A SAVAGE LOVE CHASE.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 160, 17 May 1873, Page 3

A SAVAGE LOVE CHASE.

Ix New Mexico, where young ladies arc scarce, fi\o men once wooed the same damsel. The lovers, it seems, were all equally poor and— diHiupuUlili'. Th> cirl didn't love any of them, but she feaied them ill. As tlio wooing -vaxed warm the lovers began to indulge in thrc.its of shooting and throat-cutting; and one <>i tin m, more siv.i^e than the rest, declared thit he world cut the throat of the gul herself sooner than see lu-r tlie wife of any of his rivals. This so frightened the girl tlut she resolved on night. Making ample but seciet preparations, she th-d one morning, on horseback, to the la'iclie of .1 fiiend, distant; nearly one hundred miles from lier home. The next day her flight was discovered, and the rive Jovers set out in pursuit, every one of them determined to catch her, and marry her or die. They rode in company till the hoise of one began to fall behind", when ho insisted that the others should slacken their speed, so as to give him an equal chance. This they refused to do, whereupon lie draw his revolver and began to tire at their horsus This so maddened the four other lovers that they opened fire on their assailant, and shot him and his horse ; but not till he had wounded and lamed two of their horses. The owners of the two wounded horses, seeing that they would be distanced in ( the race, demanded that their comrades should give fcliem an equal chance by all going on foot. This proposition being declined, a second tight was immediately begun, which ended in the death of two of the combatants, and the wounding of the other two so seriously that they could not proceed. After two days of sufteiing, the wounded men were found by a party of explorers, and sent to a cabin where they could have such help as the limited resources of a frontier settler's family could supply. There one of them soon died ; and the other, after a long illness, recovered sufficiently to ride aw.w on horseback in search of some old companions. He did not propose to go in pursuit of the girl again, as he had heard of her marriage to a cou&in who was skilful with the bowie-knife, and a dead shut.

Loud Caiuxs.— -Lord Cairns is, in most respects, tlie precise opposite of Lord Malmosbury. He is a man of keen and sharp intellect, of quick perceptions, and of definite convictions. His language is clear and precise, and even grammatical — the latter n peculiarity which distinguishes him from almost all the Parliamentary orators of his day. But he has one fatal defect. To use a phrase of the actors, ho is without -the sentiment of his part. He does not look tho leader of one of the great aristocratic parties — of tho great aristocratic party — of England; and he has always apparently been conscious of this. In the tones of his voice, in manner, bearing, dress even, Lord Cairns seems slightly out of place between Lord Salisbury and the Duke of Richmond. He is something more or something less than merely lawyer-like. His get-up is rather that of a fashionable, \» ell-bred stockbroker — a chastened and mitigated stockbroker, if you like — considerably subdued by good taste from the glossy splendour and the latest stylo ol 'Change, a little less like a walking extract from the book o£ fisluons ; but still to the critical eye, and yet more to the speculative mind which has imbibed the clothes philosophy of "Sartor Eesartus," distinctly recalling traces of character. Mr Carlyle, speaking through Professor Teuielsdrockh, lays down the doctrine, thnt in tailoring, as little as in legislating, is anything a matter of accident — less so, we should say. "If the cut betokens intellect and talent, so does the colour betoken temper and heart ; " and his image of a naked duke addressing a naked House of Lords shows forcibly to tho bewildered mind how much the conception of character is due to costume. We will not undertake to determine in detail Lord Cairns' intellect and talent from the cut of his clothes, or his temper and henrt from the colour of them ; but if they do not reveal the precise, acute, self-confident, but decorous and respectful man of business — why, then there is no truth in the clothes philosophy, and Mr Carlyle is little hotter than an impostor. Lord Cairns' manner in the House of Lords resembles that of the trusted professional advisor of a great family at my lord's breakfast or dinner table, or out shooting with him m the coverts. There is every disposition to treat him as of the same set ; ho has every disposition to bo so treated. There is no offensive patronage on the one side ; no flattery or obsequiousness on the other ; still there is a consciousness of ditfercnce and incompatibility. — Daily Newt. TnE Pli'i. vm> the Por. — Whether a man is a capitalist or a pauper depends mainly upon himself. True, it is not given to everyone to die a millionaire, but there is no good cause why anyone should live m tho workhouse. The reason why so many persons do live there is that they lack the virtue of self-denial. The experience of thopresent autumn has shown only too plainly that increased wages do not necessarily mean increased prosperity. The working classes have had no small share of the riso which has taken place in the co-t of co.il, iron, nnd other articles largely used. Yet what havctheydonewith.it? Have they put their additional wages into the savings bank or the building club? On tho contrary, thay have either taken ad\antageof tho higher pay to work fewer hours, or they have made the publican their banker. They have negleetod to take the tide of fortune nt the flood, neglected to put by the savings which would have enabled them to emerge from the ranks of labour and to become capitalists and employers. And now that prices arc beginning to fall again, and wages will have to follow, they find themselves no better off than they were three years* ago. A true friend of " the people" would have the courage to tell them all this. Instead of bidding them look witlAonging 03 cs upon the wealth of men who have become wealthy by practising self-restraint and displaying industry, a wise counsellor would tell working men that the lot they desire is within their reach. But so long as they spend upon their pipes and their pots a sum which far richer men would deem scandalously extravagant, they will never be in comfort, not to say affluence, for they squander both their income and their capital, their wealth and their health. — Brighton Daily News. Bound to bk Married. - j * There's no use talking. I'm going to get married," said a bachelor acquaintance the other day, while busily engaged in sewing. " Heie I have worked just twenty minutes by the watch trying to get this needle threaded, and then, just ns I succeeded, I pulled the thread out. Finally, I got it threaded, and now, after sewing on this button good and strong, I lind I've got it on the wrong side, and now I have my work all to do over again." One of Hartford's popular dry-good* merchants was asked the other clay how he spent his evenings. His reply was, "At night I store my mind, and during the day I mind my store." He was aluc at last accounts.