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lewis m. grist, proprietor.| ?ui Jndcpfndcnt Tamils ^Icicspapcr: J'or the ?romotion of tiiq political, Social, ^iraltural and Commercial Jntcrcots of the j^outh. |terms?$2.00 a year in advance. VOT,. 40. YOEKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1894. ^TO. 49. BY RIDER : Author of "King Solomon's ] "Allen Quarl Copyright, lSftl, by the Author. SYNOPSIS. j Chapter I.?Thomas Wingtield was born in England of an English father and a Spanish mother. His mother confided to him that a certain Spaniard had sworn to take her life. Chapter II?One day, when Thomas was about 18, ho went out into tne 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 of the lovers. Returning home, Thomas finds the Spaniard gone and his mother 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 Seville 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 propitiate Lily's father and sails for Hispaniola. Chapter X.?Thomas is shipwrecked in the Indian seas, escapes De Garcia's power and falls among the Indians of i Tabasco, where a native maiden named 1 Marina saves him from sacrifice. Chapter XL?Montezuma's nephew, ! Guatemoc, befriends Thomas and takes j him to the capital. Thomas saves the I life of the prince when he is attacked by i a fierce puma. XII aud XIII?In Montezuma's palace | ' Thomas meets Otomie, the emperor's ! daughter. He is made a god and doomed to sacrifice according to Aztec custom, I with one year's grace. CHAPTER XIV. the arising of papantzin. On the morrow Papantzln died and was buried with great pomp that same evening in the burial ground at Chapoltepcc, by the side of the emperor's royal ancestors. But, as will be seen, sho was not content with their company. On that day also I learned that to bo a god is not all pleasure, since it was expected of me that I must master various arts, ana cnicny me nomu art of music, to which I never had any desire. Still my own wishes were not allowed to weigh in the matter, for there caipe to inc tutors, aged men who might have found better employment, to instruct mo In the use of the lute, and on this instru- ; ment I must learn to strum. Others there were also who taught me letters, poetry and art, us they were understood among the Aztecs, and all this knowledge I was glad of. As to this matter of my sacrifice I was at first desperate. But reflection told me that I had already passed many dangers and come out unscathed, and therefore it was possible that I might escape this ono also. At least death was still a long way off, and for the present I was a god. So I determined that, whether I died or lived, whilo 1 lived I would livo like a god and take such pleasures as came to my hand, and I acted on this resolve. During the days that followed the death of Papantzin tho palaco and the city also ..ere plunged in ferment. The minds of men were shakon strangely because of the rumors that filled the air. Every night the fiery portent blazed in the cast, everyday a new wonder or omen was reported, and with it somo wild tale of the doings i of tho Spaniards, who by most were held i to bo white gods, the children of Quetzal, i come back to toko tho land which their ; forefathers ruled. But of all that were troubled nono wero ' in such bad cose as tho emperor himself, who during theso weeks scarcely ate, drank or slept, so heavy wereb's fears upon him. I In this trnlt he sent messengers to his an- I clent rival, that wise and severo man, Neza, the king of tho allied state of Tezcuco, begging that he would visit him. This king came, an old man with a fierce and gleaming eye, and I was witness to tho interview that followed, for in my quality j of god I had full liberty of tho palace and ! even to be present at tho councils of tho emperor and his nobles. When the two monurchs had feasted together, Montezuma spoke to Noza of tho matter of thn omens and of the coming of tho Tculcs, asking him to lighten the darkness by his wisdom. Then Xcza pulled his long gray bcanl and answered that heavy as the /\# ntlivKf Ko ntnef. grow still heavier before the end. "See, lord," he suld, "I tun so sure that the days of our empire are numbered th: t I will play you at dice for my kingdon > which you and your forefathers have ever desired to win." "For what Wager?" asked Montezuma. "I will play you thus," answered Neza. | "You shall stuke three fighting cocks of which, should I win, I ask the spurs only. j 1 set them against nil the wide empire of i Tczcuco." "A small stake," said Montezuma [ "Cocks are many, and kingdoms are few." I "Still it shall serve our turn," answer- ' ed the aged king, "for know that we play ; against fate. As the game goes, so shall tho issue be. If you win my kingdoms, all j is well; if I win the cocks, then goodby to j the glory of Anahuac, for Its pcoplo will 1 cease to be a people, and strangers shall i possess tho land." "Let us play and see," said Montezuma, i And they went down to the place that is-' called tlnchco, where the games are set. Here they began the match with dice, and at first all went well for Montzcuma, so j that ho called aloud that already he was | lord of Tezcuco. "May it bo so," answered the aged Neza, and from that moment the chance changed, for, strivo as ho would, Montezuma could not win another point, and presently tho set was finished, and Neza had won tho cocks. Now tho music played, and court- ! icrs came forward to give the king horn- | age on his success. But he rose, sighing, ! and said: "I would far sooner lose my kingdoms than havo won these fowls, for if I had lost my kingdoms they would still havo passed into the hands of one of my own race. Now, alas! my possessions and his j must come under the hand of strangers, YVllvS BllUll LfWSL UU? 21 UUt glius U11U Ullllg our names to nothing." And huving spoken thus, he rose, and j taking farewell of the emperor he departed for his own land, where, as it chanced, ho died very shortly without living to sec tho fulfillment of his fears. On tho morrow of his departure camo further accounts of tho doings of tho Spaniards tlmt plunged Montezuma inh still greater alarm. In his terror ho 6ent for an astronomer noted throughout tho land for tho truth of his divinations. The astronomer came and was received by the emperor privately. What he told him I do not know, but at least it was nothing pleasant, for that very night men wcro commanded to pulldown the house of this sage, who was buried in its ruins. Two days after tho death of the astron- i omer Montezuma bethought him that, as ' ho believed, 1 also was a Teulo and could < give him information. So at the hour of ; sunset he sent for me, bidding me walk j with him in the gardens. I went thither, | followed by my musicians and attendants, who would never leave me in peace, but ho commanded that all should stand uside, as ho wished to spcuk with me alone. Then he began to walk beneath the mighty cedar trees, and I with him, but keeping j one puco behind. "Teule," he said nt length, "tell mo of your countrymen and why they huvecomo to these shores. See that you speak truth." I ' They are no countrymen of mine, 0 Montezuma," I answered, "though my mother was one of them." "Did I not bid you speak the truth, Teule? If your mother was one of them, must you not also be of them, for are you not of your mother's bone uml blood?" "As the king pleases," I answered, bowing. Then I began and told him of tho Spaniards?of their country, their greatness, their cruelty and their greed of gold, and ho IN toned eagerly, though I think that he believed little of what I said, for his fear had made him very suspicious. When I had done, he spoke and said: '"Why do they come here to Anahuac?" "I fear, 0 klflg, that they CQine to take /ii EXJ^Q-Q-J^JRJD, Vlines," "She," "He," "Jess," 1 ;ermain," etc. tho land, or at the least to rob it of all its treasure and to destroy its faiths." "What, then, is your counsel, Teule? j How can I defend myself against these mighty men, who are clothed in metal and ride upon fierce wild beasts, who havo j woVn n nolcn lilrn t.hnn- I lUatiUlIiCUU) uuu muav U MUV ? der, at the sound of which their adverse- | ries fall dead by hundreds, and who bear weapons of shining silver in their hands? Alas, there is no defense possible, for they are the children of Quetzal como back to take the land! From my childhood I havo i known that this evil overshadowed me, and now it is at my door." "If I, who am only a god, may venture ; to speak to the lord of the earth, "I answered, "I say that the reply is easy. Meet ' force by force. The Teulcs arc few, and you can muster 1,000 soldiers for every j ono of theirs. Fall on them at once; do not hesitate till their prowess finds them friends, but crush them." "Such is tho counsel of one whose moth- j erwas a Tcule," the emperor answered, with sarcasm and bitter meaning. "Tell , mo now, counselor, how <un I to know that in fighting against them I shall not bo fighting against the gods; how oven am i I to learn the truo wishes and purposes of ! men or gods who canuot sjieak my tongue ! and whose tongue I cannot speak?" "It is easy, OMontezuma," I answered. "I can speak their tongue. Send me to i discover for you." Now, as I spoke thus, my heart bounded i with hope, for if onco I could come among j the Spaniards perhaps I might escape tho j altar of sacrifice; also they seemed a link between me and home. They had sailed hither in ships, and ships can retrace their path, for though at present my lot was not all sorrow it will be guessed that 1 1 should have been glad indeed to find myself once more among Christian men. Montezuma looked at me awhile and answered: . "You must think me very foolish. ! Teulo. What, shall I send you to tell my ! fears and weakness to your countrymen and to show them the joints in my har- i Then began the match with dice. ncss? Do you then suppose that I do not | know you for a spy sent to this land by j these same Teules to gather knowledge or the land? Fool, I knew it from the first, and, by Huitzel, were you not vowed to Tezcat your heart should smoke tomorrow on the altar of Huitzel. Be warned and givo me no more false counsels, lest your end provo swifter than you think. Learn that I have asked thcso questions of you to a purpose, and by the command of the gods, as it was written on the hearts of those sacrificed this day. This wus the purpose and this was the command that I might discover your secret mind, and that I should shun whatever advice you chanced to give. You counsel mo to fight the Teules; therefore I will not fight them, but meet them with gifts and fair words, for I know well that you would have mo to do that which would bring mo to my doom." Thus ho spoke very fiercely and in a low voice, his head held low and his anus crossed upon his breast, and I saw that ho shook with passion. Even then, though I was very much afraid, for god as I was a nod from this mighty king would have j 6ent 1110 to death by torment, I wondered | at tho folly of one who in everything else j was so wise. Why should he doubt 1110 1 thus and allow superstition to drag him j down to ruin? Today I sec the answer. | Montezuma did not these things himself, ; but because the hand of destiny worked with his hand and tho voice of destiny spoke in his voice. The gods of tho Aztecs were false gods indeed, but I for one believe that they had life and intelligence, for those hideous shapes of stone were the habitations of devils, and the priests spoke truth when they said that tho sacrifice of men was pleasing to their gods. To these devils tho king went for counsel through tho priests, and now this doom was on them, that they must give false counsel to their own destruction, and to the destruction of those who worshiped them, as was decreed by one more powerful than they. Now, while we were talking the sun had sunk swiftly, so that all the world was dark. But the light still lingered on tho : snowy crests of the volcanoes Popo and ] Ixtuc, staining them an awful ml. Never j before to my sight had the shape of the ! dead womun whose everlasting bier is j Ixtac's bulk seemed so clear and wonder- j ful as on that night, for either it was so I or my fancy gave it the very shape and color of a woman's corse steeped in blood I and laid out for burial. Nor was it my i phantasy alone, for when Montezuma had finished upbraiding me he ehanced to look up, and his eyes falling 011 the mountain remained fixed there. "Look now, Teule!" he said presently, with a solemn laugh; "yonder lies the corse of the nations of Anahuac washed in a water of blood and made ready for burial. Is she not terrible in death?" As he spoke the words and turned to go, I a sound of doleful wailing came from the ' direction of the mountain, a very wild j and unearthly sound that caused the blood j in my veins to stand still. Now Monte- I zuma caught my arm in his fear, and we j gazed together on Ixtac, and it seemed to j us that this wonder happened, for in i that mi and fearful light the red figure of j the sleeping woman arose, or appeared to j rise, from its bier of stone. It arose slowly, like one who awakes from sleep, and presently it stood upright upon the mountain's brow, towering high in the air. There it stood, a giant and awakened 1 corpse, its white trappings stained with | blood, and we trembled to see it. For awhile the wraith remained thus ; gazing toward the city of Tenoctitlan; then suddenly it threw its vast arms upward as though in grief, and at that moment the night rushed in upon it and covered it, while the sound of wailing died slowly away. 'Say, Teule," gasped the emperor, "do I not well to be afraid when such portents as these meet my eyes day by day? Hearken to the lamentations in the city; we have not seen this sight alone. Listen how ! the people cry aloud with fear and the j priests beat their drums to avert the omen. Weep on, ye people, and ye priests pray and do sacrifce! It is very fitting, for the day of your doom is upon you. O Tenoetitlan, queen of cities, I see you ruined and desolate, your palaces blackened with j flre, your temples desecrated, your pleasant gardens a wilderness. I see your high born women the wantons of stranger lords and your princes their servants; the canals \ run red with the blood of your children; j your gateways are blocked with their bones. TWith 4c jiJvmt vim everywhere: dishonor is your duily bread; desolation is your por- i tion. Farewell to you, queen of the cities, j cradle of my forefathers in which I was | nursed!" When Montezuma had made an end of ; crying his prophecies, I asked him hum- | bly if I should summon to him the lords j who were in attendance upon him, but who stood at some distance. "Nay," he unswered, "I would not have them see me thus with grief and terror ; upon my face. Whoever fears, tit least I must seem brave. Walk with me awhile, Teule, and if it is in your mind to murder me I shall not grieve." I made no answer, but followed him as he led the way down the darkest of the winding paths that run between the co| dar trees, where it would have Ix'en easy I for me to kill him if I wished, but I could not see how I should be advantaged by j the deal; also, though 1 knew that Montezuma was my enemy, my heart shrank j from the thought of murder. For awhile j or more he walked on without shaking, j now l>eneath the shadow of the trees, and | now through open spaces of garden plant- | od with lovely Mowers, till at last we came [ to tho gates of the place whore the royal dead arc said to rest. Now, In front of these gates was an open space of turf on which tho moonlight shono brightly, and in tho center of this space lay something i white, shaped like a woman. Hero Monte- i zuma halted and looked at the gates, then said: "Theso gates opened four days sinco for Papautzln, my sister. How long, I wonder, will pass before they open for ine?" j As ho spoke tho white shape upon tho ' grass, which I had seen and ho had not j seen, stirred liko an awaking sleeper. As tho snow shapo upon tho mountain had stirred, so this shape stirred; as it had arisen, so this one arose; as it threw its arms upward, so this ono threw up her arms. Now Montezuma saw and stood still trembling, and I trembled also. Then tho woman?for it was a woman I ?advanced slowly toward us, and as sho I camo we saw that she was draped in grave j clothes. Presently sho lifted her head, and : tho moonlight fell full upon her face. ; Now Montezuma groaned uloud, and I groaned, for wo saw that tho face was tho pale, thin faco of tho Princess Papantzin ?PnnantTin. who bad lain for four days In tho grave. On sho camo toward us, i gliding like one who walks in her sleep, j till sho stopped beforo tho bush in tho shadow of which wo stood. Now Papnntzin, or tho ghost of Papantzin, looked at j us with blind eyes?that is, with eyes that j wcro open and yet did not seem to 6ec. ''Are you there, Montezuma, my brotherf" sho said in tho voice of Papantzin. j ' Surely I feel your presence, though I I cannot seo you." Now Montezuma stopped from the shad- j ow and stood face to face with tho dead. "Who arc you," he said, "who wear tho 6hapo of ono dead and aro dressed in tho , garments of tho dead?" "I am Papantzin," 6hc answered, "and am risen out of death to bring you u message, Montezuma, my brother." What message do you bring me?" ho asked hoarsely. "I bring you a message of doom, my brother. Your empire shall fall, and soon , you shall be accompanied to death by tens ' of thousands of your people. For four j days I linve lived nmong the dead, and there I have seen your false gods, which j aro devils. There also I have seen tho priests which served them and many of j those who worshiped them plunged into j torment unutterable. Because of tho wor- j ship of these demon gods the people of ! Anahuac is destined to destruction." "Have you no word of comfort for mo, Papantzin, my sister?" lie asked. "None," sho answered. "Perchance if you abandon the worship of the false gods ; you may savo your soul. Your life you I cannot save, nor the lives of your people." ! Then sho turned and passed away into tho shadow of tho trees. I heard her gravo i clothes sweep upon tho grass. Now a fury seized Montezuma, and ho j raved aloud, 6aying: "Curses on you, Papantzin, my sister! ! Why then do you come buck from the dead j to bring mo such evil tidings? Had you : brought hopo with you, had you shown a way of escape, then I would havo welcomed you. May you go back into darkness, and may the earth lio heavy on your j heart forever! As for my gods, my father ! worshiped them, and I will worship them I to the end. Aye, if they desert me, at least j I will never desert them. Tho gods are angry because tho sacrifices aro few upon j their altars; henceforth they shall be dou- J bled. Aye, tho priests of the gods shall themselves be sacrificed because they neglect their worship." Thus he raved on, after tho fashion of a weak man maddened with terror, whilo his noblos and attendants, who had followed at a distance, clustered about him, fearful and wondering. At length thoro i camo an end, for, tearing with his thin hands at his royal robes and at his hair and beard, Montezuma fell and writhed in a fit upon tho ground. Then they carried him into tho palace, and none saw him for three days and nights. CHAPTER XV. THE NAMING OF THE BRIDES. Now, some months passed between tho dato of my naming as the god Tezcat and tho entry of tho Spaniards into Mexico, and during all this spacp tho city was in a ferment. Again and again Montezuma sent embassies to Cortes, bearing with them vast treasures of gold aiffi gems as presents and at tho samo timo praying him to withdraw, for this foolish princo j did not understand that by displaying so : much wealth ho flew a lure which must I 6urely bring tho falcon on himself. To j these embassadors Cortes returned courteous answers, together with presents of small value, and that was all. Then the advanco began, and tho cm- I peror learned with dismay of tho conquest ! of tho warlike tribe of tho Tlascalans.who, ; though they were Montezuma's bitter and j hereditary foes, yet mado a 6tand against ! tho white man. Next came tho tidings ! that from enemies tho conquered Tlasca- , lans had become the allies and servants of \ tho Spaniard, and that thousands of their fiercest warriors were advancing with him upon the 6acred city of Cholulu. Awhllo passed, and it was known that Cholula also hod been given to massacre, and that tho holy, or rather tho unholy, gods had j been torn from their shrines. Marvelous | |ales were told of tho Spaniards, of their ; courago and their might, of the armor | that they wore, the thunder that their i weapons mode in battle, and tho flcreo I beasts which they bestrode. Onco two heads of whito men taken in a skirmish j ;were sent to Montezuma?fierce looking ' heads, great and hairy, and with them tho j head of a horse. When Montezuma saw ' these ghastly relics, he almost fainted with j fear. Still ho caused them to be set up on pinnacles of tho great temple and proc lamation to be made that this fate await- | ed every invader of tho land. Meanwhile all was confusion in his pol- I icies. Day by day councils were held of tho nobles, of high priests ami of neigh- i boring and friendly kings. Some advised ! one thing, some another, and tho end of it j was Hesitation ana tony. An, naa aiome- i zuma listened to the voico of that great ; man Guatemoo, Anahuac would not havo j been a Spanish flef today! For Guatcnioc j prayed him again ahd yet again to put , away his fears and declare open war upon i the Teules before it was too late?to cease 1 from making gifts and sending embassies, to gather his countless armies and smite tho foe in tho mountain passes. But Montezuma would answer: "Towhatend. nephew f How can I struggle against these men when the gods themselves have declared ; for them!1 Surely tho gods can tako their i own parts if they wish it, and, if they will | not, for myself and my own fate I do not I care, but alas for my people, alas for tho ! women and the children, the aged and the weak!" Then ho would cover his face and moan and weep like a child, and Guatcmoc would pass from his presenco dumb with fury at tho folly of so great a king, but helpless to remedy it, for, like myself, Gautemoc believed that Montezuma had j been smitten with a madness sent from heaven to bring the land to ruin. The peoplo were distraught with fear of tho future, but not tho less on that uo- ; count, or perhaps because of it, they i plunged with fervor into pleasures, niter- j noting them with religious ceremonies. In those days no feast was neglected, and j no alt/ir lacked its victim. Like a river that quickens its flow as it draws near tho : precipice over which it must fall, so tho i people of Mexico, foreseeing ruin, awoke, as it were, and lived /is they had never lived before. All day long the cries of victims j came from a hundred temple tops, and all j night the sounds of revelry were heard ' among the streets. "Let us cat and ' drink," they said, "for the gods of the sea ' arc upon us, and tomorrow we die." Now ; women who had been held virtuous proved themselves wantons, /tnd men whoso names Were honest showed themselves knaves, and none cried flc upon them. Aye, i even children were seen drunken in tho streets, which is an abomination among tno Aztecs. The emperor had moved his household from Chajjoltepec to the palace In the great square facing the temple, and this palace was a town In Itself, for every night more than 1,000 human !>cings slept beneath its roof, not to sj?eak of the dwarfs and monsters and the hundreds of wild birds and beasts in cages. Here every day , I feasted with whom I would, and when I was weary of feasting It was my custom to i stilly out into the streets playing on the ! lute, for by now I had in some degree mas- | tcred that hateful instrument, dressed in j shining apparel and attended by a crow d | of nobles and royal pages. Then the nobles j would rush from the houses shouting and I doing me reverence, the children pelted mo ' with flowers, and the maidens danced beforo j me, kissing my hands and feet, till at ; length I was attended by a mob 1,000 j strong. And I also danced and shouted j like any village fool, for I think that a j kind of mad humor, or perhaps it was the I drunkenness of worship, entered into me j in those days; also I sought to forget my : griefs; I desired to forget that I was doomed j to the sacrifice, and that every day brought I 4 nie nearer to the red knife of the priest. In thoso days, had it not been for the tender kindness of Otomle, I think that my heart would have broken or 1 should have slain myself. But this great and j beauteous lady was ever at hand to cheer mc in a thousand ways, and now nnd again she would let fall some vague words of hopo that set my pulses bounding. I , hdked much with Otondc, instructing her in tho matte s of my faith nnd many oth- j cr things, ns I had done by Marina, who, wo now heard, was tho mistress and inter- j prcter of Cortes, the Spanish leader. She, j for her part, listened gravely, watching 1 me tho while with her tender eyes, but no | more, for of all women Otonde was tho | most modest, as she was tho proudest and most beautiful. So matters went on until the Spaniards had left Cholulaon their road to Mexico. It was then that I chanced ! one morning to be sitting in tho gardens, my lute in hand, and having my attend- j ant nobles and tutors gathered at a respectful distance behind mc. From where I sat I could see the entrance to tho , court in which the emperor met. his coun- ! ell daily,and I noted that when the princes ; had gone the priests began to come, und I after them a number of very lovely girls, 1?1 1? 1,1,11,* nr~* a- i Ulll'IlUUll u> nuiuui ui Iiiiuvuv u^v. ?. *W | cntly Guntemoc, the prince, who now 6inile(l but rarely, came up to me smiling ! nnd nsketl mo if I knew what was doing i yonder. I replied thut I knew nothing j nnd cared less, but I supposed thnt Montezuma was gathering a peculiar treasure to j send to his masters, tho Spaniards. ''Bo- ] ware how vou speak, Teule," answered . the prince haughtily. "Your words may ' be true, and yet, did 1 not lovo you, you 6hould rue them even though you hold tho , spirit of Tczcnt. Alas," he added, stamp- 1 ing on tho ground, "'alas, thnt my uncle's madness should make it possible that such ! words can be spoken! Oh, wcro I tho cm- i peror of Anuhuac, in a single week tho ! head of every Teulo in Cholula should j deck.n pinnacle of yonder temple!" "Beware how you speak, prince," I answered, mocking him, "for there aro those who, did they hear, might cnuso you to ruo your words. Still ono day you may bo emperor, and then we shall see how you j will deal with tho Teulcs?at least others will see, though I shall not. But what is ! it now? Does Montezuma choose new wives!"' "He chooses wives, but not for himself. You know, Teule, that your tlmo grows short. Montezuma and tho priests name j those who must be given to you to wife." "Given mo to wife!" I said, starting to . my foot. "To me whoso brido is death! ! What have I to do with lovo or marriage? I who in some few short weeks must graco an altar? Ah, Guatemoc, you say you lovo . mo, and once I saved you. Did you lovo i mo, surely you would save mo now as you | swore to da " "I swore that I would glvo my lifo for j yours, Teule, if it lay in my power, and I that oath I would keep, for all do not set | so high a storo on lifo as you, my friend, j But I cannot help you. You arc dedicated to tho gods, and did I die a hundred times it would not save you from your fata j Nothing can savo you except the hand of 1 heaven if it wills. Therefore, Teulo, mako i merry whilo you may and dio bravely when you must. Your case is no worse ! than mine and that of many others, for i death awaits us all. Farewell." When he had gone, I rose, and leaving tho gardens I passed into the chamber where it was my custom to give audienco j to thoso who wished to look upon the god Tezcat, as they called me. Here I sat upon mv crnlHon rmiir.h inlinllnir thn firmos of I tobacco, and as it chanced I was alone, for I nono dared to enter that room' unless I j gave thorn leave. Presently tho chief of 1 my pages announced that ono would speak with me, and I bent my head, signifying , that tho person should enter, for I was wear}* of my thoughts. Tho page withdrew, and presently a veiled woman stood before mo. I looked at her wondering and bade her draw her veil and speak. She obeyed, and I 6aw that my visitor was tho Princess Otomie. Now I rose amazed, for it as not usual that.sho should visit mo thus alone. I guessed, therefore, that sho hod tidings or was following some custom of which I was ignorant. "I pray you bo seated," sho said confusedly. ''It is not fitting that you should stand before me." ''Why not, princess?" j I answered. ' If I had no respect for rank, ; 6urcly beauty must claim It." ''A truco | to words," sho replied, with a wave of her 6lim hand. l'I como here. 0 Tezcat. according to tho ancient custom, because I am charged with a message to you. Those whom you shall wed are chosen. I am tho bearer of their names." ''Speak on, princess of tho Otomie." "They are"? and 6ho named three ladies whom I knew to bo among tho loveliest in tho land. "I thought that there were four," I said, with a bitter laugh. "Am I to bo de- j frauded of the fourth?" "'There is a fourth," sho answered and was silent '"Glvo mo her name," I cried. '"Ono has been found, O Tezcat, who bos borne other titles than this you glvo her." Now I looked at her qucstioningly, and sho spoke again in a low voice. "I, Otomlo, j princess of tho Otomie, Montezuma's i daughter, am tho fourth and the first." I "You!" I said, sinking back upon my cushions. "'You!" ''Yes, I. Listen. I was chosen by the priests as tho most lovely in tho land, however unworthily. My I father, tho emperor, was angry and said j that whatever befell I should never bo tho wife of a captivo who must die upon tho i altar of sacriflco. But the priests answer- i ed that this was no tiino for him to claim j exception for his blood, now when tho gods were wroth. Was tho first lady in tho | land to be withheld from tho god? they j asked. Then my father sighed and said that it should l>e as I willed. And I said with the priests that now, in our sore distress. the proud must humble themselves to the dust, even to the marrying of a cap- ; tlvc slave who is named a god and doomed to sacrifice. ''So I, princess of the Otomie, have con- : sented to become vour wife, 0 Tezcat-, j though perchance had I known all that I j read in your eyes this hour I should not have consented. It may happen that in i this shame I hoped to tlnd love if only for j one short hour, and that I purposed to. | vary the custom of our people and to complete my marriage by the side of the victim i on tho altar, as, if I will, I have tho right to do. But I sec well that I am not wel- : come, anil though it is too late to go back upon my word have no feur. There are others, and I shall not trouble you. I have given my message. Is it your pleas- ; uro that I should go? Tho solemn cere- j mony of wedlock will be on the twelfth ! day from now, O Tezcat." Now I roso from my scat and took her I hand, saying: "I thank you, Otomio for your noble ncss of mind. Had it not been for the i comfort and friendship which you and Guatcmoc, your cousin, have given mc I , think that ere now I should be dead. So 1 you desire to comfort me to tho last. It seems that you even purposed to die with ) mc. How am I to interpret this, Otomic? In our land a woman would need to lovo a man after no common fashion before sho consented to share such a bed as awaits mc on yonder pyramid. And yet I may j scarcely think that you, whom kings havo i sued for, can place your heart so low. I How am I to read tho writing of your words, princess of tho Otomio?" "Read it with your heart," sho wills- | pered low, and I felt her hand tremble in my own. j I looked at her beauty. 11 wus great. I 1 thought of her devotion, a devotion that did not shrink from the most horrible of deaths, and a wind of feeling which was I akin to love swept through my soul. But even as I looked and thought I remember- ; ed the English garden and tho English ! maid from whom I hail parted beneath the beech at Ditchinghum and tho words that we had spoken then. Douutlcss she Btill lived and was true to inc. While I lived should I not keep true at heart to her? If I must wed these Indian girls, I must wed them, but if once I told Otomio j I loved her then I broke my troth, and i with nothing less would sho be satisfied. | And yet, though I was deeply moved and tho temptation was great, I had not como to this. ''Be seated, Otomio," I said, "and listen to me. You see this golden token?" j A 9\A T miu* T .? 1 tvmv rliwr from in V linnrf "And you see the writing witliin it." She bent her head, but did not speak, and I saw* that there was fear in her eyes. "I will read you the words, Otomie," ! And I translated into the Aztec tonguo | the quaint couplet: Heart to heart, Though fur apart. Then at last she spoke, "What does the 1 writing mean?" she said. "I can only j read in pictures, Teule." "It means, Otomie, that in the far land I whence I come there is a woman who loves mo and who is my love." "Is she your wife then?" "She is not my wife, Otomie, but 6ho 1 is vowed to mo in marriage." "She is vrvc'l to y< : i:\--rlr"-p." sho answered bitterly. "Why, then, wo urc 1 equal, for so am I, Teulo. Hut thoro is this difference between us?you love her, and rnu you do not love. That is what you would ninKo clear to ma bparc mc | moro words. I understand it alL Still it | 6ecins to mo that if I have lost 6ho is also : in tho path of loss. Great seas roll be- | tween you and this love of yours, Tculc? 6cas of water, and tho altar of sncriflco, > and tho nothingness of death. Now let mo go. Your wifo I must be, for there is j no escape, but I shall not trouble you over- j "18 she your wife then?" much, and it will 6oon be dono with, j xncil you niuy sue*. juur uesiru in uw i houses of tho stars whither j-ou must wander, and it is my prayer that you shall , win it. "All these months I hare been planning to And hope for you, and I thought that I had found it. But it was built upon a false belief, and it is ended. Had you 1 been able to eay from your heart that you j loved me it might bave been well for both : of us. Should yob be able to e^y it before J tho end it may still be well. 6ut I do not ; ask you to say it, and beware how you tell j mo a lio. I leave you, Teule, but before I go I will say that I honor you more in this hour than I have honored you before, be- ' cause you have dared to 6peak tho truth to i me, Montezuma's daughter, when a lio j had been so easy and so safo. That woman J beyond the 6cas should be grateful to you, | but though I bear her no ill will between me and her there is a strugglo to tho death. I Wo are strangers to each other, and stran- j gers wo 6hall remain, but 6ho has touched ; your hand as I touch it now. You link ! us together and are our bond of enmity. Farewell, my husband that is to bo." Then, rising, Otomic cast her veil about j her face and passed slowly from the chain ber, leaving me much disturbed. It was ; a bold deed to have rejected the proffered j lovo of this queen among women, and j now that I had done so I was notnltogeth- j er glad. Would Lily, I wondered, have j offered to descend from such state to cast j off tho purplo of her royal rank that sho ! might lie at my sldo on tho red stone of j sacrifice? Perhaps not, for this fierce fldel- | ity is only to be found in women of anoth- j cr breed. These daughters of tho sun lovo j wholly when they love nt all, and as they i love they hato. They ask no priest to con- j 6ccrato their vows, nor if theso become j hateful will they be bound by them for | duty's 6ako. Their own desire is their ; law, but while it rules them they follow j it unflinchingly, and if need bo they seek its consummation in the gates of death, j or, failing that, forgetfulness. TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK. tvtvf.. ..*? VI ... .1 ^ juismumnms gwiuug. SORRY FOR HER HUSBAND. Comment* of a Fashionable Hrlde on ller IVeddliiK Present*. Some very amusing stories are circu ! lating in regard to a recent fashionable } wedding. It seems that even the very | many pretty presents the bride received were scarcely such as met her requirements. The gifts were numerous enough to please anv young woman, even were she a princess and had a rent roll as long ; as the Duke of Veragua's titles. But the ! young American was not satisfied and expressed her dissatisfaction in unmistakable terms. The gifts that came in from the groom's connections were many of them so unsatisfactory as to be exchanged for others larger and huudsoiner. One of the bride's relatives presented her with ! a handsome piece of plate which she her- j self ordered and insisted should be made j in a particular pattern. "But, madam, | Mrs. A lias just been in and ordered j you such a j ece," the jeweler protested, j "Mrs. A can order me something else. I don't like her pnttevns anyway." j The next morning Mrs. A received a note from the bride elect asking her to counterman ! her order. Another friend, not particularly rich j in this world's goods, but of an old and I prominent family, wishing to remember 1 her purchased a very dainty piece of Bohemian glass and carried it out to present herself. During her visit a gift came for the bride. Opening it the ; package was found to contain a small piece of Bohemian glass, easily worth ! $50. It was covered with gold leaves in raised work and set with small diamonds. I "Well, what do they expect me to do with that? The idea of sending me such j a thing. I might use it for a pinbox." The young woman with the less handsome Bohemian glass felt her heart sink within her. She said nothing to the fas- j tidious bride, but carried it home and 1 sent instead a beautiful picture costing j a great deal more money. She has yet received no acknowledgment of her gift, i Another lady of the east end who sent a $25 silver strainer, had her gift commented on thus: "I consider Miss X 's tea strainer a ' noronn nl in en If The scoring has been so general that no one is feeling particularly badly about ; it. In fact it is forming quite an amusing topic in society. The conversation j usually opens thus: "Oh, have you heard of the perfectly j dreadful way Miss L has been talking about her presents?" "Yes. Isn't it too funny for anything?" ! ?Pittsburg Chronicle. Teut-li Children I'atrlotlc Song*. Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson is inter- j ested in a new society lately organized j for the purpose of teaching patriotism. ; One wise woman years ago discovered i the help of singing patriotic music in the home proved when her four boys j were tired of the house, nervous or fretful. Mrs. Page says: "On a certain stormy afternoon my boys were wearing my patience threadbare. They ' fretted, were irritable and implored to j bo allowed to get out in the rain. A young friend came into my sitting room, j opened the small cabinet organ, played a lively accompaniment, singing to it i the 'Red, White and Blue.' Four cross little faces relaxed. Smiles replaced j frowns, small fists bout a rat-tat-a-tat accompaniment upon the floor, and j shrill boyish voices joined in the chorus. | I looked into four happy little faces. I i had discovered a future remedy for similar attacks of discontent and the reign of bad fairies." A Suggestion For Goitalpiiig 'Women. Every woman has some talent. De- ' velop it, no matter how humble it may seem, and in so doing derive genuine i pleasure and benefit. Look at the many j brilliant and noble women who have j made names for themselves and are such an honor to our sex. Think you if they had stooped to gossip and to narrow ! views of peopio ana imngs tney wouia ue where they are? Emulate their examples in keeping busy with good works and high ambitions, and the world will ' be better for your presence and your friends legion.?Han Hanlove Toby in Good Housekeeping. Women Who Hiive Been Decorated. About 40 Frenchwomen have been decorated at different times by the government. The first was Sergeant Vir- ; giuio Ghesquiere, who fought in the wars of the empire until she received u wound which led to the betrayal of her . sex. Rosa Bonheur also wears the Cross of the Legion of Honor, and Mme. Dieulafoy, the traveler, who affects masculine attire, wears her rosette in the buttonhole of her coat. Soeur Rosalie was decorated by Napoleon III in 1852. A Myatery of Art CrltioUm. Why is it that the press takes so much j pains to describe the personal appoar- ! ance of the female artists who have pictures in the art oxhibit of the World's fair and says nothing of the pictures, I whilo it savs nothing of tho personal appearanco or tho malo artists, but describes j thoir pictures??St, Paul Globo. 1 A QUEER NORTH CAROLINA RACE, j There lives in the swamps of Robe- j son county, North Carolina, a strange race of people. Their manners, cus- i toms and personal appearance are unlike those of any other race on the j American continent. They live within themselves, and their neighbors, i both white and colored, is limited to the extent which necessity demands. Among the citizens of the county they | are called Portugese and mulattoes. They are neither. Recent investigations by antiquarians who have close- J ly studied their characteristics, incline to the opinion that they are desccn-d ! ants of the Croatan Indians and the lost colony of the Roanoke islands. It is a historical fact that on the arrival of the relief expedition fitted out by Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir j Richard Greenville, thecolonv planted on Roanoke island a few months before had totally disappeared. Years after- | wards, when the country had been sparsely settled by the English, and when the Tusearora Indians were the dominant # tribe, it was a tradition 1 among them that in the interior there were white men who were members of i a smaller tribe of Indians, and that these men possessed many of the gifts i of the English. It is generally thought j that when the English vessels sailed to , England for supplies for the infant colony, those left 011 Roanoke islands ! were too weak to defend themselves against the Crontnn Indians, their nearest neighbors, and that in an incursion the men were killed and the women and children carried away into captivity. Whatever may be the supposition, the fact, nevertheless, remains that iu this remote country of the old North State, there exists today a strange and peculiar people. There associations have in the main been with those who previous to the war were known iu the Southern States us free Negroes. They intermarried with these free Negroes and the majority of them are ' more or less tinctured with Africuu blood. This admixture, however, does not change their characteristics. There are among them certain families I who have held aloof from such alliances, and these occupy a position of i superiority. While they are not, iu j the strictest sense, tribunal to their government, they bow in implicit obedience to the rulers who are always ! members of these pure blooded fumi- j lies. These pure bloods, iu personal ; appearance, resemble the Portuguese; j but in every other characteristic they j are more like the Indian. They are , bruve, generous, natural hunters, fine J shots and very truthful. The swamps ; abound in game, such as deer, ducks, i turkeys and smaller animals and birds. I They never forget an injury and treasure up their feelings of vengeance un- ; til they (ind a way to gratify it. They j live in houses of peculiar architectural j designs, resembling the "dug out" of I the primitive Western settler. A few years ago these people became a source of terror to their while neighbors. Uue of tbeir principal I men, Henry Berry Lowrey, organized u bund of them and wrought as much crime in Robeson and adjoining coiin- : ties as did the James gang in its more j extensive lield of operations. This j man, on account of a real or fancied j wrong, waylaid and murdered a wealthy and influential white man, a Mr. Townsend. The horrors of an Indian war, except the scalping of the victims, followed. Women and children as well as able bodied men. No race was exempt. It was a war of extermination. Houses were burned, stocks destroyed, and the country laid j waste. After committing depreda- | tions, the band would return to the j swamps, which arc almost impenetra- j ble as the jungles of India. They are ; covered with dense underbrush, and only those familiar with their recesses j are able to find the hidden paths that ! lead into their depths. Lowrey possessed considerable intellect, and being i familiar with every inch of the ground, : showed himself an adept in the war- j fare. His second in command, Steph- ; en Lowrey, his uncle, was a capable : lieutenant, and was often sent 011 a marauding expedition with a part of the command, while the chief would strike at a distant point. This was continued for several years, and became so disastrous to that portion of the State that the legisla- j ture passed an act granting amnesty j to all the desperadoes except Henry j Berry and Stephen Lowrey, for whose capture cm death a reward of $10,000 was offerethv This action of the State had the desited effect and the war came to an end. What became of the j leaders is not known. They were j never captured, and 110 one ever claim- | ed the reward for killing them. They j disappeared and their followers resumed the even tenor of their way. These people arc legal citizens of i the United States, but seldom avail themselves of their privileges. They take no interest i" either local or national affairs. They have fought against all efforts for their improvement, and live today the same lives their ancestors did.?N. Y. Sun. JOHN (JAKY EVANS. A ltrief Sketch of His Life by n Friendly Hand. Hon. John Gary Evans, who was elected governor of South Carolina at the last election by an overwhelming majority, will be one of the youngest j governors the State has ever produced and the only one Aiken county has ! hint hntinr nf ndm-dimr Hi? is so wellknown in Aiken county ' that a minute history of his career would be useless. He was born at Cokesbury, in Abbeville county, October 12th, 18(12, and is therefore 81 years old. His father was General N. G. Evans, a valiant Confederate soldier well known for his deeds of daring and bravery, and who , died immediately after the war from : effects of injuries received in the cam- 1 paigns. His mother was formely Miss : Victoria Gary, a talented daughter of ; that noted family which has been so ; instrumental in making South Carolina's history. Governor Evans received his col- j legiate education at Union college, Schenectady, New York, where he | took a high stand, being elected president of his class, in bis junior year, although a Southern boy. He studied law in the office of Major \V. T. Gary, one of the district at- : torneys of the State of Georgia. After completing his studies he came to Aiken anil "cast his fortune with our 1 people. It did not take our people long to recognize the ability of . the brilliant young attorney, for before j he had been here two years he was elected by a flattering vote to the legislature. In 1890 he was re-elected to the legislature and soon became the i Reform leader in that body. His work was thorough and brilliant, so that the j people naturally turned to him as a j candidate for the senate to which body lio ? !!<riv'pru'heliiiiinrlv elected ill 1S92. I Again his wonderful parliamentary skill, indefatigable work and brilliant I oratory made liiin the leader to the Reform party in the senate. His tri umphant victories over the powerful opposition in the senate naturally 1 made him one of the foremost men of | the State, and when the term of (Jov- j ernor Tillman expired, he was selected I by an overwhelming majority to lead j the Reformers, which he so successfully did at the last election, carrying nearly every county in the State j against Dr. Rope, of Newberry, who | was supported by disgrunted Reformers, Conservatives and Republicans. A great ileal of (Jovernor Evans' success is due to his originality and fearlessness. He was the first advocate of the abolition of the two mill school i i tax, and proposed instead that the white people should educate the white children and that the colored people should educate their race. This has 1 : grown to be a very popular idea all over the State. Governor Evans is probably better known in connection with the dispen- j sury law than any other as he intro- ! duced the measure. Governor Evans i believes this to be the only solution of the vexed liquor problem and he has sedulously ad vocated the measure ever since it became a law. Every mail brings him inquiries from every section of the Union pertaining to the success of the innovation. He is the father of the county gov- j eminent bill which will take effect next January. This measure is intended to supplant the pleasant cumbersome and unsatisfactory law providing for three county commissioners, i ? 1 L..i !. I 1 ? it is a radical cnange, uul is uiucu uu the principle that one man paid to do j the work will do it better than three | with comparatively no renumeration. j Governor Evans has been allied . with the lteform movement and has ; therefore been connected with all leg- j islation of importance in recent years. I His vast and varied experience with 1 legislative affairs and his thorough knowledge of the demands of tire people, coupled with his personal magnet- I ism, ability and devotion to the peo pie and the State, gives assurance that his administration will be one of the ! 1 best and most successful in the history : of the State. He has a brilliant future before him and we trust his administration will i redound to the good of the people and . the glory of his town, county and 1 State, and will result in a more united, ; prosperous and happy people.?Aiken ; i Journal and Keview. ! j HAPPY ACCIDENTS. Some of the most celebrated discov- ! 1 eries in the world of science and art ^ have been the result of a happy acci dent. The worker striving earnestly j 1 for one thing, finds that,, while failing I in his original quest, he has attained j J another and far more wonderful one. , J The discovery of steam was one of I j these "happenings," as we all know, j The boy Walt, always thoughtful and ' 1 planning, sat one day by his mother's I ' kitchen fire. There was the teakettle j swinging from its hook, and the steam j violently lifted the kettle lid. As it j , rose and fell, and the boy's eyes followed the motion, his brain fired with thought: "If this small pufF of steam can move an iron lid, why would not a j larger amount move a larger object?" < and the whole subject of steam naviga- | ' tion was there in a nutshell. j ? The quick wit of a woman discover- | ed the strange force now known as I milvMini?m The wife of a celebrated ! ! servant, Galvani, of Bologna, Italy, < was one day idly looking at some dead frogs, just skinned, for some purpose \ < of scientific investigation, when sud- ! denly the legs moved convulsively. I She called her husband's attention to : the phenomenon, and soon from that i one small starting point he evolved < the wonderful theory and principal of the galvanie bttery. ' Glass is made from melted sand, as 1 all school-boys know, but the discover} was one of merest chance. Accord- 1 ing to history, a number' of sailors were < shipwrecked upon the coast of Spain, and, building a fire upon the sand to < dry their dripping garments, found, after the fire had died down, a crystalline substance, which was the first glass known to mankind. The pendulum of our modern clock 1 was a result of a chance look of Galileo, as he stood in a cathedral and saw j ' the chandelier oscillate back and forth. ! He had the genius to apply the discov- ! cry, and thus clocks were invented in j the year 1(539. 1 The beautiful gloss and smooth sur- i face of our satin fubrices are all the lucky find of an ordinary weaver, i One day, when trade was dull, this j 1 man walked back and forth before his i loom, thinking how he could increase his business. Each time he passed the machine he pulled short threads from the work nnd carelessly placing them in his mouth, he rolled them over and over, and finally spat them I ' on the lloor. After a while he picked up one of these balls of silk thread, : and upon unrolling it was astonished j at its brilliancy. Catching the idea, i he made experiments, and finally produced the beautiful satin. Many more of these happy accidents might be mentioned?me iait or me apple that led Newton to the theory of j ; gravitation ; the Hying kite of Benja- j i min Franklin that drew down lightning from the skies; the bit of silver I wire that suggested to I)r. Marion Simmshis great surgical theory; the j discovery of modern porcelain, and of the principles of lithography. History ! abounds in these incidents, and, no j doubt, the world will yet be enriched by many more benefactions resulting from a happy accident or a careless suggestion, lodging in an earnest, thoughtful mind, prepared by deep study over other problems to receive it. TIIK RECKONING OF TIME. j : The division of the year into 365J 1 days comes to us from the Egyptians. ; : So far as history reaches back into the i 1 darkness of the early ages we are led j. to believe that the dusky brown peo- j pie by the banks of the Nile were the iirst to study the motions of the sun and stars, and make them the measure j of time. And some recent discoveries in Egypt, by careful students, seem to 1 show the way in which the earlier ; astronomers were enabled to count the days in the solar year. The great j temples ou the Nile were built with a long entrance of columns leading from the river to the interior of the shrine? J a kind of tunnel ; sometimes it was j lined with sphinxes or huge granite j 1 figures. Its mouth was turned toward a certain part of the heavens where the light of the setting sun could enter J ' it only once a year. It was either at ; [ the summer solstice, when the sun i j was farthest in the North, or at some j 1 other periodic position of the sun or star. We may imagine the Egyptian j astronomer watching in the inner j ' shrine for the opening of the new year, i < The line of columns served as a tele- j < scope by which he could catch the first i beam of the setting sun. Suddenly < the red light would Hash through the I tunnel up to the Holy of Holies ; the ] moment it reached the shrine the 1 philosopher would mark the hour, and know that another year had be- i gun. From that point in time he i could count day after day until, when ] the 31)5 days had passed, once more ' the red beam of light streamed into I the tunnel, and another year had pass- i ed away. In this way it seems proba- i ble that our days were first counted j and divided. Other nations, and even ! t the Greeks and Romans, used the < moon as their guide, and divided the ' I venr into lunar months. But it was t Inund, as lime passed on, that great I irregularities crept in, the months no longer corresponded to the seasons; April became June, and the autumn months winter. The Egyptian sun year was then generally adopted by the ignorance of the Roman priests, ! and at last Julius C;esar, who was 1 fond of astronomy, resolved to correct , the calendar; it is his year we now use, and to his friend, the Egyptian I Sosigenes, we owe our division of time. Ciesar fixed upon the first of January as the beginning of his year? a season of feasting and joy with the I I Egyptians and all modern society. Another mode of calulating the days . of the year in Egypt was the rising of the dog star, Sirius. This was known ( as the Sothic system, and is another I proof of the careful study the Egyptians gave to the starry skies.?Eugene Lawrence, in Harper's Weekly. MINISTERIAL FINANCE. The Ram's Horn, which is a novelty in religious journalism, has the following observation on ministerial finances I in the course of an article on "The I Prophet Jonah "A remarkably noticeable thing about Jonah is that when he boarded j the ship for Tarshish, he paid the fare ; himself. He didn't trv to eet a nass on account of his poverty or expect a reduction because lie was a preacher, but pulled out his wallet and laid down the cash, and went to his stateroom without any letting down in his self respect. It he had any such thing as a ministerial whine, he left it behind him when he traveled. He did not go to the captain with a long face and complain that God had been taking such poor care of him that unless he could travel at nominal rates he | couldn't go on that ship, but he paid j the fare in full, and he paid it out j of money he found in his own pocket, i "Unlike Jonah, there are some preachers who are not as anxious as they should be to render an honest i equivalent for what they get, and then there are others who hurt the cause of God by always being in a begging attitude for the church. Jesus Christ was < poor but he never begged. God always puts it into the heart of somebody to minister to him according to his need, and he is still taking care of his ser- J vants who are faithful. A law was | handed down to Moses from heaven, i that the faithful ox who trod out the ; grain should not be muzzled, and this ought to be evidence enough that God means that the preacher who is any 1 account shall always have enough to j eat. The ox didn't have to moan and groan for straw enough to keep him alive, but had a Godgiven right to help himself to coru whenever he wanted it. Certainly there is 110 reason why the faithful minister should not have rest from anxiety about temporal things, in believing that the God whom he serves will supply all his temporal needs. About the last thing Christ did | for his disciples was to prepare for them a breakfast, and yet too many preachers appear to be afraid to open the Bible very wide for fear they will j have to die in the poor house." JACKSON AND THE COURT MARTIAL. \ Lewis Cass, secretary of war, was aver at the White House, one day, with some important papers for President Jackson to sign, among them be mg a courtmaruai nnuings. "Cass, what is this?" inquired Jack- ] son, as he was about to write his name j Dn the document. "It is a court-martial," answered | Cass. "What have I to do with it?" asked J the president. "It dismisses an officer from the ser- ; vice, and the president must sign such orders." Jackson toyed with the paper, and iaid musingly, "Dismisses him from the army, eh ? Why ?" "Drunkenness; getting drunk and falling down on parade, or something of that kind," answered the secretary. "Who ordered the court?" asked Jackson. "General Scott," answered Cass. "Who is it?" inquired the president, with more interest. "Inspector-General Kraun," replied Cass. "What?" shouted Jackson; "my I old friend Kraun! Cass, just read J what that paper says." The secretary read the usual form of ; the court-martial sentence in such i cases. The president then took the paper and wrote across the bottom, where he was about to sign his name : "The within findings are disapproved, and Colonel Kraun is restored to his duly and rank." He pussed the paper back to Secretary Cass, and said, with his usual ve- ! hemence, "By the Eternal! Cass, when j you and Scott serve your country as j well as that man has, you can get ! drunk on duty every day." He Lived as a Girl.?An ex- | tinordinary story of a young man : passing as a girl all his life until about a month a two ago is just related from Treschatel, in the Alpine district of 1 Switzerland. He was known by the name of Laura Besnar, and came of a good fumily. Why his friends should have registered the child as a female and subsequently kept up the deception is a matter of mystery. The young man is said to have found the companionship of the weaker sex very pleasant, and would probably have continued to frequent the society of | Mmmnn e\ a nnft aT tllOir IlUmllPr JrUUUg ?UUiCH tw vuv> vi iuvii muimvv*! i had he not fallen in love; but in order to woo and win the lady of his choice, he declared his proper sex. The earlier years of his life were spent in a convent school, and on leav- | ing which he studied a cure for stara- j inering and subsequently founded a , school for that purpose. This was so successful that in a few years he amassed 40,000 francs, and then decided to study medicine. With this ob ject, he was entered as a student at j Urenope school of medicine as a woman, and to all outward appear ances he was one. His features were distinctly ferni- ! nine, and nothing in the shape of a mustache or whiskers were to be ob- j served. In every way he comported himself as a female and seemed quite I at ease in the character he assumed, j The only thing which might have betrayed him, perhaps, was a slight sus- | picion of the masculine in his voice. This, however, was scarcely sufficient j to attract special attention. The young man has been married, and as a husband he has already become acquainted with the hardships ; of the rougher sex, for, sad to relate, he is registered for military service i in 1895. How Doctors Bkcomk Impervious j ro Disease.?"People wonder how loctors can prevent themselves from j carrying disease." "It is simply care, j ind nothing else, that makes a physi- j :ian seem impervious to disease. And ; the method is so simple that many people would never notice that a doctor was taking any precaution whatever. Now, for instance, I go to the door of ; i room which contains a patient having i contagious disease. I give a knock ; : perhaps a voice from within will say, Come in,' but I make no move. I wait :here until someone opens the door for , ne. By touching the door knob I night come in contact with disease ; rnrtlltt T im into tlll? mOlll ! L'O OVOl* i 3V* """ " h" ----- TO ----:o the patient; perhaps feel the pulse 3f look at the tongue, always careful ; .hat none of my clothes come in con- | act with the bed clothing or anything 1 ;lse in the room. After this I prescribe | 11 y medicine and leave. I never sit | lown in a room where tliere is a con- i agious disease. After leaving the ; oom I wash my hands in water conaining bichloride and I am as pcrfecty free from disease germs as when I mtered the room. People do not seem ; oknow that you must come in contact J villi the germs before you can carry [ hem. Now, all these precautions, villi the exception of washing the hands vould never be noticed in a sick room, ,'et I am most careful to carry each ine out. Frequently I do not have to touch the patient. In such cases I always have the door opened for me when I come in and go out. A careful doctor does not carry disease; but some are apt to overlook the importance of these little sanitary rules and their patients suffer. Thk Business Man's Lesson.?He was an upright business man. In his heart lie believed the religion of Christ to be true. But he was very busy, and when Sunday came he was thoroughly tired. He had become interested, too, in his Sunday paper, so he gradually dropped off going to church. His wife -went regularly, and sometimes the children. One morning, just after his wife had set out, he was comfortably seated, reuding the money article, when he heard his boys talking in the next room. Said 8 year old Willie: "When you grow up, shall you go to church as mother does, or stay at home like father?" ' I ahull iln nniifMthpr "snid the onp - "w ?----- j 1 decidedly. "When I'm a man I shall have my horses, and be on the road Sundays and enjoy myself." The newspaper suddenly lost its attraction. Between the father and it there came a picture of his boys associating with loose men, and drilling into a godless, reckless life, and of himself looking on it in his old age as fruit of his self-indulgence. Five minutes after he was rapidly walking toward the church. When the service was over, his wife, coming down the aisle, saw him waiting at the door. There was questioning, glad surprise in her eyes, but he only remarked that he had taken a walk and thought he would join her on her way home. Next Sunday, however, the whole family were in their pew, and all the rest of the day there was a kind of a peace about the home that reminded him of his boyhood happy days in his father's home. And who will say that he was the less fitted for another week of business life by his share in the service of God's house, "staying at home all Sunday to rest?" Thoroughness.?The world today has no use for plodders with their "it will do," kind of work ; but it cads for energetic workers. Those that understand and appreciate the great value of thoughtfullness. The goal to be reached by man is "only to get through," no matter how or the quality of work that is turned oft". This is the great reason that so many of our sewing women, our kitchen girls and many of our working people are failures. They would like to be classed as good workers and demand good wages ; but they are not willing to give the time and labor necessary to obtain this success. Many people we find are unfit for ' their chosen work and their places could be filled at an hour's notice. They do your work well only while it is a novelty. If work is not well done the rapid method employed never redeems it. "Quickly," is not what we want. "Well and thoroughly," should be our motto. Slip-shod, rushing methods never pay. If we find a person that has had a successful career we will find that the way was paved with hard, close work, and the great desire for accuracy and thoughtfullness. . Thoughtfullness is one of the principal elements of success and applies to the hiohest of work as well as to the smallest routine detail of kitchen work, and no one need hope for success who Iack9 it. There is always room at the top, and the demand for workers who are willing and capable is always greater than the supply. Breeches, Pantaloons and Trousers.?The masculine readers of this "note" are apt to refer indiscriminately to the garments alluded to as "pants but, strictly speaking, they are separate and distinct articles of dress, each belonging to a particular age. "Breeches," in the strict meaning of that term, were worn by the seraicivilized men of the East, long ages before a single page of the New Testament was written, having been quite common among the Medes and Persians, the Phrygians, the Gauls and the Teutons. Breeches were very "brief" articles of apparel, scarcely covering the hips in the majority of instances, and never reaching nearer than six inches of the knee. "Pantaloons" were exaggerated forms of stockings, reaching from the hips to the ankles, and as tight-fitting as a pair of knit drawers. They were usually of three different colors, black at the hips, red from the hip to the knee and blue to the termination at the ankle. They came in vogue during the first half of the 15th century, at Venice, anu were worn by the devotees of the patron saint, Pantaloon. Such garments were always called pantallini by the Italians. "Trousers," (the only proper word to express the existing style in "pants") followed closely after the "knee breeches" of the Revolutionary period, being first worn in England at Oxford and Cambridge in 1812. Didn't Mind His Own Business.? Here is a story told by a city curate, to whom the experience happened on the occasion of his first wedding. The rector had told him to be careful to fill up the register with the correct age of the bride and bridegroom. The ceremony having been gone through, the happy couple who were of mature age, adjourned to the vestry to sign the register. The bridegroom, when asked bis age, gave it at once as (10, but the bride, with the modesty natural to her sex, merely said she was of full age, .kUam ?.nmrvnoh?nto^ U'lth qHA HIJUC >V liCIl icuiviicuuvvu it iv*< w..w pertly told the curate that it was not the first time that she had gone through the ceremony, and she meant to insist upon her rights. Finally, as the bride remained obdurate, the bridegroom thinking to put matters straight, told the curate the age. Far from serving as oil on the water, this only made matters worse, for the bride Hew into a passion, and insisted upon the bridegroom telling her how he knew her age. "I looked at your family Bible, my dear," was the quiet rejoinder. "And what right had you, pray, to take such a liberty before we were married?" And the two, who had come to church as affectionate as a pair of turtle doves, left in a pet. The curate who was responsible is still wondering what was the final upshot of this unfortunate affair. One Phase of City Life.?"Talking about the unsociability of large cities, an instance came into my own ?- ? knowledge that is, I think, without a parallel," says a writer in a Cincinnati paper. "I have a friend living in New York who roomed for five years in the same house with a young man, and in that time never made his ae quaintance or even learned ms name. He went on a hunt one summer in the Adirondacks, and there met the young man who had roomed with him in the same house. A conversation sprang up between them, and they then learned that they were of the same name. 'Have you any brothers?' asked my friend. 'I don't know. There were two of us, and my parents died when I was quite young. I was raised by an uncle in the West, and lost track of my brother.' 'Well, I was raised by an uncle in New York, and I believe you and I are brothel's.' A little further investigation proved it to be a fact."