Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1898, Page 18

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1898-24 PAGES, KS ) <7 SLT EUS LILES AUP Keoksotce}ceiselsetse) et : THE RESCUE OF DREYFUS, fi Se (sy A Thrilling Tale of Up-to-Date Newspaper Enterprise. : WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAR BY HECTOR FULLER. Ki (Copyrighted, 1898, by Hecter Fuller.) Chapter 1. shotted gun, the ball being aimed to fall aes _ | across our bows, a signal to heave to. The steamer glided swiftly, almost noise- | “TICs Veto. is it. sir?” said the skipper, lessly, soi ard. The sea was a pale, | g ‘ing Hudson. sickly green, indicating that there was no Hudson replied. “Full th. and a sailor could have told, | Steam ahead, man, right out to sea.”” : BRE low-lying blue | And right out to sea we went. The French t seeing that long. low-lying slcop, seeing that she could not match our Streak to our right, that we were near land. speed, soon turned about, and we saw her ‘There was not a ripple on the water, save | touch at the Devil's Island. ‘ chere the iron bow of the steamer sliced | Until darkness fell Hudson and I remain- were ne a charaed it tate angry babbles, |e4 on deck. Then we went below, and, it aside and churne = calling our men into the cabin, Hudson und the wake she left behind her was like ; sig: up oil, greasy and heavy. “Listen everybody. That island which r name was the Cons She was | we whipped around this afternoon is the at Kiextes r of Barba- | One on which we have to land and rescue H by an American planter of Daria. | @ prisoner. How difficult the task will be Come Sie bo Se ee be you may imagine from listening to what cered and manned, she had been placed at} T have to tell you about it. The Devil's the service of my chief by her owner, who | Island is the smallest of the three isles du had not been required to say for what pur- | Salut, which are situated about twelve aes ded leagues from Cayenne, and eight from the Lowtien ko bo 2 mainland of French Guiana. Of these the The head of our expedition, my chtef. was | Devil's Island is the most northern. Upon Gerald B. Hudson, special correspondent | this island Alfred Dreyfus is confined, ier a syndicate of three New York news- — ao rded by — uA eee in a ae a eat ition. len house, composed of three rooms. papers. I was the artist of the expedition. | ‘The middle room is occupied by the prison- bioiesn gpa b eo Se Ge er, the rooms on either side by his guard- we were together through the Greco-Turk- | ians. He ts daily allowed to go for a cer- ish war: we had been through two Egyp- | tain time into an exercise yard surrounding tian campaigns, had made a tour of Indi. ee = has been inclosed with a i ; enki e insur- | Wooden palisas and had served two months with the insur sTiltie tact 5 acts baked ek <a. gents in Cuba. ed,” Hudson went on, “but I have added Having obtained our steamer, ready- found, provisioned and manned, there was little for us to do except in the way of special preparations. We found that the governor general of Barbadoes owned a re- markably fast American naphtha launch, and aft much negotiation we purchased this outright. In its bow we placed a Gatling gm of the latest pattern and had our Steamer fitted up with massive davits, so that the launch could be hoisted inboard or rbes with the minimum of difficulty. We were careful to provide plenty of small and a number of fine files aws « » temper that would cut any but the | hardest steel. We had picked up our men neh difficulty, because we were ship them without telling taem s z. There were just six Lowther, formerly boat- nkee clipper Swallow; Hen- Oxford graduate, whom we r for a negro saloon keep- who didn't care whether he as r not; Washington Jones, a New . and thr Frenchmen. An- Pierre nton and Emile All of these men were men. Each @ the average in height and negro, Jones, was one of the en IT ever met. He had been a » Barbadoes shore, and d to take service with us, him more money for the ung Mogs- you's goin’ t’ do.” he id. “Ef you pays me the money you s (il fight fer you.’ ‘This was our expedition, with the addi- of an old sailor, a Barbadoes pilot. a ew every inch of the South st from the Orinoco river to him to explain to the prisoner what we displays great facility and artistic skill in were there for, eet eo of all to find out | modeling such details as capitals, elaborate Mme that Jones had pulled ashore. Every man, with all his arms, was landed safely on Devil's Island, and Hudson’s watch told him it was 11:30. “We must hurry,”? he whispered. Taking & moment for the men to regain from thé prison yw often the sentriés | door heads, decorative tablets, the state were changed an&\when they had been | coats-of-arms and seals, etc., and beside changed last. Antoine came out to tell us | these he has also recently finished one of that the sentinels did duty two hours each, | the large figures for the building, a female bem? frnrd (cana had been changed about | figure wearing a — on the forehead and ni ee-q ‘ters ago. bearing across the front of her classic Wetmust hurry!” T said. draperies their breath, we started cautiously over | “Great Scott! an odd, graceful festoon com- the rocky point, down behind the shrubs, | Hudson crawled through the stockade, | posed of grain. and toward the beach. and in less than g:infmute brought out Cap- a” We left the men well hidden by a clump | tain Dreyfus. He was weak and bewllder- of shrubs, and Hudson and I went for- ward on our hands and knees to reconnoi- ter. We reached the largest of the build- we x x ed, and could scarce believe in his good The annual meeting of the Washington fortune; but we hauled him out uncere- | w; moniousty and eta: Cdn ait to the Naren | Water Color Club will be held at the new + gallery. 1020 Connecticut avenue, this even- i till, for the t end of the island in. of Emile Fereau = ’ . ie ee ar still, deal for. pager and Ji L her. While we had t ing at 8 o'clock, for the election ‘of officers. down in front of it. We skirted this build- | doing this Jones hed been visiting the fall- * 2 a that he had hea en about @ hundred | The only new pictures added this week yards back of the stockade and had gagged | t© the collection at the gallery on Connec- them both. He assured us they were not | ticut avenue are two by Mr. Frank Moss. seriously hurt. 3. 9! One, which he calls “Elsie Venner,” is the We carried the rifles and the uniforms with us and hurried away after our men, | Profile of @ girl in a dark hat against a but even as we reached the summit of the | ‘Te@my background, which gives it a pe- rocks we heard a shot fired, and knew | culliar effect, somewhat like a silhouette: that we had underestimated the time of re- | and the other is the very well modeled head Heving guard, and that the soldiers had dis- of an old man, similarly brought out covered something wrong. against a pale ground. The proposition Even if they Had known what had hap- | which was set on foot of forming a library pened they had no means of discovering | in the new gallery has already resulted in in which direction we had gone, and we | the placing of a few books and periodicals hurried as fast as we could through the | on the shelves in the ante room, making a darkness, stumbling Ce sharp rocks nicks wucleus round which it is hoped a very cl ir hands anc nees. Fereau was ai- | usef ready in the boat, having slid down the Se oa but Captain ‘Dreytus was too weak a. o try Plan, so we had to yell to Fereau | The unpleasant weather cf Wednesday Ae ee a rope and to haulithe launch | 419° not prevent eu appreciative audience The French must haye heard our shout, | ffom hearing Miss Jones’ illustrated tec- for even as I was tying the rope around the | ture on the “Ideals of Christ,” at Mrs. Mc- waist of Captain Dreyfus, tne while he | Leans' that afternoon. As in her previous murmured: “Oh, ils me prendrez! Oh, ils ; “fy z ime peendrez!” (Oh, tes will Satoh "mer | Heeture on Botticelli, in which she showed Oh, they wil catch’me!) the foremost sol. | that this master typified the spirit of the diers came clambering ay the rocks toward | Italian Renaissance, Miss Jones approach- us. Our men were not behind in knowing | €4 her subject ina scholarly way, and gave what to do. As the Frenchmen came near |@ brief but critical survey of ‘the field. they opened fire on them with revolvers, | While she could not touch upon more than which caused them to drop down behind | @ tithe of the notable representations of the rocks, fearful that we had a large force | Christ, she mentioned some of the most behind us. as prominent examples, from the early days Hudson and I lowered Dreyfus to the | Of art down to our own times. ing, went around the next one, which we had taken for the quarters of the guard, and crept up to within one hundred yards of the prison, inside of which Alfred Drey- fus was confined. It was a strong inclosure, built of logs, so bolted and interlaced that a rabbit could hardly have squeezed through. In the cen- ter of thie was a small hut, and outside the hut were four flambeaux or torches, which lighted the whole interior of the stockade. Peering through the cracks in the stockade, as well as at our distance we could, we made out the form of Dreyfus, the solitary prisoner, walking restlessly in- side his narrow hut. It was evident at once that we could not get speech with him. The hut where the watch slept was scarcely fifty yards away, end as we lay watching we could see two soldiers in fuil uniform, with bayonets fixed, pacing steadily ‘and watchfully around the outer edge of the stockade. It seemed a task so hopeless, ow that we were face to face with it, that I could not forbear putting my lips close to Hud- son's ear and whispering, “It looks as if the game were up.” “‘Hush-sh-sh!” he said. ‘There was scarce need for so much cau- tion, for the wind was howling as it swept across the bleak island, and the heavy seas from the southward were pounding heavily on the beach. “Go back and bring up the men care- fully,” said Hudson. “Leave all but Gas- pard, Nanton and Jones about fifty yards * re and Conste A Planisphere of the Heavens, showing the Positions of the Principal u PM ions which are above the Horizon March 1, 15, 31, at 9, tale. While the apparent path of the sun HEAVENS ! A among the stars, one-half of which we have just traced, is unchanging in its lo- launch, and as he got on board we heard * cation, this is not true of the equator. to the eastward; bring the others right }ihe peal of the big gun, the warning sig- x * The celestial equator is the great circle in here.’ nai! 80, very soon we heard the signal| Mr. David Walkley, who Is in the city for which the plane of the earth's equator, Simple Bules Laid Down for Amateur | extended indefinitely, cuts the starry sphere, and, owing to a slow gyratory mo- -tion of the earth, as ns on its axis, Astronomers. this imaginary line continually, al- though very slowly, shifting its place among the stars, in such a way that the two points at which it crosses the sun THE ECLIPTIC AND THE EQUATOR path—the equinoxes, as these points called—slide siowly along that path toward pie ee ne the west. The rate of this movement, known as the “precession of the equinoxes,” a js such that each of these two crossing Explaining the Reasons for the Pre- | points performs a complots revolution sat the heavens in about 26,00 years. For (his I did as I was bid without further specu- lation. In ten minutes I had the men all placed, and I and the three men named were at the side of Hudson. “Is Jones there?” he whispered. “T’se here, boss,” said Jones. “Nanton and Gaspard, you stay here un- answered from the neighboring island, and |a brief period, placed a collection of his We had no doubt that the French war sloop paintings in Veerhoff’s gallery at the be- would soon be steaming toward us. Our ar and men made no effort to retreat until we | ning of thew ae fide a called them, and then they came, bearing | View one week longer. A number of water the body of Washington Jones, who had | colors are included in this collection, but been shot. I stooped io examine him. He | they are mostly of the sketchy, suggestive had a bullet through his forehead. ‘Drop | sort, that, while fascinating to artists, him, ment” I cried; “he's dead; the living | appeat very little to the general public, and One by one, in splendid order, we got to | it is his oil paintings that will receive most the launch, and when we were on board | hearty praise. His largest picture, “Danc- the rope was cut, and, .under the cover of |ing With Their Shadows,” is a carefuily darkness, we steamed northward. studied composition, and is fine in its effect By this time the whole company, 100] of sunlight, but many visitors will tak i i reason, some two thousand years ago the French soldiers, were on the rocks above | greater pleasure in “Tired Out,” another cession of the Equinoxes. sun entered Leo a month earlter than ft us, and fired volley after volley in our | charming description of child life, in which ie does now. At an epoch two thousand direction. Most of thelr bullets went wide | he shows us two children who have fallen of the mark, for our small launch could asleep in a broad window seat. The silvery not be seen in the darkness, but Hudson | gray light which enters through the large was struck in the hand, and a buliet|}squar2 panes, the beautiful landscape graz2d Albert Dreyfus. -f felt him wince, | background, and the delicate loveliness of and asked him if he were hit. He replied | the sleeping children unite in Making this bravely: “Une petite blessure seulement. !a picture that will not soon be forgotten. Ce n’est rien.” (Only a little wound. It is}“Under the Arbor” is also remarkable in nothing.) the vibration of light and color. The tiesh We ran half a mile straight away from|tints in this canvas are well worthy of the island, and then sent up a rocket; this | notice, and the figures possess a subtle ‘Was answered almost immediately ‘from | grace and dignity. our steamer, which bore down on us, and, * in spite of the still heavy ssa, we managed x OF to hook on to the davits, and were hoisted Mr. George Gibbs is now busy with @ rapidly aboard. series of illustrations for a book by Molly As the crew of the steamer saw us hand | Biliot Seawell, in which she has hevpily the ‘sick prisoner over the side, although | interwoven prosaic facts we bene ely they had no real int2rest in the matter, 2 2 they raised a cheer. A few of them press. |the Mghter creations of he: fancy. The rier it entered this constellation NOTABLE DOUBLE STARS out the time of the summer solstice. At rlier epoch—six or seven thousand riier—the sun entered Leo upon the vernal equinox, so that Leo. n-maker, then occupied the post- which is now held by the “sign” » that is, it was a spring constella- —— Written for The Evening Star. RION, WITH ITS Bi trate) (on | ten 4 itude stars | Now, there are some reasons for thinking 5 pss eyon, | that at the time when the zodiac was Rost kt teh | formed Leo actually did have this position Betelgeuse, Rigel and | with reference to the vernal equinox, and Aldebaran — now oc- | marked the beginning of the y. s at 9 p.m. the | interesting fact, if it can be : a |. | Since it would give to the zodiac an an- caarapherea aren tiquity cf some ten thousand y ‘ant of the heavens. In strikirg contrast Labors of Hercules. i ij, with this brilliantly | One plece of evidence bearing upon thi ed forward to take the prisoner's hand. | most notable of the illustrations that the ip decorated region the | Point is the mythological stor reules Hvdson pushed his way aft, met the cap-| artist has made is a large oil, showing pouthecten ease cee om labors of Herev been fale, aad ordered ‘him ‘to steam ahzad as} Paul Jones in the act of holding a large routs a Gai , with a great show of probability, to é aWihkt eouree shall we steer, sir?” askea | 0b at bay single-handed. The masses of principal constella- | 8tsnd for twelve adventures which the CHOEeRapers light and shadé are well disposed in this | 144, is the enormouliv long Hydra, or | SUM Was imagined to meet with in his pass- “Direct to Demerara,” Hudson replied. Sonves, and it is stirring in its action. ‘The | Woe.e snake, contains but one ster which | 25° through the twelve signe ef the peli As we turned around we saw th> clumsy | faces in the surging group in the fore- French sloop rounding the point of the|8round bear close study. Mr. Gibbs is Devil's Island, and it was evident that she | ™aking many other drawings for this book, got a glimpse of us, for she fired five or six | 24, in addition to his work in black and shots. To these we made no reply, con-| White, he is working on a pastel, called tinuing st2adily on our course. By day-| “The Phaatom Ship.” It is still far from light we were out of sight of land, and no | Completion, but the striking possibilities of Vessel but our Gwit wan visible. the subject are very evident, and it will The first of these “labors” was the slaying of the Nemaean lion, whence we may fairly infer that at the time when the Herenles reaches the sccond magnitude, if we ex- ccpt Spica, now barely above the horizon, a little south of east. This lone second- | myth was given its final form Leo was re magnitude star is Cor Hydrae, the Hydra’s | garded as the first of the Heart. It stands about midway between | A8ain, in the old Chaldac the horizon and the zenith, a little east | WS TBatded as the first es : é 3 doubtless attract much attention at the | of the meridian ° Hydra’s Head Siac Ib was the “ion Montecitess That was how we rescued Capt. Dreyfus! E of the meridian. The Hydra’s Head, mark- | served as a sort of basis in tl ting of 5 aoe s zs nore e Ps From Demerara we cabled to New York |SPting exhibit if the artist succeeds in | cq py a short curved line of thre horoscopes. The Chale pori-vern he Chapter U. “WE HAD UNDERESTIMATED THE TIME OF RELIEVING GUARD.” the news of our success, and when, five | “nishing it cn time. ree or four | horoscopes. The Chaldacan astrology was stars, of which the central and brightest | Catried into Egypt, and Leo continued to days later, we steamed, into a New York il w! it was hot. Not a breath of wind a Se anywhere. and it had been thi other information by my observations of r two days. At noon the captain | this afternoon. pete asian a = — a ees thie CaGES Be "| one, as you saw. On the north side : a ae Se Se cabin for a commulte: | cer tbat ts el tbcky ia wiibanie ialawe lotta hen he called in the Barbadoes! peach. It seems to be impossible for a boat pilot and said to him: to land there. If the French think it im- “Now, then, Jose, tell these gentlemen | possible our task will be so much easter, we are.” for that is where we shall land. On the south side you naticed that the land runs sloping down to the water's edge. There t. “D'you notice pint ¢ and far aw: is a stretch of white sand, and that is a wut 11 o'clock? good boat landing. Through the telescope we both replied. I saw that there were only three buildings 1, that is Mana _peint; right there | on the island. As well as I could make out of the Maroni river; that} the one to the eastward is the prison cell narks the beginning of French! of Captain Dreyfus. The small hut to the Guiana. You toki me tell you when we] westward of this is where, in all proba- Were coming to © if we hold this | bility, fhe guard, or that part of it which i for three hours longer we | is not patroling the prison, sleeps. Farther st of Cayenne.” back, nearer the center of the island, there this watch. It was 1245. | is a large building, a sort of barracks, and > s there probably is the company of French send orders down to slacken | soldiers which has been stationed on the ijown to two mijes an hour | jsland ever since Dreyfus arrived.” Hudson found by turning to the almanac that there would not be a moonless night captain, and | for three days, and we could not do a thing a | except on a pitch-dark night. Ohapter HI. On the third day luck seemed to favor “filed into the cabin. We US. From the southwest blew up a storm, y and saw that the} not much wind in it, but heavy banks of eward had gone forward, and to make {rain clouds, pouring rain and stirring up see emp an td oeerncar our plans | enough of a sea to make it unpleasant. It Sull_except the man at | Was bad weather to be near land, but it Then Hudson made the men a| Was good weather for our purpose, and the Ape storm had hardly begun before the steam- fo said; “I have hired | er's head was siewed round and we were 2 special e. ave certain = = atehe tor and I want you to help me. I heading semtost, hey sens “a tale itempt any longer to disguise | Devil's Island, as fast as steam would take ir work fs dangerous, needs | us. oo! heads. [I have promised in the afternoon we changed our course The sums I have prom-|and ran westward until we got sight, you will be paid whether we succeed | through the haze and rain, of the coast of or not. so ld va do your duty. Should | French Guiana. Our pilot was puzzled at We succeed the sums I have promised you | the glimpse of the coast we gave him, so I be doubled.”* we had to run closer than was really eafe, ‘Then slowly carefully, but with the | that he might get his bearings. When he : inness, Hudson unfolded his | was able to recognize the land he told us 4 them what we intended to|we were just south of Sinnamarce, scarce He insisted that what he wanted |sixty miles from Cayenne. Here we hove #love all things was to do the work be-|to, keeping enough way on the vessel to ture him without bloodshed. “But,” he | hold her head to the seas; so we waited for said, “if there is fighting, if at the critical } darkness. ment there are men in our way, men| As darkness fell we gaye orders to go > wish to imprison us, can I rely on} ahead, and, steermg south by east haif- You men to fight with me?” Hudson, |east, we found ourselves at 9 o'clock two though not an eloquent talker, succeeded | miles north of Devil's Island, and, as the in impressing the men with the earnest-| wind was from the south, we were under ness. the importance and the danger of our | its lee. rk and all of them stepped forward and,| Our men were called away to supper. ding up their hands, swore to stand by | After they had eaten and had a glaze of through thick or thin to the end of the | grog we made them take off their shoes, fesoior and offered them moccasins for their feet. his was well enough. We dismissed| All accepted them but the negro Jones, men and went forward to look after | whose feet were calloused, and who averred launch. We had it in perfect working | that he could walk the rockiest shore sure- less than an hour. fuel on board, | footed and without noise. and provisions and arms under the| By 9:30 steam was up on the naphtha Then we called our six men to us|launch, when she was hoisted overboard, pointed out their stations on the/| and the men took their stations. Hudson ch. We swung our heavy davits, so| Was at the helm, I at the bow. +h might be lowered, and then Hud-| The captain of the steamer had been or- de an arrangement with the cap-{ dered to lay to and wait for us, showing the steamer by which he pledged | no light anywhere, but keeping up a full have his crew ready to hoist the | head of steara. If we fired a rocket he was ard at a moment's notice. to show a light, steam in the direction of time it was 3 o'clock, and there | the rocket, pick us up and steam seaward. i of us, peeping up abov? the | If he got no sign from the shore by 3 o'clock a shade of dark blue against the ]in the morning he had orders to put r blue of the skies, we could see the | Straight to sea, lay to till night,and at night pie where we left him. ‘This latter onier we ©am ahead, captain!” sald Hudson | Were we le! . is latter order we ‘and soon ths steamer was cutting | thought necessary, as it might be possible y through the water at sixteen knots | that we should be compelled to hide among * the rocks of the island all next day. ou know the Isie da Diable, captain?’ | AS we put away ffom the steamer there . r was a heavy sea running, @ sea that threat- “! want you to approach it within half a | ¢ned to engulf and swamp the small launch. ou the north, then turn to the west- | Foot by foot against it we made our way ‘(run around the west end of the is- | up and then down the north coast of Dev- Jani. turn sharp to ths east and run rapid- |il’s island. Picking our course with the ly past (he south end of the island, about a | greatest care for fear of rocks, we yet off, go right past the island, clear out | kept a sharp eye out for a place where it nd [ll tell you what to do next.” | would be possible to land, but we found . sir!” said the captain. none. We wasted an hour thus. e drew nearer and nearer to the-is!- | At last we saw one place; a small open- 1 our h-arts beat faster and our pulses | ing in the rocky coagt, and inside of this Guickened On the bridge of the steamer | the water was slightly smoother, but the We had a large camera, and when we were | Waves dashed madly against the coast, within half a mile of the north end of the ludson tsland we rapidly took half a doz2n photo- Braphs of it. I attended to this, while Hud- xamined the island through a power- lass. This course we followed all the around the island. Wwe got to the south side we could see through ths glass two or three soldiers runuing to @ little hut on a rocky eminence and presently a gun was fired with a loud Teport. We were startled at this evidence of watchfulneas, but were not alarmed, for th: gum was unshotted. It was evidently a signal. for soon, from an isiand to the west, came an answering report. A few minutes Jater_we saw @ small sloop of war, the French flag, emerge and head in our direction. As she came out she fired @ is of the third magnitude, is above and at | be tae gy ete Se ee ee = eae acer gtd ; | been in Chaldaea, as is shown by two ane sided of the “heart” and very nearly sculptured zodiaes feund at Dendera in a - : both of which Leo hag t irst phuce Trace with @ finger a line on the sky, | ‘Tinese pieces of evidena> both point in beginning at the exact western point in | the same direction, and, torgh far tf the horizon, passing through the center | &t#blishing conclusively the age of I of Orion, five degrees south of Procyon | {ney certainly tend to invest the Sickl bearer with a venerableness witch mus and on to the exact eastern point in the heighten our interest in him. horizon, You have located the celestial | The skies above ux tonicht are full of ob- equator, All stars north of this line’ are | Jects suited to a small telescope or even in the northern hemisphere; all stars south | 8" Pera glass. We will examine a few of them, of it im the southern hemisphere. At the | “at about three-fifths of the distance from Point where it crosses the meridian its | Regulus to the Twins is a wide pair of distance from your zenith, measured in de- | stars, which, though of only the third mag- grees, is the same as the latitude of your | nitude, are noticeable from the station. stars in this region—the const Barely above the horizon, between west | cer, These stars are the A. and northwest, may be seen the pair of Nearly midway betwen the stars which mark the head of Aries. a small nebulous spot. which ginning at a point in the horizon about | gi.ss will show to be o star cluste midway between these stars and the exact | Praesepe, the Manger—or the F for west, sweep a second line on the sky, pass- | the name may mean either—one of the most ing between the Pleiades and Aldebaran, | justly celebrated of the telescopic clusters. about five degrees south of Pollux—the jit is a fine ebject for even a small tele- more southerly of the Twins, new nearly | scope. overhead—close to the star Regulus, in| ‘Turn now to the northwest and find the the handle of the Sickle, and on to the | star Alpha Persei, already pointed out. eastern korizon, striking it at a point just | About midway between this star and north of Spica, and you will have located | center of Cassiopeia may be secn anot the half of the sun's apparent path through | small nebulous spot, which will also pr the heavens which is now above the hozi- | to pe a star cluster, when examined wit zon. Tiis is the line known in astronomy | our opera glass. It is the famous cluster as the ecliptic. in the hilt of the sword of Perseus. The The eclipiic and the equator are both | cluster is a double one, there being in it Breat circles of the heavens, which cross | {wo points of stellar concentration” It is each other at two diametrically opposite | 4 more beautiful object, if possible, even points, one of which is at about three- | than Praesepe. fifths of the distance from Reguius to deck and Capt. Dreyfus, Hudson and I x. = were seen standing.on the bridge, we were | Mr. Joseph Rakemann has just received gr2eted with roars of triumph. a very gratifying account of his son Carl's ‘The rest is well known; the monster re- | progress in the form of a letter from Prof. ception that was tendered Capt. Dreyfis | Ernst Roiber of the Royal Academy of and his rescuers at the Astorla, the numer- cus offers that Capt. Dreyfus recsived for Art at Dusseldorf, Germany. Carl Rake- @ lecturing tour of the United States, the | ™4n was identified here with the Art endless banquets, the blaze of notoriety. | League and the Corcoran Art School, and The news of the rescue was known in| also did conscientious work under Mr. Franc: almost as soon as it was in Amer-| Helmick before going to Dusseldorf, where ica, and the French minister made an offi- clal demand for the return of the prisoner. | h¢ has-been studying since last October. Of course this demand was refused. Drey.| The letter to Mr. Joseph Rakemann best fus sent for his wife and children and| speaks for itself, and Prof. Roiber writing Hcdson nnd I were anxious to r2main in| under the date of February 17 says: “Yes- New York until they arrived; but before] terday your son, after completing with La Touraine was due we recelved a sum- |} s S$ i course of instruction under me, was accepted as a member of the life macns from a London paper, urging us to take the spring campaign in Afghanistan, | ciass. Up to the present he has manifested and so, leaving Dreyfus safe and] through steady application and earnest heppy, and in the “land of the free,” we| striving a decided talent. I am convinced ee OUL On Bow eaveniices: of an enviable future for him. It gives me pleasure to inform you that he has per- ART AND ARTISTS. | fected to my entire satisfaction a course +} of study which ordinarily requires one and a half years in six months. He has also regularly attended a course of sclen- tific lectures on anatomy and perspective. In closing I can only say that I forsee a trilliant future for this ambitious young student.” ul you get a message from me. Come on, Sharpe and Jones, careful now!’ Inch by inch we crawled on our hands and knees nearer the stockade, and nearer to the marching sentry. We noticed that the sentinel did not walk clear around the stockade. One man walked half way around and met his fellow sentinel and then turned back and met him at the other end. We could see that there were no other sentinels posted. I heard Hudson whisper to the negro, but could not catch what was said, and we were so close to the path of the sentinel now that it was dan- gerous almost to breathe. The stockade was in a blaze of light; we were in inky darkness; there was not much fear of our being seen. “Right-left, right-left,” the sentinel came on toward our hiding place. Hudson reached out and gripped me by the shoul- der; his other hand rested on the negro’s arm. With his rifle at the shoulder, the bayonet glistening in the torchlight, the sentinel ap- proached, was opposite, and had passed us. Hudson's grip on my shoulder tightened as Jones sprang noiselessly to his feet, crouched after the soldier, reached him— great heavens! He had him by the throat! There was never a sound. As the soldier was forced back, back, choking, insensible, his rifle fell from his hands. It was caught by Hudson. “Choke him insensible! Keep him still if you have to kill him!” whispered Hudson. He seized the soldier’s cap and forced it on my head, he tore off the soldier’s coat and forced it on me, he strapped the soldier's knapsack on my shoulders, and forced the Mr. R. N. Brooke has in his studio a number of canvases which he is prepar- ing for the spring exhibition of the Society of Washington Artists, which opens here on the 4th of next month. Most of the motives are descriptive of Warrenton, Va., where he finds many excellent subjects. One of the most thoroughly charming of these is a sunset, in which there is a rare quality of color. On either side of the x * The anatomy lectures which Dr. Maurice Miller is giving at the Art Students’ League have become much more helpful, now that they are explained by reference both to the living model and to the skele- a ton, and the students are profiting greatly | Spica. One carnot too soon familiarize Interesting Double Stars. Seng eee d. “March, | COMPosition lines of trees stretch away | by the instruction. Mr. Messer's series of | himscif witn the location of these impor-| Mizar, the middle star in the handle of ty Shaepe ren pemeet the other | toward the horizon, and the foliage on the | lectures on perspective is also proving very | tant circles, not merely on a chart, but in | yo Dipper, has close beside it a star of the march, Sharpe!-—hurry now—meet the other valuable to the students. the actual heavens. man, turn quickly, and come back! If he | left is bathed in the glowing light of the Z sixth magnitude, which bears the Arabic rame Alcor, the Faint-one. Mizar and Al- cor form a sort of naked-eye double star; that is, they present the appearance that very many stars which the unaided eye recognizes you don’t fire—give him the setting sun. There is @ fine dramatic note butt! in the blood red patch of sky, which shows Chapter Iv. Gee ace a Hiei Gee op ee - zon. Several o' vases whic : There was no time for more. I was off. (Brooke may exhibit this spring uve tno I ran to the corner and then marched | more unfinished state, such as the orchard steadily and in order around it. The other |interior, and a quiet-colored landscape, soldier was just turning his corner. I | Where the masses of foliage compose agree- ably. It is possible that he may work wu! Walked toward him, turned and marched | forthe exhibition a broad, direstly humilen back. He had seen nothing wrong. sketch made fron. nature. In this study a When I marched back to the place where | brook, oozing down between the steep clay the sentry had been collared all trace of | banks of the foreground, gives a decided , | aspect of novelty. Mr. Brooke is hopi that incident had vanished. The sentry, | {SPect 0 Rinikaree wictece! ofa Mite in Hudson, the negro—all were gone. I looked | time to send it to the Omaha exposition. sharply about, but could see none of them. | It presents a typical group of darkies seat- I kept on marching. At the east end and | ¢d round a table, and is likely to prove as in the west end I met the French soldier. | Popular as the artist's former successful He did not notice any change. Every mo- | ¥°TK in the same line. ™ment seemed an hour, and I held the rifle rs : * * all this Lime ready to club and to-fel hime | 5 wWoasine = 5 warp ustereding colan: In vain I looked for my comrades. I had | tion of miniatures by Miss Anne 8. Hobbs marched about thirty times around my half} was placed on view at ‘Veerhoff’s, where they will probably remain till the middle Locating the Constellations, The ecliptic runs along the center of the belt of twelve constellations known as the zodiac—that is, the animal (girdle). The zodiacal constellations now above the hori- } ... single have when they are examined zon at 9 o'clock, named in order from wes with a telescope. The opera glass will bring to east (this being the direction in which — the pair ai f ——_ and will also the sun passes through them) are: Aries, | Show a number of fainter stars near it. A the Ram—located by means of the pair of | Small telescope will show that Mizar itself stars already referred to; Taurus, the Bull—|is double. It is, indeed, a favorite object marked by the Pleiades in his shoulder and | for the possessor of such an instrument, the bright, reddish star Aldebaran in his | and it is especially interesting as the first- face; Gemini, the Twins—containing the | discovered of the double stars, of which chbjects about 11,000 are now catalogue2. Other double stars, now visible, which are stellation, its brightest stars being of only | within the reach of a small telescope are the third magnitude; Leo, the Lion—easily | Castor—components white and nearly equa located by means of the Sickle; and Virgo, ; Gamma Virginis (the third-magnitude star the Maiden, which contains the bright star] now close beside Jupiter)—components Spica. Each of these corstellations occu- | equal and white; Cor Caroli, marked on the —->—__ TELEGRAPHY WITHOUT NOISE. New Sounder Aids the Operntor and Makes Secrecy Possible. ~ From the Electrical Engincer. The intreduction of typewriting machines in telegraph offices, on which operators take down the messages received, has re- ceagsitated increasing the volume of sound emanating from the sounders in order to make. their clicks clearly distinguishable above the click of the typewriting machine. The result has been that the noise in tele- graph offices has in many cases increased to such an extent as to be a serious menace to the health of the operators. In order to reduce this noise and to make the received message entirely secret a special sounder has been invented. The sounder, which is principal inclesed in a hard rubber case, is very a panion smaller and of a violet tint; Gam- light, the whole thing, with conducting ma Andromedae, second magnitude, mid- cord complete, weighing but four ounces. way between Aries and Cassiopela—princi- It can be used not only without the slight- ¥ pal component yellow, companion smaller of next week. Among these are three por- | est inconvenience to the operator, but and green, one of the most splendid of the traits of Mrs. Calvin 8., Brice, one of them, en to ee comet and advantage, re- fd se ~ — a full length view, being especially notab! leving him unnecessary nerve and star in Sickel, reckoned from us Seas tie pa thet Mra, ilceste deecse! Physical strain. It can be attached di- components white and nearly equal, pretty rectly to the main line, where it acts as a in the elegant court gowa;worn by her at the queen’s drawingi:room, and also be- now well up toward the zenith in the north- | hecause it is exceedingly pretty when well cause the background for the figure is a west. Between this star and the horizon corner sounder. may be seen four stars of the second mag- than because it suits a small of the Hig ‘titsic room in. the sesd ves old Corcoran house. (do tee which of ie is telencope.’The companion ts white and Auriga contains the briiliant star Capella, was mueh admired atitheiexhtbition of the famous | f#int, and to see it well requires a three- . lowermost two be! to | inch glass, at the least. ance (according to requirements). An in-| variable star; the ‘wo belong aug genious arrangement of the armature and| Andromeda, = te Sherwcod, the well-] of let- | lever brings the former in actual contact - Neither Mercury nor Venus will be visible with the poles of the magnets in such a manner as to double the working force of the armature. The armature lever is pro- Last month we spent our half hour with | this month, both being too close to the sun. Orion. Tonight we will take a look at| Mars is a morning star, in Capricorn, ris- 5 ing in the southeast about an hour before This is one of the best marked of the old constellations. The well-known Sickle wh. woman ters, whose forthcoming. book will have this portrait for its frontispiece. Not only, does Miss Hobbs succeed, in obtaining ex- Pate Itkenesses, but her work has a dis- ff i 3 i English visitor to a 7 Ke a lt is hE 3 i g E : ! i FE H