The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-16

| known and sometimes criticised them.
The old ranches had to be put in order
A manager was employed to set the
place Alright against the coming of the
refugees. Mrs. Langtry and Mr.. Geb-
hard journeyed to New York and went
about arranging their worldly affairs
| preparatory to their leaving the sphere
which had been theirs. Gebhard then
had one Of the strongest racing stables
| in the country. Sole was lust at the
finish of his brilliant career, st. Saviour
was ready to go back to the green pas
| lures from which the track had called
him. Mrs. Langtry owned Friar Tuck,
one of the few Hermit horses in this
| country. There were a number of gilt
edged brood mares scattered about the
! East. The manager came over for
| them and filled car with the stations
| and matrons which were to be the nu-
cleus of the breeding establishment OF
| course. in the elysium there must be
| thoroughbred horses.
| The first rude shock came ito the
! dreamers when a plain, Enthusiastically
cruel telegram for Port Jervis brought
! the news that almost before they were
| Strengthened out for their long trip the
| horses and men had gone down into the
| bed of a stream through a railroad
| trestle, and that wounds and death
| We're there.
Wounds, red blood. death, are not
things upon which dreamers love to
| linger. But Mrs. Langtry was as thor
| oughbred as one of her horses. She
! hired an engine and as fast as the
| wheels could take her, she went straight
, to the wreck. When she got there, Matt
| Storm, the trainer, was lying between
| those points where the physical ends
| and the spiritual remains alone. Doc
| Ably, the manager, was lying crushed
| and bruised almost beyond recognition.
| In that swift descent into the stream
| Ably and ST. Saviour went together. ST.
| Saviour fell on top. Aby's leg and arm
were broken, and he lay in a shallow
pool of water with the horse across his
body, and petted the animal to keep
him still until relief came
The Lily heard all this terrible story
and took charge of the men. No comfort
was spared them. She became a nurse.
BY the sides of her manager and trainer
| she developed a new characteristic of
which she had not been suspected-she
became ali al once simple woman with
! all Woman'S tenderness of feeling. She
was with the men SO long as they need
ed her.
When, in the couse of time, they were
able to resume the journey so rudely
interrupted. the horses that were left
went with them. In after days it was
the wont of Ably to look over what
might have been an elysium and say
that in all his life he had known one
earthly angel-Mrs Langtry.
The horses reached the ranches and
were quartered in beautiful barns.
There were three stations, st. Saviour,
Friar Tuck and Greenback, all of great
value. The brood mares We're about 20
in number, and all royalty bred.
No Englishwoman living in the coun-
try can do without cattle. Magnificent
specimens of choice breeds were import
ed from England and turned loose in
the lush pastures. They were like
picture of Bonheurs. these wide backed
browsing English cattle, having new
life in new fields of leisure. There were
fowls. too. The chickens were as thor
oughbred as the horses, and there was
every breed from the games to the
portly Brahmas; chickens for sport,
chickens for looks, chickens for eggs
4 and chickens for food.
There were Pekin ducks and white
geese. Across the grounds about the
abode strolled brilliant plumaged pea
cocks color wooing in the bright sun
shine. And there were dogs of all types
dogs for the chase, for the night
hunts in the hills for petting on the
verandas, for guarding the isolation of
the place against intruders from the
world.
There was much of all kinds of life
in the elysum: all kinds save the hui
man. 1t was enough that two might
come into the Eden; more OF humanity
than that would have made it world
to these two; and they were tried of
that.
The manager, with all his heart in
the work, labored on He made the
immediate prospect in front of the
verandas a dream of natural color.
Flowers will smile in California when
the Eastern earth is cold and dead
under the snow. Always there was to
| So in ha oil The pr0lln0e
were terraced and banked with bios
som. 1t was delirium in bud and
branch; a riotous wilderness of per-
fumed bloom. 1t was the framing of
gentlest nature for the picture of god
and goddess.
In all her theatrical life Mrs. Lang
, try never had such setting for her
which billowed away from the door
step to fringe out at the edge of the
, green pastures beyond. The manager
we'll knew and did well. There was a
stream through the fields and a fish
pond was made 1t was stocked with
edible fish for the table, Back in that
olden time when poetry and beauty
were the two essentials to refined hap
piness, the things of the stream and
sea were the purest food that might
be offered at a feast. There must be
fish in the elysium; fish to be caught
for the sport of catching: fish to be
caught for the broiing There was to
be no firing in the elysium. One, low
ing it, may get much out of sport, and
these two knew that even in elyslum
there is ennui unless there be some
thing to employ. Books there were to
be, of course, and pictures, too, but
these We're to come later along with
the two.
The manager left no detail out of his
scheme The noisy, disturbing railway,
, symbolic of the world, was Is miles
away. Ably sought out and purchased
: an old Concord stage. There is ro-
nance about the Concord. 1t was the
vehicle of the pioneer days: the days of
5 tragedy In it were carried the wcmen
: and children of the pioneers. 1t was
the stage coach of the earlier times, the
: numbering affair which drew the shots
of the Indians and the attacks of the
road agents.