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HOW HER LETTER FOUND HIM.
"So here I am writing at home, dear,
And you so far away,
And when you read the letter
I wonder what you will say.
The green leaves whisper around me,
The nightingales sin. above,
Just as they did that day, dear.
When you told me all your lovel"
"I can see her," he.fondly whispered.
As he sat by the far camp tire,
And read and read her letter
With heart that could never tire.
"I can see her tlune eyes shining
As she loans on her little hand,
And gazes nnod ldreamsl about me
ierte in this distant land.
The bugle rang out at midnight,
The tight was lost ere morn;
Re fell, with his old battalion,
Leading a hope forloru.
While at home the sun is shining,
And the roses of June unfold,
But the maiden is quietly weeping
As she dreams her dream of old.
-CasscU's Magazine.
ON THE BORDER.
A STORY FOR MIEMORIAL DAY.
[(opyrlght, 1889, by American Press Association.]
GIRL, white as
marble, stood on
the gallery ex
tending across
the front of a
S southern built
house in Tennes
see. A young
man barely 22
years of age, in
the tmiform of a
United States
cavalry officer
had left a newly arrived troop standing
in the road and was riding up to the
house to reconnoiter.
"Have there been any southern sol
diers here today?' he called out, at the
same time raising his forage cap.
The girl bit her white lips to gain cour
age to reply. The young man's tones
were soft and pleasant, but he was a
Yankee soldier; the first she had seen,
For months she had listened to stories of
depredations to be committed by the
Yankee troops when they should arrive.
"N-o," site answered, with a gasp.
"When did they go?"
"About an hour ago."
The young man smiled. She had made
a misstatement within five words. iHe
gave her time to collect her scattered
Senses.
"Where is the bridge?" he askled.
"There," she pointed down the road.
"How far?"
"About half a mile."
"Have they burned it?"
She glanced at a thin cloud of smoke
floating over the trees to tile south.
"I see," he said; "1 expected as much."
Then turning to her again: "You seem
delighted to see us. You're not at all
afraid, are you?"
"O n-o." She bit her lip again to
gather courage.
He looked at her with a half amused,
half curious expression. "I suppose you
expect us to burn the house and the barn
and the fence. But 'Johnny' has saved
ps that trouble," he added, glancing at
the line where the fence had been. "You
4xpect to be murdered, of course."
"Of course." She was so frightened
.that she repeated the words after him
like a parrot.
The young man laughed. He lifted
ils cap politely and turned away. As he
rode past a group of gaping negroes,
"You're not afraid of us, aunty," he said
to one of them.
"We knows better'n to be sceayred at
ou' own folks."
"Our own folks!" The youngster was
amused. "Our own folks is good." Here
at least was a cordial reception.
He rode back to his commanding offl
cear and called his attention to the smoke
of the burning bridge. only to hear an
exclamation referring to that place where
abundant kindling for bridger is sup
posed to bo stored.
The troops went into camp in a field
opposite the. house; the liceutenant rode
away to post a line of redettes along the
river bank, and an hour later returned to
And the iteld white with canvas, and to
lratell tilh Sweet odtor of burninsg wotttI
a.nd l;niling coi'ee.
Afltr ptartakii; of I.L. c-vl'ing meal-
is f':"i f' r:" ialg--he proceeded to arrange
hi h ti~lt tith a view to paying his re
specls to the young girl who had an
swered his questions. A paper collar
(without cravat) was made to border the
neck band of his flannel shirt; the dust
was shaken from his blouse; and, booted
and spurred, his reinforced trousers still
tu -ked in his boots, he strode across the
oad and through the yard to the house.
'The girl he sought came to the door.
'I thought I'd just come over," he
saiul, pullin: off his cap and smiling at
propose to trouble you." (He had un
knowingly supped off a chicken removed
from the barn.) "I'm Arthur Howe,
lieutenant of the -th cavalry. May I
ask your name? I'm quite sure it is a
pretty one," and he looked as if lie would
add, "if it's like you."
"Ali'e ReaI' e." She looked at him with
a pair of serious brown eyes; wonder
eyes. Women with such eyes possess a
depth of feeling that others are a stran
ger to. She led the way to the sitting
room.
"My mother is sick," she said apolo
getically, and my brother"-she hesi
tated; she feared to acknowledge her
brother's whereabouts to a Yankee
"he's with our boys."
"Our boys." The words grated. They
caused the younug man to remember that
he was an cuemy. And he did not relish
being the cncmny of one so timid and so
gentle. He thought of the exile in camp
away in the south; then of his own fa.
vorite sister in the north, and how it
would madden him to know that she was
at the mercy of a stranger. All the kind
liness of his kindly nature beamed in his
face and softened in his voice.
"Never mind, Miss Alice; nothing shall
harm you, and the war will soon be over,
and we'll all be friends again, and"
He looked at her with his winning smile
and frankly extended his hand.
This was the hated Yankee; the van
dal; yet not a vandal; but a picture of
loveliness: a lithe graceful figure; short
wavy hair, so light as to be almost
white; a pair of kindly blue eyes, and
above all the charming smile. Then
there was a look of gentility about him
that would .have shown itself through
the uniform of a teamster. She took the
extended hand, her eyes brim full of
thankfulness, at the unexpected sym
pathy which had come in place of the
expected harshness.
"YOU EXPECT TO BE MURDERED OF
COURSE."
"You can have a guard if you like," he
said when they were seated, "Of course
you've hlid all the valuables."
"Yes, in the well."
Howe smiled. "You mustn't tell any
one that, Miss Alice. That won't do at
all."
"You won't betray us. I'm not afraid.
I'd tell you anything."
"But," he said, taken aback by so sud
den a confidence, "soldlliers may not all
be as well disposed as I am; and there
are a great many stragglors :nd maraud
ere. Don't ttrus any one. You'll never
get on if \you hide thin' s fjom us Yan
tees, and then tell tlse first mankee. you
meet where you've hid them."
"I'm not afraid of any one now you've
come. You won't let them hurt us. If I
you'll only stay," tsh added shyly.
Howe winced. le I.:a'w nvery well
how little power hL.' had except over reg
ular troops, and even then only over
those of his own command; and he might
go at any moment. He thought of the
imminent danger from the lawless of
both sides to which she would be ex
posed. But he remembered her fright
when he had met herthat afternoon, and
thought it best to preserve something of
the confidence with which he had in
spired her.
"We Yankees are not such terrible
fellows after all." hle said; "and war, so
far at least, is quite a jolly, exciting life.
After it's all over even you'll not think
it was so disagreeable."
She looked up into the friendly face of
the enemy, and seemed as happy as if
there had been a sudden truce, and the
north and the south were lovingly min
gling in a blissful peace.
"I'll probably be about the neighbor
hood for a while-at least I hope so
and if you'll let me, I'll-come in once in
a while tocheer you up, and your mother
can have anything from the medical de
partment and nobody will molest you,
and"
What need to mention the quickly
constructed castles the hopefulness of
youth built for her. Nor were they castles
to her; no rocky fortress seemed so well
founded as the pledges of the fair stran
ger who dazzled her with his manly
beauty and hopeful, cheery, disposition.
The evening passed quickly; too quickly
for the new friends. Howe rose to go.
long after he had heard the bugle across
the road sound "lights out."
"You'll be here a long while?" she
asked, yet with a trifle of anxiety not
withstanding what he had said about his
stay.
"O yes. I think so. That is, only the
commanding general knows exactly how
long. You see I am not the command
ing general or the colonel, or the major,
only a second lieutenant."
She thought him noble, and good, and
beautiful enough to be the president.
Howe extended his hand to take leave.
The hands once clasped, neither seemed
in haste to unclasp them. Howe was
tempted to take his adieu from her red
lips; but he was too chivalrous to pre
sume so far on so short an acquaintance.
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NEITHEE SEEMED. IN A HASTE TO t.IN
CLASP THEM.
Then she was so confiding, so defensc
less; he could not bringhimself to take
what she might not dare deny him. IHe
dropped her hand and threw her a kiss
fromi the tips of his fingers as he ran
down the steps.
When Alice Reade went to rest that
night she saw neither the walls of her
bedroom, nor the old four post bed
stead, nor the white valance, nor the
trifles with which she had decorated her
place of retreat. And when she shut Lei
eyes to induce slumber it would not
come. Ever present was the lithe figure,
the short, light wavy hair, the entranc
ing smile. But she did not know sshal
it meant. She did not know that the
young cavalryman had been cutting his
way with the keenest of invisible blades
to her innocent heart.
The next morning when she opened
her eyes, she remembered the visitof the
night before as a happy dream. ;Ihe
could scarcely believe that it was Iral.
She wanted to reassure herself that it
was. She got up and stole softly to the
window to seethe whitetents. Cautious
ly drawing aside the shade she peeped
through the opening.
Alas, there was nothing but an empty
field.
For a moment Alice wondered if in
deed it had not all been a dream.
A year passed. The territory about
Alice Reade's house had been fought over
again and again. The Union forces had
been driven back far to the north and
were now slowly working their way
south again. Howe had been ill of camp
fever, and had spent several months far
from the wild seems of warfare, tender
ly cared for by mother and sisters, and
surrounded by the comforts of a luxu
rious home. In the meanwhile the peo
ple of the border states saw no rest from
the tumult about them. Howe rejoined
his regiment in Tennessee a few weeks
before the forward movement of the sum
mer of.1863.
One day while advancing southward
with the army he rode up to a house
about which officers were standing,
within sound of the booming of cannon
a short distance to the front. The ad
vance was crossing a riverand the enemy
was disputing the passage. There was
that wrecked appearance about the place
which invariably comes with armies.
Howe dismounted and rode up to the
well for some water to quench his thirst
after a hot and dusty ride; then he
turned and looked about him. The place
seemed familiar. He wondered if he
could not have been there before. Sud
denly it came to him that he was stand
ing by the very house where lie had seen I
Alice Reade. Then he remembered that
he had scarcely thought of the place or
of the girl since. He was about to go iL
and see if she was still there, when an
advance signal sang out from a bugle
and he put spurn to his horse and rode
sway.
That evening Howe's squadron went
Into camp some three miles from the
Reade house, and the young officer rode
over to make a call upon his former
friend. The army had passed beyond
the house, which stood Ilone, back of
the picket line, but. on thei extreme left,
and in an exposed positioi. Howe rode
into the yard, from which everything
had been stripped even to the little gar
den patch of vegetables, in t' ose times
AILICE READE SANK TO THE FLOOR.
often the sole dependence of the family
for food. Tying hise horse to the railing
that led up to the porch-there was not
a post left in the yard-he mounted the
steps and knocked at the door. Ie wait
ed some time for an answer and then
knocked again.
"Who's there?" said a frightened voice
from within. He recognized it as Alice's.
"A friend-Arthur Ilowe."
The bolt was withdlrawn and the door
thrown open. There stood Alice Reade,
almost breathless. Worn with excite. I
ment during a day in which she had
dreaded being with her invalid mother
in the midst of a battle field, and after
wards in momentary terror of stragglers,
she had nerved herself to answer the
knock at the door as she would a sum
mons to execution. The reaction at see
ing a friend, one whose imago had never
left her for a dlay, scarcely for an hour,
since she had first seen him. was too
Imucllh forl her overstrained ierves. Shle
grasped at the door for support. Howe
caught.her in his arlt s.
"Alice! child!" he cxclaimed; "you're
frightened." He t-ouldt't help it; lie im
printed a kiss upon her cold lips.
She did ot speak. 'Theo sense of rest,
freedom froll terror, protelti ion, was
like an elysiumn into which she had sud
denly awakened frontil i dreailltl dream.
0 that she could lie in those s. rong arms
forever!
Howe led her, almobt carried her, to
the room where they li:wtl spent ltil even
ing to,:-ethcr a. year Ibel'ore. The carpet
was covered i ithi dirt: the atmosphere
was laden with stale tobacco smoke; tile
room 5-was alnmost hll r of its former sim
ple decorations.
"And you have rumietmlxred ut all
this time?" lie a lked, t.itting by her.
Hie looked into her i-yes atnd knew
what words alnie could ne\ert Ilive made
him believe. Ilow in one. short evening
lie could have unconsciously, uninten
tionally won a heart, was then and ever
afterwards a mystery to himn. All lihe
knew was that it was his; why, hlie could
not conii-ive. And oiowe o :was strongly
drawn· toher. TIhireIiss(mnithingitran.e
ly alluring in the lirt , lu-sciousness of
possessingl : heart; andtl liv' tomes quick
in young days. Then Lieut. Howe was
a gallant f Io l,w. rc.tkl:.s a:!d proune to
follow every ;one.iit is[pulse.
"Aliee! so ., (!: ;art!" h. said, "you
I ave g e .youllr I.-;u:t and have- not taken
it away: thou,'i i i.n, h:it bhi-n full of
forgetfuls!' ls and calre'less selislhness. I
will atone for this. iYo are my love;
my fitrd, my only lohe. I will never
have another. \W,: will en joy peace,
whenol it -onriit. to1 ltheir. i will take
you with ill-; i sii 1' ;: '1. will travel;
we will see foreign count rievis: we will do
nothing but go about viwin-lltg all that is
beautiful in this he:,itif ul world."
"O Arthur, ,lo, don't ta!k so; you
frighten iin.,. '-:te hlasnr't icome. It
may never itnl ilo br Its." S'lhe clunlg to
him as though sou.l- i I is -!o demton of
fate were lurking it. euri.,i.t them.
They sat perhaps an hour, lhe girl un
conseitusof till c t'v what h lut I rotil.
thi-t a lbtv: . '"". r, ', sly Iv leal
the priesnce of an unlttl.cýt: ino 11110
cence, it pure love. fgiven freely, yet
without hope. He was too young to
reckon what this love which had met
him in the midst i a.ta hosile country,
whlre lie had e(xtpIted only bloodshed.
might bring him. lIe rejiced in it with
all the ardor of utthinuking youth.'
"And alre yot iigling away again to
morrow lorning!?" he asked ruefully.
"How can I tell, :\lic:" I go where I
1aI1 ordered."
"Oh, how I to wish thits wa'r would t
end!"
It will soon b, (C.-Cr. Tihis campaign
will etnd it," he ,i.!. r. :.;suringly.
"I fear it \\ili '"'"ver eiwL."
Howe did not reply. IHe seemed sud
denly to harv caught the spirit of her
foreboding.
There is a scene of only five or six see
onds' duration, which iwhcn it stalks into
the chamber of A. t hur I lowe's memory
other recollectioni:, !.,'" Iheoure it as from
a specter. It i: the ci., ;vent of his life.
Without it e:;i.sto'!ce would be a pleasure
to himnt; with it there i. a scar upon his
heart that miars the spiritual beauty of
his world.
H[e I:hd sdrai'\n Alice to hinm to say
"good night." Her etc!:c!r rested against
his, and they were whiispering again and
again their partings. The night was still;
the negroes were all ;ci:'ot in the under
story; the miother c-.,:-' leoping in an ad
joining chicee ,v. S.ri !ely the pair
heard the :oau:.it o' hr. : i:' hoofs. Then
a voice dir'i:cty "!,; r' the window:
"Take the crcter,. HI join you at the
cross r.d.." 'i. I':.'" I of ricre-ating
hoofs to.l IIov,."t ¶I l '. I. urse Iw' '.on e.
Then Ila ea.' l ... I l:c .:'c . lice
luli:. t. !laher e i.: "! or.
"The door! the ,'cl.r:" she whispered,
white asashels. "1±':. unholted."
The step iws iin tich all. A gaunt
3gure dressed in "ilbutternut," a sombrero
hat, ail empty hoi iPr hanging from the
:aist, stood in the ciC".iuibeir dour. The
iomier lost no tiibC inl Iringing the
;ieapon he carried in his hand to cover
Lieut. Howl,.
"'Throw up y.;r h:and!s, you - Yan
see!"
Iovwe luo'l kli'pt his .eat, but at the
first sound without had taken the pre-,
caution to draw his revolver, and held
it behind him out of sight on the lounge
where he sat. Scarcely had the guerrilla
spoken when there was a click and a
shot almost simultaneously. The in
truder was pierced through the body.
Howe attempted to fire again within a
few seconds. The capsnapped: his wea
pon missed fire.
The man, though struck mortally, did
not drop at once. He stood, the pallor
of death spreading over his face. Tie
hand holding the pistol had dropped
when Howe fired. Slowly it raisedagain,
pointing the weapon at t he young man's
breast. There was a mingled bitterness
and satisfaction in the eyes of one who
knew that if he must die his slayer must
die with him.
Simultaneously both Howe and Alice
sprang forward, Howe in defense, Alice
with a cry, and with but one thought
to save him. With his revolver Howe
struck a blowi at "thalt of, his bp.naint
There was a report.
Alice Reade sank to the floor.
The rest of what happened on that
eventful night is not clear in Howe's
memory. He sees it through the haze of
a dazed mental condition, dt he then saw
it through the smoke which seemed to
wreathe itself about them like the folds
of a serpent. He rememnibers leaping
with brutish fierceness upon the man
who, before he reached him. passed from
his vengeance. He remembers taking
Alice up in his armns and laying her on
the lounge; the mother, who had risen
from a sick bed: the negroes carrying
the lounge with Alice on it to another
room; the sound of horses' hoofs, as one
dashed down the road for a surgeon; all
this he remembers like a confused
dream, though he has tried for years to
forget it.
"Live, Alice, dear," he cried, as he
bent over her, "only live till the surgeon
comes. lie will save you."
She looked a mournful good-by. "You
must live," she whispered. "I must go."
He bowed-his head in horror. "I live?
I live?" Then he raised his face and
looked into her eyes. "I will follow
you, if there is death to be found any
where among the horrors of this horri
ble war."
She asked him to wind her arms about
his neck. He did so, and they were not
unwound till an hour after, when, de
spite his pleadings for her not to leave
him, she passed beyond the terrors of
wvar into the eternal peace.
During the rest of those four years,
while the armies of the north and of the
south surged back and forth over the
border states, Howe was greatly chan
ged. He had been the life of his regi
ment; a cheerful, good natured jester,
with none of the fierceness of a trooper.
From that night he seemed a demon.
He would ride or fight, or both, all day,
and when others were asleep he would
be off, no one knew where. Many a
marauder of those lawless times was sur
prised at his sudden coming. He would
catch sight of a bivouac fire, however
distant, and soon learned to know from
its situation if it warmed guerrillas.
Though he met them at midnight or at
early dawn, sleeping or awake, he was
never known to bring in a prisoner.
THE GRAVE AND THE PILGRIM.
There is a grave in Tennessee which,
each year, when the day comes round
for the decoration of graves of those who
died in war time, is covered like the rest
with flowers. Though it is the grave of
a young girl, it holds one who was a
sacrifice in the struggle. These flowers
are placed by one who, passing the while
from youth to age, makes pilgrimages
there. The grave is that of Alice Reade;
the pilgrim, he in place of whose life she
gave her own.
Has Col. Howe-now a white haired
man, though not yet 50--a feeling that
he is living a life which does not belong
to him? Many a fair dame has set a
snare for his heart: but he is still a bach
elor. Is it constancy? Who knows? Of
all the events of those exciting years
in which he took a part, there is one of
which he never speaks. Because it is so
near to his heart, it is far from his lips.
F. A. MITCHEL.
Tihe "Horrors" of War.
The boys of the Sixth Indiana cavalry
relate as a fact (thoulgh no one swears to
it) that on entering a region in Tennessee
which had just suffered its first visit
from scouting parties, an old woman is
sued from a rather pretentious dwelling
and addressed tle captain in front as
follows:
"Uil ral, I want you to go right off an'
stop thli war, for it's offul hard on we
nins. Thin. mawnin' some o' Gincral
Morgan s ci itter men was in them woods
thar and r:oma o' you uns walk men
come in an' got into a line o' fight right
ill iy yard an' knocked down my new
alshi i ,:ppcr, what 1 wouldn't a tuck two
dollars ::a.d a quarter for."
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"LIKE T'OTHEFi REGi;,LENTS."
When.1the first' western soldiers pen
etrated into the hilly sections of East
Tennessee they were not a little disap
pointed: for the "East Tennessee Union
ist" had been glorified in the northwest
till he seemed in fancy like a superior
being. The boys pronounced the region
.ast of Knoxville a "land of rocks. fist
lights and ignorance:" but their amaze
ment reached its height when the first
Union troops from the North Carolina
eide met them. These troops had made
up a lot of doggerel poetry with which
they answered questions, but as they
were more hungry than poetic when they
reached the main body, they usually cut
off their answer to any question as to
their command, in some such fashion as
this:
"Second North C'llny iregiment,
A fightin' to' the guvamont,
"Sa-a-y! Got any terbacker?"
If It wst W to,. .to cco it was .eelly
0oafsete iey. _w *es. Ati tkuoWil'lit s
ion, they could live two or three ditys oit
a cold "corn pone" or even a few cars of
LIKE T' OTIHER REGIMENT.
corn-splendid qualities for soldiers at
that time and place. Their colonel en
deavored to minstruct his men by having
them follow the motions of the northern
regiments, and one of his first orders
(when the model regiment "grounded
arms") ran thus:
"Second No'th C'liny reegiment! Put
yer guns on the graownd, like t'other
reegiment does."
They were brave fellows, all the same,
and when drilled made splendid soldiers.
HARD HIT ON THE FIELD.
We had been held.4n reserve for five
long hours while cannon thundered and
muskets crackled spitefully along the
front a milo away A procession of dead
and wounded had filed past us until we
were sick with horror. Shot and shell
and bullet had fallen upon us behind the
woods until the dry, dead grass bore
many a stain of blood.
"Attention! Forward-guide right
march!"
Our brigade was going in at last. and
there was a look of relief on the face of
every officer and muall as we got the
word.
"Guide right--f ron t-f o r ward
march!"
As we swung clear of the woods a gust
of wind raised the smoke for a minute,
and I saw the plain in our front blue
with dead and wounded. Away beyond
them was a linoof earthworks, and 1 had
one swift glimpse of a thin blue line
kneeling behind the cover.
"Steady! Right dress! Double quick
-march!"
The air is alive with the ping of bullets
and the whiz and shrieks of shot and
shell. We bend our heads as if breast
ing a fierce gale laden with icy pellets.
There is a wild cry-a shriek-a groan
as men are struck and fuill to the earth,
but no one heeds tu i u-no one hesitates.
It is a hurricane of death, but we feel a
wild exultation in breasting it. Men
shout, curse, sing, swing their hats and
cheer.
We are driving through the smoke
cloud when there is a flash of fire in
front. I seem to rise into the air and
float hither and thither, and the sensa
tion is so dreamy and full of rest that I
wish it could last forever. It is suddenly
broken by the sound of my own voice.
Is it my voice? It sounds strange and
afar off to me. Why should I cheer and
curse by turns? What has happened?
Alt! now I come back to earth again!
Above and around me is the smoke-the
earth trembles under the artillery--men
are lying about and beside nme. Where
is the brigade? Why did I drop out? I
am lying on my back and 1 struggle to
sit up and look around. 1 rise to my
knees, weave this way and that, topple
over and struggle up again. There is
red, fresh blood on the grass, oni my
hands, on my face. I taste it on tny lips
as my parched tongue thrusts itself out
in searchl of moisture.
Who is groaning? ,Who is shrieking?
Who is cheering? Aid why should I
laugh and exult? I will spring up and
follow on after the brigade. ilere
"''ow to you feel?"
My eyes are wide open, and l1 au lying
on a cot in a large room. I see sltople
walking about-other people lying on
cots lil;o Illy own.
"I feel all right. Why?"
"You were hard hit in the light, four
days ago, my boy."
"So there wais a battle?"
"Yes."
"And I was wounded?"
"HIad your left armtu shattered by a
pieceof shell and we had to ilnplltats o
it."-Detroit Free Press.
Spottsylvaula-Night of M.Mi3 1'. 1861.
The cannon's hustr'd,
nor drum nor cla
rion sound;
The sword and mus
ket gleam upon
the ground;
Horseman and horse
lie weltering in
their gore;
Patriots are dead
and heroet dare
While solemnly them ,",n..
the plain
And Ulights the pallid [eattlr, I ,, t. u ui,
No mistake---the Ihloi, uw I.. tI e: is
the paper to send to your friettis.
PERSONAL COLUMN.
Under tiht ealptioun notiaes of "Ylanted,'
"To Let." For Neil,;" " Lost," " roand,"
" ierinalu," etc.. will he insetted a the rate
of ONE CENT I'1"lt WOItD for each iNser.
tiion; Oit nioiue less thian 25 cenl.
W Vanteal.
AT AAI'ERG' Photo Stdih.it. a young mal Or
y IttlI. laIr, to letrn the art o hotoraphy.
Apply to tr address J.r . AABERaG
Great Falrs,
lnay·-t r Montania.
N° t ire.
I WILl, make tlllolnr oi L.overnment lailldadonllr
Silsh all iHce,..iry irnfloratlonitor One Dollit
or eiaci quairter nsetlonl of land.
mar3t-t f IL E. RANDALL.
Agents Wo.V ted.
x PERtl ENCED Agents wanted for Cascade coun
ty to sell tlte I nopular book. "Remarks by Bil
Nye." Liberal terlns to proper person. Lay
preferred. Address with full pairUtlaulars, I. rAn
HL'R(tlEl, General Agent. Helena, Montana.
N-ii-F thisoltil tioolit for lent.
' lTll or wtllh~oit board. The room Is a large,
T o\t'lrl.s:lnt I'ront room and would prefer to
let It to two gentlemen. MilS. J. F. MAJOR,
Ioay21tf Corner Seventh alve. south an rd aat.
'loatelat1n-esiata Cows and Helter.
t:EsII mllkerrl--a earu load Julst airv.ed fromt
F R ochland Noulnt Dakota, on sale at the
8. G. TACGGERTT:
Ior Stile. .
I MIIIOVEIi ANlI LtNI tPHi)VEr property. Good
I tir'stillltelltn. JAMES LAIFLi..
tiiis Ito Itelit.--
ELEGANTI,Y FINISIIED In all parts of the city.
Wanted!
pnrchaser for one lof the best claims neart Great
Falls -wetll lllproved. Enquire lt the LEADER
Two o l Ranllches for Sale I
WITIIIN three miltes of Gireatl Falls. Roth are
nllllder fence, enltlvatlhol and otherwise Im
proverl. For farther llforlnltllon inquire of Jos.
Hlaniltoll, or te lboll , Iteniner's real estate office.
For Rellt.
FURNISHED IROOMS at moderate charges. By
the rweek or otlllt. Mts. JAS. LAWLER.
Wantoed,
TO libp ia Imber of young pigs. InquIre at thlis
-- ai FOI SA1El.
File hIltIndI Illlltetl t1oitern cards for sale by W. P.
lIACuCIIE.
- Fo" Sale,
SC1O,.tALltitP in the Montana Business Col
Ai hor! l1ltlll li it the ItIADER office.
i"aintedl,
A o00011 lIlI RL to do generail hosoework. No oth- ..
ers tIee1d rtpply. Inluolec tit tihe LEADER offica,"
Lllnd llllkso. -
Pre-enlptlltl. lltnestettld, Tnimber Culture spd
Sothler tlatnks. for sale at theLEalomloffbieat
reoasonable rates.
l tanllllclentlnl Adll Others
Relllenlbtr that Hultbert Chandler will furnish
llehrt Eti t oyltltllt Office, llenl, Montlana.e
Notice.
Any persons wiltting horses brought In fronm the
Meitltce catin olttllin thetll by leavlng briands and
dlescriptloln for !redll Tlurston at the postolnce.
To Reist.
flNE nine roolm tihOlLse with all modern ooliven
U ctltero, stnlltible for rfriiters. JAMES LAWLER,
tf Or LtANK8s & A'rtlNsON.
A SCIOL1ARIl1' for rt fuPll BllOliless Course In
Sthre I ellil r IrintiniiereltI I College for satle at the
LtoEiDIl ortllee,.
Vonted.
Alttt tlat doun'ttake tny of llas home plpers e
calse tllerei' "lithi' Iln 'elm,' who llvlshes his
i tOlley l fOretlt ilf'tltllire, hIoWIls aglilnst towli
,iti tOnilltlnlert 11rt1i holllme ellterprlse In general,
coltiltlrihis of hard tinesii. tud itnitlt that lie's a
iotur dlevil,-- to run raifts on Salt River! Enqulre
it this Ofice. htootl IIIiieniiients to right party.
Sheep.
Nhilne thlousldl iirsbt-class Ewes for sale; r lsoa
lIIIIIIohr ofi IginrOved ranches. Those desiring
s10~}0e call do 11o hter iltfi h al to uaill on
J. T. ARMINGTON,
27".prfw Belt, Mont.
HOTELS.
INTERIINATIONAL HOTEL,
ORN ER MA IN AN DBBRID E STS., HELENA,
MARCUS IISSN ilt, Owner land Proprietor.
)One of tile hest Ilotels iII llelena for Bnsinesa
Meli, (CIlOlll·l] T^lrl'e;ov rs, Agelnts, etdo. Cen
trally locatedl antd imost 0cololnIcmill In prices. diS
I'ALAICE ItOTEL,
PA NACONIA, MONT.\NA. New and elegant.
Mrs. '. F. Steplens,. Proprietor.
1lrst-clus lith roomlll,. ClUisinle nlot surlLsued
In the1 Te'rlitory.
'To It tiorOllily ICOitptenllt hotel man a one
hl llInterestl will bhe sol, it eX at cost. dlb
FRANK 80OrTTEN. aEO. H. STANTON
Shelttein & Stanton,
CIVIL ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS.
Surwveylg of al lll tsses. Rlanches, DHitches,
'low.sllhs, (Myit" Lols, tic. ])raughtiln Onil Blue
I'rlrlllg. i ,oaiitlig settlers on Governmllent
I~i; liis 1t s eclllity.
)llcel. ])Iill Iluck. iGreat Fall Mont.
FIVE BLOODED STALLIONS,
FOUR DIRAFT, ONE RACEI STALLION.
AND MUIES AND (ILDIN(S.
FOR SALE.
Call oi Ii. D. MCl, EAN.
Ina1 1 Ralroad hotel.
JUST RECEIVED:
AT WETZEL'S.
A car lo:al of tht celebrated Val Fl:at
BOTTLED BEER
Ald the largeht and lilest stock of
CIG-AR S!
lII the 4l1 n 11 . '1'1ih bhipy f'roli til(iil l 11t11le
lcp;y by 0hI-Ig to WETi';TZIi'S anlti getting th1
Genuine Myrtle Navy
T. B. Smoking Tobacco.
0. B. & R. E. PICKETT,
PIUPlill1ETO'li. OF
Grove Lake Farm,
SHORT HORN CATTLE,
Ol(5l1.K., I:IARINS I )., N. i. IAKOTA,
Full Bloods : n111111 Hig: l(;g rds 11 Sipl alty.
C"ar 1lod i.0ls furnlsiiteod oni short Notice.
iEFERENCi'E: lirsl Nall. i;ank. Valley City, Dak.
Mr. Pickett can ihe fllid l or 4 few days at the
Park hotel.
Any ri'sol Il desirous of Ibuing a type
,t riti., lta'hine shu, t.l ll 'mon L. A.
1''auytierat the l.ck." .mountain Tele
0talsh 111,. 0.111a 1 exa1ulii the (I ra dall
1m4chi ll (flr4 wlhiih lie is agent) llefore
utirchasihl elsewhltere. tt