Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1886, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. CG, SATURDAY prs = FEBRUARY 13,-1886-DOUBLE SHEET. Written for Tae Evaxnre Stax. A THOUSAND POUNDS. BY PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON. [Copyrighted 1886.] (Conetucted.) And how fared the day with Rose! Well, she ried herself into a desperately bad headache, for which she drank copiously of strong tea, Very early in the evening she undressed and went to bed, and being unkappy and wakeful, took a novel to read herself sleepy. That was the woman's way of getting sleep, as Reginald’ bad been the man’s. She will never forget that evening. Forever the novel she read then will be associated with her trouble. Roses stood on her dressing table. She will “never again be fiends with roses!” ‘The feet of the passers-by, as from her bed she could hear them, seemed to be treading into her brain. At length the book grew indistinct to her sight, she biew out the candle, and slept. ‘The next morning Reginald awoke weary; his hhead throbbed, and his tongue clove to the roof ef bis mouth. He took a bath and put on fresh elothes, His work awaited bim and he began ‘upon it. So he made up his mind to face the life which lay before him. The next day he commenced painting his first large oil-picture. ‘The weeks went by, and brought one specially bot July day—one of those real sweltering days ‘on which London fs absolutely unbearable, one of those days inwhich the sun seems to have burnt up the very sources of the winds, a day to make all the London odors painfully mani- fest. Reginald Longhurst was working away in his shirt sleeves, a pipe in his mouth and ajug et beer by his side, thinking that ifany money ‘were his he would fly from London, and some- where within sight ana sound of the sea, would rest his weary brain and hisyet wearer heart— when the studio bell rang sharply; he opened the door and admitted Edward Fuller. ton and a littlesharp-nosed man, introduced by Fallerton as “My friend, Harry Jones, who loves art and ‘whatever is distinctly precious!” Longhurst did the ‘honors of the studioas well as the hot weather would allow. Mr. Jones asked the price of a small drawing. With not the least expectation of selling it, and hardly knowing what he was saying, Reginald put a price upon it which was far in excess ofits value. He was, therefore, quite thunder-struck by Mr. Harry Jones’ makinz himself the pos- gessor of the picture. “I \ike your touch, Mr. Longhurst,” said that gentleman, “and I like your choice of subject. I ope we may have many more transactions of this kind. I'l look in again some day this week ifI may. Just now I’m rather pressed for time. Good morning, and many thanks.” ‘ing he withdrew himself, and Long- arst deained off his beer, washed’ his. bands, assumed his coat and took the train some tiles out into the country. Getting back late to town he dined well for a man whose dinner was often no more than bread and sheese. Besides tasting good food he had tasted air,and he had heard the nightingales. fortune in one way, at least, seemed tobe ber wheel in his direction. Two or three days aiterwards he had another visit from Mr. Jones, who bought with a most lavish band, talked of a commission for the vt Hatin hacer ter baci iaa nie ene idea, hich was to go to Ttaly, so that autumn, being now rich to the amount of £800, he started for Florence, taking his big with bim. He returned in March, hav- all but completed it; also, he brought with him many smail paintings and drawi ‘whieh found an eager purchaser in the high) weciative Mr. Harry Jones. eil,” said Reginald, when he had display- od his plete to his friend Fullerton, “what say you? are my first critic.” “Really?” Really.” ly. “Well, I like it very much. I book it fora success!” Aeginald’s pale face flushed with pleasure, for Faligrion was Known wo bea Grstrate judge of pictures. “I hope Jones will bid for it,” wenton paki, fooiing at the picture lovingly. “It's something wondertul, the way in which he buys upalildo! But what toe devil, Fullerton, are oe i : so? Because you think he gets . of Walk he certainly does get some amount ‘~Bat that was not the point?” “No” “Well, then, what was it?” and Longhurst flushed almost paintully, as is the wont of sen- sitive people when they fancy they have some- noGur iriend.* rejoined Fullerton, iriend,” rejo! “knows no more about {t than a cat.” “But all the same he buys!” “No, he does not.” “Once again, what do you mean? I didn’t goin for no mysteries repeat, that h “I goin for no mys: t he does not buy the paintings! He is but acting for some one else who is the real purchaser. Is there anything mysterious in that?” Dg yon know who the penven Bt “I do, and though I was enjoined tosecrecy, as frag BY Informant, Ihalf think that you ought Bappliy: “The purchaser en, is no ctier thas The pure! en, 18 no ot Miss Rose Beliward.” “Lmpossibie! answered Reginald. “Miss Bell- ward is not rich.” “Was not!” rejoined Fullerton, “but i. Un- expected fortune left her—or something of that kind—dido't pay much attention, but heard the facts. Really, old boy, she must be very fond of you still.” “Walt a. minute,” said Longhurst, and for many minutes there was silence between them. \d’s face had grown white as death, and his lips quivered. When be spoke his voice sounded bard and strange. He began; “Fullerton, we bave been friends for some time now?” seorety” “and Ihave never yet asked a favor of you, though I have been a very poor man and you avery rich man. Will you give me £1,600? Idont say lend, because don’t believe I should ‘ever be able to pay it back!” “Are you prepared to do something for it?” Yeplied ‘the esthetic. “For cash down, as they way? > “1 would give you my soul!” * fen, butI dog’tat all want your soul—be- tides I'm not suf that you have one! and If fou had, | find one quite enough. But I have pa gre to make—" he litacigarette and on bard at his friend, who cried impul- wely: “Aelceept Before hearing itr” “No, won't do. e may esthet but We mast aiso be businesslike.” — ‘The proposal was then formally declared, and formaily accepted. When Fullerton wok Keave of his friend, be left in bis fou a drat for £1,000, which Longhurst lost no time im converting into Bank of Engiand notes. ‘The stormy March twilight was closing In. ‘Miss Beliward sat alone in the drawing-room, Ustening to the wind as it thundered about the house, and gazing into the fire ith her large, sad-looking eyes. Suddenly, at the sound of a Qrm, impetuous knock at the street door, the eoior rushed into her face, and her heart beat so ViolenUy that it seemed as if you could hear it, No, she bad not been mistaken as to the knock. In'amoment more the door opened, and. tho servant announced, “Mr. Longhurst.” ‘The door closed again, and they stood facing one another, There was sometuing in his loek, = visible in the twilight, at which she and she began timidly for one who Was pot king in courag “You have come to “To pay you !” he hissed between his teeth, goming ciose to her,and tairly striking net Band with the roll of notes he held,in his ex- vultant, triumphant rage. “Reginald |” si Fee agg ly, but he went on, every word coimbug with Gain cos centrated bitterness: one “After aay in ras we parted how dare you to put this humiliation upon me? ‘Did you think Tabould not come to bear of it? Do Joa unk tat in my grave I could have rested with one farthing lea’ unpai in, Dow dared you doit? How dared you give wi tT would rather die than accept from the woman Sho chose to anatter my" Iie, forsooth, because ‘tow impatient words? But pardon me, ame not to talk with you, but to vay you !” And ap to the a into pw bee and fastening her fingers t upon im, he ieft ber without another word. bim for everything. Did Es ve the finishing touches to his picture? Who say? Anyhow bis name was not amo ‘the artists exhibiting atthe academy. But EK ward Fulierton’s was, and he rushed into tame . His picture, which was called “The oft Death,” represented a girl anda man on the pointof parting. The man, evi- dently a rejected lover, was Kneeling, and rais- ing to the girl eyes tull'of passionate pleading, while she if turned her face away, us if to eonceal the look of weariness upon it.’ Tower- close behind them, unseen by either of them, yet overshadowing them, was the awful ‘of Death, with Sgrim, faterul smite seemed to say: “What matters it? In such a little while, tor you who love and for bet The loves not, it shail ah be as one! You are broken-hearted and s Weary,and you Rot that / am close at hand.” in ee iS Case, sucess in art meant success sioralt'who kuew ber atulinaid that ue jerwon’s cl would Scctecar hime viet cid tree ipguis:! y suid that act duress ieclcesraneg ite doing that noble work! So the esthe- de cirele gushed over Fullerton and his bride, and made quite @ pretty littie romance out of Longhurst took to painting again, and had 3 picture well hung in one of the galleries. “A food pletare enough in itself,” said the critics, © dreadfully under the influence of Ful. lerton! Fullerton's touch—Fullerton’s choice of ‘ullerton’s very method of eolor—in fact, every thing but Fullertoa’s genius!” Finding it vain to compete with bis rival, Reginald devoted himself almost entirely to Bat in the smail, still bours— sul “except for the wandering Cais, an Sitar or the suriek ‘of some woman without paying for itheavily. He corrected the last revises: in bea the hand 1m which he heic the pen burning like live coal, his resolute eyes combating the t; that they de- ipher the text, But at last the work was done, ‘and while for once s burst of applause the first important effort of anew writer, the new writer lay stricken on his in all the horrors of brain fever—from which, however, he awoke one day to life and con- sclousness, features Reginald slowly recognized that hand= tures jowly recogn: some, cousin, Williams “Abby of wo he bad once n 80 insanely jealous. 1 young man explained, as soon as Reginald could hear and understand him, that he had then the distine- tion of being Rose Bellward’s brother-in-law, having married Clara, ‘Clara, you Know, was always very fond of Tiutaal’ lend, now tii zou were "we took & ma jend, how il were room in the house to look after you; that is all.” “I thank from the bottom of my heart,” said the sick man; and then Clara, who had deen out came in, and laughed a good deal and a little, ahd let fall something about ‘Rose being so glad to learn that he was better, and at the mention of that name, Reginald looked ashamed and turned his face awa} It was then pleasant May weather, and ins week's time the invalid was strong enough to be removed to the Ashes’ pleasant house, at garden St tie backs ined wit peat treearwiere a ry pear you could sit and’ dream that you were miles ‘Sway from the largest city inthe world, and where Keginald did sit, feeling not unpleasantly weak, but unpleasantly abashed forsome things in his past life, And there Clara and her hus- band read toh!m the wonderful critiques on his novel, and there he read a whole heap of letters from editers and publishers alike be- Seeching the favor of his pen. Fame was his already, and fortune lay before him. , @ May day, and a warm day, too, he was sitting by bimseli on a garden seat, when some one came out of the house towards him. There was no mistaking the undulating grace of that walk! “Good morning,” she said, in the low voice which had in it a note ot ‘very special and Pleading music. “You are getting stronger Dow every day, are you not? No, don’t try to FisoI am golbg to, sit down beside you. Do you know what day it is?” “No, I lose count of days in this pleasant lan- guor of convalescence.” “It is the 25th of May—my birthday.” sis itindeed, the 25th? Then I wish yon sll happiness—if Y stil may do so?” and his hand reached out and faltered on hers, She did not try to draw her's away, and there was silence between them. His eyes yearned into hers, which filled and shone with quivering tears, “Don’t mind me,” she murmured, “but I cannot help thinking of ola days to-day.” “Rose,” he said, taking her hand now, in both of his, “Rose, is it for ever impossible that ‘we should go back to old days—only with aman deeply ashamed and penitent for things done pas “Dear,” she replied, coming close to him— while bis arm went round ner and folded. ber to his side-—i¢ is better far to be unbappy some- times, and happy sometimes, together, than forever lonely apart!” “But, darling,” he sald, “T am a different man now! i have iearned my lesson—I have seen what iife meant without you, and I will not make you unhappy! I have longed to implore ‘our, forgiveness; but I could not when I eard you were rich! Your wealth angered me, nd you behaved like an angel and I like & ien ‘She was silent, “0, Rose-Rosef” he asked passionately, “do you reaily still love me?” “Yes, my dear,” came her low answer, “I love you very, very dearly!” And then, because ho wis still weak, and his great thankfulness had somewhat sbaken him, he half reclined on the seat, leaning his head’ against her bosom, while Her hands played in his hair—which trouble of mind and illness of body had done much to thin. It is agood day tor them both— so let us leave them to enjoy it, as lovers should, by themselves. It was about a fortnight after that happy day when Reginald, being much stronger, drove with Rose to her mother’s house, which was but ashort way, from the Ashes’, He was to try and walk back, “I am rather pleased with the drawing room,” said Hose, as she led the way into a lofty, spa- cious, artistically furnis! room; but a large picture hanging on the wall caused’ Reginald to start, “Do you like my purchase?” she asked, ob- serving bim. “Whose is ie?” he asked, somewhat dazediy. “Whose?” she answered. “And you do! know your own work?” “No,” he replied decidedly, while a sudden light seemed to rush in upon bis brain. “It is not mine! Itis Fullerton’s, of course—Fuller- ton’s great picture, ‘The Shadow of Death.’ I saw it while it was in process of painting—but how came you to ite” “It was bought for a large sum by an English mtleman, who took it with him to his house in Italy, where he passed most of his time. 1 e ‘acquainted with him when I went there last winter. He died suddenly; his property ‘was sold by auction; I bid for this picture, and Thad to bid high, but I was resolved to have i because Iknew, in spite of the name marke in the corner being ‘Edward Fullerton,’ that— unaccountable as it might seem—some fraud had been practiced, and that the picture was not his, but yours.” “No fraud has been practiced! What should make you think the picture not his?” ‘See, Reginald,” she sald, “the girl's face is my face, as you have shown't tome many times in sketches you have made of it. She wears the dress which was your favorite dress of mine. Round her neck she wears the very necklace which bas been in our family for generations, which the most experienced jewelers have said it would be impossible to imitate! Besides, do Inot know the attraction which Death, as 3 Presence waiting in the background, ways had for you? And you ask how I know it to be yours?” “In justice to Fullerton,” he rejoiced, “read this!” selecting a letter from his pocket-book. She took it from him, and read ina hand whieh ‘was certainly not Reginald’s: “Pang Lane, March 5. “My Dram Loxanursr: Your praise of my just ‘completed picture, “The shadow of Death, was soan- Stinted and generous that I fear I did not'seem to ap- reciate it to-day as I shouid have done, though Indeed Praia “r daicer myseit the subject 1s something in ‘our way. Idid work very hard to get into the girl's face fast that look of weariness which Iam sure & gist fecls when listening to the ravings of «man for whom she cares nothing. The necklace is, as you remarked. Very rare. The man who suld it tome sald he belleved there were only two more like it in the world. 301 counted myself fortunate in having secured a treas- ure. Hoping the world may inorse your generous verdict, “I remain, “Meat sincerely and gracefully yours, “K. FoLLERTON.” “So you will not trust me! said, with a proud. hurt look, as she gave the letter Back. “Lain going t0'grust you most absolutely in everything! It ndw I ask you to trust mein one thing, will you not do it?” In bis tenderness her pride melted as snow melts in the sunshine. She flung her arms around his neck, saying she could do anythin, he asked her. So the sunlight dissipated ail clouds, though to Rose the picture still re- mained a mystery. ‘They had been married about three months, and one evening were alone in the drawing: room after dinner, when the servant handed in the card of Mr. Fullerton, and was at once fol- lowed by that gentieman ‘in person. He had not long lost his wife, who had ailed, report said, most unaccountably, ever since het marriage, and had died of a painful and linger- ing iliness, In consequence of having lost the woman he had reaily loved, the man’s face looked worn and weary, as it he little, but had a more earnest look than it had ever worn before. After afew words upon the weather, ‘or what not, he informed them that he. hi Joined the’Roman Catholic church, and de- ‘signed eventually to become a priest. “I have come to speak about that pleture,"he went on, looking first at it and then at Kegi- nald, “and what I now say I wish the world to know. ‘That, my con{essor tells me, is my duty, and that I myself feel it to be. Imay bed taperstitious man, but {tseemed to me aut omi- nous sign that my dear wife’s health should begin, wo fall in the first week of our mar in, Tee inald replied gravely: “Do as you think right The matter is one gut of whieh Imyselfdo not come with clean pe c “My confession is briefly this,” said Fuller- ton, ‘addressing bimself to Mrs, Longhurst. “This picture, in which you must see, now,your. own face, which has won fame for its crentor, 18 not the work of my band, but of your hus band’s. Just when the picture was fiaished he asked me for a thousand pounds.” Rose shud- dered and her husband looked uncomfortable. Fullerton continu “I knew the picture had been shown to no one but myself. I knew it couid not fail to be & brilliant suecesa, I belleved that as a success- fal man I could win the hand of the girl longed for, Ihe talk had come to be whether I was merely & , OF really @ man of gen! The tomnptation, ‘was too strong for me. staid the £1,000 on the condition the picture should as mine, To against any discovery in the future I Lge your husband a letter trom myself, which he should be bound to show in case of the question ever arising. I knew I could depend on his honor to do this. I doubly armed myself by having from him s letter sup- to be in answer to mine. recapit is admiration of the picture and enumer some of its most salient features, lived I do not think I could SHIVERING IN MEXICO. REVELATIONS AND DISILLUSIONS OF A TRIP ‘To THE MEXICAN CAPITAL—THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE COUNTRY—THE MOUNTAIN REGION AND ITS LOVELY VALLEYS, Correspondence of Ta EVENIxe STAR. Crry oF MEx1co, Feb. 1st, ‘Travel In Mexico,as elsewhere, is at once a revelation end a disillusionment, Plunging into the valley of Mexico, with its innumerable historic and romantic associations, from the heights of Barrios, we expected to traverse wide avenues of palms, through vast and populous suburbs, studded here and there with Aztec monuments and thronging with s population half Indian, half Spanish, Two things we had always associated with the City of Mexico, warmth and picturesqueness, How bitter the disappointment then to find ourselves actually shivering in our overcoats, as we cl tee-cold ironwork of the car pl less attempts to catch 9 distant view of the Halls of Montezuma, Truly, the city is in the torrid zone, far south of Florida and Havan but its immense elevation, more than 7, feet above the sea, more than counteracts the effects of its location south of the Tropic of Cancer. ‘The variety and dryness of the atmos- here allows a rapid radiation of the earth's eat, at nightfall, so that though it does not quite freeze, th rature closely approx- imates that point, Mexican stores keep on hand a large stock of overcoats. Stoves for heating purposes are unknown, but woolen blankets and warm underwear are necessities. In a word the climate of the city at this season, for 18 outofthe 24 hoursis like that of New Eng- Jand) and the approach of winter, cold, clear and bracing. From 11 till5 p.m. thesun shines, hot and tropical, eotapelling the pedestrian to beok the shady side of the street, buteven his glowing rays, at this elevation, are far from intolerable. The ‘visitor from the north, then, should come prepared with wraps and warm tnderwear. It e does not absolutely suffer for want of them— the natives wear cotton all the year round—he will at least find them a great comfort in the stoveless houses, MEXICAN TOPOGRAPHY. As to picturesqueness, the best features of Mexican scenery pertain to the so-called tierra caliente, from 0 to 3,000 feet above the sea, and the tierra templada’ from 8,000 feet to 5,000 feet, rather than to the tierra fria, which com- prises all territory above the ‘latter point, and in which the City of Mexico is situated.” We give our own mal impressions, on this Point, though ft may not harmonize with the subsidized reports of the railway and tourist guides. Imagine an extended peninsula, 1,950 miles in length, and varying from 400 to '130 miles in width. Break up its surface Into a vast Jumble of mountain ranges, gradually in- creasing in height from the seashore, till they attain their greatest altitude at the sum- mit of Mt. Popocatepetl 17,853 feet above the sea, Now, imagine agigantic hand sweeping southward from the northern boundary, while these mountain chains are yet in a plastic state toa point half way of the length of the peninsula, forming a wide flat tableland, Smooth a8 a billiard board, destitute of trees, hills or rocks, and bounded ‘on either side by the jagged, serrated fragments of the mountain ranges. This is Mexico, and through this immense piain, called the Great Central Ele- vated Plateau, is built the first railroad line to connect the ancient capital of the Aztecs with our more recent country and civilization. This railroad is known as the Mexican Central, WHERE THE MEXICANS LIVE. For the greater part of the three days’ journey from the trontier town of El Paso, the traveler sees neither cities, towns, villages, nor other evidences of wealth and population. No doubt there are rich haciendas in the valleys and im- mense droves of cattle on these plains, but the are not visible. Occasionally the hills bound- ing the plateau show seams and openings, which evince the industry of the delver after filver,but the railroad does not approach them. ‘When water is attainable for irrigating pur- poses, there are flelds of wheat and corn, and the land is said to produce two crops a year under proper management, but these farms are so exceptional as to excite curiosity rather than to give an impression of fertility. “Where do the Mexicans live?” at last we in native fellow traveler. “Wait, Senor!” he re- plies, ‘The people of Mexico’are too, wise to waste their efforts on these treeless wastes, des- titute alike of fuel last the train plunges —_ into mountains, creeps through narrow valleys, as- eends the sloping sides of rugged broken hills, descends to traverse some green river's course, till again it reaches the inexorable mountain, barriers. Ah, here is an evident explanation ot the Mexican’s remark. These hills,so rugged, brown and repelling, are full of silver. Thesé valleys, so narrow ‘and confined, are veritable Edens, plethoric with a wealth of corn, wheat, fruits and vegetables. ‘The Mexican 1s’wise in his day, generation and country. He leaves the vast wind-swept, sun-burnt, verdureless piains as a spacious roadway, into which American capital may drop its millions, if 1t chooses; but he prefers to inhabit these luscious valleys, and bore holes and drive tunnels into the inexhaus- tible bilis with the king’ treasured stores S| armies, navies an ‘THE MOUNTAIN COUNTRY. From the time we strike the “treasure trovt of these hills and valleys cities and towns be- come numerous, traffic increases and the scen- ery becomes interesting and picturesque to the chance traveler. With singular obtuseness the Mexicans do not allow the railroad to come near enough to their citles and towns to allow the traveler a passing Inspection of their merits or demerits, They are usually distant a full mmile or two from the railroad stations. Do they fear the contagion of American enterprise, the competition of American business, or the infec- tion of American religion? Or are they mainly solicitous for.the unmistabably dull donkeys, and duller Indians, who, doubiless, would per siat in walking as calmly’ in front of an express: locomotive as on the plaza? “Quien sube?” as the Mexiean says. Who knows. However, we willingly exchange acloser view of the tilth towns for the superb panorama now unfold- ing before our eyes. ‘The hilis are covered with the brown sage bush and crowned with the most entrancing cloud effects. The broken character of the land, the frequency of stone walls, and the ‘occasional wayside dwellings of the peon, who are worl ing small patches of” land on shures for the rich hacendados, remind one. of New England. Off toone side is the dweiling of the lord of the manor (for we are passing through immense estates, sometimes ten mil in extent), looking like an elaborate fortress, with its inclosing walls of adobe, ornamental gateways and loity turrets. Perchance we come upon an immense herd of cattle, followed by the inevitable cowboys, or a herd of goats, with their guardian standing like a sentinel, solitary and statuesque, in their midst. Hetween ine gapsof the deep red mountains that wall up the plains and valleys there are occasional glimpses of beautiful lakes or the far-off heights Of adistant raage of ills, clothed with mys- tery and majesty. Groups of native women are drawing water from a wayside fountain and conveying it,in great red Jars,to their bumble houses, ‘There are httle garden spots near the streams trickling from the fountains, set off into compartments by narrow ditches, evidently aesigned for the proper distribution Of the precious liquid, This Is truly the scenery of poetry and romanee, albeit saddened by the thought that these peaceful people are but a Step removed from the state of slavery that once cursed our own beloved ignd. NO ROBBERS OR BRIGANDS. But now, at last, we have penetrated or rather ascended the mountains, traversed the valleys, and are at the gates of Mexico, once the home Of the Aztecs, and now the metropolis of the Mexican nation. A word about the dangers, expense and inconveniences of Mexican travel. ‘The American public are saturated with the Idea that a journey to Mexico necessarily in- volves exposure to pillage, thievery and pos- sible murder. We have been taught that here is the home of the original simon pure brigand, and that the passing traveler necessarily car: Flas his life in is habd and bis money in ‘his boots, Never was there a greater delusion. ‘The Mexican Central, in all 1ts history, has e: perienced only one attempt at derailment of its trains for plunder, a la Jesse James, and in that ease the robbers were scattered by’the resolute actions ofa Mexican boy, armed with a repeating rifle, and itis said that eighteen of those ent in the attempt were afterwards caught und exeeuted by the government. Your lifeand your property is safer here in this elty than in many of our own great towns. Laws against criminals are executed with unflinching sever. ity. The employes of the railroads are not armed, ‘Passengers may pass to and fro on the ordinary routes of travel without danger of molestation. Probably no city in the world has a more effi- lent police than the good City of Mexico. Every street corner has its uniformed guardian, arined, and at night provided with a lantern’ Ifa stranger loses his way he 1s conducted from st 10 post tll safely arrived at his destination. ithe inquires after a oumber or street no one ‘could be more civil and helpful in response than these dusky guardians of the peace, ‘A MEXICAN HOTEL, ‘The inconvenience and, expense of travel in Mexico has also been greiitly ex: ted. The rincipal cities have ‘hotels and restaurants compare favorably in cuisine and attend- ‘ance with home institutions. We are located ata hotel situated only two blocks from the plaza, whore all, the street-car lines terminate, {t is'clean and well mi Its arrange. mentis unique, after the fashion of all tropical dwellings, but ‘adinirably adapted to the cll- and conditions of living. Imagine 9 three-slory house, facing on two streets, Bullt of stone, and amply ided with door-windows opening upon, litte, baleontes overlooking the streets, To admit light and warmth and air into this grand house, imagine its central core removed, so as to form a ‘and water.” fifth part, of whose in so long maintained her historic grandeur, which the pang! sky forms a _ beautiful canopy at night, Eveircling this court, and cor Fesponding to each story, Js a ‘marblepaved erase tyes neces i le ‘cases to reach the pavement below. Do _ selve the beauty of this arrangement? Open your window fronting the street and Spening upon the “gallery and the breese sweeps through your room’ withoat let or hin- Grance, There are no long, dark, musty ‘corr nor cold or damp hallways. Fresh air and light, necessary to health in this climate, ean pen everywhere, and, at the same e business of the house bé conducted withou molesting the Inmates. Add to this water and electric ells inovery room, and. kind ‘attend. ing, ance by an 1-6) Ian Dothing ts leit to be desired, relat ee ora ris GEN. MANCOCK. ‘From Interview in the Boston Journal, HANCOCK’S SUPERB QUALITIES. Gen, Hancock was, and I think will always be, very conspicuous figure in the war, even the farther we getaway from it, That is due in the first place to his positive achievements, what he did, for some of the most splendid things done in the war were done by him. He led the charge at Williamsburg at the head of 8 brigade which determined the issue of the bat- tle on the right, and which made him st once ‘@ Very conspicuous figure. I suppose that was the first time any eastern man ever heard of him. He broke out there in asort of splendor, ‘and it was very largely due to his magnificent Dearing, which was the essence of the man. The intellectual conception with Hancock gould not be separated from the execation of it. His grand personality, his 8] courage, his SB} and e ing that was chivalric and noble {a Dis formed the second reason, In pompous fellows, a a ete, ridicule, but him, which, with those rb, magnificent qualities, act it \énsely, and gave @ real force toit. The Plan of anything which Hancock goncelved meant a different thing from what it would have done it somebody ‘dso had executed the plan. ‘The plan and the man went together. And then Haneock in his re] lon, will Probably owe something to what might be galled singular good fortune, not fortane in having a, plan come out right, in bel Saved from the consequence of the blunder, bt good fortune in his opportunity. Hehad an op- ‘tunity of doing several very conspicuous hings. “Another man, and hein another place, might have done as well without B ame, impression. ‘There nese deal in for- ine, ‘The Romens, you know, always recog- ized good luck, fortune, as a military element They recognized the tact that some generals Were fortunate, and would not put a man in command unless he had the repute of being fortunate. ‘You may call it Superstition. | Possibly it was, Possibly what is called good fortune means that @ man hhas a certain sense of the time for doing things, which you cannot formulate. You cannot dis- cern it as 8 separate thing, and yet that man, ‘Spparently doing his work no better than ‘another man, has a better resuit. All armies believe in the fortune of the commander. Han- ble, at: Geltyeourg that had it amble, chanced that the assault had fallen somewhere else than just on Hancock's front, the result might havé been very different. Of course Lee and Longstreet had no intention of gloritying Hancock by directing the on that clump of trees to which bee pointed Long- street as the most conspicuous ture of cur line, but it fell right on froak ott 573 ace corps and gave him an opportunity. the “high-water mark of "ine rebellion, “It was © most portentous movement in the history of the war, and Hancock, of course, on such an occasion was magnificent, He inspired the ‘Be lifted the subord!- nate commanders fairly off their feet. He was not a man to whom the term magnetic could be applied. That is the ex that is often used regarding him, but it does not ¢! ize the influence he hed. It was not s personal in- fluence in the sense of passing from man to man. ‘It was the influence of a commander who was admired and looked up to,and whose cour and heroic bearing extended to his. ‘and his subordinate commanders in the line. It was no mysterious, subtie essence at all. It was simply the result of his gqrgeous bearing— there is no other word for it—] size and his superb manly beauty. He was very handsome, and his fine horsemanshi) nificently mounted always, and his and daring gave him a great {nfluence. HIS TIRELESS CAUTION, This ought to be said about Gen. Hancock— that he owed his success in as high a degree as any man I ever camein contact within the army to industry, He was simply tadefatiga- ble. And after Hancock had taken every pre- caution that could be thought of, after he had given every order which was necessary appar- ently to secure success, after he had planned the whole thing and instructed his subordi- nates, he still hung over it tosee that there was no miscarriage anywhere, and the failure to do that was the great reason for the failure of most of our operations. Commanding officers thought that after they had made a proper plan, given the necessary orders, instru everybody, and got a receipt, so to speak, for those orders from every one of the subordinate commanders, they had then done thelr duty. Hancock had then only begun to do it He was in the saddle night and day, and he was indefatigable in watching against the possibility of an adverse turn of the tide. He was always hanging over the line of batt exposing himself in what seemed to be a most reckless mauner, and I must say I think was unnecessarily reckless, perhaps, but after all it was the essence of the man, and the essence, probably, of his influgnce over the troops. He would ride along thé line of battle, with the corps staff behind him and the corps fag flying, & plain mark for the enemy, who would prac: tice at him with their batteries as if he were a outs But he was every where, and it seemed as though there could not be a beginning ofa failure but he was there, ‘When we wentover the James river, before the explosion of the mine in 1864, our object was tomake afeint which would draw the bulk of Lee’s army over the north bank of the James while the preparations for blowing up the mine and making a great assault on Peters- burg were going on. Icannot mention dutes, but toward the last of July we went over on the north bank of the James river with the 2d corps and the 10th corps under Birney and the cavalry under Sheridan, who at that time was Hancock’s junior, We had made a demonsira- tion which was remarkable for its effect, I heard Gen. Meade say two or three times on the day of which I am 3; ing that five out ot eight confederate divisions of Lee’s army were on the north bank fronting us; that is, wo had drawn overa very largely disproportion- ate force ot the enemy because our demonstra- tions had been so active that they really thought we were making great efforts to get into Richmond from the north side. As the time approached for Burnside to blow up his mine the orders were [Ags by the 10th corps to be sent back and the largest of our divisions to be in readiness to follow up Burnside’s assault, and to remain ourselves with the cavalry and hold the enemy there, keeping up the appear- ance of aggression, but at the same time, of course, stripping our lines to.the very last point and putting ourselves in rather a critical position, because we had a deep river behind us,and we had the mass of the confederate army in front, Of course, therefore, every- thing depended upon care.’ The cavairy were to recross to the south bank of the river, and leave their horses, every fourth man holding four horses, the other three of the four coming back with their carbines to help us hold the lines the next day. Of course if the enemy had the slightest Idea that we were sending troops back they would come down upon us with Irresistible force, A‘l the orders that were necessary were given, especially instructions not to allow any men tocross rr ‘break, We inufiled the pontoon bridges as well as pos- sible, but could not prevent the noise and the jarring, The most explicit orders were given— ‘and we could have gone before a court-martial ‘on those orders and proved that everything was done that should have been done, and every order was given that should have been given. But that was not the sort of thing to sausfy Gen. Hancock. We went to sleep,after having been marching and fighting for three nights and days without any rest, and just before morning I was wakened by hearing my name calied. I went into Han- cock’s tent—I slept next to him—and he said he was atraid that the caygiry might continue crossing too late, might We subject to observa- tion, and asked me if I would not ride over and see Gen. Sheridan and say to him that if any cavalry had not crossed by that time they must stop on our side, and could not be allowed to cross, I jumped’ on my orderly’s horse and Tode over to a clump of woods where Sheridan’ headquarters were. As I approached. the first voice I héard was Sheridan’s own, “Who is that?” I announced myself, and gave Han- cock’s message, and the reply ee on thinkis the same thing mysel! he aid’ turning to his adjutant general, “gq to the bridge, and, if Gen, Kuntz’s division has not crossed, ‘tell him that he can- not cross, but must mass his cavairy behind the woods on the plain and remain during the day Forsythe and myselt galloped to the bi ‘and there found the head of the column just entering the bri ‘stopped it, turned it back, and had it m: behind the woods, In15 or20 minutes it was light enough for thé enemy to see our movement, If they had seen the rear of thatcolumn. bridge we should have had five-eights at of Lee's army upon us almost instan’ . Asit was, when the day broke what they saw was the cavalry coming back With thelr car- bines over their shoulders, looking for all the world like honest infantry. They had heard this sound all night. The crossing, but could. not tel a had been straining their eyes aa the began to break to see what was ‘coming back. fi seca ing “all eight, to reinforce weet ae it added immensely to the ie He gece : nine thefon doit, Gen. Howard has say, nought to break the game as asort of staff officer ‘his record is absolutely against any such im- Putation. Hancock was sent to take com- Mand’ all the oops Gf bes locate Lach core, st anc corps, Which had, been broken, organized sent them here and there, rehabilitated the line and for” the defense the position. And there is a fact in regard to Gettysburg ‘to which sufficient attention has never been gi coming Up on that fleld on ‘of July, amid the Ast and the 11th feated after gailant fighting against vastly su- Perlor force, not only occupied the cemetery il, Of Which we hear so much, but ordered the first division, then coming up, a division of th 12th corps, to Little Round ‘When I was in November, I was very much struck to see the monuments of regiments of the 12th on Little Round Top. I had never heard of thelr fighting there, had never thought of the 12th corps as there,” because the 12th corps was at the other end of the line, and Bas tase cha Rated nop savant Ey an ‘was Sete Sessa Sue ee ee a Lad "8 division vi 2 withdrawn by somebody's orders that night Little Round Top was left unoccupied the next day, and Gen, G. K. Warren has always had immense credit, and justly, for having, in the crisis of the second day’s fight, seen that the enemy were about to seize that top, and having hurried there and occupied | the flop, and by that means saved us. from @ great trophe. So that it is intensely to Hancock’s ‘eredit that, even in the very rst approach to the fleld. he'should have appreciated the importance of that position and have: vided for its. lon, and it was no fault of his that Gen, was withdrawn. On the second day—that great and terrible bat- tle of the second day—Hancock was put in com- mand of more than his own ‘He com- manded the entire left center of the line, and on the third day he received the charge of Pick- ett, so that his relation to Gettysburg was not merely that of having repelled the final charge, but ot having had a very important commend ce the two pee ee od javing made the arrangements which st the ht of the 1st and 11th corps also Provided for the occupation of the whole posi- ton of Culp’s hill to the Little Round Top at the other extreme end. I never have under- stood who ordered Gen. Geary’s withdrawal from that position, and never have been able to find out. Fortunately, through Warren’s re- markable insight and prompt action, the mis- chief which would have resulted from it was prevented, ‘The next great day of Hancock was, of course, the battle of the Wilderness, in which he com- manded the entire left wing of Meade’s army, consisting not only of his own corps, but of divisions sens to hlin from other corps. (On the morning of the second day of the Wilderness he made that great assault In which he car- Tied A. P. Hill’s intrenchments and fought one of the greatest battles of the war on any field of operations, Then the next, and perhaps some would esteem it greater than ttysburg in some respects, was the 12th of May at Spottsylvania, and some would regard ‘this as the culmination of Hancock’s glory as a commander, where he formed hts troops early in the morning and assaulted the confederate position near Spottsylvanta court-house, cap- turing 4,000 prisoners and 20 pieces of artillery, and held his position tor 13 hours against what suppose was the most terrible series of assaults ever delivered. It was very common to speak of the dead being piled on each other, but very few men have ever seen it, You go over a bloody field, like Antietam, or Fredericks- Dare, 08. Getsyabarg, and. “dead men are a apart, Sometimes they are pile in'a row. Here and there you ean’ step from man to man, and sometimes the dead lie in contact, But it was literally true that here, When the enemy were attempting to retake thé works and get back those guns, the dead lay in piles of three, four and five deep, and the wounded under the dead in many cases. For thirteen hours the fighting there was ot the most terrific character. Of course that was not Hancock's last day of action. He commanded his corps in various operations: following, but it was perhaps the culmination of the man’s glory. His Gettysburg wounds continued to trouble him so that he was obliged torelinquish command of hig corps more than once during the campaign of 1864, and finally. his, wounds broke out airesh id he was obli the field. Then he began to raise the first vet- eran corps, as it was called, to be composed en- tirely of men who had completed their terms of service in the army, of honorable record, and ‘was not engaged with the enemy inthe AR mattox campaign, although in the fleld wit ‘corps, ——+e+_____ A Blasphemer's Terrible Death. THE LEADER IN A MOCK RELIGIOUS SERVICE DIES A RAVING MANIAC. A special to the New York World trom Har risburg, Pa,, February 7th, says: News of a Strauge and mysterious occurrence at Mil- lersburg, Dauphin county, has been received here. On Thursday morning there was a jovial crowd ins hotel at that place and while they were imbibing Samuel Motter entered. Motter was well known throughout the county as a patent-medicine peddler and was about fifty- five yearsofage. His wife died in the alms- house some time ago, and since then he has been living near this place. Shortly after Motter entered a discussion on religious subjects arose. The sacrament of the Lord’s Supper was talked about. Motter be- came very carnest in his talk, and finally dared the men to indulge in an imitation ofthe Lord’s Supper. They agreed to have it with beer and bread, and accordingly a glass was filled with that ‘beverage. | They then knelt in mock humility, and with the beer in one hand and the bread in the other, Motter went along dis- tributing a bite and a'sup to each. Suddenly, when he was about half through, strange noise was heard, and looking up the men saw a sight that “made their bl food, run cold and froze the marrow in their bones.” As nearas the scared men could describe it, they declare it was an immense, ill-formed and foul beast with great cloven feet, painted horns and eyes that flashed fire. With wild yells the men rushed out into the open air and scattered in every direction. Finally all of them reached their homes except Motter, who was away for a long time, and at last he arrived, a maniac. He was put to bed and physicians summoned, but they could do nothing for him. He raved, howled and prayed, declaring that he had seen the Evil One and that he was lost. His torture was terrible, but nothing could be done to re- lieve him, and he died in the wildest agony. ‘The death-bed scene 1s said to have been full of horrors that can hardly be described. ——_—+e._____ ‘The Latest English Scandal London Special to Paris News. The opening of parliament has given rise toa big scandal in upper society. One of the first gentlemen of England had procured a ticket of admission to the house of lords for @ beautiful and charming lady, buton the personal inter vention of a very high personage the ticket was cancelled by the Lord Chamberlain, and when the lady holding the ticket made her appear- ance entry was refused to her, and she had to beat a retreat under the eyes and the silent but significant sneering of @ great number of Peeresses, more noble and older, butnotnearly 80. -looking as the victim. it is said that the same eveninga fairsubject’s door was resolutely shut to a princely vi eee zed to leave A Cunrovs CAUSE For A RESPITE.—The situ- ation of Mary E. Williams, in jail at Yorkville, 8. 0. vuder sentence of death for polsoning het busband and three stepchildren t_ summer, preser.ts a case that seldom occurs to delay the administration of justice. Atthe time of ber trial she intimated that she wasin a fair way to become a mother. In view of her statement, the judge appointed the 12th of this month as the day ofexecution. Asthe time is drawing nigh the sheriffealled medical experts to make anexamination, The doctors furnished thi sheriff With a statement to the effect that, woman isin astate of pregnancy. The physi- cians’ report has been sent to the governor, ana a respite will be granted. It is now probable that: ‘woman’s sentence will be commuted to imprisonment for life. re oe ahaa. his EN ny aieacme aie ree Dame as Jobo Boyer, and having no home, was found Inst Friday in’a barn on ises of John Holman, near Huntt LL. L, with his hands and teet frozen, ible Shad- bolt took charge of the man and Justice Hen- drickson committed him. to the Suffolk county ‘While searching the man before for Yapahank the constable found several bank books in his clothing, which showed that Boyen had on deposit in several banks about $10,000. Some cash was also found on ey lee Wa Boyen retused to allow ‘any of it to, be spent for food or drink for him. The authorities will endeavor to recover ihe cost of Boyen's keep while he may be in the from banks RELIGIOUS NOTES. zz The Medison Avenue church, Baltimore, erence v. Dr. Huntley as: & next pastor. re —The Methodist preachers’ meeting of the neces Fequested that Bishop Ninde open anni conference at the Mé jiten in March by administering the os The Foundry M. E. church of this city has Rowearpet and Sey noavealt oad sony ma $500 have been putin the pews — One of the most successtul revivals known in the history of the Fourth church is. Rave Geen ‘compelled: to sorters tie consort — The celebration of the thirty-third anniver- ort the Young Men’s Christian association Dlelock in the New Ton Micnes ele tla or shuren: ‘The address will be delivered. Oy Rev, F. W. Gunsank: tor of ‘Memoriai Presbyterian churda, of Baltimore. — Sundi ools in Utah con- tain Over 800 children of Mdencos parentage —The M. E. Ladies’ Union Aid society gets $00,000 trom @ bequest by @ Miss Fields, of — The Virginia conference of the M. E.charch will be held at Alexandria on the 25th instant by Bishop Ninde. ppimhe Pew rents in Tabernacle Baptist chureh, fladelphii ‘McCook, pastor, amount to — Thp Rev.Thomas Harrison,formerly known asthe ‘conducting at Sethe boy preacher, is a revival —The religious movement in the Presbyte- tian and Reformed Dutch churches of New York city continues with unabated interest. , — The colored school recently burned out at Quitman, Ga., is to be reopened by the Ameri- can Mission ‘association at Thomasville, twenty-five miles distant, — Rev. E. P, Hammond is now holding evan- gelistic meetings in London. During three weeks’ services held in Dr. Sinclair Patterson's church, 500 conversion. —The managers of the Presbyterian orphan- age, Philadelphia, have made an appeal to the urehes for more funds in order to complete ihe building now in course of erection, —The revival at Harper's Ferry under Rev. W. G. Griffith continues and 250 conversions are reported. | Miss Jennie Smith, Miss Ada Sherman and Mrs. Martin have been assisting the pastor. — Rev. W.H. Aitken, who recently conducted evangelical services in the Episcopal churehes Of mectings fn Nacteule, woke naetated bs o in v1 ren Otuer evaugelista sn” "E> “f —Rev. Thorfas Donglas, of Brooklyn, who Tecently returned from a two-years’ tour in Great Britain, has been called unanimously to the pulpit of the Congregational church at Gilead, Conn., but declines. —The Rev. John T. Vine, the English evan- gelist, who has been conducting services in various parts of the United States, has been engaged ior Trinity Baptist church, New York, for the next three or four weeks. —The General Baptist association of Penn- sylvania for state mission work has employed fifty-five missionaries this year. This is the t number that the association has ever in its employ. — Rev. Charles R. Hale, D, D., who has lately been acting as assistant minister of St. Paul's Episcopal church, Baitimore, has removed to the diovese of Lowa, where he has become the —Rev. Henry B, Hudson, well known throughout the country as an evangelist, has been installed as pastor of the Lewis Avenue Congregational church, Brooklyn. He been in charge of this clurch for just one year. —A meeting in the interest of Sunday rest, held at Chickering hall, New York, on January 24th, was addressed by Bishop Doane, Col. W. . P. Breckinridge, of Arkansas, and Chief P. M. Acthur, of the ‘Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, —Rev. John Dennis, connected with the Methodist Episcopal church of Canada, and re- siding at Toronto, was received recently into copied aeall fo Hmmanuel church, Kensington, cepted a Pitiadeiphia” opens — The officers of Spring Garden Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, have not yet received any reply from the Rev. David Wills, jr., of Ringoes, N. J.,to the call extended him last pg ey Teel certain, however, that Mr. Wills will accept. —Dr.T. Edwin Brown, of the first Baptist chureh, Providence, R. I., has given seven stir- Ting discourses on the great social and political uestions of our time. Dr. Brown is a native of Washington and agraduate of Columbian col- lege. —The congregation of the Madison Avenue Congregational church, New York, have decided to withdraw their church property from sale and to devote it to evangelical uses, provided an organization can be formed which will as- sume the mortgage of $100,000 and carry on the work. — At St. Bontface’s Catholic church, corner of Norris and Hancock streets, a mission of the Redemptorist Fathers was begun last week, Which is conducted, by Revs. Joseph Schwarz, Vietor Hoelscher, Aug. Stuhi and Alexander Klauder, C, 8S, R. — Messrs. Moody and Sankey, who have been in Chicago, I, and Knoxville, Tenn., will hold meetings February and March at Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans and Galveston, Hous fon, Fort Worth, Dallas, and San Aitonio, ‘exas. —All the theatrical managers of Cincinnat!, with one exception, have signed an agreement not to give any theatrical performances in their respective places of amusement on Sundays whenever the Law and Order League shall suc- ceed in closing the Sunday concert saloons. —The Baptist ministers of Chicago, whose advice in the matter had been solicited, have adopted a resolution pronouncing it imprao- tieable to raise $300,000 to pay an insurance company for the property of the University of Chicago, and recommending that stepsbe taken toward & new building. —The handsome new building of the first Unt- tarian chureh, Philadelphia, Rev. Joseph May, pastor, dedicated on Tuesday evening, ts cruci- form, with shallow transepts, of dimensions sufficient to give a seating capacity of over 700. A chopel, with & seating capacity of 250, con- nects with the church, mullding is entirely free from debt. Love in the Salvation Army. A MAREIED MAN ELOPES WITH A SISTER, Williamsport, Pa., is excited over the elope- ment of Jerome H. Smole, of No, 44 Railroad avenue, of thatclty, with a Miss McKee, who officiated with the Salvation Army. Miss Mo- Kee is described as a Jooking, buxom young woman, and it has been whispered among the gossips that she is more fond of the attention of men than devoted to her prayers. Latterly she has not been in good standing in the army, of which she has been a bright and shining light, Jerome H. Smole, her com- ion in elopement, is a ‘citizen, and e leaves behind him a wealthy and very de- voted wife. Ever since the Salvation army be- gan working in Williamsport Smole has been a devoted salvationist, and for some time past has allowed his zeal for the army and his sion for Miss McKee to cause him to neglect his wife. Sai he abandoned her entirely and went off with bis new found love. Mrs. Smole has no children, her only child having died some time ago. AJzEaLovs WoMAN Murvers Her sr lover was in Capea pa] that she would get him, and in her nage jerked p Eg hy ee ap muir in. the way, when Mollie, who was flournshing the knife, plt it intoher Sisters abdomene She is crased with grief over ‘the murderous deed. QFFICIAL DRAWING o”_ rae LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY, ‘SINGLE NUMBER CLASs “H.” Drawn at New Orleans, La. on Tuesday, Febroary Re By is a. 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