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in pursuit of his mustangs, and Wouhl
naturally call and make enquirie8 of
the Oaetreee. Iu those frequent visite
Mabel and he became mutually at-
tached, when,
faithless to his engage -
Mout, aed forgetful of the pretty
Julia, be induced her to elope with
Lim, mad the first known of the affair
was that they were married,
Julia Richardeon's feelings may be
better imagined than described. She
was slighted, she was betrayed, and
Ingijam bus
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FRIDAY ()MORD% 4, iseu.
A CALIFORNIA STOW.
The ToImp and Richardson families
lived in the Pajaro valley forty yeara
anotowned adjokuing reexchee, and were
oa terms of the most neighborly ohar-
acter. When the children grew up and jealous rage fired her Mexican blood,
the young people were society unto The whole Richatdson family felt
each other, varying the dull routine of outraged, and the Tolinya, to do them
country life with themes and picnic, justice, were scarcely less painfully so,
and such innocent soerts as suggeeted The false lover, knowing that such
'themselves to their rustic fancy. And
though the boys and girls, who had a
cusb. of Mexicau in them, lacked the
accomplishments which adorn the
young people of the present generation,
they had their full share—the girls of
beauty and the boys of that dash which
makes even rustics acceptable in fe-
rnale society. If Julia Richardson,
now in her eighteenth year, was a
sparkling brunette, who could round
up a mob of cattle with any vaquero,
Jim Total), was a dashing ranches of
twenty-two, who could jump his mus-
tang over a four -railed fence, and pick
up a silver dollar off the grass while
his steed was galloping at the rate of
fifteen miles an hour.
The two, James and Julia, had been
equestrian rivals since childhood, Julia
insisting that she was the better horse-
man, so to say, of the two—a piece of
assurance little Jirn Toliny resented
, by jumping his pony across a two -
foot ditch and challenging his com-
petitor to follow, which, to do her
justice, she always done in fearless
fashion.
And thus the children grew to a
certain. age, wheu their manner each
would be the result, kept discreetly
out of sight for several weeks, when,
supposing both fatuities to have cooled
down, he visited his parents.
When Tom Richardson heard of
bis arrival, he rode quietly towards
the Tohny residence with a rifle at
his saddle -horn. As he approached he
observed James and his sister Belle,
standing at the door chatting, and he
hesitated as to how he should act.
His movement attracted the attention
of Tolmy, who, suspecting bad blood.
turned in doors, and, taking out his
shotgun, took up his position at his
sister's side at the door,Dawaiting de-
velopments. Seeing the weapon in
Ma hand and thinking he was going
to use it, Richardson. raised his rifle.
This act was repeated by Tolley.
Both fired simultaneously, and Belle
dropped dead, pierced with the bullet
intended for her brother.
Frantic and appalled at having
killed his affianced, itichardson. gal-
loped madly away, remorse and des-
pair giving wing to his flight. The
Tohnists now from being apologists
for their relative's indiscretion, be-
came the aggressors and avengers; and
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esirsnie hemeess*
Are you heeled, Jim ? pelted Wok-
ardson, in a quiet sort of a way.
Well, no, Tom answered the other
just as quietly, forgot the shooter
this morning.
Then I've got the deadwood on
you.
So you have, Tom ; so you have,in
deed.
Do you take water, Jitn I
Oh, yes, Tom ; take water.
By.bye, Jiro.
So long, Tom. And they parted.
A mouth later James hue? was
again up early one fine aura, r morn-
ing, but this time didn't fo et his
shooter. lie took the directi(n of the
Richardsons, and approached cow.
yard. Tom was milking his 1 t cow,
the others having finished the s and
taken the milk to the dairy.
You're a slow milker, Tome, e said,
q
looking quietly over the fen.within
ten yards of his enemy.
Tom looked up.
Yes, he replied, calmly; I very
sip w this morning.
Are you heeled, Tom ? Bak, asked
the other.
Well, no. You see the liking—
'Then I've got the dead ood on
you.
To be sure, Jim, ho vinswered,
ia zily.
Do you take water, Tom 1,
Oh, yes, Jim ; I take water
times, like yourself.
Good morning, Tom.
So long,Jim ; and the releptless foes
once more separated. The ,feud had
narrowed down to the two, for the
fighting representatives „lof both,
parties had already been extermin-
ated.
some-,
A third time they met, nar on the
Pamir) Lakes. Thia time they were
both heeled ; each had his loaded rifle.
to the other changed—ana when Julia the Chistro's, though the marriage of With hearts of lions, but stealthy as
no longer talked defiantly to James " Mabel was none of their contriving, tigers, they approached each other
and challenged him to daring deeds of took sides with their brother-in-law.
horsemanship, and when James, sad to The Richardson family, too, had their
say, felt shorn of all hie dash and backers as well. The feed was now
bravery, and was awkward, absent and begun,
timid in the presence of Julia. To- Poor Belle's remains were convey-
gether and alone they were silent and ed to the San Juan cemetery by a
uncomfortable. It was only in coin- large concourse of friends and sympa-
pany that James' natural exuberance thizers, and the sullen rage in their
glowed and rallied, and then Julia, faces, and the murderous weapons at
when she thought nobody was watch- their saddle -horns, little accorded with
ing,would lift her dark eyes from under the solemnity of the mournful ()coa-
ti6r sweeping lashes and look with sion.
glowing admieation on her old play- Returning from the interment, the
'hate. Tolmys and Castros, with their
But why dwell on the ardent though friends, had, er pretended to have, co.
flickering omens of love 'I Let simple casion to pass the Richardson resi-
devotion be told in artless story, and denee. That family and their friends,
let us say at once that Julia and James apprehending some such course, had
hayed each other. Love is a passion, taken time by the forelock, and barre
-which, however mach and long it ceded the house and waited for the
smoulders, finds expression at last, approach of the calvacade. When
and the longer it smoulders the the Toliny party came within range,
prompter and plainer will usually be they opened fire on the dwelling to
the avowal. And so it was here. which the • party inside vigorously
The avowal came in the fullness of and instantly replied. After a few
time; James was accepted and the minutes old Mr. Tolmf and two of
young couple were happy. The par. the Castro boys Were slain. Frenzied
ents conaented, but judged it better to by this second slaughter of their rola-
defer the union for a year. tives, the Tolmys divided their forces,
A year 1 exclaimed young Toliny, some going to the rear and setting
as be and bis bride elect sauntered fire to tha stables and hay, while the
into her father's orchard. I see no remainder kept up the battle in front,
reason. for deferring it so lung. The The fire communicating with the
branding and mustering is over and dwelling, it was soon wrapped in
why can't they let us get married at flames, and the inmates were forced
once 1 from cover, when the shrieks of the
It is better to wait since they wish women and the yells and oaths of the
it. answered Julia, in a conciliating men lent fresh horror to the murder -
tone. A year won't be long passing, ous duel. The fight grew fiercer and
and they will be better pleased and fiercer, and lasted until the darkness
better prepared. of night mercifullsestopped it,
Do you know— he said, laughing.
What I On mustering their forces it was
discovered that several on both sides
I think my sister .Belle and your were killed, among them poor Mrs.
brother Torn will get ahead of us if Richardson, who escaped death by
we don't hurry me. burning only to meet a fateless lament -
Tom I. she exclaimed with a merry able. Many on both sides were
laugh' ." Wby, the great gawk 15 wounded ; though singularly enough,
asbanied to look a girl in the face. the principals—James Tolmy and Toni
Never mind; I see them often to
and they are as thick as berries
on a bush, and the lovers laughed over
the diseovery, and before parting laid
plane to twit and tease Belle and
Tom.
Thus, as may be seen, the lovers
confided in each other and the young
end the old of both families were
happy in expectancy.
klut, though a year would not be
long passing as Julia phrased it, still
a year often brings ?nay? ehanges in
the alrairs of the heart, for love is as
-capricious as young spring.
Twenty miles away lived the Castro
family, where youtig Tolinv, when
hunting for stray stock, had often
.cwaellef11;_1:1(1 %v. 411::,ros, 11,4e was olwaY le range between Watsonville and
Gliroy when tirea f I 1 A NEW HOYLE TB,BATNENT. only a shilli
( in .• t tiatiLro Was a Dean -
made to the
slowly and cautiously.
Is there any water abo t ? asked
Tolmy, in bitter irony, whe within a
few feet of his adversary.
Not a drop, Jim, was the easy reply
and they advanced a little closer.
Quick as lightning Richardsen raised
his rifle and fired. Tolley dropped
pierced in the temple ; but ere death
closedlis eyes for ever, he raised his
weapon and lodged Be contents in his
enemy's heart. Both were found dead
next day within fifteen yards of each
othir. This was the end of the feud,
the last act in the prolonged. domestic
tragedy.
' .A. word of poor Julia. Passionate
in love, she was inconsolable in grief .
and ha a few months after the slaugh-
ter of the brother she loved and the
lover she still adored, died broken-
hearted.
As she could not hope to be buried
in the same grave with the man who
had wrecked her happiness and ruined
her family, her last request was to be
allowed to rest in the tomb with his
sister Belle, the intended bride of her
brother and the'first victim of a feud
the moat lamentable in the annals of
California. And there, in the old
churchyard, sleep the two innocent
girls. No headstone records their
names, no slate is sacred to their
memory. In the archives of tradi
tion alone are preserved the names and
fate of poor Belle and Julia.
CoUldn't Preach Against Stealing.
Govetloard, of Wisconsin, in an ad-
dress tea the clergy at Monona last
Friday illuatrated one of his points in
favor of practical preaching by the
following story
In the old slavery days a planter ac -
coated one of his hands one morning
and the following colloquy ensued :
Hello, Uncle Pete ; I hear you are
getting to be a great preacher among
Richardson,escaped without a scratch, the derkies.
This terrible work had the effect of Yes, massa, de Lord open my mouf
quieting the tend, at least for awhile, 'casion'ly.
for lameutation and grief sat brooding Well, Pete, what do you preach on I
now over the households. But it was De sins ob de people, inessa.
only for awhile ; it was but a lull in That's a good subject Pete, and by
the tempeet. The feud was renewed the way, you can be of some service Well, doctor, said a chap, suffering
at every favorable opportunity until to me, for you darkies are cleaning out with the toothache, how muth do you
few remained of either party. Yet my hen roost and harn-house at a at for the job ? My eye 1 but you
neither would give in or yield to the great rate, and 1 want you to preach did it quick, though ! My terine, re -
other. against Stealing. plied the dentist. are half a crown.
It happened just at this stage of The old darkey shook his head and Half a crown for one minute's work 1
the conflict that James Tolmy had said : Can't do it, tnassa. If rd go to Half a crown did you say ? Wby a
occasion to visit hie friends at Castros. preachin' on dem 'ar subjects dirt 'ud doctor down at our place drawed
tooth for me two years ago and it took
He arose and went to the paddock, frow coldness ober de meetins.
him two hours. He dragged me all
but (what was an unusual occurrence)
the mustang had broken the fence and CATARRH, irloatilfnda tldrozreonomt,imaensd. lIost his hold
never seed
strayed away. lie traced the animal Catarrhal Deafnees, l'Itty Fever.
I 1 d d he1 7 d me
ng. Half a crown for a
its lig morn
tiful girl, well born, accomplished and es were, t a °' Sufferers aro tot generally aware that theao dis•
from au , tree, too out its e and was re ar- e
t
A envy on eidleon.
Ediedn's brother a farmer in Nicht-
gad, tells this story of the great in.
Venter :—It would require a vivid
imagination to beat the truth in Tbm's
case, Ele has many singular experi-
ences. When a watchman at the
station in Stratford, Ontario, he was .
expected to pull a button every forty
minutes during the night to inform all
parties interested that he was on deck.
Before be had been in the position
long his inventive fatalities were set
to work, and be soon had the button
pulled by an electrical device as re-
gularly as clockwork. Tom then
went °runty to bed, and slept all night
like a white memo, This worked first
rate until two trains came near cel-
lidipg through his lack of attention
a fact which caused hien to throw up
his position and return to this side of
the line.—Philadelphia Ledger.
The rick of Creation.
It is a San Francisco writer who
observes that man finds any amount
of fault with wontan, yeti. works tooth
and nail to get her,e he calls her ex-
travagant, yet yearns to pay her bills.
She's heartless, but devotes months
to finding the spot where -that heart
should be. She's fickle, yet ho fights
for a place—the place—in her afiec.
thins. 8,:g4She's timid, yet lie, noble
being, as courage for two. 'She's a
feaed, but a detain She's a goose,
but% duck, She's spippy; and sweet.
She's lithe and graceful and -dainty
and dear—and changeable as the
wind. In fact, she's a chameleon itt
the very latest style of spRts and dots
and feathers and fixings e She's a
moat desirable article of household
furnishing, and there are mighty few
men who want to get along without
het.
He Salted the Calf.
A farmer nam
•Gananoque, hire
boy to help hi
d Hilton, living near
a very inexperienced
about the place.
Oneomorning he told the lad to go
and salt the calf over in the pasture.
The boy took about a quart of salt,
rubbed it all over thsecalf, working it
into the hair. e' A gang.of colts scent-
ed the salt and got after the calf.
They licked the hair all off the calfs
back tInd tried to lick the,hide off, too.
The farmer tried to cateli the calf to
wash it, but the creature, thinking he
wanted a lick, teo, kept out of the
way. The boy, calf and farmer are
all unhappy. The colts are the only
ones that got any fun out of it.
Boycotting the Boys.
Tho young ladies of Calhoun, Tay.,
indignant at the niggardlinees of their
beaux, harts adopted the following
resolutions :—Whereas we the under-
signed, believineeas we do, that we
have not receive'd the treatment frorn
the young men of this town that we
merited, bhave, with a view of self-
proteetion, mutual benefit and future
welfare, organized ourselves into A
body ; and(l) Resolved, that we will
allow no young man to "catch on"
and accompany us from church, pray
er meetings, ice creain suppers enter-
tainments, etc., who has not been our
escort to such places. (a) Resolved,
that if we cannot be tablecloth we
will not be dishrag ; in other words
we will not accept a card, if we find
or know that the sender has sent one
to some other young lady previously
to sending to ue the same evening.
j) Resolved, that vten think the young
men of this town display unbounded
audacity and timerity when they
accompany us to places where no cash
is necessary, but are conspiciously
absent when something takes place
which would necessitate going into
their pocket hooks. (4) Resolved,
that every member of this organiza-
tion be furnished with a copy of the
resolutions. Miss----, Secretary.
These 'resolutions brought the boys to
a realizing sense of their social sins.
-------------------- eases are contagious or that they are due to the minutes work Oh
affable—a ditretent type of beauty trg 8°111' (1 • ' presence of living pafgeltes in the lining membran , get out 1 you
must be jokire 1
1 a R chaideon. She was fair Pt? t th P P of .,EiPoiln, roesiaotcylstrachian tubes. Microscopic ree•
tha
for a smoke.. us . en he heard t
„ ;he result ilk that atill
rp°1vatitinAti: hao:c4rtanna•
sere tall, with the dark, liquid oyes of he crack of whithe ta re- leaves at his lated whereby catarrh, catarrhal deafness anu lillay Chronic Coughs ud Colds,
And all Diseases of the 'throat and Enngs call be
tl d 'n fr one to three
EEr;
There IOU oriels Yankee
1 always have revered.
Yet somehow in these modern
It's almost disep:wtredi
4B7Inthoweadalmagyse rte4rs's gotag°'
To bo regarded comes and low
To answer; "1 imaginal
'Its height of fashlott ea/led tthaplaia
Affects a British erase--
Prefers "I fancy," or "I think,"
To that time honored phrinc•
But here's a Yankee, if you please,
That brands the fashion rot.
AO to all,beresies like these
He answers; "I -guess -nett"
When Chaucer, Wycliff and the root el
Yagress their meaning thus, a
1 guess, if not the very best.,
It's good enough for us I
Why, shall the idioms of cur speech
Be biudshed and forgot
P0,- tha vain trash which moderns teach?
Well, no, sir; 1 guess not!
there's meaning in that homely phial*
No other words express -
No substitute therefor convoys
Such unobtrusive etress.
True .e.tnglo-Sexou ofeech, it goes
Directly td the spot,
Arid he who hears it ahvays knows
The worth of "I--guess-notl"
--Chic:age Nowt
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Long Flours.
Art extraordinary instance of long:
hours of labor came to light through'the
sweating committee of the house of lords.
A Rotunanian Jew, about 85, small and
of poor physique, was examined through
an interpreter in a mixture of Hebrew
and German. He arrived in Hull via
Hamburg, intending to proceed to Amer-
ica, but not having money enough to pay
his faro he was sent to Manchester.
'There he works from. 5 o'clock in the
Morning until 12 skt night, and some-
times until 1 or 2 in the morning, mak-
ing an average of twenty hours a day
for six days in the *eek, leaving only
four7hours for sleep. He earned 8 shil-
lings a dayduring the busy time, lasting
about ten weeks, and from 0 to 8 [shil-
lings per week in the slack season, and
on this he had to support a wife and six
children. He used to work in Rouma-
ilia fourteen hours a day for 20 francs a
week, so that he was better off in Rou-
mania than in England, but he had not
sufficient means to return. He had
written to dissuade his countrymen
against coming to England.—Euglish
News,
The Soda Fountains.
The public have little conception of the
amount of soda fountain busineso trans-
acted in a city oft,the size of St. Louis.
don't know whether it Is the spread of'
temperance principles or simply a sen-
sible appreciation of a good thing, but
the demand increases much more rapidly
than does the population. And there 1.4
no limit to the number of new flavors
that are produced every year, although
many hundred still stick to the old time
vanilla, pineapple and lemon. The
amount of medicine that is dispensed
through the agency of the fountain is
'almost fabulous, and men go through a
whole course of tonics and enjoy the pro-
cess when they couldn't be persuaded or
frightened into taking a single dose in
any otherway. Some old topers patron-
ize certain flavors and mixtures and
claim that they make an agreeable and
palatable "pick-me-up." — St. Louis
Globe -Democrat.
Fruit Dangera and notnedina
An excessive amount of fruit, or, if
eaten either in the unripe or over ripe
state, produces various disturbances,in
the system, chiefly so because of its ten-
dency to ferment and decompose within
the digestive tract, and to produce stom-
ach and bowel disorders. If these die,
turbances are not too great, or too pro-
longed, they need occasion no special
anxiety. A dose of castor oil, to which
a few drops of laudanum have beers
added, is usually sufficient to clean out
the irritating "debris," and in a day or
two the natural equilibritun is restored.
If there is ranch griping and pain with
the movements, and these become too
numerous to be comfortable, the dose Of
oil should be followed by curtailing ac-
tivity—by quiet and repose—by a diet of
meat broths, containing rice, barley or
sago; by rico and milk, milk toast, etc'-
Medical Classics.
Legal Bon Mote.
Sergt. Murphy was the author of settee
excellent bon mots. When Mme. Soper
died the famous chef asked Murphy for
an epitaph. She had been a lady of an
arrogant temper, "and it was generally
Ms:tiered that the poor cook had rather a
warmer timo of it at home than he had
in the club kitchen." Murphy's sugges-
tion for an epitaph was "Soyer tran-
quille." A physician who oyes thinking
of calling out some onewho had insulted
hirn came to consult Murphy about the
matter, "Take my advice," Murphy
said, "and instead of calling 'him out
get him to call you in and have yourre-
venge that way; it will be much more
secure and certain."--Bobinson in Bench
and Bar,
• Ills 'Faithful Guard.
When the shah arrived at Berlin a
small boy, dressed in gorgeous garments
of gold, and purple, was noticed at tete of
the windows of the train. Nobody knew
who he was, and many :stories were cure
rent, but it is novr stated that the little
(de e pai1 . bak, thinking ek, anti inking It was the horse, ahnple applications *made at homeitho patent cured by the uso of Scott's Emulsion, as it contains .lad, who is only 5 or 6 yew* old, andwho
The mustangs at Pojaro's bad been looked aroned, when he found nimself once tee weeks. N. s. -For eatarrhal ,dischales tho healing virtues of Cod Live& Oil and Itypophog.1 accompanies the shah everywhere, is
paauhar to fet»ales (whites) this remedy is a specil e. .
etravilig alvey very much of late, and .confronted with Itis mortal ellealy, A pamphlet eXplaining thie naw treatment itt sent oh
p dal In ther fa est form, SoS what W 5 Muer, It, sorcerer from Teheran, whose pressmen
D. L A 0?, etc, Truro, N 5, says: After three years' iissupposed to guard eseseeateeeen even
lit the direction of the Clos. Tom Richardson, Carrying hi hie receipt of ten omits by A. II. DOCON & RON, 909 Weat
Ring St, Toronto, Caniida.-Solontifla American.
Lftr s. Imed t if18, No alarm, no anger, was
"Of eouree you've Toltny 'would • exhibited by either.
Sufferers from tarrhal troubles should reed the
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