Snowed in; that meant much more •than thev imagined when the snow continue-!! to full so unceasingly, till at last it fastened them in securely be hind the white drifts, much more at least than a goodly half even then realized. There were two persons. Slim Jim and Sam Slick, as they had been facetiously nicknamed, owing to the length of limb of one and the decided ly rough appearance of the other, who looked the calamity in the face under itandinglv. “We ought ter a hed more sense, old miners as we be; but the gold was a pilin' in so fast an’ I did trust to the mow a-holdin’ off a spell yet. Big gooses as ever I heard tell of, an’ now we’re in fur it.” “Is it very bndP” inquired Nat Good year, who was indeed a tenderfoot, having only reached the camp a few months previous. “Bad I bad’s no name.” “And New Years’ day only two weeks off. I thought—I hoped to be •home then.” “Did yer now; well, my boy, you made yer fortune quick, an* no mis take, but it ’ll be sometime ’fore you •carry it home.” “How loug will the snow last.” “All winter.” Nallooked astounded, the expression on the faces of the old pards was grave, almost hopeless. “Not all winterl why the supplies—” “Will last about ten days,” said Slim Jim, with a queer smile. “Jolly old New Years’ we’ll have." “But can nothing be done? can’t we dig a way out uuder the snow?” “Yes we might-rin six years.” “But the women and children! you don't mean that we are to sit quietly down and await starvation?” “Would probably answer as well as anything.” muttered Sam. “However, the boy’s not far wrong; we’ll not sit down an' make no effort. Jim an’ me’s jist a-thinkin’.” “But it’s the worst state of affairs I ever saw,” said Jim. stretching his long arms out with a quaint gesture of de spair. Sam chuckled and said: “Now If Jim was jist a little longer he could make a bridge across the snow down ter the plains, out o’ his arms.” Jim almost blushed at this, but an swering a thought that was in his mind said: "Length of limb counts sometimes, and I kiu tramp through a pretty big snow drift, ns you know, but I was a wishing the suow would get a good crust on it.” “’Twon’t verjr soon, so a sled could he pushed over it, as I reckon you been a-thinkin’ of.” "It may,” cried Nat; “let us go to work and rig up a sled. I know it must have broad runners, and be so light we can either carry or ride upon , And I myself have au idea too, but 1 won’t tell Inst now.” ‘lou re a brave boy, if you be a tenderfoot; but do you know that the ones who*, set out upon thia here journey must start soon, so’s to pit back in time, an’ that likely they’ll never reach the plains alive?" "I know, but I’d rather die a trying. °n*y to save myself, but the 'little cuudren and the women—lucky there are so few.” For a day the little camp was eager ,y, w°rk; suggestions and advice and J"P was freely offered. But who would undertake the dangerous lnUfue^? °Q'ya portion understood that journey might mean. 111 drew one of their number aside . advised to begin dealing out rations sparingly. tu1’vm aa’ urn’ll go. and I s’pose that y Wat won’t be held back, he’s spry «ro\Ca? and '“ay hold out, and if you il rea* eareful you can make out fur In fn8 w.ee*£s- If we shouldn’t git back panv" a^S you better start another they started, which was up On th f II , * OW»l lvt|| Wlllbll n 119 Ujf" me following morning, Nat made SDllnfllianAn _ .. « 8,J,Pf?arance with a pair of very re anrf t'u 'ookiog snow-shoes. Sam „v ‘m “Jed them in surprise. *0Y P “eat aii.” said Jim; ‘'can Vnn n 17. saui alim; "c own I U 6 alo“S with them things? I l never tried, and who learned I°“ to make ’em?' livoa “la,.le a ioog visit to a cousin who teet «Up 10 ,^anada one winter, and DaimfUUIU^er °I Indians, purchased a how ► snow'ahoe9, and luckily learned to use them well. These are slum*!, n • l?em wel1- These are aud t « 1“ngs, but they are strong. Witl -a-U,° tlle,n 1 think.” ieci« l,many encouraging words, but ^ « fears, the thrle ft th,»"'‘“Uls’ lne three started down Onk.°,'rcovered trail ttountl' '030 wh° have been on the where the snow is piled in »od d»«e drifts« can imagine the perils On mgi”.‘hat lay before them. W|» ^coilnf e*"led Which they drew and shni atroog rope, a sharp ax Po*siblo°Ve’ three good rifles—for "and » Mun?e aa know how we want him back.” Tlie fattier sighed, and just tlior. there came a kuock upon the door, bill whon opened it only ruvealed a very tall and lank individual, who n«k wardly entered, taking off his hat foi the real reason that the low doorway would not admit him otherwise. "How do you do?" ho said, bashfui ly "Quite well, stranger,” said tin farmer, "have a sent, won’t you, it’t as cold and blustery a New Year's day as 1 ever remembor.” "Yes,” said the tall stranger, "'..ul it's a good deal like last year, nil, t itP’ Tho mother turned her head, the ok man took off his spectacles aud wiueo them curefullr. "No. last Now Year’s day was warm and pleasant. I remember liecausi tho hoys wore out-doors so much.” "Your boys?” "My boy and some neighbors'. W« only have one son," mournfully. "Only one, where is he?" "We don’t know, ho left us on New Year’s day, we’ve never seen him since." ’•Was his name Nut?" "Yes. Oil! yes. l)o yon bring us Word of him, our only child?" "Yon must not got excited,” said the tall individual in gentle tones, “perhaps I bring you a little word ol him. 1 come from the mines. While working thero this fall and summer a boy joined us, a bright, haudsome young fellow that everybody likod. He said his name was Nat Goodyear." “Our sou, our own dear Nat, but where—?” "Wait. A dreadful snow storm came aud shut us all up in the mourn tains without food or fuel. A little band was formed to try to reach the lower country nnd get help. Youi boy was ono of the three. It was al most certain death to go. just as cur tain to remain. Oue night, when be ginning the journey, the boy requester his two friends, if either lived and he did not, to carry or send his small fortune to his old fnthur aud mothei with his love.” “Aud you have brought us that," sobbed the mother. “You havo come to tell us that our boy, our darling child, is dead!" “Hush! don't woep! A braver lad it would be hard to find. The wav was tortuous, severe, an accident hnpnenec to one of the three, and ho died’ nnd the other two buried him tenderly ir the snow. Don’t cry, tlm one that died was not your sou. No, indeed, he lived to go on, when eveu the other fell exhausted by the way, to go on until help was reached, aud a party quickly ninde up with generous sup plies, to fight their way up the moun tain and savo the score of lives await ing them. They have reached there by this time, nnd, as it is so much farther West, no doubt tiie New Year’s dinner is already in progress. Thank God that it is so! I bring this as a peace offering from your sou. it con tains about one thousand dollars and will clear the mortgage on the old place." “But Nat, our boy, we want him,” said the father. Then the door flew open with n bang—a wen-remembered bang—aud Nat, taller and browner, hnt Nat still, entered aud took them in his arms, his strong young arms ns if forevermore he woulJ shelter them. •Tve come back! Wo had a fight for it ami for our lives as well; but 1 coaxed Jim to come, too. that ho might spend New Year's day with mo in the dear old home—for, mother dear, I’ve told about your famous pumpkin pies." And far away upon a snowy moun tain side, men were getting ready tc partake of a dinner so plentiful that it scarcely seemed possible that it could be real.and as they talked and thanked the kind Father who had saved them, they spoke, with tender reverence, the names of the three who had gone out of their midst, only as brave men can. to succor or perish by the wav.—Abbti V. --'Kecvcr. Barreled Up HIa Son. An eccentric man named George Bump, living in Norlh Lyme, Conn., the other afternoon attempted to put a head in a cider barrel, but eoulu not make the head stay while ho tightened the hoops. So he put his 5-year-old son, who is deaf aud dumb, in the barrel to hold up the head, and soon the barrel was headed up. Bump went to work in the field and forgot his son, until his wife asked him where tho boy was. Bump ran to the barrel, knocked out the head, and found the boy breathing through the bunghole, but so frightened that he went into spasms. Bump was arrested, but was afterward released. He has always been noted for his absent-mindedness. There are a hundred good lessons you can learn from the falling of the leaves. One is that when you take a drop too much you are likely to- be picked up.—Baltimore American^ He Couldn’t Alford To. Mr. Suburb—Well, I waa never more surprised In my life. 1 had a long and serious talk with a stranger whom I met on the train, and who do you think It was? Editor Weekly Fun—Give it up lie was Mr. lluttonbuster, one of your chief humorists. What about him? Why, ho didn't crack a joke all the time wo wore together, llis jokos aro worth $5 a pioce. A Feminine Senrnn. JBibbs—How do do, Bob? Whcro's sis? Bob (sin's liusbnnd)—Gone shopping. What did she want? Nothing. Then why did she go shopping? To see if she could tint! anything that would mako her want something. Novel to Some. Miss Antiquo—No, I’m not going to Mrs. Whitohuir's recoption. Miss Itudd—Why not? Oh, site always talks about old times and that makes me tired. I don't see how you can stand her. But, my denr, her subject is new to most of us, you know. * —Some unnamed eastern philanthropist has given (50,0,ill toward a library fund for the Colorado college at Colorado Springs. Of this (1)5.01)0 will be expended on a building and (15,000 for books. An Extended Popularity. Bkowx’s Biioscuiai, Tuocilts have for many years been the most popular article in uso for re lieving Coughs ami Throat troubles. —"Thespian mansions" nro to bohulltin Liverpool, Dublin and Glasgow for tlio purpose of providing better lodgings for touring actors than are available ut pres ent. Coughing l.rsii.4 to Consumption. Kemp's Balsam will slop tbe Cough at onre. Go to your Druggist today and get a KKEE sample bottle. Large bottles 50 cents and £1.<.0. —Nobody has yet been able to find out where Kuilyard Kipling has been stopping in this country, n nd now comes the report that he Is ia South Africa on his way to the South Sea Islands. The young novelist is something of a will o’tlio wisp. When Bab7 was sick, wo gave her Caatorla, When she wias a Child, sho cried for Caatorla, When Bhe became Miaa, aho clung to Castorla, When ahe had Children, aho gave them Cutorii^ —The grave of Oliver Goldsmith, !n the Temple churchyard, after being in a state of irreverent dilapidation for a great many years, has at last been cleaned of the unuergrown weeds. The Indistinct fig ures upon the moss-covered marble have been recut in order to render distinctly readable the date of the birth and death of the author of “She Stoops to Conquer.’* Wily continue the use of remedies that only relieve, when Ely’s Cream Balm, pleas ant of application and a sure cure for Catarrh and cold in head, can be had. I had a severe attack of catarrh and be came so (leaf I could not hear common conver sation. I suffered terribly from roaring in my head. I procured a bottle of Ely’s Cream Balm, and in three weeks could hear ns well as ever, and now i can say to all who are af flicted with the worst of diseases, catarrh, take Ely’s Cream Balm and be cured. It is worth $1,000 to any man, woman or child suf fering frjm catarrh.—A. E. Newman, Grayling, Mich. Apply Balm into each nostril. It Is Quickly Absorbed. Gives Relief at once. Price 50cents at druggists or by mail. ELY BROTHERS, 50 Warren St., New York. —Jay Gould and Mr. Ingalls entered ac tive life about the same time. The for mer walked down Wall street with a pat ent mouse trap. He set it, and came near catching the earth. “After thirty years of untiring toil,” said Inga/ .s in one of his lectures, “I, on the o'Jier hand, am a statesman out of a job.” The Only One Ever Printed—Can You Find the Word* There is a 3-inch display advertisement in this paper this week which has no two words alike except one word. The same is true of each new one appearing each week from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places a “Crescent” on every thing they make and publish. Look for it, send them the name of the word, and they will return you hook, beautiful* LITHO GRAPHS, or SAMPLE FREE. —On the estate of the Marquis de la La guna, in Spain, a water wheel of twenty horse power runs a dynamo. Plowing by electricity has been proopsed. and t he cur rent is to be transmitted to a field three miles distant, where a motor on a plow is to be operated. The cable to be attached to tfic plow is to be wound on a reel and drawn over the field. FIT*—All Fits Mopped free br Du. Klixb’* Ghkat Nkkvk Ukstorkk. No fits after first dny** urc*. Marvelous cures. Treatise and W.UO trial but tle free to flt cases, bend to Ur. lilluo. U31 Arcti St., Philadelphia, l*a. —Superstitious barbers think that the money earned by shaving dead men is lucky to gamble with. Don't fool with indigestion .uor with a disordered liver, but take Beecham's Pills for immediate relief. 25 cents a box. —It is still possible to purchase land in New Zealand at 10s. the acre, or to rent an acre at Od. per annum. Actors, Vocalists, Pcblic Speakers recommend Hale's IIonet of Hokehound and Tail Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. —The Fresno county, California, jail is said to be invaded by spooks, who keep up no end of a row and rapping at night. —There were 280,057 births and 150,353 deaths in the United Kingdom in the quar ter ending September -0. U FARMERS: LOOK OUT! You are exposed to sudden changes of temperature, and to injuries* JACOBS OIL cure. RHEUMATISM, SPRAiNS, BRUISES, CUTS, WOUWOS* 80STRESS, STIFFNESS, SWELLINGS, BACKACHE, NEURALGIA, SCIATICA, BURNS. A PROMPT AND PERMANENT CURE. Something ia loat when you use Dr. Sago’s Catarrh Remedy. It’s Catarrh. Tho worst onso3 yield to its mild, soothing, cleansing, and healing properties. No mntter how bad your case, or of how long standing, you can bo cured. Incurable eases are rare. It’s worth $500 to you, if vou havo one. Tho i manufacturers of Dr. Sago’s Romody aro looking for them. They’ll pay you that amount in cash, if they can’t euro you. It’s a plain squaro offer from a responsible business house, and they mean it. It soeras too one-sided, too much of a risk. It would be—with any other medi cino behind it. It only goos to provo what’s been said : incurable cases aro rare—with Dr. Sago’s Catarrh Remedy. Other so-called remedies muy pal liate lor a timo; this cures for all time. By its mild, soothing, cloans ing and healing properties, it con quern tho worst caaos. It removes offensive breath, loss or impairment of tho senso of taste, smell or hear ing, watering or weak oyos, when caused by tho violcnco of Catarrh, us they all frequently aro. Remedy sold by druggists, only 50 cents. Epileptic Fits, Falling Sickness, Hyster ics, St. Titos Dance, Nervousness, Hypochondria, melancholia. In* ebrlty, Sleeplessness, Dlz* slness, Brain and Spi nal Weakness. 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