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THE WAIF OF DEAD WOOD. | l£ow .“The Pride of tbe Family” | Came to the Black Hill**, ilis Untimely DeaJk. The proprietors of a sa lon in Deadwoud, and their industri ous visitors also, were for a moment di verted from the contemplation of sun dry piles of ‘ chips" and some other matters pertaining to gambliug, by ttie appearadee of a small boy in they, midst, an uncommon boir too, common boy would have gone of his own accord into the Minerva saloon. “Acting chap, where did you come from, and who are you, anyhow ?” “My name's Jim, and I cum up(here from Cheyenue to make stamps like all the rest. Don’t you want a boy here, boss ?" v “A boy ! Major, do you hear that ? The boy wants a place here. Jim’s bis name, he says." “Yes, and I reckon we’d best take him, too ; only what’ll we do with him? that’s what I don’t know. Jim, where’s your folks?" “Dun no —home, I spect." “And where’s that?” “I don’t like to 5 tell you that; acd you don’t know ’em —my folks—so what’s the dse in 1011111’ all about ’em, eh V* , “That boy is sharp, Major, sharp! And you want a place here, boy, do you ?" “Yes, bo s; I’m lookin’ For a place. I can shine boots, and do ’most any thin'" I never cusses and swears but I like to smoke cigar butts aud whole oues, too." “Shine, can you ? Now 1 ct’s see how you can shina before we hire you for Eteady work." Aud Major Showers left tho “look out" seat at the faro game to test the capacity of tho small boy who wished for a place. Major Showers was a gam bler — a faro dealer; and his partner, “Doc" Puffer, had.earned the curses, because he had been the ruin of more than one poor fellow. This boy, Jim, was certainly the on ly small boy without an owner in Dead wood. It was a wonder how such a little waif came away here in the Black Hills. His own statement of it was perhaps as good as any. “1 jeot kept a cornin’ till I got here, boss; that’s the way it was.” And that shine of yours, Jim, ain’t ;juite up to what we’re used to here ; but improve. You see, wo care what it costs, but we must liav% tl best." That was the only bargain ever made with the boy but he became presently, and curiously, too, part and narcel of tho establishment. Like a rare paint ing or a cariosity, tue lad became an attraction. His quaint, old-manish ways and sayings caused many a rough customer, and those better bred, too, to stop and wonder at the boy. “Whoso little cuss is he, Doc ask ed Joe Buuee, a Dead wood terror, as he watched the boy till he wholly forgot aud neglected bis faro chips. “Mine and Major’s." “Young fellow, what’s your name ?" “Jim." “Jim what ? out with it, quick, or “Jim —I don’t like to tell, so I don’t, mamma wouldn’t like mo to tell n6ither. She said how 1 was going to be the pride of the family some day, if 1 was a good fcoy. Oh, I wish I could jest sec my mamma, jest oust. — O—oh And a torrent of tears told the ear nest love of the lad for his far away mother. Other eyes, total strangers to isuch sensations, were puzzled at the ef** ■feet of-the boy’s tears. “L'efc the little chap alone, Joe! You’ve made him cry —and I won’t haye it,” said Doc, sharply. I “I didn’t go to hurt his feelin’s, Doc; I only wanted to call the little cuss by his full name.” The desperado was actually trying to soothe and caress the lad. “Then call hiur Jim Pride, if you want to —aud let him alone.” And so he was called Jim Pride af ter that. Avery nice boy in his ways, he remained too, in spite of the fearful 'Ufa around him. And those gamblers of the Minerva saloon were presently S3 watchful and jealous of the welfare aud good morals of their boy as a lover would be of his mistress. “The boy don’t know anything bad, and he ain’t agoing to learn it from you,” was the quietus Doc and his re volver put upon the wickedness of more (than one too talkative desperado. “Why don’t you setup a Sunday school lot the boys here? Vv T hen me and little Jiui here takes a hand you’ll have to call in the checks and close the game, eh, Doc ?” From no greater cause than this ban tor of Joe Bunce, with the laugh of others arouud the gaming table, came uot words, and then the inevitable re volvers. There was in a moment curs ing, shooting, yells, anu the terrfio ups ratof a frontier bar-room fight. Fi nally the noise ceased and the crowd came slowly together aguin. The faro dealer, took hig seat again “Nobody hurt, gentlemen. Now wo’ll go on again with the game.” it was then that somebody pointed to a corner. A little bunch of clothes lay there behind a ehair. ‘ Oh, God!” said the dealer, spring ing, uy aud throwing away his bos and e .rd-. “It’s our httle boy, Jim. Dead! yes, dead ! and I wish it was me ! I wish it was me and not him I” The next day Dead wood had a funer al—a very sad one! There was a small rough coffin into which the entire pop ulation of the town gazed earnestly and tearfully. Many rough and some cruel bauds suddenly became strangely ten° dor and wished to help bear away that coffin. No one knew the boy’s real name;' but there is a marb'o slab at his grave vVasita tender chord in the gam„ bier’s heart that prompted this inscripi tion ?” * “Under this bit of turf, under this for-, est tree, Waiting for God Jo caT, lies the piide of the family.” Slow Evarts ltu:is His Farm. It is not strange that Mr. Evarts doesn’t make money off his farm. Hor ace Greeley and 11. W. Beecher failed because they were not conteut to let their workmen run the farm, but must needs put their own absurd ideas in practice. Mr. Evarts fails because his manager is unable to understand him, and gets confused as soon as Mr. Ev<- arts makes his appearance and begins to talk. Last year, for instance, Mr. Evarts said to his manager, the very first morning af the summer vacation ; “Patsey, it becomes necessary, in view o f ' the superabundance of foreign and deleterious elements among those green and waving uprights, to place the charger in front of the utonsil with the branching and numerous support ers, and have the latter agitate the sur face of the naturally productive soil." Patsoy said, “Surr ?” “The astounding density of various species of the human head," continued Mr. Evarts, after a start of vexation, succeeded by a period of profound thought, “it is something, I am free to confess, much beyond my comprehen sion. I have combated Lucy Stone singly aud alone for threo successive hours ; I have even communed with the stolid and peculiarly happy idiocy of Gideon Welles ; but I never saw the like of this. It is worse than the jury in the Beecher trial. Isy the ghost of William fell, the man’s a horse !" “Is it a horse you want, sur ?" suit; Patsey, a happy light dawning upon him. “The exact purpose of the creation of such beings," pursued Mr. Evarts, heedless of the interruption, “is a some thing which will, perhaps, be revealec at sometime in the far distant future. I should like to trace the theory of Darwin in this creature. I should like to compare him with the lower species, if, happily, there are any lower; I wish I had an orangoutang here.” “We haven’t one on the farrum, sir,” said Patsey, with some haste. “They— they was sold by mistake, sur, last win ter, along wid do petatys." “Cease, barbarian I" said Mr. Ev arts with towering scorn, evidently pro voked beyond endurance. “Upon my soul, you have as little knowledge of farm work as the Hon. Benjamin But ler has of politics." Mr. Evarts rushed wildly into the house. “I think," said Patsey, after wasting another precious half hour in profound thought, “I think Musther Evarts wants me to harness the oxin to the carriage and put the colts to the Ibay wagon." And a!! in the world that Mr. Evarts wautea was that Patsey should cultivate the oorn. Nine Raps. A prominent seeker after the truths of spiritualism, from San Joes, happen ed to be in town last Monday, and to stay one night at a hotel which shall be nameless, says a late number of the San Francisco Hotel Gazette. It was the gentleman’s belief that wherever he went, sooner or later, ho would receive some communication, so he was not a bit surprised that before the night was over he should be awakened by hear ing a gentle rapping somewhere in the room. Ho aat up in bed sleepy, yet satisfied, and asked— “ Who’s there ?" There was no answer, and the queer noise stopped. “Anybody there ?" he asked again. No answer. “It must have been a spirit,” he said to himself. “I must be a medium. I will try. (Aloud) If thero’s a spirit in the room, it will signify the same by saying ‘aye’—no, that’s not what I mean. If there’s a spirit in the room it will please rap three times." Sure enough, three very distinct raps wore given in the direction of the bu reau. I “Is it the spirit of my sister ?” No answer. “Is it the spirt of my mother ?” Three raps. “Ar 6 you happy?” Niue raps. “Do you want anything?” A succession of very loud raps. “Will you give me any oommunica*' tions if I get up ?” No answer. “Shall I hear from you to.morrow ?” Raps very loud in the direction of the door. “Shall I ever see you ?” Then the raps came from outside the door. He waited a little while longer, but no answer came, so thinking the spirit had evidently gone, he turned over, congratulating himself on his new found mediumship, and went to sleep. On getting up in the morning, he found that the spirit of his mother had carried off his watch aud purse, his trowsers r.nd great coat. What Shs Ashed Tciuiny. He was nam and Thomas and she was named Jane. They sat on a hotel baL cony yesterday for three long hours and giving themselves dead away as being out of towners. Ah they sat down Thomas took one ot Jane’s bauds. 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