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iPotftfg.
leu Not to Pray.'
BABTLKT COLfiKIDOE.
Be not afraid to pray—to pray ia right.
f'Vi W thou canal, wi.h hope ; bnt ever pray,
Though hope be weak, or »ick «vlth long delay :
Pray In the darknets, if there be no light.
Par ia the lime, remote from human sigbt,
When war and discord on the earth shall cease;
Yet every prayer for universal peace
A valla the bleared time to expedlate.
Whate'eria mod to wiah, ask that of Heaven,
Though Hw what thon cacst not hope to aae;
Pray to be perfect, thoagb material laaven
Forbid the spirit so on earth to be;
But if for any wiah thou dar'st not pray,
Th en pray to God to cast that wiah away.
THE TRAGEDY OF THE CUFF.
We were camped out on a spur of tbe
Rocky Mountains, near tbe brink ot an
awtal precipice. Sitting iu a row on a
fallen pine, were ttbarley Andrews, who
Was a Yankee, lall aud young, myself,
and a dark-faced stranger. On a flat
rock on the opposite side or tbe onm{>*
fire, but In such a position that the
fmoke did not obscure bis View of tbe
company, sat Abraham Lewis, a stout
old trapper.
We bad come together accidentally. I
started out from Virgiuia City aloue on
a prospecting tour. On the aflftruoon
in question 1 had encountered Lewis and
Andrews, 'pards' of long atauding who
ii*vit*i.s to |*mp out With them.
While we were making a fire the"
stranger appeared, and being asked to
flay by tbe trappers, immediately
ped bis prospector's kit and began 'to
belp aboutthe firt. Ho was a supple *
jointed, black-whiskered man it uncer
tain age, whom any oce wbd had travel*
ed iu tbe West woutd take to be a gam
bier and cutthroat of the worst type.
We bad now eaten our tapper of bear's
meat and salmoh, and were discussing
gold and but Abe Lewis,
ot deep thought. His young r paru > nta
whispered that a yarn would soon be
forthcoming, a net I for one was ready
and willing to drop all other topics when*
ever ee deigned to begiu. „
It was an autumn evening, just grows
ing dusky aud cool enough to bring out
the comfort of a camp-fire. Suddenly,
the tripper looked up, took out his pipe,
blew fottb a big cloud of smoke, and
«aid,aa if bi» bearers acquainted
or Jess with fe>» facts ot the flafMQf
C%ie*rJT A Itu
young cbap as ever lived, and that makes
it a good de} wusS. The pan tbat mur
dered bim is the meanest skunk—'
. I-fcuntoOpbis
keen blue 6yds vnrand none
jbpt^ie^QOUfwithdrew liis gaze to tbe
gambler, whd returned it with a cool ins
difference. ..
•Tell tbe,story,' I (aid impatiently.
'Ob, I'll go on with it full fast enough
fur ye,' lie replied, a Httle testily, as he
eyed me again. 'Fm going to state ail
the facts Jlrtt 'cause thar's some here
What dou't kndw about ft.'
This might imply knew some
thing about it, but I knew nothing about
It; Witt a strange light inlweyfsA an
expression I ooald not .understand,, tbe;
old hunter kept all the while looking at
me or the stranger, Or at both at be wont
on:
'George came to Beaver Ridge dead
broke, and I took him nnder my wing.
I helped bin ajalie out a claim adjoining
mine. It wnedf 6nt {o Jbe the bfst one
in tbe place. George worked in the
gnlcb alongside o' me all sammer, and
and some days be made as high as twen
ty dollars.
'ln tbe forepart of September my claim
got played out, and I pushed on to Mon
tana. Soon after I left, a gang ot-abarpa
lit down 011 the Rfclge aud to beat
tbe boys oat of their goldTrftir war
five is tbe gang, and they brought keerds
and dice, and every other blamed con
trivance. One on 'em started a bank,
another a saloon, and the rest roped in
the fictions. They softs owned |alf the
du«t in Beaver Ridge. Bat tha| didn't
sajiUfy 'em. They wanted to c|eau oat
e«fe#y man in town, especially them as
bung back and influenced ether* to keep
put of their place.
George At wood didn't take BO stock
in 'em, and wasn't afraid to say so.
They heerd how George bad ftrnck it
rich, and went for him with their palarver.
One tbe gang, who called himself Jim
t3ortfand, kept folierin' George every
night, and tryin' to git him tot gamble
With 'ft% Bot .be couldn't make it work.
George was too4IQAdL&L at that
camp with bis throat oat from ear to ear.
His two thousand dollars in gold was
gone out of its shanty. They counted
Soses, and found Jim Cortland bad lit
George bad a good many friends, aud
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GRAHAM, N. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1881
In *short line a big crowd started after
Jim. lit# former pards fined in with
the rest and swore they'd shoot him on
sigrft for disgracing 'em. The hoys
tracked him pretty cloee for two days,
aud had just got sight oi him when a big
band of redskins rushed onto 'em out of
! a patch of woodland on the rigbt. They
got drove back to the Ridge a little fas*
. ter'n tbey left it, aud Jim Cortlaud es
caped.
Tbe old bdnter paused, but still kept
! bis fierce eyes boot ou me aud on the
gambler. The firelight shone in bis face,
and he looked as though be wanted to
tear tbe murderer from limb to limb.
We had remained sitting on the log, I
in the middle, tbe black«wbiskered man
i oa my right, the tall Yaukee on my left,
i when the latter rose up and approached
i the fire.
'Git baok thar, Charley,' said Lewis.
' When I talk, 1 want to fac* the whole
, crowd."'- ■ :. »
The two partis exchanged glances.
The young man returned to the log;
but instead of going to bis former place,
he fat down at the gambler's right baud*
•A few months after the murder,' con
tinued the trapper, '1 went to
Bearer Ridge to git ft bag of gold that
I'd left &i»r, WAI found Out all abotat M.
The boys described Jim Cortland to me,
, aud I've been buntiii'fof that man ever
[ since.'
t There was a short silence, dupriuflf
which the t(topper never once removed
his eyes from his three companions.
'And you meau to wipe out that man?'
said tfte> gambler, coolly.
'You'll find ont I do, stranger.'
'How do you kpo# ft was Jim- (hat
murdered the young jman? There's no
proof. Many an luuoceut man has been
lraug on strong circumstantial evidence,'
said the gabbler.
'And many a guilty man has been
shot,' rejoined Lewis, doggedly. 'l'm
going to shbot the man that walked over
George Atwood, and pitch his bddy
down over this bluff.
What could the old trapper-, mean?
Was the murderer even then lurking In
Hje ricinity? or was tbe dark stranger
Jim Ce«utUud2
If this was the case, the action of the
trapper's young pard, in seating bia
«eff at the gfttiibier'e right band,,. might
he a part a preconcerted plan to 'wipe
out" the murderer.
Not being a fighting man
naturally began to look for pome place
'of reftige. None offered unless 1 went
down the steep descent of rooks, near
al hand, and that looked like a danger
ous feafj an m.-jj ; \ ' j,., j
But the gambler did not) appear to
understand the Significant words and
dark looks of Abe Lewis any better than
I did.
'Whftti* this Jim. Cortland?' he in*
Wked.
'You see that strip of piiner' said
Lewis, Without moving his eyes from
us three, but With one hand pointing
across the canyou rumbling at tbe foot
of the pMeipfoe, two thousand feet below
to where the shadows were darkening
over a long stretch of pines. 'Well,
Jim Cortlaud come up the river, this af
ternoon, on the outside of them woods.
I come ab oft'the Inside.*
Here I met the steady {abb of tbe trap%
per, aud I was struck by a sudden fear,
l had come up tbe river, along the edge
of tbe pine forest. Could.he suspect me
of being the murcferer? But on a second
thought I fe!t easier. The othersttaftger
might have coma op where I did, and I
I could easily prove an alibi sit the time 'i
of tbe Harder by my friends in Ylrgiula
Ottj. .
All this passed rapidly la my mind
While tbe gambler was saying:
'Are you sureyoq'vo spotted the right
man? You nevereaw him. All you've
got to go by is tbe description given by
the Beaver Ridge men?'
'I know the. man I'm after,' asserted
Lewis. 'He's about your si as/ closely
watehing the gambler, who never
changed a muscle as he gaaed iato tbe
fire, 'tinder the sarcumstauces, I kin
describe him pretty close. He's got
black balr, black beard and square
shoulders. His face is a itttle tawny,
and his nose peaked. He's a toughs
looking cuss, but be won't kill another
msn, unless be gits over me. I'm on bis
Ml and one or tbe other of us'll Jure to
kick the bucket.'
I answered this loose description and
so did the gambler but there was no oth
er paints of reseasbianoe between us.
'lf you are certain as to tbe man;' said
tbe stranger with ft oooi glance ftt Lewis,
'let's all go for him. How far ahead Is be
now, db you think? Come, oM msn,
give us a band in the gatpe.
I'll do that stranger. But tbe mur
derer ain't ahead of this crowd—not
much be ain't.'
'Oh, then you've passed him—you are
on the lay for him?* said tbe gambler,
looking enesally down the rugged,
darkening alope which we had asoend
'ed.
'He ain't behind neithoty said Abe
l^swis.
•What! Then it must be tbls ga
loot.'
And the gambler seixod my shoulder
with onerband, While tbe elhsa ssstsd on
bis revolver, aedtbis eyas were  fixed,
not on me but on Abe Lewis.
Before J could make a move tbe old
(rapper cleared me of tbe charge.
'No, air,' vociferated Lewis, at the
same instant drawing his revolver.
Jim Courtlaud whipped out bis weapon
and both men fired.
Tbe gambler'a revolver flashed first,
but tbe ball sped barmleasly over the
heed ol the trapper,
Young Andrews had knocked up tbe
villain's arm at tbe right moment.
I, Tbe shot fired by Lewis took effect in
in the murderer's brain, and he fell back
ward over the log, dead.
Tbe trapper immediately approached
tbe body of bia victim, and lifting it up
aa if it were a mere child's, be Bore it to
tbe brink of tbe precipice and burled it
down over tbe loose rocks.
Several big stones acoompanied it in.
its downward course, Ifcnd it watf soon
swollowed up in the gloom that was
deepening over the canyon. ,' 0
•1 couldn't bury bim to better advent?
age among tbeae rocks.' 'lf be comes to
lira, he can't climb oat of tbe hole,' said
Abe Lewis, coolly reaumiug bis pipe be*
fore the fire.
But tbe abances of any apark ot lite re
maining in tbe bodf of tbe mnrtkrer of
poor deorge Atweod* after the wall-dfo
reMed shot from old Abe's revolver, had,
reached its mark, wma vety small indeed,'
and ao, without farther thought on the
subject, wo wrapped ourselves in our
blankets, and Mprued in« sor ihe night.
We ware routed from our slumber
early next usorahig by,Abt. who bad
prepared our aaorniug meal, after par
taking ot Which, as our paths lay la
differsat directions—l being on q»y way
to foia my old 'pamlaert in• the moun
tains, and Abe aad bis yoqng Yaqkep
friend being engaged in thaTr ragujar
business of trappuigi we parted cotnpa-
Thus, for long SfiMcht
had Abe LeWla avonged (ha murder of
bis old partuer George At wood; t and
with a conseiousneas that he bad dene
Ma doty by hia dead friend* we
ed as we tookroae laat look ever tbe
yawning preclpise where L had |bat day
bean aU eye-witness to 'The Tragedy of
-the em.':-.
'". '.bl'l ftrn i in i f Hi ri r i
1 Dot's Yengeance.
An American brig, on one ot her yoys
ages, had on heard a splendid apeciinen of
tbe Na^tonp4]||^b|jg^namgd
kK>D '^ n^ l^y, pH
portions, 'his head, broad]
trMte chest, white feet, end white tipped
tan, the rest of bia bedy being black,
made him aa b&utlful- as Ma
tramesske, who, no doubt, would have
been proud to possess him. He. wchs
owned by a seathsn named Lancaster,
who was. naturally enough extremely
frud of him. The captaiu, however,
w!%i aot partial to ajtfmals of aqy kind,
and bad an unaceouutable and especial
dialiha fo»4ogs k so ipueh so,, i|>deed, as
if all Ms aucaatora had dM of hydro
phobia, and be dreaded to be bitten like
Ma unfortunate predeceaaors. This die
like lie one day manifceted in a most
shocking manner, for Napoleon bad sev
eral times entered his room, and by wag
ging bis great banner of a tail knocked
laper, and ink off his dssk, on tbe next
occasion the captain ssissd a knife and
cut the poor animaPs tail off. Tbe dog's
ye|l brought bis master t) tbe spot, and
seeing the calamity and tbe author of It,' r
without a moment's hesitation he felled
ihtt csptalu to the eabin floor with a
sledgehammer blow, whlob, bad it bit
the temple, have prevented
tbe eaptain from euttiag oft any more
dogs' tails. Tbe result was that Lancas
ter was put In irons, from which, how*
eyer, be was soon released.' The captaiu
partly repented hia crqel deed on learn
ing that Napoleon had saved bia
owner's lite. J ,
Tbe white shark, all my nutieal friends
are well aerate, Is one of the very largest
Ot sharks. It averages more than twenty
feef, tod I have seen one twenty«seven
and a half feet in length. It is generally
considered to be the fiercest and most
formidable ol all sharks.
But a few days elapsed after tbe catas
trophe to poor Napoleon before he be
came the hero ot a most thrilling occur,
renae, the . very thought oi which has
Often thrilled me Irith horror. During
the Interval tbe noble beast waa net at
ill backward la exhibiting his wrath at
the captain hy low growls when he ap- \
pro ached. In vain did bis master, fear
ful lor tbe life of bia dog, essay to check i
tbase signs 6f Us eager. The captain, I
however, made the allowance he should, 1
and offered no farther harm to bin. I
0» morning, M the captain wai
standing on (lie bowsprit, be lost hia foot*
fog and foil overboard, the brig then
running abont ten knos.
'Man overboard! 4be. captain o>er
board!' was the cry, and all raabed to
get oat the boat as they ww the swim*
raer striking oat for the brig, which
waa at once rounded to; and aa they (ell
especially apprehensivo on account of the
white shirks in those Water*, they res
garded hia situation with the moat pains
fol solicit ode. By tfceritne the boat
touched water their went fears ware
realized, for at some distance beyond the
awimmer they bebeld a white shark ad
vancing upon him.
'Hurryl hurry, men! or we aball be
too late!' shouted the mate, 'What's
that?' be exolalmed.
The aplaab which caused tbia inquiry
wis occasioned by tbe plunge o Napo
ieon Into the aea, tbe noble animal bar
ing been watching tbe cause of tbe tos
mult from tbe JM>W of tbe reaael. lie
bad noticed the captain's fail and tbe
shouj, aud for a few, momenta had rent
ed hia feelinga in deep grew la, aa If con
scions of the peril bt hia late enemy, aud
however,
weresoou changed Into those whines of
sympathy which ao'often show the at*
tachtnent of to man, When the latter
isffu danger. : At laat be plunged Into
the water, vapidly making hia way to the
now 1 neatly exhausted oaptainy who,
aware of hia .dpabl# dagger, mid but »
pemmble swimmer,, fainter
laiufer atrokes, while his adversary
closed rapidly upon him.'
'Pull boys, for d*ar life!' shouted the
mate, as the boat now ftliowed tbe dog,
vrabee huge rimba propelled Mm gallaa*
ly to tho scene at danger.
Slowly tbe fatigued awimmer made
bla way, hbdi IWbn hia bead
aank in the waves, and behind bim the
babk of fbe *vottolous alufmal told wliat
fearful progreae be was making wbUe
Lanoaster, in the bow of ike boat,atood
wiUt a knife ln. ; bis . upraised band,
wetcfcjug alternately,lbs, captain and bia
purauerji a,ud tbe/ailbful aulmal who
badsavqd bia own.life.
; ?Wkatf4 awimmer!' exclaimed the meb
who marked tbe 'speed of thd aplemfid
animal. 'Thfc ahark wIU bare one or
Wtb If #tf&oh't do ourbeat/ »d.'
f " Tbe seenewaa of short duration.- Be
tore the boasoould overtake, tbe dog the
aaormwa stok waa, wktyn three boau'
length of tbe captain, and!bjyl : aeddeidy
bia back, to
darting on the sinking man tod receiv
ing him In bia vast jaws, vrtiioh now dlt>
played their rtiWs of long fangubr teeth.
'ttouiVced aHal the crisis bad eotne. But
now Napoleo*, Inspired wMh tueieftefd
alao arrived, and with u i
frwlnj AflWl ifiOß , gleaming
belly of the shark and buried Ida teeth in
the mouater's flesh, while the Mat swift
ly seared tbefir hh , 0 |
>>J 'Saved 1 If; we're half aa aoMrt M that
dog lal'cried tbe mate, aa all aaw the
yowclqua monster shuddefed in tbe aea,
and, smarting with pain, tarned oyer
again, the dog retaining hie end be
coming submerged in tbe Wafer. ». ... ij ,
At this juncture (lib b&ft arrived, and
tanwter, b(a,yUe% teetfi, plunged
into the water where the captain had alao
now sunk from View. But a few mo
meats elapsed be fori* tbe deg rose to tbe
surface, and soon after Lancaster rose
with tbe insensible ftrm'of tbe captain.*
4 Puil them in and give me Me oerT
cried the mate, 1 'for thai fellow Is pre
paring tor mother launch.'
His orders was* obeyed, aad . tbe
seeondi onset of the marine monster waa
foiled hy the mate's splashing water is
bU eyes* as be came again and but a few
minutes too late to snap off tbe captain's
lerfs, while bis waa drawn Into the boat.
Foiled a second time, tbe sbark passed
tbe boat, plunged and waa seen DO more,
but left a track of blood on the surfkee of
tbe water, a token of tbe severity M bis
wounds ftom Napoleon.
Tbe boat waa now pulling toward the
brig, and not many hours elapsed before
the eaptain waa on deck again, feeble
from his efforts, but able to appreciate
tbe serykses of our oaninc hero, and moat
bitterly to lament his cruel act, which
had mutilated hia forever.
~*! jronid give my right arm/ exclaim**
ed the eaptain as be patted tbe New
foundlaud who stood hy bto side, 'if 1
could ortly repair tbe Injury I have done
to that noble fWfow. Lancaster, you
are now avenged, and so is he, aud a
moat Christian yeugenoe it Is, though my
inhumanity will be a aouroe of grief to
me aa long aa I live.'
Put pebbles different siaea into a box
ehske them up, and the large ones will
heat the bottom. Not io with straw
berries.
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