Exeter Times, 1898-11-17, Page 2LOVE AND WA N4
A STORY OF SLAVERY DAYS.
By MARY J. HOLMES,
Poor, simple little Ro'el And Yet we
eay :loin Rome .was not a tool, nor yet
e.n unnatural character. There are
Manna Many lite her, some who will
eeoogeize themselves in this story and
• more who will not. Gay, impulsive,
Pleasure -seeking ereatures, ithom fas
ionebte educatton and too indulgent
permits have done tbeir utmost to
Volt, but who still possess many trate
exaellence, , needing only adverse
ignetimstances to mould and hanamer
tb.em bate the genuine coin of true-
bearted womanhood, Such an one was
Ross. • Retired by a fond mother, petted
by an older brother, and teased by a
youager, flattered by friends and foe,
and latterly caressed and worshiped
by a husband, Rose had come to think
leo too much of her •own importanee
ate Mrs. Rose Mather, -nes Miss Rose
Carleton, of Boston, an acknowledged
belle, and leaden of the ton.,
There was a wide differenCe between
Rose and Annie Graham, for while the
latter, in her sweet unselfishness,
thought only of her husband's welfare,
both here encl. hereafter, Rose's first
finpulse was a dread shrinkIng from
being alone and her seoond a terror
lest the years a her youth, now spread
out so invitingly before her, should be
peeved in secluded wielowhood, with
Aothing from. the gay would without
wherewith to feed her vanity and love
for admiration. Still, beneath Rose's
light exterior there was hidden a. mine
a tenderness and love, a heart wlaieh,
*hen roused to action, was capable of
greater, more heroio deeds, than would
at first seem possible. And that
heart was rousing, too -was gradual-
ly waking into life; but not all at once,
and the tears which Rose shed the
whole night through were wrung out
more from selfishness, perhaps, than
tiara any higher feeling. It would be
se stupid Living there alone in Rock -
rand. If she could. only go to Wash-
ington with Will it would not be half
so ban, but she could not, for she
waked Will ap from a sound sleep to
ask him if she might, and he had an-
swered "No," failing away again to
sleep, and leaving Rose to wakeful -
arse and tears, unmingled with any
prayer that the cloud gathering so
fast around her might sometime break
in blessings on her .head.
It was Bea:reale, light next morning
•when Rose, determined to prevail, re-
doubled her entreaties for her hu-
and
-
hand to abahdon the decisiozi he now
candidly acknowledged, but she could
not. Re was going to the war, and
going as a private. Roee almost
tainted when he told her this. and for
a. time refused to be comforted. She
might learn to bear it, she said, if he
were an officer but to go as a common
soldier, like thove she worked for at
the Hall, was more than she could
beer.
It was in vain that Mr. Mather told
her how only a few could be officers,
and a that he was content to Ferve his
country in any capacity, leaving the
more lucrative situations to thoee who
needed them more. He did not tell
her he 'Irani declined a post of honor,
for the sake of one who seemed to him
more worthy of it. He would rather
this eboulte reach her from some other
source. and ere the day was over it
did, for in a small town like Rockland
It did not take long for every other
one to know that William Mather had
enlisted as a private soldier, when he
nxight have been Colonel of a regi-
ment, had he not given place to an-
other beceuse that other had depend-
ing on hizn a ben -ridden mother, a
crazy wife, and. six little helpless chil-
dren.
How fast William Mather rose in
the estimation of those who, never hav-
ing known him intimately, had looked
upon him as a cold, haughty man,
whose loyalty was eomewhat doubtful,
and how proud. Rose felt, even in the
midst of her tears, as she heard on
• every side her husband's praise. Even
the Widow Simms ventured to the
Mather mansion, telling her how glad
she was, and offering to do what she
tould for the volunteer, while Annie,
• uneble to do anyt hing for herself, could
•only pray that God would bring Mr.
Mather back safely to the childwife,
wbe was so bowed down with grief.
HOW Annie longed to see her, -and, if
possible, impart to her FMB portion of
the hopeful trust Nvhich kept her own
soul from fainting beneath its burden
of anxious uncertainty. But the days
passed on, and Rose came no more to
the cottage in the Hollow. Love for
her husband had triumphed over every
other feeling, and rousing from her
state of inertness, she busied herself in
doing. or rather trying to do, a thou-
sand little things which she fanned
might add to Willie's comfort. •She
called him 'Willie now, as if that name
were dearer, tenderer than Will, and
the strong man, every time he heard
it; felt a sore pang, -there was EMUS -
thing so plaintive in the tone, as if she
were speaking of the dead.
It was a most Leautiful summer day,
when at last he left her, arid. Rose's
heart was well nigh bursting with Its
load of pain. It was all in vain that
she said her usual form of pryer,
never more meaningless than now
when her thoughts were so wholly ab-
sorbed with comething else. She did
not pray in faith, but because it was
a habit. of her childhood, a something
she rarely omitted, unless in too great
a burry. No • wonder thenthat she
rose up from her devotion quite as
nrief-stricken as when she first knelt
down. God does not often answer
what is mere hp service, and. Rose was
yet a stranger to the prayer which
, stirs the heart and carries power with
it. The parting was terrible, and Mr.
• Mather more than half repented. when
he sew how tightly ehe clung -to his
neck, begging him to take her with
him, or at least to aend for her. very
etaitt,
• "What Shall I do wenn you are gonet
What can I do?" she sobbed, and her
• husband answered:
"You can work for me, darting, -
work for all Lha soldiers, It will help
• divert your mind."
• "I can't. / easel," AVIS Rose's auswer.
•"X don't know howto work. Oh. Wil-
lie, aarilliel I seise there wasn't any
woo.
Willie wished: Et) too, but there MS
•. iso time now for regrets, for ctrumbl-
acAtiancf". §7kC.
bag in the distance and. a rising
wreath of imoke on the western plaiu
warned him not to tarry longer if he
would go that day. One more bulldog
kiss, --one more fond pressure of the
wife he loved so much, -a, few xnore
whispered words of hope, and then an-
other Rockland volunteer had gone.
Gone without daring to 'bole backward
to the little form lying just the earne
as he ha& put it from him, and yet not
just the same. He had felt it quiver-
ing with anguish when he took his
arms away, but the trerabling, quiver-
ing motion was ever now, and the
form he had. eareseed lay motionless
and still, all unconscious of the
dreary pain throbbing in the heart,
and all uumindful of the loud hurrab
enxich greeted William. Mather, as he
stepped upon the platform • of • the
oar and. waved his hat to those assem-
bled there to see him off. Rose, who
had meant at the very last to be so
heroin so brave, so worthy the wife of
a soldier, had fainted.
• CHA-PTER V,
• There were loving • Words being
breathed into Rose's eon, when she
camebole to conseiousness, and there
was something familiar in the touch of
tint , hand athing her brow, and. smooth-
ing her tangled hair, but Rose was too
weak and sick to notice who it was
oaring for her so tenderly, until she
heard the voice saying to her.
"Is my daughter better?"
And then she threw herself with a
wild scream of joy into • the arras
whioh had cradled her babyhood, sob-
bing piteously:
"Oh, mother, mother, Willie • has
gone to the war Willie has gone to the
wax!"
It was very strange, Rose thought,
tint her mother's tears should flow so
fest, ana her face wear eo sad an ex -
preen -on just because of Will, who was
nothing but laer son-in-law. Then it
occurred to her that Toxii might be the
occesion of her eadnets, but when she
spoke of him, asking why her mother
heti not prevailed on him to stay at
home, Mrs. Carleton an.swered, prompt-
ly:
-I never loved him one-balf so well,
as on that night when he told me he
had volunteered. He would be un-
worthy of the Carleton bloodhe bears,
were he to hesitate a moinentl" and
the eye of the brave New England
matron kindled as she added: "If 1 had
twenty son, I wonlci rather all should
die on the Federal battle field than
have one turn traitor to his country!
Oh. Jimmie, Jimmie, my poor misguid-
ed. boy!"
It was a piteous ciy which came
from the depths of that mother's ach-
ing heart, -a cry so full of anguish
tint Rose was startled, and asked in
much alarm what it was about Jim-
mie. Had she heard from him, and
was he really dead?
• "No, Rose," and in the mother's voioe
there was a hard, bitter tone. "No,
not dead, but better so, than what he
is. Oh, I would so much rather he had
died when a little, innocent ehitd, than
live to beer the name he bears!"
"What name, • mother? What has
Jimmie done? Do tell me, you frighten
me, you look so white!" and Rose clung
closer to her mother, who, with quiver-
ing lip and faltering voice, told her
how recreant runaway Jimmie had
joined the Confederate arm.y under
Beauregard, and was probably then
marching on to Washington to meet
her other son, in deadly conflict, it
might be; his hand, the very one, per-
haps. to :Teed the fratricidal bullet
which should shed a brother's life-
blood!
• No wonder that her heart grew faint
when she thought of her 'toy as a
Rebel, -aye, a rebel of ten times deep-
er dye that if he had been born of
Southern blood, and reared on South-
ern. soil, for the roof -tree which shel-
tered his childhood was almost beneath
the shadow of Bunker Hill's mo
meat, and many an hour had he spent -
ed at its base, playing directly above
the graves of those brave men who
fell that awful day when • the fierce
thunders of war shook the hills of Bos-
ton, and echoed across the smoky
waters of the bay. Far up the lofty
tower, too, as high as he could reach,
his name was written with his own
• boyish hana, and the mother had read
it there since receiving the shameful
letter which told of his dis-
grace. Climbing up the weary, wind-
ing flight of steirs, sha had. looked
through blinding tears upon that
:name, - James lefatlieon Carleton,
half hoping it had • been erased, it
seemed eo lace a mockery to have it
, there on Freedom's Monument, and
know- that he who lore it was a' traitor
to bis country. Yet there it was, just
:as he left it years ago, and with a
blush of shame the mother crossed it
out, just as she fain would have moss-
! ed out his sin could that have been.
But it Could not. She knew that'Jim-
mie was in the Southern array, and
not wishing to E peak of it at home,
:where he already bore no envied name,
, she had corixe for Fympathy to her only
:daughter; and it was well for both she
, did, for it helped to divert Rose's grief
linto a new and different ehennel; to
set her right on srtany poinis, ad
gradually to Obliterate all • marks of
whet SOMe•had called Secession.
Torci had been her pride, the 'brother
she honored and feared. while Jimmie,
nearer her age; was mere a compan-
ion of her ohildhood; the one who teas-
ed and petted her by turns, one day
putting angle worrne in her bosom just
to hear her sorearn • and the next.
spending all hie pooketsmoney to buy
her the huge waa 'doll she saw in the
shop window, down an Washington
street, and coveted. f.o badly. Surh
were some of Role's reminispences of
und while time had softened
down tho horrid sensations she ex-
perienced when :the fella the pad
worms crawling on her • nook, it had
not destroyed, the do'L the handeomest
she had ever owned, not made her
• cease to love thee teasing boy, She
Could not feel just ns her mother did
ebout him, for the.litta not her moth-
er's Arcing, patriotic feeling, but her
tears flowed none the loss, while she,
too, half wished him lying•beneeth the
RE
obuumran.zer grass, in. beautiful Mt. An-
.
"How did you hear trom him?" idle
asked, when her first burst a griof
'1,_Y1.14/. ever, and her mother replied by
malug out a letter, on whioh .Rose re-
cognized her brotber's handwriting.
"He sent me this," Mrs. OarSetou
said and tearing open the letter, she
read. it aloud to Rose.
• "Richmond, Va., June, 1861.
"Dear Mother: Pray don't think
you've seen a gliost when you recog-
nize my writing, Yoa thought me
deed,1 suppese, but there's 110 suoh
good news as that. I'm bullet-proof,
reekon, or I should have died in New
Orleans last summer when the yellow
fever and I had suoh a eguablele. I
was dreadfully sick then, and half
wished I bad. not rim away, for Iknew
you would. feel badly when you heard
how I died with nobody to care for me,
and, was tumbled. into the ground,
head sticking out as likely as any way.
I used , to talk about you, old
Martha said, and about Rose,
too. Dear little • Rose. I mita-
ally laid down my pen just now
'and laughed alouA as I thought how
she looked when I treated her to those
worms; telling her I had a necklace
for her! Dicln"t she dame and didn't
Toni thrash me, too, till I saw stars I
Well, he never etraok me a. • blow
amiss, though I used to think he did.
was a sorry scamp, mother, -the big-
gest rascal in Boston, But I've re-
formed, I have, upon my word, and
you ought to see how the people here
smile upon and. flatter .me, telling roe
what a nice chap I am, and all tient
sort of thing.
• In short, another, to come at onoe to
the point, and. not spend. an hour in
arguing, as Tom used to dowhen he
took me up in the attic where he kept
the gads, you. know, -in short, I've
been naturalized, -have • ;sworn alle-
giance to the future Southern mon-
archy, and am as true a Southern
blood as you would wish to see. I've
got a Palmetto cockade on nay cap, -
a tiny Confederate flag on my sleeve,
and what is best of all, I've joined the
Southern army under Beauregard,
an.d shall shortly bring the war to the
threshold of the Capitol, liokiug
the, Yankees there congregated like
fun. It'satbout time now, mother, for
you. to ring for, Margaret. You'll
want the camphor, and make a fuss,
of course, so while you are enjoying
that diversion, I'll go and practice a
little with my gun. You know I.
oould uever hit a barn without shoot-
ing twice, but I'm improving fast, and
shall soon be able to pick off a Yankee
at a distauen of a mile!
• "2 o'clock, n. M.
"Well, mother, I take it tor granted.
you are timely tucked up in bed, with
the curtains drawn and a wet rag on
your head, as the result of what I've
told you.. I'm sorry that you should
feel so badly, and wish I could see you
for an hour or so, es I could. surely
oonvince you we are right. We have
been browbeaten and trodden upon by
the North until forbearance has ceas-
ed Co be a virtue, and now that they've
thrown down the gauntlet we will
meet thena on their ewn terms. I dare
say they have mane you believe that
we struck the first blew by firing into
Sumter, but, mother, those northern
papers do lie so, all except the Herald,
and a few others, which occasionally
come within a mile of the truth, but
even they have been bribed recently,
or something. If you want the un-
biased truth of the matter subscribe
for the Richmond Examiner, or better
yet, the Charleston Mercury, whose
editor is a New England man, and of
comee Ls capable of judging right. He
knows what has brought cm this war.
He'll tell you how the South Carolin-
ians generously bore the insult of
the Federal flag flying there defiantly
in their faces until they could bear it
no longe, and so one day we pitohed
in.
"I say we, for I was there in Fort
Moultrie, and eaw the fight, but did
not join, for the brave fellows, out of
compliment to my having been born
near Bunker Hill, said I'needn't, so I
mounted a cotton bale and looked on,
feeling, admit, some as I used to
on the Fourth of July, when I saw
how noble old Sumter played her part.
And once, when a shell burst within
ten feet of /11e, turning things gener-
ally topsy nervy, and blowing sleet
sleeves ancl coat sleeves, and waist-
bands and boots, higher than a kite, I
was positively guilty of hurrahing for
the Stars and Stripes. I couldn't help
it, to, save me.
And yet, mother, I believe the North
Wrong, -and the South right, but so
generous a people are we, that all we
ask now, is for you to let us alone;
and if the'Lincolnites won' t do that,
why, then we must stoop to fight the
mud -sills. It's all humbug, too, about
the negroes being on the verge of in-
surrection. • A more .faithful, devoted
set, 1 never saw. They'll fight for
their masters until they die, every
man of them. Tom will tell you. that.
What. are his politics? Bell and Ev-
erett, I dare say, so there's no danger
of my meeting him in battle, and I'm
glad of it, for to • tell the truth, I
should feel rather ticklish raising my
gun agaLust old Tom. May be,
though, he is humbugged like the rest,
and forms a part of that unit said to
exist at the North. What sort of a
thing is that, mother? What does it
took like?" Democrats and Republic,
oans, Abolitionists and Garrisonites, all
melted in one crucible and bearing
Abraham's image and superscription!
wish I coulcl see it. Must have
changed mightily round Boston from
• what they used to be when they quar-
reled so, some against and SOMA for
Southern rights and Southern people,
Out strange things happen nowadays,
and. it may be Torn, too, has turned his
coat, and takes sides with the Feder -
els. If so, all I can say, is, 'Tommie,
oh, Tommie, beware of the day, when
Southern bloods meet thee in battle
array; a field of weak nowards rushes
full on my eight, and the, reeks of the
Yankees are scettered in flight. Won't.
we rout them, though 1 1 llen fight
next time. I've played pollywog long
enough, I am regularly enlisted now.
Am a Rebel, as you call us at home.
Nothing very had about that, elthe,r,
as I can prove to you, if you'll take
• the trouble to hiint up My old dog-
eared History of the 'United States,
,where 'Washington is styled by the
Beilish the Rebel Chief.
•
'The South 'are only doing what' the
Thirteen did in '70, trying to eltake off
the tyrant's yoke. It's the same
thing precisely, only the shoeis on tbe
other foot, and pinehes mightily. • We
did not at first intend to subjugate the
Noeth,. but maybe. .provoke us
to dolt, if they keep on. Now, how-
ever, we only want, or rather did want
EXIOT3111, TIMS
a, Peaceable separatiun, and you may
aa well Yield to it first as last. What
do you. Intend doing with us, any way,
suppose yoi . succeed in licking us?
liold Us xis u conquered province:, just
as England holds Ireland? Much
good that will do you. It will be some
like keeping a mad dog chained tio
tightly that he cannot get away, but
is none the less snappish and non-
cozne-at-able for that, No, siO, ac-
knowledge our independence, and call
house the chaps you have dragged from
Poor Houses and State Prisons, lanes
and ditches, anal sent to fight against
Southern gentlemen. This, to me, is
the roost immilating feature of the
whole; and if must be shot or taken
priaonere I hope it will be by some one
worthy of my steel. This last I'm
writing for old Tom's benefit. Give
him my compliments, and tell him no-
thing would please me more than to
welcome him to oux camp some day.
"Dear little Rome -perhaps size
would not let a Rebel kiss her, and I
don't know but I'd turn Federal for
half an hour or so for the sake of tast-
ing her sweet lips once more. I do
love Rose, and' I feel a mysterious
lump in my throat every time I look
at her picture, taken just before I
left home. I never show it, for some-
how it would eeers like profanation to
have the soldiers staring at it. So
wear it next my heart,' and. when I go
into battle I shall keep it tbere. Per-
haps it will save my life, who knows?
"I am getting tired, and must olose
ere long. Now, Mother, please don't
waste too mazy tears over me. The
time will come when you'll see we are
right: and if it will be any console, -
then, I will say in conclu,sion, that I
have written a heap worse than 1 real-
ly believe. I am not a fool. • I under-
stand exactly how the matter stands,
but I like the Southern side the best.
I think they are just as near right as
the North, 8,nd len going to stick to
there through thick and thin. We
shall 'have a battle before long, and
this may 'be the last time ever
write to you I've been a bad boy,
mother, and troubled you so much, but
if I'm shot you will forget all that,
and only remember how, with all my
faults, I loved you still, -you and Tom
and little Rose.--raore than you ever
guessed.
"By the way, I believe I'll send you
e. look of my hair, cut just over my
left ear, where you used to think it
curled so nicely. Perhaps it will en-
hance its value if you know I severed
it with a b evict knife,I suoh as I now
Carry with me. Tell Rose I'll send.
her a calico dress by and by. It will
be the most costly present I can make
her if the blockade is carried out, but
it won't be; that old Bull across the
sea will.be goring you with his horns
first you know. Theci you'll have a
sweet time up there, beset before and
behind, and possibly annexed to Can-
ada. But I don't want to make you
feel any -bluer than you. are probably
feeling, so good bve, good bye.
"roux affectionate Rebel, .
"JAMES M. CARLETON."
"P. S. -I shall send this to Washing-
ton by is ohap who is goine to desert,
you know, and join the Federate with
a pitiful story about having been
pressed, into the Rebel service, telling
them, too, how poor and weak and de-
moralized we are, -how w handful of .
troops ean lick us, and. so draw them
into our web, as a spider tempts a
fly, don't you see? They offered me
that honor, knowing that a son of
George Carleton, twice M. C. from
Massachusetts, and now defunct, would
be above suspicion, and would thus
gather a heap of items. • But hang
me, if I could turn spy on any terms.
So I respectfully declined. You see I
am quite a somebody, owing to my
having had sense enou.gh to wait un-
til I was twenty-or:Le, ere I ran away,
and so bringing a part of my property
with me. Money makes the mare go
here as elsewhere, but I'm about run-
ning out. I wish you. could send. me a
few thousand, can't you?"
To Be Continued.
GOOD RECORDp.
Ninety thousand. men in the Bri-
tish army have good. conduct badges.
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TAKINQ TEg 0411.
lit0111' ft 14 AdfillUliterea fts the editinent
Cootntrtes.
Iri most continental countries the
practice ef kissing the book is un-
known, the ceremony of oath -taking
being more akin to the Scottis/a then
to the English form, says the London
Globe.
A Frenele witness has a very simple
ordeal to pass through before unfold -
lag his tale. The judge, seatediheneatli
oriteirio, says: "You weer to tell
the truth, the whole aruth, and nothing
but the truth," and the witness, lifting
up his right hand, answers: "1 .swear
In Austria a Christian witness is
sworn before a crueifix between two
lighted candles, and, holding up his
right hand, says: "I' sweer by God, the
Almigbly and All -Wise, that I will
speak the pure and full truth, and
nothing but the truth, in answer to
anything I may be asked by the
esnixt,"
acmes in these words: "I will speak
Jewish witnesses, w/aile using the
Bible on w.hioh is printed. the third
commandment
placing their hands on the page of a
sanae wordst add to thelx solenauity by
and all the saints."
• nothing but the truth, so help me God
the truth, the whole truth,
A Peigian witness swears to be ver-
knTehe, eplaces
h
ishiosathataawi
his more elaborate.
The witness, kneeling cm his right
book, and, being askedlay tthhee sjuacdrgeed,
!1,/evheaenr."if
you may be asked ? answers, Yes,
holy gospels to speak the truth to all
"Will you swear to God and by those
cere-
mony is different. The witn.ess forms
o d jwl gl er e wsmayr ad: 1
Tthhuerseuyopuondothoe
some parts of the country the cere-
you, all if not etill require of you." In
C cross by placing the middle of his
thumb au the middle of his forefiuger,
and, kissing his thumb - a practice
wbich would probably be very familiar
to some English witnesses -- exclaims
"By the cross I swear.":
The most curious European oath is
administered in Norway. The witness'
raises his thumb, his fore finger and
his middle finger. These signify the
Trinity, while the larger of the up-
lifted fingers is supposed to represent '
the soul of the witness and the small-
er to in.dioate his body. Before the
oath is taken a long exhortation is de-
livered, the moat material parts of
which are as follows: "Whatever per-
son is so ungodly, corrupt or hostile to
himself as to swear a false oath, or not
to keep the oath sworn, sins in suoh
a manner as if he were to say: "If
swear falsely, then may
God the Fa-
ther, God the Son and God. the Holy
Ghost punish me, so that God the Fa-
ther, who created me and all mankind
iis his image, and his fatherly good- ,
ness, grace and mercy may not profit
me, but that I, as a perverse and ob-
situate trangresier and sinner, may be '
punished eternally in hell. *
If I swear falsely, then may all I have
and own in this world be cursed; curs-
ed be my cattle, my beasts, my sheep,
so that after this day they may never
thrive or benefit me; yea, oursed may'
I be and everything I possess."
AN ECONOMICAL MOVE.
Mr. Spriggs -My dear, it won't be
necessary for you to go to the auction
at Mr. Sellout's to -morrow.
Mrs. Spriggs -There may be two or
three things there that I want, and,
besides, I enjoy going to auctions.
There won't be any auction there.
Why not.
I stopped in to -day and bought ev-
erything he had. at private sale.
Everything? Private sale? Are
you crazy? 'Whet in the world did
you. do that for?
Because I didn't want you to go to-
morrow, and pay three or 'four primp
for 'everything.
HE PUNCH CARTOON THAT INFURIATED A FRENCH SYMPATHIZER
QUIT l—Pno Quo?
J. B.--" Go Away 1 Go Away 1 !"
French Organ Grinder.—" ? What you give me if I g� away ?"
J. 13.—" .1'11 give you something if you don't t 1"
•
The cartoon herewith illustrated was
print ed in Punch of October 22, and so
infarinted an Irish doolor practising in
aoridon that he straightway rushed to
the office of the paper and nmeshed the
windows with his umbrella. He was
arrestea Inir it,
Re wale not the only person who look-
ed upon the ottrinat etre as au insult to
rrance,• bnt the odzisequenoes cif his
rashness caused the others to hesitate,
Insiecxd of following his example, theY
decided it was rams safe to go down
and express their feelings in letters.
Dozens of these reached the editor , of
Punch' during the last week. Seine
were anonymous and threatening, but
most Of triern merely filed a protest
with the hope that such a cartoon
would not appear
HISTORIC SPOTS OF PiUS
WHERE THE TURBULENT POPULA-
TION OF THE CITY GATHERS.
Alld Me King or CiarliSINOSTA" steel la Hord
--esenteeng up the lItleuportes of Other
Troltoelets Tilkletf When the CattlatItte
Medea leranco 'situ Mood.
Beautiful, tubule ot, passi mate
Paris, with its populace that build
enly to destroy, the oreators of works
which have in their muments of good
nature been made only to be torn
down when the fighting instinots of
the old, Gauls began to assert itself,
is again givee aver to a rushing, den-
il-may-eare • iconoclastic: - crowd. For
years .things have been 'raining along
entirely too smoothly to suit the Par-
isian, and an inuneuse ainount of
waste energy, of the kled whioh burns
down buildings and builds barricades
In the streets, has been creeping into
the vasuum, and the Dreyfus ease was
just what was needed to pet* the hub-
ble and let Idose the
ENEMY FOR EVIL',
That has been accumulating since the
Caremuni: With bands of Royalists
and Republicans rushing over .the oity
and with a strong probability of their
coming into conflict, the places wbich
travelers bays crossed oceans to see
may disappear, Still some of the
places have passed through revolu-
tions, have seen empires and repubitcs
come and go and may weather the
storm which threatens to burst . over
Paris now. Only the other day a
cablegram said strong bodies of police
haebeen placed in the neighborhood of
the. Plaoe de la Concorde to prevent
any demonstration by the ever increas-
ing crowd at the opening of the Cham-
ber of Deputies. The Place de la
Concorde, embellished with triumphs
of art, still reeks with horrible mem-
ories, still the imagination can oall u.p
phantoms of the thousands of men and
women who laave gone to their death
at this place. When Parisian blood. be-
gins to warm up Frenchmen naturally
gravitate toward the Place de la Con-
corde. Eight allegorical statues
re-
presenting the cities of France are
there. • One of those is always covered
with wreaths; some times draped with
black. The power of Me Prussian
army wrested Strasburg from France
and the French express their grief in
this way. • An obelisk marks the spot
where Robespierre died, a fountain
stands on the place where the luckless
Louis XVI. WELS beheaded. And here
the gendarmes and railitary are to-
day gathered in force. And they call
it "the Place, to: square, of Peace."
From the Plaoe de la Concorde the
Champs Elysees spreads away sub-
limely beautiful, and here every day
all Paris goes to promenade. Here
the populace go to see the men about
whom they are talktng and reading.
Here the Generals come dashing along
in tha evening to see and be seen, and
It is doubtless that beneath many a
gorgeous uniform there now palpitates
a heart filled with fear. The Champs
Elysees is a favorite plece for men
who think that it is thein mission in
life to put out of the world men who
seek to grasp the reins of government
As these Generals ecrae dashing along
they know full well that they run
risks of having some man who does not
believe In any government whatever.
"take a shot at him."
And the Bourse, where • now the
boards show stocks to be
FLITTING UP AND DOWN,
And the probabilities of a war with
England grow greater or less, as the
oharges of Cuirassiers on the crowds
prove that the people of Paris are ex-
cited. It is here that tbe moneyed
men of Paris are now trembling.
"The green hour" is when all Paris
enjoys itself. • It is the hour between
5 and 6, when the chairs in front of
•the cotes are filled and the little glass-
es of absinthe are on every table, and
on the Boulevard Montmartre are to
be found the strongest intellects of
Paris. • Then the Dreyfus case in all
of its phases is gone over. Every edi-
tion of every paper is anxiously await-
ed by both Royolist and Republican.
It is doubtOal if all of the facts in
this remarkable mon will ever be
'known to tbe public.
The men who know the most about
the matter are afraid to talk, and even
the ewful pressure of an angry popu-
lace will not likely bring them out.
A VALUABLE BQOK.
The wife of one of the most noted
Paris dressmakers has a valuable'book
-valuable because in future years it
will be a complete record of the femin-
ine dress of to -day. Each page. has
small pieces of the fabrics, linings,
laces and trimmings of gowns made
for customers. The Queen of Raly,the
Czarina, Empress Eugenia, the Queen
Regent of Span, Sara Bernhardt,
Carmen Sylvia, Otero and the Queen of
&wen are all represented.
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM.
Look here, said the barber to the
restless man in the chair. if you don't
keepst ill I'm liable to cut your throat.
Olf, I'm not afraid of that, replied
the helpless victim, Ha long as you con-
tinue to use .that, razor.
THE OLD ADAM.
Oh, how oan you go on so; coming
home in this condition night after
night?
Your own, hie, fault, woman. I
was a woman an' inerried is man 1,o re-
form un, I'd reform int or keep quiet.
A. STRONG lYfINDED VIEW.
Mr. Meeke--Tbe,paper says the judge
reserved his deoision. 1 don't see why
it is judges invariably put off decid-
ing a point lentil the next day.
Mrs. M. -Hub iTud.ges have sense
enough to went to consult their wiveat.
AN TINESCPIX)TED NEMESIS.
Mrs. Slixadiet-The city water cora-
PanY Ilan raised nay rates.
Old Iloarder-They mast have found
out that we have Belt mackerel for
breakfast,.
laRoxEN HONES,.
eeses
now To Treat xi Person salaams. *we A
•• terneitared Main
A brokes bone, or a fracture, as, the
surgeons calls it, is a seriosie Matter
or not, aocording to the kiad of ct break,
the bone thet Is broken, eud the age
and previous health of the sufferer,
• It, Is the. akin and flesit covering the
brokoria'hone aro out or torn, it iS what
is (Ailed a "compound" fraoture; if
there is no external wound, it is called
a "simple' fraoluna. ' In a compound
fracture the wound of the skin and
flesh may he made by the same thing
that breaks the boos, a. bullet, for ex*
ample, or it einey be caused by the bra- .,
ken end of the bone puehingettszez,„
forward. A. compound froature IS much
more dangerous then a simple one.
In the oase of a simple fracture, oc-
curring in a young and healthy per-
son, almost the only danger is thanof
deformity, bat witele a: eonapound free •
-
ture severe inflammation is liable to
in, unless the patient 00U1eS under the
care of the surgeon very soon after the
aooldent, •
Of course, only a person with meat -
oat knowledge and trabaing is .compe-
tent to treat th broken bone, but many
accidents of the kind happen when no
doctor i about, and then the first aid
nxust be given by a compassion; as best
he can, •
If ari attenxpt is raade to carry a per-
son with xi broken bone to his homeor
to a hopital, without first securing
some support to the injured arin or leg,
there will be great danger of convert-
ing the comparatively insignificant
simple fracture • into a very serioua
compound one, through the piercing of
the skin by the jagged orad. of the bone.
In order to prevent this a. temporary
splint must be applied, This may be
made of any firnx material that, is at
hand, such as straight twigs, a bundle
of straw, cardboard, book -covens, .a.• :eo.
number of newspapers folded length-
wise, the 'felt of straw obtainee by sa-
crificing a bat, a cane or an 'umbrella. ne,
We can even use the, patient; lainti- •nn-
aelf for a splint, by binding a broken
leg firmly to its mate, or a broken
arm to +the shie of thei body.
' Before putting on the aplint it must
be well padded with a haadkerchief,
one of the undergarments, a thick wisp
or hay or straw, or the like, and then
the splint must he keui in place by
strips of cloth torn from unileaelothing.
or shirt. A broken limb always sWelin,
so tliet the splint. ratist not be tied on
too tightly at first, otherwise tho eiveleenen.
ling will cause constriction, with greet
pain.
Of course, in cerrying the sufferer,
the greatest gentleness must .he used
he order to prevent not only pain but
also friction between the broken ends
of the bones, or tearing the flesh by
them. 1.
HOLLAND'S GREATNESS.
' he World OweShestiteaelLbtti.tte.
"May the country," exclaims the
Queen Regent of the Netherlands in
her interesting proclamation, • "become
great in everything in which a small
nation can be great 1" A writer in the
London Spectator comments approv-
• ingly. • "No person," he says,. "who
realizes the immense debt...which Eu-
rope and the world owe to Holland
will fail to join in this aspiration. It
may be said without feenof contradic-
tion that in nearly every art which .
heightens and adorns human life, in
nearly every aspect of bunian. endeav-
our, Holland has added to the intel-
lectual and moral resources of man-
kind and. has contributed as much as
any nation to the fabric of ' European
civilization. We are all accostoined to
and
i
lanrdeeacisoma.bulwark of civil
d
, "We have all read the heroic: ;story
of tbe re.sistence of Holland to Plaillip
and Alva, and the story of the siege of
Leyden ranks in ono minds with the
tan of Thermopylae.. The Spanish em-
PbuiPte ilgilv'eenertilonlIbIoltrianirdl'atonYstetn.iskee'
the • first, and the mosi fatale blow at
that huge and mohslrous organism
Nor oan we forget how, when even in
England tbe imerors of religion per-
secution raged under the Tudors, Hol-
land beeaute the sure refugeof the
strong and sturdy mem who founded
thr, American repsiblic. The .Lutch
1 theluselvee colonized large porteons of
what are new the 'United States, they
I founded the •greatest eity in the neiv
1 World, and then etsumed the impress
of their civilization on more than one
state of the 'Itnion. In Africa
they eatablished a firmeolonial
presentmwohnlicolinti.s strong mi.ct healthy.
deepite sumxi obvious th
faults at e
'No doubt the Dutch have not been
celebrated for unusual humanity in
their eastern possessions, and mueh
just critnion mightbe directed against
i heir nu tbods there. But, take. t he
peeple its, 11 whole they make a singu-
larly bold and strong impression • as
citleens, rulers and colonists "
•
HONORSFOR LADIES
The Emperor of Austria has.taken a.
step rathet unii nal, and has deeided
to establieb in honour of hie fortheom-
ing Jueilee an order of knighthood for
ladies only, to be named after the
late Empress -I; he Elizabeth Order.
In Ehgland there are only two orders
ocifnowoh; hei
ethltad ladies tu
s ccoannf be% i
meointr5v,ecih
, td6
are Other Members of the sovereign's
f(firtao:in 11 yy s;, oo:3r. het( nep eiVoo wtnha:ir 0 tsohel tort rev si (3)00avez hot:oo tkt haveuate
order is confined to women. who have
been corinected with the Otivernment
of /tidies tut for the genertility of
wernen, in Groat Britain, there is no
order aveileble at all similar to the
several orders to whioh men ere so
freguentlY appointed with such 38t is -
faction to themselves for varying stn.-.
navictehrt and
?ilea morchntitleT a--na8t.tilochoraj*, the