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VOLUME XVII.—NO. 764.
ATLANTA, GA, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1890.
YEAR IN ADVANCE.
THE GREAT SODTH.
Deep Water Transit at Fiv<
Different Points.
The Pan American Congress. New
York Chamber of Commerce
and South American
Trade.
ERSON3 who have not
traveled through the vast
, extent of cultivated, and
the still vaster extent of
uncultivated but arable
land at the South can
not appreciate the bane
fits to be derived by that
section from deepwater
transportation. The state
of Texas is laboring to
secure deep water at five
different points on the
Golf, with a prospe.it of
success at most if not all of them. Gov
ernment aid has been asked for some
of these projects, and the more generous
the appropriations and more promptly
they are made, the quicker and the
greater the commercial development not
only of Texas, butalso of the adjoining
States to the north and west.
We are glad to sea that the New York
Chamber of Commerce Is devoting atten
tion to this subject, and that it nas no
fears of the loss of its export traffic by
its diversion to the other ports. The
narrow minded view of commerce and of
trade that in other days led one Stale
to opposa the internal Improvements
of another has beeu changed in
the .light of a common belief that what
benefits One beuetUa the whole, and that
the supremacy of New York as a com
mercial, business, and Unsocial centre
can never be disputed by any other city
in the country, and will ooly be empha
sized by the general development of
State and National wealth. 1’he New
York Chamber of Commerce recently
adopted a reeo.ution in which tbe over
Uow of tbe Mist iaaippt was referred to as
a National disaster. Resolutions were
passed calling upon President Harrison
to bring tbe matter before Congress, with
a view to securing National aicl for the
protection of the Mississippi ieveos.
It is a singu'ar fact that the railroads
of this country have generally been buili
on longitudinal in preference to latitudi
nal lines. The trunk lines nearly all run
east and west, and competition has all
been in that direction. The observant
man, who has studied the situation, not
alone with reference to local trade but
also with reference to tbe commercial
and agricultural Interests of all sections,
can ciearly foresee that before many
and the old moss-backs are shedding
their antediluvian coats and joining
the progressive citizens in developing
this rich section.”
THE RIGHT OF WAV TO CORDELE
The remarks quoted above are from
one of the shrewdest busiuess men of
this section, and they are generally cred
ited as correct. Mayor John A. Houa- r is
In receipt of a letter from Mr. H. C. Bag-
ley, of tbe American Investment Com
pany, asking him to call a meeting of the
citizens of Fort Valley to obtain thetr
sentiments In regardgto the right-of-way
oftheCordele and Fort Valley Short
Line Railroad, which is sure to be built
to this place very soon to connect with
the Atlanta and Florida, tbns pnttlng
Atlanta thirty-five miles nearer sooth
west Georgia, and making Fort Valley
the gateway to this fertile section of
Georgia, which is being developed so
rapidly.
A BOA D FROM HAWKINSVILLE.
The citizens of Hawkinsville are now
building a railroad from that place to
Urovanla on the Georgia Southern and
Florida, which Is sure to be extended on
to Fort Valley.
With all this improvement this town
and Houston county are bound to occu
py an enviable position to the other sec
tions of Georgia.
ONCE IS SIX MONTHS.
He Copies $50 Treasury Sotes With a
Fen and Passes Them Easily.
The most remarkable counterfeiter at
present living has been keeping the
United States secret service in ench a
condition of exasperation fora long time
past that no trouble or expense would be
considered excessive for the accorn
plishment of his capture. And this si
though he produces on an average not
more than two bogus notes in a y6ar.
The remarkable thing about these Imi
tations is that they are executed entirely
with a pen. Once in six months, almost
as regular as clockwork, one of them
turns up at the treasury here to the
disgust of the government detectives,
whoso utmost efforts cannot discover so
much as a clue to follow.
The strangest point about the matter is
that the wore of producing tbe bills in
this fashion, merely considered as a
question of labor, remunerative or other
wise, cannot possibly psy. They are a!
ways either fifties or twenties, and io
make one must require pretty constant
toil for quite half a year. The last one,
which was received only a few days ago,
was a double X. .
Funnily enough they come each time
from a different city,and the supposit ion
is that the forger leaves town tor another
locality immediately upon passing one.
He gets rid of the note he has just com
pieted, whicp may remain in ciruciation
for some time before reaching a bank,
and departs long before the police agents
have a chance to arrive upon the scene.
Tile most plausible theory see ns to bo
I ‘h^J’S.ts apjojignwgVf
L trunk railway a and sflorotus r' " His imitation bills are so
nerrectiv done that no one short or a pro-
periecuy hositate to take
m wi
GOV. FRANCIS T. NICHOLS. -OF LOUISIANA.
ing existing trunk railway . and uiioroing
read? and cheap access *o several deep-
water harbors along tne Gulf and the At
lantic coast in the Southern States.
The wheat and corn and hog products
nf Kansas and adjoining States; the cot-
ton anT lumber of Texas and other
Southern States, will not always come
eastward for export. It will not be many
vears before they will seek the shorter
haul and the more convenient ana nat
ural outlet, via tbe seaboard of the
South. The posaiDilltiee of the e *P°rt
trade of tbe South, and especially of
Texas when deep water has been perma
nently secured at Galveston SAbine Pass,
Aransas Pass, Corpus Christ!, and the
mouth of the Brazos river, will Pe beyond
estimate. The enormous fields of uncut
timber in eastern Texas and western
I nnisiaua will find an outlet, and the
great and only partly developed coal,
lre“ oitcotton, sugar and corn territo
ries, will seek the shortest cuts rad toe
quickest haul to foreigu markets The
-i..., of new lines of trade will
Washington, July 26.—“Six days by
w-fer, and as many hours by land,” said
| evc- ou> Frederick Douglass, United
thp Minister to Hayti, to a Sun re-
Prince to Washington, and my | g’nd the people are Pooler arXl more
fOssionai expert would hesitate to take
•WrrttS to the signatures
the work is periormed with accuracy that
bears scrutiny with a powerful mAgniTy
ing glass. In all likelihood the reason
why the notes are not made of larger
denomin ations is that they would Pa
^r^gre^Th^ntrlc
counterfeiter indulges i« the employ
ment simply for the gratificationoftGs
vanity. It is not impronable that he him
self has been shown the frame at the
treasury building in which two speci
mens of his handiwork are shown by po
Hte attendants to visitors, as the most
extraordinary samples of forgeries mtbe
g Anyw m ay n h C e 0 goes l °o^ turning out the
bills "at intervals of six ™°ulhs, t
The
iineuiug or new nuoa ... - —1 natu
rally bring in return orders for manufac
tured gi ode, and tuen the manufacturers
of New England and New York will reel
a new impetus, and tne whole country
will find its trade healthfully quickened
and permanently strengthened.
It is a good sign that some of the har
bor improvements at the South, notably
two or three of those in Texas, are beln K
made with little help from the General
Government, and despite tl ! c . j d “’“ y T *“
making much needed appropriations. Tne
mere (act that private capital, more of It
from New York and New Ragland than
from the South, stands ready to encou.-
age and to complete these iiuprovemrsiitH,
indicates that our sagacious men o!
wealth foresee that the logical outcome
of tue l'an American Congress will bathe
enormous development of boutu Amen
can trace; and alBO that the enormous
products o; the West and South will not
Io rover nay tribute to Eastern trunk
lines wheu they can avail l-cmeeives of
shorter and quicker routes to the sea
board and to foreign markets.
The significance of all this lies in the
fact that just so long as water transpor
tation is Cheaper than transportation by
rail it will take the bulk of the business.
While the trunk linos centring in New
York may lose a part of their trade, the
commercial supremacy of New York City
will not he euoangered if cheap water
transportation by too lakes, the Erie Ca
nal and other wafer wajs is maintained.
The value of the Erie Canal to tne corn
merce ot this city is not now as fuily
appreciated as it will be a few years
hence—Frank Leslie s Weekly.
GROWING FORT VALLEY.
Tlie Center of a Rich Section of
Country.
periodical spasms of exas
peration i
[From the Atlanta Constitution]
Port Valley, July 30—.A prominent
-entlemau who invested considerable
money here last winter, remarked to the
Constitution today, “that it was impos
sible for the old mossbacks and former
rulers to keep Fort Valley from advanc
ing to the very front ranks in every par-
continuing, he said: “Look at the
gricsstttt’ss'w*
m ”?fm%fingto bring ten more families
here this WT-not paupers, but people
-ho are in good circumstances, w5ro are
_ nl j on my recommendation,
tawrot toMr money here in Houston
county#
recent improvements noticed
••Just look at the improvements since
I came hero. There is the free school
system, the erection of the H. W. Grady
Institute, the establishment and laying
, „» Melon City, two miles from here,
nn* the Southwestern Railroad; the or-
“SSjrira
jst,"-t&rsKSK.ss
sufficient to supply the)town. 1
»l, v viii no t any flow f not tney can
us« y pumpsand 1 thus supply the town
^“^ou^Vklip this town down,
He Obtained Sixty Days’ Leave
From liis Post in Hayti.
His Opinion of Hippolite and the
Haytians and Regarding the
Future of Hayti.
ernment, it was maintained By the self-
emancipated slaves of a tame and tropi
cal cilraat-9. For eighty eeven y ars
their Government has endured, and that
fact alont is same asi uraD-e for the fu
ture. One President was continued in
power for twenty live years, ami several
nave held tbe chair f?ir eigjt years.
They have a constitution iu many ways
similar to our own, a Hou-*»ard Senate,
and a Judiciary. The people are genar
ally mixed with Frenon, wiete not pure
blacks, and haze many French charac
teristics or thonght and ao’.mn. They
have progressed as rap! . q. ,a any people
of similar antecedents woui' na a done,
and I nave great hopes .'or bdiYutnre.
I visited the country tw y ' «.ve.-.rs ago,
NO JIOKE OLD MAIDS.
USELESS LITTLE EXPENSES.
Keep an Account of What You Spend
if You Want to Save Money.
Ban Franklin had a wise old bead
when ho advised his readers to take care
of the pennies and the pounds would
take care of thembeives. The boy in
whose pockets the pennies burn boles
will understand tbe difficulty of takln„
Tare of the pennies, and like as net de
clare that It cannot be done.
“I don’t know,” says Rob Reckless,
“what becomes of my money.Oniyyea-
terdav I changed the dollar that Uncle
Torn gave me, and i only bought, a glass
of soda, and now 1 have only a dime left.
W ^,rw mc»°oTs fly!” exclaimed
Filitb Random. “What will papa say
when he discovers that my. -'inrith,s
allowance has only lasted a week . Where
did it got I really can’t tell. I remem
hsr treating the girls to Ices yesterday,
and buying a ribbon the day before, and
pairs of gloves last Saturday, and oh,
•’don't ask me where it has gone,
that if* iu«t the question evei> boy
and girl should askthemselves when
they find their money disappearing.
“ir is a good thing to k'tp an account
of your small expenses.” John Bigelow,
cx-^dinister to France, and a man of
wealth, once said to an’ acquaintance as
he entered an Item in his note book,
“ His listener smiled at the remark, but
being a sens tale fellow, r.e took it to
heart, in recently telling the story of his
experience, he said that up to that time
he P had never thought of the amount it
annually cost him for cigars and other
sundries. He began to itemize the cost
daliv He was amazed at tne end of
the vear when he footed up the sum of
YoO 1 A change was wrought in him, and
ne determined that he would keep such
expensesdown to one third of the sum
'SSssatass
Srffinsirwfcs
times And I have not become mean,
ei Nowlt ie not likely that any boy or
<?irl who reads these lines squanders f760
I year on little expenses, but they may
squander |75, or perhaps only 7.60, and
‘“a ’^“ma^/utUe expenses are in
...^iSTfor euch useless objects that the
might aa'welt be thrown Into the
Street* audit is the expenses that an ex-
”l^a rat to^P an account of
HtUeeXDeneok^The United States gov-
ernment^requiree all poetmaetore to col
lect and roll waste paper and string, rad
render AO aooount of the money realised
™£ the »^«“y officer, are requtred
STaccount for every hammer, bit of hM-
ness. yard of cloth or gilt button, and the
weatberborera requires its observers to
report the disposition of every postage
•*£?£ j. i n every great mercantile or
manufacturing establishment; the little
.tmium arc rigidly looked after, be
cause experience baa shown that in the
oners gate they amount to largo sumo.
Take care of the pennies by noting
where they go, and you will be surprise! I
iofi nd how the practice will act as x check
on useless expenditure. Keep a guard
on the little eijx.nse.and you wUlhave
no trouble with the big ones.—Golden
Days.
tvltoh, set b f the vertical sun or that
tropical land, is only a few minutesout
of the way here, so nearly nortn has
been my lino of travel.
The venerable Moses of his race was
standing on the broad veranda, of his sur-
burban home on the heighis beyond the
eastern branch of the Potomac and look-
?nJdown upon the Capitol of the repub
Boas the sun, struggling forth from the
clouds that overhung the city, threw
"truing 11 to d Mr'^odore Wiener, a
native born American, now engaged in
business at Port au Prince, Mr. Douglass
the^first tpneln hisHfcthemost^beanS-
f “‘‘I sJcured a W s?xty‘days’ leave from the
State Department,” said the Haytiau
Minister in explanation t.o his return to
Washington, “and am using it to ro_
v‘sit my own naiive land August and
September are the most oppressive
months for Europeans in Hayti, and
tiler-fore 1 took the present season for
mv annual leave. Happily, the present
condUion of that, country and its re a
tinns with the United States are such
that my leave win not interfere with my
““.You^em as vigorous as when you
l6 “I U ma^s'tUlTo g ok 8 strong, but time is
telling ou me, and the ten months in
Hayti has made my step less firm
A Patent to lie Secured as Saint
of the Spinster World.
“Yes, truly. She has a man she folds
up and puts away. He 1b lovely.”
“I can’t believe it. I see her every
where with such a distinguished ebap—
holds himself like a soldier and looks
like a lord.”
“Of course. He’s made of wood. That’s
why he’s bo stiff. Then his expression
paver changes. That’s why ho looks so
arlntonratlc.”
“Bought him. She’s nch, you know*
and conld have bought lots of live ones,
but you can’t get rid of them when you
wish to, and seldom have them when you
need them. Now, when she requires an
escort she whisks this fellow out of his
box, unfolds and berews him together,
and, presto! a man!”
“But doesn’t she die of dullness? Who
talks to herf”
“He does. If she pulls the string he con
verses beautifully. There are a set of
conversation interchangeable cylinders.
Tnere is one of small talk, one on base
ball, one on religion. They were talked
into by Ward McAlister, Johnny Ward
and Talmage. Later on sbe can get
others embracing all snbjects, but really
sbe seldom needs to use any bnt the
small-talk cylinder.”
How jolly! When she wants to talk,
whst thee?’’
“Ob! she shuts him off. There is a
special stop for yes and no, and he never
angers her by disagreeing fur she presses
foved another birthday while away, be-
jfjjei , 7 o and when I see a^ain
too beetle's oi Washington and taste the
own home, I wonder why In
mv closing y< ars 1 should be robbed of all
hloBsiues. But Port au Prince is a
beautiful city, too, and I can nardiy im
agfne the possibilities of that land under
toe hands of thnity Americans 1 he
luimate is tropical and all tropical fruits
abound in p,elusion almost Without the
efion of man. These conditions invite
to leisure, even to indolence, and possi
ffiy our own people could not long resist
such*seductive cnarms. I may almost
say the people find their wants supplied
on every bush and merely pick what they
Seed fo* a living. The chief product is
coffee and the Government expense ot
five millions annually Is more tnan sup
plied by an export duty ou this luxury.
Mahogany and logwood are also exteu-
mveiy exported, and a country cannot be
deemed a lazy one tuat carries ou such
^mmerce in prt portion to population.’
CJ “What of tue statemunts that Hayti
thought the United States should have
a white inau to represent us there?
“Such statements were published in the
nress of too United States, but were witn
Cut the slightest foundation. 1 ue popu
lotion of that country is composed of
black and colored people who are proud
to m one or toe nuniDer honored with
anv public trust. My stay there has
Been extremely pleasant so far as my re
und on my return ih. -e hij’prc. ntiis ago
and the people are Oerter arXi more
modestly clothed. True, oue may still
see nude children on the streets, but this
is the exception and by no means the
rule. I have seen hundreds of neatly at
tired and well-behaved cm dren on their
way to and from school* The sqhhols
are mostly tsugnt by Clitholic priests,
the Catholic religion being recognized
by the State. Hayti, h<wever, enjoys
freedom of worship, atfi in Port au
Prince there are several Episcopal and
Methodist churches. Tht climate, as I
have said, iuvites to ease. It is said that
if you want tea to show it strength you
must put it in hot water, aid so mankind
shows its metal mos’> whe placed under
tbe lash and sting of noceiity.”
“Are tberemany Europaus now resi
dents of Hayti?”
“A cotisideranlo numbr of the mer
chants are French, Uerrnn, or Spanish,
who are familiar with le habits and
language of the natives. I met many
Europeans there who hi been in tbe
country from ten to thirtVears, and as _ _ =
cured me tuat they had ijoyed as good j too button and has a negative or^ffirm-
hoabh there as in any pit of Europe or -■— ‘ ■ • — ■
toe United States. Port ! Prince, situ
a ted as it is on the head <a magnificent
bay, little inferior to the ay or Naples,
Is a beautiful city, but betf walled iu on
two sid< s with lofiy mrttatns, which
shut out nor hern winds; is exception
ally not under the vertil sun of this
season. Europeans caiat, until accti
mated, safuly expose tinsel 70s to toe
direct rays of too sun, anas for myself,
i nad to keep in too shacio keep on my
tops at all. Native bla.Jien are often
found who speak liuei sewrai lan
guages, and toty are etigeri in every
branch of trade.”
1 Did reporters bore yobere?
“Hayti has no dally vspapers and
thereiore I escaped one ictlon,” ne re
marked, good naturedlyflut they have
weekly papers that arc cessfuliy con
ducted by colored men.’’
Mr. Douglass excusedmself from a
further interview, sayimat he had lit
tle Nleep last night,, andohed home at
4 o’clock this morning-s also asked
that owing to bis officialations, he be
not asked to diBcuss pptal questions.
He will spend his lesv-liotly at his
home here and return ts post in the
autumn,—New York Sui
latton with that Government is con
earned. It would be more pleasant for
me there if I were familiar witn French,
which is the official language of the
country. Unhappy for us Americans, wa
are too well satii lied with our English to
learn any other language, and turough
such neglect our commerce to the soutn
is no dout affected. Most of the leading
citizens of Haiti can Bpeak two or tnree
languages, French being universal, and
SDanish, German and English quite com
mon, though tue latter is little used at
present. 1 thought it was never too late
to learn, but I found that I could forget
as much French in the afternoon as 1
could learn in the morning.”
“What is the condition of the present
Government rad the probable future or
the country, Mr. Douglass?”
“When Lagitlme was driven out of tne
country by the revolution a year ago,
HyppoUte, the opposing military trader,
was chosen President in a constitutional
way, and has since preserved peare rad
maintained a strong hold on tne pe®P“»
giving evidenceof tne permanence or his
Goveri
Ouc On Primlones.
A south Georgia man talking yes
terday at the Kimbakaut the late
Hon. Primus Jones.
“One time at Albai said he, “a
queer thing happened.iu remember
that Primus had a smaie with a ne
gro’s bone for a heatWhich he was
very proud Primus Hme to Albany
with P some cotton waa . talki "<T
to a crowd ou tbe cortonrlshing his
can© whoa a negro ca' and shoved
up a^inst him, evif with a pur
pose Primus’s firstulse was to
strike the negro with rae, but in
stead of doing so, he id the cane to
a bvstander, and then hla hare hats
“ d in a mighty sbpace of time
remember ‘«fSfi""«'
~’KS£S lr bI5£p~*5S
after that before I eadus again. I
happened to refer tdcident in Al-
k.nv and Primus bur laughing.
b *“-You know” raid
nigger. It was one c*J«
"hit s what made
Bat he tola me nboujfwards. Ho
won • quarter by dole*
How?’ 1 asked hi
thid,taUng everything into oonsldera
tlon, I have corns to the H1 . be 5“)“
In
rad a vacillation o*
seems hard to remove, but it is »
dsal for a people to rtra, as they
have done, from the most
bv a revolution that waa condemned as
crotl rad bruUl by aU ChrUtUn cora-
triee, and the Haytians held to abhor
renoe for their achievement of liberty.
Though the slave holding natioj^ jjj Dinkins nao inei-
^GOT. first individual bu^-
love of Change
of policy that
knew how much I tt*f It, yourae.
You remember I did* hit Mm with
it but stopped jurt t Jim paid
him the quarter, too.
a pedlar with Ms Tertahtoff an
other of Ms elan on*ds, was thus
addressed;
‘“Dran toUS nm the reply.
“oSffito^turnedfr, “you may
go ahead; IearrygfM.
A provincial pa oractog too
of
had the
. says, “Mr.
of being the
alive, jant sbe wishes. Her temper
is reahy perfect, since she’s had him, for
he’s her constant companion and never
rutiles her.”
‘•Ujar rnd How I wish 1 had ont
“My dear, you are are only one of many
millions who are stilling that wish, but
patience; they will soon be ready for sale.
I hear there nave been large orders from
hotel keepers all over the United States,
and Massachusetts and Connecticut
alone have bid for 50,000 to start on.”
‘•What a blessing to womankind! Only
fancy the poor old maids, the nnattrac
tive widows the elderly females who will
be benehted. Think of the hosts of them
without father, brother, husband or beau.
They must either stay at home, employ
messenger boys, or pat up with some
tnase suift of a fellow obtained at great
trouble and some risk. A woman can't
be housed all the time, and she dislikes
going about like a parcel, and the make
shift is sure to bore her—that's where
tue risk comes in. In this way yon can
pick out a man, short or long, fat or thin,
light or dark—suit your own complexion
and style, and have him changed as your
fancy dictates. After a time you forget
he’s not alive. He looks so nice and is
always on hand, yet so easiJy disposed
of.
“At first I did fancy I should tire
of his conversation, but it was just like
that the real man used, and I was as
much interested as ever before. Some
women will feel sensitive, as having one
is a tacit acknowledgement you can't get
the other side. Still they are imitating
them so cleverly that it is difficult to tell
whicu is the patented man. Bless your
heart, don’t fancy they will supplant the
desn and blood fellows! That’s not the
idea at alt. They are only substitutes for
those who can’t get tbe others.
“There's a pile of coin in the enter*
prise, and the man who owns the plant
nas a big fortune assured. Tell ail the
women you know about it. It’s almost
too good to believe, but it’s true. 1 shall
write out this conversation for some
editor, and if he’s not a bigger wooden-
head than the subject of the article he’ll
publish it.”—New York Son
THE WORLD’S DESIRE.
A STORY OF OLD GREEK AND EGYPTIAN llFE.
BY
H. RIDER HAGGARD AND ANDREW|LANG.
A FLOATING BAB ROOM.
How a Michigan Man Escaped
Faying a Liquor Tax.
Lansing, Mich., August, 2.—The Su
preme Court here has filed ra opinion
to the case of the People vs. Bouchard,
wMch, so far as this State la concerned,
le quite far-reaching. The respondent
waa convicted in the Bay county court
for selling liquor without paying the
State tax under the law of 1887. He
owned a scow, which he fitted for a sa
loon, rad anchored opposite the town of
Bangor ud made salon openly. This
was not denied, bnt the defense waa set
np that, not being engaged to the bust
to any city> village or township in
the State he was not subject to the tax,
and upon this it came to the Supreme
Court where the judgment of the lower
court is reversed rad the respondent die-
charged.
The court held that the township boun
dary extended to the shore line only, and
not being within the limits of that town
ship, of oonrra was not to ray other. The
oonrt calls the attention of the Legisla
tor. to the necessity of a remedy for the
CHAPTER L
Come with us, ye wboBe he.rts are set
On this, the Present to forget;
Come with us where the moonlight fills
The hollows of the fairy bills.
Where droops the visionary vine
Men crush to yield hearts’ anodyne!
Come read the things whereof ye know
They were not and could not be so!
The murmur of the fallen creeds,
Like winds among wind-shaken reeds
Along the banks of holy Nile.
Shall echo in yonr ears the while;
The fables of the North and South
Shall mingle In the modern mouth;
The fancies of the West, and East
Shall flock and flit about the feast
Like doves that cooled, with waviogwing,
The banquet of the Cyprian king
Old shapes of songs that do Dot die
Shall haunt the halls of memory.
And though the bow shall prelude clear
Shrill as the song of Guunar s spear.
Their answer sobs from lute and lyre
That murmured of The World’s IF-sire.
There lives no man but he hath seen
The World’s Desire, the fairy queen
But none hath seen her to his cost,
Not one but loves what he has lost.
None is there but hath beard her sing
Divinely through his wandering;
Not one hut he hath followed far
The portent of the Bleeding star;
Not one but he huth chanced to wake,
Dreamed of the Star and round the snake.
Yet, through his dreams awandering lire,
Btill, still she flits, The Woblii’s Desire!
Across the wide backs of the waves, be
neath the mountains, and between the
Islands a ship came stealing from tbe
dark into tbe dusk, and from the dnsk
into the dawn. The ship bad only one
mast, one broad, brown sail with a star
embroidered on it in gold; her stem and
stern were bnilt high and carved like a
bird’s beak, her prow was painted scar
let, and sbe was driven by oars as well as
by the western wind.
A man stood alone on tbe half deck at
the bows, a man wbo looked always for
ward, through the night and the twilight,
and the clear morning. He was of no
great statnre.but broad breasted and very
wide-shouldered, with many rigns of
strength. He had blue eyes, a id dark
curled locks falling beneath a red cap
such as sailors wear, and over a purple
cloak, fastened with a brooch of gold.
There were threads of silver in his curls,
and his beard was flreked with white. His
whole heart was follow iog his eye, watch
ing first for the bleze of toe island bea
cons ont of the darkness, and, later, for
the rising from the far-off bills. But he
watched in vaiD; there was neither light
nor smoke on the gray peak that lay clear
against a field of yellow sky.
There was no smoke, no fire, no sound
of voices, nor cry of birds. The isle was
deadly still.
. As they nenrad the coast. Rid neither
»■ . „ Stt” »s.gn of llte, the man’s
it™ f SV' , .“ffeladness went out of his
eyes, nis featu.A, via., ;
ety and doubt, anu with longings for tid
ings of his home.
No man ever loved his home more than
he, for this was Odysseus, tbe son of La
ertes—who of some is called Ulysses—re
turned from his unsung second wander
ing. The whole world has heard the tale
of Ms first voyage, how he was tossed for
ten years on the sea after the taking of
Troy, how he reached home at last,
alone and disguised as a,beggar; how he
found violence in his house, how he slew
his foes in his own hall, and won his with
again. But even in his own country he
was not permitted to rest, for there was a
curse upon him and a labar to be accom
plished. He must wanaer again till he
reached the land of men who had never
tasted salt, nor ever heard of tbe salt sea.
There he must sacrifice to the Sea God,
ana theu, at last, set his face homeward.
Now ne had endured that curse, he had
fulfilled the prophecy, he baa angered,
by misadventure, toe goddess that was
his friend, and after adventures that had
neveryet been to’.d he had arrived within
bowsnot of Ithaca.
He came from strange countries—from
the Gates of toe Sun and the WniteKock,
from the Passing Place of Souls aud the
people of Dreams.
But he found hl3 own isie more still
and strange by far. The realm ofDreams
was not so dumb, the Gates of the Sun
were not so still, as the shores of the
familiar island beneath tbe rising dawn.
This story, whereof the substance was
set out long ago by Rei, the instructed
Egyptian priest, tens what he found
there, and the tale of the last adventures
of Odysseus, Laertes’ son.
The ship ran on aud won the well
known haven, sheltered from wind by
two headlands of sheer cllif. There she
sailed straight in, till the leaves of the
broad olive tree at the head of the inlet
were tangled in her cordage. Then the
wanderer, without looking back or say
ing one word of farewell to nis crew,
caught a bough of the olive tree with his
hand and swung himself asnore. There
he kneeled and kissed the earth, and,
covering his head within his cloak, he
prayed that he might find his hoc so at
peace, his wife dear and true, and his
son worthy of him.
But not one word of his prayer was to
be granted. The gods give and take, but
on tne earth the gods cannot restore.
When he rose from his knees he
•lanced back across the waters, but
there was now no ship in the haven, nor
any sign of a sail on all the seas.
And still tbe land was silent; not even
the wild birds cried a welcome.
The sun was hardly up, men were
scarce awake, the Wanderer said to him
self; and he set a stout heart to the steep
path leading up the hill, over the wolds,
and across toe ridge of rock that divides
the two masses of the island. Up he
climbed, purposing, as of old, to seek the
house of his faithful servant, the swine
herd, and learn from him the tidings of
his home. On the brow of a hill he
stopped to rest, and looked down on the
house of the servant. Bat the strong oak
palisade was broken, no smoke came
from the hole in the thatched roof, and,
as he approached, the dogs did not run
barking, as sheep dogs do, at the stran
ger. The very path to the house was
overgrown and dumb with grass; even a
dog’s keen ears could scarcely have heard
a footstep.
The door of the swineherd’s hat was
the flame had long been cold. The very
ashes were covered with grass, and a
branch of ivy had bidden the stone of
sacrifice.
On the Wanderer pressed with a heavy
heart. Now the high roof of his own hall
and the wide fenced courts were within
biB sight, rad he hurried forward to know
the worst.
Too soon he emw that the rooft were
smokeless, and all tbe court was deep in
grass. Where the altar of 7.ens had
Btood in the midst of the coart there was
now no altar, bnt a great, gray mound,
not of earth, but of white dost mixed
with black. Over this mound the grass
E ricked up scantily, like thin hair on a
iprosy.
Then the Wanderer shuddered, for ont
of the gray monnd peeped the charred
black bones of the dead. He drew near,
and, lo! the whole beep was of nothing
else than the ashes Of men and women.
Death bad been busy here; here many
people had perished ot a pestilence. They
had all bran consumed on one fnneral
fire, while they who laid them there must
have fled, for there waa no sign or living
man. The doors gaped open, and none
entered, and none came forth. The
hoaee was dead, like the people who had
dwelt in it.
Then the Wanderer paused where once
the old honnd Argos had welcomed him
and had died in that welcome. There,
unwelcomed, he stood, leaning on hie
staff. Then a sadden ray of sun fell on
something that glittered In the heap,
and he touched it with the end of the
staff he had in his hand. It Blid jingling
Ironr the heap. I was a bone of a fore
arm, and that which glittered on it was
a half- molten ring of gold. O rr the gold
these characters were engraved;
IKMA.YKir. MEIIOIEXEN.
(Ic'Jialios miule me.)
open, bat all was dark within. The spi
ders had woven a glittering web across
the empty blackness, a sign that for
maiyr days no man had entered. Then
tho Wanderer shouted twice, rad thrice,
bnt the only answer waa the echo from
the hill. He went to, hoping to find
flood, or perhaps a spark of fire sheltered
under toe dry leaves. Bnt all was vacant
rad cold as death.
The Wanderer came forth Into the
warm sunlight, set his face to the hUl
Ithaca.rad wen * on Ms way to the city of
He raw the sea from the hill top glit
tering aa of yore, but there wee no brown
rails of Haber boats on Um sea. All the
land that should now hart waved with
the white oorn was green with tangled
weeds. Half way down the ragged path
was a grove of alders, and the basin into
which the water flowed from tho old
foantato of the Nymphs! Bnt no maidens
ware there with their pitchers; the basin
was broken and green with mould; the
water slipped through the crevices and
hurried to tbe sea. There were no offer-
K’A'Tai’S't.'s.’yuErissa
At the sight of the armlet the Wander
er fell on the earth, grovelling among
the a&hea of the pyre, for he knew the
gold ring which he had brougnt from
Jblphre long ago, for a gift to nis wife
Penelope This was the bracelet of tho
oride of his youth, and here, black, cal
cined, bare, a mockery and a terror, were
those kind arms in which he had lain.
Then his f-treugth was shaken with his
sobbing, and his hands clutched blindly
before him, and he gathered dust and
cast it upon bis head till his dark locks
were defiled with the ashes of his dearest,
and he longed to die.
There he lay, biting his own hands for
sorrow, and for wrath against God and
Fate. There he lay while the sun in t( 6
heavens smote him, and he knew it net
while the wind of the sunset stirred in
Hi a iiair, and i:e stirred not. He cou ld
net even s^ed one tear, for this was tbe
nomi&tcfaU lbs sorrows that he had
known on the waves of the sea, or on
land among the wars of men.
The snn tell and the ways were darken
ed. Slowly the eastern sky grew silver
with tne moon. A night fowl’s voice
was heard from afar; it drew nearer; then
through the shadow of the pyre the black
wings fluttered into the ligLt, and tne
carion bird fixed its talons and its beak
on the Wanderer’s neck. Then he moved
at length, tossed up an arm, and caught
the bird of darkness by the neck and
broke it and dashed it on the ground.
His sick heart was mad with the
little sudden pain, and he elutened for
tiie knife in his girdle that he might slay
himself, but he was unarmed.
At last he rose, muttering and stood
i the moonlight, like a Jiou in
some ruinous paiace of forgotten kings.
He was faint with hunger and weak with
long lamenting, as he sttpped witain his
owu doors. There he paused on that
high threshold of stone where once Le
had sat in tbe disguise of a beggar, th»t
very threshold wneuce, on another d. y,
he had shot the shafts of doom amo. g
the wooerB of his wife and the wasters cl
his home. But now his wife wasdeac:
all bis voyagiug was ended here, aud all
his wars were vain. In the white light
the house of his kingship was no more
than the*ghost of a home, dreadful, un
familiar, empty of warmth aud love and
light. The tables were faileu here aud
there through the long halls; mouldering
fragments of the fuoeral feast and shat*
tered cups and dishes lay iu one confu
sion; the ivory chairs were hokeu, and on
the walls the moonbeams glistened now
and again from points of steel and blades
of bronze, though many swords were
dark with rust.
But there in its gleaming case, lav one
thing friendly and familiar. There lay the
Bow of Eurytus, the bow for whicu the
great Heracles had slain his own guest
in his own halls; the dreadful bow that
no mortal but the Wanderer could bend.
He was never used to carry this precious
bow with him on shipboard when he
went to the wars, but it was treasured at
home, the memorial of a dear friend
foully slain, do now, when the voices of
the dog and slave and child and wife
were mute, there yet came out of the
stillness a word of welcome to the Waa-
derer. For this bow, which had thrilled
in the grip of a god, and had scattered
the shafts of the vengeance of Heracles,
was wondrously made and magical. A
spirit dwelt within it which knew of
things to come, which boded the battle
from afar, and therefore always before
the slaying of men the bow sang strange
ly through the night. The voice of it
was thin and shrill, a ringing and a sing
ing of the string and of the bow. While
the Wanderer stood and looked on his
weapon, hark! the bow began to“thrill!
The sound was faint at first, a thin note,
but as he listened the voice of it in that
silence grew clear, stroDg, angry and
triumphant- In his ears and to his heart
it seemed that the worldless chant rang
thus:
THE SONG OF THE BOW.
Keen and low
Doth the arrow sing
The Song of the Bow,
The sound of the string
The shafts cry shrill:
Let us forth again,
Let us feed our till
On the llesh of men.
Gredy and lleet
Do we tly from far,
Like the birds that meet
For the feast of war,
Till the air of tight
With our wings be stirred,
As it whirrs from the flight
Of the ravening bird.
▲nd winged for death—
Greedy and fleet,
Do we speed from far,
Like the birds that meet
On the bridge of war.
Fleet as ghosts that wail,
When the dart strikes true,
Do, the swift shafts hail,
Till they drink warm dew.
Keen and low
Do the gray shafts sing
The Song of the Bow,
The sound of the string.
This was the mi—w of Death, and
this waa tha first sound that had broken
tho etftllne— of hie homo.
At tho welcome of thie music which
epoko to his heart—this music ho had
heard ao many a tin——the Wanderer
knew that there waa war,at hand. Ho
knew that the winae of his arrows should
be swift to fly, and their beaks of bronze