Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1877, Page 3

TT EEE SUMMER’S DONE! Tn yellow woods th chestnut drope; hs Bets galore Though bright eyed lads and little maid: t him of half hin store— wonderful a falling & Tren the windy bill, in many a field, Th um slow above the clover, itemr = bloom may yield ae is ever, © Farew Honey Laces Sweet farewell The little brook that by ir Georze Arn POINTE D'ALENCON, A Story of Kansas in Pioneer Days. [ Mrs. B. W. Chunpney, in the October Galary } Mrs. Rutherford was looking over h-r | laces. re were many choice pieces of ointe purchased in Earops: Mechiin and rus-els pointe, with other Irish iaces. Honi- ton, delicate d’Alencon, and one precious Picce of antique pointe de Venise,for Mrs. Rutherford was @ cot isseur tn laces, and | threw away her money in a recklessly ex- | Fravagant way whenever @ fine piece was Poy ned. lope Rutherford, I wish you would tell me how yon happened to take the lace nia,” I kaid,as I lifted from the handsome Japanese casket an odd piece, @ mixture of lace andembroidery, which I fancied shehad picked up in some ‘out-of the way corner of witzerland. “1 believe 1 was 10 years old,” she replied, “when I began my study of laces. The strip which you bold in your hand was my first gequisition. It has a rather. curious history. ‘Would you like to hear it And then Hope Rutherford told me the fol- lowing story, which proved to be not of Quaintly costomed peasants In some Swiss Valais or of some princely lady of the court of Francis I., but of her own stormy child- hood and first love. The daughter of « pioneer judge, Hope’ early live had been spent on « farm in West, five miles from the litt fict. ' Their nearest neighbors were the A toines. A shrinking little woman with light hairand yes was Mrs. Antoise, but she way of glancing frou them that seemed to tell that she might have bad ideas of her re they wore | crushed out by th who had never been In thearmy. descent, and ot | @ tery Ge ¢ temperament, he united to marty hereditary vices others for whose «is. tnetive originality he might have taken ont @ patient Life with him could not have been pleasant under any circumstances. The two dwellings stooi within a few roils cf exch other, but a long detour was neces sary to pass between them, for, dividing th wooted knoll on whieh Col. Antoine nad reared his ® structure from the broad aeres of cornfi ly overtopped by Squire May’s stockade of logs and mud, ran & deep ravine, the bed ofa fierce little stream called the Wild Cat Another gulf ited them, for though | their position as ors in new Kansas of fered many points of resemblance in the trials and hardships which both met ao bravely, yet tne heads of the families when they met, as they did on their way to and from Conflict, never recognized each other. Mrs. Antoine would have explained this in her meilow accents, “’Tain't to be helped, I B’pore, sence you uns are from the Nawth and we uns from the Saouth.” ‘The very houses with their surroundincs spoke the difference between them. Squire May's farm had been as thickly wounded as the colonel’s estate, but with his own right arm be bad chopped down the trees, built his home of two rooms and a loft above them, and pried upthe stumps, plowed and sown his cornfield. After three yearvef labor as a farmer he was beginning to reap results. The deserted law books stood upoa rough shelves against the log wall of the “front room”; & good library of miscellaneous literature kept them company. Above the books bung the squire’s carbine, only used against the prairie chickens, for he was a man ofpeace <A rag carpet of Mra. May's workmanship covered the floor. Every- thing bore marks of thrift and tndustry. Col. Antoine had preempted bisclal n the Fear previous to the coming of the Mays. The Wild Cat jotned the Missourt river near site which he had chosen for his resi- dence, and the reason of his cholce of this particular spot had been the presence at its | Mouth of a sunken steamboat, its upp-r cabin jastemerging from the muddy water. A band of the colone!’s companions, symp: thizing In the noble cause which had led him to ieave bis plantation in Missouri, that of helping to drive all “free state” men from Kansas, had come over to establish bim in bis new home. They broughta gangof ne- groes with them, and had @ “raising,” in which @ great deal of whisxy was consumed, and the cabin of the sunken s'eamer was Taised and dragged to the top of the knoll. Its side faced the road. presenting the pee. Har spectacle of a house with 20 front doors. After this lt needed nota great deal of wors on the colonel’s part to render it habitable, and it was not long be‘ore he removed to it his family and chat'els. Tbe former con- sisted of his gentle litt'e wife and four boys, and the latter of one mule. ene cow, and one “niggah,” faithful Aunt Vollyanthus. Tae colonel made no attempt to improve the place, but proceeded dally to Conilict, mounted on his male, and armed fn the most ferocious manner, his business betpg politics and gambling. And yet, in spite of this chasm between them, human nature asserted its claim, and the “women folks” of these two homes be- came earnest friends. Though M approved of the shiftiessne-s ¢ a toine’s housekeeping, of the dirty ruffled Pillow cases, of the painted plaster paris Parrot on the clock-shelf, of the number of colonel’s empty whisky bottles and old boots that strewed the ground opposite the front entrance, and of the calmoess with which Mrs. Antoine regarded the confusion of her kitchen aud the rags: her sons’ clothing. while sti we ed endless bands of very dirty but very flueembroitery, Potaee lowed the Littie woman with ail her heart, and had done soever since the night that the locked the dri Of the staterooms. and battled cd. wi {dawn afifth little Antoine lay moth na. Don't talk to me, would say to ber husband. “Ove hay ¢ sok at those boys fo kuow there 1s pluck in the ir mother.” And if Gus Antoins, the st. Was @ sampie of what (he rest would ber words bud their weight Tasy walking brave n early . Carrying bisdinnerina little et, Whose buttons were all rr. that noone of then hvla tate, fastened tightly to the throat, where it Was met by a torned paper collar and flashy ta pecktie. Squire Ma: Once, when he had called 02 some er- rand, he stoed for @ lo’ gtime puzzled and cur-ous before a box of ge0loz cal specimens whieh the ire bad collected. “What are them things?” heasked. ‘Fossil leaves,” re- lied Squire May: i myselfa vaca- Job every summer, a go more questions before he left, which showed bim bright and observing. A ht after “Dye all | Ue, in which there still remained a few | Ucket was Col , just bidding her good-by, and remained now to rend | Seized bim by the shoulder, and arrested him shout them things.” he sold. The sale of book» was not brisk at Confli-t, and daring Bi tele aw of irace Gas had plenty of ime t read. S1i!] the -quire was surprise! to fi d that Uw boy had gone through 4 volame © & itehcock aud one of Hugh Miller, mak- ing bimeelfas intelligent a master of their 0; tents as it was possible to be without the at? of specimens. “I recited what I read Ga) -t mes every night to mother,” he con- ed,*and if father would only lend me that’s the mule, I'd like to go ith yer.” ” said ol! «1'll take you with me in my buggy the squire, “If you can obtain iave of ab- | sence from the store.” Through their three years of neighborhood the friendship between the two grew and gizing Stre: gthened, till at the time at which our Stor; finds them the squire remarked to his Wilt that be didn’t believe he could think more o! Gus Antoine ifhe were hisown son, and he intended s¢ on lo commence reading law with him. There was one other who looked fo 3 to the boy's visits with pleasure, the ire’s only child, litle Hope. Sne had e strawberrying and bazel putting with him before he bad won her father’s favor. All the An oine boys had strongly marked Fyench features, with startled b'ack eyes and houtr to mateh, forming & strong contra-t to Hope's blond beauty. Mrs. May bad been | horrified on thetr first arrival to tlud her little virl seated beside # stump.on which her toy dishes were displaved, entertaining a troop of ragged ys. The entertainment con- tisted of a doughnut biokea in minute bits, and, most astounding sight fora New Eng- land mother, the yeuthiul Antoines had brought as their contribution to the feast a cup half filled with New Crleans molasses, Some scraps of dried orange peel, ard a bot spoonfuls of whisky, with which ingredients and a little water Gas was compounding a drirk and filling the tiny pewter cups with ail the expertness of a California bartender. While Gus was away “Jollygizing” with her father, Hope went every day to recite French lessons to Mrs. Antoine, and to learn | to make the marvelous embroidery, whose rr at eyelets were filled in with cobwebs Like wheels in lace stitches of pointe d’A'encon. So the summer passed, but with the fall came the elections. Squire May returned from his brief vacation to learn with surprise that the “free state” party hat nominated him as their candidate for the district judgeship, and that his opponent on the democratic | Antoine. The election was closely coutested, but ended in the usual way, Col. Antoine’s friends coming over from Missouri, voting for him, and reuder- ing the democrats triumphant. Squirs May was heard to. protest loudly against the {lle- gality of this proceeding, and as he drove to- ward home it was observed that bis usaal calm temper was much disturbed | The day following election was an_event- ful one to Mrs. Antoine and Hope as they sat | on a bench under the broad-leaved catal in frent of the Anioine mansion. A g¢ tesque shadow was thrown upon the path and Hope grasped Mrs, Antoine's arm in alarm, woudering what strange animal It was only a peidier, aut both she and Mrs. Antoine were s: deep ir the contents of the pack, which consists several cases of cheap jewelry,a few pieces of flimsy dress goods, and some coarse Ham burg embroideries. "Mra. Antoine looked over these interestedly, but with a smile on ber lips. “I can embroider better than that myself, and so can this little girl.” “Let me see what you do,” said the ped- dler, and Hope dispiayed a long strip mingled embroidery and lace work, the pat- tern in each eyelet being one of Gus An- toine’s design—an anchor—it meant hope, he said. “I give you fifty cents for dat,” said the stranger. “O! will you?” exelaimed Hope delighted, while Mrs. Antoine rose, hasteued into the house, and returned with the entire collec- tion, which she had worked since she had left the convent. Tne peddler was an evil- Jooking man, and Hope was afraid to be left alone with him, bat Col. Antoine sauntered in at the gate as his wife entered the house. For a wonder, he was sober, and Hope felt her courage revive. He —— the peddler groffily, and began te scold Mrs. Antoine when she returned, though his 1ll-humor vanished when he saw that she was sellia not buying 5 sel a num ber of \s, and paid for them from a cha- mois-skin purse filled with gold pieces, which he took from his bosom. The colonel’s ep e glittered as it fell upon it, and bis man- ner changed perceptibly. “Are you going on to Conflict?” he assed as the peddler returned the emptied gourt, whieh Mra mtoine had offered him filled with le! nd 8100} to take up bis pack. “Yes? Well, soam I, and I'll walk along with you. You look fired; Just sling your pack “across Sarsaparilla. I don't miud a tramp with a pleasant companion.” Mrs. Antoine looked frighiened. Such con- descension on the part of the colonel was, lo Say the Jesst, unusual and portentous, ‘Fue next day the little Sabbath school of which Sqvire May had been the originator, and which beld its meetings In the log schoo!- bonse two miles away, met at his bouse for acelebration. Itwas ‘a pleasant sight, the eh! idren about a table cloth spi 1 upon the grass. on wuich the food was laid in plenic fashion. As soon ‘as the children w belped the squire aisappeared, and while Wat gone a report of a pistol was heard. returned in We course of an honr to say that @ swing was ready, and Gus mained for some time longer to-s Odes in the alr. O» bis way home, as hia foot touched the ise whch be had built across Will Cat for the convenience of the tv families, Gus’s eye was caught by an ob; in the ravine below. It was his father, ly ing halt io helf out of the water, with his face covered with blood. Quick as thought he swung himself down to his side. There was a deep, round, terrible hole in his fore- head, from which the blood had flowed that formed this bideoui ik, and he was quite tl g the Little dead. The boy tried to lift him out of the water, but finding that impossible, he washed a jood from the y every trace of bi face—no else should ree his father look like that—and then he went on toward homes for help. The Missourians had nearly ail fone, but Big Bill, a cousin of Mrs. Antoine's, ad remained after the election, and was ler @xgistance. The funeral followed soon after. As Squire May was on his way to attend it a sheriiT forthe murder. Frightened Hope ran with the news to her mother, and even beneath this crushing blow the heroic woman did not fine. It was her arm that supported the hysterical mother as they stood together at the brink of the terrible grave, and it was Gus Antoine who comforted sobbing Hope, Saying that be knew her father bal not killed his, and it would so be proven. When M Antoine heard of it she was no less positiy as to the squire’s innocence, and her tears fell like rain overher black bombazine dress which sue was making over for Hope to wear at the trial. How stiflingly hot the court-room was, packed to its uimost with an intensely cited audience, ard still they eame alon, after Hope was certain that there was not | room for another one. She had never seen so many people before, and looking around upon them from her seat in the upper pari of the room, taw ouly a sea of heads. Sae was conscious of but one individual face, thal of her father, pale, but calm, in front of the swaying mass. By and by the lawyers com. mereed talking. She felt faint; it all buzzad and hummed through her head; she could not have told a word that they were saying. After what scemed to hera long while the witnesses for the prosecution were called, and Big Bill took staud. He related the quarrel between the colonel and Squire May at the polls, enlarging upon it and running on In &@ way that showed him entirely too willing @ witwess. Then the widow Autoine was sworn. She trembled violently, and nothing could be got from her except by questions. «What time was it when your husband left the house?” “Twelve o'clock,” came in a frightened Ce bebind the black vail. «How do you know it was 12 o'clock?” «Because dinner had just beea placed upon the table.” “Do you always have dinner at exactly ‘No, but as he left the door I heard the whistie ai tling’s Saw-mi'll.”* «Why did he leave the hous» just as dinner was ready?” ««He was angry because the boys were not at home, and said he would go dow. to tue bridge and call them.”” “That is sufficient,” and the attorney next called ‘Master Gus Antoiue.” Gas came forward reluctantly, with an sppeu! giance toward Hope, as though he were as' ing ber forgiveness beforehand for what he ‘was about Lo say; then he looked in the sam= way toward Squire May, who answer=i his glance by an encouraging nod of tie head “Did you attend the picnie at the house of the prisoner?” Gus swallowed hard, Fags his jacket down strougly, and replied. ‘Yes, sir.” Was the prisoper with you throughout the whole day? ‘No, sir.” ‘At what time did he leave you?” At o'clock.” How do you know it was 12 o'clocx?” Hin whistle tee Sam Gatling’ ee hear an; ing else remarkable soon after U this and the return of the prisoner? The boy’s face flamed scarlet and whit? in and he been streaks patches, as had truck with a whip of thougs, - twered brave! yes, sir, vey sia “How do you know that it was not a shot Because i koe the poise that old shooter prs 7 = Haticeet y Das leatit tome often to “You may sit down.” the | Ti Gus pald no attention to the orter. bu leaving forwarl eagerly atiress-d the Judge and the jury: “May it please your honor, av said—Squire Ms «miled «He gets that from me,” he said to himself, tor they hat talked of law ant legal terms on their geo legical trip. “Whata fine lawyer he w make "be thought —‘and you, gentlen of the jury,” Gus wen! on, “I would like make a few further remarks.” “Iftbey bave thing todo with facts bearing upon the ease,” said the jugs, wile arsmile ai the boy's attempt at foreusic elo quence, “you m: Seg “My mother and I, sir, do not believe that Squire May sho’ my father. We think tha the murderer was a stranger from whom father bad won a consicerabie sui of moaey the night before” “The court has nothing to do,” said the judge, “with wha: you or your mother may think or believs ‘he question is, can you prove anything replied Gas “I went down to the Union saloon and found that Tather had Won the movey from » peddler, that the man wh. lost ir was de=p: race, but he hud lef. the town, ard no ove knew where be hal gone, or What was his name.” “Mny it please your honor,” said the Prosecutir g attorney. “all this keems to me ulterly irrelevant and @ useless consumption of pr cious time.” 5 “Have yeu anything further to state?” tked the judge, kindly. No. sir.) 8a ; bursting Into tears, “but if t! 1s trial could be put off, though I've n+ver+een the men. I'd track him like @ bloo. nd, if I: ad to follow him to Cali- fornia” And the poor bey sat down, cover- inv his tece ip an agony of grief. The discovery was nearer than he thougn!, for @ 1 esRenger pressed through the crowde ! room, onched Gus upon the shoulder, ani whispered that he was wanted. Uuterly be Wildered, he rore and followed bim toa low boarding house tn a cisreputable part of the town. There. upon @ wretched bed, aman lay dying. In a drunken condition he had failen from @ bigh bridge, d his skall was broken in several places. Father Marphy, the Catholic priest. bad heard his confesaio) and was now committing it to writing. He did not look up or speak as Gus eptered, but went steadily on with his work. ¥ pack Iny open upon @ chair, and Gas An- line's Bharp eyes detected an object which made bim start forward and seize it. It was the strip of embroidery which Hope had made. He had found the man he sought. Father Murpby, who bad signed and cer- tified the paper, handed it at thin instant to Gus. I's’ puryort ruined on plas by Col. Antoine, he had waited for and shot himin Wid Cat Hol- low. His money, which bad been taken from the murdered nan, he now ‘eft to the eburch and be prayid for the forgiveness of chose whom he bad rej. Gus turned to grant it, but the hand that had committed the crim u vi upon Lis lips the soul had gon Gas tarned (0 Father Murphy. court-bouse,” he sail. le pow.” And with the confession Ip one hand and the lace-work in the other, he dasbed out of the house. Mean hile, at the court-room, the lawyer for the prosecution had summed up his case, #nd now the counsel for tue defendant, after Making a few remarks, in which he drew at- tion to Gus Antoine's statement as perhaps not so foreign to the case after all, added that be thought it sufficiently strong without it. hey Would soon see that Squire May could nolbave committd the murder, for he was about to prove an alibi, and would base it entirely upon the testimony of one witness, and to saying, he led Hope to the stand. Sie had known that she would be called upon to testify, but now her courage left her, aud she felt #8 ifshe must fly through an open door a: d@ escape fiom them all. Buta glance from her father, and the thought that she might save bim. restrained ber. The little figure looked very piteous with its white face, black dress and flowing flaxen hair. A ready there was heard @ murmur of sym. pathy in the room, beginning with the wo- men. But the prosecuting attorney was equal to the occasion. “*] protest, your honor,” he said, “against the testimony of such @ mere child being ad- mitted in court. 1 am willing to assert that she does not know the nature of an oath, and it is @ well-kLown fact that she bas visited ber father in prison, and been instructed by im as to what to say.” “The court grants you permission to ask ber any questions you choose,” said the judge. j Hope held her back ofa chair tightly as the lawyer turned upon her. “Do you know the nature of an oath?” he asked Hlorcely. “Oh, yes, sir?’ replied Hope. “It's swear- ing, abd I've heard Col. Antoine swear lots of times. A suldued titter, which Hope did not hear, greeted the words, while the prosecut- ing allorney turned with a gesture of # sumed despair. ‘Your honor sees he began, then suddenly turning to Hope. quesilon were: what did your futher b yeu tosay here There was a murmur of tndignation In the Louse of: Why do they ‘et him sass hers and the like. Bui Hope replied firmly: © He told me, Whatever luey asKed me, to tell tue truth.” “Yes, I understand he told you to say that d told you that. What else.” “Nothing—oh, yes! he told me not to be afraid ifthe lawyers were very impudent and tried to pul me out, but just (0 tell the t tle whole truth, ard nothing but the and God would belp me.” “I think, your Honor.” said the lawyer for the desence triumphantly, “tbat there ta nu lenger ary question as to the eligibility of the witness, and that she may be bow per mitted to give her testimony.” The judge bowed gravely, and the prosecu- ting attorney took his seat. And now, my littie girl,” said the other lawyer kindiy, ‘will you state briefly, but as clearly as you can, the events of the day from the time the I2 o'clock whistle sounded unti} Gus Antoine left you?” “We were all eating when the 12 o’clock whieue sounded,” said Hope timidly. ‘Fa- ther beckoned to me, and we left the others there and went around to the old cottonwood tree on the other side of the house. He hai meant to fix a swing for the children, but he bad been 80 busy about ’lection that he oould Ot doit before, and he wanted me to help bim. We finished it while they were eating, and then called nem out and surprised them all. I heard the no's» the pistol made. Fa- ther was up in the tree. He said, ‘There, some of those boys are firing at a mark. I Must puta stop totbat. It’s dangerous.’” This was all of Hope's testimony, but the most rigid cross-examination did not ira- each it. No other witness was called. Tue udge’s address to the jury was brief. As they retired for consultation, Gas Antoine elbowed bis way through the surging crowd, brandishing the coctession tn his hand. H+ to hae stiffened upon & crucifix, and wi b word pec Th made bis way to the judge and banded it to | him. He glaheed it over, then ros¢ and read italoud. A cheer rang through the room, but tne judge, with lifted hard, commanded silence. “Ibis paper,” said he, “comes to» late 'o be used. The jury have retired, and We must await their verdict. If not in ac- cordance with the present disclosure, the prisoner can petition for a new trial.? Their abser.ce was brief, and upon their re- torn a breathless silence reigned in the room; and the words, “Not guilty,” were heard in the remotest part of the house. The cheering war now something overwhelming and not to be repressed. Nobody heard the judge's adjournment; though ail acted upon it. Squire May had been acquitted snes upon the evidence of his little daughter; but Gus Antoine’s confirmation of the verlict had & tremendous effect. And while one en- jastic youth was passing around his hat, “to buy that leetle girl @ present—an [ojad pony oF somethin’, all the women and girls in the room formed in file, and, marcaing around Gus, kissed him heartily, much to bis disgust. Mrs. Antoine remained only to kiss Hope under the folds of her crape vail. few weeks later the widow Antoine and her family left for the South. Before they Dan Gus found opporiunity to see Hope alone. “I shall come back again for you, when I amaman,” hesaid. “I have brought you that piece of embroidery, but I want you to give me a little piece of it; I will keep it al- ways.” “And did you never hear of him again?” I | asked of Mrs. Kutherford. “Yes. The family went to Virginia. Toe state bad been Mrs. Antolue’s home. Gus jJoived the confederate army, under Stove wall Jackson; aud saortly after the close of the war I received a letter from his mother sayiby that he bad been Killed at the battle of Aplictam. I had been married for sev- eral years then, but I believe I cried heartily when Lread it.’ I wore the embroidery with the Alencon 8 at my wedding. “As we turi.ed to come down the alsle, afer the care- mony, the sea Of heads reminded Beene in the courtroom long ago; seemed to see my firstlove hurryin triumphant, the confession that completea the vindication of my f'her in bis baud.” ing the progress of the Liveria moveu-nt last Saturday, one of the workme.s ia the cause go: aa old darkey, who did not take kindly to begal the movemest, off to one side, and u Sencribtoe the grea: beneilts the riagro would. en, emigrating, aad mong other things bim that there the negro dt. not have to work; nature hai provided thing for his comfori, there the milk ud bread and sugar trees cav- forests, and bananas, cocoa: and ered the d you, gentlemen of trs jury,” he | ‘A peddler’s | was, that having been | MILITARY RECORD The Army Expenses of the Great American Juker—His Latest Etfa- sion. [Speech at the Pit 1 w it Buazet| at | aidn't baw set tails for a gre at the hots parlors a fan guest. No. | embl~t at quarters of the Patnata Phala ix and tsisted upon iny r this place as ove of military guests. [App'au-eand laughter.) For I too,am a soldier. Tam inured to war. Ihave @ mili- | tary history. I have been throngn a stirring campaign, and there fs not even a mention Of itin any history of the Ualtel States or of the Sonthern Coniederacy. (Laughter.] To such lengths can the enyr and the malig- nity of the historian go. I will anbssom my*relf here, where I cannot but flad sym- paiby. 1 will tell you about it, and appeal ihrough you to justice. In the earliest sum- mer Gaye of the war I stepped oat of Hannt- bal, Mo, hy night [laughter] with» friend, ard joinel a detachment of the rebel Gen- era) Tom Harris's army (1 find myself iu a gteat mipority here) Up a gorge behind #n old baron in Rall’s county, Colonel Rall swore us in. He made us swear to uphold the flag and Constitution of the United Rtates, and to destroy any other military organization that we caught— doing tbe same thing. (Great laughter.) In other words, we were to repel invasion. Well, you see, this mixed us. 2 could not Teally tell which side we were on; bat we Went into camp end left it to the Gx of bat- tles—which was the custom in that day. I | Was made second lientenawt and chief n ul of a company of eleven men, whoal t vow anything about war—or anytaing. | Wehad no captain. My friend, who was pireteen years old, six feet bigh, three feet wice and some d nee through, and jast ont of the infant school, was made orderly sergeani. His name was Ben Tupper, and | he bad a bard time. When be was mouated | anc on the mareh, he used to go to sleep and | bis horse would reach wround and bite his Jeg. and then he would ery and curse and walttogo home. The other men pestered him a good deal, too. When they were dis. | mounted they said they couldn’t march in double file with him, beeause his feet took | up £0 much room. Cne night, when we were | arcund the camp fire,a fellow on the outside of the circle, in the cold, said: “Ben Tap; | Bet down that newspaper; it casts a shado' | likea blanket” Ben said,**I ain't got an: | newspaper.” Then that other fellow said, | ©Ob, I see, it’s your ear!” (Laughter.) We ali slept ina corn crib on the corn, and the rats were very thick. Ben Tupper had been carefully and rigidly reared,and when be was ready for bed he would start to pray, and a | Tat would bite bim on the heel, and then he would sit up and swearall night (laughter) | and keep everybody awake. He was town bred, and did hot seem to bave any correct idea of military discipline. If I commanded him to shut up he Would say, «Who was your pigger last year?” One evening I or- der d him to ride out on picket duty about | three miles to the beginning of a prairie. Said he. «What, in the night! ana them blamed Union soldiers likely to be prowling around there any Ume.”’ So he would not go. Next morning 1 ordered him again. Said be, “In the rainy” Ie didn’t go agatn. Next day J ordered him pond ery duty once | more. This time he look burt. Said he, “What! on Sunday? You must be adurned fool.” Picketing was impracticable, so I dropped it from my military system. We had a good enough time there at that barn, barring the rain and the rats and the mos- quitoes and things. We lived on both par- lies imjartialiy, and both parties, hated us impartially. Batove day we heard that the invader was approachin 80 We had to pack upapd move. Inside of twenty-four hours the invader was coming again; 80 we moved again. And next day he was after us once more. We didn’t like it much, but we moved (laughter) rather than ‘to make trouble. This went on for a week or ten days, and we saw considerable scenery. Then Ben Tupper .0st patience. He says, «War is not what it’s cracked up to be. I’m going home if I can’t ever get a chance to sit down @ minute. Why do these people keep us a humping around so? Blame their skins, | do they think this is an excursion?” Some of the other town boys began to grumble. They complained that there was an insuffi- | ciency of umbrellas, and then they com- Pp:ained that the Worcestershire sauce was | out. There was @ mutiny and dissatisfaction all around, and, of course, here came the | eneroy pestering Us again, two hours—more | than ‘two hours—betore breakfast, and no- | body wanted lo turn out at thathour. This | was a little toomuch. The whole command felt ipsulted. I detached one of my aids, and sent him to the brigadier, and asked him to | assign us to a district where there wasn't #0 h bother going on. The bistory of our any was Jaid before him, but, instea | ig touched by it, what did he do? He back an indignatt message. Ha sai, “You have bad a dozen chances Insideof two weeks io capture the enemy, and he is still at large. (1 Knew that.) Stay where you are | Har time or 1 will court martial wud hang | lie whole of you” I submitted this brutal | message lo iny battalion, and asked their aiviee, Said the orderly sergeant, “If Tom Harris wanis the enemy let nim ome here | acd get bim. I haven't got any use for | share. Who's my Tom Harris, any w that’s putting on so many’ frills? Wiy, knew him when be wasi’t any- ting bul @ durned telegrapu operator. Genilemen, yeu can do as you choose. As | I've got enough of this sashaying | *0 a8 you can’t get achanee to pray, ause the Lime is all ulred for cussin’. So off goes my war paint. You hear me.” The whole regiment said: “Toat’s the talic torus.” So then and thereon the spot m: brigade disbanded itself and tram; o home, with me at the tail end of it. 'e were the first men who went into the service in Missouri, and we were the first who went out of itanywhere. (Great laughter.) This, | gentlemen, is the history of the part which my divirion took in the great Rebellion, and such is the military reccrd of its commander- | in-chief And this is the first time that the deeds of those eleven warriors have been brought officially to the notice of humanity. Treasure these things in your hearts, aud $0 shall the detected and truculent historians of this Jand be brought to shameand confusion. ask you tofill your glasses and drink with me to the revered memory of the orderly sergeant and those other neglected and for- gotten heroes, my foot sore and travel- stained paladins, who were first in war, first | in L grseyp and were not idle during the inter- val that lay betw Clara Louise Kellogg o of the Future” | “Yes,” sald Miss Kellogg, “I am an en- | thusiast on Waguer. I think he has dene the worid a world of good by his theories. He is | revolut onizing the Italian school. Look at | Gounod and Verdi. See the latter's ‘Aida’ | for instance, a very lovely work, and ob- serve how the Waxueriau idea pervades and saturals it. How absurd it seems to say | atier the meledious old Italian ‘I 10-0-0-0-ve | thee?” (The prima donna illustrates with @ serses Of roulades, which heavily over- Jouded the one poor = worl that had to bear the burden,and in the delivery of | which she nearly lost her equilibrium and | was in immediate danger from the flery grate.) ‘“‘How much better Wagner docs that, he says «I love thee’ inaplain, straight- forward way, aud has done with it. 1s theory is stimp!y that the music should cor- Leek a d with the sentiment.” ‘* Bot is not a great deal of this talk about Wagner mere affectation?” « Some of it may be.” “ Will the public endure to have its lyric music deprived of all its melody and rhythm?” asked the reporter, playing the catechist and turning the prima donne for the momect into a calechumen. They will siand @ great deal of it But people when they listen to music like to be receptive and don’t care to make an eflort. Besides this, will not the music of the future require more skilled musicians than can easily be together uader ordi- nary circumstances “*Aica’ is not espectally difficult. The ‘Flying Dutchman’ is.” «Perhaps it may be urged that when peo- ple cease to care for simple rhyme and meas- ure in poetry, when they real epics to the exclusion of more melodious forms of verse, then the epic muse will take the place of the melodious lyric music, aud —” “Do not understand me to say,” in- | terrupted Miss Ketlogg, “that I believe th | Waguerian music intends to do all you sug- gest. But the general assertion that the mu- sical form should in @ measure correspond with the sentiment, no one can successfully controvert. Muincr points of dispute will tiled between the composer and n Francisco Chronicle, POIKILOGRAPHY, that ts, the art of photo- graphing in natural colora—is now not only discovered, but profitably practiced ta Loa- don. Tne Loudon Siandard says: “Tne pro cess in question 1s one by which paintings, ancient or modern, can be reproduest in fac simile and with all the softness and blending of colors that made them areca | to ths eye of the general observer (( igh perhaps not to the connoisseur) a8 would be te orig- inal paintings themselves. Tne copy is es- sevtially faithful in the minutest details from the simple fact of its belag a photo graph which by a@ mechanical contrivance can be enlarged to any given dimension. Being thus acquired, it subsequently uader- g0es the poikilograph process, by which it is made to resemble—and is, in fact—an oll- painting that would not diseredit the walls of those lovers of art whoss means will not quable them to tudaige in the origiaals them- | 8trength, and the other, th: Ona far shore my ben But | coald sem fami ct the round wo Of Ged 's traths burnin ¥ native cons ms “t fant shall greet; Modera Atheism In former times, when atveiam wai vague and stammering, incomplece and usergan izet,1t Wasco: demned, and suppress>) with horror, anger ana indigaation. Its ap sties Were eXecraled 4s Wousiers doomad to eter. bal lorments. Tbe world cast them out, and the church burned them. But now that athe~ ism is complet and organized, without con: cealment and withont shame, its name is noteven aierm of mili reproach. Oa the fontrary. its most notorious professors are honor. d looked up to by the world in general, and are li-tened to with @ respectful | patievce by even their professed oppouents. ans avowrd frierd-hip for men @ompared With whom Voltaire is or.hodox. and eardi- pals with suck mea gravely discuss beliefs which Voltaire would have thought it hor- rible to have questioned. The reason of tis is obvious. Atheism has come forward under changed conditions. It 1s based upon new foundations; it is animated with anew temper. For the first ume it rests itself not on the private specalations of a rebellious intellect; not on the ravings of a vile Paris- jan populace drunk with ‘he wine of polities and suffering from political del'riam tre- mens, buton the deep and broad founda- lions of research, experiment and proof. It has thus lost all that tnsoleuce of private passion and of privat-juigment which used to make it as offensive to m practical in- slincts as it was hostile to their theoretical convictions. Our modera athirists in profes sion. and to a great measure in fact, are € 1 tirely free of the old personal bravado; they claim to teach with authority, because they have been content to learn with pumiiity. For they, too, have their cuurch, their infal- lible teacher, to whom they profess an im plicit and devout obedience And this teach er is undoubtedly an august one. [tis nove other than nature herseif, as our powerful science compels her a:swers from her—na- ture, in the widest s ivg the history of the universe and the his: tory of the human rac», and the laws in ode- dienee to which this history has developed itself. Here, we are told, is our one source of knowledge; here we learn the trath, and the | whole truth. Nature bears witness about every conceivable subject; there ts no ra- tional question which, if we do but ask it properly, she will not answer. She will re- quire no faith from us; she will ask us to take nothing on trust. Kverything that be teaches us she will prove and verity, aad there 18 Po variableness in her, nor any shadow of turning. -‘Come tbeu”—this is the appeal that our modern atheists make to | us—“and let us learn of nature; let us liste a to the voice of truth!" And what does trath tell us?) Among many things trath tells us two, which are of prime importance, and which are universally intelligible to the hu- man race. There is no God, and there is no. future life. The notion of the first is un. necessary, and that of the second is ridica- lous. In the name of truth then, let us cast these lies away from us, bowever iofally for the noment we may feei their loss, how- ever closeiy they may be bound up for us with memories of the past. But we are not left with this exhortation only. Something more is added to sustain and stimulate us. These lies, we are told, if we will but loo them boldly in the fuce, Instead of blink! at them out of deference to their sup; divinity, we shall see lo be not lies only, but profoundly immoral lies. It is, there’ore, in the name not of telfisn indu!gence, not of license and free-living, but of sacred truth and all the severest pri — that we are | invited to accept the c of atheism and to cast out religion. Thus the atheism of to day, though theoretically destructive, is practically conservative. It no longer as- sails society #6 it is, or any of those rules that sustain it, or the chastened affections that are supposed to make it worth sustain- ing. It is associated no longer with any dis- solute wit, wiuh any cruel d brilliant eyn- icism, or With the fascinations of lawless love. On the contrary, it is oa the whole somewhat dull, and, to say the least of It, it is eminently respectable. It is the atheism of the vigil, not of the orgy; and its character when developed 1s solemn, almost puritani- cal. Study we language, the conduct, even Ube faces of its most eminent exponents, and signs will be apparent every where of gravi- ty and severe earnestness. we see in @ glance, who hold life a serious thing —a thing not to be trifled away in idle- ness, however harmless, or io lic -ntlous self- indulgence, however refined or graceful. What is really of valuegn life, what men should really ‘strive for, are things to be reached only by self-denial and labor and a Vigilant rigor in the gaid ance and control of our passions. better part, but who saunter, wi Who sinile, who sne c demued by the atheists ev e grimly than by the believers.—[The Nineteenh Cen tury. The Turkish Spirit. It would be a mistake to imagine thatthe Turks are much elated by any cesses ihey have gained hitherto, on tue contrary, they have just become fally aware that the expedition to take the Snipa Pass was a great failure, paid for with a heavy sacride + of men, and even more costly loss of tim but this conviction seems to have ouly broughthome to them the real nature of their position, and, far from discouraging them, it hasstrengthened their resolution to persevere and fight out the fight. They now regard as the object of the strug- gle their thorough emancipation from Euro- pean tutelage, which has been hampering them at every step during the twenty years Ubat have intervened since the Crimean ton for which alone they had submit to the tutelage. The Sultan, poets deeply regretti “a sufferings of his ple and the ruin of his Provinces, has n entirely gained over, it seems, to this view, and is getting more and more eman- cipated from the in: hitherto the ruling ones. How tar this reso- lution of the Turks will stand the test of any reverses cannot at present, of course, be pre dicated with certainty, bat it exists just now stronger than ever before. Fresh masses of Mohammedans are pour- ing in daily from Asia, and are sent ou to the seat of war to fill up the gaps made by battle. They leave their homes without & complaint, and submit without murmuring to the many privations which they have to undergo from the moment oftheir departure, _ aud the supply does not seem exhausted. The spirit which now reigns ia Constanti- | bople may be recognized from a remark which has become a sort of truism, from its being covstantly re ted in conversation with Europeans: “There are two tings which we have learnt. One is our owo we cannot rely on aby one but ourselves.” The negotiations which preceded the war might have been at- tended with greater success than they were had the Turkish side of the question been taken into consideration as well as the Ras- sian one. The lesson of the past ought to ba | remembered in any attempts at negotiations in the future, if they are not to end again in failure—[London Times's Vienna Correspon- dence, September 10. PAIN THE PENALTY FOR SUPERIORITY The ideal periect life that mea imagine is always one in whi in forms no part; et curiously, in ail the life we know, pain is ever the penalty paid for superiority. The higher the organism in the scale of be- in greater its ity for pain; this is ine universal rule. “Mutlistion-suol es en ine: bears without apparent inconven- rs lence, will killa reptile. fish or a@ reptile disregards injuries that would be quickiy fatal lo a mammal through nervous shock. A savage laughs at wounds that would rack the nervous system ofa civilized man with acutest ey, on in every ‘i a capacity for pain e measure of develop- ment. i iroianca being attended by an ever-increasing complexity and delicacy of nervous organization, itis inevitable that increasing liability to nervous derangement moust Mara evcry Upward movement in the seale of being. Wil the price ofelevation ever rise so high as to put an end to progress in this direction? would certainly seem to be lity of such @ resuli, when we consider the fate of those most ad- mirable persons wLo are, as we say, too fSnely = for this rade world. The acuteness and delicacy of their sensibilities make them at once the t moral and intellectual types of humanity, and rsi- cally the most unfortunate. Andi they rare- ly or never leave behind them @ vigorous family [Scientific American. nse of the word, inclad- | Those who pay no need to the | uences which have been | MES. J.P. 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