The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 25, 1899, Page 28

fHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY. JUNE 25, 1899 i « Kinship nouns, there. ac Hye by, Reen Account of 4'trip made Dhy Of Spanish-speaking countries of Souls™ gives an aceOt P His (ntellec- especially engraved colorec mentary light and several strong state- often what is called ‘‘unscrupulous. Company, This Danton was where the carrying out ments made. W. B. Conke v s concerned. Chi B = by a philosophical pro! & i Erhphical notes, twenty-five = bt 0:‘?"1‘('1‘;‘15"?n%‘;g?‘;:&‘mg“""‘” to 'Jr::xgo ‘1}':'\';3:\ Poflr:e ’i.?\ JOLN—A tual “",“h‘{,",,',,,“"ii‘r,.ip}‘fl.‘gs theolosics: fx-eryda_\“z-nnwr:a.fiy.ln and e which Mr. Belloc devotes himself is I pretty’ volume of carefully selected poems SUUSER JRiiAnd ana Germany visited ence, hoth SORIBIAIE, *Ul Ot | reanty less than five years. In all this PIENY XOUTGEL AT Rearty all the portions of TaEE the narrative. The au- elghts anc sures A fime Danton was filled with tne revolu- oy i 5 4 Wolte Towe Nearun S one by the persons of o ding and famillarity Tanguages Laird & Lee, publish tionary idea and secmed to think that £ o ng and familfarlly @ go. Price, Sl y ldea , 5 presented in the book. Small, Maynar O only with theology, bt _nov SRR D n At Ls T.‘lniflfr‘hr:nvmrl'r:‘:hrno].]x’;fl & Co., publishers, Boston. Price $1. Tuts, “"philosophers and poets a5, well. r-,\'rlf 0'1!;‘1 classes rather than an internal danger & James Huneect 4 ShIaNE NS Gy Worth ATEOS other thinkers And writers cles that would in the ordinary cor as a result of abuses of the peasants by IE et I T din. e At O emarded a8 Insrm bl 3 - with Bra ywsk Chec are touched upon. His _undog o0 n. % ek ‘ 5 o the”nobility. Danton loved France and R, & e Whimer, e are touched NP0\ Tana philosophy will bie." Henry' Vaughan. sickie an ated anybody who menaced her by word . feor™ “oxpresies himself stronglv appeal to the serious minded. Little. formed through prenatal influence or deed t is only in the saving of France,” Belloc remarks. ““when the men of action are needed that he leaps to the front. Then suddenly the whole nation e of the o] ishers, Boston. Price, comes expert in a mechanical wa of the Brown & Co., publishe is likely to pay the penaity natur: in the chapter devoted to the mus : future. Charles Scribrer's Sons, publish- g1 50, ers, New York. Price AIRD & LEE'S Salva-Webster Span- i ed for the possession of an inter active mind a frail body. His and its story becomes fllled with his DPRIFTWOOD-By Addie L. Baidou {sh-English and English-Spanish Diction- active ming i 0 e 22 oung won ;'D“‘?"f;f ':'l"‘ \]2':"“2;2," wfi'r‘,.lf,"fwn,;‘»r'd:hfl :\f\x!il::;m"x:f r{r;:rr:mq'v;‘-rn‘;l‘rl “f-u"fi'?':\.\g ary. This dictionary is now &:‘vn'gnnr!:f(:‘:g m.;.uml,,] in 1,{;(y,h|1:.wlr\"“f‘(|l\‘r| soul e O Auguet, T oy he jnade. o2 fitle could be chosen than “Driftwood,” the standard. It contains 40,000 worle anc come beneath WS E : Riha ompletes his despair. H Dt i o e onergy . is htactl. as the poems were written in all parts of about 6,000 meanings. The pronunclations nigh co e it me cal grasp of things as they were, formed the world and are here gathered together in the two languages are SystCrar 0 stery over his physical ills, the strength of France. While the the- for the first time. Many of the ve explained and exemplified in t1€ FOLL.T Gin the noble girl who has all a rate fren whom T o prateandly Mif. Were written a quarter of a century ago. praver and other reading matter as exer. win, the noble £l WO RIS Do feredl, wore wasting themselves In & kind but they are as readable as if just from cises. The accent of English words is ognized the FEANIENE S 56 oy OF olitieal Inirongection: he rajsed the the author's pen. The Hicks-Judd Com- marked throughout Besides other mal 3¢ Sofy. fhe BHETyR, % Spbrd. armies. When the orafors could only Pany. publishers. San Franefsco. ters generally found in d}“‘:‘" nd proper lishers. Boston. Price, $L. find great phrases fo lead the rage THE KINSHIP OF SOULS—A narra- regular verbs, abbreviations a against Dumouricz's treason, he formed S e OGN & =¥ e E — — the committee to be a dictator to a fali- = = = ing nation. All that was useful in the Terror was his work; and if we trace to IN the very root the actions that swept the | fleld and left it ready for rapid organiza- GEMETERIES. tion and defense, then at the roots we | “T g ,py, but you are sad OMRMI\g in the revolution count a s choly hour to the pleasing |1ask by six. T o o n March 10, 1793, the revolutionary tribu- of thinking out an appropriate 0 “Stop, voung friend, and think awhie nal was formed, and on April 5 following epitaph for vourselt? If you _Other inscriptions in the same cemetery —§top. s R the committee of sublic safety. Danton possess a scarcity of ideas on are: RE ot e nowtso lGnceiwanlL anea on s meae uns] ics asld et the subject, wander some day “My husband, how fornd shall thy mem- ‘12 YOI WIE SO0 S0 P o he DOWEL" without Whica it was 1mpnss1{>‘le through the cemeteries of San Francisco ory be, 5 vy Prepare for death to follow me.” to secure prompt and effective action In the older portions of some of these you Shrine within the corner of my heart, o S The awful évents of the following fifteen | Will find a number of epitaphs that are If value's worth was only known to me— oo ooience, love that fafled fop months, when a large ;ortion of the popu- | both quaint and curfous. And 1 alone can only feel how sad it never, i :?n"'{’" Larf:,"h‘;l" dreimy “(ljgrl«‘f“”;_;lu"l;'fl The writing of epitaphs, like that of Is topart.” Thro' weary months of Christ-lika T seriod My, Bellae holg | epigrams, is said to be a lost art. How- hiow Qovser that Danton s entively ihnacens. o |ever that may be, the supervision which ‘‘The leaves of the oak and the Wi b1 o Memory fharien 1 1izht" for: shows that while the uil.otine was work- | IS now exercised over the Inscriptions on shall fade— yeses j§ ing almost day and night Danton never by | tombstones has caused a great change Be scattered around and together be laid, C¥CL \ ovve South's word nor deed gave encouragement to the hetween the graveyard literature of to- And the young and the old and the low flower.” e hish thivers well, but Mr. Belloe | 42Y and that of a hundred years ago. and the high ShEpeTi e | 0es not show Dot | ¢ There is one thing to remember when Shall moulder to dust and together shall , e uTlt an leactlistheaven: Clalms its | does not show that Danton tried in # way to put op 1o them. There is no |reading epitaphs, particularly those of a L. G, own— doubt but it was in the power of | eulogistic character. It is that “the writ- ’ i Yet, when from me thy presence w Danton to stop the kiiling, but the fact | er of an epitaph is not upon oath.” Ig Death found him far from loving , L o (\ohanged for God alone Femain that 1o Sius act Is de- | natius Donnelly once, when expounding frh’nds,lh}\:; k!mlladuls of San Francisco = 8% F/ 0" 1d ashes learn content ded ¢ Belloc wit he statement that i - = A s repared his restin ace."” P Dantoniyas naitee ot his Baconian theory, was asked why, if Prel AL ¢ “Ere sin could blight or sorrow Death came with friendly care The opening bud to heaven convey And bade it blossom there . people and did not Sehaith 25 Shakespeare could not write, his family long as his plans were carrfed out. Which had a monument placed over his tomb of course all goes :9 uphold Mr. Belloc's | represen g him with a pen in his hand idea of Danton's consiste For one brief second Mr. Donnelly hes. . L andoths ftated. Then, his Irish wit coming to the ot et rescue, he replied world equal to the cad of “Oh, my friend, if you are going to take scene on the scaffold is certainly a power- | testimony from tombstones, you offer evi- 1;11 one. Mr. Belloc »¢m s: “He staod | dence that no properly constituted court thus 2 _moment cor s over the | would accept.” people whom he hal w0 often swayed. In v - . s On a magnificent monument PY!(‘de- to that attitude he remains for history There s a world of freakishness reveal; the memory of the purser of the Brother Whether Mr. Belloc will succeed in | €3 in the epitaphs in some ! Jonathan is this inscription: changing the cpinions we have forme | of Cemeteries, particularly as regards com- : “Sleep well, dear Louis, in thy cold bed; Hard is the ground where thou must dwell, Yet chafes it not thy weary head; Sleep, dearest love—farewell.” RIS “A little time of pain, A little time of trust, Even more curious than the foregoing el Dt TR are some of the epitaphs to be found at AR Lone Mountain. Ha In the weather-beaten graveyard on the old Mission Dolores nothing remair but a few rain-washed headstones was announced :oma g0 that ilaire Bei- to soon prod Danton from ory ot [the past | position and grammar and the distribu- “Like life, the Sea was false, and hid painted letters on their wooden surfaces n." the years remain n. His arguments tion of punctuation marks and capitals. The cold dark rock from sight. being so blurred as to be undeciphera aney amo g icertililygs . ~ut have any num- guppose vou begin your wanderings in She struc A cry of dark despair— That is, there is nothing remaining = 253 ber of weak points:inithe vital 5 | the Masonic Cemetery, in the Southeast The waves rolled o'er his head. the exception of one marble stone, upon According to Mr. Beiioe. Danton is s corner of which you will find an epitaph He is gone. Down. Deep. Ah! he rises, Wwhich is engraved: e T tiag ferent man from a certain standpoint tha L 2 y tnevelitus SR | that Is most Interesting, as containing the he floats, he is i “Snatched by death, at we h and it is easy to admit that Mr. Relloc 1 story of a long and eventful life. It is Coming. He is here—his soul. Alas! too soon you fled ; right. There is no doubt that the ciass- engraved upon the two sides of a pyra- e At noan of life ; el ing of Danton as an aimless irresnons’ble | ;pidai monument, and was composed by “Pain was my portion, To join the silent dead. r EHSR oste has been erroneonts. [le was a consisiont | o 1yap himself some years before his Physic was my food, But when the trumpet e hook T eoing o g InTLate g, BErMIDS, | Geath#eTt reads: Groans were my devotions, Sounds that awful phrase H tin o try. But to give hlm any qualities of | ~All you that chance Drugs did me no good. May angels bright A ¥ e s gentleness and humanity is not such an | This grave to see Christ was my physician, Your soul to heaven raise. P Belloc could easy matter. Accepted history classes ) piees Ko o hlohiay #as the bosts Sieie s e amal Danton as a'monster. His crimes are the | 1f vou can feac hnglish So. to ease me of my pain Some years ago a man named Geoege H ; ALGLE WO most bloody in the history of the world, | May learn by me— He took my soul to rest” Churchill ended his life in this city nelof. Fh and the chances ars tnat as long as ‘ha | I traveled, read and studied pmyg=oul : Eri e gl e s el i tha Erendt world lasts he will he known as a man | Mankind to know g i e etter to the Cor gave b v Aoy AL who deserved the death that was moted | And what most interested them 6 and 4 is 8. It's all circus. sons for taking the fatal step. He s And ib.litation out to h: WILL SPARKS. |3 T ol “It takes money to live and it requires Here below. A stud I n by Hilaire Be.'uc. | s state “My name, my country, what are they work to get money, and I am unabls Charles Scribner's Sons,” publishers, New | The e or thetuturefetate andilove to thee? work, too proud to beg and not smart Yo Eriee 2 - = Envy prm} "love or hate occupied each What, whether high or low my pedigree? enough to steal. I am absolutely e 1 e et howr: Perhaps 1 far surpassed all other men; pelled by the unfortunate circumstances Books Received All would teach, but few would under- Perhaps I fell below them all. what then? ihn liich I nmlmn;vd to end a life which ¢ T o v SSOURCES | ste 5 Suffice it, stranger, thou seest a tomb; as become a burden to me I )anton was born is carefully studied. It was disfigured with a large scar, received PUERTO RICO AND ITS RESOURCES stand e : g ac e as the epitar f\“w “\‘\'v? ,: vm . a m‘. 1t _influence g .'\' il when —BY Frederick A. Ober. D. Appleton & | The greater part know little of either God _ Thou knowest its use—pass on; v‘i\‘!fi l}wd glrvflrrj; lf;ltfivri“as Ahl epitaph DGt e realty His enemies say C0.. publishers, New York, gy I hiddeno rmatteriwhomt? which he wished placed upon his tomb- i P TAURU 3 D ou Pher Al very s ax: ST 3 1 SUAURUA — By Bmily 8 ZLoud. Al pove one another, a very good maxim all “Here unfortunate Churchill lies, trange story of the South Seas. The Eea “Dearest loved one, I have laid thee & % 2 1t Hditor Publishing Company, Cincinnati i s ; Taithe e erile ay e embrace Nobody laughs, nobody cries A HEAVEN.KISSING HILL By Ju rn, labor and wait If you would suc _In the p J Erazels emprace. Where he's gone, how he fares, middle he was a man Magr ‘A readable little story. He ceed. But thy memory will be cherished, Nobody knows, nobody care Vafiad and gifted w bert Stone & Co., publishers, New In the five divisions of the world 1 have Till I see thy heavenly face. S cendants, their occupations York 3 been Wik Saedsah There are few old Californians who wil ndicate a complete WITH THE HOE AND The < of Peking and Constantinople “We hope his soul is safe in Heaven, not remember Hank Monk, the celebrate t 3 MS—By Edwin Markham. 1 have seen— In time to him we hope to come. stage-ariver, who in early @ befor lure Company, publishers, | On the first railway 1 rode, before others He lived in love, in peace he died; 5 the iron horses boomed across the coun S DBy Beanil wraikes u b ero made His life was asked, but God denied. ey Biirae e cORCHUAHEOuR LY the Stk people in th trou- navel % with what the writer Saw the first telegraph operate, so use- and drove it so well that no one who eve Danton had a firm pur plé i to term ‘‘the reign of selfishness.'” ful to trade— ; ‘‘Blessed are the homesick, made a trip with him has forgotten the terrible G. W. Dillingham & Co., publishers, New | In the first steamship the Atlantic I For they shall get home. experience. On a slab in a Nevada burial he amtonis . York crossed— i R ground are these word hd then LOCK AND KEY—By James M. Gal- | Suffercd six shipwrecks, where lives were “‘Our heavenly Father, he claimed our “Sacred to the memory of Hank Monk, ions of lowa A story combining a discussion of lost mother— the whitest, biggest hearted and best fers to t scientific problems and [ Strong, vein of | 1y the frst steamer to California T did _Carried her soul to realms of bliss; known stage-driver of the West; who e Jromi Toma 3. W L ©.. pub- sail, Friends who knew and loved her was kind to all and thought ill of none. And went to China by the first Pacific Would not wish her back to a world He lived in a strange era and was a hero; than his predecessors in tune in either T AR—By A. D. Gash. A | . torical The upor moralg as story of Utah d to be based upon fact. Mail: like this e and the wheels of his coach are now ring- f the little town w ion of him. In addition to this. his face is nec yre such m Mormonism is shown up in an uncompli- | After many endeavors my affairs to fix, S ing on golden streets.” TEE STORY O Copyrighted, 1899, by Joel Chandler Harris. PART XII miled when the children told him how Mr. Bobs e /] y/ 3 MR. COON. B y JSoel Chanaler Harrs. . and now there is nothing left Tt seemed as if we had been asleep all the time and something had sud- the swamp; the Son of Ben Ali knows where it is. I slipped Into the water s of these stories d some scattered fragments of ex- denly awakened us. Then mammy came home. She sniffed around and and swam to the middle, where there's a stump of an old tree. I had Well ll wh = esented ¢ smelled the blood and saw the feathers. She nosed under us as we lay hardly reached it when the dog came in sight on the bank of the pond and ell (to shoo all this aw. L he put it off from d hon o catch a crow. He said the same plan had been p 3 ¥). Mr. Coon was highly delighted with his and rooted us out of the way. but she found nothin’ more than feathers. began to whine and bark. He ran around to see if T had gone out on the ny long vears. He had heard his father, Ben Ali, tell abcut Ginner and was ready to curl up and take a nap, or was willing to join the she cried; ‘who's been bringing you a bird?" opposite side, and then he caught sight of me. He jumped into the water t the prabability is that out of this practice the sa children in a frolic. So they led him into t playroom in the attic, un- ey Bird> acked one of the others, and when she With a great splash, and when 1 saw him coming fear seemed to leave me, m his cc snapped the chain f L S I climbed upon the stump, and when he came near I jumped on his head and bit him on the neck with all my might. He went under, but I turned him loose and came to the top and swam around and round. He came up vas they all squalled out: Mammy, fetch us some mor But she kept on asking: ‘Who brought this one? Who brought tkis ef to catch a thief,” had arisen, for nobody could trust . mammy, mammy! Fetch us some thiet unless the first thief was securely faste . Mr. Coon _must poke his nose or his forepaws into everything ~ But Aaron, on I . had something quite as interesting to tell He paced round and round the room, smelling at or feeling n every nook opez T said nothing, but the others lonked at me and sald T was the one 31N to Shake the water fiom Mis edrs end they flapped on the pond childrer From a negro whom he knew he had bought a raccoon, a ge Bt hn‘ il L aas aatl ML Dione v;'lklfld LI !ln'fl’l‘]"\ “;‘i‘- that brought the bird. through fli\l"hil"x I had jumped orlnathasd n}zn‘n and W‘;’I“E‘.n h? ore hg got uine, full-grown raccoon. This was news, indeed, and so exciting in its fraements of chinawara, which the voungster used in place of mones g Where did you get it? mammy asked i iz <he 1 clawed him with my hind feet. Tia tried to cry out, but all he eouid da character that Aaron was compelled to answer, or to parry, volley after With a few fragments of fine chinaware in his pocket Buster John aiw 1 told her I had grabbed the bird. and though she said nothing she 3 ‘»\."i seemed to be pleased, and 1 noticed that she combed my hair witn her n tongue a great deal longer than she ever did before. After that she began r’i_nz birds and frogs, and once she brought us a big fish, and that ine. rogs!" cried Drusilla. “You hear dat? Frog: ot the kind that live on land.” explained Mr. Coon, making a wry was to make bubbles on the water. I jumped on his head twice after this, and the third time he never came up any more. I went out on the bank. shook the water off my clothes and cantered toward home. As I wenf along, feeling very proud. I heard the man calling his dog. First he blew a horn. He blew it a long time, and then called and called; but the dog being at the hottom of the mill pond, could make no answer. X 5 “When I reached home I found mammy there. She had heard the dog felt rich. With this form of currency he had bought whole drov n. ponies and large arsenals of guns, pistols, swords and war cannon ¢ n put Imaginary venders. Piece by piece Mr. Coon brought Buster John's treasures to light and examined them carefully. Th . Coon’s forepaw were very much like tiny har t his hind feet made tracks in the it, and what does it look like?'" cried Sweetest St t to belong to, and is it tame, so tame that you asked Buster John. kill it an’ cook it?" inquired Drusilla. “Why di ron put ngers in his ears. He couldn't answer all the questions sanq that looked like those of e face. “but the kind that hide on the bank of the creek and jump in when 1, anq"2d hade haste to get out of tha way. Thon. i h there was a lull in the excitement Susan who made this discovery. Whenever Mr. Coon left the prints of his fhey hear vou coming. You have to take many long and hard lessons be- children missing, she knew that something had happened or e one ofiier ) u give for him?" Buster John asked after a pause. feet visible one could almost imagine that some small goblin in numan [00° ¥OU can catch one, Fish are vasier to cateh, ¥ou turn vour back (¢ happen. She was sure of it. She heard the dog running, and she <new Something,” replied Aaron, smiling shape had passed that way going on all fours. Almost! Why, Sweetest 106 creek. lof the tip of your tail touch the top of the water and move the missing young one would be caught. If he wasn't caught she hoped Bu: how much Susan did imagine it—was sure of it, indeed—whenever she was in Make N Hu T T il il 2 he would be badly. scared; it would serve him right for not obeying the Enough g o e _ Believe land. where she lived most of the time. Surely it could not be b e mysel exclaimed Drusilla resentfully. rules she had made. 3 . Shucks,” cried Buster John; “if I had known there was gome great more wonderful than the country next door to the world, where old Mr. Saup FrER LR Ietn Yol Bl elitaliins sboudicoons “When I got home you may know T was tired. Mammy dried my clothes secret about it I wouldn't have asked Rabbit and Mrs. Meadows and the looking-glass children had their abode ell. some folks call niggers coons.” replied Drustlla. while T told her what had happened. and she would hardly believe it; but Aaror cabir saw was chain wt 11 this time,” Mr. Coon continued. payving no attention to the inter- ruption, “‘vou Jeave your hody turned half around so vou can see wnat is going on in the water. When the fish shows himself yvou reach down ana flirt him out on the bank, and in reaching you hed the boy's ears gently and said “Come!” He went o his For a few days Mr. Coon feasted. and then the children thought he en following, and when they went in the first thing tley should begin to pay for his board, first by giving an_account of him C pacing back and forth the length of the small steel and pext in any other way that might be devised. So far as Mr. d him. He paused and regarded them curiously, twisting was concerned. he was perfeot ling to accommodate the she could plainly hear the man calling his dog, first with his voice an pith his horn,' He kept that up for some time; and finally on s e passed right under our house, calling his dog and tooting his horn—: ave to be quicker than the J5Rq the only one of the family that dared to Jook out as he v:pn:l:;'. tnd S ien ™D about and mechanically feeling in the cracks never bad tempered unless he saw a cat or dog. and such of those as LSh—and fish are mighty auick. But a gnawing stomach (dag ig lublum; Well. T had no more adventures until one night, having co of the floor with his fc ws, which seemed to be as supple and as useful were about the house and vard soon learned to give him a wide berth, for lterally. erying-for-meat-thing) makes a quick hand. myself. I heard a crowd of dogs barking. The noise thes S h';'fi: as a boy's I 3 . his claws and teeth were sharp and he was a born fighter. ‘Well. mammy was trying to teach us all these things. and we -vere louder and louder, and presently T heard mammy climbing the tree as hard When I 1 went ¢ Mr. Coon raised himself on his hiud In Joe Maxwell's rough notes Mr. Coon began thus: learning very fast. She took us with her when the sun was low, or w as she could. She came up so fast that 1 could hear pleces of bark fall legs and u ry almo i with the scream of a rooster when “It'T had to tell my tale from the talk-think. as you talk your talk, I'd it had just gone away. and. though the light was trving to our eves. we tqo the ground. She was scared nearly to death. a bird ver. or a hawk appears in sight. Buster John knew talk no talk of this thing.” As this would be hard to follow, it has been 9id very well. Once mammy heard a dog barking. and she hurried us ““ “They are after me.' she cried, ‘and I didn’t have time to take to ftw 1 so he stopped - rendered into a free translation from first to last. home, making us run as hard as we could. I asked her what the trouble water!" Sure enough, the dogs came charging through the bushes, howlin »uble, Frog-eater—Tadpole-catcher?” the Son of Ben “If T had to learn my language out of hooks. as vou-de vours,” s was, and she said it was the barking of the dog that scared her, and she and panting like mad, and they gathered around the tree and howled a 5 A 2 1 ok . Mr. Coon. leaning back in a_corner of the playroom and rubbing his face {0ld us that when we were older and heard a dog bark we must hurry harked until the men came up with torches. I was curious to see what was « { sparled Mr. Coon. “I've seen creatures like him and nose with hoth hands. “T wouldn’t have much to say about myself, for home by a roundahout way. and run in the water whenever we could. be- going on, though the others were too frightened to move. 1 came out and before sides with stick my tail T wouldn't know how to say {t. My home was in the hollow limb of a free, Cal ' = an e dogs had a way of smelling where we went along and following us sat on the limb and looked down at them. They were < erent, Bug-eate : and T can remember how nice it was to sleep in that soft, warm place. Wherever we went: and If they followed us home they'd sit at the foot of cept one. The one that had the biggest torch held 'quLsrfi]&fl;‘ him. and you please. Son of Ben Ali, I was glad to come There were four others hesides me, and we used to sleep close together fhe tree and bark until a man would come with a sharp cut-thing and hit moved it back and forth behind him. a invite myself here. did I? Tf vou were hungry and tjll our mammy came home. We were aiways awake when she came, for the tree until it fell. ‘' “There he is.’ he yelled. ‘T see his eves! The man with a cut-thing nd saw coming toward you one of the creatures (hat we could hear her climbing the tree. and then. if it was not raining. sheo “All these things we learned, and a great many more, but you know hegan to hit the tree, T never knesw 1 would you grin and say, ‘Welcome. friend'?" " oit on the outside and dry her feet and clothies with her toagnn S coierl what fool things voung things are. tree began to sway. Then T could feel 1t faliag, SR, to, happen Frondlid d Aaron. “But you have been fed, Frog-eater. You times we'd get impatient and begin to cry. and once one of the others went T ain’t al'. but T know T ain’t na fool.” interrupted Drusilla. tree until T came to one of the largest limbs, and by the time T hag elimb 4 e R e to the door: the slap he ot made him saueal. and none of us ever soth- “Oh, Wil veu hush?* cried Buster Jobn. that the tree hit the ground with a noise that sounded as the clonde toood Son of Ben All. ves. and too much, If you want ered our mammy any more by £0ing to the door. But. mv! How himers “Vou know what fool things voung things are. repeated Mr. Coon. When they clap together and make a big. quick shine. The limh shosk atds soft on the coband Juicy. AL dow want me and angry I used to get while mammy £at out there cleaning her feet and “They listen to what their elders say and think it is nothing but talk. The hard that I came near falling off: but 1 held on the best I could. and | ple_of voung chickens—or a handful of black drving her clothes. But she alwavs togk her own time, and then when she voung fhing is always a smarter thing than the old thing. and sometimes a moment T heard a great noise of fighting, screaming, howling and srow!. came in what a scramblo there was for the right teat. Mine was tha mid. he is ton smart. I remember that one night T slipped away from the others ing. T was wild with fear, but T could do nothing. (1 el Close 1 | had to alaw and be clawed before T could et 1, Wa after mammy had heen gone a long time. T was careful to make no noiss clinging to was a black man holding a foren. Mhe Hent Hliiged o, 1 was and T never did get as much food as I wanted at one on the tree. but when I reached the ground T felt so happy that I jumped and the hot smoke stified me. T thaught none had SRS time {ill T came hare. 1 think our kind are horn hungry and kept hungre in the air and whirled around for foy. The air was cool and fresh, the Who was not a black man was standing 19 el atenme, hut the:man 1 Aaron, “if you want good things (o eat dle one but I alw ey have been touched. They know evervthinz were all ravenous re hungry or thirsty you have only to give th andir ¢ A o back and forth very rapidy. This was the way 'PALe MAY be able to escape from those that follow us Svamp Smelled zo0d and (ha dark was fine. I could see everything ever so T looked at him T found he was 1eoking ot me, 0 the others. and when Scel Hrwns trrions o coini nither The first thing T really remember was once when T heard a bird chirp- much better than when the big shine-thing is blazing over the trees. T kept looking at him and he at me until T was no longer afraid. | S m D o ol Ehem ur- ine and whistling right at our verv door. T trembled and shaok all over “So T shook mvself and started for the pond in the swamp. There I had the feeling that he was a frie 1 s RA R e ‘;‘ i k‘“ h ’”’“» e Young- The others were asleep and T was glad of it. Shaking and frembling T crent caught some small fish, and they tasted ever so much better than those go to him. But how could 17 Tt was the Son of Ben Al, and h id 8 polined to Shrink Shen Mr. (Qon came to the door. and there. right at me. was a bird with a long bill. which he mammy brought home. Then T wandered out of the swamp and went oy nothing to the others. But the thick smoke came in my nose and I AN S0 (I Diveetest Susan and was poking under the hark. Shivering and shaking 1 jumped on him, tnt the hill where the brambles are. hunting for Birds and birds' nests. 1 sneezed. The black man velled. ‘Here's another!’ and climbed on the fere S iovere , with Mr. Coon T came near falling to the ground. He was stronger than he seemed to found two birds and one nest with tinv eggs in it. and the ezgs tasted so He was about to strike me with the torch, but the Son of Fen At o e e i hie Ainmer. which consisted of chicken e, And he had claws. too. He clinched me with these and heat me over nice that I wanted more. and I went rambling all over the hill ever g0 far. ‘Wait"" He came to the limb. stretched out his hand to me and I touched B e e e macked his mouth over thom ang wicken the head with his wings, but T didn’t mind that. T didn’t mind anything T Suddenly T heard a dog bark. The sound of it made me shake and shiver. it with my tongue. ‘Come. he said. I jumped to his should 1t D e e Sy moyth over them. and when he shaok no longer. T felt mv hair rising on my back: T heard mvself growl. and T stood listening. Preséntly I heard the bark again, and it was so safe; but when he carfied me among the strange ones. when I oo o eclared that he fe an he had for many a day, and 1 didn’t know why. but T was furious. 1 erushed the hird fn mv testh close at hand that it sounded like a dreadful roaring.” dogs nosing around with blood on their ears. and when T e e ©osmoe nd (close to cousin-thing) and T wanted to e saler e LT £ until his wines ceased to move: but T was still angry: I had tasted blood: 1 boun’ you had ter hump vo'se'f den.” suggested Drusilla. and the others lying there mov: mor 5 R Emammy Jorlum og igglel’ which literally translated means T'had made mv first Kill. 17 one of the athers had come out just then | M. Conm with Nis eyes nalf shut, far he was sleepy. Kept Tight on the the Son of Hen IS hand and reice T Shodld mov e 1eain, and bui for AL 80, e sovantenproled i mrans, (it diconfinueito think he would have Ym{‘}:a sqrTy But they were all frightenad by the noise track of his narrative. © : - 5 middle of the npack. mped down into tha el : S haten Fort S and were huddled in the farthest corner. en when T was' no lonzer “A drendful roaring. T went awav from there as fast as my legs sculd ““The Son of Ben Ali gave me to a fri < aehaae e L i angry. but proud. T went to the door carrving the hird in mv feeth. They carry me, and ran right to the swamp. T could hear the dog coming, ioo: went hungry many micailinas ol e et o oL et e angunce LBithe T 1 lablam s, < varfa- smelled the blood and rushed at me, and then thare was a fight! and far off T conld hear some one erying ont. he was hungry him < wife 3 % Y Ll e e i tATns a8 hand. or to_* “TWhy. vou were fighting vour own brothers and sisters:™ said Sweetest ~ ;That was the man cheering the dox Buster John explained. and it you'l oxcuee e 11 take s naper O aren. too. “But now I'm here, s v that Joe Maxwell, wi sible f e Susan severely “The dog.” sald Mr. Coon. “seemed to he coming closer and closer. and M Goont o : £ 2 ; It ina nity that Joe Moy eho 8 cernoneloe o Lisstidoyidalalla; 80 would ‘vou If you were of mv kind.” revlied Mr. Coon. “There was T began o rin harder than ever. T remembered that my mammy had sald and was soon bemed nemgUth wide to gape, cuddled down in the corner, not take the tr uster John's a fight. but they all got a plece of the bird. After that we were changed. something ahout water and dogs, and T ran straight for the big pond in Fadlre GODDOOVVUVOVUL VDDV ONUUN OO OO U AU BTG D | Miant, assisted by Colonel Weaver of | O. O. F. of Sacramento had its annual ex- | Carpenter visited Violet Lodge at Salinas, | number from 'l;fim lar Lod vi o % o Alameda, “Focently installeq. the nificers | curaion 1 the Sacramento River on the | Mattha Washington at Soquel. Tsabells | Lodge in Vallejo was & moss Sieasant ot | dormamond Springs, EI Dorado County, L £- | during the latte ©f Canton Santa Rosa No. 23, Patriarchs | 18th. and it was a_most enjoyable affair. | ut Santa Cruz, Paradise at Watsonville | falr. There was work i i | b e efthe month o | Militant, 10" 6. ¥ i the presence of a | Deputy Grand Master 4. L. Robinetie, | and Cvpress af Santa Cruz. On the Mth | degree, performed by the dril tent Team | sevontciny Remplar Rehekah Lodge had o e number of ladies and gentlemen. | assisted by Grand Warden W. W. Wat- | she will visit Palisade Lodge at Gonzalez, | Ivy In a very credifable manner. Dancing | S to take the degree. . =4 The officers Installed were: Major R. J. | Son and Grand Secretary George T. Shaw, | and for July she has announced the fol- | followed the werk, and N = . s | Pye. commander: Dr. €. W. Savage, tieu: | will dedlcate the new hall fo be occupied | lowing visitations: July 1. to Mareuerite | treated to 3 light Conaten e e .,-wn’rf‘?“\, '\;":;‘;}‘f DAHCBEDRS il -1 [-3-%-1 tenant; H. C. Coltari, ensign; G. W. Rog- | by Sumner Lodge at Tracy, San Joaquin | Lodge. King Clty o Natalie Lodge, | The new board of trustees of the Or- | _new parlors will shortly be inst- LU O X 30 10 £ O X8 20 16 F X8 10 13 X 08 0 | ere clerk: F. P. Doyle. aceountant. 33 County. on the 4th of July. The Odd | San Miguel: 5. to Ysabel at Paso Robles; | phans’ Home has been ormanized as 1oi- | tuted in Sacramento. THE EASTERN STAR. appointed a commiitee to arrange for the | the conclusion of the installation cere- | Fellows of that county propose to make | 6, San Luis Obispo at San Luis Obi=po: |lows: Lois M. Wycoff. president; Joseph- | Next month the several parlors of the )n tne night of Wednesday. the 2Sth ' preliminaries. | mony there was served up a cholce sup- | the Fourth a great holiday. M. T. Moses | 7. Cambria_at Cambria: 10. Cayucos at |ine Brown, vice president; Marian Green- | Order will be busy with the installation of Olive Branch Chapter will meet in | Grand Secretary Mrs. Willats is "'i er, the banquet hall belng beautifully | Will be the orator. SOoR rs ted and the tabl d The offl e oarons tera ey | o T e Are | oot QIOS L Allen dha mavmg Benla. | éliers it 3 ranging for an excursion for members of | Gecorated and the tables made attractive e officers o e various lodges V- | Grande, an L at Santa Maria. n: Mrs. Mary E. Donoho, secreta Mrs. Ziph : Mrs. Wi v] re all In the Natlve Sons'. bullding for | B O R el onatOT fembers of | by & lavisn dispiay of beautiful flawers, | Ing been elected for the ensuing term, | In her visits this far Mrs. Carpenter has | At the annual meeting held 1ast Wednes: | delomator ro" T rieany Beim. who were purpose of Initiat:ng ten candidates. | Tahoe in the near future. The oxcur- | After the banquet there was an hour of | they will soon be installed, and from pres- | proved that she is a woman of unusual | day there was presented a statement of | held in Stockton, were in this city las “hwat will increase the membership of the | sionists will start on Friday and return | Scclal converse and dancing. ent indications the outlook for Odd Fel- | capacities for the work in which she is | the affairs at the home which showe that | week. ot chapter to fifty-five, and it is the aim | on the following Tuesday. | 73.°L" Robinette of Sacramento, deputy | lowship In California during the next term | engaged and that she is an exceedingly | it is flourishing, that there are thirty. | Mrs. Lililan A. Carlie, the founder of ey o increase it to seventy- | .The official ~visitation to California K 8rand master, is recovering from his re- is most flattering. bright scholar. Her personal magnetisi | seven inmates and that it is in good sani- | Estreila Parlor. for a number of vears a of the officers to e ¥~ | Chapter will be on the 20th of July. This | cent attack of iliness, and it will 1ot be | Grand Master Bonvnge is visiting the | and her zeal for the order have manifest- | tary condition. Since it was opened | grand trustee of the order, and a sister f five hefore the last day in July next. | chapter will give a children’s party in | long hefore he will again be with the l0dges in Humboldt and Del Norte coun- | ed themselves and she has made friends | there has been but one death there. fhetale Fraak Hi e The Brot Harmony Chapter at Iz lest hed oo | Ausust. logeen. iteconthah VAN WG Ioaga | L | Wherever she has been since she has been | A new Rebekah Lodge will so0n e in- | president of the Native Sons of tha g jed that it wili havi gra - — of Dutch Tlat.”on which occasion there o installed in office. stituted at Or; i t ¥ v i iyl ) ing declded 8 Goiden Gate Hall on the THE ODD FELLOWS. Was an initiation, THE REBEKAHS. e Gecant visit of about fifteen mem- | Mra. & A' Tacert vien BEcyGounty, by | Golden West, Is danserously ill at the night of the lith of September, 8nd it hue | Colonel H. O. Brower of the Patriarchs | The generzal relief commities of ¢he L) During the past week Mrs. Helen M. | bers of Ivy Lodge of Napa and a like | assembly. A new lodee will be instituted | Continued on Page Thirty-Two.