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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-11-24, Page 3lePtef F 41.1 LOVE AND WARN A STORY OP SLAYERX PAYS. By MARY 1 HOLMES.' f:ttz El C.. n\f And this was a Anemia's letter, o ve the mother bed wept far bi terer tears than any she sited wile her eldest born bade' her his first fare giVing to her, just as .Tinemie lea done, a look of his brown hair. Sh had it with her now, and elm .laid there both on Rose's hand,—the dark brow lock, and the abort: black. silken our which twined itself around. Rose' .ste. ftnger, as if it loved the showy rest - Me -place. Rose's first impulse was t Shake it off as if .it had been a guilt thiug ; but the eight of it recalled s Vividly the hendsonie, saucy face, an laughing, mischievous blacile eyes i once had helped to shede that she press ed it to her 1ips, ape whispered sadly "Dear ,Timmte, I cannot hate him i I try,uor $eo how he is greaely i fc while in her heart woe the unframed PraYer that God would care for th Rebel boy, and bring hien back to them Mrs. parleton was prou,a of he family name, ---proud of her family pride,—and she shrank from hhving i known how it had been disgraced, so atter Rose's first grief was over she bride her keep jts, secret, and Rose, pro raised readily, never doubting for a moment her ability to do so. Rose had tarried y borne much that morning Excessive [weeping for her husband added to wfiet she had heard of Jimmie took her strength away, and shespent that first 'weary day in bed, sometimes sobbing bitterly as tbe dread reality came over her that Will was really one, and again starting up from a feverish broken sleep with the idea that it was all a dream, or a horrid nightnaare, from. which she should at last awake. Callers were au exeluded, and with a delicious feeling that she was not to be disturbed, Rose, late in the afternoon, lay witecthing the west- ern Sunlight dancing on the wall, when a step upon the stairs' was heard, and • in a moment Widow Simms appeared, her sharp face softening into an ex- pression of genuine pity when he saw how white and wan Rose *as looking "They tried to keep me out," she said, "that brawny cook of yours and that filigree \voicing -maid., but I would come up and here T am." Then sitting down by Rose she told nt her A.nnie seher there. "She's sor- ry for you," the tvidow said, "and she sent, this to tell you so," antic the widow handed Rose ,a tiny note, writ- ten by Annie Grahame Once Apse -would have resented the act as imply- ing too much familiarity, but her heart was greatly softened, while, had she etried her beet she could not have re- garded Annie Gra,ham in the light of an inferior. Tearing open ,the envelope she read.: "My 'Dear Mrs. Mather—I am sure you will pardon the liberty am lak- ing..My apology is thee I feel so deep- ly for you, for I ,understand just what you are suffering,—understanding,how wearily the hours drag on, knowing as you do that with the waning clay- laietetep 'will not be heard just by the door making in your heart little. throbs of joy; such iis no other step can make. I am sorry for you and, had. hoped you. at least might be spared, hut 'God in his 'wisdom has seen fie to -order it' otherwise, and -we know that what he does is right. Still it is hard to bear,—harder for you than for me, perhaps, and. when this morning I • heard the car signal given, I knelt just • where I did when my own husband went •away, and asked our Heavenly Father to bring you 'Willie back. in Safety, and, Mrs. Mather, am • sure Be wtII, for 3eit, even then, an an- swer to my prayer,— something whath mild It shill be as you ask.' et "Dear ales. Mather, try to be com- forted; try to see the brighter side; try to pray, and be sure the darkness now enveloping you so like a pall will pass away, and the sunshine be the brigh- ter for the cloud. Come and see me when you feel like it, and, remeraber, y'ou have at least two friends who piay for. you, one at the Fathers right hand in Ileeven and 'one in her cottage In the Hollaw. ' ' • AN.NIE GRAHAM. Rime lead not wept more Passionately than she did now, as, elle kissed the note, ane. Wished she were half's good A.nnie Gralaana. ' • "But I am not'," she eaid "and never shall be. Tell her to' keep praying until. Will comes home again." "I will tell her," returned the widow, hut wouldn't it be well enolgh to try what you can do at it yourself, and not lea.ve it all for her ?" , "Try what I can do at praying f" Rose exclaimed. "I can't do anything, only the few words I always say at night, and they have nothing in there about Will." "Brought up like a heathen!" mut- toed the widow, feeling •within her- selfethat to the names of her own sena and Captain Carleton, William Math- er's must now be added, when, as whs her daily custom, she, took her troubles to One who has. said, "Cast Your bur- dens upon the Lord ,for Ile careth for "We'll both remember your hus- band, Miss Graham and I, so don't fret yourself to death," she said soothing- ly as Rose broke into, a fresh bux•st of tears. It isn't. him so much," Rose sobbed, "though this is terrible and will kill me I most know, but there's sonae- thing else that sits me a great deal worst than that; tit least, mother has made tne think it is, though I can't quite see how having one's brother join the Rebel Army is so very bed." • Rose forgot her promise of etiorecy, just 0,44 her mother might have known she would. The story at the Carle- ton disgrace was told, and perfectly aghaet, the horrified widow listened to it. ✓ pression which plainly said the Carle • tori family had fallen greatly in he n !estimation, in spite of all Tom had sal d Rose,• however, was not good at read - Immo. e ling expressions, and taking it to ' granted the widow wanted to hear al n ! about it, she Mid her what she knew , marvelling much at the riged silenc a her auditor maintained. Isn't, it:, shaniefot ?" she asked, whe 0 she had finished. "Shcirtieful ?" Les,hope he'll b O witched and hung tighter than Haman d I'D furnish rope to hang him!" wa the indignant widow's reply, and or -•Rose could quite melee out what. ails her, she had said good afternoon, au t banging the door behind her, we ' hurrying off, muttering to herself 'Soraethin' wrong in their bringin'up Needn't tell me. I'd like to sed my bey • turnin' traitors! The rascal!" and a r by this time the widow had reached the shop where she was to stqp for burn t ing-fluid, she turned into the little store, and catehing up the can with a jerk, spilt a part. of its contents upon - her clean ginghana dress, and then hur ried off again with rapid strides to- ward the cottage in the Hollow. • The earletons, Tom and. all, were be- •, low par in her opipion, and •kept sink- ing lower and lower, until she reached the cottage, where she gave vent to her wrath as follows: "A pretty how d'ye do up to Miss Martherses. Her brother Jim has gm, ed the cowardly, eneakine low -lived, contemptible Rebele; and is 00min' 011 to take Washington! The scalliwag I If things go on at this rate, I'll Arm the army myself, and tar and feather every one on 'em! Needn't tell me." Annie was no lover of gossip, and knowing that the widow was terribly excited, she made no reply except to pass her a letter bearing the Wash- ington postmark. This Ivicl the, desir- ed effect, and utterly oblivious of..Tim- nate, the widow tore open Isaac's letter, ein which he spoke of Captain Carle- ton as being very kind to him, and very popular with the sold' "I would fight for him till the very last, Xsaric wrote; "he has,been good to me, always noticing me with a boev when he mimes into- our regiment, as he sometimes does, and when he can, speaking to me a pleasant word. He knows sawed her sister's wood, for I told him so. • It seeraed so mean -like to be passing myself off for better than I am, and. you kimer a -soldier's dress does improve ,a shape mightly, giving him kind oft a dandy air. Why, even Harry Baker and Bill look like gentlemen, though Heiny gets drunk awfully, and has been in the guard- house twice. But, ast I was saying, Cap- tain Carleton didn't appear to think a bit less of me though he struck me on the shoulder, and claug/ated kind 'of quer when I said why I told him. I sawed Mrs. Mather's wood and the next day t saw him talking with our colonel, and heard something about sergeant, and Isaac Simms, and ' too young to be expedient.' Then when 1 met him again, he asked me wasn't I twerity-one, in such ar way that I knew. he wanted me to tell him yes;• but, mother, I thought of that prayer we said together,' the morning I came away, 'Lead us not into temptation,' and I could 't t 11 ' 4 4XET4R TIN:Ns taetios, and thenegh she, that verr ailab bad several opportunities for tellin how "Miss Matherees brother was rebel, and Liza Miss alarthers couldn' see the Mighty herr% in it it be was, she kept it to herself, speaking only o the ;Miele Tom so kind to her boy Ieacio t tering in au aide eons, "That's al e them shiftlesit Itugglesee know! Migh as, welt gond ma.ggite and done with it, t It was a etrenge medley that here box contained, for every member Compiny R was remeniberece thank •' to the indefatigable lose. who. promo: ' ea a list of the names, and when sh foam' ane, without. friends in taat im mediate vicinity, she supplied the de - fielency fi-oin her eWil xdore of blew' n les. Of uourse Will and Tom fare al the best, while next to them cam • Lieutenant Graham and Immo Simms Rose writing a tiny note to the latter e_ ftoelithispgeatieritglasocv)e of tifroolem.shoendlikeeednahinilee e hien a pair of her fine linen sbeete, be . calms she couldn't tbiak of anything else, and thought these would be cool itlottelir RPo$i fl e lohnolvT tfiasfinimtirah ee releteiVaitas • pD0 peaul - larity the peogle wondering they had never seen before bow good she wa - and iroputine some porLion of her pre seat intereat to the presence of her Mother, who had made arrangement to remain for an indefinite length of Time in Rockland, and who, far less de monstretive than_her active (laughter did much by her. sensible advice to keep the wheel in motion, end Rose tfarokmenovinerhdoainnt the Matter so zealousle CHAPTER VL The next morning, the Mather car rage, eantaining Leith Um. Carlota and Rase, drove down the Hollow, axi stoPPed in feont Annie's gate, Mrs e s business was with Widow Sunnis who wait mixing bread th r kiteh,en, and who experienced °Mudd d erable •trepidation when told "Ili greed. Booton lady had asked for her " pesky glad 1 hain't tattled r about jim," ehe tbought, as washing I the flout. from her hands and hook ing herasleeves at the wrist she en tered the sitting -room, and with alow co , e o ear e y's er I Bill: who, an r earefulle et:Owing esettY t' in his pooket, the large, Strong tweee " RoSe 24atber liad bounce arecued bbs O paper parol, seated Iliaesitif upon the f ground, and was rounching away at his pie, riot becanee he liked it, but bee eattee his mother had. Sent it and Ellia4e o mother wee dearer to him now then ^ vvilso. he wee at• home. - Meanwhile, in another pert of the ; panne Tom Carleton was oPenieg JWi ci ktfoet, -while around State." O., group o Offieere, soMe his persortal trierids ore e hail knOwn Ile 0)4°11 h "There anust eteme, mistake," he g said, 4ttell histiodkay4bgndy. 19.13hUir IlLineghle ricked his thaws in a separate box, and directed it herself. There could be no mietake, and he continued his inve,stigations, comieg next upon, the - widow's pieture, which. Rose had care- s le'sstY jPlaceTdo iBneliCisoriPtaiureeueld I hilrs. Calletin .had come with a re - e clues hat the widow should not re- • peat what Rose had so heedlessly told s her the previoea night. ' e "You may think it strange that I 01 care so nauch," Mrs, Carleton said, "and d until you are planed in similar dr - s ounistances you cannot understand , how I shrink from having it known • that ray son could fall so low, or do • so great injustice bo his early train - Leg." If the widow had possessed one par- - ticle of preju.dice against tbe Carle - tons, this would eave disarmed her en- tirely, but she did not, Iseetels letter had swept that all away, and she re- - plied that " secret was as safe with her as if locked up in an iron ' ohest," "I did feel blazin' mad at you, though, for a spell," she said, "for I thought you might have brung up better; but this cured me entire - LY," and she handed Isaac's letter to Rose, bidding her read it aloud. "Noble boy. You must be proud of was Mrs. Carleton's comment, , while Rose, ever impulsive, seized utam a new idea. It -would be so nice for the Rocklend ladies to fit up a box of things and send to Company R, reserving a cor- ner for Tom and Will. She should do it, anyway, on her own responsibiliey, if nobody chase to help her, and she whispered to Annie that George should E lye a large share of the delicacies the would provide, You may send abet candy to Tom if You ethooee," she said to the. widow, " though I think co,d liver oil would be better. And the ointment too,—only it mustn't sit near my preserves, for fear the two will get mixed." . Roes had found something to do, and so absorbed was she in a plan which evesy one approved, that she forgot to cry all the time for Will, as she had fully intended doing, Up the streets and down she Went, some- times walking, sometimes riding, but always in a flurry, always excited, new tumbling over dry -goods boxes in quest ,of one large enough to hold the many articles preparing in Rockland for the then ill -fed, suffering soldiers of the 131h Regiment, now up at the express office, hargaining about the expense, which she meant to bear her- self, and now down at the Hall, adroit- ly smoothing over little bickerings frequently arising among the ladies assembled there, concerning the arti- cles tient in, some declaring the fried apple pies brought by Mrs. Baker should not go, nor yet the round balls ' of Dutch cheese she had saved sour I milk two weeks to make, just because "Billy relished it so much, 'long with apple turnovers." Boor old Mrs. Baker! It was the best she c,ould do, and when Rose saw how. bbs ears came at the prospect of Bil- ly's loSing the feast she had prepar- e,d with so much care; she declared the cheese should go if she had, to send it in a separate box. It was just so with the -Avidow's poke ointment, some of lhe lames wondering what. next would be brought in•and what it could be for. Ross knew exactly. what 'twas for; Tom hred corns, ancl•the despised salve was for him, so that should go if no- thing else. .But when Susan Ruggles Simras, her thoughts intent on Zohn, brought in a round of roasted veal, which her =Lothar -in-law said woula be in et, mdst lively condition by the time it reached Washington, Rose, after suggesting that .it be packed in ice and put in a refrigerator; yielded for onoe, and persuaded the girl -wife to parry home' her v.eal, which would most surely be spoiled ere John melee to see "You can write him a nice long let- ter," she said, when she sew how disap- pointed Susan looked. "You can tell him your intentions were good until we old experienced married ladies per- suaded you out of them." So Susan, with a sigh, carried back her nice stuffed roast, the widow mut- _ "Your brother a rebel ?" site al, - most, shrieked, "a good-for-nothing, ill-begotton I I thotight you said he Was captain of oompany," and mentally the widow Armee from her list of tamest that of poor, scandalized Toai, thet volt moment permiring everY pore as he went -through -with his even- ing drill within the h'ederal oamp. No, no,' Rose cried Vehemently, "not Tom t I have another brother, a youtiger oneeejimmie we call him. Did you never hem' et ,Tinathie, who ran away more than a year ago?" . "Netter I" and the statench patriot cf "e widow pursed, up her vvith an ex, oug e an- swer stuck in my throat and choked me so, but I( out with it at last. I said, 'No sir, I was ennty eighteen last Thanksgiving,' and then his face had the same look it wore when I told him • a Wond-sawer,.And so I sup- pose yeti% be nineteen next Thanks -I giving,' he, said, adding—"You. don't know what yeti lost by telling the truth so frankly, bat the moral gain is much greater • then the loss. You. are a brave boy, Isaac Simme, and worthy of being a second George Washingtorie I like him so much! Can't you sande-him somethingoneth- er, .if it's nothing more than the nice cough -candy you used to make or some of that poke -ointment? I notice he coughs occasionally, a.nd 1 heaced hiixc say his feet Were sore. I'd like to give him something,just to see Idshand- some wbile teeth when he laughed, and said, 'Thank you, my boy.' Oh, I would almost die for Captain Carle- ton." Surely, after reading this, the wi- dow could aeel no more animosity against the Carletons, on account of Jimmie's sin. "Every family must have a black sheep," she said to Annie, though where hers was she could not tell. It Surely was not Sohn, Eli, nor Isaac; she gussed it 'must heve been the girl-, .baby that died before 'twos born, and for whom she shed so many tears. She shouldn't do it again, she'd bet, for if it ha,d lived it would most likely Eave out upon some rusty or other, just as Sim Carleton hed,—married Bill Baker, like as not; and with this consolatory reflection, the vridow took up Isaac's letter for a second time, resolving in her own mind that she would send that Cla,plain Carleton something if she set up nights to make it. "I'm glad my boy didn't; Lell a lie," she whispered softly to herself, as she came again to that part of the letter Poor, weak human nature creeping in with the same thought, and suggest how grand it would be to have him "Sergeant Simms, with the increased wages per month it would have brought?" This was the, old Adana eouneelling within her, while the new Adean said, "Better never to be. pro-, rnoald than lose his Integrity," and with a silent prayer for the boy who Would not tell a lie, the widow folded UP the letter, and then repealed to Annie the particulars of .Timtnie Carle- ton in a.rateh milder mariner than she would have done an hour before. Se much good Tittle acts of kindness do, stretching oe link after link, until the/ teach the point from whieli they recoil in blessings on the doer's head. Thus Captain Carleton's friendly words to fsacto Simme were the direct means of saving his mother arid sister front, the, hitter prejudice the atoeklegict People, in their then excitable state, might have felt toward them, had Widow Simms told the story of Jimirde in the vire; she surely would have told it, • not been ter Isaac's timely let - r, 'fhb, together with a tittle Judi - nee e eat ten f ,cru Annie changed her G-13A.INS OF GOLD. , Nothing is so hard, but seareh will Lind it out.—Flerriok. Reprove they friend privately; cone- ' mend him publicly,—Solon. Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleasest—jereray Collier, Lot, is easy finding reasons NvilY oth- er folks sliould, be patient.—George El• e There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.— Quesiael. The =Wiest worn will turn, being trodden on; and doves will peck, in safeguard of their brood—Shakespeare. • Human nature is so constituted, that all see, and judge better, in the oalfvfnai.freortenooteh.er men, thee in their Good breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the teaks of oth- ers.—Chesterfield. Positiveness is a most absurd foible, If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.—Sterne. A true mann never frets about his place in the world, but east elides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.— E. H. Chapin. It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse theinselves, work herder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.—Han- nah More. Good nature and good sense must ever join; t To err is human, to forgive, divine. —Pope. Aar ABBREVIATED INDISTINCTNESS. mr. Nolziecon lienolves for the Fortieth time to 'Write memoranda etahdy. "I've heard men say," said Mr, Noz- zleton, "that they hated not to be able to find things that they had put away somewhere themselves, they couldn't remember where. The thing that trou- bles xne to mad. the memoranda make ,of things that I want to remem- ber. I put down a note of something hurriedly, and merely a note of which is, however, ample at the time. know what it is about when I put it clown, and then later, when I want to remember it, I can't read it. I had abbreviated the word or words when I wrote them, and written them in- distinctly besides. Soro.etimes I can go over the ground. I have travelled in ray mind and bring back the•incident, and it is always agreeable .to be able to recoil things that have escaped us but which we wish to remember, but if I can't bring back the meaning of the memorandum, why, I cross it off, and let it go; that's all I can do. And. tben I do tevo things: I content myself with the reflection, that it couldn't have bean of great importance or it would hrtve fixed itself in my memory, and the other thing I do is to make up my mind, for the fortieth time, that hereafter whatever else I may weite indistinctly, my abbreviated notes shall be as plain as print." TElleePLE OF SERPENTS. The small town of %Verde, in the kingdom of Dahomey, is celebra.ted for Is temple of serpente, a long build - ng in which the priests keep upward of 4000 serpents of all sizes, which they feed with birds and frogs brought to them as offerings by the natives. The box was packed at last ;—every ehinle and. crevice was full. Mrs. Iiak- er's Dutch cheese and fried apple pies were there, wrapped by Rose Mather in innumerable folds of 'taper, • tied. around with yards of the strongest twine she could find. and Rabb* stow- ed away where they could not be harm- , ed; Widow Strams's ointment. too, ann. the oandy she had made, occupied a corner, together with her daguerreo- type sent: to twee, and e letter to Cap - bin Caeelton. nal- letter was a raeramoth undertaking, hut the widow felt it her duty to write ie. groaning ' and sweating, and consulting Perry's old leathern -bound dictionary for ev- ery word of which sbe felt at all un- , certain, and driving poor Annie nearly distracted with nearing "if this were grammar, and if that ware too lovin' like, for a, vvidder to send a widower," Not a little amused. Annie gave the • reouired advicesmiling in spite of herself, as ehe read ths note, the widow handed her, and which ran as fol- low: i "My Dear IVIr. Captin Carleton :—I ' can't help putten• dear before your name, you seem so nigh to me since Isaac told bow kind you was to him, I'm nothile" but a sbrivelled. dried up widder, fifty odd years old, but I've got is mother's ear big enoug take you in withmy other boys. I know ' you. are a nice, clever man, but wheth- er you're a gooa one, en T call good,I don't know, though bein' you come from Boston I'm afreirl you're a Unit- arian, and I'll never 11111 pray - in' for you till I know. That's about. all I can do. for ten poor a'most as Sob's cnrkey ; but if tbere's any shirts nr tronses, or the like othat walits ma.kine let me know, for I don't believe your mother or sister is great at sewine Mrs, Harthers ain't, 1 know, though as nice a little 'body as ever drawed the breath. Your wife is dead, to.o they say, ancl that comes hard again. I know just how that feels, for my man 'died eiehteen years ago last October, a few weeks before Isam was born. "I send you Rene intraent for your feet, and some bits of linen. rags to bind round yottr toes; ale) some red pepper candy, and my likeness to •Isaao. He'll let you nee It if you want to. It don't 'pear to me that my eyes is as dull as that, or my lips so pucker- etl up. but we can't see as others see us, and I aineaan atom proud. Ele- ven bless you for being kind to Isaac, and if an old WOMELTCS prayers and bleseins is of any use, you may besure you have mine. If you come to battle, be so good as to 'oversee him, wou't you, and git him put way back, if you can. !Excuse haste and a bad pen. "Yours with regret, MRS. BELINDA SCAMS," . This was the widow's lettel, sent with Tom's parcel to Washington, where the box was greeted by the Qom- pnny with exclamations of joy, and could those who sent it have seen the eager, happy faces of each one as he Lound he was remembered, they would have felt doubly repaid for all the troublri and annoyance it had cost tbem. Only one growl of dissetisface. tion was heard, and that from Harry ' Baker, who, with a muttered. oath ex- claimed, as he undid his paper parcel. i , "Apple tarnovers, by jing! Sourer i then swill, aed mouldier than the rot. Halloo, Bill, got some too, I see. What in fury is this? Dutch cheese, as I'm alive. Make goocl bullets for Secesh, 1 so here goes!" and the next moment there whizzed through the air the , cheese poor old Mrs. Baker had found so hard to smuggle in. The apple pies follower) next, and then the reckless e 'Eatery- amused himself with jeering at 1 •-•,_ - Florry t is enough to hill anybody the way you women kiss one another, saw you kiss Polly Breese last even - ng, and X know you bate her. Har - let -0, well, what's a kiss? 1 know %there T cin get pleni • m eye/ 'at 44; FROM EUSTON TO KLONDIKE.--THE RESULT 0 HE YEAR'S ‘WASH.UP.' A SKETCH Ote TDB DANK OF BRIT/sT4 NORTH AMER[Ce,t DAWSON CITY. The bank is only a eantetehuilt shanty of the frailest deecription. FRANCE CAPTURES SAMMY. Ones a Slave, Thoua '0Wrtut Despot. now to Re teetled. • Two weeles ago a despatch retie/heel Barite from the itkoveamor of Senegal, West Atrieu, telUng the good urews that, Sammy, with his family, citiefs and Sofas, bad been eaptured by Capt. Gouraud back of the Ivory Coast. The great pest. of Wee!. .Afrioa has been caught at Met axed will joie eersonages, like Behanzin, the (lemon ofaladagaecar, and other ad- versaries of Frame sent into exile. No enemy of white enterpriees in Af- rioa haa made the lives of colonial of- fteials ea enatippy as Samory has (ague in the Met twenty years. Samory has had a „remarkable gamer. .When a lit- tle boa' be was given to: a chief in the west Soudan as a ransom for a captitte woman. As tlie lad grew up he showed intelligence, courage and talent, and became the °Lief, adviser of the power- ful marabout, whose slave ha was. The young roan saw thet all around were mailer weak States, fragments of the powerful empire that had fallen to pieces, upon the death of the great Maheriadd As LiMe Weil); on and hie influence increased, he made an alli- ance with the ruler of one of these States, accumulated a lot oe guns, cul- tivated friendship with other (adds, and when he succeeded to the rule of the Country in which he lived, south- erest of the head -waters of the Niger, he began EDS CONQUERING CAREER. twenty amongg a . was about e°rt lisofenteayyteseaarrosguando .h Ile coveted the entire western Soudan, and his greed for more territory made him troublesome to the French, who had reached the upper Niger and were en- quiring the hinterland of Senegal. .e.bout eleven yeaxs, ago, when Sam- ory was in the height at his power, he met his first great reverse at the hands of the French, wilh whom he had been fighting for years. He would have swept them from the country if it had not been for their superiority in 'arras and military discipline. His empire was composed of 160 of the former lit- tle States of western Soudan. No forces brought against him had ever vanquished: this dusky potentate until the Frerich defeated him in 1887, and then he sued for peace. A French em- bassy was sent to his capital, Bissan- dugu, to make it treaty with France's greatest enemy in Africa. He gave the embassy a specimen of his spirit and his appreciation of his own hit- portance, for he was very indignant because 120 lerenclerna.n of high official rank has been sent to him. He told Capt. 1'eroz that his son had been re- ceived in Paris as an equal by the President of France .and Ministers of State. It was it fact that one of Salta- ory's sons had been permitted to visit the F'reneh •capital, vvhere the news- papers made hini the lion of the day. Samory talked as though he was a victor imposing terms upon the van- quishaeua. d: ' Capt Peroz," s 'Toid Samory, "and the Colonel who sent you here are merely the servants of the men in Frane.,e -who have received my so as their equal. If the Ministers wk' to make a treaty with me, let the come themselves, and not treat wit the ruler of a oountry that is muc larger than France, through one of their servants." This bravado did not frighten the embassy, and though it took time and Patience to make terras, a treaty was finally signed by Signory, in ancord- ance with which he surrendered all of his proyincese west of the Niger, aed became nominally A VASSAL OF FRANCE. AWFUL SCENES OF SUFFERING} IN THE INLANI) REGIONS. rot. - implore etteite necaritet tatile eowa.50511 lioilrOadlitatious- Too Week to 'Work mid no Toot,, #o werN It Le difficult to aescribe the awful eat:Ail:Ma of misery and starvation ot the people in the interier oi Cube, eaee a Havaxm letter, they die by scores every day either from hunger or from the effeet.s of long-eadured prie vatione. Theee who remain, espeoially in Matanzas and Santa Clara province es, are ,so weak, ae$ the result of fevers and ,need, that they are entirely unable to work. It is to be borne ea mind. that the poor country people now me maining irx Cuba, are only the remnant of the reconoentradoe murderecl by tbousends by Gen. Weeder. After over 200,000 of them were bined by famine or by the dreacital machete of the Spanish gu.errillexo, the survivals, penneni up in the citio$ and towns, were relearSed, by Gen: Blanco. They had suffered wet two years from in- sufficient nourishment and all the sicknees which accompanies privation and squalor. They returned to their devastated lands witlitett means fox' tilling the ground a,nd, they fed on roots and wild vegetables. They soon gathered again around the titles, towns and railroad stations to implore pu.blio charity. • They are now the very images of . .soltaow AND DEATH. It is wonderful thwt tbey still live. When a gentleman went a short time ago to Matanzas and. saw at ths sta- tion hundreds of these starving, dying people, the majority of whom were un- able to stand, the horrors of tb.e Cuban war were before his eyes in all their ghastly truth. He had seen Santiago sacked, by Spanish soldiers. He knew of the .rnany instances of robbery and nausder -whioh during the three years of struggle between Cubans and Span- iards shocked the civilized world. Ile had seen the dire sufferings of people thrown' into Spanisb dungeons. But no misery or pain is equal, no crime committed by man can be superior, to the pangs of starvation and its ravages over a country. One poor ghee about 14 years old, was literally skin and. bones. Her eyes almost hung from their sookets. She was a living skele- ton. "She is the only one left to me," said the mother, whose appearande was no leas terrible. had six children end my husband." " "When did you begin to suffer such hardships?" • ' "In Aprit, 1896," she replied, "my house was burned a,nd I and my family conoentrada. How they could have lived until now was the unenswera•ble question sug- gested by these last words. In the same oonaition are over 100,- • 000 people who in normal times form m ehe working country population. What h "arse, still is that the Cuban Army h which could have afforded many lab- orers for the sugar and. tobacco plan- tations, is also starving on the western end of the island. The soldiers do not disband, because while keeping their organization they receive some relief from the ccanmittees of sympathizers organized to help them in the princi- pal cities. But with the exception of the regress, who are few on this side ot the island and whose greater bodily strength enables them to resist prim- Hons. more successfully than the whites can do, the Cuban soldiers, on accottnt of famine, will be VERY POOR LABORERS. In Pinar del Rio many of them are aetually perishing of hunger. Here is, tberefore, a grave problera that will confront the Araerioane, during their military occupation of Cuba, when they 'tstart upon the work of moon- struetion. The first thing to do is to raise crops. But where are the laborere? The press censorship continues as strict as ever. By order of Gen. Blanco the censor does not allow to peas by direot cable it single wora about starvation of the poor nor anything in praise of the. American people of Government. The Spenish officials believe that the red pencil of the press censor has not only power to stop the publication of truth, hut to destroy the facts themselves. The ree pencil passes over the pages of the cor- respondent and then the Spaniard feel that Cuba Ls thc most happy land on earth, where every one has plenty, while the Americans are only a cruel nation of conquerors. He did not live up to his promises, how- ever, and has kept the French in hot weer in the country 'met of the upper Niger most of the time. They, how- ever, gradually drove him ,south, tak- ing from him district after distriet, until they brought him to bay in the hinterland of the Ivory Coast. In the past few months Samory was greatly embarrassed be lack of supplies and hostile tribes. He and the remnant of his Adherents Were making for Liberia When they Were categht. Everybody in recent years has beard. of the Sofas, and. the name has long been astociat- ed with West Africen fighting. The word, however, is not a tribal or geo- graphical distinction, but merely sig- nifies Lhat those who hold the title are followers of Samory. • We have undoubtedly hewed the last of Samory as a factor in the affairs of west Africa. The once humble slave MS long the absolute ruler of a large territory. He gained bis ascendency in large part through the zeal with which he promulgated the tenets of He pretended to be. an apos- tle especially- commissioned by MO- hanimed to extend his . faith. White men who have had an opportunity to study Samory sey t hat he is not re- ligious and that there MS no sineer- ity in his expressed desire to convert all the people at his country to Me- lia m me d n ri ism. Ile found, however, the' religion was a .se.rvieeable tool with which to advance his interests, end he could be as pious as any one when it served his purpose to assume t t role. - , - HOW SCIENCE DETECTED CRIME. The. Berlin newspapers have lately been telling, with great glee, of a triumph of science over crime. In one of the greet offices of the German oapie tal a number of petty thefts had been committed, the pockets of coats bung- ing- in 118 ante -room being visited and cigars and small change extracted, The police were for a time non-plussed and invoiced the aid of science. A pro- fessor bring consulte,d,' he advised the insertion of c delicate aniline, powder in thci mouth end of some cigar, lo be placed at the melee, of (he thief, 'rho next morning there was a summoning of the clerks and a gebeVilt inspection or their mouths. Ono unhappy yogi In was discovered with aniline toegue and lips. THEGOOD ENOUGH. A be Fevre. —T t, ee 's no use talki ng, it's always isist to begin tit ths bottoni of the ladder. Charley Tibbles—atee, t hat's all right unless you, happen to be esraping from it fite. ANCT.ENT rtomAN BRIDGE. Eighteen hundred years age or tbere- abouts the Roman Emperor Trajcin built a bridge aetross the Danube, -the piers of which are found by the Roe- meniat engineer, solid enough to sus - elite a new etrueture, wbiolt will un- ite the towns of Term,. Severin, in Ron - manic!, and Gladova, in Servia, In the Middle oi the etructure the statue of Trajnn wilt stand four SOLUilre to alt the, winds that blow, as well AL deserves to do, perpetuating the ncemory of that great. conquercre and bridge build- er for perhaps another store of cen- turies. THE OPEN* SESAME EXPLAINED: Sofeheact—i, say, Chatty, wby does a f.ellah have to Avoar a necktie 1181 he dee himself, don't you' know? Why eawn't a retire) wend' a ready-made necktie, don't you know? atushbrain—Cawn't you seeame boy* how it itc? It's the ctoriel test', don't yea keow. Any fellah eon afford to buy an ewe of it. neckt 18, etwne he? Ab yes ; but, mere sordid wealth ?tote me, count it eootery, me boy. Tte bwaine, (1)110ve, wrifinementerion't yoa know. What his that to do web the melee t ie ? Cana you soo ? Society, mo hay, ad- inita only those who have imaina c.uottgit to is tho're own nec,ktie, dual you lalOW.