The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-11

rare incense: looked not upon marvel
Gus Interior decorations; heard no burst
OF enchanting music, and caught no
tone of Solomon's Incompatible prayer.
But rather they grew more and more
sordid and depraved, until they were
so lost in utter debasement that the
watching angel filled with sediment the
waters of the streams. which settling
filled the harbOrs of the Orphir coast,
until ships could no more make a hav-
en- there. and finally the country where
i'm Solomon dug his gold was no more
known to the children of men,
With this the youth stopped reading.
and nothing for a moment was heard
save here and there the labored breath
of some strong man, and the sort pat
ter of the rain upon the roof.
This lasted for a brief interval, and
then. with a voice sweet and clear and
full as a lark's song, the boy proceeded:
20, men of the West, they are inklh
of you
ON another shore tonight:
They are thinking of you as their leal
and true,
As the innocent ones they III chlluhoou
knew,
When you of your homes were the
light.
They are thinking of you, and waiting,
and counting the days
Till you come to them once more.
Each morn they strain to the west their
gaze,
Each eve in fond voices they sound
your praise.
Recounting your virtues all Ger.
BE true to your manhood, be true to
each trust.
where'er i'm life's battle you stand;
Cleanseth heart from its stain, the soul
from its rust,
Lift your eyeS from the ground, your
mind from the dust,
Be true to your race and your land.
The harp-Iike voice ceased, n 1t
vas plain the reading had made deep
impression on all who heard IL. Ihe
wife of the landlord was the first VINO
spoke. Approaching the youth, she
asked him if ne was a preacher.
He modestly answered that he was
not, but that he was a clergyman 5
son; that he had tried mining in Plu-
mas county, but failed, and was then
fnding his way on foot to San Jose,
where his sister, a clergyman's WlIe'
was living: hat he hoped there to OBJ
tain a situation as teacher, as he was
not strong enough to work in the
mines.
At this Curly, the stag driver,
rouse himself.
"Pardners." he said. ''you hear the
boy. / sorry for him so much and
he laid a ten-dollar piece upon the
table.
I'm sorrier thar you," said Posey,
and he covered the ten with a twenty.
A miner present said: Il have no
coin. but'-here ne drew out a buck
skin purse-'I will will go a httle dust
| on the boy for the sermon ne mas
preached" and he emptied half an
ounce on the table.
The rest contributed, making the
landlord and when the coin
was counted and the dust weighed and
calculated, 1918 were handed over to
the boy.
The youth seemed perfectly overcome
with the unexpected bounty and tired
in yain to coherently thank his bene-
factors
BY this time it was 10 o'clock al
night and lust then the overdue stag
from Quincy. Plumas county, drove
nm 70 the door. There was the usuaI
Excitement. all hands rushed out e
see the new arrivals; the hostlers tool
the team; the passengers crawled from
the mud z and entered the house
and at last the driver followed, his
bearskin coat and hat shining with tins
rain caught i'm the shower.
Curly. of course, knew his brother
.Jehu. and so sauntering up 10 MN
said: How are you, pard? WHATS ms
news?"
IAN right, Curly" vas the response
land no news much except the boys
up above are cussing awful about Z
fellow that opened a game on them anc
leaned out every sport in quincy II
one night. 1t was a dead open ant
shut steal, and when the boys founc
IL out they would have hung him sure
but he had lit out. He got $4,000 on
Of the boys in four hours
And then the driver went on 10 eN
plain that the sharper was but a mer'
bow. a little chap, pale and SICK, ant
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES marines
lookin' thar any gal you ever seen.
Everybody turned TO look at IN
vouth who mad been entertaining them
but he was gone. and a thorough searcl
of the premises failed TO heart MN
Next morning, one Of Posey's mules
covered with mud and still wet witt
sweat. came into camp just as tn
men were getting up. The poor oeas
was greatly disturbed, as though JUS
in from a cruel journey. To the br1dl
was tied a buckskin purse. which Pc
sey took of and opened, when n
found a slip of paper. on which wa
written the following: