Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 15, 1898, Page 6

es i TWICE WOUNDED. it was during the summer of 1855 that I resided for a time in the City of Mexico, and at this period occurred the incident which, with regard to myself, came near terminating fatally. A day or two after my arrival in Mexico I strolled out one evening and, half unconsciously, took my way to- ward one of those cool, shady walks occasionally to be met with on the out- skirts of the city. As I paced slowly on toward a part of the walk where the trees grew closer, forming a little grove, I sudden- ly became conscious of the presence of two persons a few steps in advance of me. The persons I had just disqovered were a gentleman and a lady. On ob- serving this fact I was relieved of a momentary fear of being set upon by desperadoes; I presently found my couple to be a pair of lovers, enjoying a stolen interview in the little grove, which I had nearly reached, but check- ed myself in time to prevent discovery just then, though I did not long avert it. The first words I heard were spoken by the gentleman, “Fly with me tonight, dearest, I en- treat; give me the right to protect you from the wiles of Don Pedro. Only as my wife can I save you from the per- secutions of him and _ his cowardly son.” “I know it, dear Manuel,” replied the maiden, whose soft, sweet voice quiv- ered as if in deadly terror. “It was only this morning I overheard a con- versation which fully apprised me of the great power placed in the hands of my uncle and guardian, Don Pedro de Saltillo, a power over me which now he proposes to share with his treacher- ‘ous son, Garcia.” “How?” abruptly inquired the cav- alier. “Dearest Manuel, my guardian has tried every means short of personal violence to inveigle me into a marriage with Garcia. I have heard them plot- ting to secure me at night and carry me to a deserted ranch at a distance from the city and there, by the help of a vicious priest, unite me to Garcia. “If I marry without Don Pedro’s con- sent my estates revert to him. I suc- ceeded in escaping tonight, and came here knowing I should meet you, who would rescue me from my peril, but you will take to your heart a dowerless bride, dear Manuel.” “Fear not, Isabelle,” said her lover. “There is but one course to take—come with me to my kind old tutor priest. Our marriage shall be performed at once, and then Don Pedro and Garcia cannot molest you unless they pass over my lifeless body.” “Hist!” whispered the lady, as in my blundering I broke a dry twig, causing’ a slight rustle among the shrubbery. The next moment I felt myself grasp- ed tightly by the throat, while a sharp, Btinging sensation told me that I had been stabbed. I made an ineffectual Zz AN INEFFECTUAL STRUGGLE. struggle, but soon sank into uncon- sciousness. When I awoke to consciousness I was lying in a bed in a luxuriously furnish- ed apartment, while beside me sat a venerable old man in the garb of a priest. “Where am I?” was my first ques- tion, as I motioned feebly toward a pitcher of water on the stand near by. He pressed a goblet brimming with | | year. the pure, icy liquid to my lips. The old man’s face inspired me with | and I told him the whole ig ° | part of the Klondike is done by dogs, confidence, story. He started and looked me keenly as I mentioned the names of the lovers and Donna Isabelle’s unworthy guar- dia: nd now, holy father, tell me where I am,” I asked again, as I finished my story. The old priest looked at me steadily a few minutes and then asked: “Canst thou keep a secret, my son? One of importance to these young lov- ers? Thou art now in the house of Don Manuel de Monza, who, in his: Tashness, nearly slew thee as an emis- sary of Don Pedro de Saltillo. Donna Isabelle entreated that some one should look after the body as soon as possible, for she dreaded lest it should be dis- covered in the grove and her flight be- come known before she could make good her escape. “I committed.thee to the care of Donna Julia, my dear Manuel’s only sister. Since thou hast acquitted thy- self of all complicity with Don Pedro thy treatment shall be that of an hon- cored guest.” ‘The priest told me of the union and flight of the lovers, imploring me to keep secret my adventure in the walk and grove, as my story might afford the maeans wherewith to trace out their ‘hiding-place. Late in the day I sank into a pro- found slumber, which lasted until the mext morning. Father Ignatius soon came to me, and, after bathing and dressing My wound—he was an expert surgeon—he told me that Donna Julia would call on me to apologize for her brother’s mistake, and to ascertain if I was carefully nursed. Donna Julia soon entered, accompan- ied by her duenna. I started with sur- prise and delight as a beautiful girl of about 17 entered the room and greeted ‘me as “Senor Americano” in the soft- est and sweetest of tones. Donna Julia made many apologies for the brother’s almost fatal mistake Don Manuel de Monza had fled to his ranch with Isabelle, who dared not re- main with Julia lest she should be kidnapped by Don Pedro during her husband's absence. Don Manuel was collecting a sufficient number of serv- ants to resist any attack on the part of Don Pedro, On discovering Isabelle’s flight Don Pedro started in pursuit. But not having force enough he hired a number of Indians, who murdered him for re- fusing to pay a sum of money they re- quired before joining the expedition. On hearing of the death of his father, cowardly Garcia fled, dreading De Mon- za’s anger; and when Isabelle returned she found herself in possession of her fortune, as by Don Pedro’s death it re- verted to her. Long before my wound was healed Don Manuel and his bride returned to Mexico, and I soon became intimate with the cavalier whose first meeting ended so unpleasantly. Our congenial tastes made us the best of friends, and now we are like brothers, Another tie has drawn us together. By the time my first wound was healed I had received a more dangerous one from Donna Julia. But when informed of my love for her she undertook to heal the wound by marrying me.-New York Daily News. A WISE OLD SQUIRE. A rare old book which would delight the heart of every boy who has in him the making of a manly man is the “Life of Thomas Assheton Smith,” who for a half century was the first hunter in England, and of whom Na- poleon is reported to have said, “That grand chasseur can control horses as I do men. This modern Nimrod was the owner of great estates. The best horses and dogs in England were in his vast stables and kennels, and he boasted that every one of them was his friend. It is said that when a new purchase of hounds arrived he would go among them, giving to each a mouthful of food, while he stroked its head and looked steadily and kindly into its eyes. “Now I know them and they know me,” he would say, and ever after the dogs would come bounding to meet him. In the morning the packs would rush from the kennels to the park gates and wait, panting with eagerness for him to come out. “No horse,” he used to say, “ever told me a lie. A horse is a born gentle- man.” Another of his maxims was, “The man who is a friend of horses should be clean, honorable and fit to be a companion of ladies.” He sternly discountenanced drink, gambling, and all vices common among men of his class and time, No horse which he owned was ever allowed to work on Sunday. God had put this dumb bro- ther in his care, with a command, and he obeyed it. “A dog,” he often said, “never trusts a man who has tricked him once. I could not méet his eyes if I had lied to him.” The good old squire has long been dead, but we can learn from him even now how to win respect from companions who can speak and from those who are dumb, Klondikers Turn Yellow. A letter has been received from Will- iam Henderson of Denver, who went to Dawson City early in the rush. The letter is under date of July 9. The writer states that he has been mining on Dominion creek, where he has a very promising claim, and had come to Dawson for his supplies. At Dawson Mr, Henderson met Frank Haug, an- other Denverite, who had just got in after being “snowed up” for nearly a He also met Stanley Peace of this city and others, All the business in the way of transportation in that and Mr. Henderson states that they are considered very valuable. He wit- nessed a sale of two for $1,000, but fared better himself, getting three for $100 apiece. “There are more dogs in Dawson,” he writes, “for the size of the place than in any city in the world. “This is a hard community,” he says, “for health. Hundreds of people seem all broken down. By looking at a man you can tell whether he has been here long or not. Those who have been turn yellow.” Mr. Henderson expects to return to Denver next summer.—Denver Times. Must Love Men. Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment. There is nothing to do with men but to love them; to contem- plate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forgiveness. Task all the ingenuity of your mind to devise some other thing, but you can never find it. To hate your adver- sary will not help you; to kill him will not help you; nothing within the compass of the universe can help you but to love him. But let that love flow out upon all around you, and what could harm you? How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be united by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light! Annually Enacts a Furnes, called Veurne by the Fla- mands, an old Belgian town, in the ex- treme west of Flanders, not far from the sea and the French frontier, has just celebrated its dramatic penitential procession, a great religious passion play, for the two hundred and forty- eighth time in its history. Sleepy old Furnes awakens once a year from its life of idyllic isolation, to hold, on the last Sunday of the month of July, a penitential procession for the continuous expiation of a crime that was committed in the year 1650. - Gothic churches and public buildings dating from the time of the RenaiS&- sance indicate the past importance of the little community that is now almost forgotten to. the world. The highly dramatic features of the annual reli- gious ceremony, which is held on the same day as the kirmess of St. Wal- burgis, appeal strongly to the Belgians. The streets of the quiet town then as- sume a penitential aspect, while they are incongruously enlivened at the same time with festivities of the most profane character. Burghers of the town and inhabitants of the neighboring villages take part in the Passion Play that forms the most important feature of the procession, These simple actors seem to be thor- oughly inspired by the feelings of self- humiliation and repentance imposed upon them by their parts. From the Church of St. Walburgis, which, at the beginning of the four- teenth century was designed with such magnificence that only the choir could be completed after the original de- signs, the procession takes its start. To the tolling of bells, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the line winds through the streets that are decked with flags in the national colors, black, yellow and red. Gensdarmes, in bearskin caps, lead the way, checking the approach of the curious. There are forty groups in the pro- cession. At the head of each walks a young girl in holiday attire, bearing a cross, who announces in the Flemish tongue the scene that is to follow. Penitents Bearin Their Crosses First come scenes from the Old Testament, representa- tions of the Messiah and His work of redemption. There are depicted Abraham’s in- tended sacrifice of Isaac; Mo- ses and the brazen snake; the Prophets, King David and John the Baptist as the im- mediate predecessors of Je- sus. Not alone in living pictures are the life and sufferings of Christ depicted, but also in life size productions of carved and painted wood, in which a naively realistic art is dis- closed, These immense groups are earried on stretchers or transported in carts and are drawn only by penitents of either sex. Panting from their burdens, whose weight bows them down, half suffo- cated by the cowls they wear, it would seem at times that the actors in this moving drama would sink exhausted. They vowed, however, that they would reach their goal without allowing weakness to overcome them, and they keep their vows. It is worthy of note that those who participate in this moving passion play indulge during the procession only in old fashioned modes of expression. The chief character in the group of “Christ's entry into Jerusalem” has made a vow to maintain, immovably and without a moment’s intermission, the sign of blessing throughout the du- ration of the procession. As the latter lasts three hours, it is not to be wondered at that at its close a complete apathy overpowers the young mystic, Deep emotion overcomes the observer on witnessing the passage of Christ carrying the cross. The penitent de- lineator of the Saviour led to his death literally collapses beneath the weight of. the massive cross before Simon. of Cyrene can place a portion of the bur- den om his own shoulder. 1¥tice the ligious Earnestness but Strange Incon. gruity by the Hon- { est Belgian Towns- folk. delineator of Christ has to fall, and each time the Roman soldiers dart for- ward and goad him on to new exer- tions, while the air is rent with trum- pet peals and shoutings of the mob. Lastly there appear the psalm sing- ing penitents in their cowls. They are of both sexes, and they pant beneath the almost overwhelming weight of roughly hewn crosses, which they car- ry in various positions or drag after them. Many of these crosses, and also tablets that are carried, bear inscrip- tions of aphorisms from the Old Testa- ment in the Flemish tongue. On the return, great lassitude natur- ally prevails in the ranks of penitents. The cowls are laid aside, and the smart- ing feet are no longer bare. In St. Wal- burgis the numerous confessionals are sought after. After the absolution each penitent kneels again and remains in prayer for a long time, his arms ex- tended in the form of a cross. Gradually the church grows deserted. The inns and drinking places are crowded, and beer and wine begin to flow in streams. Here sound songs and turbulent cries. Lovers seize hands and whirl in the dance. The religious festival is past and now begin worldly pleasures that last until far into the night. THE ELEPHANT IN A BOG. The sagacity of elephants when bog- ged in swamps is truly admirable. The cylindrical form of the elephant’s leg— which is nearly of equal thickness— causes the animal to sink very deep in heavy ground, especially in the muddy banks of small rivers. When thus eit- uated the animal will endeavor to lie on one side, so as to avoid sinking deeper; and, for this purpose, will avail himself of every means to obtain relief. In order that he may extricate him- self, he is liberally supplied with straw, boughs, grass, etc.; these materials he forces down with his trunk, till they are lodged under his forefeet in suffi- cient quantity to resist his pressure. Jesus and the Apostles Enter Jerusalem. shows how forcibly nature has im- pressed him with a sense of his own weight. ‘i THE QUIET MAN’S SPECIAL. When He Ordered It the Ticket Agent Gasped. -& quiet man walked into the Camden station the other night about 8 o’clock and made his way in a leisurely man- ner to the ticket office. Depositing an unpretentious satchel on the counter, he asked for a ticket to Pittsburg, says the Baltimore Sun. “Do you want to go tonight?” asked the ticket agent. “Yes,” said the quiet man. “Well, your train left half an hour ago and there is no other train to Pittsburg tonight.” “That’s a pity,” observed the quiet man, in the same tone as before. He looked down at the counter meditative- ly, and then said: “Rig me up a spe- cial\train to Pittsburg right away, will you?” The ticket agent looked as if he could have been knocked down with a feather. “I beg your pardon,” he said. The quiet man repeated the or- der and explained that he wanted to arrive in Pittsburg by 8:30 o’clock in the morning, as he had to make con- nection in that city with another train. He was at once made acquainted with Night Manager C. E. Hicks, who sent for W. T. Lechlider, who has charge of the passenger equipment at the Cam- den station. There was much activity displayed as soon as the order for the special was transmitted through the yards. When the preliminaries had been arranged the prospective passen- ger asked how much the special would cost. “Three hundred and forty-six dollars,” answered Mr. Lechlider, Without the slightest hesitation the quiet man drew out a checkbook and made out a check for the amount. It was signed D. T. Keenan, and there re- mained no doubt of the genuine char- acter of the piece of paper. Mr. Keen- an is one of the best known railroad contractors in Philadelphia, and inti- mated that $346 was but a drop in the bucket compared with the business in hand. The special left at 12 o'clock midnight and arrived on time at about 8 o’clock in Pittsburg, a remarkably quick run, The regular fare to Pitts- burg is $8. Men and Women. Drunkards. Some interesting deductions are drawn in a work just published by Dr. Lawson Taft, a famous English spe- cialist. Among, other things he says: “My social experience among men and my professional experience among women draw a most emphatic distinc- tion between drunkards in the two sexes. Men sit down openly with one another and get drunk socially. Wom- en never do this. I never in my life saw a woman get perceptibly the wors¢ SCENES FROM THE PASSION PLAY IN SLEEPY OLD FURNES. Having thus formed a good basis for exertion, the sagacious animal next proceeds to thrust other bundles under his belly, and as far back under his flanks as he can reach; when such a basis is formed, as may be, in his mind, proper to proceed upon, he throws his whole weight forward, and gets his hind feet gradually upon the straw, etc. Being once confirmed on a solid footing, he will next place the succeed- ing bundles before him, pressing them well with his trunk, so as to form a causeway by which to reach firm ground. The instinct of the animal, and prob- ably the experience of past danger, ac- tuates him not to bear any weight def- initely, until, by trial both with his trunk and with the next foot that is to be planted, he has completely satisfied himself of the firmness of the ground he is to tread upon. The caution with which this, and every part of his con- duct on these occasions is marked, for liquor at a dinner table, whereas 1 have seen scores, if not hundreds, of men do it. I never saw but one wom- an in my life the worse for a drink at a social dinner party, but then she came the worse for drink, perceptibly. A woman, after a certain point, is al- ways a secret drunkard and cunning beyond all description.” He also thinks that mental or physical misery is the cause of the “peculiar drunkenness” among women of the middle and up- per classes. Where Moses Stood. One of the stations of the railway which is to be built from the Red Sea to the top of Mount Sinai will be on the spot where it is supposed Moses stood when he received the tables of the law. 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