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f" THE PROSE OF POETRY. HU roam bad bean writ And brought him gold. Filled full of lofty thought. Of noble purpoee and Of brilliant wit. Of tentlment and anal; Of music, unattuned. It turowl the mystic key That flu the lock of wealth. It was a picture Wrought In words; A star plucked from The sky of mind; A white rose from The garden of the heart. And yet it was not these To him- Between lu splendid lines He found a suit of clothes, IU periods rounded out to him A plate of soup. A roast of beef, A piece of pie. IU rhythmic flowing feet Woru shoes for him; Us soul Went to hU stomach. And Its sentiment Once him a bed on which to sleep And dream the poet's dream; Its measure and IU melody, IU waking and lu wretchedness. —Will J. Lempton in Mew York Bun. 11 If ;*■ THE GOLDEN BEAN. Not long ago It happened that I had two hours to wait for a train at Casa Grande station on the Southern Pacific railway. Stepping into a saloon near tha track, 1 got Into conversation With a ■baggy looking native, who proved to be an old prospector somewhat the worse for wear. As he seemed communicative, and I was willing to listen to a yam or two to UU time, I had the barkeeper place a black bottle and the requisite glasses on a card table near the stove, and with my new acquaintance as a vis- a-vis 1 listened to the following tale, which I have endeavored to write down rly in his own language as possi ble, merely omitting the numerous epi grams with which he interrupted his dis course; “It was last fall that me and Bill Stump got acquainted np at Prescott We’d both of ns just quit work at the mines and had pretty neat $100 apiece. We fooled around the saloons most of the evenin, talon a drink now and then and buckin a little at the faro game, and finally we made it np to be pards on a prospectin trip to find some new diggin's. Nest day we bought four burros, two to ride and two to pack, loaded np with grab an things, and lit out “Next evenin we was camped at sun down about 90 miles west in a dark little piney canyon and was gettin supper. BUI waa monkeyin round the campfire with the coffee and baoon, and I was sit- tin with my backagainat a pine tree and a sack of beans 'tween my knees, piokin some of ’em over to put on for breakfast. There wae pretty plenty gravel and ■fonee in the beans, an* I was cussin considerable, when I found somethin queer among ’em. It waa a gold nugget, just the shape as a bean, only about four times as big. ‘Bill,’ says I, Hf here ain't a $7 nugget in these beans, PU be blank- ety blanked r Bill he cornea np and grabs ft and gets to stndyln over it. ‘Joe,’ aaya he after* bit, ‘Joe, I know jeet how that thar nugget got thar.' Poor BUI was always great on explainin things. ‘Wall, fire away,* says L It’s this way,’ aaya BUL Tvs been among the greasers considerable, and I knows their waya. Them beans wee raised by greas ers; that’s why they’re ao fall of gravel and dirt. Ton see the greasers thrash ont the beans right in the field where they growed, end winner ’em by tossin 'em np in the air so the wind blows away tha chaff. Than they shovel ’em into sacks right off tha ground, takin np some gravel at the same thaw. Now that thar nugget proves that the ground when them beans waa growed is good placer ground, and all we’ve got to do is to find out who told ’em first and then find where hk ranch 1a When we find that bean patch, well find good pay dirt, sum, 'bos where nuggets like this ere lyin round loose there’s bo ‘X. I bound to be good it an r ae a good deal excited and lay awake most of the night talkin it over an makin plana Next mocnia we Was packed np and started bade for Prescott by daylight Bill said we moat not ose them beans, bat .keep the sack just aa ft Was bo's the party that sold it would know it again. So we aewpd it np and took note of a queer mark on one ride of it It was a cross inside of a circle as big as my hand. We thonghtthat would help ns find the feller that sacked the beams, and ante i it did. Ye hadn’t bought the beans at a store, but from a freighter that waa camped with his 4-horse team and two wagons In the corral where we got onr bnrroe, ao when when we got to Prescott we went straight back to the corral. There we got onr first setback. The freighter—his name was Pike—had left the day before for the Verde copper mines to look for a load. It waa 90 miles, and it's alow work travelin with donkeys, so we was the beat part of two days gettin there, and f£und we was ont o’ luck again. Pike coeldp't get any load there, so be had gone on down to Camp Verde, in- tendin to go over to Camp Apache, 250 miles further. “Bight there I wanted to give it up, bnj BUI wouldn’t have it ‘Who cores for a tew hundred miles, more or leas,' eays he, ‘with all that gold piled np at the end of it Why, next year well be ridin in our fine carriages in Frisco.’ All thp thus I waa with Bill I never could get the best of him in an argument, so 1 gave in. But if poor BUI could 'er known that a tough tramp of 1,000 mUes was in front of ns, with grim death waitin for trim at the other end, he wouldn’t 'er been so hot to go on. “When we got down to Camp Verde, t peaky freighter wae gone, of coarse, ^ we was gettin used to bein balked i*t mind much. In pretty good i wy started out on tha long, lonely irongb tha Mack pine forests of the illon mnenutaius The next night we camped just under the ‘rimrock,’ and a mountain lion got away with onr beat hurra Tbs poor donkey was hobbled and couldn't fight or protect himself, and we never knew tt tUl next morning, when we found hie body about half eaten up (00 yards from the campfire. This left nafrithonly out aadiilesnliasl. and from that ousts took turns riding. It was an awM tirseome road through thorn miles of timber, but we kept e-goin every day and only camped A night. Turkey was i thick aa riUeheat in «t henyqrd, apd r uow and then we jumped e bear. Deer waa plenty, too, but we didn't atop to hunt. We had only cue idee, and that waa to catab up with that freighter if ere had to follow him to Trass. river, we wee jumped hy Apaches and lost another burro. How was it? WeU, it waa like this; The sun was abont two hours high when the trail went down into a deep, sandy canyon winding around between big bowlders of white granite that had rolled off the cliffs above. Some of 'em was more'n 15 feet high. I wa> afoot; Bill rode just ahead of me. and th< two pack burros wnz peggin along ii single file ahead of him. The canyon wid ened out by degrees into a broad, sandy wash, with mesqnito trees and brush or the cast aide, while the trail bugged thi west side close to the big bowlders. Al’ at once—spatl spatl apitl come three ballets, flattenin \ thee selves on the bowlders close to us. The three shote were tired at us from across the canyon, and we could see the smoke cn: lin tip from a big bunch of brush over there. As I jumped forward to help Bill drive the donkeys under cover behind the rocks another volley came, anel this time the saeldlo burro fell tie,ret. Before they coulti lire again Bill hael pieketi himsell up, and we bad our two pack animate safe behind the rocks. “Wo fonud peep holes where we could look between the bowlders and get a good view across tbs canyon without being seen. It was a beautiful place, and we could have stood off 30 Injuns as easy as 3, for they could not get behind us, and our belts were full of cartridges. We knew we had the best of it, or anyway an even thing, for the Irancb of brush where they were hid stood by itself, and they could not leave it without getting s shot from both of onr winchesters. They would have to run abont 80 feet further to the right or left to reach another bush, and behind them waa a perpen dicular cliff. Their cover was less than 100 yards from ns, and their only chance to get away was to wait until dark; but we were also In the same fix. “I tell you, stranger, we watched pretty close t jt those red devils to show themselves. We was mad about our dead donkey, and we was mad at bein stopped when we wae in a hurry. Bill covered the right ride of their bush with his gun, and I took the left Our rifles was cocked and ready to speak, and lost about that time no Injun had any business to get In front of them, for we was both good shots and didn't cal culate to waste any cartridges. For near half an hour we watched, and then we saw somethin move on the sand at the right edge of the hash. It was the top of an Injun’s bead. He was lyin flat on the ground, behind cover, and shovln ont his head to get a better view of our position. The next minute a head was shoved out the same way on the other ride of the bush. ‘Ready I' says BUL ‘Nowf and onr rifles rang ont together. “The heads staid there, but we knew a rifle ball had crashed through each of them. The moment we shot the third red darted out on the north side and made a rush for a new cover only 10 yards away. He almos’ reached it—one more spring and he wae safe—but Bill caught him on the fly. Crack! went his rifle, and Mr. Injun fell in a heap, never makin a kick. “We waited awhile before we moved, to make sure they wasn't playin possum, but it was getting dark fast, so we slipped op careful from bash to bush. W® had to make sure work of the killin, cos it wouldn’t do to have one of ’em get away and bring the whole tribe down on ns. WeU, they was dead enough to suit anybody, the last one killed being hardly more than a boy. He was the son of a chief, as we knew by his wearin white eagle feathers in his hair. He had an improved army rifle, and so did the other two. “Weren’t it a pity, stranger, that three of Uncle Sam’s pets, (fat for a little fan, should V got done np that way? They didn’t have nothin we wanted, so we left ’em to the buzzards an coyotes and start ed down the canyon drivin onr burros ■head. We traveled all night, for fear gome prowlin Injun should find the dead bodies in the mornin and take onr trail. “A week later we got to Fort Apache, fagged ont some and pretty near bare foot We didn’t say nothin abont the killin, for fear of being arrested, bat we rested ap some on soldier whisky at the sutler’s store and bought new shoes. We wasn’t disappointed this time abont onr freighter. He wae still on the move, just as we expected. He’d left for Wilcox, on the railroad, three days before. Well, we had come 800 miles, and there was nothin else to do bnt to keep a-goin. It was only 150 miles farther, and walkin was cheap. “We tramped into WUcox 10 days later, and there we found onr man at last. We’d got so used to foUerin him that I’ll he blanked if we didn’t feel sort a h\lf disappointed when we had ran him down. Oneof his wagons had broke, and ha had to lay over to get it mended. Only for that the darned old road runner might V been pikin along yet and we a-follering him, just two days behind him. He re membered eeUin ns the beans. He said he had bought the sack at a little store kept by a Mexican in Theson just be fore he started for Prescott. We told him about findiu the gold nugget and wanted him to jots ns huntin up the dig- gtn's, as his teams might be useful start- in up a new camp. He didn’t care to go and said be didn’t cotton much to gold diggin anyhow. I reckon he was too fond of travel to stay long in one “WeU, aU we had to do was to light ont for Tucson, another 180 miles, and we started along, feelin considerable sheered np. The donkeys was gettin poor, bat we thought we were near tho end of the trip, ao we didn't worry. It took nearly two weeks to get to TucsoR, bnt when we went to the Uttle Mexican store the old man in charge remembered the bean sack very well and said he had •old it to Pike the freighter. He bought it and ethers from an old Mexican ped dler who came over from Sonora and had gone to Phoenix. There was no help for it; we had to go there, too, fagged ont as we were, and there we found onr Mexican peddler, who told os ha had bought the beans—several sacks of them —at a little roadside ranch down in So nora, about 100 miles sonth of Tncson. “Stranger, when we started back to Tncson the next mornin we wouldn’t have sold onr interest in that blasted bean ranch for $50,000 apiece. Yet, aft er aU, poor Bill left his body there, and I got all broke np. Here’s the way it happened: About three weeks afterward we was draggis along slow and tired one afternoon when we come to the shanty where the peddler told ns he got tho knew it right off by the de scription. There was the little rannin stream, and on the other bank there was the vwjr bean patefe and the bouse at one and of it. Ws unpacked by tha water, wail till martin, as ws bad to get rapper before dark. I started gettin some sticks to build a fire, and Bill went to the packs for the coffeepot and fry pan, and just then hree greasers ou horseback rode by us and up to the door of the house, where they got off their horses. After a little palaver with an old hag that came to tho door one of them came over to us and said ‘Buenos noebes' very polite. A greaser would be polite if he was goin to ent your throat the next minnte. As he passed onr baggage he kind a-started and looked at it pretty sharp, and 1 saw he was takin note of the bean sack. It was standin there with the queer mark in plain view. By and by he | pointed to the sack and asked where we 1 got it and what was in it. I told him it | was a sack of beans, and we bonght it over the line in Arizona. Pretty soon he asked ns to come up to.the house and spend the evenin. We said we would after rapper, and then he went off. 'Half an hour later, aa we waa squat- tin by the fire drinkin onr coffee, all 1 three of ’em come down and stood around. Swarthy faosd, with mean look- in mustaches and murderous eyes, they looked equal to any deviltry, and I was just thlnMn what a precious lookin set of rascals they was when I quit thinkin altogether. I had to, ’cos I was stretched out on the ground unconscious. What I saw happened quicker'n I can tell it The two near ones whipped ont their S-ehooters and had ns covered, and the other one grabbed the bean sack. Bill, always quicker than me, jumped up; a-reaohin behind him for his gun, but before he polled it there was a report, and he faQ forward on his tecs with a gnrglin yell—a pistol ball in his throat I mads a jump to get up, bnt I felt a crasbln blpw on my head, and that’s all ishinblpwi emqaber. “When X ooi come to myself, I was lyin on some blankets on the dirt floor of a doby shanty, with an old Mexican hag bendin over me. I beg her pardon for oallin her a hag, for she saved my life, hut when I woks np I thought sure she was satsn. She told me I had been crazy a week, and I reckon I must a had brain fever. I told the rid woman all my story and all about the beans, bnt she wouldn’t talk about the murder of tty friend till three weeks after, when I got strong and wsll, and told ker I was going back to Arizona. She up and told me next mornin, and, stranger, you’ll that me and Bill was two of the nnluckieet cusses livin. That very sack of beans we had been paokin all over Arizona had nearly $5,000 worth of grid la tt in dost and nuggets I •The three greasers who attacked ns were her nephews and were just what they looked tobe—brigands—though she did not say so. They had murdered a couple of miners np in the mountains and robbed their camp of abont SO pounds of gold dost Not wan tin to use it till the affair blew over, they hid the dnst in one of the sacks of beans. There were a dozen or more stacked np in the old woman’s shed, and she had raised them herself, with her grandson, a 15- year-old Idd, to help her. They marked the sack, bnt did not tell her abont the gold In it, and while they were off on some more deviltry the old woman np and sells some of her sacks of beans to a peddler that happened to come by. ame back again, they missed the marked sack, bnt It was too late to get it, and they pretty near heat the old woman to death. They’d forgot all abont it by the time we came by, but they knew their mark on the sack and saw it had not been open, and the only wonder is that they didn’t shoot us both down without askin any questions. “My donkeys were feedin around the ranch yet, and I had my blankets. That was all they left ms. I gave the old woman one donkey and saddled up the other and lit ont for Tucson. Bnt first I made a little wooden cross and cat Bill's name on it, and pnt it on his grave where the old woman had made the robbers trary him close to the bean plot he had hunted so long.”—St. Louis Globe-Dem ocrat. tat CASTORIA for Infants and Children. “Cauo/laisaowenawlsptedtochiMienUuU I CMtorta cons Colic, Oonstlpatloa, I recommend It as cuswrior to sajr prescription I Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. Eruclatlon, mown to mo.’’ H. A. Arche., H. D.. I giV “ “““P’ “ d dl " So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. | Without injurious medication. Tm Centaur Company, 77 Murray Street, If. Y. e p SPARTANBURG. S. G. For Catalogue address, JUS.». CARLISLE, LE. D„ PIEST. Two Full Courses. Necessary expenses for one year, One Hundred and Fifty Dollars. J. A. GAMKWELL, Secretary of Faculty. NEW SHOES. Mannfactnred by £. C. Burt & Co., Drew, Selby & Co., Williams, Hoyt & Co. Examine our $3 Glove Fitting Good Year Welt Shoe for Men. An elegant line ol all styles and prices. We carry the bes line Hand-Sewet Goods ever brougb to Darlington. Immense Stock 1 of Oxfords For Ladies, Misses and Children; widths B to E. We have them in the newest lasts and colors. Trunks, Valises, Traveling Bags, Etc. We have on hand a complete stock oi the above goods at astonishing prices. DARLINGTON SHOE STORE, WOODS & MILLING, Proprietors. Tifst inTTres and Improve?ment6 Riders of Victor Pneumatics carry an extra inner tube to be used in case of accident. By simply removing a punc tured inner tube through a hole in the rim, repair^ is effected in five minutes by replacing with a new one.' If you are going to ride why not ride the best? OVERMAN WHEEL CO. v Boston, Washington, - Denver, San FNANOtsoa A HAPPY HOME Is made doubly so by good music. So make the best of life and procure a good Piano or Organ. iREZMIEZLEIBIEie, You have only to invest once in a life time, provided you buy a good instrument. Don’t worry about hard times, as that has been the wail ever since Adam fell. Biylig #■ Credit. Going into debt is not necessarily unwise or improper; debt is not nec essarily an evil. It is the habit of rnnning store bills that often lands a man m iextricable bondage and misery which makes a debt an inevi table nuisance. Many a man will buy that whch is net absolutely nec essary when running a store account, who would hesitate to make s simi lar purchase if he had to pay the cash out of his pocket on the spot. How many have, for tbs sake of po- uessing a machine which they could not use one month in the year, over whelmed themselves in debt to the tune of hundreds of dollars, when by associated effort one such machine would have served the purpose of a neighborhood. Again, and on the other side it has paid many a yonng, thrifty and energetic man to buy a farm on credit when he had only money enough to stock it and pro vide the few implements essentially necessary. Thousands of men have succeeded under such circumstances in earning a farm in a few years who would otherwise have their weary way along as farm laborers, earning but little more than enough to live on. Buying goods on credit and running store accoants is an intole rable source of worjy and annoy Office of Chebuy, 21 Drayon Street, Savannah, Ga., Dec. 16, 1891. Messrs. Lippman Bros., Savannah Ga.: Dear gjiis—I would like to add my testimony to the almost miraculions effect of P. P. P. in the case of Mary Ingraham, a woman living on my place; she had a co slant cough, sore throat, debility, etc., and was em- aciatecd to a degaee that she was un able to get out of unaided, being given np by physioumae she had taken the ruinous so-called Blood Medicines without the least effect, untill deing pnt nnder the P. P. P., sha immed iately began to improve and is now in asgood health as ever in her life. You can refir to me at any time as to the effects of P. P. P., in the forsflo- ing esse. 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