Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1896, Page 19

THEFATEOFTHEUGLY MANDARI —_—_-—_—_ BY GEORGE H. WESTLEY. ee sCoprright. 1858, by the Bacheller Syndicate.) | ‘The exciting adventure here recorded was brought up from the recesses of my memory by ithe recent war. It oceurred at the time of the celebrated “Arrow” affair, | that ridiculous revenue squabble which led | the Pritt into hostilities with the Chin- ese. I was busily engaged with my own vessel, running cargoes of tea from Canton down to Hong Kong. and taking back cpium for the native merchants. “ There was big money in the trade, and had it lasted I should bave made my fortune, but unfortunately the outbreak brought the business, for me at least, to a sudden and tragie termination. I was at Hong Kong taking on board my loreha the most profitable cargo of the Season, when the news reached us that the notorious Commissioner Yeh had arrived upon the scene cf action and begun his work by eriug a reward of $ for every white man’s head, twenty for every pris- oner and fifty for every barbarian officer captured and brought before him. Follow- ing close upon this cheerful t:formation came rumcrs of piraticai craft swarming the creeks and channels of the (anton river from the city to the sea; and of the capture of several traders and the inhu- man butchery of thelr crews. In of these startling reports, how- ever, I determined to make tie trip for was even id add several then half fascinat ¢ is willing to run consider- able risk. Moreover I kn:w loved my beautiful lorcha as an Arab knows and lov I felt that she contd show @ lively pair of heels to the fastest war junk afloat, and as for the smaller eraft, she carried guns enouga to blow them cleaa out of water. My chief mate was an American, a sturdy young fellow, Tom Hawkins, who had been in my service a considertble time. ond mate was a tall, whom we called “Joe. hen there were six Manil men, and twenty-five Cantor ese, oficered by my father-n-law, hoor. Se-she, my pretty little Chi wife, was also on board, for although she tried hard to disauade me from this perilous | y he-{ of defiance we let drive our port broadside. Voyage, she would not consent to = i | “Capitan! capitan!” he yelleé exci! “come up to de deck! Vite! Quick! quiet De Chtnote—de mandarins are coming. Rushing on deck I beheld two big war junks sailing out from an ambuscade form- ed by a projecting point of land a little way up the channel ahead of us. p anchor there. Joe!” I shouted, tak- ing m our chances at a glance. ‘Clap the sails on her, Hawkins! We must run for it. The infernal pilot is at the bottom of this! While my orders were being carried out the ti-mungs bore rapidly down upon us. Seeing that we were likely to escape, they fired several shots at us, one of which came crashing through our topsides. We replied to this with a broadside,which swept the deck of the foremost junk and must have killed a dozen of her crew. How long our men seemed lifting that archor. On came the two war junks, their prows showing huge, Iideous, carven faces with great, goggling eyes. their colors fly- ing, gongs beating and crews yelling as though they expected to terrify us by their horrible din. At the mastheads of both were stationed men with ‘‘stinkpot™ gren- ades, ready when they came close enough to cast the suffocating things down upon our deck. Beside me stood my plucky Iittle wife, carrying her hand a light rife which I had given her and taugat her how to use. “Se-she!” satd I, “pick those fellows off the masts yonder.” Without & moment's hesitation she firsd and sent one of them hurling to the deck below. “Brave! Well done!” I cried, patting her on the shoulder. “Here. Tom and Joe, do you the same to every steersman they send to their wheels.” FRiaving given this order, I ran to the forecastie gun and trained {t upon the fore- most of our enemies. Waiting until she was within about a hundred yards I let drive. The double charge of grape and canister raked her fore and aft, and" by the eries and confusion that ensued must have caused terrible havoc. Then leaving this gun to thé crew to re- load, I rushed aft to the long eightesn, and as the Marie's sails filled and she came around, I blazed away at war junk number two, which was making for our quarter. Now came the imperialists’ turn, and as they brought their ti-mungs broadside in order to rake us, I made all hands lie flat on deck to avold the coming fire. Présent- ly the'r two ten-gun proadsides roared ab rrost simultaneously, but being poorly aim- ed their saot flew mostly over our heads, whistled through the ropes and tore huge rents in our sails. Seareely had the last shot whizzed and srled through our rigging, when my men were on their feet, and with a loud shout THE BLOW WAS AIMED WITH FATAL PRECISION. hind. And tt was exceedingly lucky for me I Then spinning our vessel around we pour- that she wouldn't. The Marie mounted two pivot guns, a long eighteen-pourder amidships and a car- ronade of the same caliber the how. In each of ker broadside ba’ three ne-pounders, and nesijles she carried a goodly supply of small acras and also a number of those terribl. suffo- ades commea to Chinese 2 & being In readiness, we weigh- ed an ad started up the river. It was a delightful morning, and Se-she and I sat on deck drinking in the soft, sweet air, vying the beautiful sunshine that flickered upon the rippling long about 4 o'clock we passed Boca Tigris, and two hours later h of the channel which I ed to take. As the darkness was approaching. however, I dared not en- ter the narrow stream, so I determined to rhor where I was until the next morn- ly had qur sails been dropped when le and there scrambled de: a yellow-skinned, bony, < Chinaman, who made his way aft ed whether or not we wanted a ffi) you ugly sinner,” I a: fellow’s counte- ver, but to work as though taking a and her armament. ~ He Ra» the Fellow te the Bulwarks. sok here, Hawkins,” sald I, satisfied at our ugly visitor was a spy, “this fel- w is ne more a pdot than lam. Give him side.”” too glad of the chance. inaman’s pigtail close up ad, aud the ample bosom of his es with the other, he ran the to the bulwarks, and amid the ter of the crew, pitched him uncere- iy into his boat. r shall [ forget the frightful expres sion of malice on the Chinaman’s counte- nance as he looked up at us from his po- sition below. He shook his fist at ‘Tom, and chuckled to Aimseif with a fiendish sort of glee, as though reveling by antici- —_ im some awful revenge. Presently oer and scull a ed hastily up the Leaving a strict watch om deck I retired to the cabin and joined my wife at the sup- per table, where we indulged in a hearty a a what 1 had happened. was just ing @ goed cigar when U face af Joe, the Frenchman, appeared ae denly in the skylight. ed the contents of our starboard guns into the other war junk. The effect must have been dreadful, for we could great gaps cut among the numbers crowding their decks, while the splinters flew from their oulwarks tn clouds. _ The gallant little Marie was now gather- ing headway, and, although the breeze was light, she promised soon to take us out of close quartera with our pursuers. Her hand- some maneuvering must be accredited to A-choong, who throughout the enemy's fire had stood courageously at the wheel. One great advantage we had over our as- sallants was the fact that our guns were movable, while theirs were lashed as fix- tures to the bulwarks. By picking off their steersmen, therefore, we could prevent them from getting into the position they required to train upon us thefr full batteries. Con- sequently we poured three broadsides to their cre. We were now drawing rapidly away from the U-mungs and speeding down the river. As soon as we had gained half a mile our pursuers gave up the chase, Little did F suspect the cunning course they were about to pursue. At 10 o'clock, feeling that F might "ely trust the lorcha in the hands of ae vaniee mate, I turned in for a short nap. How long I had been sleeping F cannot tell, but sud- denly I was aroused by & violent shock, fol- lowed by a volley of firearms, the tramping of many feet overhead, and the hideous yelling of Chinese warfare. Snatching up my revolver, [ rushed on deck, fotlowed by my plueky lictle wife. One glance was enough. F saw at once that we were at the mercy of the Impertal- ists. The decks were swarming with them, and stil they poured upon our deck from the ecocked-up ends of a couple of big trad- ing junks that were hanging fast to us, one on each side, We were lying at anchor off the coast, and I knew in an instant how our capture had taken place, for I had narrowly escaped the same trap before, but had somehow for- gotten it. You see, our enemies, instead of continu- ing the stern chase in their heavy ti-mungs, had transferred their men to trading junks. leisurely sailed after us, and passed ahead awhen we cleared the river, without exciting Tay mate's suspicion. This done, their course was easy. They had simply waited until the floodtide made us anchor, had ™moved right ahead, and, connecting themselves to- gether by a strong rope, had dropped silent- ly down with the current until the rope caught across our cable, when, of course, the strong tide instantly sheered then atouestte: Vhen I reached the top step of the a panion ladder the glare of the, lanterns and torches carried by the swarming boarders showed me my two mates in a desperate hand-to-hand encounter with the enemy. ‘They were fighting furiously, and endeavor- ing to cut thelr way aft. As I looked a tall figure crept up behind Hawkins and raised his sword to cut the mate down. Instantly I recognized the malicious and vengeful countenance. It was that of the Chinaman whom Tom had helped over the stde. His uniform showed him to be an officer high in command. I raised my revolver and fired, but my shot went wide of the mark and the biow fell, bearing poor Hawkins, fearfully wounded, to the deck, where the mandarin stood over him and drove his sword Into the poor fellow’s heart. The Frenchman Joe fought lke a tiger. I saw four Chinamen fall before his whirl- ing cutlass, but the odds were too great, and he, too, fell and was quiekly dis- patched. Six or eight of my crew lay the deck, but A-choeng and the remainder of my men were not to be seen. I supposed that they had been killed and thrown over- |. Wht, can catchee lorcha back again.’ “THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY. AUGUST 8, 18996-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. quietly ané then watch our opportenity to oon Perhaps they wil} not kf us at on The seoundrets rushed few minutes later we were cabin, bound hand and foot. ‘e den each other a last farewell, expecting every moment to be slaughtered, but it ese that our hideous captor had other 3. Over us stood the mandarin and three of officers. “Sar?” (“cut”) said one of the latter, sig- nereeatly sawing the air sideways with his ni “No!” replied the mandarin. “We will take them alive te his excellency Yeh. The foreign devil we shall be able to pass off as an officer, and so obtain the reward, as well as having the gratification of seeing him treated to the ling chy (1. ¢., the hor- rible torture of cutting into ten thousand pieces). As for the woman, she has brought disgrace upon our nation, and will be made an exampte of.’* A moment later they went on deck. Searcely had they vanished up the eom- panionway when a slight tap came againat the bulkhead across the cabin, and I heard the voles of my father-in-law. “Hi, captin!” said he, “me no have die. Twelve plecee men have mekee hide down foreside. ‘Spose by ‘m’ by some mandarin man makee go ashore, ‘spose you makee I said. “Keep “All right, A-choong,”* close where you I think likely some of them will go ashore with the plunder. Remain quiet till E give you the word, and then we will make a fight for the ship. ‘The information that twelve men were stowed away in the forecastle was wel- come news indeed, and for a moment my heart thrilled with hope to escape. But when I came to consider our chance, and the dreadful fate that awaited us, I grew despondent again. “Ob, Se-she!” I cried, “why did you pre- vent me from shooting? We should then have been killed at once, but now—!" ‘ait, my husband. Remember I am armed. I have your revolver and my dag- ger. We have yet a chance. When the mien have gone with the junks there will t be many soldiers left on board; then I will slip my hand out, cut the ropes that bind us, and we shall be able to make a last effort. If we fail, then it will be a quick death.” Just as she finished speaking the man- darin returned to the cabin, accompanied by an attendant who carried writing ma- terfals. Seating himself at the table he wrote @ letter, which he handed to the man in waiting. “Be off, now,” he sald, ‘and convey this to the officer In charge of the ti-mungs. Take half the men with you; leave me the other twenty-five. Use the fast boat and make the men bend to their oars, for 1 am ina hurry to have the ti-mungs brought round.”” Away went tHe bearer of the letter and presently we heard the ropes cast off and the junks depart. My heart bounded with hope and excitement Only twenty-five men left on board—oh, if only my brave lit- tle wife could set me free, and I eould liber- ate the men in the forecastle. ‘These thoughts were suddenly interrupted by the mandarin. “Hi, foreign devil!” he cried. . “How muchee dollar have got? What place keep- ee he?” S I had only about $100 on board, and it flashed upon me that by giving them up end indulging his passion of avarice I might throw the wretch off his guard. “Dollar in top drawer, other cabin,” I re- lied. P'Chuckling to himself he marched into the cabin I had indicated and presently re- turned with the money in his hand. “More dollar!” he cried, not yet satisfied. “More dollar. What placee have got more doilar?” 0 more,” I replied. ‘Dollar! Dollar! 'Spose you no talkee me what place have makee hid, me Killee you wife,” and he laid hts hand threateningly upon his sword. z I shuddered at this dreadful threat, and knew not what reply to make to satisty him. But Se-she’s mind was busy at work cn a plan. n yee havee my dollar,” she said. “You find In smailo piecee box under tabtie.” Again the avaricious mandarin turned toward the inner cabin. He had taken but a step or two when quick as thought she slipped her small soft hands from the zope which bound them, and drawing her concealed dagger, she crept up behind him and drove the weapom with all her strength into his back. The blow was aimed with fatal precision, and the mandarin fell life- fe33 to the floor. One low moan escaped him, and that was all. Next instant the little woman was at my side, cutting away the ropes from my hands and feet. This done she handed me the revolver which she had concealed about her person when we were captured. It was now necessary for me to steal forward and release the men. Creeping stealthily up the companion stairs I peered cautiously around. It was just that silent chilly oppressive hour of the morning be- tween black night and gray dawn, when cn a dark night the darkness !s most pro- found, and its peculiar haziness makes cbjects most Invisible. The imperialists were assembled round a ccuple of big lanterns, following the usual and besetting vice of Chinese soldiers and sailors—that of gambling. They were so Intent upon their small wooden cards and their faring lanterns threw every other part of the deck into such deep shacow, that I managed to reach the fore- castle hateh undiscovered. With infinite caution I removed the fastening and de- scended to my men. There were nine Can- tonese and three Manilla men. All were armed. In a few seconds I told them how matters stood, and called upon them to fol- low me; then, one by one, we crept up the ladder. “Fire,” I crted. The volley swept half the gambling guard into eternity, and with bayonet and eutlass we drove the rest overboard, just as A-choong came running up from his hiding place to assist us. We got up our anchor and spread sail as quickly as possible, and before & o'clock in the morning we were riding safely at anchor in Hong Kong. << Scheveningen Nowadays, Hague Irtte to the Hartford Conrant. Schevenirgen, an expensive watering Dlece three miles from The Hague, dff- fers outwardly from an American sea- side resort ir the number of bath chairs Scattered slong the beach. ‘hey are of wicker work, and in shape are net un- Uke a magnified ofd-fashiored sunbonnet. Im them people sit and read or doze by the hour, agreeably protected from the sun end wind. Many are decorated outside with advertisements -ef cocoa, in huge black letters, and when hundreds of chairs are grouped on the sands, as is the case in the height of the season, the tout ensemble is indeseritbably funny. In former years thts has been a good place to see the dis- tiretive costumes of the fisher folk, who, alos! are fast adopting conventional gar- rents. Thus do civilization and the in- fluence of cosmopolitan ideas tone down much of thre old picturesqueness here as in other parts of Europe. A far better place now for seeing the real peasant dress is at Katwyk, six miles from len, where the great sand dunes rise im refreshing re- Hef from the monotonous level of al Hol- land. Here, too, the beaeh is Hned with these short, clumsy, square-prowed ves- sels, painted every concetvable color, with whieh artists have made us familiar. Confederate Holidays. From Harper's Weekly. Louisiana has decided to make January 19, Gen. Robert E. Lee’s birthday, a public holiday.’ The idea of observing a special day in commemoration or memento of the southern confederacy was proposed only a few years ago, but !t has met with uni- versal favor throughout the south. A con- vention of confederate veterans suggested June 3 as a@ proper holiday, it being the birthday of “President” Jefferson Davis, the head and front of “the lost. cause.” But the people seem to take a different view of the matter, and to have selected a different hero. Only one state, Florida, has accepted the suggestion of the veterans and made June 3 “Confederate day,” Louisiana t# the fifth to select Lee’s birth- day instead; and this selection is the more =e Pity ~ cea Jefferson Davin was well nown jew Orleans, was a frequent resident there, and his permanent home, Beauvoir, iw practically a suburb of the city. na’s action has probably set- tled the matter, and “Confederate day” wilt Lee instead of commemorate Da the idead southern hero, Seated WRITING A‘LANGUAGE ‘Po Study the Tongue of the Six Na- tions of Fndians. ALPHABET OF FORTY-EIGHT LETTERS Bible of the Aborigines to Be Writ- ten for thé First Time. THE ORIGINAL HIAWATHA ——_>—___ HILOLOGIST J. N. P= Hewitt of the bu- reau of American ethnology will leave here in a few days for & novel expedi- tion of study, to be made fm the Grand river reserve, seven- ty miles west. of Buf- Galo, on the Cana- dian side. In this re- serve are combined the vdd trites known —_——~ as the Six Nations— the confederation of Indians composed of the Oneidas, Mohawks, Oncndagas, Cayu- gas, Senecas and Tuscaroras. Mr. Hewltt, by applying a novel system, will make dic- tlonariss and grammars of these Indian languages, and by ald of these data will make an interesting English translation of the Bible of the Six Nations, recording their strange pagan beliefs concerning the creation and early history of the world. Although more civilized than most Indians, those of the Six Nations have never be- fore been studied ethnologtcaly. Mr. Hew- itt wi “live Indian” with the big chiefs and wilt take elaborate notes upon all that they tell him. He can speak eight Indian languages, and has a knowledge of practi- cally every language of the old world. He is preparing to carry with him a phono- graph, which will preserve for him the words .1d sentences which he will study. He will usk the talkative Indians to speak very distinctly into this machine, and will afterward grind out each word slowly and carefully, noting each syllable, accent and inflection. Reliable interpreters will supply the literal translations to every sentence. Since no American tribe, except the Mayas, has ever had a written language, the phil- ologist must rely entirely upon his ears for correct arrangement of sounds. Special Alphabet and Typewriter. For recording each sound in its original tene of utterance he will use a spectal al- phabet of forty-eight characters, besides many additicnal signs for modified tones. For rapidity and accuracy of work he has had made a typewriter, which writes In- dian as clearly as the ordinary typewriter writes English. In the places of the keys operating the English types are arranged others operating the Indian sound letters. With this he will wfite interviews with In- dians, which conversations when read will Mean the sare to his ears as the original words when spoken. Mr. Hewitt says that in certain lexical proc the languages of these people resemble provincial Latin in a general way. : When beginning with 9, strange language ke will commence the preparation of the dictionary and grammar by inscribing as many. simple sentences 3s possible, having each word repeated ggain and again. Lists of as many words qa he can think of will be collected with thefr Einglish equivalents following. They will afferward be arrang- ed alphabeiically ghd ‘printed. A Tus- carotan dictionary which this philologist lately prepared contains pbout 13,000 words, The different case endings and other modi- fied forms for the Fi ars will be ecol- lected ‘by requiring Be person interviewed to use the same word In many different cates, moods, tenses, etc. A Mixtere of Prganism tianity. scattered Six Nations about are still pagans who believe myths of their ancestors as devotitly as the most orthodox Christian belfeves the story of the Bible. The Bfble of the Six Nations will combine the beliefs of all the tribes. These creeds virtually correspond, the six tribes having descended from the same stock. From a previous visit among several of the tribes he brought back the pagan text of what may be called their Old Testament. This will be printed as the first part of their Bible. The New Testament will comprise the new Pagan creed, an odd mixture of mytholosy and Christianity. The change in the creed was brought about early in this century by @ Seneca boy, the nephew of Chief Handsome Lake. The youth was educated in Spain, and returning to his uncle's wig- wam for a brief vacation, proceeded to convert the old chief to the more creditabie story of the Christian Bible. Before hav- ing made his points sufticiently clear the young man died. Handsome Lake made use of the smattering of Christianity which he had acquired and preached it among the people of the Six Nations. Tne result was an od@ religion, taken bodily from the Christian New Testament and colored fan- tasticaliy with the myths of the original pagan ereed. The Old Testament. A very brief outline of the Old Testament of the Six Nations, as recited to the writer by the phffologist, runs like a fairy tale. The most fnteresting parts of it follow: In the beginning this world was a small mass of water, ruled over by the Sky God. The Sky God married a noble maiden of the sky world. She was born with a caul, and was, therefore, intellectually superior to the mass of her people. After they had Hved together for five days and nights the Sky God told his young wife to go to her home at a great dis- tance and to tell her people to take the roofs off their houses. This they did, and the Sky God caused a shower of corn, which filled each howse full of grain. When she re- turned to his home the Sky God, through misapprehenston, suspected his wife of un- faithfulness. He ordered that a great tree, growing near his house, be pulled up by the roots. This was done, and where the tree had stood appeared a great hole, extending down through the sky to the earth. Down this hole he pushed his wife, who fell througt space toward our world. When the fishes and other water animals occupying the earth saw her falling, two ducks flew up to carry her gently down, and the re- maining creatures began to build an island upon which she might live. A turtle vol- unteered to serve ag the foundation of the istand, and the other animals brought up mud from the bottpm of the water and spread tt upon hts back. The ducks brought down thelr burden and placed her upon the living island. The turtle’s back continued to grow larger and larger, until it became as broad as our land {s today. Thus. was this continent created, and today, when an earthquake dccurs, it is caused by the mo- tions of the same old turtle, who is holding the land up. “On the fifth day after her ar- rival the Sky God's wife gave birth to a daughter. This daughter grew up in five days and married a short bow-legged spirit, who belonged to the Turtle Class. Soon she gave birth to twin boys, one of whom killed her during delivery, The Sky God's wife asked which of her grandsons had killed his mother, and the guilty one answered that it was his brother. The grandmother believed this falsehood, and she threw the innocent youth inte a growth of shrubbery, but, being supernatural, he did not die. Geod and Evil Elements. ‘The guilty boy became his grandmother's favorite. His name was Flint, which rep- resents the cold destructive power of na- ture. The innocent youth's name was Sprout, which represents the reproductive power of nature. The grandmother cut off the head of her daughter and hung it upon the top of a tall tree, where it became the sun. Taking the body she “folded up the srms and legs ard hung !t to another tree, where it became the moon. The twin boys and Chris- Of all the 60 per cent the entiént grew to be great giant spirits, Wke theiz grandmother. -Flint'and his dmother worked together doing all ings which Sprout, on aight cause trouble and pain. hen the ether them to day stole test. being Soft ty Gartncos, Sprout and the entmads formed an expedition and cap- tered the sun while the two evil ones were unaware. As Sprout snd his company were row- irg off with the sun in their cance the off grandmother ran to the bank and demanded that it be returned. She became piteously humble, and finally it was agreed that the sun should be in the east half of the day, and that it should come west to shine over this continent dur- sng the other half. Flint continued to con- spire against his brother. One day he came to this continent and shut all @f the an! mals in a huge cave. Sprout learned of this and opened the entrance. Before all of the animals had escaped Flint closed the en- trance again, and the poor creatures were shut up forever, afterward becoming the uncanny things which live under the ground. The Death of Flint. Finally Sprout decided to rid the earth of lis brother's evil Influence, so he took him hunting one day and he asked Flint of what weapons he was most afraid. Flint said, “Buck horns and flint stones.” Sprout said he was most afraid of rushes, which was untrue. They finally had a furious fight, and Sprout easily killed his brother, who had believed that he could be conquered with rushes. During this.encounter the mountains were piled up as braces for the feet of the fighting giant spirits. Having lost her favorite grandson, the sky god's wife became the mother of the spirits of the dead. Now, deprived of his two enemies, Sprout began to prepare the earth for the people whom he intended to create. While making ready for them he one day met an- other spirit, whose name was Death, and who claimed that the world belonged to him. They challenged each other to show his power,and agreed that whichever shouid bring a distant mountain to his feet would be the ruler. Death tried and failed, but Sprout moved the mountain with little dif- ficulty. Death, thereupon, begged that his life be spared and promised to ald Sprout, if so allowed. Sprout granted the request, and it was agreed that a feast be given to Death once a year. If they failed to ob- serve this feast the future people of the earth were to be visited by destruction. All preparations being made, Sprout at last created a man snd a woman. After they were completed they lay at his feet like two lifeless logs. Seeing this, Sprout put then: te sieep, teok a rib from the man’s body, also oné from the woman's, put the rib of the man in the woman’s hody ard vice versa. This caused an affec- tion to exist between zhem; they grew sociable and loved each other and became the father and mother of the human race. Hiawatha’s Original. Another interesting bit of mythology which Mr. Hewitt is investigating is the original Indian story of Hiawatha. Hia- ywatha was a common Onondaga chief, al- though Longfellow made him a demigod and placed him among the Objibwa tribe, inhabiting the region surrounding Lake Superior. Most of the great deeds with which Hiawatha was credited by the poet appeared as the works of the sky god in the original mythology. According to the genuine version of the story, Hiawatha, whose name means “ditch digger,” was a Mohawk by birth, but was afterward adopt- ed by the Onondagas and made their chief. He found that his people were constantly quarreling and fighting and that a certain wizard among them was building up an evil influence over all of the tribe. Hta- watha decided to call’ together a council where all disagreements and troubles might be regulated. After calling two councils, which the wizard broke up by inttmidating the people, Hiawatha called a third and en- deavored tO withhold intelligence of it from the wizard and his followers. At the third council, which many attended, sev- eral of the wizard’s men caused a riot by telling the people that some great monster was descending upon them from the sky. In the rush of excitement Hiawatha’s daughter was killed and the council broken up. Hiawatha became distracted with grief, and, seeing that he was helpless to better iis people, decided to travel to the land of the Mohawks to appeal for assistance. Af- ter a long and weary journey, he arrived at the camp of the Mohawks, and their chief agreed to return with him. On their return they met the Oneidas, whose chief became part of the confederation. The three na- tions combtred against the dreaded wizard and went before him in council. When he appeared his hair was formed of many serpents and his feet and hands were like the claws of 2 turtle. They transformed him into a human being, inspired him with virtue and made him the head of their lezgue. After that all went well with the Onondagas. This is 1s much as Mr. Hewitt has so far learned of Hiawatha in the orig- iral mythology. The Annual Council. Each year the dignitaries of the Six Na- tions meet in council, held at some selected spot. This ceremony lasts four days. Preaching takes place every morning from 8 o'clock until noon. Various domestic problems are discussed and considerable scund doctrine is disseminated. The fourth day is ended with a gambling game, play- ed with peach pits of different colors, thrown like dice. In these games the un- fortunate participants ofgen lose all of their earthly possessions. Mr. Hewitt says that there are recorded instances of actual cases where men coming from great distancgs, having bet and lost every stitch of their clothes, have had to walk home naked, in the dead of winter, when the ground was deep with sno —__+—_—_. WHO IS LOSING BY THE BICYCLE? The Gigantic Inroads on All Lines of Trade. From the New York Sun. In the current number of the Forum some interesting data have been collected by Mr. J. B. Bishop to show the economic and social inffuence of the bicycle. He mates that since the passion for wheeling got under full headway, less than five years ago, at least $100,000,000 have been spent in the purchase of bicycles in the United States alone. The output for the present year is computed at from 750,008 to 1,000,000 machines, at an average retail price of $50 each. Obviously, a millon people cannot buy bicycles at the average price named and continue to supply themselves witn as many other things as they would otherwise have bought. business which have been most seriously affected by the remarkable development of the new branch of manufacturing? The makers of watches and jewelry are said to have been the first to feel the effecis of the diversion of money to bicycles. It seems that formerly on Christmas day @r a birthday the favorite present to the male members of a family was a watch; now it is @ bicycle. The young girls on their part were accustomed to save their pin money for the purpose of buying earrings or a breastpin; now they hoard it for a bicycle. The grown-up daughter, who used to look forward to the purchase of a piano, now concludes that she will wait no longer and gets 4 bicycle instead. It is reported that the piano trade for the current year has fallen off 5 per cent. According to the furniture dealers, young women, when al- lowed by their parents to choose between a new set of parlor furniture and a bicycle, always choose the latter. Undoubtedly, however, the worst suiferers are the horse and carriage trades and the anciliary lines of busiress. Saddle horses ere a drug in the market; the livery stable business has been cut down from a half to two-t! What are the other kinds ot ; ;| old party now.” for new carriages the demand has been #0 much reduced that severai leading manu- facturers have gone to the wall. The sad- dle and hamess makers have been forced to turn their attention to the making of bicycle saddies. Riding academies have been turned into Bicycle schools. So far only the direct economical conse- quences of the bicycle craze have been con- sidered. Mr B' to discuss some of its indirect effects. The journals of the tobacco trade assert that the cor- sumption of cigars has fallen off during the present year at the rate of a million cigars a day; this they ascribe to the fact that, as ule, wheelmen do not smoke while riding. Saloonkeepers say that they also suffer, because their rooms are de- serted on pleasant evenings; even the wheelmen who visit them avoid strong drink, because riding requires a steady head. A large restaurant in this town which makes a specialty of table d’hote dinners has incurred this summer a loss of half its business through the desertion of wheel- men. Railway and steamboat men report that excursionists prefer to go to the coun- try or the seashore on the bicycle rather than by rail er water. Trolley and other street car lines from cities to their sub- urbs have had their rece:pts sensibly di- minished. In cities the theaters are said to be injured by the bicycle even in winter, and to be ruined in summer. On the other hand, in country villages, the churches are fast losing the attendance of young people on Sunday, and are trying to lure them back by providing storage room for their wheels. Shoemakers complain that they suffer materially because persons who for- merly “got their exercise by walking have taken to the wheel, upon which they ride in low-priced shces, which are subject to little wear and tear. ‘Bhe hatters say they are injured because bicyclists wear cheap caps. The tailors aver thatetheir business has been demaged at least 25 per cent be- cause their customers do not wear out clothes as rapidly as formerly, spending much oftheir time in cheap ready-made bicycle suits. Dealers t ary goods say that the predilection of young women for the wheel has reduced their sales of dress goods and expensive costumes from 2% to 50 per cent because so many girls prefer an evening ride in bicycle garb to sitting at home in more elaborate apparel. Final- ly, the booksellers declare that much rid- ing prevents much reading, and that their trade suffers. One great news agency ‘n New York city, which deals in novels and periodicals, asserts that its loss in trade this year from bicycle competition does not fall short of a miilion dollars. Some of the economical effects of the widely extended use of the bicycle will no doubt be lasting, but others are certain to be transitory. As Mr. Bishop remarks, people are not going to get on permanently without pianos or watches because they ride upon bicycles. As soon as a given community becomes stocked with bicycles and the changes and improvements become so unimportant as no longer to require the purchase of new machines every year, money will begin to flow back into some of its former channe!s. Eee eee A FORGOTTEN CHAPEL. Ww: Walled Up the Vatican Despite Its Beautiful Decorations. The oldest decorated walls in the palace are those by Fra Angelico in the chapel of Nicholas. For some reason or other this chapel at one time ceased to be used, the door was walled up, and the very existence | of the place was forgotten. in the last cen- tury Bottari, having read about it in Vasari, set to work to find it, and at last got into it | through the window which looks upon the | roof of the Sistine Chapel. The story, which is undoubtedly true, gives an idea of the vastness of the palace, and certainly sug- gesis the possibility of more forgotten treas- ures of art shut up in forgotten rooms. One other such as least there is. High up in the Borgia tower, above the Stanze of Raphael, is a suite of rooms once inhabited by Cardinal Bibbiena, of the Chigi family, and used since then by more than one assist- ant secretary of state. There is a small chapel there, with a window looking upon an inner court, which was once the lux- urious cardinal’s bath room, and was beau- tifully painted by Raphael tn fresco, with mythological subjects. In 18% according to Crowe and Cavalcaselle, Passavant saw it as it had originally been, with the frescos, though much damaged, still beautiful, and the marble bath still in its place in a niche painted with river gods. In one of the Vati- can’s- periodical fits of prudery, the frescos were completely hidden with a wooden wainscot, the bath tub was taken away, and the room was turned into a chapel. It 1s believed, however, that the paintings still exist behind their present covering. s0- Those Born at Sea. From Huvsel.old Words. It Is the common belief of English sailors that all persons born at sea legally belong to the parish of Stepney, one of the most interesting of the old London purishes. There was an old rhyme which declared: He who sails on the wite sea is a parishtoner of Stepney. This lief gained such ground tlat in 1813 a magistrate cf the county of Chester removed a vagrant from the parish of Stockport to Siepney on the simple ground that the man was born at sea. When the matter was contesied by the overscers of Stepney, Lord Ellenborough, the judge, spoke of the transfer as “a great biunder on the part of the magistrate,” and the man wag sent back to Stockport. But the epinion is still common among saiiors. It is supposed is owing to the fact that shipmasters used to make a return of births sea to Stepney because it was the near- landing place to their anchorage. a est From the Chicago Record. A four-year-old's a baby, Whatever you do or say; You may rig him out in a roundabout ‘And teach him the time of ézs: As his muscles grow he will bluster and blow you think tim ap army of mi hort of breath you may “love him to death’’ And declare “he's his father agaia.” But whether you will, he's a baby still, Whatever you do or say. A four-year-old’s a baby, Whatever you do or say: He tay ror and shout und want to play ont In the yard the livelong da He may pit ov fils bat and ts coat and all that, And buiten cls sie Wt a He may swaguer and strut and pretend to be, but ig he may took Ld You may call him a mam, asa mother cam, Seventy times a day; If he cries when ke's burt, ali covered with dirt, You'll gather him up in your arms, Nor Kisses refise to cover the bruise And quiet his tearfol alarms. For, whether you will, he’s a baby still, Wiatever you do or say. WILLIAM S. LOI. soe Interesting Puzzle. From the Chicago Tribune. Shade of Thomas Jefferson (looking down over the battlements)—“I can’t see that there is anything wrong with our glorious old party. Those are the same honest democratic faces I have seen at the party gatherings for many vears.”” Shade of Andrew Jackson—“You are look- ing at the boliers. That wild mob of free | silver shouters over there is our glorious THE HAYSEED AND THE GAS. | 92 Cannon street Gladness Comes With= better understanding of the transient nature of the many phys- ical ills, which vanish before proper ef- fe tle efforts—pleasant efforts— rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge, that so many forms of sickness are not due to any actual dis- ease, but simply to a constipated condi- tion of the syste h family laxative, ly removes. That 3 remedy with millionsof families, and is everywhere csteemed so highly by all who value good health. effects are due to the fact, that iti one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness mt debiliteting the organs on which it acts. It is therefore all important, in order to get its bene- ficial effects, to note when you pur- chase, that you have the gemtine arti- ele, which is manufactured by the Cali- fornia wrnp Co.only and sold by all reputable druggists. If in the enjoyment of good health, and the system is regular, laxatives or other remedies are then not needed. If afflicted with any actual disease, one may be commended to the most skillful physicians, but if in necd of a laxative, one shonld have the best, and with the well-informed everywhere, Syrup of Figs stands highest and is most largely used and gives most general satisfaction. MATRIMONTA CENTRICITIES. Jewish Divorce Found to Be Megal Resalts in Remarriage. From the New York Journal After two years of separation, during which a plump and pretty Jewess became the supposed lawful wife of another man, resterday released from a charge y and returned to the arms of her former husband, Esther and Benjamin Green were married according to the Jewish relig'on thirteen years ago, and lived happily together until 1895, Benjamin was a hard-working, in- dustrious, trustworthy man, and his wife being of a Kindly disposition, their life was unmarre? by storms and quarrels. The man, however, fell sick and unable to work, so that Mrs. Green $ compelied to go out and earn money to supp'y their home at No. s She did this cheerfully until the neighbors began to complain that her example was spoiling all the other men about the neighborhood. Tt is said the spectacle of Benjamin Green sitting peacefully in his home while wife earned his & by the sweat of her brow demoralized his fellow men, and they began to wish their wives to do likewise Then the women went to Mrs. Green, say ing: “Why de you work to support a man? It is not right. Why don’t you get a di- vorce?" The Greens were passionately attached to each other, and when the woman repeat- ed these things to her husband they wept together. But the love of the man was | strong, and he felt that he must sacrifice himself so that his wife should be spared a life of labor. 80 he consented to a divorce A divorce by a Jewish rabbi, which is the only one recognized by the Jewish religion, but which, unfertunately—or, as it now seems to the Greens, fortunately—is not recognized by the laws of the country. The ceremony of a Jewish divorce is as- tonishingly simple. The pair appeared be- fore the rabbi and mutually confessed that they could not agree, and wished to be parted. The rabbi then called in three wit- hesses, and, having prepared a ~“ which is a form setting out in Biblical F brew these facts, on a small piece of p: bearing the rubber stamp of the rabbi, bade the woman hold her hands togethe extended before her face. Then he flung the “gelt” into them. If she caught at it was “kosher,” or g00a, the divorce being from that time binding; but if she dropped it tt was “triefe,” or illegal, and the marriage must Green caught the “gelt,” and sor- rowfully husband and wife parted, as they thought, to meet no more. Mrs, Green was a comely soon found many admirers; but for a whole year she remained single, during which time she became possessed of some $2,000 and much jewelry left her by a relative in Russia. hese and other charms attracted the at- tention of Raphael Eisenberger, and, after & brief courtship, Esther became his wife; that is, she married him according to the laws of this country. It was then that Green began to get well, and although he no longer suffered bodily sickness, the pangs of jealousy sprang up in his bosom. The couple met repeatedly and exchanged words of undy- ing love, although she thought she was another man’s wife and their loving was a 8i woman, and Worst of ali, her new husband had soon run through her little fortune, and, having sold her trinkets, had disappeared. Then Green was told that his divorce was not good, and that his wife had prac- tically been ‘guilty of bigamy. To test this he had her indicted on June 1s last, and for four weeks the twice-married wo- man lay in tne tombs. She was arraigned before Justice Cow- ing in general sessions yesterday, and Lawyers Greenthal & Greenthal of No. 51 Chambers street appeared for her. ‘Their plea was that she had only erred in believ- ing her Jewish divorce to be binding. The husband pleaded for the wife he loved. ‘The result was that the heart of the judge was touched and the woman released. Mr. and Mrs. Green went home together to start their second honeymoon. A Perfect Woman, From the Texas Sifter. When Sam Jones was holding his meet- ings in Dallas, on one occastom he said: “There is no such thing as a perfect man. Anybody present who has ever known a perfect man, stand up.” Nobody stood up “Those who have ever known a perfect woman, stand up.” One demure littie woman stood up. “Did you know an absolutely perfect wo- n.an?’ asked Sum. somewhat amazed “I didn’t know her personally,” replied the little woman, “but I have heard a great deal of her. She was my husband's first From Life's recent diaceveries of early Egyptian jokes.