Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 27, 1892, Page 12

e —— 12 WANDERING WITH WAKENAY Malta as Seen Throngh the Eye of an En- thusiastio “Globe Trottor.” AN ISLAND RICH IN BIBLICAL HISTORY the tive Intoxicato i the Priv ter—Mono- Pleturesque Scones that Senses—Crypts to Whi Christians Fled for 8 Iliths of n Past Era, [Copyrighted 1892 by Edgar L. Wakeman) The visitor to Maita is a long while in tir ingof the historic, architectural ana social attractions of Valotta,especially in the sunny winter timo when day and vight seom filled with an endless round of brilliant scenes and gatety. But if interest in tho splendid old city of the knights should begin to wane, there would still bo found an extraordinary charm in iLe easily made excursions to vari- ous points of interest in Malta and the ad- joining islands, and & _most pleasing study of the peasuntry under their curious conditions of environment. From Valetta one can reach the remotest points in Comino and (3ozo, even by row or sail boats, with donkeys for the interior loit ering, and return to the city withio dayhight hours; and as to Malta itself--whose length 18 no moro than eighteen miles, with an ex- treme breadth of less than twelve—I have often walked from Valettato Fort St. Lucian on tho southoast o ity the ancient capital of theisland, to St. Paul's bay, and to_sunny, silent Dinglion, the ex- treme southwestern coasi, arriving sull in time for o Maltese breakfast which, if not a meal of dainty perfection, always posscsses the aristocratic quality of interminable delay. Pho const sconery of western Malta and all of Gozo is very beautiful indeod, while occa- sionally it reaches positive grandeur. For the bible student there aro the scene of the shipwreck of St. Paul and several places made famous by the apostle’s stay upon the Island. For thesimply curious traveler there are the many ruined summer palaces of the grand mastoers, ancient and interesting for talices and palaces of tho Ivquisition. Tho antiquarian will discover a larzer namber of prehistoric rermuins than upon any other equal arca, witl catacombs as fine as thoso of Syracuse and greater than those of Rome. Geoiogists find extraordivarily [avorable con- ditions for rescarches, owing to the bare, de nuded condition of the island, with its rocky seasnores and noble cliff exposures. And naturalists haunt the islands in winter for studies of its rich and winsome tevantry of migratory birds. The most boautiful examplos of coast scenery avo to be found upon Gozo. it is 50 near that a day’s excursion in a little felucca, manned by two or threo picturesque and incessantly chattering boatman, will g1vo one u continuous feast of changeful scene, and almost & comploto survey of all coast points of interest. The shores of Malta are completely lined with fishermen or women and children gathering seaweed for enriching the scant soul of the island, and every little cove is alive with color and soundful with song. Even 1 winter the sparkling and phos- phorescent waters of the Meditterranean are here bland and warm to the touch, and the young Maltese disport in the waves during their arduous labors liko bevies of playful seafowl; while the most dangerous cliffs and precipices are so crowded with them in their quest for eggs, the young of the scafowl inbabitng the crannies of the cliffs,and for the various forms of vegetation which are stored with miserly care for fuel and manuro, that, at some distance the blending of colors of costume with the grays and greens of the island crags, often gives the curious illusion thst the scawalls are aflame with gigantic tropical flowers. Gozo, which is called Gaudisch by the na- tive Maltese, contains no town, although the tiny island, which is but six miles brond and eight miles long, is thickly in- bapbited. It has six villages or casals. These with the outlying farms, for it is a very fertile island and under the highest dogree of cultivation, are, or were in tke old times, protected oy an ancient though massive fort called Rabato. Itis most picturesquely situated at a great eleva- in the center of the island. I'rom its walls, with o field glass, I have looked upon the splendid panorama of Malta with its terraced fields, its old walled villuges, its massive palaces, und the far white city of Valetta; to the north viewed Sicily with the glisten- ing cone of AStna above its dark and slender thread of horizon line; and seen upon the shimmering Mediterrasean * blue, the lonely islets of Linosa ana Lampedusa, half- way to the Tunisian shores of Africa. Tho topograpby of Gozo 1s very beautiful 1t is charminely diversified by hill and dale. Many of its sunny valleys are natural and artiticial gardens of wondrous luxuriance, I bave nowhere seen their equal, save in those volous garden vales behind beautiful Pal- rmo in Sicily. The shores present, save at very fow points, perpendicular soa walls; and on the western and northwestern ooasts they often rise straight frum the water’s edge to a height of over 2,000 teet. These aboux. in caves of great size and splendor; their sides and brows are the haunts of myriad sea fowl; their heights here and there show sturted and lonely palms: and the wir apout them with the sky above are often almost white with millions of the slowly sailing and exqusitely beautiful little Adriatic gulls. 1 cannot vouch for tho emotions of others, butas ] first tramped over the heights of Nasciar, doscending into the vatley beyond, and saw spread before mo the Bay of St Paul, a sense of awe mingled with glorious elation came with the stiliness and beauty of the spot where the heroic apestle was ship- wrecked. The bay, which is about two miles long and one in breadth, is situated on the northern coast of Malta, and is hardly dis- tant a brisk two hours’ walk from the city of Valetta. Countless excursions are made hither by water from Malta's capital, and often the roads are filled with all manner of vehicles carrying pious or curious pilgrims, 1 preferred coming in the early morning and alone, As I stood on Nasciar heights, the sun was ust rising above the promontory of Ras el aura, Its rays fell softly u;;on the sleep- ing waters, They gave the little memorial chapel a bright and smiling face. They deepened the shadows on the eastern shore, where fishermen were lazily spreading their nets. Tuoy plorced the copses and chines of the Melliba slopes, disclosing their huts and cabins of the lowly folk who are nearly as naked uud quite as listless of awvilization as were their “‘barbarian” forefathers among whom St. Paul was cast nearly 2,000 years ago. They mellowed the grays of the mass- ive walls of the ancient Saimonn palace, which crowns the Melliha rocks to the north- west. And where the little island of Gzeier, like o bit of the cliffs tumbled into the sea, &t the north showed its saffrony surface be- tween the blue of the bay and the sapphire of the sen, they flooded tho great statue of the saint with such transcendent shine and seomiug, that the quickened fancy, for an Instant at least, swept across the centuries and basked in the very presence of that far and mighty soul, A winding road skirts the beautiful bay. An ancient wall half hidden with shruvs ana fowers forms & boundary withja'second pleas- ant roadway bohind. The fishermen with Iheir uets, some donkeys grazing at the edge of the bill-slopes, seagulls in countless num- bers, and a half-naked 1ad urging along & herd of goats with and pebbles, were the only living things in view. Soon a lkindly- faced priest Joined me. We wandered down the road together. He had come with the ko( of the little chapel which is set on_that nt of the shore on which traaition holds 'aul’s bar’s was wrecked. 1t is @ tivy ohapel with an interior of ut- most l(ucllnlly; but three of its pictures, whose subjects are the shipwreck, the mira- ple of the viver, and the healing of Publius' father, are remarkable, while the yearly votive offerings, the fim father told me, ure very kY priest’s adios and blessings folowed me from the place, and as I turned my steps toward ancient Citta Veochis, the u’n object 1n St. bay my eyes rested upon was the Paul leage of stragglinz rocks “where the scas met.” [t was rimmed with a shuumer of listening ripples as tiny, shining and slum- Lmu- &8 though but echoing the dreamful :En of sireus inviting to a haven of endless llrih upon a hill seven miles to the south- west of Valetta stands Ciuta Vecobia, the walled capital of the island before Grand Master John de Valette built the splendid oity which now crowns Mouut Sceberras. At'the beginning of the Christina era it con- the house of the ‘‘chief man of the land" who so “courteo usly entrested’ the shipwrecked Panl, Tts Cathedral of St. Paul had its traditional oriein daring tho three months' residenco of the apostie, as Publius 15 said to nave given a portion of his own pal- aco as a sito for the first church and to have officiated in it as Maita's first bishop. That was a long time ago: but the anti- quated character of the city draws one kind- I¥ to these old and loved traditions. Seen from a distance, its nffighty walls, cumbrous structures, flat roofs, vast palaces and im- mense domes, rising like some far and fanei- ful mountain of dream-built cubes, pillars, arches and cappine domes render it the wost impre: structural perspective in Eurove When Valetta was ovilt the former grandeur of Citti Vecchia departen. By and by tho great mansions were transforined into semi- naries, monasterias and conven's, and thus thoy remain. Its tremendous walls shut it fow others than monks, religions students, nuns and novitiates, The great statue of Juno, queen of all the gods who presided r marciage, which is emoeded in the main gateway, seems strang 1y out of place as the o3 on of a city of rolizlous recluses, Idings are massive, ashen-col and strangely silent. Tha str nadowfut and still. The great dun- geons beneath the buge sanitorium, once the of the giuratl, or the three magi- strates of tho city, are no moro paipable with silence than are these high wallod narrow streets. No sound 13 beard save the clanging of bells as the call to endless aevotions. Then the thoroughfares arosuddenly filled with bowed and dark-robed figures for a mo ment, and again as suddenly becomo lifeless, dark and still, Tue catacombs beneath Citta Vecchia nnd the prehistoric rock-hewn tombs of Mraidrea are almost a welcomo rehef from the solom- nity and solemn shades of this old plave. The passages and chamovers of the catacombs are lacking mural decora- tion, but they are of tho samo char- acter as those at Syracuse and aro much lavgor than any single examples to bo found at Rome. They are hewn out of the soft stratum of the vpper limestone on which Citta Vecchia stands. You reach them through a perpendicular shaft, and a fow stops bring you iuto a perfect maze of tunnels leading 10 every direction, with crypts on each side and at every possible ese tunnels and their oranch tunnels seem interminable, 1 counted upwards of 800 sepnrate sepulchres, and there ure no doubt many thousands, One passage or gal- lery of very large proportions was found which opened into capacious squaves or chambers, where the crypts were fasbioned as though for the more distinguished dead. Their proportions wera more nmple, aua they were better formed in every respect. In wany, a rest for the head and neck was raised and hollowed in excellent contour; and by the side of others wers excavated niches for urns and the lamp for votive and other sepulchral oftices. How ancient was the race that exca- vhted or required such a vast area for burial, it is certain that these crypts weore cquully as extensive in the days of the Romans, 2,000 voars ago. They are completely barren of all remains, as they were for ‘along time used as abodes for the living, the primitive Christians having fled to them for refuge; and thoy have been on variova occasions tho abodes of the carly Maltese when flying from tho swords of the Goth, Vandal, Moor and Turk. No one has ever fully explored them, and 1 find from the natives that the belief is universal among_them that subterranean passages lead to Valetta and other remoto points in theisland. v These are not tho only prohistoric remains of great interest to be found on the islapds. Diminutive catacombs and rock-hewn tombs are accessibloiu nearly every important val- loy, ravine or rocky gorge in both Mal'a and Goz ixtertive catacombs are founds at Micabba, Tower Nadur, St. Paul's and Mel- liha bays, and =~ Mnaidra; while at Hbagiar-Kim and ~ Mnaidra in Malta und at the Gianv's cause- tower in Gozo, [ saw megalithic monuments nvalling in massiveness aud mystery the Stonehenge of Eugland, and the vast pagan monument of New Grange on the Boyne in Ireland 1 was shown a great and solitary monolith standing near Har Hassan cave on thesouth coast of Multa. ‘There is a dolmaulike ruin on Cordino hill overlooking Valetta. And I measured up- right blocks in the Hhargiar Kim ruin twenty-four feet high, while in the cyclo- pean glant's tower I found soveral with n height of twenty-cight and thirty feet. Their additional longth bencath the debris surrounding them must have been consider- able. All of these tremendous monoliths were put in place thousands of years ugo by a people capable of quarrymg and transport- ing them from sundstone beds nearly a mile distant, for the purposo of some form of adoration. They did their work so well that, while all otaer traces of toeir race are lost, these muto monuments have brought the story true from almost unvecorded time of tho eternal principle of worship in the beart of man, I'rom my habit ot wandering alone. ard much in the country, in foreign lands, I have come to regard their birds as my most charm- ing chance acquaintances, Absolutely with- out trees, save those transplanted and nur- tured liko exotic Howers, Malta would hardly be regarded as the haunt of birds. And yet I have seen or heard here in midwinter nearly every one of the loved and humble sort well kuown in summer time in northern climes. Along the stony roads I have kept exultant pace with the hoping stonechat and redstart, and chirped back a cheery greeting to flocks of chaffinches among ihe white and gold of the orange trees. Chimbing the cliffs, or pothering among the ruins, tho melodies of of thrush or linnet have flooded the sky from the olive trees in the valloys below. Cross- ing the walled fields I have often come upon marshalled hosts of titlarks. IRcoks, wrens, crossbills and fieldfares all welcomed me in a homeland language [ knew. Tho call notes of the reed sparrow peopied the famous island of the sword ana cowl with olden forms and faces; and as the obalmy evenings camo, the stiliicidie, murmurous’ and evor-plaintive songs of the blackbirds thrilled me with half- forgotten voices, until my heart cried out: Thus. anzel of our later days! With ever-hoverinz, unséen hand Are flashed upon ourbinding wiys The hidden shrines we undersiand. Wo climb the ry And falier. Lo! The lesser to the lu Youth! A note, utoae, the humblest thing, Swoeps Irresistiess nii betweon. And there the Now plays with the Then Where once our heaven wus lived unseen, And where, 1ike pligrims come aguin, Wo hear tho binckbirds, nestling, sing Their tender songs of evenlng! Epean L. WAKEMAN, THE OLE PINE BOX. Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution, We didn’t care in tho long ago For easy chairs 'at wero made for show— With velvet cushions in red and bluck, An’ springs ’at tilted a feller buck Alore he knowed it—like them in town— ‘Till his heets flew up an’ his head went down! But the seat we loved in the times o' yore Wuz the ole pine box by the grocery store! ‘Thar it sot in the rain an’ shine, Four feet loug by the measurin’ line; Uunder tho chiny-berry troo— Jos' as cosey as she could be! Fust headquarters for information— Best ole box in the whole creation ; Hacked an’ whittlea an’ wrote with rhyme, An' so blamed sociable all the time. Thar we plotted an' thar we planned, TReud the news in tho paper, and Talked o' pollyticks fur an’ wide, Got mixed yp as we argyfled ! An' the ole town fiddler sawed away At “Ole Dan Tucker" and *Nelly Gray 1" Ob, they's boxes still—but they aid:t no more Like the ole pine box at the grocery store. It ain’t thar now as it wuz that day— Burat, I reckon, or throwed away ; An’ somo o' the folks 'at the ole bok kuowed 1s fur along on the dusty road; Aun’ some's crost over tho river wide An’ found o home on the other side, Have they all forgot! Don’t they sigh no more For the ole pine box by tha grocery storet — Slowly Wasting Away, Ono of the most distinguished cavalry loagers during the war was Major-Gen- eral Alfred Pleasanton, a native of Washington, How many people kuow that he is spending the last years of his life in a small room of a poor hotel in that city? He is not in want being in roceipt of n good income, having been placed on the retired list of the army with the rank of major by special act of coagress, but he sulfers greatly from ill- ness. It is said he is greatly emaciated and that men who knew him and were intimate with him when he was the gal- lant and dashing commander of the cav- alry corps of the Army of the Potomac would ot recognize the fighter uow. |HE'S IY A PECULIAR DILEA 8oms of the Philosophical Reflections of an Artificially Relormed Jag. EFFECTS OF COMPULSORY SOBRIETY A Paychologieal Classification of the Varl- ous Products of the Bichioride Tn. stitutes by & Membor of the Injected Fraternity, 1 have bscoma possessed of an ever-pros- ont consciousness of & cortain peculiar physi- cal phieaomenon which eives riso to a com plex sories of mental emotions and reflec- | tions vory dificuit to analyze or classify. Sveh an analysis or classification may possi- bly be a matter of supreme indifferance to the groat mass of thinking bumanity, but, for what I am justified in cousidering an im- portant exception myself, it is an unsolved problem which bestrides tho nock of my mental self with the persistence of a verit- able O1d Man of the Sea. Tho phenomenon is that Iam and havo been for somo thirty days a reformea *jag” and the problem is whethér tho agerazate of sensations consequent upon a realization of this fact is to bo classed as pleasurablo or painful. Of the fact itself there is no doubt, if 1 may place any credence in the word of the meaical geutloman who injected my arms full of biculoride of gomething and after handing mo a recelpt for 875 took my right hand and looking me in the eye solemuly in- formed that I was once mora a MAN in very large capital lotters. It only remains for mo to extricato myselt from the mental difti- culty ‘which keeps mo perpetually and moa- otonously revolving wvout the nshchological circla of “sorry for it—glad of i’ There is a nogative sort of satisfuction in the mere fact of haviug once been a *‘jug analazous to tho negative feeling of pleasuro and buoyancy exp:riencod upon the sudden removal of a jumpine toothicho or an un- fortunate biil collec or, The subject really comes back to a normal condition, which contrast becomes & state of exaltation. So the artificially reformed ‘jag” squares his shoulders, elevates his chin, pats himself ap- provingly on the head and strides on his way thorcughly imbued witn the 1dea that heis a thundering fine fellow and that ail the rest of tho world must necassarily bs of the same opinion. The unfortunato whose retrospoction re- calls 10 jag epoch can in no sense appreciato the delignts of these reflsctions. He can never realize the exhilaration of waking in tho morning with no red hot ball in his stom- ach, no Egyptian mummy taste in his mouth, and with his head still six and seven-cizbtn He knows wvothing of the restful f which steals sweatly over one as ho mentally Rrasps the fact that it will not be necessary 1o rearrange his disordered faculties in order to determine where he had such 8 good time, how he reachied home, and to call forth from the yuwning vacancy of the dead past an outline of the cock-ana-ball story he told his wife the night before. Such a man will never caper about the roomn liko & vlayful kittzn simply because he is not com- pelied to step around the coruer und pour a cocktail down his surinking throat before he can fuce the fried eggs with an uaflinching eyo and sniff the aroma of the breakfast coffee with no thoughts of the instability of a home on tho rolling deep, He hever ex- periences that picasing glow with which the reformed jag burns as ko passes a saloon door. with two vits iu his pocket. Ia fact bo uever docs and never can koow what itisto be perpetually bowing bis graceful acknowiedz- ments of tho floral tributes and rounds of applause bestowed upon bimself by himsetf, On the other hand-—for, sivce this is neitber un advertisement for an anti-Jag institution nor a tenperance boom, but simply 2 vsychological dissection, it must be ad- mitted there are two hands-—this never-w a-jag individual was spaved some regrets; some unconscious yearnings for the luminous intervals whick glimmer through the mists of the past when all was gold that glitered and everybody was @ fino singer and ~ anelo- aaent speaker. T'his in brief is tho balance sheet of the reformed jag of the Conguering Hero variety. There is another class which may be de- scribod as of the Interesting Couvalescent type. These are targe healthy men for ihe most part, with large ecoans and woans and a soulful yearuing for human sympathy and coddling and ginger tea and footbaths, They requite the most careful hanaiing or they will break. Drunkenness in their opinion i an erratic epridemic which pounces upon its victims hapnazard and enmeshes their limbs in 1ts snake-like folds while they are asleep. He speuks of his treatment as the time when he was under the care of tho doctor and ho lives in parpetual terror that the defending arm of his nincty-pound. wifemay be lowered or the solid_phalaux of friends may bo bro- ken when his frightful and relentless enemy may pounce upon him, yank bim luto u grog shop and pour a glass of whisky down bis throat, The disgusted varietv furnishes anotber interestiug type. He looks upon drunkenncss as a species of damphool- ism and charges along his apoointed way, viciously kicking his toes against tho door posts aud street lamps, and filling the atmosphere with sulphurous anathemas of the class of idicts, of which be is a member, who cannot take a drink without getting drunk. He belives in the treatment of his cular brard of insanity by heroic reme- such as haugiog oy the thumbs, bury- ingin quick lime or decapitation with a garden hoe. e took a savago delight in watching vhe opzrator jab the neeale iuto his arm, aud «%es not ook upon himsell as n any senso ‘‘cured,” but simply muzzled. He does not expect to be *‘cured” until the fool-killer completes his contract, Pnuroflzetions of tho reformed-for-revenue- only vurioty are of a sorrowful echaracter., He was working on a salary and wanted to feel moderately certain that he would not be thrown down tno elevator shafv before tho next pay day. Ha feels a littlo like the cou- quering horo variety, but 13 free to confoss thai if thero were no difficulties about salary he could have a good aeal of fun of the lurid sort. Anotber class falls under the head of *‘Bot- tle battered veterans” very conveniently. "Their bosoms swell with pride as they refer to their exploits in the drinking way, And when two or three are assembled tozether they never woary of recounting the adven- tures and episodes of the bottle engagements of the dead past. I'hey smile pityingly over tho drinking achicvements of these modorn days aud witha thoy-could aw-they-woula air refer vaguely tothe Lime when men drank like men and not like boys. These are very interesting characters when the; aro boxed and lald away in stone rooms, Still another class may bo charactevized as “graduates.” They always speak of the “la- stitute"” and the ‘“professor’’ and the *‘class" which went out swhen they did, In their viow arunksrds are not reformed but educated. Lhey wear badges and form clubs and try to make themselves and every one else belleve that they are glad they bave resched a plane where the thought of going Sout with the boys’ 15 repugnant. These are onl‘y afow of the very many types, which the recent epidemic of booze ouring is making familiar 1o ihe public, all of whom will furnish profitable subjocts of investigation for metaphysiciaus and psy- chologlsts. i Pastor First Baptist church, Pleasant Grove, Ta.: Dr, J. B. Moore, Dear Sir: My wifebas beon afilicted for several ycars with a complication of kidvey and liver troubles, Your *“T'rec of Life" has been of great bene- fit to her. Sne joins me in thanks to you aud expressos the wish that others suffering from milar causes may find equal relief. Yours, Rev. J. W. Carter, Pastor (., T. church. For sale by all druggists. e EDUCATIONAL, At receut sales of school land in North Dakota, prices rauged from $X to $0 an acre. ‘The uow catalogue of Adelbert college and of Western Reserve university at Clevelund shows ahout 800 students and professors. The uumber of lady studeuts in Switzer- land is contiouously increasing. Out of 701 students at the Zurich university, no less thao 120 ure ladies. ‘The Jonus Hopkins university bas been presented with & rave coliection of (ireek sl itoman anins. gath by an avahnalo: eiet doring o (WEAty-five years' residence in ltaly. A course in ture will be A. F. Babine p} the first ti has been affo Tho aunual at Wellesley character frof we Russian language and litera- d at Cornell next term by library staff. This 1s stenetion 1n this language t Cornell. ication by tha senior class rear will be different in se of preceding years. It contain leotion of Wellesley songs with words an® Musio in full. Lieutenant Totten, instructor in military tactics at Yale, that capacity next June, Ho is the man whose carious iuterpretations of astronomi cal events have recontly attracted much notice. The South ota teachers’ oxamuration for 1592 for fiva fears’ certificates ana life diplomas will bé heid March 31 and April 1, at Spearfish: September 1 and 2, at Aber deen, Hrookings, Mitehell, Sioux Falls and Yaniton, John L. Woods of Cleveland hus given 0,000 ta the woman's college of Western Reserve university at Cleveland, s a memo- rial to his wife. This sum makes up §225, which has been regeived in the first year of Prosident “hwing's administration. Miss Louisa Macdonald, the r elocted priacipal of the new university loge for women at Sydney, N. 8. W, 83 years old. She has a splendid record as a clussical scholar and a student of classieal history, and has a roputation as an archuol- ozist. I'he authoritios of the new Chicago univer- sity are perpiaxed by the unexpectedly nu- merous npolications for admission. There are olready about 1,100 on file, and 1t s esti- mited that by the timo the institution is Teady 1o open, next Octobar, there will be 3,0 ) students ready to begin work. Prof. Bugena Wambangh, now of lowa State university, will be the dean of the now Iaw school of Western Roserve universityat Cleveland. Ho is regarded as one of the most promising of tho younger law teachers, He was trained at Harvara, practiced law for nine years in Cincinnati, und 13 now fin- tshing his third yearas protessor in fowa State university Tho rveceipts trom school land sales in Minnesota forms a pernfinent school fund aggregaung $,000,000. Rovenues from this sources promiso to inerease rapidly. iron ore has been found on some o the remaining school land. Instead of selling the land a law was eancted authorizing leases, the state 10 roceive a per cont of tho ottput. ‘This foresight will ada £10),000 to the school fund this year. The state owns 10,000 acres of mineral land. Next fall women who have takel logiate caurso canenter the post courses at Yale. It is not cr-educatic the general senso, and does not 1nvolve idea. The undergradunte courses will re- main exclusively for yonng men, But it s oifering 10 young women the advantages of the higher education which the colloges for women have not the facilities to give. It is astep forward in tho goneral movement of aavancement aud university extension, g Dewitt’s S ws iparitia e123n323 ta3 ol L that —— SALE OF THE MORTGAGED FARM. Written for The Bes, *Who bids for the homestead!” the auction- 1ed, bed orta box 'neath an old apple *7Tis not very loay, nor 'tis not very wide; Therc is only tean acresleft of it, you see; f With the house and the barn and this old orchard here, Whose fruit ekals that which tempted Adam and ve, Andis worth gf jusolf a snugsum evory year: At S0 “what am I offercd? bid up if you plonso.” A gray-headed man, with a faco of dull care, Tottered past 4ad,sat down in an old rock- ing chair. | “You fellers all; know why ivs offered fur sale, "Tho tho ownanised . hoped to dioc here I confoss, But a mortgage; W ou ~know, must be paid f ‘this cannol wait upon death ; Everyihing hez baen done by duo process o' aw, - Aw' the place ordered sold by the agent and heir, And ll;d title is clear, you'll not find any fluws Et );lnlu don’t believe me ask Grandfather air.” The gn;y;neudea man in the old rocking chai Just noaded his head, that was Grandfather Brair, “You fellers don’t need to be told any morve, You all know the story as well as myself, How granafather moved on tho place’ hero before Us fellers wero born—er laid up on the shelf; How thieves and misfortune took most o’ his and; How death has took all o' his family but one, An' tho' I'm no preacher, I can as a man Say 'twould hev been botter if that one hed gone.” The grayheaded man in tho old rocking chair Bent his head for a moment and murmered a prayor, “The varms of the salo you can read on the 1, The cash to be paid when the sale is com plete, With possession at once, fer grandfather will Be moved to the poor house some timo in the week; Sowiat am 1 0fforod? start er ups make a oid! I'd buy it mysell if I could fer ther sako O' the many wila romps I've had here when a kid, With graadn. mate,” A tear U there— The face of old, grayheaded, Grandfather Blair, “Well, what am I offeredt 28 dumb As a man I onco kuew, who, so it was said, Hodn't spoken & word for ten year, not a insell sumtimes fer n led dowan--not the only tear Why,jboys, yer one; But folks hed an idoa, "twas 'cause he was dead; Youll give me a dimei Well, now, I de- clare, Fur original humor that isn't so bad; Say, what'll you take fer a lock o' ver hairt ATe you sure vou sin't crazy! then mebbo yer mad." A smile, could it be! Oh! u smile was so rare Ou the (u'cfl of old, gray-headed Grandfather Blalr. #One hundred, you said! Pleaso pardon me then, One huudred I'in o‘flernd.wha'll make it the ' 0 i two! Why, the sum that is offered ain't large enough, wen, To pay for the'worth o' this orchard to you, Three hundred, thav's better. Too four did you say Four hundred, five hundred, you're talk- wg At last. o Five-fifty by twoj pou’it both have to pay; Six hundred I'm offered—who'li make it the hatl?” Ob, pitying anzels! Vbt look of desoair ot nl\t,umrhuuusu Grandia ber +Six hundred ovoeisere sure yor all done? Bix hundred twige; you must talk mighty ast, 100 Spealk up pretty quadk, er forever be dumb; ‘I'ne third time iy charm, and 1¥'s also the last. 3 e Six—— Why, whal is the matter! Hero, somebody, quick ! Brh;,fl nizhun o' cola water for Grandfather Il ai He snems to be alling, Grandpa, ars you h . sick Stand back there, you fellers, und give bim some air."” But death haa hung o'er them, unseen, like a pall, And grandiather died ou bis place afier all! A. . VAN VELSAN. WasHINGTON, KAX. Unscrupulous dealors hiave been detectod solling spurious Bitters under the namo o’ India asnd loaian Bitters ofour “iu- | nedy's Kast India Bitters,” We :hal prosecute mll such perions to the ul extent of the law, Our*East fodia” Bitte.s sold in bulk. Call for the genuine, ed oaly by oursalves and undor our truae mark lavel, Tuenx Co, completos his engagement 1n | | more. You realize that. at “¥%Price Clothes at , Price-- Hellman, during his 86 years in business in Omaha, and all the time at 18th and Farnam, never misrepresented his goods to any living man and he does not intend to now. that the abuse of the ‘3 Price’” expression by irresponsiole dealers has created a wrong im- pression, but no one who knows Hellman, for a minute doubts that goods go at “Ig Price” at Hellman’s when he says, as he does now, that you can buy spring suits and overcoats. choice of anything in the house at ‘i1 Price.” There is no need to tell you that “3 Price” of 80 is 18 or ‘15 Price” of 20 is 10. You know that. I But when you come in and see the elegant goods that are being sacrificed you will realize more what you have a chance to get and when a year or so from now the suitis worn nearly out from con- stant wear in season, you will wish you had bought two of them at “i Price,” for you will never again buy them at ‘15 Price,”as Hellman means it, which is ‘15 Price On ascount ”» Hellman, 138th & Farnam going out of bLusiness. ’and not a cent of Hu“m:m) It is true Y our HON. FREDERICK DOUGLAS! And the Freeman, the Great Negro Newspa- per, Published at President Harrl- son's Home. The twenty-five or thirty vears of freedom and citizenship which the black man has had in this country has demonstrated nis sterling worth and tns ability to cope with the white man in nearly every profession. In the pulpit and in journalism, porhaps more than in any direction, has ho shown his ability to keep up with, and in fact almost lead the proces- sion. There are more thau 200 colored news- papers published in the United States. Tho largest, the greatest and most successful one is tho Freeman, published at Indianapolis, Ind., President Harrison’s home. Iv1s a negre journal 1n the broadest sense, that its type-setters, artists, editors, and in fact ail of the work done on the paper is done by colored people. Another novel feature of the paper is that 1t is illustrated, and each week is full of illustrations showing the wiity and humorous side of negzro life, and eiving the pictures and sketches of repre- sentative colored men and women who have won distinction in the last two decades, Hon, Frederick Douglass writes to tho ed- 1tor ot The Freeman thus: “Cepan HiLL, ANTIACOSTA. D, C., Sept. 13, 1891.—My Dear Cooper: Great is your cour- age in gubl(shlng such a paper as The Froe- man, I thought I showed some confidenca in myself, and some faith in my people, when more than forty years ago 1 began the publi- cation of the Nortbern Star in Rochester, N. Y., but my courage was feeblo when com- pared with yours, You have taken upon vourself & peculiar burden that oortainly amazes me, and I have been looking and lis- tening for the word ‘failure.’ I can not im- agine how ynu keep up such & paper. You have abuity I koow, but something more than mental ability is needed to publish & paper like your paper. You need money as well as mind. You! The Freeman is an eight puge quarto paper, priuted on fine book paper, and_gotten up in artistic style. It is recognized as the mna- tional organ of the nine millions of colored people in this country, and is a fearless and indepenaent champion of their rights. The subseription price is 8240 a_year, a very low prico whon the stylo, quality, and general worth of the paper is considered. Agents are wanted in every city and town in tho United States. Sampie copies arnd instructions will be sent to all man, Bdwara polis, Tnd. w o Watex, Neb.. Oct. 28, 150). Dr. M My Dear Sir: 1 have just bought tho third bottle of your T'ree of Life. It s indeed a “Tree of Life.” Dr, when vou so kindly gnve me that first bottle my vight side was so lame and soro and my liver enlarzed so much that I could not lis upon my right side at, all. There wus & soreness over my kidneys all of the time, butnow that trouble is all over. I slecp just us well oa ono side as on tho other, and my sleep rests and refreshes me and 1 feel tho best I've felt in fiftean vears, and I know that it i3 all due 10 your Tree of Life. Yours very truly, D F. Dubrey, SHORTHAND LESSON. ons addressing Tho Froe- Cooper, publisaer, Indiaaa- =S The first four lines in the following cut contuin tho key to the writing exercise given in Lessou 2: N e LQ P Neile ™ N/ T A y AT \]j_wx(fl— f...ohp.(.n;. f \'.T..(o/\ PR P T P o X e dy Ao Line Fifto—Desk, sawe, nose, Mexico, v sel. sway. Sixth—Sell, case, facr famous, safe, shows, basten, basin, dozon, weighs, sur- ssage. Kightb—Mason, bessr, sup- muscle, dispose, race, snakes, Tig 3" CIRCLE, A small circle attached 1o either ond auy of the 5L10%e CONSCOADLS, 1epresey "It is attached to the insideof curved ters, ‘T'o straighi characters it s at tached as follows: borizontal, to the left hand side of *'ray” syd b, and to the right side of ail the others, When the “s" circle occurs between two sake, sel, Smoke, of | To the upper side of | write the circle on the outside of the angle, as in “desk,” given above. \When the “s’ stroke consonants which form an angle, FAT FOLKS REDUGE ; D BY cirele occurs between a straight and curved consonant, write1t on the inside of the curve, as in ‘‘basin.” When the circle occurs be- DR. 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