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•o- J *' • - .X « /> • » Til Piopli Priijss. LtOi.1^ Mercantile and mia- oellaneou*—:— •■itv • Mb pubJtotH'd i Job Printing 8 £' Executed beat atylcs •a. •. —tt;: rotnptly and in tb< the Paorns i^rew fv ^JL m-wrioit i toe are w/t the view* or /om^pfjndente. r‘ At contract If J annt lie settled • No adverti/'ement hang ;d tlr^t it f tbe t ——»--*■ »•*.*»*,+,* Vol. XVI. BARNWfeLL COURT HOUSE, S. C., DECEMBER 29, 1892. -U No. 1 Alliance Department. *muit lakd sTociis. Adoi*ted as t he Coanty Organ by tlie Coun ty Alliance Julyath, M. J? PATK, Assoctatk Kniroit, To whmtt all Communiaatioue on Alliance • Matters Should be addreaaed. SUMMER IS OVER. ^f3eer» of the t'onatj Alliance. W. Uunean, President. 1 Iin \/ L. tt.Toole, Vice President. V>.\ . BHrabcre, Secreury. A. K. Free, Treasurer, - Wv O Britton, CUnpUin.' T. S. Weeks, County ia^urcr. W. A. Alt, Steward or Assistant Lecturer. W. E. Satller, Door Kccik r. D W. Bodttord, Sergeant at Anns. F. II. Creech, Business Agent, Executive Ooia.ftittce—C. B. Free, W. W. Patrick, W. A. Faust. .• Tra<i.e CoVnmiitee—(». M. Hunter,, E. Dowling, J. M. Ulmer, W. A. All. Committee on (»ood «*f the Order—J. C. Mc Millan, C. M. Elenfleld, W. T. Cave, J. K Bnalllng, E. B. Guess.' n. On© Expertonca oa ’Chanar© Waa Enoujh for Mrs. Curtiss. . ’f/’fF ' It mnf.t'be distinetly understood,” Summer is over; the winds blowing nt.m W ake la my bosom an aasweiiag thrill. Music and fragranoo and beauty were harst Warm with lUo breath U the perfooted year. “When will it be twenty?” she asked , from day to day, trying Aurelia's scant patience sorely. , “I cannot toll.. Tha market has sagged a little. The reaction will soon come.” s * At the end of the week, Mrs. Curtiss 1 sent for Aurelia. “Madame haa sent my dress,” she said. “Com I have the money to-day?” “Madame must walk , ’Mud Land wTll We* nolhin^ to (k) with 3ro PP e ' 1 a couple of poiuU yesterday, f Load chirp the oricketa, and ptorelngly'etarin. a 6 Dol ^ 1 ‘ 1 » to ao witu The bears got coutroL You mustn’t p limn kr Unr JL . 'nr_ ^ i I Bummer le over—life * eummer—for me 1 sell now.” + 1 - - said Mr. Curtiss, “distinctly. “Certainly," said his wife. “Hej'ond making a sufficient nllow- ance for all ordinary household ex jienses, I it.” “I understand. I am quite willing to accept the entire responsibility.” “Then, if yon lilr*'i?»* Bright with the radiant midsummer glow, When did they vanish and where did they go! Sad moon* the wind In the tope of the trees, Thistle-down fioaUron the autumnal breeoet Thickets of goldenrod flame on the hfll, the afienUs offer, scud tottyc warehouse for the furniture, Wave the house put in order by J ay ndje* people, pack your trunks, hire your servants and move in. COUNTY MEETING. S Bamberg, S. C., Dec. 1(1,1302. To the Secretaries of Sub-AUiaiices Ksruweii County: The Coinuy AHianco. of Barnwell tflC Court Of 1 sjiall be absent ten.days.or longer. I shall find you there on my return?” “Yes. I shall lose no time.” Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss had__been noa- ried five veers.. During their urit yeai of housekeeping, Mr. Curtiss discov ered that tha drainage cf the house in which they were living was defective. He notified his landlord lie waited a month. Nor notice .wxs taken of his eomplaipk Ho promptly canceled hi* County will meet ac the Court House at 11 o’clock a. hi. on the secoiul h i idsy in lea*©, stored his furniture, and took hi* wife to a boarding-houae. Miw. Curtiss, after a year Jan usry. Secretaries will please send In tbt.ir reports prior to first Friday. The state President, State Lecturer and the Professor (*f Agriculture of Clemsoii Collega will he with and ad dress us on that day. All AJilauceiucn are cordially Invited to be present. By order W.-II DmvosK, President^ W. 8. Bambeku, S^cieiary. AUIance Addresse*. Barnwell, S. C. Dec. 22 id 1S92. ' lu eonaequeuce of not being able to !»©?« the invited spe.kers with us the days arranged for the nerirs of A lift 1 ier- mr^-tTngs called on the 10th, 11th and lllth JaBuary next in Bsnivvell comity arc hereby called in and will not be auenipied. Very truly, G. H. Kirklanp, For Cmninitjee. PERSONAL AND LITERARY. —-Max Mailer strikes a oomprnmlaa ^ ID* Vetweea tbove who are c<xitonatnf for abolUloa of the poet lanreateshlp husd thooo who do*1 r« the post fillod. MM advioe Is ^oolt abolish it, but last bang It trp till another poet like Ten- fe/eou appears. aeW dake of Marlborough it wf the ableet etudenta at Trinity J^llege, and w'ae engaged the night be- hia faiher died ia writing an ar- ^f«de oa modem railway cars, bated «poa ideas that were suggested to him •wf recent accidents way a —When John Morley wee a schoolboy fc© waa described at the negative end •4 the family magnet, his brother M Med” being the poeitlve pole. John wee always cold, unresponsive, and w© fleeted, and ae a consequence was aJ- Aowed by the other boys to “for.'guthe* by himself.” —George Ohnet's “Ma^bdcs Forges” was wriyen, it i^. slated, during his hem eyas ooa. with no Bttle help from his wife, and fhe latter, after scvfral pub- __ Mahan had declined the MS., persuaded * hdns to publish It oa hie own. account. They are said to have drawn over IkOO,- ©0# from its sale. —That gifted,, bxit unapreclated .(.* Dsoar Wilde, who lately shook ♦he daet oi Ragland from his feet and ♦vent to Fraaee to live, turned up at an •irt show ia the New gallery London fc few days ago. The Pall Mall Gaxette aarcaetically observes that “he was ' heard speaking English quite flu- „ antlT.” Bhlph \Yaldo Fiuerson's death draws attention to two facts: His un- • Snarried daughter's beautiful devotion U» her blind parent these many years; suid the andiaturbed condition of Mr. Kmtrsnn'e study since his death. In fa«L the whole house and its furnish- > lags hare undergone little change in a A scad e. —Mark Twain’s huinor-created coro- bflr, who held an inquest on an Egyp tian mummy and charged the county with compound interest on the re-gulat et fee from the timo of looses, has sotne- thiug nearly akin to a parallel in the Muffato oor^ftor who held an inquest on the recently unearthed bones of a few 1 ; Indians whose tribe became* extinct prior to the year 1680. ' T -j > ^ j —Rear-Admiral Stephenson, the new commander of the British squadron ip. the Pacific, haa been in her majesty's j tiary for forty years -and saw active aervice in the Crimea, in China, and i during the Indipn mutiny. It was Oapt. Stephenson, ae he then was, who was in * command of the Menon gunboat on the Canadian lakes during the Fenian disturbances, and he ^ad charge ©f her majesty's ship Dis covery in the arctic expedition of 1875- fri. Rear Admiral Stephenson was for merly a naval aide-de-camp to the qaeeq, and be haa been an equerry to the prince of Wales since 1878. —Wilson Barrett tells the following atory of his childhood: “Forty years ago throe little boys advertised a show to b4 given la the barq belonging to the fatner of one of them near Manchester, xBagland. The price of admission waa piaa, or Mz pins for a reserved The play waa an adaptation Mnliaa Caesar,' and the parte of Xbesar/ ‘Mare Ankeny’ and •Bru tus' were taken by three boys, none o of whom was over four years of age. A retired actor, then living ia Man- ehos$or, came to seethe ahildren play, and after the performance remarked that bo had never seen any tiling just like it # beiurihx One those childre n was myself, the others wore my dritr frttfbd*, * Henry Irving and John or two, found the life a wearisome ono.^ She longed for the comfort* of a home, and the agreeable occupation of the homo© maker. M r. 'Cufttsi, bh Iho contran*, pre ferred boarding. He vrj-.s a man who' disliked the email responsibilities ©J bouaekeepiug. Hi* busin^Ka, he'urged, was sufficient to occupy Us mind Yet now, to gratify*!)!* wife, he had aooeded to her desire, stipulating, how ever, that he was to he utterly free from ail the daily cares. Mrs. Curtiss j^cdly agreed. She disliked interfer- cnee, and welcomed the nssuraucs that, she was Vo have the Svle charge of the establishment. A 'year elapsed. The contract wn scrupulously carried out by both par- tlea Mr. Curtiss provi.ir d ample means, Mrs Cm.ti*s gave time and en ergy to the making of a pieasant home. At the end of the year, Mrs. Curtiss had a balance of two hundred dol lars. “Do what you will with it. It is yours,” her husband said. “You have earned it.” Ehe.was planning the uses sho would make of It, when a friend came in. She coyM not reolst the temptation of tell ing her how \vcll she had manage 1. . • “What shall I do with it?” she asked. “You know all about money, Aurelhu A Mm mo.” Aurelia wore cyeglnrs»s. Fhe specu lated in stocks. Her friends said site “I would rather pay madamo prompt ly. Jlliia^ia -hfcr firet d revs.-” ^ “She can wait. Mud Land ia sure to rir-e. It’ll touch twenty within two weeks.” * A month ^passed, during which Mrs. Curtiv* RuiTered an anxiety she had never before experienced. Point by point. Mud Land fell to five. For s week it held at that figure. Thou, in one day, it rose to seven. “It’s on t^o way to twenty now,” said Anrolia. “It is a rampant mar ket. r i he bulls are lu it. Haven't you anything to spar^? Isn’t your gas dividend duo? - Whatl you haven’t cashed the check? Put your bonnet on directly* Yon must buy some more shares. Hurry I «-I dare say it has touched eleven* by this time. Nevei mind how you look!" . Mud Laud waa still at seven, they Season of hopefulnesa, romance and glee. Not long ago I* waa traveling bo- tween Salton and Palm Spriqgs,'when In the smoking-room of tlie Pullman the subject of horseflesh came up. There were several gentlemen from Arizona present whose tales were cer tainly as strong and as kmgrwlnded oa their horses, but Mr. Carpenter, of Yuma, had tbs beat horse stories to toll He listened patiently to the others and finally ImlMtiently broke In; - “Well, gen tinmen, tba but l know a horse w t Haiti a u to i u i && thirf buned the A DiQcult Way For Oao to . a LiViag. i very good. Sotting Traps In Iho Ktorra Foothill* — I’uwelcou* Guests That Are I Itiuti- fai—Trait* of the tooatvrn Terrufs— Talk* with na 014 11 mi tor. ;^u an' tliey'U get aua- mcioua right away.. No, sire©. Never bury your trap fer coyotes Jl?t sot the jaws open an’ tie 4t fast and flop it down an’ the qoyotes’ 'll jlst think tt’fl flomctbln' the Jackrabbits has dropped jumps after that George Peck is an old-tlmor, having come to ^California some time in the Brilltaat wRfrxyiar.tom* of futurr rtoligM, Fair a* Ui« tuinmer cloud*. chao ti 'ofuUy fertgiMt hnraa la th* wh^l* V an} MLica ' 111X11 haW haU th ‘' rx ’ ' e 110 o' rtcriffiicc of forttfrta and inlsforiun<v I Eutereth au;uxzm, thr harbinger ssje, Chlilj precursor of wfatorj a^e. TThen the loct floweret nhall fade on the hfll. When the *hriU okirp of the orloket la bUU, Then the cohl enoV In Its whitenr*s will full, Silently foUlia* the earth la Its pall Only a littlel O sptrtt, bo brave! Why must thou shudder at age and the gravr* Sumner Is over, but aban^r© Is not death, Ner is Uto ended when fa^lcik Um breath. Branrtftil oraaona are yot »o unfold; r /* Life la eternal, though forms may grow old Look, O uny soul, from thl* autumnal f4ata( After the winter oorno* irprJugtime a^r-jdn.’ f- Alary H. VThtyjJer, Is Bowtou Transe: Transcrtpi ^ SOME HOUSE ST0E1ES. found. Mrs. Curtins ordered seven °A\Bngli*h rail- made enormou* profits; her enemies declared her grandfather would turn ir>» his grave could he kno\vu>f her losses. He Lad been aday laborer in hi* youth, they added. ! “Stocks, of course,” replied Aurelia. **t*tock.N?" helplessly. “Stocks,” with decision. “You have two hundred dollars, you say. You j shsil buy twenty shares of the Mud Land Company. They are a sure thing. It is a bull market uow. you know.” “Dear me!” ejaculated her bewild ered Ultenor, “The bears have hod it quite too * f^ntinufcd Aurelia. "Everything Ja booming now. Put ca your at once. Delays are fatal. I will go with you.” Mrs. Curtis hesitated. “I do not thipk I can spend »!I the i^oncy that wsy, Aurelia.” 1 Ti W'hy not?" sharply j r A - “Uordered a new silk yetterdrff from Ma«!snie Grctline. It will coj>t sixty dollars.” * - "Madame Orqttine must wait for her . pay.” “Oh, no!” shuddering. “1 have never had a bill unpaid.” '•J’ou’lL clear it fast enough. Mud Land esn be bought to-day for nine and three-quarters. It is worth more; it will be \vorC|j*twc uty next week. l*ut on your bonnet.” I The stronger will conquered. Mrs. Curtig* yielded. In a week she should have four hundreddollars-sho reflected; She would pay mudaiue. send a ton of • coal to the widowed wushf rwomnn she i occasionally employed, and put three hundred dollars in^ a savings bank. Her husband would have, hi j little j-ke abqq’t hcr» capacity for,, b;U>inc6s, but what mattered that? . Aurelia broke in upon her pleasant meditations. “Hurry!’,! she* called, from the foot of the stairs. “Mud Land •may go up a couple of points while you dally.” Aurelia prided herself upon her : knowledge of brokers’ phrases. “What's a point?” asked Mrs. Curtiss, coming downstairs, her gloves in her hand. “Surely you know-. We must take a carriage. It may score twelve, if we wait for the right car.” Score \v;us Greek to Mrs. Curtiss. She had a confused feeling thatt it had something to do with a baseballraatch, shares at that figure. “Sell it at twenty," said Aurelia, in a loud commanding voice. Now up, now down. Mud Land drove Mrs. Curtiss to the verge of hys terics more than once. Hhe grew thin and pale. 8)i© ^could not sleep. She lost all appetite. During this exciting month, madaaie atni indier bill three times. Mrs. Cnr- tis« took Aurelia’s edvioe and said notlfiug. Upvm the third pre-'.eaiation, she Went to madam© and explained matters. Madame was cold “la thirty days,” she snid. “I can wait no longer. Then tuy lawyer will collect.” Mrs. Curtiss hurried to Aurelia. “She threatens to sue,” she fcaid, brealhiess- ly. “What shall I dot” k “Nothing." • ‘Nothing?” “A mo e threat,” explained Aurelia “She hopes to frighten you.”* “Lwouldn't have it come to John's knowledge for the world!” "Leave it to me. Mud Land will re vive in a day or so." If Mud Land showed no sign of re- viviug, Mrs. Curtiss’ spirits arose at once. "A mouth ia a long time," alve said. "Jt will rise, surely, as you say.” •Vertidaly,” Virh decision. “You will double your money.’” Mrs. Curtiss flew to Aurelia at the expiration of a month. “Read!" she stumiucrcd, thrusting a letter into her hand. Aurelia frowned as sbo read it “Mdn-troos impertinence!” she ex claimed, Hinging the lawyer's letter upon tlie Hoof.* “I’rcmcditatcd insult!*’ “a* hat shall I do?” sob!>cd Curtiss. “Oh, what shall 1 do?” “N on must sell you^ittock. leee no Mher way, unless you go to your hus band and—” “Never!’’ interrupted the unhappy woman. ‘•Ceu’t you—can't you lend it to me, Aurelia?” Ho w Bill Hardy Esoapod to ~ oott , ' I» It possible for a man to oonflns himself strhjUy to tbo truth when speaking upon the feats of his horse! It is said the Arabia© horse eeRcr newt protend* to show off the quality of hts or.imala, but briars them to rw ®^ 1 * t *^ »' n »C!rr. wsr does condescend to dwell am their moedta H U ^ ^inka, for <hs porvhooor to know bis animal U of pore stock, for it would be decrying their good quaJitio* to vaunt their praises Uke a Ooumioo huckoter. Bst that Is otdy from a ootnmeruial standpoint. No doubt tbo Arab sheik* spook much about their horses, and, perhont, un wittingly toll ioug stories whisk hove a tinge of the roes anas akoot their gvond achievements. The Afghans are probably the most inveterate horse liars in tbo world. i hey have the moei marvelous tales at tlmlr tongue tips about the extraordi rary streugtk of their stouh-built cobs. Thoy boast litUe of their speod, for that wotild be-assies*; M their form would stamp the speaker as nutur, but wl>«n it coroe*, ty *ed enduraooe the VilT Afghan will swear by his beard, Allah aad all the prophet* that no boras lives whioh can equal bis animals. Rahi'b,” said an elderly gentleman Vo me m j)raise of hi* stud, ‘They are strong—so strong that If one of my hornet kicked ui Eo^lith kopte wHcq they are drawn up In doss order on parade his leg would go clean through a " a hi- strength the English horse and kill the next,' Mrs. T/ 2 **"' com< H thafs too lonob to 1 ■* Hero." but she asked no questions. At-tho broker’s office, Aurelia gave the order. Mrs. Curtiss signed it, a feeling akin to terror sweeping ov$r her. If it rises to thirty! she thought A notification of the purchase of twenty shares of Mud* Land at 0*< reached her “If I only could!” sighed Aurelia. “But my dear child, every penny I poshes* Is in copper. 1 expect to realize a very hiiudsome profit Mow if madame can be induced to wait—” ’ "No!” said Mrr. Curtiss, “she must be paid. J never had a lelter of that nature rent tome, rc.Hreyer t^ill again! Mie must be paid :it once.”* ‘^riicn your stock must be »old. It is a pity. But you are the one to de- ci le. ” "^>c!l it!” repeated Mrs. Curtisa “Y<m must give the order,” said Aurelia. “I will go with you, of oour:5u.” v Aurelia wn* enjoying the luxury of a late breakfast thc r Ue.\t morning, when Mrs. Curtiss was announced. “Ehow her into my den,” ordered Aurelia. —- — — blie found her friend pacing the floor. Her face and manner betokened great agitation. “What docs this mean?” she ex claimed. “Here is a check for only one hundred dollars!” “It ia correct, no doubt,” replied Aurelia. “Correct! Why, I paid that broker over two hundred and fifty!” “Mud Land haa dropped, you must remember.” "You said it would be worth twenty, said — I — would — double—my— money,” sobbed Mrs. Curtiss. ' you would. So it will.” “When?” spiritedly. “Your money is in copper.” - \ “You have managed badly,” said AurcMa, coldly. ‘SYou should not have ordered tkobdress. You did not need it ” “I’ll never buy stocks again!” ex claimed Mrs. Curtiss. “Mud Land may go up or stay down—I’ll never put money into it! Never!” “You did not need th© dress,” re peated Aurelia, serenely. “Mud Land will rise to twenty.. You might have made a good thing of it" You “Oh, yes, yoe soy *o< but you never sceu my animals kick." 1 l>e argumsnt was unanswerable. Cowboys in this ouoctiy ana the most awful fibbers about their horses, and their tales of buck-jumping show them to be men of a peculiar and inventive genius. No animal, to them, has the slightest value unices he is poaeesood of every vice which horseflesh oould poe- ; blb1 / ^ heir ta lie muet be a man- eater, a bolter, a bncker aad so fero cious as to endanger the life or Ifaee of - entire communities. Wbsn gathered I around the oarop*fire after a Wbg day’s ride with cattle a man conld hardly W lievo those faithful beasts, hobbled and calmly munching grass, were eush ia- , carnations of deviltry. To an ordinary Individual they showed more Intel]!- | genoo than their rklere, and oortalnlr knew tl»eir business better. From the many horses Indians own it would be thought they loved them, but I don’t believe there exists a root more cruel to their stock than the a I« r *£« Thoy sssm to have no appreciative qualities. Very careful that tbey do not overwork thenasolvea, the human brutes hear* cm their ani mals ever}’ cruehy.’. .They overload them; starve them; rids them furious ly; spur them viciously. It matters not whether their poor beasts are eore- bocksd qr pot, on goes a saddle, the wretched animal ia lashed or spurred into a long continuous gallop There is not a whit of differenoe be tween tbo Indians of Oregon or those on the Colorado dct>ert Tbey are eqaaT 1/ crueL As for placing a value anon their ani mals, they do not, for it is not uncom mon for th The other gentlemen from Arisons looked astonished. It was excusable, for some of the feats performed by their horses were oertaiu ly remark able. ~ “You know CX C. jt each, of Phoenix, I gnees,” said Mr. Carpenter, turning affably upon-hts hearers. Bevcntl knew Mr. tWirli and expressed un bounded admirathvo for the gentleman. "Well, ,Hs*« got a horse on alfalfa which £te wouldn’t sell for one million doila^rs.” ^ "it ain't likely the hoes is wuth that mucli,” said a gentleman from RilHtoe rather doubtfullv. “Hvery cent of H,” said Mr. Oarpon- rell-hting another cigar. “Oh,oo«ne now,” observed ageuUomar from Gila Bend, “what are you giving us? Worth one millionF* "That’s whet ” ^ “There’s a story with that horse/ remarked another from Gaea Grande, while a gsiilivman from Red Rock sug g rated that the horse was worth mors than the Trail territory.* ♦ “Thews is a story ecron retold with that horsa, and so long ae Beaeh lives tha! home sha’aX do edteMoMn 1 00 ■**," hsgsn Ms. Carpenter, t eettliog hhnesif. was tray beck during the Indian troetdee that in; story radars. The rascally reds were beafagiag IVjH Ma^eve aod it was sure death te rveryosM hi the fort unices wes edatsiacd. But b/w to get area to the outer world ef ihk dread f»i afosatfcMs* Th* Messed India**! t^ers here, there sad everywhere, picking off mao, women and children. An ladle* doaa\ oars who he shooto, bleae yon. “Well, eta, there was' a buckskin hcr-eo lu camp which, if be once got • Btort of a yard iw so of any Indian ani mal, he would never be caught. Its owner had often spoken of this animal, and BUI Hardy, as brave a man as evot lived, said if the horse wrmltVbe lent tc hiss he would try aad make Freeeodh “Of so eras It was dangerous work aod there wore too chances to ooe he would never get out of sight of the fort, and tbs bravest man there shud dered to think what would be liardy** fete when oepeered. Tbs* Indians mutilate their prisoners most hideous ly and their tortures are exquisite be fore they finish them up. I toll you, geutlersea, there was greater pluck slkown by Hardy in volunteering to go than hi leellng a forlorn hope, whert death is speedily met by bullet oc eebes. “?be buohakin was saddled and Har dy mads a dash few the open country. The horse knew as well as Us rider what was required of him. He passed the line of Indians before they were well awoke. Then when they did got ttp tbey gave she*©. -Tbs desert was a •warming maae of red devils, all •creaming aod urging their heiress after Hardy. But the buckskin had the Jead. Hardy was a good rider. Ho rodo as In ft race, and not till Preooott ~wea’ reached, one hundred aod fifty miles away, did he draw rein. Do you snp- r tl*e Indiana • topped—not a bit ol Tbey kept right on ofler him, the bullets tearing up the mud right along side. No wonder Beach says that nc man shall over again ride that buck- skim” ‘Ton bst, Beach is right not to lei any man rids that horse, but 1 have * home which went ooe hundred miles In f'K'tj-ftiffht hours dragging a Heavy wagon with a whole outfit , and two heavy men weighing a boat two hun- . “ a gentleman there, an’ when they jumps afi juckrabbit down they comes with their forelegs into it. The way to catch coy otes is to make ’isra think you thloki they'* all dnrn fools. seeT’ £ Another hour oif tramping and at ltd expiration the other three traps word set ami batted: pcrience of fortuftfe and misfortune, I “Now,” said Feck, “if you don’t mind mostly misfortune. He has long sines goia’ we’ll take a look at the traps ns quit hoping for a ’Strike," and is now j was set yisterday.” a wandering,’* jporory -ktr.c'.icn old J Again we set off across-r^o low. Mill 1 chap, keeping himself as much as pos sible out of thu way of the world, j never looks at a book or paper, mines “at oddTrpells,” and hunts the greater | part of the year. Lately ho has been trapping along ths Yuba, and has pitched his teat on & little fiat known as the Keystone. There are no valuable-furs to bo ob- 1 tained In the lower foothills, but the coyotes are numerous on the Keystone, and as the state pays a bounty of five dollars for each scalp an expert trapper can make enough to keep hotly and soul together and have a little left over. But he must be aa expert Tbo gaunt, liungry, snarllngfboyole is more diffi cult to callch thanra fox, and hishablu, likes and dialike«, t runway* and noc turnal prowlir.gn k^ust be learned by the trapper Tierore he can expect take mdre than an occasional scalp. The Keystone U a favorite yelping ground, and the rugged hills, with thick undergrowth*, chaparral, olVff* and caves that abound along ths Yuba tc at that point, furnish cosy retreats fur hundreds of o teuritory,” aod mm to ride one to death, aod men dred (ounds a pieoo, from Casa Grand©. The Red Rock mao leaned over to ms and whispered in mv ear: “That’s ths doggondest liar la the eheerfully began; "Give me a mule, every time. I have a mule whioh oould have beaten that boras. * ‘ , • “You hew©, eh,” said Mi*. Carpenter. ,r ¥ea, aln I have a mule which west forty miles between water at a straight gallop In the dead heat of summer, and what took tha fastest horse four days to do this mule sou id do in two days. not the slightest compunction hi felt at 1 know a time when IMa mule did three the untimely decease. It is only when you want to purchase a nony that h has a fictitious valqe. What, with that horae? No, it would be possible. 14 k ao valuablh and account© are given of ^ts speed that one is inclined to ask whether these people know about atop watches. Th© ■*>d< I -Mg. Curtiss sat in his library that the-next day. Sha carried it tq Au- evening. Everything around him gave relia. ‘-‘What must I do now?” | * sense of satisfaction; everything told .“Pay for your stock, of course. You him of the loving supervision ef his could have bought it on a margin. I j wife. The fire burned brightly iu th© should, but,” with a laugh, “I am used grate, the latest magazine, ready-out, to taking flyers.” * lay upon his reading table, the dog / “Yes,” with a fceliag of humility, slumbered at his feet. He Was in a. How wise Aurelia wax! how daring! mood, therefore, to listen sympathet- “1*H go with you," said Aurelia. ; h-'ally to his wife, when she falterlngly “There’ll be tbo oommissiou—it’s on began the recital of her humiliating was a Child, she cried for Csstbria heesw Miss, *'.« duos to Cutoria had Cfctldrsx, she gava them Ca*9rift> the statement, probably.” experienc©, Mrs Curtiss counted her money twice “8q you consulted Aurelia?” he said, before handing it to th# broker's clerk. Rmiling into the •troubled faoa. “Poor “1 list’s right,” said Aurelia, approv-J^urelia! She must lose far more than ingly; “i’il make you a woman of J Abe gains Only a very inexpsrieaoed business yet” 1 person would have adrise&rth© pur- “Sell the stock at twenty,” said-chose of Mud Land. It is praotkalij Aurelia. “Not a fraction below.” worthless. ^ Mrs. Cmitiar irgghd tbU order, A t—^VeH," with a long-drawn sigh: mine of wealth seemed sbddenrly open- ‘ shall lose no mom money In stocks. Modoc Indians placed aa extraordinary price on their beasts, but the CahuiUas could give their northern brethren sew oral pointers. 1% M ladiere*# to ask them what thoy would take for their wretched stock, whoes sole — A "nnss for nifiji months ent sf ths year k dry sagebmah, for k mmi he that nader ao saartllloa ee diaa think U proper to feed hie Some do rake alfalfa, Mk tree, bnt It is never-sot end stored. They will no- blushingly ask seveaty-ftve dollars ami rdoa ef Ike ksr the ing before hex. 6he thought of the ourpriaq of her husband when she told him 6f her successful venture. A week pesosdt ’ Mrs. Curtiss waited in agitated snupense She oousulted And. possibly,-it is weU that I have this experience. .For, if I Hqd my money, I might have— 4 . ‘Tocaulted Aurelia egaiaf 0 eighty dollars lor a dear at five dotlara Fexhsjpe H k tWe lank for their exalted Amarioasa ©a th great opts ions of aaoknt, one-eyed, spavined aag, age would approach to hundred years, has hem with sash exubevense of spirit bucking, bolting, raofctg ' is approached an Ml She architecture boasts "Into hundred and twenty n^ileo in two da- and the water holes were thirty-five mHea apart .Why, sir, that mitle oould go fifty miles at a dead ran and never h a drop of water.” y horse went the last sixty miles without a drop oi water,” retorted the Gaea Grande man, “aod tha two man ware about dead, with tbatr tongues lolling ont of their months, but my hdrae waa aa fresh as a daisy.” Tha Red Rook man atared at him wkh a aad, wan, pitying smile, aa if he ween wondering why anyone would Im peril kk soul abont sash a trifle ms that. ooyotea, foxes, ooous, pole cat* aod now and then a mountain oal or lynx. The polecats are perhaps the moat numerous, aud as they are not suspicious, prudent animals, relying npon their offensireness to carry them safely through life, are a great nuisaooe to the trapper, who m’ust. when he has caught one, thoroughlr disiufeot his trap, not a pleosaot oi easy task in the hills where water it scare© aqd deodorising mat© rials not easily obtainable. “Coyote” Peek, as be la called, thoroughly understands the habits oi coyotes. When I met him, a week ago, he was crrrylng four traps on his hofk and doing his best to keep out of sight behind a clump of manxunita bushes. At first he was surly and gave short r©^; plies to all my queries, but persistent efforts thawed the iciness of his mea ner and he asked mo toaocompany hire and see how ooyote trapping whs car ried on. It was quit© early In the forenoon, and the canyon down which w© picket! our way waa yet coot On either side were jagged, rocky ateeps, gashed wltl: innumerable cracks and crevices Ir which many nocturnal creatures wers probably asleep., In the dust on© could s©« the tracke of coons, foxes, coyotes, polecats, rats, mice and beetles. “They prey* on ape another,” said Peck. , “Thor’s thousands on thousand* o’ booties ye re, an’ the coons an’ foxes an’ polecats k great for sich things. They'* in the rock* now.” # “Do you catch the eoon*?“ “Ho, he! I should say I da They'i Ho harder to catch then skunks. You catch on© by the end of his Util ©at to« an’he^ll jlst got right down an’ stay there lookin' at his toe an’ study In’ the trap, an' like as not be won't L< through atudyln' when you come it the iqornln'. Coons is easy, an’ foxei ain’t hard, but they h ain’t wuth nothin, to me, ao I generally lots the coons lay, au’ the loses, too, ’cept in the wintei when It's real colei Then the foxes’ hide* is wuth thirty cents apiece. They’* no good tilhtho fur’* on, avoF’ Wo tramped on for half an hour, and then, leaviug the canyon, crossed s little ridge where thoundergrowth had been burned away and a few ocnrbbj pines and oaks clustered about a little spring. Handing me his traps, Peck stole cautiously ahead with his rifle and a minute later made a rapid shot at something aittijg in the shade not far away. The animal shot waa a jack- rabbit. “I nearly alius glta one here,” said the old man. “Tbey’a tho best kind of bait for coyote*. I’ve tried venison an* beef on* all kinds of moat, bat jack- rabbit boats 'em all. Coyotes is yorj particular about their vlUles. You'd think a ohioken would be better, ’cause Coyotes is awful rough ou chickens when they finds ’em in a coop, but ’tain’t so. The coyotes knows that chickens is domestio fowls, an' when they scoa on© a-bangia' by its legs on a tree four or fire miles out ia th# woo ls they jlst looks at it in a suspicious way an' sex: ‘What you doin' out yero, any how?’ an’ tbey goes on. They knows a chicken ain't got no business bangin’ by its leg* to a tree in th© woods. But they knows a jack 1>«long# in the woods, and they don’t never seem to think tharo’s anything orooked when tbey fin la a leek hangh)’ by h!s lego, A their. nat ral jood, for ing hills, at right angles with tUd canyoft, and tramped through A tangled maze of chaparral until we reached ths lower edge of* the Keystone range. At we skirted the flat the pungetit aroma cf the mephitis was wafted to ns and Peck swore long and loud. 1 ;VAnother of them durnod sknnktf I’Fe^caught more’n twsnty this week* an' it 'pears ilk© there's twenty tho» saud of ’em left.” Sure enough, the first trap held • skunk, and the BtMe animal, which had pulled and squirmed for hours, war standing still, looking at us with pitooQt eyes and trembling with pain. Tht smell was sickening, aud Peck stopped me at a safe distance. “You stay yer©, leat you get the smell on yer feet, an* I’ll fix *im.” A well-dl rented shot killed th* skunk, and the old man pulled it frotn ♦he trap and heeved it away with • grunt of disgust. Then he untied tbs trhp, and taking from' hia pocket ■ flannel rag and a bottle with a large neck rubbed the con tents over tbs trap “What la that stuff?” “Alcohol aa* assfltty,” returasd Peek, testily. “It kill* the smell* seme of it, an* the coyotes like It tooj but’t ain't as good as it might be.” The disinfecting process did not re quire much time, and when it was finished Peck had acquired a lies? flavor whioh was not pleasant, but ha did not seem to mind it The trap was taken up and carried to a new location and set In a runway without bait ; “It’ll bo aday or two % afore I catch anything in that trap,” said Peek. “Bom© fellers buries tbsir loafs to make Yn clean, but I jist uses alcohol and ntafilty. The best stuff for olean- in' is sulphuric acid an’ water, ’cans* that cuts off everything, but you’ve got to put asafitty on anyway to kill the smell of the acid, see? Ooyotoe likes the smell of asafitty an* 1’v© caught some by dragging a little bag of M ovet th© ground fer a mile or so aod*then settle’ down with my rill# to wafeh tbs trail They 11 foller it sore if it’s early jack's sure, i That** why coyote* I* aioh powerful 1 W1 jack runners. iVheaerer tbey catoh a they's got to earn him fiust, see?” As Peck talked hs gathered his traps and the jackrabblt together, threw’ 1 The If U Mratfullr shank his hsad, hat whsa he eaaght me alone be aelAc *T wonder that fellow** tongue don’t get paralysed Wiling such whopper*. Thnre oian ao boons living that eon travel twenty miWs oa the deeert be tween driaho, Vet alone sixty. 1 know I aaatl NewtasW yer pinau.” “But yens animal went forty miles without water?” * “Look a-hoea, yean#men. I didan •ay aetkUf about boro* I said mulo- ■va-Le—ftaule. See?. Whkky straight, hosa. lever nshtd yer taraaUoa water. ” —John Hasrtlteu GUmour, ia Ban Fran- cfcaco Chsoaiole. them over hia shoulder and trudged on again. We had easier walking how, and it waa not long before another hare started up in front of us. Peck dropped his traps, and as th© jack, whioh had not been much frightened, loped softly up the hill shot it dead- It was a fine shot aad well worth praising, but ths old hunWr smiled knowingly aod said: “Thfttr# nothin’. -A boy kin do that —erter he knows how. That makes bait enough for these four trap*, so wall Jlst set ooe of ’em yere.” With a swipe of Ike hunting knife in the mornin’ an’ the grass is damp. Niue more trap© were visited. Five oi them held skunks, one a fox, two werf not sprung and one had captured a coyote. The skunk* and the fox were killed at once and Peck was fairly wikL “It doee aeem'n though there aiaf nothin' here hut skunk*. If tbey waa worth ten oenW apiece an’ didn’t smell so infeAial I’d make a fortune sure, Tho ornery tblam ia jiat a warmin', and they glta caught to spite me. I know it.” -Jb© coyote was a large specimen of muscular starvation. The long, lithe body, with Its tha -gy hair, the small, furtive eyes and sneering, snsrilnfl mouth made a threatening picture. Long before we reached the trapwt could hear the eheln rattle as the coy- oi©. frautic with fear and pain, sprang back and forth in fruiUeea efforts to o*cupe. Peek was lo a better huinot now, and when he hod shot the captive, taken off the scalp, flung the carcMM a way and reset tho trap he “talked eoj- ote" at a rapid rata ; — “It's funny, they alius gits caught by the fore feet; alius. Now, a fox or • coon or tlie wildcat T1 get caught by the hiaU legs sometimes, but a coyote neve* dors. It’s alius the front foot tha! goes into the trap. This yere feller la the third I've caught in the laet week That ain’t bad; but I expect to do bet ter afore long, ’cause the sheep’s oomtaf down fr9re the mountains now, an* the coyotes foilers tha - sheep. ' N<s I couldn’t do better on the plains. I^va tried it there. There's no trees to your bait on, an’ it’s too settled apt there’s too many dogs." > “Did otea?” “Yaa, onct. I had two cub* in the mountains* last year. 1 thought I’d gu ' into coyote raisin’ on a big scale an* bankrupt the slat©, but it wouldh'l work. As soon as the cubs was grpwod up they kep’ mo so bnsy buntin’ fot feed for ’em that I Jlst got tired an* shot’em. Thoy’s treacherous brutes, too, an’ thoy bite* wicked. A big one’ll whip a pretty good dog if he’* cor nered. .. “1’ro seed a good mhny different ways of trappin’ of ’em, but this W, ; with steel traps baited with jackrab- bits, is the best. I c’d toll you an aw fnl lot ’bout coyotes, but I ain’t got time now. I’ve got to go out an’ hunt up somo meat for myiclf. Corns to my shanty some day ’an raebbe we’H hav© some o' tho state’s venison.” And “Coyote" Peck, giving hia Win- shsstor a flirt that landed it os hia shoulder, turned quickly away an t tramped out of sight In ths thickets leaving me alone, tired, hungry and hardened with the faint flavor of some th log which makes ths most fearlasa chicken shudder with fear when H steals over th^ roost—San Francisco Citron icle. vp rpu ever try Ao raise any coy* < <»• A To© *«Tro*h" CoadocSov. “WhelSr.ar© you going, aunty?” asked a conductor on one of the in* coming trains Saturday, of aa ekkirly % lady passenger. TbeJ lady looked 1st him indignantly aad ths conductor ataxuneiuid “You know here.” you vv kow i ?ver.'”—Mary —Right Reply In Right Place. —Yintor —"Aad so you are glad the school* are open?” Little Johnny—"No, 1 hain't, “Bat you Just told that gen- - Fere” “Of coarse. H?a of the jackrabblt* was neatly di vided aad then one-half was fastened to ax oak sapling about four feet from led las ‘aunty’ oat the ground.. A tew bit# cf th# flash 1 “If you do.” said -the. lady, ware scattered about tha foot of the oak j “you are very HL bred And the and then a trap waa art directly under company ^ugbt to employ the hanging bait and made secure with know the chain. No effort at oooeealpadut V Thh eonJnrtor retired la Beck abduAil ‘ and It what’s & - «