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CHAPTER XXXI. |
A GHOSTLT AVENGER.
About midway between the entrance
to the Santiago. Canyon and the
pictufesque residence of Mrs. Travers
stands a very dilapidated, tumbledown
old shanty, known as the
Mexioan'B hut. Whoever tho Mexican
was to whom it originally belonged,
and from whom it inherits this by no
me%ps distinctive appellation, he took
particularly good care that it should
Inherit nothing else. The inside of
the hut was as barren of anything as
any four walls could possibly be; and
though, occasionally, a centipede, a
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green anu gmi>eriug uw u, ? w,
% tarantula, or even a lurking rattler,
on a voyage of discovery from the adjacent
rocky hills and mountains,
might invade its solitude, there was,
as a rule, no living thing so forlorn
as to think of taking up its abode
there for any length of time. This
was, no doubt, why it seemed, notwithstanding
all other disadvantages,
the very place most suited to the
purpose of an enterprising couple
who wished to explore tho canyon
with a seorecy whioh, for some days,
they had sought in vain.
"This is the plaoe, Olive," said
Lord Clarence Stanley to his charming
young wife. "It is entirely off theordinary
route; it is not more than
half a mile distant from the spot; our
presence here will be totally unsuspected,
and as the man who drove us
to the entrance of the canyon has returned
to Santa Ana, and supposes
that we are cranky tourists from the
East who prefer to walk rather tban
ride to make our visit to the JL'ravers
people, we shall be absolutely undisturbed
here."
"And now, Clarenco, how soon will
it be safe to set out in search of the
hiding-plaoe?"
The man consulted his watch and
declared with some surprise that it
was already five o'clock.
"Later than I thought, Olive; and
as I have to carry that heavy pick-axe
and spade, perhaps we may as well
start forth now. I don't think we
shall meet any one, and the place being
utterly secluded, and, to judge by
the appearanoe of it, never visited, I
can begin work at once."
"The pick and spade have a rather
ghastly look," said Olive, while her
husband tied up the lunch basket and
BAmirfld tha imnlements for his work.
"It is mightily suggestive of gravedigging,
isn't it! You will need to be
careful not to turn up the buried
papa of your saintly Dolores instead
of the other treasure. He must have
been buried somewhere about here."
ll*'Stop talking of her! You are not
fit to speak her J name, Olive," said
the man with brutal frankness.
His wife turned a furious look upon
him and bit her lips hard to repress
the bitter retort that rose to them.
What was the matter with him? He
had been strangely defiant and independent
all day. Well, she would
wait till tlie business in hand was
safely over, and then she would let
him know who was maBter. Meantime
shft wnuld nresentlv find a -wav
of administering a gently and timely
rebnke.
"Well, then," she said amiably,
'let's be going; but this time I hope
there is no mistake, Carlos; this time
we are really on sure groundsl The
real Richmond thia time, eh?:* Five
have we slain instead of him!"
"Olive," he said with an air of
serene tranquility, that his wife had
already learned to dread, "I want to
remind you once more that you have
a bad habit of forgetting my name.
It comes of your infatuation about
that dirty scamp of a fellow, Carlos
Mendoza; and by the way, speaking
of him, here is something that may
in^Arnat vnii "
Ho drew a folded newspaper from
his breast-pocket and gave it to her,
indicating a particular paragraph.
He Btrode through the doorwav ai?d
out into the bright light. Olivo followed
him, the paper rustling nervously
in her hand; it had been too
dark within the hut to see the print
clearly, and she paused a moment
now, with the full light on the page,
nd her glance roved quickly through
the paragraph which her husband
had pointed out to her:
MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY.
gaocsdlkbb Suspicion Against t&i Unknown
Cablob Mendoza.
Baron Yon Holmholtz Found Dead On His
Wife's Grave In Greenwood?Suicide?
Sbot Through the Heart?A Letter
Found On His Per3on in Which He Con.
fesaed Himself tho Murderer Through
CeRlousy of His Beautiful Wife?His
Owu Death, and Confession tho Expiation
of His Crime.
A Bigh that was almost a groan of
despairing disappointment on the part
of the reader accented the conclusion
of this unexpected paragraph. The
man, who was a little .way ahead,
turned and looked at bis wife, and seeing
her pale, almost livid, with wide,
wild eyos, he smiled pleasantly.
''Clarence," she murmured, "then
it was not Van Tassel after all?"
"Evidently not. Van was a blind
?ool at all times, and ho must have
dropped the dagger there when he
made the first attempt. The baron
piokod it up, and apparently knew
how and when to use it."
Olive ground her little white teeth
together. She had forever lost the
hold she had so triumphed in possessing
over her husband, who threw back
his head and made a pretense of loosening
his collar button as if suddenly
relieved of an uncomfortable pressure
about the neck.
They both glanced around, and a
cool breeze from the west blew toward
them.
. "See, the sun is sinking," said
i Olive. "What a lurid, fiery sunset,
I and what a strange, bnlphurous smell
L the air has, though it is blowing
B cooler already."
"It always turns cool here immediotely
the suck sinks," returned Staulev,
again shouldering his pick and
HBauDade. ...."California beats the world
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CASTELAR.)
r Robx&z Bonkxb'i b?m j
for unexpectedness; you never know
what will happen next! Bat, come
on, I want to get well started before
the daylight is gone, and then I can
keep on well enough till the moon
rises?she must be about the second
quarter by this time?Halloa! What
is that? Can those be figures moving
on that mountain? Teople or cattle,
which is it?"
Olive looked as he directed, and
distinctly saw two figures, a man and
a woman, on the brow of a mountain
that in the clear, still, deceptive
light, seemed but a few yards away;
and instinctively she drew closer to
her husband.
"If they should see us?" she whispered.
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"They can't; we are concealed in
this hollow; their figures stand ont
against the sky. They must be in
want of exercise to take such a climb
in this heat."
The slight figure of the woman
moved and turned toward the man?it
was Dolores?and at that moment
she was saying:
"Mrs. Travers managed it all, and
I have scarcely known anything
about it. She has been so kind.
Dear mamma?it was a dream I never
hoped to realize, and to-morrow they
will place all that remains of her in
the same grave with papa; it is so
right and fitting that it should be tomorrow,
because that is the anniversary
of papa's death."
"The 12th of Ootober, is it, dearest?
That will indeed be a fitting anniversary.
Perhaps the troubled
spirit of our Indian ancestor will rest
irom inauime.
"Perhaps so," said Dolores, seriously.
"I hope you won't think it
very fanciful, Harold, but I want to
walk to the sycamores to-night."
"Tf you are equal to it, Dolores; it
is bo very sultry."
"Not more so that it has been for
several days," she answered, reassuringly.
"What we call earthquake
weather in California?only the earthquakes
seldom oome when we are
looking for them. We will go by this
path round the mountain, and so
down into the valley."
She put her hand within his, and
they disappeared round the brow of
the mountain.
"There! They have gone!" eaid
Olive, who had been silently watching
the two dark figures, like silhouettes
against the clear evening
light. "I am not sure if they were
real or merely visionary, Clarence;.for
whom do you think they looked like
to me?"
"I am sure I can't guess," he returned.
"But here we are, at last.
Behold, there are the mystio sycamores.
Count them for yourself.
One, two, three! So there are twelve,
aren't there?"
"Yes," responded Olive, in her
suddenly awakened interest,forgetting
all about the two figures that had
seemed so strangely familiar. At last
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ana Deyona me suauow 01 u uuuuk wo
have come to the right place now."
And she ran quickly forward, quite
oblivious of her late fatigne; and
looking closely at the separated trunks
all growing from a single root.fshe
quickly found the one on which had
been carved the Indian woman's figure.
"There she is!" cried Olive, in triumph.
"The poor Gold-Flower herself,
unhappy victim to a wasted love!
And only see, Clarence! Some one
has shot an arroj^ straight through
her heart. An Indian arrow it must
have b&n. Hotf strong and tipped
with some hard metal! The point is
standing straight out from the wood?"
She eat down upon a little mound
at a distance, all unconscious that it
was the grave of the father whose
memory was bo dearly oherished by
Dolores; and from that, his last resting-place,
she watohed har husband
strike his pick-axe into the ground
that covered the treasure of the buried
Mendozas.
A slow quarter of an hour went by,
then another; and fast and steadly
fell the blows of tho pick-axe in the
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man who wielded it had learned the
business well in many a mining-camp,
and all his old-time expertness and
strength oame back to him now; and
as he tossed aside the pick and catching
np the spade shoveled oat the
loose earth, he glanced occasionally,
with a slight, triumphant langh, toward
Olive.
Bat, on a sudden, he uttered a
strange, hoarse cry, and the spade
dropped from his hand ; a ohill, cardling,
cold sensation, as if ioe had been
dropped down his back, made him
shiver; and then he stood gaping,
stupidly silent, horribly gaping
straight ahead of him on through the
gathering dusk; his gaze seemed
turned to fire, as if it would burn
through the thing at which it looked.
"Clarence! Clarence!" cried Olive,
as she rushed to him and seized his
stiff, motionless arm. "What ip it?
What is the matter? Are you hurt?"
"There! There!" whispered the
hoarse voice. "Do you see nothing!"
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rible chill of some unknown, unformulated
fear causing her teeth to
rattle against one another as she spoke.
Then, with an almost heroic effort to
throw off this bodiless terror, she continued:
"Nothing, Clarence; there is absolutely
nothing but the sycamore trees
and the miserable presentment of the
Iudian woman. Corne, be a man!
Cheer up! Take again your pick and
spade, delve a little deeper, and soon,
very Boon, you will uncover the treasure
that will make a king and queen
of you and me; for with such wealth
we can do auythiug!"
"iiy Heavou, you nre a bol'I girl,
Olive, and well worth working for!"
She stooped, and snatching at the
pick, pnt it into his hand.
The man set to work again vigorously;
aud pounding the earth with
all his strength, the point of the piok
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suddenly struck, with a ringing sound,
against some metallic surface. At
the same moment, there was a rocking,
swaying motion that seemed to
shako the earth to its foundation.
Olive uttered r shrill shriek of terror,
and the next . lement she felt hersell
flung violently forward, and she fell,
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ciutcmngat tueloose em m
But only for a minuto. /Struggling
to her feet again she rushed towjfrd
her husband. jS
"Clarence!" she screamed. ''What
is it? Oh, if you are a man, help me,
save me!"
But Clarence Stanley stood motion-'
less, stricken, paralyzed?one frozen,
rigid arm stretched into space, the
extended fingers pointing outward,
an d the voice, like that of a gibbering
idiot, muttering incoherent babble:
"Yes, yes?the wrong Indian worn-,
an! She?she?shel Her curse
weighs me down! See, oh, seel Her
avenging spirit calls me away!"
Olive looked. Her frenzied gaze
followed the line of those outstretched
frozen fingers, and there, before
them, che seemed to see a luminous
face, with burning eyes shining
through a translucent mist. She
shrieked aloud and, turning, fled;
and then the earth heaved again and
shook and yawned like eome great
? n.? ?4.;n
monster; ana alter i>uui>, uu wo?iu.
CHAPTER XXXII.
THE TWELFTH OF OCTOBER, 1892.
Dolores aud Moray had almost
reached the grou*p of sycamores when
the first earthquake shock was felt.
They had loitered, with the indifference
of lovers as to the flight of
time, on their slow and winding walk;
and it was the purple dusk of the
California twilight, soon to be pieroed
by the silvery splendor of an earlyrising
moon. But as yet no moon
was visible; there was a strange, still
oppressiveness in the air; the dusky
twilight seemed to deepen and thicken,
and Dolores suddenly stopped and
clung to tbe arm on which she had
been leaning, while a slight shudder,
as of some impending calamity, shook
her from head to foot.
"What a curious nightf There is
something vaguely threatening and
awful in this atmosphere. The moon
is surely very late in showing her
fair, bright face to-night."
m "She is always kind to lovers,"
said Moray, laughingly, and stooping
to press his hps on the rippling,
siikeu hair that was being blown
against his face. A slight breeze had
risen suddenly, but it was not cool;
it seemed, indeed, hot and laden with
a sulphurous odor.
"What is that sound?" asked
Dolcres. "Do you hear it, Harold?
It is like some heavy weight pounding
the ground."
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"les, it is. .remaps iue guuBt
walks to-night. This is her anniversary,"
he answered lightly. "Bnt
she can hardly be digging a grave.
Ghosts are more inclined to get oat of
them. That is sorely the sonnd of a
pick-axe."
"Oh, Harold! Harold 1"
Dolores gave a quick, sharp cry of
sudden irrepressible terror, and her
lover's arms clofeed around her with
the instinct of, protection; and then,
for what might have been a minute or
an hour, they stood dinging to each
other, while the ground seemed no
longer solid earth, but a quaking bog.
It shook, it rocked, it trembled?and
then slowly it settled into quiet and
was still?awfully still, leaving on
the minds of those who had felt the
shock a provoking impression of having
suffered from some hnge, practical
joke.
"I suppose this is what you call an
earthquake, in this-astonishing country,
" said Lord Harold, presently.
"Yes," said Dolores rather tremulously;
"I don't think it is over; it
will come again."
The words had scarcely passed her
lips when a second shock almost
flung them off the ground. It wan
much riTore violent than the first.
There was a wild confusion in the air;
spots of light seemed to dart like
electric flashes, to and fro; great
cracks and fissures opened in the
gronnd; there was the crash as of
trees uprooted. And through all thin
noisy outbreak of nature's hidden
passions came the sound of wild, excited,
human voioeB, and one prolonged
thrilling shriek.
After that, another long silenoe.
Dolores did not speak for many minutes,
nor did her oompanion; but he
held her, calmly, closely, strongly to
his breast, and though she trembled
it was only a nervous tremor. He
knew that she was not afraid.
Suddenly the air cleared, ap if
dome great wing had oleft it asunder,
and the moon's splendor Jbnrst forth
with a light almost as brilliant aB that
of day.
"It is over now." said Dolores.
"Let us go on. Harold. Ob, look
there! Tho sycamores have been torn
up by the roots, and the trunks lie
strewed upon the ground!"
TO BE CONTINUED.
Sparrow Hunting; as a BuslneM.
Sparrow hunting has become so
profitable in Kent County that men
have now gone into the business that
heretofore was conducted only for
boys. One of the moiit persistent
hunters is Charles H. Sarow, of Walker
Township, who one day drew in
bounty from the county $8.50, and
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iwu uajB iaier ^IO.UU. nputiier spurrow
exterminator is Fred E. McBride,^who
the other day drew 88.50
in bounties, and more recently 814.
But the gamiest sparrow hunter of
all is Ernest Cutler, of this city, who
follows the trail the year round. Last
year the county paid 8275 to Cutler in
sparrow bounty. Just so sure as the
suu goes down Cutler appears, just
before.5 o'clock at the sashier's window
In the clerk's office with his order
from the oounty clerk.
During the legislative session ot
1885 the State authorized a bounty oi
two cents per head upon all "birds
known as the common English sparrow,"
which are considered a detriment
to the country.
A few years ago several Western
States placcd a bounty on hawks and
wolves. Immediately the mountaineers
began raising hawks and' wolves.
It was a thrifty business, as the county
pay was SI per head for hawks and
88 per head for wolves. In this State
at present there is a bounty of 83 per i
head on wolves, but the woods are so J
devoid of the shy animals that no ono ;
cares to hunt for the bounty.?Grand j
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S<S>^flE CCtIONE^IE
^^^tcrct Society VThoge Ob
THE "Boxers," or "Righteousness
and Peace Fist Society,"
as th'ey bave been called, represent
the periodical revolt of
Chinese conservatism against t.be influx
of foreign influence and foreign
methods. They originated with the
people of theVvcst.rn provinces, largej
ly in Shantung, who looked aghast as
! they saw foreigners coming in and
j taking by force what they considered
their own patrimony. Murmurings
grew on every Land. This came to the
knowledge of the Manchu leaders, already
wondering how they were to
hold their own against the twenty millions
of young Chinese who. during
the brief reform administarrion, had
acquired a taste of Western life with
Its opportunities and ambitions. It
was not sufficient to gain control of
the Government, replace the aggressive
Emperor by the reactionary Empress
Dowager, secure the dismissal |
and flight of the reform leaders and
hold thp machinery in their hands.
The poison of reform had spread all
over the country, and was constantly
CHINESE GT7X CBEW WITH FIELD PIECE.
being instilled into the people in num-berless
ways. The only effective
method was, to expel the foreign element,
eradicate it altogether. Hence
they looked with favor upon the new
movement; encouraged it secretly,
guarded it from interference, without,
however, patronizing it openly. When
the movement became so strong that
the German authorities threatened to
- ?wne f??a n of nvrorl WOCt fiml
I JUitriicic, 11 ttuo w?uuK>bv?.vv*
north, and appeared in Pe-chin-li, the
province of Pekin.
There must have been shrewd leaders
among the insurgents. They took
special pains, for the most part, to
avoid open collision with European
Governments. The foreigners themselves,
while aimed at, were reached
by the peculiarity Chinese method of
indirection. Their persons, with one
exception, were not touched. It was
their followers that felt the blow.
Missionaries were left in safety, but
native Christians were butchered. The
moveineutgrew,and the crowd became
more open in its manifestations. The
men drilled in the very square of Pekin,
and not a word was spoken from
the Palace to hinder. In the provinces a
quasi effort was made to suppress
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."Elites
INTEBIOH OP Plfa^n rtTV
(Tills is (be courtynrd of JKnlster Coi
them, but witli the oid(p 8uppw#slon
went a private ogtofr'to': the Governor
to be prttlPQ^Wfh the people,
whose intention was not evil, even
some of their ncilous''CouId not be ap^'
proved. At tirst the loreii,*n embassies
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contented themselves with protests.
To these there came the usual form of
. Oriental, a s6ent, and the usual attend<
Mint Oriental delay. As Pekin, how'
^er, was threatened, and the possibility
appeared of danger to the embassies,
the demands became, more; urgent.
Ships of war gathered at Tientsin,
and marines were landed arid, despite
the protests of the Tsungli Xamen,
transported to the capital.
The "Boxers" profess to be an or
gamzation ior toe cumvauon 01 gym- |
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CENTRAL BUSINESS
nasties, but, like the Turn Verein,
WIUCU so peruirueu me reuugitiucB?.ernments
of Germany in the days of
the Holy Alliance, they conduct a secret
political movement and uphold
the ultra-conservative and anti-foreign
tenets of that energetic, Indomitable
old lady and thorough-going reactionary,
the Empress Dowager. It is an
open secret that the Manchus, the ruling
race in China, encouraged and supported
the "Boxers," and probably it is
to their patronage that the society
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owes its remarkably rapid spread from
Shan-Tung, where is was organized,
throughout the whole province of Pechin-li.
TLe iise of a strong popular
movement against Christians, foreigners
and native reformers was undoubtedly
a consolation to the Manchu man
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darlns and the Empress. Indeed. last
January they were referred to iu tones
of high approbation by the latter august
personage, and. in consequence, i
withhold some mens- l
nre of sympatfipHMI^ "Boxers" iu I
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the position in which they find themselves.
They believed they were basking
in the light of imperial favor, and
the Dowager Empress's edict certainly
lent color to that supposition. That
edict, which it was understood at the
time had special reference to the "Bos
ere." drew at once a wide distinction
between "those reckless fellows who
band together and create riots," in
other words, seditious societies, and
Li. /. EDWIN H. CONGEB.
. lYAmerican Minister at Pekln
''the submissive ,and loyal subjects"
Who "learn gymnastic drill for the protection
of their families o- unite the
villages in their districts for mutual
protection, In other words, the "Boxers."
"But the local authorities," the edict
went on to say, "make no distinction,
and, rol?tak6nly listening to groundless
rumors, treat thfm aUjsw seditious subjects
and ruthlessly put them to deatb.
burg in 1868, 'f^djwien removed to
,<v "a? t ?Ka Kn/tnma on
jjexier, iowa, .jpu?*e uc uc<.<uuv v?
gaged in farmijijp, stock raising and
banking: He was elected treasurer of
Dallas County, Iowa., in 1S77, and
again in 1879. In 1880 the Republicans
chose him for State Treasurer of
Iowa, and re-elected him in 1882. After
this he served three terms in Congress,
leaving his position there to
become Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to Brazil. From
this his advancement to the important
post at Pekin was rapid. He is ranted
as one of the ablest of American representatives
in foreign countries.
The Demand Fur Baboons.
The baboons and chimpanzees are
ferocious and hard to handle, but
bring good prices and there is always
a demand for them. The opening of
new zoological gardens throughout tbe
United States has increased the trade
in monkeys; but the American circus
has always offset the greater number
of zoos in Europe and has made
this country a good monkey market.
The clown and the monkeys are the
two indispensable circus adjuncts. The
rest of the outfit may be thin spread
and unsatisfactory, but if the monkey
and the clowns are !n good working
order, the children, at least, will get
their money's worth. So the manager
of even the smallest traveling circus
keeps his monkey cages full, and, as
the exposure kills off the animals rapidly,
he lias to be constantly replenishing
the stock. It is hard on the monkeys,
but the making of the dealers.
A Trolley Line In Mlniatnre.
What is probably the smallest working
electric* railway in the country is
under construction at Macon, Mo. It
is owned t?y the P.lees Miniature Rapid
Transit Company, and when completed
will be a mile in length, running
around the grounds of a private park.
The gauge of the road is three feet I
two inches, and each car will carry
eight people. The road is a miniature. V
iu its corporate as well as its physical' PI
body, for its officers are children. I
Frederick Blees. thirteen years old. i
is president and motorman; Alvin I 1
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Blees. It'ii years old. is vice-president; ; i
Roy Denslow. thirteen years of age, |
is secretary: the treasur"" is eight-year I '
old "Willie Blees. and thv assistant su- 1
perintendent is Raymond Kirsch. who '
is thirfeen years old. The road operates
in Mrs. IMees's park, and is capitalized
for SllMMN).
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ButImIh in Hotine*. <
In certain parts of Africa it is I
considered a uiark of disrespect to
bury cut of doors at all. Only slaves *
lire treated in such unceremonious 1
fashion. The liouored dead are bur- ?'
ied under the floor of the house. f
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A LIVING SAINT.
Tercua of Mexico One of the World's K6?markable
Women.
The ccntral figure in this picturesque- 3
and interesting group is one of the W3
most remarkable women in the world.
She is nothing more or less than a liv- S
ing "saint," who Is not only worshiped
by, thousands of Indians and others. ?
who actually go into battle using bee- ^
name as a war-cry, but she has beea tfa
considered important enough to merit .* y,
nnnleasant attentions from the Mexl? IS
can Government. It is the Yaqui In?
dians of Sonora, Mexico, who worshipthis
lady, "Santa Teresa," who, in thepicture
is seen performing her usual j
mission of healing the sick. The worn- |
an herself resents all these attentions, ' }
both from the Indians and the Mexl-. ?
can officials, and -he points out that sbe- ';?
really cannot help it if her people sup-, 'S
pose she is of divine origin. Never? Jg
theless she has been ordered out of . jj
Mexico. The writer first heard of* ?
Santa Teresa from a Mexican lady oCT^g
unquestionable -position, who, sceptical jl
enough In the. first Instance, was yet. ?
afforded a remarkable demonstration' 39
of the woman's curing powers. "Ij | 3
found her," says this lady, "famous'- 4m
throughout all Mexico, and when &
came face to face with her I was sur- '?
prised to find a daintily-formed and'
almost beautiful Mexican lady, wbe^S
possessed the most marvelous eyes aDd' <M
most delicate hands I ever beheld."' jfl
Over and over again she has left the- 9
SANTA TEKESA OF MEXICO.
vicinity of El Paso, Texas, whither 'jm
she has been banished, in order t
avoid demonstrations, but sh$ hiflQfi
oeeii xoiiuweu uj uuuvmcuo ?i
and others requiring assistance. HejflfPS
power is so great#that^Ft is even al-^^|
leged that she was the cause of the- "a
late war between the Yaqnis and the-' iM
Mexicans. Undoubtedly Santa Teresa "2i
possesses the hypnotic faculty in a
marked dejfree. ? Wide World Magazine.
", awfl
Able to Hear It. v
It is well known that Joseph Medil), v~"""
late editor of the Chicago Tribune,. M
was, somewhat deaf, although his abil- M
ity at times to hear what was said ' - j.
In an ordinary tone of voice was fre- )
mfluently remarked. 1
related of him that he dropped m
the business department of the \
one. day to make. an.. inqufty '>
at>6ut something that had'occurred to /
hjjfl. and a young man.'Tvho had been
In ]hb employ only a' few months un- *
dairtook, in a loud t<5ne of voice, to i
/iWBgtiteri liini. ? ^
f- "What did youiay?" asked Mr. .Me- ""1
flfll. putting his hand to his ear.
The young man repeated the questlsin
fr? n ?till . Imifloi*
I'VU IU ?
"I can't liear you," said the editor,
"Oh, chose yourself around the -.;ij
olock, you old granny!" muttered the $
impatient employe, just above his
breath.
"I am not an old granny." said Mr, .'i
Medill, turning away, "and I shall not ^
. base myself around the block." .fffflg
The fresh young man made imme- .gM
diate arrangements to say good-by to .^1
his job; but the great editor probably |
thought that the lesson he had received
was sufficient and did not dis- j
turb him.
Liliuokalanl Return* to Hawaii.
Her former Majesty Liliuokalani. of ;i
the Hawaiian Islanus, and party re- -
. euuy leu wasmngton ior san r ran- a
jisco. From there they go to Hono- ?
lulu, where the ex-queen will remain .
rill December, when she will return
ro the United States to conclude her a
ousiness affairs with this country.
In the party were Robert W. Wilcox, . i
Honolulu, a personal friend and ad- 3
ciser to Liliuokalani: Charles Hamil- i
:on English, M. D., Washington, her
EX-QUEEN LILIUOKALANI OF HAWAII. j
physician; Prince-^jaleluhe, Honolulu, .
private secretary aijul a wealthy land j
(*vraer of the lslan^l^iacl the Prim-ess ;
Heleluhe, mald-ln-^altlng to the former-queen.
Count iiexander Valanirer,
of Poland, who tt on his way to
Honolulu on a pleasure trip, also trav- ,-j
led with the royal Darrv.
Lilii'oknI.'iDi was attired In black and
i round ber neck wore a boa of bright *
eil and yellow. She remained in her
00111 all day. declining lo see visitors.
A Gfillmit l'nrfoii.
It is said that the Rev. Sydney Smith j
?ould be gallant as well as witty ca
K-casion. "Oh. Mr. Smith. I cannot
jring this flower to perfection." said
1 young lady to him once as she
ihowetl him about her conservatory
tV hereupon lie took her by the hand
ind sa/d: "Then let me bring per- Jjj
action to the tlower."?Areonaut. ji