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 )K H.J .z"' amer and ac^^S^CSKl o secure Berth/^Sl. ^» hSSl liJTentureiaGanloo. in my time wandered ov«T no laid era! »amasti T^^'S^ Cities. I fl*^? '^the'alobe, and beiiig now ' 2 P»f' ' it is my chief delight to toss is ordinary- ^^^j^^ jg^^eg of my mem- 'flZ of traveled visitors. Such *^ ° ?v,« most honored and wel by the most aestsofmy" •nse 1 of the !W»f8" *^Vmv old oak paneled smoking ^ose walls hang many an ant- "^^"^^ *!,» chase and many a of German DaS ^I««»« «. w:oratin« the ej^SSf ' l^g KEIGHLEY ORONTO. » from my â-  tjie "curat Uoral, a- on trophy OB, oven well used English ilalayan ireeae" from r^s w ^saungore^ serves, if not to point t all eveais to invite or suggest t*^*; 1 PATitain P. was here at ^^ °" Tttar TorTweek's visit and ,e end d "';-'tjie matter of pheasants, of f^""'?iern friemls' leavings. Tho^e f more modern g^tiafied with any- W^rtVentybraceadaytoeach to*" •'^- a,re not such epi- lUBBER STAMPS, «IS r Catalogue. BAkBER aSis n°*I 37 Scott St. Toronto- *^l 'pm-.A^^ UDE ST. E, TORONTO^ I ne work Mfrs. of Printers' l«* I ^laraiture. Send tor pricesr^ • SPECIAL, NOTICE-Wd have decided in fuba! ma brown jug, iD8te,d^J: glass bottle as heretoC The jugs that we wiU m ^f ♦,, r P^'pose are made Of the finest imported Rock ir.Uhani, of amottl'dbrow colour, with •' Dr. ]J, Medu ine for Lungs, Live, and Blood" in raised let ters on the side. Oa, reasons for making change are 1stâ€" Its won- derful curative qualitin will be better presenedbr the medicine being kept entirely in the dark. 2nd- As the jug- w ill be register- ed it will be imposs.ble to CGunt?rfeit it. 3rdâ€" The name "Dr. Jug's Medi- Jur'«5 "'" " '" ^^ "'"â- * "J remembered by asaocii- tion. 4th â€" Our friendi Lrnize Jit once that thej- are settiiig a-; there is iio othe' medicine put JUG ilEDIClNE CO., Toronto and Stratford. 'but *tS^nof what it is to shoot for ^^^^e ^t° "°°^o hungry then. P.'s '"PP""' think ^ail from the West histories, A few of the parochial divis- tiagh t""=^,^„„t. that would not furnish him Lof th« P^^'^f'he handles the West as if t** 'i"" s Izivk Walton bade us handle (loved It. H' ' _^^ j^^jj^g anywhere there tjfrog- â- ' "the Rocky Mountains, the "P'TtTr'om Alaska to Panama. He l^ific co^st irom A Government ^i*^'"' Sate eBCort captain, or the x,pr magistrate, :.._ *^'^^"^SiSfS"lwilltakeasan jS^S^^-r party consisted of '.jrtain Chancery barrister, who shot well, „ir and had the sometimes pro- 'aifc of summoning up the merits of *: o^i tales of outland with a judicial l^ften not to be ^anticipated from ymiPTioN. :ii^'iy for the above alseaae b^Itanw r tits v/ursc kiDd awi of long lUadiaf Int'f-ed. s.^ Btrong la my faith In Iti ^â- ^r.,! TWO BOTTLES PR£E, togtUur TRR^â€"SE on thiB dlMU* to M? =*a an.! P. O. atinresi. 2 r. A. SLOCUM, 77ongeSt.,ToffQBte ';.U ingredients the parson of the "••1, who mieht sometimes, I fancy, haye 'f"/wbi^t short or even long, to our Webad°beea conversiag on the subject ;;;' Our remarks had been severe on ;„ e^orks of nature, and devoid of any fof Brahminical charity. Their splen. tmAence had been dealt with, and _the "7er had cited even Mr. Ruskm agamst the slow of uticii ^, plflMnrw _«adfon«:4b- ^. ., -J.» MWfortabI* and noaite' f«wtanate seMba-behind thto, #ith the bravery of bright revolYer butta and scarlet shirts, in hard training forrooceM- fuUy 'bucking at the tiger' of nature in her most primitive form, like men who had j^iT?""*^ with mammotb and mastodon and had c .me off winnersâ€" these boys made bright pictures enough. If there was no wHOierly clash of stirrup and scabbud, no Jingle of consecrated romance, no feather and flonrieh of war, yet the tin drinking cup clinked gallantly against frying pan or kettle as they rode, and these paladW of pelf were, to do them bare justice, as full of fisjhtaa any soldiers whoever wore their country's color. " Part of the way I happened (having a duty juat then to be performed in a quiet, non-official way) to join such a party as I have described going from the Forks of Quesnelle down to Williams's L*ke. These two points are some hundred and fifty miles apart, and thirty miles a day in the woods was very good travelling. Slow it Was but not monotonous. If there were a monotone, it was of the dark and sombre twilight of the constant ceiling of pines through which the sun and upper air reach- ed us arrow-wise. Below there was a vari- ety of travel here a wet bottom of mud, deep enough and thick enough to pull an animal's shoe off; there a big fallen tree across the trail to be negotiated with cattle which could fly as soon as jump and tnese would be relieved by a redwood tract of cedars, with a slippery carpet of needles so clean, so sweet, and in all weathers so dry that it used to seem a shame not to off sad- dle and camp then and there instead of leaving it. At times the road would climb over a hog's back, or divide, and the travel- ers would toil and struggle up hill, to emerge in time upon some bare scalp of mountain â€" granite, syenite, or metamorphic rock â€" where the berberry or kinni-kinnivk enam- eled the white quartz with its scarlet berry and glossy leaf or where the sole vegetation the snow water had to trickle through was composed of peat and patches of moss hag. There was no game, nothing to shoot at here unless, which Saint Hubert forbid foul murder were done upon the chipmunks, a friendly, gracious little race of striped squirrels, who frisk and flirt and play at hide-and-seek with the human traveler along the wayside trees, or upon the whisky jacks, portentously tame birds in Prussian colop9 of white and black, in size between a all the |Me oat agya. Cor ^T The Rector had reminded us of the |*,o,7:fthe title "Beelzebub." I, for ^^Srtrthough certainly agamst the gram, ?a8sumcd the brief of devil's advocate, ,d pleaded that some doctors (names un- I\had held that mosquito bites (m Itity unknown) will act (in circumstances precisely stated) as a prophylactic ^^^^.^ ^^^ ^^^^^.^^ ^^^ ^^.^^ ^irWn-'said P, after meditatively immunities of our robin, and wUl perch on Altnougu, saiu r.,^ ""^j .- â- ;, a man s knee while he is eating his dmner. jC^o there b nothing for the sportsman on these trails. What game there is listens to the free-bom accents of the white man and shrinks deeper within the forest shades, and no traveler has leisure to seek it there. • Well, we got down in time to Wil- liams's Lake, a broad valley, with two ranches or farms about a mile apart, where onions at fifty cents apiece and milk (those two anti- scorbutic longings of the man of pork and beams) were to be obtained â€" a foretaste of the luxuries of the lower coun- try. The houses were both well filled with guests, for other mining districts were swelling the downward stream of traveL I will spare you a description of the manners and humors of these caravansaries, and go on to say, that, having secured a tolerably promising corner for hiy blankets, I had rolled myself up in them, with my saddle for a pillow, and -vaswell in the first dream- less sleep of the tired man, whenâ€" it was only about ten o'clockâ€" a galloping horse to taKe the highest awards where- ever exhibited. illmen Fse No Other. tiiiin; the chaii. es of accidents an lolt Cutting, Wool and TORONTO. ITICE ns: of the Associa- te the Coiiipjiny ay. the I'/Jth tifjiiig 96,894. 13,029. RPLUS, 80,234. Proflts to Policy able on and alter maging Director. A.Xj IITALLDEILBBS OYNTON," :arris," EAMMOTH," [ONARCH." "inz up his long tumbler and cramming «h charge of kariaster in his vast meer- cieam, "although flies once did help me to Vie fortune, (it was over S7,000) yet they jst not call me as a witness to character. Bjjiead against them. 'La mort sans phrase jivverdict." ...v i i. We waited, for indeed he was the last peiker on the subject, and we were quar- cin/ the ground to flush a story or some it'Kt to shoot a story at. 'iae best fellow, the very best out and m, of my acquaitaance in the French iraiy-aud in the Crimean days and be- jrethat I knew manyâ€" was Hector Cardec, ipidron leader of MacMahon's out there the mud in Algeriaâ€" as good a soldier a comrade as ever slapped a sword home sicabbard. He was mighty quick at puU- Eit out, too, by the same token." We thought a story was to the fore now, c none of'us could think how the flies were a come in. â- Well," resumed he, after some solemn :dj of his calumet, "well, he died â€" of the he of a bluebottle fly on the sands of Bou- :ne. .\ cjaeer fate for such a fire eater 'ucr Hector his bold soul must have made ae air shake over those meadows of aspho- iel yonder when he realized it and comment- a there on in his free fashion!" And P. a the character of Hector's rates sacer, here licT out SO vast and indignant a volume of ffiikethat it seemed to be that hero's shade iiperaon and in the very act of the utter- 2-s suggested. Ail this was very moving, but we clearly il not yet lushed the story and the rirrister foimd v.^ice for us by saying dryly, "Let 03 have the c.ise for the flies, such as '"•is-the 3..V1 n thousand dollars." â- â- VelV sail. I'., "in the yeir 1860 or ierei'oout I was taking the pay of our Sov- -ign Lady, and giving no small share, of ^7 .nard work for it, in her Majesty's »-tiay of IJritish Columbia. I was a Jus- cit the Peace, and had somewhat indis- ^;t and multifarious duties connected ^â- A tne maintenance of order generally, i the gold escort in particular. In ill of that year I was in the northern, *a m those days extreme, limits of the •xonv-at the Forks, of Quesnelle, to ^is by the cardâ€" as an early Winter be- fi to whisper hoarsely and frostily to the f,-m mming camps that it was time to f^'-.mg up aume bo.xes, and for prudent ;^!S to be turning their faces South. Men '-0 had done well began to think of the ^••ames of the saloons and bilUard haUs ;-hctoria;if very well, they dreamed of -1 u"'l° P"-s of hybernation I whUe ^a^ho had been avoided by the quick S3ot.ortune were fain to balance the tJ^Pect of taking the down road only to ij_ ""â- Â« Its weary miles after a long win- 4t.^°t'?^-\ *^^^ 0^ hybernating in the' *^.',^^ot icicles and treemartins. 'Cost more money then to insure the e transport of ' dust' from the mines to i Cf ij°°°'^- The smart red jackets gold escort had to be paid for as tie ^0 ^r"' *^^ '^^^ must be told, was ii^of irr{^J'°"^^^*i altogether equal to I scort bn^ ^^^ ' ^*f« i' a bank ceUar. The "'^d fin/^ v?°^y ""^^ °^ â„¢oli- They I ^«e never » °^^^^ ^^" ^^^ though ' W duT^' r serious attack in my time "^ionsWirt/ °*/^aâ„¢s to season onr ex- H owZ:' *?r,°"® abortive ambuscade. "*« e3cort^„^* "'**' '"^o'lWn't trust ic to ^^hJ^.^"^^ ^^^^' lite the toll, '*trader^w ^^^ *^a* many a little 2il m;?f' M furtive T)rof.i;v;r.5o g^ s*" nund w^ 1 J *= proclivities and ira- ?*^cwAirv ^^"-^ i«^ the forest ^•"^^y (ive ,«^ ^^^*h himself, and make ^^eitn^^^^rry, and sometimes faU to ^â- '«f countrv .^? '°f* of fashion to the "^^ithbJt.v- .^ â„¢"'°y a sto^t Caltfor- Sf^^CSe^'l^l^^llfiUed, or heavy ' "5 â-  %±^^ his own insurancb tb «5teti liisT.J^?^icoat 0- and niustrated CataIogo«- IDE BUAEAJBSl' PANY, (trroh ND-WINNIPeO onaik^rr ^vemment' g!!^.l4e^l!?r^,°* wayf«tar, the it was against. fieei, l^KthTot^ partridge on'the mAun nd '^^^ri" ;° jovial Chaacerian ^-S^ the S '^,*ggering and rnflttinj ' «^«8 0?^"^*^ ^°0'i». there were "I travelers. These f eUows, suddenly pulled up outside, and loud cries â€" ' Oh, Williams you've got the Judge there We want the Judye waked me up. In that country it doesn't take much to open the weariest man's eyes, nor, on tlie other hand, is undue excitement fashionable among Anglo-Saxons so, while the slight discrepancy between night and day dress was being rapidly adjusted, the whole story was told in a few curt sentences to this ei- fect. " At the other house a little difficulty had occurredâ€" a shooting scrape. The vic_ tim was not dead yet, but as the ma.nner of itâ€" a felon shot from behindâ€" had alienated the sympathies of the boys, it had resulted in the offender being ' corralled and de- tained, and the Judge, who was reported to be at the other ranch, being sent for. ' The interior of the other house, whicn was soon reached, to eyes fresh from the cool dark night presented a picture that i well remember. The large log building was not divided into rooms and passages, and the cavernous glooms and abysses of its nocturnal condition made it seem vaster than it was. The chief Ught came from the fire of pine logs stacked endwise up the chimney, and it flashed red upon a strange and numerous company. „ s„ "There was, as a matter of courae,in these womanless lands an efficient and beau- tiful manliness in the atmosphere. Death What is death to dwindle, peak, and pme about StUl as Uttle a thing ^to be lous. or cynical, or to bluster about, of what we caUlife, like ««? «ther fa^t but with the gravity of finslg a^t »* one of the more emphatic facts, an" " reckoned with as such, but no more^ was the feeling that animated ,t^ „ Few of them VrohMyh^.^^"^g'.^ ^fol'S^^ ^th nXe brings about the sa^t ffits as divine phUosophy, who ^liZ rather hear the lark sing than ^^^Befo'Tefi^; not unskUf ally ptop^ ?\?^*^-iri;*ha:St^S ^e'K'S wSK^faat.^de^h^ in similar 'weapon ^^r^'orthTSow " Uk"e ^understrapper villain of the town, ^^.^jj^ ^f the open of agambln^heUr^»^^»^ beenwith- lSd**i tJSrS^^*W, red bnifness, held ftwn tneir "^^"Zsth » grave sidence. jlcomed my entrance wunas^ •« 'Good evenfag, ««««»**' ^-^ owiier of th»**^J^ and quietlr said that the two «*«^„ ft^erSS *ef ore ^^bad rested «thi« that •»««* '^^l5sriwsf*«* ' Death ipine frivo- Afact and to be Such these men. half an ham doo^opeaing, liw -woiadiBd taai ;___ in aadYeU oa fts bor, litorting freely at tha- month It was found on examination that the shot had eataced the back uid come ont »t the breast. The poor wretch, was on- able to say more than, ' Letâ€" theâ€" old- manâ€" take â€" caie!' " To my teqnest for fnrther evidence, a respectable-looking man, Joe Davis, of Ant- ler, deposed that was ooming in from do- ing up his mnle in tbe bam ^en he saw in the dusk two figure near the house door he heard words of apparent dispute, then the report and flash of a pistol shot then a man ran almost into his arms, whom he seized and disarmed of a drsgoon revolver, (produced. The man sat there, (pointing to the prisoner.) " I then approached the victim, for whom there was obviously no aid in surgery, and, having improved the position in which he lay a little, could get nothing from him but afaint answer, by sign and look, to the effect that the prisoner was the man who had shot him. " I then asked the prisoner, ' What is your name V " 'James Connor.' "'Whereof?' •• • Shirt-tail Canon, Cariboo.' " ' Did you shoot this man ' " That's for you to find out, if it's your business.' " 'Do you know his name ' "Silence. 'James Connor, you are my prisoner in the Queen's name, on the charge of attempting to murder a man here present, name unknown. You will be good enough to hand over any concealed weapons or papers you have about you,, or I shall take them from you by forceuk " The men opposite him deliberately cov- ered him at two feet distance with their re- volvers as he slowly produced a common butcher's knife from under his coat and a Derringer from his trouser's pocket, and fur- ther, with some reluctance, a rude little pocketbook or leather case, (which, by the way, contained nothing of any importance as evidence,) and a very artistic bo wie knife, with a scientifically proportioned blade and a haft of green shell work, such as SanFran- cisco cutlers are proud to make. My volun- teer constables then civilly informed me that they, though not British subjects, had been moved by the special nature of this 'difficulty" to act as they had done but that beyond ' clinching ' the prisoner for me with their experienced hands they could do and would do no more. Accordingly, a couple of stout rawhide lariats were produced j with one of which Mr. Connor was very neatly and quickly bound, while the end of the other was so arranged around his neck that, while he could in nowise slip his head out of it, the holder of the other end of it, passing as it did over a hook of. the roof of the room, could strangle him incontinently at will with a slip-knot well lubricated for the purpose. The situation was not agreeable for me and scarcely dignified, xhe duty of a constable or jailer thrust upon a magis- trate the surrounding persons, at the best, cold assenters to ' British justice ' at the worst, when the indignation of the original wit esses should have subsided (and Mr. Davis refused to wait voluntarily, and car- ried his summons as witness, scrawled by me on an old envelope, down country with him) too probable sympathizers with, and perhaps rescuers of, the criminal. The only hope I had was in a rumor that the Judge of the Criminal Assize was reported to be somewhere in the neisthborhood. He, at all events, would have physical force of some kind and would relieve me of my prisoner. Him, whatever might betide, I, determined to hold while hand and hilt kept together and while the tired eyelids of my tired eyes could be induced to keep apart. Look- ing back now on what did happen I hardly know if I should so have determined could I have foreseen it. " Gentlemen I never slept for five nights and four days from the moment of that capture They tried to bribe me â€" first with one gold watch, then with three, all of the huge American pattern; then with leather bags of 'dust,' also increasing in value. At last I had to threaten that I would hang the man with the lasso that never left my hand if they did not cease. At length, on the evening of the fourth day, when I positively believe I was light-headed but keeping a firm grip of the lasso, never- theless (whether the poor devU, Connor, was lightheaded I did not perhaps too curiously consider) without even a rumor from the road to prepare me, dear old N., the magis- trate of the district we were m, having heard of my strange plight, sent two special constables to relieve me of my man. They off with "Lis ^k t6^ him sat t ;uKu^%n?5SS|i- cocked pistol his hand, -the other ^t* a â-  tore.hiD- minpr'i wel "^^ w'S^rw.ibo;;«the.i.hrf^yi and had "^wed «ren»_^^^^__.^^ obwfved them they had a dnnk^ TJ^? **,eemed sulk- he now remembered that they â- Â»" did so, and let him escape within the hour, ' Bribed ' you askâ€" who knows Connor's friends, or the law's enemies, were many and rich. They had had relays of horses on more trails than one for several days, I learned afterward. As for me, I slept for six and-thirty hours without a break, and have now arrived at the point when I can introduce the promised flies into my narra- tive. "The foregoing unsatisfactory episode being ended, with the only good result t at my sometime jaded mare was now as fit as a four-year-old, I went about my business, having received a cheerful message from Mr. cSnnor that he intended to shoot me on sight.' The stereotyped warning of the West generaUv means business, and is con- sidered by the party receiving it as a legiti- mate warrant for any extreme of anticipatory reprisal and defense; but I never expected to see Connor again, and I blew his message out of the range of practical politics. " On my way down, some fifty miles from Williams's lake, I encountered at a wayside house a face that was familiar, and present- ly remembered it as belonging to an elderly and feeble looking miner, who, in the first day or two of my acting as constable, had hovered about me in a diffident way, as rf desirous of speaking, and yet disappcMed without any actual parley having token place. The strange thing was, however, that he was now in the very teeth of Wmter, going ap country I Haappear jd stiU very shy, and we.bareli.exoliaMed hidf a dozen words witheach other about eleven the next morning, to which^our I ha^ waited to kt the i.U melt off the roads. We were ait tine together in a sort of rude veranda that m^Swra the beams of the morning sun, I gdriag over some note, and he dozing m the c^^of the settle, I noticed with some baQ^ aadTL, witkt|e endof aty long ^ve, J MM Wii ed tWBihw M ihl e f negrefiiBii^ien tt fright- ening away the blue-tail flies to give him a little more sweetness ot Unoonscioasness. " There was an indescribable pathos in tiie old man's nasal drawL He spoke as one who had got his death wound in his heart as he went on: 'I reckon -yon remember me in the erowd yonder when yon oorralled that critter, Connor T 1 had reasons to be grateful to you, Jedge, and-with my poor sister's sbnj Dave Crow, (that was him as was shot by Connor,) with him â€" God's mercy on him even !^-ont of my path, and Connor chained up in your British cala- boose, or, may be, hanged for good and for all, I guessed the last of my troubles was over. I was wrong, though. I was half in the mind to let on up yonder and tell what I had to do with it all, but it seemed to kinder fix itself so's I'd better not â€" and I let ont for the down trail, wall, not lighter â€" there ain't much lightness left me, I reckon, naow â€" but feeling I'd better not meddle with the way thiags was fixed up for me. This yer was my second season in a creek, 'way over between Antler and Yaller Jacket. Las year I made a little under $10,000 in coarse gold, much of it fossicked out in Australian fashion. I was too sad a man to be much raised by that or anything in this world but I cach'd half of it nUder the floor of my cabin, and tuk the rest down last Winter. I wrote to America to Dave, a bad boy, but all of my blood then above the grass roots â€" nothin' left naow-^nothin' i I told Dave to come on and be a son to me. He cameâ€" sure he came. I wonder he spared the money for that naow. We come up together last Spring, and the luck held â€" both ways, Jedge, the luck hdd. The gold panned out well, and Dave's ill luck, in the shape of James Connor rejoined him up here. I guess it was a sorry record bound them two boys in sech a tight cahoot to gether, but 1 needn't reckon that over to you naow, if so be I knowed it at all. I haven't been so much alone â€" I've not march- ed the most of my days to the sorrerful tunel hev-^not to be able to read men's hearts, you kin lay your bottom dollar on that, Jedge. Them men meant murder â€" they meant it for weeks and meant it for months. Seem to me now I've raked some in, that money ain't so very much in this world as they make of it yet to a man who's bin powerful poor for sixty ye^rs, it figures large when it seems like he'd lose it, and then â€" ^the nat'ral contrayriness of hum»n natnr' I worked and watched agin them two wolves enough to eat a man's heart out. We shared up evens three weeks agone and let out together for Victory. You know what happened at Williams's Lake, and you kin put a nieanin' to it now. Two days ago I heard Connor was broke loose. He don't know where the dust is buried, but he reckons putty straight that some is buried, and may I ' â€" here the old man, to my astonishment, exploded a train of some six of the most terribly ingenious oaths I ever heard in British Columbia â€" ' if he does find it, and does keep it on this side o hell 1' "We had some conversation about the hardships and dangers of the Winter, of which he made light and then, after some simple allusion to my tender sympathies with him as evinced by my keeping the flies off him just before, he begged me with great urgency to see him again at a camping-place in Cariboo, which I should pass through in some eight or ten days on my last jour- ney up. He said it was imp3rtant, and promised to explain why when we should meet, and so we parted for that time. " You will be pleased to suppose that these ten days have elapsed, and that I am back in the snow and sitting in a rude, de- serted wayside cabin, with the old man again for companion. My horse has been coaxed within the cabin, too, and the deep silence of the snow world lies on us as if we were the last survivors of an era. '"I told you, Jedge, I wanted you to take some kinder statutory declaration, and to make some sorter inventory as would make an old man pass in his checks with some sorter peace of mind. I told you there was a bit of Cinnabar prosi)ectin' as nobody but me did know, or was like to know. I told you, Jedge, that this was the last favor I reckoned to ask of livin' man, and now I beg and implore you this very night to come. I know the trail as well as the riffles in my own flume. Five miles, five hours, and a road (the way I'll take you) fit for the Gov- ernor's lady." " The weird fascination of the man's ap- peal borrowed nothing from his words, or even his manner in the ordinary sense but there was a magnetism in it that reminded me of old German ballads, and that, at any rate, gained his point. "That night's march over those mighty metamorphic rocks, through that gigantic volcanic ruin now frozen so stiff and cold, though I shall never forget it, would require a Dante to suig and a Dore to depict ita aw- ful beauties. At last we reached the claim. The snow had clothed the torn and riven banks, dnd heaps of boulders, the ordinary ravages of mining, with its smooth and pure outline^ and the cabin door, deftly and speedily opened by the owner's fandliar hand, let us into its neat and orderly precincts. Materials for light and fire were ready prepared for use, though we had antedated the matter by a whole Winter, uid having used them we sallied forth again to stable my horse in a somewhat distant shelter. On our return some coffee and crackers (biscuits, that is,) lent a sense of fragrance and festivity to the little shanty, but I was shocked to observe the weakness of the old man when he was thawed from the cold. He waived aside, however, all notice of this and showed me how. to supple- ment the scanty comfort of the lowest of three bunks with a nondescript collection of coverings, old sacks, and even planks and dry branches, till my future bed looked like a woodpile into which I was to creep feet foremost. " • It comes to me, Capen,* slowly, said Summersâ€" did I mention his name before ' it comes to me that this thing is pretty nigh played out. I guess the Cinnabar must wait â€" ^no man but me could show you the way to that but just under where I am sitting (and I put this yer stool here a pup- pus,) the depth of a pick-handle lies some two' -trandred^and sixty ounces of dust as near as I can mind, tied up in three cui- thar dust, Jedge, "1 struggled tt weu as j cwua agauwii Ha iaan'BnkUkBVolent iatentions; iMit, at last nad to pranise uiat I would exhnme the gold and aooompany him to the settle- ments in the morning. Summers was so weak by this time that I was obliged to wrap him up and oompose him for sleep in front of the replenished fire. He felt no Sain, and begged me to go to rest, which I id at last, clothed as I was, and warned by some intuition to arrange my pistol for in- stant use. " I must have slept an hour or more when the old man'd voice awakened me, repeating in a stronger but far-off sort of voloe the same string of unspeakable imprecations that I formerly declined to repoat for your benefit, or rather injury. They did not 8«und so vicious this time but gave me the idea of a sort of wild abracadabra or verbal fetish, used to fortify or accentuate a reso- lution. I slept again, and again awoke this time to some pnrpose. As my eyes opened a match was struck in the cabin, and to my amazement â€" for somehow I had never anticipated this â€" James Connor stood with a candle in one hand and a pistol in the other, peering into the cold and silent face of the dead miner dead â€" ^in a second that was evident, for no pioos hand, though my own was near, had closed his weary eyes, and they were wide open and the jaw fallen in all the Unloveliness of death. I must have made some motion or sound, for the murderer's light and weapon both quickly moved upon me as I lay supine on one elbow, with, thanks to my intuitive precautions, the muzzle ot my revolver covering him as he stepped sideways toward my bunk. There was no use in delaying the end I pushed aside the nondescript mass of coverings with my pistol hand and showed myself. The ruffian backed a moment. "'The Judge, by the jumping Moses 1* he hoarsely exclaimed. Then, to do him justice, his voice grew firm, and he demand- edsternly and briefly: 'You had my message!' "It was touch and go fortunately I was readv, as I replied, 'Take my answer ' "The hammers of both weapons fell to- gether. My pistol resting on the bunkedge, sent its bullet home under the man's left breast his must have, thrown • p,' and the ball merely turned up a bkin-deep furrow just above my left ear. "I dug up the dust as Summers had di- rected, and enlarged tbie hole till it afforded a shtjlow grave Wr him and Connor. I pil- ed over them as many large stones as I could conven ently drag from the hearth, and rode away in the*earlymoming,a sadder and a richer man by some seven thousand dollars. Some of it I spent on myself what I did with the rest is hardly worth talk- ing about. â€" ^â€" â€" ^aes^â€" ^» idlv w«d8Wd wh«fci«tranga /. ?- • te Vead between them had any one the key "cipher. The flies, the meanest all the common house flies, were to the sort of EX-EMPBESS CAELOTTA. No Tmtta In the Stories of Her KeHtoratlon to Sanity. Referring to current reports that the mental condition of ex-Empress Carlotta, widow of the unfortunate Maximilian, was improving, a Brussels correspondent says â€" I recently visited the village of Buchout, five miles from here, where she has resided since the burning down of her residence at Tervueren three years ago. There was a religious procession going on which, accor- ding to old custom, has taken place foi: two centuries every second Sunday in July. The procession, with statues of saints and the Virgin, proceeded as usual to the chapel at the castle. Princess Carlotta witnessed the sight from a window, caged in by thin bars, her ladies in waiting holding each of her hands. Physically she appeared well, though she is becoming very grey. She wore a mauve silk dress and white cap, which she believes to be the same that she wore at the time of Maximilian's death. On the passage of each statue she nodded her head absently in a doll-like, mechanical way, and when the procession was fading away she followed it with her eyes but her ap- pearance amd the information I gathered on the spot show that her mental condition is becoming worse rather than better. The Queen of the Belgians, the King and the Coimt of Flanders frequently visit her, the latter spending at least two days ac Buchout every fortnight but the Queen no longer cares to take Carlotta driving, as she did frequently before. Carlotta never goes out except in the park of the castle, with a watchful body guard. She sometimes stops and stares before an enclosure where the sick horses of the Queen's stables are sent to recuperate and to run about in freedom but (generally her sole occupation during her walk is picking up acacia leases, which she puts on her hand and then blows off one by one. Despite the kindest treatment, all hope of mentu recov- ery is forever gone. vas sacks; sndf ttiat TO BE HANGED AT THE AQE OF TWELVE. A Colored Ctrl Wlio Poisoned A Baby Mast »mMn tke Penally. At Bamwtl' S. C, recently, JudgiiHudson sentenced Axey Cherry, a colored eb"l, twelve years old, to be hanged on the third Friday in September for the murder of the infant of Mr. Amos Williams, of Allendale, in Barnwell County. The child was sent by her mother to act as nurse for the Williams baby. She poked around the house and attended to her duties in so neg- ligent a manner that she had to be constant- ly scolded. After a scolding one day she was overheard muttering to herself that she wasn't going to bother with that baby much more. A few days after this concentrated lye was used in scouring the floor, and when Mrs. Williams left the room for a few min- utes she told Axey that the lye was poison- ous and that she musn't touch it. On her return Mrs. Williams was horrified to find her baby's mouth full of concentrated lye. Axey ran out of the house saying as she left, " I don't reckon I will have to nurse that baby much longer now." The young murderess all through her trUA seemed to have no idea of tiie terrible nature of her deed, and when she was sentenced to be hanged she gazed stupidly at the Judge and grinned as she played with the buttons on her dress. As she was being carried back to jail she saw her father and made an effort to go to him. She cried for the first time wbei^she was told that she could not go home but must go back to jail to await the day for her execution. ^lajdMis in their teens are the rage. ..I You're young, and I have no one belonging I in'.eeca, w«p^*S ^AsSr^cftit dust u fcwyo^ ?? .57.i " tliMii their age 'twijl always T»