The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-18

Is.; c pSSpss chhiiia: ny "a ssst Thss shcre 20.
s'Siience. you snake! He did do this ecn-
eso:is thing by me and my poor children
"SPtesot, too."
Eyes, he did; when wretchcs like you
them . tempsation."
what an unforsivin' temper you've
% pers when yoa hear the vsrtiic' asin him
Tomorrow night. The boys will meet him
ut the stagc and take him straight thar"
lion. What was abe TO do? How could
ssiis snys a D,Sk i.. shI Nsa , sSs . s.ss h sc
idle. She knew her husband too well to
think that he would allow her to sacrificc
whose light shone like are flies through
the faint veil Ut mist, and then turned 10
the n~eighboring mountain, with it's belt OF
pines, until ut Inst they rested ON the dis
tant outline of the Sierras. The hot day
had been followed by "a sultry night, and
q little freshness died away as suddenly as
IL had come. The place was not beautiful;
even the soft.ning grace of night was
TO this woman IL had a. fascination no
words could express. II was home; and as
the thought that she must leave u came 70
about To close behind her.
Must they he driven away because the
wretched woman who had destroyed and
deserted her husband had chosen To come
back tai him? Dick had told her the story
OF his miserable marriage, and she had
listened To the cries of her children and
the promptings Of her heart; and now
this woman had found him out, and they
"Oh. Dick! pisfi Have I come to you
to ruin yop: Mus. ! give 70" up: oh. I
She cried aloud in her agony, looking up
to the solemn midnight sky hut mo answer
came to hor from tho starry. dome, and
unfspp, al.srS ssxs<.x.lnSs In Atx. hot ~xssnxlI<.sa
night.
owed it's existence to one of those sudden
which men who lead hard lives are IRE
reached the meeting house her husband
va slr."dy snsrc, O. and H., Without 2 word
each Others faces, neither having words
70 express the feelings that possessed
of the pulpit. aud near him sal the he
roine Of the hour, smiling pleasantly ON
the The crowd was unusually
was remarked afterwards, had never been
seen before in the camp: II was the dry
;.;,:san which Itch aSso..,eS for the large a.;
hanging around and discussing the matter
out OF doors to listening tn Joe's cloqncnce
within.
Fittings hev been Rcttin' lax for some
tin,e.'' said Watkins, IAN the camps de-
cidcd tn make a stand. and waggitis hez
fners.'s three shinss az BaffSit's Find
can't stand -hoss stealth. crooked dealin'
u%amish a S", snss's sie var,lic ";n and an" ns
Dick Wagons hez deserted his lovin' wife
and married ~Spiggott's widder why. in
The orator paused for a reply; hut he
fore il could IL. given, Dick, turning his
hack ON Joe, addressed his Judges:
that painted Jczchcl, who left me after
she had spent my money and driven me
what 1 was when / came here; You know
what ] ann now. What I was then was
the work of that fiend, What am now is
wife in the sight of God aud i'm the slght OF
honest men. Wonder il hell; herc,"
c~lasping her to his breast. ais heaven.
She is my wife. my own true wife, and d
the law which says she's not"
A thunder of applause broke out on this
in the midst of which Bob Tinnett
~"Snakes and live lightning." he ex-
as his eyes fell on the deserted
ously a~pplauding the spessi, Of her The
sens. "Arp you Inc deserted wife that i'm
fe sSa s sSs rnsm s" s. bee" 5 5sEi%S W HSs%s 2"
eagerly. "If so. you can tell them what
sort ct a w%"'"""'i" my boSiSh folly,I made
..Not your wife,. Dick. my hoy; because
l'd marriesl hs. the year before, and l was
.eConfound you, Joe Watkins" was the
rejoindcr Of the much mar
ried woman. IA pretty mess you've got
me into; but you never were worth your
alt-never."
"what! Did You know him before ?"
shouted u dozen voices, while the advocate
Df public morality turned from gray To
green.
"know him? Why. he was my first
venture. You may he sure, gentlemen, l
lid not know my own value in the market
when l married him. He promised me "a
pile il l would come along and work this
game. He'd got n spite against poor Dick
his wife. l hated to do Dick another
III turn. Upon my honor, now. Dick. I
lid ;b,t I'd struck nothing but I'll luck for
80 long"
"Don't apologize, ma'am," replied Dick,
wins 1 have just learned makes
me- very glad you came. But as for his
hound" and he turned on Joe, who grow
sled mt his feet in abiect terror.
DONE shoot, Dick, said jack LEROY.
'Such vermin are not worth lead. He is
savin9 for hemp. Get up. you cur, and
AXE this charming wife Of yours and go.
And now, boys, straight for Randy's."
4 High Omacial's Telephone Expsrience.
An amusing anecdote IL told about the