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The Loves of Ihe Gold Miners. •
DY JOAQCIM MILLER.
[From the Independent.]
Tilt's™ men are mostly shy with
their letters and their iJles of h.ve.
That was sacred ground up qi which
n ) s range, rode feet could pas*.—
No go'd-hunter there, perhaps, but
had his love—h s one only love,
wiihout a chance of possibility of
changing the object of his devo ion,
even if he had desired it. Men
must love, as well as women. It is
the most natural, and, consequently,
the most p-oper thing on earth.—
Image ho.v intensifi and and how
lender a man’s devotion would be
come under circumstances like the.*e
The one im iginc io his heart, the
one hope—h ir. So much time to
ihiok, bending to ihe w >rk in
the runni ig water under ihe trees,
on the na-row t r ail beneath the
shadows of ihe forest, by the camp
and cabin tire, her face and hers on*
ly, with n i new face rising up
c o sing his path, comfortuig him
for days, f r mouths, for years—see
how ho'y a ililno his live would
come lobe. This, you observe, is
a uew man, anew manner of lover.
Love, I sav, is a requirement, a ne*
cessity. L is as nt's-mry for a coin
p'ete man to love as it is for him to
broa lie ihe pure air. And ii is as
na'.urd.
Those men, being so fir removed
from any personal contact with die
objects of their affections, aud only
now and then at long interva's re
ceiving letters, all marked and n>
marked acro-s the backs from the
remaining from camp to camp, of
course, knew of n intenipti'Uis in
the current of their devotion and
loved in a singu'arly earnest and
sincere way. I doubt if there be
anything like ii in history.
When men g > to war they have
the g ory and excitement of battle
to allure them, then the eyes of
many women are upon them ; the\
are not locked up like tlies- men of
the Sierras, with only their work
and the one thing toThink of. When
they go to sea, the sailors liud new
faces in every port ; but these ire n,
from the time they cro sed the Mis
s>uri, or left the Atlantic coast,
have known no strange gods hardly
heard a woman’s voice till they re
urned.
I was in the confidence of one
young follow here, v> ry verdant
not ofthe grand type at all ; in fact
he was of the Pacific growth as far
as he had yet dev doped, and not a
representative man at all. But he
the only one wbo took me wholly
into nis con fid nee, and of whom I
can truthfully speak by the card, as
hey say. He hid three letters,
stained, and lorn. Tlv y looked as
old as some of the leliesyou see un
der the.class cases in the British
museum. These letters were his
trea-ures. True, he had a bag or
two of gold, bowie knife, a pistol, a
pair of blankets, and, wlnt was
really a marvel and a mark ot ex
travagance, an extra red flannel shir ,
but these were trifl s. Those ihree
letters were the boy’s chief pride
Every Sunday, up on the hillsid
where a litt'e sun broke through
the cedar lops aid split itself in
shifting p 'ols an I billows along the
leaves, we two would sit and read
and re-read th< se left rs and
talk, and think, and pi m, and proph
osy in a way that was as earnest as
vvas absurd.
I remember but of one these letters
entirely—th* tam st and shortes
me. But no date or post-m uk, arid
was signed Merinda ouly, with a
small initial letter. The name
was followed by many stars, the
.ignificance cf which is too w. 11
known to rep- at.
“mi deer i want to see you so bad
i was in the hay lofte yisterday when
you druv the cows past our hons on
yore spottid horse and sede you thru
the crack and think he is so nise on
ly he hols his bed out tu match and
steps tu longe you muslern him to
lift his legs quicker and not step so
longe nor siik his bed out i killed a
rattle snaik to-da and abou'e an our
befour sun down i will go out to
driv in the shepe from the rocky
bute and it will be very lon some
with mi silver tale pony i think
mi silver ta>e pony and your spotiid
pony wil driv shepe togeter furst
rate mi one deer !ov,”
There was a hollow tree that
stood at the edge of the grove that
lay parily between th- parental
ranches, which was fitted Up for a
post-office. These were imaginas
tive young lovers, it seems to me,
with a disposition to make the most
of their'limited resduces for inno
cent amusement. There was an
ol i bushy-tailed gray squirrel in the
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branches, adorned with side whis
kers like nn Eenglish military gen
tleman, and always civil and very
talkative when they walked togeth
er iu the grove, and him they named
their postmaster general.
A hundred little things like this
were told and related Sunday after
Sunday on the hil side when the
sun split through the leaves in the
majestic cahn of a mountain Sab
bath. That boy had not die shad
ow of a doubt. It was his first love.
How loyal! how earnest and unsel
fish.
She was the older of the two, and
his overthrow was of course only a
question of time. Who does not
know that much now f
II >vv the nows came to hi n at last
how it sifted and drifted a little at a
time, v igued a' first, lo the bov in the
forest, with his great faith ; how he
refused to listen Or to believe, the
arony of t e first doubt that struck
a id lo Iged like a poison and urio v up
io the sea l Iters iu h s heart; would be
lona to tell and very sad.
But ii came to him at last. The
gr at, big. ugly feet lay like a boul
der in the trail before him, that he
could not g t around, yet he could
n>t muster courage to mount; and
so lie sit down on the leaves an i
h and his face in hi* hands, and wept ike
a child ihat he was. She had mar
ried a mao with a beard—a great,
six foot, raw b ned muscular mon
ster—with a ra iche and herd of his
own, and hands likes abs ot pine.
This young man’s name was Gin
ger : or, at least, that is the only
name,by which he was known in the
miies.
In this so lorn state ol mind some
how he and the man wiili th 1 leath
er nose, came in contac, and they
Income sure fiends.
1 have oh erved that in ilv mines,
where men mate together much as
man and wife in civ fixation, you
ie illy see the strong or the old to
die old. The weak are attached to
the strong, and sympathize with
the weak. Here is so nething to
think about.
A Woman's Curiosity.
A lodge of the independent Order
of Odd Fellows, at Woodston, de
termined to have their lodge-room
done up clean and nice. It was re
solved unanimously that Mrs, K.
should lie employed to do the job.
After th - meeting adjourned the
Guardian, who knew the inquisitive
character of Mrs. K., procured a
bi Uly-goat and placed him in the
c'osct that was kept as a reservoir
for the secret things. He then in
foini"d the lady of the wishes of the
lodg", and requested her to come ear
ly next morning, as lie would then
-bow her w >at was and what was
not. to be done.
Morning came, and with ii Mad
ame K. with her her broom, brushes,
pails, tubs etc., and found the Guar*
diao waiting for her;
‘ Now, Madame,” said he, ‘T 101 l
you w hat we want done, and how
we came to tnijJoy you. Th
brothers said it was difficult to get
anybody to do the job, and not be
neddliog with the secrets in the
;I'set; we have lost the key, and
cannot fin lit to lock the door. 1
isserted then that you could be de
pended on.”
‘ Depend on ! I guess I can. My
poor and dead and gone husband,
lie belonged to the Free Masons or
antivMa ons, I don’t know which.
He used to tell me all the s creis of
the concern and when he showed me
all the marks of the grid iron made
when be was initiated, and told me
how they fixed poor Morgan, I never
told a living soul to this day ; if no
body troubles your closset to fiod
ou l your se rets till I do, tiiey will
lay there till they rot, they will.”
“I thought so,” said the Guardi
an, “and now I want you to com
mence in that corner, and give the
whole room a decent cleaning, and
I p'edge my word and honor for the
fidelity to your promise, now don’t
go into that close’,” and then Ift
ibe lady to herself.
No sooner had she heaTd the sound
of his feet on the last step of the
stairs th m she exclaimed, “Don’t
get into that clos t!”
‘‘l’ll warrant there’s a grid iron,
or some nonsens", just like ihe anti
.Vlas >ns for all the world, I’ll be
bound. 1 will take one peep, an I
nobody will be any the wiser, as I
can keep it to myself.”
Su ting the action to the word she
stepped lightly to the forbidden clos
et, turned the button, which was no
sooner done than “bah I” went the
billy-go it, with a spring to regain
|liis liberty, which came near upset
ting her ladyship. Both started for
the door, but ii was filled with im
plcuients for louse e'eaning, aud all
were swept c'earfroin their posi ion
down to the hot o nos the stairs.
The noise and confusion occasione
ed by su h unceremonious coming
down the stairs drew half the
town to wi ness Mrs. K.’s effbrt to
•jet from under the pile of pails, tubs,
brooms and brushes in the street.
Who should be first to the spot
but the racaliy doorkeeper after re-
I' adng the go it, which was a crip
ple ( ir life and uplifting the rubbish
that bound the good woman to the
earth, attxions'y ijnpiired if she had
been t iktrig the deg'ees.
“T'king the degree!” exclaimed
the la ly “if you call tumbling from
the top to the bottom of the stairs
with the devil af erye, taking things
by degrees, I have them, and if ye
f ightened f dks as ye frightened me,
and butt to boot, I'll warr nt th y
will - make as much noise as J did.”
‘1 hope, you did not open the
closet, madam, ’’said the doorkeep
er.
‘ Open the closet ? Eve ate the
apple she was f rbidden ! If you
want a woman to do anything, tell
her not to do it and she’ll do it cer
tain .1 could n >t stand the tempfa
tion. The secret was there. I want
ed to know it. I opened the door
and out popped thetarnal critter
right into my face. 1 thought the
devil had me; and I broke lor the
stairs wi h the devil but i g me at
every jump. 1 fe lover the tub, and
got down s airs as you loun 1 us, all
in a heap.”
“Hit l , madam,” said the doorkeep
er, “you are in possession of the
great secret of our ord t, and you
must go up to he initiated and sworn,
and then go in the regular way.”
“Regular way !” exclaime I the
lady, “and do you suppose I am
going near the turnul place, and
ride that ar tarna! critter' without a
bride oral dy’s saddle? No never!
1 don’t want nothing to do with the
man that rides it. I’d look nice
perched upon a hilly- goa - , woul {n’t
I ? No, never ! I’ll never go nigh it
again, nor yo ir hall author—il I can
prevent it no 1 idy shall ever j >in
the Odd Fellows. Why, I'd sooner
be a Freemason, and he broiled on
a grid iron as long as the fire could
be kept under it. and pulled from
garret to cellar with a halter, in a
pair of old breeches and slippers ju9i
as my poor dead husband. And he
lived over it, but I never c >uld live
over such another ride as 1 took to
day.
“1 Have Got a Secret.”
Ilow a Young Lady Feels When She
is Engaged.
From the New York Me. Jury.
The following “inteicepiel loiter,”
fiom the Home Journal, tells lunnily
how a young Miss feels when sur
reptitiously engaged:
Dear At, lie: I have got a real,
live, grownup beau; and isn’t it
jolly. He’s i erfectly splendid; just
like those loyely wax figures in the
windows, only they can’t use their
lips. It’s my French teacher, and
he always smells so swe tof pond
lilie~. I don’t have anything Jo do
with the hoys now; those little boys
of seventeen and eighteen do very
well when there are no men around,
it they can get men y enough from
t eir|auobuy us Gunther’s can
dles, but they can’t amuse us girls
ot fourteen, they seem just like ba
bies, and when they try to make
love—O, my ! aru’i they mushy ?
Now, Monsieur Fontaine acts as it
he had been engaged twenty times,
although I’m his first love ; but we
don’t let on before ma, and Thuse.
It makes Arethusa awlul mad to
h »ve me call her Thuse, and that’s
the reason I do it. I heard her
ask ma the other day if that French
man's manners were not to > familiar
toward that child. Child! She’s
awfully afraid of my being a young
ijidy T What need she care, now
she’s married? Wasn’t she spooney,
though, about Fred? When he used
to come and see her, I would drag
Tommy into the room and pul my
arm around his waist and squeeze
his hand until her face be as
red as a beet. Such fun! I caught
Ikt kissing him once—such a little
nipping kiss, just as if she .were
tasting pepper saucy. Now. if I
pretended to kiss a man, I’d do it in
right good earnest; just plant my
feet square on the ground, and give
it to him sure pop right on the bps
Oh, Allie, poor Thu-e would go off
m a dead taint at my Lowbred ex
pressions, and inform me, for the
nine hundred and ninth time, that
my n .me is Ellsworth. Just as if l
liiJu’l know my own name, and
what doe- it matte r*. any way, when
1 expect to change it sp soon? I do
not intend tq hung on it until 1
J>o. 12.
noi a horrid old maid, like po >r
Miss Tracy oppos’te. She nog 1 1
he a warning tube strongest mini'
ed. Sh< ’s nervous, and h \v Ido
love to scare her. I promised‘Tom
my the oilier diy five cents wo th
of peanuts to let me hold him o r of
our thir l story win low. II dd Ut
mo skin him for a paper of p aunts.
So I got him r ut, and knelt down
und ,-r the- window ledge, wher< l
couldn’t he seen, an i lie! I t ght
hold of his wrists. Thus* tliuji-s
my stiength is di gusting. T c''v
soon there was an elderly shriek, and
then an elderly form ru-lieu across
• lie street to ni'ither, hut bv- the
time they get up stairs J was seated
quietly at my cr.tehet-woik, ami
T inmy was turning' summersault's
on the bed, over the l ively fluted
pillow-cases. And ma still tninks
u is poor Miss Tracy that is “a littie
wild at times.”
I l ive inv brother Fred ever ro
much, bnt I don’t see how he ever
came tofmey such a die-awav spec
imen as our I liuse. liecause si e
is -o awful pretty, I suppose; but
-liejust turns him around tier (hum 1 ,
It he rel'us s to grt what she wants,
she jn-t looks like a m utyr in the
Haines, and lets down all her hack
hair like the Mugd ileiis in th ■ j.ic
t ire gallery'. And although
are real pret y hanging oa the walls
even an artist docs not want to ■
at the itib e three times a day eppn
site b live one, with her eyes roller
up and hei hair and .wu h r hai k. jj'o
poor Fred always gives in, a ,and sio
smiles a forgiving smile, puts up
her hr ir, and goes off n. buv the fine
set of jewelry that has take,, her
fancy. And when she gets it she
keeps tight li ildofit.ioo. She has
never given me even a cuff butt >n.
Thuse always was stingy. And she
is so stuek'tip, because she has git
a son just as if it were s imethmg
won letful. Why, Mis. Tubbs, cur
laundress has eight of th in. besides
one that w.is drowned and one
scalde I, and she isn’t a l> t set-up.
But Arethus i says “my buy!” and
does the maternal all to pieces.
She thinks Al xis is made out of
nicer m.-iter.als than most babies,
and I know she doesn’t believe the
caiechL-m wh re it says he was
made out of the vulgar dust of th :
earth. I supiiose she thinks rose
leaves and corn starch were use.!
to make up his delicite Organiz itioti.
It would releive my feelings to see a
*peck of dirt on that child's face; it
makes nie ache to see him so pain
fully clean. And she thinks he is*
going to be a little Solomon or some
burning or other.
Now, Allie, I have got a sec et
that you mus i’i tell a living soul. '
If you do, I wil' never forgive you.
I have promised Mouseur Fontaine
to be married in three weeks, on my
fourteenth birth-day, and if mother
sems lik ly to object, we aregoing
to elope, just like the girls in the
novels. Won’t it be splendid!
Just thi ik what a sensation it will
make! The Chicigopapers wi 1 no
full of it! “Elopement in high life.
The lovely daughter of the rich ad
elegant Mrs. E h eloped with
her teacher. Poor Thuse would do
h gh trag dy, wr ng her hands and,
ta'k of the disgrace to the r noble
house of Ellsworth. I should think
her delicate shoulders would acjie
from carrying ourneble house so
long. Now, don’t you breafhe n ,
word about it, and I will stand by
you if you marry a shoe-black. ” *
Married at fourteen ! Just think !
I shall beat Thuse out and .out, y
Then, ton, something might happen
to Monsi-urTontdihe. Ol course I
would not have anything to happen
to hi n for the w orld ; bat teen
something might, you know—‘the
railroads are altvays smashing up
ami if there shou'd, why Then I
would be ayoqng and interesting
wiiloW, an?# black crape With my
fair complexion would be so sweet,
and O, Allie, do you think that I am
too ydungto Wears Widow’s cap ?
What a blow that cap would be to
Areihusa ? She would rather receive
a whole paper of needles in her
side—that ts, gold-head - d oii'S, Dot.
your common steel tilings. Now,
AMieWyndham, if you te’l you’ll be
just as mean as you can be
Celia Ellsworth (tor a little
while.)
All do not know that lemons
sprinkled with loaf su 6 ar almost
completely allay feverish thirst.
They are invaluable in the sickroom.
Invalids affected with feverishness
can safely consume two or three '
lemons a day. A lemon or two thus
taken at “tea time” is recommended
as an entire substitute f.r the ordt‘
I supper of summer, and will i,f_
i ten induce a cqudvnabe sk ep
j thtouh the nigbjt,nd vgive a cood
[appe.ite for breakfast.