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M STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER SSS JW THE SHADOW OF GABRIEL A. D. 1550. BY HAROLD FREDERIC. ‘Woryright, 1895, by Bacheller, Johnson & Bacheller.) ‘The cool maiden breath of dawn lay upon the coast, and a light, so soft and irresolute ‘that all shadows seemed a part of it, cev- ered the rocks and dormant waters and the dim brown bulk of rising land beyond, with an evenspread mantle, mist-colored and Motionless as sleep. A thousand cormo- fants and gulls stcod silent in thick gray Ines upon the ridges of the islets in the cove, as if they had been charmed to stone. Whe slow wash of the tide on the strind’s edge, restrained this same spell of the great hush, lifted the loose welght of sea Weed and sucked at it cautiously, with a stealthy, low-drawn murmur like a sigh. Suddenly, over the high, rounded spine of Look Sternly Ont of ‘Them. He Strove to Mount Gabriel, a bar of red flame flared into the sky, and the face of everything was on the instant changed. ‘The pale up- per siopes of the Archaagel’s mountain darkened in a frown where th huny men- acingly above the woods. Depths of umber shade burned themselves into the bases of the tall crags lining the sides of the cove, as glancing pink lights picked out their veins of marble higher up. The outer wa- ters of the vay sulked from drab to pur- ple, and thence to black, shrinking away from the red morni:zg toward the somber masses of clouds in the wesi. The lon the peach growled, and flung up through the “drift vexed splashes of foam, which flushed crimson at sight of the sunrise and hissed at it as they fell again. All at once, as upon a s‘gnal, the fisher fowl rose froth their night perch. a confused and tumul- tuots mob, splashing and wheeling in the frenzy of their long hunger, and splitting the air with sinister screams. A new bad day was born. Arcund the steep northern headland, in this perturbed moment of awakening, there slipped into view a smali boat, bellying low im the water, and bearing six it was @ coracle. rudely hioned of skins strain- Usghc upon bent withe: d four mien, meeling with faces to the bo forvard with short paddles. 3 stood behind, and, like the workers, kept a rapt gaze of inquiry upon the shore they Neared. The boat crept along the nearer cliff wall of the inlet, as if in its furtive course even that measure of companionship with things of, substance were welcome. When a landing place had been found, and the boat drawn up against the dripping beach at the end, the two men on their feet Jeaped out; the four with the paddles gave no sign of following. “Oh, then, Turlogh, son of Fineen, why j would we not be remaining here to guard the boat?” urged the oldest of them. “We are simple men, and ft is no good place for Turlogh looked at them and bent his brow: He was the youngest of the party, a tall stripling of thin frame, with nu wv shoulders and a pale, grave face. The spear in his hand. pon which he leant as he stood, and the short, broldered tunic and mantle of smooth cloth he wore, were in the fashion of a werrior, but his eyes were framed for the timid glances of a girl. He strove to look sternly out of them, “You will always be disputing, old Cu- mara,” he said. “Come out of that, all of you!” The others bent troubled glances upon the water at the sides of the boat, and stirred their paddles aimlessly. A low murm of protest spread without words among them. “It is not fit for us to go,’ reiterated thetr | spokesman, doggedly. “And you would stop at your ease here,” cried the young man, “and see me pass out of your sight into the little oakwool of the strand, and know that may’ 1 will “Have you fears anise?” he demanded. ccme into the alder hollow itself! My father would Fave thrown you out of your . Boat, and piled stones upon you ‘inder the water, and left you for the devil crabs to : dig you out. And it is in me to do the | same, too Cumara made a show of concern upon his | eountenance, but his eyes grinned. “That | would be the way of your father, rest him in glory.” he a d, “and without doubt it would be y y also, for In boldncss hty deeds you are his own son— “Ah, Cumara,” broke in the young man, you know that is not your opinioa, You have no proper fear of me—you or the others. You mock when my back Is turn- ed. I will not be suffering it any more. I have as good a heart of courage in me as my father, and I will put the weight of anger upon you as he would have done. “Your father," returned the other, nod- ding his long, horse-hke head to point the words, “would never have wished to go to the little oakwood of the strand. (This was Derreennatra in their Irish, and ‘he alder hollow was Coomfarna.) He would hot come into this water at all, not by any Ireans, and he would not bid those who beionged to him to come, either. And we | are very sad now, to see ourselves here in this boat, because it is already too far for us to go in seareh of our own harm, end is more than enough tnat we .isten, Cumara,” said Turlogh, more gently, “I am not of great strength like my father, and I have not your ycars; but there is pride in me none the less. And I take chame to myself to be lord in Dunbeakeen, and chief of the -people of the O'Mahony Cruachan, and live like a blind slave, not knowing what would be in that oak thicket. or in the alders of the glen beyond. It is nothing to me that my father did not choose to come here. I do not have his mind. I have my own mind, and my thoughts bid me to come here, and to go where I have the right to go, in my own territory, and see that all meets my eyes. I cannot be sure there is any harm here, because have not seen it, and no one has seen 1 “It is too terrible for our eyes to be- hold,” said a man in the boat who had not epoken befcre. He runs on his four bones through the {easy too swiftly to be seen,” cried "®nother. “He has a beard of feathers instead of hair,” groaned the third, “and his lips are of horn, like a bird's beak, and the small- est wave of his hand will send the blood bursting from your ears.” Old Cumara made @ last appeal. “It we have not seen him, we know what he does. Oh, that is very well known, Gren that he has overlooked wither in their bones, and die of the sickness. The horses or the mountain come to the edge of the alders, and he feeds them, and their bel- les swell and rot, and their hoofs drop off. In the full of*the moon he climbs to the hefght of the hill, and he looks down on Dunbeakeen, andif his beim-sul catches so much as the glimpse of a cow in the bawn, she gives blood next morning and no m‘ik. Oh, then, Turlogh, son of Fineen, be said by us and come ‘into the boat, and the friar with you, and we will be going to cur own place It is Cumard who begs you to do that.”" The young man shook his bare head. “T will go into the wood,” he said, between his teeth, “and I will go without any cowards at my heels, to make my back cold with their fears. And if I come upon any one who is able to stop me or do me mis- chief, then let him be lord in Dunbeakeen, and not me." With a sudden gesture he turned to his companion, standing on the litter by his side. “Have you fears also?’ he de- manded. It w a short, sturdily-made. dark man, in years somewhat older than Turlogh, who answered. He had thrown the cowl of his brown monk's habit back upon his poulders, and the suaiight shone upon the broad, grayish patch of his tonsure and on ‘ound face full of composure and self- THE EVENING nfidence. He gathered up the long chain depending from his girdle, and grasped the wooden cross at fis end in his hand. w should I have fears?” he asked. “Have I not told you F would go with you? Do T not possess powers over demons and false spiri Turlogh knit his brows and his face twitched in a brief hesitation. Then, with- out a word, or a backward glance at the boat. he lifted his spear and started across the drenched reach of seaweed to gain dry land. At the third stride his foot slipped on the treacherous ooze, and he fell with vio- lence among the sharp rocks. The monk watched him rise and brush the clinging from his mantle and touch thi J cut upon his bare knee, with atte eves It will be your warning, Turlogh, son of Fineen shouted Cur ‘a, from the boat. Il. A sustained, low mutter of distant thunder vibrated through the air 2s the old kerne's voice died away. The sunlight had grown yellow gave the bleached pebbles and shells on the dry strand beyond a brazen hee. The monk, still pausing with a thoughtful tace, looked to the west. Vast s of gloomy clouds curled upward over ‘ace of the sky, enfolding the mountains in their coils. Below them, the s of Dunmanus were as ink. great storm will be blowing in from the sea," he said. As he spoke a streak of lightning flashed in their eyes. “Oh, then, forked lights and thunder on day mored Cumara. * ’Twas een before! Be warned, my O'Ma- “LT will not look behind!’ cried Turlogh. Pointing the way with his spear, he strode forward. The monk, with a shrug of his shoniders, followed. A hundred paces inland, through a cleft in the barrier of tall, gray cliffs, the ascent began. As they entered this narrow glen, to the gaunt step sides of which misshapen and stunted oaks, scarce the bigness of furze bushes, clung with tops drawn back- 2 “Yonder, under the ledge of rocks.” ward from the sea, the sunlight failed. A last dismayed wail of entreaty from the men in the boat mingled with the clatter of the | fist large raindrops and hail on the rocks. “L will not at all turn! repeated Turlogh, stubbornly. He clambered up the oblique ridges of bowlders, pushing aside with a spirited hand the sprawling oak boughs from his path. The monk followed, lftiing Bis gown as he came and springing lightly from leds ‘The thic burst. Not much ted canopy of overh thei upon them; the storm | rough the mat- | branches low read. $ writhed and ground limbs together, shrieking as the tem- made an endless crackle in their ears as ihe men went on, and the higher oaks rocked and swurg their arms, and cried to one another while they struck their gnarled lesser neighbors down. A somber twilight reigned in these wild depths—illumined now here, now there, by momentary gleams of blue flame which glided downward among the tree stems, and left vistas of a midnight blackness, veined by a fiery network of in- tertwined twigs and branches, before Tur- lozh’s eyes. The young chieftain halted and drew back with a little startled cry as a blinding arc of fire burst through the hanging mistletoe just before his face and quivered in zig-zag lines among the creepers at his feet. He put a hand over his eyes and groped behind him with the other to touch the monk's gown. “Yonder, under the ledge of rocks, we will be safer from the lightuing,” said the monk, still calm of voice. “I would not have you killed that way! With a hand on Turlogh's shoulder, he guided him to one side, where a dark recess bereath a shelf of jutting boulders offered refuge. The young man moved one dazed, stumbling over the strewn litter of the storm, and sank upon his knees in the sheltered gloom under the rocks. “I would be saying some prayers,” he mur- mured, “if you would teil me the fit ones.” ‘Then a spasm of shuddering shook his thin frame. He lifted a livid face toward the standing monk, and his lips moved, but made no sou A fre of frightened in- quiry dilated his eyes. A long-hodied doz, sieck-coated and drab of hue, with a flat head and broad, thick snout, had come denly to him out of the vague shadows, stood there thrusting his cold muzzle against Turlogh’s knee and licking it. He would have screamed, but had no power save to gasp in Fis throat. The monk, stooping, beat the dog over the head with the cross, and it slunk off into the obscurity again as it had come, like a thing of no sub- tance. “You will be needing the prayers at a later hour,” said the monk. He raised his voice to make it heard above the tumult of the blast sweeping past them. Turlogh bit his teeth together and strug- gled against his weakness. “I am not afraid in my heart,” he cried. “{ would not suffer myself to turn back, no, not for the lordship of all Ivehagh. But my bones are like unwilling servants, and my bowels have the terror in them. But I am The Monk Drove the Spear Into His Right Shoulder. their master—and now I have no fears any more.” He strove to smile, where he knelt, and reached forth his hand for the spear he had dropped, and which the monk had picked up. ‘Tell me,” he added, “would it have been known to you that so much evil would happen to us first?” “Yet more will happen,” returned the monk. He did not seem to note Turlogh’s hand outstretched for the spear. “But you will be remembering,” he went on, “I gave you warning. It does not He in your right to say the con a 30, 1895—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. There was something unusual In the voice Turlogh heard. He looked up more keenly at his companion. “I would not be saying anything contrary to your words, Brother Florentius,” he said. The noise of the storm forced him to lift his Voice as weil “You are a holy man, and you are a stranger to me, and you are my guest, and I would not dispute whatever you spoke. But it is not in my memory that you warned me of anything. It was you who came to Dungeakeen two days since, and sat in my hall in the evenings, and told your part of the tales as a traveler is looked to do, and-sang your songs when my bard had done. And vour tales were bold and moving and vour songs stayed me in my sleep, and these things warmed me toward you. And when the speech of my peopl+ fell upon this little oakwood of the strand, and the alder hollow beyond, and they told of the man-witch who lived here, and ran like a wolf through the thicket, and ° He Sat Upright and Stared White- Faced. had an eye to blast what he and feathers to his beard, instead of hair, it was you wko laughed with scorn, and put shame in me that I had never laughed tike- And it was your word that on Christ- y no fiends or unnatural powers could prevail against Christians who were after iaking the blessed sacrament before sunrise. And it was your own word that you would come with me and go the length of the oak- wood and the hollow. And why should you he saying row that I dispute with you?” A lull had fallen upon the storm. ‘The monk laughed, but made no answer. This 3 not 10 Turlogh’s liking. You say you gave me warning,” he de- clared, putting his fcot forward to rise “And it is my reply that I cannot remembe it. I have in my memcry only your prom- ise that if I saw malignant sights they should do me no harm. Ard I have seen you drive that terrible dog away with the stroke of your cross, and my mind is at ase. I have no complaint to make, only I do rot know what you mean by your words about a warning.” The monk looked down at him, a mirth- mile playing on his shaven lips. ou forget, then, my warning that if an O'Mahony met on a Christmas day a chieftain of another sect sworn in blood- feud against him and his people, it would be very bad—oh, very bad, indeed, for him.” “Oh, then, I have some memory of what you are saying,” returned Turlogh, in thought. “Those were your words, but they took no root in my mind. For our speech was of the enchantment, and the man-witch here—and—" “And now it is of another matter!” called out the monk, with a ring as of metal on metal in his vo On the instant, as Tur- logh bent his knee to rise, the monk drove the spear into his right shoulder and thrust him fiercely backward, prone to the earth. The young man’s legs were twisted under him, and the monk's sandaled foot crushed upon his breast. The thought of resistance died in his brain, for his arms lay limp, and he could not bring a hand to touch the spear. I know you are yourself the devil I was enticed here to defy,” he said. The spear- head in his shoulder seemed to scorch his flesh, but his thcvghts were the clearer for the anguish of it. He watched the stubbled jowl of the monk, and looked to see a beard of feathers sprout upon it. “f would not be wishing you to die in error,” said the other, gazing with a meas- ured wrath downward upon him. “I made you to take the blessed sacrament this day, that your soul might not perish, and [will not suffer you to go out of the world like a fool, in ignorance of why you are put away. luoke’_ upon, les I am no witch or man enchanted. I am no} devil. Lam no monk. I am Fineen, son of Spellan, and on Christmas day, one year x0, F Saw your father cleave my father's kul with a battleax, while he lay hurt in own bawn, and put the fire to Ballyfan- nd drive our men over the cliff into the sea, and lay the shame of unclean beasts upon our women. And that is wh: I have come to keep this next Christmas day with you, Turlogh, scn of Fineen, and that is why you will be saying your pray- ers now.” Turlogh looked hard at kim and remem- bered much. “I was not one of the raid,” he said, “but I would not be blaming you if you had come fairly to fight me and take my life. My father was a strong man, and he put his foot on the O’Dwyers, and “Leave hia and bear me to my boat.” spoiled Ballyfanisk, and openly chased you all into the sea. And I would not blame him for that, either. And you say that Spellan, your father, had his head split open with a battleax. That would not be his worst luck. It was more evil fortune stil] for him to beget a son who would be a Mar and a false guest.” The O'Dwyer tore open his gown at the breast with his free hand, and cast it from him in a heap around his feet. His thick, supple form showed itself clad in the close tunic of a warrior, and from shoulder to thigh he had a shirt of fine linked iron chainwork. Out of his belt he drew a long thin dagger. “The ‘false guest’ ate nothing unde: your roof that he did not bring with him, he said, with sharpness. “The ‘liar’ warn- ed you of your fate. And now there will be no further words. The storm ts not spent, and there Is a long day’s journey over the mountain before me, and I will be taking with me your head wrapped in my gcwn. There is a short minute to you for your prayers.” . A bold peal of thunder rolled over the face of the thicket, and echoed from crag to crag along Mount Gabriel’s flank. The blue lights glided again among the twigs overkead. Turlogh shut his eyes from them, and sought a prayer. He could think only of Cumara, and the men in the boat. They loved him, but they would never be minding him. They were not wrong. He was no right man to be a lord and chief over others. His brother Conogher was more fit. He would be knowing how to make them obey him. And sometime— somehow—he would be learning what black O'Dwyer had done. Maybe it weulid he the man-witch with the beard of feathers who would cause him ¢d learn it. And now there was n65 time to find out if such a man-witch did run his ghastly course through the little oak wood and the alder- hoilow—or anything else whatever. Tho towers of Dungeakeen—he would not be seeing them again, or the black, fat herds in the bawns, or the pretty girls weaving their nets, or the fall of the evening shad- ows on the gray waters of Dunmanus—or any sight at all. He kept his eyes closed, and bent his mind upon the familiar things they would never be looking at more, and waited. . But now there was a noise in the thicket, which was not of the thunder or the rush- Ing wind—a noise which burst suddenly close upon him, of savage growls and curses, and crackling branches under foot. The effort to take account of this gave Turlogh a moment's giddiness. The spear had been wrenched from his shoulder, an@ the deep pain of it racked and swayed his brain toward swooning. Then, getting hig thought vaguely back from the threshold of death, he opened his eyes. On the in- stang, with a little cry of agony at th woe in his shoulder, he sat upright an stared white-faced and dumb with bewil- derment. What Turlogh had not seen before he sought the prayers that would not come was a dim, crouching figure in the dark- ness under the rocks, peering out from the obscurity with eyes alight, and, in imper- ceptible edgings forward, coming close to the back of the O'Dwyer. What Turlogh’s amazed eyes beheld were two powerful forms locked in a deadly grip, writhing, rocking, tugging in frenzied pas- sion at each other, and tearing the soft mosses and forest carpet! with their feet as they fought, within a ‘hace of where he sat. A stick hurled upward from the ground struck him smartly “onl the cheek. He forced himself to rise to his feet, and with poised hands, thrust fvrward his face in the effort to see which was which of the two combatants. Even above the pain of his wound rose the vioient lust to have a share in this furiovs struggle. But the light was low in these depths, and his eyes blurred. He shouted in his confused flutter of hope and fear, and one of the two embattled forms was thrust with violence against him. He reeled backward, and caught at the rock to steady himself, and had a mo- ment's terror lest he should foolishly fall down where he stood. It was another who fell with a forceful crash, and upon him plunged headlong the form of the victor. Turlogh saw blood on the leaves, and a blackened face turned up- ward among the roots, with its eyes burst- ing forth at him in despairing horror. It was the face of the O'Dwyer, and Turlogh felt his foot itching to plant itself upon that face. He leaned against the rock in- stead, and gulped something down that rose in his throat, and shook off the faint- ress that was on him. Then there seemed to be more light, and he saw clearly. A creature in the semblance of a man, half naked, and for the rest clad in strange, discolored tatters of skins and rags, and with a savage mane of hair and beard growing In tufts and patches enveloping its head, knelt upon the breast of the o'Dwyer. Its sinewy hands, corded and ined to the likeness of some foul giant bird's talons, were clapsed fiercely about the fallen man's throat. From its lips there came a hissing murmur vile to hear. Turlogh, looking, saw that the long- bodied ashen-hved dog was there too, close to his feet. He shuddered and pushed himself for support against the jutting bowlder. “Who are you?" he heard his own quav- ering voice ask. The kneeling creature lifted Its head and stared fixedly at.Turlogh. The sense of mystery had vanished on the instant. It was the face of an elderly omadhaun, vacant, smiling, furt: pitiful. It nodded and grimaced under Turlogh's eye. “Flave you no speech demanded Tur- logh. He spoke freely now, as if to a strolling [ght-wit at his own gates. hey beat me away with sticks and stones,’ said the simpleton. He spoke in a thin, muffled, squeaking voice, and It was not easy to comprehend his words. “They strike me, and put the dogs after me, but some one is my father. It may be that in a year and a day he will come for me, and feed me vith white meats. I go to the head and look for him, because it is very d for me here. He will be having a silk coat and gold pieces in his ears when he comes with the high tide.” Turlcgh held up his hand to check meaningless babble. The trees and kneeling figure and the corpse swam be- fore his eyes. “Bear me down to the wa- ter’s edge—to my boat!” he sald, abruptly. ‘The omadhaun slowly withdrew his hands {from the throat of the O'Dwyer. “That gcwn it was that tripped him,” he crooned, | grinning, as he pointed to the monk's frock, still twisted about the dea& man’s legs, end with a sudden stray gleam of sense in his eyes. Tvrlogh’s knees bent under him, and he clung with his elbows against the rock. “Leave him and bear me to my boat!” he groaned. And then blackress spread itself over all. Ss @ & 6 er we. | At night, in the little chamber beside the | hall of Dungeakeen, the herb doctor and jthe bard stood together at the side of the the the low bed, and looked down at the pale, sleeping face of thelr young lord. Old |Cumara creuched behind) them, in the | shadows beneath the ring of fish-oil tapers against the wall. | dh, then, when the first cock crows,” | wailed the boatman, “the Ife will be out |ef him! The devil himself trqught him out of the little oak wood, and laid him on the strand, and ran back, with a dog of hell at | his heels. And we went alone on the | strand, and we bore him to the boat, with | the marks of the devil's teeth torn into his shoulder. And the monk was not to be seen at all, the holy man! Oh, wirra! j Wirra! Why would ft not be me instead “Hsh-h!" muttered the herb doctor. |. Turlogh had opened his eyes. He lifted | himself on his left elbow and looked round with a slow gaze, roting the faces about him, and bringing his thoughts together, fone by one. Then he smiled, and their } peents took joy, for there was no illness on , him. | “Bring me food and drink now,” he said, | “and bid Culain, the builder, come to me in the morning. I will be raising a chapel in the little o:k wood by the strand without delay, and I will dedicate it to St. Molaggi. | the omadhaun.” Cumara groaned, but the two others ex- changed a glarce and nodded. “It will be to the memcry of the holy man, the friar, who went with you and did not retur ked the bard. Turlogh looked gravely at him and his companion, and then upward at the half- circle lights. “Oh, then, it is you for the reading of men's thoughts!” he said to his bard, ard smiled again. ———— A REAL BOOKWORM. The Little Animal That Causes Havoc in Fine Old Folios. From the New York World. Felix Peltier, a hibliophile, living on the Schenectacy read, four miles from Alban has discovered in an old beok of English hyms a prize dear to every genuine book Icver—a beoKworm. This is the fifth book- worm found in this country of which there is any knowh record. It is a small white worm about three-eighths of an inch long and ore-eighth of an inch in diameter. Its head is blunt, while its tall tapers to a sharp point. It ts the color of water mix- ed with oatmeal. It Mes motionless until disturbed, when it raises itself suddenly, but almost instantly resumes its position buried in the pages. Protruding over the edge of the leaves and attached to the tail of the worm is a conical cocoon. This cccoon when examined under the microscope aprears to have six legs or lez ceses, and the white median line is barely perceptible on its under side. In the head of the worm are two fine horns thinner than silk thread. There are five rings around the tail. The structure of the shell of the coccon is so thin that cne can easily see through it. Wether it is due to the undesirability of our American libraries considered from a gastronomical standpoint, or whether it is on‘accourt of the comparative youth- fulness of the majority of our American leeks, the bookworm is almost unknown in the American bibliophile’s family. W. B. Benjemin of New York found two worms in an old copy of Seneca two years ago, and John Erskine Pendergrass found one in an old copy of Chaucer a year ago. The Lip- pincotts, in Philadelphia, also found one, and Mr. Peltier’s worm makes the fifth known to have been discovered in this country. ee ee Drug Store Philosophy. From the Rochester Union and Advertiser. “T noticed,” said a well-known down-town druggist to his assistant this morning,“that it only took you three minutes to get up a prescription for that Woman who just went out. What do you mean by that?” “it: yas only a lite carbolic acid and water,” replied the assistant. “I simply to pour a few drachms of acid into the bottle and fill ft up with water.” “Never mind, if you had only to do that,” the druggist declared, ‘don’t you know that every prescription must take at least twenty minutes to dispense or the customer will think he isn’t gettifig anything for the money? When a prescription is handed you even for salt ‘and water or peppermint you must take It, look at it doubtfully, as if it were very hard to make up. Then you must bring {t to me, and we will both read it and shake our heads. After that you go back to the customer and ask him if he or she wants it today. If he does, you answer that you will make a special effort. A pa- tient appreciates a prescription that there has been so much trouble over, and when he takes it he derives some benefit from it. But don’t you do any more of that three- minute business, my boy, if you want to be- come a first-class druggist. It won’t do. You've got to study human nature,” —_—____-e-1____. She Has Felt Good Ever Since. From the Boston Courter. “Do you think I stand too much before the looking glass?’ she asked, as a soft blush suffused her satin cheek. “Oh no,” he replied; “there should be ten mirrors in the room. Such beauty as yours cannot be multiplied enough.’ WERE WITH LINCOLN When He Was in Congress Nearly a Half a Century Ago- AN ANNIVERSARY OF INTEREST Men of Note Who Were Colleagues of the War President. IN WHE OLD HALL ————— Within a few days it will be forty-eight years since President Lincoln entered upon bis duties as a Representative from Mli- nols. He then met many who, fourteen years later, were evgaged on tho side of the Unton or against it. Dr. 8. C. Busey, ia his recent interesting volume of recollec- tions, notes that Mr. Lincoln roome-] at the house of Mrs. Spriges, on Ist tr east (vow included in the library site), which with the other houses known as Carroll row was the Carroll prison during the war. Mrs. Surratt, Dr. Mudd and others, arrested in connection with the assassination cor- spiracy, were imprisoned there for a time. It is also somewhat remarkable that not orly were many in Congress at that ti who subsequertiy aided in the making of history on one side or the other, but they were In many instances neigh The session of Congress was quite a lonz one, extendirg from the first Monday in Deccm- ber to the middle of Adgust, and it was as interesting as lengthy. The consideration of the conduct of the Mexican war, which was ended by treaty in February, 1848, and which had been oppcsed as haviny been unconstitutionally begun, occa ad much of the time. Mr. Polk was at the ume President, with Mr. Dallas Vive Presidcut. Mr. Buchanan, afterward Presiden*, was Secretary of State, and Gidecn We'les, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy, was then chief of the bureau of provisions and th- ing, Navy Department. In the Senate was the confederate presi- dent, Jeff Davis, who had made a brilliant record in the Mexicar. war after his service in the House, and who subsequently was President Pierce's Secretary of War. He then boarded with Mrs. Owner, on the 14iIl There was, especially in the Senate, much presidential timber, pust, present and future. The lone star state (Texas), whose flag was at the time as po; es the stars and stripes, was represeated in the Senate by Mr. Rusk. J. J. Crittenden was ene of the Senators from Kentacky, W. I Dayton from New Jersey was the re: can candidate for Vice President in 185 Well-Known Names. Mr. Mangum of North Carolina had been voted for as the candidate for President in the whig convention of 1837. Senator Doug- las, Lincoln’s opponent in Illinois, and who was also one of his opponents in 1860, was in the Senate. In this body was also Simon Cameron, who became Secretary of War under Mr. Lincoln. John A. Dix, Secretary of the Treasury under Buchanan, became a prominent Union major. Gen. Tom Cor- win, Secretary of the Treasury under Mr. Fillmore, was sent as minister to Mexico by Mr. Lincoln in 1861. J. M. Berrien of Georgia had served as Attorney General,under Gen. Jackson, from 1829 till 1831. Reverdy Johnson of Mary- lend was Attorney General under Taylor, a delegate to the peace congress in 1861, and served in the Senate from 1863 to 1889. Lewis Cass, who, under Van Buren, was minister to France, was the following year the candidate on the democratic ticket against Gen. Taylor, and was Secretary of State under Buchanan. Dantel Webster had served as Secretary of State under Tyler. John C. Calhoun of Scuth Carolina, who had been Secretary of War under Monroe, Vice President in the Quincy Adams adminisiration, and Secre- tary of State under Tyler, was then a Sena- ter. R. M. T. Hunter of Virginia had@ just commenced his career as Senator, which ran into the war and terminated in his ex- pulsion in ‘July, 1861, he in the meantime accepting the portfolio of secretary of state under the confederacy. H. S. Foote (Mr. Davis’ colleague) afterward served in the confederate congress. J. M. Mason of Virginia, expelled in 1 was with Mr. Slidell _a confederate commissioner to Eu- rcpe. John P. Hale, who was the free soil cendidate for the vice presidency in 1852, served ull 1865, and was then appointed minister to Spain. John Kell of Tennessee, who was in the House from 1827 to 1S#1, the same year commenced his senatorial ser- vice, and was on the Union ticket for the Jency in 1860. A. P. Butler was Mr. Calhoun's colleague. Thos. H. Benton was then a veteran in the Senate. Where Jeff Davin Sat. The Senate chamber was the room now occupied by the Supreme Court, on the eest side of the old building, and the chair was at the center of the present bench. There were fifty-six desks arranged in four semi-circles, and Mr. Davis occupied No. 20 (the extreme right of the chair on the cuter row, in the northeast corner of the ckamber) while his colleague, Mr. Foote, had his seat in the second row near the main aisle. Mr. Davis had as his neigh- bers the sterling democrats Wm. Allen of Cio, Senators Mason and Hunter of Vir- ginia, who were associated with him in the ccnfederacy, and Mr. Benton and Gen. Dix Were on the same row. As the venerable Capt. Bassett will not point out the desk in the present Senate chamber occupied by Mr. Davis, the curious may at least view the spot where he commenced his senatorial career. ae The House was then in what: is now Statuary Hall, and there were 234 desks arranged in ‘x semi-circles facing the Speaker, who sat, as now, on the south side facing a wide aisle. Among others who served with Mr. Lincoln were Amos Tuck of New Hampshire, who was a member of the peace congress; Jacob Collamer, Post- master General under the Taylor adminis- tration and Senator from ‘ht to "61; Geo. P. Marsh of Vermont, minister to Turkey under Taylor and to Italy under Lincoln: John Quincy Adams, ex-President, who died at his post in the House in February fol- lowing; Eliakim_ Sherrill of New York, who was killed at Gettysburg; John A. Rock- well of New York, who practiced law here for some years and died in 1861 jathan K, Hall, who had been Mr. Fillmore’s student and partner and was his Postmaster Gen- eral. Washington Hunt of New York, who de- clined a nomination for the vice presidency in '60; L, C. Levin of Pennsylvania, the reputed founder of the native American party in 1843; A. R. McIlvaine, one of Mr. Lincoln's fellow boarders at Mrs. Spriggs’, with Gov. Pollock (delegate to the peace congress and director of the mint in ’61), and John Strom, the late Wm. Strong, afterward justice of the United States Su- preme Court; Jasper P. Brady, who was for many years subsequent of the paymaster general's office; Gen. John G. Chapman of Maryland, who presided at the whig con- vention of "56. J. W. Crisfield of Maryland, who was in the peace congress with J. Dixon Roman; Robert M. McLane, minister to China under Pierce, to Mexico under Buchanan, and France under Cleveland; Thos. S. Bocock of Virginia, who served till "61 (once as Speaker) and also in the confederate con- gress; John Minor Botts, the well-known unionist; T. S. Flournoy, killed in.battle in ‘64; Wm. B. Preston, who was in the con- federate congress; T. L. Clingman of North Carolina, who was expelled from the Uni- ted States Senate in '61 and was a confed- erate congressman, and A. W. Venable of North Carolina, who also was in the confed- erate congress. Some State Delegations. South Carolina was represented in part by R. B. Rhett, who was well known in Georgetown, where he lived when in Con- gress. Georgia had in her delegation A. H. Stephens, who served the confederacy as vice president; Howell Cobb, who was once Speaker, Secretary of the Treasury under chanan, and becama prominent in the confederacy os a brigadier general and member of Congress, and who subsequent- ly died in New York; Alvert Iverson, who withdrew from the Senate and joined the rebellion; Thos. B. King, who was a con- federate commissioner to Europe, and Rob- ert’ Toombs, who was afterward a briga- dser general and secretary of state of the confederacy. Among the Representatives from Alabama were W. R. W. Cobb, wno became a member of the confederate con- gress, from which he was expelled for dis- Icyalty; H. W. Hilliard, who under the Tyler administration was minister to Bel- givin. Mississippi hud in her delegation Albert G. Brown, who entered the House in ‘40, and was one of the expelled Senators wo served in the confederacy; W. S. Feather- ton, who subsequently was a brigadier ge eral in the confede: at Hill's (@efterward the old Capitol pr Jacob Thompson also rcomed at Hill's. served in the Ho , declined a senatorship, was Secretary of the In- terior from ’o7 to January, ‘61, and serve as governor of his state ard’in the con- fecerate army, and Patrick Tomkins v a fellow boarder of Mr. Lincoln's at Mr Spriggs’. in the Tennessee contingent was Andrew Johnson, who, having served in Congress a long series of years, became President on the death of Mr. Lincoln. He boarded at Mrs. Ballard’s on © street near Delaware avenue; Wm. Rarrow, who during the war was arrested for disloyalty to the Union, but was released by order of Mr. Lincol M. P. Gentry, who served several terms in the U, S, House of Representatives and in the confederate congress; Gco. W. Jones, who was in the peace congress; F. P. Stan- ton, who lived here many years before go- ing to Tennessee, was a member of the House ten years, governor of Kansas, and was a member of the District bar for a lcng time. His brother, R. H. Stanton of Kentue! ned him in the House in ‘49. Green who was appointed sixth auditor by Mr. Lincoln, was in the Ken- tucky deiegation. The Ohio delegation had its number; J. R. Giddings, another of Mr. Lincoin’s fellow boarders at Mrs. Spriggs’ who was over twonty years in House, a leader in the anti-slavery movement, anc during the war was consul general to Brit- ish North America; R. C. Schenck, who was 2 major general, United States volun- teers, and rainister to England in John L.. Taylor, who died here in the seventi a clerk in the Interior Department; Samue F. Vinton, the father of Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren, who served his constituents over twenty years, and lived here some years, dying tn "62. From Lincoln's State. Indiana was in part represented by Caleb B. Smith, who then lived on the north side of F between Gth and streets north- west. He was on the Mexican claims com- mission and was Mr. Lincoln's Secretary of the Interior, R. W. T who pre- sided over the Navy Department under President Hayes, and John A. McClernand, who, like his cc gue, Mr. Lincoln, had served in the Black Hawk war, the: in the House and was a prominent briga. dier general on tne Union side in the wa: Thos. J. Turner, who had made his way up from humble life, like Mr. Lincoln, hav- ing worked as a laborer on a canal, sat next to Justice Strong, not far from the well-known “Long John” Wentworth, one of the early settlers of Chicago. Missouri had on the Soor J. B. Bowlin, who, under President Pierce, was minister to Grenada, and under Mr. Buchanan filled the like position in Paraguay. Jas. S. Green, who was charge d’ affaires to Bogota in 43 and en or in "56; Willard P. Hall, who was acting governor in 'Gl and 2, and John S. Phelps, who was a colonel on the fede: side and military governor of the s.ate during the war. Arkani ‘as represented by R. W. John- son, who went to the Senate and in the war was on the southern side, Robert McC!el- land, who belonged to the Michigan d+ gation, became governor in and the fol- lowing year was made Secretary of the Interior by .President Pierce; K. F. Bing- ham was governor in "54-6, and elected to the Senate ta '50, but died in ‘61. Wm. Thomps_n, who represented Iowa, went in the Union service early in the war, was cap- tain, major end cvlonel of the first Towa cavalry, and was appoinied a captain of cavalry in the regular army. Mr. Lincom was not one of the fortunate ones in the drawing for seats and became cne of the well flowers on the outer row, is desk being near the center of the left er west half of the semi-circle, but when he became interested in the proceedings of the House he would move down toward the front. He was on the post office and roads committee, and it is said was as fond of telling stories and cracking jokes then as he was in his later years and frequently his speeches bristled with them. R. C. Winthrop cf Massachusetts was then the Speaker and Nathan Sargent, for a number of years in the city councils and register of the treasury,* was sergeant-at- He died a few years ago at his home on East Capitol street, the site of which is now a part of the grounds oecu- pied by the new library building. PROVISIONS FOR THE WINTER, A Florida Man es New Informa- tion About the Habits of Alligators. From the Buffalo Express. There is an alligetor farm on the Wekiva river iz Florida. Its owner is Steve Mel- ton. Lately several loads of pine knots have been dclivered there, and some won- der has bean expressed as to what use Mel- ton would put them to. Said he: “Feed them to my alligatcrs, of course. What do you thirk I am going to do with them? Doa’t you know that ailigators al- ways eat light-wocd knots before going into winter quarters? That is the first of six lighter loads of the knots I have bought, and I an. gcing to have them taken to my alligator rarm. I am going to Five an excursion on a steamer to the farm, and will give every one an opportunity to see the winter feeding. Of course, I will take along a half dozen dogs from the city peind and a Ict of catfish to whet the ap- petites of the ‘gators. They will then be in trim for the light-wood knots. “Did you ever see a ‘gator swdllow a light-wood knot? No? Weil, you just come along with me on that excursion, and I will show you a sight that few people besides the natives of the wilds of southern Flor- ida ever witness. The knots are not thrown into.the water. They are scattered over a five-acre lot just as though they fell from the trees. After having their appe- tites whetted by canines and catfish, the ‘gators crawl out on the bank and begin their feast. Each gator stretches out full length on the ground. He looks around and cciculates the distance to the nearest knot. With a quick movement of his tail, the knot is knocked into the air and is deftly caught in the oren jaws. One gulp and ihe knot disappears. Oh, it's fun to watch them. They are experts, and se'dom miss a knot. This is repeated until every knot is disposed of. Then they crawl back into the water and are seen no more ull next spring.” ——_-e+_____ Had a Fine Memory. From the New York World. Waiter (anxiously,as guest arises)—“Hope you won't forget me, sir.” Hon. Gabe Perkinson (pompously)—“Sir, Iam a member of Congress from Sawbuck district, Ind., and I'm celebrated for re- membering names and faces. I'll know you again if it's twenty years. “What! An actress without shoes or stockings! I never heard of such a thing! I should like to know what people would say if I were to go flaunting about on the stage with bare feet!”—London Punch, KajLwaY, (Piedmont Air Line.) Schedule in eftect November 3, 1895. trains arrive and eave at Pennsylvania Pussenger Station. 8:00 4.M.—Daily—Locil tor Danville. Maniscus for Strusburg, at Lynchburg with the Connects st daily, except Suoday, amd apd with Co & U. dail; ae at Bed weal FEU. or} " Clifton Forge. if ame Gece 15 —Daily—The UNITED STATES FAS s Puliman Buffet Sleepers > Petow to Jacksouville, unitlog at Chase Ullman Sleeper for Augusta; also 1 ian Sleeper New York to New Orleans tiag at AUauta with Lug M pad ioe vs ugha, Memphis and St. Louis. -M.—Local for Strasburg, daily, except Sum —Daily—“Exposition Flyer," Pullman Warhingten to Atlanta, D LIMITED, Solid ‘Train of Sivepers, Dining Cars and Day York to Atlanta. Vullusn Sleeps York to Asheville and liot Spriuss, N._( New York to Memphis via Birminghar to New Orleans via Ati New York to 1 J sonville. y Atlanta. Dinint Car from gomery. TRAINS BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND ROUND HILL leave Washington S:ol A.M. daily and 4:45 PM. daily, except “Sunday, and 6:25 B.M. Sun- days only, for Round Hii "aM, dally, except ee ee P.M. ly for eruden, — Returai Washi 22 ASI and 3:00 Pot rT A.M. daily, except Sunduy, from Herndon, aml 8: AM. daily, excepc Sunday, trom Leesburg. ‘Through irains from the south arrive at Washing- H. 11:45 AM, 2:20 P.M. and 9:40 Manassas Division, 9:45 A.M. duily, (Sunday, und 8:40 ASM." daily from Char 5 azrive at . daily from Hound Hill, except lottesy: furnished at offices, 51 nee, and at Penusyl tion. AND OUNIG RAL. fect November 17, 1805. © daily from Culon Station (Band with pst coimplete solid train serv West from Wuslungton, 2:25 ~ DAN Ciuciunati and St. Louis al""—Solid Vestibuled, Newly Equippel, Elec- le Py, 6th and B rts. Through the {he bardsomest ice and. ighted, Stee m-neated ‘T Imun's finest ig cats Washington to Cinci Ind!apapolis m is datiy. " Diaing Car from’ Waslitngton. Arrive Cin-inoatl th; Indianapolis, 15.30 Louis, b. deville, 15250 a.m. (ia 11:10 P.M. DATLY.—The fameus “F, F. ¥. Lim- ited.’ A solid Vestibuled train, with Dining Car and Pullman Sleepers for Cincinnati, Lamisvitie wi put change ton to Virginia Hot s vdnesdays Le neinuath). ot for all faite SPT SUNDAY.—For Old Point oO: 1 line. or F' DAIL Wa Gordonsville, Charlot tesvilte, Stauaton and prin cipal Virginia points, daily; for Richmond, daily, exeopt Sunday. Pullman locations and tickets at company’s cf- fices, 513 ued 1421 Pennsylvania avenue H nols PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Station corner of Gth and B streets. In cffect November 17, 1895. 10:30 A.M. PEANSYLVAMA LIMI¢D. Pullman Sleeping, Dining, Sucking and Observation Cars Usrrisburg to Chicago, Cincinnati, [ndianapolis, St. Louis, Cieveiand and Toledo. ' Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. 10:30 A.M. BAST LINE.—Pallman Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg Harrist urg to Pittsburg. 3:40 P.M. CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS — Pullman Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. Sleep- ing and Dining Cars, Harristmrg to St. Louis, , Cincinnati, Louisville and Chi a 7:10 P.M. WESTERN EXPRESS-Pallman Si ing Cato Chicago and Harrisburg to Clevelal _ Dining Car to Chicago. 7:10 Pal. SOUTHWESTERN EXPRESS.—Pullman Sleeping and Dining Cars to St. ‘Louls, and Sleep ing Car Harrisburg to Cincinnatt. 10:40 P.M. PACIFIC ENFRESS.—Pullman Sleep ing Car to PS urg. 7:50) AM. ¢, Canandaigua, Rochester and except Sunday. Parlor and Dining Cara, 20 A.M. for Elmira and dally except Sorday. For Willtsmspert daily, 3:40 PA 7:10 P.M. for Williemsport, Rochester, Butalo and tugara Falls daily, except Saturday, with Meep- fox Car Washington to Buepension’ Bridge vie 10:40 P.M. for Erie, Cenanatgua, Rochester, Buf- falo snd’ Niegara Fails daily, Sleeping Car Wasi- ington to Elmira. For Phil 4.00? ing Car from Wiimingtoa), 10:00 amd 11:35 P.M. 0, (4:09 Limited), 4 10:00, 10:49," 11 70:30, 11:00 Limited), 6.05, 6:40, 7:10, , 10:40 and e's Creek Line, 7:20 A.M. and 4:36 PM. except Sunday. For Abeapolis, 7:2 00 A.M., 12:15 and 4:20 FAM. dails, except Sunda. “Sundays, 9:00 A.D Express for michmond, Jeck- 330 A.M., 3:46 P.M. daily, 8:40 PML daily! such eek da; ra M. daily, and sonville and Tampa, Richmerd and Atlant Leave Alexandria for Washineton, 8:00, 9:10, Find oat Gah, 2 MO nnd? the station, 6th and B streets, where orders 2 left for the checking of baggage to destination fram hotels and residences. . PREVOST, jenetal Manager. noid BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILEOAD, Schedule ip effect Novemoer 4, 1805. Washington from station corner or New Jersey avenue and C st. 0 aud Northwest, Vestibuled Limited 220 p.m. t. Louis and Indianapolis, Vesti far ress 12:01 night. Leare For Chic trains 1 For Cunein i For Pittsburg and Cleveland, Express daily 11:38 a.m. and 8:40 p.m. . For Lexington and Staunton, 11:30 a.m. 30. p.m. jos Ul n For Wi er and way stations, For Luray, Natural Bridve, Roanoke, Chattanooza, Memphis and “New Orleats, Sleeping Care through. . dal 35:35, 36:20, 6:30, x8 . 311250 p.m. and xt? ans 8:80, 9:00, x3:00, 3:25, 4:32, 55:05, 10:00," x m,, x122 PPor Annapolis, 7:10 and 8:30 a.m., 1213 and 4:28 p.m. 3 30 a.m.. 4:82 p. rederick, 230, °11 For For 11:30 a.m. and For Bord and way points, *0:40, Baithershuge and way pein S13-bi, m3), 94:98, 846 '33, ncticn and way points, 19: 99:30 a.w., 'T:15 p.m. Express trains, stopping i rincipal stations oniy. *4:30. *5:20 pn. : Royal GLUE LiNk “FoR 5 YORK AND PHILADELPHIA, AML tratng iuminated with pintech light. For Philnde New Yo Bate Seek dupa W700, Di ain. Dining Car), 3:08 Dining Cari, 8: ‘ar, open at . § fas’ Cu, @:00-a.m. Dining Cant Car), 3:00 6:05, Dining Car), §:60 Sleeping Car open for passencers 10: da 1 Parlor Care on all day. trains. For Atlautie City, 10:00. and Y1:30 e.m., 12:30 12:80 p.m. ve aby. Sundags only. ‘SBixpress trains, called for and checked from hotels and raunneeS by Union Transfer Co. on orders left at Ticket offices, G19 Pennsylvania avenne 2 New York avenue and 15th street and at BB CAMPBELL, CHAS. 0. Gen. Manager. Gea. Pass. Agt. not ~ POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. _ THE WEEMS STEAMBOAT COMPANY. FALL SCHEDULE. Steamer Potcmac will : foot 7th “t., every Sunda Sue every Monday and Th Baltimore ond river landings. | strictly first-class. Freight for’ rl | ceived or Mc r ' must be prepaid, Office, 910 Pa. WASHINGTON STEAMBCAT CO. FOUR POTOMAC RIVER LANDIN From 7th st. Ferry Wharf. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 7 a.m.: Mondays for river St. Clement's Bay, Breton’s Bay and } ni retusning, arrives Tucsday afternoon. Wednesdays for river landings to Breton’s Bay and Nomini Creck; thence to Piney Point, St. George's, Smith Coan and Yeocomico rivers; returning, leaves Nowing Greek Thursday afternoon for river landings, arriy- ing Friday morning. Saturdays for river See to Nomini Creek afd St. Clemuear 4 pate oe oon. in etect Nay. 4, So Sdue “Ow. RIDLEY, Gen. ‘Man, nol-tft creek, luding Chapel Point ey aes vpeurning on Motdaya, Wednesdays ). tik. accom! tions: Eridayey 8B ctited wl hour of sailings phone 1765. EB & BANDALL, apd i