Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1892, Page 7

THE RESURRECTION OF GEORGE. in front of a Mississippi river warehouse two or three hundred miles below Cairo. “What chums?” drawled another first, had been drawn to the river bank by the : steamboat might stop there during the day. “What chums!” Why, there ain't but one couple in these parts that’s got that name. There they be, under the warehouse shed, old Sumter Tulver of Lost Lake an’ Trum Flepps, from over the river.” “I seo 'em now.” The speaker had slowly worked himself from a leaning position on the sunny side of a big button-ball tree and lazily turned his head and shoulders toward the ware- BARBADOE THE LESSER ANTILLES The Most Populous and Fertile Island of the Group. SCENES IN BARBADOES. Observations by a Naval Officer on a West In- dian Cruise—The People and Their Curious Customs— Different Grades of Society—Gath- ering and Crushing the Sugar Cane. Correspondence of The Fventng Star. February 7, 1892. OPULOUS AND FER- tile, the Island of Bar- badoes lies to the east- ward of the general sweeping curve of the Lesser Antilles; and it is, both from its posi- tion and from circum- stances in its history. the center of English civilization in the West Indies. Here all the steamers coming from England touch first, anchoring in besutiful Carlisle bay, on the southwest side of the island. Several lines of smaller steamers. swift and well appointed, center here, meeting the incoming steamers from London, and carrying the passengers and freight all over the network of islands. The London steamers make the passage to Bridge- town, the capital of Barbadoes,in twelve to fif- teen days, averaging eighteen knots an hour. Barbadoes has come to be the great central depot of the English West Indies, where the commerce of the iskinds centers and from whence the products are shipped all over the world. This has given Bridgetown a commer- cial importance that has brought wealth and growth to it till now it is a city of some 60,000 inhabitants, with street railways, public schools and large business houses that resemble Amer- tean stores; but the mixture of the European element with the native simplicity is sometimes quite grotesque, for one may see side by side a modern brick house and the thatched cottage of « native. SCENES AT TRE WHARF ON LANDING. Asone lands at the wharf from a smail boat, as the steamers do not go alongside the wharves, « varied scene meets the eye. Unlike the other islands, every one seems in « hurry here, in spite of the tropical sun that pours down on the hot, white streets. Dozens of boat- men crowd the wharves, shouting and gesticu- lating for customers, and | noticed particularily that these boatmen were good at handiing their boats: they tovk a long. quick stroke that sent the light wherries spinning through the water. PUBLIC SQUARE IX BRIDGETOWN. As oue steps from the boat a dozen stalwart negroes throng around him and offer to guides. with such assuring remarks as Portland Bill, I'm the American guide,” and “Here's Philadelphia Pete” and the like. Escaping from these land sharks a few minute: walk brings one to the government buildin, with their shady gardens of pali arched pore sat look cool and a public square stands a well-executed of Lord Nelson, with the one closed ey the armless sleeve. The sculpture work is well done, but for some inexplicable reason it has been painted a bright pen green, that gives it much the appearance of the statues college campus after the boys have been midnight raid. The business portion of the city contains several large, well-appointed stores. where New York and London dry goods rest side by side, and oue may purchase any- thing im dress wear quite cheaply. The book stores seem especially large and the cheapness of English books is noticeable. SOME OF THE BUILDINGS. The banks are large and weil fitted. doing an enormous business as clearing houses for all the business enterprises of the Antilles. The overnment buildings are large and imposing, crown secretaries of a dozen denominations draw fat incomes from the colonial tithes for sitting in the breezy offices, while the good- natured negroes toil on to support the foreign- ers, happy if they have plenty to eat and a little to wear But it is not with the business'enterprises of the island or its commercial development that Se were most interested, but with the people themselves and their manners and customs, Stretching back over the low, rolling hills, that took for all the world like a summer scene from the foothills of the Alieghenies, the acres of ‘suger plantations give employment to the hundreds of negroes that line the highwa; loll in the market places and seem to be alw: im an indolent good humor. The combina- tuon of modern machinery with the old-fash- joued methods forme a queer commingling of past aud present Side by side we saw an old Wind mill for crushing the cane and “modera steam appliance for the same pur- ove. In the former the cane is hauled in from the fiekis in great flaring two-wheeled carts, with sometimes as many as four yoke of scragly oxeu to haul them, with several tall, slouching Begroes guiding them with numerous welts from the loug cane goads they earry, and what sects am unnecessary amount of shouting and yelling, but this always seems an indispensable Uclp to the average West India negro. AY THE SUOAR caNE MOLLS. When the carts of cane reach the mills long lines of gayly dressed cane girls carry it in bundles on their heads to the crusher, whence the crushed stalks are carted to the fields as fertilizers. Watching these negro girls as they house. “Durn queer, too. Both on em got big farms, an’ good “ans, an’ mos’ gineral! works hard an’s got lots o° ‘money saved up, yit, let « good bright day come ‘long, why, if © feller comes down to the Iandin’ ike as not he'll see one o’ them feliers paddlin’ a dugout work, every one seems to have a p'ece of sweet cane in ber hand, which she munches as shi steps along, humming some monotonous native tune. The’ natives seem to have a universal taste for sugar cane. and no matter how = ‘cross the river to visit other. Fought agin hot it is, or what work they are| CTOs ou doing, they always find time to munch — in the rar, too. eee Ik of it The negro in Barbadoes ell, “tain’t wonderful. They was Pn forty year ago, an’ they married sisters. Of course they had to go with their states when the scrimmage come. but tiat was only durin’ four year, an’ old friends is best friends. Let's meander up an’ see what's goin’ on.” Arrived within the aromatic halo of tobacco smoke with which the old men had surrounded themselves the loungers heard: “Of course it's all wrong, Sump. As some- body said im @ book, ‘The times 1s out o’ j'int.’” Christmas an’ Fourth o' July keep a goin’ on, a8 they ort to do, but lote of new days come a creepin’ in an’ George Wushin’ton is left out in the cold more an’ more ev'ry year.” “That's so, Trum; I've even heard that some folks on your side of the river keeps Abe Lin- coln’s birthday—not but what he wa-a't a pooty decent feller. I s'pose they'll dnd out Yet that Grant bed a birthday.” “Don't see why they shouldu’t, Sump. Some ur folks keep Lee's birthday.” ‘Mighty good reason why. He was the grentest gineral that ever—" “Except Grant, who——" “Except nobody! Grant was only wood- man up to St. Louis before——" “Yo go to thunder! Lee went back on his oath to his country, an'——" as didn’t do no such thing. You Yanks tell a i “don't ‘low nobody to call me a liar, you durned old rebel !”’ exclaimed Trumbull Flepps, Pringing to his feet. : ain't no more rebel than George hisself roared Sumter Tulver, rising und facing is in every senso considered *as ‘friend and brother of the waite man,” an their arrogance and even contempt for their white neighbors is very prominent. The inter- marrying of blacks and whites is rather more common than in the other islands, probably because there are more white settlers and prob- ably because the nezroes are better educated than in the othe Be There is quite a large number of English in- habitants, but it seems that the warm climate does not agree with them, especially women, who look worn and faded after a few years in the colony. The children are quite often deformed or weakly, which is, according to the statement of a medical friond of mine, a conclusive argument that the hot climate does not agree with the colonists from temperate countries. 2 wi his friend. The two men giared ut euch other moment. Then Trumbull extended his hand, which was slowly taken by Sumter, who said: WHO THE CREOLES ARE. In Barbadoes, as in the French colonies, the term “creole” is rightiy used to mean thechil- dren and descendants of French and Spani settlers in the islands. Some of thecreoles are exceptionally pretty and their dark beauty seems not to suffer from the heat of the trovi- cal climate, but 1 really think that some of the quadroon girls are rather prettier than the “ereoles.” whom they resemble in many ways. The divisions of the Barbadia society are quite plainly marked, as.in fact, they are nearly every place in the West Indies, except in Trini- dad, where white and mulatto are ‘brothers bred” and too often “brothers born. Of course the English and American resi- dents form a complete set of their own, which only occasionally breaks over into the bornds of the next circle—the creolos. After these comes the better class of the negroes, and then the great common, clattering horde’ of igno- fant, sembcivilized negrocs. Among this great lower class of the natives there is little sem- blance of religion. A few Catholics remain as remnants of the French occupation two cen- turies ago, and the “English church,” as the Episcopal chureb is known in the West Indies and South America, bas a few converts; but the ranting ‘ceremonies of the Salvation Army have more charm for these excitable people and the police are fre- quently called upon to break up the midnight meetings of the Salvaticnists. While some credit must be given to the zealous mission- aries in tl colonies, it is an undeniable fact that little good is accomplished by them. MISSIONARY WORK NOT VERY EFFECTIVE. The American Bible Society has scattered its agents over the island and done much to in- crease the civilization of the islands, but of all Christian endeavors nothing has been attended with greater success than the laborers under the banner of the White Croas, who have tried to show the natives that marriage is necessary to civilization, and that women are more than the bond slaves of meu. Alarge number of coolies have been trans- planted to the island from the English posnes- sions in India. and with their queer dress and tall. lithe bodies they seem like the dwellers of another strange land. Some of the coolie girls are in sense quite pretty. They have graceful. well-rounded bodies and shapely heads, and their long, wavy black hair around their dusky faces forms a strange contrast to the kinky locks of their neighbors, the negro. The coolie girls decor- ate their arms and necks with silver bands, from which they hang strings of queer old coins. They wear tight-fitting bodices with juite low necks and no sleeves and short skirts that show their round bare legs, with the decorations of silver anklets and knee straps, sometimes connected by chains, from which hang pendants ot coins from India the old and India the new. THE PEOPLE AND THEIR HOUSES. Here, as in the other islands, the negro women always carry their bundles on their heads, and in the old part of the city the nar- row, unpaved stfeets are thronged with women selling fruit from the baskets that they carry balanced on their heads in spite of the jostling and rushing of the crowd. Rushing through this chattering crowd of negro women, regard- less of life and limb. the hage two-wheeled ox carts, with their shouting drivers, add to the general confusion. The low-ceilinged houses that line thestreets generally have overhanging balconies that sometimes reach nearly to those on the opposite houses, and thus form tunnel- like alleyways, in which the crowd rush and push, with every one apparently trying to make the most noise. In the early mornin; the milk venders, with droves of goats, pass through the ts from house to house, and when any one wishes milk he selects one from the herd and milks it in the door crowds of mischievous children tease the other goats in the herd. When one sees the crowds of children he cannot but wonder where they are all to live on the island when they grow, and in what manner they are to win & livelihood, and one cannot but be impressed with the number of negroes that live in ap- parent ignorance. Yet the crowd, asa rule, is well dressed and apparently well fed, i takes less to sustain hfe in a warm country than in a cold oue, and clothes are an orna- af “The war—' —Is over,’ Then both said in unison “Keerful!” The loungers nudged each other and grinned, for sianlar outbreaks, with tho same form of reconcilixtion, were common when Tulver and Fiepps chanced to talk of the civil war. Slowly the old men regained and tilted their chairs in the sunshine of a chance warm day in February, industriously they addressed themselees for a’moment to their pipes. ‘Then ‘Tulver, the Tennesseean, remarked: ‘Somethin’ ort to be done fur George.” “That's @ fact,” assented Flepps, the Missou- rian. “Our war didn't bring outany such man.” “Not on your side, Trum.” 0, NOT yourn, neither, Sump. You can afford to be honest abou: that, { reckon, con- found your rebel soul!” “Look here, you durn subjugatin’ Yank" “Sump,” said Trumbull, extending his hand, “the war—” ~——Is over,” added Sumter, after which both joined in saying “Keerful !* “There's lots o’ talk about keepin’ good ex- amples before the risin’ generation,” resumed ‘Yrumbull, “but what does the young ones learn about Washin'ton except a little bit that's in the school histories? Wuy, if could have my way in our school district, 'd throw away ali the trashy readin’ books, with their silly stories an’ fool poems,an make the classes read Marshall's Life o' Washin tou over an’ over again.” “if Thad a son,” said Sump, ‘he shouldn't go courtin’ until'he knew Gcorges farewell address by heart. But you can't get no sense in folks’ heads nowadays; last cume is the biggest man. Why, aman bothered me into buyin’ a cyclopeedy a few years ago, an’ when ‘lection time come round an I looked in the book to see who the fellers was, their names wasn’t there at all, yet now the papers is full of 'em, au’ not a word about Lee nor President Davis. Nor Lincoln an’ Grant?” eertul !”’ drawled Sump. “Keerful itis,” replied fram. “But ‘taint no good to jaw it over, au’ smoke it over,unless somethin’s goin’ to be done about it.” “Wonder if a flag raisin’ wouldn't help?” suggested the Tennessean. “Mebbe, or a barbecue, but you can't count on good weather for that in this season of the year.” “That's so. Besides, ‘twouldn’t mean noth- in’, Folks would come together to eat, even if "twas the devil's birthday that was bein’ cele- brated.” “There ain't much left that Ican think of,” said Sump, after looking intently into his pipe, as if he expected to see the form of Washington arise, phomx-like, from the ashes. ‘rum thought intently, looking across at the opposite bank and then up and down the stream, as if ideas, like steamboats, might suddenly appear when le: Finally he arose trom his chair, © impressively at his added Trumbull. “I tell you what there is. There's George himsel an’ he's strong enough to make his if we can get ybody to look at him. Let's get up mass meetin’ for the birthday, that'll fall due in & few days. We're the mon that ort todo it. Ain't you named after one of Wasiin’ton’s best southern gin’rais?”’ ” you after the ‘riginal Brother Jona- That's abont the size of us.” “Trum,” said the old Tennessean, after = thoughtful moment, “I want to be with you, but sometimes you kind o’ get your feet off the solid ground, an’ then I can't catch up with you. What on earth do you mean ‘bout’ there bein’ rge himself, an” gettin’ folks to look at him: «Just what I jumping up and striding to and fro on the nar- row platform in front of the warehouse doors. “George is one o’ them that the 'postle wrote about, ‘who, bein’ yet dead, speaketh.’ What are yoa, beside bein’ a hundred an’ sixty pound of farmer an’ clothes? Why, you're what you do an’ say; that's what folks know fou for an’ size you up by. Well, it's the same way with Washin’ton; what he done fur this country, an’ what he said, is as good as it ever was; what's wantin’ is that folks should think of it an’ take it into their heads, an’ be reminded of what a tremendous feller he was, bigger'nany of your Dayises an’ Lees——" ‘An’ your Lincoins an’ Grants?” ‘Of course; @ durn sight bigger.” “Lay yer furrow true, Trum; I'll foller.” Flepps shaded his eyes, looked intently at something on the other side of the river, and ps one may buy calabash gourds and cocoanut shells made into vases and jewel cases by the natives and quite taste- fully carved, and statfed fying fish with their winglike fins an rp noses, reat hed: branches of white coral that would be wonders bron but I reckon the first furrer Pll to the people in the states; but the shopkeepers | have to y'll be to'ards home, with » paddle aremoney makersand ever ready toimpose upon | for a plow. "Pears to me Lee my boy » wavin’ the bland is the Ie Hewee tying Places | ror me; I was 'xpectin’ « city feller ‘hat wants an the island is the rt of 1 to buy some of my biack walnut trees, an’ I club where , he’ 1 not bein’ the: Come over strong and mild. may be obtained, and from | tlmorrer, cayn't yer? Au talk, Georee to te ‘ose cool latticed porticos and balconies one | some of the folks on this af you cayn't jo to make | stir up their muddy blood a little.” ‘ing town in the English West | ““vyfuddyy You ¢’long. 2 river's twenty feet more above water than Coo! Heroism From the Galignan: Memenger. Charles Mougenot, a young engineer on board the ironclad Admiral Baudin, bas just bad bis Migbt Land amputated at the Toulon military hospital as the resuit of injaries received in the following remarkable circumstances: He was starting the engines on the vessel in ac- cordance with instructions when his band caught im the machinery. To have withdrawn it at that particular mo- ment might have caused a serious accident to the big ironclad, aud thus have endangered the haves of everybody on board. W: Bary courage and sang froid the bray. who is oniy tweuty-one years of age, move until all danger was averted, by which is Sand was literally torn to pieces. He will be recommended for the military medal. yourn. Why, when you Lincoln hirelin’s, un- der Pope, tried to sneak ugh your country thro betes corps ‘below Islan’ No. 10, they—~ From the Colorado an’ got : 7 The other night « reckless Denver skeptic kiya ig i gen | attended a spiritualist materialist meeting, and pushed off his dugout and was standing astern, in the course of the evenin, be of &, assuming to paddle in hand. se, faithful, he sought an interview with his] ‘They had to march by water, an‘ sew their father. The medium being willing the father | way through snags an’ bayous on your very ppeared. ‘This conve: follor How are vou, father? Are you happy in the got trem, lounger, who, like the | languid hope that a | alike eck 0” lies "bout — 4 This bank of the | Missouri side, the in which they had been “Jost 1 Lets get, SP Washin'ton ware! fe've got the river an’ we've got the boatse— Just such boats as George to get along “Uniforms be durned! nigh ‘em as Geo was when they stuck their bats an’ caps the day into Philadelphy. As for men- “You ‘cayn't get 'em to go into ai ‘Y,” said the cautious Sumter. sides, most of 'em's possel of mean-sperited shoats, anyhow. “Then I'll hire a lot, ef they won’t volunteer, an’ you shall hire alot more. For three drinks of whisky apiece you can get enough loafers on your side of the river to make a bigger crowd than Washin’ton’s whole army. “They're cheaper on your side, where the hisky"s meaner,” retorted the Tennessean. ‘Keerful!” murmured Trum. “Say, we'll have the start from the side that raises most men. How's that?” “H’m! Pooty tol’able. But: where's the enemy's camp to be?” “Wherever the whisky's to be dealt out—then they'll all get there. You know Washin’ton's men got the Hessian’s breakfast that mornin’ at Trenton, after tho crossin’? Well, I reckon that if the women folks cook up alot of cakes an’ pies an’ other goodies, an’ pack em down the river a little bit it'lido as Well as whisky an’ make less chance of fightin’. It'll be as good asa picnic. "Iwon't cost any money. If each feller'llcome in his worst clothes an’ bring the oldest musket or shotgun he can find we'll look about as the patri’t army looked, I reckon. We can borry a flag some- where, if——" “No trouble ‘bout that; I've got one that I tuk from a Lincoln hirelin’ at Shiloh.” “You hey, hev you? Well, you kerr: self, so'sIcan see you under it, BS § b'long, you durned old rebel!" “Keerful—keerful! We'd ort to have a can- non, I's'pose. There's one down to Bright's Bend that they fire Fourth o’ July's.” = It's one that a dozen of rs captured from a hundred o' yourn.” “They didn't capture it, neither, they stole it while our fellers wasn't lookin.’ That's all you snenkin’ Yanks ever though of—sicalin’ what—.” “Ke—e—erful! Look here, Sump, let's let that infernal civil war take a rest, an” give the revolution a chance. "You paddle back home an’ Hire the patri't heart on your side of the river, while Legg 'em on over here. An’ look here, Sump, get that pooty darter, Carrie, of yourn, that wy Jonathan's makin’ shee at.” eyes “Carliny is her name. Mr. Flepps, as I've told you offen an’ offen, an’ she don t let Jona- than ‘into camp until his dad shows proper Tis-pect to the name of Sumter’s state.” “I beg your pardon, Mister Tulver. Will you have the goodness ‘to present my dutiful Fegards to the charmin’ Miss Carolina, who, I hope, is agoin’ to be Missis Jonathan, an’ ask her if she an’ all the other pooty gals won't make all the goodies they can, an’ I'll get Jona- than to set all the gals on this side at it, an’ the two crowds shall’ make the enemy's camp at some fisee to beagreed upon. Lots of pris’ ners ‘Ii be took that day, Sump, eli?” “Almost like the fust day at Shiloh,” re- sponded Tulver. “More like the last day at Vicksburg, I reckon,” suggested F ‘if the young men’s ny such it your- ere you “Yourn ain't got much, "pears to me, but Yanks alluz went slow when they got nigh Car- *uny—very slow.” “Yes, slow-—but sure.” Never since the civil war ended had societs in the vicinity of the Flepps and Tulver places been so. profoundly stirred as when the word was sho bir trom lendings, stores, blacksmith ‘io and school houses that Washington's day was.to be celebrated by an imitation of the historic f the Delaware. It was the'do-nothit ear, unless done, so questions. Who was to personate Washington? Was the crossing’ to be made in the dark? “Twonldn't be like it if there wasn't any ice floating in the river, would it? What if a steam- boat should come ‘along? Wasn't there any- body to shoot at? ‘Ihe old chums’ retained possession of their senses, organized the men in some fashion and begged. earnestly for plenty of bots of all kitids, including the small’ batteaus used in some of the crceks to float grain to ware huuses on the river. In the meantime, when every- thing seemed to promise vucce:s, the shadow of agreat cloud was thrown over the enter- prise by the sudden appearauce of a delegation Of Afro-Americanr, who usked for recognition & place. Alot of white men trom either side of the river threutened to secede, but ‘Tuiver, the Tennessean, of Carolina descent, brought forth an old colored priut of the orig- inal crossing, showing two colored mea poling of the boat nd announced: ‘mas whiteas any of you, but what was good “nough for Washin'ton is good ‘nough for me, so L reckon you ean stand it, too.” It was therefore arranged that the colored delegation should manage the boate and follow the crowd if it wanted to—as it would have done in any event, Meanwhile the chums worked hard over the details of the crossing ard the subsequent pro- cession, refreshing their minds by rereading their favorite “hives” of the revolutionary leader. Like other restorers of old scenes they had to take many liberties with historic facts. For instance, It never would ‘lo to make the cross- ing at the hour which Was! ston selected, for it would be pitch dark, so that nobody could see the fun—an entertaivment which people for miles around had ulzeady arranged to wit- ness. Noon was, therefore, the hour selected, for it would give everybody time to reach the river, and beside, us Tram suggested: “Everybody's tooth wili Le on edge for the goodies in the Hevsian’s camp.” “Cayn't have no vloody footprints in the snow, either,” said Sump, “even if a flurry comes along in the meantime, which ain't mor'n above likely, no sore-fooved mun's goin’ to march barefoot. It cayn't be did.” “Cayn't, eh? "Twill, though. I’ve got that all fixed in my mind. I'm goin’ to have a nig- ger go ‘long # mile or souhead of us with « bag of flour, an’ once ina while dust a bit of the road, and then dab red wagon paint on his feet an’ tramp on it. How's that for bottom facts of the times that tried men’s solos.” “Trum, you're a plum genius!” “sump, you'reanother. Look here, you've gotto be Cunnel Hand of the Pennsylvany riflemen.” “Not by adurn sight! No Peunsylvany for me. Wa‘n't there no Car'liny troops on that tramp?” “Nury. Besides, the war “—— I don't care if ‘tis over. Gettysburg was in Ponnsylvany.” “‘Well, s’poseit was? That first day at Shi- @h, that you're always crowin’ about, was in ‘Tennessee, wasn’, it?” “That don’t even thing up. No Pennsyl- vany in mine. If P've got to Be anybody in ikilar I'M be Jeems Monroe, atterwards President, that fit with the advance. He was from Virginny, anyhow, where Gin'ral Sumter of South Car‘liny was born.” “H'm! Aaron’ Burr was lieutenant in the fight, I believe. Hé was « traitor, so mebbe fe — 1 = bewrregten tints, woe apie vena hemi aad ple, while several steamboats full came Up and down the river, the story of the cele- bration bay weled. far and excitement. been gathered onthe Delaware a century a; At ‘the point of embarkation stood ‘Trumbull ‘Washit ter sereaed ae jugton—a charac! of ware less fifty years of age, instead of short, gray-haired wan of re "hin elosd an ai water, foliowed by a laugh which bis «What makes Gabinete Gna Mp: a ster dave ov brethe Sit" An a'wuueed seaeine Seen én ae = you one better. Look up spizit you're not in it.” The the | ‘This broke up the meeting. mites cn. the, eliobration of Washing’ troops “By the great horn spoon, it'é Moatis' ice! Sump, —" ““Licut, Jeoms Monroe, if you “Jim, how in thunder did you do it? “Bought five ton at the ——— ‘fn- side the mouth o’ the Your country ‘owes yowa'debt shouldn't wonder if you'd these days. You'll plense in with the commander-iirchief, an'—an’ kerry the fiag, darn you. if you did get it at" Just then Gen. Knox came Cotween the two on some boat- to unload ot tural > e 1 rho bad cay dugout striking a cake "« the ‘boat eyes ‘The commander-in-chief, who was somewhat at ease, seemed to be looking “all ways to ‘as his wife afterward told him, al- thongh he tried to carry himself gravely. Two or three times he rallied on the Lieut Jeems Monroe was holding fine dignity in spite of a rather stiff. bi When the ranks were in order an iting command to march Washington rode to the center of the flank and shouted: “Atten—tion! Front! The commanding officer wants ev'rybody to understand that this ain't no fool show. It’s intended to mean something’ by bringin’ back somethin’. Them that don’t think #o bad better go back home.” “Purty dura quick, too,” murmured Lieut. Jeems Monroe, from behind » mouthful of the stars and stripes which the breeze had tried to force down his throat. “Right—face! Forward—march!" roared the commander-in-chief. Then he turned ovata the colors and whispered, “go up head. Jim, so's ev'rybody can see the glorious old en if you did git it on the first day at the column started; there was no musie—for fear of alarming the enemy—but there were a lot of men inthe ranks who had marched before, and, though i¢ was long ago, they knew how to take the stop and keep it. They re membered a great deal else, apparently; it never took much to recall the grea’ of their lives, so that day—the fi any of them had formed rank: disbandment—their recollections eame so thick and fast as to entirely envelope themand silence them. As they tramped along the road they slowly regained the old «wing of the march, and siowly the young men in the ranks caught itfrom them.” Scarce a veteran spoke, and even if the young men broke ont into fan’ they were frowned into silence. The crowd of spec- tators—men, women and children—at first fol- Jowed imidly in the rear, but little by little cu- 'y got the better of fear, and, led by thesmall ¥, they formed an irregular procession on either side of the road, beside the muin body. ‘Trumbuil’s device of a flour dusted road, with sl stions of bloody foot prints—a device which he had half regretted in his cooler mo- ments—tade a deep impression on the col- lective imagination of the vicinage, aud the only voices “that wero heard confined them- 8 to low murmurs, ‘Jim,” whispered the commander-in-chiof tandard-bearer. “it’s a-wor! Ev'ry ‘8 a8 solemn asa church meetit ‘Solemn as a funeral,” was the reply. “I wish ‘twas nigh the end.” ‘ ‘The ionger it lasts the more they'll see of old flag, Jim.” ‘Ihen it can go on till kingdom-come, if my right arm ‘Il last that long, George.” “Hurrah for ho! Jim—between friends, you know, Im glid—things havin’ turned out to- day the way they Lave I don’t mind ownin’ up that I ain't sorry you was at Shiloh that first brent “Sorry? I'm gladder'n I ever was before. I was so Tull o° tight that day——” ‘He maketh the wrath of man to praise him,’ though sometimes he’s » long time about it,” interrupted the _commander-in-chief. “Wonder where my boy Jouathan is?” “Close ehiu’ you. Nobody ever see you an’ him furapart’ What do you want to know fur?” “Oh, nothin’; that is, we're gettin’ nigh the enemive’ pickeis, an’ it's about time. See them bits 0’ caliker up yonder?” “Yes, I see em. What 'bout it?” “Well, you know what George did, an’ I reckon it's high time to bust up this awful quiet.” ‘hen the commander-in-chief rose in his stirrups, turned his head and roared: nee Charge!—give them..the net!” we The pent-up emotions of the crowd escaped in a loud yell, as the troops dashed into the clearing, where a crowd of damsels and colored Women servants stood awaiting the procession. ‘There wasn sudden scattering, but Trumbull’s boy, Jonathan, who had very long lege, singled out “Car lina Tuiver, overtook her, dropped his gun and captured her in the mauner pecu- liar to young men with women of whom: they are very fond. Other young men made similar captures. *Jonaihan’s throw'd down his arms to Car'- lina!” suvuted the color bearer. “Don't sec but what his arms is where they ort to be,” responded the commander-in-chief. “Trum,” remarked Sump, two birthdays later, un awfal lot o’ weddin # come out o' celebration o' the crossin’ o’ the Delaware.” “Yes, but that ain't the best of it, Sump,” resyouded the cx-commander-in-chicf, “All the boy babies has been baptized George. Reckon we resurrected the old man. ———+0-_— HE RUED HI8 BARGAIN, The Buyer of a Marked-Down Bulldog Wants to Keturn the Goods. From the Philade:phia Times, Anexcited young man dislocated the bell knob beside the door of a dog fancier's store on Sth street the other evening by a vigorous jerk, sometime after the proprietor had retired for the night, and performed a lively reel on the pavement to keep his blood in circulation while he was awaiting admittance. “Hello!” he said, when a window above was raised and a night-capped head appeared, “Are you the man who runs this dog store?” Agruff reply in the affirmative came from the second story. “Well, then, hustle round and get ready to come out to my house in the country. I'm the fellow who bought that eight-dollar bargain bulldog from you this morning. and I’m not satisfied with the deal at all.” “How's that?’ demanded the dealer in em- bryo sausages, leaning further ont of the win- low so as to gt g00d look at the other. “Don't he suit you?’ “No, be don’ the young man said promptly, “and I'll be willing to part with him without any consideration at all. You remember Ipaid for him and ordered him to be sent out to my house by one of your men, don’t you?” “That's right.” “Well, that feeble-minded assistant of yours found my family out, and ho tied the blood- ir ite to the front door knob—and— ‘He's there yet, that’s all, and my wife bas been spending the evening with the neighbors. I don’t like to disturb him myself, although I'd like to get in the house #0 as to assist mother-in-law off the roof of the porch. you'll come out and get the dog I'll be very. A noise which sounded suspiciously like = chuckle came from above and interrupted the saker as the window was shut down. Then the young man provesded with the takann steps of the reel while he awaited the appear- fance of the dog dealer-oceasionall ing the performance ments regarding could only be represented , Why She Did Not Use the Card. From the New York Times. A clever and well-known woman writer re- cently paid » visit to an editor to confer with him over a manuscript he had asked of her. As she opened her card case she noticed only one left, which she regretted, having a second visit to make that morning. She sent it in, how- ever, and shortly followed it. vat /HIS ONE GOOD AcT JACK 0 LANTERN. The Irish Legend of How the Light So And the Three Wishes Granted by the Angel— ‘Bow Satan Was Foiled in His Three At- tempts to Take Jack—Hie Doom te Be For- song hath told, no sage taught,” but it makes not one whit of differ- ence to mystory. He lived on the banks of a stream, close by a ford, and wasknown far and wide as the meanest, most churlish and inhospitable old cur- mudgeon in the land. A beggar would never think of asking even for a crust at his door, for well he knew the surly reception in store for him. Jack had a wife, more's the pity! the poor soul had nothing to sweeten life's hard crusts. No neighbor cared to cross her hus- band’s inhospitable doorsill, and if they met him on the road they turned their eyes another way, 80 a8 not to see him, so evil was his repu- tation. : Once, it was fair day, and Jack had been'de- tained in the village until late. His heart eank in hin.as he thought of the lonely wood through which he would have to pass to reach the ford. The night was dark, and dread tales of murder andevil spirits came to his mind. But his fear was not as strong as his greed, and he decided to on rather than spend his silver for night's lodging; for well he knew, no one, for friendship’s sake, would give him a shelter for the night. So he rode boldly off. Lower and lower sank his spirite and darker and datker grew the path as he neared the fatal spot. Half dead with fright, his teeth chattering and his breath coming in short gasps, he entered the wood. Suddenly he da groan; again and again he heard it: the blood almost froze in Jack's veins and his scanty hairs stood on end with horror. He tried to push on, but the mouns still rang in his ears and not knowing why he stopped and searching for the cause of them. JACK Was NO COW! Jack was no coward, no matter what other bad qualities he possessed. He was not afraid of anything when he was cornered, so be it spirit or devil he determined to investigate. Sum- moning all bis courage he asked: “Who and what are you that makes these unearthly moans?” Just then he saw, extended at his feet (for he had dismounted from his horse), an old gray- haired man, his clothes thin and ragged, who cried: “For the love of heaven take me to some human habitation; 1 have lost my way, I cannot cross the ford, and am dying of hunger and cold.” aad Something within Jack spoke,his good spirit, that had never moved him before ttrall his Life, induced him to wrap the poor, shivering old man in his own heavy coat, pice him on horse and carry him io his own home. Jack's wife started back in surprise when she saw the burden he carried into the house, and she was quite sure he had gone crazy or been bewitched when he ordered a bed to be made for the fee- ble stranger, and the best the poor cottage af- forded to be set before him. The stranger was warmed, cheered, comforted and put to bed and was soon asleep. Jack hardly knew him- Mt i new rola, but something had im- pelled him ‘that he could not disobey; he needs must do that and nothing else. JACK'S THREE Wists. Jack, on awaking next morning, was dazzled by the: brilliant light that shone around the oom (nd one had » separate bed room at Jack's cottage), and when his eyes had become accustomed to the wondrous light he saw a beauteous “vision; an angel, clothed in white, with snow-white wings, Snzing at him. *Mortal,” said the angel, “I am one of the Spirité commissioned to watch over the suns of Adam, I beard thy neighbors say not one spark of human kindness dwelt in thy stone- cold heart; not a grain of compassion; but they were mistaken A little grain lay hidden un- used in thyheart. To try thee I took the form ofa feeble old man. Iam thy stranger guest, whom thou hast housed, warmed and fed. I have shared thy hearth; for this thy kindness my blessing shall rest upon thy home, and I will grant the three wishes. Weigh well what thou usketh !"” should like,” said Jack after some reflec- tion, “that whoever shall sit in my especial chair shall never be able to lift the chair from its place nor get out of it until allow him. I would have the hand that touches anything in my tool box on the wall (for Jack was a cobbler) unable to move the boxor take the hand out until I give permission. Lastly, I would have whoever plucks & branch from the sycamore before my door unable to let go his hold until Tsay so. People take my awls and pluck my tree and I will not have it.” ‘The angel looked at Jack with sorrowful eyes and grieved expression as he finished his wishes; but he granted them and de Foolish man t> ask such paltry things when so much was within his grasp: ‘From that mo- ment Jack wasexcluded from heaven, for he had eternal blessedness for the asking, but aske: it not ‘the angel’s blessing rested on Jack's house- hold, everything prospered with him and his children, but no one loved him, no one ever cared for him. THE FIRST DEMON. Years after, perhaps fifteen or twenty, he was resting in his easy chair with his pipe, when suddenly he perceived a strong, dis- agreeable odor, something like brimstone. He I up. much surprised, and his ey higbted of a demon standing in the doorway. a tall, dark being, graced with two horns, cloven feet and a long tail, which he carried gracefully under his arm—so the legend saya. Jack quaked with frigut, but, putting a bold face on, as he usually did when driven to the wall, politely asked him what he wanted. “You,” said the demon; “my master sent me to conduct you to him, and he will give you a walleight, ia Jack, “rising from his ch: “Al 3 jack, *‘ ym his chair ively motioning to the demon; “pray be scatod; you must be weary after your long journey. Rest yourself while I put on my Sune day clothes, for never couid I ap; before his satanic majesty in these old di Iwill be wid ye ina jiffy.” ‘The. demon seated himeelf comfortably in the chair, for it was soft and easy. Jack im- mediately took anew flail that stood in the corner and whaled the poor demon within an nee of hig life. In vain he shrieked for mercy, P get up from it. Unfortunate demon that he was! Jack laid it on with right will. “Ye cam to take me wid ye to your oe hole, did yes? Tl tacho ye to ectne after a dacentjintleman!” (Jack’s brogue was very broad when he was excited.) Jack never stopped until the flail lay in linters and his arms ached with the exertion. making the Semmes oe : Jack's head. 3 Se & gE e ty if E E i ould come immediately; that Le was not to be fecled with any of Jack's tricks; so, knocking the door open, he seized the terror-stricken man and dragged him out of the house (his majesty not to remain inside the house for fear he might fall into some trap.) Jack begged to go back and kiss his wife good- bye and get cauie, “for,” said he, “‘I am lame and the way is slippery with ico and snow and Icannot walk far.” The devil would not let him go, thor but kept a tight grip on him. “All right.” said Jack, “‘the way is long and T cannot walk, so your majesty, if you are very anxious for my company, will have to carry me on your back. I know you will not like that, forI am a trifle heavy, twenty stones or so. As you will not let me get my cnne, just reach mea branch from yon sycamore tree; it will help me along and relieve you of carrying me.” ‘The devil, hoping to stop histongue, reached out his band aud, to his utter surprise, he could not break off the branch nor take his hand from the tree. Again Jack resorted to the flail, and three were broken to splinters over the devil's back. His roars and howlings were like mighty thunder and the stamping of his feet shook the earth like an earthquake. Jack had good stout erm and he laid on with a mighty vim from morning until night. At last, when he could do no more, he made the devil promiso he would never come nor send any one for him, and not even have him in hell. The devil giadly consented, for he had nota whole bone in his body, his horns were awry, his tail out of joint and his cloven feet cracked with the stamping. Jack went to bed, weary and sore from his labors, but with ‘an exuitant heart, baving cheated even the devil himself. JACK'S DOOM TO WANDER. In the course of timo Death came. He had Ro power of resistance against him, no potent spell to turn bis unerring shaft aside. Jack died. His spirit soared up, up to the gates of heaven and knocked at the door. St. Peter, recognizing Jack at the portal, said: “You can* not enter here. You chance once to do 40, but you did not grasp door in ‘his face. Jack's spirit then descended to the gates of hell. | There, also, he was refused admittance. The fiends when ‘they saw him grew pale with | fright, for his e puration had gone to the | lowest depths, and even tho devil himself | turned and fled to the uttermost part of his | domain, And so Jack was doomed to walk the earth With alantern to guide his footsteps on dark nights and in dim ‘ploces until the judgment Te some counties of Ireland there will be found some who believe this legend at this pres ent day. ‘McLxop. —~e-____ CONSCIENCE AND CAR TICKETS It Depends Upon the Former How the Latter Are Disposed of sometimes. (PuREE PINK CAR TICKETS WERE LYING in full view ona street car seat night before last. It was about 9 o'clock and the vehicle was bound down town. At the corner of H street and 15th a number of passengers had got off and the tickets aforeeaid were forgotten. A young man with gig lamps and a cape over- coat, who was accompanied by a pretty girl in furs, took the trouble to pick up the tickets. When the conductor came through he offered them to him, saying that finds of the sort were obviously @ perquisite of his own. The reply was: “Thank you, sir. Iwill hand the tickets in at the office of the company.” “Do you mean to say that you will makes Present of them to the corporation?” asked the young man. “I am obliged by the regulations to sur- render them,” replied the conductor. The youth in the cape overcoat extended s finger and thumb and grasped the tickets which lay in the conductor's palm. Said he: “I don't propose to make the company & prosent of any car tickets.” So saying he put the tickets into his pocket. ‘The conductor remanked: “J am very glad of that, sir. If you had in- sisted gi ald have ing them to me I been obliged to write a special report to the company uccounting for them.” So surprising did this experience seem to the youth with the gig lamps that ou his way home the same night he spoke to another conductor about it. ‘Lhe latter said: “That feller must have been a green hand. Nobody will ever catch me giving up to the company any tickets I find. One might as well turn over the change one picks up.” “Do you mean money that is dropped by Passengers?” queried tue young man. “Yes, sir. A good deal’ of smail change is dropped in a street car in the course of a year. Falling in the straw, most of it isn't found at Ic is very tunny tosee how earnestly @ person will search even for a penny that is Jost in such a way. Somehow it is pro- voking to lose money, and the average pas senger will time after a nickel or dime rather than give it up. ~It is wonderfully hard to find @ lost coin in the straw.” “So it ia. But the reason is chiefly that ple go at it in the wrong way. A person hav- ing dropped a piece of money almost invari- ably makes a grab in the straw where it fell, thinking to grasp it. That 1s the worst possi- ble thing to do under such circumstances. One should treat the matter very gingerly, marking the place as closely as may be and separate in a light and delicate manner the wisps of straw from about it. Ordinarily the Passenger simply shakes things up so that the coin is thrown to one side.” “How do you succeed in finding the lost money?” inquired the youth in the cape over- coa And he shut the | every woman's form Jnst now will 4 | though by magic to be succeeded skirt ite @uys re numbered. It has been found thet society Indies bave been employing their maids to make these simple but popular garmenta, and ad anatural rosult the dresemakers have suffered. It is not likely that the modistes are going to allow a continuation of this: It is anid that altbough Just now the “forreaa” gown is reigning seréne when spring is well advanced it will look dreadfully old. that sleeveless jackets and trimming of the Louis XLL, XIV and XV period will be popular, The style wo are secing before our eyes om } os y some more novel form of glorr. Particular attention is called to the first sketch of a new cranede skirt, with side openings and coreage- top." You will paraaion that it is just the thing for epring wear and looks very pretty withe loose open coat. The fit on hipsand round the Srist should be a0 tight end wrinklon ase skin—a young skin—or the costume On thie costtime. the trimming is @ different kind and contrasting color of cloth appliqued on with a metallic braid outline. The second sketch shows « Parisian The fastening isat the back. It is made? e material to match the gown. Short capes are to be exceedingly fashion able for spring wear. They are not to be ex- celled. They will be seen with great deal ef lace about them. —— NUPTIAL NOVELTIES IN WYOMING. How the Matrimonial Knot Was Tied by @ Frontier Justice of the Peace. Cheyenne Letter to the Chicago Tribune, Camping near a town in Wyoming wesecured our stock and then went in. Entering the lead- ing store of the town I introduced myself te Mr. Stiles, one of the proprietors and the post- master. Stiles said: “It's now 2:30 and at 8 there's a wedding at Jonas Burton's. Old Jonas is a rough old coon that we electeda J the peace about a month ago, and as be his first attempt at 1 shall see sume fun. Come, go with went into the old ‘squire’s cabin and f oring over a large volume of the * Vyoming,” sweating like « horse terribly anxious. After greeting “Stiles, them galoots that got laws hadn't gumption enough to ifitee i abssh i & ¥ 4 ij Es i “Well,” replied the conductor, “I make it » rule to shake out the straw every evening, par- theularly if 1 have seen any money dropped. I do it by taking a handful ats time, so that the money will drop out. Once in awhile {get as much as balfadoliar. ‘The pickingy are small, but they come cheaply. ———— Written for The Evening Star. The Daisy. Alone by the meadow little white Nower Awakes from its sleep to peep forth from its bower. °Tis only # daisy, which nature has told To hagbor the secret its death will unfold. Beside the bright meadow a sad little maiden— Sweet Gretchen—is passing,uer heart heavy laden. She spies the lone dalsy and forward she springs And plucking its petals she eagerly sings, “Er Mebt mich, ganz innig, von Herzen, mit ‘Schmerzen, Ein wenig, und gar nicht; er lebt mich, von Herzen.” Dear Gretchen rejoices; her sorrows For the soul of the daisy now blooms in her heart. —CLIFPORD Howaup. ‘Washington, Febraary 20, 192. night. I've run through the if dozen times an’ can't find matermony or how the hitchi ceded witii. this ere couple “em up legal I can’t help i Stiles explained to how coed, and old man finally thought he worry through in tolerable Ere long the couple ap) crowd of citizens of the [ t i I i ii : i s 4 i Stood up before the ‘squire, who ““Fellow-citizens, this rf | i] galoot in the mob knows might block the game if tuck to Jet bim now toot his bazoo or else to himself uow aud forevermore. of my perceeding as authorized 1 —_ i i af Li : SE g Everybody aaid “Contrary, Nobody said “*N ~The motion’ Vent the trying of the case.” “Now,” said the ‘squire, “grip your filma” ‘The candidates joined hands. “amos Peabody, 20 Zou solemnly ewear thet "i freeze to Mandy forever, pervide t, and treat her squar’ and white, eccordia’ to the rules and regulations set down to govers sich cases in the laws o' the United States; eo help you God.”