THE STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT.

AUCKLAND, N.Z., NOVEMBER 25, 1882

THE COW WIDOW.

E.VTiE Colorado ! Yonder she rests; her head ot gold pillowed on the Kocky Moun tain^, her breast a shield of silver, her feet ia the brown g-ass; the boundless plains for a play ground She is set on a hill be fore all the world. The air is very clear, that you may see her well. She is naked as one new born; naked, but not ashamed.

Thrown together in the b-r-room of the only hotel, the miners or Leadville gathered about their great leader and looked up to him on this evening as to an Alexander. I he cow widow had returned from Paris. She would come down from her rooms to see the boys. They knew it well, for had not the locol papers said that she had re turned, dressed fre3h from the hands of Wurth?

Tin groat broad-shouldered, tall, and altogether magnificent Colonel Bill Williams the leader of all Leadville, loved the cow widow. And, indeed, who of us all did not love her?

With her cattle on a thousand hills, her bellowing herds of sleek brown steers, her lowing spotted cows by every roadside, in every gulch and canyon, branded with a crosi on the flank—and this ia why we came to call tlrs wealthiest and best of all the bravo good woman of Colorado the cow widow.

fciow jealous Colonel Bill Williams was of her. He devoutly hoped and he honestly believed that his suit would be successful j and, indeed, each man of us there hoped, in case ho did not get her himself, that the Colonel would come in on the home stretch the winner ot the race. In fact, it was roally necessary that some like good fortune should overtake him soon. He had mines, it is true. He had a thousand mines, rich mines, extensive mines, mar vellottsly rich mines, according to his own account of them; but somehow he was in debt head and ears, and could not sell his mine for a chunee of raiment,

What Colorado miner cannot testify to the absolute and most deplorable poverty of a gentleman who has nothing in the world but a mine of solid gold and silver ? The noble Colonel had a partner in all Ins enterprises, a little, pinched, squeaky, half starved doctor, who had a pair of greasy pill bigs on hia arm .and enormous spec tacles over his nose. The nervous and anxious little doctor waa perhaps the only one of us there who was not wooing the wido » on his own account. But this gave him a double force to work for his partner. These two men, outsida of wooing the widow, had each a purpose in life. The Colonel's other sole aim in life was to sell somebody a mine ; make him swallow his accounts of it* marvellous worth. The doc tor's purpose was to maka men swallow his medicine.

The Colonel was not aver well dressed. And who of us was at that early day? Perhaps it was this waut of the wedding garment that made him so madly jealous of every stranger or well-arrayed gentleman who chanced to approach the presence of the coveted cow widow.

On this memorable night, as we waited for her to descend to where we were all gathered to receive her, in what served as har-room, parlour, and ball, the moon hung high and bright, and horses were champing their bits at the rack as if somebody was contemplating a hard drive. . ,Suddenly the door opened, and there timidly entered the most perfectly well dressed young man that had ever as yet set foot in Leadville.

Bat as the ow widow wa? expected to descend from the stairs, no one was look ing in the direction of the door, and the tall, well-dres3ed, but pa'e and anxious young man stood there timidly soliloquizing to himself:

" Go West and grow up with the country. I've couae West, and instead of growing up, if I don't get a job or strike something soon, I'll starve, grow down witk the country. Bat I won't be bad. No 1 Why, before I lie like a Colorado miner, I'd die. In New York I had no money, but I had pride, the real old Livingston pride; landed in Colorado last week, and have been hun gry ever since. fiide, yea, I have pride 1 111 not sink down to rags and revolvers, a nickname and aslonchhat. .No 1 I.Ricbard Percival Livingston, of the city^of New York, was born a gentleman, bred a gentle man, and I believe a gentleman can be a gentleman in Colorado as well 8s in New York. No ! I'll hold my own in Colorado." The Doctor looked over his shoulder and, winking to the boys, merely said : " A tenderfoot."

The Cojo vnel at the first glimpse was furiously jealous, but, concealing his dis pleasure, said : "So it is. I'll sell him a mine !" Then approaching, continued to the stranger: "Want to buy a mine, st'anger ?"

The pale, hesitating, handsome, young man modestly answered : "Ye?, I—l —that is, supposing the transaction be one of commercial amity in deference to -to financial embarassments,

"Pipy ?" " I mean if you will sell me the mine on time." "Time ! Boys, he wants time. Time 1 "Why, -we've got time enough for the whole universe in Colorado 1 'Bout the only thing we have got, eh boys? No, sir, we want the pepper sauce, right down, and don't you fail to record it." "Well, no harm done, I hope. You offer to sell a mine. I offer my terms. You decline, No harm, sir!" •'Not a hit, stranger, tnd there's my hand. I'm Colonel Bill Williams, the strangers' friend," and here he raised his hand°to the side of his mouth, and said, aside :"If I can sell him a mine. This is Mr! Ginger; the friend of Indian Agent, the Hon. Mr Snagley. This is Dr. Bags, my pard, and the friend of the cow widder, and the friend of the cow widder, tho richest woman in Colorado. He'll doctor you* or get you a job to hord sheep. He's got a powerfal influence with the widder." The tall, timid stranger stood full an inch tailor as he walked aside and said to him self : " The richest woman in Colorado 1 And a widow. Widows will marry, Now here is a wealthy widow. This wealthy widow mutt and will marry. She will choose among those around her. Well, as between these man and myself," and here he looked at his clothes, "the chances are for you, Mr Bichard Percival Livingstone, For, whatever happens, I'll be a gentleman. No ragged clothes, no revolver, no slouch hat, no nickname for Bichard Percival Livingstone." Getting confidential, he turned to the Boctir and said : " Yes, I should like to know the widow."

" You shall, you shall." The Colnnel looked dark for a second, then shouted as he slapped him on the shoulder: "You shall! What's your name ?" The deep disgust of tha tall young man at this familiarity was only half concealed as he answered: "My name is Bicbard Percival Livingston, of New York city." T,he house nearly exploded with sup pressed laughter, and the Colonel again brought his broad hand down on the man s shoulder, and shonted: "AH right, Dick; you shall know her. All right, Slim Dick," and again he slapped the'breath out of him. While the tnll, pale, and thoroughly disgusted young roan was pulling himself together, the thin, hatchet-faced little doctor squeaked ia his ear as he dangled the pill bags on his arm : " You look square, young man. IVotning triangular or three-cornered? You 11 do, Slim Dick. Bat if you didn't come to Colorado to huy a mine, you came to Colo redo for your health, didn't you ?" Yes -I—l—yes, I came to Colorado for my health, I suppose." '" Well, if you came to Colorado for your health you of course need a doctor." fb.3 tall, pale young man shrugged his aching shoulders, and muttered aside to himself:" Why, what does he mean? But I see I've got to humour him in order to get acquaiuted with the widow." Then, turning to the doctor, he said: "Well, yes, doctor, of course, and if I need medi cal advice I—" "Need it? You head it the moment you arrive here. It's while getting cli mated you seed a doctor. Once climated, you live for ever. Kow, I'm the doctor and the bosom friend of the cow widow; and, by the way, I'll introduce you, Dick, and here the little squeaky doctor poked him familiarly in the ribs with hia thumb. " Ye?, and. you take uiy advice, Slim Pick, employ the doctor, build yourself

up, get biceps like that—and go for the widder," and here the ginnt brought down the big right hand with a force that almost extinguished the disgusted ttratiger. " Let me see your tongue," squeaked the doctor. The tongue came timidly forth. "Juat as I expected. High living! Coated! Livin' too high. Been eatin' too much. That's the way with you young blood 3. Kill yourselves eatin' whan you first come hero." And without au other word ths hatchet-faced little doctor goes to the bar, and Ginger hands him his other bags, from which he takes a small paper of powders and hands it to Livingston, saying, "Now you take this at once." The tall, pale gentleman siarled back, and trembled where he staod. " But-but you—you may be mistaken in the case and

"Mistaken in the case? I mi-taken? You iuault me, sir I Take it I Take it at once 1 Perfectly harmless." " Well, if it is perfectly harmless, I sup pose it will do no harm;" and the tall, pale gentleman shut his eyes and meekly

swallowed it.

" Good I" ejaculated the little doctor. " Now a little somethin' to work it otF, and I will have you sound as a rock. Ah! this high liviu' ia a very dangerous thin;;, Gioger, hand me out my biggest saddle bags." U c takes the bags, puts on another pair of glasses, and unbuckles, and takes out a bottle. The Colonel and the doctor conferred for a moment as the former unbuckled the enormous saddle baga and set down the bottle, and then the former came gaily forward, and, again slapping the shoulder, died: "Yes, Diet, you must see that widder ride, Why, she's a comet 1 Twenty miles at a dash and don't turn a hair. Her ranch is twenty miles up the mountain?. Been to Paris. Ah, she's no slouch ! Dresses ! Well, she's the only real copper bottom that ever I seed in Colorado,ami —" he leans and speaks confidentially—"lf I don't get her I'd as soon you'd have her as any man I know, Slim Dick." The tall, pale gentleman was nearly knocked out of bis boots this time, and as he turned away he muttered : "Ah! these vulgar fellows, with their nicknames and rude familiarity. But I won't have it I'm goiug to hold my own iii Colorado." " I say, Dick, cau you ride ?' gaily cried tbe Colonel, following him up, '.' Ride? Yes ; all gentlemen can ride." " Bully ! Now I sort of suspect she'll ask you to go up to her ranch. She's powerful kind, And since she's beeu to Paris she kind o' takes a. shine to clothes, ye know. And now if she doos ask you to go you go. And if you do go for to take that twenty.mile iide, you keep up with her." " I say, Ginger, have you got a 'able f-poon ?" calh the doctor to the red-headed man at the bar, " No, but I've got a soup ladle some where." " Good I It will take about four doses. He'sqeen livin' so high." .and here the doctor takes and examines the enoimous ladle and pours out something from the bottle, saying to himself : "Jest the tbing I wanted." "Yes, sir," continues the colonel, gaily, "she shook a fellow here last year, a banker at that, because he couldn't keep up with her. If she asks for you to go with her, jest you go, and you keep up with her if it kills every hoss she's not on the ranch." Again hope blossoms in the heart of the tallf pale gentleman, and while he disdains to respond to the vulgar Colonel, ho says cheerily to himseif: "I will go with her, woo her, win her." Then, teeling better, he turned to the Colonel and held out his hand, saying : "I thank you, sir; I thank you with all my heart. You are a little rough ; but you seem a frank, good fellow, and 1 hope we shall he friends. 1 am a stranger, and don't quite fit iv Colorado yet. And, to tell you the truth, I don't intend to fit in altogether. No, sir, I don't like nicknames, and I don't inteud to have one. I am going to hold my own in Colorado.'1 The doctor had put the cork in the big bottle and put the big bottle in the big sad dle bags, and, with his glasses low down on his nose, was now coming slowly forward from behind with a big ladle full to the brim, " a'ow, Mr Slim Dick, if you'li jesl take this ere oil to work of—" " Oil! Oil I Good heavens! But I, I'm not going to take that. I—I—" " Oh, but you are going to take it, Slim Dick ! You see your tongue is coated; too high livin'. I had to give you that ere, powder to cut off that coatin'. Of course I had to give you somethin' pretty strong. Jb'or you've been a livin' awful high. You know you have. So, you see, I put in a good deal of ass-senic 1 This has got for to work it off." " But I protest! I wont lake it!"' And tbd tall, pale gentleman starts for the dooi. The doctor's left hand is clutched in the tail of his broadcl'ith coat, and he turns him round and squeaks in his ear: " Well, now look here, Dick, you will take it I Don't you attempt for to leave withthat ass-senic in you. I've got my perfessional repertation to keep up. I don't want no coipse on my hands. I've got my reperta tion to look after. Take it." " Oil! oil I Oh, if there is anything I hate ! No, never !" The doctor pecks with his sharp nose to the grinning row of miners that lean against the wall, and two come forward and clutch hi 3 shoulders from behind. "Good. Hold his bauds ! I'll hold his nose." The doctor tiptoes up, seizes the nose, the ladle goes up, the head goes back, bah 1 " There ! You'll be climated now in—in—well, very soon." "I—l—l ought to murder you," gaips and gags the stranger. "Keep it down, keep it down, keep it down," kindly insists the doctor. The Colonel comes forward, and, again slappiog the shoulders, shouts out gaily, " You said you ware going to hold yonr own in Colorado. Do it, Slim Dick. Do it, or bust! Hello 1 here's the widder now." Extravagantly dressed, and followed by a Chinese maid in native costume, the gor geous widow descends the narrow stain. The queer little maid is loaded down with enormous fans in each hand and bundles under her arms, which she is constantly dropping, and which the widow is constantly picking up, while the helpless little heathen closes her eyes and rock* to nnd fro on her wooden shoes, with her little feet set wide apart. The tall, pale man suppresses a rebellion in his stomach at sight of this rich and Seautiful widow, and each man against the wall assumes hiR most imposing attitude as Colonel Bill Williams delivers the

address of welcome

"Welcome back from Paris ! Welcome back to the sublime and auriferous regions of Colorado. Welcome back to your cattle on a thousand hills. Welcome to this, the club room of the honest [miners, of which I am the honest president. Widow, you are welcome! Gentlemen, this is the rose of the monnlain and the lily of the valley. She shall never d:e, cor wither.nor grow flat, or "stale or unprofitable, or ." But the shouts of welcome drown the eloquent address as the miners crowd around. " But I say, widder,'' squeaks the doctor, as'be leads forward Livingston, who ha' crossed his hands low down : " I want to presunt my very dear young friend, Mr Livingston, patient of mine, come to Colo rado ftr bis health. Patient of mine, widder; a gentleman and patient oi mine." The widow answers merrily : " Mr Living ston, I am glad to see you, glaa to know you j hope you're well.' Ani here the gorgeous widow shook his 'feeble hand so heartily that it was with the utmost effort he kept down the rebellion in bis stomach. "I set but to-night for a long, lively moonlight ride to my ranch. Colonel Bill William 3 here goes with me. It is one un. broken gradual slope in the Rocky Moun tains," cried the spirited widow; "not a tree not a stone, not a sump ; all as level as this floor, and in this full yellow harvest moon as light and ss lovely as Paradise. She pauses, approaches, 'ays a^and on bin arm and saya, " You will go ? "She is beautiful," whispers the ravished youth to himself: "and my fortuae la made. Ob, thank you, madam t Thank you with all my heart." He grasps her hand, he even a little, but recovers •with effort and Grieg, fondly t "With all wy heart; I love the saddle,"

" Then you shall have a bold and spirited horso" ; and again laying a hand on his arm, and looking in his face, sbe says, close and fondly : " And if I don't fiud you at my side, always, to the end of the dash, even to my pate?, good-by. But if you are there ! If you aro at ray sido to the end - Ha Iha!ha ! " Aud her sweet low laugh was more than mortal .could resist. " Madam, I thank you for this opportunity to show how devoted I can be to you. At jour fide olwnys ! Madam, I will be at your side to the last leap over the plains of Colorado, oven to your gates." Then, while the jealous Colonel giaroJ with rage, he leaned his pale face forward and whis pered, " .md, madam, I would that I could remain forever at your side, evtn down to the gates of death." " W 11 k

c \vi. now eacu omer Dottcr oy me time we reach my rmcl), through twenty miles of moonlight," iViu-murs the widow, wliile the coloni-1 glaie-< and confers hastily aside with his partner. Then the little doctor cumei up and pulls at the sleeve of his patient, who is whisper-

ing sweet compliments to the widow

"My fortune is made in Colorado after all," says the tall, pale gentleman to him self. 11 How he l'.>ves me at first sight," mur murs the widow as she turns to hide her blushes, * And still the colonel glares and the little doctor tugs at the sleeve of tho hated rival. " All ready !" roars a rough voice through tho half-opened door, through which three splendid and restless horses uro soon champ* ing their bits and stamping, fretfully as tbo man at the door holds etoutly to tho reins. A moment more and the three arc mounted, the horses' heads nrc turned to the Kooky Mountuins, and they bound away with the wind. The air is sweet and strong, fall of life, Ike wine. The moon has sown the road with silver. Not a word for the first five rniloj. Oh, the glory of a ride like that! Speech at such a time is profanity. At last, after nearly ten miles, the horses began to slacken pace from exhaustion. Colonel Bill had just set the rowels of his great Spanish spurs in the broad cinch in order to push his horse and his fortune, too. with the widow, when a low, deep rumbling sound was heard directly ahead, and the Colonel stood up in his stirrups. The plain was black before—a niovine, billowy, bel lowing mass that wa3 rolling directly upon the doomed riders. He alone saw and un derstood the terrible doom that was theirs. To the right ? To the left? Fly bofore this billowy sea of buffalo ? You had as well attemp to flank or fly before tho At lantic. Ho laid his hand on tbo widow's rein, checked her horse, and pointed to the peril ahead. There was at first a pang of bitterness, then a sense of grandeur as he reined Livingston's horse at her side. Ab ihe living sea rolled down t> engulf them, he bade them stand clo.-c and still together, ihen drawing a pistol he spurred on in front, and, springiug to the yiound, waited there to die for her lie loved. He did not have to wait loDg, The eaith trembled, A moaning sound came with the surging mass. He could hear them breathe. An unpractised man would have said ho could see their black eyes shine as they rolled down upon him. But that whiuh glistened in the vast tranquil moon was tho bright crooked little horns of the hairy mousters; their eyes were closed utterly else they had been blinded with the dust, The horses stood trembling, paraljsen with terror at the awful sight and sense of death. Tho man dropped to bis knee, and brought his heavy pistol to rest on his right arm as he felt their breath in his face. A flash ! another and another, and then horse, man, monster, the three rolled in the dust together an in distinguishable mas*. But the herd divided as against a rouk, and rolled away to the right and loft, not oven touching the two that stood still at their trembling horse?. The officers .and soldiers in chase came up soon after, and compelling the widow and her compmion to da3h ahead at once to the ranch, lest a like calamity might overtake them, drew the bleeding and b'oken and senseless man from out of the dust, where ha lay wedeed ia between the two dead animals. They bore him to the military camp on the plain below. How things whirl round in Colorado. It is a windy land. Livingston, too, became a great miner of Colorado, He borrowed two s-ix shooters, aud aacsnding to the summit of a mountain, located a mine. Before he had been thrca months in Colo rado he was heard boasiing in a bar-room that he had discovered that mine by seeing the solid silver flashing in the morning sun, or knocking its silver helmet against the morning star, a? he tended the cow widow's cattle ten thousand feet below I It was late in tho summer before the poor, bravo old Colonel Bill came forth crawling and dragging on hia crutches. His squeaking little partner had been all the time at his side, and every morning at his bedtidc a great heap ot flowers and Colorado roses wa-t to bo found. But no woman's face had beamed in upon him as he lay there in the. gloomy barracks save only that of Madge, the half Indian girl, a strange, wild creature belonging to neither race, and shuttle-cocked to and fro between them, dow a nurse, now a guide, but always a friend to the suffering. The broken-up old Colonel had never spoken of the widow. Thought of her ? Yhat the had he to think of ? " Pard, where do you get 'em ? " "Get what?" "Them roses that's been a comin' all summer, as the sun." " Got 'em ? I don't get 'cm. Got some thin' better than posies to tend to ; got my doctorin' to do j guess it's Madge." 11 Ah, euess it is," sighed Colonel Bill as he shuttled his crutches together and again fell to thinking how Livingston was having it all his own way with the cow widow. Suddenly one morning the whole country round came pouring into the post. The In dianc, it was reported, had broken out, and set lers and miners were fleeing fot their lives. LivlngUon was among the first to fly from his mountain of silver for protection. Ho entered the stockade puffing and blow ing,l r loaded down with pistols, overshadowed by an immense slouch har, without band or c rown } and the raggedtst man in the mines. " Indian war 1" he said to himself. "Driven at last from my home of immense wealth. Everybody rushing into the stock ade to escape the Indians. Why, hollo, Madge ! Glad to see you 1 Goiug back to ■be reservation, I hear. I hope you'll try and fit in to the reservation. That's best, you sea. No use a bucking against it. See what I was when I came to Colorado, I've mtlted down; fitted in like a square pc» in a round hole, Ab, if my Jerusha in New York canld see me new 1 I am rich now.

Madge. I try to conceal it, so tbat I might

not be robbed. But lam rich—immensely rich !" and he spread his nandi over his patches. "Why, Mr Livingston !" cried the merry widow, entering the stockade as Madge left it. " I thought you were up in the moun tains at work in your great mine." "Widow, yoa may well say great mine. For great mine it is. And lam rich, very —very-very rich." " Oh, I'm so glad of it. You will be so happy now. I congratulate you -with all my heart. With youth and health and wealth, how can you help but being happy V ■ " Happy ? No, 1 will never be happy again, never, never be happy again, un^ less—" "Why, Mr Livingstone, unless what?" "Ah, madam, while toiling away up there in my great mine, there in my moun tain of wealth, that flashes its silver sheen in the shining nvon, tbat knocks its helmet against the mon inp star—" "Ah, Mr Livingston." "Yes, madam, while toiling away up there my heart waa here. At last I could endure it no longer, and iorday I dropped my pick whfle prying off a brick of silver, and came to throw myself at your feet. I offer you all that wealth. All I The whole mountain 1 I don't want it." " Oh, Mr Livinaston." "Be mine I And holding his patches he fell upon his knees, " 1 hisis my first love," Then he moaned afside : " What a liar I've got to be in [Colorado ! If Jerusha Gould see ma now ! This is my first.my last, my only love, Be mine {" Merrily the little woman laughed as the ragged man arose from before nor and a boy entered with a rjwaaae.,

"From her! From the one woman I love; and I onght to have received it weeks ego 1" And Livingston read eagerly: "Dear Richard: Come back at once. Father is in Europe and mother is willing. Money no object. Come. Yours JERUSHA."

" Struck it at last ia Colorado! Stop, boy ! 'ihero must be an answer. Got any paper, boy ? Well, lend me your pencil, then." And, tearing off a paper cuff, he wrote very rapidly: "My dear, dear Jcrusha : Yours finds mo deep in my silver mine, ' The Jerusha,' Am running a cross tunnel to tap the silver livel, wlsere we hope to find the silver jn a liquid state flowing through all its dips and spurs and angles. At present we are in solid silver, and find it hard to work. My dear, dear Jerusha, how constant I have been to you, heaven aud the shining stars of Colorado only know." " Tnko that boy. Take it and fly ! Stop! I must add a postscript." And again he wrote :

My dear, dear Jerusha: Telegraph me SSOO to the City Bank of Denver. This solid silver is so bard to cut off that I may be delayed an hour or two, and I would not spare ono sweet moment from you. "Go! Pay at the other end. I follow with the next soldiers for Denver."

The doctor came forth from the barracks, polishing his specs on the corner of his coat-tail, and cordially welcomed the widow.

"But, Colonel Bill, how is he?" "Better, better. All tho time batter. But broken up. Why, he's got more joints in hia legs than a lobster." "And does ho—tell me—does he ever speak of mo?" "Speak of you? Why, when we firjit brought him in here—well, he didu't speak of anything else, But ne was out of his head then; didn't know what he was about, you see," " But now? Does he speak of mo now?" "Not now, widder. You see, when he got np on his crutches and got a good look at himself, and seed how he was smashed up—well, after that he didn't never speak of you any more." " Didn't speak of me any more after he saw how he was broken up J"

11 Never any more." " He ought to know that I want him to —to know—that lam grateful, grateful, That I—l—l waut him to come to the ranch aud look after my cows." The doctor stopped polishing the glasses with the corner of his coat aud gave a loog, low whistle to himself. Then he turned straight about, went iuto the barracks, and brought out bis partner on bis crutches, muttering to him as they came: "Now, old pard, don't put it tb'at way. If she lovea you—if she lovea you—why, why, she loves you, smashed up or not Bmaahcd up." "But I—l'm all gone to piece?, and in this little time my bead's got as white as the snow up yonder." " Well, what of that ?".

"What of that? Why, I won't blight her sunny life with the few chilly days that I've got left. No, I won't tell her I love her,"

"And why won't you tell her you love her ?"

" Beciuse I do love her!" "You saved my life 1" cried tho widow, eagerly meeting him. "Widder, there is a mistake, I don':) like to lie to you, or let you believe a lie. You know you was blinded by the dust and could'nt see."

"Yes, but I saw enough to know that it was you who saved my life." " Widder, I—l—lt was not I that saved you. You was blinded and couldn't see. It was not I, not I."

"Not you?" "No. It was the soldier. Ha, ha! It was that hundsome oilicer, widder. But, wid'or, it's good in you, but here's sonic mistake. I —l was sick a long time, wid der. I lay on my back there bandaged like a mummy, a long time.'1

" And I from my ranch sent every day to ask how yon were. And every day with my own hand I gathered flowers for your bed side and sent them ten miles to you every morning." "Oh, I thought it was Madge. Well Madge, she came and sat at my bedside anyhow."

■' And it was good in her." "Yes, that it was. It was good in her. And 1 -I—liked her for it."

" You—you liked her for i< ? Why, yes, of cour.-e you aid." " Yes. I—l loved to have her, and I learned to love her, and—l love her now,"

" You love her now ? You love her now ? Why, then, I wish yon well. 1 hope she will love you as—as I love you."

The strong man's frame trembled with a great emotion. There was a gleam of de light in his eye not seen there since the night of tbe dreadful ride. He let go his crutches, nr,d the gr«at hands rested on the little woman's shoulder as he said softly:

" Widder, not that. I don't ask you to love me. A man who truly lo res a woman don't uever ask to be loved. Ho only a»k<? of heaven, apd of her, permission to love." "And I give you permission," answered the brave little lady ; and the dizzied old miner knew his fortune and his happiness wf re secure. -Joaquin Miller in the New York Sun.

CATS.

Writing from Alexandria the other day, a newspaper correspondent says, " Tne most pitiable sight I saw in the whole of my sad drive through Alexandria was one I am almost ashamed to mention, Miserable wretches, young and old, there Wrre in plenty, tragic spectacles in every street; but I do not think I ever beheld anything so ghastly as—the cats! They sat, starv ing to death and parched with tuiret, on w»lls or rubbish of the houses to which they belonged, too weak ta move or to mew, the fur standing straight out from the skin, which hung in tresses on their bones, and their gauut eyes staring open—cat after cat, each more tearful to look at than its fellow."

Little less pitiable sights may be daily witnessed during the summer months in any of our largo cities. The schools have broken up for the holidays, the houses are closed, blinds drawn or brown paper sub stinted, notices as to the delivery of letters and parcels stuck in the windows, and the family has goue to spend the vacations aiuoug the breezy hills, or by the seaside In the cab which carries them to tue rail way station Master Tom Is generally perched beside the drive*, carrying in his hand the coge containing the canary, while from the interior peeps tortti the pet pug or poodle from its position on some one's knee; and the cat Well, the cat is uot going to the country, jno, pu-sy is left to lead for itself during the absence of its owners. Strnt outeido, it becomes tue lawful p-ey'qf strange dogs and errand boys. By day it may be found skulking in areas, shivering and hungry, or prowling through the de serted gardens and back- greens seeding to satisfy the cravings of the feline stomach with a hapless sparrow. By night these deserted cats meet in groups to bewail their miserable lor, and their lamentations are not silent. But our readers can speak on this point from their own knowledge Daily the poor animal becomes hungrier, gaunter, thinner, until the family returns to find it either lyiup stark and stiff, or co attenuated as to be hardly able to crawl into the house round which it has so tenaciously clung during the long weeks. '' Paor pussy 1 give it a drink of milk !" says niaterfamilias ; and forthwith di=mi-sts all thoughts of cruelty and neglect from her mind.

Letters {enumerable have been written to newspapers regarding this practice of leaving cats to. starve-; isolated attempts have been made to found institutions for homeless cats and dog?, but have died for lack of support:; earnest but vain appeals have been made to the proprietors of pussy; but the evil remains as great as ever. And iv all likelihood it wilt continue to do so, unless the Legis'ature takei the matter in hand, or the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals makes a few sharp ex amples.

1 here is a curious Arab tradition about the origin of the cat. Whether the dwellers of the desert really believe it cannot easily be settled j certainly it is written in their books, and told gravely in tlr ir tents. At the time of the Deluge, they say, Noah was greatly tormented at the rapid increase of the mice, for, of course, Ijo bad taken in some mice with him along with the other

animals; but here they were overrunning the ark, deetroyiug clothes, and nibbling provisions—damaging everything in all di rection?. So the patriarch prayed that the ravages of his little enemies might be stopped- And lo I one of the lions, seized with a fit of sneezing, sneezed forth a cat. Away it scampered instantly to extermi nate all the superfluous mice, to the great delight of Noah and liis family. Thus, says the Arabs, the first cat came huo the world,

To this wonderful instance of evolution, or rather projection, mankind is indebted for the great progenitor of Dick Whitting ton'a famous cat- of all cats, indeed, from the time of the Deluge down to that mem ber of the fel nc race which even now is " singing grey thrumbs " at my feet.

One of tho most singular proofs of the foreign importation, and, perhaps, of tha late arrival in Europe of the cat, ia to be found in its various uamcß. It is said that none of them came from the old Aryan source from which moßt of our language is derived, Most of them, like the familiar dial, are connected with the late Latin cat us, which took the place of the earlier. felis, when cats drove out the former foes of rats and mice. It seems to follow that cats came into the West with the Romans; but whence did the Komans get the name and the animal ? M. Pictet traces the name of tbe Syriac gats, and the Arabic qitt, out of which, by an easy and natural process, we male* kitten. Qitt and gats, however, are not the primitive forms of the cat's long-de3cended title, and we must go from Syria to Africa and find qada, kudUha, and kaddiska. As for tho ancient Egyptian mau, this is merely the ''mew cat" and the "pussycat" of our nurseries. Here, then, ia Egypt is a native onomatopoetic name of the cat, such as any human being might give it when he first heard the peevish, prolonged note of its voice. Tbe Indian names of the cat ere not very old, and they are easily explained, The, cat Is the " house wolf," " the rat «ater " (though snakes are the ratters of some districts), and "tbe fos of mice." The endearing title of the cat comes from the land whence the most pleasing specimens of the race are also derived The Persian cat, wild or tame, is paschak, which the Alghana pro nounce puchik, and Lithuanian (as old an Aryan-speaking raca as any in Europe), pitije. Tho English "pusa" ia clearly of tho same family of words. If " puss "in thelong run is derived from a Sanscrit word for "a tail," there is a curious coincidence between the word used by Herodotus for the Kgyptian cat, " the creature with wav ing tail," and the term found in Persian, Lithuanian and English. Thetojm ''tabby cat" is derived from Atab, a famous street in Bagdad, inhabited by the manufacturers of silken stuffs called atabi, or tafl'ety, the wavy marking of the watered silks resemb ling a-; cat's coat.

The cat has always been looked upon with suspicion by the nias:o*. A H'inkterre cat which, has served nine masters in sue cesjioti is believed to have the right of carrying off the soul of the ninth to hell. In Upper B.it'any there are sometimes seen enormous cats holding a meeting. If any ons presumes to intrude upon their pres ence they surround and tease him for a lime. Then a long needle is driven into bis hiart, and he is dismissed, Hypochon dria ensues, au.i he shortly wastes away. A black tom-cat, says a Russian proverb, at the end of seven years becomes a devil, A Breton farmer who neglected to take the precaution ot puttimg bis tom-cat to death Oefore it had completed its seventh year, was fouud dead in his bed one morning with his throat terribly torn. Suspicion fell upon innocent persons, who were like to lose their lives ou circumstantial evidence Luckily, a boy observed that the cat of the house was always watching the corpse with eyes that blazed with rage, so he fastened to the dead man's arm a string, the end of which lie dropped through the window into a yard. Then he told the police to watch the body secictly while ho pulled the string. They did so. When the bay gave the string a puil the corps e'a arm jerked. The cat imagined its master had revived. With one bound it sprang on to tbe bed, and furiou'ly tore away ot tho corpse's wounded neck, whereupon it was condemned to be buried alive, and the suspected per sons set free.

It is believed that a cat's viciousness depends to a great degree upon the length of its tail, and that cats born late in the y«ar are nlways shedding their coats. If the end of a cat's tail ba cut off it is unable to take part in tho witches' sabbat. When a Walloon maiden wishes to refuse a suitor with contumely, she gives him a cat and tells him to c^uut its hairs, It is generally believed in France that a bachelor who treads on a cat's tail will find no woman to mirry him till a full year has pa=sei away. Did space permit,* much might be said of the part played by tbe cat ia witchcraft, no taer have we left ourselves room to re pent any of the thousand and one anec dotes concerning cats which will readily occur to the reader. We must rest con tent with the following extract from the " North China Herald" for November 1, 1831 :—

" The slwn-pao contains a characteristic witch-story, curiously illustrative of a cor tai i form of superstition,. apparently of Buddhist origin, which enters widely into the popular folk-lore of the country. It is very generally bettered that, if any person kills an animal from]wantonness or cruelty, its soul will return and take poisejssion of the murderer's body until hia guilt is ex piated. An instance of th sis said to have occurred recently at Yangchow. There were a man and his wife, who had a pet car, the mother of three kittens. Like most other domestic animals, however, the feline family had somewhat thievish propensities, and were constantly stealing sundry tit-bits and delicacies that the servant girl had put by for her own private eating, At last she got so exasporated that, after a course of systematically ill-using the cats, she killed them, one after another, In different ways But in a short time she was taken violent;y ill, mewing and scratching like a car, and disploying all the symptoms of rabies. Fer mistiess, suspecting the true cause of the girl's attack thereupon apostrophised the dead cat, demanding for what rtaon it bad come to haunt her body. The cat, speakinc through the girl's inouih, they rec untered the ill-treatment it had r-ceivod from her during its liff, aud told how its little ones had been killed before its eyes. One had beea drowned, another worried by a dog, and a third burnt Last of all the cat herself bad been killed, and its spirit had now come to inflict its fearful visitation upon the murderess. All this, be it understood, was said by the girl her seif, in the character of the cat, between her paroxysms. At last, however, justice was satisfied, and the girl died in cunvul" sions at the feet of her mistress, It ia scarcely necessary to add stories of this de scription are firmly believed in by the Chinese, who are, after all, no more super stitions than Europeans themselres were at a comparatively early data. Indeed, many similar revivals might, without much difficulty, he found at the present day anong the peasantry of several countri's orthe West."

Mr St, George Mivart, in his recent work on cats, says that the early his tory of the domestic cat is uncertain. It is not the common cat-of zoology, which Is the wild or native cat, an animal that existed abundantly in the forests in the lime of Julias CiEsar, and was seen in Wales within the last twenty years. It appears to have come down to us from the Egyptians, being mentioned, Mr Mivart informs us, in inscriptions as early as 1684 8.C., and being, as is well known, an object ot religious worship arid the venerated inmate of several temples. It was an emblem cf the sun to the Egypt'ans; and according to Herodotus, the death or a cat from natural causes was followed by the ceremony of shaving the eyebrows ia token of mourning. Prom Egypt it must have been introduced into Greece, though Pro fessor Robertson considers that the cat of the ancients was the Mustela foina, the "beech" or "stone" marten. It was not a domestic animal among the Hebrews, though it was Known to them.,—! 1' People's Fviend,"

A New Haven lady refuses to permit her daughter to go on a visit. Last time she visited sha came home and insisted upon eating with her fork and having an extra plate for her pie.

Ladies' Dress Reform.

Apropos of ladies' die=s reform, "a boon to the scrag-jy and the stout" is suggested by an " Englishwoman " in the " Standard." It is an extremely simple boon, to combine the pantaloons of a sultana with an upper garment of Greek form fastened at the shoulder and confined by a girdle at the waist. Whether there should be the turban of thirty years ago she does not expressly cay, but any exnggevated heaA-dresi will be in keeping wiih it. Whether, too, san dals or slipimis arc to be worn is not men tioned, but is it is clear that high-heeled boats would be hopelessly incongruous with this congruous whole, the rage forwoaiing them will die a natural deatb. Added to this costume the " scraggy and stout" may carry an Ulster or Newmarket, or Mother Hubbard, and an umbrella if necessary, and the boon is complete. As example is better than precept, perhaps the lady would show herself in Regent-street or Oxford-street somi) afternoon for half-an-hour. She is sure to make converts, for as the weight of clothes is divided between the shoulders and tho hips, what more can thoughtful women want ? But they cannot be expected to dress from a written description any more than they do now.

Great Men's Relatives.

HOW THKT HAVE OFTEN PROVED AN OBSTACLE TO ADVANCEMENT.

Partnerships between fathers aud sods are too numerous to be noticed, but there are a few curious instances in which the father has seconded the son. A certain King of Media appointed his father to a satrapy, and the sire quietly served under the son. But since the hereditary principle first found favour among men, no sovereign cau have telt himself altogether a king while hia father lived. Philip 11. was con stantly receiving advice from the ex-Em peror, and must have felt bound at least to excuae himself when he did not follow it, How much the paternal superintendence annoyed him he showed by delaying the payment of the patcroal pension, There are fathers, again, and more of them, peihaps, than we suppose, who have been content to be the bumble admirers of their sons, and to bask in the rays of tlieir good fortune, Old Kichard Clive had never thought his Bon good for much till the news of the defence ot Arcot arrived in England; but he gradually .became im moderately proud and fond of his son, who joined filial piety to bis other qualities, Robert cleared off the mortgage on the family estate, settled £800 a year on his parents, and insisted that they should keep a coach. Mr Clive now began to keep fash ionable society.and was presenlci at Court. The liiug graciously noticed him nnd asked where Lord. Clive was. "He will be in town very soon," said the honest squire quite aloud, "and thca your Majesty will have another vote," which was tine enough, but not intended for publication. One can scarcely be surprised that it wss never thought expedient to confer a poersgo on Kichard C:ivc. On St. John's being created a viscount the father obtained a similar title, though, by somo blunder, bis patent was dated after his son's, so that the latter had the precedence. Their descendant still sits in the House of Lords as Viscount Bolingbroke and St. John. Tho above pre cedent, however, has by no means been in variably followed. It is plea«ant to read how Rowland flill, when he returned horn the Peninsula a peer and a General, quietly took his seat at his father's table in the old Shropshire manor-house, not according to his rank, but simply according to hia birth as a younger son, It is no:eworthy that Lord Beacousliold, with his usual good nature, turned Mr Almee-Haatings into Lord Doningion to lesson the distance be tween him and his aon, tho Karl of i.oud oun.

"The Complete Patron, or a Guide to MiuisterV hns yet to be written; and very difficult it would bo to luy down anything more than the vaguest rales for the distri bution of loaves and fishes. But there are bright examples and examples to be shunned. After Robert Crosscteste had been named bishop of Lincoln, his rustic brother called on him and solicited prefer ment. The Bishop ' replied that if he wanted a new plough or a yoke of oxen he would cheeifully pay for them ; but, he added, "A peasant I found you and a peasant I shall leave you." Tho good Bishop might have put the truth a little more politely; ppsaibly he feared that anything less than the plaiuest speecb would not he understood. Napoleon once found himself in exactly the oppposite position to Croaseteste, with a poor relative, who only begged to be left alone, and positively dreaded the idea of elevation out of his own homoly sphere. It was quite a surpiise to the Emperor, iv the heyday of his glory, to learn that a mere parish priest in Tuscany bore the name of Bonaparte and descended fiom a common ancestor with him. Straightway an aide de-camp was dispatched to Italy to ask the abbe what he would like. The Emperor wanted him, if only for tho sake of tho family prestige, to accept a bishopric, and it was hinted that the purple would soon follow. The padre would none of these honours at any price, and ended by con vincing the officer of his sincerity. Napoleon shrugged his shoulders at his am bassador's report, but did not insist. To the question: What caused the fall of Napoleon ? Talleyrand would have replied fin two worda: His relatives. The Prince of Benevent's answer is as correct ai any that could be framed. Properly supported by Joseph iri Spain, by Jerome in Westphalia; by Louis ia Holland, by Murat in Naples, the Kmperor would have been invincible. Talleyrand tells us that he warned Napo leon of the inevitable consequence of in trusting important interests to men like Jerome and Joseph. " ' Make them,1 I said to his Majesty, 'Arch-Chancellors, Arch-Electors, and so forth, as much as you please. Give them any number of honorary distinction's. Do not think of giving them real power.'" The ablest opponent of JMapolcon during the first half of his career committed the same mistake on a smaller scale. Pitt, whose name was considered syn onymous with that of patriot, would not see that his Vother, Lord Chatham, was wholly unfit for high office. For more than six years, including two of war, he kept him at the head of the Admiralty, until something like a public outcry compelled the incapable Minister to resign. Pitt soon recalled him to the Cabinet as Lord President. The second Chatham'was so dull a man that George 111. hesitated to give him the Garter' which ha had offered to Pitt, and which the latter at once begged for his brother. Finally tho King consented, on the distinct understanding, at he wrote, that the honour should be considered as bestowed on the Pitt family in general.

Some men of geniug, who might have been expected to start in life backed by the eager friendship of powerful kinsmen, have —for all practical purposes—stood as much alone as the typical Scotch hoy who comes to London with a sixpence in his pocket- Read Byron's account ot his first visit to the House of Lord?. He seems, one of his biographers remarks, to have had " a keep and painful sense of the loneliness of his position," He could not find a single Peer to introduce him, and this from' no lack of cousins in the Upper Bouse. After wander ing about for a while, he made his way into a room where the fees were to be paid—there is naver aDy difficulty in finding such places. Next he entered the House itself.. Only a few lords were present, and Byron was afraid to lo^k at them. Without turning his eyes to the right or the left, he advanced straight up to the woolsack to take the oaths. In the Chanocljar'a neat sat Eldon, who tried'to put the bashful lad at his ease, spoke kindly to him, and held out his hand. Byron replied to these advances with a stiff bow, and gave the Chancellor the tips of his' fingers, He subsequently offered a lame excusfl for his pertness, as one must con sider it, remembering E'don's position and the fact that Byron was then only known as the author of " Honrs of Idleness." "If," says Byran, " I had shaken hands heartily, he would have set me down for one of his party: but I will have nothing to do with any of them, I have taken my seat, and now I will go abroad." Where, all this time, was Lord Carlislo, whoso "obliged ward and affectionate kinsman " bad dedi cated to him those very "Hoars of Idle ess"? ,•



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