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A CAPRIOTE.
Upon her cheek a damask glows
And comos and goes.
As fine as the pomegranate knows.
And such a light her eye escapes
As gleams on grapes
That purple fair her island capes.
cr
That mark her race—
Well rounded curves from foot to face.
I look! she smiles bewitchlngly:
I turn and see
Two fierce dark eyes fixed fast on me.
That smile—that marveled poise of head!—
Sweet dream be fled!
These Capriotes carry knives, ’tis said.
—Clinton Scollard in Home Journal.
BEN AND TIIE WAIF.
0
Were we afraid of Big Ben?
Well, yes, to a certain limit. There
were live of us in a bit of cabin out in the
he ranch for several reasons. First and
oremost, he was too much for any one of
us single handed, and, secondly, he had
many good points about him. While he
$was overbearing and brutal at times, he
was the best miner in Lhe party, and no
bad luck could discourage him. With
any one else as boss we should have scat
tered at once, for the winter was coming
4 »on and we had been clown on our luck all
the --------- fall.
“Break up! Hunt for luck!” sneered
Big Ben whenever anything was said
about abandoning our claim. “Well, you
'are a lot of coyotes—a cussed bad lot.
You haven’t got the pluck of a sick wolf,
I’d like to see some of you try to walk off
and leave me in the lurch—yes, I would.
D—your eyes! but I’ll turn to and lick
«the hull crowd out of your ‘boots if I hear
another growl.”
Big Ben insulted us a dozen times a
day, and on three, or four occasions he
laid hands on us in a violent way, but
somehow we stuck there. As I told you,
he was a practical miner, the hardest
worker in the lot, and we leaned on him
in spite of the fact that we hated him. YVe
could have shot him down in some of the
quarrels, and the verdict would have
been, “served him right;” but we knew
l 10 h at * a heart down mins
bosom, and the hand which clutched
LJtnife or iiistol was always restrained.
One afternoon, w’hile I was minding the
cabin, and the other men were at work in
the tunnel or shaft, a stranger entered,
He had come up from the Forks, three
miles away. He was a boy of 16 or there
abouts, with a girl’s voice and shyness,
and he was hungry and in rags. It was
bitter cold, and yet his clothing was of
the thinnest kind, and he had hungered
long that he was hardly more than a
I welcomed and fed and wanned
was*Charley*Bland,‘and'that^hel,n4'wim- ?horo ti for brother
dered out loot his
James, from whom he had received no
t word for t wo or three years. They were
orphans, and both had been bound to
j farmers in Illinois. Both had been ill
| used, and Charley running finally followred This boy James had
agxamplc knocking in around away. the silver camps
been
for six months, sometimes meeting friends
and sometimes treated like a dog, and ho
had found no trace of his brother. Some
# ne down at the gulch-it was »cruel
thing to do—had told him that James
was at our camp, and he had periled hw
life to come up there and see. On that
day, as I shall never forget, there was a
Joot of snow on the ground, a blizzard
raging, and the thermometer marked 10
degs. below zero.
The boy was asleep when the men re
turned from the shaft. Big Ben was out
and no sooner did he hear and see the lad
than he called out:
“He can’t stay here another hour. We
don’t run a poor house and we let no
l “I’ll protested work. I’ll the work boy with as hard sob as in ever his I
can,” a
throat.
“There’s no work for you. You’ve got
i to move ou to the camp above.”
The four of us protested in chorus, and
we took such a firm stand that deadly
weapons were drawn, and would have
been used but for the action of the boy.
He was terribly frightened over the row
he had been the innocent cause of, and as
the four of us had |our pistols leveled at
Big Ben aud meaut to shoot if he moved
a foot, the boy opened the cabin door and
glided out into the dark and bitter night
with the silence and swiftness of a
shadow.
“You are his murderer, 1 ’ we said to
Big Ben as we lowered our weapons, and
he growled:
it D—u him! If we took in every strag¬
gler we should be crowded out of house
and home before New Year’s. What is it
to us whether he lives or diesf”
I think he felt conscience stricken
within the hour, however, as he went to
the door and acted as if he hoped to see
the lad standing outside. The boy had
been gone half an hour before we fully
realized what his going meant, and then
two 0 f us out with the lantern and
searched and called for him. The snow
was being whirled about in a furious
gale, and the bitter cold drove us back
after a quarter of an hotir. It was true
that we ka< i ij t tl© cn0 ugh to eat, and that
we were crumped in our cabin, but the
i dea o£ driving that pale faced orphan boy
OU £ ^ freeze was something we could not
get over . was j ug t the thing needed to
^ U8 up ln rebellion against our boss,
and that night we threw off the yoke and
gave it to Big Ben right and left. We had
t wo or three rows before bedtime, and all
turned in sulky and indignant.
Whew! But what a night that was!
The col{ j increased until the rocks were
gpiit, and tho wind roared Until our cabin
threatened to topple over at every blast.
At m iduight Big Ben crept carefully out
of h is bed and opened the door, his and then
j almost forgave him for brutality.
Conscience had been at work, and his
heart was touched. He hoped to find the
boy crouched on the threshold, and I
heard him sigh and mutter to himself as
shut the door and returned to his
blankets. The strongest man in our party,
clad as we were for the winter, could not
have stood against, that blizzard half an
hour, and I fell asleep to dream of finding
poor Cliarley’»fro**n corpse on the trail
leading down to the Forks, and of his big
blue eyes being wide open and staring at
me in a reproachful Way. had
For breakfast next morning we
some canned meat—opened a new can
from our slim store. We thawed it out,
ftn( j a ]| a | e our f u n shares, and were on
the point of starting out to search for tho
boy when one of the men \yaa taken ill.
inside of half an hour all of us were taken
down with pains and cramps, and it was
evident that we bad been poisoned by the
mea t. We had no antidote of any sort,
an( j one a fter another went to bed to suf
f er the most agonizing pains and to lose
consciousness. Big Ben was the hardest
hit of all, while I, perhapa, suffered th*
least That to. wM,' aU other, raved
and shouted and lost their senses, I w as
all the time dimly conscious of everything
going on. The bliszard was still rag,,, g
and the thermometer was marking a st.l
Charley lower degree walked vvhen in. le I sa oo <d>e h * ' j
was flighty, and it seemed to me that ne
was dead I remember his looking down
upon each of us in a strange, sea e y,
and startflig to retreat when one ot 0
i men shouted a loud curse
I was the first to come back to li e, as
j It were, and that was twenty-fo
after being first taken. The pains wero
gone as I oi>enedmy eyes, but 1 TO weak
and wretched, like one just over a terrible
fever. The boy Charley was standing
before me as I opened ray eyes, and he
bent down and whispered:
“You have all been terribly sick, and I
something?”
1 did feel a bit hungry, and I had no
sooner signified it than he came to me
with a bowl of broth. As I afterward
hares to seek shelter at the door, and he
had secured both of them. He did not
know the cause of our sickness, but sus
pected some calamity, and was prepared
to feed us as soon as we could eat. It
teemed that when Big Ben drove him out
he stumbled into the ravine a quarter of
a mile awuv. and found shelter under a
'
ledge. How he kept from freezing to
death that night heaven only knows. In
deed, heaven preserved him. It froze our
water pail solid when standing within
six feet of the lire, and there he was, 0115
In the sold in a threadbare suit. When
morning came he returned to the cabin tp
make one more appeal. He found us
suffering and out of our minds, and the
fire about gone out. Had it not been for
him we should have frozen stiff as pokers,
for on that day it w as 81 degs. below zero
all day long, and it went down almost to
40 degs. when night came on.
The boy kept np a rousing fire, dressed
his rabbits for soup, and all day and all
night long ho kept forcing strong coffee
down our thre ats. That doubtless helped
us to pall through, or at least four of us.
The other man, whose name was Hale,
had bis teeth firmly clenched, and from
the way his features were distorted and
his limbs drawn up it was evident that lie
died in great agony. In a couple of hours
I was able to bo up and assist Charley in
caring for the others, hut it was far into
night before the last man could use his
tongue in a sensible manner. It was Big
Ben, and when consciousness returned
and he saw the white faced boy bending
over him the great tyrant whispered:
“Aye! The corpse of the lad has risen
nptoconfrontandaccu.se me! It was a
cruel thing I did to drive him out, and tho
Lord will never forgive mo for it!”
While out of danger, we were yet weak
•»nd almost helpless, and none of us could
attend the fire or do a bit of cooking lor
nearly a week. The whole work devolved
upon the boy, and no one could have done
better. He was cook, nurse, doctor and
protector all in one. He got three more
hares and a couple of birds, and I don’t
believe a spoonful of the broth went down
bis own throat.
Well, I, for one, had been watching Big
Ben to see what he would do. The first
moment he was able to sit up he called
Charley and pulled the frail little fellow
down ou his breast, saying:
**|f you’ll only forgive me I’ll pray to
Che Lord to do the same. I’m rough and
wicked, but to turn a lad like you out o*
doors on such a night as that wasn’t mo
all. Old Satan must have hail posses
sionofme.”
That great big fellow cried like a child,
and Charley cried with him, and 1 might
Us well own Up that we all cried. What
made it more solemn was the fact that wo
bad a corpse at the door. When it was
known that Hale was dead none of the
other four of us could lift a hand. How
the boy got the body out of doors I never
could understand, but get it out lie did,
and it was three long^nontbs before wo
could give it Christian burial.
On the morning when we all got out of
bed feeling pretty strong again, (’barley
went to bed with a fever, and before noon
was raving crazy. I tell you it was awful
to hear him cry out every few Minutes in
« h - don't drive ,no nT ont I'll
wo
Fv. rv erv went ihrt>iur!i Lie b> fellow
ljke u |J e inirswl end i ooi he .1 the
^ p^, , TOV w ,th nil the tenderness he ronid
omnm i d , lin<1 two „ r , h ree times carried
him about in his arms as a father would
his ailing babe. There was a doctor at the
y 0 rks and after ^’e dinner Bit/ trip Ben braved
the down and
doctor could not be induced
^ return w’itli him owing to the cold but
he sent some medicine. Poor Charley was
heyond human aid, however. He raved
through j the aft n rnoon and night, aud next
morn n - waM * truck w j t h cleath. Ilia
ffiln<1 came back to hiln „ t ,| ie i„ stl and ,«
we Btoo d over him he calmly snid:
»j know j. m goinK to die, but I’m not
a£ra|d ru gee fat her and mother in
heaven, and perhaps Brother .James is
ikere too .”
was completely broken down. He got
j down db his knees aud begged Charley to
f org i ve him and 1 never saw a Man feel
the bitterness of an act as he did.
“Yes, 1’* forgive you,” replied the l>of, j j
“and if you prny to God, he’ll forgive too.
Has it come night so noon again?”
“No, my child,” answered one of (be
men.
I “But I can’t .--ee any cf yon any more.
Good-bv. Let mr take your hand, 1
for”—
And with that he breathed his l.vd.
and there were two to rest in the snow
until spring came. 1)1 yon ever hear of
“Charley Gulch?” Yo^. of course you
have, ami if you have passed « hat way you
have seen the boy's grave. The i: ad
board contains only the name—cut. <i r>
by Big Ben’s knife— but the story of l ho
boy’s heroism has been told in every mill¬
ing camp in Nevada, and it lms never
been told without bringing moisture to tho
?yes of all listeners.— Yew York Sun.
Dll. W- T. POOL
DEX T 1ST,
OVER COLUMBUS BANK.
tt£rAil Diseases of th * Mouth and
Teeth treated in the best manner.
BAXHTOI LONE Ho, 21, A, 0,1!,?,
Regular imndilitfs <»n nrsl uini third
Tu< sdays in each month
J B. MOBLEY, W\ M,
J. L. BLACKMON Record, r.
CB2FUT LODGE, Bo, 10, f. I A, X
Regular communications >>n second a ml fourth
Saturdays »h each month. J J.Tcckf.k, F. VV.M.
Hknj. liu i., Sec.
pEORGlA, HARRIS COUNTY —JESSK MK.A
V T ows, administrator ot Seaborn Meadows, late ot
said county, deceased, makes application for let cr
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as conc.m .,1 »..• hereby first notified Monday ,n „w Ma
cause, if any thev administrator have, by the should bedismissc, in l
next why said not
Giv |J under my hand " nd " fficial s,gnature l ’ cb ‘
6 t 1,(1 , 8
j. F.C. WILLIAMS, Ord’y.
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/ liTA 1 ’ION—Georgia, Hakhh Corniy
VJ Wbeieas oert*m pet i: toner* h.,v,i
omde their application to tins c >int pr»y
mq an order granting 'be < s Hbliahtut t.r
of a new pnblio road fif’een feet w id#*,
eoinaieneing at the HmuiIioh Mills nrd
mnniog eastward through 'he Imp, is of W
B liagland, Welcome links, dee’d. J 11 (!
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Imnio, M tthew 11 -mhp, and 'hone**
throngh lunda ef Jen*© Hi d John <Jrit»n*n
by way of their dwelling hou-,e, from .1 >o
Gritne* sonthettHr to »I <>ld road on I :.n
Whatley and Kit-g nnrf three to
road running norfh und -• .»>fh from if> ri
ma Milter's old plane to Wofttley’* ah p
and whereas certain i oiumiHsioner*; * p*
pointed for that purpose h»ve review* !
aund marked ont snid o»n»emplated rcol
and reported to us that said roml w ill »»i
c f much practical utility und convei iere,
now tbia is to oite and admonish >, I p r
*ous that thirty days after publication of
this citation in the Hamilton .1 nut. ^'<1
rond will he granted if no pood cause in
gbown to the contrarv.
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district of Harris county, coni■ iumK aoo J. ac cs I m ,«•
or le**. Levied upon a* the prop m of H. :
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% 4 £J°sSi„rt°,y j!r*Mtbuag. vs W.
H.T*owp*», y ' ecu..
ity.
Also *t the Mmt time and place, lot of land No.
232 in the i8th district of Harris county, < ou am*
ing 20 a# acre*, more or less, being the place r-i *
which the defendant now reside*. Lcv.ed • n a >
the property of Simon Bickh y to satisfy a fi. fa.
issued from Harm Superior tourt in favor of VI.
W. Peters v* Simon Hicklev, and written n< the
given detendant in possession.
BRITAIN WILLIAMS, She:iff.
L. L. STANFORD,
Attorney at Law,
101 * Georgia.
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Mhi»* hpcdftl attention in t«* CoD« CttOfls
743 P*AIs*» money (•» nh iu*prov 1
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