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THE QL
An Historical .
Ku Klu
BY TH0MA5
Copyright by the Author and Published
Book II?The Revolution.
CHAPTER IIL
Tub Jot op Livino.
Within two weeks after the depar?"?
nt Mrs Pamernn and Martraret.
the wounded soldier had left the hospi.al
with Elsie's hand resting on his
arm and her keen eyes watching his
faltering steps. She had promised |
Margaret to take her place until he
was strong again. She was afraid to
ask herself the meaning of the songs j
that were welling up from the depth
of her own soul. She told herself
again and again that she was fulfilling
her Ideal of unselfish human service.
Ben's reoovery was rapid, and he
soon began to give evidence of his
boundless Joy In the mere fact of life.
He utterly refused to believe his
father In danger.
'What, my dad a conspirator, an assassin!"
he cried, with a laugh. "Why,
he wouldn't kill a flea without apologising
to it, And as for plots and dark
secrets he never had a secret in his
life ?nd couldn't keep one If he had
It. My mother keeps all the family
secrets- Crime couldn't stick to him
any more than dirty water to a duck's
back!"
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Dill WO IIIUOl DUVUI C UIO vtvwww w..
parol* that he may defend himself."
"Of course. But we won't cross any
bridges till we come to them. I never
saw things so bad they oouldn't be
worn. Jpst think what I've been
through. The war's over. Don't worry."
,
He looked at her tenderly.
"Get that banjo and play 'Get Out of
the Wilderness!'"
His spirit was contagious and his
good-humor resistless. Elsie spent the
days of his convalescence In an unconscious
glow of pleasure In his companionship.
His handsome boyish face,
his bearing, his tihole personality, Invited
frankness and Intimacy. It was
a divine gift, this magnetism, the
subtle; meeting of quick Intelligence,
tact, and sympathy. His voice was
tender and penetrating, with soft caresses
In Its tones. His vision of life
was large and generous, with a splendid
carelessness about little things that
didn't count. Each day Elsie saw new
and striking traits of his character
which drew her.
"What will we do If Stanton arrests
you one of these line days?" she asked
him one day.
"Afraid they'll nab me for something!"
he exclaimed. . "Well, that Is
a Joke, Don't you worry. The Yankees
know who to fool with. I licked 'em
too many times for them to bother me
any more,"
"I was under the Impression that you
go* licked." Elsie observed.
"Don't you believe It. We wore oursaivea
r?nt whinnlnfir the other fellows."
Elsie smiled, took up the banjo, and
asked him to sing while she played.
Shs had no idea that he could sing,
yet to her surprise he sang his campsongs
boldly, tenderly, and with deep,
expressive feeling,
As the girl listened, the memory of
the horrible hours of suspense she had
spent with his mother when his unconscious
life hung on a thread came
trooplpg back into her heart and a tear
dimmed her eyes,
And he began to look at her with a
new wonder and Joy slowly growing
In his soul.
CHAPTER IV.
Huddbn Trrasitir.
Ben had spent a month of vain effort
to secure his father's release. He
had succeeded In obtaining for him a
removal to more comfortable quarters,
books to read, and the privilege of a
dally walk under guard and parole.
The doctor's genial temper, the wide
range of his knowledge, the charm of
his personality, and his heroism In suffering
had captivated the surgeons who
attended him and made friends of
every jailer and guard.
Elsie was now using all her woman's
wit to secure a copy of the charges
against him as formulated by the Judge
Advocate general, who, In defiance of
civil law. still claimed control of these
cases.
To the boy's sanguine temperament
the whole proceeding: had been a hugre
farce from the beginning, and at the
last Interview with his father he had
literally laughed him Into a good humor.
"Look here. Pa." he cried. "I believe
you're trying to slip off and leave
us In this mess. It's not fair. It's
easy to die."
"Who said I was going to die?"
"I heard you were trying to crawl
out that way."
"Well It's a mistake. I'm going to
live Just for the fun of disappointing
my enemies and to keep you company.
But you'd better get hold of a copy
of these charges against me?If you
don't want me to escape."
"It's a funny world If a man can be
condemned to death without any Information
on the subject."
"My son. we are now In the hands
of the revolutionists, army sutlers, contractors.
and adventurers. The Nation
will touch the lowest tide-mud of Its
degradation within the next few years.
No man can predict the end."
"Oh. go 'long!" said Ben. "You've
got JalJ cobwebs In your eyes."
"I'm depending on you."
"I'll pu'.l you through if you don't
He down on me and die to get out of
trouble. You know you can die If you
try hard enough."
"I promise you my boy," he said
with a laueh.
"Then I'll let you read this letter
from home," Ben said, suddenly thrusting
it before him.
The doctor's hand trembled a little
as he put on his glasses and read:
My Dear Boy: I cannot tell you how
much good your bright letters have
done us. It's like opening the window
and letting in the sunlight while fresh
breezes blow through one's soul.
Margaret and I have had stirring
times. I send you inclosed an order
for the last dollar of money .we have
left. You must hoard it. Make it last
until your father is safe at home. I
dare not leave it here. Nothing is safe.
Every piece of silver and everything
that could be carried has been stolen
since we returned.
Uncle Aleck betrayed the place Jake
had hidden our twenty precious bales
of cotton. The war is long since over,
but the "Treasury Agent" declared
them confiscated, and then offered to
relieve us of his order if we gave him
five bales, each worth three hundred
dollars In gold. I agreed, and within
a week another thief came and declared
the other fifteen bales confiscated.
They steal it, and the government never
gets a cent. We dared not try to
sell in open market, as every bale exposed
is "confiscated" at once.
No crop was planted this summer.
The negroes are all drawing rations
at the Freedman's Bureau.
We have turned our house into a
hotel, and our table has become fa
*
mous. Maruarei is a ireasuir. out
has Warned to do everything. We tried
to raise a crop on the farm when we
came home, but the negroes stopped
work. The Agent of the Bureau came
to us and said he could send them back
for a fee of $50. We paid it. and they
worked a week. We found it easier to
run a hotel. We hope to start the
farm next year.
Our new minister at the Presbyterian
Church is young, handsome, an
eloquent?Rev. Hugh McAlpin.
Mr. Lenoir died last week?but his
end was so beautiful, our tears were
half Joy. He talked incessantly of
your father and how the country miss
ANSMAIY.
Romance of the
x Klan.
5 DIXON, JR.
I by Doubleday, Page & Co.
I
ed him. He seemed much better the
day before the end came, and we took
him for a little drive to Lovers' Leap.
It was there sixteen years ago, he
made love to Jennie. When we propped
him up on the rustic seat, and he
looked out over the cliff and the river
below, I have never seen a face so
transfigured with peace and Joy.
"What a beautiful world It is, my
dearst" he exclaimed, taking Jeannle
and Marion both by the hand.
They began to cry, and he said with
a smile:
"Come now?do you love me?"
And they covered his hands with
kisses.
"Well, then you must promise me
two things faithfully here, with Mrs.
Cameron to witness!"
"We promise," they both said in a
breath.
"That when I fall asleep, not one
I * W nr>n/1 rt# Kloob ahull ovor nlnnrl thp
sunlight of our little home, that you
will never wear it, and that you will
show your love for me by making my
flowers grow richer, that you will keep
my memory green by always being as
beautiful as you are today, and make
this old world a sweeter place to live
in. I wish you, Jeannie, my mate to
keep on making the young people glad.
Don't let their Joys be less even for a
month because I have laid down to
rest. Let them sing and dance?"
"Oh, Papa!" cried Marlon.
"Certainly, my little serious beauty?
I'll not be far away. I'll be near and
breathe my songs Into their hearts, and
into yours?you both promise?"
"Yes, yes!" they both cried.
As we drove back through the woods,
he smiled tenderly and said to me:
"My neighbor. Doctor Cameron, pays
taxes on these woods, but I own them!
Their sighing boughs, stirred by the
breezes, have played for me oratorios
grander than all the scores of human
genius. I'll hear the Choir Invisible
play them when J sleep."
He died that night suddenly. With
his last breath he sighed:
"Draw the curtain and let me see
again the moonlit woods!"
They are trying to carry out his
wishes. I found they had nothing to
eat, and that he had really died from
Insufficient nourishment?a polite expression
meaning starvation. I've divided
half our little store wi'.h them
and send the rest to you. I think
Marlon more and more the incarnate
soul of her father. I feel as If they
are both my children.
My little grandchlck, Hugh, Is the
sweetest youngster alive. He was a
wee thing when you left. Mrs. Lenoir
kept him when they arrested your
father. He is so much like your brother
Hugh I feel as if he has come to
life again. You should hear him say
| grace, so solemnly and tenderly, we
can't help crying. He made It up himself.
This is what he says at every
meal:
"God, please give my grandpa something
good to eat In Jail, keep him well,
don't let the pains hurt him any more,
and bring him home to me quick, for
Jesus' sake. Amen."
I never knew before how the people
loved the doctor, nor how dependent
they were on him for help and guidance, i
Men, both white and colored, come
here every da- to ask about him. Some
J of them come from far up In the mounI
tains.
God alone knows how lonely our
home and the world has seemed without
him. They say that those who
love and live the close sweet home-life
for years grow alike Tn soul and body.
In tastes, ways, and habits. I find It
so. People have told me that your
father and I are more alike than brother
and sister of the same blood. In
spirit I'm sure It's true. I know you
love him and that you will leave nothing
undone for his health and safety.
Tell him that my cure for loneliness
in his absence Is my fight to keep the
wolf from the door, and save our home
against his coming. Lovingly your,
Mother.
When the doctor had finished the
r-adine. he looked out the window of
the lall at the shining dome of the
Capitol for a moment In silence.
"Do you know, my boy that you have
the heritage of ..royal blood? You are
the child of a wonderful mother. I'm
ashamed when I think of the helpless
stupor under which I have given up.
and then remember the deathless
courage with which she has braved It
all? the loss of her boys, her property,
your troubles and mine. She has faced
the world alone like a wounded lioness
standing over her cubs. And
now she turns her home Into a hotel.
ind begins life in a strange new world
without one doubt of her success. The
south is yet rich even in its ruin."
"Then you'll fight and go back to her
with me?"
"Yes, never fear."
"Good! you see. we're so poor now.
Pa. you're luck to be saving a board
bill here. I'd 'conspire* myself and
come in with you but for the fact it
would hamper me a little in helping
vou."
CHAPTER V.
Across the Chasm.
When Ben had fully recovered and
his father's case looked hopeful, Elsie
turned to her study of music, and the
southern boy suddenly waked to the
fact that the great mystery of life was
upon him. He was in love at last?
genuinely, deeply, without one reservation.
He had from habit flirted in a
harmless way with every girl he knew. ,
He left home with little Marlon Lenoir's
girlish kiss warm on his lips. He
had made love to many a pretty girl
in old Virginia as the red tide of war
had ebbed and flowed around Stuart's
magic camps.
But now the great hour of the soul
had struck. No sooner had he dropDed
the first tender words that might
have their double meaning feeling his
way cautiously toward her, than she had
placed a gulf of dignity between them,
and attempted to cut every tie that
bound her life to his.
It had been so sudden it took his
breath away. Could he win her? The
word "fail" had never been in his vocabulary.
It had never run in the
speech of his people. Yes, he would
win if it was the only thing he did in
this world. And forthwith he set about
it. Life took on new meaning and
new glory. What mattered war or
wounds, pain or poverty, jails and revolutions?it
was the dawn of life!
He sent her a flower every day and
pinned one just like it on his coat.
And every night found him seated by
her side. She greeted him cordially,
but the gulf yawned between them.
His courtesy and self-control struck
her with surprise and admiration. In
the face of her coldness he carried
about him an air of smiling deference
and gallantry.
She finally told him of her determination
to go to New York to pursue
her studies until Phil had finished the
term of his enlistment in his regiment,
which had been ordered on permanent
duty in the west.
He laughed with his eyes at this announcement,
blinking the lashes rapidly
without moving his lips. It was a
peculiar habit of his when deeply moved
by a sudden thought. It had flashed
over him like lightning that she was
trying to get away from him. She
would not do that unless she cared.
"When are you going?" he asked,
quietly.
"Day after tomorrow."
"Then you will give me one afternoon
for a sail on the river to say good-bye
and thank you for what you have done
for me and mine?"
She hesitated, laughed, and refused.
"Tomorrow at four o'clock I'll call
for you," he said firmly. "If there's no
wind, we can drift with the tide."
"I will not have time to go."
"Promptly at four," he repeated as
he left.
Ben spent hours that night weighing
the question of how far he should dare
to speak his love. It had been such an
easy thing before. Now it seemed a
question of life and death. Twice the
magic words had been on his lips, and
each time something in her manner
chilled him into silence.
Was she cold and incapable of love?
No; this manner of the north was on
the surface. He knew that deep down
within her nature lay banked and i
smouldering fires of passion for the
one man whose breath could stir it into
flame. He felt this all the keener now
that the spell of her companionship
and the sweet intimacy of her daily
ministry to him had been broken. The
memory of little movements of her
petite figure, the glance of her warm
amber eyes, and the touch of her hand
?all had their tongues of revelation to
his eager spirit.
He found her ready at four o'clock.
"You see I decided to go after all,"
she said.
"Yes, I knew you would," he answered.
She was dressed in a simple suit of
navy-blue cloth cut V-shaped at the
throat, showing the graceful lines of
her exquisite neck as it melted into the
plump shoulders. She had scorned
hoop-skirts.
He admired her for this, and yet it
made him uneasy. A woman who
could defy an edict of fashion was a
new thing under the sun, and it scared
him.
They were seated in the little sailboat
now drifting out with the tide.
It was a perfect day in October, one of
those matchless day of Indian summer
in the Virginia climate when an infinite
peace and vast brooding silence
fill the earth and sky until one feels
mat woras are a sacrilege. i
Neither of them spoke for minutes, |
and his heart grew bold in the stillness.
No girl could be still who was un- j
moved. . * , ;
She was seated just in front of him <
on the left, with her hand idly rippling
the surface of the silvery waters, gaz- <
ing at the wooded cliff on the river |
banks clothed now In their gorgeous |
robes of yellow, purple, scarlet, and i
gold. i
The soft strains of distant music i
came from a band in the fort, and her |
hand In the rippling water seemed its j
accompaniment. <
Ben was conscious only of her pres- i
ence. Every sight and sound of nature
seemed to be blended in her presence, i
Never In all his life had he seen any- <
thing so delicately beautiful as the j
ripe rose color of her cheeks, and all j
the tints of autumn's glory seemed to
melt into the gold of her hair. '
And those eyes he felt that Ood had (
never set in such a face before?rich
amber, warm and glowing, big and ]
candid, courageous and truthful.
"Are you dead again?" she asked,
demurely. , 1
"Well, as the Irishman said in an- |
swer to his mate's question when he <
fell off the house, 'not dead?but <
spacheless.'" i
He was quick to see the opening her |
question with its memories had made
and took advantage of it.
"Look here. Miss Elsie, you're too j
honest, independent, and candid to play
hide-and-seek with me. I want to ask
you a plain question. You've been trying
to pick a quarrel of late. What <
have I done?" (
"Nothing. It has simply come to j
me that our lives are far apart. The i
gulf between us is real and very deep. <
Your father was but yesterday a slaveholder?"
Ben grinned: * f
"Yes, your slave-trading grandfather t
sold them to us the day before." 1
Elsie blushed and bristled for a fight.
"You won't mind if I give you a f
few lessons In history, will you?" Ben i
asked, softly.
"Not in the least. I didn't know |
that southerners studied history," she |
answered, with a toss of her head.
"We made a specialty of the history
of slavery, at least. I had a dear old
teacher at home who fairly blazed with
light on this subject. He Is one of
the best-read men in America. He
happens to be In Jail Just now. But I
haven't forgotten?I know It by heart."
"I am wai Ing for light;" she interrupted,
cynically.
"The south is no more to blame for
negro slavery than the north. Our
s'avcs were stolen from Africa by
Yankee skippers. When a slaver arrived
at Boston, your pious Puritan
clergyman offered public prayer of
thanks that 'A gracious and overruling
Provide-ce had been pleased to bring
to this land of freedom another cargo
of benighted heathen to enjoy the
blessings of a gospel dispensation?'"
She looked at him with angry incredulity
and he cried:
"Twenty-three times the legislature
of Virginia passed acts against the Importation
of slaves, which the king vetoed
on petition of the Massachusetts
slave-traders. Jefferson made these
acts of the king one of the grievances
of the Declaration of Independence,
but a Massachusetts member succeeded
in striking It out. The southern
men in the convention which framed
the constitution put into it a clause
abolishing the slave-trade, but the
Massachusetts men succeeded in adding
a clause extending the trade twenty
years?"
He smiled and paused.
"Oo on " she said, with impatience. i
"In colonial days a negro woman
was publicly burned to death in Boston.
The first Abolition paper was |
published in Tennessee by Embree.
Benjamin Lundy, his successor, couia
not find a single Abolitionist in Boston. ,
In 1828 over half the people of Tennessee
favored Abolition. At this time |
there were one hundred and forty Abol- ,
ition Societies in America?one hun- ,
dred and three in the south, and not ]
one in Massachusetts. It was not until |
1836 that Massachusetts led in Aboli- ,
tlon?not until all her slaves had been (
sold to us at a profit and the slavetrade
had been destroyed?" (
She looked at Ben with anger for a ,
moment and met his tantalising look of ;
good humor.
"Can you stand any more?"
"Certainly, I enjoy it."
"I'm Just breaking down the barriers?so
to speak." he said, with the
laughter still lurking in his eyes, as he
looked steadily ahead.
"By all means, go on." she said, soberly.
"I thought at first you were trying
to tease me. I see that you are In
earnest."
"Never more so. This is about the
only little path of history I'm at home
in?I love to show off in it. I heard
a cheerful idiot say the other day that
your father meant to carry the civilisation
of Massachusetts to the Rio
Orande until we had a Democracy in
America. I smiled. While Massachusetts
was enforcing laws about the
dress of the rich and the poor, founding
a church with a whipping-post,
iail. and gibbet, and limiting the right
to vote to a church membership fixed
by pew-rents. Carolina was the home
of freedom where first the equal rights
of men were proclaimed. New England
neople worth less than one thousand
dollars were prohibited by law from
wearing the garb of a gentleman gold
or silver lace, buttons on the knees, or
to walk in great boots, or their women
to wear silk or scarf, while the
Quakers. Maryland Catholics. Baptists,
and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians were
everywhere in the south the heralds of
man's equality before the law."
"But barring our ancestors, I have
some things against the men of this
generation."
"Have I too sinned and come short?"
he asked, with mock gravity.
"Our ideals of life are far apart,"
she Frmly declared.
"What ails my ideal?"
"Your egotism, for one thing. The
air with which you calmly select what
nleases your fancy. Northern men are
bad enough?the Insolence of a Southerner
is beyond words!"
"You don't say so!" cried Ben, bursting
into a hearty laugh. "Isn't your
aunt. Mrs. Farnham, the president of
a 'dub?"
"Y?s, and she is a very brilliant woman."
"'Enlighten me further."
"I deny your heaven-born male kingship.
The lord of creation is after all
a very inferior animal?nearer th?
brute creation weaker in infancy, shorter
lived, more Imperfectly developed
given to fighting, and addicted to Idiocy.
I never saw a female Idiot In m?
life?did you?"
"Come to think of it, I never did,"
acknowledged Ben with comic gravity,
"What else?"'
"Isn't that enough?"
'It's nothing. I agree with everything
you say, but it is irrelevant. I'm
studying law you know.'
"I have a personality of my own
You and your kind assume the right to
absorb all lesser lights."
'Certainly; I'm a man."
"I don't care, to be absorbed by a
mere man." .
"Don't wish to be protected sheltertd.
and cared for?"
"I dream of a life that shall be larger
than the four walls of a home. , 1
have never gone Into hysterics ovet
the Idea of becoming a cook and housekeeper
without wages, and snuffing my
life out while another grows, expands,
md claims the lordshijp of the world.
[ can sing. My voice- Is to me what
eloquence is to man. My Ideal is an
Intellectual companion who will Inspire
and lead me to develop all that I feel
within to Its highest reach."
She paused a moment and looked defiantly
into Ben's brown eyes about
which a smile was constantly playing.
He loked away, and again the river
echoed with his contagious laughter.
She had to join In spite of herself. He
laughed with boyish gaiety. It danced
In his eyes, and gave spring to every
movement of his slender wiry body.
She felt Its contagion infold her.
fiantly Ben's brown eyes, about which-a
nmlle was constantly playing. He looked
iway, and again the river echoed with
Ills contagious laughter. She had to
foin in spite of herself. He laughed
with boyish gaiety. It danced in hla
syes, and gave spring to every movement
of his slender wiry body. She
Pel* its contagion infold her.
His laughter melted into a song. In
i voice vibrant with Joy he sang, "If
you get there before I do, tell 'em Tm
>nmln' ifv\19'
As Elsie listened, her anger grew as
the recalled the amazing folly that
had Induced her to tell the secret feelings
of her Inmost soul to this man almost
a stranger. Whence caijie this
miracle of Influence about him, this
rift of intimacy? She felt a shock as
f she had been Immodest. She was In
m agony of doubt as to what he was
thinking of her, and dreaded to meet
its gaze.
And yet, when he turned toward her,
his whole being a smiling compound
>f dark southern blood and bone and
fire, at the sound of his voice all doubt
i"d questioning melted. j .
"Do you know," he said earnestly,
'that you are the funniest, most
iharming girl I ever met?"
"Thanks. I've heard your experience
has been large for one of your age."
Ben's eyes danced.
"Perhaps yes. You appeal to things
in me that I didn't know were there?
to all the seises of body and soul at
)"ce. Your strength of mind, with Its
conceits, and your quick, little temper
?eems so odd and out of place clothed
in the gentleness of your beauty."
"I was never more serious In my life,
rhere are other things more personal
ibout you that I do not like."
"What?"
'Your cavalier habits."
"Cavalier fiddlesticks. There are no
Cavaliers in my country. We are all
Covenanter a"d Huguenot folks. The
dea that southern boys are lazy loafng
dreamers is a myth. I was raised
>n the catechism."
"You love to fish and hunt and frolic
?ypu, fljrt with every girl you meet,
ind you drink'sometimes. I often f&el
:hat you are cruel and that I do not
c->ow you."
Ben's face grew serious, and the red
icar In the edge of his hair suddenly
jecame livid with the rush of blood.
"Perhaps I don't mean that you shall
<now all yet," he said, slowly. "My
deal of a man Is one that leads.
:harms, dominates, and yet eludes. I
;onfess that I'm close kin to an angel
?nd a devil, and that I await a wom?n's
hand to lead me Into the ways of
^eaoe and life."
The spiritual earnestness of the girl
vas quick to catch the subtle appeal
if his words. His broad, high forelead.
straight, masterly nose with Its
nobile nostrils, seemed to her very
nanly at Just that moment and very
tppeallng. A soft answer was on her
Ins.
He saw It. and leaned toward her
n Impulsive tenderness, A timid look
in h?r face caused him to slnjc back
n cllence.
They had now drifted near the city.
The sun was slowly sinking In a
'mother of fiery splendor that mirrored
i's changing hues in the still wafer.
The hush of the harvest fulness
if autumn life was over all nature.
They passed a camp of soldiers aqd then
? big hospital on the banks above. A
mn flashed from the hill, and the flag
Imnped from Its staff.
The girl's eyes lingered on the flower
in his coat a moment and then on the
?car In the edge of his dark hair, and
somehow the difference between them
'eemed *o melt Into the falling twlight.
Only his nearness was real,
igain a strange joy held her.
He threw her a look of tenderness,
ind she began to tremble. A sea-gull
r>olsed a moment above them and
^mke Into a laugh.
Binding nearer, he gently took her
^and. a"d said:
"I love you!"
A soh caught her breath and she
burled her face on her arm.
"I am for you. and you are for me.
Whv heat vour wings against the thins:
that is and must be? What else matters?
With all my sins and faults my
la-,d is yours?a land of sunshine, eternal
harvests and everlasting: song:, oldfashioned
and provincial perhaps, but
kind and hospitable. Around Its humblest
cottatre song-birds live and mate
and nest and never leave. The winged
ones of vour own cold fields have heard
their call, and the sky tonight will
echo with their chatter as they hurry
southward. Elsie, my own. I too have
railed?come; I love you!"
She lifted her face to him full of
tender spiritual charm, her eyes burnine
their paslonate answer.
He bent and kissed her.
"Pav it! Pav |t!" he whispered.
"I love you!" she sighed.
TO BR OONTINPRP.
WHAT HE WOULD DO.
Colonel Hayes Had an Answer Ready
For General Scott.
Of Colonel John C. Hayes, who served
with distinction under General Wlnfleld
Scott in the Mexican war, an
amusing story is told by T. E. Farlsh
in his "Gold Hunters of California."
Hayes, with his command, had been
out scouting. On his return he made
no report to General Scott, who sent
for him. General Scott was a veritable
martinet In enforcing military discipline.
After Hayes was seated In the
commander's headquarters Scott said,
"Colonel Hayes, I have received no report
of your expedition against the
padre." "I did not think it worth
while," said Hayee. "Every officer of
the army is required to make a full report
of everything to his superior officer.
Please make your report verbal
ly."
Hayes began by saying that he struck
the padre's trail on a certain day, followed
it for two days, and on the third
day, while his command was resting al
noon and taking their seista, the old
padre came down on them. The "boys"
gathered themselves together and whip,
ped the Mexicans off, killing quite a
number of the padre's command. His
own loss was Insignificant?one killed
and three wounded. "Surprised
you, eh?" queried Scott. "Yes; we
were not expecting him." "Where were
your pickets?" "Did not have any."
"What!" shouted General Scott. "A
colonel in the regular army of the
United States go Into camp In the
heart of the enemy's country and never
place a picket on guard? Whal
would you do If surprised . wher
asleep?" "Shoot the first man thai
waked me up!" was the cool reply.
iHiSfcllanrous grading.
FARM ANIMAL8.
P Another Evidence of Progress In th
South.
No better Insight Into the real proj
' ress of the south In recent years, sa>
a Washington correspondent, could t
had than from an Inspection of th
1 last figures prepared by the departmer
of agriculture showing the efforts <
> the south to Increase her supply <
farm animals. While there can be n
doubt that rapid progress has bee
made throughout the south generall
during the last ten years In manufac
fnalvtM am m!nntlnnr nn/1 Q CTrl
iui mg, tuiiun piaiiiuig aim wuvi ?o* ?
cultural pursuits, the experiment c
stock raising: was not undertaken as
means of livelihood to any appreciabl
extent until a few years back. The al
most unprecedented number of hog
raised In the state of Virginia an
South Carolina during the past yea
means that more corn has necessarll
been planted on which to feed thei
and get them ready for the market
They are now on the farms of th
United States 47,320,511 hogs, and c
this number the southern states clalr
over 8,000,000. The total gain ove
1904 for the United States Is 321,14'
and the states of Virginia, North an
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabamt
Mississippi and Kentucky and Tennes
see, which embrace not more tha
12 per cent, of the area of the Unite
States, get about 80 per cent, of in
crease over 1904. While, as state-'
the growing of com has also incretu
ed to a marked degree, it has not ker
pace with the amount necessary fo
large stock raising. The area of cor
raising appears to be shifting to th
southeast.
There now on the farms of Vlr
glnia 767,163 hogs; South Carollni
663,907: North Carolina, 1,058,146
Georgia. 1,396,692; Alabama. 1,034,
092; Mississippi, 1,087,780; and Ken
ucky, 1,011,516.
While the Increase In sheep raisin
has not been so noticeable as in tha
of hog raising, all of the souther
states have made small gains durin
the last year. At this time there ar
452,128 sheep In the state of Vlrginlt
58,867 in South Carolina, ana appro*
Imately 300,000 in each of the othe
southern states, with the exception o
Kentucky, which has 654,999.
In horses and mules, Virginia ha
Invested?not counting: any excer
those designed for farm work?13,
812,800: South Carolina. $3,670,287
Georgia, more than $7,000,000, an
Kentucky, which would be expecte
to show a very large number, abou
half of what Georgia numbers.
Prom Georgia to the Virginia lln<
traversing all of the mountain coun
ties In South Carolina ?Ocone<
Pickens, Greenville, Spartanburf
York and Cherokee?here is an are
of about 7,000 square miles which I
said by the department of agrlcultur
to be unsurpassed for stock ralslni
Another excellent region Is found ly
ing to the eastward In North Carolln
from Danville to Salisbury and Chat
lotte. In all the plateau region c
Virginia and the Carollnas the lan
lies well for profitable stock raisin
on a large scale.
AFRICA'S LITTLE PEOPLE.
A New Yorker and His Wife In
Pygmy Village.
In view of the attention excited b
the expedition which Prof. Starr c
Chicago, has organized to go to Afrl
ca and study the pygmy tribes, it I
interesting to know that there are llv
Ing In New York a man and a woma
who have penetrated to the heart c
the Dvermv country and visited pygm
villages never before entered by an
whites. They are the Rev. A. W. Hal
sey, secretary of the Presbyterla
Board of Foreign Missions, and Mri
Halsey, and their home is now at 4
King street.
Dr. and Mrs. Halsey returned onl
a few weeks ago from a trip to th
Presbyterian mission in Western Afrl
ca. which took them far into the int
rior. They disembarked at Llbrevlll<
in the French Congo, and thence mad
a long trip up the Gaboon river, turr
ing aside from time to time to ascen
tributary rivers. For this trip the
used a naptha launch, the Doroth]
given to the African missions by
family of Orange. X. J.. In memory ?
a daughter.
Returning to the coast, they went t
Benito district further north and fror
there made an overland trip of 25
miles Into the Interior. It was durin
this trip that they visited the pygm
villages.
At Lolodorf. eighty-one miles fror
the coast, a native Christian reporte
that at a few days' Journey dlstar
were twenty-one dwarf villages In th
forest. This mission ltseir ai L<oioaoi
was founded by a Scotch woman wh
wanted to send the Gospel to th
dwarfs. Only six dwarfs have ye
been reached.
The pygmies dwell apart by them
selves, exercising all their Ingenuity t
keep away from the tribes of norrm
size and the other tribes, eithe
through prejudice or self-lnteres
place every obstacle possible In th
way of the missionary's penetrating t
the dwarf villages. At the first natlv
village encountered after turning fror
the government road Into the fores
Dr. Halsey and his party were tol
that there were no dwarf villages i
the direction in which they were gc
J Ing. They pushed on, however, int
the dense forest.
"Even at midday It was twilight,
says Dr. Halsey. "Great trees la
1 across our way. Underbrush was s
, thick that it had to be cut away wit
i a knife.
"It seemed Impossible and absurd t
search for anything In that wlldernes;
but our guide knew what he was aboi
and at times would stop and listei
' and at one of these pauses he hear
I the faint sound of distant chopping.
"Telling us to remain where w
[ were, he went on. and after a long Ir
terval came back with two dwarr
, They eyed us suspiciously. They ai
i a timid race and have been much oj
j pressed.
> "In stature they were somewhat ur
> der five feet, in color a yellowls
black. They had retreating forehead
| protruding mouths and chins, ey?
i bright and keen, and faces much moi
Intelligent and pleasing than I expec
ed to And. While the lower liml
^ seemed short and slender, the bod
was thickset, with long arms and
general aspeci ui muntuiai uciti?i<ment.
"I saw few ornaments among them.
One I noticed with a bunch of black
beads, and another wore an antelope
l# horn on a string around his neck. He
was a rain doctor, and the horn was
rain medicine. The only tattooing I
r8 saw was a series of Irregular pyramids
on the neck and arms.
ie "It was most Interesting when the
two dwarfs Anally decided to conduct
>f us to their village to watch their
>f method of locomotion. Not a stick
kO I wax DTOKcn Dy ineir aiesuny ircau.
n "Scarcely a leaf moved as they ?!
y lently pushed forward Into what seem..
ed to us a pathless forest. Their walk
[. spoke volumes as to the secrecy in
which they are obliged to And safety.
a "The village consisted of fourteen
|e huts on the bank of a stream in a
I. clearing of half an acre. The huts
p cannot be called houses?they are ond
ly shelters.
ir "Two poles are driven Into the
y ground and a cross pole Axed. Against
n this cross pole other poles are leaned.
? and the whole covered with sticks and
e leaves. One end is enclosed; all the
,f rest are open.
n "Small beds made of bamboo, rising
,r a foot from the ground, showed that
I the little people were not Insensible to
d comfort. A bamboo bed Is not at all
4 uncomfortable.
"An Inventory of all the articles I
n saw in all these huts would Include,
d aside from the beds, only bows and
arrows, small cooking pots, sticks for
I kindling Ares, monkey steaks, a little
native grasscloth, and quantities of
cavassa and plantain.
T "Not a woman or child was to be
n seen. All had Aed to the forest at our
f. approacn. ijaier, wncii vuimucim >.
restored, they all returned.
"It did. not take us long to get on
t good terms with our small friends. It
was chilly, and we sat down about the
_ fire. I gave the headman a box of
matches, having first lit one. A present
of a <20 gold piece to a beggar
g could not have been more acceptable.
lt "He showed us how they got fire
n with two sticks, one a foot and a half
g long, the other about a foot. The
e shorter stick had a round hole near
the end. The longer had a point
which fitted Into this hole.
r "He laid the stick with the hole In It
on the ground, and stuck the point of
the other Into the hole. Close by was
a little heap of dry bark of a kind
used by squirrels to make nests. He
_ twirled the upright stick with great
. rapidity, a second man assisting by
d holding the stick down In the hole. In
3 less than a minute by the watch he
[t had his fire, the sparks catching in the
bark.
} "Then the head man had brought
from his h-it a parcel done up in a
, plantain leaf and revealed a mass of
wild honey.
^ "The chief took some honey and ate
l8 It, then passed It to ys. I hardly exe
pected to see such courtesy In a prlmf
itlve dwarf who had not even the
semblance of culture. We were now
_ as much his guests as If we had eat
a
,_ en salt with the most courtly of Orlentals.
^ "A Juicy bit of monkey steak was
g then offered us, but on the plea of having
plenty of meat we declined, and
gave our host a tin of roast beef. The
little people were most intent In
watching everything we did. The
blowing up of an air pillow excited
* their unbounded curiosity. All examined
the pillow, felt the air against
y their cheeks as we opened the valve,
and understood the use to which the)
pillow was to be placed.
18 "That afternoon we held a rellglous
service. The whole population atn
tended, thirty-two In all. They listen-i
ed with strict attention to the mlsslony
ary preacher, who spoke In Bralu and
y then to the Interpreter, who translated
Into Ngupba, many of the dwarfs
n knowing something of both these lan'
guages. { .
1 "We had hardly sung the opening
hymn when darkness fell like a cury
tain, with no Intervening twilight. As
e I looked at their wondering faces, lit
up by the firelight. It seemed to me a
very Impressive scene. Even in the
dwarf village they listened eagerly to
e the words of the preacher.
>" "Later they showed us a dwarf
d dance. The stars shed some light upy
on the strange scene.
f, "Two torches made of pitch from
a the mahogany tree lit up the faces.
11 The music was furnished by tne women
.
? "One little creature held a cutlass In
n each hand, which she beat In perfect
? time The next woman clapped her
g hands with rythmic regularity. Any
other thumped a small drum with her
fingers In regular time. The drum
n was made of red wood, covered with
^ antelope skin.
"The next woman had four sticks
e with which she beat a long heavy
piece of timber before her with great
? rapidity. Next was a woman with a
e drum, who seemed to be the leader of
the orchestra, as all the rest followed
her lead.
' "A low song with a peculiar refrain
? was sung all the time. At Intervals,
ll apparently at the end of a measure. It
r would burst out with renewed vigor,
weird music, the like of which I have
e never heard. One seemed to hear In
? It the music of the forest, the call of
e the bird, the roar of the lion, the
n trumpet of the elephant, and the
^ sweep of the wind through the trees.
"The dancers were all men, and
n there was nothing objectionable In the
dance. It was the playtime of these
? little people of the forest, whose
? amusements are few.
"The dwarf is a hunter. There were
y no signs of gardening or agriculture.
o t, . . . .
O nninno hAur onH flr>
^ nc t'uiiou uvio a uui\fuc MV???
row. and he understands the use of
poisons.
? "These people are timid; they are
' nomads, and they seem to be under
some kind of servitude to the larger
tribes. I know not whether the dwarf
is to be placed below the Bushman or
the Hottentot, but I know that he ape
predates kindness. The whole village
came to the river to speed us on our
journey.
"The brother of a sick man promised
to come to the mission for medicine.
The head man promised to
l" send some boys to school. One old
man with gray hair, even shed tears
s' as we left. The dwarf has a heart."?
iS New York Sun.
e
t- * * *
>s It takes more than a brotherly
ly manner to make up for the lack of
a business method in religion.
' c
Great Invention Became Universal
Within Few Years. d
Electric lighting, says a special report
of the bureau of the census, p
dates back only to the beginning of
the last century, while the history of
central stations proper belongs only to
the second half, or, more strictly
speaking, to the last quarter of the t]
century. The development of electric ^
lighting was marked by the work of a ^
series of discoveries and Inventions, by ^
which the evolution of arc lighting K
from an expensive laboratory ex perl- ^
ment to Its present cheap and useful ^
form was accomplished. The progres- g
sive success of arc lighting Imparted a ^
great Impulse to experimentation with T
the Incandescent lamp. Many dlstln- n
gulshed Inventors devoted their atten- ^
tlon to this subject, but the lncandescent
lamp was not commercially a jj
success until about twenty-five years ,
ago. when Edison's first lamps were ^
produced.
To Mr. Edison the development of
the incandescent lamp was associated ^
with the creation of a complete ays- n
tern of electric lighting, a current to c
be furnished from the central station
to a large number of buildings in a b
manner exactly analogous to that in ^
which the supply of gas is furnished. Q
In 1880 he installed such a system In ^
Menlo Park. The Introduction of the
Edison "Jumbo" dynamo soon followed.
The estimated useful life of a 100- ^
Watt sixteen-candle power lamp made
today is over 10,000 hours, about twen- q
ty times as long as it was twenty-flve n
years ago. In the last quarter of a ^
century a total of over 250,000,000 ^
lamps has been produced, or not less n
'han 100,000,000 lamps & year.
Then came the attempt to unify arc b
and incandescent lightning, the development
of the use of the alterating
current, the evolution of the later arc
lamD. the chansre from open to inclosed _
lamps the production of lamp globes, *
lamp supplies, series and multiple
methods, appliances, fixtures, fuses and r<
cut-outs, methods of wiring, modem
conveniences, and novel types of
lamps, Including the Nernst Incandescent,
the mercury vapor and vacuum ^
tube lighting. '
The growth of the Industry is shown
by the following figures: Prom eight e1
stations, beginning operation in 1881 s<
the number rose to 100 in 1880, to 208 r<
in 1889. and to 247 in 1892. During the *
following years of depression the num- Ii
ber of new stations fell, but in 1896, si
though a time of financial stringency oi
it again rose to 239. In 1898 it reach- di
ed 277, or more than the number be- v
ginning operation in the entire period P
from 1881 to 1886 inclusive. The number
for 1901 was 260, and for five P
months of 1902, it was 146. In the 20 n
years from 1881 to 1901, Inclusive an n:
average of 165 private and municipal *
stations have begun operations each e
year. The spread of the agitation for v
municipal ownership of public servioe n
enterprises is illustrated in a some- a
what striking manner. Of the 816 mun- n
Iclpal stations enumerated only sixty- f<
eight had been installed up to 1889. a
In that year forty were introduced, and ii
In 1895 the number of new stations tl
reached seventy-three, Increasing In sj
1898 to eighty-one. The returns for
1902 indicate that the ratio was fully w
maintained In the census year. ?
In 1902 there were in the United b
States 3.620 central electric stations, q
with a cost of construction and equip- u
ment of $504,740,352. Employed were a
6.996 salaried officials and clerks, with d<
salaries amounting to $6,668,680; and p
23 300 wage-earners, with wages fj
amounting to $14,983,112. The gross tl
income was $85,700,605, comprising aj
$84,165,605 from sale of current and n
$1,514,000 from other sources. Total
expenses were $68,081,375. The total a
output of stations for the year, In kilo- gj
watt hours, was 2,607 051,375. The o
number of arc lamps was 385,698, and n
of incandescent lamps 18,194,044. si
f,
LAZIEST FOLK IN THE WORLD, e
A Hill Tribe In India That Is Proud *
a
of Its Reputation. jj
In these days of push and norgy
It sounds strange to talk of people as a
being lazy, and still the Todas, a hill f<
tribe of India, are the laziest people a
In the world. ir
The Todas are not ashamed of si
their reputation and are free to con- a
fess that they know of nothing so si
foolish and stupid as work. Their
one and only pursuit is the raising q
of bufTaloes; they are far too Indolent d
to follow the chase. An axe is their w
only weapon, although they know m
how to make others. They use this a<
for waging war and for felling trees, it
They will not till the land, consider- d
Ing this unnecessary labor. To make tl
housekeeping easier all their natural
products are neia in l-uuuuuii, iu?
Idea of property 19 only restricted to
the hut, its contents and live stock. 0
The buffaloes, which they own in c
large quantities, furnish them with i
skins for clothing and the hut, and a
the meat is used as food. But milk n
is their principal diet. They do not
even relish the idea of milking their y,
cattle; the head milkers are the only "
ones that are to be persuaded to do I
this labor. These men are chosen w
from the class of "pelki," or "sons t<
of God." They are the priests and si
practice celibacy. Although the n
priests tend to the cattle, each house- tt
holder owns his cattle. h
Much as these dislike the caring ei
for their cattle they find farming a
less dignified calling. Some years fl
ago they went to war with their w
neighbors, the Badaga and Kotas, so ?
they might be able to levy a tax of g
one-eighth on their grain products, tl
When their grain grows scarce they o
live on roots and berries. They will ?
sell their land or give it away, but w
they will not cultivate It at any price, tl
The building of bamboo huts does a
not Interest them any more than the ii
cultivating of the soil, and they make t
this task easy by making the boys It
cut the bamboo and their wives t
build the huts. It Is not unusual for h
three families to share one abode, t
The men are often so lazy that they e
cannot afford one wife alone, but
pvpn this does not worrv them: two t
or three brothers manage to support v
one wife. Indolent and slothful, they c
Bit listless for hours, unconcerned t
about all things. What they know r
they know well; they are intelligent S
within certain narrow limits, but they
are too lazy to increase their store of i
knowledge. Whatever has to be done w
\
hlldren.
Strangely their appearance does not
isclose this most marked characteritlc.
They are tall and well proortioned.
They look like Roman
enators as they walk, wrapped In
kins resembling the ancient toga,
'heir appearance is not only preposesslng,
but bold and self-reliant
Many an amusing story is told of
Ms small hill tribe, numbering about
00 men. An American missionary
as working among them, when one
ay he saw some women and boys
ullding a hut of bamboo. He inulred
why the men were not perarming
this labor, and one woman
iplained: "Husband mine don't
rork; me and boys build house."
he missionary made no further comient
hut when tha hut was built
e told the husband that he must
ulld another hut. as he could not
ve In a home made by women and
hlldren. But the surprised Toda ansvered:
"No, no, me no work; man
as boys and wife to work."
The Toda meant what he said. Allough
the missionary argued and flatly
horsewhipped the native, he
ould not get him to build a hut
An equally amusing story is told
y an English officer. He was so
iken by the handsome appearance of
ne of the natives that he wanted to
ike him to England and place him
i his own regiment The officer gave
le native skins and silks until the
oda promised to become an English
ildler. He was delighted with the
fficer's bright gay uniform. He did
ot feel bad about leaving his counry,
his wife and children, but when
e was told that soldiers work, he
ild:
"Me no be an English soldier; me
e Toda. Me no work: me no like
rork." .
When the English officer tried to
ersuade him he made answer: "Take
ife and boys; they be English soliers?like
work. Me stay home and
est; me be Tod a."?Chicago Tribune.
8IQN8 OF GOOD BREEDING.
orms of Etiquette That Alt People
8hould Observe.
A bow should always be returned
yen though one may be mistaken for
3me one else, and to give the cut dlect
is a discourtesy of which no per)n
of good breding should be guilty.
I is perfectly easy to acknowledge a
Uutation with such dignity but brevity
I glance as Jo plainly show that one
oes not care to have anything but a
ery formal acquaintance with the
erson spoken to.
A man always raises his hat when
resented to a woman or to another
tan. He should also raise it when
leetlng or taking leave of a woman,
'hen she first speaks to him for whatver
reason, when he offers his eerices
in any way, even though she
lay be a stranger to him, such as
rhen entering an elevator where wolen
are present or in opening a door
Dr a woman to pass through. In fact,
man cannot be too careful in showig
this little act of courtesy whenever
lie least apology would be in order,
lys the Philadelphia Press.
A man always lifts his hat when a
oman under his escort receives some
ourtesy from a stranger or if she
ows to a person that he is not acualnted
with. He also raises his hat
wvm wnaAflmUinOP Q? Q onilfl Intfl JlPA
ho has a woman with him whom he
oes not know. A man should be as
articular in bowing to his mother,
ither or sister when meeting them on
lie street or in taking leave of them
s he would be with his friends or forlal
acquaintances.
Men shake hands with each other
t Introductions, women only when deIrlng
to be especially cordial. A man,
f course, always waits for the wolan
to offer her hand first, and if posible
he should remove his glove bejre
doing so if her hand is unglovd.
Women do not kiss each other
rhen meeting and parting unless they
re very close friends, and even then
: is usually only done in private.
When acting as a woman's escort
man should pay all the fares and
;es. When entering a street car or
ny vehicle he should allow the wotan
to precede him, assisting her as
tie does so. In leaving the car or
ib he alights first, offering her asIstance
as she follows.
In all these forms of etiquette It Is
i'i?o nnaiilhl6 tn at laast lav the foun
atlon for their correct observance
hen those under one's care are
lerely boys and girds. If they become
^customed to good form and good
lanners when young they will never
read the day when they must enter
le more formal ways of society.
Montana Mountaineer's Dog Wolf.
I was smoking my pipe in the cabin
f an old-timer who lives on Muddy
reek in southeastern Montana, when
happened to look out of the window
nd saw an animal pass by that for a
loment I took to be a red wolf.
I said to the old man: "What have
ou got out there?" and he replied.
Yes, I am glad you spoke about that;
wanted you to see them pups." Then,
hlle he walked out of the doors, he
)ld me that he had had a litter of
x pups half gray wolf and half ordlary
domestic dog, and that he had
vo of these puppies still about the
ouse, the other four having been givi
away.
The wolflike animal, with four or
ve other dogs, was standing near a
agon close to the house, and when
aJled galloped cheerfully to us, waging
its tail and twisting its body, and
hrust Its nose into the hand of each
f us, seeming to enjoy the pats and
aresses that it received. In color It
ras reddish, somewhat the color of
he summer coat of a deer, yet hardly
o bright; there was more of a brown
(l it. On the tail the hair lay parallel
o the skin and did not stand out as
t does on the brush of a fox or the
all of a wolf or coyote. On the" other
land the shape of the creature was
hat of a gray wolf, which It also
quailed in size.
These pups are great thieves, and
hlngs have to be kept out of their
iray or they will steal them. They
annot bark. Sometimes they appear
o try to do so, and break out Into a
egular wolf howl.?The Forest and
tream.
?~If a man were hi* own enemy,
rhat stories he could tell on hlmaelf.