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sPr " ^ YPiSWILLE ENQUIRER. | I UTOKD ?<MI-WEKKLT. l *. OKBT'810*8, Pobu^rTJ^ % jfanntg gems))Bper:, jfor th< gromotion af lh< ^otitical, ^ociat, ^griqgHnitat anJ ^ontwurial Jnltrisls of tht [rER MW"^coP"nTt';''c^!<ce' B8TABLI8BKD 1855. j " . ~ YORKVILLE, 8. O., TTJfSSDAY, JANUARY 3, 19Q5. MO. 1. 1, j \ 7 D'ri^ By IRVINC Author off'Ebtn Koldeo," " D ua. v7 ua! ' CHAM BR VL We had been four months In Ogden?> barf, waiting vain ' lor some provocation to light On own drilling was the only sign of wi r we could see on either side of the rl er. At first many *t- moved out of the v lage, but the mill was kept running, md alter a little while they began t come back. The farms on each side C the liver looked as peaceful gas the] ever looked. The command had grov i rapidly* Thurst Miles of my own neighborhood had come to enlist shor y after D'ri and I enlisted, and was ni I in my company. In September, i en. Brown was ordeiyd to* the wei era frontier, and CapL Forsjth cam to command us. Early In the morni ( of October 2, a man came gallop ingfcp the shore with a warning saying at the tlver was black wit boats a little way down. Some of us climbe to the barracks roof, from which ? could see and count them.' There rare 40, with two gunboats. Cannons ing began before the town was fair!; awake. First a big bail went oysi the house-tops, kitting a cupola on church roof and sending bell and tin ere with a crash into somebody's do [yard. Then all over the village hen began to cackle and children to waiL People came running out of doors talf dressed. A woman, gathering c ipe In her dooryard, dropped them lifted her dress above her head, and in for the house. 'Unable to see her wa: she went around in a wide circle for \ minute.or two, while the soldiers were laughing. Another ball hit a t ( water-tank on top of the lead work* It hurled broken staves and a Mg s >p of water upon the house-tops, am rolled a great iron hoop over roofs fio the street below, where it rolltd 01 chasing a group of men, who ran for telr lives before it The attack vas i I odd sort of a comedy all throigh, or nobody was hurt, and all were frig] :ened save those of us wbo were imusd. OUr cannon gave quick reply, and oon the British a stopped firing and i ew near. We knew that they voul* try to force a \ landing, and wen re dy for them. / We drove them lack, when they put off. and that was the md of it Next came the flghi on the ice in Febraary?a thin? not highly creditable to us, albeit we fere then but a handful and the] wen many. But & D'rl and I had nc cauM for shame of our iyt in it Ye ra lowed to one, enough in front of us But the others gave way there on the edge of the river, and we had to follow. We knew when it was time to run; we were ?? n>? nop *arlr oven then. W? never lu mo ioai ? ? ? v- ? made off with the ohers, although a saber's point had raksd me in the temple, and the blood tad frozen on me, and I was a sight t* scare a trooper. Everybody ran that lay, and the British took the village, holding it only 24 hoars. For our part in it D'ri got the rank of a corporal an( I was raised from lieutenant to cxptaln. We made our way to Sackett'i lfrrbor, where I went into the hosptal for a month. Then came a galling time of idleness. In June we went vlth Gen. Brown ?D'ri and I and Thirst Miles and Seth Alexander and t half dozen others?down the riwr to the scene of our first fighting at CgAnsburg, camping well back In the voids. It was the evening of the 27th of June that the general sent for me He was at the mansion of Mr. Parfeh, where he had been dining. He was sitting in his dress-suit. His dark . side-whiskers and hair were brusied carefully forward. His handsome hce turned to?*"J ?mHK a IHt*^]v IaaIt wftru uic tw i\u a iim*v >wtM "Bell," said he, "I wlb to send you on very important lislness. You have all the qualities oi a good scout Yon know the woods, fou have courage and skill and tact 1 wish you to start immediately, go along the river to Morristown, then cut over into the Black river eountry aif deliver this letter to the Comte deChaumont, at the Chateau Le Ray. in l^eraysville. If you see any ligns of thj enemy, send a report to me at once. I shall be here three days. Take Alexatder, Olin, and Miles with yon; they araall good men. When your letter is deh-ered, report at the harbor as- soon a possible." I was on the road witi my party in half an hour. We were |] good horsemen. D'ri knew the sh*test way out of the woods In any par of the north country. Thirst had traveled the forest from Albany to lackett's harbor, and was the best hqter that ever trod a trail in my time. Tie night was dark, but we rode at a allop until wo had left the town far bdind us. We were at Morrietown befre midnight, pounding on the door of die Red Tav- | ern. The landlord stuckhis head out of an upper window peeing down at us by the light of a cance. "Everything quiet?" I mked. "Everything quiet," said he. i "Crossed the river yesterdy. FolkB go back 'n' forth 'bout the ame way as ever. Wife 's In Elizabthtown now, visiting." We asked about the w?t roads and went on our way. Lonj before daylight we were climbing te steep road at Rossie to the inn of t? Traveller's Rest?a tavern famous ints time, that stood half up the hill, wh a store, a smithy,and a few houses rouped ibout it. We came up at a silet wap on a road cnshJoued with sadust. D'ri rapped on the door until' thought he had roused the whole viUge. At last a man came to the upir wltdow. He, too, inspected us wt a caidle. Then he opened the doonuid gate us a hearty welcome. Weput up our horses for 4 bite, and cme into the bar. "Anything new?" I itjuired. "TbT ?ay the Brltiskare canped this side of the river, t?rth of us," said Le, "with a big trite of Injuns. Some of thsir cavalry ime within three miles ef us to-day. E^rylody scairt t' tdeath." IHe began ts set out a ofglaises. "What "11 y* hev?" he inuifd.l "Gueas I '11 tip a little hue wi* int' T ! J h 1 i v h md I r ' irrd of the Blessed Isles," Etc. %? -> op rfoifelac Company.) me, said D'rl, with a shiver; a col' night" Stth and I called for the same. '%*' you?" said landlord, turning: to Thurst ^ "Val," said the latter, as he stroked bis thin beard, "when I tak the pledge I snore et I hoped t' drop dead 'fore I see myself tek another drink, I 'm jestgoin't' shet my eyns 'n* hold out my fclass. I don' care what ye gl' me s* long ea it 's somethiu' powerfuL" W) ate crackers and clp^ese while the landlord was telling of the west roads and the probable location of the British. He stopped suddenly, peered over my (boulder, and blew out the candle. We feould hear a horse neighing in the prd. "Some one et the window," he whispered. Then he ran to the door and dfew the bolt. "Aln' much idee who i is," he added, peering out of the window. "By gos'a! .more 'n a dozes folks out here, ioldlers tew, most uv 'em on horse back. Come quicker I We followed him upstairs, In the dark, as they began to pound on the door. From the yard e light flashed "P. They were evidently building a fire so that they could have better shooting if we came out "May set the house a ire," said the landlordl He quickly unwound a Mg hose that rai^ uf to a tank in the peak above US. Nj j "Plentjr o' water?" D'li whispered. "Rivei| uv It," said the landlord. "Tank's connected with the reservoir, o' the letd-works on the Mil up there. Big wooden pipe comes in the gable* end." "Turn 'er on," said D'ri, quickly, "an' let ae hev that air hose." The landlord ran up a ladder. D'ri stuck the hose out of the window. The streaii shot away with a loud hiss. I stood by and saw the jet of water leap fckth as big as a pikestaff. A man wtntioff his horse, sprawling as ifl'lie had been hit with r club. The jet leaped quickly from one to another, roaring op man and beast. There was a mighty scurry. Horses went headlong down the hill, some dragging their riders. In the silence of the night, bedlam had broken loose. The shouting men, the plunging horses, the stream of water roaring on rock and road, wt>ke the village. Men came running from behind tfce house to see what had^^pp^ned^te^ji ughed^after water hit them. The landlord put his mouth to my ear. "Mek fer yer bosses," he hissed. We were below-stairs and out of the door in a jifly. Two men fled before us at the stable, scrambled over the fence, and went tumbling downhill. We bridled our horses with all speed, leaped upon them, and went rushing down th? steep road, our swords in hand, like an avalanche. TKov frinH tn atnn no at the tnnt nf th? hill, but fell away aa we came near. HE BROKE THE SEAL AND READ IT CAREFULLY. I caild hear the snap of their trigger* in passing. Only one pistol-shot came aftet us, and that went high. "Guess their ammunition 's a leetle wet," said D'ri, with a shout that turned into laughter as we left the British behind us. A party of four or five mounted and gate chase; but our powder was a bit drier than theirs, and for a time we raked the road with our bullets. What befell them I know not I only know that they held up and fell out of hearing. Crossing a email river at daylight, we took the bed of it, making our way slowly for half a mile or bo into the woods. There we built a Are, and gaTe the horses half the feed in our saddle-bags, and ato our mess on a flat rock. "Never "ned no sech joemightyful time es thet afore," said D'rl, as he sat down, laughing, and shook his head. "Jerushy Jane! Did n't we come down thet air hill! Luk slidin' on a greased pole." "Comin' so luk the devi'. they did n't dast git 'n er way," said Thurst. "We wus all rippin' th' air 'ith them air joemightyful sabers, tew," D'ri went on. "Hed a purty middlin' sharp edge on us. Stuck out luk i haystack j right 'n' left" He began bringing wood .*> he sang the chorus of his favorite ballad:? | LI toorul I oorul I oorul I ay, ete. ' Thurst knew a trail that crossed the river nearby and met the Caraway ' Pike a few miles beyond. Having eaten, I wrote a dispatch to be taken j back by Thurst as soon as we reached ! the like. Past 10 o'clock tre turned into s rough road, where the three of us went one way and Thiust another. I rode slowly, for the horses were j nearly fagged. I gavo then an hour's j rest when we put up for dinner. Then we pusled on, coming in sl^ht of the Chateau Le Ray at sundown. A splendid place it was, the castle of gray stone fronting a fair stretch of wooded lawn, cut by a brook that went splashing over rocks near by, and sent its velvet voice through the wood and field. A road of fine gravel led through groves of beech and oak and pine to a grassy terrace under the castle walls. Presently a tall, handsome man, with black eyes and iron-gray hair and mustache, came down a path, clapping his hancjs. . "Welcome, gentlmen! It is the Capt. Bell?" said ho, with a marked accent, as he came to me, his hand extended. "Yoa come from Monsieur the Gen. Brown, do you not?" 'I do," said I, handing him my mea-' sage. He broke the seal and read it care, fully. "I am glad, to see you?ver* glad to see you!" said ha, laying his hands upon my shoulders and . giving me a little shake. The two asrvants went away with D'ri and Seth and the horses. "Come. caDtain." said my host, as he led the way. "You are in good time fer dinner." We entered a great triangular hall, lighted by aide windows above the! door, and candelabra of shining brass that hung from its high ceiling. There were sliding doors of polished wood n each side of it A great stairway filled the point of the triangle. I was shown to my room, which was as big as a ball-room,. it seemed to me, and grandly furnished: no castle of my dreams had been quite so fine. The valet of the count looked after me, with jthe offers of new linen and more things than I could see use for. He could not speak English; 1 remember, and I addressed him in the good French my mother had taught me. The kind of life I saw In this grand hbme was not wholly new to me, for both my mother and my father had known good living in their youth, and I had heard much of it I should have been glad of my new uniform; but after J had had my bath and put on the new shirt and collar the valet had brought me, I stood before the long pier-glass and saw no poor figure of a man. The great dlnlng-hall of the count was lighted with many candles when we came in to dinner. It had a big fireplace, where logs were blazing, for the night had turned cool, and a long table with a big epergne of wrourtt silver, filled with roses, in ft? center. A great silken rug lay under the table, on a polished floor, and the walls were hung with tapestry. I sat beside the coont, and opposite me was the daughter of the Sieur Louis Francois de Saint-Michel, king's forester under Louis XVI. Therese, the handsome daughter of the count, sat Vilm at tha farther and nf the table, and beside her was the young Marquis de Gonvello. M. Pidgeon, the celebrated "<French astronomer, Moss Keqt^^thCT of^^e. Baronets de Ferre, with her two wards, the Mimes' Louise and Loulson de Lamben, were also at dinner. These young ladles were the most remarkable of the company; their beauty was so brilllint, so fascinating, it kindled ( a great Ore in me the moment I saw ( It They said little, but seemed to have much interest in all the talk of the table. I looked at them more than was polite, I am sure, but they looked at me quite as often. They had big, beautiful brown eyes, and dark hair fastened high with jewelled pins, and profiles like those of the fair ladies of Sir Peter Lely, so finely were they cut One had a form a bit fuller and ' stronger than the other's, but they were both as tall and trim as a young beech, with lips cherry-red and cheeks where one could see ftiintly the glow of their young blood. Their gowns were cut low, showing the graceful lines of neck and shoulder and full bosom. I had seen pretty girls, many of them, but few high-bred, beautiful young women. The moment} I saw these two some new and mlghtjl force came into me. There were wine and wit a plenty at the count's table, tnd other things that were also new to me, and for which I retained perhaps too great a fondness. j I The count asked me to tell of our Journey, and I told the story with all the spirit I could put into my words. < I am happy to say it did seem to hit 1 the mark, for I was no sooner done ' with our adventure than the ladies < began to clap their hands, and the ' Misses de Lambert hat much delight < in their faces when the baroness re- ' told my story in French. 1 Dinner over, the coint invited me ' to the smoking-room, where, in a cor- ! ner by ourselves, I had Borne talk with 1 him. He told me of his father?that he had been a friend of Franklin, ( that he had given a ship and a cargo of 1 gunpowder to our navy in '76. Like ' others I had met under his roof, the count had seen the coming of the Reign ' of Terror in France, and had fled with 1 his great fortune. He had invested 1 much of it there in the wild country. He loved America, and had given free- ' ly to equip the army for war. He < was, therefore, a man of much influ- < eace in the campaign of the north, ' and no doubt thoee in authority there 1 were instructed, while the war was on, > to take special care of his property. I "And will you please tell me," I said at length, "who are the Misses de Lam- 1 bert?" ( "Daughters of a friend in Paris," 1 said the count. "He is a great physl- 1 cian. He wishes not for them to mar- 1 ry until they are 21. Mon Dieu! it araa a mutter nf cnmp riifllpiiHv Thev were beautiful." ' "Very beautiful!" I echoed. "They are admired," he went on. "The young men they began to make trouble. My friend he send them here, with the baroness, to studjf^-to fiDish their education. It is nealthy, it is quiet, and?well, there are no young gentlemen. They go to bed early; they are up at daylight; they have the horse! they have boats; they amuse themselves ver* ouch. But tbey are impatient;' they long for Paris?the salon, hhe theater, the opera. They are likk prisoners: they cannot make themsenres contented. The bareness she has fr^r villa on a lake back In the woods, ancf, inot ,ame! it is beautiful there?so still, ?o cool, so delightful! At present they have a great fear of the British. They lie awake; they hear a sound in the night, and, mon Dleu! it la the soldiers coming." The count laughed, lifting his shoulders with a gesture of both hat"*? 1 Then he puffed thoughtfully at hla cigarette. "Indeed," he went on presently, "I think the invasion la not far aiBy. They tell me the woods in the nofth are alive with British cavalry. I pa not able to tell how many, but, Dim! it is enough. The army should infraa itself Immediately. I think it is rater that you penetrate to the river |bI morrow, if you are no afraid, to Be what is between, and to return by Be woods. I shall trouble you to taktfa letter to the Oen. Brown. It wIUIm ready at any hour." a"At six?" I inquired. "At six, certainly, M you desire-fa start theq," he replies He rose and took my arm aflectft^ately and conducted me to the pig drawing-room. Two of the ladies wjue singing as one played the gultara I looked in vain for the Misses de Lambert. The others were all there, lut + Vt Air ha<l flr/vnA T o olnmilap wil press) on at their absence and wenlJto my room shortly to get my reft, for I bad to be off early-fcutbfe mornluaBefore going t#.bed/however, I sa&Mrn to think and do some writing. B& I could not for the life of me put spy the thought of the 7ona| ladies. Tapy looked alike, and yet ffelt sure tley were very different Somehow I could not recall in what particular they Iffered. I sat a time thinking over it Suddenly I heard low voices, thoa of women speaking in French; 1 could ot tell from where they came. "I do wish she would die, the hat al thing!" said one. (It must be uhi nrstood these words are more violen In English than they seem in French "The colonel is severe to-night," i Id another. "The colonel?a fine baroness adeed?vieille tyran! I cannot love { sr. Lord! I once tried to love a monkey and had better luck. The*colonel kqfbs all the men to herself. Whom Ae I seen for a year? Dieu! wouMn, grandpapas, greasy guides! NotA young man since we left taris." J "My dear Louison!" said the otj^r, "there are many things better thin men." "Au nom de Dieu! But I should fyce to know what they are. I have never seen them." "But often men are false and eff," said the othor, in a sweet, low voiosi "Nonsense r' said the first, imija-, tiently. "I had rather elope with, a one-legged hostler than always live in these woods." "Louison! You ought to cross ywrself and repeat a Hall Mary." "Thanks! I have tried prayer, jit is n't what I need. I am no nun like you. My dear sister, don't you long for the love of + man?a big handsome, hearty fellow . who coulc take you up in hl? arms and squecu the life out of you?" j "Eh, bien," said the other, with ? sigh, "I suppose it is 7ery nice. I dc not dare to think of it" \ [ i ijlHnn? ^heaven ^Lonjsa! Ml to see a man like that and not be pery mltted to?to speak to him! Think of It! A young and handsome man?th^ first I have seen for a year! Honestly I could poison the colonel." v "My dear, it is the count as much as the colonel. She is under his orders, and he has an eagle eye." "The old monkey. He enrages me! I could rend him limb from limb!" I could not help hearing what they said, but I did not think it quite fair to share their confidence any further, bo I went to one of the windows and closed a shutter noisily. The voices must have come from a little balcony just under my room. "My dear sister, you are very terrible," said one of them, and then tie Bhutter came to, and I heard no more. A full moon lighted the darkness. A little lake gleamed like silver between the tree-tops. Worn out with hard travel, I fell into bed shortly, and liy a long time thinking of those youig ladies, of the past, of to-morrow and its perils, and of the farther future. A new life had begun for me. TO BE OONTINUETV . SMOOT CASE A3 IT STANDS. , Facts the Prosecution Has Shown? ' Witnesses For Him. A. S. Worthlngton, counsel for Seiator Smoot, 19 now in Utah gatherhg testimony to be presented to the seiite committee on privileges and ele> ( tions on January 10. Many witneses ire to be subpoenaed by the committee In behalf of Senator Smoot, and amoig them will be a dozen or more GeiLlles of high standing in Utah Wio 1 will testify to Smoot's high character ' ind that he is a monogamist in prticiple and practice. The principal allegations broufit iut in the Smoot hearing by the Pbtestants that unless controverted vill stand as proved, are these: That an oath Is taken by practicflly ' ill Mormons in "taking the endowments," pledging absolute obediete j to the leaders of the church: That the "living oracles." consisting ( if the church leaders, are held V church doctrine to be inspired by Gil j and that the revelation uttered by thai must be accepted by the church as slpreme law and binding upon the cot science, in temporal as wen as spiritual affairs. That Apostle Smoot, since the heai- 1 ings last spring, participated In tfe x election of a polygamlst, C. W. Pel- J rose, as a brother apostle, and he J done nothing to discourage the prat- ? lice of polygamy; That the Mormon leaders, amo? whom is Smoot, Interfere In politlal v afTalrs of Utah, Idaho and Wyomlnr, 1 to the extent of dictating the electln 1 of county and state officers, securiig f the enactment of legislation favorate to the church and preventing repefi- * Ing adverse legislation; That a system of courts exists witIn the church whereby persons are d prlved of their property without de process of law; That hundreds of public schol houses In Utah are being used by te v Mormons In conducting "religln classes" the teachers in most Instanos c being public teachers; That the laws of the United Stats c and of the state are flagrantly vlolaed In Utah and that violators cannt s be punished, because of the ovewhelmlng influence of the prlesthod, Apostle Smoot being a member of oe of the governing bodies of the chura. ?Washington Post. &r A load of liquor merely adds toa man's load of trouble. r ) . piscfllanrous PREACHER TO COWBOY8. Congregation Was Tough, But Always Considerate of the Parson. "My first appointment by a considerate conference was In the lair of the bad men of the West," remarked the Rev. W. B. Wheeler, formerly pastor here of the Methodist Episcopal church, (South), to a Gallatin correspondent of the Kansas City Times. "I guess they thought because I was big and brawny I could learn to shoot and fight when necessary to enforce peace at meeting. Los Cerrlllos, N. M., In 1883 and 1884 was a town of about 500 strenuous inhabitants, most of whom didn't know what a preacher looked like till I came. There were two saloons, which ran twenty-four hours a Irirtln/Hnr* Qnnrloir T oKoi*tor<wl Q ' OLy i IUWIUUH15 uunua/. A V/itui kv.i vu ? <?choolhouBe for services and began to get acquainted. Among my first friends were the proprietors of the wo saloons. The cowboys would ride In on pay day and 'shoot up' the town. On one of the occasions I was passing lown Main street and received a bullet hole through my hat. I took It off, examined it and went on. A justice suggested that I might swear out a warrant, but I told him it was an old hat and I didn't care about going to law over trifles. Sofnehow the bad men began to evince a sort of desultory interest In the services. They would always bring their guns along, but would never shoot 'em during meeting. I never succeeded In getting more than four members, but the congregations were fair. "I remember one day during services there was a little commotion in the back end. A tall fellow, Stewart by name, who had a splendid record as a dead shot, arose and said: " 'Just stop a minute, parson, if you please.' "Then he and another man led a fellow out. Presently they returned. "'All right, brother,' said Stewart; 'Tom's just drunk a little, but he won't bother you any mdre.' "They had taken him across to the tavern and locked him up in his room. "W. E. Willis, one of the moit desperate mAi In the camp, came to me one day and said he wanted to be steward. "'Steward!' I exclaimed. "What would a steward do?' " 'Why,' he said, 'sit In the amen corner an' take up the collection. Give me the Job. parson, an' you'll find a healthy ante In the plate every Sunday.' "So I made him steward. He was as proud of his Job as he could have been over a brand new Winchester. The collections were made in his piratical looking sombrero', and he always got results. I could hear his hoarse whisper as he went from pew to pew. '"Damn you, shell out!' he'd say If a "i""iMnT""' ihn"' ^ to contribute promptly. "Sometimes a man would throw In a dime or a quarter, and If my steward didn't think he had put up as the Lord had prospered him he'd reach significantly toward his hip pocket and whisper something that resulted In a material addition to the church's revenue. Collections by the steward's persuasive system were always good, much better than I've ever had them since I returned to Missouri, and he uncontestably demonstrated his fitness for the office. "One day the presiding elder notified me he was coming to Los Cfcrrlllos. I knew he had never been up against the sort of moral atmosphere that blew over our valley, and I bustled around to get things In shape for a serious-minded shepherd who might not appreciate the broad spirit of the 1 citizens. I went first to 'Bill' and 'Ike,' who ran the two saloons and poker rooms, and said: " 'Boys, the boss Is coming over to 1 pr?ach Sunday, and I'd sorter feel ; good If you fellows closed up during services and come out with your families.' *4rPV>r* fu-A mnn QtroH oq r?h nfh ar PUT lously a minute, and Bill said as he hit his big fist down hard on the table: "'Damned if I don't do it, parson! What say you, Ike?' " 'I'm in,* replied Ike, 'you can't get the bulge on me when it comes to ligion!' "They were both there, clean shaved ind primped up like dandles. Every 'eat was occupied, and the steward rade a collection that did him proud. After the meeting was over the elder lold me he had never addressed a bet:er behaved and more attentive crowd, fie added the opinion that the reports >f lawlessness out our way were greaty overrated. A committee of the best .dtlzens, saloonkeepers, bartenders, r Doker dealers and others accompanied ( ilm to the depot the next day and ^ave him a send-off that would have t jeen an honor to a Grand Duke. I t ?ould see it tickled him Immensely, c Within ten minutes after his train had v rone the card tables and bats were t n full blast again. 1 Next year I was removed to Wat- fi ous, 100 miles away, and only visited t L-os Cerillos once a month to preach. Jne rough night when a melting snow a vas coming down in great sheets I f vas waiting for the Santa Fe train o take me home. The train was late. 1' n 1 Im ?Ua littU i lit;re was nu i/peraiui m uic umc itatlon, and no place to go except the s laloons to get warm. The train was o lomewhere down the line, only the ^ vlnds and shelterless coyotes, knowing li ts location. So I walked up and down II he streets shivering. Once when I >as8ed Bill's saloon he spied me. n " 'Come In and get warm, parson,' s le said. t '"I can't, Bill; you know why.' v " 'Yes, I know, but they shan't both- t! >r you; you come In and I'll fix It all o lght,' and he grabbed my arm and t< ed me Into a big room where some v\ hlrty or forty cowboys and miners vere drinking, playing cards and tell- E ng yarns. Bill rapped loudly on the b :ounter. 1 " 'Fellers,' he said, 'the parson's laid p >ut by his train what ain't come, an' w ie'8 no place to go 'cept in this heah tl fin palace an' poker parlor. He'll sit k round an' smoke with us an' swap is ales?the right sort you understand -but thar'll be no drink sold over li his bar an' no cards played till his tl cers come hiking 'long. He's our t< fuest, Parson Wheeler, gentlemen.' n "There wasn't a protest from a u nan. I was acquainted with most of C % them, and soon had made friends with the others. We talked1 of lodes, pay dirt, methods of drilling, beet way to break broncos, liniments for healing gunshot wounds, qualities of the different makes of firearms, compared the veracity, of the Indian and the Mexican, and finally it wound up by one of the cowpunchers from across the mountains asking me to make a little talk on the subject of my profession. I wouldn't have suggested that, because as their guest I felt the laws of hospitality demanded that I follow their lead, but I was more than glad oj the opportunity the cowman presented. I mounted one of the card tables, and in their own picturesque language, as I had learned it from them, told of the Martyr of Calvary and the compassionate Fattier. As I went on they threw away their cigars and several removed their hats. Not a sound escaped them. They were on their honor, and I believe they would have roughly handled any man showing the slightest discourtesy. "I don't believe I ever spent a more profitable hour in my life, or one where the mutual enjoyment was greater. My congregation was lustily singing 'Jesus, Lover of My Soul,' when the whistle of the belated train was heard, and the meeting broke up. "Within a week a member of my saloon audience shot and killed three men, but it was In a light he had not sought." NAP0LE0N'8 ARAB CHARGER. Stuffed Horse in the Military Museum Believed to Be the Relic. Many rumors have been floating about Paris lately concerning the discovery of Napoleon's famous white Arab, which carried him through so many victorious campaigns. For some time It was Imagined that these reports were baseless, but they are at any rate, founded upon the actual existence of a stuffed horse which is now in the military museum at the Invalides, having been sent there from the Honore by a special order Issued last March. It appears that this relic had originally got into the possession of a Mr. Greaves, an English veterinary surgeon who did for the French horse what M. de SaintBel, the French veterinary surgeon, 1id for the great thoroughbred sire, Eclipse. Close students of Napoleon's history will, no doubt, be aware of a connection Deiween me njigiian Burgeon and this famous Arab with which the general public is not yet acquainted for Mr. Qreaves left no great trace of his existence beyond the gift of the relic to the National History Society of Manchester In 1842. Six years afterward this society died a natural death, and while the greater portion of Its collections came Into tbi possession of what Is now Owens College Manchester, those who presided?oyer the distribution of Its treasures bhd the httpjrjr ihuugHf D/ l?unl lng Napoleon's horse to Paris, where It arrived In 1868, and the label of the National History society of Manchester Is still on the packing case which contained It. It might be thought that In the court of Napoleon III and the Empress Eugenia this rel-. ic of his great ancester, if authentic would have been carefully preserved. It may have been. But, perhaps, the outbreak of the Franco-German war and the preliminaries which led up to that disastrous campaign obscured at the moment the Interest of the gift or ' possibly a relic highly valued by the ' emperor shared In the perils of his ' uhiAniiAnt fall and wna aavpd from destruction In the cellars of his palace. | In any case, no one had heard of the relic at all until a few days ago, and even now the officials are so anxious to avoid making a mistake that the animal is carefully screened from svery profane eye, and neither the public nor the ordinary newspaper reporters are permitted to look at It. The Louvre has, apparently, not yet forgotten the tiara of Saitaphernes, and the military museum of the Invalldes awaits documentary evidence from the Louvre officials before admitting that the horse is genuine. It looks a very small animal, fourteen hands at most, though there may, of :ourse have been considerable shrinkage In the six years, for It has been k'ery badly stuffed. But it Is certainly cream colored, and as certainly It | shows in head and legs those points )f Arab descent which are familiar to ivery connoisseur. But the feet seem { ather small for the breed. The dls- ^ rovery of the original correspondence j >f 1868 is awaited with the greatest ^ nterest.?London Telegraph. 1 \ Why Gold Leaf is Packed in Bibles, c "James," said the English gold t manufacturer, "we are hout of Bibles, j Jo dowti town and buy six dozen." r James In uue course returned with r he Bibles In a hand cart. They were g a ken from him by three men, their h covers were torn off and, the pages l vere trimmed with sharp knives down a o a certain small size. Then these h lttle reduced papers were sewed to- a rether Into a multitude of small p tooks. ii The small books were distributed c .mong the hands and In them the 1 Irm's output of gold leaf was packed 3 -Deiween every two BiDiicai leaves u \ eaf of gold. s "It seems Irreverent, not to say f acrlleglous. I know," said the head g f the firm, "but we halways do so. n Ve have done so for generations. Gold s ?af Is halways put on the market In c Ittle books made of Bibles. o "Why? I'll tell you why. Gold leaf e iust be packed between printed intead of plain pages, for the reason s< hat it would slip out of plain pages, e ,'hlch are too smooth for It whereas e he Indentations made by the types h n the printed pages are Just sufficient a 0 hold the leaf in place firmly. That's '( ,'hy printed pages are used. v "We choose among all printed pages a tlble ones, for the reason that the Bl- w le is the best printed book a-golng. I1 'he type Is more evenly set and the a rintlng is finer than in any other C ,'ork, and we need the best typeset- t< Ing and printing In our business, you cl now, for any roughness or uneveness O s apt to tear the gold leaf. II "That's why all English gold leaf a: 1 packed in Bibles. It's a necessary ci hing to do, but all the same, I've of- rr in wondered that the churches 'ave T ever gotten after us gold leaf man- A facturers for our hlrreverence."? d< hlcago Chronicle. ci 8UPPLANTINQ THE NEGRO. Now Being Superseded In Domestie Servico by Whitss. The Introduction of the white domestic In the service of one of the prominent hotels of Memphis is another straw in the wind pointing to the banishment of the negro from the cities of the south. Southern steamboat men commenced this battle of color in the south when they attempted to substitute the white rouster for the negro. That they have thus far failed is only an incident The attempt is a significant feature. Following this first skirmish between the races came the formation of the Housekeepers' club, for the express purpose of bringing the battle into the homes of the southern people. Now the line of war is extended to the places of public entertainment That the white domestics are being cheerfully, nay, enthusiastically, welcomed Is shown in a certain rivalry between two hotels in this vicinity as to which was first to discard the negro and bring on the white girl. A hotel of West Point, Miss., telegraphs: "The guests were agreeably surprised by the appearance of a full corps of German dining room girls, who arrived here twelve hours In advance of the change made by the Memphis hotel. West Point congratulates Memphis on being a close second in this movement" It is understood that the Housekeepers' club Is endeavoring to make arrangements with the Memphis hotel manager to establish a bureau of Immigration so equipped that it can provide a white person to take the place of every negro domestic In the city. It is declared that this bureau meets with the eager approval of housekeepers, who have been and are now kept in mental anxiety and physical distress because of the incapacity and Instability of the negro domestic. Not satisfied with the formidable attack upon the industrial and domestic lntrenchments of the negro, the white races have, like Hannibal, carried the war to Home. They have thrown sharpshooters into the plantations and are thus disputing the negro's usefulness In those strongholds heretofore deemed impregnable to white attack. Thus, all along the line the battle is on. The negro must now fight for his very existence. Those Imperfections which opened the way for the white invasion will doubtless cause him soon to flee the cities for the plantations, where his virtues are stronger and his failings of less personal inconvenience. Incapacity, irresponsibility, Instability?and the chlefest of these Is Instability?are the Imperfections that have precipitated the fight Looking upon the negro as of greatly inferior race, the southern whites are Inclined to ^xcuse Incapacity in him. A mistakeTV spirit of generosity encourages irresponsibility, but the Instability pinches the employer both In pocket and 'n personal comfort. It also strikes a blow at his pride and tears off a pinnacle in the temnle of haDDiness de voted to bis women. He cannot forgive this characteristic in the negro, and it will prove the negro's downfall. The south chlded the negro over duties half-performed; it has shown a disposition to laughingly toes a dollar to the lazy and the trifling; but whenever it faces the Instability of the race, it grows serious. There is no disposition among them to win a permanency in any occupation, no ambition to settle themselves firmly amid their surroundings. No personal comforts can win them; no personal kindness retain them. On the contrary, they look upon consideration as a weakness, and Instead of returning gratitude for favors, are more than apt to meet them with injury. White domestics may import failings that the southern housekeeper iow experiences to a minimum degree, luch as a certain "upplshness" and possible impertinence; but the white race is amenable to kindness and consideration, and the white race has (veil-defined ambitions which serve as 'o many anchors upon which reliance nay be placed. They will win an easy victory in the southern home, for there :he negro has been weighed In the icales of patience and Is found wantng?Memphis Scimitar. IVAN THE TERRIBLE. I 3arbaric Czar Who Lovad to Burn, Boil and Tortura His 8ubjsots. Some of the reasons why Ivan, csar 1 >f Russia, was called "the Terrible" i lave been retold by K. Waliszewski n his book. Persons who displeased < ilm he would saw asunder by the con- i itant rubbing of a rope arousd their I s-aists or sprinkle alternately with ice < old and boiling water. He marked I lis sense of a bad Jest by deluging the < >erpetrator with boiling soup and then < unning him through with a knife. He ebuked an unmannerly envoy by 1 ummoning a carpenter and ordering < ilm to nail the man's hat on his head. 1 "here were also wholesale orgies, as i .t the punishment of Novgorod, when 1 ie had a hundred persons roasted over 1 slow Are by a new and Ingenious 1 rocess and then run down on sledges 1 nto the river to be drowned. At Mos- 1 ow the czar had a disappointment. > 'here was to be a great execution of \ 00 victims who had already been tor red to the last extremity, and loyal ublects had been summoned to the , unction. To Ivan's astonishment the j reat square was empty. The instru- i lents of torture that stood ready?the ?] toves and redhot pinchers and Iron t laws and needles, the cords, the great c oppers full of boiling: water?had fall- r d to attract this time. ^ "But there had been too much of this 0 ort of thing lately, and the executlonrs were growing too long armed. Ev- t ry man sought to hide deeper than is neighbor. The czar had to send re- B ssurlng messages all over the town. ?ome along! Don't be afraid! Nobody rill be hurt!' At last out of cellars nd garrets the necessary spectators ere tempted forth, and forthwith j tan. Inexhaustible and quite un- ' bashed, began a lengthy speech. ould he do less than punish the tral>rs? But he had promised to be merIful, and he would keep his word! >ut of the 300 who had been sentenced a 30 should have their lives!" Torture nd execution were, however, In the v ise of Ivan very much more than the lere Instruments of barbaric Justice. e hey were his recreation and delight, li s a boy his amusement was to throw tl tl ogs down from the top of one of the ? istle terraces and watch their dying >j I ... agonies. As a man he used to go the round of the torture t hamber after dinner. One of hie first crime* waa the execution of hie earlleai friend, Fro'lor Voroneeov. One of hie laet waa the murder of hie own non. According to Wallssewakl, It waa the recognised thing In jlueela for the upper dog to make things as uncomfortable for the under dog ae knouts and alow Urea could make them. So ' the Terrible" only talked to hie sublecta In the language th<iiy could moat readily underatand. Ivan waa by no means unpopular with the people. In many ways he waa an enlightened and progressive monarch. He took the f.rst steps toward the founding of I.ussla'8 great eastern empire. He made more or less successful attempts t>ward political and lege! reform, and he had a certain gift of leadership and instinct of statesmanship which he used to the best advantage. Personally he was a coward, as was shown at the siege of Kansas, when he kept diligently to his devotions In spite of the repeated entteatles of his men to come out and help them. VALUE OF CHARACTER. ? Counts With Newspapers as With Individuals. The Milwaukee Wisconsin has Issued a booklet so well .jetting forth the value of character in newspapers that It is given below In part: Advertising in the Elvening Wisconsin Is worth more per thousand circulation than advertising In cheap, characterless papers. It t'osti only thirteen one-hundredths of a cent per line per thousand circulation. The Chicago Tribune, a first-class peper, Is worth more per thousand circulation than is a cheap paper. It charges 21 cents per line for 20,000 lines, or exactly fifteen one-hundredths of a cent per line per thousand circulation. The London Times Is more valuable as an advertising medium than any . peony London paper. It charges more, receives more, and the advertising Is worth more, because It Is a newspaper of character and sells for three times as much per copy as the penny papens. The New York Herald sells for three cents per copy to the readers. Its circulation Is some less than that of some penny papers; but advertisers pay the Herald for their space very much more than they pay the penny papers, whatever their circulation. The Herald Is a newspaper of character, It is the most profitable newspaper In the city of New York. It has the largest advertising patronage. The Boston Transcript charges more and receives more per lino per thousard circulation than any of its contemporaries. The exceptionally high 4iMracter of the readers of the TranscriT* makes Its advertlsLig columns more taxable than those of any penny newspafci* of Boston. _The siihsrtSft?rs of n^p|ps.pers of |t ^ character are people of character. They add value to its circulation as an advertising medium. A thousand readers of means and character purchase four times as much per annum as the readers of penny pa,>ers. The particular value of uhe readers of .1 high class paper to advertisers la. that they do not subscribe nor read the cheap newspapers. une-nair tne reaaera 01 tie Aveain* Wlrconsln do not take any other Milwaukee newspaper. Like a wall the character of he Evening Wisconsin surrounds its leaders. A man of character may not live In a palace. The modest homes where the Evening Wisconsin Is read contain ^ people of character. These people are very desirable customers. They can be reached only through ltn columns. CURI0SITIE8 OF 8UICIDE. Trivial Conditions That Have Led Up to 8?lf*Destruotiori. , It is a strange fact that nearly all great men have a tinge of Melancholy In their blood and are subject at times to periods of great depression. Napoleon at the beginning of his career was In great financial distress and was prevented from drowning himself only by the timely pecuniary aid of a schoolmatt. Bismarck Is said to have declared after the battle of 8adowa that he would have killed himself had the Prussians been beaten, and Bryon while writing "Chllde Harold" declared he would have blown his brains out but for the reflection thai It would give pleasure to his mother-In-law. The reasons for self-destruction are often very curious. Men lave frequently been known to put an end to their Uvea to escape toothache oroth?r pains, while the dread of disease lias been known to affect the mind to such an extent that the victim has iestroyed himself rather than face it. Weariness of money and good things to eax have been the cause of suicide. Dne man drowned himself In the Seine j because or the color or mi n&ir, i which was flaxen, and another shot | ^>1 ilmstlf because his clothes did not j| It him. A girl threw herself Into the JA Danube because her companions j | augh?d at her corpulence, and a wfrenchman took poison to spite his nother-tn-law btcause she Insisted ipon living with him. Swore bt His Ejus.?The unedulated peasants 111 the Cherson provnce of Russia have an extraordinary >ellef that the czar has only one ear. rhey are confirmed In their belief >y pictures and photographs of the zar showing a side face view and laturelly exhibiting only one ear. rhey account for the absence of the >ther in the following manner: Some time ago, they say, a depu ation rrom ineir province wmieu upn the czar, and in the course of the neetlng the cxar is said to have tated that all Russian lands would >e divided equally among the peaaiits of the various districts. To this one of the deputation bolder said: "As sure as you cannot aee your wn errs you will not divide the land." The czar's reply to this was to cut ff one of his (the czar's) ears, which e placed upon the table, remarking s he did so: "As surely as I now see my ear I rill divide the land." f To this day the Cherson peasants rmly believe that he has only one ar, and unless the czar visits them / 1 person and proves to them by epical demonstration that he possesses he coirect number, this extraordinary elief will 'not be shaken.?London It-Bits. ..ML*. ' h