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-iwkinc { _^cHONf S? A NOVEL OP AMERICAN LIF1 -5T^ 3 V MAURICE Coc*rl;bt.l??S tad ?rr nmnn tt CitiArxxjju xx. VASSECB AND HIS JEWELS. As Fairfax walked back toward Yassenr's, he was fillod with a sense of indescribable satisfaction. The whole world jnst then was, so far as liiti feelin#3 went, condensed so that *11 its essential delights were pressed together in this lonely nook, as flower petals are sometimes pressed into a potpourri. He was old enough and certainly stalwart enough to be a man -his age was twenty-six?but just now he Sauntered and smiled like a great pleased boy. His latest adventure had been of a sort to dash into his pxperienoe a good strong element of fche tender strain of romance so dear I to vonnff men. Hot did Mr. Vernon know that he was the son of the late Colonel Stirling Fairfax? Of coarse, our young friend was not aware of the means of knowledge sometimes possessed by a xaan whose wealth and peculiar influence control far-reaching and comprehensive combinations of force and intelligence. From Mr. Vernon lie had heard the ' story of old Burns, the preacher, and that, too, was adding its thrill of strangeness and pathos to his reflections. But most of all, he thought of Pauline. Her beauty of form and face had captivated liim, and the sound of her voice was yet echoing through his heart with a certain finftbre which no other voice ever had. It was past sundown when he retched Vasseur's, and he heard the ? ? i./.-kir/lfl Anfinrv lamlorlT in fliA UlUH-Uj 'JUV., " " O . magnolias as be entered tbe low, oddly constructed bouse. A little way eft tbe sea was pounding on tbe beach with a heavy throbbing and washing. Vasseor himself met him at tho door. "Mo'sieu baa had a good day, I hope," the little oreole said, in bis oft, insinuating voice. "It vare fine wetter zis day." Fairfax looked down at him with a comprehensive eraile, bqtonly nodded a response. Be flung aside bis bur- 1 jT den of implements and weapons. "Alo'sieu is vare 'uugry, is it not? ! Suppaire it dome soon," Vasseur went i on, rubbing his biown little bauds together and grimacing violently. *' "Xo; I dined late and well," said j Fairfax, in French. "I am not at all .hungry." It was one of Yasseur'a bobbies to 1 . -speak English. He pretended to j fancy himself quite at borne in that language. . Fairfax had become sincerely fond -of the little dark man, whoso restless eyes, bushy, black hair and singularly mobile month in some way reminded .. lum of the descriptions he had read of certain fascinat:ng outlaws famous in j Martinique?men of half or quarter j breed, at once gentle, soft-voiced and , murderous, who would die for you one day aud rob you the next. Taeseur looked no particular sge. ; He was fifty, perhaps, though not a gray hair or a wrinkle pro:laimed the .years. A long, narrow forehead, slender black brows, deep-set black wyes, a high straight nose, a mouth small and expressive and a protruding chin made his face one to be remembered. In stature he was below the medium, but he was strong, tough, supple, restlessly active. Jt would seem contradictory to add that Yas- j sear's general air was that of extreme j indolence, bat such a contradiction ; . I existed in the man's make-up. He was not indolent, and yet his greatest activity was seen through an at- i -Biosphere of languor and indifference. ! Fairfax fouud Vasseur's house a -delightful lodge. It was built of pine logs and covered with long, rough boards; its rooms, large and airy, were yet huddled in appearance, aud i seemed to have no system in their | arrangement, lhe noors?tcero was l>nt one story?were of dried mortar, j smooth and even, and the walls were liung with a great variety of dressed wkins, "while the chairs and tables, the bedsteads and the armoires were of -every grade of finish, from a rude -etool to the most exquisitely carved piece of mahogany. It was plain that this heterogeneous furniture had beeu obtained,, piece by piece, in the course of a life devoted to snatching treasures from the sea; flotsam and jetsam bad found their way iuto the house oi the Creole; and the mishaps of others had in this degree, at least, i contributed to his enrichment. The reputation of having once beeu a pirate clung to Yasseur, though he utontly denied it. But how came he by all the odd and valuable things in HIS possession, cspcL-iuujr iuc premium stones? These latter he had shown to Fairfax?diamonds, rubies, emeralds, topazes, sapphires, opals, amethysts?hundreds of them, none of the more precious ones large or very valuable; but still, in the aggregate, the lot was worth qaito a pretty sum. One amethyst, however, was remarkably large and biautiful. cud had been cat to the form of a cross; the workmanship showed that a master hand had done it, and the color of the stone, almost a sapphire blue, was exquisite, clear as a summer sky uud as transparent as the parest water. If Vasseur loved anything with passionate steadfastness ? was tkia treasP.;. " ' i OFa^ 5Y ISLAND ? E DURING THE WAR OF 1S12. rrrr TH0WIP30N. t j Kotert Bonner't Sonfc nre of jewels, ami above all, the amethyst cross was prized--nay, indeed it was worshiped. This he kept separate, inclosed in a ranch-soiled but a .1 J t-.il ? t.:_u 1 souuu oiu ivniuer case, uuiuu uu iairied in an inside pocket of bid waistcoat. It amused Fairfax to encourage the man iu bis raptures over the beautiful stone cross; and, like any other mau with a bobby, Vasseur was delighted to find au appreciative listener, while he expatiated on the merits of his property; but when Fairfax demanded the gem's history, its owner suddenly became contused for a moment and had some trouble to resume his air of half-jaunty indifference. Of course, this was not surprising; it only led Fairfax to suspect that there was a good deal of truth in the rumor about Yasseur's antecedents. The man said that he bought the cross in Seville; but Fairfax thought he saw that it was not a very clear lie that he was telling. That night something happen*-* wVJ/il, />onon/4 \rneaoiiT>'a itfirola OTI.t especially the amethyst cross, to enter as an important factor into the hotly of our story. CHAPTER HI. THE CAVALIERS. At the time of which wo write, there was n road, or, more correctly speakiug, c, trail, leading from the west shore of the bay of Saint Louis in a direction somewhat west of north through a wild country to the wilder region of the upper Pearl River. This trail, which was known as the Biackwolf Trail, had been a highway for the Indians as fnr back as tradition went?a road which led from their hunting-grounds to the breezy bluffs of the gulf, where they spent the hot season, like the philosophers that they were, in bathing, fishing, eating and-smoking. Since the coming of the white men, the Black-wolf Trail had been put to othar uses. Soldiers, horses audcanrou had followed it; caravans of settlers, with their oxen, their mules, their servants and their household appliances, bad mado it the road to new nomes nud a life of hardy and lordly independence. .Large plantations were opened and comfortable, even spacious and, in a degree, luxurious houses built on tho beautiful and fertile lauds once tilled by tho aborigines, whose descendants still skulked iu the swamps aud held the fastnesses of cane-brake aud cypress-jungle all around the coast. Many other trails, less distinct and more meandering, came into the Blackurnlf Troil nn its wav frnm thft hicrh lands to tbo coast, and he was an alert aud experienced woodman who could go among these crossing and apparently entauglcd paths without bewilderment. In those days, all of the ways of the woods were ways of danger; for not only were the Indians treacherous and savage in the extreme, there were white men more to be feared than tue red ones; reckless knights of adventure devoted to a life of utter lawlessness ?bold riders whose dashing exploits would havo bceu themes of song and story if done some centuries earlier? Claude Duvals, Hob in Hoods, "Wolfstanes of the new land, all seeking the excitement of desperate emprise, and all defying every wcrd and letter of law, hnman or divine. The wood-paths were known to these men as familiarly as the cowpaths of his father's farm arc known to the country lad to-day in the same Vi 1U OLUUll these self-reliant freebooters rode beneath the piuos aud the wide-spreading oaks; the Indian heard their horses' feet beating the yellow saud aud their careless songs echoing through the brakes. It was not for the red man to attack the outlaws; a sort of bond held between them, both being enemies to the settlers. Moreover, the Indians feared the "riders," as they named them, and were glad to. slink away whenever those pieturesquo cavaliers made their appearance. Most of the "riders" made pretense of being traders, bnyers of cattle,furs, skins, cotton?anything, indeed; and sometimes they aid buy, when buying seemed safer thau taking by force; but robbery in cue form or another was their main business. Fcarl River, as far up as Iloney Island, afforded a waterway by which vessels of considerable draft could be used to bear the pluuder of the cavaliers to New Orleans, by way of the Rigolets and Lake Pontchartrain; aud the "traders" who mauaged these ves sela shared in the ricti prouts. indeed, no small part of the traffic of the city at that time came from this and somewhat similar sources. With the Lafittes, the de Jourdaiun and the Mascots on one side, and the confrers of Pierre Bamean on the other side, New Orleans was fed by constant streams of ill-gotteu wealth. As. for Rauieau and his immediate associates, they preferred, for prudential reasons, to do most of their boldest and most remunerative work at a long distance from their headquarters; wherefore, a greater part of the booty, shipped down Pearl River came from Alabama, Georgia,' Tennessee, and even as far away as the Caiolinas. while in the onm?T7 *?nad. about Honey Island, within a radiue of fifty or sixty miles, people and their property were not molested to any great degree. It was tiiis policy, enforced by Eaineitu, which bad so long protected him and his followers: for while common rumor established liim as king of the island, and kept afloat startling stories of his prowesa and dariDg, almost nothing had beeu done toward investigating the situation. The main fact was that wealthy and influential men in New Orleans, locrru oliorora in a nt\lml%* v nuuican tuv Kk ki LA\J IJ ICVCUUO, were standing behind the outlaws and affording them the protection which it was so easy to give so long as the power of the civil and military government was almost paralyzed in Louisiana, and so long ns these very citizens controlled directly or indirectly the government itself, either by corrupting the officials or by holding official positions themselves. With a glance at the foregoing slight sketch of tLo situation of thiugs in the Gulf-coast region, tho readers of this story, which, in all its parts, is histoiically true, will be able to understand why a party of horsemen should be following tho Blackwolf Trail in the direction of the bay of St. Louis at a late hour in the night. The road in most places was wide enough for two of the cavaliers to go side by side, and four of them chatted as they rode, while the fifth, who evidently was the leader, held his way somewhat in advance, sitting on bis horse like a statue, and maintaining a strict and apparently moody silence. Keen in the deep gloom of the wood, the moving figures were wore like shadows than realities, and but for the heavy tramp of the horses and the occasional sharp jingle cf a spur or the clink of a bridle-bit, they might have been regarded by a superstitious fancy as ghosts of the followers of De Soto or Bienville. Their voices, however, were evidently real, and what they were sayiDg referred to tho present. "The king is breaking his own law to-night," said one to another, "and I don't expect anything out of it that'll pay for the trouble. What have these people down here got that's worth going after?" "You might wager your head," remarked the other, "that the king knows what he is about. When did he ever fail to do just what he wanted to? There's more'n we dream of at the end of this ride." "Maybe so; I don't say there ain't; but it's a queer move, you may say that." "All of our moves aro qieer i. a.t ~ tt CliUU^U, XUI lUUb iUUUCU "Yes, bat " "Uat?bat?what's the nse of yer 'bnts?' Yer a constitntioual grumbler, Tom Newkirk?a chronic, incurable growler." "Mebbe so, bat " "Oil, grumble at my foot, my head aches!'' At this point the last speaker burst forth singing in a low mellow voice an old and not very elegant ditty about a maid who? "Went away, went a-wa-y ? With her love to a fair countrK" He had reached what was perhapf the last stanza and was droning oat the fact that? "Her lover was false and cold was his heart, And she died by his cruel hand," when tho leader suddenly exclaimed iu a tone that indicated irritation: "I'm tired of that. Stop it! This is no time for your songs." The singer obeyed promptly; but could not refrain from muttering under his breath: "Awful particular all at once; mast be ailing!" "Who's got tho grumbles now?" said his companion, tauntingly. "Told you that something queer was at the bottom of this here move." "Humph! I'll admit that when the king gets so particular that he won't let a fellow sing, there must be something kind o' bilious on hand." At a certain place at the edge of a marsl), over which there came a sharp tinge of salt air and a far-away boom of sea-water, the leader of the cavaliers drew up his horse and called the others around him, so that his strikingly tall and shapely figure made the centre of a dark group sketched against tLu marsh rushes and the shining line of the bay. "What is done to-night," ho said, "is between us; not another so:tl upon earth is ever to know even a hint of it. I have chosen yon four, as the best of my men, to join me in an a.TV.ic of great importauco to me. It may turn out profitable in itself; it may not; but, in any event, you four will be well paid." The men drew closer, leaning toward him over their saddles, as he .proceeded to describe his plan and its 'purpose. Like most leaders, he deceived bis followers, while at the a: l._ i.lJ ?1.? RaiDO TllLlO 11U IUIU IU13U1 IUC uuiu aj far as bo went. Ho was going to rob Yassenr; that much was openly avowed. He bad good reason t3 believe, be said, tbat Yaaseur had in bis bouse a treasure of precious stones, probably of great value, besides a large omouut of gold coin. How this information bad been obtained be did not say, nor did the men inquire; they were in the habit of taking bis word without question and were ready now to follow him without fear. ''One thing is to be borne in mind," be went cn: "Thero is to be no personal hurt done to the man or to any cf bis household. We are to gain our point by clever work." (to be convinced.) Th( Spanish among the most charitable people on earth. Without a poor tax, Spanish communities of iifty thousand self-supporters feed a j pauper population of live thousand or wn1'* f BILL ARP. | Joel Chandler Harrl3 says that "easy reaaing is nara writing ana sneriuan gives the antithesis when he says, "You write with ease to show your breeding. But easy writing is curst hard reading." I am too sick to write easy, but I don't wish to be curst about it. This gloomy weather takes away all my hilarity. Lowell says, "Oh, what's so rare as a day in June." It has rained every day and every night since the 1st and we didn't like it at my house, for it was my wife's birthday and we hoped it would be bright and balmy, for the poor woman don't get but two maternal feasts in a year and two paternal kisses. I was sick the night before and she was up with me half the night and slept late. I had creeped In to breakfast and slipped a five-dollar gold piece under her plate and Intended to rise and kiss her unwrinkled brow when she appeared, but she slip ped up behind me and kissed me first. She never did it that way before and the boys hint that she saw the goid shining and it excited her labial views and oscillatory glands and she couldn't refrain. "Gold, gold, gold, gold, Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Heavy to get and light to hold. Spent by the young but hugged by the old To save to ruin, to curse or to bless, Nov.- stamped with the image of good Queen Bess And now of bloody Mary." But she got more than I gave her and nobody get a kiss but me. "Children," said I. "this is your mother's seventy-second birthday. You know that the stars fell seventy-two years ago and that's the reason they did fall. They knew that a brighter light was coming and so they paled their Ineffectual fires and fell to the ground and expired. "I am only 71,* said my wife. "Why do you try to make me 72?" "Because," 6aid I, "you have had seventy-two birth days. You had one the day you was uuiu. Yvutu yuu wwc a jcai v.?iu you had had two.' Then she gave it up. These birthdays are the mile stones that measures the journey of life. Next Monday I will be 72. On the 23rd one of the girls will be 40. On the 24th my mother was born and so was my little, grandchild. Caroline, who waT named for her. My wife can tell the birthday of every child and grand child, but I know only half a dozen. Well the Mexican boy did come and for a whole week we have feasted ou his presence and listened to the same old songs he used to sing. He is a fine singer and has plenty of help from the children and grandchildren. And the night was filled with music And the cares that infest the day Folded their tents like the Arabs And silently stole away. And the little boy. who is only 20 months old, and looks like me. joins iu the hilarity and tries to sing, and holds up his skirt and dances the cakewalk and kicks up his feet and bows to the audience with great solemnity. He plays monkey In the show, and his vnnnir m ntl^or Iktnl/e ho I a amortOSf I and prelticst child In all the world, and j I think so, for they say he is ju3t like me. What kind of a world would this be without these little children, and yet the last census says they are not wanted r.p in New England any more. They say that Roosevelt loves children and wants to encourage maternity. Well. I'll give him credit for that when be retracts and apologizes. Our Mexican boy says the peons of Mexico have them by the score. Their abode houses have but one big room with a dirt floor, and you will see a man and his wife and a flock of dirty, lousy, greasy children and half a dozen dogs all gathered there by day and roosting there by night. A peon is the biggest vagabond on earth. He will work one or two days in a week for 37 cents a day and j hp nairf fn \Tp*ipnn ailvpr that fs wnrfh I only half what ours is, and he and the family and the dog3 will live on this for a week. They will steal everything that is in sight and not locked up; says ho has known them to break into j a car that was sidetracked a ad steal and carry off 2.009 pounds of machinery. They will get It to the city some way and sell It to a junk shop for a dollar cr two. The Americans do all the manufacturing; the Germans all the hardware business; the French all fhc silk and fine goods, and the natives all the little shop business and run the saloons. Besides the archbishops and bishops, no less than twenty-flve priests officiate around the chnncel in the great cathedral every day. Somebody must stay there to receive the offerings and grant absolution and remission of sins. This is the largest cathedral in the world except three. It is 46 feet long, 440 feet wide and 110 feet from the floor to the ceiling. and the walls are literally overlaid with gold and silver images and crucifixes. The church Is rich and con trols President Diaz. Diaz controls the Castillians and the police all over the towns and cities, and the police control the peons and the common people. So at the last it is the priesthood that dominates the government. Liberal concessions are given to Americans to build railroads and dig canals and to mine for precious metals. The charter under which the Me.cican National was built requires seventeen members of the board of directors, and five of them must live In Mexico; the others may live anywhere. Our boy Carl is a Mexican director, having lived there long enough to become eligible, and that ia licw he was called to New York last week to a meeting of the hoard and got a chance to come by home and sfc ua lor a week. A'nd now the time of tribulations is near at hand, and he v.ill leave us and we may never see him again. Such Is life, tr.d only death will it.?Bill Arp ia Atlanta Con.-iito> UCIK iiv.-, - I . \ ??+??? ? ? 6 igood @ i i ? r o a d s. i J ; Fifty Millions For HIk1iw?j?. "X?\(*~T HEN Colonel Brownlow, \ A / of Tennessee, iutrodduced Y \ a kill |Q Congress appro printing $20,000,000 as a fund for National aid to road improvement in the United States, a good many people were startled at tin ci7A nf thrt ftornroa Tho nmnimt hrt\V< ever, seems very small compared witli the sum that a single State now proposes to raise and spend. The New York Legislature has adopted a constitutional amendment proposing to raise and spend $3,000,000 annually for ten years, or $30,000,000 in all, This amendment must pass the Legislature again in 1905, and then it will go before the people for ratification or rejection. It can reasonably be expected that the measure will meet with popular favor. The people of New York have given the principle of State aid a thorough trial and the result? have been highly satisfactory. One of the objections most loudly urged against both State and National aid is that it will encourage local communities to neglect the improvement of their roads and depend on the State and the Federal Government to do the work for them. But this objection tins proven to be purely imaginary. In nc place where State aid has been applied has any such result appeared. On the contrary, aid from the State treasury only stimulates self help. It arouses warm competition among the counties and townships to secure a share o* tlu State aid funds. Instead of sitting down and folding their hands as predicted, the local communities are raising a great deal more money under the stimulus of State aid than they did before. A very Important advantage thai comes from State aid is intelligent supervision in laying out roads, select ing materials, and in methods of construction. This-may mean all the dif ference between success and failure Every year millions of the people's hard-earned dollars are wasted, virtu ally thrown away, in fruitless at tempts to patch up bad roads, to till mud holes, and to improve roads with unnecessary steep grades, all because there is no one in charge with the knowledge, judgment and authority tc do the work as It ought to be done. What is said of the advantages of State aid applies all the more forcibly to National aid. Its effect will he farreaching. It will quicken the pulse of the whole nation. It will arouse universal activity. ' "Good Itoads" will become the people's watchword throughout the length and breadth of the land. A quarter of a century ol work under National and State aid should give the I'nited States the best system of roads in the world, Instead of almost the worst, as at present. It looks now as if National aid is bound to come in the near future Already the State Legislatures of Alabama, Tennessee, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Missouri and Minnesota havt put themselves on record in its favor Hardly an Argument. In his address before the Good Roads Congress, Mr. Bryan advanred as an argument that the permanent Improvement of the roads was a matter ol justice to the people who live in the country, saying that it was a well known fact that the people In the country, while paying their full share of county. State and Federal taxes, receive as a rule only the general benefits of government, while the people in the cities have, in addition to the protection afforded, the advantage arising from the erpenditure of pnbllc money In their midst. But this does not apply to the Improvement of highways. The city streets are constructed at the cost of the locality. The trouble with the country districts has often been & df tinct disinclination, as was shown in the rednetion of the local proportion of payment under the recently enacted SpronI act in this State, to do anything to improve the roads. And it must not be forgotten that the cities will pay a largo proportnon of the $l>,500,000 to be expended under that act in improving highways wholly outside the city limits. The good roads movement Is to he encouraged, not upon the theory that if will % benefit one class of the community or another, but because it will be to the advantage of the whole people. whether residents of the rural 01 urban districts.?Pittsbu-g Dispatch. Stun Poit?. Ooverno.' 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