The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-26
THE HERMIT OF COHUTTA.

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looking slaaity, bniIt of hswh logs. WIN"
narrow door which works ON a rusty,
N smnli shuttcrlcss window relieves the
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cooth.
The must IL buiis OF chesthut io9ss wtsich
have newer bscn stripped of their bark,
nict,,r, pr,S~.ut1.d to the eye. Says the
R-,r.~icL o. Times. Thu. ho.,s. ;s So,
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only {" view oftnc disuahs groaihu below Oh
one HAND anu the she Oh she mountain as
10 rcars its head above the clouds on the
hs,;ldin~ tl,s.r,. ia "A tlenss. forest of chest-
n..s mi ,,;,,c $500 s,,,.Is,.,d hsn. au.l thor.
INV \ oiant oak. with an mndcrerowth ot
Ss.,s ~ .sssp, .,,,s ,hr,,yh ,h;s ~ox
nus 1sc Ihs.n III. shs sa.nuRi 'n,s 70 =,
almost loss as is winds il. way to the val
icy - aoi. a. %. ,ss m,u" ,,. ,h.
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Sreak ;nsosSia i'e us'"ss' ."i.a9I lila DYER Me-
ia sis H. nv - 4" sn;. p,I: Il.
OF - uSs;ns @ TED" III LII ;.n ~
nors, or yny OF Iappii.sss eS"r nrcaks Up.
ON IN: soul; and tll,. only pleasure that he
h hHsis nss"1 - IN, m :" t";n hsh,nr
non oi t'se H'n,i',t'a''' sisir or w.en ie STU
nio''' ny an ~ ioe nns Hhsssnu"ss over
VII. pas, y. !. s.nrS 81 nS me, % ns
ms way va We eihssr I'n,,s,,, anu, ~. per-
cnnns'.; ~, ..Hs .n. . w ~ WI
path thr man. or rather the ncr'nit'
= !,iick Ietrs'at 10 th, inner n,
cesseS 81 tne Iiu,, parS t!'s S.o.' uopr anu
deres tis' "iw:arn''., VISITOR % ei,ter.
the hermit, life 81 this man anu why = was
rn.n.n'..stt 81, .,HM ~ ILL s'"' VINO" !
Gc,ir1EssssAa to 81 ~ niorhi.e
se,t''o .'.is Nii.aee up' iaT rum Az
iant.,. which has since. grown Z? he o,,r OF
W. mos. nro.il'.snt ssornias s',aaii.r
c,ties. At,lcIIE .u'. nrSs Ia'l''Iss iiske
sneir n"'ilc III tin. 'own weIs' tiiose oI Nir.
ncrsi"n, WHO Owls i'rgc rec PhahtAtlph
, ..n sr"m IN. hI"c grass r.u;o,s n "f
hcf,',cky. II's'ss' sainiiis.s settIed on
neagntr'rfsig ints ann from mat, as wen as
the Tact that they wers. all stranger IN ~
friendship tive the two households
Inc iss'sns oi the iaihiilrs oit.n taikcI to-
mess while th, children played and
rosnlHsi anu sent up their merry shouts
as they insiulseti in their pleasant games.
childrrn. three girls and two boys, The
elder at the boys was william Fletcher
a ns,'laI +. Years ~ %r.s nId. mani. HGiy " ,w, , .hilTrr %,
had been given Ia Mr.: Lyle and his wife.
these one WAS q little boy; while the
other WAS u s.tslutiful lO-ysar-old girl. with
chestnut gold hair, iarHs. brown eyes and
a beautifully rounded face. and on her
cheeks was the r,'ddy glow OF color that u
happy life and plenty of good exercise will
imEsart Ia ~ child. SIN. was u sunbeam of
a girl, aud uo one bid fa,rcr Ia make u
prs.tticr woman than did Dora Lyle.
Ii Nus nO wonder, then. that, being
thrown tnxsthcr ss they were, there sprang
up IA childish love ON ths. part of William
HcrndOu Tor Dora, and as the boy was
Handsome aud bright, theirs, il nothing
strange in tho fact that tho girl returned
that love.
Time went on. The one grew TAI bc "a
young man of ~.
But farmer. good as anybody. but a
w~orking,nan, while the other merged into
n young lady of eighteen. the beauty of
childhood being Brought ont more clearly
and distinctly. and made even more bca,I-
tiful by the maturity 81 womanhood. The
love Of the children grew i'm reali-
~ with these two; all the village knew Of
affair, and IL was conccsicd that they
would be married. But fate had dccreed
otherwise.
II WAS i'm the summer Of '52 that ~ richly