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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-11-12, Page 2THE FLOWEtt BABY BY 011,A.RLES LOTIN HILDIIETH. Copyright 1895, How beautiful mad stately the was, and how cold and proud! Less like a neve wedded bride coming home. to bee husband's bones than e queen making progress to the throne; calmly aud houglatily surveying her domaIns,aud re- oeiving the hmaaage of het subjects with disdainful WU:fermate So Goeffrey Lut- trela's wife rode up the broad path be- tween the hawthorn hedgesscarce bend- ing her regal head to the salutations of the gathered farmhands and indoor ser - Geoffrey Luttrell loved his beautiful wife, as, I fancy, few women have been loved. Loved, do I say? He worsiapped her. Body, inind and soul were at hers. Be was her stave. Ile lived for her to an artist lireS for his art. He would /have died for ben as a martyr dies for his faith. True love is very humble it asks little and gives much—Geollrey Lut- relt gave all and asked nothing .From my post of observation behind the lilacs. I watched her face, and ane heart acbed for any friend—for Geoffrey and I had been, college -mates and .lie - tong companions—as I studied those cold, "DBE FLOwEE jr"BAcANIS SwIFTLY To- wAnDs TEE wRETCRED mornert. rigid, pertboti feature. "There is a tragedy somewhere in that woman's eife," I muttered to myself. "She has suffered awfully, and has battled with her suffering and conquered ir. But in the struzgle she bas lost peace of mind, hope. faith, awl the power to love. She Is a block of ice, carved into the shape of a beautiful creature incapable of emo- tion." We were graduated together. I, having neither means or prospects, (leoterewhad made me his agent and au ininate of his house. The young wife on all occasions greeted nee with a frigid distanceintend- ed to keen me in my plaoe, as a hireling, though Geoffrey, like the dear fellow that he was. never altered his demeanor toward me. Noewithstanding the fact that I was allowed to sit at the table, and thee my friend conversed with me as genially as he bad always done. I was trade en feel that I was 5 menial. and only admitted to the meal on sufferance. Mrs. Luttrell did not like ow becalm I was not sufficiently submissive, and, perhaps, • While 1 was watching the child, and re - also beeauee she saw that I was inclined salving- how I should intercept it, the to study Per character more closely than door opeued behind me, and, turning suited her 'wishes. I often wondered why- about, I was amazed to see at any elbow she did not exert her ielluente to bare Mrs. Geoffrey Luttrell! arae dimnissed. Good atm loyal friend as "I have heard about this—'Flower he was to me, Geoffrey multi not have Baby,' do they call It?" she said coldly, resisted ber will. But, for some reason, "and I bate come to see it for myself." she did not put forth her power against I was amazed, but I bad presence of tete And in tbaa as in some other cir- mind to offer her my arm. "Please te zumstences,I deterted the element of fean step down with me to the Tote garden," But of what count she have been afraid? I replied, "and 1 donbt not your curios - What possible injury could I have done ley will be satisfled." her in the way of reprisal? None the She accepted my escort, and walked less X could :see that she feared me. The problem oeeupied many of my spare hours, but I could not solve it. One morning, at about fire o'clock—a few minutes before sunrise, at thee sea- son a tae yeer—I had takes a seat upon a wooden bench, fronting the bed of roses tallith types eIrs. Luttrell's etpecial favorites. I had read but a dozen lines a my book, when glancing over its top was astonisbed to see a small child, a little creature just able to toddle, mov- ing from ene rose bush to another, draw- ing down the blossoms and smelling at theneasel clapping its tiny palms togeth- er as if in the ecstaoy of infaralue de- light,. Where had 1 seen the likeness of that baby's face before? I surely recoenized that small aquiline outline, with the proud downward curve of the soft lips. Butt puzzle as I might, I could nee place the resemblance I am not fond of cbildren in general, but the little darling so 7110V - ed my heart that I laid by my book, and. got am to go and make friends with it. It paid no attention to my man but moved on to the end of the alley. I fol- lowed, but when I turned the corner, it was nowhere to be seen. I searched behind the rose hedge, and all about the grounds, without success. The manikin bad disappeared. 1 returned to my seat and my book to revolve the circumstances in my mind without coming to any satis- factory conclusion. I said nothing, either to Geoffrey or kis wife, about the baby visitor , to the rose garden. It was not worthwhile, besides I was not eneoura,ged to talk at the table Mrs. Luttrell found means of • silencing me, if I ventured to start a sub- ject of conversation—a sarcastic remark, or a eold intimation that my remarks were not in order, safAced to close my lips, old, to ward Me that was simply •tolerated in that house, and might be baeished at any moment. Bitter is the dependant's bread ;terribly bitter did that prout woman render milt% while I dwelt beecath her busband's roof. The next morning at the same hour, I was in my accustomed seat in the garden Sane ten minutes after I bad settled :myself, and had got iteerested in my book, a slight sound caused me to =Oise ray °yea and there again was the child, wandering along the rose hedge, drawing down the blossonas to smell them, ana clapping its tiny bands in glee. This time I celled to it gently, before baying my seat It gave me rio heed,and appeared not to hear an 170i00. It went on sanellieg at the 'flowers, and clapping its bands, to the end of the bedge. Then rose and cautiously followed it, It ba,d paUsed before a large bush covered. with a profusion of fragrant white blos- sonas. It bad exencled its chubby aaans and gathered to its breast a nuraber of the rose laden branches, Wring a sweet gargle of laughter. I came withina pace of it, and had stretched out nay band to gaup it, when—how, or where I could not guess, without tbe slightest intimation—it was gone! Gone, as utter- ly, as swiftly ap4 as silo:natty as if it had melted into the morning an hurried arotrud the earlier of the bedgelooked up and down the pabh 1 peered beneath the . branches-- all to no avail. The child lied disappeared. I returned to the house ip a reflective mood. 1 met one of the upper maids in tbe courtyard, and it occurred to me to question her. "Whose ohild Is it that wanders about the grounds so early in the morning?" The girl's raddy °hooks turned .white anti leo lips trembled. "Have you seen it, too, sir?" "Seen what?" I asked, "Witat do you "The 'Flower Babe,' " was the reply. "Why," said I, '•Iluive oertaiely met a child among the rose trees. A beautiful little creature, vitiola I suppose mast have escaped from its nurse in some of the neighboring dwellings, and found its wily into our place. " The girl shook bar head gravely. "Yoa will leatith at me, sir," • she said, "but that clincl belongs to uo house in the neighborhood. It is—" site hesi- tated, and looked at me with a troubled ale "Well," said I, "what is it, then?" "A. ghostl'' A ghost !" 1 repeated. "Did you ever hear of the ghost of a baby that baunted a garden in broad daylight?" "No," replied the girl, "I dou' t know Shat I ever did, I3ut lot me ask you, alt; were you ever able to 'COMO pear that child?" "I admit that you are right," I said. "But that is no evidence." "Will you let ane ask you something else?" The girl spoke in an unclertme and .glanced furtively about bee • "Did you notice a resemblance?" I couicl not suppress a stare "What do you refer tor' I asked, coldly. "To my lady,'' .whispered the girl. "If that were a real living obild, should say it was---" "I Omuta advise you to say nothing at all," I interrupted, sharply, "and that you bad better keep your vagaries to yoneself." But none the less the servant was right; that baby face was the face of Mrs. Geoffrey Luttrell. How, or why it Ehould be so, was the wildest enigma to me. 13a5 with that certainty upuu ane, went in to dinner, pondering fathoms deep on a problem to which I could im- agine no solutiou, Perhaps my silence, perhaps something in my face whith I could not hide, perhaps mere wanton hatred of me, excited Mrs. Luttrell beyond her usual insolence. At all events, the irritated 510 intolerably. }ler sneers would bate stung the pride of a milder man than I am. I had borne her per- cution mutely for a considerable tineefor Geoffrey's sake—but I saw how wretehed he was between his friendship for me and his love for his wife—and what the end must be was perfectly evident. I must take my departure. I inade the excuse of an engagement in town, and 1 saw that my decision re- lieved Geoffrey. He was glad to be rid of me. nath a swelling heart, I bade him goodby, intending to leave early in the neaming. Shortly after dawn, I was up and pack- ed me portmanteau. Having two hears to spare to train time, I went down upon the porch. Ulna no more than closed the door be- hind me, than. I beheld in the path be- fore the rose garden, the "Viewer Baby." Hr DAIRY Dairying- in the rutere. There is little reason to be discograged at the future outlet*. for dairying -When it is compared with other lines of alga- oulture. To be sure it is not ate profitable and will not be as profitable in thefu' ture as at some times in the past, but It has only followed the inexorable law of nature 'which brings all branohes of a great fundamental indnstry like agricul- ture to a oommon level sooner OT later. The dairyman has had superior aclva,nt- ages in the past over hie brethren en- gaged in growing beef and pork, but the increased production and decreased exportation of dairy products to other ounntries have brought it to about the earne condition of other agriculture' iu- terests. • Notwithstanding this, however, there are inducements to •engage ha dairying not held out by other lines of farming, mad a more hopeful prospect for the future than most other branehes tan show. •Dairying requites oonetant study and intelligent thought that will not be given it by the average farmer. It re- quires years In which to build up a pro- iltable herd of cows and to learn how to feed and care for them and bandle the product. The man who Elan successfully breed, and feed a dairy cos has a nand above the average. He is a student, a keen, bright business man, and this °lass of men are doing better in their business, whatever It znay be, than men who are oonstantly Managing from one business to another and never knowing much about the details of any business. It is eeoessary for the dairy farmer to • know hoW much it oosts to keep a flow a year and how much she earns for him during that tires. The dairy business will be all right in the future if the in- excusable methods that make so many men whine to -day are drepped and all 'got into toe channel of dairy intellig.enceand enthusiasm. Those who have anon:littered failure in the peso will find the same individual failure in the fraore if the game careless, indifferent habits are prac- tised. The dairy industry has been some- what crippled in the past because of the Wholesale naanufacture of spurious dairy products and the unserupulous methods employed in foisting them upon the peo- ple, Great Britain bas long been onr chief buyer aud is the greatest of all Ma. porters of dairy products. In 1880 and 1881, when oleomargarine and filled cheese were but little known, our fore- ign trade in dairy products was greatest. Our total exports of butter during the year ending :Jame 30, 1895, were only 14 per cent ef what they were in 1880, and exports of cheese were oily 40 per tent. of what they were in 1881. During the past five years England hes paid $415,- 0,00,000 for butter and cheese, and the United Stites got nee per cent, of this enormous amount. Holland with less than 1.300 square miles, less than one- fourth the me of an average western state, exports annually as much ceases° as the United States,while her exports of butter are nearly double these of this 'country. This shameful state of affairs has been brought about becansa we hare allowed a few men in this country to make a counterfeit and sell it to the peo- ple of the world as the genuine artiele. 'This bueiness, whieb sought to drive the caws from our land and Impoverish American frems , and farmers, has had its day, mad prices for our goods will strengthen under its influence. In these times of depregaion we should prepare for better times that are sore to come by weeding out the herd, doing away with guesswork and striving to produce cheap- er feed. When we cheapen tlw cost of production we add to the net ineonae. All them) things will tend to make dairy- ing more profitable in the future and more desirable, because of the increased facilities for conducting it in a progres- sive and intelligent manner and teamed- ing to such scieetifie laws as have been established for our guitlanee. Dairy and Creamery. down the alley. "There it is," said I. It is recommended that in winter, IWAS ..A.sToItintED TO sEE 4 SuALT, alum. "Some of your servants call it a ghost. Perbaps you may be able to prove its materiality." •bly words were interruped by the wild- est, bitterest cry of agony I have ever heard. "My child! My baby! Come back from the dead to reproaoh met My boy! My boy!" • The proud woman had thrown herself upou her knees upon the gravel walk, and stretched out her arms imploringly toward the infant, evbich was still sinelle Ing at the roses, and clapping its tiny palms without beetling the impassioned cries. "What is this?" exclaimed a terrified voice behind us, and Geoffrey Luttrell, half-dressed, hastened to his wife's side. • "See, see!" shrieked the wretched wow - an, pointing to the child, which was still going On with its employmeet, utterly oblivitms Of OUT presence. '`It was rriy eland 'When I was very young I mar- ried a common anaaa. a low wretch who degrcaled and abused inoBe died, and I wished to be free from all association, all mum/trance oZ him. • I did pot de- stroy our child—no, oh, no. But Igave it an thane of those who"—she bent her /eget head to the very dust—e whose in - treatment killed it Oh, God! how I have suffered! If I could take my baby and go away somewbere ea expiate nay ami Can Godl if my little one could Rut give nie one kiss of forgiveeessi—" She paused • suddenly, and we stood breathless; for the "Flower Babe" came toward the wretobed mother, laid a rose, vthich it had plucked, upon her bosom, bent forward and presSed its lips to her forehead, and—wes gone Geoffrey Luttrell raised his eyes solemn- ly to beaven "Your sin bas been great," he said, "but, as it has been forgiven you, even so do I forgive you freely and fully. Let the future atone for the past." A SWISS BUTTER COW. She Tian Made the lEfighest Record in 16 Public Test., The brown Styles dairy cattle will prolmbly be the next ones to be boomed. The Guernsey boom is on now. Tbe Jer- sey boom has never bursted from the thee it began 80 years • ago. There is room in this country, however, for all the great dairy breeds that can be foster- ed. Our picture shows well the type and when it is impossible for creameries ba some localities to get a sttfacient supply of nailk to churn every day, that the managers try pasteurizing the cream. Then it will do to mix with fresh cream a couple of days later,..so that the churn will not have to run every day. After the cream is separated beat it to from 150 to 100 degrees F. and then cool it at once down to 80 degrees. Ripen She pasteurized cream with is starter either of sour create or fresh buttermilk. Experiment cautiously at first. Ointment for caked udder: Take a cup of vaseline and thoroughly stir in equal parts of spirits of turpentine and spirits of carophor, or saturated cam- phor, ns called by some; beat up thor- oughly and rub Adder, or npply to any wound. ,A winter dairyman who won first prize for the best paying herd of 10 cows in Nets, Jersey aims to have two thirds of his cows fresh from Aug. 130 to Christ- mas. He says a COW will prodtwe 20 per eent, more milk for her feed when she comes in fresb at this tinae. Then in the spring when she is inclined to fall off the grass comes and keeps up the flow. Do you want to start a dairy herd on small names? Get a few common cows that are noted as rash and heavy milk- ers. Then spend your money in buying a thoroughbred bull of a dairy • breed. Get the breed that suits best for your purpose, according as you want milk or • butter. The Holstein—Friesians give a great quantity of milk, but you want to mix it with that of the Jersey or Guern- sey to give the most satisfaction to your customers who buy milk. Breed your common cows to the dairy bull. Breed the heifer calves of this product to the same sire again. Thus in • about three years you will have your herd finely started. But do not use the same bull with more than three generations 01 tne same bloocl. vritkl 4'11•(Ito, 1 \ ))1)) p • ' 4 points of the Swiss mountain butter yielder. The cow in tbe illustration is Briene, owned in Illinois. This little brown Swiss wears the ribbon as the greatest butter produoer ever entered in a public test. In quantity of milk sbe has been surpassed by animals of other breeds, but at it cattle show in Chicago Brienz pea - ducted 11 pounds of butter in three days. awarketing trent and Wee t ter. There Erre severe' methods nf disposing of the products of larger dairies. Where there is a good creamery, it is best to send milk to it, In a berg() eastern dairy town homers have the market reports aud so can form a good idea, of what they ought to gee The prices are graded according to quality of produce, and style of packaee. The hatter tub of various sizes is the principal form of paokag,e used, but the five puma box is coining to be used by those who make an extra quality of butter, It is made in various shapes, but the round box is mostly used. Butter packed in these brings fiom,,2' to 4 oents more than that packed in t. ba btat it must he good butter Tak ng all thinge into consideration, the mat. lig and selling of first class butter thou d be a very profitable busibess, and the trams should so manage as to se- cure oney at once for their product, --, Field tind Faxen. Dairymen, Leek at These 'Figures. ktiow a hardworking dairyman Who works a place on shares and from a dairy of 10 cows gets about 900 pounds of milk per day. His half share in this, taken to the cheese factory, brings hint something like 70 oents every e4 'mars. Now, he hirea man by the day, giving him 81.e5 aud board for every 10 hours' work. $o, including oost of board, he does not receive half enough from his share of the dairy to pay his hired help. The question naturally arises, Whore is he to make the other half and also make money for his own wages? Well, be has is hopyard of five mares, as most dairymen have here in conneotinn with their farms. But 'tow about the in- come from this source? He cannot hope for more than 40300 pounds of bops, mad as hops are now worth 20 cents per pound his share would be something like 8400. From other sources besides his dairy and bops, such as grain. potatoes, etc., be eau get enough surplus to finisb paying, the hired Mag. That will leave him with the $400 as his own wages for the year, and from this he must support his family and himself. Not a very cheerful outlook, is it? His hired man will make More Meer money than he will, aud will not have to work as hard. If hops go higher than 20 cents a pouel next fall, he will obtain is oar- respondingly larger income, but they are likely to be even lower than the figures named. Ie nay event, there is the pros- pect of a whole year chock full or hard days' work with barely amnion pay. But it does not fall to the lot of any agriculturist to have easy days' work, and tney are not looking for that. Some of them, however, worry over the matter ifethey do not obtain a good rate ne in- terest on the sweat they shed and the brawn they expend in tilling the soil. Worry is brain work, and as the Arneri- ean brain is a very ingenious organ when it keeps itself busy the ambitious Amera can dairyman who worries (just a little) Is apt to derive the biggest income from his muscular week. In the case that 1 have (abed there has been too much apathy and too little worry in the past. The present tenant is sob altogether to blame for this,but the owner Is rather to blame for 'laving a chary of 10 oews on the place that yield only 200 pounds of milk per day in nearly the flush of feed. These cows should be giving more nearly 400 pounds per day than 200, and they wonld if they were of the right stamp, 1 hear some reader exelaim "Ob, peeler! You fellows who write are al- ways setting up an ideal standard tbat cannot be followed iu practice." But listen, my friend. Suppose that we have been right there and know how it goes from experience, as the most of us do, (Anita you believe that there is some- thing in it then? 15 you are not convinced, go forth and list to the teachings or other dairymen about you, who are making more money than you are.—George E. Newell in Am- erican Cultivator. A PAIR OF -V1111) BIRDS BY HENRY S. BROOKS. (Copyright, 3895.) • Tbere wits a geat deal of charm about the half -wild life of the early mining days 0( California, even to theft of educa- tion and refinemorit. Some of us no doube fele that we ouglat not to be there, but we were .neerly all young mad hopeful; Wo knew that le vvounnot last long, and wisely eejoyed all there was in it. In tbe main, the milting camps were very peaceable. There was not emelt law, but a great deal of bed -rook justice. If a fel- low was oteught thieving or horse stealing, he was strung:up to a branch of the nearest tree, within half an hour. • Tbe copse - guano was we had very little trouble of that Idea. We would track tbem up on Saturday afternoon, tie them in frOut of the shatity over eight, and ride, up to Sonora on Sunday for a good time. am- ore was the county seat of Tuolumne county. It was first settled by Mexicans, Soma:miens from near . the bead of the Gulf of California. At tbat limo there wore a great many Mexicans atal Spanish- Americans settled in Calaveras, Tuol- umne end Mariposa coun;ies,whole camps of thorn. such as Spanish Mar, Clailuno TOWU, Salvador*, aud the like. Taken collectively, they were a bud lot. 15 was shortly after tho Mexican war, alai they bore all Americans a grudge. They con- sitiond that California properly belonged to theneand they never lost an opportun- ity to get even. They were all inveterate gamblers, and there is always more or less trouble where there is a 'Alone:, Caro.. Still more. where there is a fandango, and where you flud one the other is eevor Inc off. Otte boys couldn't keep away trona either, so, as a natural consequ- ence, they got cleaned out pretty regular- ly, say, about once a month. They didn't mind losing their money; they thought they had got their money's worth, I sup- pose, and it was easy to got mere, but every now and then the money bank or the fendango broke up in a fight. Some of the white boys got knifed, tine some of the Mexicans shoe Thou would fol- low a regular outbreak on the part of the Moxicaus until the wbole county would raise to "clean them out," Whieb names driving them luto the next county, I suppose. I was in one of those raids, to my shame and sorrow, for the Mexicans would have been peaceable enough if left to themselves, I am sere. But there had been a sores of appalling cowardly murders, and the whole comity was in arms. Our party was organized to drive them tett of Pomba Town iv scattering place of two or three bundrea Mexican miners, mixed up with Clalians and otbors. Is WUS a bad lion), ono of the worst in the country --a regular den. I was camping then wit') a young fellow from Mississippi, Jefferson Lee Peltop' think bis amine was, though we all called him Lee, Ile WaS a flee, noble-bearted fellow, and our part of the performauce coesisted, I think, in doing what eve could to Protect the elexiemis. They showed quite a lively fight for awhile, but WCTO soon driven out, of course, and when too entered the town, which was little anon than a mixed lot of adobes and brush Aunties, it was afire In ttvo or theee places. Our orders were to dis- arm the inhabitante, and as soon as we entered the place there WaS a scramble for erns, of which we found plenty, par- tieularly revolvers and bowie knives, ivory lactudled and silver plated, for o, Mexican win spend his .last dollar to buy riclay ornamented weapon. We were turning over things pretty lively, Leo and I, tvbeu we heard a sound of stifica sobbing in ono of the adobes. It was sur- rounded by a shade made of mini tbetch mid beach, which had cauglat and sot fife to the roof. Wi en we Wept in there were a couple of children on the earthen Door, a bay and a girl about five or six years old; portions of elm burning roof were falling teemed them, a piece of which I think, bad luckily seorehed the girl and caused her to make the outcry. They bad notbing on, either of them, but a linen shire none too long, having evi- dently ease tuanbled out of bed, You see, we hail surprised the camp pretty early in the morning. 'We carried the children out, not a little embarressed with our charge. Leo took the girl and. I the boy. The Model Cheeseinalter. Again I can see him as be works about the factory with au air of genulee feudal - ins cleanliness, slicking up the floors and scrubbing the tinware, brightening up the cheeses as he turns them from day to day. Neither will the veeey tank escape his watchful eye. He well knows the terrible results which must sooner or later overtake a cheesernaker who allows the filth to accumulate in an unwashed whey tank, whereby every crack, crevice and seam of all the milk CODS of his many patrons are invested with a dan- gerous bacteria which though unseen is neverthelese a great foe and is the prime cause of eringing millions of pounds of cheese enithe rejected list. ln short, he is a man that hes an everlasting watch- fulness over little things, and the idea of rushing things at a tremendoas speed for the sake of going a -fishing, seeing his hest girl or lounging in a saloon never enters his busy brain. You ask, Has the model eheesernaker any interest in his product after it leaves bis hands? I repeat, as I said in the start: Re is an bonest, well informed, shrewd business man. He has already in- vestigated the laws of trade, the laws of supply and demand and also the laws, both national and state relating to milk, butter and cheese and their won- derful aud dangerous substitutes—oleo and filled cheese1-lo is deeply intevestecl in all these questions. ---Address at a Dairymen's Convention. Ly Our Own Deeds. You have individualities that may be eocentricitiet, but they need not be; they 3nay be your points of strength. Your efficiency may depend upon them. Do the WOrk to which you are adapted. Make a distinct impression in She sphere of your activities. Be in league with others for sometimeyou will be unable to do media alone bet be sure to do sometbing. To vote to do something, or for ()there to do soteething, is frequently all that is done. We shell not be judged by the deeds of the organization of vvhich we are a part, but according to the deeds that are distinctly chargeable to us. banish lighthouses are supplied with oil to putnp on the waves during a storm. . sLlhe ,r" 5- • (FkrifiT: - 01, •••• #4, - 4z5,104:0144, • .14 the dark, like veritable stars. What to do with them, that was the puzzle! How to olo1,11 them. How to secure them ; for WO tlingt go to work, and as to looking them In 'the cabin, we might as well have look- ed up a pair of eaglets. • At last we thought of an old equine Up on the bill, at the head of Ladian Gulch. The old »mu had been a preacber, is right good one, too, in hisday, they said. He had nochurch,for there was no church. Alert of Sonora, and we all wondered how the old couple anacle itt living. Any- way, they were willing enough to take care of the children when we guaranteed to pay for them, aud when She boys beard what We had done, they all eon- tributed, until we bad a pretty well- filled purse, sufacient almost to provide for them until they could be taught to provide for themselves. They were still in their eight elothes, poor little dots when we carried them in blankets up to the old people, bet the old lady set to work in a minute cutting out things for them. She seemed delighted, and be- came quite talkative. She. thld us that her husband kept a day sthool and that he had twelve or fvurteen pupils, rzhildren of the neighbors around. So WO felt sereethat we bad taken t/ae little waife to the right place. We used to ricle up to Indian Gulch every Sunday on our way to Souora after WE CARRIED VIRAL BLANKETS UP TO THE OLL PEOPLE. We bad to carry them in front of our sad- dles, and before we had gone very far we visbed that we had stayed at home, for such squirming, scratehing and clawing you wouldn't have thouglat possible in creatures of the size. They gave us eo credit for our good intentions; they look- ed upon us as bandits and ineendiaries, and really, 'come to think of it, I don't see how'they could bave put any other construction upon our actions. It was a long ride back to camp, and the little ones must have been pretty well petond out wben we got there e but they wee° as wideawake as a couple of wild cats and as ready for mischief. Leo had to watch them while "put up Ow hossos We couldn't leave them a minute. Tney were uncommonly pretty, parttou- laxly the girl, who was the older: clerk, but with lobs of bright color and a glori- ous tangle of jet bleat, curls. Such eyes I never behold. They land a woeclertul fascination. At times, they bad an ex- pression ecarcely henum; • sometimes I thought more than hiaman, sometimes, Wholly wild. After a while we succeeded:in paeweing them. Luckily we had a little() fruit in She cabin, which they devoured eagerly, and later we made them a mess of rice and molasses. We fitted up a cot for them, where they slept conifortably enough. I got up in the night tvvo or three times, and turned down the blanket ecutly to look at thein. They were snug]. lcd iln close In each other's arms, but hey were wide awake. They did 'not ea we but those wild eyes shone out of AT ONE END 05' TUE TABLE SAT TITA, DEAteerce that, and we always carried with us some little things for tbe young ones; but they never tookrkindly to us,just tolerated us, nothing more. Tbey woula not associate at all with tbe other children, the old people told us, lint kept themselves apart. No sweets'no games,notbing could tempt them. "They just remind me," the old lady said, "of a couple of wild ducks we had once at home in Maryland. The child- ren brought tbem in when they WOM only just iledged and we put them in the pond with the tame duck, after they bad become reonciled to them, which wasn't Until quite a while. Then they sailed off be- themselves andalways kept by them- selves, though ono old duck took to thorn mightily and always wanted to another them, Wo thought at first that we 'would clin their wings, as soon as they got old , euough to Ily but we never did evenag that they seemed contented enough. though so odd like, But ono day there came along a Iliglat of wild cluelts, mad off they weut, Time was the last eve over saw of them. It will he something the mine with these thildron, X guess, for the've got some Mexican friends already. ' The boy there bas a dock of Mexican cards, they gave hit», svhiah the youug ones set great ttore by, for they aro playing with them off and on whenever they are not at their lessees. Mau take to them mighty kindly, too." "I guess it is in tbe blood" said the old Man, "for they play regular games with them, Not liko our chldree would.. They may have soon them before, thou& you would think they must have been too small to know their meaning." etre didn't like to bear about the Mexi- cans prowling around, but wheal the old man said it would be a sin not to give them a chance to speak their own langu- age, we gave in espemally wben beard that the Mexieas who visited. them seemed to be quite decent people. A year or so later I left the mines and went down tile Bay. Lee stayed on, al- though I stroegly advised bim to gait. That sort of life seems to take a strong hold of sonie tuen, and the longer teey stay the harder it Is to tear themselves away. But we corrospotaleti regularly and he never failed to keep me posted about the children. Three or four years after I left, tbe cbildren disappeared front tbe school,and Lee wrote mo that he could never get trace of them again, though he rode frequently over to what was left of Pon- cho Town aed every Mexican settlement for miles around. They had taken to flight like the old lady's duoklings, and there was little more thence that °later of us would ever sot oyes upon them again. Otto day,after I bad been establithed in San Francisco severe' years, I went with a friend to visit a celebrated private gauaug table. The fact is, I bad receiv- ed a description of two of the players which had strongly aroused any curiosity and interest. The rooms proved to be gorgeously furnisbed apartments up- stairs, and tbere at one of the tables sat Tita and Panchito, dealing. The game was Monte. There was an immense • crowd, principally of the higher class Spanish Spanisb American and foreign element.. Tita looked onconanonly pret- ty, fascinating, in fact; but it seemed unnatural to 800 a girl, still little more than a child, performing such a part. She soon detected me,but gave no sign of reeognition, except to cast a significant glance at Pewee, .who singled me ous in a minnte. The senses of people who follow gambling as a profession are cM- iivated to extraoeclinaey alertness. I did not desire to make. myself. .known, but rested contented with watching the game for an bour or more. The play wee very. high. • There were piles aed piles of gold ounces olianging, hands every few minu- • tes. Tita played on the picture of gaile- less tenoceucei 'flat was a great tricak of the Spaniards to pue the peettiest un- sophisticated looking girl they eould :find ,as (leaders and certainly th y 'neer found • one Mettler or more artless appearing Shan Tea, but I noticed that sbe.never forgot to rake in the gold OltilOOS all the same. He lets seen but little of life, who does 1105 discern everywhere the effect of early education in man's opinions am' habits of tbinking. Children bring, out of the nursery that wlaiclo displeys itself throughout their lives. Cato, being scurriloasly treated by a low and -vicious fellow, quietly said to hina : "A contest between us is very un- equal for tbou canst bear ill la»guage with ease,and return it with pleasure ; hut to me it is unusual to hear,and dieagree- , I