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At last the gray dawn of morning began to break over the mountains. It found the heroic little woman stlll treading the path. As the sun rose the snow ceased to fall. The clouds broke away and'the snowy peaks glittered like minarets in the bright sun- light. She continued her weary walk till about 10 o‘clock, when a mail carried on snowshoes came over the pass from Crested Bette and rescued her. He placed her on his long, Norwegian snowshoes, fastened her feet to the runners with leather thongs, and, bidding nor put her arms around his neck for support, he soon landed her in safety at a cabin on the western slope of the mountain. A sled was improvised, and she was taken to Crested Butte. For weeks she lay in aburning fever. It .jwas a hard struggle between life and death. ‘ A strong constitution, however, pulled her through, and she finally recovered. A subscription paper was passed around among the miners, and $500 was raised, with which she started a little store in Crested Butte, where she is to-day doing a good business. Thrilling Story or: Night in the Pearl fans 01 the Rocky Mountains. For three or four years there lived in Landvllle a little black-eyed, blackâ€"haired woman, Agnes M'ayhum. She was 1: Willow who had (me child, a hustle girl. Mrs. May- ham made a llving by paddling. Her little shook In trade oomleted of stockings, gloves, hundkerchlefs, hummus, thread, and other knlok-knacks. Her face was familiar to almost every woman in she Carbonata Camp. “Then bualnon: was (lull Mrs. Mayham would :21ng her little pack ever her shoulder and pay a visit (29 neighboring camps, where lbs frequently reaps-1 qults a harvest item the wlvea of the miners. The hall, however, was cemparntlvely plain, nnd'Mn. Meyham,’ who had been in the mounteinl untll Ihe could follow a trell almost as well u a men, felt confident that ehe_oould make the trip. Euly last spring she took a. trip to Aspen, about sixty miles west of Loudvillo. Her attention was next directed to Creamed Butte, another camp or town, about forty mile still further west. Bntween the two places there in a range of HIGH AND RUGGED MOUNTAINS. Mn. Mayhum travelled all day and stayed over night at the cabin of a. mnol m m, who with his finally had named on tine eastern aide of the mouufialn range. The next day she resumed her j aurney and hoped by nightfall to reach her (lamination. The worst of the road atlll lay before her. She had to cross the bleak range over which there we: only a dlm trail whwh nene bu: the hardleet mountalnaere had tredden. This trull lay over what la known as Pearl Pate, one of the meat filfiicult and danger- ous passes In the Rocky Mountalne. It lies at an altitude of 12,000 feet above the level of the see and 1,000 feet above the pelnt at which vegetation eeelee to grow. 0n thll bleak and desolate pus nothlng can be user: but held and preolpitoue mountains, with rugged peek: pleroing the cloud! that con- Itently hover around them. No llvlng oreeture breaks the monotony of The courageous little woman trudged along, climbing by slow degrees the circuit. on: path that gradually led to the summit of the mountain. About 2 o'clock In the afternoon she found herself at the very top of Pearl PA". No sign of vegetatlen up- peured to cheer the lonely prelpect. The wind whittled and howled over the un- broken solitude. Tlred and footsore, eho pulhed forward. She reeched the summit. The clouds begun to thicken around her, and in a few minutes the snow began to fall. The wind blew ltln eddylng gust- aiound her, and It was not long before a e The way was soon entirely obscured. The frightened weman paused to think. To proceed was certain destruction, and to re- main would be equain fatal. She oeuid not retrace her steps, for the snow had bid from view the serpentine trail so compietei that the most experienced prospector oou d not (allow it. She did not dare to go forward for fear of losing her way, and she could not lie dewn, as she weuld freeze to death and be wrapped in a winding sheet of snow. She decided to walk backward and forward along a certain beat for a distance of about thirty feet, where she knew the trail lay, and by this means keep up the oirouiatien, and at the same time not wander from the trail. It was drawing toward twilight, and the snow fell as thick and fast that it almost blinded her ; but she continued to walk up and down the beat she had laid cut. following in her own tracks, and in this way she prevented the falling now from hiding them from view. Back and forth, back and forth, hour after hour, on that storm-swept mountain ehe traced and retraued her weary wav. Darkness came on and ntiii that the dim trail would soon be covered up. To mlua It in a snow storm in almost certain death. A single mlsstep might plunge her down hundreds of feet and duh her to pieces on the jxgged rook: below. THE SHOW FELL AND THE WIND HOVVLED. The plucky little women held her beuten path. Her olethes were wet with snow. Her soggy skirts hung about her chilled and weary limbs. The hours of that lonely night dragged slowly on, and each succeed- lng heur found her steadily keeping up the measured trend from one end of the little path to the ether. She knew the necessity of ecenemlzlng her strength so that she would not become exhausted and be com- pelled to lie down and sleep the sleep at desth. She realized in that constant metien ley her only hope of ever seeing daylight again. All through the long and dreary hours of that seemingly endless night she kept up her pace, until the snow was bank- ed up on each side of the little track. Sev- ereltlmesIher courage nearly failed her and che was on the point of lying deWn and BESIGNING HEBSELF TO HER FATE, when the reoelleetlen of her little erphnn glrl Inspired her new and gave her renew- ed strength and courage. Her strength was gradually being exhausted. Unleea help came within a. few hours at most human nature would have to yleld. “ In it a sin,” naked a fashionable lady of her spiritual dlreoter, " for me to feel plea- sure when a gentleman say: I am hand- some ‘2" “ It is, my daughter," he replied gravely ; “ We should never delight In false- heed." A W01“ AN'S FOBTI’I‘UDE. BEALIZED TEE TERRIBLE TRUTH THIS AWFUL SOLITUDE. Thinking people who have at. heart the hen Interests 0! smlecy, reooznlue a. growing tondenoy among mm. In termed the middle chase: in this country, to ahlrk the duties and respgnalblllfloa of married life. They deplore the evil ounaequenoes as a menial and national mquortnne. Natiuna are composed of individuals, and ii; gees Without saying that an a rule the rum who la beund by inmily ties in more paisrietlo, and more willing t9 render “alumnae: in the hem- of his counsry's need, thou la he who has: no heme of his mm to deiand. M .rriage is also a. Divine institution. and a duty every one owes to Nature. Bat uois only 19 oellbncy on the increase but it is strongly asserted that as a people we are degenerat- lng physically. Many nausea contribute to this latter results such as Ignorance af,Natura’u laws and lmpreper living, while the former is due in I. huge measure to the false Ideas of the time In regard to oonnubialhapplneaa. Formerly, among the hepplest clues these wlth “ neither poverty nor great riches," it was customary for a young couple commenc- ing the voyage of life to work together, the wlfe doing her own housework. cooking, mending, etc, while her husband. provided the menu. Thus mutually helplug each other, the daily tasks became a pleasure, expenses were at a minimum, the10unding of a. home was the ebjeor, and the hmlly clrcle the shrine at: whloh they worehkpped. Sweet home. " Where the treenuree are, there the heart will be also." Such lives were not failures, even though fortune knocked not at the deer, but, I! perchenoa It did, and success rewarded their efforts, and the goal for which they had shiver: we: reached, that we: the crowning glory of it all, andjhey could efiorg to take life eneler. But all this is changed. A young man is expected to accumulate enough before mar- rying to support a wife in Michael and lux- ury. She is not to be a helpmato to him, but a sort of a dainty pet, to be dressed In fine and costly raimenr, waited on by ser- vants, constantly in pursuit of pleasure, and without any conception of the sterner quali- ties of life. She may speak French and German fluently, but she has no practical knowledge of housework; paint on china but has no cullnary skill; and although she plays difficult music, cannot darn a stocking, nor does she know what economy means. Not that the se-oalled higher accompllshments are undesirable, but they should not take precedence in rank , ever the more useful ones. Often :19 attempts ls made to establhh a home at all, they Ilmply board at same hotel. The young man is afraid he cannot sup- port so expensive a creature, and is it any wonder he hesitate. to assume the responsi- bilityi II therea remedyi Yes. Teach young ladies the importance of thoroughly understanding dementia duties and putting them in practice. Let them remember that the greatest enjoyment does not arise from the pursuit of pleasure but in having some definite aim in life and realizing that they are nearing its ebj set as time elapses. and that woman’s firet duty is to her family. Farther : one sees on {every hand, girls belonging to the intelligent working-class, who, from necessity, have been cempelled to learn at home the useful art of housekeep- ing and other domestic duties, who merov ever, are blessed with physical health in a high degree, Induced by their more simple mode of life and abundance of ex stolse, and many of them peesessing withal at least equal beauty with their more delicately reared sisters. Men are naturally attracted by female beauty. and If they find intelligence, refine- ment and true werth assooleted therewith, they do not ears for ene’a anceltry, whether they were bankers or literary peeple, or working men and women, knowing that worth la the result of lndlviduul oenduct and not of royal bleed. But ales, the maj srity oi the class of girls referred to are of limited education and un- cultivated manners. Verltebie diamonds in the rough. Why can’t they appreciate the eitnetien, and with the advantages ai- ierded by free soheels. public libraries, and the general freedom of society, polish up, think les of dress and show, and any man wheee attention: are worth having, will en- tertain more respect for them than fer the butterflies oi feehion. Meny an independent, sensible, high-minded merchant, preieseien- ei men. or ethere well-te-de, would be only toe glad its get such a girl for 3 wife. Encouragement to Cranks. It is an error to say that no creature that ever went over Niagara. falls escaped with its life. In 1836 a bull terrier went over and came out alive. In 1858 an- other dog was flung above the tails and an hour afterward it came dripping up the ierry steps, a little rattled and disgusted with things in general, but otherwise unin- jured. A recent writer says that there can be seen at the ioot of the falls water cones apparently ten or twekvo feet high. These are formed by the ra id. accumulation and condensation of the failing water. It pours down so rapidly and in such quantities that the water below, so to speak, cannot run off fast enough, and it plies up as though it were in a state of constant ebullitien. These cones are constantly falling and breaking. A hardy animal falling onto one of those cones as on a soft cushion might slide safely into the current below. The dogs were doubtless fortunate enough to fall in this way and were also aided by the repulsion of the water from the rocks in the swift channel through which they passed. As Graham's feat of running the rapids has now been equaled, and as the barrel route promises to become popular with ladies and children, he will have to go over the falls in his barrel or remain overshadowed. The chances are strongly in favor of his going over the falls safely. The Moon‘s Influence Upon the we-ther is accepted by some as real, by other: it is disputed. 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