Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, February 25, 1891, Image 1

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lewis >1. orist, proprietor.} Jut Jiidcpfiidcnt Jamits gtciespapcr: <^ot[ the Sromotion of the |olifipl, Social, J^ieuttupl and (foimncrcinl Jnteresfs of the $outh. [terms?$2.00 a tear in advance. ) 1 " _ ? ! i ; !_ VOL. 37. YORKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1891. ISTO. 3. * " 1 ' nr,~~ T AMAA a VAlinff . 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 i. \Wl/\tJ. v Mi 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 u-- 11. .A i.? U../I U?i>? In. 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 ?T ,...? * 11 i... 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?"