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VOL. 37. YORKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1891. ISTO. 3.
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. PART I?AT THE NORTH.
Chapter 1.?Bennle Standlsh, a pretty and
vtvaclowi girl of 18, is to be man-led to Beraty
Mason, a man of 50, who 1* her father k
creditor
Chapter 2.?Dale Everett, a New Englander,
and Adriea Latour, of French descent, are
her chum. Edith Van der Huysen, a somewhat
hnt v?rv brilliant society woman.
Chaptke 8.?a telegram announces that I
Latour and Everett will visit the Staudlshes. ]
They do not know that it is Bonnie's wedding I
day. Report has it that Edith is to marry ,
Lord MarUndale an EngUxinun.
Chaptkb 4.?Latour and Everett arrive.
Both are in love with Bennie and have a compact
that whichever meets her first shall ask
iter to many him, but whichever one succeeds
they will remains Mends.
Chapter 5.?Dale tells Bennie be loves her
and she tells him that she is to marry Beverly
Mason, finally confessing that she loves Latour,
but binding Dale on his honor not to tell
him.
Chapter 6.?Bennie g'ves Edith a' note to j
give to Dale, reminding him of his promise i
not to tell Adrien of her love.
Chapter 7.?Just before the ceremony Edith
.gives Mr. Mason a packet, telling hlninotto
open it for a year.
PABT II-IN THE SOUTH.
CHAPTER L
DEJEUNER A LA FOUBCHETTK.
^
IllilWIIIU'l'iiliIll' lie
toat apparently In Pierrot costume.
A bright balmy morning of February,
1866?its summery warmth'tempered by j
the breeze straight from the gulf?broke 1
ova New Orleans, to find her people astir,
with even more than wonted Sabbath
bustle.
The day of rest is ever one of excite- j
ment in the Crescent city, beginning i
with mass, or a visit to the famous !
French market, filled in with outdoor J
sports congenial to the semi-tropic cli- 1
mate, and brightened as evening falls
by the lights of many theatres. For j
good Romanists, having first done their i
duty to Heaven, decline the wear of sack- j
cloth on the day of the Lord, and believe ;
innocent enjoyment equally healthful to |
the spirit and to the flesh.
But this particular Sunday was red
lettered, as being the opening of Carnival
week?the first since the war; and ;
already preparation was apparent every- 1
where, from French town to those distant
western districts then largely Americanized,
now almost wholly So.
For the proclamation of the general
in command, that Mardi Gras might be ;
celebrated as heretofore, was eagerly
hailed by the masses.
In eras of public stress the average j
mind turns to pleasure ?ith peculiar j
zest: so, while the better elements of
society?most of them mourning lost j
relatives, all of them mourning lost
friends and a lost cause?rejoiced little
over the official permit, the "dear people"
accepted it as a miniature "Bill of
Rights."
Not very popular was Gen. Sheridan !
with any class in New Orleans, but the <
bait was too tempting for average Creole {
temperament to resist In quiet, dark- .
ened drawing rooms the revival of the ;
OiU uuie revtu nuUHUOoaiiuwuremj/i j
k as deep as the talk had been hot and
loud in some of the social clubs. It
would be but a saturnalia for the rabble,
the ancien regime declared, until the
whisper grew to certainty that the already
famous Mystick Krewe of Com us
would add its beautiful masked pageant,
by night And even then some timid
merchants?just beginning to rise be
neath new and strange burdens, imposed
mainly by cupidity, or knavery, of minor
officials?feared lest some overt act, under
the license of carnival, might tighten
still more the grip of the military
gauntlet
But the revel was to be; and, though
general masking was not permiaaible until
the next day, its infectious spirit was
abroad, showing here and there in a
fancy costume on trial, or even a rare
masker. And this was specially noted
in the French portion of the city, to the
east, across Canal street. For that noted
boulevard, combining Broadway and
Fifth avenue in one, is a boundary line
in geography as distinct and as respected
as though confirmed by treaties.
It divides the land of the past from
the land of the present, separating segments
of the people, as distinct as are
the English and the Irish, as clearly as
does the Irish channel. Outlying eastward,
and well within the quadrilateral :
of the four great streets, originally laid
oat as lines of defense against Indian
foray, quaint old Orleans was then unchanged
from colonial days. The venturesome
"Yank" who penetrated its I
labyrinth of narrow streets without some
knowledge of the French tongue was ;
liable to lose hie way hopelessly, and his i
temper helplessly in trying to find it
Nor was it nnusual, in those days, for
a lady to be born and reared, marry,
and die at ripe old age, in the French
quarter, not only in -absolute ignorance
of English, but without having once set j
her slim slipper on the thither side of
Canal street!
Verily a unique raoe, compounded of
fire, grace and prejudice, those Creoles
of the ancien regime?Americans only
in birth and good citizenship, but with
every taste, Sympathy and habit of life
as thoroughly French as though Christopher
Columbus had never bored Ferdinand
and Isabella into backing his i
more, or less, successful venture.
Only the top surface of all the surrounding
excitement was caught by a 1
group of four United States officers just
trotting briskly away from the French
market A veteran staff major with
gray mustache of huge proportions was
evidently the cicerone?his right from
longer residence on the staff of the commanding
general. By his side, with eyes
and ears opened to all novelty of sight
or sound, the single star on the shoulder
straps of his undress cavalry jacket,
showing the brigade command, rode
Dale Everett Behind were two young
captains, aids on his staff; and a pair of
orderlies, as mechanical as though made
to order, brought up the rear, keeping
distance as they would have kept the
commandments, were the latter in "regulations,"
and with that nerveless right I
hand drop that is the orderly's creed.
- Time had changed the general little, j
save to fill out lines of face and figure
and liberally to bronze cheek and hands ;
since the day at Roee villa. A full yel- J
low beard covered the lower face; but J
the watiia blue-gray eyes smiled out as
frank and true under a brow as fair as
the old cadet's, when he lifted bis light
foragecap.
Six years had passed since Bennio ,
Standish went to her sacrifice?years full ;
of bitter loss to brave endeavor, yet illumed
by such heroism and grandeur of
resource as made the whole world won- [
mmmmmmmmmmmmtammmmmmammmmmmmamfi
d Puritan j
By J. <5. DE lEOfl. I
lor of "Foot Years in Rebel Capitals,"
"Jbny," "Cross Purposes."
MCATED TO HON. HENRY WATTERSON,
jmory of Schoolboy Days, Still Unforgotten,
as Our Shadows Lengthen
Toward the Sunset.
!(ht, 1800, by J. B. Lippincott Company, an<t
published by arrangement with them.
der. For the Brothers' war was over, '
and only the unhealed wounds it had. j
made, and the sorrows thick in its deso- j
latin# track, told how cruel it had been.
At the first actual hostilities our two j
young soldiers had promptly made their '
choice. The Creole blood of Adrien La- |
tour, heated by what he felt to Lie
wrong8 to his people, had leaped to stand
foremost with them, while habits of '
thought and allegiance to traditions of '
his race held Dale Everett under the old !
flag. The first gun at Sumter stopped
all argument*"of principle between the
friends, and sent Adrien to lay his sword
at the feet of the government that gave it
"You are a soldier of the nation?not
of any state," Dale had often argued, to
which he ever answered:
"I recognize no nation, only a federation
of separate sovereignities," which
may be broken at wilL 1 am a son of j
Louisiana?not of the Washington gov- |
ernment"
"Yes," Everett would urge, "but that
government gave you the training you i
now would use against it That is not !
honest; the epaulets you wear sealed !
your bond to the government"
"It educated me to be a soldier?not a ,
hireling, a matricide! Louisiana is my |
mother, as Massachusetts is yours. 1 !
can no more stay than you could go, 1
Dale! You would respect me less did I j
listen to you."
And the descendant of the Puritans
was perforce silent The boom of that
f iteful first gun in Charleston harbor
echoed to the confines of the land, and
its echo was nowhere heavier than in the
brain of the two friends. But they puted,
as they had lived, brothers in heart
Everett had first served with his own
corps on the Potomac, but his Bolclkirly
instinct chafed at maps and earthworks.
He transferred to the command of a cavalry
troop; good service, and plenty of
it, in the west gave him rapid promotion,
and the surrender saw him the noted
commander of perhaps the most; no
ted cavalry brigade in toe service.
More from similarity of training than
by coincidence, Adrien Latour had had
alike career on the Confederate side.
Cavalry was his fetich, and his wealth
and family influence quickly raised a
picked regiment of young Creoles and
planters' soon noted for its reckless elan
and the dash of its coloueL First in the
west, later under the peerless Lee, the
young commander won fame and his
brigade; and, as it chanced, on his twenty-fourth
birthday the order came that
made him the youngest major general
in either army. [Fact When this novel
was first published hypercritdcism scouted
this statement as simple romance. It
is simple history that a young cadet left
West Point before graduation, was,
made first the adjutant and soon colonel
of a Georgia legion, won his biigade
and fought his way to command of his
division^when he was barely twenty
rour.?x tus Au mititj
But through all thoee dark and desperate
days one prayer of both had been
answered, and the quondam churns had
never met on the many fields they fought.
And, when the final crash of the southern
cause came, the Federal caused careful
inquiry to be made for his friendto
find that he had dispersed the remnant
of. his command and, refusing to
surrender, had crossed the frontier into
Mexico.
Arrived in New Orleans only the dAy
before, Everett had already renewed his
inquiries. His perfect mastery of French
and his peculiarly winning address
thawed even Creole reserve; but ho could
only learn that Madame, as all called
Latour's grandmother, lived alone and
a recluse at the old homestead.
To the stranger the French market on
Sunday morning is a glimpse of a pleasant
pandemonium. Venders cry their
wares in the high pitched but rarely
nasal patois of many nationalities?the
Sicilian fisherman, the Spanish fruiterer,
the negro, the quadroon, and the Creole
mixed in the variety of a "Mrmess."
And above all rises the burr of the Creole
voice, smooth and liquid as curacoa,
DUE witn ine some nery quality muueu
under the sweet?the only voice that
can melt and fnse the sharp crystallizations
of "gumbo French" into anything
like music.
Under the major's guidance the general's
party had "done" the market, had
tasted its wondrous cafe-au-lait and nibbled
praljmgp pf rnran, nrperari nnt,_Th&y
had fried that jam-ba-la-ya which here
replaces the pilau of India, and had
ventured the soft yellow gingerbread
anatomically named estoma' mulatto.
They had noted the grace of the quadroons,
the rotund old mulattrasses, sell- i
ing "calls tou' chau'" (peculiar griddle j
cakes), and had wondered at the tying i
of their Madras turbans. Bright in I
color, and knotted with skill tliat leaves
long ears projecting like horns of the ,
prophet, this misnamed "bandanna" is j
prized by the old time mulatto?now i
fast disappearing before the inexorable
march of progress over tradition?as
badge of caste, equal to the green turban
of him who hath gone to Mecca.
Deeply as Dale Everett had been in- i
teres ted in the novel scene just left, j
nothing had caught his fancy like the i
"gumbo French." And the major, proud j
of his acquirement, snapped out sentences
at tradesmen he knew.
"Bo' jo', mo comeare: com va?"
("Good morning, my friend: how are
you?') he would call to one; then to his :
neighbor: "Eton*moon ch' voo?" ("How j
are all the folks at home?')
But suddenly turning, just as they !
moved for their horses, the major had |
come into vigorous contact vrith a tall, I
strange figure following his party. He |
was apparently in Pierrot costume, from ;
the white mask through which shone
two fiery black eyes; but the rest of his
costume, save loose flapping white
trousers, was hidden by a light Mexican !
serape.
"Ga' tu moon la!" the major had roared,
in veritable gumbo; using the tu of con- '
tempt instead of the gardez of form or
courtesy. But the other, with a courteous
"Pardon, monsieur!" had slipped j
a way; and the veteran's good humor j
was now bubbling high again, as he led ;
his guests to a breakfast of welcome at a I
unique restaurant.
Only the keen scent of a veteran quartermaster
had sniffed out the famous i
"Green Perch Cafe;" but the major's I
fluent French, albeit tempered by strong j
Ohio twang, permitted exploration of
the ever varying terram incognitam of I
Frenchtown. And his most precious
find was this unpretentious front to un- j
surpassed cuisine.
Passing the low doorway into the
plain room with sanded floor the federal ;
officers found few occupants at that
hour, the outdoor attractions of Sunday
inducing late breakfast for the habitues.
A parchment like old Frenchman, with ?
his chocolate and toast, and a swarthy
Creole, appetizing on absinthe and a
cigarette, held the fort at that moment; i
and the three strange officers glanced
doubtfully at one another and not unsuspiciously
at the plain surroundings.
Interpreting the glance, the major an- ,
swered it cheerily:
"Wait a bit, my boys! Here, especially,
appearances are deceitful. Madame ,
is a singe cat? Ah! bonjour, Mine.
Pietro. Voici nous autres amis." And
the veteran rattled out volubly, in his
western French, orders for the choice of '
the larder; while a dried up specimen :
of the Diego, with snowy mustache and
fiery eyes under bushy white brows, j
moved round with catlike tread and laid j
the snowy cloth and glistening glass and
silver upon it.
Pietro Bartol, master of the bouse and, ;
by the marriage fiction, of Madame '
Pietro as well, was an unknown quantity
in its nomenclature. The fame of !
Madame Pietro's belonged to civic history,
far beyond Canal street, but none
of it had touched her quietly omnipres- ;
ent lord and master. Taciturn and '
wooden, this caro sposo had his set
formula, which the major fished for with
his best French:
"Comment va, mon Creole?"
Not a feature moved and not a ray of
intelligence lit the ligneous seams in ,
Pietro's face; but the spoons might have !
flashed back a venomous gleam from be- !
neath the bushy brows as a hard voico '
jerked out in English:
"Me! Am-anot Cre-oll!?am a Spagnol,
me! Loy-all! no re-bell lika Cre-oll.
Mindama bizonez?mekka dolla! Dey
Cre-oll no likka Fede-raL Me!?likka j
much; keep-a bizonez good-a; mekka
money saf-a; no riska lose; no Confed j
nota?caramba!"
k.^."That's his creed in words," tliejnajor i
answered Dale's querying glance, as
Pietro glided away catlike. "He gram- ;
bles loyalty like maledictions, but headquarters
have an idea that Senor Bartol 1
1 omib(ii tVion fka mrmfc !
JUiUWO U1U1U ICUCl DW&VKO VUtM. ?MV ?WW. .
fire eating Creole would be trusted with. I
But that matters little now, and his
carte is always perfect. See for yourselves."
And here came the court bouillon,
veritable essence of the red snapper of j
the Gulf, boiled into on almost jellied
form and flavored with a dozen individual
condiments that tempered without
disguising the inevitable chile pepper. ;
And the white wine of France Retro
Bartol himself uncorked and poured,
caressing the not too cool bottle with ;
something nearer to human sympathy
than belonged to his makeup.
"Ah. senor, e mekka no wine likka dat j
today. E come-a fro' farm-a of sis tare
to madame en France hersolf! Madame j
has mekka voyage each-a year, wen war ,
' " 1 - A ! .1 .. t > I
ese not to geua uai wiuc?uai. ?u <>uo
ozere?ono ozere, yon know-a, major?
One-a more."
And the major, superior to the ques- ;
tioning eyes of the two aids, winked at
Pietro and drained his glass with a
smack. Next, following a thimble glass
of strongest flavored punch, came the
triumph of the Maison Bartol?its name ,
specialty?the rare green perch, flopping
ten miuutes before in the osier basket
that brought them that dawn from
the high waters at Metairie Ridge; royal
perch, with broad backs and clear fins, '
and with firm flaked meat of such bou- j
quet as held its own with the knowing j
ones, even against that of the far praised !
pompano. Theft were served cutlets of i
startling thickness, brown' in coat, but :
weeping blood like martyrs at the least !
cruelty of the knife, and with them real
French peas, small, plump and with
flavor?not the meretricious masqueradars
that hold musty carnival in the
grocers' trade. And the snipe!?those
pepper flavored fellows with the glow of
the sun and its foster insects active in
them, as they lie sedate on beds of cress,
impaled upon their own bills. And,
crunching a head of these, the major
turned to Mme. Pietro.
"These are special friends of mine,"
he told her in French filtered through
Ohio. "They have feasted on salt horse
and hardtack many a day, but they
know a good thing when they find it.
Now, mad am e, one little bottle of that
wine!"
Madame nodded, smiled and answered
in her liquid, south of France tongue:
"As Monsieur le Major says. He shall
have it But, mon Dieu!"?and she
rolled up her eyes like a devotee and
sighed?"they are now so few! This
war makes such distress and scarcity!
They are so few!"
She crossed the room to a ladder like
stair leading up the opposite wall to unsuspected
regions above, returning shortly
with one small, black bottle, innocent
of wax or label. Holding this at just
the proper angle between her plump
5 ' 1* .1 A l. _1,
jcneea mauamu uvrwu uicw mc wi?.
At its suggestive "plop!" the delicate
bouquet of rare wine saluted the senses
of the breakfast party, passed beyona
and caused the long, pendnlous nose of
the toast eater to inhale, over his newspaper,
with as near approach to a sniff
as French courtesy permitted.
"There!" inadame cried as she left a
few drops in the major's glass and
passed to his neighbor. "There is such
a wine! such a bouquet! That is Chateau
la Rose, Monsieur le General?Chateau
la Rose, from virgin vines. Those
grapes grow on the hill vineyard of my
own sister. Ah! mon Dieu! I keep that
wine in my own bedroom, under my
own bed. It is perfect?no?"
"A propos, inadame," Dale Everett
broke in on the smiling pause, as madams
took breath, "is it not here that Mme.
d'Auvigne Latour has her home?"
The -smile suddenly died from mad- !
ame's red lip, a hard straight line re- j
placing it. Her eyes glanced quickly at |
the screen at the rear of the room, then l
returned boldly to her questioner.
"Monsieur le General knows the fam- j
ily, then?" she qu-*ied. "Evidently he j
is French. Perhaps he was a kinsman? j
before the war?"
"No; scarcely that," Dale answered, j
with a smile at the distinction of dates. |
"But nevertheless I have a great desire
to see Mine. Latour."
"For what?" asked the woman, bluntly, j
The federal general gave her an j
amused stare?authority is rarely accus- j
tomed to questioning?but he smiled as j
he replied:
"N'importe! For curiosity, perhaps. I
I was at our military school with her
grandson."
"Ah! mon Dieu!" cried madame,
clasping her hands. "You are he! You j
are the General Dale! Mon Dieu! what ,
a chance! On this day of all But !
what am I saying? Pardon, messieurs! |
Yes, yes, Monsieur le major. Now you j
wish the omelet, and then the gloriano?"
And madame glided away hastily, but j
not without another suppressed "Mon !
Dieu!" and unother long stare at the gen- j
eral.
This byplay was quite unnoticed by ,
the others. Only one of them understood
French, and he was hot in denunciation
at the moment.
"Yes, sir! It's a shame! Ad dout- !
rage!" the major was repeating, as he j
slammed Jris napkin down on the table, j
"Think of it, Everett?a whole army encamped
here, and not an American to \
ride against Johnny Crapaud and John J
Bull for the honor of the old flag!"
"I had heard only vague mention of !
the race," Dale answered. "Is it strictly j
a gentleman's affair?"
"Oh, strictly. The challengers are tip
top swells, and our general is the patron.
I asked him yesterday if he wasn't
ashamed of his subs. By Jove! but for '
that escopet ball I brought from Molino
del Rey I'd try what the Q. M. D. could
do wheu the line funked! Don't you
see, Dale, that it is a national disgrace?"
"Scarcely," Everett answered with a !
laugh. "It seems to me a jjersonal, not
a military matter?assuredly not a na- I
tional one. It is simply a question of
taste."
"Extremely bad taste, too," put in the
senior aid. "Had Mississippi and Red i
River sendee left us a decent mount the
cavalry brigade would take up the
gauntlet."
"Is it a steeplechase, or only over
hurdles?" Everett asked quietly.
"Combination," said the major.
"Hedge, ditch and rails, besides a water
jump that will test most horses. By
Jove! Dale, if you have a beast that is
fit lend him to one of these l)oys for the
honor of the flag!"
"Are you sure there will be no other
entries?" the junior asked earnestly.
"Certain of it," responded the major.
"The light batlferv men make excuse iu
condition of their horses; the infantry
don't care to enter?afraid of their riding,
I suppose."
And whether for the reasons gi ven or
not, it was a singular nnomaly that no
army man was entered in the race. This
was an international challenge for gentlemen
riders over the famous Metairie
Jockey club course, on Monday, tho eve
of Carnival day. The challenge was
open to the world, and the general commanding
patronized the race. Later,
affairs of similar character were run under
the auspices of the Jockey club; but
thus early in reconstruction days that
body had not reorganized regularly, nor
were its sympathies peculiarly enlisted
in sporting matters.
The challengers were staff captain the
Count de Chavirac, of the French army,
and Baron Heros von Schlegen, of the
German lancers. The accepters entered
were Ensign Manuel de la Vega, of the
Mexican cavalry, and Capt. Mandeville
Hoyne-Cecil, of the British lifeguard.
Higher class New Orleans was not
overgiven to mirth in those days. But
it may be surnnsea mat many a quiet,
smile moved block mustaches at the
posture of the younger army men; and
that more than one shapely pair of
shoulders shrugged contemptuously at
allusion to "ces betes Yanlries!"
Still the absence of an American rider
scarcely lessened the general interest in
the race. The names of the contestants
were well known; preliminary practice
had shown the men and their mounts
well matched. Already such Creole
ladies as elected to grace the occasion
wore the green and gold of the Mexican,
the re<| and red of the Briton, the tricolor
of the France, or the red, black and blue
of Prussian.
But the United States colors, like the
Roman patrician families, fulgebant
abeenti!
"You did not answer the major's suggestion,
general," said Capt. Arnold
with quiet voice but eager eyes. "Do
you not think that some of us owe it to
the brigade to do something?"
"We might see about it, perhaps,"
Dale answered carelessly. "But here is
the omelet."
Only from French hands comes the
omelette au rhum a possible perfection;
the eggs beaten just enough and done to
the very turn, the sugar sprinkled by
neither prodigal nor miser, the rum old,
? nrUli nf enonioinn
Jjurc, btruil^, UUl ? lbU IIUV UUU Dua^vawm
of twang.
The tough old major touched the
match to the amber fluid with the pride
of the artist As the blue flame flickered
up the hideous, red daubed white mask
of a Pierrot peered round the rear
screen.
Without moving madame spoke three
words to her husband, rapid as flash of a
rocket, with sometliing of its crackle in
their consonants. The gum,bo carried
no sense to the best educated ears near,
but the nominal head of the house
promptly formed on the major's left,
dressed on the omelet and stood at "attention!"
while madame quietly and
swiftly passed behind the screen.
And it was Pietro who a few momenta
later served the crown of the breakfast
?the gloria a la Creole?placing four
lumps of sugar in a shallow silver vessel,
saturating them carefully with
cognac and watcliing that they melted
without burning. Then he ladled jus t
the proper quantity, still aflame, into
the cups, half filled with boiling amber
fluid. For the cafe noir of the Creole is
never black, and through it one may
read the date upon a dime.
"Aha! That's brandy!" gurgled the
major, with a deep, long sniff. "Thesoul
and heart's blood of a grape in every
drop! By Jove! sprinkle that on the
cobbles yonder and a vineyard would
spring up!"
And with the aroma of that gloria the
party moved to the door, took rein from
the blue statues of orderlies and clattered
off. A block below Everett excused
himself.
There 13 a visit I must pay this morning,"
he said. "And mass is long since
over."
And Pietro Bartol had followed to the
door, all loyalty and bows, but as they
rode off into the pleasant sunshine his
face changed like a flash, while evil light
glowed in the eyes.
'Curses on your race and kin!" he
muttered savagely, but in the purest
French. "Curse you and your flag for
the woe it has wrought on us and ours!
True was it when I said I was loyal!?
no rebel! But not loyal to tyrantsrobbers
like"? But even as he raised
his clinched baud the fiery gleam in the
old man's eyes changed to singular
shrewdness, and a grim smile twitched
the gray mustiiche as he added with a
deep shrug:
"But they pay well, and gold is a
novel sight?a pleasant sight! Eah!
The world moves, and one must move
with it who would live! And now for
our boy!"
He turned into the house. The Pierrot
sat at a table commanding full view
of the officers' table, dropping the opal
absinthe from a spoon's tip absently. He
1 n luoilir PittftV. Vu*_
ruse auu iuuu^ua ia?nj ? *A <w?v
hind the screen. Then his whole manner
changed; the tall form erected, and
with firm, soldierly stride he passed up
the narrow back stair into madaiue's
own apartment. .
"How slow she is! It is a half^TOuc^.
since she went!" he muttered, an he
bolted the door and tossed the hideous
mask aside, revealing the features of
Adrien Latour.
Deeply tanned, and not unfurrowed
by the sharp plough of anxiety, the face
was handsome as before?a thread or
two of silver showing in the drooping
mustache, and about the temples the
frost that early touches the black hair of
the Southron. But the imperious eyes
softened as he slowly paced the room,
muttering to himself?
"Dear old Dale! How natural he
looked! If I had only dared to :risk?
But I will meet him, before I sail,, if the
whole Yankee army gets between 'is!"
A light step on the stair, a light tap on
the door, and the man grasped his mask,
only to toss it aside again at the low
whisper?
"Mon fils, e'est moi!"
He shoved back the bolt. Mme.
Pietro, flushed by haste and pantiug
from excitement, stood in the entrance.
Drawing up her tall figure, she placed
tender hands upon Latour's shoulders
and earnestly gazed upon him.
"And mamanV" he asked eagerly.
She pushed hack the whitening hair
from his brow, kissing it as he hud been
a child, as she answered?
"Not quite yet, mon enfant. He is
there!"
[to I1K contim'Klt xkxt wkkk.]
The Prayer Properly Pin lulled.
Rev. W. H. Holmes, of South Kvanston,
Ills., is evidently a man who can be dis
turbed by nothing less than an earthquake.
He wtis engaged in prayer at a Tuesday
evening meeting in his church receutly,
when his 5-year-old sou entered from the
parsonage next door and cried, "Papa,
there's a strange man in the house." The
preacher calmly went on with hill appeal
to the throne of grace, and brought; it to a
proper conclusion before responding to the
boy's alarm. Meanwhile, however, three
of tho congregation had rushed out, done
battle with the burglar and put him to
flight.
Why Actors Grow Fleshy.
A new reason is advanced for the tendency
to stoutness prevalent among actors
and siugers. It is said that the assimilation
of food is greatly aided by tho active
and extreme expansion of the lungs, incident
to public speaking. The great foe of
the stage folk is fat., and now they can
trace the connection between the life they
lead and the resultant adipose.
She Liked to Write Checks.
M.imie Smith bus gone before a higher
court thau auy ou earth. She was a
wealthy young woman who had a mania
for uttering forged checks. She was arrested
at Denver threo months ago, and
pending trial secured release on bail. The
other day she died of pnenraoaia. Her
property in Kentucky yielded her an income
of $4,000 per year.
! ;Srti5Cflliinci)us Reading.
THE WEALTHY NAVAJOS :
I
TO BE MADE THE OBJECT OF GOV- 1
ERNMENTAL INVESTIGATION.
: They Own Million!, of Sheep, Cattle and i
dorse*, and Live as Did the Patriarchs
at Old?Their Ms>nnfactnns, Fends, Re- <
1 If ion and Customs.
[Copyright by American Press Association.]
The members of the United States gov- !
ernment commission recently appointed to !
: investigate the condition of the Navajo
I Indians will find that they have to do ;
' with the most rem trkflbln of Uncle Sam's I
: barbarian protegeo. inhabitants of their i
present location ici New Mexico for cent- j
A NAVAJO WARRIOR,
j uries, and anted iting in their traditions ;
the most remote i-ecords of the white man 1
I on the American continent, tbey are yet j
I little known.
The territory over which the tribe roams
1 is between the Bio Grande and Colorado
rivers, and along the valleys of the Gila '
I And Tuni in western New Mexico and Ari- j
zona. The Navajoe lead a nomadic life, {
| but at periods stop to sow and cultivate j
crops of maize, btana, pumpkins, etc. When
the harvest is ov*r they move on to seek j
new scenes.
Many are rich, and have flocks and herds !
! that would graoi the ranches of white cat- !
' tie and sheep barons, while the thousands j
! of handsome hoi.-ses owned by the tribe are j
| the admiration of every visitor. To pur- !
chase an animal, however, necessitates
: close bargaining, for the Navajos will al
low no one to cheat them if sharp deeiing ,
can prevent it.
' They differ widely in appearance from
the typical savage of the prairie. Tbey are
tall, well formed, erect, and have clear
olive complexions. Their bearing is easy j
' * **? ?UL
I and graceful, ana tuey uresa nuu wuuui v<
, A party of them visited by the writer had
apparel that was actually handsome. The .
women wore skirts that came below !
the knees, while the men bad long frocks j
made of some bright material, buckskin i
knee breeches and woolen stockings. In j
the woolen goods the most brilliant colors
were used, ami the effect was most strik- ;
ing. The won en have all their white sis- !
tern' love for finery, and feathers dipped in
strong dyes manufactured by them orna- ,
mented their beads and scarfs. The men j
had helmet shaped, hats similarly adorned, :
and pre >euted the appearance of veritable J
stage warriors.
The old Abrihamic form of government 1
exists among the Navajos. The wealthi- !
est men are chiefs, and have retainers, re- '
sembling the terviitors of the feudal lords. j
The chiefs coder at times and decide what ;
shall be done with the tribe's possessions. ,
The Navajos will no more touch or eat a ;
hog than will, a Jew. It is estimated that I
they have ne w on their ranges 3,000,000 ,
sheep and 20,(00 horses, besides large herds
of cattle. Aji there are less than 10,000 !
of the race the vrealth is qnite repectable. 1
They add to it constantly by the sale of
the famous Navajo blankets, which nil i
the skill of the white man has not been '
able to d uplicate. They ore so finely woven i
that water can bs carried in them without ;
leaking, and the dyes are of such a permanent
and brilliant quality that they sur- j
pass all others known. The dyes are made '
and the blankets woven-by the women of 1
the tribe on peculiar looms of their own
devising. These show great mechanical j
skill. They consist of three or four horizon- ;
tal poles tied to Baplings or upright stand- :
ards, while straight, slender strips of wood .
or leathern thongs reach to the ground. :
The weaver squats before the loom and
plies her shuttle to and fro, around and j
between the strips, forming the warp and
woof of the blanket. The dyes are made
from certain plants and eArth deposits
knowh only to the tribe.
The Navajos are, however, true Indians i
as regards treatment of their enemies. !
They have no friendship with any other :
tribe, and war upon the aborigines of the j
southwest constantly. Once, when they 1
were fightiag nhe Pueblos, tbey called a :
peace council, and having gathered all the
Pueblo chiefs in a canyon, fell upon them
and attempted to massacre the whole 1
party. The uiubleness of the intended ;
victims, who scaled the sides of the canyon !
and escaped, fr ostrated th? design.
The Navnjos are uot experts with bow, ,
j arrow or ride, t heir favorite weapon being i
I the spear, which they throw with great !
m 3 ","1'1 'HI. finn liAMoman
I iorc? ana iuc) 010 uuc uui^wvu, .
i and the young men are fond of athletic 1
. sports. Like .he old Greeks, they have I
| v. A PONY FOR THE SPIRIT LANJX
I aiinuttrrouUuits.in wrestling, running, etc.
I These are held every snring at the full
j moon, and the participators gather from i
ull sections of the country over which the i
: tribe roams. No prizes are given, it being
considered that the name of being the
' winner is reward enough.
All maimer of odd superstitions run rife
i in their untutored minds. Their prophets
; pretend to receive from an old woman In ;
; the skies communications which are given
to the people with great ceremony. Dead
bodies are their especial abhorrence, and
every article of apparel which a departed 1
one possessed is destroyed if possible. Rei
cently, in company with some urmy oflli
cers, the writer saw one of their funerals, j
It was an event to be remembered.
Following a guide we went ucross a piece
; of valley woodland, and reached a pleasant
| opening just as the cortege entered it on
i the other side. The body was wrapped in
' costly blankets, and rested on poles also
covered with blankets. Depositing their
; burden on the cut branches of trees the
: men took turns at digging a grave. When' 1
I it was done the body, blankets and all,
i waii lowered, and the mourners set up a
i quarter hour's howling and wailing. Next
they placed in the grave the articles it was
| supposed the dead Indian would need in j
his new hunting grounds, including a
spear, patt of a loom, some dyes, his helmet
and moccasins, after which the grave
was filled up. Then a pure white pony
was brought out of the woods. Guns and
arrows were pointed at his heart, and the
next instant he lay dead across the new
1 made mound, where he was left for the
future use of the departed chief. Finally
one of the leading Indians made u division
of the dead man's property.
I Woman holds an exalted place umoug
tbo N&vajos. They believe that a woman
places the sun in the heavens each morn,
ing, while the stars are sprinkled upon the
gi-eat blanket of the sky by a woman's
: hand. In strange variance with this idea
is the one that the moon is carried on the
i hick of a burro, or mule, the long ears of
whicb the medicine men pretend to be
; able to descry.
Their ceremonies are most interesting.
That of moving is one religiously ob.
served. The medicine man takes from the
; chief camp lire a burning brand, which is
carried ahead of the travelers until a halt
is called. Should the brand be extinguished
they return to the original camp,
whera they remain until the following
; day. When a long journey la to lie made
the inediciue men hide wicks saturated |
with oil in the brands, and so preserve the
lire.
In marriage the woman is, so to speak,
! the l est man. The acceptance of a pony
j tied outside the squaw's wigwam is a betrothal,
aud at the wedding the bride and
groom sit on opposite sides of a waterproof
basket filled with food, of which they partake
in the presence of the assembled relations.
By this act they are made man
and wife. The marriage relation is not
very strictly observed, though only one
legal husband or wife can be had.
Conversations with travelers who have
made a study of the Navujos' traditions ;
lead to the couclusiou that they are a
branch of the Apache family, but are more j
civilized through having held the inter- |
mountain plains for so many centuries. ;
Old Mexican and Spanish authorities call 1
them the Navajo Apaches, and there is
certainly a slight similarity in the language.
It is, however, difficult to account :
for their skill in manufacturing and love 1
of pastoral pursuits. They themselves be- j
lleve that they sprang from the water ;
which lies a long distance north of their ;
present home, and that at death they will ;
return there.
Their worship is different from that of
any tribe in the west. It consists of in- :
cantations and solemn addresses to the sun
and moon, while the high mountains have |
an awe inspiring power. Above the snow i
line they do not go, as there is to them |
something mysterious in the whiteness
that exists even when the plains below !
are burning with heat. The mirage, which I
in the hot and dry air of Arizona is so common,
is to them a vision of thafuture lands
of bliss. The lakes and green trees with
which the wonderful refractions always
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A PROPOSAL OP MARB1AOE.
abound are taken as promises of what the
Great Spirit will give them in the traditionary
northern paradise when their labors
are over.
They are almost warlike people, and
have in tbo post given the United States
government much trouble. They are too
shrewd to Indulge in ghost dance nonsense,
but their frequent raids on New Mexican
settlers have made their name a terror. In
1870 Uncle Sam had to send some troops to
punish them for the murder of a number j
of people near Fort Defiance. Six or eight j
expeditions have been sent out at other j
times to Arizona, and have succeeded in ^
destroying thousands of sheep and cattle, |
as well as crops, reducing portions of the ;
tribe to the verge of starvation. RetaUation
has been made by the nomads upon ;
the settlers when the troops were withdrawn;
but one thing is to be said in their
favor?they never scalp their dead foes.
Of late years u treaty has been in force
which has proved valuable, as the Navajos
are careful to keep their promises.
But the territory over which they roam is
considered too large ior meir numoers, ;
hence the government is endeavoring to restrict
them still further.
Charlks Moreau Harger.
WHAT ANINDIAX CAN STAND.
To show what an Iiftlian can stand
when he has to, I may tell of an incident
which happened during the
winter I was with them, says a writer
in The Detroit Free Press. Toward
evening on a cold winter day, when it
was snowing just n little and drifting a
great deal, an Indian came to the log
house with a jug half full of whisky
and his rifle. I imagine that the
jug had been entirely full of whisky
when he started, and by the time he
got to the house he was in rather a
jolly condition. The jug and the rifle
were taken away from him, and he
was ordered to get to his wigwam
as quick as he could before darkTT.
l.A J
ness came on. ne ien mm ?un supposed
to have gone to the camp, hut
early next morning his squaw appeared
at the house and said he had not come
home that night, and as the night was
cold she had been anxious about him.
Then the search for the lost Indian began.
He was found in one of the sheds
near the barn under a heap of drifted
snow, and the chances are that the
snow that was above him had helped
to save his live. The searchers for the
Indian had gone in different directions
and it was his own squaw, who, with
true Indian instinct, had tracked him
out, and she was alone when she found
him. Apparently the Indian was a
fros^ri corpse. She tumbled him out
of the snow bank and pulled off his
blankets and dragged him down to the
creek, where a deep hole was cut in
the ice for the purpose of watering the
cattle. Laying the Indian out on the
snow, she took the pan that was beside
the hole, and filling it repeatedly,
dashed pailful after pailful over the
body of the Indian. By the time the
other unsuccessful searchers had returned,
she had her husband thawed
out and seated by the fire and
wrapped up in blankets. There is no
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question mat u lie Iiuu i 'ecu iuuiiu ./j
the others, ami been taken to the house
frozen as he was, he would have died.
GROWTH OF*THE BRAINS.
In the inferior races the head ceases
to grow after twenty years of age. In
the superior races the head of the intelligent
and educated man increases
in volume until thirty-five, forty and
fifty-five years.
The skull has reached its maximum
development when the bones composing
it are welded together so as render
the sutures invisible. Once the sutures
are solidified, the further growth of
tlie brain is impossible, which is said
to explain the insurmountable difficulty
experienced in trying to teach illiterate
adults. The solidification varies
according to the investigating activity
of the brain. It takes place between
the ages of twenty-two and twentyfive
years in the task worker, between
twenty-eight and thirty-five in the middle
class manual professions, and after
thirty-five in educated persons who
practice intellectual professions.
Recent experiments in the female
colleges of Russia prove that woman's
head, though naturally smaller than
man's, is susceptible to similar development
under educational treatment.
The skull of great thinkers grow I
throughout life. The frontal sutures :
of Pascal, Rousseau and others, who i
lived to a ripe old age were found open, j
Comparison of the individual skulls of j
different races disclose the singular j
and important fact that in the inferior
nf the Slltlll'CS
Ul-|lIj?D IUV- OUIlUU<\w?*wM v. f
begins in the frontal, or intellectual j
region of the brain, and terminates in :
the occipital, or animal.
In the ease of the civilized man, on
the contrary, the solidification, beginning
much later in life, starts in the occipital,
passes to the parietal bone, and
thence to the frontal, thus giving till j
the last moment the fullest scope to j
the superior functions.
Thk Moxkky-Wrknc h.?'The monkey-wrench
is not called so on account
of its fancied or actual resemblance to j
a monkey, or because it is handy to !
"monkey" with, but simply because
it is the invention of Mr. Charles
Moncky, now (?) of Kings county, X.
V. Although the world has pretty ;
nearly lost track of Mr. Moncky, it
seems to be a settled fact that lie sold
his patent for $2,000 and invested the
jriocecds in a homestead in the above
named county.
ffdy' The Michigan legislature last
year passed a law allowing each voter,
if he chose to cast as many votes for j
; a candidate for the legislature as the
I county had members. That is if a
county had five members, the voter
might put in five votes for one candidate,
or two for one and three for
1 another, or any way that suited him.
j The supreme court has declared the
law unconstitutional and thinks such
an arrangement about as bad as ballotI
box stufling.
Beff" For many years past everything
piscatorial has had Izaak Walton attached
to it in some way. and we are
i now glad to record the fact that he
knew little or nothing about the habits
1 of fish, never caught half as many as
lots of other fishermen, and was too
I lazy to dig his bait.
CHARITY.
A beggar died last night; his soul.
Went up to God, and said:
"I come uncalled; forgive it, Lord ;
I died for want of nread."
Then answered the Lord of heaven, j
"Son, how can this thing be ?
Are not my saints on earth ? and they
Had surely succored thee."
"Thy saints, O Lord," the beggar said, '
"Live holy lives of prayer:
How shall they know of such as we?
We perish unaware." j
"They strive to save our wicked souls, !
And fit them for the sky;
Meanwhile, not having bread to eat,
(Forgive) our bodies die."
Then the Lord God spake out of heaven
In wrath and angry pain:
"O men, for whom my Son hath died,
My son hath lived in vain !"
BILL ARP ON TRICKS OP TRADE.
When we were pulling fodder last
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mil, l nireu iwu men iu pun uj tuc
day and two to pull by the hundred
bundles, to see which was the cheapest.
But they got away with me anyhow,
and I could not help it. The ones who
pulled hy the day didn't make 150
bundles apiece, which they ought to
have made, at seventy-five cents a day,
and the ones %ho pulled by the hdndred
made over 200, and some of them
mighty light. But it was all right, I
reckon. They were watching me, and
I was watching them. It is the same
old story?capital against labor. There
are tricks in all trades. You cau count
the hands in a bundle, but you can't
count the blades in a hand, and so they
can make them heavy or make them
light, according to pay. I've hired
cord wood cut by the cord, and they
can pile it so loose that a pack of
bounds can follow a fox right through
it and never touch a hair. But it is
no deep-laid scheme to cheat you.
They are just slashing along, and you
can settle with a darkey easier than
with any creature upon the earth. A
mean man can pay them in bacon at
15 cents a pound, and Hour at four,
when the cash would buy one at ten
and the other at three, and he can
cheat them 25 per cent, in weights,
and they will never know any better
and never care. The Lord never made j
such an easy, and unsuspecting crea*
r ot?o wliifn
lure us uuee m^u. jluviv u?v ** ?.?,
men who take advantage of them and
cheat them, and get their labor for
their vittlea and clothes, but the darkey
is sure ot a living anynow, for if
he can't earn it he can steal it, so it is
all right, anyhow, and the races keep
about even. Some farmers are tricky,
too. When they take chickens to town,
the sickly ones are sure to go, and the
best potatoes are put on top of the basket.
The richest pine is on the outside
of the load, and some rotten corn
will get in the sbellerwhen the meal is
for market. The merchant has his
tricks, too. He will bait you with
something for less than cost, and make
it up on something else at fifty per
cent. To keep up with hard competition,
he will sell you shoes with pasteboard
soles and nails that break in two
under the hammer, and shoddy goods
of all sorts, for his customers want everything
at the lowest price, whether
it is good or bad, and it is buckle and
tongue whether the merchant can get
ahead of his customers or they get
aheud of him. One thing is certain,
when the merchant forgets to charge
anything it is lost, forever lost. If he
makes a mistake in change or weight
or measure he hears of it if it is in his
favor, and if it is the other way, maybe
he don't. I don't know for certaiu.
The miller mixes corn meal with his
Hour nowadays. They all do it up
North and our millers say they have to
do it, too, to keep up, and they comfort
themselves with the idea that it is
healthier and better, even though it is
a fraud upon the consumer. The baker
gives six loaves for a quarter instead of
five, and that satisfies his customers,
though the five weighed just as much as
the six do now. Anything to satisfy
and keep the people calm and serene.
There is a power of comfort in going
home and showing up your bargains.
It proves that you are smart in trade,
or popular with the merchants, aud
that shows how smart a good merchant
is, for he can make ninety out of
one hundred good customers believe
he likes them better than anybody.
Civility and a little pleasant flattery is
splendid capital for a merchant. If my
wife was to hear accidentally that a
merchant in town told somebody that
she had the prettiest and best mannered
daughter in the community, she
would go right there to trade and
would not Jew him down on anything.
When I was a young man I was a merchant
for several years, and Mrs. Arp,
that now is, used to come and trade
with me, and I fell in love with her
across the counter and I was sorry the |
counter was as wide as it was, aim sue
wus sorry, too, I reckon, and I showed
iny devotion so tenderly and said such
sweet things that she used to come most
every day, and she done all the family
trading and some for the nabors, and
never priced anything, but just said so
many yards, or so many pairs, and I
had liked to have got rich off her before
I married her, which was all right,
I reckon, for it kept the money in the
family and 110 loss 011 our side. A store
is a good thing to marry on, that is a
dry goods store, but the young man
had better own it if he wants to make
a sure thing of his girl. Alter he marries,
the next best thing he can do is
to sell out his store and quit that sort
of business, for a merchant's own family
aee-unnt breaks liini oftener than
anything else, for it is so easy to send
to the store, and .it does look so much
like that things out of one's own store
don't cost anything. I never kept store
but six months after I got married : but
me and my wife have kept other peo- J
pies' stores agoing for the last thirty
years, and they have done pretty well,
considering. But the biggest fraud of
all is the marrying business, and the
man is guilty of it heap oftener than
the woman. I am not talking about
the regular society woman in a town
or city, for I don't think that anybody
can cheat her. She is generally an
iceberg in a passel of fine clothes, and
she don't know how to do anything
but read novels ami visit: but the average
girl who marries for love is oftener
fooled than the average man.
The time used to be when a man did
not begin to forget his wife until he
had been married ten or fifteen years,
but now he forgets her in a few months,
and wont stay at home of nights if he
can help it. Some nice, sweet-tempered
young married women may be seen
nowadays walking to the end of the
piazza about ten times in fifteen minutes.
looking up the street for her husband.
but lie don't come hardly ever
according to time. Folks didn't do
that way in my day. and my sort of folks
don't do it yet. Mrs. Arp don't have
to look up the road for me. Xo. sir.
I am 011 liaml before she wants me f,
am. This shows the good effect of
early training, and so 1 am obliged to
advise the young women to break in
their husbands as soon as possinie.
You can manage a colt mighty easy
with care and kindness, but it is almost
impossible to reform a balking horse.
Then there are the tricks of the lawyers
that would (ill a book, and are
too tedious to mention : and the tricks
of tlie doctors and the politicians, and
the patent medicine men. The editors
help them last fellows out and divide
the profits. They don't certify to the
lies, but they keep them spread out
before the people and skecr them
mighty nigh to death with their awful
pictures of snakes and horrible things.
Well, it is a wonder that anybody has
got anything, for it looks like most
everybody is trying to get what every
body has got, and they take tne mgnest
cut to do it.?Bill Arp in South- i
em Farm. i
LIFE SENTENCE FOR SELLING LIQUOR. !
Brief mention was mode of the fol- 1
lowing story last week. The Detroit
Free Press gives full particulars, and ;
the incident truthfully recites all the
characteristics of a large per cent, of '
those who once engage iu the violation ,
of the prohibition laws. In this case,
however, the prosecutors at last reach- 1
ed that point where they believed'forbearance
had ceased to be a virtue:
A man of 50 has been sentenced to
sixty-three years' imprisonment for
selling liquor, being convicted on 723
out of 1,000 indictments. That sounds ,
like law in some other country than
this, but it is what has happened to G.
F. Kiblins. a citizen of Norwich, Vt., a
little hamlet just across the river from
Hanover, N. H., the seat df Dartmouth
College.
Every college graduate for the last J
twenty years at least knows "Kib," for
he has dodged the law and the prophets
as exemplified by the august faculty of
the college, and^aas supplied the ar-,?
dent more or less surreptitiously to all
the students who chose to call on him.
Its quality has been terrible, its cost
far from moderate, yet it was liquor,
and that was enough. Time and time
again has the faculty "nailed" him/
Countless times has the victim appeared
in court and penitently taken an oath
not to sell again.
He has even signed documents
promising to keep the students "dry,"
which would be posted upon the college
bulletin board for the declaration
and the guidance of the boys, who, on
that promise were allowed to get their
meals at his hotel, for Kibling was enterprising
and ran ah "opera house,"
billiard hall, boarding house and blind
barroom all under one roof, to say
nothing of the skating rink and other
adjuncts too numerous to be catalogued.
All this was in Hanover.
But not long ago there were signs of
trouble. He saw a bigger storm than
usual brewing in the faculty headquarters,
stirred up mainly by Prof.
Emerson, the professor in chemistry.
He therefore moved back across the
river into Vermont, and there set up
his gods, calling his place the Pine
Tree or some such name.
The State of Vermont has a vigor
ous prohibitory law on its statute books,
although it is not always well enforced.
But it can be, as Mr. Kibling found out
to his grief. Learned professors went
to work collecting evidence, and to
such good effect that they procured the
modest number of 1,000 indictments
against the astonished Kibling for the
illegal sale of liquors.
His son, true to his early training,
turned State's evidence agaist him,
and he was brought into court. In
vain did he try his old dodge of swearing
that he would tempt the thirsty no
more. Useless was his penitence,
though accompanied by tears?a method
that had always been potent before.
A "compromise" was arranged whereby
Kibling was tried on only 722 indictments,
and on all these was found
guilty and sentenced to sixty-three
years or to pay a fine of #8,000. The
luckless bouiface chose the former alternative,
and has begun his terrible
term of imprisonment.
Tattoo Marks Cannot be Removed.?It
has often been claimed
that tattoo marks may be removed by
pricking over them goat's milk. This
is a mistaken idea. Chemists and
others have for years experimented
with various preparations in the hope
of discovering some agent to wholly
remove India ink marks from the human
skin. Nothing, however, has as
yet been found that will remove a portion
even of the objectionable marks,
unless, possibly, the attempt be made
immediately following the tattooing
process.
At Mount Washington University
Hospital, Baltimore, an experiment
wns snmfl vears aoro made in presence
of the writer upon the forearm of a .
noted character of that city who died .
there. Before his death the man granted
permission to the students of the
University to experiment as they saw
tit with his dead body. One of these
students, curious to learn everything
possible connected with the practice of
tattooing, cut from the dead man's arm
a strip of skin-upon which a coat of
arms appeared. Beneath the skin the
design remained visible. By degrees
the Hesh was removed, the design in
India ink still remaining in sight until
I finally the bone was reached. After a
j thorough sponging tor the purpose of
removing the blood and pieces of tlesh
remaining, it was found that the representation
still appeard.
After cutting away a small section
of bone the India ink mark was found
to have not penetrated beyond.?Boston
Commercial Bulletin.
How a Hymn was Written.?One
day Mr. Wesley was sitting by an open
window, looking out over the bright
and beautiful fields. Presently a little
' bird flitting about in the sunshine at|
traeted his attantion. .Tust then a
I hawk came swooping down towards
! the little bird. The poor thing, very
j much frightened, was darting here and
there, trying to find some refuge. In
the bright sunny air, in the leafy trees
or in the green fields, there was no hiding
place from the fierce grasp of the
hawk. But seeing an open window
and a man sitting beside it, the bird
j Hew, in its extremity, towards it, and
with a beating heart and a quivering
wing, found refuge in Mr. Wesley's
| bosom. He sheltered it from the
threatening-danger, and saved it from
a cruel death. Mr. Wesley was at that
time suffering from severe trials, and
was feeling the need of refuge in his
own time of trouble as much as did
! the trembling little bird that nestled so
! safely in his bosom. So he took up
| his pen and wrote that sweet hymn : j
Jesus, lover of my soul,
Let me to they bosom fly.
While the waves of trouble roll,
While the tempest still is high.
That prayer grew into one of the i
most beautiful hymns in our language. :
and multitudes of people, when in sor- I
I row and danger, have found eomfort [
1 while they have said or sung the last
! lines of that hymn.?Kxehange.
i Litti.k uv Litti.k.?We eannot
do great things all at once. Our great
artistsand musicians have gone through
years of arduous study before they 1
reached lame: the most learned man j
j in the world has had to begin '
by learning the alphabet. I once !
| read of a lazy little boy who was beginning
his alphabet, but who refused
to say A when his teacher bade him :
repeat it. The other children wonj
dered to see him so tiresome, and
! whispered : "Do. Jiimnie, say A." j
Well, if I do." lie answered "she'll ;
! only want me to say B." You see. he
did not believe in progress, but was j
willing to remain a dunce.
butiikns of Ixihu.kxck.?None so
little enjoy life and are such burdens,
to themselves as those who have nothing
to do. The active only have the
true relish of life. He who knows not
what it is to labor, knows not what it
: is to enjoy. Recreation is only valua- j
ble when it unbends us. The idle
know nothing of it. It is exertion
that renders rest delightful and sleep
sweet and undisturbed. The happiness
of life depends on the regular prosecu
tion of some laudable purpose or calling
which engages, helps and enlivens ;
! all our powers.
1uc obtkm , x uhw3 auvit a? j
collegian who, they told me, was making
a deeper impression on his fellowstudents
and professors than any other
student who had been in the institution
for years. I heard of him everywhere,
in all the clubs, and meetings,
and delegations that were talked of before
me this man's name was appearing,
and I marveled much at his enormous
capacity for Work. At last, one
of the professors, speaking of him in
the most glowing terms, threw in, in
the middle of his eulogy, a sentence
upon which I put my finger at once as
the clue to the secret by which he accomplished
so many things?too many,
very probably?which he undertook.
"Tom knows," said his professor, "the .
value of five minutes about as well as
anybody I ever saw." There, young
people, is a sermon for you in a very
few words. Do you know the value of
five minutes ? If you do not, seek it
" -ii i.ti? ~r
OUC among me omer utuiea ui wciguw
and measures, and study hard until
you find out exactly how much it
equals, and you will have laid the
foundation for much learning.
What Makes, Hair Cubly.?The /
difference, between stnyigbt and curly. >
hair is very apparent on a microscopical
examination. A hair is a hollow
tube, and a straight hair is as round as
a reed, while a curly hair is always
flattened on both sides and curls toward
one of the flat sides, never toward
the edge. It is a curious and
little known fact that the hair of
women is coarser than that of men, as
well as thicker on the scalp. In an
average head of hair there are about
130,000 individual hairs. The hair
seems to have a life of its own, independent
of that of the man, for numerous
instances are known of the hair
continuing to grow after death. In
one of the St. Louis cemeteries a body
of a lady was some years ago disinterred
for the purpose of removing it
elsewhere. When the coffin was openthe
entire cavity was filled with a mass
of auburn hair which had grown after
the interment had taken place.?Globe
Democrat.
Why Two Buttons??In The Republic
of September 6,1890,1 told you
why one or more buttons are placed on
the coat sleeve. The two buttons on
the back of the coat are even greater
enigmas than those on the sleeve. An
American missionary was once labor
ing with much learned argument to
convert a Chinaman, but found himself
nonplussed when the listener re-"
torted: "You are a profound scholar;
you know everything. Tell me, then,
why you wear those two superfluous
buttons on the back of your coat ?"
Whether the Chinaman received a satisfactory
answer to his query or not
will probably never be kuown; but one
thing is certain : It set investigators to
work, and it has since been ascertained
that the two buttons are the survival
of a semi-barbaric custom, and that
they were originally s*wed on to hold
up a belt at a time when every gentleman
wore a sword.?Republic.
In Jefferson Davis's memoirs the
following letter from a young woman
is printed: "Dear Mr. President?I
want you to let Jeems C. of company
oneth, Fifth South Carolina regiment,
come home and get married. Jeems is
willin', I is willin', his mammy says
she is willin', but Jeems's captain, he
ain't willin'. Now when we are all
willin' ceptin' Jeems's captain, I think
you might let up and let Jeems come.
I'll make him go straight back when
he's done got married, and fight just
as hard as ever." Mr. Davis wrote on
the letter, "Let Jeems go." Jeems
went home, married the affectionate
correspondent of Mr.Davis, returned to
his regiment, and did fight as well as
AVAP.
86T The census tells us just how large
we are. Texas has 265,780 square
miles. California follows with 158,360;
Montana, 146,080; New Mexico,
122,580; Arizona, 113,020; Nevada,
110,700; Colorado, 103,925. More'
than one-third of the entire area of
the country, exclusive of Alaska, is included
in these seven States and Territories.
In striking contrast with this
is the fact that Rhode Island has but
1,250 square miles; Delaware, 2,050;
Connecticut, 4,990; New Jersey, 7,815;
Massachusetts, 8,315; New Hampshire,
9,305; Vermont, 9,565. These seven
having but one thousandth part of the
area, exclusive of Alaska. Oklahoma
is nearly five times as great as Massachusetts.
V&T "It's a curious world," sighed a
Georgia politician, according to The
Atlanta Constitution, as he knocked
the ashes from his cigar and gazed
thoughtfully out of the hotel window.
"In what way?" asked his
companion. "Well, politically," was
the reply, "I know a dozen men in
my county who have left home, wife,
children, business?everything?to run
after a miserable county office which
isn't worth three hundred dollars a
year. And for such an office they are
willing to pay five hundred dollars!"
"By the way, colonel; said his companion,
"what office arc you running
for now ?" "Coroner, sir!" shouted
the colonel, "and I'll have it if costs
me a thousand dollars."
Robinson Crusoe's Island.?The
island of Juan Fernandez, once inhabited
by Robinson Crusoe, is now tenanted
by a former Austrian officer,
Baren von Rodth, who, after being
forced by the terrible wounds which he
? ? ! 1 ..4 at fia/l/ml'a - .. - _
ft'l'CIVCU ill HIV UUlilt VI - auu n u ni
1SGG to leave the army, grew tired of
the monotony of exis$ei^e in civilized
Europe, and detentflned to devote his
fortune to a lijjtrof adventure. For
fifteen years past he has been living on
the island of Juan Fernandez with a
small colony of natives and European
deserters from civilization, and only
communicating with the world once a
year, when he sends his fine sailiug
yacht to Valparaiso for provisions and
supplies.?Hurpers' Weekly.
Tastk Can Make Almost any
Home Attractive.?Girls, if you
have visited friends who have more
elegant homes than your own, and have
felt the refining influence of a different
home atmosphere, do not therefore
look down 011 your more humble one
and the parents who have toiled there
for many a year, but instead set your
wits to work to find how you can improve
your own surroundings, and
make them more in keeping with the
improved tastes of the present, without
much expense. This can lie done,
and you will be surprised to find what
interesting work it will prove.?Golden
Moments.
The Folly of Night Work.?A
great many people think they eneonomize
time by working into the night.
A great mistake. In the morning the
body is so worn out that you cannot
do your work properly. This results
even if the sleep has lieen long, for it
takes some time for the body to recuperate
after a strain, if it ever wholly
catches tip. There is never a loss
when the body is consigned to the tender
mercies of sleep.?Herald of
Health.
ttwir The strong point of a member of
the bar in a neigliboring State is his
faculty for getting the truth out of
witnesses. The following is a sample
of his system of cross-examination :
Are you a married man ?" "No, sir ;
lam a haciieior.' "?iii you please
tell the court and jury how long you
have been a bachelor, and what were
the circumstances that induced you to
become one?"