Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1894 — Page 6

TIIK INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESOXY MORNTjN'G, OCTOBER.' 10. 1894.

A $20 GOLD PIECE.

"Don: stop a: Better remain over night at C--a, and go . on clear through to I., ri the next day." Thee were the parting words of our genial host of the Ukiah Inn. Mendocino county, California. I had purchased a couple r.f hor?ot and a pick-mule lower down in the valley, and was taking: them along the ell Oregon stage route to my home in th northern part of the state. Accompanying me was my overseer, Robert Thorndy-ke Hawkins, or as he was mare generally known, "Raneheria Idob," and an einer named Wilson, who was going to sj."j": a few month on the ranch "to see how It was done." I had not advertised f r b arders. nop contemplated starting a "tender-foot nursery;" but Wilson, whom I ha.1 met at the Palace hotel, seemed such a genial, pleasant fellow that it was Impassible to refuse- his earnest request t ) j ir us in our mwuntain life. IJob was rather opposed to the scheme, but not b-!ng a prominent factor in th? mitter, Wilson wm. alr-fj. Our rout" lay through a section of the country which had elapsed into a dötnicivillzed st.t; th min- there hiving in a nifi-iir1 b.-em- exhausted, th st ig rut. aba'nh'iied fr th" mor exped.tlous railr ii 1 and thj Imnien--) timb-r tracts still bi'ins; t far .lstint t b? w rk-:d to any ad tritag T:i im-n :h well as th th"T n diti'ns to.it a rjjf'kward prtwth and th who remi'n"d w.rj very f ivnrjildy de'Tilrt-d - "tough." II -nee the tauti jirn;- in -Iru.ti r.s fr im our land1 rd. A'-tir.f: up v Kf'i ndvi-?. w? plumed our diily r -ill -o as to pis L j at n -n. We w -n- all w :! .v;i;pr3 l with rii!.-.-! and m1- inn, and lo k d forward ti a v-ry pi' i--iut j 'urr.-w. (iur h.Ti-s w.r-- in tine -.ndif .-i. is als wa the mut'. I' :ri-. l r,J i-s p -.'.I t ' - iy that Hub and niysif r ö - t'ic f -.nr. r. whil? Wil n v.-.lj The vi-w ly rhP'.uipv f b Mr-pi ri v ; l i :i '. ini,' m ; was ' h irn; pit, .with n st ititi ti-. X v. Minis;;,- groups i L r 1 1 tr1 - humt-'d the ".;! a?.' '.hi. an -p-n. un lul.itwith v ,1 hüls in the noir ''; ! It th th gr. ;t bl, teil i:--s ,.f th C ..i n nunc-'. V tli-ätan'". l - tin;.- I in 'it::; i triv-1 d c h inr i nir vi 'V f M! Ill- : t .Mi "!! y.n ,- t:ie e :t mi ly v.- ! ii .'it ntiy Itvid nt untre, -f th kind, tn.l th.' ad rfiy f iin. us .it r. I. .1 w t- :i ft --:'( ur .' 'iriiLr ' (' t. 1 1 1) mil .in 1 L ti i --' w . r c ii::i: ry. w -in i.i; in i-1 fr ..i .:.i.. v t'.'i;in"i,i-. t I. bo; ih'rly-n'.n . A P : s. iM.- ;i ;;t-! i:i th f It it Ir -rinhetp m ih t ; ly .-' ( rt . .is it w otd b ;i rl; !' r fli h'"- - - 4. v:i w r Fit 'V. if ts nf t il h- ri'-rni f'M..M . ': i i- .lis ( ii i: M s is t . fUtll."" p" '. .: Ii' ( vV ' ri'! d :i. '!! !!-! g !. met it v an 1 r. ., ; ...-; ii tli r t.p- ; w ra ; ! wer.- : h pp "ii i'i:r ap-b-n tlle'-i "r.sf li ir-1 m i ' f .urni'vi' ! ' :i. Si : r-.' r i"ris :h .t w 1-1;. d l-r.-t: it r.y -.. in i1: li.tve f- It i l iv i rim; 1 ly W '"- "!V C o ; 'p. r G en'-'- ib. h ( lac. .-. ( w ;, h tr f 'Wl Wlp r 1 P 'i :miv c'.'i r v.i! ltw. -Viar.: n!y r-.-. rni.. il P'fli'ii.itfi y .'rr r-'stri -tin i-s s".-i- :y. 1 tt m1!:-' ri-rii." n- -I . i . pl.e- ! , rr, - I ' p i-- the juliiiil p r , r. T...T w re j-"h "!.- l'"f p" i!" in ali f irn-i-i'-r t!v 1 p- -j;t ': i"-i. i'ii ii-'ii a' i itiin s-.is-.iis lh-'ii- t 1 1 ; i ; he 1 .u;!-' ti'.it iiuntl-r. T.io only vl.-iid" p. .-ins f ;!); vl of t!i inhabitant--, wa.at '-Inir i., th.- vi.-" ..f th- ir fe'lownp'ii. Ii w.rs t l-.o tpe viilui' .f th it 1 1 w les- i-i..vs v.-r; I; aunt tit- i.ord . f .. r-'iv -i ili.tii-.n. .Min-:-. i th r.- to rp-nd Sup lay an 1 th r.-s-ilt f th. i:- pi ; w k's toil. I Ii-'-.l-i-.s who rniat have l ern leading a h- rniit's li!-1 in th" niountitns f. r thr;"- : nt'ns, biru-iu ther thresult f tii'ir l.ihoi- an 1 did ri . . t l ave un;:l it v. .is all h ;u.-o-i. We did n--t b-lifve inmh (; all thi- that v.as t 'ld in r. g-ir l t- th pi i. o. p-i b-rintr tin-irn-at-.-r p irt of th - !nf. r!n.;ti.'U o-f that mythi-.tl ':isttn':l :i r.mm-'n to lh i-'n'-.i' t.-r of Mi :h a r.-gi'-n. our int -nti.-u of si irtin '-..r'.y in tii-' m- 'i-ni!.!f fr-:n O a w.i.s f u -: : .it.-1 l-y i-r:-- of th" h o jstini: a .ho-, and i: was p. -iily : wii.-n we enPTf-d the w.vvl.s l. yond ( ' .-. Hovi-v. r. we ii id tin--pro.s;. '.-L of ;t mo -n light night nr. I did ;i-.t d".;nir of r .'.oh'rg' L 1 in fairly v -. 1 s.-.ison. We or -s.-i tii-- wat-rsh''.l at th M.-ndocin a!ii-v. an, I vv il-'Mi-endinir into thai of Ilini.'.i l l:. ih- r.. id f :U-ving the twkstir.tr 11 '. riv.r. JbTe b.-gins; t:w gieatosL i-i-'.iivo. .I 1. !t in the state, and as w tr.ivele i I ivit .1 vn th-' vail -y w saw the tree wh: -h u-- a hu::liel f-.-d or i high on f ;. .thills, atmit .uoii tiianmi -ih ptor...r;i ms thai tiie di-tanc-e to th.-ir to; s e. mi I -v..:v. be meisured in as many j ar ts. Th-y n v b-etnv an iin-j-nant f i : t r i:i ;h- t -pigraphy of the r. t.l. whi ! d i iT--l fr.-m its . r-se eontir.u iiiy. rbe ii -n: ;.i tho di 'ta:i. n of ths-: m marcfis. Tin's constant interruption made wa.tt had bi -n a. fairly direct ro.t I n s.--t rii if g'4 ..-n-tri.-.il curve', imp'.ss;-l-e t f. ,;i.-w in any iixed directl it. From a er-rt tinty it b - an:" a labyrinth. The rreat 5i.f nn l abun.Iüice -of th tr.-es stiili'd the atnt i-;iiie: i'. giving a s in; ore effe -t to all th v.irii' l y..und-? natural t tho w iods. Wc c'ouid: s lirii'.is swinging Ht the t-'i'S .f tip-- trees find yet s .m-e !u-.i;-.f perceive a lr.; oi! tip win 1, wiii li must: hive l--eii ."tr-jng t-i m ve tiiem ?i violently. The very jingle of our saddle iiuipni'T.t.s "n: -tl. lls ordant nir.'.l tin-d--pt-r h arm ::ios. T't was h---., pi tl e stajp tim-., th. u "Illac k T.ard."'th p et highwayau in. reapul in my a ri a harvest. Hh was a fhivalr.'-us nätufe. nd i:is n-a-m-iry i.hi id .aered in many a cabin in the wo1!.!-. Ono tt.'g driver to'.d with pride h i.v. a fur ril!oi;-.g him pf the mail and Wt-l!s-Faxjr i. box. "lii.u k Hard" asked him for a chew of tobacco. His num dtI'.nnpe arf-s" fr?n th fact tha't. aft-r rilling the mail, lie would jvt down a doggerel verse- upon the back of pomspecially luerativ. envelop-.. an exteuiIoran.jtn o-ld:vFs f jtti pithy to th' owner of tlie package and sign "TIp1 JÜack P.ird." His final c ipture, after rr.any lilxral rewards, was unique. Ielnc inurniptel in hia Kelf-epfon-ed Jn.-p et .rshij) erf a mail, he d.-paPted. in hl ha:-te bnving one .f hi.s cuffs. ThU was tracfd by th" laundry rn-k to San Francisco and 'td to his capture. Stor:-.s as this prowess and th? sp.-d and beauty of his h' r-'-.-n are too numerous to menii-m. His ?re.tt virtue, ?o tne people said. wa his liberality lo the fv.or, and 'the fact that he nver rot.lil fr :n any one but the express company and the mill. As wo threaded the io.-tie.us rad, we could erusily irrnfijino a h : way in a n j-tefping fnmi to!ind ne nf th-- tn rnious trevs, anii cnlllng on us ijo "hold up our hands." (m"ng U!."'.o a little spring-, we halted awhile to refresh both our."!ves and our h K-ses. lPre w cal -ulated that we were distanit but eight mlies from L, L , and still had twenty-three more to go bef re ly d was reaoherd. It bcl:.g but li-Ule pa.-'t noun, our lide through Is Jj before dark nivJ reaching lj il Irp goKl time se-eip.cd a foregone cun--l::s!on. Nature, however, often upsots the Lest of calculations, for scarcely were we remounted wlp-n a heavy shower cam? oa, softening the road fo as ta riPike a 5-low walk good spe-d. Our hoped fell with the rain, which was dismal enough in the big wkuL', rendering tili darker a gloomy way. To , eturn x;u as far opt of our plan as to ! continue the woods at night tr ing as dark r( a pocket. Ij j must he our a Pilling plvce p -rforee. We consultf-d. t hr-r'-fore. a3 to the bst means to avoid 'ir .-'iLle should the inhbilant feel in a t ;-..: I ve ino-od. F: 1 -ing rhe miilölr- of t'.ie week v.-aa a ; "p. in our fivor, as tlp-fe would bi all ..ii.y h' i iv outfit rs in T- wn. :ir:- i mr:; w as ip-,n. wn s vcr-

- -T t : ; pTfn t" eo.Tr'f-:::. .rit v. au no doubt render him more or le.-s iaLL - tr-j.j i.er '.v.i. j; . a.ivieei timt t K" t j:t onea on. his arriva', and Fiid by way of inducement tint h:- tould rhen wattlh our prop r:y, Wiitch wo a iuM c f courf-' b ,HI-4?1 to J'"avP our rooms. Wils .ii vr.s perfectly ''Aliag To d fl.if, crpeiiaily after limb's g.viphic i

deserirition of "the dajiein act," firlnfr a revolver uncler a man's feet to see if they are tender. Our most emphtt'c advic was nt to show any money over that alioluteIy e??n:ial f:r his expenses. The rain and mud had pufflciently taken the newness for our outfit, and we thought we could represent ourselves as going north to work on some of the big ranches. It was near dark when we reached the town, an J slowly ro le through the one street on which It was built, looking1 for the best appearing hotel. On bith sides were rows of hotels, gambling houses, barrooms and stores sometimes separate, but of tent r all combined in one building. Wiia the desif" of getting as far as possible through the town, we selected the last house on the road and applied for shelter. The rain had ceased and the sky was beginning to clear. We almost regretted that we haiV no; decided to keep on. but the horses were too tired to make the idea feasible. As we rode through the village, the "stoop p.ulation" were Interested enough to comment; on the general appearance of us 'and our horses, but in no way oih-r than common to all western towns. One remark I remember, applying to Wilson: "That yellow-haired one on the mule is a tender-f iH" look at his Vnaps.'" Wilson had leggin.s Inrtead of boots. We wemt to a stable between the hotel and w.;is, unsaddled our horses, and taking our rifles, etc.. went up to our rooms. Bob and 1 p-oon went down to our supper, wh! h was fairly good for th country. We toM the people, who seecntd rough but rleasanc, that our friend was too tirxl to come down and secured supper for him. Taking down his dishes, we Hiuntered into -the barromi and were agreeably disappointed to rind things tlttedfctp as wil as elsewhere along the roid. The building was of a diss common in the West, an obi .ng two-story structure, with piazza facing the street. Iown s-'tairs wer the barroom, kitchen, dining-rom. and owner's living rooms while th" entire svond story was for guests. This was subdivided by a narrow hill running lengthwise, leaving numerous sm -.11 boxes called b - J;m .m i on either .-ide. or. row fronting tlv pltzza and th street, and the th r commanding an extensive rear vi 3 v.. As Ave were about th- only gu we had rooms in the front row. The house was unj 1 tsf.t-red and oriiy the lowcr-flo ir ri 'tiu were celled. I: b and I s- ated onrseJvrs in th larro' -m ?.nd an.-wt red th"v various qmslion-5 cennpinly iisk -d of travil-e-s. and began to laugh at our fears, aitii.ugh 'lii-ne cj-c s "tne pr tty tough faces among the auditor. our attention wis attracted to a c-ow-h .y w!p app ar-'d a stringer, lik o;ir-:-i Ives, and w.i v h'nU, red the infonp'tti m that li-- loo was going to I, 1 pi the morning. APh-ni'-ii we had o'ways in i 1 a r:il t 1" i li.try in t.tliving l strangers. Iber was s..m thing la h'- flee an I i.i.en: -r attr.o tlv-'. and I f-.i'ti I mySi'lf h i'.-lip.g mile an animite.l m v:

t'.oa witli liim. (His nam" was This involved an invitition to .'.ri-k, wiiiih I i . ni r .u:i;-ii l.y th less of two evil--a v.--.-tern !g ir -wiii.-li I sm .ked t the i-ittif ep .1. 1 hid ja.st re.-ma. d my g . d old l'ip in or.i-r to remove th imp ant t friendship's .fterii g." wh '.n 1 1 surpris.d t r i o:. 1 I j. i ; ; a in 'o:e:-t f-r :.u: hi- fate ir-1 a 1 ior n-p -n ;.n l was s Wilson come into the ! h" had jat run down i x s ::ic cigars, and 1 let htm and p.iteha-e .some; of the tn -ke i. To my sut; :'i;c Id li-.iud 1 had offered a twenty-dollar g i i j !ec- ia pay. mailt. Tl-.is was the k ynote to th wh ile tr 1c. The b 1 1 k-'-.'pei'. :i ii;g. bar! v. f e;y-eyed f.-il iw. the gild back cf th' :'!it -r. pa-sed i u: the igars. and r.p. n-' l chmge for only $1. Wilson toM hir-i h" ha I given him $Jti. The barkeeper i imily d- tiie 1 this, and pr xlti -id a silver 1 '.. ir ;cs the one hand) d him, a. id app i. 1 to a bystan 1 r, wh . of c mr.-c, c -n-i---r his statement and. moreover, chil-1--il asiy.m? in the h-ms to dlff. r. Alth mgh many h ol s. t n the transaction, na one oi'j cied. and Wilson, after hesitating i moment, came back t hp-. In language more emphatic than p lite, 1 t ill h:m go up to his r.om. I ick 2 - -iked surprised, and when Wils :i hid goji , asked if he was .' of our party. I replied in the af.'n :n itive, and gave the rircums;a:; -es of Wils.ip.'s cein.'etiou with us. Di k studi d a in nr.-, ;!:. an i then asked. "Are y.ui g ing' c lei him lo.se that in.pv wlihoiu making a ki k'.'" I told him I did n c s any other way to do. as to mike a rov in that place w.ujd b- foolish. He warded : kr.ow what I would gie him to get ihe ciin bar k, an 1 I repli. d that he eouid h i- the whole, as we had lost our claim. "Will you back me up. and has your friend inuar.ing i: b) gji any sand?" said i ii. 1 was very mu.;h worked up over the w'a affair, and al'Jnugli I don't help ve in getting inio a row unkss it is t'or.' d upon a man. it goes against one's griin to see su:h a barefaced robbery as Wilson's, so I sill "Yes." although I dil n t really believe that he was la earn- .-t; ia fact. I could n -t imagine h nv he would g about a recovery. I was sm to learn. We reut rem lined in the barroom an h ii r after Wilson's retirement, and the place had gradually bee me deserted until there were hue half ;i d zen people I esid. s the baikctper and ourselves remaining, and several of these were sleepy drur.lt. The barkeeper, though he glar.ee.l raw and then in our direction, paid us no other attention. H seemd to have forg .tten the gohl episode. I ha 1 given up any ilea that Di.k's suggestions were 0 -niing t a pMtit, tir.d was thinking of retiring, when he got up, sauntered over ;o the? bar In an easy-manner, and, quick as a hash, covered the barkeeper with his revolver, and asked him to "return that money." Hob and myself at once covered the remainder of the party, who protested, however, that they had no intention: of interfering. The barkeeper sow his predicament and sullenly handed out a twenty-dollar p ld piece. The only remark he made was. "You'll wish you was 'burning" before you ever started for L. L . and if you think you are going to come it on us so easy, you are making a big mistake." Dick did not rply, and soon we all went up to Wil-on's room. As we went up stairs we could distinguish among the bible of cries the words, "Tha's a plucky cuss," "Are you g dnsf to let those tenderfeet belt you?" "(iee. IUI, juu've lHm hMl up. You've got to treat." "It won't go for those fellow.- to boast that they did up H L ," and then Bill's d.ep voice, "And they won't, either. I'll get my innings before they leav. you mark m." We found Wilson barricading the Joor of the room with bureau and washstand. We held a council of war. We could hf2r ihe men talking below us. Wilson's room was directly over the bar, and by cutting a hole through the llooring we k-fl only the coiling between them and us, so we could hear distinctly everything they paid. Fortunately the affair occurred too late to bring out a big crowd, and only a few of the nearncighb rs. attracted by th? rejK.rt. had come in. They derided that we were too well armed to assault us in our n.-oms, especially as we were on our gtiard, but thought the best idea would be to r.tiack us when we came down, as we would hive to do or starve. With this Idea, one of thm commenced boring h.'lfi in the stairway casing, presumably to hoot through. Naturally wo prepared id go out the window. The bed was one of the old-fashioned rop.d kit id, and re-moving the rcpe from this snd blowing out our lights, we laid the bed clothes on the roof, removed our bootä. and carefully crawlrd to the far end of ins piazza. The noise in the tarrooni wml 'to have drowned any noi;e we made, and our only fear was of pome one coming out. Tying- our rifles ani other thlny-t into f.vo bundles. Dick lowered them, and then we all slid down the. corner pest, and put for the woods. There we finished dreeing, and Dick and 1 then went to ih? stable for eir horc-s. The clouds hid been breaking- away foi some time and the m vo.illght made us f,n conspicuous that we hid to watch the shadows as we dodged across the open pace. We hid little trou&i? in ihuiiiig our Ivorw-d, and started out. each 1-eadi.ngr two, I n advance. As my lead horse approached the threshold of the door, hl.3 f harp hoofs came down upon a flat stone

with a loud clatter. I expected every moment to see the hotel door open, but they either did not hear or thought it a common noise in the stable. Fearing a repetition of the alarm. I ripped up an old blanket, and muffling the horses' hoofs, we led them out where the others were waiting, trying to account f r our long delay. Then all commenced arranging their things on their saddles. I finished first, and mounting my horse, with my rifi on my knee, placed myself as a scout to watch the hotal. I confess that I then felt comfortable for the first tlma that night. It was well I did. for no sooner had I mounted and my horse moved a few steps away than on? of the other horses sounded a neigh that rDus:d all the occupants of the house we had left. Flinging open the dosr so that the light fell full upon me. some one yelled: "They are getting away!" and emptd his revolver at us. We could hear the bullets sing about U3, but no damage was dons, and, as the otherä werf ready, Bob called to me to "pull out." Thi3

I would have been glad to do, but my horse refused to budg? a etep. I think he was dazzled by the flash?.? from th revolver. I never thought of dismounting but receiving another salute, I opened up with elghC of my heavy cartridges at the doorway. When I finished it was vacant. I heard the bittles break as the balls went eri?hing into the woodwork of th? bir. Dick In the meantime had ridden back to what the trouble was and was firing his forty-four rifle as fast as he could. Lr- L was certainly bjing waked up. You could se lights appearing all along the street. But n one cam? our way on account of the bullets. I think the people th aught we were the lindlard's party in the woods attacking the unruly guests. One fellow I shall never forget. lie came out of the house and was Just aiming to lire as I shot. He made a perfect licture of thea tragic as he gave a little spring, his rile fell to the ground and soon he himself staggered Into a sitting p sture. I had hit him in th shoulder. A seemd later I saw a flash from the barn and felt a. burning sensatim in my neck. Jabbing my spurs into my horse, to my surprise h-" started on a run after the ethers. Dick lost n time in following. We found Wilson suffering from a severe wound in the cheek. A ball had glanced from a tree and cut him quite billy. My neck had just a scratch. We pushed the horses along at a sharp gall p for some distance in spite of the mud. and then halted for a consultation. It was perfectly silent in the wood-. I advised going on to I. d. Dick, however, raised objections, saying there were lots cf short cuts by whi -h the I.. Ij Sua could get ahead of us, especially as the had fresh horse and they would certainly try to. He knew of an old claim up a creek which the road crosse 1 a little way ahead where we would be perfectly safe, if we could lhrw th-m off our trail. This we decided to try. When we arrived at the creek, Di -k s-mt Huh and Wilson up the creek, telling them to keep in the water all the time. The creek was one of th e shallow, rapid streams common to the si -ti .a. and the directions were not lituri'lt to f llow. Having started them, he and I crossed the creek and coiitituud on the road for nearly a mile. Then w' came to a rocky ridge. Biding t the top of This, we followed it until we r-a l.e.l the creek, about half a mile below our first crossing. We continued up t th r-'.idw iy and r the same route again, and at last on and after our frier. 1--. Tii im we left a plain trail going along the road from the creek, should the searching parry examine our tru-ks. As we turned up on the creek I thought I heard voices back of us. but was not sure. We hurried along, th . rushing of th-" water drowning the rattle f cur hor-es' hoofs ngal.nst the stones. It was som time before we overtook Bob and Wilson, and all were feeling tired out. horses and men, when Dick led the way up the bank, through t.h red-woods, to our goal. We found there a fair cabin. Tethering our horses, we went inside and built a 1'ig fire of dry wood and. arr.angi.ng our saddles and helmets, lay down to rest. How we did sleep! It was broad sunlijht and a gorgt-ous day when at los-i v.'e awoke. After a v.i.h In the creek, had i'l n it been for Wilson's chek. it wmil 1 l ave been hard to realize tint our j revious evening's experience was more than a dream. The horses were feeling on th rich bottom grass and this reminds; 1 us that he had no'.liing to eat. To shoot would atti.tct attention, and although we had s.-en deer about, we left them alone. Bob's ingenuity came to ..ur rescue. He had noticed several covey of -iiiad in and alteiit the clearing, which m his approach scanne 1 through a -tap in a thicket. Acting on this idea, he constructed a fence in shape of a "V." and at the apex lixed a cage trap, so that by pulling a string it becked the quail in. We went cut a beaters and .--oon had a fine covey running aiong his new roadway, and wh-n he sprang the trap We were possessed of over twenty fine quail. These we broiled, and no one object"-! because they had not le en hung up two weeks b. fore. We rested all day undisturbed and retired to another night's rest. Getting up early the next morning, we ate a breikf Pt of odd quail and started for L d. When we came to the road it Ijjked as taaugh a small army had crossed, but as the freshest tracks pointed toward L I., . we kept on toward L. d, confident of not being disturbed. Once there we felt perfectly safe, as old Li d wis n:ted far his sterling qualities and Dick knew him well. On our arrival his greeting was Indeed cordial. They had heard of the Ij I, affair, and hearing nothing of us feared we had been captured by th-1 pursuing party. We remained with, him two diys. During that time the rumor became current that the L L itees Ld got wind of our whereabouts and were coming up to clear us out and L d, too, if ho made any objections, but we never saw .anything of them. On leaving we asked for our bill and were surprised to be told there wis none, with the additional remark. "Any one who can clean out Ij L travels free at L d." Dick I persuaded to remain with us, promising him work. Wilson was for starting home at once, but after his face healed he enjoyed many a month's hunt in the woods. The twenty-dollar gold piece I purchased of Dick and keep as a memento of a very trying time. X. Y. Tost. I ii happy Illnkn. There is a telephone in their residence and. as it is used principally by Mrs. Binks and her friends, it Ls perhaps natural that it should be identified solely with Mrs. Binks, and that Mr. Binks well, Mr. Binks answered when the bell rang a few nights ago. and this is the conversation that took place: "Hullo!" "Well!" "Is this Mrs. Binks?" "No." "I mean, is this Mrs. Binks's telephone?" "No: it's the company's." "Well, is this Mrs. Bink's house?" "I don't know. I'm beginning to think that perhaps it Is." "What?" "Yes. I guess it is. Everyone seems to think it is, anyway." "Ia Mrs. Binks's daughter there?" "No." "Well. whr is this?" "Oh. this Is only Mrs. Binks's husband, the father of Mrs. Binks's daughter, the man who lives in Mrs. Binks's house and occasionally drives Mrs. Binks's horses. She got him with the house, you know." "Oh. ehe did?" "Yes. she did." "Tough on Mrs. Binks, isn't it?" That telephone will probably be taken out of the house. Disowned by Lile. Didn't TUInk. Once there was a robin Uved outside the door Who wanted to ero Inside And hop upon the tloor. "Oh. no, said the mother. "You must stay with me, B'.ttie birl's are safest Kitting In a tree." "I don't care," paid robin. And gave his tail a fiinc. "I don't think the old folk Know quite everything." Down he flew, and kitty neizei him Hefore he'd time to tillnk. "Oh," he cried. "I'm orry. But I didn't think!" Selected.

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He eJucal-. .1 h. r ia his h ly religion, and und a- J.e roof of that g " u man this a lopt-.d.tild b -gan to develop a swe-'tness and t-.xc.-'.len.-y of character, if ever equaled, c r'ainly never surpassed. B'autlful lladassah! Could that adopted father ever spare her front his h.-useholl? Her arilesspess. ht-r girlish sports, her innocence, her ori hanag-e, had w arid themselves thoroughly ar.uin l his heart, just as rrjund each pare.u'.s heart among us there are ten Irl.s fl'pphliig and fastening ar.d Ll.somiijg and, growing stronger. I exis rt he was Idee others who have loved ones at h me wondering somedmes if sickness will o.'iiJ ar.d death and bereavement. Alas, w Y than anything the father expects .pitta lo his ad.jpted child! Ah.isueruwa prineely scoundrel, lem.ir.u.t :hit. IJaa.is-s.th. the f air. one in oil the kingd-'in, became his wife. W.rse taan death was ma ri aj;-e to ?u h a monster of iniipiity. How great th change when thi-ä yvjng woman left the home w'.Kre C.od was worshiped and religion honored t r enter a oalaee dev-ted to pri-le, i i -.le. try ar.d .senstu.Uy! "As a I.up.'o to the slauciit--!" '1 lie ir'H.Hi-l Jen n, Ahisuerus kntnv net that his wife wo? a Jewess. At the instlRiti n of the infamous prime minister the king decreed that all the Jews in the land shrtild b slain. Hulissah pka.ds the cause of her people, breaking through thj rules of the cjuit and i.resenting herself in the very face of deith, crying, "If I i-erisli. I perish!" Oh, it was a sid time am ang that enslaved people! They had all heard the decree concerning tli.-'lr death. Sorrow, gaunt and ghastly, sat in thousands of households, and mothers wildly pressed their infants to their br-a--'s as the days of massacre hastened on, praying that the siiiv sword stroke which slew the mother might also slay the child, rosebud and bud perishing in the same blast. But Hadassah is busy at court. The hard heart of the klnj is touched by her story, and although he could not reverse his decree fer the slaying vi the Jews he sent fTta an order that they shauld arm themselves for defense. On horseback, on mules, on dromedaries, messengers sped tbivniffla the land, bearing the king's dispatches, and a shout of jay went up from that enslaved people at the faint a pe of success. I diubt n t many a rusty blade was taken diwn and sharpened. Unbearded youths grew stout as giants at the thought of defending mothers and sisters. Desperation strung up cowards inta heroe?, and fragde women, grasping their wc-ipans, swung them about the cradles, impatient for the time to strike the blow in behalf of household and country. The day of execution flawned. Government officials, armed, and drilled, cowed before the battle shout of the oppressed peeple. The cry of defeat rang back to the palaces, but above the mountains of dead, above 75.O0Ü crushed and mangled eerpses, sounded the triumph of the delivered Jews, and their enthusiasm was as when the highlander3 came to the relief of Lucknow, and the English army, which stood in the very jaws of death, at the sudden hope of assistance and rescue lifted the shout above belching cannon and tho death groan of hosts, crying, "We ara paved! We are saved!" Chrlattnn Pernevcranee. My Fubject affords me opportunity of illustrating what Christian character may be under the greatest disadvantages. There is no Christian now exactly what he wants to be. Your standard is much higher than anything you have attained unto. If there be any man so puffed up as to be thoroughly satisfied with the amount of excellency he ha3 already attained. I 'have nothing to say to such a or.. But to those who are dissatisfied with past attainments, who are tolling under disadvantages which are keeping them from being what they ought to be, I have a message from God. Each of ou labor under difficulties. There is , something in your -temperament, in your worldly circumstances, in your calling, 1 that acts powerfully against y:.u. Ad mitting all this. I introduce to you Hadas-saU of the text, a noble Christian, notwithstanding the most gigantic difficulties. She whom you might have expected to be one of the worst of women is one of the best. In the first place, our subject i3 an illustration of what Christian character may be under orphanage. . Thi3 bible line tells a long story about Hadassah. "She had neither father nor mother." A nobleman had become her guardian, but there 13 no one who can take 'the place of a parent. Who so able at night to hear a child's prayer or at twilight to chid youthful wanderings or to soothe youthful wirrow? 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Yi.u had huue sorrows in you little heart. You sometimes w. pt iti th-' night when you knew net whet was the matter. You felt sad s-ira tnn-'s ev-n on the pliygi-ound. Your fatl-.-r or m ith: r did not stand in the door I welcome you when you came home from a long journey. You still fe.-l the cfi'cv t o; early disadvantages, and you have :-me-tinp's offered them as a reas n for ymn not being as thoroughly religious a.; you would like to be. But these eN. u- -s are not sufficient. God's grace will triumph if you seek It. He knows what ol.sup 1 -s you have fought agiinst, and tip more trial the more help. After all there are no orphans in the world, for the Great God is the Father of us all. Again our subject is an illustration of wa.U religion may be undr the pressure of poverty. The captivity and crushed condition of this orphan girl and of the kind man who adopted her suggest a condition of poverty. Yet from the very lirst acquaintance we had with Hadassah we find her the same happy and contented Christian. It was only by compulsion sinwas afterward taken into a phee of honor and allluenee. In the humble home of Mordecai. her adopted father, she was a lisht that illumined every . rival ion. In s me period In almost every man's life there comes a season of straitened circumstances, when the severest calculation anil most scraping economy are neensary in order to subsistence and respectability. At the commencement of business, at the entrance upon a profession, when friends are few and thrt world is afraid of you because there is a possibility of failure, many of the noblest hearts have struggled against poverty and are now struggling. To such I hear a message of K-'id cheer. You say it is a hard thing for you to be a Christian. This constant anxiety, thLs unresting calculation, wear out the buoyancy of your spirit, and. although you have told perhaps no one about it. cannot I tell that this is the very trouble which keeps you " from being what you ought to be? You have no time to think about laying up treasures in heaven when it is a matter of great doubt whether eu will be enabled to pay your next quarter's rent. You cannot think of striving after a robe of righteousness until you can get means enough to buy an overcoat to keep out the cold. You want the bread f life, but you thlnlt you must get along without that until you can buy another barrel of flour for your wife ar.d children. Sometimes you sit down discouraged and almost wish you were dead. Trtala of t1r Poor. Christian? in satin slippers, with their feet on dormask ottoman, may scout at such a class of temptations, but those who themselves have been in the struggle and grip of hard misfortune can appreciate the power of these evils to dissuade the soui away from religious duties. We admit the strength of the temptation, but then we point to Hadassah, her poverty equaled by her piety. Courage, down there in the battle! Hurl away your disappointment. !Men of half your heart have, through Christ, been mora than conquerors. In the narre of God, come out of that! The religion of Christ is iust what you want out there among the empty fl-ur barrels and beside the cold hearths. You have never told any one of what a hard time you have had. but God knows it as well as you know it. Y'our easy times will come after awhile. Do not let your spirits break down midlife. What if your coat is thin? Run fast enough to keep warm. What if you have no luxuries on your table? High expectations will make your blood tingle better than the best .Madeira. If you cannot afford to smoke you can afford to whistle. Bun merely animal spirits are not sufficient; the power of the gospel that is what you want to wrench despair out of the soul and put you forward into the front of the hosts incased in impenetrable armor. Trinis of Uenuty. Again, our subject illustrates what religion may be 'under the temptation of personal attractiveness. The Inspired record says of the heroine of my text, "She was fair and beautiful." Her very name signified "a myrtle." Yet the admiration and praise and flattery of the world did not blight her humility. The simplicity of her manner and behavior equaled her extraordinary attractions. It Is the same divine goodness which puts the tinge on the rose's cheek, and the whiteness into the lily, and the gleam on the wave, and that puta color in the cheek, and sparkle in the eye, and majesty in the forehead, and symmetry into the form, and gracefulness into fie gait. But many through the very charm of their personal appearance have been destroyed. What simperlngs and affections and impertinences have often been ths re3ult of that which Gcd sent as1 a blessing! Japonleas. anemcms and heliotropes never swagger at the beauty which God planted in their very leaf, sepal, axil and stamen. There are many flowers that bow down so modestly you cannot see the color in their cheek until you lift up their head, putting your hand under their round chin. Indeed any kind of personal attractions, whether they bs thoss of ths body, the

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Whi-the-most, of u will n : have the s.po,. kind of temptation whi h ll..h-'-.th must !i ive fett from hei attractiveness of p. : -s mil appeirance, th re uny be op t vv h. nn it will I-- an a Iva Mag? t h '. 1 tii' Lao -liar. let. r . f ;h beiatit'u! ejptive wh sptili-td r. it h-r humility a i l ear:-t-it.s.s of dlsp .--,: t i iti to '.re world'- adttilrati en and liitt-.-vy. T v hief s" r. t of ti. b'.mty '-f the i i'.et i.-" that aw iy dv.a ci th ; gt .i.ss from one w- k's pi I t- an tie-tit n -vi r mistrusts that it is a vi iK-l. ln:tetle THnl. Agiin. our nibj- t .'h.'o:t.- what rr!lci ti may i unb-r b id d i ip-stie iidla- r s. Jl.ida--s.ih was .saat-h'-d from the p-lly home into whi- h she had b-en a lo; J and i'Ur. "lu.p-1 int the a1 r.iimb'.e as.---eiati ns of wiii-h wick-. I Ahasucins w is the enter. What a whirl of blasplp-nty and drunkenness aril ii -entiousne-s; X altar, ip prayer, no s-'ahl.ath, n- tied! If tiiis captive girl can be a Chri.-.i.iti tii re, then it is p .is--:'riIo to be a Christian anywaeiv. Taero are many of the h -st p--o-p!" of the v'orl i wh are nblig-.l t c-: t r. l with tip- most advet so d kx I"llu; nces, children who have Kf vn up into the 1 ive of God under the fr. wn (.; parents and under the dtse.-.uragcjie-nt of lud example. Sern- sNter of the family having possessed the faith "f Jesus is the subject of unociindel satire ir.tll et. 1 by br. '.hers an 1 si.-Urs. Yea, Hadassah vas n t tip; only Christian who had a queer husband. It is now no easy matter to maintain correct Christian prin iple whn there is a companion disposed to s -off at them and to as r.Pe ev.-ry inip-rf ction of character b hypocrisy. What i hard thing b r one np-mber of the family to ripi.tly keep toe Sabbath when others are disposed to make it a day of rewlry, or to incubate propriety of speech In the minds f childr.-n when there are others to offset the instructions by loose and profane utterances, or to be regularly in atti ndince upon church when there is mere household work demanded for the Isold's day than for any s-e.-ular day. Do I speak to any laboring under these blighting disadvantages? My subje.-t is full of encoarag' nieiit. Vast i '-sp. .usabilities rest upon you. Be faithful, though you stand .is much alone us did Lot in isodom, or Jeremiah in Jerusalem, or Jonah in Xineveh, or Hi-bissah in the court i of Aha. -tier us. Th- re are trees which ; grow the b st wh.-n their roots clutch I among the jigged rocks, and you verily ' have but poor soil in which to d-'Velop. but grace is a thorough husbandm in and can raise a crop anywhere. Glassware is molded over the lire, and in the same way you are to be fitted as a vessel of ! mercy. The best tir.ib-'r must hive on it saw and gouge and beetle. Th-' fotmda-ti-n stone of yours and every other house ; came out onlv under crowbar and blast. F.les and wrene'.vs and hintmers belong to the church. The Christian vi -toty will be bright just in proportion as th- battle is hot. Xever despair being a thorough Christian in any household which is not worse than the court of Ahasuerus. Heliuion in High IMnces. Finally our subject illustrates what religion may be in high -worldly pasition. The last we see in the blb of Hadassah is that she has become the queen of Persia. Prepare now ta see the departure of her humility ar.d ?c'.f-;acrince and religious principle. As she goes up you may expect grace to go down. It is easier to be humble in tha obscure house of her adopted father than on a throne of dominion. But you misjudge this noble woman. What she was before she is now the myrtle. Applauded for her beauty and her -crown, she forgets not the cause of her suffering people, and with all simplicity of h art still remains a worshiper of the God of heaven. Noble example, followed only by a very few. I address some who. through the goodness of God, have risen to positions of influence in the community where you live. In law. in merchandise, in medicine, in mechanics and in other useful occupations and prof essi ans you hold an Influence for go-d or for evil. Let us see whether, like Hadassah. you can stand elevation. Have you as much simplicity of character as once you evidenced? Di you feel as much dependence upon God. as much your own weakness, as much your accountability far talents intrusted? Or are you proud and overdemanding and ungrateful and unsympathetic and worldly and sensual and devilish? Then you have been spoiled by your success, and you shall not si: on this throne w!th the heroine of my text. In the day when Hadassah shall come to the grander coronation in the presence of Christ and the bannered hosts of the redeemed yo-u will -be poor indeed. Oh. there are thousands of men who can eally endure to be knocked down of misfartune, who are utterly destroyed if lifted up of success. Satan takes th'm to the top of the pinnacle of the iemnle and shoves them off. Their head beg:ns to whirl, and they lose their balance, and down they go. Dan Kern of Pride. While last autumn all through th; forests there were luxuriant trees with moderate outbranch and moderate hiarhi. pretending but little, there were f -iiage plants that shot far up, looking c"own wdth contempt on the whole forest, cjanplng their hand3 in the breeze and shauting "Aha, do you not wish you were as high up aa we are?" 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