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VO LUM E 103.
P ro re s s io n a l C a ris ^ e tc .
G . HOWARD JO N E S,
Ik ta m S E Y AND OOtUISELOEAT LAW.
In 6Teec2i bnlldm^* William sfr.
S I O f ^ E Y C R O V J E L I .,
ATTORNEY AND GOUIfSELOR AT LAW.
Office in Meech Building, Oatskill/N. T.
A. C. GR35VVOL.D*
G r o c e r ie s a n d P r o v i s i o n s .
Proprietary Medicines.
A B IS E E T CLAIM.
R e a l E s t a t e F o r S a le .
O U^ eO F F SE S
Whole Family Helped
B Y M A E Y E ST IC EN EY .
ir tO U S E ON TTEST'b b IDSE STEEET.—WIKL
a I accommodate two-famllles; Inquire of the
owner, MRS. P. HANNON, or JOHN MADIGAN.
Also, COTTAGE ON SPRING ST., opposite the
residence of O. Y Sage, and other real estate bar­
gains, Apply to
JOHN MADIGAN, or
ja4
YEDDEB & WILTSE.
ATTOSNEY AND OODNSEEOB AXDAT7,
Office No. 17 WiUiam st., Oataki^ N.Y .
__
A. m . fiJIURPHV,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW.
Meecli Building, William at., OataklU, N , Y,
E IR E
IN S U R A N C E .
X a a .s u 3 rA X i.c e O o .
P. V. VAH ORDEfl, Agekt, Gatskili, li. Y.
ESTABLISHED 1869.
PALMEE & m O B T ,
A FARM OP 100 AOBES, G'i MILES PEOH
Oatstill, near tho Eeformed chnroIi> Klskatom. Will sell the whole or part, to suit parchaser, on easy terms. If not sold by March 1,
will rent.
DAVID-BLOOM,
d2S
Kiskatom, Greene Oo., N. Y.
GOOD FRUIT AND GRAIN FARM FOB
sale, a t Sandy Plains, one mile from S >uth
Cairo. Contains 107 acres of tillable and 20 acres
of wood land. School and church near by.
Cash sales for 1892—F ru it $777, Butter and
calves $150, Grain and Straw $1^0, Pork $103,
Lambs and Wool §63, Potatoes $60. Total, $1333.
CHARLES LATHROP,
n30m2
South Cairo, N. Y.
(successors to G. S. Palmer,)
HOUSE TO RENT,
% ^ i^ O L E S A L E
!
a re th e B E S T , a a d
BO A STED E B E S H E Y E B Y W EEK .
F . V . R . T IM M E R M A N ,
(SUOCESSOn TO JONES is BAOEEX),
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
G e o e iE S A i PROVISIOiS,
AgeoCfor the sale of
LESTER BROS.’ PHOSPHATES.
2 S 5 Itfa ia 8ci*oet, C a ts h lll.
A FULL ASSORTMENT OF
WOOD AND WILLOW WARE,
C hurns, B u tte r B ow ls, &c.
S H A X .E R & F O X .
f E M
oe
T tyo F
' IBB Reaiie St., New Ifork Gitif.
S,
M
I E
F R U IfS M D
PRO DUCB.
IHSAPO
TnE OREIT
TROnircES THE ABOVE
i l s n
F
m
Y
(Pormerlvwltli D. F. SVtl^os.andgraduate
of the University of Pennsylvania.
B A C R E S , W IT H K I L N S , T W O D W E I X iD g s, L a r g e s t a b l e s a n d S h e d s . I n q u i r e o f
CA T S K IL L , K . Y .
PEECIVAL GOLDIN, C ataiill.
Office Sfl'itii East Corner flain and William Sts.
J u n e s ,1891.
Fi5RJ¥3 F O R S ^ L E .
s e v e n t y ac res,
3 MILES PROM C.ATSKILL
i o village; well watered; good hnildings; two
yoang growing orchards. Call on o r address
je9
________H. A. BADBATl, Catskill,
S J L S - S !
Li
Season o f 1894.
OM AR Y . SAG E,
(Successoxto Jo h n Doane),
2 3 NOW EEO EIvrN a A NEW STOCK ON
AT HIS YARD
J u s t B e lo w t h e B r i d g e ,
Which he offers to th e public
At Lowest Bottom Priees.
Fall weight guaranteed. All Coal well screened
and delivered at REDUCED RATES to any part
of the village.
O EO . W ,
H O L D R ID G E ,
M ASON AND
B U IL D E R ,
and dealer in MASON'S MATERIALS, as Lime,
Cement, Calcined P laster, Vitrified Drain Pipe,
FiUer<Jugs, Center-Pieces, Brackets, etc. Also
BUILDING STONE FOR SALE, and NORTH
BIVSB BLUE STONE. Contracting on liberal
term s. Orders left a t tbe postoffice will receive
prom pt attention. Shopandofilce on WestBridge
stre e t. West Catskill.
________________ GEORGE W. HOLDRIDGE.
eEORi^S SAXE
Has opened, at the old PenQeld Grocery Stand,
227 Main Street, opposite the Irving House,
A FULL ASSORTMENT OF
Fine Groceries, Teas, Coffees,
Spices, Canned Goods, etc.
ALSO A FULL LINE OF
C O N F E C T IO N E B Y
and as fine a stock of Cigars and Tobacco
as can be fonnd on tbe Hudson River.
Also agent for tbe J. M. Horton Ice Cream Co.
L a rg e , C ool a n d A iry D in in g R o o m s.
Agent for Jennings fc Son^a Celebrated Root Beer.
J. W. ME LICK & CO.,
G 0 H 8 8 I 0 ||l l E B G ] l i T 8
------- IK-------
Fruits aud Produce,
3 3 0 WASHINGTON ST.,
K eiu YorU City*
BERRY CRATES, STJiNClLS and CARDS sent on
application.
R e t u r n s D aily if R e q u i r e d .
Roferenees—IRVING BANK of New York city;
the Hon. A. P , JONES and B. K. VAN
VALKBNBURGH of Catskill.
C. T H O R N T O N , S a l e s m a n .
IN ALL ITS BRANCHES:
£?lrey L ife, A ccid en t, J l a r i n e , Pi.uCo>C;«]atf8,
R e n ts , T o rn a d o e s .
T helargest lines desired io every class of hazera, at the LOWEST BAXES, safely and securely
w rittten by ns.
*
9loney s e n t to a n y p n r t o f E u ro p e . Drafts,
letters of credit, money orders and bills of exexchange on all Enropean coantriee, Asia, Africa
and South America.
S team sh ip tic k e ts to all European and Florida
ports. Prepaid tickets from Europe to America.
REAL ESTATE AWO LOAN AGENTS.
OOLLEOTION OF RENTS A SPECIALTY.
Legal Papers drawn. Accountants, Copyists,
Bankers and Commercial Agents.
yEDDER & WILTSE, CATSKILL.
C A is iL
s u e s
su e.
Assets, Jan. 1, 1895........... $1,135,000.00
Due Depositors...................
970,000.00
165,000.00
Surplus...............
W. IRVINS JENNINSS........................ Pr»aiaeut.
EMORY A CHASE.................. 1st Vice-Presiflent.
ORBIN DAY.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....T reasurer.
JEREMLVH DAY.................................... Secretary.
TRUSTEES;
Dr. Ifelson Fanning,
Orrin Day,
Beujamtu Wey,
Fiiderlck Hill,
Jerem iah Day,
W. Irving Jennings,
Emory A.. Chase,
John A. Foote,
Jam es Stead,
Wm. Palm atler,
Lucius E. Doty,
George S. Stevens,
Wm. J. Hughes,
Addison P. Jones,
Winfield S. Haviland.
Deposits from $I up to $3000 received, and all
moneys securely invested according to the laws of
th e sta te of New York,
T h re e p e r c e n t, i n te r e s t p a id , and interest
^Compounded every January and July and added
to the principal.
Money deposited by tUalOtb of Jandary or July,
And by the 3d of each of the other m onths, draws
in te re st from the 1st of that month.
Money loaned on Bond and Mortg 'ge at 5 p e r
c e n t , in t e r e s t .
Government and State Bonds, also County, City
*nd Town Bonds of this State, bought.
Dated Jan. 18, 1805.
„
OEEIN DAY, Treasurer.
J . DAY, Secretary.
___________________
S O A P & C lH B L l
W A O IO B Y ,
ujlvingstou St., first street below Windsor Hotel,
running East, a few rods from Main st,
S O iX lE >
C A ]^ U X -3 S S
•of the best qualities, auitablefor village and couai r y trade. Extra Y ^ow and Good Old-Fashioned
Yellow Soap; also Good Soft Soap for family uso.
Grease taken from familiesin exchange for goods.
Sough and tried tallow bought and sold a t the
9&irket price.
CHARLES TROWBRIDGE.
Farm of 5Uacres,first-class land,at Athens, N
y . Two never-failing springs, good' buildings,
fru it o f all kinds. Bitnated one-half mile East of
West Athens station. West Shore BB. Good loca­
tion for city boarders Inquire on the place.
S. ODELL.
rO K , SAILS.
] i J Y DWELLING HOUSE, UPPER MAIN ST.,
i T l Catskill. F or particulars inquire of
WILTSE.
Mrs. ALEK., WIL
RESULTS In CO DA:
■ ‘soascs. Fi
Lower MaSn s t, opp. W indsorSotel,
Highest llaiket Price Paid for Gountrif Produce
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD.
FOE THE CHOICEST AND BEST
5 oar l e g i s t has not pot It, wo will fend it prep*ald
UrlcntnlMcdlcnlCoifFropsif Chtcaso, lil,| oroaraseati,
fOLD by Dr. F. C. Clarke. Druggist, Cor. Main Se
Thomson Sts.r CATSKILL, N. Y,, and Icadii
dru«^hts elsewhere.
Skin
Eruptions
and similar annoyances are caused (
by an impure blood, which will j
result in a more dreaded disease. ]
Unless removed, slight impurities (
will develop into Scrofula, Ecze« ]
ma. Salt Rheum andotherserious j
results of
Formosa, Oolong, Sonpowder, Japan
DIRECT IMPORTATION,
9
S H A L B E & P O X ’S.
auction to the hlgheat blflUcr on tho 23th day ol
All the follmving plccea or parcels of land;
AU th at certain farm of land formerly owned by
Peter Roggen ih bis lifetime and of which he died
selzpd, trgAther with otber pieces of land pur­
chased by Manly B. Matiice of Peter Powell and
Daniel Hallenbeck, all situate in the town of
Durham, county of Greene, and■ ■
bounded
ded as fol­
lows, viz.: On the North and East by the Oatsklll
Creek as tbe same formerly ran, or as the same
was conveyed to Jacob Boggen and Peter Roggen
by deed from Jeremiah Plank and wife and Fred­
erick Flank and wife; on the West by lands of
formerly John Peck; on the South by lands of
John Kenyon and tbe Dnrh'im Greek as the same
ran on the 23d day of March, 18G3—being tbe
same premises conveyed by Jnlia Roggen and
Manly B. Mattice and wife to Aaron Roggen by
deed dated March 23d, 18G3; excepting and reaerving from tbe above any rights and privileges
now owned by John and Walter Cheritreo or
others to build and maintain a dam across the
Catskill Creek, also any rights and privileges con­
veyed by Peter Boggen and wife to Aaron Griffin
and Tnrncr Strawbridge by deed dated June 10,
1851, of a certain water privilege on the Gatskili
Creek.
Also those other pieces or parcels of lands and
rights of way belonging to the above-described
farmjiscouveyeri fp Orrin Pqrter by.3obn Feck
by deed dated April 8,18G9, and recorded in Grecno
county on tho 20 th day of April, 18C9, in Book of
Deeds 72, p. 43.
Also that other piece of land, containing one
;e above-described farm on the
_______________ in deed given by Reuben Moss
and wife to John A. ti^mltb, dated Jannary
1871, and recorded In Greene county September 28,
387G, in Book 85 of Deeds, p. 250.
Also all that other lot of land situate in said
town cf Durham, bounded generally as follows,
viz.: Northerly Ijy the old Susquehanna turnpike;
Easterly by lands of John Burbans, and William
Pierce, deceased, and Austin L. H ull; Sontherly
by lands of said Hull and lands of George Van
Y>yke; and Westerly by lands of Sidney Crandall;
containing CO acres of land, more or less—being
the same premises formerly owned and occupied
by Luther Darling.
Dated Dec. 10,1894.
c l a r e n c e E BLOODGOOD, Referee.
JuDSON A. Betts, Piff.*s Atty.,
Catskill, N, Y.
d U P R E M K COU RT T E R filS .
o
THIRD JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT.
Bad
Blood!
1 have for soma time been
a suUeier f r o m a severe
hlood trouble, for which I
] with the mpstwondcrfulrcsults
:eelmp quite like a nev,
man.
j o h n s . e d e l in ,
Government Printing OlHce, Waslilogton.D. C.
Our Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases |
mailed free to any address.
SWIFT SPECIRG CO., ACsaia, Ga.
T n u D D e s ik e d
in
G r e e n e Cou nty .
Alice J . Overbaufih
against
Frank D. Overbangb, Edward 0. Overbaugh,1.•
Hfzekiah V. Overbaugh, Sarah J, Friar. J
To tbe above-named Defendants:
You are hereby summoned to answer Ih® com­
plaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your
answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty
days after tbe service of this Summons, exclusive
of the d'sy of service; and in case of your failure to
appear or answer, judgment will be taken against
you by default tor the relief demanded in the
complaint.
Dated January 3rd, 1895.
E. PALMER, P'aintiff’s Attorney.
Office address and postoQlce address, Catskill,
Greene Oc., New York.
To Edward 0. Overbaugh:
The foregoing summons is served upon you by
publication, pursuant to an order of the Hon,
John Sanderson, Qreene (*ounty Judge, dated the
3rd day of January, 1893, and filed with the com­
plaint in tho office of the Clerk of the County of
Greene, in ibe village of Catskill, Greene connty,
in said State.
Dated JanV 3rd, 1833.
E. PALMER, Plff.’a Atty.
Office and P.>0. address, Oatsklll, Greene Co.,
New York.
»
Last Tuesday of January.......................Herrick:
Last Tuesday of February.....................Parker
Last Tuesday of March.................*• .. .Edwards
Last Tuesday of April........................ Herrick
Last Tuesday of M ay ............... ........ . .Fnraman
X.ast Taesday of Ju n e..........................H erric k
Last Tuesday of J u l y ................... .....M ayham
Last Tuesday of August......................... Farsmaii
Last Tuesday of September.. . . . . . . . . . .Mayham
Last Taesday of October.........Herrick
Last Tuesday of November . . . . . . . . . . . .Herrick
Last Taesday of December .................. Parker
r io th e r ?
First Saturday of January, March, May, July and
October, at T ro y .......... .............. ....F u rsm an
SecondSaturday of January, and the first Satur­
day of February, March, May, Juno and Octo­
ber, at Hudson.....................
Edwards
Second Saturday of January, March, April, June,
October and December, a t the Olty Hall, in the
OUy of Albany.................. . ..............Herrick
Last Saturday of every month, except July and
August at the Court-House,Schoharie.Mayham
Third Saturday of every month except July, Au­
gust and September, at K ingston.... ..Parker
Special Terms at Chambers of Justices, always
open for CTiparto business.
GENJJBAli TEBMS.
Second Tuesday of February, at Oity Hall, Albany.
Second Taesday of May, at Olty Hall, Albany.
Second Tuesday of September, at Town Hall, Sar­
State of New York,\
atoga Springs.
Qreene County Oderk’s uitioe . f 0 Firgt Tuesday of December, at Olty Hall, Albany.
Notice l3 hereby given that a panel of GRAND*
r p E R I lI S O F T U E COUNTY COU RT AND
JURORS, to serve at a
JL C o u r t o f S e ssio n s o f Qr e e n e C ounty .
CIRCUIT COURT AND COURT OP OYER AND
Pursuant to the requirements of tho Code of
TERMINER
Oivil Procedure, the uuderslgned,.County Judge
to be hold in and for tbe County of Groene, at the of tbe County of Greene, hereby appoints the
Court House in Catskill. on the third Monday (tho times and place for holding tbo terms of the
18th day) of February, 1SD5, will be drawn at this County Court and Court of Sessions therein, for
tho year 1839, and each year tborcaftor, until
office on
otherwise appointed, as follows:
Monuay, the 4th D ay of F ebruary, 1893,
Second Tuesday of February, 10 a.sx., at Cham­
at 10 o’clock in the forenoon of that day.
bers of the County Judge at Oatsklll.
Dated Oatsklll, January 3,1895.
Second Tuesday of March, 10 a.m ., a t Obambors
Henry B. Whitcomb, County Clerk.
aforesaid.
Second Monday of April, 2 f .m ., at tho Court
IjK A W iN u OF ju u o a w .
House in tho village of Catskill.
8’econd Taesday of May, 10 a.M., a t Chambers
State OP New York,
1
aforesaid.
Greene County Oeerk ’s office .!
Second Monday of June, 2 f . m., a t the Court
Notice is hereby givcR that a panel of PETIT Housa aforesaid.
Second Taesday of July, 10 a.m ., a t Chambers
JURORS, to serve at a
CIRCUIT COURT AND COURT OF OYER AND aforesaid.
Second
Tuesday of September, 10 a.m ., at
TERMINER
Chambers aforesaid.
to be held in and for tho County of Greene, at t n
Second Tuesday of October, 10 a. m., at Cham­
Court House in OaUkiH, on tho third Monday (tbe bers aforesaid.
18th day) uf February, 1695, will bo drawn at this
Thiid Monday of November, 2 p .m ., at tho
office on
Oonrb House aforesaid.
The appointment of the terms for tbo second
aiONDAY, THE 4TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1895,
Bfonday of April and of Jnne, and for tho third
at 10 o’clock In the forenoon of that day.
Monday of November aro for both of said courts.
Dated Catskill, Jannary 3,1893.
All the otber appointments aro foe tho County
Henry B, Whitcomb, County Olerk.
Court only.
I t Is ordered that a trial Jury bn drawn and
TWrOTICE TO CRED1TOU.S.—P u rs u a n t to summoned
to attend tbo terms appointed to be
an order of Hun. John Sanderson, Surrogate
on Ine second Monday of April, and on the
of the county of Qrceno, and according to the held
third
Monday
of November. No Grand Jury will
statute in such case made and provided, notice is be drawn to attend
any of the above-appointed
hf^rtby given to all persons having claims against terms.
tho estate of Daniel Van Valkenburgh, deceased,
Dated
Catskill,
December
lOtb, 1893.
late of <he town of Hilcott, in said county, that
JOHN S \NDERSON,
if
they aro required to exhibit the same, with the
County Judge of Greene County.
of Juno. 1895, or In default thereof their claims
will be precluded and de barred from payment out
of said estate.—Dated Dec. 12th, 1894.
DANIEL D. VAN VALKENBURGH,
JOHN H. VAN VALKENBURGH,
Executors of, &C,
TO CJREOITOlcS*—P u rs n a n i to
I n an order of Hon. John Bacdorson, surrogate
of the county of Greene, and according to the
statute In such case made and provided, notice Is
hereby eiv».n to all persons having <*lalms against
the estate of Moseo Filea, deceased, late of the
town of Oatsklll, In said county, that they are
required to exhibit the same, with tho vouchers
thereof, to Robert F. Story, the undersigned
executor, at his residence in tho town of Catskill,
on or beforo the 15th day of April, 1895, or in
default thereof their claims will be precluded and
debarred from payment out of said estate.
Dated October Bth, 1894.
RO BERT F . STORY. E x e cu to r. &c..
Of Moses Files, deceased.
l^ O T X C E TO rjR E D lT O R S .—P u rs u a n t to
A.\j au order of Hon. John Sanderson. Surrogate
of tho County of Greoue, and according to the
statute in such case made and provided, notice is
hereby given to all persons having claims against
tbe estate of Anna Smith, deceased, late cf tho
town of GreeaviBe, in said county, that they are
required to exhibit tho same, with the vouchers
thereof, to Clarence E. Bloodgood, the under­
signed administrator, at his office in the village
of Catskill. on or before tho 4th day of February,
lb95, or in default thereof their claims will bo
precluded and debarred from payment out of said
caiato.—Dated July 27th, 1894.
OLABENOE E. BLOODGOOD,
Admlnlatrator of, &o.
few minutes longer.”
“ Thank you so much. ” His tone was
eloquent of satisfaction as he chose s
seat by her feet. “And now what shall
I tell you? The story of my tronbles?
Ah, it is a dreary subject. ”
“ Oh, if you would rather not tell
it”—
“ But I virant to very much if you will
really have patience to listen. And even
if I did not wish it” —hesitating, with
a short laugh—“ well, it would seem a
small price to pay for the pleasnre of
sitting here with yon like this.’’
_ “ Oh, if you are only going'to pay me
silly compliments”— she exclaimed in
an offended tone, making as though she
would rise.
“But 1 am not. Miss Ellery.” He was
genuinely alarmed at the movement.
“ ISlot another word of the sort shall
pass my lips, I pledge you my word.
I will he as barely oivil as you could
wish if you will only stay. I w ill apol­
ogize over and over again for that one
slip 'of the tongue. ”
“ One apology-will he enough per­
haps,” she said, with au irrepressible
little smile which she knew undid all
r p n E PEO PLE OF T O E STA TE OF NEW
I YORE—To Katharino Jacobs, Jacob Merkel,
Ludwig Merkel, Emil Merkel, EUfAbeth Shook.
Karl Merkel, Adolph Merkel, Louisa Merkel, Emil
Merkel, Mary Merkel, Mrs. Peter Morkel, Daniel
Merkel, Howard (or Horace) Morkol and Emma
Merkel, and all creditors, helrs-aWaw, legatees,
next of kin, and all other persons interested In
the estate of Petor Merkel, lato of tho town of
Catskill and county of Greene, deceased t
Whereas, Louisa Hasselman and Wm. W. Ben­
nett, aa administrators of tho goods, chattels
and credits cf tbe said deceased, are desirous to
render an account of their proceedirge as sneh
administrators, and to have the samo finally
judicially Bottlod, have applied for a citation for
that purpose:
You are therefore required to appear before the
18 final jauiu ai Beuiemcntoi tno eai
And If any of tho persons interested
ago of twenty-ono years, they aro required to ap­
pear by their gnardiau.if they have one, or if they
have nono to appear and anply for one to be ap­
pointed, or In the event of their neglect or fail­
ure to do BO a guardian will bo appointed by tho
Surrogate to represent and act for them in tho
proceedings.
In testimony whereof, wo have caused tbo seal
of our said Sarregato^s Court to be h£reunto affixed.
Witness, John Sanderson, Enquire, Surp
[L. 8.] rogate of said county, at tho village of
CatfckiU, tbo Od day of December, in the
year of our Lord ono thonoind eight hun­
dred and Dlnoty-four,
JOHN SANDERSON,
Surrogate of Grecno County*
sume her seat and listen, although she
felt she ought to go. “ Bub—shall we
return to our montons? I am waiting
for the story. ”
“ It is the story of another prodigal
son, yon must know,” he said, looking
up with a faint, sardonic smile, “ only
in this case the swine, as a rule, hare
refused to divide, and there is no finale
of veal.”
'"Yes, ’’ she assented, a certain coldness
in her tone. Was he going to tell her
that his sin had been so very black?
She felt sharply impatient for him to
go on, to prove to her, if he could, that
her instinctive trust in him had not
been misplaced.
“I was not really such a had sort.”
He spoke as if he had read her thought.
‘‘But too much was expected of me. My
father was very religions, and before I
was bom, I believe, had dedicated me
to the ministry. It was an awful dis­
appointment to him that as I grew old­
er I showed no sort of inclination for
the calling, and when I went to college
—Well, I did not behave as a foreor­
dained theologne ought, I am afraid, I
was not fast, according to college stand­
ards, but I was a tremendously muscu­
lar fellow, taking to a boat and all man-
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that surely?”
E asy,
AssistiNaturOjLesecnsDingerandShortansLaiior.
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lynching me for the cruel messes I served
them.”
“ You cooked 1” the girl ejaculated in
a sharp staccato, as it seenjed, more
startled at this idea tban by any sug­
gestion of moral delinquencies.
.“ Excuse me. Miss Ellery, I did not
Bay SO,” he replied, with grim amuse­
ment. “ I tried to cook upon one unhap­
py occasion, driven by force of circum­
stances over which I appeared to have
no control. If I remember aright, I had
hot had a square meal for a week when
I was reduced to that desperate expe­
dient. I told you, you know, that the
swine had not always behaved accord­
ing to the Biblical precedent. ”
“ 0-h!” -she exclaimed, with along,
gasping breath, unconsciously wringing
her hands. “ How you must have suf­
fered!”
“I was rather uncomfortable at times,
yes, ” ho dryly agreed. “ But finally I
drifted out on a roundup with a cattle
outfit, when it developed that I had
something of a knack .for handling
horses. I got a position as line rider.
Which gave me opportunity to get onto
some of the peouliarties of these west­
ern. bronchos, and so in course of time
was evolved Paul Brown, horse break­
er.”
“ And that is all?” she murmured,
with a long breath, perhaps with more
kindness than she knew in the depths
of her brown eyes.
“ That is all. Merely the story of a
Wasted life. ”
“But surely it has not all been wast­
ed?”
“I don’t know what part can be fair­
ly excepted. Certainly as a preparation
for broncho breaking the first SO years
went for nothing, while, looked at fronr
the standpoint of the. old days, the last
ten years have been utterly thrown
away.”
“ But I am sure that even as a horse
breaker you must do your work better,
becauEO you are a gentleman, ” she urg­
ed warmly, “ while you cannot regard
yourself as any less a gentleman because
you happen to he now a horsetfi'eaker. ”
“ Oh, don’t be too kind to me,” he
murmured unsteadily, turning his face
away. “ I warn you it is dangerous. I
shall be forgetting the terms of Onr com­
pact and saying something which you
will regard as complimentary.”
‘‘I cannot stay to listen If you should, ’’
she exclairned, rising hurriedly. “I
jmust be going now. They will be won­
dering what has become of m a ”
Won’t you let me thank you first?”
rising also and coming close beside her.
‘ ‘I t was 60 kind of yon to stay and lis­
ten. I don’t think you con quite realize
What it is to me after all these years to
ba talking to a woman like you on the
footing of a friend. And what you have
just said—ah, how good it was of you
to say it—it has almost restored my
faith in myself. I t has made me feel
that the gome maybe worth the candle,
after all.”
'Ah, xvhy should you doubt it?“ S er
color 1703 rising, but her eyes were elo-
quent of kindness atilL “ Your luck has
turned. Nobody knows what sucoesses
looked upon ball and boating as mere may be yonrs. For my part, I have no
devices of the evil one to encourage doubt hut you will he one of Wyoming’s
idleness and dissipation, while all secret cattle kings yeti ” She laughed rather
societies he hated as much as the devil conEtralnedly under the steady fire of
is supposed to hate holy water, and so his eyes. “All things come to him who
with these things I was solemnly pledg­ waitSj”
ed in advance to have nothing to do,
“May I believe that really, do yoji
and the pledges were broken. ”
think?” An odd light was in his eyes
“But your father was unreasonable as he came a step nearer.
to have made such demands.”
'Oh, within certain limitations I
“I quieted my conscience by think­ Ehould say it would ba perfectly safe.
ing so, hut it did not save me from tho But now I really must he going. I’
natural way of the transgressor. Proh- . “ And may I walk hack with you?”
ably my father gauged my capacity bat­
"Oh, as to that”— she returned, fal­
ter than I, after all, and knew that I tering confusedly.
oonld not serve two masters. At all , “You prefer
_
that^ I should not. Ah,
eyeafa,^ although I -improved my strokti“' ’Miss-Ellory,' tifa-fedteo breaker ig-sstfeerto a point of which I was not a little more in evidence than the gentleman,
proud, ” he went on, with a smile that after all.”
was not merry, “I went home the first
“ But I did not say”—
year loaded down with a string of con­
“ No, you did not, but I understand
ditions which kept me grinding all sum­ just the same. But don’t let it trouble
mer. That fall I went back all braced you; Idon’tcomplain. InSeed how could
up with good resolutions, determined I complain of anything so long as I re­
to score a record as ‘a dig’ and nothing member this hour? I t is all right—only,
else. I really meant it, but in an evil 'Will you shake hands with me, as a
hour I was persuaded to take an oar in friend, before you go? You might do as
our class orew, and the next thing; an­ much as that for any chance acquaint­
other fellow falling out, I fonnd myself ance yon met in the street, yon Imow.”
pulling stroke afld proud of it. And to
Edith hesitated, blushing faintly,
make matters worse it had developed biting her under lip nervously. “ Why,
that I was a pretty fair pitcher, so that certainly, if you wish, ” she said after
I was occasionally called in as substi­ an instant holding out her small, bare
tute on our class nine, and by this time hand to him. “ Good afternoon, Mr.
pride in my prowess had so chloroform­ Brown.”
ed my oonsoienoe that I went along on
Paul Brown made no response in
the principle that I might as well he words as he grasped the kindly hand in
hung for a sheep as for a lamb. I vague­ a close, clinging pressure, only as he
ly expected a day of reckoning gome looked down at her his eyes spoke in a
time, hut it never entered my head that sudden, tumultuous message such as no
it could he what it was. With all my woman’s heart could ever fail to under­
athletic laurels had come pressure to stand—mad, voiceless appeal which
join one of tbe college societies, of filled the girl with confused terror.
course, and equally, of course, feeling Snatching her hand from his detaining
that the step was fairly forced upon me, grasp, with a little inarticulate excla­
I ohose to join the best. Expenses in­ mation, she almost ran from him down
creased, and I was in debt almost be- the steep trail into the shadow of the
fdre I knew it—harassed and worried trees. She had a vague idea that she
to death to keep along at the pace, yet ought to be very angry, a sense of won­
helpless to stop when once I had got der that she was not. She knew she
started. Well, I came out so low in was not. She was only frightened,
scholarship that year that I believe stunned. A wild impulse of flight was
nothing but my athletic record saved upon her. She breathlessly told herself
me from being dropped, and when I that she could never meet his face
went home I knew from my father’s again. She would like to escape from
manner that I was almost in hopeless the mad message of those eyes forever,
disgrace. And, as if it could not rain and with no thought of analyzing mo­
without a pour, it happened that our tives or explaining her inconsistency in
orew had just won in a race—a small that moment Marshall Woodbury had
affair, but a victory so unexpected that gained his suit. Her mind of a sudden
we were lauded to the skies, while was clearly settled—she would meet
one gabbling sheet even went on to her lover iu Denver, and all shonld be
gif'a on, all around puff to the boys, as he wished. _______
with sketches of our lives, and espe­
CHAPTER V.
cially of our athletic prowess. My
There was to be a dance at the I X
name figured at the head in large type,
and not a detail was omitted that could Bar ranch, and Mrs. Dennison, wife of
help ruin me at home. Even my college the resident manager, ont of &e kind­
society had to appear in the tale. Of ness of her heart, sent a special invita­
course this was the paper which fell tion, nrging tho Ellery family to assist
Into my father’s hands. He had been at the function.
“And I suppose the poor woman has
disappointed enough before, hut now he
was angrier than I had ever imagined not the remotest idea why we should
he could be. This explained why I had not go,’’remarked Nelsine, with an air
nothing hut disgrace to show for all the Of despairing appreciation of her neigh­
wasteful and unwarranted expense of bor’s hopeless simplicity.
“But why should we not go?” cried
my college life. His son's name blazon­
ed in print as a boating man, forever Edith eagerly. “A genuine cowboy
smirobed with the stigma of association dance! It ought to bo no end of fun.”
“ It is—^better than a circus,” Hugh
with sporting men! His son convicted
of deliberate lying and swindling! For declared, laughing with reminiscent en­
had I not stooped to extort uijuey from joyment. “ Wo took one in over at the
him, ostensibly for legitimal^expenses, Campbells’ awhile ago. It was no end
which I had meanly purposed all the of a lark. As to tho Dennisons,” glanc­
while to use for these disgraceful pur­ ing interrogatively at his wife, ‘‘I shonld
suits and pleasures with which I had hate to offend them.’!
“ Yes,” Nelsine admitted, with a
been in honor bound to have nothing to
do? His son playing tho role of confi­ plaintive little sigh. “ They are so aodence man, thief, against the purse of commodating in the matter of butter
hla own father! Oh, Miss Ellery, it was and eggs and chickens. But when it
terrible! My father lived such a repress­ comes to taking Edith to the dance”—
“ But why not?” cried that young
ed life, his religion seemed to keep him
so bound hand and foot, that it always woman in vigorous protest. “ Is it not
appeared when he did let himself go respectable?”
“ Oh, pre-eminently respectable, but
that ho the more utterly lost control
over himself. In this case he said his as hopelessly mixed as heaven itself,”
worst, and then I left the house. He laughed Hughf “ The best society will
said that ho never wished to see my be there as well as the second best, all
face again, and he never has,” a soh in pretty much alike as to gowns and
grammar, all particularly free and ag­
his voice as ha turned his face away.
■'But ho did not mean I t—surely he gressively equal.”
“ It is not a private party, you must
could not!” she cried, her cheeks aflame.
H e said it, ” his lips shutting dog­ know,” put in Nelsine parenthetically.
“ The cowboys get it up among them­
gedly togother.
selves to celebrate the end of the round­
“But your mother?”
” My mother died when I was 17 up. The Dennisons scarcely do more
years old. If she had lived, I might than lend their house. The hoys hire a
fiddler—and such a fiddler!—from a
have been a better fellow. ”
“But did not yonr father retract his ranch some 20 miles up the country, who
cruel words when once his anger was packs his wife and a parlor organ along
over? Was he not willing to give you With his own especial instrument of
torture to the scene of festivities, where
another chance?”
“ I did not wait to see. I sold my ho acts as master of ceremonies,” while
watch to raise money and came west.” as she paused Hugh continued the tale,
Edith looked away, a mist before her delighting in the description: “ Thp
eyes. "And will you tell ma tha rest of dances are sold by numbers, 60 cents
it?” she asked very gently after a mo­ for each opportunity ha-vlng become
ment. "Did you become a horse breaker the es tablished figure. Yon pay your
money, hut then you don’t take your
then?”
•‘J did not have the good Inok to be­ choice to any great extent, for the fid'
come anything all at once. I t appeared dler, with stciot^impartiality, calls ont
fts if all the young men on earth had the numbers before each dance, so that
been moved to taka Greeley’s Immortal ono has only to find one’s partner and
advice and start west In a body at that —in the recherche language commonly
very time, and the majority seemed employed on these joyous oooasions—
much better equipped to -wrestlawith hoof It to the extent of his money’s
the problem of acquiring three meals a Worth, whether luck happens to have
day than I was. I did not know enough given him a reel or a redowa. This
simple arrangement has not only pecu­
to keep a set of books, while I had
certain prejudice against dealing faro, niary advantages to recommend it, but
and BO I wasn’t in it to any extent. it also works like a charm in preventing
Having at the same time a robust appe­ any obstreperous cow puncher from de­
tite, it became embarrassing. I tried a manding more than his fair share of
little of everything, even down to t ^ - ■floor space and partners, a contingenoy
ing a job as cook iq a railroad camp, which has been known to lead to em­
1 Where the missrablo naTviea oaige n e ^ barrassing results iu this gimslo oad
“ The wrong happened to lie in a
string of broken promises, for m y father
M akes
C h ild b ir th
^
of atbletics as nutnrally as a dnek
to w ater.”
there was nothing wrong in
“MOTHER’S
FRIEND”
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OF D e m u r r e r s , a t Ce a m e s r s .
j ^ R A W I N t i O F JD ItO K S .
m tue town oi VJatBisiu, on I*r nnuro mo n tu
“I t is growing late,” she
m n r n ln r e d , ‘ 'I m t p e r h a p s I c a n s t a y a
nev
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JL of the State of New York to the Sheriff of the
County of Greene, greeting: You are hereby com­
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have been drawn in your county, pursuant to law,
to serv&as Grand and Petit Jurors at the next
Court of Oyer and Terminer and Jail Delivery,
to be held in and for your county on tbe third
Monday (the 18th day) of February next, to appear
thereat; to bring before the Court all the pris
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together with all the processes and proceedings
in any way concerning them in your hands ; and
to make proclamation, in the manner prescribed
bylaw,notifying all persona bound to appear at
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Peace, Coroners and other officers who have taken
any recognizance for the appearance of any per­
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tion or the examination of any prisoner or witness,
to return such recognizances, inquisitions and
examinations to the said Court, at the opening
tnereof on the first day of its Bitting,
Witness the Hon. BAMTjEr. E dwards, Esquire,
one of the Justices of the'said Court, at
ALBANY.
[L.S.] tbe Court House in Catskill, this 3d day Third Monday In January.......... ...........Edwards
of Jannary, A. D. 1893.
First Monday In May............................L andon
E dward A, Ghtoud , District-Attorney.Si Second Monday In October.................. .Fursman
First Monday in December............. ... .London
COLUMBIA.
O R O C I^A M A T IO N .—W h e re a s a ^ o n r t o f Third Monday in Jan
ary .............Fursmau
J r Oyer and Terminer is aijpointed to be held at F irst Monday in M a yu............................
the Court House in, Catskill. in and for the County Third Monday in O c to b e r..............EFnrsman
d w a rd s
of Greene, on Monday, the ISth day of February,
GREENE.
1895 : Proclamation is therefore hereby made, in Third Monday in February,...................Edwards'
conformity to a precept to me directed and deliv­ First Monday in October............... .........Fursman
ered by the District-Attorney of Greene County
on the 3d day of Jannary, 1895, to aU persons Third Monday in F'^NSSELAEU.
tbruary.....................Fursman
bound to appear at the next Oyer and Terminer, Fourth Monday in May..........................Kellogg
by recognizance or otherwise, to appear thereat; Third Monday in September...................Edwards
and also Justices of the Peace, Coroners and other Second Monday In November... .......... Parker
officers wh > have taken any recognizance for the
SOBOHARIE.
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taken any inquisition or tbe examination of any
.....................Edwards
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SULLIVAH.
recognizances, inquisitions and examinations to
Monday in May..............
Edwards
the said Court, at the opening thereof on the first Fourth
Second Monday in Septem ber................Fursman
day of its silting.
Given under my band, at the Sherlff^a office in Second Monday in A pULSTER
Fursman
tho County of Greene, on tbe 3d day of F irst Monday in June ril......................
.......................... Edwards
January, A. D. 1895.
First Monday in December........... ....F u rsm an
I. Whebdeb Bkandow,
S f e o ia l T e r m s f o r t h e b e a r in g o f
Sheriff of <3reene County,
^tUPREillE COU RT.
CHAPTER IV—Continued.
B d i t h b e s ita te d , g la n c in g udouu n n -
h e r p r e v io u s s e v e rity , y e t, r a t h e r t o h e r
January. 1895, at e!«ven o’clock In tbe forenoon,
at DeWitt's Hotel, in Oak Hill, Qreene Oo., IT. Y.;
iIOK PIVE AOBES OP GARDEN LAND,
^ right in tbe village of OateKill. Apply at
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H ood’Sp^5'*Ctiires
,
e jU P K E M E C O 0 B T -G rc e n o C onnty.
IO
Omar Smith, Plaintiff,
■>
against
Minthorn Smith and Adaline Smith, individ­
ually and aa administrators of the goods,
chattels and credits of John A. sm ith, ■
deceaeed; Addle Smith, Mary Wetmore, [
Roxy Van Aken, Howard E. Shaw, Sarah |
M. Goff, Alvarez Smith, Samantha Smith,
Edith Smith, George Finch, Grant Wilbur, [
Frank Brand and OrvIlIaGoff, Defendants, j
By virtue of a judgment of this Court, made in
the above'entitled action at a special term of said
Court held at the City Hall in the city of Albany,
N. Y., on the 8lh day of December, 1894, and duly
entered in the Greene Co. Clerk’s office on the
loth day of December, 1894, I , tho undersigned,
referee, dnly appointed in this action for such
purpose, will expose for sale and sell at pnbllc
Reference; Chatham National Bank, Oommeral Agency, New York.
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S e a l E s ta te O p p o rtu n itie s .
T T O H S E , BAEn AND TEN AOEES O PiA N D ;
J lJL. house, barn and 6 acres of land; boarding
house and 6 acre^ Of land; house and Jot; all in
VV. B E W f S E T T ,
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COUNSELOB AT EAWr dwelliog hQnso oz> lower Main st.; st cottage on
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ave. and Harrison st.; a double brick dwelling and
a brick store and dwelling on Bnshnoll ave.; large
brick dwelling (20 rooms) ahd 2 ^ acres of land on
FRANK H . O SB O R N , .
Division st.; dwelling house corner Spring and
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houses and one double frame house on Summit
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houses on Willard’s alley; dwelling houre on Di­
vision 8t.; several desirable building lots on New
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Catskill; 2 acres of land in Jefferson; several
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farms in town of Catskill; farm of 80 acres In
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irmantowD, Columbia Co., about 40 acres in
fruit,
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dwelling a
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and ^uuu
good aulau
farm buildwuiiuings,
fine view of the Hudson River and Catskill
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Woodmere House and 30 acres of land, halfNorth of Catskill on Hudson River, 400 feet
OATSKHiL, N.Y.
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above tide-water. House accomnsodates 40 guests.
Hotel and livery stable, good-paying road­
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house, one mile West of Catskill.
Sixty-five acres of land on Athens road; farm
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of 120 acres and boarding house a t Kiskatom;
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North of Smith’s Landing; dwelling-house and
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un trammeled society, where weapons are
always handy.
“ Ah, fi>is is the west I have dreamed
about,” cried the girl delightedly.
“ Surdy,
Nelsine,
N U M B E R 25.
each other by, a method possessing
quite distinct advantages in a gloveless
company.
But, although wholly unconventional
there could he ■no
in many -ways, there -was nothing to bo
harm in going to look on for a little
while?”
“ I suppose it would please Mrs. Dennlson, ” her sister-in-law thoughtfully
admitted, alive to the importance of
oonoiliating so desirable a neighbor.
“But of course you could not dance.”
But on the evening in question it was
settled that only Hugh and his sister
should accept Mrs. Dennison’s invita■tion, Nelsine, even if she had wished to
make one of the party, not liking to ask
Artalissa, who also had been in-vited,
to remain at home with the children.
Late hours for arrival were not fash­
ionable in,Cow Creek society, and it
was in the cool gray twilight that they
drove down the winding natural road
•along the creek to the I X Bar ranch,
to find that, early as they were, many
had come beforo them. Edith saw most
of the men beloJ*ning to the K 6 outfit
mingled in the groups that were loung­
ing abont the bams and corrals, while
Artalissa, fresh as a rose in a pink cot­
ton gown, was langhing with a couple
of women in the doorway of the low,
nnpainted frame house.
Mr. Dennison, greeting them all with
cordial hail-fellow-well-metship, led
the way indoors and went to find his
wife, who was, as he ingenuously ex­
plained to Edith’s great amusement,
“ in the lean to putting the last licks to
the supper. ” A faint but unmistakable
severely criticised in tbe manners of
this simple company. They took their
pleasure ratbei; more joyously than
Edith had been acenstomed to see in
her own weary and well bred circle; the
laughter was more frequenfi more
hearty, hut the roughest cowboy among
them, even if in the exuberance of his
joy he might indulge iu an occasional
pigeon wing uncalled for by the prompt­
er, yet accorded his partner a courtesy
beyond remark, while no lady in all
the land could have frolioked more dis­
creetly tban did those unpretending
women in their ill fitting, homemade
frocks.
Hugh made some good natured at­
tempts to introduce his sistqr to some
of the other women present, hnt as the
fiddle and the parlor organ seemed nntirtngly devoted to keeping all the com­
pany in constant motion, and as the
men outnumbered the available partners
as three to one, there was never a wall­
flower but Edith herself and little
chance tor sociability outside the dances.
The majority of the men were disposed
in groups outside, joking and langhing
as they looked in at doors and windows
waiting their turns. The women, flush­
ed and panting, were p ress^ into con­
tinuous service, while' their number
was laughingly eked .out by a couple
of cowboys, who, -with hahdkerehiefs
around their arms as a badge of their
odor of boiled ham pervading the place
assumed office, smirked and bridled and
announced one delicacy at least to fig­ minced through their parts, i^> the end­
ure a t the coming banquet.
less delight of all the rest. But Edith
They had oome into what was evi­ began to feel uncomfortable after a lit­
dently the family living room, a large, tle, comprehending the meaning of the
low apartment, unpainted and nnplas- anxious glances which were cast upon
tered, ita walls smoothly covered with her as she sat alone. If these people hnt
cotton sheeting which had once been dared, she felt, they would ‘come in a
white, its slightly dust stained and body and entreat her to dance, simply
smoky surface now brilliantly illumi­ to help them out, and when at last Ar­
nated with several kerosene lamps, with talissa, a festoon of ■loosened gathers
a generous row of candles besides, glued slipping from her belt, had run away
by their own drippings to a small pine for repairs, closely followed by a young
shelf. The room had been stripped of mother with a babe. in her arms, the
most of its furniture, only a few chairs situation really became so serious that
stifily ranged against the wall remain­ Mr. Dennison was moved to oome and
ing, together with a bed in one corner ask, with a deprecatory smile, if Miss
protected by calico curtains, which Ellery wouldn’t try it once. Even if she
Edith presently discovered was a didn’t know how right well she need
thoughtful provision for the babies, not mind, the kindly gentleman assured
which were brought to the ball in num­ her in all good fu.th; nobody was going
bers simply amazing to her unaccustom­ to criticise, and she would learn it all
ed eyes. -Most of these plump mothers, fast enough when she once got on the
Edith guessed, were the wives of the floor. Edith blushed in painful embar­
neighboring ranchmen, young ladies, rassment in disposing of this request,
as a rule, being conspicuous by their loath to hurt the feelings of this simple
absence. All were evidently arrayed in folk. 'With true brotherly method Hugh
their best clothes, for the most part of had unceremoniously left her to her
heavy silk and wool stuffs, in which own de-vices while he was blithely talk­
the wearers looked distinctly uncom­ ing cattle among a coterie outside.
fortable on that warm summer night, Through an opposite window she could
while a local fashion seemed to have or­ see Paul Brown standing alone.
dained that each tight knot of hair
All the evening she had been aware
shonld be skewered in place with, sim-
dry French gilt pins gorgeously enriched with rhinestones.
Aside from .Ajrta-
lissa, who was unquestionably the belle
of the evening, there was little beauty
there, but looking at the simple, un­
troubled faces one comprehended why
the babies in the corner were so bound­
lessly blessed with listless good humor.
It seemed to Edith that all the compa­
ny had caught somewhat of the vacant,
mminant expression of their own Idne.
The musicians were already establish­
ed in a corner near the open doors lead­
ing into two smaller apartments also
lighted and made ready for dancing,
into each of which the fiddler by cran­
ing his neck ever so little from where
he sat upon the floor might command
the fullest view. He was not an im^gs^.
ing personage, this gentlen?,'Hk"'Deing
afflicted with SH-exfeefffe'case of stra-bikama. xrfuie he was w ithallsft hand.ed, holding his fiddle reversed, the end
resting upon the floor. It was for his
convenience in this particular 'presum­
ably that he preferred to squat in his
lowly, tailorlike attitude, where it
would seem in the narrow limits of the
room that there might he danger of his
coming to grief from heedless heels up­
on occasion, hut with all his unassum­
ing position it was no less clear that he
was sustained by a very large sense of
his present importance, as with doleful
squeaks he tuned the instrument, while
his wife, complacently seated at the
parlor organ, responded to his repeated
demand to give him “A. ”
Mrs. Dennison, a rosy little woman
in a white gown, something of a misfit
from the shrinkage of many washings,
came in to welcome them presently,
volubly regretting that Mrs. Ellery had
not oome.
“ It was so unfortunate, ” Edith de­
clared, with polite mendacity, “but it
was the children. She could not leave
them, you know.”
“ But she might have brought them
surely,” cried the hostess in all sincer­
ity, glancing toward the improvised
nursery in the corner.
“ But I am glad that my sister is go­
ing to have a glimpse of society on the
range,” put in Hugh hastily.
“ Yes, I ’m glad she come,” returned
their hostess simply. “ We’re so short of
ladies. Every one counts. ”
“ But we’re not going to dance, I ’m
afraid, ” Hugh returned, amusedly glanc­
ing at his sister, whose face had flushed
with, a shade of dismay at this speech.
“ Mrs. Ellery insisted that we should
come home early. I t we should once be­
gin dancing, it would be' all the harder
to tear ourselves away, yon know.”
“ Not going to dance?” cried Mrs.
Dennison, with sneh a very blank ex­
pression that Edith nervously question­
ed if their coming at all had not been a
mistake. “ Why, you’ll dance while
you’re here surely. Why not?”
“ I shall dance if my number is call­
ed and you will dance with me, ” cried
Hugh gallantly. “And if I tip the fid­
dler a wink—has he a soul above J)ribery, do you think? As to my sister,
though—oh, sho doesn’t know much
about dancing, Mrs. Dennison. Her ed­
ucation has been rather neglected in
some directions.” Nobody disliked a lie
more than good natured Hugh Ellery,
but he held that there was sneh a thing
as justifiable prevarication.
“ Why, I shonld think you’d want to
learn, ’’ cried the little woman, turning
to the girl in innocent surprise.
“ I have thought of it,” murmured
Edith uncomfortably, darting a glance
of mingled amusement and reproach at
her brother, but just then happily the
numbers for the first dance were called,
and a partner came to lead Mrs. Denni­
son away. “ How could you?” the girl
muttered in smiling rebuke.
“ I couldn’t but for yon, yon ungrate­
ful young woman I Where would you he
now but for me, I ’d like to know? Stub­
bing yonr little toes over this rough
floor at the risk of your life. I hope
youjll not lose sight of the debt of
gratitude you owe me. ” And he settled
back comfortably to view the company
now ranged in order for a quadrille.
Edith looked on, dreamily amused,
the whole performance seeming as un­
real as a scene in a play. It required
some self restraint to refrain from smil­
ing at the simple coquetries of the rud­
dy cheeked maidens, at the queer steps
and ocoasionallvat the reckless gyrations
of their jolly, flannel shirted partners,
most of whom moved aa though embar­
rassed by imaginary spurs upon their
heels, while not a few were almost boiy
legged from overmuch, hard riding,
Now and then a cry would issue,
from the calico curtained creche in the
corner, at which sound two or three anx­
ious mothers woold rnsh in a body to
the spot, unceremoniously deserting
partners, to the great confusion of the
qnadrillA '^but these episodes seemed to
be acoepteu -quite as a matter of
course, scarce ca*'‘ng for even a smile
by way of comment. Most of all Edith
found herself diverted by the humor de­
veloped in the cross eyed master of cer­
emonies, who, while scraping ont a
highly original rendering of “ Sweet
Violets” and “ Old Dan Tucker,” was
fully alive to his duties of prompter,
which he appeared to think ^'eat fun.
“All ohaw hay," he would blithely cry
when a ohassez was in order, while his
version of “ all bonds round” was to
admonish all vehemently to “ Keep
a-hookin an a-hookin an a-hopkin, ” the
variation evidently suggested by the lo­
cal custom of locking elho'ws instead ofionobina bands as tbo dancers passed
of his eyes upon her from some quarter,
and now she swiftly wondered how
nmcb pleasure i t -wonld give him if he
m ight dance w ith her here tonight, un­
reflected ho-w
impossible it was. It occurred to her
that she would send him to find her
brother to propose their going home,
but she hesitated to call him to her
across the crowded room, and while she
halted she caught Mr. Dennison’s eye
upon her as though meditating a new
attack, and the idea spurred her to des­
perate action. From where she sat she
could look into the kitchen, revealing
another open door at the far end leading
out into the night. On the impulse of
the moment she flashed a meaning
glance,fnIl..H . _ . _
eyes, a look
to understand,
into the safe
darkness.
This side of the house was wholly
deserted, and after going a little way
she stopped, half frightened by the lone­
liness, her heart beating tnmnltnonsly.
By that look she had invited Paul
Brown.to meet her here. She was fairly
in a panic at her own daring, but she
was prepared to make excuse to him, as
well os to her own perturbed conscience,
that she wanted to ask him to go and
fetch her brother. Yet even while she
framed the pretext in her mind she
kne-sv perfectly well, and had an irri­
tated sense of shame in the knowing,
that she had simply grasped at this op­
portunity for a word with the man him­
self. Ever since their Sunday interview
indeed she had been watching for the
chance to speak with him, for she had
persuaded herself that it was a duty to
urge upon him the course which upon
reflection she was sure he ought to pur­
sue.
She wanted him to become reconciled
to his father, who must long ago have
repented his harshness, whose heart
must be ready with welcome for him
no less warm than that given the other
prodigal to whom he bad likened him­
self. She would have him renounce this
rough life and take th e . place among
men to which by birth and breeding he
was so justly entitled. There was a cer­
tain unacknowledged sweetness in the
thought that to her it had been given
perhaps to shape this man’s life as
seemed to her best. She did not own it
to herself that it might he to test this
power, to give lierself the subtle pleasTiro of moving E'im to her will, that she
was waiting to see him now.
But Paul Brown, far from being a con­
ceited young fellow, was too much in
awe of Miss E U e^ to have dreamed of
actual invitation in her passing glance.
As he saw her go through the kitchen
the daring fancy crossed his mind in ­
deed that he might by seeming accident
put himself in the way of a word with
her, not too soon, however, lest she per­
ceive the design and he vexed at his
presumption. He sauntered undecided­
ly along, planning a little detour which
would bring him by the kitchen door
after awhile, but scarce had he advanc­
ed a dozen steps when he met Artalissa,
b u rrin g back from the improvised
dressing room at the milkhouse.
“ Come to get a breath of fresh air,
too?” she called out gayly, pleased with
the fancy that he had come on purpose
to meet her. “Ain’t it hot in there? I ’m
about melted.' If it was leap year I be­
lieve I ’d invite you to go for a walk
and get cooled off. ”
“ But since it isn’t perhaps I would
better invite you,” he returned, with
•what grace he might, seeing no other
way out of it. He could ill afford to
offend Artalissa, who had it in her
power to mete him out swift retribution
through his appetite. Moreover, he had
a flattered consciousness that he had
been advancing rapidly in the girl’s
capricious favor, and manlike the idea
inspired him with all good humored in­
dulgence toward her.
“And where have you been oorralin
yourself all evenin?” she asked as they
strolled along. “I ain’t seen you danoin .”
“ You have been so surrounded, natur­
ally yon could not seeme,” helanghed.
“ I have been doing nothing hnt stand
and admire you from a distance, of
course. What else could I be doittg?”
Artalissa ooqnettishly tossed her head,
giggling with delight. “ Oh, quit your
foolin 1 ’S if I didn’t know hettern to
swallow all your nonsense |” she coyly
protes'tedr “More like you’ve been over
to the barn hoozin with the boys all
evenin.”
“ Boozing? Ah, Artalissa, how terri­
bly suspicions you are! Are all the girls
In Nebraska as sharp and cynical as
yon? Because if so I shall never dare
venture beyond the line fence. ’’ He was
not paying the least heed to what he
said. He was thinking that they had
gone far enough and was wishing that
the girl would take a hint from his
lagging step and propose their return.
“ To accuse me of boozing! I don’t
know what evidence I can offer to clear
myself. ”
“ We can generally take the evidence
of a man’s breath in such a case, ” the
girl demurely rejoined, her white teeth
glistening as she looked up, tempting
him, daring him. There was something
consciously sighing as she
almost infernal in the glow of her dark
beauty at the moment, the man reflect­
ed, nonchalantly studying tho bold,
passionate face so olear^ revealed, by
the light streaming out through an .open
window,
“ And will yon take mine for a wit­
ness?” ho laughingly murmured, pend-
mg over ner until his mustache fairly
grazed her cheek, when, lightly blow­
ing in her upturned face, he drew back
his head qnickly.
“Is that enough?”
He umst have been dull indeed if he
had not comprehended the audacious
invitation, if he had not understood the'
flash of mortification and anger in her
black eyes now, but reckless of results
he was only amused. There was even
a wicked note of teasing in his careless
laugh as with seeming nnconsoionsness
he turned back toward the house.
" I t’s enough of stnmblin over this
no account tr a il’t any rate,” said the
girl, distinctly ont of temper. “I guess
I ’ll be gettin back to the house, where
mehbe I ’m wanted more’n I am here.”
“Ah, how could that be possible?”
he cried, with mocking fervor, but his
steps-gladly quickening while he utter­
ed the perfunctory protest.
A few moments later, hurrying around
tho house alone, he met Edith Ellery
face to face, but she passed him by with
■such unseeing hauteur as froze the words
of greeting, npun bis lips. She went
straight to where her brother was stand­
ing among a group of men by the door.
“Hugh,” she said in a clear tone
Which somehow to Paul Brown’s,ears
sounded strange, " I am tired. If yon
don’t mind, I think we would better be
going.”
“All right,” returned Hugh cheerily,
“ as soon as I can bring the bnckboard
round”—
“Let me go for the team, Mr. El­
lery,” put in Brown eagerly, hurrying
toward the bam. But his effort failed
in its main purpose, for although ha
was allowed to assist at their departure,
holding back Miss Ellery’s soft silk
from contact with the wheel as her
brother helped her to place, the young
lady denied him even a passing glance.
CHAPTER VI.
With a curious zeal iu contributing
as mnoh as might be to her own dis­
comfort, Edith Ellery for the next few
days shut herself persistently indoors,
devoting herself to certain mending of
Nelsine’s, long laid upon the shelf for
its especial disagreeableness. She was
acutely miserable, her sensibilities seem­
ing compacted of nerves all a-qniver
with anger and chagrin. To her morbid
imagination now the glance of invita­
tion she had directed at Paul Brown on
the night of the dance had become dis­
torted to a gesture which all the world
might have understood. She could fancy
those simple 'women, so starved for gos­
sip, snatching at the episode as a god­
send. She pictured them together, wag­
ging their virtuous heads over her in­
discretion—^hhrs—when but the other
day she must hav6 laughed at the idea
of any indiscretion being imputed to
her. She hated Paul Brown with a
fierce -vindiotive anger, that interest in
him shonld have betrayed her to such a
step—in him, Artalissa’s lover! And
therein lay the most poignant sting of
all—that she shonld have seemed even
for a moment to pose as the rival of that
dark faced girl who served in her broth­
er’s kitchen. With an ingenuity of tor­
ture, possible only to a woman with
nerves wholly unstrung, she even fan­
cied him comparing them in his mind,
holding them np side by side while he
smiled in masculine vanity, pluming
himself with the fancy that his conquest
had extended from kitchen to parlor.
But in truth Paul Brown had never
been in a more unsmiling mood. He
could not but see in the chill repellenoe
of Miss Ellery’s manner, when they
chanced to meet, that he was hopelessly
out of favor, and he interpreted it all to
had repented her impnlE the ether Sunday and
^im to his proper place.
f ortably on the doorstep. “ Then I 'would
better he warned by his example and
leave such work alonei, for yon-don’t
think mnoh of Jim, yOu know, Artalia-'
sa.”
"How do yon know I don't?” she
cried, tossing her head, wholly pleased
■with his cook audacity. She would have
made him wash the dishes if she might,
but womanlike she would have admired
him the less had he stooped to the work.
“ Oh, 1 don’t know, of ooursa, hnt I
am Yankee enongh to be pretty good
at guessing,” impertnrhably Wowing
smoke rings over his head. “Don’t you
think you ought to he rather ashamed of
yourself to snub him so cruelly? Serious­
ly now, Artalissa?”
“I don’t know what you mean,” the
girl declared, darting aff obliqne little
glance at him from her sloe black eyes,
her strong teeth gleaming in that smile
which always seemed to light her face
w ith a certain glow of evil. “ Some­
times girls play off and treat the worst
the fellows they really like the best. ”
‘.‘Do they?” he asked, with dull in­
difference, as if his mind had already
wandered to other topics. He generally
left the bm:den of their conversation to
her, rarely troubling himself to respond
beyond the demands of mere civility,
yet Artalissa, piqued and puzzled, with
strange perversity found herself far
more interested in this strange follower
than in any of the others who, -with
mistaken assiduity, had paid her court.
Her swift glance of Impatience softened
now as she looked at him, something in
the ■nnoonsoious amoganoe of his strong
masonlinity irresistibly swaying her sen­
suous, animal nature. In the unreason­
ing polity of a woman’s heart the king
can do no wrong.
“I’ll have one less to wash dishes for
next week, thank fortune!” she ex­
claimed after a little. “Miss Ellery Is
going.”
Brown, occupied with cleaning the
ashes from his pipe, said nothing for a
moment. ‘‘And where is she going?’’ he
slowly asked at length, with a show of
desultory Interest.
“I d’ know’s I know, and d’ know’s
I oare,” replied the girl, with a care­
less laugh. “ But I know what she is
goin to do. X heard them joldn her
about it at dinner tonight. She’s goin
to be married.”
She was decidedly disappointed that
this bit of news, to her woman’s soul
of snob vital interest, seemed to fall so
flat. There was absolutely no response
feom the motionless figure in the door­
way. But that was just his way, she
petulantly remarked to herself.
One
might as well talk to a stamp.
“ She’s goin to have a Mtohen of her
O'wn to try her high toned ways of doin
in ,” she resumed after a moment, with
rather less animation, talking merely
the comfort of expressing her
thoughts aloud. “ She used to be comiu
out here ’most everyday, henuinround,
offerin to make the d e s s ^ or somethin
or ’nother, sayin that she’d been to
oookln school and lettin on that she
knew how to do it all hatter than any­
body. But I j'us’ -went to Mrs. Ellery
and says I, ‘I ain’t been to cookin school
BO much as I ’ve been to distriot school, ’
says I, ‘but if my cookin ain’t good
enongh for this ranch I can just go
where i t is. I ain’t above beta helped
With my work,’ says I, ‘in a place
where there’s as much to do as there is
here, hut I ain’t askin for cookin les­
sons from anybody. ’ I talked right up
to her, just like that. Mrs. Ellery
blushed and was dreadfully cut up. She
said I was quite mistaken. Miss Edith
—she’s always oallta her Miss Edith to
.me, emphasizln the words so’s to hint
that’s what I ’d ought to call her—as if
I ever would!—me, that’s au educated
woman and as good as her any day!
That’s one reason I hate to have her
round. She puts on too— W tel” breakin g ojffi in sharp vexation as she turned
about to find herself alone and wrathfelly strode to the door to see whither
the truant had strayed. “ Well, if ’that
ain’t polite! That man makes me tired
from head to foot with his ways. He
just naturally does, but then”— the ex­
tenuating afterthought out short with a
sigh.
flurrying aimlessly down toward the
bridge. Brown met Mr. Ellery climbing
the path, a pair of small shoes and
stockings in one hand, while ■with tha
other he led along his reluctant first­
born, the nrehin picking his steps with
a whimpering oare which told how lit­
tle the smail pink feet were hardened
mother earth. “ What
friS E S -p u 2 ? > e ss« 4 &ontaot-|jj|fc
ijS ^ '
0 yOTrtmnKlmBr'yonng fellow ■^ho’pksmight be to punish him for that auda- rV1oyoutl
oious glance at parting which his heart fers going barefoot to wearing good
beats quickened even now to remember. shoes and stockings?” he called out to
He grimly told himself that he had Brown as they met, his eyes twinkling
fittingly rounded ont a career of wasted with appreciation of his practical joke
effort by his senseless infatuation for a in the line of discipline. He bad too
woman as far removed from him in ac­ imperfectly outgrown his o'wn boyhood
tual fact as if she had belonged to an­ for entire success in the role of the stem
other planet. If he had racked his brain parent. ‘‘A boy who never thinks of
to discover the most irrational thing snakes hiding in the ^ass, all ready to
left him to do, it seemed to him now it bite him, to say nothing of the danger
could have been only this, and yet it had of becoming web footed. ”
“ I ’m not web footed yet,” protested
come about so •without any smallest vo­
lition on his part that he felt he shonld tbe small sinner, wriggling his rosy toea
rail at fate rather than at himself. She t a a n x io u s e x p e rim e n t.
‘‘But you are taking chances—ohanoea
was the first woman of her class, of his
own class, as he liked to remember, that of several sorts, yoxmg man. Ask Mx.
he had chanced to meet iu friendly inti­ Brown if you’re not. ” Then, oatohing
macy since his old home had been left sight of Brawn’s face, he added, “ But
behind. There was that in her pronun­ you may run to your mamma now and
ciation of certain words—little tricks of tell her what you’ve been doing,”
New England speech—in the dainty re­ laughing softly as he watched the ■un­
finement of her manner, even in the per­ happy youngster gingerly picking his
fume which subtly emanated from her steps over the bristling stems of newly
garments, which spoke to him of his mown grass. “ But what is it, Brovra?
past as nothing had done in all the long Anything ta particular?”
“ I believe I ought to he getting back
years of his frontier life. He was always
longing to he speaking to her, simply to to my own place, Mr. Ellery,” the
hear her answering voice. He delighted young man said, with a certain brusque
to see her eyes deepen and darken as she decisiveness. “ I had a letter from my
talked, to watch for the smile which partner yesterday. He tells me that
was really her greatest charm. He would somebody has been cutting the fences
have been indignantly amazed had any­ again, and things are at loose ends gen­
body suggested that she was only an or­ erally. I ought to be there. ”
“ These fence cutters ought to be
dinarily pretty girl, with a distinct
sprinkle of freckles across her nose, as strung np without quarter for all the
was, in truth, the case. To him her trouble they make,” returned Ellery
beauty was beyond question, and he slowly, his face frankly clouded as he
simply marveled that the other hoys on thoughtfully stroked his heard. “ I was
the place could he satisfied -with saying hoping that yon would be here a couple
so little about it. The fact that his own of weeks longer at least. ”
“ Why, if I could spare the time”—
tongue was tied by excess of feeling fill­
ed him ■with dumb longing always to be Brown faltered, nervously staking his
hearing others speak of her. He could hands to the depths of his trousers
almost have pinned sonnets to the trees pockets. “ But it is hardly necessary,
for the joy of seeing her praises in ac­ Mr. Ellery. All the bunch we planned
to handle this time is pretty well broken
tual words.
But now for one mad moment he had ta already, and that fellow Kittery can
forfeited all her favor, as it seemed, and finish them off. He’s a consummate ass
his heart "was sore within him. He about some things, but all the same he
scarce had guessed himself the message can ride a horse better than most, and
his eager eyes were telling until he if it wasn’t for his temper and his fool
caught her answering glance, alarmed, ways he’d do well enough. ”
Ellery laughed amusedly. “ He ought
imploring, with a certain svreet help­
lessness that had somehow thrilled him to thank you for sneh a recommendation.
with unreasoning exultation even •while If he had been running for the legisla­
it stirred all the chivalry of his nature ture, you could hardly have given him
to repent his precipitancy. With all a worse send off. But there happens ta
their frightened forbidding there had he one job 1 hardly like to trust to Kitbeen no anger in her eyes that day, he tery anyhow. How long have yon been
reflected, arguing in savage protest here? Three weeks Wednesday, was it
within himself that, for very consisten­ not? Well, this is Friday. Don’t you
cy’s sake, she might have been kinder think you’d better stay till next Wednes­
day and make it even weeks?” he urged,
now.
Man learns with ill grace the lessons w ^h offhand persuasiveness. “ Tuesday
of pain, and no one can be so ruthlessly is tha Fourth of July, you know, and a
cruel as he ■whose sensibilities are blunt­ few days one way or the other don’t
ed by the egotism of his own suffering. count for much.
“ The fact is, there is that Lothalr colt
Paul Brown, never so ill humored in
his life as now, instinctively tamed —the hay filly you were riding today.
upon Jim Kittery as a scapegoat at hand It is simply wonderful the way that colt
for the venting of his spleen. He could has come to the front since she was
even find a sort of grim amusement, al­ driven iu from the field. I believe she ia
most snffloient now and then to divert going to make a perfect beauty, whila
him from his own grievance, in goading you can’t point ont another on the place
this fellow sufferer to the verge of mad­ with equal promise for speed. Kittery,
ness by ostentatious devotion to the with all his ‘fool ways, ’ had the sense to
willing Artalissa. Jim, with the keen say, when you were riding across the
eyes of a lover, guessing from the first bridge today, that the colt ought to
the bent of the girl’s fickle fancy, had fetch §500 anywhere. Now, it has oc­
made a point of behaving with a sullen curred to ■lue. Brown, that I wonld par­
rudeness toward his ri-val, which Paul, ticularly like to send that filly to my
too proud and too indifferent at first to sister by and by for a—er—a present. ”
A wedding present. He might as well
notice, now found a certain vioiopa sat­
isfaction in avenging. If was this, no have said the word. Brown’s alert im­
less than a sort of desperate ennui lead­ agination filled m the slight pause.
ing him to seek w y kind of diversion, “ Yes,” he assented dully, his forefinger
■?Vhieh impelled him now when the fam­ straying to the collar of his fiannel
ily dinner hour was past, the men’s sup­ shirt, which seemed somehow too tight
per having ooonrred at the same time, to for him. “ Yes, there is not a better
seat himself in the kitchen doorway, colt on the place. ”
“And I was going to ask you to taka
listlessly smoking, while Artalissa, in
her own phrase, was “ doing” the great her particularly in hand on that aopiles of greasy dishes emanating from CQunt. Since yon have but a few days
left,” Ellery went on, easily assuming
the dual tables of the establishment.
It was a tribute to her charms for that bis point was made as to the time,
which the girl paid ajirice, for it had “ yon wonld better begin training her to
been Jim ’s office to assist her in the the sidesaddle as soon aa yon can. I
kitohen, a duty which, for obvious rea-' would like my sister to try her if possi­
sons, ho had taken upon himself so ■will­ ble before you go, and especially I wonld
ingly that the other boys, always de­ like the animal hardened to noises of
testing “ women’s-work, ” had come to every sort so far as yon can manage i t
consider themselves wholly exonsed. Heaven only knows how one of these
But now in a dungeon Jim had deserted western horses can ever be educated np
his post, and Artalissa found her work to the rackets of an eastern city. ”
fairly doubled, while too proud, if not
“I ’ll do the best I can,’’ returned
too discreet, to complain to Mrs. Ellery, Brown apathetically.
knowing'full well that, without em-i
' ‘And you’ll stop until 'Wednesday?”
barrassing explanation on her part, it exclaimed the other ta a tone of co rra l
could he only Jim who wonld he deputed satisfaction, “ though I ’m afraid that
again to assist her,
■will hardly give you time enough. ”
“ If Jim Kittery was sittin round like
“ I ’ll stay -until the Ally is fit to offer
you are, he’d take hold and do these Miss Ellery,” he, said, ■with an odd
dishes himself, ” she tentatively remark­ smile. A wedding luesent—and he was
ed one evening, the blunt hint rounded bidden to make it ready for her! Ah,
the. irony of fate!
off with a coquettish laugh.
{T o heconttn'oedl.
“ ■Was that the way he used to do?”
Paul Brown returned, -with entire non­
chalance, settling biwself yet more corn^^ISpoDge faded cloth with chloroform.