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VOL. 40. YORKYILLE, S. C., "WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1894. NO. 47.
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BY RIDER
Author of "King Solomon's
"Allen Quai
Copyright, 1893, by the Author.
SYNOPSIS.
Chapter I.?Thomas Wingtield was
f)oni in England of an English father and
a Spanish mother. His mother confided
to him that a certain Spaniard had sworn
to hike her life.
" "? J..? < )<&!, Ttmnitts
Chapter ii?who U?J, nuv>. ...
was about 18, ho went out into the mayfields
to a tryst with Lily Bozard. A
Spanish stranger attacked him on the
road, and the boy cudgeled the ruffian
into helplessness, leaving him tied to a
tree.
Chapter III.?Lily's father detects
Thomas kissing the maiden to seal a love
compact and forbids further meetings ol
the lovers. Ketorning home, Thomas
finds the Spaniard gone and his mothei
lying dead on a scene where foot prints
betray a struggle.
Chapter IV.?The mother has been
stabbed by the Spaniard, Jean de Garcia,
her cousin. Thomas' father tells the story
of his own early adventures in Spain, of
De Garcia.
Chapter V.?He sails for Spain. Lily
Bozard pledges eternal love.
Chapters VI and VII.?Thomas is a
medical student and finds employment
in Soville with a popular quack?Dr.
Fonesca. He meets DeGarcia and is prevented
from killing him by a woman
whom the villain has wronged:
Chapters VIII and IX.?Fonseca dies
and leaves vast wealth to Thomas. De
Garcia has gone to the Spanish Indies.
Thomas sends his wealth home to propiti
ate Lily's father and sails for Hispaniola.
* CHAPTER X.
THE LAND OF NONTEZCMA.
As it chanced, a largo Spanish carak
named Las Cinquo Llagas, or Tho Fivo
Wounds, was about to sail for Hispaniola,
nnd having obtained a license to trado I
took passugo in her under my assumed
name ot D'Aila, passing myself off as a
merchant To further this deccptfon I
purchased goods to tho valuo of 105 pesos,
and of such nature as I was informed were
most readily salablo in tho Indies, which
merchandise I shipped with inc. Tho vessel
was full of Spanish adventurers, mostly
ruffians of varied career and strange history,
but nono tho less good companions
enough when not in drink. By this time
I could speak Castllian so perfectly and
was so Spanish in appearance, that it
was not difficult for mo to pass myself off
as ono of their nation, and this I did, inventing
a feigned talo of my parentage
and of tho reasons that led mo to tempt
tho seas. For the rest, now, as ever, I kept
my own counsel, and notwithstanding my
reserve, for I would not minglo in their
orgies, I soon bccaino well liket* by my
comrades, chiefly bccauso of my skill in
ministering to their sicknesses.
Of our voyago to the Indies much could
bo written after tho manner of sea tales,
most of all of Dc Garcia, whom I encountered
on a Spanish slaveship, where I
found rcfugo after tho loss of tho carak,
near tho port of Santo Domingo. But I
hasten now to write of my fortunes, both
evil and good, and of my trials on nccount
of Do Garcia in tho land of Montezuma,
and of her who60 story I have long delayed,
Montezuma's daughter. From tho
power of Do Garcia, for ho was on officer
in that abominable slaveship, I escaped by
leaping into the sea
In a drifting barrel I floated away when
tho murderous sluves thought tho sharks
were making food of mo, and from death
by starving I was spared through a flsh
that I snatched from tho talons of a gull
and -devoured raw. The hard wood and
iron bands of my tub shielded me from tho
toethof a ravenous shark, and in it I floated
through tho breakers to tho shores of a
lowly lying land and into tho mouth of a
great river. At length, when tho barrel
drifted in not more than four feet of water,
I slid down from it, and wading to tho
Dans case myseir at jengm enure i? rcsu
anil thank God, who thus far had preserved
^ me miraculously. Then I staggered to my
feet and walked along the bank of the river
till I came to a pool of rainwater,
which on tho tasting proved to be sweet
and good. I drank, weeping for joy at tho
tasto of the water, drank till I could drink
no more, und let those who have stood in
such a plight remember what water was to
them, for no words of inlno con tell it
After I hail drunk and washed the brine
from my face and Ixxly and been thus refreshed
I cast myself down to sleep in the
shade of a bush lx'aring white flowers, for
I was utterly outworn.
When I opened my eyes again, it was
night, and doubtless I should have slept
on through many hours hail it not liecn for
a dreadful itch and pain that took me in
every part till at length I sprang up and
cursed in my agony. At first I was at ti
loss to know what occasioned this torment
till I perceived thut the air was alive with
gnatlike insects whieli made a singing
noise, and then settling on my flesh sucked
blood and spat poison into the wound ut
one and the same time. These dreadful
insects tho Spaniards name mosquitoes.
Nor were they tho only flies, for hundreds
of other creatures no bigger than a pin's
head had fastened onto mo like bulldogs to
a baited bear, boring their heads into the
flesh, where in the enil they cause festers.
They are named garrapatas by the Spanish,
and I take them to lx* the young of the
tick. Others there were also, too numerous
to mention, and of every shape and size,
though they hud this in common?all bit
and all were venomous.
Before the moruiug these plagues had
driven me almost to madness, for in no
way could I obtain relief from them. Toward
dawn I went and lny in the water,
thinking to lessen my sufferings, but be
lore l noa Dccn mere iu minutes i saw a
huge crocodile rise up from the mud beside
mc. I sprang away to the bank horribly
afraid, for never before had I beheld
so monstrous and evil looking a brute, to
fall again into the clutches of tho creatures,
winged and crawling, that were
waiting for me there by myriads.
But enough of these damnable insects!
At length the morning broke and found
me in a sorry plight, for my face was swollen
to the size of a pumpkin by the venom
of the mosquitoes, and the rest of my body
was in little better case. Moreover, I could
not keep myself still because of the itching,
but must run and jump like a madman.
And where was 1 to run to through
this huge swamp, in which I could see no
shelter or sign of man? I could not guess,
so since I must keep moving I followed
tho bank of the river, as I walked disturbing
many crocodiles and loathsome snakes.
Now, I knew that I could not live long in
such suffering and determined to struggle
forward till I fell down insensible nijd
death pun an end to my torments.
For an hour or more I went on thus till
I came to a place that was clear of bush
and reeds. Across this I skipped and
danced, striking with my swollen hands
at the gnats which buzzed about my head.
Now the end was not far off, for I was exhausted
and near to falling, when suddenly
I camo upon a party of men, brown in
color and clothed with white garments,
who hud been fishing in tho river. By
them on tho water were several canoes in
which were loads of merchandise, and they
Were now engaged in eating. So soon as
these men caught sight of mc they uttered
exclamations in an unknown tongue, and
seizing weapons that lay by them, bows
and arrows and wooden clubs set on their
side with spikes of flinty glass, they made
toward mc us though to kill me.
Now I lifted up my hands praying for
-? mercy, and seeing that I was unarmed and
helpless the men laid down their arms and
addressed me. I shook my head to show
that I could not understand nnd pointed
first to the sea and then to my swollen
features. They nodded, nnd going to one
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paste of ft brown color and nroiuatic smell.
Then by signs he directed me to remove
such garments as remained on me, the
fashion of which seemed to puzzle them
s greatly. This being done, they proceeded
to anoint my body with the paste, the
touch of which gave me ft most blessed relief
from my intolerable itching and burning
and, moreover, rendered my flesh distasteful
to the insects, for after that thej
plagued me little.
When I was unointcJ, they offered mc
food?fried fish and cakes of meal, togcthei
with ft most delicious hot drink covered
with ft brown and foaming froth that 1
learned to know afterward as chocolate,
When I had finished eating, having talked
awhilo together in low tones, they mo
tioned me to enter one of the canoes, giv
ing me mats to lie on. I obeyed, and thm
other men came with me, for the cnno<
ZEi^G-Q-AIRiD,
Mines," "She," "He," "Jess,"
rternmiii," etc.
was large. "One or tneso, a very grave man
i with a gentlo faco and manner, whom I
took to bo the chief of the party, sat down
. I opposite to me, the otner two placing
i | themselves In the bow nml stern of tho
; boat, which they drove along by means of
1 paddles. Then wo started, followed by
I throo other canoes, and before we had gone
, | a milo utter weariness overpowered me,
| and I fell asleep.
i ; I awoko much refreshed, having slept
, many hours, for now tho 6un was setting,
i | and was astonished to find the grave look>
j ing man, my companion in the canoe,
: , keeping watch over my sleep and warding
J tho gnats from me with a leafy branch.
, His kindness socmed to show that I was
in no danger of ill treatment, and my fears
on that point being set at rest I began to
wonder as to what strange land 1 had como
\ and who its people might be. Soon, however,
I gavo over, having nothing to build
on, and observed the scenery instead. Now
wo wcro paddling up a smaller river than
tho ono on tho banks of which I had been
cast away and were no longer in the midst
of marshes.
On cither side of us was open land, or
rather land that would havo been open
hod it not been for tho great trees, larger
than tho largest oak, which grew upon it,
some of them of surpassing beauty. Up
theso trees climbed creepers that hung like
; ropes even from the topmost boughs, and
among them were many strango and gorj
geous flowering plants that seemed to cling
i to tho bark as moss clings to a wall. In
i their branches also sat harsh voiced birds
I of brilliant colors and apes that barked
, and chattered nt us as we went.
Just as tho 6un set over all this strango
; new sceno tho canoes camo to a landing
place built of timber, and wo disembarked.
Now it grew dark suddenly, and all
i I could discover was that I was being led
along a good road. Presently wo reached
a gate, which, from the barking of flogs
and the numbers of people who thronged
, about it, I judged to l>e the cntranco to n
town, and passing it we advanced down
a long street with houses on cither side.
1 At tho doorway of the last house my companion
halted, and taking mo by the hand
i led me into a lone, low room lit with lamps
of earthenware. Hero sonic women came
forward and kissed him, while others,
whom I took to be servants, saluted him
by touching the floor with one hand. Soon,
however, all eyes were turned on mo, nnd
many eager questions were asked of tho
chief, of which I could only guess the purport.
I When all had gazed their fill, supper was
I served, a rich meal of many strange meats,
j and of this I was invited to partake, which
: I did, seated on a mat and eating of the
dishes that were placed upon tho ground
by the women. Among these I noticed
one girl who far surpassed all the others
in grace, though none were unplcasing to
the eye. She was dark indeed, but her
features were regular nnd her eyes line.
Her figure was tall and straight, and tho
sweetness of her face added to the charm
of her beauty. I mention this girl hero for
two reasons?first, because she saved mo
once from sacrifice and once from torture,
and, secondly, because she was none other
than that woman who afterward became
known as Marina, the mistress of Cortes,
without whoso aid he had never conquered
Mexico. But at this time she did not
guess that it was her destiny to bring her
country of Anahuoc beneath the cflual yoke
of the Spaniard.
1 From the moment of my entry I saw
that Marina, as I will call her, for her In|
dlan nnmo is too long to be written, took
pity on my forlorn state and did what lay
in her power to protect me from vulgar
j curiosity and to minister to my wants. It
was sho who brought me water to wash in,
and a clean robe of linen to replaco my
foul and tattered garments, and a cloak
| fashioned of bright feathers for my shouli
dcrs.
When supper was done,,a mat was given
i me to sleep on in a little room apart, and
' here I lay down, thinking that, though I
! might be lost forever to my own world, at
! least I had fallen among a peoplo who
, were gentlo and kindly, and, moreover, its
, I 6aw from many tokens, no savages. One
! thing, however, disturbed me?I discovered
that, though I was well treated, also I
was a prisoner, for a man armed with a
copper spear slept across the doorway of
my little room, llefore I lay down I looked
: through the wooden bars which served ns
) I a protection to the window place and saw
that the house stood upon the border of a
large open space, in the midst of which a
great pyramid towered a hundred feet or
1 i more into tho air. On the top of this
J ! pyramid was a building of stone which I
' took to bo a temple, and rightly, in front
of which a firo burned. Marveling what
| tho purpose of this great work might be,
' and In honor of what faith it was erected,
' ' I went to sleep.
'! On the morrow I was to learn.
! Here it may be convenient for mo to
1 j state, what I did not discover till aftcrward,
that I was in the city of Tabasco,
' ! tho capital of one of tho southern prov1
inces of Anahuac, which is situated at a
distance of some hundreds of miles from
the central city of Tenoctitlan, or Mexico.
1 The river where I had been cast away was
1 the Rio do Tabasco, where Cortes landed
in tho following year, and my host, or
rather my captor, was the cuzhjue, or chief,
of Tabasco, the same man who subsequenti
ly presented Marina to Cortes.
1 Thus it came about that, with the exception
of a certain Aguilar, who, with
some companions, was wrecked on the
coast of Yucatan six years before, I was
tho first white man who ever dwelt among
! the Indians. This Aguilar was rescued
by Cortes, though his companions were
all sacrificed to Huitzel, tho horriblo war
god of the country. But the name of the
: Spaniards was already known to tho Indians,
who looked on them with superstitious
fear, for in tho year previous to my
being cast away tho hidulgo Hernandez
de Cordova had visited the coast of Yucatan
and fought several battles with the natives,
and earlier in the same year of my
arrival Juan de Grigalva had como to this
very river of Tabasco. Thus it eamc about
that I was set down as one of this strange
new nation of Teulos, as the Indians named
tho Spaniards, and therefore as tin enemy
' for whose blood the gods were thirsting.
I awoke at dawn, much refreshed with
i sleep, and having washed and clothed my-,
i 6elf in tho linen robes that were provided
| for me I came into the large room, where
food was given me. Scarcely had I finish'
cd my meal when my captor, the eazique,
! entered, accompanied by two men whose
appearance struck terror to my heart. In;
countenance they were fierce and horrible.;
) They wore bluek robes embroidered with;
mystic cliuracters in red, and their long
and tangled hair was matted together with
some strange substance. These men, whom
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f mi i/iuuuiii^ iiivvuivt,
i seemed to look on with the utmost rever'
j encc, glared at me with a tierce glee that
made my blood run cold. One of them indeed
tore open my white robe and placed
his filthy hand upon my heart, which beat
I quickly enough, counting its throbs aloud
! while tlie other nodded at his words. Aft
! erwartl I learned that he was saying that
1 I was very strong.
Glancing round to find the interpretation
of this act upon the faces of those
' about me, my eyes caught those of the
girl Marina, and there was that in them
which left me in little doubt. Horror and
pity were written there, and I knew that
some dreadful death overshadowed me. liefore
I could do anything, before I could
even think, I was seized by the priests, or
pabas, as the Indians name them, and
1 dragged from the room, all the household
> following us except Marina and the caI
zique. Now I found myself in a great
1 square or market place bordered by many
1 fine houses of stone and lime, and some of
mud, which was filling rapidly with a vast
number of people, men, women and chilr
dren, who all stared at me as I went to '
j ward the pyramid on the top of which the
fire burned. At the foot of this pyramid I
was led into a little chamber hollowed out
r in its thickness, and here my dress was
torn from me by more priests, leaving mc
' { naked except for a cloth about my loins
and a chaplct of bright (lowers which was
' set upon my head. In this chamber were
t three other men?Indians?who, from the
horror on their faces, I judged to be also
I doomed to death.
Presently a drum In-gan to beat high
above us, and we were taken from the
5 clmmltcr and placed in a procession of
! ! many priests. I I icing the first among the
! victims. Then the priests set up a chanr, '
and we began the ascent of a pyramid, following
a road that wound round and
round its bulk till it ended on a platform
at its summit, which may have measured
40 paces in the square. Hence tho view
of the surrounding country was very fine,
but in that hour I scarcely noticed it, hav- i
ing no care for prospects, however pleasing.
On tho farther side of the platform
were two wooden towers 50 feet or so in j
i height. These were the temples of the j
i gods?Huitzel, god of war, and Quetzal, I
I god of the air?whoso hideous effigies, .
carved in stone, grinned at us through the j
j open doorways. In the chambers of these
temples stood small altars, and on the altars
were large dishes of gold, containing
the hearts of those who had been sacrificed
j on the yesterday. These chambers, more;
over, were incrustcd with every sort of
: filth. In front of tho temples stood tho al- j
; tar whereon the fire burned eternally, and j
j beforo it was a hog backed block of black j
| marble of the size of an inn drinking ta;'
ble, and a great carven stone shaped liko
a wheel, measuring some 10 feet across, j
with a copper ring in its center.
All these things I remembered after- ,
at thn thnn T crmivolv iy?nniw1
Vvttlll) uv II?V m?.v ? uvv.t.vx. |
to see them, for hardly were wo arrived at
j the platform when I was seized and drag- j
j ged to the wheel shaped stone. Hero a
hido girdle was put round my waist and j
secured to the ring by a rope long enough J
i to enable me to run to the edge of the
stone and no farther. Then a flint pointed
j spear was given to mo and sjxars were j
given also to the two captives who accom- I
' panled me, and it was made clear to mo
by signs that I must fight with them, it
being their part to leap upon the stone and
! mine to defend it. Now I thought that if
I could kill these two poor creatures per1
haps I myself should bo allowed to go free, j
; and so to save my life I prepared to take
: theirs if I could. Presently the head j
priest gave a signal commanding the two |
men to attack me, but they were so lost in {
' fear that they did not even stir. Then tho
| priests begnn to flog them with leather '
girdles till at length, crying out with pain, !
| they ran at me. One reached tho stone and i
| leaped upon it a little before the other, I
| and I stuck the spear through his ana.
1 Instantly he dropped his weapon and fled, i
i and the other man fled also, for there was
i no fight in them, nor would any flogging
I bring them to faco me again.
Seeing that they could not make them [
brave, the priests determined to have done
j with them. Amid a great noise of music
and chanting, he whom I had smitten was
| seized and dragged to the hog backed block j
; of marble, which in truth was a stono of
j sacrifice. On this he was cast down, breast I
- upward, and held so by five priests, two
gripping his hands, two his legs and ono
j his head. Then, hnving donned a scarlet
| cloak, tho head priest, the same who had
felt my heart, uttered some kind of prayer,
| and raising a curved knife of the flintli^o
; glass or itztli struck open the poor wretch's
j breast at a single blow and made tho an- j
I cient offering to the sun.
As ho did this all tho multitude in tho
placo below, in full view of whom this
bloody game was played, prostrated themI
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Struck open the poor wretch's breast and
made the ancient offering to the sun.
selves, remaining on their knees till tho
offering had been thrown into the golden
censer before tho statue of the god Huit- j
zel Thereon tho horrible priests, casting j
themselves on the body, carried it with
shouts to the edge of the pyramid, or toocalli,
and rolled it down the steep sides.
At the foot of tho slope it was lifted and j
borne away by certain men who were wait- '
ing, for what purposo I did not know at
that time.
Scarcely was tho first victim dead when
tho second was seized and treated in a like
fashion, tho multitude prostrating them
selves ,as before. And then lost of all
came my turn. I felt myself seized and J
my senses swam, nor did I recover them
till I found myself lying on the nccurscd
stone, the priests dragging at my limbs j
and head, my breast strained upward till
the skin was stretched as tight as that of
a drum, while over me stood tho human |
devil in his ml mantle, tho glass knife in j
his hand. Never shall I forget his wicked
face, maddened with tho lust for blood, or
the glare in his eyes as he tossed back his
matted locks. But he did not strike at J
once; he gloated over me, pricking me with j
th) point of his knife. It seemed to me
I that I lay there for years while the paba
aimed and pointed with the knife, but at
last, through a mist that gathered before j
my eyes, I saw it Hash upward. Tlicn,
when I thought that my liour had come,
a hand caught his arm in midair and held
it, and I heard a voice whispering.
What was said did not please the priest, !
j for suddenly he howled aloud and made a
dash toward me to kill me, but again his I
I arm was caught before the knife fell. Then j
he withdrew into the temple of the god
Quetzal, and for a long while I lay upon |
the stone, suffering the agonies of a hundred
deaths, for I believed that it was determined
to torture me before I died, and |
that my slaughter had been staid for this j
purpose.
At length I heard footsteps and shut my
' eyes, for I could bear the sight of that
j dreadful knife no longer. But, behold! no
I knife fell. Suddenly my hands wero j
j loosed, and I was lifted to my feet, on |
j which I never hoped to stand again. Then i
| I was borne to the edge of the teocalli, for '
I I could not walk, anil there my would be
i murderer, the priest, having iirst shouted j
j some words to the spectators below that
caused them to murmur like a forest when
| the wind stirs it, clasped me in his blood {
' stained arms and kissed me on tho forc;
head. Now it was for the first time that
! I noticed my captor, the eazique, standing j
at my side, grave, courteous and smiling.
As he had smiled when he handed me to i
j the pabos, so he smiled when he took mo j
i back from them. Then, having been
j cleansed and clothed, I was led to tho
sanctuary of the god Quetzal and stood i
I face to face with the hideous imago there,
staring at the golden censer that was to
have received my heart while tho priests :
i uttered prayers. Thence I was supported j
down the winding road of the pyramid 1
! till I came to its foot, where my captor, i
j the eazique, took me by the hand and led
I me through the people who, it seemed,
| now regarded me with some strange veneration.
The first person that I saw when
j we reached the house was Marina, who
' looked at me and murmured some soft
, words that I could not understand. Then
I I was suffered to go to my chamber, and
there I passed the rest of the day prostrated
hv nil tlinf I luul ii)iilcri?f>n<\ Trnlv I hail
! come to a land of devils!
And now I will tell how it was that 1
came to be saved from the knife. Marina,
I having taken some liking to me, pitied my
sad fate, and being very quick witted she
found a way to rescue me, for when I
had been led off to sacrifice she spoke to
| the cazique, her lord bringing it to his ;
j mind that by common report Montezuma, |
I the emperor of Anahuac, was disturbed as
to the Tculcs, or Spaniards, and desired
much to see one. Now, she said, I was
evidently a Tcule, and Montezuma would
be angered indeed if I were sacrificed in a
faroff town instead of being sent to him
to sacrifice if he saw fit. To this the cazique
answered that the words were wise,
j but that she should have spoken them be]
fore, for now the priests had got hold of
me, and It was hopeless to save me from
their grip. .
i ''Nay," answered Marina, "thereis this
to be said. Quetzal, the god to whom !
' this Teulo is to be offered, was a white
; man. [Quetzal, or more properly Queteal|
coatl, was the divinity who is fabled to
I have taught the natives of Anahuac nil
! the useful arts, including those of governj
mcnt and policy. Jle was white skinned
i and dark haired. Finally ho sailed from
: the shores of Anahuac for the fabulous j
I country of Tlapallan in a bark of serpents'
j skins. But before he sailed he promised
j that ho would return again with a numerous
progeny. This promise was roinemI
bored by the Aztecs, and it was lurgcI
ly on account of it that t lie Spaniards
j were enabled to conquer the country, for j
they were supposed to be his descendants.
Perhaps Quctzalcontl was a horseman! !
Vide sagas of Eric the Red and of Tlior- 1
Ann Karlscfne. ] And it may well hap- j
pen that this man is one of his children.
Will it please the god that his child should
bo offered to him? At the least, if tlio
god is not angered, Montezuma will certainly
be wroth and wreak a vengeance on
you and the priests."
Now, when the caziquo heard this ho ,
6aw that Marina spoke truth, and hurry- j
ing up the teocalli he caught the knife as
it was in the act of falling upon inc. At j
first the head priest was angered and called
out that this wus sacrilege, and when I
tho caziquc hud told him his mind he un- !
derstood that lie would do wisely not to j
run a risk of the wrath of Montezuma.
So I was loosed and led into tho sanctua- 1
ry, and when I came out the paba an- '
nounced to the people that the god had de- '
clarcd mo to be one of his children, and it
was for this reason that then and thereafter
they treated mo with reverence.
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CHAPTER XI.
TIIE SAVING OF GUATEMOC. i .
Now, after this dreadful day I was kind- ! (
ly dealt with by the people of Tabasco, !
?t- - ,.9 nu?i?
WnO g?VU ii1u ii1u uhjiju ui iuua-, \tk *<***inrd,
and no longer sought to put me to 1
sacrifice. Far from it indeed, I was well ;
clothed and fed and suffered to wander
where I would, though always under care
of guards who, had I escaped, would liavo , ;
paid for it 1vith their lives.
I learned that on the morrow of my rescue
from the priests messengers were dis- j '
patched to Montezuma, the great king, ac- !
qua!nting him with the history of my cap- |
turc and seeking to know his pleasure con- [
cerning me. But the way to Tenoctitlan i
was far, and many weeks passed before the i
messengers returned again. Meanwhile I j
filled tho days learning the Maya language j
and also something of that of the Aztecs, j
which I practiced with Marina and others, i
for Marina was not a Tabascan, hating i
been born at Palnalla, on the southeastern :
borders of the empire. But her mother J
6old her to merchants in order that Ma- I
rina's inheritance might come to another j
child of hers by a second marriage, and
thus in the end the girl fell into the hnnds
of tho caziquc of Tabasco.
Also I learned something of tho history |
and customs nnd of tho picture writing of j
the land nnd how to read it, and, moreover, j
I obtained great rcputo among the Tabas- ;
cans by my skill in medicine, so that in *
timo they grew to believe that I was in- j
deed a child of Quetzal, the good god.
And tho more I studied this people the less
I could understand of them. In most j
ways they were equal to any nation or our
own world of which I had knowledge. !
Nono are more skilled in the arts; few aro
better architects or boast of purer laws, j
Moreover, they wcro brave and had pa- :
tience. But their faith was the canker at !
the root of the tree. In precept it was no- ]
bio and had much in common with our 1
own, such as the rite of baptism, but I
have told what it was in practice.
When I had lived a month in Tabasco, j
I had learned enough of the language to I
talk with Marina, with whom I grew j
friendly, though no more, and it was from i
her that I gathered the most of my knowledge,
and also many hints as to the conduct
necessary to mv safety. In return I
taught her something of my own faith antl (
of tho customs of the Europeans, and it
was the knowledge which she gained from
mo which afterward made her so useful to
tho Spaniards and prcpurcd her to accept
their religion, giving her Insight into tho
ways of white people.
So I abode for four months and more in
the house of the enzique of Tabasco, who
carried his kindness townrd mo to tho
length of offering me his sister in marriage.
To this proposal I said no as gently
as I might, and lie man-clod at it, for
the girl was fair. Indeed so well was I
treated that had it not been that my heart
was far away, and because of tho horriblo
rites of their religion, which I was forced
to witness almost daily, I could havo
leurned'to love this gentle, skilled and industrious
people.
At length, when full four months had
passed away, the messengers returned from
tho court of Montezuma, having been much i
delayed by swollen rivers and other accidents
of travel. So great was the iiupor
S3' i
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I had learned cnomjh of the language to [
talk with Marina.
taneo thnt t ho emperor attached to the fact
of my capture, and so desirous was lie to
see me at his capital, that he had sent his
own nephew, the Prince Guatcmoc, to
fetch mo and a great escort of warriors
with him.
Never shall I forget my first meeting
with this prince, who afterward becamo
my dear companion and brother inarms.
When the escort arrived, I was away from
the town shooting deer with the how and
arrow, a weapon in the use of which I had
such skill that all the Indians wondered
at me, not knowing that twice I had won
the prize at the butts on Bungay common. |
Our party being summoned by a messen- !
ger, we returned bearing our deer with us. j
On reaching the courtyard of thccazique's j
house, I found it filled with warriors most !
gorgeously attired, and among them one
more splendid than the rest. lie was young, I
very tall and broad, most handsome in !
face and having eyes like those of an ca- j
gle, while his whole aspect breathed majesty
and command. Ilis body was incused
in a cuirass of gold, over which hung a
mantle made of the most gorgeous feathers,
exquisitely set in bands of different
colors. On his head ho wore a helmet of
gold surmounted by the royal crest, an cade.
standing on a snake fashioned in gold
and gems. On his arms, and beneath his .
knees, lie wore circlets of gold and gems, j
and in his hand was a copper blnded spear, j
Hound this man were many nobles,
dressed in a somewhat similar fashion,
erccpt that the most of them wore a vest
of quilted cotton in place of the gold cui- j
rass and a jeweled panache of t lie plumes
of birds instead of the royal symbol.
This was Guutcmoc, Montezuma's ncph- J
cw and afterward the last emperor of All- j
ahuac. So soon as I saw him I saluted
him in the Indian fashion by touching the '
earth with my right hand, which I then
raised to my head. Hut Guatemoc, hav- j
ing scanned me with his eye as I stood, .
bow in hand, attired in my simple hunt- ;
er's dress, smiled frankly and said:
"Surely, Teulc, if I know anything of
the looks of men, we arc too equal in our j
birth, as in our age, for you to salute me i
us a slave greets his master." And he |
held his hand to me.
And I took it, answering with tho help j
of Marina, who was watching this great j
lord with eager eyes:
"It may be so, prince, but though in my
own country I am a man of repute and j
wealth here I am nothing but a slave !
snatched from the sacrifice."
"I know it," he said, frowning. "It is
well for all here that you were so snatched
lnjforc the breath of life had left you, else
Montezuma's wrath had fallen on this
city." And he looked at the cazique, who j
trembled, such in those days was the ter- |
ror of Montezuma's name.
Then ho asked me if I was a Teule, or
Spaniard. I told him that I was no Span- !
iard, but one of another white nice who |
had Spanish blood In his veins. This saying
seemed to puzzle him, for he had never j
60 much as heard of any other white race, j
bu x. iuiu una r>ujjii-iiiiii>; *#i jiij nnuj, ciu j
least so much of it as liad to do with my j
being cast away.
When I had finished, he said: "If I liavo j
understood aright, Teule, you say you are \
no Spaniard, yet that you have Spanish i
blood in you and came hither in a Spanish j
ship, anil I And this story strange. Well, \
it is for Montezuma to judge of these mat- !
ters, so let us talk of them no more. Conio j
and show me how you handle that great
bow of yours. Did you bring it with you,
or did you fashion it here? They tell me,
Teule, that there is no such archer in the
land."
So I came up and showed him the bow,
which was ?.f t..y (...a i....he :.i: l would
shoot an arrow some (io paces farther than
any that I saw in Anahuac, and wo fell
into talk on matters of sport and war, Marina
helping out inv want of language,
aiul bcroro that day was dono wo had |
grown friendly.
For a week tho Princo Guatcmoc and j
his company rested in tho town of Tabus- j
co, and ull the timo wc three talked much
together. Soon I saw that Marina looked
with eyes of longing on the great lord, j
partly bccauso of his l)cauty, rank and \
might, and partly because she wearied of
her captivity in the house of the caziquo :
and would share Guatemoc's power, for
Marina was ambitious. She tried to win j
his heart in many ways, but he seemed not
to notlco her, so that at last she spoko
moro plainly and in my hearing.
"You go hence tomorrow, prince," sho
said softly, "and I have a favor to ask of
you, if you will listen to your handmaid." !
"Speak on, maiden," he answered.
"I would ask this, that if it pleases you
you will buy rue of tho cazlquc, my mas- j
ter, or command him to give me up to you, j
and take me with you to Tenoctitlan."
Guatcmoc laughed aloud. "You put
things plainly, maiden," he said, "but
know that in the city of Tenoctitlan my 1
royal wife and cousin, Tccuichpo, awaits
me, with her three other ladies, who, as it
chunccs, arc somewhat jealous."
Now Marina flushed beneath her brown
skin, and for the first and last time I saw
her gentle eyes grow liartl with anger as
she answered:
' I asked you to take nio with you, !
prince. I did not ask to be your wifo or
love."
"But perchance you meant it," he said j
dryly.
. "Whatever I may have meant, prince, it
is now forgotten. I wished to sec the great
city and the greut king, because I weary
of my life hero and would myself grow
great. You have refused mo, but perhaps
a time will como when I shnll grow great
in spite of you, and then I may remember
the shame that has been put upon mo
against you, prince, and all your royal
house."
Again Guatcmoc laughed and of a sud- j
den grew stern.
"You arc overbold, girl," ho said, "for I
less words than theso many a one might
find herself stretched upon the stone of
sacrifice. But I will forget them, for your
woman's pride is stung, nnd you know 1
not what you say. Do you forget them j
also, Teulc, if you have understood."
Then Marina turned and went, her
ItAnt.Utn + K mtnAW n?/l Allfwi rrn/1
UUSUUl JlUUWlIg unu wuwxw^vu
lovo or pride, and as she passed me I heard
her mutter, "Yes, prince, you may forget,
but I shall not."
Often since that day I have wondered if
somo vision of tho future entered into tho I
girl's breast in that hour, or if in her 1
wrath she spoke at random. I have won- j
dered also whether this scene between her
and Guatcmoc had anything to do with
the history of her nftcr life, or did Marina,
as she avowed to me in tho days to come,
bring shame and ruin on her country for
tho love of Cortes alone? It is hard to
say, and perhaps these things had nothing
to do with what followed, for when great
events have happened we arc apt to search
out causes for them in tho past that wcro |
no cause. This may have been but a passing
mood of hers and one soon put out of
mind, for it is certain that few build up
tho temples of their lives upon some firm
foundation of liopo or hate, of desiro or 1
despair, though it has happened to me to '
do so, but rather take Chance for their arch- j
itect, nnd indeed whether they take him ;
or no lie is still the master builder. Still |
that Marina did not forget this talk I |
know, for in after time I heard her remind j
this very prince of tho words that had j
passed between them?aye, and heard his i
noble answer to her.
For a wholo month we traveled, for tho
way was far and the road rough, and sometimes
we must cut our path through forests
and sometimes we must wait upon tho
banks of rivers Many were tho strango j
sights I saw upon that journey, and many
the cities in which we sojourned in much
6tatc and honor, but I cannot stop to tell
of all these.
One thing I will relate, however, though
briefly, because it changed the regard that
tho prince Guatcmoc and I felt one to the
other into a friendship which lasted till
his death and indeed endures in my heart
to this hour.
One day we were delayed by the banks !
of a swollen river, and in pastime went
out to hunt for deer. When we had hunted
awhile and killed three deer, it chanced
that Guatcmoc jicrccivcd a buck standing
on a hillock, and we set about to stalk it,
five of us in all. But tho buck was in tho ;
open, and the trees and bush ceased a full i
100 yards away from where lie stood, so j
Hint tlwri' was no wav bv which we mitrht I
draw near to him. Then Guatcmoc began I
to mock me, saying: "Now, Tcule, they !
tell tales of your archcrv, and this deer is ;
thrice as far as wc Aztecs can make suro j
of killing. Let us see your skill."
"I will try," I answered, "though tho
shot is long."
So wo drew beneat h the cover of a ceiba
tree, of which the lowest branches droop- j
ed to within 15 feet of tho ground, and j
having set an arrow on the string of tho j
grent bow that I had fashioned after tho I
shape of those we use in England I aimed |
and drew it. Straight sped the arrow and
struck the buck fair, passing through its |
heart, and a low murmur of wonderment ,
went up from those who saw the feat.
Then, just as we prepared to go to tho j
fallen deer, a male puma, which is noth- j
ing but a cat, though 50 times as big, that i
had been watching the buck from above, !
dropped down from the boughs of the cei* |
ba tree full on to tho shoulders of tho .
Prince Guatcmoc, felling him to tho j
ground, where he lay face downward, whilo |
the fierce brute bit and clawed at his back, j
Indeed had it not liecn for his golden cuirass
and helm Guatcmoc would never |
have lived to be emperor of Anahuac, and I
perhaps it might have been better so.
Now, when they saw the puma snarl- j
ing and tearing at the person of their !
prince, though brave men enough, tho ;
three nobles who were with us were seized
with sudden panic and ran, thinking him i
dead. But I did not run, though I should |
have been glad enough to do so. At my :
side hung one of the Indian weapons that j
serve them instead of swords, a club of .
wood set on both sides with spikes of ob- j
sidian, like the teeth in the bill of a sword- I
fish. Snatching it from its loop, I gave j
tho puma battle, striking a blow upon Ids
head that rolled him over and caused the
blood to pour. In a moment he was up j
and at me roaring with rage. Whirling ,
tho wooden sword with both hands, I
smote him in midair, the blow passing between
ids opened paws and catching him
full on the snout and head. So hard was
this stroke that my weapon was shattered.
Still it did not stop tho puma In a sec- j
ond I was cast to tho earth with a great 1
6hock, and the brute was on me, tearing
and biting at my chest and neck. It was j
well for me at that moment that I wore a
garment of quilted cotton; otherwiso I
must havo been ripped open, and even
with this covering I was sadly torn, and
to tlds day I bear the marks of tho beast's
claws upon my body. But now when I
seemed to be lost Uic great oiow tnat i onu ;
struck took effect 011 him, for 0110 of the I
points of glass had pierced to his brain, j
IIo lifted his head; his claws contracted j
themselves in my flesh; then he howled I
like a dog in pain and fell dead upon my j
body. So I lay upon the ground unable to
stir, for I was much hurt, until my companions,
having taken heart, came back
and pulled the puma off me. Hy this timo
Guatemoe, who saw it all, but till now
was unable to move from lack of breath, 1
had found his feet again.
"Teule," he gasped, ''you are a bravo 1
man indeed, and if you live I swear that 1 ;
will always stand your friend to the death, I
as you have stood mine."
Thus he spoko to me, hut to the others 1
he said nothing, easting 110 reproaches at i
them.
Then I fainted away.
TO HHC'ONTINlJKIi XKXT WKKK.
MMMOD
Tho G. A. It. Takes tlio Indiana Stutehouse.
Arrangements liavo been made by
which the national headquarters for the i
transaction of business and all the do- |
partment business headquarters of the
G. A. R. at the twenty-seventh national
encampment at Indianapolis in Septem- !
ber next will bo under one roof. This is I
an innovation that has already received I
the highest commendation from the 11a- I
tional and department officers. The i
building in which the headquarters will j
bo located is the Indiana statehouse, a |
large structuro of stono and marble, surrounded
by 10 acres of ground and situated
in the heart of Indianapolis. The
building is handsomo architecturally j
and well adapted to tho purpose. Tho
rooms are large. Tho corridors extend j
through tho building in each direction j
and are ample and fully lighted, and 1
four broad stairways, in uddition to the i
elevators, give access to tho upper floors. !
The hospitality means that tho official j
business of tho state will bo dropped |
during tho encampment week and tho
building given up wholly to tho veterans.
Miscellaneous Reading. 1
HEI)i:OE THE ACKEAUE.
Kdlloriul.
It is reported of Gallileo that when
he began to promulgate his theory of
the motion of the earth, he was turned !
over to the Inquisition. His theory
was regarded as heretieal, and in hopes
of making him recant, the Inquisition ,
subjected him to severe penalties.
Among other things, he was thrown
into prison and each day required to
recite three penitential Psalms and
pray for forgiveness. He obeyed the
decree of the Inquisition ; but it is re- !
latcd that he never failed to supplement
each prayer with the declaration : j
??Hn? it inminj for 'ill flint." 1 ,
For years past Tub Enquirer has |
been urging "cotton as a surplus" as ,
the only salvation of the South. We J '
do not claim to have discovered the 1 |
idea, and perhaps our steadfastness is j
not comparable to that of Oallileo; i
hut until we are subjected to the penal- ;
ties of the Inquisition, we say now and !
here, that we will continue to hold that 1
the expedient which offers the great ,
promise of relief to the farmers of the
South, is the reduction of the acreage. | ,
We have thought about this matter
a great deal since the war, and we are
thinking of it now. We recall the
names of quite a number of good '
farmers in this section who started out J
raising all cotton, and who have failed.
We do not recall the name of a single i (
farmer who started out on "the cotton :
as a surplus plan" and who is not now
solvent and in good circumstances.
None of the "all cotton" men have
succeeded with their farms, and none
of the "cotton as a surplus" men have (
failed. This seems to be proof conclusive
for the establishment of the
theory.
The all cotton plan, it is true, brings
more money into the country than
docs the cotton as a surplus plan ; but
it also takes more out. The man
who raises his own supplies?corn, j I
ini':if. bread, hav. etc.?and cotton as a ! i
surplus, knows that lie is working for | :
himself, und that except in the matter i
of cotton, he will realize the full value j |
of all his labor. The man who raises
all cotton and depends upon buying ]
his supplies, is never in a position to 1
tell what he is doing; but can always 1
rest assured that he will be required j
to pay more for corn, meat, Hour, hay,
etc., than these necessities would have 1
cost him if he had raised them at home, i
A reduction of the acreage now in 1
cotton, to say one half, means that I
the other half is to be devoted to the i
production of various necessities that !
are now produced with money derived
from the sale of cotton. This would !
only bring the farming business down
to a proper and legitimate basis. The I
profits on cotton are smaller than ]
those on almost any other farm pro- I
duct, and the idea of raising cotton
for the purpose of getting money with <
which to buy other products, which I
could have been raised cheaper, is
clearly ruinous. ]
The plans of Mr. Roddey for the or- :
ganization of the cotton farmers of the ]
South are good. We endorse them j
most heartily ; but, at the same time, ]
we want to impress it upon our readers *
that their principal value does not
lie in their trust feature. Our people i
should not place all their confidence I
in the proposed trust. They should 1
remember that if production continues i
as great as now, prices must continue i
fo I'uien \< j
* "* ""J ?
to decrease production, and the safest i
and most profitable way to decrease
production is to decrease acreage.
With reduced acreage, reduced pro- I
duetion, and the people fortified with j <
an abundance of home raised supplies, I ]
the proposed trust will then be in a
position to get in some effective work. I
With say three-fourths of the cotton s
crop of the South in the hands of a
trust composed of producers able to i
hold it, it will be easy enough to tell i
the world that cotton is worth 10
cents a pound, and also to realize that i
or any other reasonable price. But I
before this can come to pass, it must i
be distinctly understood that there i
must be a thorough organization for i
the reduction of production and for j
the reduction of the acreage.
MYSTERIOUS MONAZITB.
An Important Itrfraetory, Lonely Mineral
Found ill North Carolina.
"What is monazitc ?"
Fifty times the question was put by i
a Sun reporter to as many of those
shrewd New Yorkers who make handsome
fortunes in dull offices in Maiden <
Lane and Burling Slip and Cedar street j
and the regions roundabout, and 50 i
times, with more or less variation of j ,
accent, came the answer:
"Never heard of it."
Yet monazitc is a commercial factor |
of importance; being talked of learn- t
edly in learned societies; it is being i
quietly handled here in New York,
while down in North Carolina- there
is a monazile boom of a veiled and :
secret sort.
Quiet, mysterious references have
been made to it by quiet, sedate busi- J
ness men, but the limit of information ;
has seemed to be soon reached. One
l'earl street millionaire, who has hand- j
led oils for 50 years, informed his book- j
keeper last Monday that he was going j
down to North Carolina to buy a few
square miles of land. "What for."
asked the book-keeper. "Monazitc."
replied the millionaire, and that is all
that he could or would say. Another j
old gentleman just around me corner i
on l'ine sired lias sent his son-in-law
to liermany, where the inner secrets j
of monazite are to he gathered. An j
agent for a commission linn has
heen slipping around from point to
point in North Carolina haying up all i
the monazite in sight.
There were millions in it. The !
market was "hasted." It was used to
deteriorate gold. It was a patent ,
medicine. No one outside of two people,
one in New York and one in I
Hamburg, knew what it was for. It ]
was an open secret and not worth
talking about. Of such were the va- j
rying and contradictory hints and
phrases that had lloated into the re- j
porter's ken, yet when it came to the
simple question. "What is monazite ?"
the answer was almost invariable the
negative one just quoted. Sometimes,
however, it was accompanied by a
half friendly pointer, such as go down
and see Flinkstein, he knows all about
it," or "Run over to Dr. Schwartzma
mi's place and ask him." And so
by dint of mounting many dark and
dreary steps, getting into all sorts of
strange smelling laboratories and by
taking up leads an hints and indications,
the following facts about
monazite were secured :
Monazite is a strange, rare mineral
found in that rich metallic heart of the
Appalachian mountains that lie in
North Carolina. Some year or so ago
one of the gold mining companies
down there discovered in their placers |
a deposit of a small, brown crystalline
sand which was quite unfamiliar to
any of the miners. They sent a sample
to their agent in New York. The :
agent sent it it to a famous Herman 1
analyitical chemist, by whom it was
recognized as monazite. I'p to that |
time it had only been found in small
scattered deposits in such widely sepa- I
rated localities as Finland and Corn- )
wall, Norway and Bohemia, and in j
such small <juantities that only the i
richer laboratories had any species. It I
was not like anything else tinder the:
sun, and so the few brown octahedron
crystals that had been bottled up were j
labeled monazite, or the "lonely," or I
''solitary" mineral. The composition
of the mineral was even more curious,
for it was found to contain six of those
undefinuble products known as "rare
earths" and all ending in "mil," which
is a peculiarity, it seems, of these imperishable
dusts. What these dusts
have gone through before arriving at
the catalogue state of "lums" and
"ites," can only be guessed at, hut the
inference is that they had been born in
uperiodofinten.se cosmic energy, for
they proved to be the most "refractory"
things on record.
Chemists call things refractory when
they can neither melt nor burn them
back any further toward the point of
elementary origin, and these earths
wouldn't go back at all. No matter
how great the heat, they just became
incandescent, and glowed with a
brightness that was like that of the
aim tint when the tlame was turned
off tliey were just rare earths, undeslroyed
'Mums" as before.
It happened about this time that a
certain illuminating company was
looking for just such a material as
mona/.ite, and in correspondence heard
of it. Investigations were made, experts
were dispatched to North Carolina,
and monnzitc was found by the
ton. Along the river banks and in
the river beds, in tbe clefts of auriferous
rocks, and at the bottom of the
gullies the brown crystalline sand was
found, and bought and shipped to
(Jermany. But it took a lot of sand to
furnish the imperishable material in
the shape that was needed, and the
price went up until it reached $150
a ton, and from that up to $200 and
over. Then tbe search for monazite
was begun in earnest, and now in
Alexander, Madison, Mitchell, Yancey,
Btlrke, Polk, McDowell and
Rutherford counties there is a rnonazite
boorn.?New York Sun.
AX INVISIBLE PRINCE.
It was one of the fancies of Joseph
II, emperor of Austria, to travel about
his dominions, as well as into foreign
countries in the garb of a private citi"?
1 1 2A . ! %..
zcn, unattenuen ny nuy suite. j>y so
doing, lie arrived at many facts regarding
the condition of his subjects,
which otherwise might never have
fallen under his observation. His love
for adventure was also gratified, and
he enjoyed greatly the luxury of doing
good by surprise; an eccentricity of
ilia, out of which many annccdotes
have arisen. While traveling through
it remote district, in the year 17111, he
heard sounds of festivity proceeding
from a roadside inn ; entering which he
inquired of the landlord what the occasion
of the revels might be.
"There is a wedding in the house,
sir," replied the host.
"May I lake the liberty* of joining
them?" asked the emperor, whose
personal appearenee was unknown to
the place?for the modern carte-devisile
had not yet ever been dreamed
of, and engravings but seldom found
their way to the remoter villages.
The landlord obtained the necessary
permission, and the distinguished
stranger was introduced to the bridal
party. Being a man of great social
gifts, he quickly made himself very
popular with them, drunk the health
of the huppy couple in a bumper of
wine, und made what the reporters call
a "neat and appropriate speech," on
the occasion. After some time he took
leave of his new acquaintances, whose
astonishment may be guessed at when
they found under a bottle on the table,
a check for GOO florins, payable at
sight, signed by the Emperor Joseph
II, and endorsed, "A dowry for the
bride."
Traveling in a plain carriage on one
occasion, upon the good old-fashioned
principle culled "posting"?that is,
hiring lresh horses nt certain stages oy
the way?the emperor arrived at a
station where no fresh horses were to he
had. The innkeeper excused himself
saying that his wife had lately presented
him with a son, aud that his horses
were employed in fetching friends and
relatives of the family to assist in christening,
which wus to take place that
afternoon. The royal visitor at once
tendered his servics to hold the infant
at the sacred font, an offer which was
gladly accepted by the innkeeper, who
was quite flattered at the idea of a fine
gentleman acting in this capacity for
him, instead of the hurley bumpkin?a
relative of the family?who had been
already engaged to do so. When the
proper time arrived, the priest asked
the sponsor to state his name. "Joseph,"
replied the emperor. "Aud
your family name?" "Well," said
the emperor, "you may write me
down Joseph Second." "But it will be
necessary to add your station in life
and occupation." "Ah, yes, my trade,
you mean; say I am an emperor,
then." There was instantly a sensation
among the guests, and the poor
innkeeper nearly went into a fit through
fright; but the emperor quickly reassured
him, and left some substantial
tokens of good-will for his little godson
before taking leave.
Once he was expected to pass
through a small town in France, and
the good people were on tiptoe to see
the emperor. It so happened that he
arrived there alone, and before any of
his suite. The landlady of the little
hostelric where he put up, being a
gossiping sort of old body, put all sorts
of questions to him to find out whether
be belonged to the emperors suite,
and the way in which be parried conviiwoil
imp ihnt be did. At last, as
she brought him some hot water for
shaving, unable to control her curiosity
any longer, she asked the stranger,
boldly, what kind of sit nation he held
about the emperor. "I sometimes
shave him," he replied, lathering his
chin with great composure.
When at I'aris he once hired a carriage
to take him to the Luxembourg
Gardens. As he was on his way the
driver expressed much satisfaction at
being engaged to go there, saying that
the Emperor Joseph was expected to
beat the gardens that very day, and
that he should like above all things to
see him, hoping they might arrive in
time. The stranger assured him that
there was no fear of the emperor arriving
there before they did, and, on
being set down at the gate, handed
him a piece of money wrapped up in a
paper. On opening the wrapper, he
found that he had received a doublelouis,
and running after the stranger,
showed it to him, saying that he must
have made a mistake. I'leased at this
proof of honesty in a man whose calling
is not usually named in connection
with that virtue, the emperor desired
him to keep the golden coin, and the
man struck with surprise, for many of
the passers-by now recognized and saluted
the stranger, went back to his
carriage exclaiming, "It's the emperor
himself?I have seen the emperor!"
A rebuir at which the emperor was
much amused, was once experienced
by him in Holland. Having heard
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much ot tlie eteaniiuess ui mc ?nu.Bvo
in that country, he wished to see the
interior of one of their houses, at the
doors of several of which lie knocked,
without seeming to arouse any of the
inmates. At last a door was opened
to him, and he requested permission
of the master of the house to enter.
"I hear the Emperor Joseph is expected
in town today," said the Dutchman,
"hut were you the emperor himself
I could not let you inside this
house without first obtaining leave
from my wife." "I am the emperor
then," said the stranger displaying the
diamond star on the breast of his inner
coat. Thereupon the Dutchman
went in great haste to his wife, and
begged her to admit the royal stranger
to a view of the premises, but she
| only said, "Being an emperor, as lie is
we could not expect him to take his
shoes off at the door, and into this
house he doesn't come one step with
them on, emperor or not;" and the
door was shut in his face.
MILLIONS FOIl DEFENSE.
Origin of the Old Coin Hearing the WellKnown
Legend.
Collectors of old coins and people
who are over threescore years old may
remember the old United States one
cent piece bearing the motto, "Millions
for defense, not a penny for tribute,"
j which was extensively circulated early
in the present century.
One of the principal incidents that
j led to the adoption of this legend?
wincii seems singularly out 01 puice on
j an American coin, especially just after
the United States had just achieved its
independence of (treat Britain?occurred
when the United States merchant
ship Dauphin, of Philadelphia, was
siezed near the strait of Gibraltar by a
warship of Algiers and her crew and
passengers were thrown into Mussulman
bondage to await an exorbitant
ransom.
! About the same time the American
| trading vessel, Miria of Boston and
Minerva of New York, also were
seized in the Mediteranean, and their
I people met a similar fate, making a
total of 112 American citizens in
danger f being sold into the slave
marts c' the East. At that time the
United States was without a single
! ship of war or naval officers or naval
i yards.
The cause of this unprotected condition
of the country was the strong
opposition to a permanent navy as well
i as 16 a standing army, and congress
j resorted a plan of paying an annual
tribute to the semi-barbarous powers
j of North Africa, so there would be no
further molestation of our commerce
in the Mediteranean.
Twenty-two of the prisoners were
ransomed by the government for about
$60,000, while the others died in captivity
or were ransomed by their
friends. In a short time the annual
tribute from the United States amounted
to $1,000,000, when the "economists"
in congress realized that the
| tribute was iar exceeding me cosi ui
; nuiintaingft navy.
Then tiie cry of ''Millions for defense
not a penny for tribute," was
raised and did not a little towards securing
the appropriation Cor the first
group of vessels that made the United
States navy famous. These were the
i Constitution, United States, President,
1 Constellation, Congress and Chesai
pcake.?New York Tribune.
LOST HIS HEAD.
How the Doctor was Saved by Ills Horse.
Dr. Bostwiek was a physician in the
West 50 years ago, when all country
; practice was conducted ou horseback,
j and the "saddlebags" constituted the
; only pharmacy. He was an intrepid
muu of exceptional ability and skill,
; but sadly given to the frontier custom
; of whisky drinking. Many a time did
he become too intoxicated to ride,
! when his friends would pack him away
' and care for him until he was himsell
! again ; yet never but once did his habit
imperil his life, and thereupon lie relinquished
the cup forever.
At the time he had been for some
years riding a Kentucky mare of unusual
intelligence, and the people usee
to say that when the doctor lost his
head his steed would take care of him
And so it proved. His ride extender
over a wide territory, one part of it, es
peeially, taking him across a primeva
forest threaded ouly by uncertain trails
; where for miles there was not a settler
j From one trip in early spring he had
; been due at home for two or thre<
! days, and the people began to wondei
| at his delay. At last one morning tin
mare stood at the barn door, but tin
saddle was empty. Where was hei
! master? She was gaunt and weak
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food. A heavy storm laid obliterated
her trail, so that it was impossible tc
; to tell along which of several paths tc
search for the doctor. And if, as hei
condition indicated, he had fallen fronc
J her back somewhere in the woods twc
I days before, he might have already
perished from exposure. At lengtl:
an old man, with many years' experi
; ence, exclaimed :
"Feed the mar', an' then send her tc
find the man. Poller her, fer she
knows whar he is. A boss knows
raore'n a man iu a pinch."
The suggestion was taken. After j
couple < i" hours to eat and rest, she
; was led out, turned loose, and briskly
driven away with the words. "Go anil
; find the doctor!"
At first she resented such treatment
j but finally seemed to understad, and
j wheeling toward the forest, whiuned
1 as if moved with sympathy for her losl
master. Swift-footed frontiermen fol
I lowed. Frequently she whiuned and
j peered ahead, quickening her pace ic
eager impatience. Nearly 20 miles
| they pushed on. At last the mart
; seemed to freshly recall her errand,
| and turning to the left by a faint trail
j rushed away at a rapid gallop, frequently
calling in a touching manner. Hei
followers could hardly, keep within
hearing. Suddenly she stopped, hei
i voice changed tone and sank to a sorl
' of satisfied but troubled moan.
When the men reached her she stood
over the prostrate form of Dr. Bostwick,
rubbing him with her nose, and
j apparently crying?ifa horse can crythat
he did not respond,
i The man was alive, but far gone by
exposure. His empty bottle explained
the mischief.
When he recovered, he stated that
the mare stayed by him for nearly
two days after he was unable to retain
his place on the saddle, often
whinnying anxiously, nosing him tenderly,
and pulling at his clothes as ii
lo help him 011 his journey. And
when she left him he could hear hei
fur a lung way calling him to follow,
Later the doctor became an eflicicnt
temperance lecturer, and this incident
told by him has moved many a drinker
to tears and to reform.
He Hadn't Thought of That.?
' A collector of unpaid hills has a hard
time of it. but one met a philosophical
| debtor, recently, who convinced him
| of some astounding facts. The collector
says that he had been chasing up
1 the said philosophical debtor for
about six months, and was getting
tired of the job. It was always,
"come around tomorrow," or "haven't
got it now."
"Say," he said, when he made his
last trip, "are you ever goiugtopay
i this bill ?"
"Why, yes, some day," the philosopher
replied. "But, look here, young
man, I want to show you a thing or
two. How many bills have you got
in that pack ?"
"About 40," saiil the collector.
"How long does it take you to visit
all these people V" the philosopher in
: quired.
"About u day."
"Why, that would be great."
"Would it ? What would you do
for. a living if all these debtors paid up
i in one day ?"
The collector looked blank for a
moment.
"Great Jerusalem! I'd be out of a
job."
: "Well, then, don't be so anxious to
collect every cent due your people.
One bill a day is enough. As for me,
[ come around some time next week,
and I may do something for you
i and the philosopher faded away.
, | i IIK ?V\.N1) 111.AM. AIJIOII^ 111U
i 1 wonderful and useful inventions of the
* times is the common blast. Suppose
j you desire a piece of marble for a
gravestone ; you cover the stone with
I a sheet of wax no thicker than a
wafer; then you cut in the wax the
' name, date, etc., leaving the marble
I exposed. Now pass it under the blast
, j and the sand shall cut it away. Ite|
move the wax and you have the cut
I letters. Take a piece of French platei
; glass, say two by six feet, cover it with
! tine lace, and pass it under the blast,
i and not a thread of the lace will be
1 injured, but the sand will cut deep
| into the glass wherever it is not cov
cred by the lace. Now remove the
j luce and you have a delicate and beau!
tiful figure raised on the glass. In
i I this way beautiful figures of all kinds
| are cut in glass at a small expense,
j The workmen can hold their hands
i i under the blast without any harm,
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u\t:ii ? 111*11 u 1:5 cutting u > iiiv ni??v*est
cutting glass, iron, or stone, but
they must look out for finger-nails, for
they will he whittled off hastilv. If
they put on steel thimbles to protect
| their nails, it will do but little good,
! for the sand will soon whittle them
j away; hut if they wrap a piece of
; soft cotton around them they are safe.
, : You will at once see the philosophy
I of it. The sand whittles away, and
i destroys any hard substance, even
s 1 glass, hut does not affect substances
j that are soft and yielding, like wax,
cotton, fine lace, or even the human
hand.
The Keenest Eyesight.?Like
j every other sense, that of sight iin1
proves by use under healthy eondiI
tions, and therefore the people who
have the greatest exercise of their vis'
ion iu the open air, under light of
sun, have the best eyesight. Generally
speaking savage tribes possess the
I keenest eyesight acquired through
J hunting.
Natives of the Solomon islands are
j very quick at perceiving distant ob|
jects, such as ships at sea, and will
pick out birds concealed in dense foliage
some 00 or 70 feet high. Shep;
herds and sailors are blessed with
good sight; the Esquimaux will detect
a white fox iu the snow a great
| distance away, while the Arabs of the
I deserts of Arabia have such extreme
j powers- of vision, that on the vast
1 plains of the desert they will pick out
I objects invisible to the ordinary eye at
ranges from one to ten miles distant.
Among civilized people, the Norwegians
have better eyesight than
most, if not all, others, as they more
generally fulfill the necessary condi!
tions. The reason why defective eyes
I are so much on the increase in this
; and inanv Euronean countries lies in
1 too much study of books in early life,
and in badly lighted rooms.
! An Antiquk Meal.?"I have eaten
I apples that ripened more than 1,800
: years ago ; bread made from wheat
grown before the children of Israel
passed through the Red Sea; spread
it with butter that was made when
| Elizabeth was Queen of England, and
. washed down the repast with wine
. that was old when Columbus was playing
barefoot with the boys of Genoa,"
said a gentleman at the club the other
day.
The remarkable "spread" was given
| by an antiquary named Gorbel, in the
} city of Brussels, in 1871. The apples
were from a jar taken from the ruins
j of Pompeii, that buried city to whose
people we owe our knowledge of can|
ning fruit.
The wheat was taken from a cham'
her in one of the smaller pyramids, the
butter from a stone shelf in an old
well in Scotland, where it had lain in
j an earthenware crock in icy water,
; and the wine came from an old vault
[ ! in the city of Corinth.
| i There were six guests at the table,
and each had a mouthful of bread aud
! a teaspoonful of wine, but was perI
I mitted to helj) himself liberally to the
' butter, there being several pounds of
' i it. The apple jar held about twoI
thirds of a gallon, and the fruit was as
I sweet, and the flavor as fine, as though
| ! it had been packed yesterday.
i i Birds and Their Eyes.?Birds, as
j a rule, cannot focus their eyes ou an
j object, save at. a distance, and then
( j only with difficulty. The reason for
? j this singular fact is found in the posi|
l tion of the eyes in the head, one being
placed ou each side and lookiug directly
outward, so that they cannot be
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' perhaps, at a very long distance and
i ! directly in front.
The truth of this statement may
readily be demonstrated by any one
[ who has observed ordinary fowls
I j turning their heads 011 one side when
. j desirous of more closely examining
' some object which has attracted their
I attention. When excited by the pres(
, enee of a strange object, chickens will
I often be found examining it, first with
! one eye, then with the other, turning
their heads for that purpose, thus
' j showing that they cannot bring both
[ I eyes to bear on them at once. The
. only exception to the general rule is
( found in the case of the owl, whose
. eyes are placed in front of the head,
j and are capable of being brought to a
: focus on an object at a very short
I j distance in front.
I 1 Barefoot Women are supposed to
i be oftener seen among the peasants of
Europe and the lower classes in our
. i own country than anywhere else; but
this may all change before long, since
Dame Fashion has set the seal of her
approval upon the custom, though as
yet she would confine it to the privacy
, , of my lady's boudoir, or to very infor,
! mal and semi-private mornings in the
. ! drawing room. The fad originated in
f j the treatment of the celebrated Cier[
i man physician, Kuiep, who, among
. other things, required his patients to
take a run every morning, no matter
what the weather. He was successful
in his practice, and it became fashion*
. able to go to him, and to adopt his
methods.
, j Thb Tallest Kings.?The exact
! height of Napoleon I, is variously
! stated by biographers at 5 feet U inchi
es, ') feet 2 inches, and 5 feet 2\ inches.
; Several monarehs have been below
the average height. Pepin, of France,
was known as the short, and Napoleon
HI, was rather below the common
height of men.
The two tallest kings in history were
! probably Charlemagne and Maximinns,
of Home.
The former was over S feet high,
and so strong that with his thumbs and
lingers he could straighten three horse-'
! shoes at once.
Maximinus, the Roman emperor,
! was S feet G inches, and incredible
| stories of his physical strength were
told by ancient historians.
&65P1 PrmnnotifMit li!i? a woman mail
carrier, in the person of Charlotte
Waldo, who drives her wagon every
day over the worst route in the State,
I lying between Ashford and Bolton.
She covers 30 miles in all, going on
duty at G o'clock in the morning, and
| stabling her horse at the same hour in
the evening. Charlotte Waldo gets
for her services $150 a year. In the
j early spring the roads of the AshfordI
Bolton route are almost impassable,
and after a snowstorm they are seldom
broken for a day or two. Last winter
1 the woman, although obliged to shovel
j a road through heavy drifts at times,
I never missed a mail train.