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fie a?z=zr~l><? A NC \ $2rs? &^zai (ISABELLA Copyright, 18)2 mi 1493, bj CHAPTER XXVin. I CONTINUED. J'Why, indeed?" exclaimed Mary, | Hor face flushed and bright with the thought. "I shall be so glad to go; *iid it will bring me nearer to Dol5ros, to my own dear Rita! Yes, I know I shall find her there!" Mrs. Hamilton repressed the words Df impatience that rose to h*r lips. He? suspicions in regard to Dolores tnct Stanley remained unchanged. But, determined to keep her promise lo Polly so recently given, Bhe turned away, ana, going w me uuur, auonucu in pel son the servant who had just knocked. "It *b Bertha Sefton," she said, looking toward Polly. "Norah sajs that although she gave your message that you v ould not see anyone to-day, Miss Seftoa insists on seeing you. and declares she will not go away without speaking to you. Very rude of her! Shall I go down and see her, dear?" "No, mamma,dear; let her come up. Since I am going away, I ought to see her to say good-bye. She has been oonstant in calling every day, though I have refused to see her now for al-most a week. Norah Bhow Miss Sefton up here; say I will see her in my room." But Bertha Sefton did not wait for the servant to repeat these words. She had followed Norah upstairs, greatly to the girl's surprise, and having already heard all that Mary Hamilton had said, now hurriedly entered the room, and in great agitation threw herself at the feet of her fiiend, exclaiming: T>~U?I 7? rwrri-TTa m o, nrnm - JTUll^fy JL KJllJ i X V X"" ise to forgive me, or I will never rise from here!" "Well, well," said the latter, soothingly, "I forgive you whatever it is, Bertha; now calm yourself, and rise. I don't like having people on their knees at my feet." "Oh, dearest Polly, how shall I tell you? How could I ever be such a treacherous wretch?" She had started to her feet at Polly's last words, and now stood helplessly twisting her hands together, tearing her gloves and presenting an almost distraught appearance. "Polly," she 6aid, "I don't wish to make my own fault the least little bit less than it really is; butthis has been all the doing of Olive Gaye?my part in it as well as hers. She has acauired such a power over me, it has been like witchcraft. She has made me do just as she wished. But she is gone now,and,I hope,gone out of my life forever, and I have recovered my senses. Lord Clarence Stanley has married Olive Gaye; and I did what I could to assist them; I engaged the clergyman, and stood by and saw them married, and sijned my name as witness. It was all as horrid as anything could be, and not a bit like a real marriage with a real lord, except, of course, that Mr. Martin is a real clergyman; but I never supposed Olive Gaye would be satisfied with such a wedding as that. They were married last night, and they said good-bye to me at the door of the house when we left Mr. Martin's, jumped into a carriage that was waiting, and were driven away and out of sight before I could realize that they were gone. I stood and looked after them, and pinched myself black ??Liu uiuc iu ib ?taou l n uicam. And it was real?real! And, oh, Polly, do try to forgive ine, for I never can* forgive myself!" Polly Hamilton drew a long breath of profound and joyous relief, and, to Bertha's amazement, she caught her io her arms and kissed her. "Olive Gaye!" repeated Mrs. Hamilton, stupidly. "Olive Gaye! Lord Clarence Stanley has married Olive Gaye, and she will be Countess of "Windermere!" "And much good may it do her!" exclaimed Polly Hamilton. "She is en tirely welcome to that honor. An,d now, mamma, dear, you will admit that Rita is entirely vindicated. My own darling Rita! How glad I am that I have belived in her, in Bpite of everthmg! Bertha, you have brought me joyful news; so that, if you had been even less a friend than you accuse yourself of being, I think I could still forgive you everything." CHAPTER XXIX. IN THE SANTIAGO CANTON. TJpon a rustic seat, beneath the spreading branches ?jf a live-cak tree, eat two ladies in sik-nt but pleased contemplation of two little girls who were at that moment amusing themselves with the fallen "cups and saucers" of the oak, by which name they described the acorns and their outer rings, with which tba green eward was 'thickly covered. The younger and by far the more beautiful of these two ladies was dressed in white, but the black sash that defined her slender waist and the knots of narrow black ribbon at the throat and on the sleeves served to indicate that the wearer was in mourning, while the peusive and somewhat worn young lace 01 me loveiy mourner snoweu plainly cuougli that her grief bad been a heavy one. The second lady was evidently many years older than her compunion. although a merry heart and a happy life had made the years pass bo lightly as hardly to leave the traces of their Jdight. Sho was the mother of the little girlB, and her companion was their governess; br.t the position of the latter was merely nominal. Her employer ^was a dear aud intimate friend, who |had, in early girlhood, been the friend of her young governess' mother, and who now felt far more like a mother toward her oarly friend's daughter than a mer^e employer for paid services. "Dolores," said MfK Travers, suddenly breaking the silence, "do you know, dear, that it distresses me to observe that the sadness I thought at first wholly due to your bereavement and loneliness does not grow lees with Junai" ... . - . 5h '[reasOre. :?& )VEL. belli G* {$in{ere, CASTELAR.) r Robirt Iokku'b S?h>.) "It will, dear Mrs. Travers," returned Dolores, with an effort assuming a brighter expression and calling more animation into her voice and manner; "but, indeed, I shall never get accustomed to my loss in mamma's death and I can never cease to mourn her absence. It means so much! Oh, it is a world of grief and sorrow!" "Oh, you dear girl!" exclaimed Mrs. Travers, affectionately. "Don't imagine for one moment that I require any justification for your sadness! It is only my wish to remoYe, or at least to lighten it, that made me speak of it. . The children adore you, and they don't find you sad?in faot, that is one reason why I allow you to fatigue yourself in your duties toward them. I 6ee that you often forget yourself entirely in devotion to them. But Dolores, there are timeB when I can not forgive myself for having lost trace of your mother.. I had gone to Paris, to have what my mother called 'a few ' ' end +Vicn T r^mninpd J'CtUD UUIOUIU51 M-V. .MVM - - several years in France. When I returned to San Francisco I heard something of the ill-fortune that had overtaken your father; but before I could trace your family and find out -what had become of you, I went abroad again, with papa, and we spent several years in England; it was there I was married, and there I lived for many years, only returning to California again for a brief visit. But, brief though it was, I tried to get some news of my dear Alice, but never could trace her. "Your father was at all times a very reticent man, and when misfortune overtook him I suppose he became still more so; besides he was so devoted to Alice that, so long as he possessed her love, all else might go and he would neither know or care, unless she suffered by it. She was literally the whole world to him." "Yes," said Dolores, a soft flush overspreading her pale, fine, delicate face, "that was my dear father 1 How often I have heard mamma speak of his love for her in just those wordB? and such a love is all the world and ought to be, to any man or woman." "Oh, good gracious, Dolores I" cried Mrs. Travers, with an acoent of comic despair. "You spe&k with all the conviction of a perfect knowledge of the subject. I do hope you have not fallen in love with any one?at least, not yet. Oh, say it is not that poor Henri Van Tassel?" Dolores turned on her friend a look of such blank amazement, that Mrs. Travers felt herself most eloquently answered* even before the astonished girl> burst >nto peals of laughter. "Poor fienril" said Dolores, at last, "Ihave^old you, from the first, that he was a brother to me, and I am even mnvet crr&tflfnl for him than for mvself to have found a home here; it never dawned on me for a moment that any one, least of all you, could mistake our relation toward each other/" "Well, dear, I am very glad," said Mrs. Travers, "to have you deny it so emphatically, and the idea is perfectly absurd, for I didn't really suppose there was love of that sort between you and Van Tassel. But, my dear Dofores, the man simply worships you, and then you have many times gone off over the mountains for long walks together, and you have always come back looking so very serious and often quite troubled." "That is true," responded Dolores, very gravely, "and there is much that we have spoken of that I would be glad to tell you about, and concerning which I am muoh in need of advice; but, alas! it involves the hap 1 il- 1, T 1 piiicbb u& auubuoi wuuui x iwto uiuio than myself?my dear, dear- Polly Hamilton." '"Polly Hamilton?' Yes, yon hare told me of her, Dolores; and, thongh yon are too generous to say bo, I am sure that man to whom she was engaged was really in love with yon, and that is why yon were obliged to steal away so mysteriously." "Yes, dear Mrs. Travers, I am obliged to let you guess that much; but please spare me from saying more. Perhaps I may never see dear Polly again; indeed, knowing all that I do now, it will be impossible. For she is by this time, or will be soon, married to Lord Clarence " " 'Lord Clarence?'"exclaimedMrs. Travers excitedly. "You never called him so before! Surely it cannot be possible? Is he Clarence Stanley?" "That was the name I knew him by," said Dolores, iu a very guarded tone. By this time she knew all that Van Tassel knew as to the identity <)f Clarence Stanley and Carlos Mendoza,. "How extraordinary this isl" Mrs. Travers said, in answer to the words of Dolores. "And how strange that I should be the one to give Lord Harold Moray this most interesting news. You muBt know, my dear, that there is the greatest anxiety in the Stanley family now to find this missing Lord Clarence. It was just about the time we left New York that the news was published of the death of Lord Appleby and his only child; and a few days before I had met "the heir-at-law, Lord Harold Moray, who had recently arrived in this country in search of the missing heir. Lord Appleby^was still living wnen uora larom, ienEngland; and the latter, so far from wishing the succession to Windermere for himself, had only one desire ?to find Clarence Stanley, who was betrothed to Constance Moray; and? oh dear?when he does find him now, how will it be, since you say he is probably married to Polly Hamilton?" I>oIoreB clasped her hands in despair and became quite pale. "Oh, my poor, dear Polly!" she said. "She has given her heart to a wretch?to a monster?I fear; and everything I hear about him only confirms my own feeling aprainst him, which declared itself from the first moment of our meeting." "Well, yes," said Mrf. Travers, "he I i seems to be something of a Don Gio-Jj ( . * vanni. First he engages himself to Lady Constance Moray; then to your friend, Polly Hamilton, whom he would certainly have thrown over foi you, if you had been willing. But that is the way with men, my dear. They are all like that, with a few exceptions, of course, which only prove the rule. But was there anything else about this fascinating Clarence, apart from his fickleness, that was particularly wrong?" "Oh, he waB all wrong?everything about him!" Dolores began, impetu oueiy. And then, remembering Polly, she shnt her lips firmly, resolved not to speak another word on the distressing subject until she could give it all most careful consideration in the solitude of her own thoughts. And what a horrible complication, aided now by the new light that Van Tassel had shed on Stanley, the whole affair had becomel How her heart aohed for Polly! And she felt disloyal toward her that she was obliged, even temporarily, to eeem her rival. That, at least, she could explain to Mrs. Travers, and she said qnickly: "But I must not let you suppose that I was the rival of dear Polly Hamilton. It was not so, as I assured her, and as I fervently hope-flh? is now quite convinced. If that man waB ever capable of loving any woman, he was in love with Pollyc But the passion of his life was gold. He. knew from the first that 1 was the direct and only true heir of the great Mendoza treaB.ure, and he was simply insane on that subject. He has pursued it all his life, and fti me he saw hin ruling idea embodied. When he no longer sees me, hie love will revert again to the buried treasure, and ;his allegiance to Polly, suoh at it is, will be as loyal aB before he ever saw me." "How strange, Dolores!" answered Mrs. Travers. "And there may be something in what you say. The Stanley family is mixed up in relationship with a Spanish family of yonr name, and so is Lord Harold Morgy. Strange that I never thought of it be? fore. I knew them quite well during my stay in England, but my acquaintance was more particularly with the Moray branch of the family. When I met Lord Harold in New York, of course he told me of his object in visiting the country, and that he was coming to California to follow up a clew which he had obtained ia regard to his missing kinsman. Of course, I invited him when he should come this way to be my guest, and I am in momentary expectation of his arrival. Jim Sing has actually gone to the Santa Ana station to meet him, and by this time he is on his way through the canyon." Dolores could not repress a slight start of apprehension, ana sne saia, in a visibly troubled manner: "I am very sorry to hear this, dear; it makes my position much more unpleasant. Oh, don't ask me now! I must think; I must consider. If I am to meet this gentleman, and he is in search of Lord Clarence Stanley?oh, Mrs. Travers, I see that I shall have to tell you all I know about that man and take your advice, for Polly's sake, as to what I ought to do." "My dear, I shall be delighted!" said Mrs. Travers, gayly. "If there is anything I am most fitted for, beyond all other things, it is the giving of advice. You will find that I have mines of wisdom garnered up inside this silly little head of mine. Even my severe husband is complimentary ennnsrli to sav that I am not such a O? / fool as I look. Bat tell me, Dolores, about this mysterious Mendoza treasure, of which I need to hear ages ago. Have you no idea where it lies buried?" "Not in the least, except that it is concealed somewhere in the Santiago Canyon." "In the Santiago Canyon?" cried Mrs. Travers, excitedly. "Why, this is the Santiago Canyon, right here, where we are now living!" "Yes, I know it," replied Dolores; "I have known it ever since I came home with you; and somewhere in this canyon m.y dear father found a grave. Death was the only treasure he found there, and," she added sadly, "perhaps it is the greatest of all treasures to those who find it. Certainly it is if it opens the gate to the only true life." "My dearest girl," said Mrs. Travers, almost reprovingly?she quite dreaded a line of thinking to which she ofton thought Dolores too much inclined, and which, to her, seemed morbid?"you know you promised me not to nave bucu gioomv thoughts. Do you know in what part of the canyon your poor father was buried?" (TO BE CONTINUED. Mahogany Is Plentiful Nowaday*. Mahogany is no longer the rare and hardly procurable wood that it was in our grandparents' days, when a table or chest made from it was an unmistakable indication of prosperity and gentility. ( Now it is used in railroad cars,'in tfi'e finish of private houses, hotels, and for a hundred purposes formerly undreamedof. A steamer in the service of a latge importing house brings in over a million feet of mahogany lumber on a single trip. Where 1000 feet of lumber were brought to thiB country on slow sailing vessels twenty-five years ago, 1,000,000 feet are brought on rapid steamers now. The character of the wood has changed, however. The best mahogany came from Cuba and San Domingo, but all the mahogany near the roads and waterways was used. There is still plenty of mahogany in Cuba, but it is too difficult and expensive to obtain. The mahogany of San Domingo and Cuba was superior in hardness, in the beauty of its grain aud in its susceptibiltjKjr.to high polish. Next in quality is the Nicaraguan wood, which is imttorted in lajge quantities. The American firm which has the sole control bf the wood on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua is under contract to plant iwu trees ior eyery one cut down, ana these, it is estimated, will be ready, for the market in fifty years. Africa has millions of acres of mahogany, which is just beginning to come into the market, but it is not as good in quality as the Nicaragua wood ?New York Press. The tux on coffee amounts in France 1 bo about fourteen cents a pound, while in England it is only three cents. ... M. - '% ! 1A THOUSAND MILES ! I All ARMY OF SHEEP. I ? X 1 X Ey R. H. Daly, of Omaha, Neb. p S^??e?e^oi^e!e;efe3K$joie<eK5{ef?(?fe^e(?(e{e{?k I ljave for years been engaged at. j various times in the handling of sheep, being what is' called a "sheep feeder." A "feeder" is a man who receives sheep from the ranges into the fcodlots, where they are fattened for market; and he is distinguished from o "breeder," who grows his sheep on the range. Some years since I contracted with a Mexican gentleman living in Santa Fe, in New Mexico, to buy 30,000 New Mexico sheep. Owlu,; to some difficulties with the railroad company in the matter of feight rates I determined to have the sheep "trailed through" to Nebraska, which in Western parlance means driving them overland. My ranch and feed lots were at that time located at Stevenson, In Central Nebraska; and it was my Intention to get the sheep to my yards, there fatten them on grain, and then send them to the Omaha market. I had contracted for the sheep Jn ^~ / ^ : : - * ?" ? A FEW "^JIALL LOT^^OF the spring, and if I had consigned them by train I should not harp're^ celved them all before October. Brit as I decided to "tail" them in, it wag necessary to receive tbem in thespring, for the drive would certainly take' close upon six months. In the month "of April I engaged my men; I also bought two pood heavy carts as "grug wagons;" four strong mules, and two good saddle-horses, together with all camp utensils and other necessities for the trip. The wagmiilflo nfn T oont r1r..rn tn S.OTitn IV/iiOf liJuicO) v y\- | jl ovuv uv ;< u w vu Fe by freight. My men sent at the | same time their tarpaulins and blank! ets. Two men next went down with the goods and animals to take care of them. The others followed with me a little later on a passenger train. Altogether there were seventeen men in my employ detailed to bring the sheep through. Two were to act as foremen, two as cooks, and the others as herders. It was necessary to divide the sheep into two flocks for driving; hence the two foremen and cooks.- I bought my supplies in Nebraska, because I could get them cheaper there than in Santa Fe, and, besides, I was sure of getting what I wanted. Arrived at Santa Fe, we immediately set about getting the sheep together ready for their long drive. The ?**!? wkftm T ltn/1 rtAll fro iUtfAiCilU Willi wnuiu 1 uuu wiiuui-ivu for the 30,000 had, in turn, sub-contracted with numerous small Mexican ranchmen for the required number. His agreement with me was to deliver at Santa Fe the specified number and quality of animals. There were several reasons for buying in this way. For example, the Mexicans in the outlying distrits know nothing of money drafts and cheques, and gold would have to accompany every purchase. And to traverse these wild hills and canons with money in one's possession would be positive madness, unless, indeed, one had a well-armed company as a body-guard. Well, the small bands of sheep weie speedily brought in and grazed around the town, until finally my Mexican told me through his interpreter that he was ready to hand over the lot. These grandees, by the way, usually profess not to speak English, and so all negotiations have to be conducted through an interpreter. I had bought 18,000 lambs and 12,nnn (tpa on/j throo-vpnr.nl/l tvetliprs. We first undertook to count the wethers. The flock, or baud as it is termed there, was "rounded up" and got ready to run through the corrals. Two flimsy corrals were constructed, side by side, with only a division fence between tliem. From the first corral a V-chute with a narrow gate at the end led into the second. The sheep were driven into the first pen or corral until it was filled, and then were counted through the chute into the second. One thing which added to the difficulty of counting was the fact that the corral was not large enough to hold the whole number at once. I had to count part of them first, and then turn them out and hold them together while I counted the rest. It turned cut later that this gave us plenty to do, and besides, gave abun- , CHART.ER TAYLOR, ONE OF THE CHIEF ' HERDERS, WHOSE CURIOUS NARRA- 1 TIVE MR. DALY HERE SETS FORTH. 1 _J I dant chances for fraud. From what ( follows you will understand why I do 1 not give the Mexican's name. The corral was filled with sheep and I took s my station at the chute to count as f they streamed through. Now, it is t dizzy work counting sheep. I copld t count up to about 500, and then I would become so dizay watchingthe f swiftly moving stredm'of animalsfhat c I Avould have suddenly to shut the c gato that closcd the narrow exit, e wnicn was just wide enougn tor a sheep to j>ass through. This done. I would jot dowu the number in my j note-book and then let my foreman, ! John Martin,'take my place as long as he could stand it. We were gettiDg along nicely, and had counted up to (iOOO, when Martin made an unpleasant discovery. The gate which was the entrance to the first corral was next to the partition fence, and the "greaser" who was tending the gate was forcing sheep through the loose fence back into the first corral, when they would be counted the second time! Martin at once informed me of the fraud, and I stopped iue euuui uuu hailed our Mexican friend. To our accusations lie replied with a dignified "No sabe." Martin then hustled up the swarthy interpreter, and we gave them some lively talk, but it left the senor quite undisturbed. The interpreter finally told us the greaser "wouldn't do it again," but that did not settle for what had been recounted. The delay was annoying and it took us the whole of that day to count the 12,000 wethers and get them out so we could hold them safely that night - TgTO ABHX STRIKING ACROSS THE PLAINS. mV{T ' ' ' -4$ ?The next morning the wethers were started on their thousand-mile trip to Nebraska. The 12,000 nnimals; vere divided into five bands, each in eiftrifjfrjl of a herder on foot One exfra Imb' went along to act as nh^maHj The cook traveled in the foreman of the' ganrajHoi^^^r rett, rode on horseback.. 1 The day after starting t^e vwPthers Martin and I undertook count the 18.000 lambs. As on the tort day, we ; were well under way when we diSQoy^ j Avml <Vorirl Hnn a# mtr mair I CICU UUUUiUl i-iuuu. V/^IV V& detected a "greaser" In the actofi* driving a small band, which had beeilj [ counted and turned out, arouM through a ravine and back towarc^T ' the hpst of sheep waiting to enter 'tmjtf ' first corral. Wc stopped, the swindler; in time, however. I then scattered thy men out at all points where fraud might be attempted, and then proceeded with the count The mornirg after we had counted the lambs we stated them after the others. I hired a horse from a Santa Fe stable and went with them for a short distance, riding on ahead with Martin to overtake the first outfit. Convinced that the men knew their business and would make the great divide without serious trouble, I returned to Santa Fe. Then, as my business Interests would not permit of longer absence, I returned to Nebraska by rail. As to the details of the trip, Mr. Charles Taylor, who was one of my herders and is still in my employ, will,give tl m: < I started as a herder with the bunch of lambs which Mr. Daly had bought in Santa Fe, and was with the outfit i for the whole trip. Tee re were some i features of tbo trip which might have THE VAST "ARMY" SAFELY INSTABLE BTEVE> been called hardships, but I myself 1 enjoyed it. I have worked with sheep ( the greater part of ten years, and do t not mind a little inconvenience. s Our 18,000 lambs were run in six i bands, with a herder in charge of i each; so there were five herders besides myself. Mr. Martin was fore- 2 man of our prew, Frank Willis was cook on our wagon, and John Norris 1 was night herder. We left Santa Fe i on the 1st day of May, and the weather was hot. On--,the second day we <> discovered thatja|he wethers which o were ahea^'^lfW': were getting the t best of the feed and not leaving 1 [ nough tender Rtuff for^our lambs, t They were travelling aJowly, and Mr. 11 Martin determined to'get ahead. So d we made a night drive; overtook them, t made a circuit around t)Mj?j^iap, and the next morning our'itfmljs :^8re lead- a ing the way, .. 1 New Mexico is always a tlry region, ii and the spring had been ;imnsuall.v 3ry, so that the grass- was not very ?ood and the dust something terrible, s Dust by the way, is always the worst ? reature of the trail. The cloud, that " iRngs over the flock, idoks, from a o instance, -like the.smoke from a prai- a :ie fire. Our faces were black most of 1 :he time. We all wore eye shields of :inted isinglass to protect our eyes. )therwise some of us might have gone )lind. After we had passed Las Vegas. ? some fifty miles from Santa Fe. we be- T ?an to descend from the high levels 11 :o the, lower plains, and the hills were v ilmost impassable. *1 From Las Vegas on into Colorado the it ;rass was burned brown with the s< Irought, and water was scarce. Of tourse we had to depend-ou ponds or itreams for our water suddI.v. Some b< . "V : of it was pretty thick?"thick enough, the ooys said, "to carry in a gunnysack." But a man is not at all particular when he is "on the trail." Sheep are not heavy drinkers and can do without water if there are heavy dews on the grass, hut on this occasion the air was so dry that dews "WITH THIS SMALL OUTFIT THE MEN ACCOMPLISHED THEIR GREAT TASK OP DRIVING 30,000 SHEEP A THOUSAND MILES. were very fight, and much of the time there were none at all. Finally, we were without water altogether, and for five days the sheep had no water at. all. We hoarded the little we had, but at length it was all gone. For two whole days^in intense July heat, we hadn't, a drop for ourselves. The sheep had been five daytr without water whdn we approached the Canadian River. We were fully a mile from the bank ,when the poor animals scented the water and stampeded. We did :Oqr yery oesi, uui we mignr as weu tried to stop, the wind. In one mad whirling rash, gathering speed as they went, the bands crowded together and reached the river In a dense, straggling mass. They plunged In! climbing overi.^frch other, and piling upuntil it Jtfked as If we might lose thesa aH.v "V^ -of ^couree, plunged every man'j^^^^^B&austed. When , we got theMlMfer^f the tangle we found tfieqH^^iW^ieWer than 800 lamlbs droaj^H^^Mnitrtin rode back to "warn hold their ed, and in or in the drc;>^Qat and alkali dust till the frost. North Platte^jH^wpiL town I had seen in a jourruffl^W^iidne hundred On one occsw|^|HMbproached a ;D IN MR. DALY'S FEED LOTS IN rsoN. arge cornfield. and found that we oukl save three miles by going hrough it instead of around. Martin laid, simply, "Take 'em through," and ve did. On the farther side stood a nan with a shot-gun waiting for us. tvuui'H iue iiamager assea .ur. i il.'irtin. "Twenty dollars, and not a cent ess," answered the farmer. Martin i mid liim the money aud on we went. ; We reached the little town of Stev- ( >uson on the evening of tbe last day | f September?just five months from 1 he day we started. The second bunch ] lad overtaken us, aud we went h:ough the town with our twentyline thousand odd sheep.. The fog of ust we raised nearly smothered the own. I enjoyed the whole drive, aud we I II came through in the hest of health. J found I had gained twenty pounds a weight aud never felt better. ( (Signed) ('IIAS. TAYLOR. 1 Tlie sheep came through their thou- 1 ami-mile drive in good condition? jiich better tinn if they had beer. J shipped" iu. Since that time man.v \ tlier sheepmen have followed my ex : mple and trailed in their sheep.? ue wiue worm -Magazine. ' t About ltorrowiui; Trouble The graves! mistake, and one thm I i ; unfortunately only ton frequently iadc. is to meet troubles hall way t 'licse will come soon enough: the.vdc ot want any encouragement. and r pry often when they do come they c re not half so formidable as we imag v led they would he. Anticipation in '' )ine cases is worse thau the reality. |, ; 1. Old friends are sometimes dearest j ^ jcause they, owe you the most money. | ^ I M ??????i? THE GREAT DESTROYER. SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. . The Man With the Pall?Am one Wome^ the Drink Habit Ig Rapidly on the In? create?Tlil* Indicates a Degenerate Tendency That la Alarming. 0 I ain't got any grammar, and I ain't up on the rules ? That are s'posed to be great leather for the nrinciDala of schools. But that there won't cut 110 figger when they come to pass on me, Tor I always buy my liquor of a leadin* . school trustee! I ain't much on education, But I'll get the situation, For I've got a pull that's pretty, don't you see! >sl I can mix a dandy cocktail and put up a ' poos caffay! i I can give you all the records of the fight- j era of the day! I control the ward I live in; all the voters bow to me, ,3 And I always buy my fine cut of a leadin* school trustee! _ I'll take no examination, But I'll get the situation? You just keep your optics on me and J you'll see! There arc others who are after this herejob I want to land, They can write and reel off grammar and such rot to beat tne band; They can figger without pencils, they can 1 spin out nistoree, % , , j, j? But they don't go buy'in' nothin' from no leadm' school trustee! . ? nr?i i -j j.; : v.. y .Liiey are long on euutaiuou. w? But they ain t got no relatidffOn the board to help 'em get therej: An't % you see! Why do people keep on dumpin' in^heir taxes, anyway, If the boys that gets the vote oot^amfc. allowed to draw the pay? **" I ain't never done no teacnin', but I need the salaree, . . Which the same I've went and mentioned to a leadin' school trustee! I'll take no examination. All I want's the situation, And I've got the pull to land it?wait ana 8C6! ?Chicago Times-Herald. . . 1 Women nnd Intemperance. , M J'Vom extensive reading, observation ana * . d experience in my line of work, writes Margarita A. Stewart, M. D., Superintendent of Heredity, New York County W. C. 'T. U., I am convinced that the drink habit is rapidly on the increase^ and that the ratio of increase is greatest among women. I do not confine this charge to any particular locality or social class. The stimulant habit is a racvj scourge, a degenerate tendency which iemanifesting itself to an alarming extent .wLj 'n our present civilization. 1 This curse is being handed doi|MH|dS through the law of heredity, from genawfiM ipfc' tion to generation, an J is gathering raentum as it descends, till the wholetjif" W?' Christendom is suffering. A French scientist, who has studied the , ; history of Europe for the last half century, declares that the scourge of alco- * holism threatens the civilized world. Hi? own nation is consuming an extraordinary imount yearly. ,He says: "The consumption has increased from three pints pe? capita in 1851 to twenty-eight r?ints per capita in 1898. Of this, especially in Normandy, the women drink even more thaa the men." '< Other European countries show similar * . alarming conditions. Lady Henry Somerset, speaking for England, savs: K "There can "be no doubt that the great 'Problem before the temperance neople of -this country is how to arrest the alarming increase of. inebriety among women. We -stand in the unenviable position of a nation that has a drunken womanhood." . In our own country we find that statis- , tics show a per capita increase from 3 80 'gallons in 1850 to 14.53 gallons in 1890. v-v The figures of 1900 promise to go far he- ? yond that, because all observers agree <fchat the noticeable increase in the drink jbahitvamong women in this country has; taken place within the last decade, par- r \ -tictdarly within the last five years. ' 1 have it upon good authority that within the last five years, in the shopping districts of this city, the demand for liquors has caused to be fittcd-up in the saloons accommodations for women almost equal in extent to those for men. I . learn, too, that the drug stores, withj.heir soda fountains, are doing quite a thriving trade in spirituous liquors, sola to women, q as ai c uiu fviiuunr*. A down-town business man writes me: "All any one needs to do to verify your statements regarding the increase of the drink habit among women is to visit any of the public concert gardens any evening." ' But, not only in the great centres of popidation is tni6 conceded to be a growing evil. From the smaller towns has* come the same cry that the drink habit is growing upon our American womanhood." This condition is one for deep concern, and one for which a vita! cause exists. I believe that the strength of this curse is revealed in the law of heredity. It is claimed by some scientists that in the working of this law daughters' are more prone to inherit the father's characteristics, and vice versa. If this be true, do we not here mid the scientific explansy tion of the increase of the drink habit among women? We have to-day the most highly organized physical and intellectual man the race has ever produced, and consequently the most senwti^e to the degenerating poison of alcohol. When such a man give? way to drink his child is born with a lowered vital oonxti lion, wnicn craves uie sumuiani. uonniy terrible are the results when the mother, the source of life, has fallen under the spell of the deadly habit. It is only by tne study of the laws of life and the understanding of the power of heredity that men and women can be awake led to their responsibilities an<r check this rising tide of intemperance which threatens to engulf the race and' destroy our civilization. ? New York World. General Kobertt on Temperance. At the annual meeting in London of thft. i British Army Temperance Agsociation. (ienera! Sir Geoiee White, the hero of' * Ladysmith, presiding, a letter was read from Lord Roberts, who wrote: "There never was a more temperate irmy than that which man-lied under my* command from the Modder River tc Bloemfontein. Nothing but good can result from so many soiuiers being brought together in an arduous campaign when fhey see hew splendidly our temperance men have borne up against the hardships ,.,,1 l.-..?, l.?J ? . ? > >iuu uau^ir iiu > c uuu iu iav.v. The Crusade In I!rlef. Australasia lias about 5.50 lodges of God !'emi>lars, with 20,0(H) member!?. ' ney, 1)1., is without saloons for the <; 1)jC tmie m lortv-tour years. Crawford Ji unty is now entirely under local prolusion. - ,i The nation holds open the front door )f the saloon while the devil tends the sack door thai leads to the gutter, the jrothel and hell. A Christian Prohibition League has >ccn organized at Sioux Falls. S. D. its notto is: "The church >oiid for prohibiion; when the church says go, and votes !0, then the saloon \yll go." New Voik and Ohio forbid the employment bv railways and other common careers of passengers, of persons known to >0 addicted to the use of intoxicants. The temperance league at lirecken ridge, \y., ha? a standing reward of ?25 to pay li.vonc who brings a limit a conviction for he illegal sale of liquor in the town. The City Council of Topeka. Kan., has i.assed the <>ld search and seizure liquor rdinaiice. IJesides giving the police powr to search for and seize liquor, it proides a penalty lor the violation of the !W. The Karl and Countess of Carlisle in Ingtnnd. Have cleared all the public ouscs off their estate--. In one case. HalJankgate. a vote of the inhabitants was aken. and lour to one decided to have rohilvtiyn. ' i