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...•••••• * .4 MAN 'WITH A SHADOW. E had driveu the Apaches into the wild fastnesses of Devil's Mountains, but there they suc- cessfully eluded us, and Colonel Brad - wick was about dis- couraged, viten, one night shoftly after dark, a sentinel brought in a strati - r. He was at least six feet and three Inches in laeight, and he could not have weighed more than one hundred and forty pounds, but still he ,did not seem to be a man who was suffering from a disease, as his step was steady, theugh catlike, and his voice natural if , T- atraine)1 at times. This stranger had a wild, haunted stare in his eyes, which combined with a manner of glancing nervously over his shoulders at intervals, made it seem that he was in constant dread of some- thing. When he was presented to the colonel he dropped the butt of his long rifle on the ground and made an awk- ward salute. \Well my man,\ said Colonel Brad - wick, curiously,\ what are you ,doing in this Apaehe-infected section of the country?\. • \Wa-al kunnel,\ was the drawled re- el,•\Lir be some things as is wuss'n iss though you may not believe it. til n time's Saul Tropp.\ \IV hat is your business, Saul Tropp?\ \It's mostly keepin' under kiver when the sun shines an' layita: low moonlight nights.\ \Well you seem to be in a bad section of the country for such a business. The sun shines every day, and there is not much cover for a man. There is more moon here than in any other part of the world. What do you want in. this camp?\ \Reckoned 1\d like ter be socibul, ef you hey no objections. Out hyar a man don't find much of anything to be sod- bul with, an' when white folks_ come along tut feels as tickled as a dorg with two tails.\ \Are you acquainted with these mountains?\ \Are I? Wa-al, I shottld say I are! I know - em durned nigh from from one eend to t'other.\ \Then you may prove of service to We -are hot after Red Hand's butch- ers, but they know the section so well they have twice given, vs the slip when they weee cornered.\ r • FALL HEAVILY TO THE GROUND. I; , Hand. I saw that critter once, allus regretted that I didn't ir • • rs close acquaintance. His ha'r ra v been an ornytnent wuth bar - von anti will you assist us in • s down the red d- -Is?\ tt • al. I'll try it. but I warti ye,ItAn- eel I •• not a very 'greeable gaioot ter around. I hey spells, an' w'en 1 le -penis I'm wuss'n thunder. Artei : 1 t • about one o' them yar spells, you'll ti Son you kin git along without my aid, an' not hare try\ For all of this warning, the colonel •engaged the man, and then he directed me to have a good watch set over the .fellow, as he might prove crooked. Jeff Shaw, however, informed me that 'he knew Tropp by reputation, and the man was straight enough. though there was not a doubt but he was crazy. - He 'lows he's Mitts follered hy a 'Madder,\ explained Shaw, who was 3 guide and scout. \Notice how he keeps .lookIn' over his shoulder uvry now an' ag'in? Wa'al he's lootrin' for the shad - \I observed a wild look in his eyes.\ - Thet kern thar sence four year ago. when he killed a man ()%er.in Prescott. - They do say ther man ha killed wits Saul Troppai perfect double --looked so much PIMP one couldn't\ 'a' bin told from tother. SOMP folks'even. went SO fur as to way it wuz Saul Tropp as wit', killed, anti this man what has bin tiodgIn' his shedder ever Hence is Pother critter.\ Tropp started out well. He had no horse, but at found him tireless and cr • of foot. Still, he was ever glancing s • his shoulder with- tholes wild, eyes. and dodging when he .1..i tlt_ own shadow hanging close art hire. Ile loved the darkness of t rnes and gorges, and I fancied I un: ; too(' why he had hurled himself in Ills mountains. I observed he had a peculiar way of log in with his left foot, and the im- p • Mon made by that foot was one not • r I v forgotten. Along in the middle of the aftertfoon 1.1 had one of his \spells.\ Of a aud- it.a he gave a Wild yell, whirled about , rat struck out right and left. It was really as desperate a battle As I had ever witnessed, and I watched it rassimited, until, .utterly exhatisted, Tropp fell gasping and foaming at the mouth to the ground, where tie lay In a semlainconeelmis condition. However. In less than tliirty minutes he seemed all right once more, and we went onward. \I reckon I'd best go now tunnel, for rss shore you're good an spk o' me an! my spells by this yes' time. I hain't even so much as found one 'Pache sign fer ye, so I reckon I'll skip.\ Het Colonel Bradws k was interested in the fellow, and he not hear it. \When I don't want .my more I'll tell you so,\ was all t Near midnight we is r • aroused by a terrible racket, and I leaked from my tent to find Saul Trope nehting with his shadow in the moonlisht. I watched him a moment, battling like a fien d with this imaginary something, and then he reeled into the deep shadow of the mountains that rose to our right. I knew when the \spell\ was over, for I heard Saul fall --heavily to the ground, uttering a dismal groan, and then all was still. In the morning we found him ju-d where he had, fell, and his own knife was burieil s to the hilt in his heart. it is supposed he had stabbed himself in the mad contortions of his struggle, but Jeff Shaw pointed out tracks on the ground—a trail that led to the spot and led away again. It was that of a man who toed 'in with his left foot, csactlY as Tropp had done, and it passed within ten feet of the spot where a sentinel had been posted. That sentinel swore no living thing had passed him , in the night. Some said Saul Tropp had sneaked out of the camp anfiaretUrned in the night; some shook their heads and said nothing. Deep in, the darkness of a lonely ra- vine, amid those desolate mountains, we buried him where no shadow could ever haunt him mor4, for neither sunshine nor moonlight ever reached the spot to cast a shadow there. HER FIRST OCEAN BATH, Country Meld. Married Slater and Wicked Brother -In -Law. At first she would and then she wouldn't; but really, after all, it would be a shame after coming 600 miles to the sea not to go into the surf. This and the married sister from Brooklyn. and the mild ridicule of her wicked brother-in-law, settled it. But she shivered as she noted the effects of the hired bathing suits upon the human form divine. Some of them were just too dreadful, says New York World. You could mark her shrinking little figure coming down- the sands, piloted by the married sister, to the spot where waited \the wicked brother-in-law. Her freckled face was red, but not from the sun. She kept her eyes on the near foreground, certain that the 5,000 per- sons on the beach and pier were look- ing directly at her bare ankles. \Oh. dear! let us go in quick; I want to cover up!\ she said pleadingly. \Take her other hand, George,\ said the married sister. \Now don't be a foe!, Mary. You're not the only one here, remember,\ added the old-timer, rather obscurely. \Come on!\ cried the wicked brother-in-law with a grin. And they ran down, pit -a -pat, spit -a -splat- ter. Just in time to meet a stiff roller curling in. \Jump now!\ yelled the married sis- ter, but the' ,wicked brother-in-law dragged her down with him, smother- ing a piercing shriek of terror. When the gentle, freckled face came up again It was white instead of red, and she choked with salt water, and the smart in her eyes made the tears flow. She looked reproachfully at the wicked brother-in-law and shook him off, but before she recovered speech an- other wave knocked her over and bur- ied her, screech and all. \Keep hold of George!\ cried the married sister. • \Go 'way, you brute!\ gasped the lit- tle one. \Don't you see I'm drowning? Oh! Oh! Yeouw!\ Down she went again before a war , not more than knee high. The wick' - brother -in-law laughed. \I'll never Speak to you again!\ eh, sobbed, shivering all 'over, and rower -1 Mg between the fear of the sea and the mocking crowd on the sands. \Come in here by the rope. Mary!\ yelled the married sister. \Bring her I In, George. What are you standing around there for?\ \Never!\ cried the freckled girl, get- ting her voice once more. \You neves told me It was ice water! And that II is nasty --ugh! I've swallowed a bucketful of it—yes; and you think it's funny- don't you touch me! I'm go-. ing out! Now, you dare!\ But the wicked George grabbed her round the slender waist and bore her, kicking, struggling, shrieking, her eyes flashing fire. out to the rope to his wife. And there she remained 'In wild terrors soon all forgotten. Igen both the wicked brother-in-law and his wife had to Join in coaxing her to come out. TEXAS SIFTINGS. Ability la a poor ma- n's wealth. A rifle -team --a pair of piekpockets. Work to which a man should give his whole heart—courtship. A pawnbroker's life may not be a wealthy one, but It has its redeeming teatimes. , The mare who registers at the hotel at night can he said to be on the \re- tired list.\ Marriage Is not one -tenth as mesh a Wittee as the average summer resort engagement. Dancing may Improve your carriage tromewhatd but it Is no valuable aceom- plishinent for the horse The wife of a Massachusetts minister wears a blue dress on Monday to match her husband's mood. There wouldn't have been any milk In a cocoanut If some dairymen had had the construction of R. A Pittsburg girl whose Inver Is a whitewasher named Kelsey, always calls him \Kelsey -mine.\ Bright's disease seems to have a pref- erence for great statesmen, and others of the Hemp kidney. A good many men who are talking very bitterly about the difficulty of get- ti Into a church have never \tried it, roundly it appears to the ea • it ob- CORNER OF ODDITIES. REV VINt. VIEWS OF LIFE IN MANY LANDS. rout tile Poor house to 11reatiti.--The Riser of Lite Metals More Precious Than ttolil 'I he !lightest Tress in the II odd. I E FLOWETH on and seem- eth swe•-t and fair. Her brow is • white, and young and free her heart; Should we heed, if 'heath her breast she bear A silent sorrow, like a rankling dart? She floweth ever, and her current glides Where lilies sleep, rocked by her cease- less tides. So why, then, strive to pierce the past's gray veil? All have some days that they would fain forget; All have some ghost, unburied, sad and pale— A memory faded to a faint regret: The undercurrents flow, yet presently Will lose themselves in death's wide, trackless , sea. —Athol Ware. Metals More Precious Than 60141. We commonly think of gold as the most valuable of metals, because it is the most precious of the metals that are produced in sufficient quantity to be in common use. There are, however, sev- eral rare metals that are much more valuable than gold. We extract * fol- lowing statement from the American Journal of Photography for May: \Gal- lium, for example. is quoted in the mar- ket at $3,000 an ounce avoirdupois. Traces of it occur in some zinc ores, tons of which must be worked over in order to obtain a trifling quantity. Gallium is a very remarkable sub- stance. At the ordinary summer tem- perature of 86 degrees F., it becomes liquid like mercury. The latter be- come s & solid at 36 degrees below zero. Most costly of all metals, save only gallium, is germanium. which is quoted at $152 per ounce. Rhodium is worth $112.50 an ounce; and palladiutp $24 an ounce. The last is about equal in value to gold. These metals are of no great commercial importance. Most of them are mere curiosities of the laboratory, having been discovered originally by accident, incidental to the analysis of ores. It has been sugested that some Of them might be coined, but the supply of them is too uncertain. That was the difficulty with platinum, which the Russian government minted in the first half of the present century. Iridium is utilized to some extent for making in- struments of delicacy which must have the property of not corroding. It is oh tamed from 'Iridosmin,' a natural alloy of iridium, osmium, rhodl uni. platinum and ruthenium. This extraordinary . mixture a rare metals is white. Much of it is found in washing for gold in the beach sands of Oregon. It resists the action of all single acids. Its only important rise is for tipping goid pens( For this purpose the grains of it, which are flat like gold dust, are picked out \kith magnifying glasses At the mints it makes a good deal of trotild. the (lifll. tiny being found in sepittamag it fro no gold bullion role he i • oortatao•e to W et•11 h. .larnes E of this pia... -ayR a Pernotei ('nil I Irlt el wilt ' this ..ea for Chicago and go to seriden, 1.aig.. in about a month. lie has be- come heir to at least 37.S.000. The story of Sykes' life and the good fortune that has come to him in his old age Is ro- mantic. Sykes came from a good old family of farmers in Lincolnshire, Eng., near Peterborough. At .,; \arty age he drifted away from his ins • and associates, and for forty-thre• .ears has led a roving existence in II • ,vest - ern states. He has made a few ; • .sand dollars and lost it. For the nr part of the last twenty years he I, been an Inmate of almshouses and pciral in- stitutions. For gas' past year the old eian has been in the Pomona Valley. ad lived the life of a pauper most of the time. He worked on Reno ranch for a few weeks this season. A lawyer named Knapp from Chicago, who has known Sykes for fifty years, came to Pomona one day last week In seerch of the latter, after having sought him all over southern ('alifornla. He bad doc- uments to prove that Sykes was one of the four heirs to the estate of Elwood Sykes of Peterborough, Eng., amount- ing to over £60,000. Elwood Sykes was an uncle of the old man in l'omona. The former died In Dies. Intestate and with no wife or children. The next of 'kin are.ehist nephews and mates, of whom foltr are living. For :everal years an effort has been ma•l• s, find James E. Sykes, and if hls :thews had not been learned this year the estate was to have been ()hided In court next Decem_be_r._ wee , w 44444 ea Write renitnerloor. \Why women write postscripts\ is a problem that has been engaging the at- tention of on\ of the London Wortititl'i weeklies. The answers betray that the sex understands Itself, and not mind exposing its amiable wein- All are from women. who • :r.r the, among others, these reasons: ib , rinse they seek to rreeify want of ;nought ^bv •,, !!-. • !!••• ight.\ \Because they sr! `•-• I ,.` i. int( 3 last word '' Ile- s It \ W1 c , lieforP they it , 1 I., and think after the) have writtci, tine correspondent puts (1011M the a minine P. 8. to the same ratted leads *omen \to prolonged feave-t., sIg in omnibuses'. namely,\ and faille • pro - server \that they lack organization of thought.\ Another woman c01:1288 to the defense of sisters with the sugges- tion \that when, women have anything special to communicate they know that their P. S. is equivalent to N. B.,\ and yet another friendly soul turns a neat compliment in her reason: \Probably because woman herself is the embodi- ment of the P. S. in the scale of crea- tion; she—the indispensable — was added last.\ W here 1.$ onout The telegraph work in newspaper offices is i.1 \ supreme test of the staying po,wers of as, operator, and few women are equal to its requirements. It is stated that gere are only two female operators in The country who axe regu- larly copying press dispatches on daily papers. Women are simply tillable to stand the nervous strain. When the telegraphers lost their strike some years ago women were largely put in their places, but they could not keep up the pace. The speed of receiving dispatches has been doubled illy the in- troduction of the typewriter. With pen or pencil the best receiver on earth could not keep -up a speed of forty words a minute, filling out all the ab- s breviatians, while with the typewriter it is not uncommon to go as high as seventy words, or even eighty words. The use of the machine has led to the formation of a special code. Por in- stance, the operator receiving over the wire the word \scotus\ has to write out * on his machine \The Supreme Court of the United States.\ In like manner \houp\ means the \House of Representatives,\ The record in sending dispatches is eighty-nine words a minute. Press telegraphers often work twenty hours continuously, going from one paper to another, and often 20,000 %% l ords will be copied by one man from 6 1 3 - m. to 3 a. m. The strain is in- tense, as the work requires the closest attention, and this may perhaps ac- count for the curious fact that press operators are seldom total abstainers. New York Times. Tiny Republic.. A quaint little republic came to light only recently, when the citizens of An- dorra boldly threw off the yoke of trib- ute to the French. 'Tis true it was only the sum of $200 which they refused to pay; but their action was sufficient to recall from obscurity for a moment the Liliputian realm nestling on the heights of the Pyrenees. The vale of Andorra measures less than eighteen miles in either direction; but it is the home of one of the oldest republics in the world, the constitution of which is four years older than England's Magna Charta. The Andorrese number in all but 10,000 souls, and . these and their cestors have lived for a hundred ye rs in the heart of Europe, without hay 'ng written one word of its history. dorra is only one of a score of tiny republics—miniature nations, some of which are only to be found marked on navigators' charts. Tavarola, for Instance, is the smallest republic on the face of the globe. It occupies an island off the northeast coast of Sar- dinia, and comprises fifty-five people. Ti enjoys, however, the distinction of equal suffrage. Then there are Goust, Franceville, and San Marino, all small- er than Andorra. Truly, one-half of the world knows not the other half. The Ihigi.et Tree. In the World. In the Victorian state forest, on the slopes of the mountains dividing Gipps Land from the rest of the Australian colony of Victoria, grow the highest trees in the world, the noble gum trees of the genus eucalyptus. These trees range from 35o feet to 500 feet in height. One of the huge trees that had fallen wag found, by actual measurement with a tape. to be 433 feet from the roots to where the trunk had been broken off hy the fall. 'and at that point the tree WAS three feet' in diameter. A cedar tree recently felled near Ocosta, Wash., measured 467 feet in height and 70 feet in circumference. Dr. James gives some interesting particulars of these gum trees. The eucalyptus globulus grew 40 feet high in four years. in Florida, with a stem a foot in diameter. Trees of the same species Is Guatemala grew 120 feet in twelve years and had a stem diameter of nine feet. Other species also attain enormous sizes,— eucalyptus diversicolor Is known to grow 400 foil high, and trees have been measured 300 feet long without a branch. Boards 12 6.et wide can fre- quently be obtained. In 1860 a mons- ter petrified tree was found in Bp,,ker county. Oregon. It was just 666 feet long, and at Its hut! was quite 60 feet in diameter. Amber -like beads of petri- fied gum adhered to the sides of the trunk for a distance of 100 feet or more. --London Tid-bits. TOY. The \sp• Jr ern rep\ IR one of the most interesting -tint lilt' toys of re- cent invention. and, no doubt, it is destined to prove one of the most Im- portant. It liag only black and whits markings, lee hen it Is r , ,olved rap- idly it pre,:ent all the ',dors of the rainbow as the‘ are seen in the New- tonian see, irate he in- tm, due to - u fatige o v f en t t l::: ' Anti I t hat it has nothing t o do with he V.'8Ve theory of light. A,, Lye I.. , WeAlues• Herr W.is attaskerl by a hand of robbers, tnt Ve 1101'11 he a AS rOM - pp' Icrl to deliver all the MOO , V he ear rled with him With a heavy heart he , handed to the robbers the stun of two thousand marks, and then asked to hove ,a hundred marks retuiiied, oh serving that be was in the hallo of get tine a diseount of fi per cent for nrompl cash Yor Erheitcrung — The 1,onis Browns have won but one mengler game from New York this Reliant) in the full serial. • Il ! ? , 1 Oo to THE 111INT For Imported And Domestic Liquors, Wines, Cigars •-i Flilwaukee and St. Louis Bottled . Beers. The Anheuser-Busch Celebrated BEST IN THE \Premium On Draught. WORLD. Pale\ SPARL1NG Wickes, Proprietors, & SCHARF - - Montana. , J. W. liCONAHAN, WICKES, - ▪ — MONTANA. DEALER IN Hay, Grain, Flour, Rolled Oats, Corn Meal, . FRYE F . L.OUF=2. Lowest Prices for Cash. DEAN & TAYLOR, \Aiholesale and Retail Dealers in —4 Beef, Mutton, Pork, Hams, Bacon, AND MONTANA LARD. Wickes, Montana. •
