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CHRISTMAS AT MUD FLAT. By Leander P. Richardson. She had been in camp four days. "Where she came from, why she came, or who she was, no one could tell. But she was in camp, and had come to stay, there was no doubt. She was quiet, modest, and simply clad—three qualities which commended her to the residents of Mud Flat as a change from the ordinary run of females who from time to time invaded the precincts of that classic settlement. Nor were these the only points that had been noticed by the boys. As Andy M'Corkle had gallantly handed her from his mud-bespattered coach to the portico of the hotel, everybody saw that she clung almost convulsively to the little child whose arms were twined about her neck. They observed also that her features were pale and bloodless to an extent that was almost pitiful. By that delicate intuition which sometimes exists under the roughest exteriors, the sturdy miners of Mud Flat understood that the lady was suffering from mental as well as physical illness. Their sympathy was aroused in her behalf from that instant, and every man in the place immediately constituted himself her champion and friend. A day later, when she had rented a cabin near the outskirts of the town, without disclosing to anyone her inten tions for the future or her story of the past, their interest was increased, and they began to show their interest in sub stantial ways. A great heap of fire-wood was mysteriously placed within easy reach the first night. Bags of flour, quantities of coffee and sugar, a whole ham, and a quarter of fresh venison likewise made their appearance from some unexplained source the third morning. Little was seen of the recipient of these treasures however. She had only been on the street once, and then only to pur chase a few necessary articles. Upon that occasion she met the reverential gaze of a score of loungers, and turned her head away, pretending not to see, when the jovial Bill Carter smuggled a huge package of candy into the cliild’s capacious pocket. But aside from this she had remained hidden from view, and the miners knew as little about her on the fourth day as they had on the first. The 23rd of December was unusually cold even for that locality. As the frozen moon came up over a distant crag, cutting with chilly hands the dusky gloom, one might have fancied that he had sud denly been transplanted into the Arctic regions. The ground was covered with a thin layer of snow, which glistened like burnished silver in the pale light. Here and there along the sides of the gulch, giant pines, standing like ghostly senti nels, threw their spectral shadows across the white expanse. The roar of the Potato Creek, wrapped in the icy arms of winter, was subdued to a tiny, muffled trickling. And the wind, gently sighing through the passes, played AEolian melo dies among needles of pine and tassels of hemlock. In the main apartment of the Magnolia saloon, a party of boys were sitting round a table, upon which steamed a large bowl, emitting a fragrant and aromatic odour. “Whoever she mought be,” observed a tall and rather angular personage known to his companions as Long Tom Rollins— “ Whoever she mought be, she’s alone, barring thet kid, and unpertected besides. She’s sickly, too, and orter hev a doctor. This ain’t no sort of a place for a—a—in verlid,” he concluded, hesitatingly, re moving his heavy boot from the table, and helping himself to a liberal allowance of the punch. Then, after a pause, he con tinued, “I wonder what ails the critter, anyhow ? ” “ A man’s at the bottom of it, gentle men, you hear me,” observed Judge Gash wilder from the other side of the table, nodding conviction at each of his hearers in turn. “Take my word for it, ther’s a man in it, as ther allers is in any deviltry that robs a poor woman’s cheek of its bloom, and her eye of its light.” The Judge was eloquent at all times. But when his round pate glistened from the effects of good punch, and his theme was woman, he was thought by the men of Mud Flat to have but few equals. Therefore the little party seated around the table were considerably startled when, just as their favorite orator had thrust his right hand into his breast as a preparatory gesture leading to a more extended tribute to the sex. Long Tom Rollins leaned for ward and exclaimed; “ See here, old man. How do you know all this I ” For a moment everybody was aghast. Whether they were astonished at the sud denness of the interuption, or at the half savage tone of the speaker, or whether it occurred to them that the Judge might possibly have so far over-stepped the bounds of prudence as to have attempted “ pumping ” the interesting stranger may never be known. For an instant his naturally serene countenance wore an ex pression which in another would have been mistaken for guilt. If the confi dence which the others had always placed in him was a trifle shaken at that instant, it was quickly restored when, after a moment’s hesitation the old gentleman explained his peculiar position. “ You see gentlemen,” he said, gradu ally assuming the attitude from which he had been surprised by the abrupt speech above quoted, “ I was prowlin’ round her cabing last night, when all of a sudden I heered voices inside. The door was open a leetle bit, and by standin’ where I was I couldn’t miss a syllerbul. I will here ex plain,” he continued thrusting his red bandanna handkerchief into his breast as was his wont -when speaking publicly, “ that I was there for the purpose of find in’ out, if possible, whether the gal was in want of anything that I could help her to.” “ Which accounts,” observed a by stander, ‘ ‘ for that chicken which was hung up alongside the door when I came by, this mornin’.” “I heered her talkin’ with the kid,” continued Judge Gashwilder, not noticing the interuption, “and I couldn’t help lissennen. As near as I could make out, the talk was like this : “ ‘ When shall we see papa ? ’ ” “ ‘Heaven only knows, ray baby. We have sought him long, and when God is ready He will restore him to us. ’ ” “ ‘ Is Crismas cornin’ soon mamma?’ ” “ ‘ Yes, baby darling. But there won’t be no presents for my little one this time. We are away from home, and poor. But when we find papa we will go where there are lots of pretty things, and then baby shall have plenty.’ ” Here the Judge leaned forward and whispered in a mysterious voice, telling his companions that he had heard the mother repeat to her child the sad story of how her father had gone West four years ago to seek his fortune ; how for two years his letters, containing money for her support, had come like rays of sunshine through the clouds; how they had suddenly stopped, and no answers were received to her agonized appeals ; how for two years more she had supposed him dead; how, at last, the Postmaster in the little village where she lived had, upon his dying bed, confessed to having stolen the letters from her husband so as to get the money they contained, and suppressed her missives to him, for fear of discovery; and how she had started out with the little one to find the lost husband, who had been last heard from in Mud Flat- All this the Judge told to the few friends he could trust, speaking in a whis per, lest the precious secret should be passed to others in the room. 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‘■'And now,” he added, resuming his rhetorical attitude and voice, £! I axes you, as gentlemen and representatives of Mud Flat chivalry, shall this gal and her kid, being too poor to have a Crismas of their own—shall they go without it or not 1 Remember, gentlemen, that kid is the fust one as ever came into this place, and p’raps she’s our luck. Let us nurtur her, my friends, and let us show her mother that we ain’t so lost to virtoo an’ principle as not to appreciate it when rye hev a good woman and an innercent kid among us. Let us give em’ a Crismas. I will now proceed to head the subscrip tion.” So saying, the gallant old man moved the punch-bowl to one side and emptied j the contents of his breeches pockets upon the table. Others followed suit, ! and when the last man had placed his contribution there the pile contained a goodly sum. “ Row, gentlemen, some one of us has got to take that money, ride to town and spend it for ’em. Who shall it be ? ’ j “ Let me be your agent,” responded a deep bass voice. Turning, they saw a tall stranger stand- { ing near by, who had just entered in time to hear the Judge’s call for contributions, j One or two in the room recognized him as a miner w 7 ho had come in from the diggings that afternoon, having found it too cold to work any longer in the moun tains. _ | They were inclined to resent the inter ference of an outsider, and probably would not have heeded his request had he not spoken a second time. Drawing near the table, he said : “Gentlemen, I was once a married j man myself, but my w’ife, God bless her, is dead. For the love I bear her memory, For the affection I have the re membrance of the little one buried with her, I ask you to let me aid in this matter. ” The sadness in his voice and face was so sincere, and the utility of sending a man who had “ been thar, and knowed what wiinmen folks would like,” presented it self so favorably to the miners, that with but little hesitation they allowed linn to do as he 1 ad wished. In an hour he was gone, and, the settlement was lost in speculation as to what lie would bring back for the strange lady and her child. The morning of December 25th dawned crisp and cold. The fresh, biting air of the mountains raced among the trees right merrily, whisking among the branches with real holiday gaiety. It was nearly noon when the stranger rode into camp, loaded with bundles. At the Magnola he met an eager crowd of miners, who, headeded by Judge Gashwilder, were soon on the road to the strange lady’s cabin. Arrived there, they felt a sudden hesitation about entering. It was like intruding upon some sacred ground, and they were almost tempted to deposit their bundles upon the threshold and fly. “You take the stuff,” said the Judge to the stranger, “ and go in fust. You’ve bin familiar with wimmen, and know how to handle ’em. We’ll wait outside. ” But the stranger felt the same hesita tion. Perhaps his long absence from feminine society made him bashful. Per haps a thought of the memory he revered caused him to hold back. Finally, the J udge consented to take the lead, and, doffing his hat, knocked softly. The door was opened by the child, who bade him enter. Beside the fire sat the mother, who X’ose to meet them. All passed in but the stranger, who stood out side. “ Marm,” said the Judge, who somehow had lost his usual ease of speech and gesture, “ we—that is, the citizens of Mud Flat—has come to wish you a merry Christmas, and to offer you these few tokins of our respeck an’ esteem.” Having thus delivered himself, the old gentleman deposited the bundles on the table, and stood beaming serenely on all his companions. The strange lady, com pletely overcome by this unexpected kind ness, could not find words to reply for a moment. Then, in a broken voice, she said : “ This is a glad moment of my sorrow ful life. You are good, kind men, and I know God will repay your generosity to the widow and fatherless. I ” She stopped suddenly, and stood with blanched cheeks and distended eyes, staring towards the door. The miners turned and beheld the stranger, who with a great stride forward, and a cry express ill g the wildest joy, caught the woman in his arms. Thus they stood, heart pressed to heart, and lips to lips for an instant. Then the stranger turned his eyes devoutly toward the ceiling. “ Thank God,” he murmured gently, “ the wife I had supposed dead is restored to me.” The miners stoic softly away, and left the stranger standing thus, with his arms ten derly twined about the woman of his love, and the little child clinging fondly to his knees. The air was balmy outside ; the sun shone with ineffable sweetness upon the scene ; bluejay screamed his delight from a neighboring tree, and the wind played a joyful tune among the rocks. Christmas had come to Mud Flat. DODD’S TRAGEDY. He came into the store with a face full of misery, and sat down upon a box beside the stove and began to cry. It was a queer thing for a man like that to do—a great rough laborer, fifty years or more. Some dreadful trouble must have come upon him to make him show his sorrow that way without disguise. The strangers stared sympathetically. After a while the proprietor of the store went up to him and said : “ Well neighbour, you seem to be in trouble ; can we help you any ?” The man did not look up ; he shook his head and said : “No, no, no ! It’s very kind of you but nobody can help me. I suppose you all think I’m an old fool; but she was all the family I had, and now she’s dead,” and a great tear splashed upon the floor. “ She’s dead. You can’t do me any good now ; but if you’d come around to my little shanty there about nine o’clock last night you might have done some good—l dunno. When a man is determined to make a brute of him self he’d do it, perhaps ; but if there’d been some one there to say : ‘ Dodd, what on airth are you about ? ’ why, mebbe—l dunno, tho’ —I was mad. When a man is mad, and has had a glass too much, what’s the use of talking to him ? It’s fixed things for me. Any way —Lord, forgive me ! she’s dead,” The tears splashed down again, but the people looked at him with faces that had lost a little of their sympathy. “You did’nt—did’nt do anything to bring it on—whatever it was?” said an old lady with a large basket on her arm. “I shouldn’t have thought it of you.” “Yes, I did—l did,” sobbed the man. “Ifit had not been for me it never would have happened. I loved her too. Yes I did love her. Nobody could say she’d ever had a hard word from me before in all the days we’d lived together; but last night I’d a glass too much, and I stopped at the butcher’s down in the village and bought a bit of steak—a man wants a change from pork once in a way—and she was fond of steak, she was, and I just fetched it in and said to her : “We’ll have a supper to-night, eh : ” and she sort of nodded and winked at me jest as jolly, and then I went out to the well to draw water, and as a body does sometimes when anybody is in a hurry, I lost the bucket off, and I was a terrible time finding it, and when I went in —well, you see, I went in with an appetite— and there she sat, and—well I ain’t dainty, but I couldn’t have touched that steak to save me —and I got mad. Well, I got madder than I ever was before, and I jest goes around and gave her a kick. Yes I did. If I was to be hung for it to-morrow, I’d have to own up. I kicked her.” “You brute!” said the woman with the basket; “ kicked her because your steak didn’t suit you; well may you cry,”

“ Yes’m,” said the man. “You can’t speak harder to me than I feel to myself. I kicked her in the side, and, what is more, opened the door and kicked her out of it, and then I jest sat down alongside of my fire and talked the worse kind to myself—l did indeed —Lord forgive me ! and 1 said I’d never let her in again. Yes’m, you can look as you like at me —I deserve it—and then I went to bed.” “ Went to bed and left her out in the cold ? ” said the old lady. “Never seeing whether she was dead or not ? ” “Yes, I did,” said the poor man, sobbing hard, “ More than that, I went to sleep— I slept sound, too j and what do you think waked me ? Why, her voice— I knew it from a thousand. It was the awfulest shriek, and then another, and it came all over me what I'd done. I’d turned her, that had slept alongside of me winter nights more years than I could remember, out into the cold night. I’d kicked her out. Oh ! I was sober then. I tell you. I saw what a brute I was to do a thing like that, all fora bit of paltry steak, and I got up and went to the door and I called, but she didn’t come. I called again, and then I heard her scream, but fainter and farther off; and then I felt a kind of horror come over me, and I dressed myself and took my lantern and went out. I walked this way and that. I looked and I called, I swung the lantern low and I held it high. There wasn’t a sign of her; and at last I got down to Bolton’s Pond, there by the edge of the woods, you know, and I heard a kind of a growling ; and past me, all in a hurry as they go when they’ve been doing mischief, flew those dogs of Bolter’s—fierce devils—but they knew enough to be afraid of me then. “ And when I saw them my heart stood still and I swung the lantern low again, and I saw her. Sh e lay alongside the pond, and her gray baits were dabbled in blood, and the marks of dog’s teeth were on her neck; and I just took her up in my arms and carried her along the road home, and brought her to the fire, and there I cried over her and called her all the pet names lused to call her when I first had her a little, young thing; but it was’nt any use —she was just as stiff and cold, and I laid her on the bed and there she’s laid ever since. Oh 1 its dreadful 1 ” “Yes, and you deserve to be hung,” said the old lady; “but, now, suppose she isn’t dead, and maybe she isn’t. Let us go over with you, and stop and fetch the doctor. Folks have been brought to what seem dead. Any way it’s all right. “Well, I’ll do it,” said the man; “ but it’s no use, I know. ” The proprietor of the store called his wife to wait on it, and he headed the procession of his customers, and they all went down to Dodd’s cabin, calling on the doctor as they passed his house, and taking him with them. But when they came to the lonely little house no one cared to be first to go in ; but at last the doc tor, as being used to such things, opened the door and stepped in. It was a mean little room, and furnished only with a table, two chairs, same shelves, and a bed, and on this bed sat his old grey cat washing her face. _ As soon as Dodd’s eye rested on this animal he uttered a cry of joy, and flew to her side ; but she uttered a loud “ Mee-ow,’ - while her tail swelled to immense proportions. “Oh, I don’t mind,” said Dodd ; “ I de serve you should be mad at me —anything, anything, so as you’re alive. She’s come to life again Glory, glory, glory !” “ Why, you don’t mean to say you were talking about a cat all the while?” screamed the woman with the basket. “You said she didn’t cook your meat properly, and—” “ Ma’am,” said Dodd,” I meant to say she eat most of it for me, and tore and chawed what she didn’t eat ; but she’s welcome. So that she’s alive, I don’t care. Though she’s weaned from me; I see that. Our happy times are over ; she doubts me.” ‘ 1 Called me in to a cat, indeed 1” said the doctor. “ Left my business lor a cat 1” cried the storekeeper. “ Oh, what an old fool!” said the woman. “ Miaow !” yelled the attendant train of boys ; but old Dodd never looked at them. He listened to none of their insults, and they left him doing his best, with tears in his eyes, to get that offended cat to take a little milk from a saucer that he held before her lips, and saying: “Oh, make up, pussy; your own Dodd will never do it any more.”

SUPPOSED LOSS OF LIFE AT THE AUCKLAND ISLANDS.

In reference to the telegram regarding the reported loss of eight men at the Auckland Islands, mentioned in our tele grams, the Dunedin “ Herald ” publishes the following : The first definite information we ob tained was from Captain Wilson, of the scaling schooner Friendship, which came offa cruise in December, 1879. He re ported that a whaleboat’s crew of seven men left Port Boss, Auckland Islands, about the beginning of October, on a sail ing cruise, but that they had not made their appearance up to the close of No vember. The crew of the Friendship searched both coasts of the island without result, and on returning to Port Ross after the Awarua had made a second visit, the provisions wore found exactly as they were left. Captain Wilson reported the matter when ho arrived here, and on Dec. 19 made the subjoined statement to Mr. Hackworth, Collector of Customs : The Awarua landed eight men at Port Ross on July 4 last for the purpose of sealing. She returned again with pro visions for them in October last, but the men were not there. The Awarua, after discharging the provisions, left for Camp bell Islands on Oct. 27, believing, it is supposed, that the men were on a sealing cruise, as the whaleboat belonging to the station was away. Captain Wilson reports having called at Port Ross on Sunday No vember 9, and found the provisions landed by the Awarua untouched, the presump tion being that the men had gone round to the west coast sealing and had got their boat swamped. Had they succeeded, however, in getting safely to land there would be no possibility of their getting away, as the rocks are perpendicular, until some assistance was sent, bub they might be able to exist on seal flesh, and would find shelter amongst the rocks and coves there.

On Friday, Capt. Drew of the Awarua, made the following declaration before Mr. Hackworth :—I landed eight men on the Auckland Islands on July 10. The fol lowing day I took one man named Griffiths on board again, and sailed for the Campbells. I returned again to the Aucklands about Oct, 14, and lay there about twelve days, and landed three months’ provisions. The men were not there. I don’t think at that time they had been away for more than a fortnight at the outside. Knowing that they had a good whaleboat, I took it for granted they were away on a sealing cruise. Having another party waiting for me at the Camp bells, who I knew were short of provi sions, I took advantage of the fine wea ther, and sailed for there the latter end of October. Before leaving I left a letter for the party, stating that as they had left no record of where they had gone to, I was unable to send a boat to look after them, and that I would be back in a cer tain time. At the time I left there was altogether fully four months’ provisions for seven men. I ran from the Aucklands to the Campbells in about 40 hours, and remained there about three months and a-half sealing, and thence came to Port Chalmers, and arrived here on Feb. 1. Since being in port I have learned that the Friendship had visited the Aucklands, and found everything just as I had left it. I therefore conclude that the boat must have foundered, and all hands drowned.

THE ASHBUBTON GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1880.

Printed and published by Horace John Weeks and Charles Dixon, at their Printing Office, East Street, Ashburtcr, Saturday, February 21, 1880,



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I always find a single dose gives immediate relief, and a small bottle effects a perfect cure.” POWELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED.— The effects of one teaspoonful taken in a little water before going to bed is extraordinary. No family should be without it in the winter. Sold by Chemists and Medicine Vendors throughout the World, is I 'AA and 2s 3d per 1 per bottle; a great saving in taking family bottles, us each. Established over 50 years. Prepared only by THOMAS POWELL, Blackfriars Road, London. for POWELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED SOLD by all CHEMISTS and STORE KEEPERS. Observe the Trade Mark, '‘Lion, Net, and Mouse.” Wholesale Agents in the Australian and New' Zealand Colonies -Elliot Brothers ; Eyers & Solomon ; Felton, Grimwalde, & Co. ; P. and S. Falk, Paulding & Co. ; Rocke, Tompsit, & Co. ; Rosenthall & Co. ; Kempthorne, Prosser, & Co.; S. Hoffenung & Co.; Hemmons, Laws, & Co. ; Berkley, Taylor, & Co.; and all other wholesale houses. Proprietor— Thomas Powell, Blackfriars Road London. KEATING’S WORM TABLETS, A PURELY VEGETABLE SWEETMEAT, ooth in appearance and tasta, furnishing a most agreeable method of administering the only certain remedy for INTESTINAL or THREAD "WORMS. It is a jierfectly safe and mild preparation, and is especially adapted for children. TESTIMONIAL. Medical Hall Gildersome, Nov. 28th, 1876. Mr. Keating, Dear Sir, —I think it nothing but my duty to inform you of the immense sale I have for your Worm tablets, which I may justly say is enormous, and in every case gives the greatest satisfaction. I have now in stock two bottles containing the Round Worms brought me during the last few days by customers, one Worm 40 yards long. I dare not be without the remedy.—yours respectfully, M. A. Walker. Sold in tins by all Chemists and Druggists Proprietor, THOS. HEATING, London, REWARD AND CAUTlON.—Whereas fraudulent imitations of this umsurpassed remedy have been sold, I hereby request any one knowing the vendor of the same to com municate with me, on conviction of the offender a liberal reward will be paid. 637 BUGS, FLEAS, MOTHS, BEETLES And all other Insects are DESTROYED by KEATING’S INSECT POWDER, which is quite harmless to domestic animals. In exterminating Beetles the success of this Powder is extraordinary, and no one need be troubled by those pests. It is per fectly clean in application. Ask for and be sure you obtain “ KEAT ING’S POWDER,” as Imitations are Noxious, and fail in giving satisfaction. Sold bv all Chemists in Tins, is. & 2s. 6d. each GRATEFUL—COMFORTIF G. jgPPS’S BREAKFAST COCOA. “By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application oi die fine properties of well selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tabled with a delicately-flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors’ bills. It is by tne judi cious use of such articles of diet, that a constitu tion may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us, ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fata shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure bicod and a properly nourished frame.” —The Chi Seivict Gazette. SOLD ONLY IN PACKETS LABELLED TAMES EPPS AND CO J > Homeopathic Chemists, London,



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