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The furnace was white with steel a-light',
IX hen 11:; :.-\..'-‘111- 111 spirit ca1 16
In 3. 111011: 11 flood of the war-god’s s,blood.
In a passion of 1'. re and flame.
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With a strong heart full of pride:
Like a king alone on his stately throne
1 “Those word no man denied.
My thunder spoke from the battle smoke,
"V hen ihe Vvav es ran crimson red,
And heroes died by my iron side,
. Till the foreign foemen fled. '
The sentence of death was in my breath,
And many a: ship went down—
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And greater is his renown.
Now the long grass hides my rusty sides,
And round me the children play;
But I dream by night of a last great fight,
Ire the trump of the judgment day.
F01“ men'mnst fight in the cause of right,
Till- the time when war shall cease;
And the song of the gun will ne ’er be done,
Till the dawn of lasting pea1 e.
——N. Y. Tribune.
SHE RODE FOR FUN.
CAMERON.
BY WILLIAI‘I B.
“\Iy name is Jim Vue; a. mule- skinner am I:
The first time I went courting I felt rather
I stoogy; under the rain-spout till I got wet
clean through— I
(Then Sal stuck her head out 0’ the win- 1
. der an’ says—
‘Jim! Come in out o’ the rain.’)
Says I—‘My old girl, I don’t care if I:—
“Jim,” said I, breaking in upon his
ditty, “what was the yarn you were
going to tell about the time you en-
gineered that English hunting-party
through the Bear Paw mountains?”
We were riding along the trail, which
stretches its serpentine length at the
ieet of the eternz‘ llyb Grand old Rockies
between Forts McLeod and Calgary, on
11. bright, warm afternoon in January.
When they have a “Chinook” out there,
sporting in its rude, boisterous, yet
withal genial fashion, through the deep
dcfiles of the mountains from over the
Pacific, with a rumble like Niagara at
a distance and a force which makes
you button your coat up tightly to keep
it from blowing off, the snow soon van-
ishes, even in midwinter; and the ther-
mometer jumps from “~10 below” to
“temperate” so suddenly that you won-
der if the sun has not wheeled himself
several degrees out. of his normal course
at such a season, or the breath of an
approaching prairie-fire is not fanning
your cheek. ‘
The singer gave the wad of tobacco
in his jaw a. twist with his tongue and
aimed an amber jet at a “bulldog” on
his horse’s car before turning upon me :
a pair of glistening eyes, with black 1
points set in saucers of milk, a short,
impudent nose. and a rather weak :
mouth, round the corners of which
lurked a musing smile. Then, after a-
pause, he said:
“Oh, yes. Well, Littlefield was the
chief of the outfit, an’ he hed his wife
along—fine, spankin’ woman, good to
look at. There was another English-
1nan-——a great shot—called W'ells, an’
a nigger cook—a. big, slashin’ buck, but
with no mo’c sand in him than a pusil-
lanimous jack-rabbit. Lordl—how we
(lid scare that poor critter! His teeth 1
used to chitter like a squirrcl's; it’s a
wonder he didn't shake ’em out. of his ,
big woolly head. ‘Fraid of his own shad- :
der after night, an’ he’d make one any 1
time, even if it. was pitch dark. he was ‘
so infunal black. You might as soon
git this here buzzard-head- I‘m u-ridin’
to stand on one leg as coax that nigger
to mosey outside the flare o‘ the camp-
fire after sundown fer a-pail 0’ water,
or fer any other pu’pos’, fer the mat-
ter 0’ that. You see, he was a. ‘pilgrim’
—ncver been on a. lay-out 0’ this sort
afore, an’ he was that blamed tender ‘
‘11 goat VV ould nibble him.
“But, I b’leeve, to talk Christian, I ‘
w as partly responsible for his being so
e-;tray -ordina.1y skittish. IIe stu’ ted,
Oncct or twicet, fer water after night to
a crick quite handy, sho’tly after we
went into camp. I jest stepped off 1;
paces into the pines an’ lot 11. ‘Yee—ow"
or two out 0’ me, an’ Jumbo, he throwed
back his ears an’ yelled—~tee-rii’lic. Itell
yeh—an’ come prancin’ up to the camp-
stand—with his two sighters stickin’
out. like the knobs 011 the horns of a.
ornery freight-ox, shakin’ like a sick
cow in north wind, an’ dern a. pail in
sight. ‘
“After that a Quaker mectin’ ncr a
cyclone wouldn’t budge him; an’ if you
asked him to put. a tree between him an’
the blazeufterdark he’d weep like awolf.
An’ that. woman! * it \‘ No—shc
didn’t laugh nonc—o-oh, no-o!” And
Jim lay back in his saddle, and sent :1
peal echoing up among the foot—hills
which shook the few lingering traces
of soft snow from the branches of the
spruces.
That Jim was a “mule—skinner” does
not imply that he was expert at remov-
ing hides—in toto. Simply that he
belonged to that select bunch of
frontiersmen whose superlative boast
is that they can drive or ride “anything
that wears hair”—that he was past-
master in the craft. of teamsterism.
He adjusted the pistols in his belt,
gave a fun ard tilt to his broud- rimmed
buckskin hat and a hitch to his tnnged'
leather “chaps, ” and kicked his big’ jing-
ling Mexican spurs against his cayuse’s
flanks before resuming:
“But I was a-goin’ to tell yeh ’bout.
Mis’ Li’l’field. She was a mighty fine
woman, as I said before, an’ well put up
~fond o’ out-o’-door sport, an’ of ridin’
in partic’lar. Well, one bright, warm
niornin’ Li’l'ficld an’ Wells went. off
huntin’, an’ I got orders (I was teamster
1111’ guide to the outfit, yeh know)’to
move camp across ,the ‘Divide’—about
20 mile—in the meantime. So, after
breakfast an’ the dishes hed been wiped,
we packed 11p the outfit an’struck camp:
but it was well on in the day before we
pulled out.
“‘Now, Mis’ Li’l’ficld hed :1. spankin’
bay hoss specially fer her own use. I
hedn’t 110 Objections to her ridin’, of
co’se—not 120111111011 ly. Butyeh know it
uin’ t jest nice to be rollin’ down a
.111! 1111011, 10‘ l sc'rcVV 111011111 ’in trail after
; that’s right!
dark, an’ gettin’ into camp late, 2511’
hevin’ to plant yer tents 2111’ square
things out, cut yer kindlin’ an’ "11336“
'VVater by cat-light, an’ VV ait till nine
o’clock, mebbe, fer yer supper. This
was what happened different times
through Mi‘s’ Li’l’ijeld. She 21.1-1ch
VV anted to ‘ride’ when VV e shifted camp,
an’ follered the we. gon on her bay hoss.
It. was unde ’stood that VV hen I VV as goin’
too fast or hed got fur in the lead,.she
would wave her handkercher’, an’I was
- to slack up or stop till she ketched the
_VV agon. So I jest natterly ’10VV ed
1’ d giVe her. a. song-an ’-dance, heVin’ a
pretty smart day ahead 0’ me an ’wantin’
to git into camp early. Consekently, I
told the nigger—w ho rode with me—
, not to look back.
“When we sta’ted, of co’se, the/Inst
~ ten mile or so was up—hill mostly, an’
I couldn’t travel extra fast; so it was
v ’bout two when we hit the summit, an'
everything hed went lovely: Then we
hed a little ‘hand-out,’ and the descent
begun. ‘ '
‘ I didn’t lose no time. The mules
stepped out gay—me a—poppin ’the buck-
skin among ’em oncet an’ awhile jest. to
l: cep ’em chee’ful an’ in good humor;
an’ the hill—VV ell, chuin- lightnin’ could
go dow n—-with b1 itchin’. I hedn’ t VV ent
' a great. ways when I heerd a fur-off call
‘ ~—like a coyote got astray.
J un bo
shifted kind of uneasy like, on the seat,
and squinted sideways at me; but-I
was a whistlin’ ‘The Gal with the Trav-
ail Train.’ and didn’t see nor hear
nothin’, of. co’se. Pretty soon the nig-
gcr he couldn’t set peaceful an’ on.-
concerncd no longer, an’ stealcd a look
bchin‘. Then he leaned forrard, ’th his
han’s ’thcen his knees, an’ chuckled
to hisself. I paid no manner of notice.
Now he screws round again in his seat,
chuckles. an’ twists a little harder,
squints at me sideways again, and says:
“ ‘She‘s a-wavin’, Jim.’
“"Set still, you blamed, black-breast-
ed sand—piper,’ says I; -‘lct ’er wavc.’
“He was tol’abul quiet fer a. sho’t
tci-backer, mebbe. The calls sounded
pretty faint now. Far back up the
rocky trail, I could ketch the clear,
sharp ring of her hoss’s hoofs—‘pit-e-
pat! pit-e-pat! pit-e-pat!’——remindin’
me somethin’ 0‘ one. 0’ them gals from
the cast. down in Benton chassayin’ up
{111’ down the room in a new-tangled
VV'ur-dnncc they call the ‘Rushin’
polkay.’
“Jumbo’s head swung around again
on its pivot. He. squirmcd an’ twisted
au’ chuckled some more; the fun was
too fast fer his ornery, woollyscalp,
1111’ he bust out:
“ ‘Dah she wmes, Jim. Now—now!
she VvaV es.Dal1—dah! she’ s a VV an 111
Now—now! she’s a-wavin', Jim. Now!
she waves. J im—J im — Jim — she
VVnV'es. J im—she waves—she waves!
—s:he waves!’
“Here he throwed out his wings-—
1111dulatin‘-like, and very takin’, and
winds up in 21- loud ‘Yah! yah! yah!’
—doublin’ hisself up an’ contortin’ an’
rollin’ round on the seat till I'thought
he‘d drop out 0’ the wagin. He was
the most extropulous coon I ever see—~—
I tried to kick him under
the seat~but fact. is, I was a-laughin’
at him till I was nigh non campus Mem—
phis myself.
“ ‘Pit-e-pat-l I’it—e-pat! Pit-e-pat!’
come from far back in the distance.
“Now I commenced to pgll in my
mules. “Ye were gittin’ pretty well
down the slope, an’ a. few miles more
VV ould fetch us to the camp- ground.
(I hed changed ‘The Gal VV 1th the
Travail Train’ fer ‘The Gal I left Be-
hin’ Me?) It was still middlin’ early
in the afternoon, an’ mighty hct. After
awhile I got. my team down to a walk,
an’ before long I heerd the hoss’ hoofs
. comin’ closter.
“I turned around an’ watched her as
she come up. Sayl—I’ve eat canned
lobsters-but. you’d oughter seen that
woman’s face! Whooshl—to
stu’t a fire fer the pu’pos’ o' toast-111’
a bannack while she Vver’ round an’ that
color lasted, as the poet says, ‘Vver' on-
nccessary.’ But. that wa’n’t. all, neither.
She was mad clean througl1——as a sage
hen with a brood 0’ young ’uns; it. stuck
out in pints all over her. An’ ych could
see where the. tears hed lcft- marks on
her cheeks—throughthe dust; an’ her ~
hair was like a. shower-bath on her
shoulders.
“ ‘How could you be so mean, Jim,‘
she. says.
“ ‘Wcll—you see, mum—er—this here
—-ah—bla.med hill is so confounded
ornery pu’pendic’lar — uh — I couldn’t-
hold ’cm up——’pon honor I couldn’t!’
“Of co’se I guess she didn’t b’leeV‘c
me ha’dly, but what could she say?
We traveled pretty slow the rest 0’ the
road to camp. I did feel tarnation
mean, as well as sorry fer her, an’ that’s
right! I VVanttd to kick my self, to
make my self feel——er—ah—oncomfort-
able. I hed half a mind to make Jumbo
do it. But, then. he VV as a nigger, an‘
didn’t know nothin’.
“We'll, li’I’ field got his leg ’broke
slio’ tly after, an’ that bu’ st up the ex-
pedition—got into a VVrestle VV ith a
grizzly an’ took second money. He
left his hoss- -’a11 VV cnt close to git. a good
pull, but the bear “as only VVounded
an’ charged. He waitzcd with him. I
reckon it. ’ud ’a’ been all day with Li’l’-
field if Wells hedn’t been nigh; he. was
a dead shot, yeh know. As it was, he
got out. of it with a. broken thigh an’
a gash in his hip from the bear‘s claw
yeh might cache a flask in. So as soon
as he could be mOVed we went into
Helena, an’ they left there fer Eng-
land. .
“Eh? Oh, the woman! “’hy— -well,
she rode with me on the wagon after
that when we mOVed camp—jest orner-
ly didn’t care to much us look at a sad-
dle fer more 11 :1 week. When she shook
hun’s 1111’ says goal-by (an’ I was real
sorry to see the last of her), she looks
, at me a’n smiles, an’ says:
' “ ‘An’ Jim, next time we come to 1
Montana to hunt, try an’ pick us out a.
Span o’ mules that aim" 1 so hard to “hold
up,” will you?’
“An’ I hanged my head like a demed
id jut an’ said I would.”=—San Francisco '-
Argonnut.
1 Statement for the year ending Decembei
11E * UTUA’L', 1,11“
INSURANCE -00.
OF NEW YORK.
RICHARD A. McCURDY President.
amen fu eYea1 ndingflec. 31,1895.
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$221,213,721 33
194,347,157 58
$26,866,563 .75
$48,597,43051
$23,126,728 45
Assets. ‘ , , .
Liabilities . p .
Surplus
Total IncOme . ‘ .
Total Paid Policy-holders in 1895, .
11131111111111 and Annuities in force, $899, 074,453 78
Net gain in 1895 . . .. $6], 647, 645 36
NOTE—Insurance merely written, ls dlscarded from this Statement as wholly misleading, and only insurance
actually issued and paid for in cash is included.
I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct.
CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor.
From the Surplus a dividend 'will be apportioned as usual.
Report of the Examining Committee.
Cilice ti the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York,
February 11,1896.
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Company, held on the 18th day of
December last, the undersigned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual
51st, 1895, and‘to verify the same by com:
parison withthe‘assets of the Company. . i '
The Committee have carefully performed the duty assigned to them, and hereby
c1‘1-tify that the Statement is in all particulars correct and that the assets specified
therein are in possession of the Company. I p ,
In making this certificate the Committee bear testimony to the high character of
the investments 11’ the Company and express their approval of the system, order and
accuracy with which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in
eneral transacted.
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Robert Clyphant,
Wm. P. Dixon,
J. H. Herrick.
H. C. Von Post,
Charles R. Henderson,
James C. Holden,
Committee
ROBERT A. G'RANNIS, Vice-President.
WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager.
HEN BY E. DUNCAN. Jr., 001. Secy.
ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, ,
ALBERT KLAMRO'I‘H, Asst. 'Secy. .
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary,
FREDERIC CBOMWELL, Treasurer.
JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Tress
JOHN “A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. .
EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier.
WILLIAM P. SANDS. Cashier
EMORY MoCLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary.
JOHN TATLOCK, J 1%., Asst. Actuary. ' WM. \V. RICHARDS, Comptroller.
CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor, HENRY, S. BROWN, Asst. Comp.
JOHN C. ELLIOI‘T, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies,
EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor.
MEDICAL Druncrons
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