ A The trades taught are bricklaying, plaster The silence up-mountain s aw: wil seven men I'd neve set I cal'late I'll get it mixed to the store,” I | pudding mixture, tied it, and slung the same | 1i in us, and soon the light ‘"":‘,‘,,“,‘,fi?,‘,",.|.,.‘ T 3 ing. carpentering, house painting, —fresco gone out und yelled je | ove on afore traveling up that | si id my traveling will beat it up.” into a kittle of boiling water which he hung | from the little cabin showed faint but stiddy While Pard was setting the table, Tngalls, | painting, blacksmith work and plumbing, the mpany of an echo. trail on the lookout for Bige Day's claim Theu you sew it up in & bag which you | over the fire. The candle we found nearly flickering out, | wio had all our bedding piled on him, | latter being the most popular worse than the quict is the sound of some- | They came different ways and times, and | boil, and make a sauce of braudy that you | = “The water'll git in it.” Isays, “them | but the fire on the hearth was buriugbright. | Srawied out and got on his clathes ' | 'Bishop Nicholson of Milwaukee has re- thing walking “after night, Sometimes | swore in diffrent langwidges, but all pour over and set afive, and it burns blue | stitches is too loose The pup went crazy over the stranger. LT NPT A T i g ceived a ehieek from a New York millionaire there's o slinking four-footed ‘creature like | divected by General Raymond—where he | flame. This is the way we used to have it at | 1t cooks out,” he answers, beginning to Knew him in England,” says Ed,working TR atn S RES, Ue SiY and | who requests that his name be kept from the a monstrous yeleer cat, with the slyest gait | got the general he don't know hisself—and ' His face grew sad, and Iknew he | cut up the squash, “now sit down, Bigg, and vay at the chap's boots. We got him un- | then they shook hands again, **I'hedearold | public. The money is for Nashotah sem- of uny animal devil—that's a mountain lon. | had all bought claims of him. Ianswere going inter them glooms igin. et straightened out,” he goes on, brfuging | dressed and rubbed him with suow and | Hae Fas d woll spond next Christmas | ary. The donor is believed to bo the Often there's a heavier tread and & clumsy | 'em eivil at first, but my dander got up and 1 Waste of good liquor,” I says under my | me a gluss of brandy. poured brandy into his clenched teeth. | aiTome and Lady Maud. my wife, Larry . | Same man who gave £00,000 to Bish greaturo gocs sniffing by rizaly; hecan't | took the last one—a slim fellow from New [ breath, but he didu't note “I asked for a letter for ye, but there | After an hour or so of this we could | Gon't that make you hate me’—will wel. | for the proposed New York cathed be tamed, nor the little black imp of his | York—and Isays: ‘Seethat speck up there, | I set out early uext morning, leaving him | wa'n't none,” 1 says, beginning to draw off | see him breathe, and this encouraged us for | come you under the mistletoe. Perhaps 111 sago. Here evidently is a man family connection. Then again there's the | that pint.a balf-mile up mount'in—wal, [ and the pup athome. Tt wasn't bad going | my boots. new efforta. 'Ti We were noarly de S0Ui0 ¥0u HOUAFLL0 1nid 4 ea Bood by stealth” and would “biush to sound, but when you look, there ain't noth- | that's it. If you dou't keer for yer life un | and the air was fresh and full of sunshine. | *You were very kind, but thereisnoone | and if the s had an A e O IRt 1) ‘answrala tha athiox | ARA%E TaMA ing to make it. “That's the worst or all. | has good legs you might reach it alive. If | They was s'prised to see me at Ouray, and | to writ - 18t oo bin: he was In luck. B ot i e ot T i o oot | " Phe lutest phase of development i the That's ghosts you've breath feft then you kin diskivera | laughed a dealat the truck 1 bought and | - “Land of the living!” 1 yells. jumplog up, | ope 3 What did you witke me up | world s full of fair women. 15 it not so. | club life is the Educational Club of Philde My mine is a tunnel 100 feet into a moun- | tuunel six foot inter the mount'in, and fock, | paid for with the gold dust. Ifound the | “them tracks ahead—that feller.” It come | fort” he s and drifts off intera | My Day " 801 | Lhia, which has recently been formed by the tofuside, aud often toward night when | all the rock you want, but there never was, | budding stuff so heavy that Ireally had it | to me all of a sudden, where was he? sleep. ? M oy 1 ou't trouble me none” 1 says, | el teachers of the city publio schools. The Pm working I hears tap, tap, tap, soft | nor never will be, any streaks of pay-dirt | mixed in a pail. 1 went over toa saloon for “What did you say " asks Pard, keerless “Phat's him,” says Ed bitterly, “he's a | «put, look at th ouddin “Hie | purpose of the new orginization is to advance and lot but clear as p ~u\'h}|m 1] the and no way of gitting it down if there | awhile, and it was about 8 in the afternoon | 1 natural kicke iy m‘ll S ,m{ 1GG4 the standard of the profession of teaching gits out then, for thew's the mine speerits | was. Some of her secrets this old | when 1 come back for my things, 1 had ngalls,” T “Who is he” Iasks after we had made | %Gy Neurt would heas Lae and beat through the discussion of educations! topies and I don't Wanter git 'em. It's funny, ain't | mount'in won't ive up, and where | asked the storekeeper, who was also post “Ingalls,” he repeats, gitting white. “for | ourselves comfortable —Pard was fixing the '\\‘!-. it earth in an earthy bed." at month, £ E ful lectures by it? But you just up-mountain lone and see an gits over-bold in climbing up and | waster, if theve wereauy letters for Pard,but | pity’s sake who—what do you kuow of | fi “ i bhow you feel after & while. to find out, why she jest shets down | there wa'n't. 1 tied the eight-pound tur- t : could carry & tune,” grins | prominent instructors from sectiony 0 ) K i 1" “The pudding ain't spoiled.”” he mutters, of the country, and by the publicatiou of ime Twice & week & burro train cawe twenty | oo him at the start. “Poker Sam played you | key 'round wy neck with the pud- 1 told him. He listened quite a minit. | “though the water nearly boiled out of the Ed'turned the water outer the kittle and | portant papers, e AR I git brandy for the pudding sass, but p; and flounders on_ahead a distance, wher 1t 18 1 big river coming with a rush and roar, Sum'at. Do you 1 finishes unxious, *“how is them puddings | by the howling, T knowed Doc was tied, and faster than an avalanche and churning up | “No, the claim I have purchased of Gen- [ made? then the house was all 1it up. rocks, Jtrees, animals and men i its | eral Raymond of Denver, is a half-mile fur “Why, flour, raisins, lard or butter—som “Made th tations down the path,” awful boiling current. That's a cloud-burst, | ther up the mountain than his.” thing that's rich—" he explair (T s i e It swells the water in every stream in the “Poker Sam," 1 s, and mebbe 1 swore “But 1 puts in," “is el cents a | myself with the gun and boufire valley the river beyond, where the | some, for the young feller looked sorter | pound at Ouray, and I gu goes mad and rushes on over | s'prised hat's his old gag, sends ‘em | enough.” s that's rich | last 1, carrying havoe and misery | here, mentions my name and gits me inter Buttér, currants,