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"DEM TALLER SHOES." BT JOHN DE WITT. I'm trabeled dJa yer country, I'eo ridden many miles, 1'ee seen de biggest cities, I'te worn der white folks tiles Day's called mo niggor often, Dey's heaped me wid abuse, Bot nebber yit indooced me To war dem yaller sho.s. I'?e proud I is a nigcar. I knows whar I'sobrot up, Ole marster nebber would cab Frown such shoes to our pup; He blonged to all der By-ties, Paved heaps an' heaps er dues, But being er white gem-men, He wore no yaller shoes. T'an wnrbori n.a ?r nnrt?r On one nb Puilman's kyars, I need to make my lib-bing By tips and good cig-yare; But now I'le try white-washing, My place I'le nab ter lose. I'ae knocked out by "po white trash,* What wars dem yaller shoes. 11 JEWELED DM; ?OB?> -Die Strange Tragedy of the Grand Hotel. BY ABTHUB GRIFFITHS. I-CHAPTER X. OITICIALS?EKOI.T8H AND OTHERS. BEACHED Cadiz on the 1 ) sixth evening after my departure from Bythesea. /Afeh/9 I took no my quarters at *he Fonda del ifar, one oi the best of the many indif/g)V]^H||ferent hotels in the "Silver J/V-? jW 11 Sancer," as Cadiz is called Wj^30\ What was I in search of? Proof of former intimacy, acquaintance, conn e c t i o n, more or less close, between L Mr. Peter Sarsfield and \y?) r Xavier de Yriarte, alias C/ at v Joseph Cocch; the one, formerly a Cadiz merchant; ; the other, till only recently, a sea captain sailing from the same port. I decided at length to make inquiries for Mr. Sarsfield. My first visit was to the British Consulate. The Vice Consul, Mr. Matthew Cripps, a dried-up little t man of middle age, received me, his ehief being for the moment absent on leave. 'Although I have bnt little hope of obtaining an answer, did you ever hear of a man named Xavier de Yriarte, a sailor, belonging to Cadiz?" I asked him. j "A Spanisn seaman ana s'lujett, * ouy pose. No, sir, I have never heard of the man. Yon had better apply to the Cap-tain of the Port." As I was quite hopeless of extracting anything from Don Mateo Cripps, I left v the Consulate and returned somewhat disheartened to my hotel. Mr. Sarsfield for the moment had eluded my researches, so I determined to E*devote myself to Yriarte. Before facing the certain vexation of i further inquiry, and feeling that, bad as j , .was my semi-BritiBh official, the native Spaniard would be infinitely worse, es(x 'v pecially to one who spoke little of the vernacular, I now secured the services of a guide and interpreter. Raman Zapato was one of half a dozen such that hung about the Fonda del Mar. j. Taking the telegraph office on my way, whenoe I dispatched a message to Smart, asking whether Mr. Sarsfield was Protestant or Catholic. I went on to see the Captain of the Port. After waiting quite half an hour 1 was introduced into the presence of a very fat old man, who appeared to have been just BE|>V tensed from heavy Blumber and to be still half asleep. He wore a thin, 6hort jacket of alpaca, showing an open shirt-front, white duck trousers and white canvas hoes. He was told the object of my visit by Bamon, but he vouchsafed no reply; he k. only stared silently, indignantly, I -. . thought, for many more minutes, then his huge body was convulsed with internal commotion, and he jelled suddenly : st the top of his voice: t?,.v "Manoel 1" The shout summoned a lesser official, the counterpart of his chief, but on a mailer scale. "Manoel!" repeated the Captain of the Port, only a little less loudly, "take this mballero and tell him what he wants to know. Do not let me be disturbed again, or, by tne ten lives of my patron saint, Pllpostpone your pay another year." We were dismissed, and going out Bamon whispered to me: l.-"I'll give him, Manoel, half a doubloon. He'll be as easy as a glove after that." i And the bribe bad the desired effect, for the man was all eagerness to oblige._ i "Xavier de Yriarte? A Bailor? wnat hip? Can't tell? Wa? he a mate, a maatar, captain, or what?" He danced about, took down many brass-bound volumes, wildly turned over leaf after leaf; but it was near half as hour before he said: "The only person of the name was Captain of the Dos Eormanos (Two Brothers), which cleared from this port on March 10, 18C? ?; i "Where bound?" * "Bound for the Havana." "And when did the ship return?" There was another long pause. "I cannot find that she ever returned," aid Manoel, at length. "There is no other entry concerning her." "No trace of Captain Yriarte?" "No: none whatever, so far as I can ?ee." He re-examined the register!?, -with no more satisfactory result, and I left the port office, as I bad the consulate, almost * jn despair. Bat 1 bad no thought of giving in; I was determined to prosecute my search to the end. I now found Eamon very useful. It was his suggestion that inquiries should be made amon? the sailors of the port; the harbor was crowded witb hipping, there must surely be some one onboard or at the quiy-side to whom jf * Triarte was known. This task I intrusted to the guide, resolviug myself to take the it first steamer to Gibraltar, encouraged to J&,' to do so by n telegram received that evening from Smart. It contained the single word "Protestfor ?nt"; but I knew now that tbejnurrj""* must nave Deen perrormea at Gibraltar, sad I had some vague, fresh hope that Mr. Snrefield would probably be bettei remembered there in an English fortrese town than in Cadiz, the sleepy Spanish e sport. i>:;> I called on the police magistrate, Majoi Crichton. I found myselt iu the presence - ?.?? ? rnhrt imnrAi?A(l mp favorably at once. A m:irriage? You want proof of a marriage? Nothing easier. What are the names? When did it take place?" I confessed my inability to st pply all these details. ji "Never mind. If yon knew ail that, i probably yon would not apply to us. But how mnch do yon know?" "Only one name?that of Sarsfleld."* -It's not mnch. However?here, Ale* jandro." He called in a police inspector, to whom he gave a few brief instructions in Spanish, and the man immediately left the room. "Come back, Mr.?Mt. Leslie, this afternoon. We will have the certificate for you. Meanwhile, you may like to see something of the Bock, the galle- 1 Ties, and bo forth. I will give yon a per1 sit. You will get a guide at your hotel, r Good-dar." r And I was bowed out, having done more in five minutes than in a whole day * at Cadiz. I returned to the police station at 3 ! o'clock, and was admitted at once. "Ah, good-afternoon. This is what I \ you want, Ithmfc." And the magistrate promptly handed mo a slip of paper, which proved to be a certified extract from the marriage register of the English cathedral at Gibraltar, and which recorded the marriage of one Peter Sarsfield, of the firm of Cooich & Izqnierdo, of Cadiz and Havana, with Anna, daughter of the late Lucas Garcia, of Cadiz. "Cooch.!" Mv eve caught the name directly. Here was positive evidence of some connection between the two men at last. The name Yriarte had assumed was that of a member of the firm to which Mr. Sarsfield belonged; the Bailor had probably been employed by the merchant, had commanded a ship of his, the Dos Hermanos, possibly; perhaps during that time had acquired some hold ? -* ?uu. ? -cr-ot ?JUU, X .VtUB gCbllUg v/u iuu lUDt. uaoij deduction again; I must verify these assumptions before reasoning from them, and to do that I must return to Cadiz. With that I rose to take my leave of Major Crichton. There was nothing now to detain me in Gibraltar, much to draw me back to Cadiz. How could I soonest return there? I heard at my hotel that an American man-of-war was in the bay on the point of starting for Cadiz. Without hesitation I gathered my traps together arid went off in a shore-boat to ask passage. The Captain, to whom I sent my card, received me on the quarter-dock, but politely yet firmly refused my request, "A United States ship is not a Cunarder, sir. Guess you'll have to apply somewhere else." I explained that only the extreme urgency of my case, the paramount importance of my returning speedily to Cadiz, would have induced me to intrude. "Why are you in such a hurry? Why don't you a6k your own people?you're a Britisher, I presume?" "I should certainly have asked them or any one, had any other steamer been un der way for Cadiz; but your snip is tne only one, and I have ventured to throw myself on yoar generosity." "It's very urgent, is it?" asked the Captain, curiously; "not a case of bolt?a clean pair of heels?" I laughed as I assured him that.I did not belong to Gibralter?that I had "only visited it on special business, the nature of which I hinted to him very plainly. "Detective, eh?a limb of the law? Well, every good citizen, whatever his flag, is bound to respect and aid the law. You may bring your traps aboard." I thanked Captain Verheyden warmly, and quickly availed myself ef his permission; indeed, the civility shown me did not end here, with the passage so hospitably accorded, as I was pleased to find after my return to Cadiz. CHAPTER XI. DETAILS OF THE DEAD. Bamon, the guide, reported himself next morning. His little, round, sallow face was beaming with delight, and there was a twinkle of satisfaction in his small, black, beady eyes. "Good news, aenor mio.n he began, "I have heard of our man." "Of Yriarte? Capital? But how?" I inquired. "One of the crew of the Clavel?a three-masted xebecque from the Canaries ?by name Bartolomeo Delgado, sailed with him several voyages to the Havana." Bartolomeo was brought in, a true type of the Southern sailor, short, squarely built, black as a Lascar, in a blue-andwhite striped jersey thrown open, showing his brawny, hairy chest, on which lay a little "Agnus Dei," hanging from a ribbon round his neck. He stood silent and stolid till he heard the chink of the dollars as I counted them out on the table, and then declared himself mine body and soul. "He knew Captain Yriarte?" I asked through Ramon. "Seguro. Of course; I made many voyages with him to the Havana in the Dos Hermanos." Who were the owners? Does he remember? Ask him that," I went on. [""Why not? Rich merchants of the Havana?Cooch <fc Izquierdo." Again, that name, freBh corroboration; exactly what I wanted to know. "And he thinks the ship was lost at sea?" At th:s question the sailor pursed up his lips sideways and turned out the palms of his handB, a gesture indicating uttei ignorance, and said: "Dioa sabe" (God known). "She nevei come back to Cadiz." "The captain did, though, and yon have seen him, you admit. When and where was this?" The man hesitated; but the money was not yet his, and I insisted on an answer. " Yes?here in Cadiz. I think eo, that is to say." "In the port?" "No, at apoaado; a wine-shop on the wharf, the sign of 'The Salt Codfish,' a house we sailors use." "Did you speak to him?" At first Delgado would not allow that he had, but when pressed he admitted that the captain and he had drunk a pint of_winfl together. "And he told you where he had been all these years?" "Away yonder?in the Havana." "Always in tie Dos Jiermanosr' "Quien sabe? I Buppose so." "Till she was lost? Did he tell yon how it happened? Where?" "No." This was a lie. I felt 6ure, from the way in which it was said, "lint he told me he never meant to go to sea again." "Why not? Had he made his fortune?" "Oh, no; but he had enough to live up. on. He had good friends, too. They would not let hini want, he said." Did this refer to Mr. Sarsfield, and some contemplated scheme of extortion? "Friends; relations, I suppose, in Cadiz? Do you know them? Who are thev? Rich?" "His mother lives; but she is certainly not rich." "What is her address?" "She belongs to Puertocito del Rio, a village down the coast a few miles." I promised myself the pleasure of an early call hpon the Senora Yriarte, but just now the English mail arrived, and as they brought me in my letters I dismissed Bartolomeo, with his reward. Mr. Smart had written to me a letter, answering my telegram more at length: "I had no difficulty in sending you the information you sought, for just whon it reached me our friend, Captain Fawcett, had called, and was sitting with me. He had come to put me on guard, he said." Fawcett volunteering assistance to the police, I thonght to myself. How strange I "He is not wrapped up in you, I fiud. You will probably think you know why. Yes, he suspectB yon of having set the girl against' bim, of baring cut bim out with her; but he suspects, or pretends to Buspect, you of more than that. Do you know, Mr. Leslie, he almost persuaded me? I "began to think we were pretty flats to let you get awny to Spain. It was be who first reminded me that we bad no extradition treaty with that country." j The scoundrel! Does he dare to ocI cuse me? "I was wondering whether you had pone there on purpose to give us the slip when your telegram arrived, and I felt I wns near doing you an injustice. Was it probable you would wire to me like that if you were not acting on the square? But this.Fawcett is a clever, artful chap, 1 enn tell you; and he put the case very well. Why had you made yourself bo buBy, why so anxious to help us run in the criminal?puttiDg us on the track first of this person, then that, and all wrongly?except to divert suspicions from yourself? Why had you been so fieroe against Mr. Sarstield? Why threaten him " I started as I read this part of the letter. "Why threaten bim with anonymous letters, givinc bim such a shock and oer* Becntmg tbe poor man till he had a fit, and was almost (riven up for dead?" I had here the clew to the coutents of that letter which had snch an efiEeet upon Mr. Sarsfield. aud which I had seen l ance tt snatch from his fingers and read. It was clearly an attempt at extortion, a threat of exposure, a resolve to make public some facts known to the writer and dangerously compromising to Mr. Sarsfield. Who could be the writer? Only one person?Cornell's. I was now more than ever convinced that the waiter was an important witness in this case; that he Knew more about it and Mr. Sarsfield's connection with it than any of us. He mast be found and compelled to Bpeak somehow, by fair means or foul; to that I had quite made op myjaind jar. smart's letter aid not tell me much more. He said that Mr. Sarsfield had been very ill?be had rtaa some seizure, u was supposed?bat at any rate he had not left his room since his fall, and that little had been seen of the ladies. Fortunately Captain Fawcett had paid his visit to the police office, and had answered my question as to Mr. Sarsheld's faith; otherwise I should not have heard bo soon. Bamon came to b? by appointment that afternoon, and we took the train together to within a mile of the village Puertocito del Bio, where I was told the dead man's mother lived. It was only a small place, half a dozen whitewashed huts lying at the mouth of a '' 'earn vith_flatL.sandv banks. ' "Qu.itn. es?" (Who is it?) aBkedan aged, quavering voice from inside the hut they told us belonged to the abuela (grandmother) Yriarte. We entered the hut, a mere hovel, with a circular strip of matting on the sandy door, a table and one or two cane-bottomed chairs the only furniture. The occupant was in keeping with her house; an old, very aged woman she looked, with her shriveled, parchment-like skin, her straggling, snow-white elf locks, toothless gums and pointed ohin. She seemed half crazed, yet there was still lire in her dark, wandering eyes, fierceness in the well-developed beard andmustachios, and she spoke in the deep bass of a vigor* ous man. "Who are you? What brings you hith er?" she asked, moat nngraciously. Ramon replied with the utmost sweetness: "We came, madam, to inquire for your worship's son. Can you give us news of him?" "I cannot. He iB not here. Begone." "But you saw him lately, I think? He visited your ladyship not many weeks ago?" /May not a son come to his mother's hoose without furnishing gossip for every evil tongue? Was it strange ne should return after all these years of absence? I mourned him as dead ?she said this to herself?"dead, my only son." "He was shipwrecked, I think?" went on Ramon, Beeking to bring her back to the point. "T>id tflll von ?o? Thev lied. He was in trouble, terrible trouble. They kept him from me by force. He was accused, convicted. But he was not to blame, sot alone," she repeated more than once, "and those that made him suffer shall pay for it; yes, they shall pay. "We shall be rich, veiy rich." She leaned her skinny lingers on Ramon's sleeve, as with deep impressive* nesB she whispered these words, which he quickly translated to me. "What has he done? Ask her that," I hurriadly told Ramon. "Let him tell you," was her answer "I will not, not till he gives me leave." "You may not see him for some time." It was thus I sought .to. break to he.rthe news or nls awful death,"news that couia have hardly reached her yet. "He is coming to me soon, soon, to take me away from here, from this hovel, these rags; he will give me a big house on the sea-wall at Cadiz, and I shall never soil my fingers or weary my limbs with work again. I shall be rich! I shall have gold, gold! He is coming soon." "You are mistaken, seuora." "He sent, himself, to tell me so," she criea, angmy inioirapiiug. xijo ucodcuger was here only a few days ago, the man he sent for his sea-trunk." A message from the dead, from beyond the grave! Impossible! Some one, per- ( haps, that Yriarte had commissioned beforo the fonl blow was strnck? This was my first thought; bnt a second told me I was probably wrong. [TO BE CONTINUED.! Method of an Indolent Judge. , "Several years ago, before the old district courts were done away with," said J. C. Campbell to a San. Francisco Call ireporter, "there was an old gentleman (occupying the bench in the old Fifth [District who was exceedingly indolent, ,and during his term of office he allowed jthe business of the court to fall behind. |At last he died, acid as his successor a !man was choosen who was celebrated I , , - . , , UiiJeuy OS uu iuvciciaic wuav.v,u*vuvn^t and whose knowledge of the law was extremely small. When he took the oath of office he inquired into the condition of the calendar, and when he learned how great was the number of cases awaiting decision he immediately ordered the clerks to lay all the papers before him. They were accordingly carried into the court-room and the newly elected Judge eyed them sharply for several minutes. Reaching over, he grasped the first one that came to his hand, and said: 'This one is decided for the defendant.' "Another -vas taken, and laying it aside by itself, he remarked: 'And this one I give to the plaintiff.' "In this way ho disposed of every case on the calendar, giving every other verdict to the defendant and the other to the plaintiff. Strange as it may seem, it is still claimed in the old districts that the verdicts thus rendered were the most equitable ever delivered there, either be tore or since." A Child's Breathing and Palse. An infant in a perfectly healthy condition should sleep twenty out of the twenty-four hours. In is very useful to inform your doctor, in order to fix the period of the commencement of an illness, when the child first had broken rest. The breathing rytbtn of a child from one to three years of age should be twenty-four to thirty-six per minute,and such breathing should be diaphragmatic; that Is, the breathing should be noticed from that part where the chest is separated from the abdomen. In ordinary breathing there shoqld bo no drawing up of the chest walls, otherwise this would indicate mechanical impediment to the entrance of air into the lungs. This will be noticed in croup,in sobbing and in disease of the lungs.? Jfev> York Commercial Advertiter. A woman has sued her husband for divorce, alleging that he made her eat at a 15-cent restaurant in Kansas City. Surely she has no right to complain of her diet when she took him for better or for wurst. Before he killed himself Boulanger considerately discharged all of his debts, but he overlooked the author of "The Boulanger March." THE STONE AGE. KENTUCKY RICH IN PREHISTORIC REMAINS. Various Implements of War and Domestic Use Found?Evidence ol the Ingenuity and Skill of the Primitive Inhabitants. Kentucky, it is said, is more prolific in Indian relics than any other State in the Union, though it was inhabited by the redskins as little as any of her sister States or Territories. The land, however. which is now comprised in the border of tho State, says the CourierJournal', seems to have been a common camping gTound tor tribes in their wanderings from the North to the South and from the East to the West. That it was a common hunting ground there is no doubt, and its territory was constantly turned into a battle-field for the warring tribes. From the battles fought on its hills and the dread marches on the river's borders it came to be known as a dark and bloody ground, whose waters were red with Mood and whole forests were tilled with angry spirits. m iipm ? TRIBAL COP OP STATE. As tribes camped and decamped, and mound-buildsrs moved from hill to hill and Territory to Territory, each lef: witnesses of its life and relics of its customs. It is only within the past few years- that the historian has turned to these dumb witnesses for facts and traced the history of a tribe by the special implements it used. From the fact that axes, arrowheads and pipes, made of granite belonging exclusively to Wisconsin, are found along the borders of the Licking River, prove conclusively that the Northwestern inDes at one ume or anotaer passeu uvcr the land of "Kantuckee." There are several good collections of Indian relics in the State, but the finest is that owned by Colonel Bennett H. Young. It is made up conclusively of implements found within the borders of the State, and is composed of over 15,000 pieces. The most commom implement among the Indians was the axe, and more of them, with the exception of the 1 arrowheads, remain . than any other implement known to them. There have been only two different types of axes found in this State, but each type has such marked peculiarities as to ?how that each had its own special function in the daily life of the Indian, and was used for entirely different purposes. The shanes of the axes seemed to haye been 1 conventionalized, and were common to all tribes, but the stone from which they are made denotes the part of the country in which they were cut and the character of the Indians that made them. The axes, which were made of Kentucky stone and by the local tribes are found in a more perfect state along the borders of streams. As a rule, those in the interior are smaller in size and of rougher finish. Whpn axes of foreign tribes aro found they can be traced from one section of the State to another with a uniform system, showing that the tribes from the sea entered in regular paths. The superstition is that many tribes whose implements are found came into the interior for salt. Axes and pipes are found made of the Wisconsin granite, showing clearly that the Sacs and Foxes of that Territory on'co camped in this State, or else that the tribes interchanged their commodities for use, either in war or peace. In Colonel Young's collection there are over 400 axes and no two arc of the same shape, showing that each Indian must have been his own axe maker. 11 IF \ 1. GR00VELES3 AXE. 2. GROOVED AXE. 3. GROOVED FLAT AXE. Those which have been found in this State are- made principally of granite, some of gray limestone arid some of sandstone. Those made of sandstone were used exclusively for waT implements. There are two types of axes, the groove and the groovcless axe. What is known as the grooved axe has a slot cut all around it, in which the sapt .ing was placed and tied with fresh rawhides. In this way they made their axe handles. The grooveless axe is raado without the depression on the sides. There arc two remarkable specimens of these axes, and both were found in adjoining counties. The grooved axe was dug out of amine in Boone County. The groove is one and one-half inches in width and passes almost entirely around the axe. The axe itself is twelve inches in length, twelve inches round the centre, and ten inches around the portion in which the groove is cut. The ungrooved axe belongs to an earlier period, and shows a total lack of polish. It is hat at one end and broadens out toward tiie edge. Some of them are made with great care, both in selection of stone ami in the style of edge as iu shape of the axe. Most of them are made round at the top, about one in every hundred found being square. The axes used in war were made with a dull ed^e, while those for domestic purpose* were made much sharper, with an edge sufficient to cut wood. The battle-axe is generally found round. Some of them have double heads, the upper part having a cone-like projection to it. These were used exrl''pirp1r for. VCHT. ' * i- rA>rJ"Kr The axe was used chiefly by the Indians in building their "dug outs," or canoes. They charred the wood and then dug it out with their axes. One axe found at the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, fifty years ago, is made seemingly of red stone, which seems permeated with red ochre, and marks like red lead pencil. There is considerable specu- ' lation as to what the three-ounce axes were used for, and the latest theory is that they were either made by children, or for the Indian children, by the squaws, as toys. The work on them is of a much more fine quality than that on the larger ones, and they are invariably made of flint. In the collection are two axes, one of which was found in Daviess County and the other in Muh ienourg, mat nave undergone some chemical change, and are as light as cork. One of these axes which has lost its weight is peculiar in shape and perfectly smooth in finish. The axes were made with flint instruments, some of which have been found, but very few of them remain in the whole state. The most peculiar specimens extant in- this State, and which are in Colonel Young's collection, are two, found in Wolfe and Madison Counties. They seemed to have been cut from soft sandstone, and covered with a brown enamel. There is another theory which is more generally accepted to be correct, however, which is that they laid so long in a chalybeate stream as to become impregnated with iron. The next implement in importance to the axe was the "flesher," or what is technically termed as celt, an implement used in skinning buffalo and other animals which were killed during the hunt. They were also used in rubbing the skins while being tanned. The "fleshers" are made principally from green granite or flint and rarely from limestone. Next to building the canoes and skinning hi3 buffalo, the implement used for grinding his maize and corn was of chief importance to an Indian or mound builder. A number of pestles and mortars have been found, and in Colonel >!j * I 1. WARRIOR'S RATTLE-AXE. 2. DOMESTIC AXE. Young's collection there are some rare and valuable specimens. The pestles are found in almost every conceivable shape, and in a great many varieties of stone, but the best and most used are made from granite. One of the moat perfect which has been found was dug out of a mound in Bourbon County. It has a flat base, twelve inches around and four inches across. The handle is ten inches long, ?. ? -3 ~ 1 nrViAWA fV\ /l kand rvTCOnQ I UUU nil IUC puiuil TTUC1Q luo uauu fjiuuj,-i it it is six inches round, tapering to a sharp point. One of the most ingeniously shaped mortars was found in a stream in Western Kentucky. It is made of granite. It is ten inches long 1 and seven inches wide,and the depression in which the corn was ground is two inches deep. The sides are carved so tnat it could be held between the knees securely. Some of them are found made of thin stone, with cavities on both sides. These were supposed to have been used for grinding two kinds of peppers, roots ' or seeds, when they did not want to get the flavors mixed. It is estimated that an energetic Indian, or mound-builder, could make from four to five axes or spear-heads, in a year, it requiring a much longer timr to shape a pestle or a pipe. A pipe ha) been found of such wonderful workmanship that it is believed bj specialists thai mauy years?and in some cades a lifetimi ?were required to have made it. The Story of a Blossom. It was on Tremont street. A woman, poorly dressed, chanced to espy a pink carnation on the sidewalk. It was near the corner of Winter and Washington streets, which, as everybody knows, is in a state of blockade the greater part of the day. The dense mass of people was hurrying past as rapidly as possible, but the old woman stood her ground, and although buffeted and jostled roughly by the crowd, finally succeeded in rescuing the trampled flower and passed on, inhaling its fragrance with an almost eager pleasure. The seamed and wrinkled face was flighted by a gleam that was infinitely more sad than tears.?Boston Adver titer. Dancing In the Barn. Rooster?"Can I have the pleasure of the next dance with you?" Hen?"Sorry to refuse, Billy, but I'm engaged for thi9 set." Tin intermnrriacrc with colored people the Marshpee Indians in Massachusetts have increased to about 490. They occupy h reservation on the shore of the lake in Marshpee, called Malshpi by Cape Cod folk. Catachuit, the chief of "the tribe, is the postmaster, and an Indian boy carries the mail to and from Sandwich. Three islands in the lake nre owned by a fishing club of which Qrover Cleveland, Joe Jefferaon; 11. W. Gilder, Alexander Wood, of Boston, and C. B. Jefferson aro members. The colony of Sierra Leone is 103 years old, yet there is no machinery there except the sewing machine. The population is upwards of 50,000, and not a saw-mill nor any other kind of mill in operation. J i -i N . jcijii'&iC i ? JT ' "the sacred city. >A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE PRAY , BY MACHINERY. The Mongolian Settlement of Ourga? An Immense Idol?The Queer Prayer Wheels and Prayer Books. Onrga, the sacred city, or, as it is called by the Mongolians, "Bogdo Kurene"?which means the settlement of the Bogdo?though it contains nearly fifteen-thousand inhabitants, cannot, even by the wildest stretch of the imagination, be called a city with any architectural pretensions to beauty. With the exception of the Chinese portions of it, only a small part, its streets consist of mere rows of high wooden palisades, which enclose the space in the centre of which is erected the inevitable "yourt," for so nomadic is the Mongol by nature that, even when settled here in the capital, his old instincts compel him to continue dwelling in his original tent. The effect, therefore, of these long monotonous rows of rougn logs, reuevea at regular intervals by tall wooden doors, all exactly of the same pattern, is indescribably dreary; and were it not for the two or three large open spaces where the bazar is daily held, there would be but little to see, for Ourga has but few "lions;" there is really only one building of any pretension in the place, and that is the large wooden Buddhist temple which enshrines the huge gilt-bronze figure dedicated to the apostle "Maidha." Either the Mongols don't know or won't tell?most probably the former; but, at any rate, I was unable to find out anything about the mysterious figure, or how or when the immense mass of metal was brought to the Desert city. It is certainly not less than forty feet in height, and is In the familiar seated position in which Buddha is always represented. The body aind extremities of this immense figure are draped in yellow silk, and are almost lost in the surrounding obscurity; but the face itself, which is surmounted by a majestic crown, is lighted up by a hidden window in front of it; so it stands out in foreshortened .relief against the darkness of the dome, which gives it a certain weird appear jance that is somewhat increased by the ?yes being painted a natural color. Still, Ourga is most interesting, representing as it does one of the standpoints of the Mongol Buddhist faith, and .the capital of * fast disappearing nation; for here is the abode of that most holy of 'holy personages, the ((Bogdo of Kurene," and long and weary are the pilgrimages frequently made by devout Mongols for a glimpse of this mysterious man. Among the principal features of Ourga are the 'prayer-wheels," which are placed for public use in most of the big open spaces. These wheels, or rather hollow wooden cylinders, are placed under cover of rough wooden sheds, and present at first sight a very curious apI pearance. Most of them are covered with Tibetan inscriptions; an are completely filled with prayers written on pieces of paper. In order to pray, all that is nesessary ^?beyond, of course, a sincere faith in what you are doing?is to walk round and round, inside the shed, and turn the cylinder with you; the more it turns the better. Many of the old people, while operating the large wheel with one hand, at thesatre time diligently turn a small portable one with the other. Many of the wheels were very large, so that several people could pray together; but most of them were small, and evidently were only used for private communion, the sheds in many instances being decorated with odds and ends of silk and bits of rags, intended as offerings to Buddha. Apart from the wheels are the "prayer-boards," also placed for public -ae in various parts of the city, and on which are continually to be seen prostrate figures lying on their faces, and thus litsr ally humbling themselves to the very dust. From a little distance, these boards present a very ludicrous appearance, which so reminded me of the familiar spring-board in a swimming bath that I never pass them without an inward grin?if you can imagine what that is?for any outward sign of mirth at the strange proceedings would probably get me into trouble. The whole action of the people using them was exactly like that of a person preparing to make a run along the board aad take a "header" rather than a prelude to a devotional exercise. I don't think I was ever in a more strangely religiou3 place than Ourga. Everywhere, at the most unexpected places, at all times, one often saw people throwing themselves suddenly face downward, full length on the ground, aaying their prayers, just as the lit took them, I suppose, these curious proceedings attracting no attention. Many a time I have been riding quietly along, when all of a sudden my horse would be made to swerve violently by tome hideous old man or woman, who was seized just in front of his feet. And their devotions do j. od here, for every "yourt," however h^. , not only contains a family wheel, but is decorated outside with innumerable prayer-flags, or rather bits of rag, tied onto strings suspended from poles all around the palisades. Till I was informed what they were, I took them for bird-scares, for they could not, even by the wildest itretch of the imagination, be taken for flags. If the Mongols were only 3 quarter as industrious in ordinary everyday pursuits is they are in their religion, the Chinese would not, as they do, monopolize all the trade of the country, while its in habitants sit about twining their prayerwheels quite content if they only earn enough to keep them from day to (lay. Queer Aulmals. Haynes Thomas, the Broad street colored man, who is famous for collecting curious animals, birds, etc., has now ? collection which he will send to the Piodmont Exposition in Atlanta. Haynes has a three-logged turkey, the third leg growing out of the right leg. He also a&s a snake twenty inchcs in circumference and eight and a half feet long. It [s a Mexican striper. An opossum, trained to do almost anything, is also in bis menagerie.?Borne (Qa.) Tribune. Two hundred and fifty thousand boxes of oranges will be grown upon Louisiana orange groves this year. Eighty-five thousand trees will bear the crop. , > "Grave Telling" In China* The queerest industry in the ghostly line in China is "grave telling," write* "William E. S. Fales, the Chinese expert now in the Orient. When the averagtf Mongolian reaches manhood's estate one of his first ambitions is to have a nice and comfortable grave. The momenf he has the requisite cash he consults one or more "grave-tellers." These are oW scholars, whose scholarship has not been appreciated by the public at large, o* who have fallen from grace by gambling, opium smoking or gther vices, and who earn a precarious living from astrology* clairvoyance and similar "supernatural" sciences. The philosopher, after receive intr a fan wTinHp Amount is nronnrtionfll to the wealth of his client, consnlts hi* mystic books, draws an incomprehensible diagram with points and stfaight lines and announces the day on whicl^ it will be fungsuey (good luck) to visit certain cemeteries and burial sites. The day arrived, the parties are out hand, na matter what tricks the weather ^ may play. I have seen them in a rocky pass where the thermometer was 125 degrees and in a marsh knee deep in mod when the rain was an ice-cold deluge. They come dressed in their best clothes, newly washed and shaven. "The gravetellers" are equipped with books, dia4 grams, paper and a forked rod, strangely) resembling the divining-rod with which our ancestors songht springs and veins of ore. The search begins with prayer^ and then comes a weary walk and taUr, sometimes lasting hoars. The site w finally picked out. Often two or three) sites are selected, so that in case the use) of one is prevented by unforeseen cir-j cumstances another one will be readyi The client arranges With the owner off the land and the authorities, end is tbex^ prepared to die in peace. The practice* is universal and as old as Chinese civil tion. Its influence upon the people i* something tremendous.?Chicago BercML Dying, He Thought of His Fiddle. "I was in the terrible wreck on the? -West Shore road a few weeks ago,"saiff / a gentleman at Chamberlin's to a Wash-t ington Pott man, "in which sixteea peoplo were killed and about thirty injured. The honors of the ghastto occurrence will never fade from mjr memory. Yet, amid all the scenes ai anguish?the distorted faces of the dead and the groins of the wounded-.?an in* cident came under my notice that mad* me laugh in spito af the grewsome surroundings. "I was working for dear life to extricate from the wreck a ycang fellow who belonged to the orchestra of traveling show. He was pinioned by; heavy timbers, ana wnen taiten out was writhing in agony, as most any m** would be whose leg was fractured ia three places. His body was constractedi by successive cramps, but he did not murmur. I thought his hours on earth were few. "He motioned me to bend near hiny which I did, thinking he had some last message he wanted conveyed to his wife * or sweetheart. The tiamefc from the cars, that had taken fire shortly after the accident, shed a sickly light over the poor fellow's pallid face. His hero- > [! ism touched me deeply and my heart went out to him. " 'What can I do for you?' I whispered. 'Is there any word you wish ' & sent to your family?' " 'Friend.' be answered softly, 4wonV . :v you please .hurry into that car yonder and^ get my fiddle before it burns up? It* is an old Cremona and I can t afford to ' />' lose it."' * A Pet Turtle. In the town of Patten, Me., a place ' \ distant from, tide-water over ninety miles, there is a great eurosity, known as the "turtle's nest." For fifty-two _ ; years a turtle has come annually to thej V; nest to deposit her eg;rs. Over half' a century ago she selected her nest, then / in an open field, but now in a yard in; front of a residence. A relative of the owner of the house branded the date,. 1841, upon the turtle's back and it can be plainly traced now. She cornea about the same date each year, and her firstf few days are passed in inspecting the " ancient nest, tbe yard ana surroundings. Later she digs a hole in the ground and there deposits her eggs, but as many were carried away and the others often > disturbed, only about a dozen of the eggs hatched out. The owner of the house has ten of the little turtles, none more than twicc the size of a postage stamp. The old turtle always departs after laying the eggs, the warm sand and suu serving as an incubator. This turtle has been seen at the Drew Deadwater, on the Matawamkeag River, fully fifty milea away from the nest* 4 Her weight varies from thirty to thirty-; five pounds, and it is said she was large when branded as she is now. Each June she comes to Patten and is always* welcomed by old and young. ?St. Lunik Republic. Safe-Makers Versus Burglars. They are manufacturing a steel vault in New York which will successfully resist the tools of the burglars. That is,. it will offer more resistance than anything of the kind now on the market. ,(Itisa race bat ween the manufacturer, and the burglar," said a manmacturer, "and the manufacturer is always a good' distance ahead. An ordinary burglar- '* proof safe is supposed to be proof against the operations of a burglar from Saturday afternoon to Monday morning. If it wen't stand that it isn't a burglar-proof safe. But give a burglar time enough? two or three daya, or two or three weeks ?without interruption and he'll manage to get into any safe. So with that steel vault. No burglars ever lived who could get into that vault in a week unless ihey were permitted to work openly and allowed plenty of necessary tools. But a vault must also present reasonable defense against a mob. The millions of dollars cash and securities that will be stored in such a vault would be the firet objcct of attack from a mob. But when a mob can hold pos&e<sion of a city long enough to enable anybody to crack that steel vault, tho city is gone?there won't be anything eUe left worth having."? Atlanta CorutUulion. A Beautiful tfold Fern Leaf. The largest specimen of leaf or fern gold ever seen was found near Walla Walla, Washington. It is valued at $300 for the gold in it alone, but to-day five times that amount would not purchase it. The delicate tracery of the fern is as fresh, beautiful and crystalline in appearance as e?er nature turned out of her laboratory, and it is fully a foot square.?flew Orltant Democrat, ' * - *>. -! V ?* --ISl'dV. _ .at * , . , *