Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1892, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D. C.. SATURDAY, AUGUST 27. 1892—-SIXTEEN PAGES. ll —— SESS ———— THE PRESIDENT’S STAND ARTISTIC DECORATIONS. A Description of the Reviewing Stands for the Grand Parade. THE GRACEFUL STRUCTURES WHICH WILL BE ERECTED IN FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND TEE WAR DEPARTMENT—TWE PENSION HALL DECORATIONS —OTUER ENCAMPMENT MATTERS. Of more that usual merit from an artistic standpoint the reviewing stands that will be erected by the citizens’ committee for the use of the President and the commander-in-chief will combine both utility and beauty. It is ensy enough to put up stands that will answer such @ purpose, but it is rather difficult to make them afeatare in the festive decoration which the city will put on when the veterans of the Grand Army are here next month. The accompany- ing cuts will show what really graceful and | Grand Army folks and their friends, This church will present to the “Black Phalanx” a parade banner to be carried in the line of march on the next day, September 20, J.W. E. Bowen, Ph.D., pastor of the church, himself a son of & veteran, will make the presentation speech. Gens. Thos. J. Morgan, W. T. Clarke, Benj. F. Butler, Chas. J. Paine, ‘Samuel A. Duncan, Wm, Birney, Wm. F. (Baldy) Smith and Maj. Wm. Warner will act aa sponsors for the U. 8. col- nd the Secretary of the Navy will cer to represent the navy. The benner will be received by Capt. P. B. S. Pinch- back, second rogiment Louisiana Native Guard, Corps d’ Afrique (74 U. jeut. James Lewis, first regiment Native Guard, Corps'd’Afrique; Capt. Hannibal Carter, sev enty-fourth U. 8, C. 'T.; Lieut. Frank M.Welch, fifty-fourth Massachusetts volunteers; Richard Henderson, first D. C. volunteers, U.'S. C. T.; Powhatan Beaty, first sergeant fifth U. 8. C. T. for the ‘-phalaux," which will be made up by & detail of three picked men from each colored post to be in the line and a guard of eight one- armed men. On each side of the banner will as the pillars, will be appropriately treated, and in the full lood of the electric light, which will fll the hall on the evening of the reception tendered by the citizens’ committee to the mem- bers of the encampment, the scene will be a brilliant and inspiring one. CORPS REUNIONS. Ata meeting of the fifteenth corps last night @ committee was appointed consisting of Gen. Raum, Capt. Geo. W. Wilson and ex-Gov. Hovey to notify Mra. Logan of her election as an honorary member of the corps. The next meeting will be held Friday night, September 2. The seventeenth corps adopted a badge last night and drafted a formal letter of invitation be sent to all surviving members of the corps. nother meeting will be held next Friday night. The naval veterans met at the Ebbitt House last night and several matters of minor detail in connection with the reunion were considered. The committee on badges was instructed to design a badge tobe worn by naval veterans and marines who register regularly during the encampment, to be sold to them at cost. ‘This ; iid i ns va? PETIT ATI SISTA STR A FOR THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. artistic structures are to be erected. They were designed by the artist, Mr. Henri Rykers, for the contractor, Mr. Julius Lansburgh. Al- though a number of other designs were submit- ted for the inspection of the coramittee yet the choice fell upon these because in the opinion of the committee they combined two essential and important features, namely, beauty and utility. are. of course, only intended for use om the day of the grand parade, but owing | to thé conspicuous position which they will oc- eupy and the necessity that they should be in Teadiness they will form a permanent object during the stay of the veterans in this city. The stand that will be occupied by the Presi- dent, the members of the cabinet and other dis- tingnisbed guests will be located on Pennayl- Vania avenue directly in front of the White House. As may be seen from the cut, the Pr ident’ With wings on each side. c like roof or canopy over the central portion will be appropriately draped in colors, the national f course, prevailing. Flags of the United States and the emblems of the Grand Army will constitute an important ele- ment in the decoration. The designer, bow- ever, has avoided what he considers the error so often made of using the national colors in the form of bunting. He believes that the em- blem of the nation’s power and greatness is found in the ug and that the proper place for a tlag is to be unfurled in the air. ‘The mate- | rial need in decoration will, therefore, be in | solid colors. +o arranged as to present an entire | harmony m color and unity in design. The | rear wall of the stand will be covered so that | when the chairs are filled and when the stand is not in ure it will present « spectacle pleasing and attractive to the eve. | Te wegsee et seams mode eotectaate ts | the central portion, for the latter will be the place where the President and the prominent men invited to be with him on that occassion will take their positions to review the s columns. .The stand will be some 100 feet ix Jength and will accommodate about 500. TRE COMMANDER-IN CHIEF'S STAND. Equaily pleasing, but of an entirely different design, will be the stand from which Com- mander-in-Chief Palmer and his staff and in- Vited guests will see the veterans marching along. The stand will be erected in front of the War Department, and will be much larger and will ac persons than the for the Prosident. This stand d more expecially will show the distinctive char- acter of the occasion. It will be x Grand Army stand. The strong pedestals at the entrance will support stands of colors, aud there will be ye who have been soldiers, regard to decoration the same general scheme will be carried ont, and it is the tention to make the structure effective by a skillfal combination of colors. ‘There will be no crude- news or garishness. The stand will not simply be a mass of colors, buried beneath an accumu- lation of decoration that is palpably put on merely to bide the rough boards It will, on the contrary, be a dignified and suitable place arpose for which it is intended, and it will, moreover, be pleasing to the eye and will te ‘materially to the decorative appear- ance of the avenue. | TUE PENSION HALL DECORATIONS. Itis intended that the decorations of the pension hall, in which an entertainment is to de given to the G. A. K encampment on Thurs- das night of the encampment week, will be unique and striking. 2 subcommittee in ebarge of the decoration, of which Mr. W. 5. Roovw is chairman, is devoting much time and | thought to the matter. The scheme of decora- tion adopted & one designed by Mr. Rykers, the contract having in this case also been | awarded to Mr. L rgh. A cut showing » of the hall and illustrating the scheme of decoration is given herewith. As may be wen, the lower row of columns which sur- round the hall are each decorated with # shield surrounded with flags A similar feature is eerried out on the upper row of columns. zm shields on the first floor row the names At cach end of the hall, high up in the center of the great wall, will be portraits of Lincoln and Groat. In the center of the side wall are large portraite of Harrison and Morton,which formed | & part of the decoration of the hall at the last | fmaugaral ball, and it has been decided not to remove them. grou] flags. onnecting cout features Of the decorations and across the fronts of the two balconies will be draped materials committee will be Shipmate Vannemen. chair and Montgomery. to r whic night, September 2. sixteenth and seventeenth corps last night. The reunion of the Army of the Tennessee will be be carried the battle flags that caused such an Shipmates Proctor | ovation to be paid the colored troops along the rt at the next muster, | line of march at Detroit last summer. will be held at the Ebbitt House Friday | On one tide of the banner there will be a }legend reading, ‘499 battleficlds and every Gen. Green B. Kaum presided over a meeting | ship of war during the rebellion testify that the of representatives of the thirteenth, fifteenth, | black man forged his way to freedom through | fire and sword.” “"Better men were never better led, officers neve: led better men.” Loyal and devoted to thelr countey.” On the reverse ride will appear these words: “The colored soldier and suilor fought gallantly in our army and navy, now give them the right to vote—they would probably help in some try- ing hour to come to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom.” A. Liwcouy.” man, to be associated with held at 11 o'clock a.m. on Thursday of encamp- ment wee @ was heli yesterday afternoon at idenee of Mr. S. H. Ruder, 1301 E street northwest, to arrange for a reanion of the sur- vivors of the Garibaldi Guard. The reunion will include members of the old Metropolitan Riiles. ae | ae — RSttonos f= 82 PENSION OFFICE DECORATIONS. second corvs bas | mapgerented to the “Black, Phalana.> by thelr night a ive countrymen, September 19, 1892, nm, The "U Chareh will take \ corps will meet this evening | the welcome to and friends, at Willard’s and the seventh at the Ebbitt. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's “Battle Hyman of ‘the ae mac = Republi,” “Rally Rend. the Fig. $ September 19 at 8 o'clock there is to be | ana’ other riotic songs will be sung by the gathering at Asbury Church, corner 11th and | entire uudien intervals, alternating be- K northwest, that will be memorable with ' tween tho More Beautiful and Less Expensive, an SS ae Nae athe ‘From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. woman some energy. =| “I suppose your son brought homes diploma listlens Hales Crue rn, gee chows nota |, “E — Tee uae anal See { “Law, yes; the whole to the New York, beslth ree ceedate The | of his trunk is fall of thelr pictures, but I can't A DEGRADED PEOPLE. The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Their Life of Barbarism. RECOGNIZE NO AUTHORITY. A Graphic Description of the Condition of ‘These Indians and Their Manner of Lite— Superstitions, Vain and Obstinate, They Set Themselves Against All Progress—Op- position to Education. 8 IF “SHUT IN BY ramparts of conserva- tism” the Pueblo In- dians of New Mexico continue to live today yin much the same fash- jon as their ancestors did in the remote perfod before history began. ‘The unchanging charac~ ter of their lives, the preservation of the old customs and traditions, dating back to a time when monuments and remains afford the only data of a people's history, these Indians have aroused the liveliest interest on the part of scientists. They have been visited, their homes, method of life and customs have been described and many of the traditions and myths which hhave been preserved from one generation to another have been patiently gathered and trans- From a literary standpoint perhaps there are few pooplea, certainly none among the aborigi- nes of America, that have ved more at- tention. Recentiy, however, another investi- gator has been among them, and from the standpoint of an educator he has looked into their customs and their ways of life and at- tempted to solve the problem of how to bring this strange people within the influence of modern civilization. DR. DORCHESTER'S INVESTIGATION. The superintendent of Indian schools, Dr. Dorchester, has recently, spent some time among the Pueblos, and the result of his ob- servations he has given in a carefully written report which bas been received at the Indian office. The scope of Dr. Dorchester’s inveati- tions was indicated by Indian Commissioner lorgan, who desires to make the school sys- tem ‘among the Indians as effective as possible. Dr. Dorchester finds that there is no accurate census of the Pueblo Indiuns, as they look with much suspicion and superstition upon any attempts at enumeration. The dumb secrcey of the red race baffles the | “™ census taker. They look upon the knight of the n, ink and book asa sagamore who has come question them with evil intent and they secrete their children and confuse the ques- tioner. Infectious diseases play havoc in the ill-ventilated pueblo houses, from which the germs of smallpox, measles, &c., cannot be ex- pelled. Close intermarriage is another cause of decline in numbers, both together leading to a gradual diminution of the population, ‘THE PRESENT POPULATION, They now number 8,285 souls, living in nine- teen communities, and owning 1,074,974 acres of land, some of which is wholly waste land, much is fit only for pasture, while the rest are fertile and well-watered valleys. With the ex- ception of two all the Pueblos are in the valley of the Rio Grande and its tributaries, occupy- ing much of the best land in New Mexico. The houses are built of adobe or stones laid in adobe mortar and are generally two etories high. The roofs are covered with logs, reeds, brush and bay, and the floors are simply the beaten earth “slicked over” with soft mortar. The in- terior walls are roughly plastered with clay mortar and whitewashed with calcined gypsum. NUMBER OF THE PUEBLOS. Of the total Pueblo Indian population of 8,285 Dr. Dorchester etates that there are 1,624 children of school age, and of this latter num- ber 949 are in school and 675 are not in school. Only a small proportion of the children en- rolled attend the schools, and the meager at- tendance is accounted for by the factthat there is no police power to put and keep children in the day schools, and further that Pueblo chil- dren know nothing of discipline, which w thing unknown in the Pueblos except in en- forcing pagan and tribal customs, which are all against education. ‘Dr. Dorchester adds that the parents literall have no desire to nee their children educated. He,however,recommends the continuance of the present schools and the establishment of four new schools. “This is no time for retreat,” he urges. ‘We should push on this work with a firm hand.” He recommends that the contract schools of New Mexico be placed ona higher level and| provided with a better class of teachers. a better supply of school books, maps and blackboarda, ‘There are some excellent teachers in contract day schools, he adds, “but others are of the poorest class I have ever known, with low ideals, Tagged clothing. and teaching’ in rooms any- thing but attractive. He recommends that there be an agent for the Pueblos alone, and that he should be a man of nerve who will push matters to the verge of his authority. OBSTACLES OF PROGRESS. After this review of the present condition of the Indians and their needs Dr. Dorchester turns hia attention to what ia perhaps the most important part of ‘the report, the discussion of the difficulties which are in the way of progress, He re | gards these difficulties as radical and as ‘ing in the Pueblo genius, religion or or- ism. ‘The principal religion of the Pueblos,” he saya, “is the darkest of superstitions, a pagan fetichismn which controls the whole life.” ‘The unswerving adherence of the Pueblo In- dians to their ancient ideas and usages, amount- ing to granite obstinacy, is staied to be another obstacle to progress. “For this "peculiarity," continues Dr. Dorchester, “they have ever been noted. One Of the first conquerors of Mexico, Vargas, com- plained that they ref ised to work, even for wages, and said: ‘I have been obliged to race whole’ villages to the ground to punish their obstinacy." Now, as then, the Pueblos are sun wor- shipers, It took a succession of reconversions and rebaptisms, through scores of years, to, perfect their surrender to the new faith, so often did they fall away from the mere quasi assent yielded under constraint, This Pagan religion is industrious y instilled into the minds of their children, in estufas, where old legends are repeated over and over, and essed upon young, susceptible ‘Their liefs are sustained by prophetic hopes. As “Sons of Montezuma,” so they call they believe that fullness their Messinh will come—will leave his bright sun house to right the wrongs and soothe the woos they have, suffered since the days of the Spaniards, Their ideas are vague; their legends, treacherous as memory, are growing fainter with the lapse of years, and ‘even wise men are without “open vision. AS CBRISTIANS. When the Pueblo Indians adopted Chris- | the ideas or life. The word progres, as related to society, has no place in his meager vocabulary. A CONCEITED, SULLEN OBSTINACT. ‘When one penetrates beyond their outside gentle courtesy he encounters s conceited, sullen obstinacy which stoutly resists effort to introduce an education, which — oa anew customs, &c. One long familiar with Pueblos said: “They cannot be instructed be- cause they know everything; nor surprised be- cause their fathers had all wisdom before you were born. Show them the most curions and beautiful article you possess and the; 5 stolid composure as an t long familiar, * © * = Like the Chivece ther so much resemble, nothing can be named which they did not have years ago, and having so long all. know! they steadily resist your efforts to show them their ignorance. They think themselves the envy of the civil- The recent attentions they have received from curious visitors and archmologists have doubtless confirmed their conceit, and they are contented to still travel the old, deeply worn, Focky footpaths that lead in and out of their villages, beaten by centuries of wayfarers, far back in'unrecorded ages. This persistent ad- herence to the old Pueblo system of ideas is baleful in its workings, rei all efforts from without to help them to better conditions. It promotes a constant clash with American government, civilization and education, and suggests the inquiry whether such an autonomy should be tolerated under an intelligent, repre~ sentative government. This religion is fetich- jm of the ggrossest kind, complicated with all natural pheffomena, and the atmospheric ele- ments are ite symbols. It places animals on an equality with mankind, sometimes recognizing them “as man's superiors. His religion ‘assumes man's utter helplessness within the natural realm and excuses crime. There is no greater slave than the Pueblo Indian. Every motion is guarded by superstitions. We won- der at his lack of truthfulness, consistency and moral consciousness. ‘The crimes for which we would punish him he commits without any re- gret. Nature, defied by him to innumerable reonalities, exacts from him the conduct we lame. He is a timid, feeble, fettered being. If this everywhere prosent religion made better character and improved the life the case would be more hopeful, but it is far otherwise, not- withstanding the verdicts of some superficial observers. THE OBJECT OF THEIR RELIGION is not to impart such a quality, but to provide incantations which may protect them fgom evil Geniiand keep them in favor with wind and water. They perpetually steal from each other and cannot trust their gardens and fields against ee ey in harvest time. As for faith, they seldom trust to any one. A Pueblo never seems to have faith even in his wife, for his idea of virtue, if he has any, does not re- juire such faith. I know this is a terrible in- tment, and itis probably not true of the better Pueblos, but it accurately describes many. very many. | Their peculiarly consti- tuted political autonomy, whose source is their ‘ of pagan priesthood and whose chief function is Fe tuate and enforce their old customs religions, is another difficulty. TERRITORIAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT. The Pueblos do not participate in the terri- torial government. Though giving a quasi assent to itand never fighting directly against it, yet they stand wholly aloof, pay no taxesand take no perceptible interest in territorial affaira. The Pueblos also stand aloof from each other, having no organic connection as Pueblos and little interest in each other's affairs. In government these Pueblos have al- ways been practically independent, electing their own officers. Some Pueblos ‘are little better, some a little worse,viewed from a stand- tof an American civilization, but doubt- the same radical wrong existe in all of them, untouched by their peculiar government. What an intensely interesting pueblo is Zuni, with its ceaseless ceremonies; and yet in this pueblo is the grossest corruption. There is constant stealing, not only from cattlemen and the Navajocs, but stealing and selling each other's cattle, each other's crops, &c. Several cases of murder of Mexicans passing through the reservation were reported to me as having occurred within » few years, unprovoked, sy for plunder, and the murderers are well own and at large in the pueblo. Bastardy ix a frequent occurrence, oceasioning no comment, Discipline and punishment for the purpose of romoting moral and social welfare are un- nown. iis istrue of all the pueblos. The slightest deviation, however, from their old- time customs and religious observances is #e- verely punished. It has been customary for some prominent New Mexicans to highly compliment the mor- ality of the Pueblo Indians and to dwell upon the fact that eel are seldom brought into the courts for trial, But this,I am persuaded, after spending some time in eighteen pueblos, is a superficial view of the case. The Indians are left to regulate their own internal affairs and only a small class of offenses, therefore, are brought to the public notice. Within themselves their own standard of moral and social order generally does not call for much discipline. In their estimation offenses against the religious ceremonies, dances, &c., sre the most serious amd call for severer punishment. Their customs are all linked with these observances. Incantation’ and 80 forth, and the power of their govern. ment must be exercised to preserve them tact. ‘The foment immorality existe among themselves, but it is regarded as no offense and calls for no interference. THE PUEBLO sysTEM is communistic in its character—not in respect to property, though the patent of each pueblo is held in undivided form. Each family holds the lands it cultivates by a common unwritten understanding. The crops and flocks are indi: vidual property. But there is no individuality, noindependence in ideas, in personal plans of in action. All must foliow the old traditions, beliefs and customs, and no variation is toler ate The rigid enforcement of these communal customs is the hardest blow to educated youth. Iu many of the pueblos no one leaves the vil- luge withont the consent of an officer. OPPOSED TO MODERN IDEAS. The governor of one of the smallest pueblos came to me with the complaint that the young men would not dance now as formerly, i. ¢., in their religious dances, I could not comfort him, but could only say, “Things are changing.” This made him open his eyes, for the idea of change Le did not comprehend, nor liberty of action. I told him this was what was coming, and he had better adjust himself to the inevita- ble. Then he looked sadder still. A young Puebio boy at Carlisle joined the Presbyterian Chureh. When he returned to his home he kept away from the Presbyterian mission. When asked why, he replied: “I am obliged to do so, If I did not I could have no 2 About ten vears ago, in the Zia Pueblo. two elderly people were put death. Thus we their names. The defense was that they departed from the old communal customs, Both were elabbed to death in the most inhuman manner. ‘The murderers were never arrested or punished in any way. One girl who returned from an eastern school this your was stripped of her clothing by the governor, and in this nude condition was com- to dance before him. edness of the pueblo. In another pueblo, only last winter, two boys, ‘by the consent of their parents, but without of the governor, left home for the Albag government school. For this of- feuse the parente were to move out of the pueblo into » deserted old house. In another pueblo a young man just re- turned from Carlisle was whipped because he received a letter from Carlisle. The governor : Tam determined to make you an Indian Geter easter rete taken into the Ramona school, ‘When he - E Seta aan tenets ve 10" over aguin, lest injustice be done some Ibave been careful to seek informa- It is an important practical question of civil Seow Gok tcaanensen Sonnets: ernment allow suc! Pe an nomies to remain—nineteen in one territory or Seldom, except in cases of homicide or severe cases of assault, are the Pueblos in court, and even then the old plea is made: “We govern ourselves.” saya: “I cannot In conclusion Dr. Dorchester say resist the conviction that the Pueblo Indians should be wards of the general t for governmen some time longer. They are an exceedingly ignorant and stultified people. They have always and 20 shut out from them= selves the outside world, its ideas, ite currents of thought, &c., that their minds are blank Upon many matters which are the common in- heritance of American minds. In requirements they are far behind the Sioux, the Nez Perces, the Yakimas, the Umatillas, ‘the Onages, the , ec. And, more than this, Pueblo in- tellects are stagnant and feeble, in consequence Of the lone torpid condition in which they have v “Let the educational work, of which I have al- ready spoken, and will soon more fully, be pushed. and let other civilizing methods be Sisely and persistently introduced for a term of years. and then those Indians may reach « condition fit for citizenship.” ——— Written for the Evening Star. An August Echo, An August day, and I smell the hay, And what would I give to kuow If you remember what I remember Of one day long ago— An August day with the scent of hay Wavering to and fro. An Augnst day, and never was May So rich with the sun's warm biaze; It was nearing September, and don't you remember The light-foating violet haze? “Twas an August day, and never was May So rich with the sun's warm blaze. ‘The long day went with its sweet content ‘TI the stars flashed out in the dusk; From far away the scent of hay Came, sweeter than splce or musk— The long day went with its sweet content, = LOVE A FACTOR IN DISEASE. ] How the Love-Sick Young Women Are Affected Physically. “ , SHE’ 8 you [A gave FARAYT GUN, UWE WOU) Rese ROOT oo, acne trouble is. She's in love.” noon the emigrant family came into camp. He The above remark was made ina physicians | as sometimes given to queer whims and no office in response to a question by a representa | tions, and now and then the devil in him would tive of Ta Stan, enggested by the appearance | fash out in a way to make us keep as far away ofa young lady who would have been quite | from him as posible, He never mentioned pretty but for a particularly sallow complexion | bgme or wife or children as other men aid, and and generally dejected appearance. when he heard them speak of such things be “Ob, you needn't look incredulous,” he con- | "ould go off by bimeelf and sulk like a wounded tinued, “it is not so remarkable as you think. | Svimal. I always believed be had been mar Of course you know the great number of per- | Tied and hada happy home, but that he had tons who are insane from being in love. Look | *uifered some great wrong and was brooding at the number of suicides from this cause, It | over it. also produces hysteria and nervous disorders | The emigrant family consisted of husband, of various kinds besides minor complaints of | wife and three emall children, The horses were circulation and. digestion, You keow how | 224 and poor, the wife and children thor | oughly worn oat and the husband bitterly re: readily the various parts of the body are] peuted of the enterprise. We tu hard luce brought into the most intimate relation by at Robinson's Bend —y mt we could means of the nervous system, and anything | "pare them alittle. They had a welcome from that excites or depresses the mental condition ahh but Big Joe. He had one of his fits on that es et day and when asked to coutribute be carsed the ‘must more oF Jes affect the rest of the body. omen ey > | “The heart, the lungsand the digestive system | ¢Migrant for s fool and hoped him all corte are connected with the brain through the PS luck. Wife and children were frightened “great sympathetic aystem’ af, nerves’ which | BY hit violent speech husband. thougy pass up by way of the spinal cord; bexides this | T*lizing that all the rest of us made him wel _ es alg ats Pe ar i come. hitched up his team and drove on within ioe by to tom an hour, nerve. An hour before sundown a courier came inte “This great nerve, of pair of nerves, an they | C®™P from Washoe Flats, to the cast, and re moeliy rh yet ae wit wy through ‘the neck | Potted another raid by the Indians, ‘They had pak “pale te ecyane ‘illed three prospectors out from Washoe, and cefeanng Me aglye met he himself had barely escaped. Big Joe heard ° ” | bs statement along with the rest of us, bat he bad nothing to say. I remember that he eat og @ rock, chin in bis hand and bi Awhen the rest ¢ li held his place, Twilight nwhen he arose end walked to hie shanty, and foar or five minutes later he reap: | peared with his rifle in hand. His face had loa Tuck of its ugliness by this time, and we dared | to sont hum. | “Whar am I goin'?" he echord, as be looke@ | to nee if the JOE'S ATONEMENT. He Couldn't Rave the Emigrant Family, bot He Did the Best He Contd. From the New York Sun. connected with the | or ‘pneumogastrigh| tion to the brain, «0 any either region would affect the oth “x HOW THE WEART I8 AFFECTED. P “The heast is particularly liable ta be affected | by mental condition» Under exciting ences it may beat very violently, or The sight oreven thoaght « It i from this fact, 1 think, ‘Tul the stars Mashed out in the dusk. For a little space in the twilight's grace We stood by the meadow gate, But you only said, as you bent your head, “Sweetheart, have I found my fate?” AS we stood a space, in the twilight’s grace, By the gras:-grown meadow gate. Thear the strain of an old refram, And the mist is blue on the hill; But the months have sped and the years have fled, And a note of the song is still— ‘Though I hear the strain of an old retrain, And the mist is biue on the hill. An August day, and I smell the hay, And what would I give to know If you remember what I remember Of one day long ago— An Augast day, with the scent of hay Wavering to and fro. Harrie Warrser. No. 2857 Arsenal street, 8t. Louis. es They Came Of, From the New York Herald. Dusty Rhodea—“Just boyy yourself a blazer and the first thing you know you'll have a fash- ionable shirt to match.” Fritz William—‘How did you get that lovely striped buzrom?” Dusty Rhodes—“By buttoning up my coat when it rained.” . ———+e+—_____ THE BANE OF POLITICS. How It Caused a Copiness Between Mr. How- son Lott and Mr, Gardner From Puck. nta, who knew nothing properly tem, located the affections in lack of a better place to put ¥ are still lo pd there. them th: “Being in love doesn't affect every Some are greatly exhilarated by it, and o “I didn't mean it for abuse. Folks hadn't otter be too mighty sensitiv that fam'ly ge the arnus of the infernal red- it acts like a tonic, their imagi: ing up the most delightful pictures, the tiny brain cells get im a state of exalted activity and every- thing is rose-colored, and all is as gay ase torchlight procession. with a brass band. But tome are made quite miserable by it, even when their affection is reciprocated; they are un- happy when away from their loved ones and when present are eq m. der what thes These kind of natures frequently grow nervous and irritable; some times their appetites fail and they fall off ay preciably; but such cases seldom last long they generaliy recover in a couple of weeks, #0 lar harm is done WHEN TRUE LOVE DOESN'T RUN SMOOTH. “But love only begins to seriously affect the syetem when it doesn’t progress as the party de- sires. The loved one may be far away, the en- gagement may be too prolonged, har Parents may offer serious opposition 0: of all, it may not be reciprocated, Then the bad effects. The mind is depressed, thing looks a ‘deep dark blue,” there’ to live for. ‘Life without Yuin Yum,” would it be? It is then that people grow dys- Peptic and bilious and have to be treated for such, though a#a matter of fact they are only hy | high-strung on his staying foot? Why didn’t you insist th you, Joe—a dozen of us.” If Tdriv ‘em away I'M ek. M1 burt hus feelin's TUL migrants would be camped at the spring. three miles away, and they would fall | an casy prey to the Indians if attacked. We felt that we ought to go along with Joe, but he ine sisted on going alone. I believe be meant to humb& beg pardon for his rudeness and ouw company would have embarrawed him, The night came on dark and cloudy and as @ mat- ter of precaution we posted sentinels about the camp. Notone of us slept till oy midnight, waiting for Joe to return with the family. It was plain trail down to the «pring and it wouldn't take him over three-quarters of aa hour to reach the camp. Allow half an hour, for hitching upanda full hour for returnis and they ought to have been in by IL We nally concluded that they had decided to await stand those not detailed for guard duty, in. In the gray of morning the camp was aroused in love. If you could remove the cause no | ps the rebort that rifle firing ae Ag ge other treatment would be necessary. With | Ott wus light emsusb to mak bor Say teen men the depression is generally more violent, | N y Aad started out. We looked for sigue of Jos ‘or the wagon ull the way down the trail, found nothing. We finally reached the to find our worst fears confirmed. The but less lasting or injurious sensitive and is more or less gamous in his nature, so if he can't get the guil he loves he will brace up and get another one. LOVE-SICK YOUNG WOMEN, “Young women, particularly those of a nerv- | had been fired and was now pretty well burned ous temperament, are more liable to be af- | ~ Lng payne a ae ~"4 es ‘ ly a | ite lay the emigrant, his scalp torn off ai fected, for with them it ix almost entirely a m evees beltiog bats fy, tomahawked man is leas throats cu matter of sentiment and any mental disturb-| half d Thirty feet away lay bis wite, ance tells on them very readily. A patient of uy Ins c mine, a girl abcut twenty, suddenly developed | "ped. ~— coq ond a youngest = symptoms of nergousness and dyspepsia, | Het? crushe 4 — oo Tonics and dieting bad no effect. Her mother | ‘8 > were warm. To the sou! i at the edge of a thicket and at the foot of a thought it was due to overwork, for she was in | $f Ue wig of 8 Sac oe the othe eo office. I accidentally heard that she was en- gaged, and inquiring of her mother found that her fiance had left about a month previ- ously to engage in business in another city. 1 suggested to her mother that be had better re- turn. A little later be did so and the nervous- ness and dyspepsia disappeared as rapidly as they came. “Long engugements are bad for yo women. Very many of them suffer from it. They generally lose flesh, their complexions | become bad and some look about as disreput- able as a ‘setting hen.’ SHE DIDN'T HAVE CONSUMPTION. “Here's a ease to illustrate the point: Another young lady (for they are generally young) came tome. She said che was afraid s sumption. She bad be Dovinine ‘and things, but w some nervous der led the fact that she was engaged, «some time. I toid her a seugar- onial pill was what she needed. Shortly afterward she was married. Some time later I met her clinging to the arm of her | husband, looking plump and roxy, smiling and happy. Matrimony had cured her! “Of course it imn't always easy to find ow girl is in love,particulariy if you don't know her Parents. and often ‘then you can do nothin ut treat the physical «ymptomms, leaving Cupid | and father time to take care of the rest. Still, | if a young woman is bilions or dyspeptic f | always inquire into her mental condition. Oc- | casionly persons are advised to fall in love in order to divert their thoughts from themselves | when they have become morbid through some chronic physical ailment, but this is easier said than done, and besides the experiment is not always a success.” inquiry re’ nn In Love With Her Heels. From the Philadelphia Press. “Fell in love with her heels?” It wasa middie-aged man of dignified de- meanor who used the expression. | “I mean exactly what I say,” he continued. “I fell in love with her heels and married her. In plain language, while sitting on a hotel | veranda at a summer resort years ago I, a friv- | olous young man of the day, was attracted by a pair of heels in frontof me. They belonged | toa young woman seated in a rocking chair | en iu rocking and reading. I had never seen her face. In fact, I didn t know whether | she was or well on into the thirties, a “My attention had not been attracted by her head, or hair, or style of dress, or anything about her that was vi the chair, No, nothing; but in . other Thad cast a furtive glance at her feet, which were quite visible below her dress. Yet I could really only see her heels. They fairly fascinated me. One look ran into another until I sat there with my eyes fastened upon these two duinty tittle beels, thrast into per- fectly fitting low kid shoos, not the French \bnormities, but common sense shoes. recollect the very color of her stockings which clung so glove-like to her feet that I could see the outline of the tendon Achilles. if | | "Aveli, 1 wish you'd Hj i iy dren. When the attack came, or when be ized that successful resistance could not be made, the miner had tried to save the little * ones, He bad been shot and scalped; the poor; children had been tomahawked We bad gathered about the body of Big Joa, horror-stricken at the ewift and bloody butch ery, when he suddenly opened his eyes and we. could see his chest heave. Water wes brought | and he drank it, and as his bead was propped up he whispered “Were they all ont! “Yes, every one but yo “LI couldn't get him to go back,” be with painfal effort, “and soso I stayed to die with “em.” ire water was offered him, but as it touched , ips he fell back dead. - — SHE WISHED TO BE SOCIABLE, And There Were Several Subjects Upea | Which She Sought Information. From the New York Sun She puffed into a 6th avenge clevated car, stout, warm, happy and rural. Jt eeemed toq affect her that no one noticed her—no one nos, ticed any one nor anything. Those who were | not reading stared blankly and gave no sign. . ext to ber «at « stylish, well-dressed, well~. bredlooking young woman, The #tout lady * had_never before seen a person of such evident, intelligence keep euch an evenly expressionless face. She wondered how it could be done with so much that was interosting going on all about, She longed to , for it not only seemed. uusociuble to sit uext another woman in nap friendly silence, but she also wanted to gain, services in interpreting the strange sounda’ the gatemen uttered when they made their little bluffs at announcing stations, She eved the young man in admiring silence only a little while and thea said in « voice that ‘was startlingly loud “Air you going to get off at 14th «treet?” The “young woman turned « remarkabl retty pair of slightly astonisbed eyes 1 questioner and answered ina low tone, go further than 14th.” ‘The other spoke in « lower tone, but she had already attracted the attention of half the pass, wy tell me when we there,” she said, “for I'm allus gettin’ lost, Ann she laughs at me #0 for it.” : woman eaid, “With and it ahead it the rural, * # file i i Ie i | t F i ? Gil f 43 i