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MOVEMENT"
rfce VI rn.-. :-::c;r Went on Ills Way
mill Itei ... j.-?fAAxarAl ft'rtme.
? ' ' r-t ..: ...... , .
r'A Mormon elder hal .been up anion"
tlii North ( : cliiia mountains spread-
ing Iiis (lifeti-iu'i-i. ami among" the pool!
ami illiterate lie had made converts
says the Detroit Free Press. A day
was set when these we're to 'assemble
at a cert :tiii hamlet ami start on thHr,i
westward journey. I met them tit a
bend in the roal ami drew aside to let
them pass. Half a mile further down,
they stopped to eat dinner from the
baskets they had prepared. I was
watching the la.-t one out of sight
when a tall, gaunt woman, who must
have been fully years old. but was
still rugged and full of determination,
came upfront the other way. Her
dress was of the plainest and her head
was covered with a sunbotinet, while
she had on neit her shoes nor stockings.
She had a rille on her shoulder and
she eatne tip so quietly that I was
startled.
"Mawnin stranger," she saluted as
she came to halt.
"Good morning."
"Hev them dun passed this way?"
"The people with the Mormon elder?"
"Yes."
"Just pass -il out of sight. Are you
one of t he part;.
"No!" she repli'-.!. as she grounded
Iter rifle. "What do you think?"
"About Mormonisii)?"
"Yes."
"I think that elder ought to be
driven out. of the country. Those poor,
deluded people have 110 idea of what is
j in store for them.
1 "That's what I've told Vm. I've
talked and talked, but
harken. M v old man
they wouldn't
is down thar
with Vm."
"What! lias he hft you behind?"
"Sartin. He couldn't sell the 'squat,1
but he got sht't of most else and left
me hack thur. lie's got the Mormon
religion the. powerf idlest sort, and he's
gwine to take li e or six wives out
liutr. I've hin a wife to him fur forty
years and mo"."
"And what are von going to do about
it?" 1 askeU.
"Stranger, hitch yer hoss and cum
along'." she answered, as her face grew
very hard and her eyes Hashed.
1 "walked beside her down the' trail,
but we didn't exchange a word. I
could hoar her breathing excitedly, and
two or three times she examined the
ri;le to see that it was in perfect order.
We passed the turn at length and came
full upon the party seated on the
rocks with their luncheons before
them. Xo one saw us until we were
close at hand. The Mormon cider sat
in the center of the group. Twenty
feet away from hini the woman halted,
brought t he rille up to her shoulder,
and. in a low but very menacing voice,
said:
"1 want yous to go down the trail!
If yous don' go I'll kill yo", shore's I'm
a li vin' woman."
The elder rose up, pale-faced and
trembling, and after a look to satisfy
himself that not one of the crowd was
moving to interfere he started off. As
he went the woman called out after
him:
"Keep walkin"! Shore's yo're born
I'll kill yo' if yo' ever show yo's face
back yere again!"
With her rille to her cheek she cov
ered him until he passed the bend,
thirty rods below. Then she turned to
the people, evei"3' one of whom was
dumb-founded, and said:
"Scatter back home! You's ain't
gwine with him! Pick up yo'r traps
and be a gittin' or somebody "11 die!"
Her husband was one of the first to
go, and the others hurried after him.
When they reached the spot where my
horse was tied thev- halted, and as we
came up the woman said:
"The elder's dun. gone fur good, and
tain't no use to toiler on. Seatter to
yo's homes and be glad that the Lawd
has dun saved yo' in the nick of time.
Jeptha, march! March straight ahead!
I'ze gwine to be right behind vo' all the
wav!"
Jeptha marched.
MANAGING A BABY.
The K-l-Fa--il OM ,entlinuii M;i!e the
Mistake of His Life.
As the Michigan Central train was
coming to Detroit one day last week,
says the Free Press of that city, there
was a baby on board that cried for two
straight hours. It was not a cry of
teething or colic, but just the whin
ing squall of an infant vixen that wasn't
going to be suited anyhow. The pas
sengers on the car could neither sleep
nor read, and at last a red-f aeed old
gentleman turned to the mother and
said:
"Madame, if you would stop trotting
the life out of that young'un it would
let up screaming." "1 guess I know
more about babies than you do,"
snapped the mother.
"Well, all I've got to say is I've
raised eight and the whole caboodle of
them never made as much noise as
thai one," he retorted. "Perhaps you
would like to try your hand on this
one. If you can stop him it's more
than I can do."
"Give him to me. madame, and in
ten minutes he'll be as quiet as a lamb.
I've seen worse children many a time."
He winked at the other passengers as
he reached out his hands for the baby.
"Tootsey-wootsey turn." he urged, and
the infant opened one eye to look at
him, while it stiffened like a poker.and
roared louder than ever.
"If you will step into the next car so
that it wont see you," said the obliging
traveler, "I can hush him sooner. He'll
be all right, ma'am, don't you worry."
"I won't," said the woman thankfully,
as she resigned the squaller and disap
peared into the next car. "H-u-s-h-h,
now. little fellow; ride a cock horse to
Banbury cross, there was an old wo
man sh-sh-sh let go of my hair, you
little wretch!" The baby had tangled
its finders in the chin-rwhiskers of its
new friend, and was pulling them. out
by the roots. "Stop that noise," howl
ed the passengers in chorus, "or give
that kid back to its mother."
He would have been very glad to
have acceded to either of theae re
quests, but the mother was gone and
the baby was increasing his music ev
ery minute. "Walky-walky. pet?" he
asked in a voice like a eallioue: "hush.
VloUy0-ftejk.itl mother?" But
notxiuy wouiu stir, inev u waiu.ru
to see'hlm nruiagf that. thy-....
-the-fcorKhie-tor .vailed "Detroit' anil the
train H.wvd. into the depot a wild-eyed
man,, coatless and tlisheveled.was tear
ing from one end 'of the train to th
other, while the baby screamed over
liis shoulder. "Til take him now."
said a mild voice, and as its niotlier
appeared that, child stopped howling,
a cherub smile dimpled its face, and it
looked as it it had never sliml a tear in
its life, ltut its volunteer nurse was a
complete wreck.
A FAMILY DIFFERENCE.
Two NervmiH SIhWth Who Kutertalned
Vii'wn AiilaKoiiiHtif to Kuril Other.
Up on the Delaware & Hudson rail
road 1 he ot her day t wo nervous old
ladies climbed on board the south
bound train at Crown Point, says the
N. Y. Trihinir. They were of the same
height, looked much alike, and both of
them wore gossamer rubber cloaks
possibly under the vague impression
that cinders melt. They fluttered in
to a seat near the door, evidently pre
pared for a long journey. When the
bird-cage, two satchels.and three shoe
boxes of luncheon had been properly
stowed away, the two ladies sat down
in unison, much as if pulled on one
string.
Beyond a vigorous attack
luncheon an hour later, they
devoted their attention to the
on the
quietly
scenery
until Albany was reached in
the late
afternoon. That being the terminus of
the road the passengers started for the
car door as the train stopped, but there
seemed to be a blockade of some soi l
on t lie platform. It wasn't exaetly a
blockade; it was the two old ladies from
Crown Point.
Equipped with satchels, the bird
cage, and the luncheon (now reduced
to one shoe-box), they had led the pro
cession to the door, but had succeeded
in getting no further, as the train had
run into the station on a middle track
and they could not agree on which side
of the car to get off.
"I tell you, Janet," said the old lady
with the bird cage with much digni
ty, "that this is the proper side. It is
nearer the deot and no doubt our
train is close by. Come, don't be o li
st i mite, sister," she added persuasive
ly. " "I will not leave the car on that
side," declared the other, holding up
the shoe-box and both satchels as if
for a barricade which the impatient
crowd within the car thought quite
superfluous. "If you think 1 am going
to career across three tracks," she
continued emphatically, "in front of
moving loc (motives, and risk our
selves and t hat precious bird, then I
say, Hannah, you have lost your senses;
that's all."
"You seem to forget that I am older
than you. Janet," rejoined the other
with offended dignity.
"That may all be, but little good it's
done. You would have scandalized the
whole family at Cousin Maria Soper's
funeral up at the Corners if I had not
insisted "
"Hey!" "What's the matter?"
"Shake it up!" "(Jet off!" came in a
chorus from the impatient throng in
side. "Sakes alive!" ejaculated the belliger
ent Janet, for the first time observing
the crowd in waiting. "Come this way.
Do come," pleaded the other.
"I won't."
"You must; I insist," cried the elder
sister, stepping hastily down to decide
the matter. There was no further
chance for argument. Already the
other passengers were pushing out.
So, with an expression of annoyance
and fright, the second old lady tourist
joined the other, and the two rubtier
gossamers began their devious llight
across tracks and before waiting loco
motives toward the station.
"I told you so! I told you so!" al
most screamed the younger sister as
soon as she could catch "her breath.
"You say you dropped it?" asked, the
other in troubled tones."
"Yes; that horrid engine let off
steam, and I jumped. I suppose I
dropped it then. Why can't engines
hold their steam till the- get out in the
country, I'd like to know."
"Well, never mind. Janet; we caa
get along," said the other, .soothingly.
"But I do mind. I suppose. Hannah.
I ought to be thankful that you and
the bird are safe. But just to think,"
she added, with almost a sob, "the
whole of Aunt Lueinda's sponge-cake
gone and we've only got to Albany."
And sure enough some distance up
the s"cond .rack, reposing peacefully
on the off rail. la the familiar green
outline of the lal shoe-box.
MISSING LINKS.
Great Britain has 13.000,00m wage
earners.
Kussell Sage's income is estimated at
$15 a minute.
Lem Lincoln, a full cousin of Abra
ham Lincoln, lives m-ar Liberty, Mo.
Negroes with red hair are common
in the West Indies and in South Amer
ica. Twenty -nine States have enacted
laws resembling the Australian ballot
law.
A carpet tacking party is the latest
Missouri invention for evening festivi
ties. Arthur James Balfour, the English
leader, is a bachelor, $ind about 43
years old.
Old lied Cloud, the notorious Sioux
Chief, is now living in disgrace ami
nearly blind.
Sugar made from coal is 300 times
sweeter than ordinary cane, but it
costs f 10 a pound.
Alexander Dumas proposes a tax up
on diners-out, the revenue of which
shall go to the boor.
A watch beats 157,670,000 timed in a
year. In the same length of time the
wheels travel 3,558 3-4 miles.
Naturalists have enumerated 657 dif
ferent species of reptiles. Of this num
ber 490 are m karate aa rabbita.
The Czar of Russia has no settled in
come, but he has an estate and mines
which bring him in 2,500.000 per
year.
to KUUpoVl them in idle 11 cm the rcidr&T"
the time.- -
A fJliiwn "te;-front uJroad say,
that cameos are very much in vogue
and H-re- displacing diamonds as head
ornaments.
The hkin of a black deer is worth
alxuit. iul.J. One of tln-M- animals has
recently been seen in Maine, and hunt
ers are after it.
Fish swallow tV';r fond whole be
cauothcv are obliged to keep cont in
iiailv opening and clo-ing tlit. mouth
for th" purpose 01 rcsoir.i ion.
Tie- car-
iii; of
i ill lire will be
with auviliary
buiiding on the
a It e-Iii:i-ted vc el
i-t eat 11 such a- is now
Clvde. She will cairv
1..111 tons.
There is n.me of t he
"f ind da in" or
....
the hailirlit y heiress ol
a ere oe ere
about Princess Victoria Mary of Teck.
She has her mother's fiie- spirits, and
is lively, jolly and amiable.
Lieutenant Julien Yiiuid, of tin
French navy, dl known as "Pierre
Loti," recently elected a member of
the French Academy, has been made
commander of the French slooj-of-war
Javclot. :
Van Dyck, the Wagnerian tenor, i.t
only thirty y ears old. When he went
to Paris in iss: it was to study jour
nalism, although he was fond of music,
ami lie soon became, attached to the
staff of La Putrie.
Siuc' Boiilanger's death in exile hi
bronze busts have been banished from
mantelpieces of his quondam admirers,
and no less than one hundred and thir
ty of these images have been disposed
of at pawnshops.
Bloodhounds derive th-ir name
from a peculiar power of scenting'
tin; blood of a wounded animal, so that
if once put. on the trail they will hunt
the quarry through thick and thin and
seldom, if ever, deviate from the!'
course.
A remarkable
women is liv ing
family of e
in the same
Three are
maids. Their
ight old
house at
v idovv
aires ar-
Yexio, Sweden,
and live are old
gregale wituiu a
years, each woman
year
bein
or t wo of 7'Mk
nearly ninety
years ol age.
The fox hound was so' named be
cause it was originally kept as an ad
dition to every pack of hounds. It
was always noted for being up within
a few minutes of running to ground
and aiding very materially in the cap
ture of Bey nard.
A handsome sarcophagus of ( 'arrara.
marble is being constructed in Italy,
in which the remain-, of Sebastian
Lerdo de Tejada. a former president of
Mexico, are to be laid and then placed
in the rotunda for illustrious men in
the D dorcs Cemetery.
At Santa Bosa, in the republic of
I'ruguay. 20i),0)) vine shoots went
p'anled tins year. Next year there
will be twice as many planted. They
grow luxuriantly and bear abundantly
in that part of I'ruguay, and are prof
itable to t heir owners.
In the southern portion of Formosa
the natives are of the Malay type
fierce, warlike and cannibals in their
habits. No white man has eer been
among them, and no one, knows their
numbers. It would be as much as hi
life is worth lo go among them.
No colors can be "nailed to the mast
head" of a new steel warship. Doubt
less Secretary Tracy and Clark Kussell
and the gallant jack tars of naval
tradition may feel one pang of regret
at this impenetrability of a metallic
mast. Fortunately the metallic !ul
waiks are equally impenetrable.
Colonel V.. D. Bakeriw ho fell early in
the struggle for the Union while lead
ing a desperate charge at Bull's Bluff,
sleeps in a neglected and almost un
marked grave in Lorn; Mountain Cem
etery. San Francisco. It is now pro
posed to remove the remains to Golden
(Jate Park and erect a suitable monu
ment. The "Seven Golden Cities." one of
the most popular legends of the latter
part of the "Dark Ages," were said to
le situated on an island west of the
African coast. The island is repre
sented as abounding in gold, with
magnificent houses and temples, "the
high towers of which show at a great
distance."
There is one London editor who has
vowed that the name of Mrs. Annie
Besant shall never be printed in hw
journal, and as a matter of fact it i.-
not many years since her name was
hardly mentioned in polite society, for
many people looked with grave disap
proval on the doctrines once taught by
Mrs. Besant.
A hitherto unknown stone has been
found in the mining districts of Can
delaria, in Nevada. It is of a dark
green coloc and takes on a very high
polish and is classed by the state geolo
gist as "sariscite." Several beautiful
ornaments have been produced from
it, but so far it has not been found in
any great quantity.
A German resident on the isthmu
of Panama claims to have discovered
several large beds of pearl oy sters in
the Carribbean Sea, on the coast above
Colon. He is arranging for expert
pearl divers to do some exjicrimentaL
fishing, and he expects to develop with
the leds the fact that he has something
more valuable than a gold mine.
Don Emilio Castelar, ex-President of
the Spanish Cortes, is now engaged in
Paris on import ant books. The lirl
is a monograph or Columbus, to be
nsed on the occasion of the impending
celebration of the discovery of Amer
ica; the second will be a work on the
f principal orators of Spain, to be pun
ished in New York; the third is a de
scription of the' most beautiful cathe
drals in the world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne made a curi
ous wager with Jonathan Cillev when
both were at College in " The
memorandum in writing, dated How
dofn College, November 14, binds
Ci I ley to pay Hawthorne a barrel of
the best old Madeira wine if Hawthorne
marries liefore November 11. 183G,
Hawthorne, who was a bashful youth,
pledging .himnelf in turn to pay Clllej
'the'i-itte;fn"cae' Hathormj' fhoulc,
'stiTl ben fcaehelorj.' Cilley iost; but h
was killed in a duel before he couW
pay the bet.
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