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 -.-jsBTg^i.j 'iraiasr^w"' «*fiy3-~-'-- ' l' " â- â€¢?*â-  ^R^^^^WflPfP* itATlS' ago tl»\^ P export, to py are now ' opened t^t^.7*tfL p7 to 1883 '%5itC5 there were fnT 1.047 turJie^5^u, roads confi/^«*. 4 W^ry 1887, onlJI? J».l| ot theae 4 ^ir!^-***.! em 1888. Bvth!^ fme in Britain appe»^, f w by no means t^ *• L phile in 1861 t).«*" '"kq I an increase out if^Sli"i jrowth of populaC^M l« the comparison b€twee«Ia freB. Inl861thK^H tst year's record BhowS^ '*?f'f°'«t"yofthelron, lately mentioned, a. a, at variance with the ff« lomiats and politieia„rt. ^,'^«» 'ave actually sbw iLa 1,000.000 sterliV^^ig V.agaiuBt £626.00.000 rt^" d. But at the present S tenditure on this account il IS from £35.000,000 to fini I- as against about £13 ooofn that the English exSta lout 203., as agaip8t4- 2d ptcs. â-  Jed number of ettcrs, 4c., dJ S^,*^jUn«tel Kingdom dnl ided March, 1887, was as fol 145900,(00: post^' book packets and circnUn ewtpipers, 151.200.000-tota p-rcels, ;42.860,000. gtnm 0,0t;0, being an increase of 4I â- u the previous -.c-«.t. Abort -re deliver-.c in 'England otiit. were delivered in Bm es- 2S per cent being delivera postal district aloneâ€" 9 0m nd, and 6 per centinlrekni f f registered letters was lol crease of 3.1 per cent Thf ;i,rea8e is owing mainly, M ex^endtd ust; of Postal OrdeB f remittance. ig hogs and cattle into porl chief ti^tabliahment in Chicag^ which does about one-fourth a of \hi city. The works co^ he stock-yard cover about 31 f this 20 acres are used fo " and storage for all the fredi pt at a temperature of aboal and the pork is also cooled fol irs after killing before beisf the vaiious buildings there an' oor-8pac3. An army of 5,001 iployed in these works, wbicj kinds cf meats â€" green, salted" fed, suicked, and canned. Da" twelvemonth the Armour slaughtered 1,113.006 ho^ es, and 86,0C0 sheep, and thi • prcdujta reached over £10,1 iug, the goods, weighing aboof bs. being sent to market in viif the world. liuying His Time. who wishes to see me is A^ 3 feee," said a minister, defend ice of admitting callers, ere) terrupted his studies. Horao was the busiest of editor it to see nineteen of eve iud women who wiihes to him to be interrupted wluljj ;j3 for the Tribune, and h' pressed itself in the form 1 urltil at those who encroache able lime. But he lacked th pui; iu the latch-string of M All sorts of peopla ^^P^"" M \rv h new machines, new Uia^ ariiies and new wanta, sedtU)^ benevolent editor. ly borrower thrust kimseUi r as Mr. Greeley was wnti X)rial, and asked for a low « ,ke it,'" exclaimed the busy edil his pocket-book in tl»e'^J but for heaven's sake, a»J writing ' j. day a woman, who bM^ called whenMr. Greel^^ is work. TeUing her a? w I to listen, he kept on wnw I scheme for amission, anaj ilding it to him. 1 igain ho growled ont tt«t euiug, but she would not He kept on jnriting, sne* At last, he jumped aP, r» ig-tube that ie^^^^sTTi I shouted, "Serd me ap "' came up with ft rush t---- ter. Thrusting the b^-»J d, he opened the door -^ • out, and then rMWWa at having conquered ner. ad ahe conquered bua, •- iizi it. ,_^ b] Ir. Greeley's "»*^?*^ta 1 purchase freedom io»- lonation. Pearl Fishiii?- 3rn end of tne "^•'"««j^ a very ^^^»m* its go oat OMUJ, " about ten divert ^^^ en thotisand. ^l^"" baaern remo** ^f^gH ards, and "I««^^^ ,way. Afi "" irefoHf Old BOB. â- aden. The ia bif^ttvlBT 1 matter bfliag »p6aii. BattfaM .y^* p'sjAm „,„ts are come, Ruprer lerred up, 't^ *if5wi for " -Someo and Jvliet. • '*** «artv Mrs. William Egremont i?^'" Id be the bestm?de of testuy- ' ^probation of her Bister-in-law, 'rr tVio newcomers to the th" newcomers 2 is"?, "a So the invitations were ^^TS'^^ early day of the coining 1 1«^ â-  TiBiny PJi°*^ °^ ^^^^" "^^ '^^ ^• "^^"c^ffiont's garden party regarded, I ***" mtfereni There was Basil, to *i 'leant wearing his velvet suit and ** anv 'ce' as mother would allow. ^i ^^ â- ; ^as fcn occasion for triumph I IiBI^^^^|g "ground for herself, and for .iWf Ter pupil; and Ursula herself »**/( rward to it and practised for it *••, .= i» rare being t ^°'^ht for his first encounter in the 'ile care being to distinguish her- I '""'"h her racket. To her mother, it was d *â-  I ^iiere she trusted not to be a I "'Irion to her husband and hia famUy; :S!'o the hostess, it was a not unwel- Ision of exercising honest diplomacy ""'"t not without a sense of magnanim- """roMay it was a bore to be endured 5. /„.iiul philosophy to her good-natured !!L»i occasion for hospitality, where he '^Uhit bis brother would appear, and ^•""^0 advantage, and was ready even to him thereto with that wonderful claret; i,, iiwvn had always envied, and declared !t,ied on a p:*"on. And :.lark, per- Tiewed the occasion with dmerent else. At any rate, even isei ^-from any one eise. -n.-- auy raie, even '" J2»ns"of Biidgefield mustered there ijas^many minus as Scott ascribes to the Jbstants of Binnockburn, and there were I _^l,ly a5 many other circles of feeling 2«or less intersecting one another among inore distant guests, most of them, how- ' with the sime feeling of curiosity as to Uithisnewlv-Jiscovered wife and daugh- jf Aiwyn Egremont naght be like. Eiternally, in her rich black silk, trim- lied with point laoe, and her little straw- ^fuei bonnet wiih its tuft of feathery â- H and blue cornflower, she was so charir i^that her daughter danced round her, ping, "0 marnmy, mammy, if they could Sieeyoa at homs "â€" then, at a look: "(Tell thenâ€" Aunt Urjsel, and Miss Mary,. lidMr. Duttoiil" Vittiewaa veiy much pleased with her I HI pretty tennis dress; but she had no I iBonal vanity for herself, only for her j Miker. The knowledge that she was no Iwiywas no grievance to her youthful Iifiito; but when her father surveyed them l(4e hall, she looked for his verdict for I i» Bother as if there relations were revers- "Ha! Well, you certainly arj a pretty Imrare, Edda," he said graciously. "Trail pass muster You want nothing llrtityle. And, hang it! you'll do just as I nil without it if the tjanoness will only do I w justice. Faces like that weren't given I ii nothing." the blushed incarnadine and accepted one I (Ikii kisses with a pleasure, at which Nut- ii wondered, her motherly affection prompt- if her to murmur in his ear â€" "AndUrauia?" "She'll not cut yon out but she is Egre-, I wt enough to do very fairly. Goinir al- |iriy?" "If you would come with us," she said |ii«fully. to the horror of Nuttie, who'was miiz to be at the beginning of all the I Miches. "I? oh no 1 I promised old Will to look I i,titt that won't be till late in the day, or IikiU have to go handing all the dowagers 1 III the duiing-room to tea. " "Then I think we had better go on. They sktd ns to come early so as to see people wive and know who they are." J^y was a useful pronoun to Alice, who iil»it a liberty to call, her grand-looking W«in law, Janeâ€" was too well-bred to I »« her Mrs. William. 1 Pie mother and 'l-iughter crossed the gar- i«s Nuirie chfittering all the way abKnt I *« tennis tactics she had picked up from I fcche, while her mother answered her â- wwhat m'ecbanically, wondering, as her P tell on the square squat grey church **r, what, had becorhe of the earnest de- "iioa to church work and intellectual pur- *« that used to characterise the girl. »«. always both mother and daughter W hitherto kept up their church-going, •• e»en their Sunday School habits, ••Many hindrance come in their way, '• Bgremont apparently acquiescing in *»t he never shaced. But these things ?? ' "â-  Ursula's mind, to have sunk out •"â- eproportion they held at Bridgefield, I "'"iiger to be the spirit of a life, but mere •Msy duties and occupations. "« this wicked world getting a hold of •poor child? Which was dutyT which ^the world This was the thought that Crn Alice, too simple as yet to perceive J",lJr8uli's former absorption had been in "•ttterests that surrounded her and her rJPj^ions, exactly as they were at present, I 'Mt the real being had yet to work it- I J« lierself. Alice did not think atalL LT*"?]oicing in her restored husband, I iT^Mevident affection. Her duty towards *M in her eves olain. She saw, of E* 1 1 -^«^dent affection Her duty towards *M in her eyes plain. She saw, of J* w»t he had no religion, but she ao- kuJ^v ^^^ '^« **»* of 1»ad weather *e6Ml "' """ 8^e loved her daughter Wj. u Payers with all her heart for i»lri °°P**' ""1 "be did her best, with- Ji^ to go below the surface. i^r*" the Rectory gate wide open. ib .*** ^il rushing up to greet hia UtlnT.' Alice, there were aU the doors k^^t^fyepen, and the nearer slopes l'*«i,«onr "'^*""' "" seats of all dimen- 1 i^tW ' "^«' «oâ„¢e umbelliferous, fnTi? -^ghan rugs or spotted drina vi„ir"|?8ewho preferred the ground. ^j^ Blanche flitting about wild with »i^^ Md pouncing on Nuttie to ad- ^^°'°t. and reiterate instnictiomi; I mniinL r**^** younger girls altering Us^ 7- °^"" according to their N p,^'"'«ctions there were aotuaUy ^«^»tea«T^'^^'7*^'™«'g ones, bnfy I V» Z^^ ^^ wife, both rather gannt, ^Pie. He was button-holing, the* I'^Ctoft was trying to do the tome I 'CiZr^?^^" some parish caaoalty. â-  «d»t. ?*Y *° we in the welcome JWi»ui„ *°""' aad niece, but he ifaM 1"??^ again, while hia^ft J«qumto to hurry oflF elaewhma *dwards to tell her rttiry V •that â- be gave full lMedu^.«i|4j||*.jll*!Vl taaiAm to the enielty of Mn. Fhridn^ do. P^^^T Bstey Butte/ (wiTLrSfathw S^l?^ ^^^ Ufa* Bl«»S'«dair ^ihl,"ij^J^^ Wtod from fe telil!*^"'^,*y hi,f*fau8 mother. JMra. .Kgremont wap Iig»oing witb aotnah ^^l"i !f**. BympathTtothe hiatoryT Betsy Butter's struggles, and was inqulrine called oflf to be mtroduced to the arrival* who were beginning to flood the lawn. She prewjntly saw May, who had just M^w.^'"^.,'""'??* "P *°* down4ith ;i. u "/u • eyi^ently bearing the story WA V ^f.o^^wetief. She thought it had been Nuttie for a moment xhlre was a general rasemblance between the cousins that made them be mistaken for one another several times in the course of â„¢.t ?*y' â- "»» tbeir dresses, though not m*' "'^® °' *® â- *â„¢e â„¢*te and style. Thus it was that as Nuttie was sitting on the grass in earnest contemplation of Blanche s play, i hand was familiarly laid on her shoulder, and a voice said, « I haven't seen that horrid girl yet 1' .^*ter so many introductions, Nf ttie had little idea whom she knew, or whom she did nob know. She looked up and saw a small person in light blue, with the deUcate fea- tures, transparent skin, and blue eyes that accompany yellow hair, with an indes- cribable glitter of mirth and joyousness about the whole creature, as if she were part and parcel of the sunbeam in which she stood. " What horrid girl " said Nuttie. "The interloper, the newly-discovered savage, come to upsetâ€" Ah " with a little shriekâ€"" It isn't M*y 1 beg your pardon. " "I'm May's cousin," said Nuttie, "Ur- sula Egremont." "Oh, oh I" and therewith tne fact burst on both girls at once. They stood still a moment in dismay, then the stranger went into a fit of laughter. " Oh, I beg your par- don 1 I can't help it It is so funny 1" Nnttie was almost infected, though some- what hurt. " Who said I was horrid " she asked. " Nobody I Nobody but me â€" Annaple Ruthven â€" and they'll all tell you, May and all, that I'm always putting my foot in it. And I never meant that you where horridâ€" you yourself â€" you know â€" only " " Only nobody w anted us here," said Nut tie " but we could not help it." "Of course not. It was shocking, just my way. Please forgive me 1" and she look- ed most pleading. Nuttie gave out her baud with something about ' No one could mind " and therewith Annaple cried, " Oh, if you don't miud, we can have our laugh out i" and the rippling laughter did set Nut- tie off at once. The peal was not over when May herself was upon them demanding what was the ioke. " Oh, there she is The real May 1 Why," said Annaple, kissing her, " only think here I've be6n and gone and thought this was you, and inquired about â€" What was it? â€" â€" the awful monster â€" the chimera dire â€" that Mark had routed up " '*No you didn't say that," said Nuttie, half provoked. " Never mind what I said. Don't repeat it. I only wish myself and every one else to forget it. Now it is swept to the winds by a good wholesome giggling. But what business have you two to be so inconvenient- ly alike? You are as bad as the twin Lis- Ues 1" " There's an old foremother on the stair- case in white satin who left her looks to us both," said May. " You'll nave to wear badges," said Anna- ple. "You know the Leslies were so trou- blesome that one had to be shipped off to the Eist Indies and the other to the West." " They mairied, that's all," said May, see- ing Nuttie looking mystified and at_ that moment, Blanche's side coming out victor- ious, Nuttie descended into the arena to congratulate and be asked to form part of the next set. " Well, that wa8 a scrape " said An- naple "but she wasn't bad about it I I must do something to mike up for it somehow â€" get Janet to invite her, but really Janet is in such a state of mind that I am mildness itself compared with her. She would not have come, only John was curious, and declared he should go whether we did or not." "Ahl" said May, " I saw him, like the rest of mankind, at madame's feet." *• Oh is she of that sort?" "No," said May, "not at all. Mother and father too both think she is good to the backbone but she is very ptetty, with just the inane soft sweetness that men rave aboutâ€" innocent really. All accounts of her are excellent, and she has nice parish ways and will be as helpful as Uncle Alwyn will let her." ••But she couldn't always have been nice " " Well, I verily believe it was all Uncle Alwyn's and grandmamma's fault. I know Mark thinks so." ., " When the women of a family acquit a women it goes for something," said Annaple. "that's not original, my dear, I heard old Lady Groemede say so to Janet when she was deUberating over tiie invitation, For a good deal more than Mr. Mark's, at any "Mark is very fond of herâ€" the mother, I mean. He sayi wbeiihe wa. » little fellow her loss waswo^tohim then onr mother â- . ••Do yon iwMmher «he oatartrophe T " Not a bit. Only when she Is pettfag Basa it strikes me that I »f2Jt«^„*^ tones before. I only remember the time of miwry under the oroaspatchee grandmam- "^.*WdU?' • spl«rfid catting of hi. own » L MLk.'^toid Annaple. " ao ,t -«" ^iTnn'i.i^f bew it i. to torn ont forMar^'^weredMay. « Oh, here he '^Vm yon oome into tiiia «t, Annaple T" 2Zi^ '^Thev want another couple. a^ed. " They want How do yon get on andraaahoaodepted. ..Kr«conrage her by mi.pl«»d ^^'it'B abonitaii^ altogetiier I I want to '-^^SUfff^j^j^ysZS^ z: i-s. ,harefleottIl*ty«m legMoe of tho fuufy. Lord Bonidaalan. being 2^ tojpwaeaBoiSt^ffia aevef hto- f^ *?\**M:^Ser^l«dfa«d a T** ^•*'i?* ^*'» *« J»W8~fc ohUd. at iMcombe, whereher eldest waathewifeofSir John I^mw. Lady Ronniwlen waa an aralid, teBfined to the kou^ md Lady pelmar had daoghtMB faaktreadlM bntlM heeU cl Annahfella, ao chriatenedTbat called Annaple after the old Scottish queens, her •npestora. She had been- May%naont's chief friend ever since her importation at twelve years old, and the intiniacy had. been promoted by her mother and sister. Indeed, the neighbourhood had looked on with some amusement at the competition ascribed to Lady Delmar and to the wealthy parvenu, Mrs. West, for the heur-presump- tive of Brideefield Egremont. Annaple's lightness and dexterity rendered her the best of the lady tennis-players, and the less i^actised Ursula found herself defeated in the match, in spite of a partner whose^ play waa anperior to Mark's, and with whom she shyly walked off to ei.t ices. " I see," said Annaple. " it is a country- town edition of May. I shan't bltmder be- tween them again." " She will polish," said Mark, " but she is'not equiJ to her mother." " Whom 1 have not seen yet. Ah, there's Mr. Egremont 1 Why, he looks quite re- novated " " Well he may be ' " But Mark, not to hurt your feelinsfs, he must have behaved atrociously." " I'm not going to deny it," sad|Mark. " I always did think he looked like it," said Annaple. " When have you seen him before ' " Only once, but it was my admirable sa- gacity, you understand I always see all the villains in books just on his model. Oh, but who's tJ at How very pretty 1 You don't mean it u sAe Well, she might be the heroine of anything 1" " Ihh't she lovely " " And has she been keeping'school like Patience on a moniment all these years? It doesn't seem to have much damaged her damask cheek I" " It was only daily goverhessing. She looks much better than when I first saw her and as to the damask â€" why, that's deepened by the introduction to old Lady Grosmede that is impending." " She is being walked up to the old Span- ish duck with the red rag round her leg to receive her fiat. What a thing it is to be a bearded Dowager, and rule one's neighbour- hood 1" "I think she approves. She has made room for her by her side. Is she going to catechise her " Annaple made an absurd sound of mingled pity and disgust. " Not that sheâ€" my aunt, I mean â€" need be afraid. The shame is sdl on the other side." " And I think Lady Grosmede has too much sense to think the worse of her for having worked for herself," added Annaple. " If it was not for mother I should long to begin 1" " You It's a longing well-known to me! â€" but you 1" "Exactly! As the Irishman felt blue moulded for want of a bating, so do I feel fagged out for want of an honest day's work." "If one only knew what to turn to," said Mark so wearily that Annaple exclaimed. " ' We seem to be in the frozen-out state of mind, and might walk up and down sing- ing ' I've got no work to do,' " to which she gave the well-known intonation. " Too true," said he, joinmg in the hum. " But I thought you were by way of reading law." " One must see more than only " by way of" in these days to do any Rood." At that moment, Basil ran up with a message that Lady Delmar was ready to go home. They walked slowly up the terrace and Mark paused as they came near Mrs. Egre- mont to say, " Aunt Alice, here is Miss Ruthven, May's great friend." Annaple met a pleasant smile, and they shook hands, exchanging an observation or two, while a little way off Lady Grosmede was nodding her strong old face at Lady Delmar, and saying; "Tell your mother I'll soon come and see her, my dear. That's a nice little innocent body, ladylike, and thoroughly presentable. Alwyn Egremont might have done worse." " The only wonder is he did not I" re- turned Lady Deln»r. " They make the best of it here." " Very good taste of them. But, now I've seen her, 1 don't believe there's anything be- hind. Very hard upon the poor young man, though it was all his doing, his mother says. I congratulate yon that it had not gone any farther m that quarter. " " Oh, dear no !- Never dreamt of it. She is May's friend, that's all." Nevertheless, Lady Delmar made a second descent in person to hurry Annaple away. " Isn't it disgoatinE 7" aaid May, catehing her stepmother's smile. "Yon will see a good deal more of the same kind," said the Canoneas; "I am afraid more mortification ia in store for Mark than he gueaaea. I wiah that girl were more like her mother." "Mamma! a girl brought op among nmbrel- la-makeral Juat fancy! Why, ahe has just nothing in her!" " Don't aet Mark against her. May he might do worse." " Her head is a mere tennis ball," said May, di»Wing her own higher than ever, " and no «me wonld know her from a shop girL" " She ia young enongh," said the Canon- eas. " Don't claaa me with Lady^ Delmar, Mayâ€" I only aayâ€" ifâ€" and that I don't tiiink yon reaUae the change Mark wi U feeL" ' Better ao than sell htmaelf," muttered lOBfiSRS OUTK ITCHED. May. (to BK aOHTDfUKD.) A Fai-SeeburTontL " Say, miater, is all them oomin' to tiiia honae? aaked* email boy aa a wagon load of shiiiglea drove np. "'YhsJ' reqponded tiie driver- • What are yoB^^' to do with tiiem?" « Yonr f ather'a going toahingietiie roof of hia new bam." .,, -, -.^ • Say, miater," am the boy, oonfidential- It •ahedidi^ t6 Hm side of the ws|Dn, •* iatinuty-tvv tianta aa^ 6bjec« to your "IreAonao." .._ *• WaB. â- .! wanted waa lor ym to aee to oiitot^:lMfni/' f'i yV j*^ /â- â- â€ž jA. bf »8l*iBi*' old Hai^eaa atage poaohea before the daya of AoindiMadt iad ft va»tT« V^o(A in "tito afteraoon ni an Angoatday. Wo fnM on ow way to Stockton, and of the OM 'MM* KeBtanant in tho reiMttir «nny, ai n o thar » tooris^ in aaareh m health, a third a ranchman, and the two othon were apectators and miners. None of na had met Mdi otiier jn«vions to tite start. Those were perflona times, and the fint half hour was spent in siring each other np. I don't know to what conclusion the others came, but I looked over the four men and said to myself ' " The lieutenant ought to fight in case we are. attacked, but he seems too nervous to be gamey. The tourist is ill and has no sand, bat the ranchman and prospector can be depended on." At that time the coach which was not stopped twice out of five trips was consider- ed very lucky. In some few instances the robbers were driven off, but in most cases the passengers submitted to being "held up" and were glad to get off with notiiing worse. I had with me over $6,000 in ibank bills and gold, and I was determined not to part with that money without a fight. The ranchman had $4,000 and the miner about $3,009, as was afterwards learned, and both had deter- mined to fight. W? had just forded the Merced River, and had come to a lonely- streteh of road, when the ranchman pidled his revolver and examined the caps. It was not yet restored to the holster when we heard a shout, the report of a pistol, and the stage came to a full stop. I reached for my pistol, as did the miner, knowing that rob- bers were at hand, but before mine was out the lieutenant flung his arms around me and cried out ' For God's sake make no move or we shall all be murdered Let them take all we have "' At the same time the tourist fltmg himself upon the miner, and neither of us had a weapon out when a robber showed himself at either door. The ranchman was ready, however, and he killed the man on his side. He wonld have also killed the other, hut his revolver failed on the second shot, and the robber pushed his revolver in and fired with the muzzle pressed against the poor fel- low's heart A third robber then came up, and we were covered from either door and called upon to surrender. The jig was up, and we climbed out, delivering our pistols butt foremost as we left the stage. There were four of us and only two rofa^rs, but when a man has the drop on you ^d means busi- ness it's no use to kick. The lieutenant shelled out a watch and $40, the tourist a watch and $400, and they got from the other two of us the sums I have previously named. I had my bank bills in my boot- legs but as we were forced to strip to our shirts, they found every dollar. When they were ready to go they cut the harness to that the stage would be detained a couple of hourc, broke up or carried off every firearm and drank to our health f rem a flask the tourist had with him. They made off for the foothills to the East, having so littie care for us that neither of them once looked back. I was mad 4nd no mis- take, and the miner gave utteiiance to hie feelings in curses which almost cracked the stones around us. We had been robbed of every dollar, and with the money our every prospect. The tourist could get more at Stockton, and the lieutenant was only out a few dollars anyway. I was not yet dressed when he began to put on airs over us, claiming that if we had not been so hasiy he would have managed the affair to the de- feat of the robbers. This added to my an- ger, and I sailed in and pounded him until he yelled for mercy. It waa just sunset when the stage was ready to go, but there were two of us who did not propose to go that way. We were unarmed, but determined, and while the stage lumbered off down the rough road we found a club apiece and set out on the trail of the robbers. Luckily for us the miner had been long in the country and seen a good deal of the hunter's life. We, there- fore, had no difficulty in following the train until darkness came on. The fellows made directly for the foothills, and we had no doubt that they had some sort of a cave or stronghold out there. From the topogra- phy of the country he felt certain that a ravine or rift would be found not far away. We were then between the foothills and the true mountain in a narrow valley, and a full moon had come up. VMthout this light we could not have made our way, as the ground was much broken and boulders lay thickly scattered about. We went ahead very cautiously up this valley for about a mile, and of a sudden a rift opened to the left, and the glare of a camp fire greeted our eyes. It was not over two hundred feet away and after a minute we made out the forms of the two men as they seemed to be preparing supper. We crept back a few yards to hold a con- sultation, and the miner carefully stodied the lay of the land. He was of the opinion that it Waa a short, dry rift with a cave at â-  the far end. l|hree sides were enclosed by waJIs of earth and rock, and our only way was to attack the men from above. How high we wonld have to climb, or what the difficulties, we could not say. We were not three mnutea, deciding to make the at- tempt, and we prepared for it by leavig coato, vesta, hate and boots behind, We began the asbent about a hundred feet alMck from the month of the rift, and I do not believe two panthers could have done bettor. The side of the mountain waa thickly covered with cedara, vinea,«nd rocka Wul progress waa made almoat entirely by creeping. Wis had been going up for half aix hour before we bore o(f to the right in the direc- tion of the rift. We then had to move far more cautioof^y and I presume it was a full hour from the time we left the v«Jl^ before we lay on our stomachs a hnndred feet i^va the oamp fire and looked over. The men were dfaeotiy beneath na, seated close together, and vareamoking aa tiiey oeanied the money. We had buteneiray toattaiA. Lnekfly for US it wiia » atraight deacent. I conld iam». dropped a coin fair nj^ ti^ hat of the man beneath me. We Were oat npon a rock ahol^ but tiietv frtn lboa9 atbues of ^m^iiuBB oD abenfr-na. I aeleeted tme weigh- ing about twenty Av« poonda, tiiA miner got ane eqoaUy aa huge, and w» ourefolly erupt baok to the edge' with them.' Ih« f all 'Of the antalleat pebble wonld afiurtie 1^ men balDv, and wo need aa mnak-^atafioa aa if 4U1i««a woold pi^ tito ferfaift. AftwaMt we wei» nad?' "*» haA-aa^ Mwed. W« poiM^ the atabaa o».tba aafe ei «e oUi^ m| il » wUqpered " ll«W"froai " ' â-  :-.':---.»^'v*.!-i^. tUin wo dropped ' im^fSy^SSQ I heard timn atrikoi and 'o^aaid: down I Thoaa diapa win a^^Trlob JfijQMr^l^ f fi JlM^iiilalilHrto m dnm than to ooom ,ap«%«ft Ws'miiiitltftdaaOeMin aafety, and .wtfked a tH ia A j B B i i t hey were deaiS. Cor rooka had fyi^ aqoarely down n^n their heada, and yon eain ima|pne the raaalK,.' rThare waava' d^. airy autrn bat a few feet away, and the sang uul made the place a rendesvoua for a long time. We re- covered every dollar our coach had been robbed of and more tiian aa maoh anin which had been taken from others. The cave hdul a big supply of firc»nna, blanketa and provisiona, and in a mail bag hansing on the wall were tea gold and silver watchea We got altogether sixteen watches, five or six valuable pins and firearms worth at least $600. We not only secured the wealth, bat we made an even divide and kept every dollar of it. An attempt was made in Stocks ton to compel us to "divy" with several people who had been robbed, but it was a failure. As the tmrist was out of ready cash we gave him two hundred dollars, but we would not even sell the lieutenant back his wateh at any prioo. It was told all over the slope that our nia 1 amounted to twenty five thousand dollai s. If it did we earned every dollar of it, besides wiping ont a bad gang, and leaving the atage line clear for tho next six months. The Gentleman Still. An exchange reprints the old couplet " When Adam delved and Eve spaa. Who was th u the Kentlemin 7' ' If our contemporary asks this with a sincere desire for information, we would re- ply that a prepomlrr-ince of evidence would point to Adam's being the gentleman. A Bad Case. ' Biddy " Yis, and the poor thing kept sinking, and never revived until afther she had breathed her lasht. " Mary Ann " Yis, and even thin she waa spacheless, Oi've heard." One Sbade Softer- A German composer was coaducting one of his overtures. As the "horns" played too loudly he told them repeatedly to play more softly, and more sofcly they played each time. At the fourth repetition, with a knowing wink at each other, they put their instruments to their Jips, but did not blow at all. The cojduotor nodded approvingly. " Very good indeed," said be " now one shsbde softer and you'll havi^ it." A Stuart- A certain gentleman from the North be- ing of a fenealogical turn of mind, believed that he discovered i-A his pedigree some re- mote connection with the Royal Stuart blood. Going south, he made mu.h of this {iresumed relationship, until he was general- y spoken of in bated breath, by his inno- cent English friends, as "a descendant of the Stuarte." At a large public gathering he was thus mentioned, and ihe description instantly engaged the rapt interest of a stranger, a new arrival trom Caledonia. " A descendant o' the Stuarts 1" he cried. " Eh, sirs, I'd like fine to see ane o' the old Royal rane." "Thou there he b," answer- ed his interlocutT, pointing him out-^ " there â€" the gentle :nan standing in front of the fireplace." " (.iude sakes " said the astonished Scot " that's just my ain brither Jock," The Only Man Who Conld- One evening an associate editor -of the Tribune accosted Mr. Greeley as he came to his desk with some such question as thb " Didn't you know, Mr. Greeley, that you made a dreadful blunder in one cf your statistical editorials this morning?' " No how was it?" said Mr Greeley. "Why, you said somethibg aborit ' Heid'ieck and champagn3.' Don't you know Ileidaieck is- champagne?" " Well," said Mr. Greeley, quietly, " I am the only editor m thia p'per that could make that ini •.';. ke," Striving to Pi' -s^- Old Lady (sharply, to boy la rir store) â€" I've been waitin' for some tnii'j to ie waited on, boy. Boy (meekly) Yes'um wot kin I do fer you? Old Lady â€" I want a two cent stamp. Boy (anxious to please) â€"Yes'um. Will you have it licked A Mistaken Orator. •, ' " The great trouble with most people is," shouted an impassioned orator, " they never know whan they've »{ot enough " Then his audience begin to grow thin as one after another left, and the impassioned orator discovered before he got through that quite a number of people know when they've got enongh. Why They Galledffim aLay Beader. " Mr. Dombey continaea to read the aer^ vice, I see, in the absence of your rector. He's very proud of his elocution, I under- stand?" " Yoa'ffl. That's the leasoh they call him a lay-reader, I expect." " What's that to do with it, I want to know?" " Why, they call him a lay-reader becaose he cackles so much about it." Begotiatint; for a Dof;- Robinson â€" That's a fine dog you havej^ Dumley. Do you want to sell him Dumleyâ€" ru sell him for $50. Robinson â€" Is he intelligent Daml«y (with emphasis)â€" Intelligent? Why that doe knows as much as I do. Robinson-^on don't aay ao Well, I'll give yon twenty -five cento for him, Dumley. Why He Committed Snicide. " It hu been discovered," remarked a man to a friend, " that eighty per cent, of the snicidea in this country are committed by Grermana." '• Yea, and.it ia ratiier strange. Yoa knew Whetely, I anppoae " "Yea." • For many yelara he oonten^leted aoloide, bat he hadn^ the moral ooarage. He pray- ed and even -triad to nerve himaelf with vrtiiakey, bat ooald not face the ordeaL Ho finally aoooeeded." •* Qot the wnral oooraga^ eh f ' V ••Yea, heatodiod Gennn. Hadn't pro. oeaded very fag nntfl ho bagged y maatt.^' r ^fe;.i v- .-ii .::^^:%.im^,^ "S .:-.-,.'"-,â- â-  '-..