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I ?uv icmily Story. OUR INVISIBLE GURST. UY 11. C. DODUB. We were spending u pleasant evening in the parlor of uiv father's handsome country home when the front doorbell rung and started us ull into, guessiug who our visitor might bo. In spite of my blushing attempt to ridicule t he idea it was pretty well settled?by the youngest members of our family, at least?that our caller would prove to lie a young man and neighbor supposed to be deeply in love with me, when our dainty waiting maid unttouncod a messenger with a telegram. Of course that unusual event in our rural and somotinies too quiet existence, caused a little commotion, and, as tho dispatch was addressed to mo, I was watched with curious eyes while I opened the envelope and read its contents. "Will start to-morrow to visit you," u saui ; navo sent the trunk to-day, ' big nod, 44 Mary Norton.'' She was my very dourest girl friend on curth and had* long promised to visit mo. The anticipation of her coming made everyone so happy that nothing more was said about my 44 beau," for which I was thankful. The next ufternoou the expressman brought the expected trunk. 1 had it taken upstairs and placed in my room, for I insisted that my best friend should share my lovely, sunny bed-ohauibor and not be poked away in the cold apartment reserved for ordinary guests. After some trouble and complaining, for the trunk was unusually largo and heavy, the expressman, helped by our gardener, carried it up and set it against tho foot of my bed, there to wait for its beloved owner. As 1 have mentioned, our house and grounds were large and handsome, for my father, being rich, prided himself for maintaining a home bclitting a oountrv font lemun . W, - nkn much jewelry and other rare treasures, and. for four of robbers, our house was well protected without by dogs and within by bolts and bars and electric alarms at each door und window. In addition we all had largo dinner bolls by our bedsides to ring furiously in ease of necessity, and the male portion of the family had no end of guns and handy pistols. Consequently, on the following morning when we discovered that we had been robbed during the night, we were frightened and shocked beyond measure. * Almost every room had been entered and nearly all our jewelry was gone. Even watches from under pillows and poeketbooks from father's and brother's trousers had been taken. And most puzzling and alarming of all was the fact that not the slightest sign of breaking in or out could bo found at a single door or window. The electric contrivances were all undisturbed. Who could have done the robbery ? We couldn't suspect our servants of any sharo in the crime, for long years of faithful duty proved the contrary. If a burglar had secreted himself in the house before elasimr lime whleVi ? ? r> ? ? " --w seemed probable, bow could bo luivo gotten out and loft no trace? The inoro wo tried to solve the riddle the more tnystorious it became to us, though the village constable, hastily sent for, said he'd soon havo a theory to work on. In the afternoon of that awful day another telegram came to our hopso from Mary Norton. It road: "Mother suddenly ill. Cannot come. Will send for trunk. 1'lease deliver to expressmuu when ho calls. Will write particulars." In an hour following that came the expressman and, glad that Mary was to ho spared the unpleasantness of a visit at such a forlorn time, we again let our man help him away with the heavy trunk from its place at the foot I of ray bed. i'ur a weok wo dul our best, assibted, too, by city detectives, to discover a clue to the robbers, but all iu vuin. And every day we sent to the postofliee for my friend's promised letter, but none came. Then anxious for fear her mother was seriously ill, 1 wrote to her. By return mail came an answer, saying she hail sent neither trunk nor te leg rums, that her mother was not siek, and asking what it all meant. At once 1 understood our robbery. The burglar had been in the trunk when it came, he had passed the night, save when he was making the round of the house, in my room when I was alone: then with his valuable plunder he had been shipped away in his queer hiding place. No wonder the trunk was heavy and big. No doubt from peepholes in it the robber had watched me until ccrtuin 1 was sound asleep. Then out ho must have crept and? the thought made me shudder und feel faint. But, though we admired the cunning und bold trick, we immediately set about tracing the trunk to where it went after leaving our house. The expressman, whom we found to be honest and unsuspicious in the matter, had given it to the railroad, which, on telegraphic orders, had forwarded it to an adjacent city. There it was called for and taken away by a drayman who likely was an accomplice of ?l<n l?>?rrl..? f?....... ...... <1... v??v uui , (VI IIW UJIU (U H1U l-UtlUU know him und nothing further could bo learned regarding the trunk, ut least for the time being. Now cornea the strangest and almost incredible part of my story. Some months after our robbery 1 was on a week's visit at my uncle's house in a distant town. Like my father's, it was spacious, and showed evidence of the wealth it contained. One evening after supper, and while we were all gathered in the parlor a telegram was brought in and handed to my cousin Alice. Of course my doteative curiositv was aroused at the tne similarity of the event and when it turned out to beulun st identical in the reading with the one si nt to me the sight before our burglar, 1 instantly knew what was coining. So did the rest, for they, as you may guess, wero not ignorant of the atfair. For some moments we gazed at eaeh other in speechless astonishment. Then Uncle John, bound to joke, no matter what happened, asked mo with mock seriousness if 1 would like the expected trunk set in my room, which, being the guest chamber, was the right place for it. My look of terror made him smile in spite of his straight face. " No ! no !" I gasped. " I should die at the sight of it. Oh, Uncle John, do send for the police at once. I'm sure we'll all ho murdered in our loop." "Yes, but we want to trap your bur- . glar friend," he laughed, " and maybe j recover your jewels. However, if you are so uohospitahle, perhaps Alice will take the stranger in." ! Hut Alice, With a face more scared than mine, decluroJ positively that he wouldn't. " Well, then, I will do the honors,' said uncle, glancing mltchovously at his frightened wife. " John ! you shall do no such thing," spoke up auntie, with n trembling voio. " 111 huvo tho trunk thrown down tho well as soon as it arrives. No burglar, dead or alive, comes into iny room. Tho idea!" Finally, we settled down to business and tlxeed on a plan to eateh the coming burglar red-handed and without any danger to ourselves. Early next morning I moved from the guests chamber to my room with cousin Alice. Then my deserted apartment had its windows securely barred, so that our expected guest could not escape through them, should he feel so inclined, and its door was tixed to be strongly bolted from outside, in tho hall. Some old watches and jewelry of small value wore carelessly left on the dressing ease, to tempt the, rascal and keep him in ignorance of our crafty scheme. Several well-armed men were to be stationed quietly in and about the house, to do U'hutAViu* flirhtimr bvj nocessary, though our plun wuh to lot the buglur rest iu fancied peace, if possible. Then, after bin departure iu the trunk, we were to follow and capture his puis in the city and so recover the previously stolen articles. 'Tin needless to mention our excitement of waiting all the next day for the trunk, or our scurecly concealed agitation when, toward evening, it arrived. Uncle John himself loudly proclaimed his gladness at the pleasure of the visit it promised, helped the unsuspecting expressman up the broad staircase and carefully left it in the guest chamber, right side up, and whore it could be observed from the hall by peeping through the key-hole of the well-fastened door. Uefore dark 1 mustered ourago enough to steal in stockinged feet to the key-hole and peep in. Yes, the trunk was the vory one 1 had entertained and even sat on in my room at home, with uever a thought of its horrid occupant. Ugh ! The sight of it sent chills through mo and aroused a feeling on my scalp, as if my hair was trying to erect itself. Hastily I run away from that worse than Uluo Heard chamber, and never stopped shivering till suppor was over. You may be sure no eyes were clossd in the house that night. The men guarding the ball beard tlie knob of the prison-room door softly tried, but of course, it didn't opeu, which was lucky for the rascal within. I At last davlicht came and relieved u? of some of our 11 fill suspense. After breakfast Uncle John noiselessly unbolted the door, and, carelessly humming u tune aud concealing a handy weapon, entered the room. The trunk stood just na it was left the evening before. 13ut the jewelry and stutl had disappeared from the drossiyg-easo. When bravo Undo John returned to us to report his eyes whonw with a hunter's delight. His guino was trapped and ready to be bagged when the time camo. Just before dinner the other telegram, almost a duplicate of mine, arrived, and after it the expressman for the trunk. Again uncle and the still unsuspicious man lifed the burglar's receptacle and placed it on the wagon to go to the railroad station. Then, aw we watched it driven away with uncle and a pair of constable following in a buggy, we darod speak above a whisper. The rest of the story uncle told us on the following day, when he came home safely from his hazardous trip. "At the station," he said, "we found a nice looking, rospectable chap waiting. When the trunk appeared ho paid the expressman and checked the trunk through to New York, to to which place 1 bought my ticket, and, also, telegraphed ou for city police detectives to meet me on arrival of tlio train. " When tlio trunk wuh placed in the baggftgo purt of the smoking car its owner got on board und took his seat anions the Ginokcrs. As innocent as a babe 1 plumped down beside him und in a ri ght friendly way offered him a | cigar, which, like a gentleman, he accepted. Then, piiCllng our cigars together as chummy as you please, wo soon got acquainted and had a truly delightful chat?principally about weather, though, for the fellow was mighty careful to avoid other tonics. "When wo reached New \ork I found it necessary to attend to some business, which concernod him rather more than he thought, so shaking bauds 'good-bye,' and expressing a hope to become better acquainted, 1 left him watched by my town constables while I sought my smarter city detectives and put them 'on to him.' " llis drayman was on hand waiting near the baggage-room. As soon aw ho got the trunk on his cart und drove off a ways my smoking friend was neatly "collared and cuffed" and marched in an opposito direction between two valiant policemen. Then the detectives and myself took a cab and sturted aftur the trunk. "Through streets becoming dirtier and wickeder wo followed, without attracting suspicion from the drayman, until he stopped boforo an apparently unoccupied houso and prepared to unload. Kre he could do so one detective jumped on his cart, and without speaking started his horso ahead again. The other aided by mo, grabbed the follow and prevented him from making an outcry to alarm his pal in the trunk. Immediately several policemen who 1 didn't know were following behind suddenly appeared and burst into the house, which turned out to be a 'fence' for the thieves. " Leaving our surprised drayman in charge of some of the ollicers wo seated 1 ourselves in thecal) and again followed the trunk to a police station-house, into which it was carried and nlaccd in front of the captain's desk on the floor. "Then silently wo awaited rosults. It was dusk, and as no lights were yot burning to let our game see where he was wo rightly supposed ho would ' think himself safe at homo and act no- 1 eordingly. Propared to turn on tho gas full blazo when ho did so, wo ' watehod tho trunk. For fifteen anxious minutes it seemed lifeless. Then wo heard a movement inside, ' hoard a bolt drawn and saw the lid 1 slowly rise and a head cautiously ap- ' pear. Up went tbe gas and over went tho trunk's lid pulled by an armed otlicer. At lirst tho head, or its face ' rathor, wore a happy, triumphant, ; * broad grin ; then as things didu t look j ] familiar its eyos upended wider in an : effort to understand matters while th? 1 grin faded away like a rainbow. Then, 1 as the facts of tho easo forced them* * selves on the burglar's startled brain 1 tho poor fellow's hair straightened, his his eyes fulged out liko a lobster's and t the astonishinont and terror deplctod l on his youthful, but evil features beat * acting "all hollow. t " 'Come out of that, you camp 1' 8 shouted the police captain as soon as < ho could talk for laughing, 'and give f uri account pf yourself. Wkafc'p tka i name of this particular racket, anyhow ?" "Tim burglar tried to laugh also, but it^was a dismal failure. 'Oh, that's all right,' he grinned, 'I took yi-z for the conductor. That's why 1 was scared. Yer see, I've been lx>ating the railroad, boss. 'Taint every chap can kin git ahead of old Vanderbilt and Chauncey Dcepue. But don't toll' em, kors they'll be u-opening all the trunks on the line and the wimmin might object. Ha, ha, ha ! Way, party slick trick, wasn't it?" "The burglar's blulT was good, hut it didn't work for a cent. 44'What yer doing with those watches in the trunk?' ,askcd a policeman as he lished them out after the fellow had painfully managed to crawl out himself. 44 'Seoin' if the road runs on time, boss. The blamed train was ten miuutes late and I'm goin' to report it. Say, yer ain't got a swallor of whiskey yer could lend a tired traveler, hey ? Couldn't got at the water cooler, yer know.' "'Well, you'll have no trouble getting at the "cooler" now. Lock him up, sergeant. We'll give him another free trip to-morrow.' "OlT to the ceil they took the wretch, and then we examined his trunk. It was padded inside, so that hidnc tossed about by baggage-smashers couldn't hurt. There were pockets made to button in tiie lining, but only a couple were ti I loci with his plunder. Some empty Masks and crumbs of food we found. In the bottom and sides were Ventilating and peep-holes. A man might live a week in that trunk, I think, if his provisions hold out." In a week or so I received a notice to appear in a New York court to give my testimony and identify the things stolen at my own home, most of which wo recovered. 1 saw the trunk again, and its occupant, but I guess he kuow me better than i did him.?Detroit Free Press. Tlie Seven Wonders of the World. 1. The Pyramids of Kgypt. These buildings are supposed to iwivo been commenced about 1500 13. C. The largest which is 4<I0 feet high, measuring in a perpendicular line from the summit to the base, is said to have been built by Cheops, 1082 B. C. u2. The Mausoleum, or tomb, built by Artemisia for her husband, Malleolus, King of Capia, in Asia Minor. This famous tomb was erected at llalicarnossus, 1150 B. C. The statue of Mausolus wus brought from Haliearnassus in lH.r>7 and placed in the British Museum. 3. The Temple of Diana, at Kphcsus. This temple was 425 foot long and 225 feet broad, it was destroyed by lire on the night of the birth of Alexander the Great, by a man named Krostratus, who perpetrated this reprehensible net in order, us he said, that his nutne might tie handed down to posterity. 4. The Walls and Hanging Gardens of the city of llubyion. These gardens wore raised in terraces, ono above another, on tiers of arches, and reached by flights of steps. Flat atones were laid on the arches, and these were cemented together by bitumen, and covered with thick sheets of lead. The gardens were live in number and in the form of an amphitheatre. f>. The enormous brazen imago of Appollo, at Rhodes. It was erected about UOO 14. C., and was thrown down by an earthquake about seventy years after, it stood across tho entrance to the harbor, with each foot on the extremity of a mole. It was hallow, and a winding staircase up one of the legs and through the body gave access to the interior of the head. 0. The statue Jupiter Olympus. This statue was the work of I'hidias, who nourished 4118 11. C. It was made of ivory and gold,and measured thirtynine feet in height. 7. The Pharos, or Light House, ' built by Ptolemy Pliiladclphus, King ' of Kgypt. This tower was erected , about 280 11. C. It was built of white marble, at the entrance to tho harbor ' of Alexandria, and a lire was kept con- ' stantly burning at the top of it to aid tho sailors of the Mediterranean in steering direct for the bay.?Jewish 1 Times and Observer. - ? ( Tim Wonder ol'a IMid's Nest. The Kimplo beauty of u bird's nest is a matter of such common talk, and one I so well known to all who love to wander in the woods and Holds, as to need no further comuu nt. I Why should it so happen that one 1 special class of God's creatures should 1 he so gifted with taste and ingenuity, i and what seems a true sense of beauty, that their handiwork would often tax ( the utmost labor of man to rival, far | more to surpass V , Or why, again, should birds build . nests at all V Why not simply arrange a few chance sticks in the hedgerow, , and there leave the few dainty spotted eggs to be batched, and the young ! brood to be brought up, fed, and nursed as the best may be y Many other creatures, indeed, provide for, and 1 bring up their young in this hasty fashion, as if utterly destitute of the wonderful instinct which guides the feathered race. And yet, out of all the thousands of birds which, in this 1 and almost every other land, till the i summer air with songs of joy and love, there are scarcely any that do not i build a tiny house and homo for their I young, that has a beauty and complete- < ness of its own. < Each bird, too, builds after an exact I type and fashion of her own ; and to this she keeps with unfailing regulari- , ty. As a rule, also, the smaller and | more insignificant birds are the very j one whose nests botry the greatest art , and grace of construction. , But no one bird-builder over copies , her neighbor. No tiny wren sets to work at her dainty house after the fashion of the swallow ; no chattering, busy starling imitates 'thoblackbird or ' the thrush; no long-tailed tit forgets 1 the traditions of her own family, or even 1 dreams of a mossy house like that of the 1 robin or the chatlinch. ' Each , in fact, contrives and builds !tnd adorns her nest that exact way < which the wise and the good God lir.it 1 tninrht to the feathered creatures <>! .k disband. Tho beauty, the fashion, the 1 nor faction of tho whole structure, arc ' from hi in. i ?0 i t i ? ?They hud been quarreling about | 11 is next summer clothes. She wunted t to have his light clothes cleaned up for { 1894, and he wanted u heavier suit, i ' What's tho use of fighting about > diis ?" ho said finally. " I may bo in tho t 3 motery next summer." " I think," ( mo replied, "you will need your sum- < ncr clothes wherever you may be." ?Little Boy : " They won't ever got t no to give another 10 cents toward a ' >ros? nt of a book lor the teacher." I Slother : " What w? nt wrong ?" Lit- t .le Boy : " Wo got tho principal to ? leloc-t < no for her, and ho picked out < >dj that was jus' crowded full of in- ? b -mation, i nd she's been toachin' it to > is over since. 1 FIGHTING FOH HBFEAIj. A Strong Attack on tltc Obnoxious Hunk Tux?Congressman McljtiuiIn 1 Mtikra un Able Speech oil the Cur- ' roncy. In the House of Representatives lust week, the bill to repeal the ten per cent, tax on State banks woro untler consideration, and tbe debate was very interesting and satisfactory to the friends of the measure. IMuck (O.'in.) of Georgia hud the floor, and presented his argument against.* the constitutionality of the law. He spoke an hour, attracting the close attention of the members. His peroration was an eloquent recital of the leading part taken hy the South in the history of the government and of the nation, and a refutation of the assertion that tho repeal <>f the bill was desired alone by the Representatives of the South. At its close lie was warmly applauded and received the congratulations of bis associates on the floor. Walker (ltcp.) of Massachusetts spoko two hours upon a general linuneial plan as embodied in a bill introduced early in the session by himself. He hail no defence to make of ?!><. .-v. isting financial system of tlio country What it needed was flexibility. The object of his bill was to force into circulation every dollar that could be advantageously used. The present system withhold from circulation GOO of the li.HOO millions of currency. That, ho emphatically said, must stop. M LAIJKIN Sl'KAKS. Mcliauriu of South Carolina addressed the IIOUSO on tho bill. Ho told of the direful results to the cotton market during the financial stringency, and how "King Cotton" was saved from dethronement only by the issue of clearing house confidence cert ionics, which passed current in South Carolina and enabled the people to t ide over the crop moving period. lint the promised prosperity when the Sherman act was repealed had failed to materialize, he said, and the crop moving period was again upon them. What were they to do? If South Carolina bad to pay a tax upon her clearlikg-house certificates, he saw no reason to exempt the great clearing-house association of New York, for while in the use made of the South Carolina certificates there was a wide difference, the legal principle was the same. Ho did not believe as some did, that State banks would cure all our financial woes, but the repeal of the this tax was a stop toward a radical change in our financial system, a step toward decentralizing ' the enormous and .dangerous powers ; now vested in the national banking j system. There were, said Mr. McLaurin, but two avenues through which the cur rency con 1U now bo increased, to wit; I. The eoinuge of gold. 2. Additional National bank notes. Uverv other channel had boon closed. Ho bo".loved we needed a currency wliieh had both local and national characteristic!*. The old State hanks were not in touch with the spirit of the ago. Every section of the Union was entitled to enough currency to raise and market its crop, and it was the duty of the government to provide the machinery to do this. The United States might issue enough treasury notes to he divided among the various States in proportion to population, the States depositing with the government their i bonds bearing a sullloiont amount of i interest to cover all expenses. It j would then bo left to each State to < provide the method of distributing its quota of money and we would have a ! currency to do local business which would pass nt. par ovorwhero. Wheeler of Alabama followed Mr. , Mcl.aurin in an argument favoring the , repeal of the law. It was, he declared, a war incusuro, pure and simple, ami had uo foundation other than in the , necessity that was then supposed to . exist for the national government to | ,-octroi the issue of the circulating ' , medium, lie hoped the House would ( yield to the eloquent appeal of the J | gentleman from (ieorgia and give the ; t ountry an adequate amount of money, i When he spoke of money he meant | money with a purchasing pow? r. He I 1 .'haraeterized the national banks as ' ! i great trust. The''presidents of these J t ii.-M ILH HUUS 111 iNOW 1 Ol'K Cll.y UCtCd US | j me mun. (JCNCHvC MOWS SlIMMAUY. Latest Items and Curious Notes li'om Our Iv\t linages. ?A Kalcigh real estute linn is nogoliating for a traet of f>7,0bt) acres of and on the North Carolina sound for a ish and panic preserve for New York ind Washington parties. ?Chief Justice Logan 15. liloeckley, ?f the Georgia Supreme Court, has become a father at lite ace of 77. He nurricd the second time about a year tgo, a young lady from New York. ?The hotel at Columbia, Tex., was burned last week. Charles Lewis, it capitalist, was the only person who lost ( bis life. Several of the guests jumped from the second floor and were badly injured. ?The petitions for woman suffrage 1 so far presi nti d to the New York Ct nilJtiiitiinol I'.. It oiftnen . v . v? VIW1KI > V I'lll VIIUIIII kUlllillll I signaturt s. The array of names is as notable in the standing and character 1 tis it) the number of petitioners. 1 - Nearly every charitable institution in Now York, 1 lebrew, Catholic, Presbyterian, i'.piscopalian, and all other < lenominatioijs is remembered in the will of the late Jesse Seligman, the 11el)i e\v millionaire and pliilanthropist. ' Secretary Lament is proceeding 1 with his sweeping reductions of the ' force in the War Department. Five hundred employes have been ois- 1 charged, and about hall the army < 111 ers on duty will he sent to their regi- 1 nents. ?Owing to the late frost tlie orange 1 Top of California will l<o far below the ] iverago for this season. The total nitpul from Southern California will ' each about 4,000 carloads, of tVhich ! >ver ,*1,000 will go Fast. This is 20 ' Doreent. below last season's crop. The enormous sum of $l,2i>0,000 lash has been pajd in royalties to the nterests rcpresintcd by Mr. Moody inee his book of hymns was printed aventy years ago, Ti.o sale of the j ly in us is said to have reached the wouderful total of 20,000,000 volumes. Kv.Ui.nnt, \v..i? i... i ie. ??>?i- - - 'i? >/v Iiui\ 11 tlMIUVU n 111*1111 in MJ lour it. is improbab.o ho will servo ] mother ki'ii in the Senate. Jt is his | imbition to cioso his political eurcer ] is Governor of Mississippi, and there , vould bo no opposition to his nomina- i ion for that ollieo il ho cxprctBed a ] lesire to be tho Domocrutic cundiliito. i ?/V bloody tragedy took pluco last < veek on streets of Uoekwood, Tcnn. , 11 oold blood, without a word of dis- j >uto, Holm in Hinds on ptied tho eon- i .outs ol a snotguii into .loini Montgoii.- ] iry. Hotli m n are well-to-do fanners < >i l< alio t\ uniy. The wounded ms.n lied in n n w i.ours, and bis murder* r \ van arrested. An old dispute over ) and led to tiie crime. i ] ? I INDIANS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. IN Til 14 HOME OF Till'! 11HI> MAN. Tho ltt'MTvtiiion of (Ik> Cat aw has in York County?A I lout Itldc on the Caiavvlm ISiver? lnlercNtiiij( FiicIn About tin* Iteimiuiil ol' tho I ml inn Tribe. Mr. Editor: Ono day, not a fortnight ago, I rambled with an Indian man over a beautiful piece of woods, whioh had hero and there a settlement?the homes of Indians, for tho land on which I walked belongs to tho red race. Surprising us it may seem to my readers, this Indian land is in South Carolina. It is the Catawba reservation in York County, and this was my first visit to tho tribe. On Monday forenoon, May 14, I loft tlu> pretty little city of Kock Hill, on horseback, and after a ride of some nine or ton miles over a pleasant road, 1 reached the Catawba nation. The lir.vt house I visited was that of Jim Harris, who wus nln'ti'il ?!>? tribe u year ago last November. Some account of this Chief will be of interest to your rentiers, ileis a pleasant, intelligent looking Indian, with a mustuebe, and was born on the reservation 115 years ago last March. He has travelled about some, having been to Washington once, and to Columbia several times. He is a widower now. 1 called twice at his house, and although he was aulVoring from rheumatism, ho talked readily with me. Ho said, among other things, that ho didn't think a South Carolina statuto eould show where a Catawba bad been in the penitentiary. Jim's brother, Datid Harris?a clean shaved, rather striking looking young red man, not quite twenty-two is t ho largest farmer among the Catawbas. I called at the housoof Billy George, or " uncle Ulilly " as ho seems to he called by the nation. Ho looks like a genuine Indian, and is about the oldest of the Catawbas, being probably in the neighborhood of 85 or UO years. As " Capt. George" be signed the last treaty madew betoen South Carolina and the Catawbas, ami be claims to be the only Indian now living who signed it. i ?>J\ /* . ? i ?* ? xui-ru uru I _U V.HI/UWDU8 III III! ] <>l itro living on tho reservation, 2<S are in far away Colorado, and the others are in dilToreut places. There are two white women living in the nation, one of whom is tho wife and the other tho widow of an Indian. L??uskod the latter (who 1 met at Jim Harris's,) how site came to marry an Indian and she answered, "cause I loved them." About seven on the reservation can read, and write. I am inclined to think, from what 1 could learn, that tho Catawba language is not used much on the reservation now ; even Jim Harris, the Chief, can speak it very little. " Uncle Hilly" Uoorgo told me that yam-ma-ruve-hor was Catawba for chief, this word is not used now. This has become a mix -d nation ; Kpps Harris, a Catawba who claimed to be about 00 years old, mentioned to me seven Indians who he said are about all that are full blooded. Lewis Cordon, who went about with mo over the reservation more than any other Indian, looked for more like a white man than an Indian. The Catawbas ilon't walk in Indian tile now, and none of the children ever practice with bows and arrows. There was nothing >f the Imliun in the dress of those that 1 met. There are 7 J J acres, more or less, in the reservation, of which not over 200 acres are cleared, some is rented nit to whites. There seemed to be a number of paths on the reservation, and in my walks I noticed some hills und little streams. As 1 said before, Liu? woods here are beautiful. I think my one who enjoys walking about in forests, would feel fully repaid for /(siting the reservation, especially at Jiis time, when spring is in all of its jeauty and glory, and every thing looks iO ureen and pretty. There are about eighteen settloncnts on the reservation, meat of which are built of plank ami have outhouses. There are patches around nohl of the settlements. The laws of landed property anions these Indians ire interesting. Whenever one of Lhein cleans up land, it becomes his, mid if he dies it belongs to his family. I visited nine of the settlements, and from what 1 saw 1 should judge that , the homes of these people are about1 like those of small white farmers who rent land. 1 suppose the best house in the nation, by all odds, is the home of It hod a Harris, the widow of Chief Allen Harris, I called at this house, which has been built three years. It has a piazza, and four rooms, is sur rounded by fruit trees and several out houses, and has a very nice looking garden at its back, indeed it is just such a home as any small and industrious white farmer would be proud to Dwn. This wa-t the most intelligent household that 1 visited among the Indians. Hhoila is a dignified, pleasant old lady who is something over (id, and who shows the white blood strongly. She has two granddaughters at the Carlislo Indian School in I'onn; one of these, Cammio Owl, lives with the Cherokee's in North Carolina. Tluvo of tlio young Indian men, Bob and Hen Harris, and Lews Cordon took me in a boat over to the Lancaster side of the Catawba lliver, where 1 was shown some Indian Springs, an old Indian burying ground, mid the place where an Indian town nice stood. A boat ride with Catawba Indians on the yellow waters of the river bearing the name of this tribe, was to mo a now and pleasant experI'icnco. At one house the Indians gave mo dinner, at another supper. As well us I remember coffee, syrup and biscuit were give mo for dinner, and rolYco, fried meat and biscuit for -upper, ltolli tlieso meals were given mo by the Indians without any sug m ouiwii \?i i rijuuM on my pui'i, Ullil 1L was thoughtful in the red people to jhow this kindness to a stranger. 1 bought some Indian wares and 1 ilso had some given me : among which is the most singular looking pipe I have ever aeon- it is in the shape of a outer. Those ware are real curosities ?nd show careful and nice work. My walks over the reservation must have amounted to several miles. On sometimes more) of the red men kindly showed ino around. 1 talked a threat deal with the Oatawhas, and i ?- _ ? iuuk u noou many uotcs 011 wliut I heard. Thcro was soino talk of electing a now chief that night, so I remained a while to see the election, which, howsvor, did not conio oil'. Before I left for Ltock Hill 1 had quite a pleasant talk with a number of the men who had assembled at the house wli re t! i election was expected to occur. 1 could write more about my visit I/O tho Catawba Indians, but will eh so, it* 1 don't wish to make this article tut. on if. This visit and tho kihdnotx shown mo by the Catuwbos will always be reinoinbered with feelings of pleasure and interest. A!< Donai.d ki kman. Katnsey, l\ O.. Sumter Co., May,'94. TIII?; SIOM'JIKM' c\ VI;H.I?:I>. Twoiii > -1- Ivo Thousand People Witness ii in Kieliiiiond. ItU'iiMoNI), Va., May 3b. Tho exercises attendant on the unveiling of tho monument of the private soldier, and sailors of the Confederacy pussed oil without a hitch, notwithstanding tho fact that quite a rain foil during almost the whole time of the rendition of the program at the monument. Tho parade of military commands and Confederate veterans was tie linest ever seen hero with ti o exception of that of tho time of 'ho Lee monument unveiling. It was an hoOr and a quarter passing a given point. A notable feature of it was a body ol several hundred children dressed in Confederate colors, red, white and blue. These headed tho line. Tho number of veterans wns ns m . i bably a> ait tho Loo monument unveiling, and tho presence in tho ranks of Wade Hampton, Fil/.hugh Loo and other heroes of tho " Lost Causewas tho eccassion ??f enthusiastic cheering all along the lino of march. Tho city was crowded with visitors from other points in Virginia and tho Southern States, tho number being conservatively estimated Jit 25,000. The Maryland delegation of veterans, headed by (ion. 1 h aidly 'J', .lohuson, was large and( imposing. That from Washington City was ailso conspicuous in the pairaidc. A delegation from Chariest nearticd brauehes of i'aifmetto in in their hands. North Carolinat was represented by Adjutant (leneral Cameron and several companies of State guards, and South Carolina by several companies of State troops. Tho Virginia Volunteers made a remarkably line showing. No mishap, save that for which tho weather clerk is responsible occurred to mar the pleasure of tho occasion. Tonight camp Hres and social reunions are the order, and the city is alive with t.?e .->1 rains of music from military bands scattered here and there. Husiness was almost entirely suspended during the day, the hanks, exchanges and State and municipal olllccs being closed. Almost without excep; tion, the houses on the lino of march 1 were profusely decorated, mainly with the Confederate and Virginia colors, SO that the ItlLI'llfln vv:w tlii>nmr1i 1 ? -><>.? t - Viit UVl,VO of hunting. "Old glory" washy no moans absent, however, being often intertwined with the Confederate colors which were Hying from almost every llag stall". At the monument the programme was carried out as arranged. Mr. J). C. Richardson, president of the monument association, tilled the post of chairman with ability and modesty; there was a prayer by Rev. Dr. I logo. Mr. A. C. Cordon read his poem written for the occasion and the Rev. Mr. Cave, of St. Louis, then made the address of the day. On the conclusion of the address the veil was withdrawn by a little boy and a little girl, representing respectively the army and the navy, and there was a solute by artillery and infantry, lasting some time and waking the echoes of the James us of yore. The entire cost of the granite work on tho monument has boon estimated at $24,000. With luo bronze statue on top tho eost will run up to more than $30,000. Tho llguro on top represents tl.e Confederate private soldier with gun leaning at his side held in one hand, it is said to be one of tho handsomest monuments in tho Southern States, both in point of grandeur and perfect beauty. The whole South lias aided in the building of this monument, aud every Southern State iscntitlcd to the credit of buildinir it. hut the chief i,f,..lit r # foV"-0 to Virginia, und particularly to Richmond. ThkNew Ministku.?a Methodist congregation who regretted the departure of a minister whoso time had expired, plied the pastor with questions about the man appointed to succeed him. The pastor gravely answered them : " Ho is a good man. and an able preacher, but- thero. 1 don't suppose I ought to say anything, and I think, on reflection, that I won't." 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