INLAND, :>*>;• •tv homo (a far above the ocean sand*. Too far to watch the surges roll and breaki But every day across those meadow-lands Fly sou-gulls toward tho luko. Mo sound of dashing wares tho silence brtngat No foam, like drifting snow,doiightH tho aye; Instead, a sudden cloud of rushing wings Gleams while against tho sky. The sight of graceful schooners sailing fast, Straight to their harbor, la denied me; Bui lean see tho fair gulls soaring past. They are my ships and sou. -Harper's Bazar. SCARLET FORTUNE. IIY II. HKRMANT. V CHAPTER I—CONTINUED. Tho bearskin wan raised once f; again, and a younger man entered. :|l' Ho was nearly as tall as Ueorgo Mao lano, and although his east of foa ;>y tnres betrayed a family likeness to tho elder man, thoro was less of tho cruelty about his lips, and less of tho obstinate squareness about his jaws. IIo was dark of skin, which matched ; ( curiously with the reddish brown of his hair and heard. Duvo Mac lane was George’s nophow and Lucy’s cousin, tho son of a frontiersman who had paid tho penalty of Ins •ploncordora and fallen under a poisoned Tueblo arrow. Pooplo about the mountain stations said that Dave was Lucy’s intendod hus band, and the young man when ques tioned about the subject, novor denied tho soft impeachment. Tho two men foil upon tho food that stood ready for them with ap J , potltes sharpened by a long journey. They had come all the way from Hatcher's Hole, tho noarest trading station, a distance of full-thirty miles, having gone there to obtain a f fresh supply of powder, and other necessities. Tho girl stood by while thoy out groat slices from tho joint, and spread them upon their corn oakes. dipping the two togethqy into the salt, and biting oit tho piocos without further ado. Tho hoqrty meal was washed down with draughts of^the fiery Taos whisky, tempered in minute propor tion. with mountain water. That :fi. over, the two mon wont outsido and sat themselves down on tho log t,, stumps, which stood ready there, to smoke their big sassafras-root pipes. The conversation was mado up of the banalities of the time and place, and Lucy, who had resumed her knitting, joined in it but little. On a sudden, tioorge jumped up and walked aloug the path that led up hill, with his eyes fixed intently on the moonlit ground in front of ' him. ‘•Thar’s bin somebody heyar,” he said, with quiet intensity. “Who’s • bin by heyarP" he asked, turning to Lucy. “Who’s gone to Dick Ash land’s P” “A stranger, ” the girl roplied, casually, “I guess I khow who it is.’’ George continued. “I guess ho was bound for Dick’s, when he was that soft and soapy at Hatohor’s. I might ’a known be was going to Dick Ash land’s.’’ ••Waal, an’ what o’ that?” Lucy asked. • “Yew mind yowr pot. my girl,” tho elder Maclane retorted, “an’ jlst look that yowr fat don’t burn. That’s ij what yew’ve got to do. I reckon. It , wur a tall stranger—dark, youngish, wur it notP” ••That’s him,” Lucy answered. “I told yew, Dave,” the elder man continued, turning to his nephew. “I wur sure of it. I wur that sure of it. that I’d bet a hundred-dollar 5v; bill on It. I tell yew, Dick Ashland’s jumped gold. He’s got a-head o’ mo. an’ that thar stranger's come to help him git it. Damnation! he shan't git a-hoad o’ me. This is my country. He’d a never oome heyar, if it hadn't a-bln to follow my clue.” His hand wandored instinctivoly C.‘ to the big knife in his belt, and half unsheathed it. / : ; “Dave,” he said, with a savage quiet, “cqpie along o’ me. I reckon ; I’ve got something to say to yew.” Tho two men strolled away into tho night. The girl, still sitting on tho log, dropped hor knitting on her laP- an<1 listened, with a oonfusod throbbing at heart, to the sound of tho steps as thoy died away among tho cedars beyond. v1 CHAPTER II. If there was ever a man, who rep resented in a worthy and stalwart ^ fashion the bone, tho sinew, tho pluck, the perseverance, and tho in domitable courage of tho haixly English yeoman, driven from a Staf fordshire homo by hard timos, and a harder landlord, that man was Dick .Ashland. His father and his grand 'iM fathor- before him. had farmed some meagre lands at Chaunccy Green, in South Staffordshire, and when tho old man died, an older brother ’« claimed possession of the farm. .There was an aged mother to sup i; port. and Dick Ashland shared that duty with his brother, though ho did not share the latter’s inheritance. Dick tried a little farming of his own, and was uniformly unlucky, Ivv Rent accrued, and for its payment, goods, chattels, implements, and j£'4 stock were seized and sold, until Dick Ashland, sick at heart, and de spairing of success at home, .went to sock fortune in a frocr and. loss iron hearted country. Eovtuhe did not smile very broadly on Ashland, even when ho reached tho vast prairies. u« worked hard, but year after year ^ passed on. and he was not much the richer. Ho was hard-witted and shrewd withal, and in days gone by, he dab Wed a little in coal and iron mlhing. When, therefore, he far up the mountain, and ‘ lived there year in and year out in stubborn loneliness. George Maclane. '% ;i\ Uko others beside him, came to the conclusion that Dick Ashland was like themselves, hunting for that fabulous gold, with which according to rumor, the region teemed, but which no one yet had been able to find. Herbert was a younger — the youngest son, in fact, of the earl of Clove, and his lordship had been blessed, by his lady, with nine children, which included six then grown-up and marriageable, but un married daughters. Ills lordship was not a hard-hoartod father, but six marriageable and unmarried daughters, each of them engaged in fruntlo efforts to entor the state of holy matrimony, and each of them failing repoatedly and decisively, are apt to sour tho best of tempers among elderly gentlemen, and the result was that Lord Clove looked with a less leniont eye, than ho might otherwise havo done, upon the escapades of his younger son. Herbert had the mis fortune of resembling, in a marked degree, his mother, who had been supromoly beautiful, whilst his two oldor brothers, and all the young ladles, were juvenile reproductions of the face and features of ray lord, who was ferociously ugly. A day I of reckoning came, and Herbert I Chauncoy, badgered by creditors, whom ho could not pay, denied as sistance by his father "and by his brothers, followed in the wake of Dick Ashland, to lead a wild and hardy life on tho Western plains, where his genial bonhomie, his manly and distinguished bear-ng, won him many friends. While engaged in hunting tho buffalo on tho Platto river, where at that time they woro still to be found in hugo hords, a letter of Dick Ash land's rcachod him, begging him to come to the mountain hut. "I havo something to tell you, Mister Herbert,” Dick wrote, “that will bo worth whilo going to hear, I want your arm and head both.” Herbert, in the vigor of his youth ful impulse, had saddled his horse and fitted it for the journey ore that letter had been two hours in his pocket. Tho journoy of two-hundrod inilo/i, between tho Platte and tho Sangre de*Christo range, lay across barren plains, whero, in many parts, I both horso and rider wanted for ordinary nccossitios. But Herbert Chauncoy was not easily daunted, and whon he dashed across Blacknosc Corner, that afternoon, his spirits wore buoyant as though ho had just completed a ten-mile journey. The two men were speaking in undertones, taking short puffs of their pipes in the meanwhile. “There's enough of it Mr. Her bert,” Dick Ashland said, accentua ting eaoh word by a tup on his companion’s knee, “to pave tho street at the Green. Theer’s tons on it likely, and no groat job to get at it neither. The only wonder is that it hasn't been spotted afore this.” "But with all this untold wealth around us,” Herbert interrupted, “why havon't you let me know before?" “I wanted to make sure of it, I wanted to know exactly what I was about.” “Well, tho best thing we can do now, I suppose,” said Chauncey, “is to sond, to Hatcher’s and get some hands to help us. ■’ Tho yeoman gave a low whistle. "No, thank you,” ho exclaimed. “Not if I know it I don’t want my throat cut, not just yet. My find wouldn’t bo no good to mo if I wore rotting at the bottom of ono of the canyons. ’’ “AVhut do you mean?” tho young man asked eagerly. Ashland looked warily about the place as if, even in the lonely wilder noss, he was afraid of being over heard by a prying car. "What do I mean?” he asked, with intense earnestness. “I mean that if as much as a whisper got abroad that I’d mado this find—-that if a human finger could point out tho spot where it lies, our lives wouldn’t bo worth four-and-twenty-hours pur chase. We’d havo all the scoundrels of ^he plains down upon us, and they’d think no more of blowing out our brains from behind, and then killing ono anothor to get hold of tho booty, than of eating their din ners.” Herbert strotched his legs widely. “That’s warm,” ho said quietly. “You’d find it warmer than you cared for, Mr. Herbert,” Dick con tinued; “and if wo want to save our skins and my gold as well, wo’vo just got to put our heads together, that wo have. It’s easy that does it this time, and we’ve got to work slow and sure. Theor’s enough thoor to set up a dozen on us for life, and wo mustn't lose our heads in getting it” “What do you propose to do?” Chauncey asked. ••Our only chance is to get govern ment protection, and they wouldn’t give us that without an order from Fort Bent. I'm not much afraid of anybody else finding the place. It’s takon mo just seventeen months, and then I only stumbled across it by a fluke. All the same I don’t intend to leave it without one on us keeping an eye on it. What we’ll have to do ! is to pick out enough to show that the stuff is theer all right, and then I you or I will have to ride to Fort j Bent and get Captain McAfferty to send a s^uad of soldiers here. All ! these cut throats will light shy of Uncle Sam's uniform, though wo shall have no littlo trouble oven then. ’■’ ••Where’s the difficulty in all this?” Herbert asked. “Mo difficulty,” Ashland replied, “if wo only keep our heads clear, and dur nerves stiff. But theer are over hulf-a-do7.cn stations between here and Fort Bent, and if, at any of these, so much as a breath got abroad of what wo are about, neither I nbr you would live to soe the end of it.” Ho again turned and looked abound cautiously. “I thought I heard something ova among them cedar*," he said. “Don’t tako any notice of It You may have been followed. I'll go by-and-by and look from another place, Did you tell anybody at Hatcher’* you were coming hereP" “No," the young man reDlied, “I had no need of that; your descrip tion of the road was plain enough: but I remember now. I did ask a girl, about two miles down, how far It was to your place." “That was foolish,” said Ashland. “That girl was Lucy Maclane. Freckled George's daughter, and he's the man of all others that I’m most afraid of. He's always dodging and dodging me about, but I’ve put him off the scent so far. lie’s been on the same game as myself these months past, and he's as gsoat a rascal as is to bo found on tho plains. That killing of Dick Maguire was never properly explained. George insists that it was done in fair light, but I for one don’t believe it. I’m suro theer's someone dodging about among them' cedars," Ashland con tinued. “I orhaps it’s some boast,” Herbert suggested. "Not a bit of it,” Dick repliod. "Thoor’s no game theer this time o’ the day. You sit here and I'll get round to the back of the cabin and from theer I’ll quietly climb on to the rock, and if theor’s anything alive among them cedars I’ll spot it. Keep your weather eye skinned while I’m away.” With that he roso and sauntered carelessly to the door of the small, rude log hut which formed his habi tation. He stolidly walked to the further end of it. and there disap peared. The hut had been built on a ledge of the rock, some 200 yards square, which jutted out, a smiling headland, over the gaping jaws of a wild can yon. The mountain rose sheer and steep from the chasm, as if heaven’s lightning had split the solid rock asunder, and had thus left an all time token of its fury. The flesh colored crystalline feldspar gleamed along - the face of the canyon side, but stunted cedars and pines, and insinuating shrubs struggled for life along a hundred little ledges, wherever the fierce wind had depos ited a handful of loose earth, and covered with their browns and greens the metallic purplish blue grey that prevailed more than other tints. "Begad,” he said to himself, “this beatsyour pantomimes and sen sational dramas hollow. And to think that there’s gold—bushels of it, tons of it — lying somewhere about. And I’m to have my share of it Who says there’s no such thing as luck in this world. Gold!” he re peated to himself. "Gold! gold! tons of gold!” IIo shook himself together on a sudden, and commenced to pace up and down. “That was a pretty girl,” he murmured to himself; "a downright jolly girl. And looked to mo, too? as though she were a good girl. The sort of a girl that would stick to a man through thick and thin and help him tight it out though the devil and his'chances were against him. Diok doesn’t like her father, but he didn’t say a word against the girl He’d have mentioned it if there had been anything against her. No, no. She’s a little brick, I’m sure.. And if I’d dress her in a nice gown and polish her a bit, she’d drive tho girls at tho Towers mad with envy. A long way between here and Staffordshire, but if there isn’t a slip betwixt the cup and the lip I’ll take her there, or my name isn’t Herbert Chauncey. ” A broad hand tapped him on 'the shoulder. It was Dick. “I was mistook," said the yeoman. ‘ thoer’s nobody theer. It must have been some boast after all. But 1 think we’d better wait until it’s quito night for all that, before we climb down and have a look at my And.” [TO BE OONItNL'ED. J Slgniflcnnoii of Diamond.*. A lawyorv in explaining tho phrase, "If I esu manage to hang on to my diamonds I guess I can pull through,” said: "If a man is in the habit of wearing this sort of ornament his associates are bound to notice it. In a time when men are going to pieces all sorts of signs are looked for by business men that will indicate tho financial standing of a customer. If they notice that a man who has been j in the habit of wearing expensive jewelry suddenly appears without any of his usual jewels they are apt to conolude that he is being pushed so hard that he had to realize on personal property, and his credit goes down." Killing a Horne by Throwing. There is a certain way that exper ienced stockmen know of throwing a horse down so as to break his neck and kill him at once* An ordinary halter is put on the horse, the lead strap from it passed between the horse’s front legs, a turn being taken around the far one near the fetlock. The executioner then hits the horse a sharp cut with a whip, and when ho jumps up pulls sharply and strongly on the halter strap. The horse strikes head first, with the en tire weight on his neck. The fall is invariably fatal. ,i:;> hv Knew Hi* Hoy. Orator—Where else will yon find in one spot such products as marble, iron, clay, chalk, copper, lead, slate, glucose, fruits of all kinds, hemp, flax, and all manner of grains? Man in the Audience—In my boy’s pocket ' ,.t . - , A True t;l|ri*tlan. Mabel—What makes you think you are a Christian? Blanche—Well, last night when Fred smaoked me on one cheek 1 turned to him the other. FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. THE IMPORTANT MATTER OP A WATER SUPPLY. Tara Water for Stock pi Wall ■■ Family a Kacaaaity—Prompt Rottraa _ Why Quaana Arc Ballad—Agricultural Uinta and Honsaliold llal|M. Water Supply of the Farm* One of the most important parts of the management of the farm, as well as the farm household, is the water supply. There is far too much igno rance or neglect in this regard, the results of which are always ccstly and sometimes disastrous. Water is really the most important aliment of all animals. Every person should know that the fatal fevers of fall and winter are ail caused by impurities in the water, and in regard to cows, especially that impure water may infect the milk so as to carry disease to the consumers of it, while, by a certain physiological influence by which the milk will carry off from a cow the germs of disease or other poisonous matters, the animal escapes, but those who use the milk will receive the infection. Thus the importance of securing a supply of pure water' for the farm stock is as great as that of the pro vision for the family. And at the same time there are some considera tions of convenience to be thought of. The winter is the dry time in the North, while the summer is the dry time in the South. And what will be here suggested may be equally applicable to the South and the North, only the seasons will be re versed. And it is a curious proof of this reversal of condition that the fever season is rife during the sum mer in the South, but in the winter in the North. . The purest water that can be pro cured is that which is distilled Jrom the clouds, writes ITenry Stewart in the New York Times. In nature's laboratory everything is made pure. It is only when it is contaminated by the dead and decaying matter of the earth that the water or the air becomes defiled. And this is pre cisely what is the matter with most of the water from springs and many wells. It washes the soil, the most effective means of disposing of the dead matter, the wastes of nature and of mankind, and in the ordinary operations of nature the water would carry all this waste to the ocean, whero it becomes changed into food for marine animals, upion which the fishes feed, and thus it returns once more freed from all impurities into another round of life. But when we interrupt this course of nature with out due care and precaution we vio late a natural law, and whether it is done deliberately or in ignorance, nature claims the unavoidable pen. alty and wo suffer the consequences. The cistern must bo underground, as well for convenience and safety from frost as for the preservation of a desirable temperature of tho water. In this way. in the South, cool water may be had in the hot summer, and in the North warm water may be had in the cold winter. The right form of the cistern, both for strength and room, is a section of an egg with the top cut off. A strong man can only with diffi culty crush an egg in his hands by pressing only the ends of it. The seemingly fragile shell resists great pressure, that would crush a per fectly round body quite easily, al though a globular form has much more strength than a square or a cube. The material of which a cistern is best made is hard brick laid end ways for a large cistern, or sideways for one of moderate size. The brick should be laid in water lime, with two parts of sand added. The joints should be as narrow as will give a perfect adhesion between the bricks; a little less than u quarter of an inch will be sufficient The digging should be made from the top to the middle of the bulge straight down and then be finished in the shape desired. The reason for this is that it is not easy to work in it if the top overhangs. A flat stone is first bedded in the cement at the bottom, on which the workman stands while building the wall. The joints of tho bricks with this must be closed, and it is indispensable that the brick should be laid tight against the solid earth as the work proceeds, so that the pressure of tho water inside may not crush out the wall. Quite contrary to common ideas, the greatest pressure in a cis tern is from within, and this is often ignored and the wall is pressed out by the weight of the water, and, hav ing no solid backing of earth tho cistern is apt to give way. So that when the cistern begins to narrow in it is absolutely necessary to pack the loose earth tight against the wall outside. And to aid in this it is well to pour water on the packed earth to make it quite solid. in this way the wall is carried to th'e top, leaving only an opening suffi ciently large for the admission of a man to thjB inside when it may be necessary. It is a wise precaution in laying bricks to plaster the outside all over. This is done by spreading some of the cement on the earth at the lower part and pressing the bri-ks close against it, and when the wall is drawn in plastering the outside. This prevents leakage from the out side into the cistern, which has the effect of loosening the inside cover ing of cement. The stone covering the month of the cistern should be two feet under ground, wherever the freezing of the •oil might penetrate so far, and equally where the summer’s heat is to bo kept out, this covering Is ad visable. The usual temperature oi the 6oil at the depth required is very near an average of sixty degrees, which is warm in the winter, but cool in the sumiher, and this is very desirable for the water. The sur face over the stone is covered by a frame of durable planks laid on four sills and well spiked down. The pipe passes through this, and the pump is screwed on to this pipe. It is desirable to have a small hole drilled into the pipe just under the covering, and to put a petcock in it, to let the water down to a safe point to avoid freezing of it in the pipe. As soon as the water is drawn from the pump, the water runs down to the level of that in the cistern, and thus this danger is avoided. A few holes are also drilled in the pipe, four inches above the bottom, so that the dregs of the cistern are not drawn up with the water. The bot tom of the pipe is, of course, plug ged tight This is quite an import ant matter that is often lost sight of. The capacity of a cistern of this shape is, for one eight feet in diam eter, about 203 gallons to the foot in depth; ten feet in diameter, 820 gal lons to the foot, and twelve feet, 470 gallons. Thus a cistern ten feet wide at one-third the height from the bottom and ten feet in depth will hold about 100 barrels of water, equal to the supply of ten cows for nearly three months, with out any addition to it If the water is filtered as it falls from the roofs through a box of beech shavings or coarse sand and gravel, it will be clear of sediment, and will make fre quent cleaning of the cistern unnec essary. Prompt Returns. Mr. H. G Adams says that when a man goes into the dairy business, ho is going to get a return for his investment before twenty-four hours are over, the cow declares a dividend before night You don’t have to wait twelve months; a farmer in the dairy business, running it in an in | tolligent way,.is in a business which brings him in money every day in the year; that is above the ordinary contingencies of the weather, which may affect your grain crops. The farmer who is a dairyman is stimulated by this quick return which comes into his pocket each day in the year; he becomes more of a business man than the other farmers, lie is a manufacturer and he acquires business sense and makes that study of the market which all manufac turers must liave to make them suc cessful. He becomes sharpened and brightened by contact with men in other lines of business, he becomes in short more of a busiuess man. An other important thing is here; when the dairyman sells #100 worth of pro ducts from his farm, he is not rob bing that farm of its fertility. When the farmer sells #100 worth of crops, he takes #25 worth of fertility out of the soil.—Farmers Voice. Why Queen* Are Balled. Mrs. Atchley tells a correspondent that the reason bees from her own hive balled their queen when he re turned her, was on account of the sting poison the bees had saturated her with. Bees will ball their own queen just as quickly as a strange one, when she has sting poison on her. The next time a queen takes wing, shake a frame of bees right down in front of the entrance, and close the hive quickly, step back out of the way and she will return all right. In some instances it may be better to keep the queens caged a few days in the hive before giving the bees access to the candy, but I never do; I always see that they have candy enough to completely fill up the food hole, as when a queen has come a long way the candy may nearly be gone; in such cases there ought to be more candy put in. I seldom lose a queen by the candy plan.—Journal of Agriculture. Agricultural Him*. The Sonth is buying hay of the North. The South is capable of producing its own hay, if it will. If you have a piece of low land, marsh perhaps, drain it, and you will make it the best land on your farm. It is not best to begin to husk corn as soon as it is shocked. Often, ow ing to the weather, it will mold if husked too soon. Millet seed affects the kidneys of animals. If the millet is cut too late, it must be fed very carefully on account of the seed. Keep the dog from barking at pass ing teamed It frightens horses and may cause runaways. The place for a dog is inside the fence. Thero is often plenty of time and good weather in winter to put up fencing. Digging through the frozen t ground may be a little hard, but what ! else have you to do? In cities the I ground is broken up for buildings | when it is frozen pretty deep. —--— Household Help*. i The custom of brushing a table cloth instead of shaking it as former | !y tw« good points. It does not scatter the crumbs abroad, but col lects them tidily. And it does not crumple the cloth, which was sadly mussed at the old time method of eldaring the table. We do many careless things which often involve serious consequences. It is a very common thing to light a match when hunting in dark rooms cr Ciosets for some articles wanted. This is what a suburban young lady did the other night. She needed something in a spare room closet and struck a match to look for it, forgetting a tulle evening dress skirt which hung there and which blazed up in a very lively way. For . tunately there was little harm done, but mademoiselle had to go about I with a bandaged hand for a week. ---~-.nl, Coroo»ti-. *"» Napoleon has been ChaZ In so many different wav^r!z64 numerous writ.... _#y* by numerou. wriu™ who^* by ^ hte career that It n„*ave 8tQdieJ to find him tooilbil “* the recent work of a 6 l-ho book is by 1! Mal w ,anth<* is devoted mainly to th