The evening world. Newspaper, July 15, 1903, Page 11

( Printed by permission of The C. M. Clark Pub. Co., Boston. Poked OF PRECEDING iSrremaenn pesounea ornate for President le Alexander Hamilton a a pe to oats In the mean time Wlilkingon had not been idle. He in formed the Spanish military commander in Texas of the projected invasion, and assured him that the Amerioan army 0) 5 Spal fplrnsy to ae arom ren tee southwest Dy would stend side by aide with that of Spain to repel the in- whom elieves has @ dnding vaders. with Jefferson. "Kate ton auarrels wi ver,| In New Orleans he was loud tn Me protestations of Freferie Clarke, because the latter denounces with Burr and bis daughter, Theod: on his campaign in the Southwest. He’ Nannee to enll man Blennerhgasett in his enter althy Irishman living on an Burr visits the island and who Teftives to shake | the hand of ‘Samilton" ‘* CHAPTER III. The Great Conspiracy. RS. BLENNERHASSETT was almost overcome by her emotions. She knew the firmness of her husband's character when his sentiments were stronly aroused, She divined: that her guest was equally set in his opinions. A collisicn of highly wrought and excited tempers seemed imminent. She ran to her husband and grasped him by the arm, while Theodosia and Kate took thelr posts on either side of Burr, Little Aaron had wandered off to the other end of the room, evidently much Interested and amused by the pretty pictures that he had found in a book which he had taken from the table without permissio! Qn his part, Burr felt that unless his visit was to come to an untimely conclusion and all thevisions that he had formed ot Prince Fortunatus were to vanish in thin air, he must, in some way, explain to the master of the house the event which, it was evidert, he so thoroughly mleunderstood. “Ladies, rr began, “you will bear me witness that thie py discussion is not of my choosing, and I trust will me if I live over again that sad affair by recalling some particulars that must be unknown to Mr. Blennerhas- Turning to Mr. Blennerhassett he asked, in ringing . suppose @ Mean and cowardly individual @hould slander you and not stand up to {t when cornered? Suppose you should forbear and forbear, forgive and forgive; yes, stoop to remonstrate? If you had no choice except to sink out of sight, a wretch degraded and despised, or meet the caiumplator on the field and silence him, what would you do? You are an Irish gentleman, and I can answer for you. You would meet him, as 1 did! Supposing when you stood up to fire he caught your eye and quailed under {t like a ted telon? You would kl!l him, as I did! Supposing find his last will and testament to read like the ns of a penitent monk; you would despise him, as "fiand. in the OW meet yer. thought for a moment. His wife looked into dy. At last she saw those signs which, to ised eye, indicated that the reverity of his former nt waa to be relaxed. Turning to Burr, he said: you never braved death but in a duel, your words no effect upon me, but you both did your duty ‘my of your country, and I had forgotten, we ara ks or Romans, but the slaves of crue! modern cus- , there is my hand. Welcome to Blennerhassett ad carried his point. He and his party ‘had received 1 weleome from both the Prince and Princecs, and, ‘ugh he did not express his intention to his companions, 1 vind wae made up to remain upon the island unt he 1 | secured every possible advantage from the new acquaint- ' t he had made. He was not sorry, all things consid- (|, that there had been a misunderstanding and some ex- 1 sh had become necessary. The result had been that < 4 now on a much better footing with his host end host- « ‘nap he would have been had the visit been but @ casual « \ « 1 ..wwith no attendant exciting olrcumstances, The incidents ) bad transpired had broken the ice and had opened sev- 1) avenues through which he couid present his schemes to entertainers. Clarke had become a captain of Ohio militia and of the Blennerhessetts. It was not strange then e should see Kate Embleton again, and both being der and softened they renewed their promises of love. Burr cautiously approached the subject of embarking Blen- norhassett's wealth in the great scheme for the acquisition of the southwest territory. It was proposed first as a scheme of colonization out of which would come great profits In money and the happiness of the persons gathered on lands aloug the Washita River which Burr purposed buying. Mrs. Blennerhassett, anxious that her husband should engage tn great affairs and be wooed away ‘from his profitless experi- ments and frregular studies, supported Burt's importunities, with the result that Blennerhassett entered heart and soul into the enterprise. Burr proceeded with caution. He employed men in a cave near the Biennerhassett Island to mould bullets and pack corn for the expedition. He recruited a considerable force and had several rafts built to convey the stores an@ per- sons down the river when the at of the river should make safe the passage of the falls where Loulsville now 'y move made by Burr was known to Jame# Graham, wecret agent of President Jefferson, When he believed that his evidence was suffiofent to convict Burr and Blenner- hassett he secured warrants for their arrest, and a detail of militia commanded by Capt. Frederic Clarke was sent to Blennerhassett Island to execute the warrants, Betwixt Jove and duty he stood, but he coul4 not refuse to obey orders, although ail the brightness went out of life when he heard Kate cry: “Frederic Clarke, I hate you!" and waw her fall fainting at the feet of Col. Burr. ‘The militia men broke into @ store-house after their oM- cers had gone to Marietta with the prisoners, and finding liquors, became intoxicated. The women fied to Col. Burr's raft to escape indignities at the hands of the drunken men. ‘The signal was given to the boatmen to cast off, and the raft moved slowly down the river. The shouts and songs of the drunken soldiers still reached their ears. As they neared the western end of the island a loud orash was heard and # volume of sparks and burning embers shot upward toward the sky. This was the last farewell of Herman Blennerhassett and his wife, Margaret, to their once beautiful home, for fate had decreed that they should never see it again. Some years later, Nature, in one of her wrathful moods, sent down upon the Island Benotiful a waste of waters which swept away forever every vestige of the artificial graces that the hand of man had added to the original ‘charms with which the hand of God had beautified ft In its primeval state. Burr was tried at Marfetta. The whole affair was @ farce. Burr wae released and he proceeded to Frankfort. Here he was again arrested at the tnatigation of two noted political opponents. ‘This second trial also proved to be e comedy. Among his defenders was Henry Clay, and tin a hort time ‘he was once more a free man. Then he passed on to Netches, which had been fixed upon as the rendesvous for the flotilla of bateaux, which was to leave Biennerhassett Island teden to the water's edge with Provisions, munitions or war and his army of recruits. Wilkineon heard the oncoming of the Northern in- waders, The time now come for him to eave himself as ‘Jefferson had known he woukl when it became necessary. Qlaking changes in cipher letter that he had recetved from Burr @o ea to have it contain positive evidence of contem- plated treason on Burre part, he forwarded tt, together mith other incriminating papers and statements, to the President. The fatter understood. He had weal His yrared and hated rival was now completely in hig power. He iseued @ proclamstion {n which ‘he dtated that certain persons were engaged in & eeditious and treasonable under- taking. He used no names, but those who read eaw the name of Burr stand out as plainly ee did the writing on the ‘wall at the Babylonish feast. The President called upon the civif ana military oMfcers of the United States to arrest the conspirators, and upon the good citizens of al} parties to sustain the Administration in this hour of peril. The Gov- ernor of Mississipp! Territory was not so mealy-mouthed, jfor he offered a reward of $3,000 for the arrest of Aaron eR Os iy pre MPT Rese ltn Laaeeupen aati or eh a is ts on, jeture of ¢! tt fe tt, aie OL loyaity to the American flag and in condemnation of Burr Wittnson! He proved false to his friends tn Ohio, Ken- tucky and Tennessee. He proved false to the King of Spain, whose bribes he had taken. He proved false to his own coutnry, in so far as he has been dn any way true to those whom he finally deceived. Not sitlefed with his triple trea- cheary, he proved false to his brother officer, thus complet- Ing the quadrangle df infamy. The fatr-faced friend became 4 foul-hearted toe. Warned by friends in the city of New Orleans of the! President's proclamation and of the attitude taken by Gen. | Wilkingon, Burr recognized the fact that to proceed farther | south would eurely result in his arrest. He leurned, too, ) that a price was set upon his head, and he knew that the friends of Hamilton and the friends of Jefferson would use ajl the power they possessed to secure his conviction for high treason. He realized that the chances were against him; that he would probably be captured and taken North for trial; nevertheless, he determined to make an attempt to reach the Atlantic coast, and, if possible, escape to Europe. Having taken the position that he had toward Spain, he could not count upon finding a fefuge in Mexico, in Cuba. or any other of the West Indies. He told his followers some sixty in number, of the failure of the expedition. At his request, followed Inter by his absolute command, they manned thelr boats and began rowing up stream, having first stnk thelr arms and munitions of war to the bottor of the Mississippi. It was their intention to land at some point in Tennessee or Kentucky and disperse to thelr homes Burr had secured for himself a sturdy young horse. He had a par of pistols in his holsters and a supply of ammun!- tion. He filled a bag with provisions and fastened a couple of blankets to his saddte. Tuen he mounted, bade farewell to his comrades, and turned nis face toward the Fast. He knew the hardships and triaw that he must undergo before he could reach South Carollra, and the few friends that he had feft In the world upon whose assistance he could count; but he wus a man, despite his small stature, of great physical etrength; inured to hardship and privation, of in- domitable courage, to whom the word fear was unknown, For several days he kept on his course eastward. On one occasion, after night had fallen upon the forest, having found no satisfactory place in which to rest, he pushed on in the darkness, Suddenly, he entered a clearing in the woods, and as his horse bounded forward, he was surprised to see a large fire around which were sented some thirty or| forty human forms.. His quick glance soon discerned that) they were Indians. He slipped from his horse and, taking; hold of the bridle, walked toward the party, Several of the braves jumped to their feet and came to- ward him. He addressed the first in English, but he evi- dently did not comprehend; then he spoke in French, which one of the party did understand. He learned afterward that this Indian had originally belonged to one of the Louisiana tribes. By means of the French interpreter, he told the chief that he had left the palefaces and desired to cast his for- tunes jn future with the red men, On the morrow, he wished the braves might be called in council, and he would tell them strange stories of what was going on In the word around them, of which they knew nothing. | His horse was taken away by one of the braves to be cared for, Burr was shown to a wigwam which was placed at his disposal. He was supplied with food and later the complete| costume of a Creek chief was brought to him, Despite his peculiar position this wonderful man slept quietly through the night, and when he awoke in the morn- ing he donned ‘his Indian garb. The council was called at @id-noon, and at about 10 o'clock Aaron Burr, in the dress of @ Creek chief, stepped into the centre of the council and thus addressed the meeting: Friends and Brothers: I come from the North. Not satisfied with driving your brothers a thousand miles from the seacoast, your enemfes have now turned their eyes toward the South and are preparing to drive you into the Gulf. There are thousands of them armed with deadly | rifles. They wish for your land, and, in order to possess it, they wish for your lives. I am sick of this work of bloai- shed and slaughter, I will take no more part in It. I have come to warn you. I have come to tell you that it 1s use- less for you to resist them. But I come to tell you. that I/ know of @ land, far away,” and he pointed to the South- west. ‘where, if you will follow me, the white man will not | follow you, There we can live In peace and plenty for years to come. There your children may be born and grow to manhood, and your fathers and mothers and grandsires may die and be buried in peace.” He took his seat, and for a long time not a word was sad. | Then one of the chiefs arose and spoke: ‘We have heard the words of our white brother. We know what he tells us is true, We know that these lands that| belonged to our fathers, and which became ours aifter them, | must pass from our hands. We know that we shall be Griven into the Gulf or find graves in the land where wo have ilved o long, But the Creeks are not cowards! If we should go with you to that land where some of our brothers went years ago, it would te sald that we were cowards and that we did not dare to stay and fight. That we ran away at the approach of the white man. Where are our brothers that went to that far-off country years ago? We have never heard from them. They are dead. Our fate would be the same, No! The Crecks wf! remain. They will fight to the last! It shaN ni be sald that the Creeks were not brave enough to stay and aight for} Grunts of approval came from the chiefs who were gath-| rea at the council, Burr arose and made one more appeal for them to foow him, but he soon saw that his efforts) were uscless. | But the Indians eolved this question for him. Food was Apbey and reported it to Henry VIII.'s vicar-general. Reading Abbey, of course, | brought at noon and night. After darkness foll, an Indian entered and Jaid a bundle down before him. He knew it contained the clothes that he had worn when he entered thi camp. Taking off the costume of the Creek warrior, he resumed his former Asguise. Then he heard a sound out- side. On looking out he found that his horse, saddied and bridled, stood by the opening, Burr understood. He left the wigwam, mounted h!s horse and, without @ word, pushed into the forest in the darkness of the night. As he rode on a grim smile played over his features. How was It that he had escaped death at thelr hands? How wa tt that they had failed to have sport with him by tying him to a tree or post asa victim and infiicting upon him all sorts of torture? He well knew. His actions and that speech had saved his life, The Indians had thought thet he waz insane, | and no Indian would raise a hand against a man thus afMicted. To thetr untutored minds a person bereft of rea- son, who cannot look out for himself, is expressly guarded by the Great Spirit, (To be continued.) “THE SPENDERS,” ¥ By Harry Leon Wilson, (Published by Lothrop Publishing Company) WILL BEGIN IN Monday’s Evening World {to have beon heard of the hand until quit Women Are No tenia Poured Into Their Dresses —Wider Skirts Are Now the Fashion—Walking Cos- tumes Are Shorter and the Set of the Back Is Everything. AUSH, Summer Giri, in the anxious contemplation of your collar. Cease to wonder {f your skirt ttpe up 6 front, or wrinkle your pretty fore- head over the proper dip of your shirt waist. Tt i@ your back that counts. For fashion, which each year evolves @ new ccetre of gravity in women's gar- ments, has decreed this year the or namentation of your back, plump, scrawney or athletic, as that back may be. Several years ago, you remember, the sleeves made the gown. If they were all right tlie rest didn't matter. Later the all-important point shifted to the skirt, and when it Had been properly flounced and frilled the remnant of material was fashioned into a walst. Last year the collar was the debatable ground. But this season It ts the back. Heretofore he fasitonable girl devoted her attention to the fronts of her many frocks, and the backs, which she seldom @nw, worried her but little. But in the last few months a great The Incorruptible Hand of St. James. change has been observed to take place. If you doubt It, notice how much oftener upon you than she did last year. The fashion, like most novelties of our | | day, had its incoption on the stage. A Sho has experienced a change of heart. | few years ago the audience was rarely | fore the footllghts and in real fe. «iven the most fleeting glimpse of th che girl of the period turns her back | backs of frocks worn by the pretty girls| back the summer girl has discarded the of the chorus. Now, gowns are specially constructed with a ‘view to the proper “MENTAL IMAGES” OR GHOSTS? There are many who will not readily understand what is meant by plotures jin the eye, unless it be the imagination or “mind's eye’ of Hamlet, for the power of seeking them is not conferred on all alike. Even those who haye seen them from time to time, and probably given then little heed, may not feel al- together sure about the matter without @ word of explanation. Bying tn bed, after a tiring or exolt- ing day, with your eyes closed and about to fall asleep, have you never WITH THE GIRL OF TO-DAY IT IS THE BACK THAT COUNTS. Those Who Walk Behind Her Must Be Favorably Impressed by’ Her cone fanhioned of the same material. A feature of the shirt-walst sult tna year is tho trimming of the back. If the front is trimmed with lace! or em- broldary the same ornamentation is con | stlcuous on the back, thougty last: seston it was apparently forgotten so ri trimmingn were concerned. On the aeinte | likewine the trimming now goes ail the way around, Some skirts button straight up the | hack from the hem to thé walet/fine, > |but this revival of a mode, attempted «) [several years ngo, fe too 7 land of such doubtful taste re 4 |its generat popularity extromely % Nhely. 1 Walking and outing skirts are thie. year made a trifle shorter in the back . than In front, which prevents theay frou! |Seping and gives a generally acnartag. |Sppearance to the rear view. Those fkiris ere fitted snugly over the Xy—n and flare at the knees, and the | the period devotes great deal of to assuring herself that they presemiyy | jJuet the proper snug symmetry which —~ | has been ordained by fashion, i The most notable feature of the bedie’ | trimming t8 the Capen! of the git whe jJooked ay if she had deen poured into... [har clothes, Schiniting in certain olauy tight places a billowy motion hes that of newly eet jelly. Particulerip lt Gisplay of trains and flounces both be As a result of the attention given her! shirt wolst and skirt of contrasting colors in favor of the shirt-walst sult make the fortune of ite inventor. What are they? It is one of the mys- tories of that marvellous—nay, miracu- | lous—organ, the brain. We must die- Unguish them from other inysteries of the “borderiand’* which les between the adjoining states of wide awake and sound asleep. They are not the images of a reverie or day dreain. Whether we recall th past in our waking hours or invent new incidents Uke a novelist, we can govern thom to some extent and are quite geen, apparently in the oyeball, spots and streaks of colored light, changing their forms and chifting thelr places? Have you never watched them pass- ing into complicated patterns, Uke those of the kaleidoscope, or into preity Jandacapes quite unknown to you, of into strange faces, now and again very beautiful or angelic, but often as ugly nd hideous as goblins from the Infer- nal regions, or haply into scenes of action reminding you of the drama, but such @s you never saw in reai life or upon any stage? These pictures are more alive than the “ving pictures” of the musio halls, They have the hues of life or art and rival the quick change aruet in thelr protean transformations, The animatograph thet can imitate fs Wa Roman Catholic Church ts engaged in examining into the authen- tiotty of the so-called ‘incorruptible hand of St, James,” says the Lon- don Sphere. “It {s at present in St. Peter's, Great Marlow, and tf found to be authentic it will be removed to the Catholic Cathedral at Westminster. “The Apostie James, that Is, James the Elder, brother of John, was put to death Uy Herod Agrippa, A. D. 44. The first tradition of the preservation of the hand is contained in a chronicle by the Bishop of Altino, dated about A. D. 640, who, with his flock seeking safety from the barbarian invasion, carried his treasures and relics, including the hand, to the Island of Torcello. Then we hear of it as being in the possession of the Emperor Henry IV. of Germany, and it was kept with the Imperial regalfa unt{l the desth of the Emperor Henry V., tn 1123, when his widow, the Empress Matilda, daughter of our King Henry I, brought it to England, The Empress gave the hand in 138 to Reading Abbey, and it is mentioned by Matthew Paris and by Hoveden in the beginning of the thirteenth century. “There is a letter from Frederick I. of Germany to Henry I. of England ‘begging that the hand might be returned to him. There can scarcely be a doutit ‘that the hand, whether genuine or not, was at Reading Abbey from the time of Henry I. to the Reformation, when one of Cromwell's visitors saw it et the fell to pieces In the years succeeding the Reformation, and nothing more seems modern times, At the beginning of} the nineteenth century, however, there are several records of the finding of a| buman hand burled among the stonework of the ruined abbey at Reading. It" was very naturally assumed on the part of the antiquarians that this must Vo the hand of St. James that had been concealed by the monke tn their flight. This assumption waa accepted by many Roman Catholloa, and after the hand had been exhlbited for a long time in a little museum at Reading among other curiosities it was purchased for fifty guineas by Mr. Scott Murray, of Danes-/|« field, in 1863. “Mr. Scott Murray had at hfs seat at Danesfleld « Uttle chapel devoted to bts own falth—one of Pugin’a masterpieces—and here the mlic was kept for many years. In 1896 Mr. Murray pesged it on to the Roman Catholic Church at Great Marlow, where it {s at present in a glass case jhown in the illustration,’* ————— Ot OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES. ‘What Is a gander, Tommy?’ asted the teacher of a small pupil. gander," replied the youthful student, “ts a rooster goose."’ “Papa,” wald emall Elmer, 1 know why some platols are called horre pistols.” “Well, my boy, why are they so called ked his father, “Because they kick,” replied the litte philosopher, “Bay, manna," quorted fore-year-o!4 Johnny, who had been deiai! ! to look after the baby, “was everybody little once?” "Yes, dear,” was the reply “Then who took care of ‘emt’ asked the small martyr, Marmma—What ere you doing, Harry? Harry—Il'm countin' You sald when J got angry 1) should count a hi. Mamma—Yea, so I ald. Harry—Weill, I've counted 237 and I'm madder'n when I started, od. their geassless evolution without a» hitch or tremor will be @ novelty and aware of thelr fanciful or mental ohar- ter. They are not a hallucination in the proper senee of the term. Wo feel they are subjeative, or within us; we supp>se them in the eye iteelt, whereas we belleve a hallucination is was this so of the foulard gowns, which: now show the geneous filness, tho , faintly suggesied outlines which Pana | bas decreed to be the proper thing. ~~ Three gowns showing tor The Evening World, One, a street costume of white canwas With elaborate pipings of the | Nearly all the gowns and) Wi Bey jshow the cape-tike oa tha. shoulders and in tailor , |French blouse is rapidly D the tight-fitting coat. ale ee Unlike Liquid Piri lhe not evaporate, but {mj licious vanilla favor t tle of shel ir objeotive, or without us, An apparition or spectre that we take for a reality is a hallucination. The ghost of Ham‘et's father, witnessed by several Heated and the spook pf his distent seen by Lord Brougham, were caer hallucinations of @ “te.epathic" order. The picture of Millais, where a man starts up and sees a luminous lady at the ‘foot of Iie bed, ts a case of hallu- cination. The ‘dream image’ of the undergraduate, who dreamed that he was chased by a green figure, and, awelcing, saw it in his room, was also a hallucination. + WISE SAYINGS FOR EVERY-DAY USE ‘Tho most timid woman occasionally loves audacity in @ man. To make children happy 1» the greatest duty we owe them. ‘The fruit that falls without shaking is swiftly approaching decay. Nothing 4s more stimulating to the perceptions than @ gendine affection. Do not look upon a debt ts an inconvenience—* may become a tragedy, Watch your digestion. The firmest friendships have been broken by over- There is nothing more merailessly critical than the woman who hes aged faster than youreelf. As @ flower oan not thrive without happy without love. Tho Kind You Have Always Bough! Bears the jgnatare fo | ! Personal. AT TOUR REQUEST for Welussday: never saw you ead don't know "4 worry, M. 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