Pittston Gazette

              * ijj^^ r1\" EST A HUSH EI D lHfiO. I Vol.. XlJll. NO. 7!{. I Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Villey. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1), 1894. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. the figure 2 upon the wall of his house, and the next day would be the last of the allotted time. What was to happen then? All manner of vague' and terrible fancies filled his imagination. And his daughter—what was to become of her after he was gone? Was there no escape from the invisible network which was drawn all round them? lie sank his head upon the table and sobbed at the thought of his own impotence. "l'ass it on to mm, and from him to the others. Nine to seven!" dry branches and made a blazing- Are, at which his companions might warm themselves, for they were now nearly fire thousand feet above the sea level, and the air was bitter and keen. Having tethered the horses and bade Luey adieu, ho threw his gun over his shoulder and set ont In search of whatever chance might throw in his way. Looking back, he saw the old man and the young girl crouching over the blazing fire, while the three animals stood motionless in the background. Then the intervening rocks hid them from his view. from despair. If there was nothing else left to him, he could at least de vote his life to revenge. With indomitable patience and perseverance, Jefferson llope possessed also fe power of sustained vindietiveness, which he may have learned from the Indian* among whom he had lived. As he stood by the desolate fire he felt that the only" thing which could assuage his grief would be thorough and complete retribution brought by his own hand upon his enemies. Ilis strong will and untiring energy should, he determined, be devoted to that one end. VY itli a grim, white face he retraced his step* to where he had dropped the fo.;d, and having stirred up the smouldering fire, he cooked enough to last him for a fewdays. This he made up into a bundle, and, tired as he was, he set himself to walk back through the mountains upon the track of the avenging angels. not. Ionir in discovering the reason of these attempts upon their lives, and led repeated expeditions into the mountains in the hope of Capturing1 or killing their enemy, but always without success. Then they adopted the precaution of never going1 out alone or after nightfall, and of having their houses guarded. After a time they were ahl'e to relax these measures, for nothing was either heard or seen of A v K (IN THE MONKEY. world seems to shake hands with the new. Along these well worn highways have traveled tn other days prominent men like Cseaar and Mme. Toussard. Here the Roman has looked upon the same river and hill and landscape, and the very air seems redolent of ages that are gone. At the stairway of the Tower the other day I picked np a joke that was still in a good state of preservation. It was on its way to St. James Hall, where it was to appear in the afternoon under the management of Moore & Burgess.Many evidences of prehistoric times may be met with at Moore & Burgess' minstrels. They succeed the time honored Christie minstrels, and by a ruling of King Herod (see Pony Moore versus Christie, twenty-third Herod's Digest, p. 88) the firm of Moore & Burgess was not permitted to use the title of Christie's minstrels—only the costumes and jokes. "Seven to five!" repeated the other, and the two figures flitted away in different directions. Their concluding words had evidently been some form of sign and countersign. The instant that their footsteps had died away in the distance, Jefferson Hope sprang to his feet, and, helping his companions through the gap, led the way across the fields at full speed, supporting and half-carrying the girl when her strength appeared to fail her. PROFESSOR GARNER ENLIGHTENS HIM ON THE SUBJECT. Wlmt tlie Monkey III Politically and Social- ly—Nye Visits the Zoo Instead of Going to Church—A New Thing In the Pant ir opponent, and they hoped that ■ had cooled his vindictiveness. I.ine. What was that? In the silence he heard a gentle scratching sound—low, but very distinct, in the quiet of the night. It came from the door of the house. Ferrier crept into the hall and listened intently. There was a pause for a few moments, and then the low, insidious sound was repeated. Some one was evidently tapping very gently upon one of the panels of the door. Was It some midnight assassin who had come to carry out the murderous order of the secret tribunal? Or was it some agent who was marking up that the last day of grace had arrived? John Ferrier felt that Instant death would be better than the suspense which shook his nerves and chilled his heart. Springing forward, he drew the bolt and threw the door open. [Copyright, 1801, by Edgar W. Nye.l "Hurry on! hurry on!" he gasped from time to time. "Wo are through the line of sentinels. Everything depends on speed. Hurry on!" i'ar from doing so, it had, if anv- London, Jan. 19, 1894. He walked for a -couple of miles through one ravine after another with- : A ' 1 '-V ifllTiiJg* ■ ii I met Professor Garner some time ago and got a brief interview out of him regarding the monkey language. He says that a monkey can talk, but cannot as yet reduce fractions to a common denominator. The monkey is really, he says, more successful in a social way than as a savant. Monkeys go out a great deal. They love to see their names in the papers also, ho says, but hate to pore over a book. They entertain considerably and say bright but superficial things. [continued.] competition between them for the maiden's hand was the highest of honors both to her and her father. Once on the high-road they made rapid progress. Only once did they meet anyone, and then they managed to slip into a field and so avoid recognition. Before reaching the town the hunter branched away into a rugged and narrow footpath which led to the mountains. Two dark, jagged peaks loomed above them through the darkness, and the defile which led between them was the Eagle canyon in which the horses were awaiting them. With unerring instinct Jefferson Hope picked his way among the great bowlders and along the bed of a driednp water-course, until he -came to the retired corner, screened with rocks, where the faithful animals had been picketed. The girl was placed upon the mule, and old Ferrier upon one of the horses, with his money-bag, while Jefferson Hope led the other along the precipitous and dangerous paths. Ferrier remained silent for soma little time, with his brows knitted. "You will give us tiiue," he said, at last. "My daughter is very young— she is scarce of an age to marry." "There are two ways out of the room." cried Ferrier: "there is the door, and there is the window. Which do For five days he toiled, footsore and weary, through the defiles which he had already traversed on horseback. At night he flung himself down among the rocks and snatched a few hours of sleep, but before daybreak he was always well on his way. On the sixth day he reached the Eagle canyon, tram which they had commenced their illfated flight. Thence he could lookdown upon the homo of the Saints. Worn and exhausted, he leaned upon his rifle and shook his gaunt hand fiercely at the silent, widespread city beneath him. As he looked at it he observed that there were Hags in some of the principal streets and other signs of festivity. He was still speculating as to what this m: -lit mean when he heard the clatter of horse's hoofs and saw a mounted man riding toward him. As he approached lie recognized him as a Mormon named Cowper, to whom he had rendered services at different times. He therelurt; accoMt'u lniii wueii ne g"OL up to him, with the object of finding out what Lucy Terrier's fate had'been. "She shall have a month to choose," said Young, rising from his seat. "At the end of that time she shall give her answer." you care to use?" The workingman on the street here has introduced a method of draping the pant or trouser to keep it from the mud, which I think is destined to supersede the rolled bottom both in England and America. llis brown face looked so savage, and his {jaunt hands so threatening, that his visitors sprang to their feet and beat a hurried retreat. The old farmer followed them to the door. Now and then, he says, he has known a grave, deep seated monkey who impressed all about him with his dignity, He was passing through the door, when ho-turned, with llushed face and flashing eyes. "It were better foryou, John Ferrier," he thundered, "that you and she were now lying blanched skeletons upon the .Sierra Klaneo, tbail that you should put your weak wills against the orders of the Holy Four!" "Let me know when yau have settled which it is to be," he said A strap or string is drawn tightly around the leg eight or ten inches above the bottom of the trousers and then the garment drawn up out of the wet. This allows the pant to fall In a graceful festoon over the strap or tarred rope, which is a great favorite this season, and thus the leg, instead of being a mere support, becomes an ornament to society and a joy to the eye. I recently paid another visit to Gad's Hill and took a receipt for same. Gad's Hill was erected by Gad many years ago and afterward was made the home of Charles Dickens, who incurred the displeasure of William Dean Howells in some way and died of a broken heart June 9,1870, in the fifty-ninth year of his age. Outside all was calm and quiet. The night wan fine, and the stars were twinkling brightly overhead. The little front garden lay before the farmer's eyes, bounded by the fenoe and gate; but neither there nor on the road was any human being to be seen. With a sigh of relief Ferrier looked to right and to left, until happening to glance straight down at his own feet he saw to his astonishment a man lying flat upon his face upon the ground, with arms and legs all asprawL sardonically Il rtE WALKED CP TO TflE WHITE, SILENT FIGUBE. tiling. auCrmented it. The hunter's mind was of a hard, unyielding nature, and the predominant idea of revenue had taken s.uch complete possession of it that there was no room for any othet emotion. He was, however, above all things practical, lie soon realized that even his iron constitution could not 6tand the incessant strain which he was putting upon it. Exposure and want of wholesome food were wearing him out. If he died like a dog among the mountains. what was to become of his revenge then? And yet such a death was sure to overtake him if ho persisted. He felt that that was to play his enemy's game, so he reluctantly returned to the old Nevada mines, there to recruit his health and to amass money enough to allow him to pursue his object without privation. With a threatening gesture of his hand he turned from the door, und Ferrier heard his heavy step scrunching along the shingly path. HE SAW THE OLD MAH AND THE YOUNG GIRL CROUCHING OVER THE BLAZING FIRE. lie was still sitting with his elbows upon his knees, considering how lie should broach the matter to his daughter, when a soft hand was laid upon his, and looking up he saw her standing beside him. One glance at. her pale, frightened face showed him that slie had heard what had passed. a a It was a bewildering route for anyone who was not accustomed to face Nature In her wildest moods. On th e one side a great crag towered up a thousand feet or more, black, stern and menacing, with long basaltic columns upon its rugged surface like the ribs of some petrified monster. On the other hand a wild chaos of bowlders and debris made all advance impossible. Between the two ran the irregular track, so narrow in places that they had to travel in Indian file, and so rough that only practiced riders could have traversed it at all. Yet, in spite of all dangers and difficulties, the hearts of the fugitives were light within them, for every step increased the distance between them and the terrible despotism from which they were flying. out success, though from the marks upon the trees, and other indications, he judged that there were numerous bears in the vicinity. At last, after two or three hours' fruitless search, he was thinking of turning back in despair, When, casting his eyes upward, he saw a sight which sent a thrill of pleasure through his heart. On the edge of a jutting pinnacle, three or four hundred feet above him, there stood a creature somewhat resembling a sheep in appearance, but armed with a pair of gigantic horns. The big-horn, for so it is called—was acting, probably, as a guardian over a flock which were invisible to the hunter; but fortunately it was heading in the opposite direction, and had not perceived him. Lying on his back, he rested his rifle upon a rock, and took a long and steady aim before drawing the trigger. The animal sprang into the air, tottered for a moment upon the edge' of the precipice, and then came crashing down into the valley beneath. ' v L So unnerved was he at the sight that he leaned up against the wall with his hand to his throat to stifle his inclination to call out. His first thought was that the prostrate figure was that of some wounded or dying man, but as he watched it he saw it writhe along the ground and into the hall with the rapidity and noiselessness of a serpent. Once within the house the man sprang to his feet, closed the door and revealed to the astonished farmer the fierce and resolute expression of Jefferson Hope. J "I could not help it," she said, in answer to his look. "Ilis voice rang through the house. O father, father, what shall we do?" I started to visit the leprosy hospital, bat learned that an admission fee would be charged except on Saturday and so put off my visit until Saturday. I give below a few symptoms, so that the reader may at once know if one of the children is taken with this disease and remove him from school. "TIIKRE AI1K TWO WAYS OUT OF THE ROOM," CRIED FERRIER. "I am Jefferson Hope," he said. "You remember me." "Don't you scare yourself," he answered, drawing her to him, and parsing his broad, rough hand caressingly over her chestnut hair. "We'll fix it up somehow or another. You don't find your fancy kind o' lessening for this chap, do you?" "You shall smart for this!" Stangerson cried, white with rage. "You have defied the prophet and the council of four. You shall rue it to the end of your days." The Mormon looked at him with undisguised astonishment—indeed, it was difficult to recognize in this tattered, unkempt wanderer, with ghastly face and fierce, wild eyes, the spruce young hunter of former days. Having, how ever, at last satisfied himself as to his identity, the man's surprise changed to consternation. Ilis intention had been to be absent a year at the most, but a combination of unforeseen circumstances prevented his leaving the mines for nearly five. At the end of that time, however, his memory of his wrongs and his cravings for revenge were quite as keen as on that memorable nipht when he had stood by John Ferrier's grave. Disguised, and under an assumed name, he returned to'Salt Lake City, careless what became of his own life, as long as he obtained what he knew to be justice. There he found evil tidings awaiting him. There had been a schism among the Chosen People a few months before, some of the younger members of the church having rebelled against the authority of ihe elders, and the result had been the secession of a certain number of the malcontents, who had left Utah and become Gentiles. Among these had been Drebber and Stanperson; and no one knew whither they had gone. Rumor reported that Drebber had managed to convert a large part of his property Into money, and that he had departed a wealthy man, while his companion, Stangerson, was comparatively poor. There was no clew at all, however, as to their whereabouts. JUST FROM AFRICA. "The hand of the Lord shall be heavy upon you," cried young Drabber; "lie will arise and «mite youl" bnt generally the post mortem showed that instead of wisdom it was appendicitis. Here in England I find cases of the same kind among the higher grades of mammalia. Of course leprosy has pedrocnal stages, and nodnles appear on the skin, deeply tn: «8. "Good God I" gasped John Ferrier. "now you scared me! Whatever made jrou come in like that?" A sob and a squeeze of his hand wen her only answer. "Then I'll start the smiting," exclaimed Ferrier furiously, and would have rushed upstairs for his gun had not Lucy seized him by the arm and restrained him. Before ho cculd escape from her, the clatter of horse's hoofs told hhn that they were beyond his reach. They soon had a proof, however, that they were still in the jurisdiction of the Saints. They had reached the very wildest and most desolate portion of the pass when the girl gave a startled cry and pointed upward. On a rock which overlooked the track, showing out dark and plain against the sky, there stood a solitary sentinel. He saw them as soon as they perceived him, and his military challenge of "Who goes there?" rang through the silent ravine. plicating the peripheral nervous sy "No; of course not. I shouldn't care to hear you say you did. He's a likely lad, and he's a Christian, which is more than these folk hero, In spite o' all their praying and preaching. There's a party starting for Nevada to-morrow, und I'll manage to send him a message letting him know the hole we are in If I know anything o' that young man, he'll be back here with a speed that would whip electro-telegraphs." "Give me food," the other said, hoarsely. "I have had no time for bite or sup for eight-and-forty hours." He flung himself upon the cold meat and bread which were stiU lying upon the table from his host's supper, and devoured it voraciously. "Does Lucy bear up weU?" he asked, when he had satisfied his hunger. "You are mad to come here," he cried. "It is as much as my own life Is worth to be seen talking with you. There is a warrant against you from the Holy Four for assisting the Ferriersaway."Professor Garner, as an English friend of mine said this morning, has garnered (sic) a good deal of knowledge regarding the monkey tribes and theiJ dialects. Garnered, as the reader will see, is a play on the name Garner and is rather ingenious, I think; not half bad, really. The monkey of southern Africa, it seems, is in favor of African slavery, while the northern monkey is an abolitionist. I did not know this until Professor Garner told me about it. The northern monkey believes in making of the African a man and a brother, but does not want his daughter to be a sister to him. The southern monkey believes that tiie African's nose, such as it is, should be counted for congressional representation, but that his political influence should go no further. The creature was too unwieldy to lift, so hunter contented himself with cutting away one haunoh and a part of the flank. With this trophy over his shoulder, he hastened to retrace his steps, for the evening was already drawing in. He had hardly started, however, before he realized the difficulty which faced him. In his he had wandered far past the ravines which were known to him, and it was no easy matter to pick out the path which he had taken. The valley in which he found himself divided and subdivided into many gorgeB, which were so like each other that it was impossible to distinguish one from the other. He followed one for a mile or more until he came to a mountain torrent which he was sure that he had never seen before. Convinced that he had taken the wrong turn, he tried another, but with the same result. Night was coming on rapidly, and it was almost dark before he again found himself in a defile which was familiar to him. Even then it was no easy matter to keep on the right track, for the moon had not yet risen, and the high cliffs on either side made the obscurity more profound. Weighed down with his burden and weary from his exertions, he stumbled along, keeping up his heart by the reflection that every step brought him nearer to Lucy, and that he carried with him enough to insure them food for the remainder of their journey. "I don't fear them or their warrant.' nope said, earnestly. "You must kno\ something of this matter. Cowper. "The young canting rascals!" he exclaimed, wiping the perspiration from his forehead. "I would sooner see you in your grave, my girl, than the wife of either of them." "Yes. She does not know the danger," her father answered. conjure you by all you hold dear to ar swer a few questions. We have al ways been friends. For God's sake don't refuse to answer me." Lucy laughed through her tears at her father's description. "That is weU. The house is watched on every side. That is why I crawled my way up to it. They may be darned sharp, but they're not quite sharp enough to catch a Wa6hoe hunter." "And so should I, father," she answered, with spirit; "but Jefferson will soon be here." "Travelers for Nevada," said Jefl ferson Hope, with his hand upon the rifle which hung by his saddle. "When he comes, he will advise as for the best. But it is for you that I am frightened, dear. One hears—one hears such dreadful stories about those who opposo the prophet; something terrible always happens to them." "What is it?" the Mormon asked uneasily. "lJe quick. The very rocks have ears and the trees eyes." "Yes. It will not be long before ho comes. The sooner the better, for we do not know what their next move may be." They could Bee the lonely watcher flfigering his gun, and peering down at them as if dissatisfied with their re ply. John Ferrier felt a different man now that he realized that he had a devoted ally. He seized the young man's leathery hand and wrung it cordially. "You're a man to be proud of," he said. "There are not many who would come to share our danger and our troubles." "What has become of Lucy Ferrier?" "She was married yesterday to young Drebber. Hold up, man, hold up, you have no life left in you." "By whose permission?" he asked. "But we haven't opposed him yet," her father answered. "It will be time to look out for squalls when we do. We have a clear month before us; at the end of that, I guess we had best shin out of Utah." It was, indeed, high time that some one capable of giving advice and help should come to the aid of the sturdy old farmer and his adopted daughter. In the whole history of the settlement there had never been such a case of rank disobedience to the authority of the elders. If minor errors were punished so sternly, what would be the fate of this arch rebel? Ferrier knew that his wealth and position would be of no avail to him. Others as well known and as rich as himself had been spirited away before now, and their goods given over to the church. He was a brave man, but he trembled at the vague, shadowy terrors which hung over him. Aiiy known danger he could face with a firm lio. but this su» pense was unnerving. He concealed his fears from his daughter, however, and affected to make light of the whole matter, though she, with the keen eye of love, saw plainly that he was ill at ease. "The Holy Four," answered Ferrier. His Mormon experiences had taught him that that was the highest authority to which he could refer. "Don't mind-me," said IIopo, faintly. He was white to the very lips, and had sunk down on the stone against which he had been leaning. "Married, you nay?" Professor Garner also says that monkeys have revivals of religion and relapses into sin. He believes that all monkeys are born in sin, and that even the very smallest and newest born who die before their eyes are opened, unless they have come out from the world and led a better life, are lost. "You've hit it there, pard," the young hunter answered. "I have a respect lor you, but it you were aione in IMS business I'd think twice before I put my head into such a hornets' nest. It's Lucy that brings me here, and before harm comes on her I guess there will be one less o' the Hope family in Utah." "Nine from seven," cried the sentinel.tern. Later there are erythematous congestions, exudations, maculosa, tuberculosa, macule, indurations, pigmentations, anesthesia, pemphigus signs and finally necrosis and mutilans. I ONCE KNEW A. SWEET YOUNG GIRL. "Leave Utah?" "Married yesterday—that's what those flags are for on the Endowment house. There was some words between young Drebber and young Stangerson as to which was to have her. They'd both been In the party that followed them, and Stangerson had shot her father, which seemed to five him the best claim; but when they argued it out in council Drebbcr's party was the stronger, so the prophet gave her over to him. No one won't have her very long, though, for I saw death in her face yesterday. She is more like a ghost than a woman. Are you off, then?" "That's about tlie size of it." •'But the farm?" "Seven from five," returned Jefferson Hope promptly, remembering the countersign which he had heard in the garden. Many a man, however vindictive, would have abandoned all thought of revenge in the face of such a difficulty, but Jefferson Hope never faltered for a moment. With the small competence he possessed, eked out by such employment as he could pick up, he traveled from town to town through the United States in quest of his enemies. Year passed into year, his black hair turned grizzled, but still he wandered on,.a human bloodhound, with his mind wholly set upon the one object upon which he had devoted his life. At last his perseverance was rewarded. It was but one glance of a face in a window, but that one glance told him that Cleveland, in Ohio, possessed the men whom lie was in pursuit of. He returned to his miserable lodgings with his plan of rengeance all arranged. It chanced, however, that Drebber, looking from his window, had recognized the vaorrant in the street, and had read murder in his eyes. He hurried before a justice of the peace, accompanied by Stangerson, who had become his private secretary, and represented to him that they were in danger of their lives from the jealousy and hatred of an old rival. That evening Jefferson Hope was taken into custody, and not being able to find sureties was detained for some weeks. When at last he was liberated, it was only to find that Drebbcr's house was deserted and that he and his secretary had departed for Europe."We will raise as much as we can in money and let the rest go. To tell the truth, Lucy, it isn't the first time I have thought of doing it. I don't care "Pass, and the Lord go with you,"" said the voice from above. Beyond this post the path broadened out, and the horses were able to break into a trot. Looking back, they could see the solitary watcher leaning upon his gun, and knew that they had passed the outlying post of the chosen people, and that freedom lay before them. the monkey is a Mugwump, the professor says, and believes in absolute purity at the polls. He talks a great deal on this subject and then on election day goes cocoanutting, leaving the ballot box in the hands of the gorilla, who is known to be corrupt. It is a terrible misfortune, and its spread should be prevented as much aa possible. A young laay or good ramiiy would be perfectly justified in refusing the constant attentions of a gentleman friend who has leprosy. A social leper, however, is different. A sweet girl who is not very particular might marry such a one and reform him. aoout KnucKiing unner to any man, as these folk do to their darned prophet. I'm a free-born American, and it's all new to me. Guess I'm too old to learn. If he comes browsing about this farm, he might chance to run up against a charge of buckshot traveling in the opposite direction." "What are we to do?" "To-morrow is your last day, and unless you act to-night you are lost. I have a mule and two horses waiting in the Eagle ravine. How much money have you?" Socially the monkey enjoys life to the full and drinks the cup of earthly joys to its very dregs. Some tribes, says Professor Garner, have morals. They attract a great deal of attention among the other monkey tribes. "Two thousand doUars in gold, and five in notes." CHAPTER V. TH* AVBRGINO ANGELS. A great many seem to think that social leprosy may be prevented by inoculation—L e. (meaning id est in the Latin tongue), by inoculating the system with a mild form of the disease, such as bean bag and kissing every girl in the room in the game of forfeits. "But they won't let us leave," his daugher objected. "That will do. I hare as much more to add to it. We must push for Carson City through the mountains. You had best wake Lucy. It is as well that the servants do not sleep in the house." "Yes, I'm off," said Jefferson nope, who had risen from his seat. His face night have been chiseled out of mar- "Wait till Jefferson comes, and we'll soon manage that. In the meantime, don't you fret yourself, my dearie, and don't get your eyes swelled up, else he'll be walking into me when he sees you. There's nothing to be afeard about, and there's no danger at all." All night their course lay through in« tricate defiles and over irregular and rock-strewn paths. More than once they lost their way, but Hope's in ti- tle had now come to the mouth of the very defile in which he had left them. Even in the darkness he could recognize the outlines of the cliffy The last few years the chimpanzees have made great strides in the matter of education and what they call advanced methods. Corporal punishment has been abandoned, and teachers who get drunk and fall off the perch during prayers are expelled. The gorilla colleges are now running more to athletics, Professor Garner says, especially pugilism and football. A photograph of a gorilla football team dressed in their sweaters and bygoah hair is one of the sweetest pictures Professor Garner has brought home with him. He expected that he would receive some message or remonstrance from Young as to his conduct, and he was* not mistaken, though it came in an unlooked-for manner. Upon rising next morning he found, to his surprise, a small square of paper pinned While Ferrier was absent preparing his daughter for the approaching journey, Jefferson Hope packed all the eatables that he could find into a small parcel, and filled a stoneware jar with water, for he knew by experience that the mountain wells were few and far between. He had hardly completed his arrangements before the farmer returned-with his daughter all dressed and ready for a start. The greeting between the lovers was warm but brief, for minutes were precious, and there was much to be done. I once knew a sweet girl who was the class valedictorian. She said that "now, dear friends, our pathways fork." She took the wrong fork. She married a social leper because he had told her that if she refused he would fill his bosom full of bird shot and present a sickening sight, but that she could reform him with her loving smile and innocent prayers to one whom he had offended by his general ambidextrous cussedness. • liitrh bounded it. They must, ho reflected, he nwaiting1 him anxiously, for lie had been absent nearly five hours. In the gladness of his heart he put his hands to his mouth and made the glen reecho to a loud hallo as a signal that he was coming. lie paused and listened for an answer. None came save his own cry, which clattered up the dreary, silent ravines, and was borne back to his ears in countless repetitions. Again he shouted, even louder than before, and again no whisper came back from the friends whom he had left such a short time ago. A vague, nameless dread came over him, and he hurried onward frantically, dropping the precious food in his agitation. John Ferrier uttered these consoling remarks in a very confident tone, but she could not help observing that he paid unusual care to the fastening of the doors that night, and that he carefully cleaned and loaded the rusty old shotgun which hung upon the wall of his bedroom. C 'ii to the coverlet of his bed, just over liis chest. On it was printed in bold straggling letters: "Twknty-nixe pats are ores tod The dash was more fear-inspiring than any threat could have been. How this warping came into his room puzzled John Ferrier sorely, for hia servants slept in an outhouse, and the doors and windows had all*been secured. He crumpled the paper up and said nothing to his daughter, but the incident struck a chill into his heart. The twenty-nine days were evidently the balance of the month which Young had promised. What strength or cour« age could avail against an enemy armed with such mysterious powers? The hand which fastened that pin might have struck him to the heart, and he could never have known who had slain hiin. roil AMKNPMK.VT, AM) THEN—' So after the forking of the pathway she was wedded to a man about town who parted his hair behind and combed it forward, where he colored it, forgetting that it was also gray at the back, where he could not see it CIIAPTEIl IV. A FLIGHT Fori I.IFE. Pugilism, however, is the favorite branch of the whole curriculum, the branch from which, as I may say, the monkey longs to hang by his tail. Even after the tail has become merely rudimentary with the monkey, pugilism is in the senior year. "We must make our start at once," said Jefferson Hope, speaking In a low but resolute voice, like one who realizes the greatness of the peril, but has steeled his heart to meet it. "The front and back entrances are watched, but with caution we may get away through the side window and across the fields. Once on the road, we are only two miles from the ravine where the horses are waiting. By daybreak we should be half way through the mountains." On the morning which followed his interview with the Mormon prophet, John Ferrier went into Salt Lake City, and having found his acquaintance, who was bound for the Nevada inoun tains, he intrusted him with his message to Jefferson Hope. In it he told the young man of the imminent danger which threatened them, and how necessary it was that he should return. Having done thus, he felt easier in his mind, and returned home with a lighter heart. But why go on? Again the avenger had been foiled, and again his concentrated hatred urged him to continue tlie pursuit. Funds were wanting, however, and for some time he had to return to work, saving every dollar for his approaching journey. At last, having collected enough to keep life in him, he departed for Europe and tracked his enemies from city to city, working his way in any menial capacity, but never overtaking the fugitives. When he reached St.- Petersburg they had departed for Paris; and when ho followed them there he learned that they had just set off for Copenhagen. At the Danish capital he was again a few days late, for they had journeyed on to London, where he at last succeeded in running them to earth. As to what occurred there, we cannot do better than quote the old hunter's own account, as duly recorded in Dr. Watson's journal, to which we are already undef *uch obligations. The gorilla advanced method of education has for its motto, "Avoid the rush till the proper moment; then mix things." Dr. Garner had the misfortune to be present when a middle aged gorilla, class of '72, while taking a postgraduate course, had the ill fortune to break his neck. He got his diploma just behind the submaxillary gland, followed by a mark of good conduct under the chin. He had impressed her as a profound man, out sue soon discovered tnat lie pronounced the p in pneumonia and made other sickening breaks. Alas, too, he soon begin to drink and tried to conoeal it by eating raw onions. She grew irritated and prayed for him in his presence in a way tnat must have startled the recording angel and kept him up half the night. When he turned the oorner, he came full in sight of the spot where the fire had been lit. There was still a glowing pile of wood-ashes there, but it had evidently not been tended since his departure. The same dead silence still reigned all round. With his fears changed to convictions, he hurried on. There was no living creature near the remains of the fire; animals, man, maiden, all were gone. It was only too clear that some sudden and terrible disaster had occurred during his ab sence—a disaster which had embraced them all and yet had left no traces behind it. THKIB COCBSE LAT THROUGH INTRICAT1 "DON'T MIND MK," SAID HOPE, FAI.NTLT. DEFILES. ble, bo hard and so set was its expression, while his eyes glowed with a baleful light. mate knowledge of the mountains enabled them to regain the track once more. When morning broke, a scene of marvelous though savage beauty lay before them. In every direction the great snow-capped peaks hemmed them in, peeping over each other's shoulders to the far horizon. So steep were the rocky banks on either side of them that the larch and the pine seemed te be suspended over their heads, and to need only a gust of wind to come hurtling down upon them. Nor was the fear entirely an illusion, for the barren valley was thicklj strewn with trees and bowlders which had fallen in a similar manner. Even as they passed, a great rock came thundering down with a hoarse rattle which woke the echoes in the silent gorges, and startled the weary horses into a gallop. "What if we are stopped?" asked Ferrier. "Where are you going?" As he approached his farm, he was surprised to see a horse hitched to each of the posts of the gate. Still more surprised was ho on entering to find two young men in possession of his sitting-room. One, with a long, pale face, was leaning back in the rocking-chair, with his feet cocked upon the stove. The other, a bullnecked youth with coarse, bloated features, was standing in front of tlio window with his hands in his pockets, whistling a popular hymn. Both of them nodded to Ferrier as he entered, and the one in the rocking-chair commenced the conversation. '•Never mind," he answered;*and, slinging his weapon over his shoulder, he strode off down the gorgo and so away into the heart of the mountains to the haunts of the wild beasts. Among them all there was none so fierce and so dangerous as himself. The prediction of the Mormon was only too well fulfilled. Whether it was the terrible death of her father or the effects of the hateful marriage into which she had been forced, poor Lucy never held up her head again, but pine9 away and died within a month. Her sottish husband, who had married her principally for the sake of Johti Ferrier's property, did not affect anygreat grief at his bereavement; but his other wives mourned over her, and sat up with her the night before the burial, as is the Mormon custom. They were grouped round the bier in the early hours of the morning, when, to their inexpressible fear and astonishment, the door was flung open, and a savage-looking, weatherbeaten man in tattered garments strode into the room. Without a glance or a word to the cowering women he walked up to the white, silent figure which had once contained the pure soul of Lucy Ferrier. Stooping over her he pressed his lips reverently to her cold forehead, and then snatching up her hand he took the wedding ring from her finger. "She shall not be buried in that," ho cried, with a fierce snarl, and before an alarm could be raised sprang down the stairs and was gone. 80 strange and so brief was the episode that the watchers might have found it hard to believe it themselves or persuade other people of it, had it not been for the undeniable fact that the circlet of gold which marked her as having been a bride had disappeared.Still more shaken was he next morning. They had "sat down to their breakfast when Lucy, with a cry of surprise, pointed upward. In the center of the ceiling was scrawled, with a burned stick, apparently, the number 88. To his daughter it was unintelligible, and he did not enlighten her. That night he sat up with his gun and kept watch and ward. He saw and heard nothing, and yet in the morning a great 27 had been painted upon the outside of his door. Hope slapped the revolver butt which protruded from the front of his tunic. "If they are too many for us wo shall take two or three of them with us," he said with a sinister smile. He then cursed her coarsely and woke up quite a lot of the children. Soon she became hopeless and left the children with other people evenings while she went to the Woman's Wailing club. After awhile she cheered up. She told her husband not to touch the brandy bottle where she kept her spirits for cooking, as it was poison. She said this in the presence of the hired girl, so that when he died in great agony the patient wife had a cinch on the prosecuting attorney and a good witness in the hired girL Last Sabbath I began here the pleasant duty of attending all the London churches at the rate of three per day, but learning that there are 800 government churches and 600 nonconformist I gave it up and went to the Zoological gardens, where I could see the speckled hyena and hear him squeal through the fence. The lights inside the house had all been extinguished, and from the darkened window Ferrier peered over the fields which had been his own, and which he was now about to abandon forever. He had long nerved himself to the sacrifice, however, and the thought of the honor and happiness of his daughter outweighed any regret at his ruined fortunes. All looked so peaceful and happy, the rustling trees and the broad, silent stretch of grainland, that it was difficult to realize that the spirit of murder lurked through it all. Yet the white face and set expression of the young hunter showed that in his approach to the house he had seen enough to satisfy him upon that head. Uewildered and stanned by this blow, Jefferson Hope felt his head spin round, and had to lean upon his rifle to save himself from falling. He was essentially a man of action, however, and speedily recovered from his temporary impotence. Seizing a half-consumed piece of wood from the smouldering fire, he blew it into a flame, and proceeded with its help to examine the little camp. The ground was all stamped down by the feet of horses showing that a large party of mounted men had overtaken the fugitives, and the direction of their tracks proved that they had afterward turned back to Salt Lake City. Had they carried back both of his companions with them? Jefferson Hope had almost persuaded himself that they must have done so, when his eye fell upon an object which made every nerve of his body tingle within him. A little way on one side of the camp was a lowlying head of reddish soil, which had assuredly not been there before. There was no mistaking it for anything buta newly-dug grave. As the young hunter approached it. he perceived that a stick had been planted on it, with a sheet of paper stuck in the cleft fork of it. The inscription upon the paper was brief, but UD the point: I see very little difference between the nonconformist churches, save that some use a more literary prayer, while others raise the temperature of hell 10 to 15 degrees. Otherwise the general good work goes bravely on, and semifeminine rectors in well laundered stoles offer elocutionary reprint to feminine congregations, while wicked men send their contributions by messenger boy and remain unregenerate. Why is this? Thus day followed day; and as sure as morning came he found that his unseen enemies had kept their register, and had marked up in some conspicuous position how many days were still left to him out of the month of grace. Sometimes the fatal numbers appeared upon the walls, sometimes upon the floors; occasionally they were on small placards stuck upon the garden-gate or the railings. With all his vigilance John Ferriercould not discover whence these daily warnings proceeded. A horror, which was almost superstitious, caine upon him at the sight of them. He became haggard and restless, and his eyes hod the troubled look of some haunted creature. He had but one hope in life now, and that was for the arrival of the young hhnter from Nevada. But nailed up on the neat little cottage which she bought with the life inlurance money are these words: "Maybe yon don't know us," he said. «C* "This here is the son of Elder Drobber, and I'm Joseph Stangerson, who traveled with you in the desert when the Lord stretched out Ilis hand and gathered you into the true fold." * "As He will all the nations in His own good time," said the other, in a nasal voice; "IIo grindeth slowly but exceeding small," John Ferrier bowed coldly. guessed who his visitors were "We have come," continued Stanger- Bon, "at the advice of our fathers, to solicit the hand of your daughter for whichever of us may seem good to you and to her. A.S I have but four wives and Brother Drebber here has seven, it appears to me that my claim is the stronger one." [to be continued ] : The aoclal leper reformatory hereto- : : fore conducted here has been closed out : to the valedictorian of the class of '04. : As the sun rose slowly above the eastern horizon, the caps of the preat mountains lit up one after the other, like lamps at a festival, until they were all ruddy and glowing. The magnificent spectacle cheered the hearts of the three fugitives and gave them fresh energy. At a wild torrent which swept out of a ravine they called a halt and watered their horses, while they partook of a hasty breakfast. Lucy and her father would fain have rested longer, but Jefferson Hope was inexorable. "They will bo upon our track by this time," he said. "Everything depends upon our speed. Once safe in Carson, we may rest for the remainder of our lives." Officer (to a yonng lady at tlie ball)— Gtaadiges Frauleiu, if you do not reciprocate my love, I shall throw myself oul of the window this very day! A Cheap ThrfaU It is n serious question. Why should man, who stands in more dire and terrible need of reform and the development of his better nature than woman, be so poorly represented on Sunday at church? The clergyman says it is the Sunday paper, and the Sunday paper says it is a mighty dull clergyman who cannot make himself more interesting than the Sunday paper. Possibly it is because in many instances the paper deals directly with human events, while the sermon is the aftermath of a library. Lady—Ach! Ht-rr Lieutenant, you live 011 the ground iluor, I presume?—Fliegende Blatter, Ferrier carried the bag1 of gold and notes, Jefferson Hope had the scanty provisions and water, while Lucy had the small bundle containing a few of her more valued possessions. Opening the window very slowly and carefully, they waited until a dark cloud had somewhat obscured the night, and then one by one passed through into the little garden. With bated breath and crouching figures they stumbled across it and gained the shelter of the hedge, which they skirted until they came to the gap which opened into the cornfield. They had just reached this point when the young man seized his two companions and dragged them down into the shadow, where they lay silent and trembling. He had Accuracy Carried Too Far. Cooler. A ship once went on a cruise, and th« captain determined to keep an accurate account of the voyage in his logbook. One morning the first mate, who had been on a lark the day before, in looking over the logbook found this entry: The Heiress (hesitatingly)—He is a more suitable match than you are. He—Yes. but he dots not love you aa much aa 1 do. She Why not? He—Why, he is not as poor as I am.— Truth. "The first mate was all day reeterday." Twenty had changed to fifteen, and fifteen to ten; but there was no news of the absentee. One by one the numbers dwindled down, and still there came no sign of him. Whenever a "horseman clattered down the road or a driver shouted at his team, the old farmer hurried to the gate, thinking that help had arrived at last. At last, when he Raw five give way to four and that again to three, he lost heart, and abandoned all hope of escape. Singlehanded, and with his limited klowledge of the mountains which surrounded the settlement, he knew that he was powless. The more frequented roads were strictly watched and guarded, and none could pass along them without an order from the council. Turn which way he would, there appeared to be no avoiding the blow- which hung over him. Yet the old man never wavered in his resolution to part with life itself before he consented to what he regarded as liis daughter's dishonor. "Nay, nay, Brother Stangerson," cried the other: "the question is not how many wives we have, but how many we can keep. My father has now given over his mills to me, and I am the richer man." During the whole of that day they struggled on through the defiles, and by evening they calculated that they were more than thirty miles from their enemies. At night time th«y chose the base of a beetlinff crag, where the rocks offered some protection from the chill wind, and there, huddled together for warmth, they enjoyed a few hours' sleep. Hefore daybreak, however, they were up and on their way once more. They had seen no signs of any pursuers, and Jefferson Hope began to think that they were fairly out of the reach of the terrible organization whose enmity they had incurred. He little knew how far that iron grasp could reach, or how soon it was to close upon them and crush them. The queerest sensation I experience in visiting the old world, coming as I do fresh as a dewy cowslip from the new/ is that I a«i surrounded on all sides by historic things, and I feel like a chromo on the walls of the Vatican. He at onoe appealed to the captain, saying to him: Howard's father is a physician, nnrl one day when the doctor was out Howard ami a little visitor were "playing doctor" in the real doctor's office. riautilbl* Kxidmiation. "Why in the world did. yon want to write that in the logbook?" "Is it not true?" questioned the captain." "But my prospects are better," said the other, warmly. "When the Lord removes my father, I shall have his tanning-yard and his leather factory. Then I am your elder, and am higher in the church." * -t JOHN FERIUEH, } In the course of the game Howard threw open a closet door find disclosed an articulated skeleton to the terrified gaze of his plnymate. Here, there and everywhere, wherever the glail I rests, the wanderer is greeted by walls that have echoed back the tn ail of our barbarian ancestors, who in their coon skin clothes, and also in their t ups, spilled wassail clown tneir hairy throats and bewhiskered bosoms, and getting gay threw their well gnawed bones into the loose straw that covered the dining room floor, shot the squealing sliotewith a hickory crossgnn as he tried "Yes, but there was nousetoutate it." "Oh, yes, there was. I intend to keep a full and accurate record of what goes on on board this ship during the entira voyage." ' : i : FOKMERLT OF 8AL/T LAKB CUTT, \ It was as well that his prairi* training had (riven Jefferson Iiope the ears of a lynx. lie and his friends had hardly crouched down before the melancholy hooting of a mountain owl was heard within a few yards of them, which was immediately answered by another hoot at a small distance. At the same moment a vague, shadowy figure emerged from the gap for which they had been making, and uttered the plaintive signal cry again, on which a second man appeared out of the ob- Died August 4, 188a 4 For some months Jefferson Hope lingered among the mountains, leading ft strange, wild life, and nursing "Pooh, Wafter," said Howard, ."what you 'fraid of? It's nothing but an old skellingtoh." The sturily old man, whom he had left so short a time before, was gone, then, and this was all his epitaph. Jefferson Hope looked wildly round to see if there was a second grave, but there was no siffn of one. Lucy had been carried back by their terrible pursuers to fulfill her original destiny, by becoming one of the harem of the elder's son. As the young follow realized tho certainty of her fate and his own powerlessness to prevent It, he wished that he. too, was lying with the old fanner in his last silent restinp-place. The first mate was compelled to submit, but his turn came. Next day he was in charge of the ship, the captain taking an off day. When he turned up the next morning, he found written on the logbook: "It will be for the maiden to decide," rejoined young Drebber, smirking at his own reflection in the glass. "We will leave it all to her deeision." "Wh—\vh—where did it como frou asked Walter, with chattering teeth. in his heart the fleroe desire for vengeance that possessed him. Tales were told in tho city ■ of the weird figure which was seen prowling about the suburbs, and which haunted tho lonely mountain gorges. Once a bullet whistled through Stangerson's window and flattened itself upon the wall within a foot of him. On another occasion, as Drebbcr passed under a cliff, a great bowlder crashed down 011 Jiim, and ho only escaped a terrible death by throwing himself upon his face. The two yountr Mormons were "Oh, I don't know. Papa's had it a long time. I guess likely it was his first uatieiit."—New Orleans Picayune. During this dialogue, John Ferrier had stood fuming in the doorway, hardly able to keep his riding-whip from the backs of his two visitors. to eat off the sideboard,and then, full of remorse and Rhenish wine, keeled over and slept in the rye straw under the table with the other swine. "The captain was sober all day yesterday." ' AfDiDut the middle of the second day of the flight their scanty store of provisions beg-an to run out. This Rave the hunter little uneasiness, however, for there was pamc to bo had among the mountains, and he had frequently before had to depend upon his rifle for the needs of life. Choosing a sheltered nook, ke oiled toeether a few Ofirn tht* Case - Mushrooms Of course he entered a protest. "Well, weren't you sober all day?" asked the mate. Ttiglelgh known to spring up in n. singly night have been "Look here," he said at last, striding up to them, "when my daughter summnns you, you can come; but until then, I don't want to see your faces scurity. Whs n 1 look back at my ancestry, I got so mad to think that the Chinaman is permitted to come to America that I can hardly contain myself. "To-morrow at midnight," said the first, who appeared to be in authority. "When the whippoorwill calls three times." W at'leig I know of "Of course, but there was no use stating it." He was sitting alone one evening pondering deeply over his troubles, and tearching vainly for some way out of them. That morning had shown a tree that was fully grown in a couple of hours, "Oh, yes. I was merely carrying out your instructions and keeping an accurate record of what occurred on board." —Atlanta Journal. again." Tai'leigh Not at kind of a But I diverge, The two young Mormons stared at him in amazement. In their eyes this "It is well," returned the other. "Shall I tell Brother Drebber?"  Affain, however, his active spirit shook off the lethanrr which BDritws tree? Wagl is I pass along the streets -with jric landmarks on every side, the old Her :i—A fa.mil histo