HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe East Huron Gazette, 1892-04-28, Page 69 'U4 n"Vy bua necks6 wer� a' e ro r ch J" b ke a r thi -h d Vl'iadr:thij� their masters, -era roin a tree, grass, 10 Ot eri6-not i-liitIg-thmg vWbI Aftorrorthe ussranawnmh. scattering the crows. and at e TnOckiug-mirage In the dist, as it beiieath.thi I epped do to even the crows had gane,.and tho gh the he Was, Of the bo shade, SCAnty the edge
t:tmft, old man, we've lost the -track 1,, there Patiently, Waiting Sea Of the litterin u nee, felt that -Teinw 404*e W - 1 301vOOd tr _g white "It ..It foal birds had filled Helti shrinking the thought 0 If Mfg p and stood too might as well drink the
cDon'b be a howling idiot, man. Lost death and the T what For went till usr. it was if &with a and die; Only walked -quietly intqthe, h
_fo cranched'ben;WhIS feet like sand, and �e h 'Ir', their absencew I 'he crippl.'boy who orip Oeoalone in th would mistake. he cLeatly avr,,Claw, how could we be lost? Why, there's the 1119 -overhead. crows patie wait- I way Ze*une , t!tO hard crus -t began to Alve for did it not how thatTien wev-s- world but for him made him the grave. Ittly in and a y _0 ffig back from
-44 ii, .6ginj nake one More desperate effort for Be He wished he had died withiE track right ahead, and pretty fresh too el --thick mu&'*ZSd fh#_�elvand ft- ssft,�Ia r I
M answered, big-6ompn. U - The, when -he tl -h %1t, a , -A , . 0. 4j -0 t , yto the e rther
Hel it , aid- If Fft Anderson flung himself'off Kia ll�rse ion 8 UUBPoke P M t it WEN con five miles of *the In -by, waiei holit' which He took th [Mary Gaunt enough lrqsiot, _ _ q wit Gerring Gel'ring Water.—
t Wi c u to the dry crisp gTaS8 and- covered hia It thought) cc but we can't sit e Younger man in the EnglIE-h Iiiustrate4
WaltlikA that. fe-Oril th tl�i c4l tr� v;6,,bIft,�vnbther day? The 'a arm and drag. Emear in tb
U 0- . t . h , is U Mgxi,� we must try to e like ged blita on pseq 3h Skirting slowly
VtO t, Was bl:,e-1 - I .... ., _ _ Rpan4 i �'hg, -till the full force " dead ti 'h, Magazine. face Tvith his hands. from lin h4e' r 11�g r rus I till round the than they could afternoon, it g. ve te _)I1 you," reiterated his mate, leaning here and wa�i any rate. We can't sit y ep to wri a for,war-I in his saddle and shading his eyes, 'A for the crows..!, message. And nen cam r W at length la. in the Is Teri
eavily. ee. His own psays for a 11
ersou Sighed h t e the di culty. bear, ih,�d�yet the nearest all& e was miles senses were clear enough b What was he to say ffi PI&Ce to bor The D09 Howled or nis Gmve. '�l see hot .1 -marks quite plain. Why,the What ? What could he say ? awa kA�e of trees or scrab dim on the
might hav-,. 1ieen',,1Pd can we d ?" he -asked- 1; Not that he had so Ii btle, but so much. An Muttering wild Ut Heim �.Vas Mr. William Goh, cleFi of tha. to*nshi for Iffer ChRd
e,yeater.doy d horizon. ly, and lie listened with un- of Macaulay, Muskoka, a reliable and truthl "at Spell & bit, Thoe bars We it might never be read heeding ears to hisbabbleof home and moth. fill man, relates this story, W They ere made yes'ferdiy," groane(t lt�is,llmafrai aS Irldone'. As it would only be read by some station hand all Neither mentioned the significance of the er a Ing UP In
after all, or at best
d YO -Ws 1: thi
Ithe other hopelesdy. have to be leftand dSweetheart. Theyco bich can IN 0ently, I sat in ti
e, my ,W1 sence of --the 66ws, though both were and Uld not go far,
Doil't you se we'll have to A cc they were dead, would give thinkinj q Substantiated by several I
ilear fellow, we made them ourselves. go,n-'Oot. There myAt be who, 0 Soon they forced their vv*a i h�-' n4ighbors, 1who was W.
but _f it, bat at last Helm said: scrub, and thot f %na
Somewhere, for look at -the Passing thought to their, "The trees le 'a go for the trees. This Igh tile bar - Y III among the 'viz., tbeZimmdrmens, Longford% and Phil. rArriage flew &Ion to their is past bearin 111119 thirst, was lips- O" the corner of the Longford farm t- There being very
crows but we c&u't find it, and we couldn't message, only a passin t Worse than ever, the shade was grateful and north of Mr. Gohm's there is a small 71141 adsehis he�&' and_s*ore a have seam -bed �pore c,,peflly SUfferings. They had found 9- The
r g thought
ate oath, then sprang from his horse, stoop. 44 Wh` a skeleton, he Bit c'"I's stopped too, and settled car, We soon got i
Wildly Y not *006,,the remembered, the t Axidersou shook his head.
ed over the faint track, ran ZIO good. His blood old'�� hojeeP first year he had been I on the graveyard. About two months ago an un. ung, t of rnIng their evil blue
Thi yke clean out of the way, -man," he heads to Say my fellow
e oil One side to get
at have beqft id Bad -' '�Try to hold ouVa little lo betcer view of and heard howlin Y -whole time in del
for a few yards, turned back, Nonsense iWs Y1rIO "ask leton that Inu ITyi - black known collie dog -was s,en in the da time
I � b t ng their prey. ough Yet to know eping up wonder- 4ii Aren't 16a bushman there years, a poor, wind -tossed, sua, orse ,a ke 9 arid cryLag at,uight in cried out that the other was Playing some en bake" fm Old spea,k &boat old a
ghastly joke off on him. On that drinking blood's `1 tiling from which all semblance 4f. fully. 1:, --never thou -ht he'd hold out I cc ca't keep MY head," and around the graveyard. Abcut three
IV the beg hmand parted, and h long.11 in Canada. We
ty had IG119 since de I can't. thereafter it was ascer ed that above a couple of
n hi
a, moaned Helm weeks
arelessuess i the dog belonged to Robert Cooper. Or
I"78 two bad, Anderson, too bad. (let tha' inning of the end ? Once we do Ihave been mad tain
UP, man and don't be a fool! had thought 0 1 He's- very nearly at his las id 10 all day. that be. was a Pio
Come on, Well after 'I's it, had never rea'i . low I have, It has Stretched out into this day Robert was passing the graveyard
there's very likely- asked Helm. Ized the �4-1`11111 b,Ig"P," Sa ages, this long day, and it's not over yet when the dog sa
W ig 1. though physical.13
of that: lidire, You'll feel better afteryou've In his heart, W It aniwer, fo� he, too ve 4ee before the strong man Aid'they relapsed.into agait When were we lost? VV him and ran to him and
water on the other side .1 But the other did 11 that mast ha Helm, 4
)lad came to that. Od, aild! on, and. on. The thirst wa Yesterda The da * followed him home.
d drink." their lips e as asking a' After"' And And now bad now they could hardly speak to one 880 before? It fell, likeea, Y Robert had been un, capabilities were
re dry and p�rched, an- rs. Ing r said Anderson not tin- next day and died in abori, a week. Hit
.- �f the almost vertical sun, every ut remains were interred ir �hia gr,veyar4
a the ridge we passed last night, I tongues and their and wrote in large print k his stick other; Still they pushed on under the burn- kindly; BRIGE
and 'low—he too' "Never mind well for some time, but got ruch worse the
tell you. Water—oh, yes, there's water salt -pan swollen* and before them lay the crisp Salt: ed letters on the ayk ca, be much long., &a ever. So I sat
there, but it's as salt as the sea." gleam 0 dark 0 Centre a little e- . ), Ow. Try
With right in th t p it 4i�qmed must be their last. Was it to sleep, old an witching him I
really 6U1Y la- I'd the dog has been the -k nearly all tile ejous word or twc
,t night they discovered they P
won't believe that! That's miles behind down beneath C ! with a thousand devils tea timeince an makes the nights hideous by ularly wisi
"The aalt-pan! No, by heaven, no, I allserY. The blue Water which mocked their STOP. lee
re was nothing for it but to lie wem lo0_only last aight? Another mile, It me ring its UlOurnful howling. It has Leen taken
They were to, the scanty shad, " "LOST. '134tt they did sleap after all a wearied home and tied, but retum. and rest. and an6ther, and tile lwmt grew unbearable, Cruld be impossil
.weary to pshn' all troubled sleep, a broken sleep The p6ople of what my comp�
said the other eergy " James Anderson -and ffe-Pir-without a wor s to the grave a abort sketch, -a-, t)
in their d turned to the left ful dreams
bad departe�, itid Helin �y- �' ; were lost,on and ChaNS 14cim an till of fright- 80011 as let loose
his ba�k lo,ki ) 1110 --on the 210.h October. d niade�for the trees. Anderson paused are not given to arou-nd there
dreari'y, "it's theame old salt -pan. You'll the Patches'oillne gone S. E. or sti inore cruel ones of cool.
119 up at �-They hav6
see it the moment we cross the ridge." sky that peeped throng from the salt-pan.."21vift ye; momen-fUnd then followed him, though to iDg streams andll r'PP]iDg waters. uperstition, being level. however much I tr
It the branches, came) and Anders Night headed kind Of Methodists but tbe manner in wh
was giving up the struggle. 01, awoke from Puzzled to know why the 'dog visited the
If they ed to him a d his lips, nor of th
Come on, then, come on Don't si t Helin,5The Es, I "in it are
with a sigh said kindly send wordto Mrs
it if __ I nade, St. Kilda, and to M trned,outofthp whatseem-
9"011'in,,7 there; let's know the iorst. we re done for, I wish to heaven Gipps path which led to the only com Oze of a moment to graveyard and remained there howling be. powerful word pi
u 1 1A belie ze it) I winit believe it till I see end would c the Street, East Al water'th pailion gone front ]'is side find his fore his master died.
for nivse.1 f. 01, now. elborne9" PY knew of, turned into this path- the thought cam nished his remark
thought I can't stand the Then he wrote his name less werness, what possible c For a second
Of—Of—What's it lik 1hance was e t�O him t�at it as lot
e, old man ? Is rAs Helm. -i therefor them? And yet how coul they Worth while to look for him
-It seemed so feeble, sa'illadq te, llot'�,a d I was a raw 8
bad as bad can.be.); t I -stand thig-tervible heat any long 'he said, 11 when m
ever to (let out of this," mattered Anderso- 99 - -, le felt 'llid it ek- Pr use of troubling hor`es��Ilt to have a spell if we're ry bad, do you think 91, hundredth Part of vv,�a —mad, and Where was the ' eable Differonoe,
'�!ka He was mad QtLite a NoVo
n n ?13 press, and yet about him aly further 9 And then his znd I tumbled off
Vi [owed his d6upanion's lead, Mon d is the wilat coilld li�-i-tty? �Voli I ShIll go inad, "moaned Helm "Do the men treat you any different)
re no hope Not better feelings, and perhal since you have been promoted y man, who Was go'
0 Hudson Bay
even in his extremity could lie write te"tider dMi'l think I was a coward, but I can't humap comparionship which ,, all Must -
red horse anS rode slowly on after 'Vi 4at could he ay this man who -,had messages to his loved ones t - tand tlli& Old hap, don't let i ;-' that loning for friend. asked hit bhe Bay
W-va I livre. T ne go- mad; feel, made him rise up and look for him. "Yes; a little.
would know surely they would k ey h
rds the still distant ridge. livelf in the bush all �is life? What 4o e HOW, they yoa see I'm going mad." Wales. I was
M otit'to.-seek eW ring "Afore reap namber of years,
country, crossed the Quee they would 'in there was U hope-�44t if full of them when lie wrote tll,% 'sense' mail, you're all up and ectful tOYOU I suppose?" t851, we sailed a
boand th� gall pouldihe give when practi P WouldundersItand that his "non- down, , hull�red feet orie w " Ye -es - but that's nct tile mc�t notice. Iga Is. 0 min's 1101,110 '6 - Upand down he W11 tagge Land.: they had go knc6 told hi his, ever- tilougl� ts had beetv _mll, saidthe other bravely;
Sonth nsland border into save thetaselve t Col i essage, right. You'll feel ay and then
1`01114leedless What more could lie say? th better "ently when you've had a spell." back again on his owl, trIcks. 6y� able tiling',, oat into the Cha
-Anatralia, and now, old bushman as Paill t�ey would turn thei ever know the love and 10, The 1i , speak of the vo
lie w4t,,Anderson had only the vaguest idea themselves a iglugi,4hat bad d"f trees resolved itself on closer r- Don't granible witen
At aga"nat filled his heart?. spectlott int when he saw Anderson do anything, perhaps 91,
ad die there and pistol' in e" We mutt get OD, old chap," he mutte -you uk them to -thkt., as in all the
ir wherebouts. Ever sip Would his Mother -ever 0 close growing -gidya scrub, on. "we mast get time, the appren
nee they the'16ve of life is strong in - �quce' -B�t know that her be and long*before they rjacht You rest if you like� " Not so much as they used to ; but that greatest k!idness
The as strong. How, could th - had agaia;Made their appearance. A little' she's waiting f u ; but Mabel,
Started it h,,W beerk the same trouble. hope of life is behll and -the Y had thou,,h-t' �f her �t -d it the crows though; there
i
Season had been exceDtionally a- ey the last? Would �fabl Drysdale und4K isL't anybody waiting for yo isn't the greatest differen".-
dry, die) these strong men. with life i stand how he had cared for company, waiting on in get back. kSh or me, and I must try and Well, then what is?,, to the coorrpo
nd : flock kept them
ere d ried up. No, no, sure, it Was Mpossi n every vein? 4ec?�all he'. everywhere the waters W_ First' Y had meant t. one horse had died, t4j� I another, until- at scuttled across convey by t mpr�. mention' ron D, - ra reliance Grieve I "Why, they' al7aYm laugh now when I Y, Mann , on
la I, ble. An iguana h e 11:9 up behind as if pe e would be disappointed else. d I
I� d started up eagerly. He stepped al Ila -might be late, wheeling round tell a funny story. tion. Oar c ' f I
were reduce in front of them, and Helm of her name 9 they It course shell grieve if Ilia Y. 'y to only three - still owl back a . ther side. on ei- All the world a cynic lik you. Really 9" ofsenatorMacdo
heAd Pushed oni for the blacks i,ld a -" There " 'he said, 'Wakened his companion. e never there—and and 1 44 Mate, he said, ' - don't YOU -1' The le must be water there," said Helm Anderson took- his at, yes; aid they seem interested Magnificent water -hole where th i thought. Loo hink We'. again. 'Oh the best known a
e k at that beast. better be travelling ? eageriv ; 'look at the crows again." We'll go together hem when Ial land.' We arri
wate� was Permanent, and Anderson had a must be X -here It's a little cooler 69 said. _k of the bri:zht things my children the latter end of
nows and it's getting late," care a straw about seeing her againg come say and do." certain amount of faith in the i live. 11 *-3ter somewhere, or how could he D;n't build In it, old chap," 6aid the on quietly If you do
ring Anderson a Wen other. 9. The scrub is too thick for us to With me." The friend gave a dubious Shake of his 'water was concerned. Yft there's the bitterness of it. So You've been leaving a las not to be I dissuaded, and Don't you -let Blaine hear of -ew, way. At one of
'Wisdom of t1w children of the soil where ighed, and ti find it. 't, uner Anderson struggled to his feet wearily, them before ente
So he pushed on t do;n to the salt -pan. eYielded for the moment, but it requir. head. several small na
hoping ag%inst hope, till the Youncrer man But Helm was ed. one cc,
know there's t-raessage-11- h at'nuous effort oil Anderson's part he
ore prudent per. It Much Who's likely to pass this way 0, t But it was too 46 SMOOTH
cause more hopelessly, but the result was found by the time th I happened to be
suaded him to turn back ]lad everything in our favor, water. - Ais mate looked more soberly, be. weaker and the other man, growing "James G. Blaine?" asked the other in
find it; but as we didn't find ally when we he said - " Pra afraid it's n e Wa061 his enetgies in a frantic search for was gone, and I said. through the
ater about if only we could to keep him up to i,
more fearful, perhaps n. . Plat ly his reason
late. The weakest horse, the one they had much good there's not lt!8 Only a chance, of CIA,rse," weaker, Surprise.
ike them, if P.6 t
ll was more than he could make. It was " Why noi In 8 sib] or when we a
as a pack -horse, gave in) and had Afterall I believe those beasts it D live . e, to know I'd thought of"thein.11 shade an� slept gain, sle t soundly too, in the chains a long s
used In our Wasting time lookigg now. Helm, " but—well—lyd I said till! finally they lay down in the r'U" was hiuh in the heavens that the',ff e - "Certainly and
f wegetontoi 6his P I end, or so close that he could I, IY hope He'll be offering them fo gn missions. just -made the terrible discovery they wer to the nearest water we know of expect, just iou'll lear A . Night and pray the eiid quickly
old cha�l our only hope lies in pushing O� cynically; -i Ug fit -Anderson dent, more impudent than ever would come You have an office full of on which 1 was a
journey ; and now, on the fourth, they had 'And a woman, too,,, la Spite of.the
to b�l left;,behind the first day of their return Without, though theyIy they don't, No crows, which wer*, more confl- rei alongside me, -
e on about how little Value she set in Helm The w had struggled Z' [Chicago Herald. di plornats. canoe was a YOU
going- round"on their own tracks. The Then don't let's lie here wait' fell, and,with, the darkness grew Young fello had been so 8 Ing precious Your care for her." all intense desire to be on the way again. so bravely, so hopefully, n ck I to this. They had left the t is of conequence; Y een unlucky We4e Wasting time " he kept saying scrub behind them and Anderson made bis cc ced piece of look'
hoilefal—when I and now it her as
thankful minutes. -Every momen. Uye b had come
they struck that tra n the morning. let's make &start. We must push on.)) er' said the young- hoarsely, for his tongue �vas so swollen he An Ami0able Arrangemegt. I pulled out from
ever va a tree, the only specimen of its kind I for a penny befo
could hardly speak at all—[' Wasting time, 'a Y erran might be their in, and lay down beneath married ? Aren't y 1 , They had been pushing o Out there, I don't suppose we'll co Do't you see they'll be expecting us in to its to a darkeY, �at you nevel right ever her
Anaerson knew there was another Push on gent y there �re women who erappointed than theywer-e; thesd '.:sinc& they left g Yerle, a station ten through. Anyh me i 111toth, wide pla out bett party - - t, HOW is it, Uncle Rastas 11 said a gen, ago,-; ow it's time we started.',1 branches—to rest ? No
tracks, and POSSibly they bad days 'ind this was what it had broug Supper at Gerring Gerring, and I shouldn't hes he felt in hi water with them—they i them to. ht Well—well keep your Ou an admirer of the soft, screamed with d
wat-,r 1. It, rt it was to (lie. Helm I's ersex ?11 11
8 no go lie could not her baby for
faith and I'll like the crows to get there first. They persuade to lie down. " I fot er duel wance 'bout a gal, &h criell and acrea,
Come across keep mine. Perhaps here and -there there might -frighten her, yoti know ; she's only He P1 —and water—water—if od wearing ourselves out in the may be woman worth caring aboat, b- kept staggering replied Uncle Rastus. $
had pushed on, eagerly,. ho' t ey re few and far between." a on hopelessly round and round the tree her the glass, an
only they had a little water And so they heat of the days", said Aaderson,;-!, wait h' ut girl alid'she hasn't seen till evening -so much of them as
terrible trut Pefully, till the and we'll da,twice as much.,, 'Doii1byou w&uct you alidIne. Thos struggling to keep in tile shade, fancyi A duel?" child in return I
h began to - Which way? I) 0 say anyth . e knowing old crows! n S dawn on the ed Helm. they're�not here now. Don't Ma Y a lost man has done bef,)re hi n' L' ja" Y es, sah ; yealis and yeahs ago. and waved her a
91 W You see that's he was at Sam
older and more experienced bushman. Southeast, I think. If we can only t to get there first ?"
The weather ho? I? No. Who is why they wan "Pushing on." ckson an myself, we bof-lubbed de Sam that she was to h
straw' th�rq to carO Be qai�t, man.
for the last two days hold,oute OU0ht to fetch Gerrin whether I leave my c gal ; we were bof boan' to -,it dah, and d seveml minutes,
g Gerri You're dreaming 11 It was tile same old Story. Anderson had business climaxed in er due'l. We bof wah explained it to he
and hourl be 11 -a onl Dreaming, was I? Ander heard it told hundreds of times over the a trifle nahvo
caught a glimpse of the sun ' Ing crows or not? There arass to th"
had been dull -arid cloudy they had not Water. As faras I know, this Must son, Ana;r$On
ythey Tainba salt lake, and if so mate, I'M'nOt going mad. For Go I d's.sake us, sail, an' 'stead ob me hit- boit, four ivory t
ed a thunder-st,6r P a too Young to understand. "-But, I says don't let* in one man will lie down to die tin' Sam or
�ha,d exppeL 91 y the boy, and a, piyl re
A handred'and twenty miles at station," and taking the stic 4 gone mad, poor chap; and then de fence." 0
t would supply YOU might have mentioned the name of the "No. no, old man, it's all right. We'r the other will go raving mad. down a vallyble mule dat wall standin, neah lars. so out
III " Karinda's just to the north there," 0 a � — me, we brought %fterwards a Id which would t an
of onl§ cliarthe air, lin me go mad." q d Sam hittin'
So elm ha
an red his Passionate prayer to him made thirty tbo
eas , an not a drop of water the whole h d, be walked out on the salt and wrote, horse and yo And did you fir, gain ?" asked the have satisfied
way. No, that'sOut of the queetion, old Please let them know at ' Yerlo I 11 aa u give me your arm. There not to let him o mad, to shoot him if he' gentleman, very much interested. day the clouds had all cleared away, and -ack now. Here, I'll take the e remembe
them with the water they needed; but to- I t d the very It. from Helm's in the right ti e h 101
now then, if we've luck we may hit Gerrin ' (
the only effect of their presence had been Mau ; our only hope lies in reaching Gerring signed Ilia name, " James And sa he was going mad, and be lay anti look- No, sah, dat Wuz a very vallyble mule-, second tale-
14- And �,ou don't see much p, hesaid. "Comeonnow.11 s, and' we bof felt kinder skeart like So, "When the
Andersoir Could not say even S
I . 4 'There's my last will and --testament J, The� -Walked on in si-Tence, but Helm kept and at the watching crows, and knew we entered into and americable prearrange- the u
that they had -lost their bearings complete- Gerring. erson. Gerring before mornincy 11 g bked the old m
ly. Where and- when they �had, lost the d up at the hard blue sky througii the hot
eaves,
IIoW, afid he our doinit that ? obability I Helm went UR to the horses stumbling', aL d but for his companion'ssup. that he was only waiting
was loath %t first to share his misgivings Well, we can try. porting arm would have fall for death, knew ment.' pper Waters
IV8 no go," he said. I more than was too utterly weary to aid in any How did you settle it?" told by the old h
with his mate - but the sight ofthe that he
decided him. rldoe He felt a great pit beggar's done." poor ld once. The moon rose up, and as it grew way Ilia mate. He listened to him mutter- Sam tak de gal an' In those parta be
me some,
If they found, as he ful Yi this older man, for I expected it, old chap. lightan . day a ' g,in he stopped short and in" to himself for a little, watched him as he mule. an'I hain't lubbed sence P
IV e'lx:- the lad—he called him a lad for all is four fo 't VVII have -to looke0diemnly in his companion's face. It went monotonously round and round. It WON-DERFUL
pected to, the salt -pan they h 0 it ; nit -ette, t
had Pass IV the and twenty Years—doomed to die, na hl�ii was worn and haggard and weary, but no was cob so hard after all—not near so hard Gerlatany's EX-Challor- before we got up
ed , greed to Pay for de
night beforp bu the other side then most tie's only & dying at -this very Mment, in the prime Y' yours' Clearly well have to' lbave ybuft d t
surely they we lost men-�-Iosj'in a crel, h of behind. Mine can carry the pack a little 80 WP , lie felt instinctivel for him as for Ifelin. If only the boy were
re thirsty land W'here no water was. 18 manhood. They could b e said, farther, Anderso Y,- as
proceeded to atta
but I really. don't think he can for. My head*s all Wrong.' were dead Ile would be glad that this shold btig ship's biscuits
He pandered it over in his mind as he rode over and over again, they co I tr u," he sai his own'. dead he 'bought wearily, -if Only the boy
u Zi It d, '(I
uld t try. carry me." know I'm done Prince Bismarck was Seventy-seven years
lowly after his companion. And then as they rested the It's cooler now Old on April Ist. The day was marked by hang of three f
no hope There was of other things Y fell to talk. but what'll it be to -morrow ? If—ii—if i end it; his life was never worth much, he ng --talked of their past the boxwood trees had grown of do anything mad before I die don't tell her )lad failed all through, he would be glad to
There could Possibly be no hope." lives and of their homes as neither, It was still very hot, but theshadows the attendance at Friedriclisrulie, wh�re- of the ve-sse
Over and pver again he said it to rd
himself as had ever talked before. Perhaps, there was just longer and I'd the Prince resides, of a much larger numbet
ho h%rdly iealiies his owl, * e like her to think well of me. just a be at rest—if only the boy were there before of persons than usually have visited him a? Mau _W ords— a -promis of the comi Cy, which wa o
and then they topped the lo 'MY Old Mother'l I miss me an..
rl All right, mate helpless as M, e
I !iar, the o
evand Helm: with&' S' IP had only the one horse now, a a reception in the park and had a hearty 91uniblingbout It
w ridi aor i e there On Similar Occasions. The Prince held
They mast walk, 'for thei, thing—he must make another effort for the night in the ng I die(f*. don't say how it hurt. ay him; but the b-y—the poor little water w th
Ig said the other," for he
ght at his feet lay the alt -pan glittering when rbo d9tholigh, 'a lad it did not had no comfort to give. boyl� sake, and he struggled to his feet the ano
in -the sun. shell seem likely he could hold, out word for all who called upon him. Ila
ever hear the truth of the The -other long. Au�. i�hen �t
ad flung did not deter t
matter. ba I lain doww to &, looked remarkably well. A large number
"Cruel—cruel—cruel!" Rehrib hey walked on a ain ia �ilence again' But the burning landscape was a
Amself face downwards on the hard ground do pe UMPh, I don't know but I gue�q 11,11d whetber thi till th4--moon dechned before the on�- blood -red blur before his eves, and then of floral gifts was sent to him from all parts 6round us in thei
18 One Coal& crawl day, hh�Lcruel day, which brought the. h Ing it seemed to b the empire. went'Up as the
if wo under their slender pack "A
1110-w and given g out, it'll be some considerable timie tion Anderson �ws eat quite suddenly of Numerous deputa-
way to,a paroxysm of dis. before they I w qt - - and following crows a hearing left him.
'More t,6� brough.t.` gain. Dawn He was dying—was this tions from various parts of for they knew w
us H account over once. That he could car thein to a patch of 'dead finish,- death? er a waited upor, country
1.,air all the more bitter for his former hop,. An read the store asked himself" 6yli im, sight and
the boy-- In
ve YOU got -any paper about Y eMer of tWr5 as thd HOW in ciful de th was—if only And congratulated him minute a Mala
Andersr)n looked down on him Not a scrap y? " was out of the questio . settlers call a dense and thorny scrub -Ve weari thanking a deputation representing lo,00j) In the bow of the
n. Theout a, blab.-� With pr,ef,ty green leves through which it miners in the Bochum district, the prince
part in hfis trouble; then he lookpd aw 0 on the -salt though. his -b&ck, their.:! , iistols, and is well ly MW in hi
Lyingly for a moment) as one who had n We can leave a message ket or two On r, he opened his and arrow in h*
�1& ssible to force a way ever, one a
gSave for th'� sunshine Mpty water -bags, and then it -seemed und 'the
3Y be bloy�a away before to -m the e -ifigh imp, it be that some eyes. Could said tb t -coal and iron were closely er Water
y ]lad er? That girl 9" wri w, and ve, but and *hieh pj!v, 3nted an utterly ea, face. at ? Some one was bathing his sociated with husbandry. He himself was Ind caught in h
y the sallile sven,p, tile y�g Sam-- tile, orrow- cruelty to force the poor beasM. Mo most favorable circumstano down his thro,
- -- it was exact- Who do you wa was pouriiiLy steered round th
Ypowlitit nig-47--there lay tl;' * ntto to? Your moth- necessity knows no la impassable a farmer, and he never credited aspersions Of six shots he cut
I e tbeY started b4rrier to men in -,heir condition. They Upon the Bochum industry. The environm
terinsal - I face away. slowly on their hopeless journe "116'800ming to," said a voice in his can�
a1driveh-silow ' � This man Y rollad.the turned' four biscuits, I It
*0 "� s �-: ky, and all around gh Balt -pan, Anderson leading the 01 aside -once ore, and Anderson srulte were densely thronged all
ay, H611 tholight himself that the d y I
#o ri Pry into his private con- following with the ho of Friedrich it the bard blue clouil les had 13Y Jove it "as a narrow Shave, The of such accura
oerns. other poor 'chap's done fO isn't lie, Ned ?;' 'Were armed with
rSe.. . So slowly they h Y Must indeed vith people, all desirous Of honoring
te to your mother, lad, write to went, and their only hope I ay O'
Wle dreary plain, broken only by the ridge Wri ave gwell up hope to be stopped by an ini.- a the great German statesman Atilightthe
V, which they stood. And yet in diffe,Z Q it d d- He went- mad evi�ently, When I left
clean off his head. place Was brilliantly ilin Mina'
ill sPe6d. passioleXarrier an yet to make 110 MOaD Why, the, po� after a series I
an t the dY 9 It Wai Avirely the ery depths of hopeless' h ap ted and a torch -
ad begun on his own grave.,, light Procession was held * The Prince's River, at*
_0� to ri4--jw ness when all ways w -ere, alike to them. H When Anderson came to himself he found birthday Was warmly celebrated in Berlin and 00-, I Was sent re horse, which had made an ed Fraser
he might have admired the made Of different clay from other Women ; ces Your mother4 all me a. Matheis ]146 -looked back a little sadl'l
r 'h
bother about the other. e
d dismay -fill- he had been, other places throughout �;erma for some time ed h4-Iii'art; they were not ff an picked up by the other explor. VY. A tele. rin and straicrht, Ing party. grain Of congratulations was sent kli salmo
g like thos" f %Ve picked up yovr tracks away former Chancellor on behalf of4he members P fro
are all alike, take y word for it- itbe kinder to p'tit him 111001iffmiser"P but W4_iering and wanderin to the clear bright atmosphere, far away to the It's out W on their tracks
niles and miles he colild see in the, Women yo "Poor old beggar, 1, he sai&�;s, W* ILA
# lanliscap-, for it bad , weird beAuty alt its but don't if in mate protest against bei4g'left
On; i �-_-At4gAid&Of the wide lake where a dark tlicm. of sight out Of Mind with all of Oh, give him a chance) for4lis' life,,, 8CId men. in the last extremity. He had fol e I by the of the National Liberal Party. u
clump I Pat write to your mother."
or scru was apparently rais. ,S Mught
d in the sky, high above the horizon. Ile An erson. "I've known hors ed trae low- 'dead finish' there,`Baid the lead pare the salt in
ks like these before now, and they , "and round ab
Oilways';1ed to the same thin I thought it must be pretty near U P klew it was out the Younger man, hardly heeding his word,. I find water for h with in the season, we
-ay. After he's had er outside
A y th I e leffact Of -the mirage orne one May Pass this lWay,`pdridered in the most wonderful to recdv4�r
er to ! 40 Li n;eded uJoken, tha' " It's just worth tryin& I ( It lay il�self; any- dered-dUlly would anyone ere g. ITe.won. Y011- You've had the devil'§ own 0ould Wait a Little.
I&I ' an i e- ilent ve him the chance." I r follow those ack, -mate., side, full of th6
no wat4r, not th t while'And4sOR.-tak-ea on, or ratlief Sllh 11 marks.T A little,fartber on Heim let go hi iles of' read for their
we
Y
an aaloudi f when the sun sank cart 'A 3 Gerrilng Gerrin Water, and over Little Girl—IlIhavenotany. She's deud.- -ugly-looking In
an r ahead. 9
lai 'test ch ce 6ra, drop of rain' 'Wought how I leased relie
40, It Wa, b Why, yon were within five Peddler—Ilis year mother in?"
there had beneath the horizon: the night was still by tile , i r t 9 of the boy In thinking,' he said dead finish' Yon passed within How long has she been dead?')
yet
Wen some rain not sovery long and hot, but the wind dropped at .9 do any good at this rate." three rrAles with weapons I
andOW of a ve y decent waterhole "'Bout a year." itet submission
ago, for the mecomb4anthenitim, growing the Poor helplesj little one. He never and the men e 9.vp_bd, "never—never" and -he pulled quite good enough to have kept life within' "Is your stepmother in?"
t n h r
found it easier to. alk in,ih'e t the clillar of his shirt till he tore it way. you.
in dark green Patches close to the edge of rove since his mother died. She didn't dark. The crows had followed. the in as go Much III me, but the boy was everythin as it was day, butthey, too,jdt'as soRn We must have something to drink.. Wc,l I haven't any Yet. 11 the time, an(i it
the "It� was all in flower—pink, and red I You shot the horse?" " Murray Yale- ha
to her though be -was a cripple. Well—wg the darkness fell., They were U. as die elsp� and I mean to have 1i "Well, I'll wait."
�nd btest yellow, Such g?rgeous color -3 MY mate did., He was niad, poor
_-an% by that a if I were only 0 tomed )Ile. felflo6w. they were all su
naccus a fight'for my
trange`880clatIOU If ideas ertain he was dead now, to walking, and it woul fAire's the Old horse, he can't at of uphthalm- t
d have been h4rd a agger 'Poor beggar, he' seems to have had a
f0i4fiich Who shall accounk It wouldn tbe atep4arther ; What's the good his thoughts half so hard. &Jkeening saw irn? Leks shoot orous "Sing. and bloodsh
'89giv th6flemiDgton race-cn lie was 1118 him—and
dead, I know, but I couldn't think it before; ces; as it was, it s7as cruel. The —and a
dew back to the last Cup bay, and he He'd be better ork under the Most favorable circu' tih. It bad- time, but it's all over now." vig Ot'a
rse, and heard him all I had, and the last time I saw Y did.,Ubt enougft�blood in him to—to, —There's �fother" Bobby, come right up stairs The tribes, abou
On falix�y the sh talk much for what bad- they to a7 9 11 It was indeed all over now. They had this ur fishermen,
A"No, no man, no. wra instant and change stockings. "
Outs Of the people as the Ile Put up his little hand—such at mite hour or two and the moon rose, a ful MOM, I tell You that's the a Shallow grave.' He had begun it himself, Bobby—- They isn't wet deten- a
-pped -him in a blanket and were digging Your shoes and
fa�oift4 passed the �rmuing.p, of a hand—and clutched his dadd?s beard. n -Ing of the eud had come down
begin:
in t e zenith, silvering as she rose, the Plain at- On the r d d fi; and as she rose slowly to *-more than the begin- they $aid, and had been digging with his
�tzgroJAO ill front of hi e -'the end in fact.,,
_Were lo, all' I had; how could I- wish ning�- CrOwer --porched in, 119 lines of dleadw?" hilin It t
the it
Unted boxwood was grew light as day. n't care. I Caa,t st&ni this,,. long knife Mother—' Indeed they are, just soaking. fort, to wreak
But now—now—my,40a"i —if was certain I a -and though whether it was for
-hftd --fillin Wag Every little stick and th he Was dead, hadn't R I can hear them sop, sop in some other in
e air with - bild, ik t very little grass blade, was 0
it I i '. h a oue, v be;oeI deron could stop him, Hel , sop,,
h. lurt, Mraber, or whether it was really intended whenevfr' of their Women,
e4wing. '# Clearly I
He laughed at 110 d . raWhis pistol an, suffering—a w you walk." an leaving behind, the ridge- where they hid Thiivt� told
the mockery, of -the -thin The other man Hel -outlined ; the low ridge which they Were in had 'or a grave no one could now say.
9. III sprang to hii feet And oath. he .1 shot the horse in the Bobby�ll That's Sis and Mr. Nicefellor in
9 swoke
is head.- 'We're not goiqg re ended. to di%!'� lie cried "not found their worst fears realized, loomed for the poor beast. was at his last 911p, and They left him there in the desert, the th 'parlor. been ' them t
"Old Mau, ww,is i -tbit.. Come t ? b it possible ty easil as all . We have large� behind them, while the salt_p&liv�to had been medi- just Made
ailt 0 Ast b)ur Anderson Young fellow who bad fought so hard for
Wasted enough preci tating the advisability of leaving him behind to be distributed
their left stretched away one great I& Not till it,s a little Quo time. life and set -80 much store by it; and a2 A -Pnzzling Be -ply. and that none w
W", wild- i k%glunlfrs for the moment cooler. good glittering white, which it WOf -50 it was no material loss Soon cis Anderson was a little recovered set r they were hostil
thr;7
agy
W -passed I's -seemed to Iteim now was his only care Out for -91 Yerlo$j again. a- they could never rouncL prevent his mate from drinking 012, "if you are
'If have told; but whatever his hopes a a th the blood, which, accord us in
rain. he could not 1 tell YOU, wea, - Col. Yerge , having waited a considerable
heam, ring ourselves o to length of time for hii supper at an A t.
Was Over a week before be reached the -when the white
might have been, they were gone th And Helm, seeing the advice How long, Anderson," he asked %be. the bushman, is worse in , to the faith of. restaurant, as a sort of a hint ask-�d the was - good, fore we can h A
mallf-he looked in his ma,Ws face. lay down again ea thagn d station, so far had he wandered out of the Irish waiter what o'clock it we
_lay ope to I, ch the other side*1 water. rinkincr salt trick,
it- 0 al heads in those ba
down and tried not oj before morning, man.
to listeu to the don't e'�e Poor old begy-gar," he said taking Ilia stable -boy lounged up to him.
Jqan-" he said, sharply, "-are you mad?" Cawing of the c�ws, the only we can do it before mq Byes will be bri
Amersm -%wa,aabered in a. Id as he rode up to the house a 44 Twenty minutes to ate, sor,�' was the sound that br r What -a while yo reply. That Same eveni
Th Col. Yerger was was aroused by
second. oke the still�ess_tried not , pistols and ca, trfJge� from the saddle, where �ve been away, boss,"
ly, but as to en they plodde&oij-
"he Bad - think of cool Water alittle farther, nei. they had beenwrapp6d. among th he said. eiar as I Jilo bl at* not to think of -be tibe'-fitit to
f "We'd most given you up -for e waiter meant twenty minutes to Wait, gi ma
1, must' use a ther liking to veinothongh "IS cMe -fore we've ddo uppose- tso lost, �The
. I 5 q their in burning we, could d' f at the kliagfe` it's in and there's a pile of twenty Minutes toeight, or twenty minutes Wnsouth not to think outba- waie t wio'ibo
Ofth th Puzzled to -know whether --tax( -that bl [of Ring, and rus
I
girl who, notwith.6 ralt, we found t
:]But silCome on- 2 cynic- t frat was donsunilu Iit -alwarailigfilledanhis- they :(-we, though. go., t2, e; 01 110, we won fOr� Helm. None for you to atp. :,ondi
ds If, lading his mate,g cyltic! h g them. give up hope yet I Is blidughts. He jozed walked ateidi1jr0lx t719 there more thirn, hlf the eAlve flint to no hope,911 e crows no** 2) ip fa, Is everything all right?" asked Ander. e
tga on
a little ad dr "If thp. h , , "d he -With
Anderson sat dbw.]�xjke earned, and wakened with a apg tx� I and 4$t_W elm fipp �h� Were at on
a le
Start and a strong f"g Upon hi him and. nUe had besIl SoMeth lia the gia,
Poiat� M thatit Z VA. - " Wilkins," said
041wently to t him eenglike a man who had come back out tovick UV,
Ill- horses - 4� -_ T I - Buines Ab Ing move than - a dream 11 P A ' I must re .-Ifad iesl[ly -called ri 4, and before he re �L ""'NIO-Oothere's mighty bad ne I ws. I don't green-hotse,
-their.last 'I; I 11126dMert. Our were done, w If everpo6r beasts lie I river, and for s
�cra at t, he said 11 - &11- i* * - ,
that some o�e it I die & WL an bqck, ft fre the Proprietor of 'khe him, was Anderson sat down �qujetly beside i they stood there, theirnoses j;Iach. calfin"'him Still. Was it -63 the torture of 6�
CM ax they, could "t j him ha how are we off for flowers
like toet.eii th- ough. -_W5'#6mrdi The bshmarl,s slender or that girl,s rawn his knife across the hare's throa this mo-ning 9" mother's, voice Then sleep, merciful Bl;ep,f Wne to d tak Mo
14 44 d
An -weariness, and thi-sy'slepl out 'With it man. Don't keep me wait- We've got a pretty good surplyltf re. Sol, Was glee , Qr`W&5 it Anderson, ? der- en a long draught of blood. r Ile
�a hi - 1, "UiPyaen� '- 4 been reduced th its man, - in their g. B
38 he Wag, Bobbing, jIL- first faint streaks of, Buthuch thin 11 plied the junior fforist. TA Ping heavily,� aid, stron A Sould ghastly ?, intiye r
proportion, and yet it dawn began to ap J �_,--, post been re
seemed cruelty Stretched out a eep. 991amn in the eastern sky. It pear are. and his lips were dry and lied away and turned his pipe Plenty of Jack-' roe#,%. AAerinan Beau. them to eUry ga, The laa,loo
and fro incidentai
to hwaken him, and less lkmg,,Thle on a even those ender en Paused. at he c ld 6 Ii onesi -of his mou th to the c lier. ties, violets a Iii o; nd lies th valleys d the
W a aro aa eveu the muVaS water -hags, Whyshoqld he? Whii had them Me Whispers, all(I -so great Ile 11 Lots of'em. if exiot end';r a hv;id was a dreary hopew his throat SOL swollen th Palthd
dry as as tile plal pe k in. hou Y lie better to,oger d nd in Your Youngster, he sai -them a hot the - was had convolsi .62110 IDY
013 0 bd ine, :_2 .10 (ban brokeilLdre4M? bare, lorne la 3, P'S�chs Oi temptation that Ando Ion's last Sunday.' Mrs. Brook Raise the pr.,,t of them twe�ty.fivs TM, onot ,wil okti% —'she alid,)ao nothi couldn't have saved cent, and engage an 4Wa.Y A thP:'bara Ditiless
P In th Ing up a
They've j�_b
-murderer in lag, 'I eased release," she said." another wife 7' t