Paradise, 435.-Patrick Henry, (American Statesmen,) (Moses Coit Tyler,) 559.-Paul Patoff, (F. Russian Proprietor, A, (Tolstoi,) 551. Second Son, The (M. O. W. Oliphant and T. B. Aldrich,) 441.-Seth's Brother's Wife, (Harold Fred- Vagrant, The, (Vladimir Korolenko,) 552.—Valdés's Maximina, 550.-Victorian Poets, (Stedman,) Well-Worn Roads, 334.-White Cockades, (Edward Irenaeus Stevenson,) 112.-Who Saved the Illustrations.-Initial, Wm. Keith; Chico, J. M. Hutchings; Pine Tree, C. C. Kuchel, Emigrant Train, Barber.--House where Joaquin was Captured, Cicada, California Silk Moth, Cosumnes River, Aged Squaw, On the Trail, Buck Indian, Vaca Valley, Deserted Cabin, A. Nahl. --Catch- ing the Buried Rooster, Indian Funeral Dance, Samson Rending the Lion, Samson Carrying the Gates, From "The Oatman Children," California Lynx, From " Adventures of a Gringo," C. Nahl. -California Condor Chick, W. Ord. Engravers: Eastman, Butler, Barber, Armstrong, Van .449 Illustrations. 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Illustrations.-Headpiece.-The Sacramento from the Railroad Bridge; In Iron Cañon; Grape Vine Tracery and Festoons; Sir Joseph Hooker Oak; The Old Adobe; The Bidwell Mansion; Street in Chico; On the Rio Chico; From Nimbus Knob to the Sacramento; The Apiary; Plowing-February; The Water Tower; Hereabouts; Tree Digging; "Mary"; Some of the Natives; Types; Chico Vecino. From Photographs by W. B. Tyler, and Drawings by W. A. Illustrations.-Millville, Photograph by W. N. Harris. Dr. Guptill, Photograph by Oscar Crom- well.-Burney Falls, Sketch by W. N. Harris.--Pitt River Falls. Photograph by Oscar Crom- well.-Reed's Ferry, Photograph by W. N. Harris.-Redding from Linda Vista, Sketch by W. A. Reaser.-Shasta City; Mt. Shasta; Tailpiece: Photographs and Sketch by W. N. Harris. 1 F. L. Clarke. Sierra Snowstorm, Caught in a.. Southern California, After the Hounds in. Spring Flowers of California.. You 512 449 Illustrations-Millville, Photograph by W. N. Harris. -Dr. Guptill, Photograph by Oscar Crom- well.-Burney Falls, Sketch by W. N. Harris. Pitt River Falls, Photograph by Oscar Crom- well. Reed's Ferry, Photograph by W. N. Harris.-Redding from Linda Vista, Sketch by W. A. Reaser.-Shasta City; Mt. Shasta; Tailpiece: Photographs and Sketch by W. N. Har- UNI CALIFORN THE OVERLAND MONTHLY. VOL. XI. (SECOND SERIES.) JANUARY, 1888.- No. 61. It was nearly nine o'clock in the evening, and I had an all night's ride before me. The prospect was not a cheering one, and somehow the proposed railroad to Fall River seemed to me just then the one thing of all others most to be desired. I parted from my new friends with sincere regret that my stay was not longer. Who has not felt for hours after a farewell the warmth and stimulus of hands that last clasped his? We left Millville behind, nestling between her mountain streams, which made a musical murmur as we crossed the bridge over one of the Cow Creeks. There being four of them, the traveler becomes hopelessly confused in trying to distinguish between North and South Cow Creeks, and Little Cow Creek, and Cow Creek proper. Usually the names around Shasta have a distinctiveness of their own that is startling. A peaceful stranger must shudder to be told that the place where he is about to order a night's VOL. XI.-1. (Copyright, 1887, by OVERLAND MONTHLY Co. All rights reserved.) lodging is called Murderer's Gulch or Grizzly Peak. The graceful names that the new settlers have introduced are a happy contrast to such ones as Bully Choop, Whisky Town, Mule Town, etc., which one hears everywhere in this country. We journeyed along Oak Run for miles. through Digger pines and oaks, the manzanita growing less until it entirely disappeared. Along the banks of the dry creek the buckeye trees were beginning to lay aside their snowy plumes and put on autumn's tints of gold and brown. An elderly lady with her blind son sat opposite me in the stage, while my seat was shared by a lanky youth whom I took to be somewhere about seventeen years old. This waggish young fellow was smoking an execrable cigar which he removed now and then to make some comment in a drawling voice that was irresistibly amusing. When the lady told us that right here the stage had been robbed twice, and that such occurrences were not infrequent now, the boy informed us that he had n't but "two be-its," which could hardly be considered a rich "haul " for a midnight robber. Here he removed one of his number fourteen boots from the lady's demolished band-box, and carefully lighted his second cigar. I was tempted to offer him "four be-its" if he would deny himself the luxury of smoking in my face, thinking that probably his depleted purse might plead for me. Removing my hat just then, I proceeded to pin it securely to the canvas lining of the stage. A wild shriek from one of the girls sitting outside with the driver warned me that I had run the long pin through too far. Amidst my profuse apologies the boy grumblingly declared that "some folks was mighty purticuler about a little hurt! That gur-rel ought'r That gur-rel ought'r hey went to the same school that I did when I was a youngster. The master hed the most reg'ler habit you ever hearn tell on. He licked me five days out of the seven, and I never oncet screeched like that!" By twelve o'clock the silver rim of the moon rose over the hills and lit our vast surroundings with a subdued splendor. A procession of colossal pines met us on either side, as though to lead us to the grand armies marshaled beyond. The road wound steeply along the precipitous mountains, often "turning back to look at itself," as the wag expressed it. Descending Bullskin Hill we found a lovely valley, through whose entire length North Cow Creek ran its clear, cold stream. We passed many oldfashioned rail fences inclosing picturesque homes. When we spoke of anything of interest, the beautiful, dark eyes of the blind man turned their sightless gaze in the direction, as if he, too, could behold the picture. It was very touching to hear his mother's tender words of interpretation, as though her love would fain supply the sense of sight. We paused at Round Mountain to exchange the mail. change the mail. The place is wild and rocky, and is called the Dump, for here the lumber from the distant mills arrives through a flume six miles in length. A little farther on we came to Buzzard's Roost, a wild and desolate place with an ancient, wide-winged barn and a few wretched houses, built without reference to any principle but that of utility. There is a large unfinished hotel here that hints of future improvement. Buzzard's Roost is still in bad repute, though its moral status is somewhat improved since it was the general rendezvous of the surrounding mines. Long before we reached here one of the young ladies in front had got off at a station and I was fortunate enough to secure her vacant place. Here I found myself wedged in between the driver and a young schoolteacher bound for Beaver. The latter was suffering from sea-sickness, and I never let go my hold on her the rest of the night for fear she would be pitched off. I had hitherto been reasonably satisfied with my height, but now I lamented the fact that I wasn't a couple of inches taller so that my feet would reach something, anything, that |