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PEOPLE THAT LIE.
Bab Goes Directly Into the Heart of
Falsehood.
Strangely Enough. She First Thought
About it in a Railroad Train—A Bun
dle of Experiences Regarding the
Men and Women One Meets in Sum
mer Resorts—Feminine Lies of Every
Sort-The Value of Science—One of
the Chiefest Virtues.
On the Rail, Sept. 15.—Somebody has
just said that "Truth is might aDd will
prevail. I was in a very pood position for
thinking. I was whizzing through the
country, looking out from the car window
and wondering if trains would ever go so
smoothly that one wouldn't be conscious
of their moving. Is truth mighty ? Oris
a lie mightier? Haven't you seen the lie
that was expressed by the curve of the
lip? The lie that said your gown is unbe
coming, the scenery is tiresome, the food
is not fit to eat, and everything is dis
agreeable? This is the' lie oftenest
used by people who themselves have had
nothing, but when once they taste of the
good things of life believe that the proper
thing to do is to seem to scorn them
rather than to appreciate them; for they
argue, by doing so it will be believed that
they have always been used to much bet
ter. This is a particularly unpleasant lie,
but it is one quickly seen through. That
is, if you can talk for a few minutes with
the person who acts this lie. you will
quickly discover exactly wnat she is and
from what she came.
A VEKY FREQUENT LIE.
Another lie met with very often during
the summer months is the lie of blue
blood. Someone who, having nothing
else to recommend her, begins to tell a
story about her ancestors; she dilates on
their greatness, on their richness, on
their superiority to every one else,
and, without absolutely saying so, she
seems in her heart of hearts to thank
heaven that her blood is not exactly
like other people. The teller of this lie
forgets that ever-present person, the wo
man with the good memory, who is very
quick to tell after the departure of the
liar exactly who these ancestors were, of
their slight importance, and how, as the
family of to-day amounts to so little it
becomes necessary for them to be re
garded as is a potato —and the credit for
the best to be given to that which is un
derground.
The liar who tells of her line clothes
which she didn’t bring, of her carriages
which she thought out of place in the
country, of her yacht which was un
suited to the waters nearest, and of her
rich friends in every state but the one in
which she happens to be, this sort of a
liar is common and of everyday life. She
Is usually a bore, and nobody accepts her
statement? for one moment, except ex
tremely young men or school girls.
THE FINANCIAL MAGNATE.
Avery common liar to be met with
usually at the smart summer places is the
embryo stock broker. You watch with
interest how he manages nis clothes, so
that he always looks dashing, though he
seldom has the appearance of a gentle
man. He spends as little money as
possible, but he manages to be among
people who are generous with it; and
then, he dilates about his investments:
tells how everything he touches turns to
gold, speaks of the magnates of Wall
street as if he knew them intimately,
and really manages to convince some
people that he is a person of great im
portance. He is ready to take advantage
of any little scheme that will make him
more conspicuous, and he doesn't hesitate
at getting women to chip in to get up an
entertainment which he will manage, and
afterward they will read it in a society
paper about the “Fine breakfast given by-
Mr Swell Dash to a number of ladies at
Newport.” Of course, it never, cost him
a cent, but he has all the glory, and if
these women are angry and cut him, he is
enough of a liar to give some other rea
son for it, and to start an intimacy with
those who do not speak to the others.
Some day Mr. Swell Dash will
GO CP PIKE A BUBBLE,
but in the meantime it is surprising to
see how many people believe his lies, and
how, oftentimes, some young, pretty and
innocent girl will give her heart to him.
her own people believing that ho is a
young man of great talent. They hear
the tinkling bells, and they pay no atten
tion to anything else.
Another liar prevalent at the rather
quiet places is the woman who knows it
all. She is as superficial as possible. She
always reminds me of what is known as
French jewelry, which never deceives an
expert when it is worn, but is really quite
attractive when seen in a shop window.
The last new book that came out has
been judged by- her; tliul is, she has read
some of the reviews, and shequotes them.
SHE WHITES TO SENATORS
asking for their speeches, and ignorant
people who see the franked envelope be
lieve that she is a great woman polit
ically. and think that these men write to
her for assistance in formulating their
ideas. She knows something about med
icine—at least she claims to and site
does not hesitate to give her opinion as to
the people's ill health, for she seldom
says anything if one is well, but seems to
take a positive pleasure in making those
who are ill feel worse. She is a very bad
combination—that of a liar and a bore.
An intelligent woman can read her in
half an hour, but it is extremely curious
to see how many people accept her brass
as real gold.
Another type of liar is
THE HISTRIONIC ONE.
She is most interesting, and seldom does
anybody any harm. Her dramatic in
stinct is so strongly developed in her
that, rather liiau be unable to tell some
thing dramatic, she will invent a situa
tion Curiously enough, after she has
told of this situation several times, she
begins to believe it, and one is tempted to
wonder if. as her lie hurts no one, after
all there is any harm in it. The moral
harm everybody understands, but it
seems to do no barm to the general pub
lic. and so it is often forgiven. The walk
that seems simple to you or me, the drive
or the boating that was without incident,
are described by her as full of the most
inelo-dramatic situations, and you. who
were with her, think that you must have
gone to sleep and not known of it. because
you didn’t see all these wonderful things.
The complimentary liar is at least com
fortaoie, but a little bit like a continual
diet of sweets. According to her every
thing you wear is beautiful, the ugliest
girl is a Venus, the worst-behaved child
is a genius, ami, indeed, whatever any
body does becomes perfect. She is a lit
tle suggestive, is this liar, of skim milk,
which, when it does turn sour is verv.
very acid Hut, after all. truth prevails
even over these people, for there areal
ways someone who -am read them like
open books. Yet the people who find
them out are not the ones to stiller form
them. Sometimes 1 wonder how it be
gins. How women deliberately lose their
own dignity, throw away all sense of
morality for the sake of seeming what
they ary not. There is so much good in
everybody that it seems a shame that it
should not be brought out, instead of
tlieir appearing before the world with a
mask of falsehood continually worn over
their real faces.
THIS DOESN’T 00.
One kind of lie is iuvariably found out.
that is the lie whli h claims the acquaint
ance of celebrities, or the possession of
■
great luxury, for the world is a very little
one. and in tune the people always meet
who can say. "That is not true; they are
not acquainted and they do not roll in
wealth, or ride in chaises." This claim
ing to have more than really belongs to
one a! wav s seems to me such a mean kind
of lie .Some tody once said. "We
can judge God's opinion of wealth when
we see the sort of )>eople He gives
it to" Then, why should people boast of
riches’ Respectable poverty is honor
able. and it is w hat we do. and not what
we have, that counts in this world, and in
the next, too. To sit in calico and dilate
on silks that are at home: to hire a row
boat and tell of the glory of a steam
yacht lent to a friend ; to go on foot and
give glowing accounts of horses that are
resting-these are lies that even a child
does not swallow, and which makes the
teller seem silly and stamp her as that
frightful combination of food and a liar.
MASCULINE LINES.
When *men lie I think they tell more
dangerous ones than women do. They
seem to have less fear and to be more
willing to take upou themselves the re
sponsibility of great sius The young
ones indulge in lies of bragadocio. the el
der ones, as they fancy, in lies that would
seem to advance them, or in those that
are told purely from malice.
Long ago it was said that all men were
liars; but I don’t quite believe this. I
think there are meh and women who
would not soil their lies with a lie of ahy
kind, who would despise themselves if,
for some petty reason, they said what
was not true, and who yet do not force
upon you the disagreeable truth. Some
times it is wise to be careful and not tell
too much of the truth, but to learn to
keep quiet and guard the lips.
THE TIIUTU CAN HURT.
But there is a w r ido difference to be
made between the person who deliber
ately lies and the one who hurts you or
uie, or somebody else, by forcing upon us
some unhappy truth which we need not
know. Silence is a wonderful weapon.
There is nothing to equal it. No words
are as powerful in expressing either ap
probation or blame, and one always can
keep quiet—even it one is a woman.
The cars have stopped. The announce
ment is made that we are at home, and
my thought after all seems to have
summed itself up in the keen apprecia
tion of the value of silence. Surely if it
is hard to cultivate, it is a virtue to pos
sess. Bab.
“SHIP FORTY CATS AT ONCE.”
Mysterious Disappearance of Wash
ing Felines Cleared Up.
From the Washington Post.
The down-town strata of feline society
has been much disturbed recently over a
large uumber of cases of sudden and mys
terious disappearance. Many a faithful
tabby night after night in her accustomed
trysting place upon the backyard fence
sat and mourned over the non-appearance
of her erstwhile spouse until luckless res
idents in the vicinity rose up in their
sleepless agony and cut short her melan
choly love notes with the traditional boot
jack, if such an article was included
among the family heirlooms. Although
foul play was suspected, the most search
ing investigation failed to disclose a clew
as to the whereabouts of the missing
members of the tribe.
But the secret is out at last. Mr. Will
Johnson, who is in charge of the Hotel
Johnson during the absence of the pro
prietor, E. L. Johnson, who is conducting
the Hotel Royal, at Atlantic City, re
ceived a dispatch from the latter, which
read.
"Ship forty cats at once.”
Mr. Johnson was puzzled. He could not
imagine what his relative could want
with eats at Atlantic City, so he con
sulted with a few of his assistants, and
the only solution they could arrive at was
that rats must have been discovered in
the Atlantic City hostelry- They unan
imously decided, however, tnat it was not
theirs to reason why; theirs but to get
cats and ship them to Atlantic City with
out delay.
A rush was made for all the establish
ments in town which deal in pat animals,
but all the cats on hand were of the Mal
tese or Angora variety, and it was decided
that they were too expensive.
Asa litial result the genus boy was
called into requisition, and before night
fall there were eighteen teline prisoners
at the Johnson. There were no moro in
sight, though, so it was decided to ship
the first installment that night and make
a further consignment next day. A tele
gram was sent to Mr. Johnson at Atlantic
City, which announced:
“Shipped eighteen cats; more to
morrow.”
Mr. Johnson has a reputation for want
ing things in a hurry when he does want
them, so his assistants at this end of the
line returned well satisfied that they had
acquitted themselves with great credit in
a sudden emergency.
They have nothing to say about the se
quel to the story, but the truth has to be
told, and this is just what happened.
Early the next morning another dispatch
arrived which infused every one con
cerned with a desire to sneak away some
where and begin life anew. It read:
"To Shanghai with your eats. It’s
cots, cots, cots!"
To complete the story it is only fair to
state that Mr. Johnson writes a noto
riously bad hand, and those interested
here say the operator must have mistaken
cots for cats. It would have been au easy
matter to have sent the cots, as the hotel
had a largo supply on hand for the
Pythian encampment.
COMMUNION CUP FOR ALL.
Striking Innovation Made by a Roch
ester Church.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Rochester, N. Y.. Sept. 9. Deacon i
W. Davis, of the Fourth Baptist church
of Philadelphia, who was delegated by
his congregation to look into the workings
of the individual communion cup service,
was present at the North Baptist church,
in this city, to-day and witnessed the cer
emony. This church is the second
in the world to adopt the service,
and the first Baptist church in the United
States to do so.
The cups are made of silver. They are
placed on a small tray, about thirty cups
to each tray. The tray lias a movable
wooden lid and an aperture in the top
allows the pouring of the wine into the
receptacles, after which they are passed
to the members of the congregation. The
lid prevents any dust or foreign matter
from getting iulo the wine.
Deacon Davis was greatly impressed
with the service, and in an interview
with the Record representative said:
"I was afraid that the solemnity at
tending the service could not lie inaiu
| tained, but Iliad that I was mistaken in
\ this. When 1 present my report to our
congregation next Sunday morning it will
be favorable tor the adopt ion of the ser
vice in the church. It is a grand innova
j tion. and I believe that it will become
universal as it becomes better known in
the world. It is my belief that our church
j will adopt it.”
The following curious case is now pending
in London A man made an arrangement
with an Insurance company fir the payment
l of a large sum ou the deduct himself or of
, his Wile lo the survivor The man and his
| wile were both drowned in the coldslon of ll.e
| -\ liulimlr wnh ihe Columida The question
now arises whellii r Uie insurance money tc
| longs to the heirs of the man or to thi s' of
the woman. Hot for this a, for most other
I situations, the law simple s a precedent.
A Pout ofteeii years ago a similar case hap
I pe ie,l llad then it was decided, on medical
| evident e that a woman takes longer to drow*n
i ban a man and that therefore the wife sur
j p-lcd the lius and.
THE MORNING NEWS.: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 1894.
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THE DAINTY DIAMOND BACK
Tire Aristocratic “Count" Easily Dis
tinguished From His Substitute.
Terrapin Farms on the Pawtuxen.
A Time When Misvah Taarpin
Sold for $6 a Dozen —Now Brings
s7o His Unnatural and Canniba
listic Father—How to Catch and
Cook Him.
Baltimore. Sept. 15.—The American
people, who above all others know what
good living is and how* to appreciate it,
were undoubtedly the principal medium
of introducing to the world "Misyah
Taarpin,” as the colored people love to
call him. and who smack their lips as
the name passes through. Terrapin is
now well known all over the civilized
world, and the terrapin of the United
States has been unhesitatingly
awarded the palm for delicacy and gen
eral excellence. What if squirrel’s feet
and calves’ heads have occasionally mas
queraded in the guise of the aristocratic
"count" terrapin, who averages over six
"A '
Capturing a Count.
inches across his under shell, and who is
worth up to S7O per dozen when in season ?
The very fact of such substitutions is
only a compliment to the genuine article,
and what the eye of the inexpert gourmet
never sees the taste never grieves, and
the man who does not know genuine ter
rapin the second time, does not deserve
to have it.
Every one know s the terrapin by sight,
but it is safe to say that there are scores
who are not acquainted with its cultiva
tion or habits, for that is a trade secret
that the farmers are chary of talking
about, to outsiders. Two weeks ago 1 had
the opportunity of visiting one of the
largest farms along the Chesapeake, and
l found it more than ordinarily interesting.
The largest and most important farm is
on the Pawtuxen, and consists of a salt
water lake which has been surrounded
by a broad fence to keep out the muskrats
and foxes, those being the chief enemies
of the terrapin. With this exception they
appear to need little care other than duly
feeding them at fattening time, but what
they do not require in care they make up
in trouble of capturing, for they are as
wily as woodchucks, and that is saying a
good deal. Forty years ago they were as
plentiful in the waters of Carolina, Mary
land and Virginia as the European soldier
said lieas were in Spain, and they were in
those days principally taken in oyster
dredges, the first really large catch being
"Misyah Taarpin” at Bay.
credited to John Ethridge of Body’s
island, who in ten day s fishing caught
over 2,000 terrapin and sold them in .Nor
folk market for about g4OO. This was the
birth of the terrapin industry for he im
mediately returned to the spot, dredged
out 2,000 more and sold them in Baltimore
for #3.'o. These sales became known and
the extirpation of the wild terrapin com
menced. so many being obtained that for
some winters they were sold at southern
points for CJ a dozen. Oh, the sin of it!
In those days the terrapin ran iu schools
of several hundred, but the constant
chasing soon broke these up, and it was
not long before the deep water oyster
dredges ceased to bring up a paying
quantity. Then it was found that the
chelonia sought shallow waters as the
weather became cold, and a number of
improvements on the oyster dredge
proper came into use, and eventually ar
tificial propagation or farming came into
vogue as a stable industry.
Still there is quite a good deal of out
side hunting done, and there is no better
fun in the summer tjian to accompany a
good terrapin hunter who knows his
ground and is fairly sure to make a
respectable bag. Some of these men do
not commence opera’ions until the fall.
They then dig long, shallow ditches on
the marshes ami fiats, and when the tide
gets low they patiently scatch the bottom
with thorns or rakes until it is all covered
with a cream like mud or paste. When
the tide com*, s in, it does not stay long nor
does it bring many terrapin, but it brings
a few. and it stays long enough to let
the terrapin find the soft bottom, and
understand that they have struck a soft
snap," in other words a good place for
them to burrow, and spend me winter in.
Each succeeding tide brings more, the
mud is kept soft between times, and so it
is not long before the working hunter has
got quite a good nursfery together. Then
when the winter comes a.ong the hunter
goes down to his preserve with a hayfork
and pushes it into the mud until it strikes
something, and so keen is his sense of
touch that he can tell m a moment if it
be a stone or a terrapin, and if it be the
latter, .fie digs it out. and puts it
in his basket. ATI through Mary
land and Virginia the darkies
are to be found day and night on the
marshes armed with long light iron rods
with which they are probing for terrapin,
and many of them make quite a good liv
ing. As the weather becomes colder the
hunter takes large quantities of dry
brush and grass, aud piles it up where he
knows the terrapin are buried, aud then
he sets fire to it. in a comparatively
short time the heat strikes downward,
the terrapin awakes, thinks spring is
come, aud crawls out to be captured and
find that it is still a bleak, cold, cold
world, and that an evil trick has been
played npon him.
It is, however, in the summer that the
amateur terrapin hunter wants to take
his experimental trip, unless he is a born
sport and enjoys the cold and dirt and dis
comforts as part of the programme, and
there are many who appear to do so. ti\
the summer the terrapin around Chesa
peake bay arc hunted with dogs, as par
tridges are with a setter or pointer, and
a good “terrapin dog" is worth SI OO, and
takes a good six months to train. They
are very ‘sagacious and apper to tliour
oughly enjoy themselves. About the
time the chelonia leaves the water to
deposit its eggs, the dogs are turned
out to range alone the water edge
until they strike the trail of a tur
tle. A dog must be able to tell if it beau
old trail or anew one If old he must
just sniff and pass along, like a terrier at
an old rabbit earth ; but if it be a fresh
one, he must follow it up, no matter
where it leads, until lip finds the terra
pin. Then putting his foot on it to hold
it down, he barks until he attracts his
master to the spot to secure it effectually
add then starts off again. A well
trained animal will catch fifty a day. and
these are then sold to pound keep
ers unless the hunter has a pound
of his own, where they are kept until
winter, and then recaughr, and sold. It
was this practice that first-evolved the
practical farm method, This was due to
the outcry raised by th 6 fish commission
ers on account of the number of nests
destroyed and eggs rendered useless.
But notwithstanding that tho outcry es-
tablished farms it did not stop the dog
hunters, who are in as strong force to
day as ever they were.
It is the only way in which they do
work in the summer will boar fruit
and bring money in the winter; so it will
take a good deal to stamp it out, or even
render it unpopular. The pound men of
course are in lavor of the dog hunters,
for they say they are public benefactors
and keep the price of terrapin at a mod
erate figure.
Another method of catching them in
the summer affords sport to the fellow
who is fond of catching crabs in a scoop
net—and who is not, if he has tried it
from a boat in shallow water ’ The tur
tles hide in deep holes along the creeks.
To catch them two or three men go out
in a small canoe of shallow draft and
when they get to one of these holes they
pound on the bottom of the boat. This
noise is carried by the water to the terra
pin and they immediately rise to see
what is the matter. As soon as they get
anywhere near the surface, away
they go like a shot, and
it requires a prettv expert scooper to get
a lair percentage of the risers. The man
at the stern of the eatloe twists it here
and there, following the flyers, and for a
few minutes the fun is fast and furious
If it is a strictly professional visit a small
seine net is hung over the stern of the
canoe, and no chasing is indulged in.
Those caught in this way are also tratts
| l'erred to the pound for winter use. An
other method is practice by some. They
get a gang of darkies together, and turn
them out at night with pine torches and
tin pans; the yougsters beat the pans,
aud the terrapin, da ed by the light and
attracted by the noise, come out and are
scooped or picked up
The big farm was started about seven
years ago. and it is said that Senator
Bayard was very much interested in its
inception. The large salt water lake has
been specially arranged for their habits,
so that they may be practically in a state
of nature and so thrive and multiply. The
water is kept pure by means of a sluice
way wire gauze through which it ebbs
and flows.
At various places likely to be chosen by
the spawning female are arranged a num
ber of boxes so contrived that when the
female enters she can not get out until
she is taken out. There are also nurseries
for the young in which they are kept un
til they are about ten mouibs old. This
is necessary to protect them from their
fathers, who know a good thing when
they see it, aud are as fond of young,
juicy terrapin as a born and bred
Philadelphian. The young ones are cal
culated to grow an inch in a year, so that
a "count’’ may be estimated at about 6
years old. As soon as the cold weather
comes on the entire population seek the
bottom of the pool, with the exception of
the younger ones which live around the
banks. As soon as the season of consump
tion opens the pound keeper and his assist
ants commence operations. They rake
them up b.v means of a heavy rope net
with heavy iron tooth jaws, and meshes
large enough to let the mud pass through
as it is dragged along the bottom. The
weather must be cold enough to chill the
turtle, or be will easily swim fast enough
to avoid any net that can be dragged after
him : if he is cold, however, instead of
ruuning he wiil curl ip his legs and let
himself he rolled along without an effort.
When the catches are dumped into the
large stalls it is an interesting sight to
watch them, and reminds one of human
life. There they are piled in an immense
heap that is never still, and endlessly
struggling to get to the top. Climb,
(limb, climb, the lower ones push at the
upper ones, and no sooner does one reach
the summit of the heap than, before he
well knows that his aim is achieved,
down he comes with a sliding clatter,
right to the very lowest edge, but like a
true American, nothing daunted, at it he
goes again, the movement never ending
until they are sorted out and packed into
boxes too small for t hem to pile up in.
The sort-out determines their value in
the market, aud they are divided into
"counts,” measuring not less than six
inches across the under shell, "heifers,”
measuring between five and six, and all
less than that are called "bulls.” The
prices vary from SSO to sTO a dozen for
"counts;” the others range as low as sls.
HOW TO COOK IT.
It is a luscious morsel, and worthy of
all reverence, for be it known that the
best preparers of terrapin are artists;
that even Delmonico’s aish is not sup
posed to equal that of Augustine of Phi a
delphia. which cost *5 per quart, about
enough for two , people, supplemented
with a “dry” and not too cold “bottle.”
The?best variety is undoubtedly “Terra
pin ala Maryland,” and this is the most
popular and best known style. To make
this, put a handful of salt into a pot of
boiling water; put in the terrapin and
boil until the skin slips off easily from the
claws; take of the claws, skin, entrails
and the sand bag; great care must be
taken in cutting the liver not to break
tho gall; the eggs and egg bag are
to he used. When picked, put
on the fire, and add a little
sherryor Madeira, (say half a teacupful
for three fair-sized terrapin) and put in a
good sized piece of butter. Beat up the
yolks of four eggs with Hour to make a
batter, and add a little wine; then pour
the sauce of the terrapin into the egg bat
ter, put on the fire, and add seasoning of
cayenne and salt. Let it stand u minute
or two to cook the flour and add wine and
butter until the proper taste is given.
Experience must do the rest, for there
are no other directions possible. After
all, perhaps it is better to buy the pre
pared terrapin, and be sure to have it
good and all correct, for it is practically
no saving of cash to matte it one’s self,
and one spoiling a dish fit for the
gods.
The southern darkies do not believe
that diamond back ever taste half so good
as when roasted. First boil them in
salty water until the shells crack open,
and then {tick out the good meat, put the
eggs and the scraps on the large top shells
beiore they have time to get cool and add
a big lump of butter and a "squinch” of
cayenne pepper; then treat the breasts
tlic\same and pop them in the oven, using
the shells as a pan. Roast them for ten
minutes aud eat as hot as possibly can be-
Tvventy years ago terrapin in Washing
ton cost per dozen, and now extra fine
ones often sell fur that each. Senator J.
M. Clayton of Delaware once bought a
cartload for sl. After the surrender of
Yorktown, Washington. Lalayette and
Cornwallis sat down to a supper of terra
pin. believing, no doubt, that if anything
could drive away hard thoughts, and
content future friendships, it was that
same terrapin that our best judges of cul
inary efforts are so fond of to-day, and for
which they are witling to pay such steep
prices to get the right thing.
Last year Host Allen of the Astor
house, at New York, played a great trick
on some frieuds who congregated in the
famous Room 1. He invited them to par
take of a terrapin feast, and when every
one had eaten it and declared it to be the
very best they had ever eaten at any pre
vious time, he told them that it was
squirrel and calves heads, and great fun
was had over it. The true apostle of- ter
rapin, however, is not to be so easily
fooled. A. T. Vance.
A STRANGE DISCOVERY.
Bonds Stolen From a New York Bank
Found in Franco in a Pair of Boots.
From the New York Herald.
Paris, Aug. 31.— The judicial authori
ties of St. Quentin are at present engaged
in investigating a most extraordinary af
fair In 1873 a foreigner was found lying
iu the street with a bullet wound in his
head, and was brought to the hospital,
where he stated that he had been cashier
in a New York batik and had absconded
with i860,000. Believing that the Paris
1 olice were on his track he had taken the
train to Tergnier. and finally, in despair,
lie had attempted to take bis own life.
Next day lover set in and he died shortly
afterward.
His clothes, which were much the
worse for wear, were destroyed, but one
of the nurses saved the upper leathers of
his boots, which wore in fairly good con
dition. For twenty-one years they lay in
a cupboard, where they were found by a
man named Manuechst, employed in the
hospital, who asked leave to take them.
It was granted, and he carried them off,
little imagining that he had secured a
valuable prize, but such was the case.
They were liued with papers which
proved to be scrip, and Mennecdet, who
is a militant socialist, commissioned one
of his political friends to negotiate the
bonds in London The man recently re
turned with the money, and the authori
ties. having got wind of the matter, are
seeking to discover what has become
of it.
• Strange,'' said ono of the Nbw Orleans
Plcnyune’s friends, ringing up the telephone,
“strange what connubiulgLriositles occasion
ally occur. Mrs. George i-ruwir. of No. 121
Broadway, between chestnut and Wall gave
birth yesterday to a baby soy. perfectly
formed and healthy, but weighing only nine
ounces. Mrs Krowm is abound years of age
weighs 135 pounds ami the present Is her
twenty-first contris utton to the family circle,
iif hts number she bus lost four there being
now ien boys and six girls alive the eldest of
whom 1- a out 26 years of ape. The father Is
an electrical engineer for the t'res.ehl f ity
Kruiway i otnpanv in 47 .\<‘urn of age and hast
been married twenty eight years."
STORY OF AN APACHE INDIAN.
Two Cowardly Sentries Whose Cra
ven Shots Led to an Uprising.
New Mexico Letter in New York Sun.
Lying just south of the Black Range,
and midway between the Santa Rita and
Burro mountains, Apache Teju has seen
something of nearly every notable out
break of Apaches that has occurred in
New Mexico. The spring from which the
ranch takes its name is one of the princi
pal water holes in this part of Grant
county, and was naturally well known to
all roving Apaches. The stream that
flows from the spring is large enough to
irrigate several acres of alfalfa and water
thousands of cattle and horses. Many
years ago. before railroads crossed the
plains. Apache Teju was on one of the
main stage routes, and the government
established here a frontier post, known
as Fort McLane, to afford protection to
stages and to emigrants.
The troops at Fort McLane had plenty
to do. The stage road ran through a
narrow pass nor Cook’s peak, about
twenty miles east of here, anil when the
Indians were troublesome the stage often
came in bespattered with the blood of
passengers, and sometimes it failed to
come in at all. Two heaps of stone upon a
knoll east of the house marked the graves
of men who were killed by Apaches on
tne Fort McLane stage. Trampling
herds have leveled the mounds and scat
tered the stones about, rand any cross or
board that may have been erected to
mark the graves has disappeared. No
body now knows who the men were or
when they were buried. "Killed by
Apaches” is all that anybody can tell of
the occupants of the two nearly obliter
ated graves.
But there is another grave concerning
which a little more is known. It is in the
door.yard, close to the east end of the
adobe house. It is not marked in any
way. and is level with the rest of the
yard. There were large stones heaped
up ever it, but the stones were used in
the foundation of anew wing to the
abobe a few years ago. and the men who
laid them in the wall felt no compunction
for the desecration, because tne bones
underneath were thoseof an Apache. He
was only an Indian, but he was a chief of
the White Moutain Apaches, and the
spades that dug his grave stirred up a
long war with that “tribe. Nobody can
now tell the name of the chief, but the
circumstauces of his death are well re
membered.
The band of which this Apaclie was
chief had been making trouble along the
road, and had gone into camp in the Burro
mountains. Lieut. McLane. commander
of tn# post, believed that he could per
suade the Indians to let the stages alone
and behave themselves, and he sent a
messenger to the chief to induce him to
come into the fort and have a talk. The
indians were suspicious at first, but the
lieutenant's messenger gave the most
solemn assurances that the chief would
be protected from all harm and returned
safely to his camp, and the chief finally
consented to accompany the messenger
to the fort.
They arrived in the afternoon, and. in
the hospitable formalities preliminary to
a talk, the chief acquired a colossal “jag"
and couldn’t talk at all. The lieutenant
had him put to bed under the shelter tent
in the corral and placed two guards over
the tent with positive orders not to let
the chief leave the fort under any circum
stances. He expected the chief to sleep
off the effects of the liquor and be ready
for a talk in the morning. The instruc
tions, however, seem to have given the
guards an idea that the Indian was a
prisoner who must not be permitted to
escape.
At midnight, when the guard was re
lieved, the chief was sound asleep. The
new sentries had only the word of the re
lieved guard that he was there, and as he
made no round they began to suspect that
he might have slipped away. Having
taken the post without making sure of
their charge’s presence, they began to
feel uneasy, fearing that they would be
held responsible for his escape. They dis
cussed the matter in whispers, aud
finally convinced themselves that the
Apache had escaped from the other sent
ries, and that their comrades had played
a sharp trick and shifted the blame to
them. It would have been easy to settle
the question by crawling in and ex
amining the shelter tent, but they were
afraid of the Indian, and had some doubt
about the wisdom of waking up a drunken
Apache in the dark. They poked their
bayonets under the edge of the tent and
felt around for the Indian. They found
him. A sharp bayonet prodded into his
thigh brought the chief to his feet with a
yell, aud he sprang out of the tent, howl
ing rage and defiance aud brandishing a
knife. The frightened men fired at the
chief and shot him dead.
It was futile to attempt to explain the
affair to the Apaches who were waitiug
out there m the Burro Mountains for
their chief to return. How could the
lieutenant tell them at a fort full of sol
diers had lo kill one Apache in self-de
fense? They knew that their chief had
been lured to the fort by solemn promises
of protection and freedom to return, and
that he had been murdered by the sol
diers, and they believed that it was all a
treacherous plot. !So they went upon the
warpath, and killed white men and wo
men wherever found, and the s age that
got through the pass at Cook’s peak
without dodging a shower of arrows was
in luck. The two men in the unmarked
graves over on the knoll felt a part of the
vengeance of the White Mountain Apa
ches for the murder of the chief whose
bones lie under the hard trodden door
yard of Apaclie Teju.
MEN AND MARRIAGE.
An English Bachelor Has Something
to Say on the Subject.
"A Bachelor” in Westminster Review.
Premising that, bachelor though we be,
we are quite alive-to the value of a good
wife, appreciating to the full the heaven
which such a one can make of home, and
admitting that by nature there is a void
iu man's heart which can only be ade
quately filled by the advent of “that
mysterious she,” we nevertheless confi
dently assert that the fair sex of the mid
dle and upper classes are themselves very
largely responsible lor any present falling
olf in the worship of Hymen.
The irrevocable step is one not lightly
to bo taken by those who would deservo
matrimonial happiness; and yet hoyv
many men and maidens change their con
dition without any prior inquiry into
mutual antecedents—although they would
not purchase a blood horse, which they
could get off their hands without much
trouble, without scrutinizing closely the
pedigree—with scarcely a thought for
the future, only, in too many instances,
thenceiorth to wander uneasily through
labyrinthian mazes in search of heart's
ease and content!
Sensible, well brought up girls, domes
ticated, of good physique, and in every
way calculated to becomo true helpmates,
though unfortunately in a decided mi
nority in the girl-worid of to-day, are by
no means altogether unknown, and care
ful, intelligent researclt will discover
quite a sufficient choice for would-be Ben
edicts. But such jewels, although they
may be appreciated to a certain extent
by most, are too good for the average run
of men. and if the seeker after a wife be
not a Bayard in miniature, he had better
avoid the probability of a refusal and
seek his divinity among those who will
not decline to accept him with his not too
scrupulously manly habits.
Though married life is not without its
cares, the case of the average bachelor is
of too pitiful and lonely a character for
him not to be very willing to escape from
it by entering the matrimonial noose,
could he only depend on some maiden to
whom his heatt flies out, proving a real
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helpmate. But unfortunately he has no
guarantee that such will be the case. The
playfulness which charmed before mar
riage sometimts develops into temper
after the knot, which no efforts of the
teeth can unloose, has been tied fast by
tho tongue—having merely been as
sumed for the moment as part and
parcel of the equipment requisite
for the capture of the fish matrimonial
while in other cases post-nuptial experi
ence demonstrates that frugality and the
proper rule of a household are absent
virtues. Thus the presence of many
showy imitations of the genuine article
renders the task of the searcher after a
true helpmate no light one, but persever
ance will usually meet with its due re
ward. To deserve a wife of worth, how
ever, the would-be Benedict must choose
his divimty for what she is, not for what
she appeals to be.
There would be some prospect of an im
provement in succeeding generations,
physically, mentally and morally, if the
majority of right-thinking men land
women, for that part, too) contemplating
marriage avoided as a pestilence the multi
farious crew of fast, brazen-faced repre
sentatives of the opposite sex who, if ap
pearances go for anything, have lo3t all
power to appreciate wholesome home life.
Their talk is of the sewage of life, and
among them even women, who ought to
be examples of better things, listen with
out a blush to double entendres, and seem
to take a positive pleasure in the discus
sion of subjects of more than doubtful
character. Outwardly not a few of these
women may be fair to look upon, though
all too frequently, close investigation
goes to prove that all is simply another
version of the old tale regarding the
w hited outside of the charnel house. But
another and a vastly different type of
womanhood call forth the praises even of
the cynic. Regard with feelings akin to
those with which you welcome the com
ing of spring in the sight of the first
snowdrops (in which pleasure and admira
tion blend into something near akin to
veneration) any girl in whom maidenly
modesty and unsullied purity are fitly
framed in good physique, and a fair mod
icum of that self-sacrificing disposition
which has tho effect of causing her to
think twice before speaking once, lest in
so doing something might unwittingly be
said that would hurt the feelings of some
other person.
HIGH-TONED SPORTS.
Nearly All Our Presidents Have Been
True Sportsmen in Some Line.
From the Cleveland Press.
With very few exceptions, all the Presi
dents of the United States have been true
sportsmen in some line, either hunting,
fishing or riding, and if more is heard of
President Cleveland's little fishing and
hunting trips than of those of others who
preceded him, it is probably not because
they indulged themselves less. When the
President is at Buzzard’s Bay he coniines
himself to short fishing trips, and it is
when he is living at Washington that he
takes his more important hunting and fish
ing expeditions. He is very fond of duck
hunting, and sometimes goes away for a
week, during much of which time he can
neither be reached by mail nor
telegraph. The hunting ground he uses
is situated near Washington, taking in
the Potomac river and Chesapeake bay,
and is known as the great Presidential
game preserve. Thi6 is where President
Harrison spent much of his time, and
President Washington is said to have
known every inch of land and water for
many miles up and down the river from
Mount Vernon. Besides being an expert
fisherman Washington was an accom
plished rider, and took great pleasure iu
following the hounds, of which he had a
large pack. John Quincy Adams was a
splendid swimmer, and next to Benjamin
Franklin was the greatest swimmer of
his day. When he was President he took
an early morning bath every day when
the weather was favorable, and in winter
took long walks, arriving at the capitol
before daybreak. Jefferson and Monroe
were both great horseback riders. Mad
isoq indulged in no sports. He was a
great student, and lived the life of a
country gentleman. Gen. Garfield was
fond of huntiug, and was a fair shot,
but never cared for fishing. He
was an enthusiast on baseball, rarely
missed a game, and could play a very good
game himself, but his hobby was billiards
and pin-pool, at which he was an expert.
The billiard room at the white house,
which had not been used for several ad
ministrations, was renovated at his direc
tion, ana he spent many leisure hours
there. President Arthur was the last of
the Presidents to take a complete vaca
tion. Ono summer he and Gen. Phil
Sheridan went to the Yellowstone region,
where they camped out and hunted and
fished, after going 100 miles from civiliza
tion. He loved fishing for bass and trout,
and amoug fishing Presidents he ranked
first. At one time when in Louisville,
Ky., a fishing club there presented him
with a rod with German silver reel, on
which were engraved Izaak Walton's
words about his love for good fishermen
as a gentle, kindly race, and of all tne
Presidents who indulged in that sport
none of them have proved an exception to
the beautiful saying.
Tommy—Paw. what Is bigamy?
Mr. v iK-g It has reference to a man having
too many wives. It has nothing to do, how
ever, with a man's wife being one too sauuy
for him.—Ciuvlnnati Tribune.