The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907, November 22, 1890, Image 1
k'.'ve )K^ Injurious influence upon
•I lues of bnsineae. tl> *11 aeotlona of the
c< itry, bat aa trade and manufacturing
it reata everywheie ore prosperous it
is ot probable that the itock jobbing
o| rationa of New Fork will bare more
tl 1 a temporary effect upon general
bi ness. Under any circamatancea,
tl igb, the 8ontb is in a better poaition
U stand even a panic than any other
m Lion. It has gathered big crops that
a I aggregate in value for the year
e irly f1 000 OCO.OOO. its cotton alone, in
riding the *• ed. counting up this year
tween f4M.000.000 and f500.000.000 every
alar o? which it will draw from tbe
l (rth and Europe. Its farmers are
bnetically out or debt, and many of
tern have a good surplus; its manufac-
-iring interests ore prosperous, and its
.vllroads are crowded with freight traffic,
bie whole South is advancing rapidly,
id if dependent upon its own financial
-sources oouli stand the strain far
8tter.than the West. But the enormous
■ -re in stock values in Wall street
1 to drive money from that center
speculation to safer investments
tern development and manufac
interests. Tbe decline in 23
>n tbe New York Exchange since
i r 1 represents a wiping out o f
000. and tbe people who have
rtunes swept away like this will
to pot their money elsewhere
future The daily accurr.u
of wealth in tbe United States
icons, and it must ti id a field
-tment somewhere. Driven from
reet speculations, and no longer
any profitable openings in the
s in former years, it must lnovi
urn to the South. Thus, instead
! Street’s flurry irjarlng the South,
help to drive a still larger volume
ey this way. The past, week shows
utd activity In the orga lization or
rial enterprises and of town-buiid
impanlee. Salem, Va., leads oli
u appropriation by tbe several
mpanies there of $500,' 00 in cash
ire tbe establishment there of a
mill, cotton mill, car works and
enterprises; in Buena Vista a $1,
company has been organized to
raslc steel works, and three im
aenL and building companies with
regale capital of $300,000 nave been
„ , y anus iuiu iwu
proper places, and pull tog >ther for the
common good of all.—Atlanta Conatitn
tion.
Stock-yard* equal to those of Chicago
and Kansas City are to be established at
Nashville, Tenn.,where the Great Booth*
era Stock-yards Co. has been organiz d
by Western and Tennessee capitalists.
The stock of this corporation in ft 000,000.
A contact has been closed with the Nash
vil.'e Land Improvement Co. for the pur
chase of 939 acres of propsrty On this
in addition to the stock-yards will be
two packing-houses, an exchange, hotel
and various other bnildings. The direc
tors and offioers of this company are: A.
L. Garrettson, of Sioux City, la.j W. A.
Alsdrof, of Lincoln, Neb.; W. H. Silber-
hora, of Chicago; M. 8. Cuokrill, Edgar
Jones. Spenoer Eakin and L T. Baxter,
ofNaahville. The directors elected the
following officers: Lewis T. Baxter,
president; M S. C.ckrill, vice presides';
W. H. Siiberhorn, general manager; W.
A. Alsdorf, secretary an superintendent
Edgar Jones, treasurer.
Many men of note were present last
Monday at tbe commencement of the
semi annual sale of the Middlesborough
(Ky ) Land Company. Among those re
ported were the Hon. Ernst Hatch,
Member of the Parliament from Londor;
Col Neville Parrc-n anu il-jor General
H P. Ward, of the British army;J G
Nutting, of tK & J. Burke, malsters. of
Dublin; Mr. George M Dxkson, of tbe
firm of Higinsoc & Co., coal masters,
Lancashire, England; Mr George A. Por
ter, of Niagara Park fam<; ex Assistant
Postmaster General Clarkson, with a
party of friends, among whom were
Gen. U A. Alger, of Michigan; Mr, Geo.
M. Pullman, of Illinois, and other prom
inent man.
regale capital of $300,000 nave been Regarding the financial and commer
i la tbe same place; Glasgow has cial situation of ihb South there is inter-
U/I?y Jtyey (jiue Etyar^s.
Uncle Sam and Columbia—Because
NO MONAIICII NOW-LIVES OS AMERI
CAN SOIL.
Tue Czak—Because there was so
DYNAMITE IN HIS. TURKEY.
The Kaiser—Because his royal
cousins are polite when revis
its T^KM.
Queen Victoria—Because some of
HER SOLDIERS STILL “LOVE THE
WIDOW.”
The Petty Princelings Across Sea—
Because some rich American
GIRLS MARRY FOR CORONETS.
Uncle Sam’s Sons—Because some
American girls don’t care for
coronets.
fin tbe same place; Glaagow has ctal situation oi me ooutn mere is mter-
ized a flOO 000 car works company; est ai d importance in this letter issued
lk, three land improvement com .- -< » i—
. — j-u . i of ft nrwwi. \u
A Golden Chance.
'••ii y xoa
Naft
THANKSGIVING, 1890.
He Took it Haro?
i with a capital of $ 00 000, Wheel
7. Va., is to have new steel werks;
a murr- hVyajf a $600,900 phosphate
*"•*"" **»■ >.
-:’d>.en, In the same State, a fuO COO
..chine shop company; at Algiers, Li.,
-.$75 000 brewery will be built; Betteuier,
r has organiz. d a $100 f 00 pipe manu-
"turing company; Balllnrore, a ijCO'COO
company; Barlow, F.a., a fiOObO
lufucturii g company; Blacksburg, 8.
n $40 000 stove foundry ; Rusk, Texas,
a $500 000 company to bui d an iron fur
nace, a 1 'd Rogers, Ark., a f40 0CO ice fac_
--ory. Tui so enterprises, mattered all
ever tbe South, show how widespread is
tbe acliviiy that is seen from Mary land
to Texas. Without any flctitioi s sp cu
lation or wild booming the South 1j
steadily pressing forwaro, building new
tewns, new railroads, new ftcloiies and
fur. aces, and everywhere shows evidence
of activity and prosperity.
The matter of grealeit interest at pres
*eut is at’ll the sale of 501* of the Buena
a Go. s residence and vil.a lots, to be
the 19;h and 20,h Inst. This aa-
;ted y will draw an Immense crowd
3 Buena Vista, though beiug the
ef r town in the present d .velopment,
desiring any stimulated boom, wi i
hold its first sale. I. can almost be
win certainty that with our rapidly
easing population it is on y aqt,e;
of lime when our limits win have to
extended, and the ear it r purchases
made the belter for tbe purchaser. As
evidence of the profit almost sure to
ow an Investment here, stoci holders
the company who have not disposed
heir original holdings and lots aie
, reaping the reward of their patience
ehoidlng themselves enriched many
l on account of the present high stan-
d of values, against those who sold
their interests us soon as ti Is increase
ame manliest. Lois have advanced
per cent every 90 days daring t h
12 montns. The total amount of in
tries now established aggregates ?2,-
CO and negotiations now pending
1 bring additional plants witn a capi
of $800,000. We already have 3 000 pop-
on bui, tbis Impetus should swell this
liber far greater by spring, or even
lbleinayear. ,
astructions have been received by one
.he mansg< r of a balking company
lalii g here to push his work to com
tion preparatory to building 000
rth of houses early in the spring,
avt make, with its $2 000 000 tio-piate
rks will Boon be connected with Buena
•» by the street railway which will bi
' vinn<=ra.cted by the company or-
^'ai.ized. City methods have bren fol
lowed from the begiDDiDg in layir g eff
and bulking op Baeua Vista. The city
engfn ;cr now has a fare j at work on the
streets laying sidewalks and gravelling
crossings.
The largest manufactory cf baskets In
*'' tbe world is located in the interior of
New England. Its products go to all
parts of the South. The chief mat . rials
employed are splints of oak wood, al
though bamboo and rattan are largely
need. A car load of truckera’ baskets
packed with tbe closest economy of
apace, represents only a value to the
manufacturer of $1 000 How much better
it would be for that basket bouse If It
were lecated lu tbe South, or at least if It
had In tbe South a branch establishment
for making all the baskets now purchased
by ita customers of that section. It
would be a saving of cost in raw mate
rials, of labor and of transportation,
^ Which three savings would amount to a
▼ery handsome profit. Considerations
■ucn os these ore inducing Northern
manufacturers to seek Southern iocs
tions for their industries.
The Old Dominion, scourged by oil the
furies of war, robbed of the western por
tion of her territory, and left exposed to
her rapacious creditors, hashed a hard
time since that gloomy day of Appomat
tox, a little more than twenty five years
affO*
The progress of Virginia has bsen pain-
fully slow under tbe new order of things,
but tbe developments of late years show
that the commonwealth is marching on.
Land that was oflered a few years ago at
S3 to $15 an acre has recently sold for $90.
New towns have sprung up in the waste
nlaces. Roanoke, for instance, is a won
Ser From a population of 1 000 seven
veais sgo It has advanced to 19.000, and
years agy *■ ,-.i |.
We had got through to Silver City * y
i stage without a. gains— ’ , rhapi I
, ” u warmth of love,
had more ressor.j,,,^ thts „
i —-, ju.u .uts- - KTsViPg, I’-fac*,
a| $8 000 .\ ackt
yesterday o their customers by Charles
D. Freeman & Co.: “The government
report on cotton, out this
■Tiaxes ms tn..V, oereagw P*■—— vr* |mi wa.umrug w.-- „ ,
season 19 590 0C0 acres, and estimates the r frlend who wa8 goffig littb 'busiaess.
total production 197 pounds lint per acre, I da _ a f ter arriving a strange man
maktnv a probable total production of I ^ ame e ffi C e and asked if ae could
3 663 330.000 pounds, which amount, di I f minutes private conversation.
... — h “'“ ' He looked like a prospector or silvsr fla-
der, and I took him.into the inner oflic 3,
TO ° m i n ‘ Vir S ,nl » hotel was a
df r . * “ the bed 8tood ia the MW-
YEAR IN ADVANCE.
A STORY OF OLD GREEK AND EGYPTIAN UFL
BY
H. EIDER HAGGARD MD ANDREW LANG.
^ pvuuu-, ' 1 _
vlded by 465 pounds net tothe baleu
gives a probable crop of nearly 8 000 000 1
bales. Tuis is a ph< comcual showing,
on the crop will exceed last year s by over
600 0.0 bates, which was the larges, ever
raised iu this country. ’—New York
Journal of Finance.
Aberdeen, Mies, rejoices in the organ!
zation of a company called the Tombig
bee Iron Works, with a paid-up capital of
$50 000 and power to increase to $260 000.
Tnis company will manufacture iron and
brass goods. It iB cxpectc-d to put up
rmildicgs at or.ee, and tue P|ant will be
der. ana i ioua miu,iuw —
where he qaietiy sat down “W began:
• I am no hand to beat around the bush,
but beliave in coming straight to the
poi’t ”
Wsli? ’
Well, you brought In $8 000 with you
yesterday.”
’Suppose I didr , ,
-‘I knew you were co ning, and for
three days I was posted to lnterc pi you
I intended to hold up jour stage and
take everything.”
Wbv didn’t you do it? .
“That’s what I’m cooilug to. My in
fernal burro stumbled with me at a bad
ready for business by the first ot nvxt pitched ine ofi. and fora whole
Februaty. Mr. Edw*rd W. Ivins, o. New P'»oo “““ P, move d a rod. I’m to scro
Orleans, president of tnis comp jpy, owns I day now that lean scarcely get
The gray gl<>
What hav»; \v<
The land shoi
O laud v. e lo\
Lift up thy '<
For lo! tLrou,
On thee his ti
And will, ii' i
n. 0 . a mnu iiiiu j.icp vusvav. a
rvio c &>W8. 1 carefully lifted my hand and
r -dr . - td tbe revolver under my pil.ow,
— - ionnvL - ipt w ( *ien I waited toeee what tbe intruder
unary finally began 1 ^ do> He kept perfectly quiet for five
■ V* ' '->te=, and then tiptoed overt nd took
v 'Ifruy trousers. There was t ever 30
^ -r#n In change in the pockets. Hs then
“JJj my trunk, but it was locked. He
for a while as if in doubt, ar.ii thon
^ndJt. .-d to come to the bed.
xune«afttnt anything? ’ l asked as I covered
TdnjBmfcith the pistol, and sat up in bed.
i h htit u, shucks!” he ?^:laimed. as he sal
W \
Freedom alone to wt# tl r? , leased.
Nor had the patriots little il)l’isili
In the Iohk Uevoiuth . .
When fate each day hat the generii
To follow in their sUra for. . ,
And yi.-iil v.bfl ,s> l Kn,1 l -
> heard that
Today vitli 6i”’s in l u rge nuui'i
Richer than ai! the empires
CHAPTER XXIV , CONTINUED.
Then the women screamed aloud, and
battered on the gates with trees so tbat
they fell in. They f«-l<, and the women
rashed in madly. They seized the Priests
of Hathor, and tore them limb from limb
as dogs tear a wolf. Now the shrine stood
before them.
“Touch not the doors,” cried Merla
mun. ' Bring fire, and barn tbe shrine
with her who dwells therein. Touch not
the doors, look not in the Witch’s face,
but barn her where she is with fi e.”
Then tbe women brought the reeds and
the wood and plied them around the
shrine to twice the height of a man. They
brought ladders also, and piled the fuel
upon the roof of the shrine till all was
covered, and they poured pitch over the
fuel, and then at the word of Mi rlamnn
they cost torches on the pitch and drew
back screaming. For a moment the
torches smouldered, then suddenly on ev
ery side great tongnes of flame leaped
np to heaven. Now the shrine was
wrapped in fire, and yet they cast fnel on
it till none might draw near because of
the heat. Now it bnraed os furnaces
barn, and non the fire reached the fnel
on the roof. It caught, and the shrine
was bat a sheet of raging flame that lit
the white walled city, and the broad face
of Nihor, as the sun lights the land. The
alabaster wails of tbe shrine turned
whiter yet with heat; they cracked and
split till tbe fabric tottered to its fall.
“New there is surely an end of the
Witch,” cried Meriamun, and the women
screamed an answer to her.
But even as they screamed a great
tongue of flame shot out th’ough the
molten doers, ten fathoms length and
more it Eh j: like a spear of lire. Fail ia
its path stood a group of the burners. It
struck them, it licked them up, and lei
tney fell in biacktLed heaps npon the
ground.
R-j1 looked down the path of the flame.
There in the doorway whence it had Is
sued steed the Golden Helen, wrapped
round with fire, and the molten metal of
the doers crept about her feet. There she
stood in the heai tef the fire, but there
was no stain of the fire on her, noron her
and % robes, nor on her streaming hair,
he saw iiii 1 oaiitl glow of the furnace
breast of the red star on her
face, it wrannrrt llckud her f o rm and
and curl.dTbroqjfa ^ if _ * r ° und £ er
ptiD she stood un£. f 0
she sang wilo — r -
of her Bing log came through the
the flames and reached the ears ot tbo
ltCL it c' wittily
-'t, but thatumlion rea
T- i 3erl,t T( .f >rtr - V, ,
O land.
i>j lu sonTi
i fell tiie yeitrs with loving cut j
ivk‘3 God Vi as made descend, ^
»u art worthy, to the end.
Willi am E. S. FaijI
i on a chair.
>!
Orleans, president of tnis compjoy, owns
iron works at Grand Haven, Mich., that
will be transferred to Aberdeen. When
the new factory is in operation the com
nsny proposes to pnt up a factory for the
huilding of railway c^rs, for wliich^ busl
ness the adjacent forests will supply an
abundance uf txcellent ma.enal at low
prices
and lame now that I can scarcely get
about
‘‘Well?’'
The kernel of this thing is just here
You were my meat, fair and E ‘ij“ r ®
Then eutit thousand was as good as in
my own pocket O.ving to cirtums an
cea beyond my control you pulled
throa'f. I lo-.t my animal aid both my
revofcr , sod am hurt besides. Are you
honorable enough to give me a per'
on that money to go in.o business
^wanted three p.er cent., but I final
Afraid uf a Splurge.
The story of thb rise and progress of
Barham, N. C., is one of those wonderful
histories of Southern development of ^
which this period is most prolific. “ L t ol } w j t h $30, and he boughta revol
really seems like a tale of romance rather / er b aDd BO me b.ankets wita it and went
than a relation or actual facts. Tnat offa nd stopped a stage and was sho-
they are facts the world at large must through the head,
know, for the pictures ot Blackwell is I
Durham bull have been painted on Euro
pean and Austra’ian rocks, and the
smoke of Durham tobacco rises in every
land The success predicted for the Dur
ham Consolidated Land and Improve
ment Company will not be doubted ny
any who know the advantages and re
sources of the town and the high char
acter of the management.
bo are you?” .. , . . ..
• obody nor nathln ! I i a.u d * , ^ eE
hogs. Ii I knowed anything, I d hev
. ’z-med myself last year.”
■rr.JSY u soem to take it bard o.d fellow
ir< f?“Can’t help it. Everything I go in.o
>' *sls up on me. I’ve busted a sawmill,
»'•! o .ana bank, a yoke of oxen, a tobacco
. " 9Ui>, and a saloon, and I was .n hopes to
O.ie of the slickest games ever work 1 , hifci’ar of this co intry whom this nao
by confidence men., that ofbnjIn.Vr^^n.^Gitu^D to- me^ff toj t,
farm. On© of a pair looks over the <ntfaiK alone.” _ _ ..
try until he finds the man he is aft ^ 3rt alked h hi m awhile, and, nnding
own price, pvymg rrom $i0 to t_00 = ’ ue 11 Q - a « 2 o start tbe world anew on.
t-.n hir.it the bargain. Before the pi _ e, wno . . .. he saidas h(
Kansas Pliilosopb y.
The truth never grows by repetition as
is the case with a lie.
If people could have th .ir v isbes grant
ed, more pe >ple would be 8e “* tke
other werid’,hau would be called balk.
It Is a wor.der a man will run the risk
of being known as a liar for the possible
A real estate convention will assemble I °H^“^JAestgnssipon earthis^he man
at Norfolk, Va., on Wednesday, the 19.h who concea . B Ms desire to tell a thlngbe
iDSt., and remain in sef sion two days. hlnd whElt U6 calls a good motive.
It has been called by the Real f> tat * I ™^nly neStasW
Exchangfl of that city, which has i^ued I ment j oc the one about punishment.
gfirs*” js -
iasffiaKSgg j- a'JsrS’.sss
No^is noted. 0 " Thi? Is IheKcon- I suit of their own sins for the chastening
vention of the kind ever Held in the
S.uth.
A crop of 7 75 000 to 8.000.000 bales will
mean $500 000 000 in cash brought into the
South this year by cotton alone This is , ana
the value S aven coniake his long needed vaca
Since 1865 the South has revived over I tion.
° r if h Methuselah could give his testimo
ny, It would probably oe to the effect
tnat his life was too short to live down
the follies of his youth.
When men are as good as their obit
aeries, and women are as good as the
. ? . . . 1 »1. A vnr.nrHincy imfffli
$8 000.000.000 for its cotton.
He Broke Iuto Jail.
on.
If a woman is bad, she says a man was
the cause of it; if a man is good, te says
a woman was the cause of his being
good; that is the difference in the way
they regard each other.
~ , m i- I if it came to a question as to who could
My father was Shtrift of « county 1 I lk l * the f a8 ter, a man or a woman, it
Indiana for a good many years, and the would be sa » e to start a hungry man af
• n ha first took charge of was a very I ter his dinner, and a woman after a bar
jail he firattooxcuarB then bet money on the wo-
rSL'SShS-iS.’SS'Sy
S A. lusaperaSle Difficulty.
of hors. One night, returninghome at a I Theownerof alo ton Woodlawn ave-
late Father kept I nue beyond the toil-gate, mays the Detroit
and let him work away, and Free Press, had a call from a woman who
by he got the blind open anddis- l>id ghe wonld take the property at the
appeared inside. There were I . uked if her husband was willing,
ersinthe jail, and the biindwas sofUy that he waa ud the owner got
closed and fastened with a prop. Wfa I th |^ b tract aD d deed ready and waited
this had been done father went lnside, to app ear with the cash,
opened the door of *^ e . “^ d nd^and She came, but It was, not to buy. On the
He looaea | ^ntrary she said:
*‘I am sorry to say that we can’t take
the lot ”
to bind the bargain. Befors the pt
can be made out a con'e derate comes
along, falls in love with the same farm,
and offers the farmer $2 000 more than
the other did. Tne agriculturist sees a
speculation here, and he buys the first
purchaser oil with a big bonus. Then
both men drop out of sight and the
farmer looms something new.
I was stopping overnight with a Con
necticut farmer, who had sold out and
took $200 to bind tie bargain. I was
t here when the second man called with
his tempting offer. He waited at the
barn, and Uncle Jjrry came in and said
to Aunt Sail;:
“Seems like a chauce to make a clear
thousand dollars. Tne first buyer s-tys
be'!! taken thousand, and that U leave
s the same.” . . . „
“Did we ever have a thousand dollars
ail at ouccT” she asked.
“Ever have a chance to splurge out and
make fools or ourselves?”
No,”
•D'ye think we’d do It if wo had the
m “WeU, I was thinkin’ of a new watch
and a broadcloth suit.” ,
“And I was thinain’ Ufa silk dress and
anew bmnet, Uucle Terry, we dasn t
do it. We’d splurge in iess n twenty
four hours.” . „ „ . „„
“Guess we would, Aunt Sally, and so
I’ll sail out to the fust man.”
He sternly refused the second oner,
and even when a thousand more was
added he was inflexible. Tne first pur
chaser never showed up a S ai “> * nd t h®
this day the old couple are holding the
money and have the papers ready for tte
trade
try it stranger,” he said as he
ciirnb d out, “but I shall look fur a bust
up. When a feller.bain't, fitten with fit
ttnnees, then he hain’t and all the nttec
he 1 i i do won't*.in him proper fit.onness
Good night.”
stood his mam
‘““This is the county jail, isn’t it?”
“And I’ve been fool enough to break
into it.”
“That^aU. Lock me np tiU
and then let some jackass kick me t
d TheVu s of it was that he turned out to
be a robber with areward of $2000. on his
“But you like it?”
“Oh, yes.”
“Andyour husband Is satisfied?”
“He is.”
“And you said youjiad the money?”
“I have,” she said.
“Tnen what is the matter?”
“Why, sir, it’s the hired girl. She post
_ a mash In* VIA ffW
TfilTB IICO It litaS »ut*uwu iv “ v **, i
the iuerrase in the value of real estate is stmsnce
be a robber with areward of $2000 “is | ^ ^ wagh Jm QBif wego
head, and when he came to trial he g | j 0 nt there, and so the matter is off.”
sentence of fifteen years. ' *
The Works of “The Dutches.’
A funny thing happened to a weUknown
literary woman in this city not long
ago, says theNaw York Evening Sun—a
woman who is better read in Shakspeare
than in Saltns and in Dickens than in
the Duchess. Indeed, she has never
read a line of this Utter prolific person
but she knows the name very well, and
having occasion recently to make some
slight study of the present English wri
ters of fiction she wrote a line to her
bookseller, saying: “Please send me the
works of‘ The Duchess.’” She thought
were probably, three or four of
them,TSrs.C_Xhe_next days, .he rat
in her study, there came a tap at her
dror, and * strange man and Mer maid.
were tagging at na enormous package or
^.mathing or other, which they set
down umfn the floor, while the strange
man handed her a note from her book-
seller which read: “Dear madame, we
havt pleasure in sending you the works
nf ‘The Duchess,’ as you have ordered.
“Then,” she said, “I opened the three
creat Dockages, and I laughed till I ofied,
for un^ my word, the works of “The
Dutches’” were comprised in forty three
volumes.”
A Stroke of Liglitniuj
So long as women will be foolish men
will be deceptive. One day I sat behind
a couple on an Ohio and Mississippi train,
and It wasn’t tan minutes before I discov
ered that the girl was a village belle who
knew nothiug of the world and that
hercempanion was a traveler who saw
in her a victim. Several others no
ticed them as well, but it was hard to see
how anything could be done. He profess
ed great admiratic for the girl, and she
biushlngly queried:
“But how do I know you are not a mar
ried man?” ,
“Oh but I assure you on my honor tnat
I am not.” „
“Where do you live?”
“Iu Louisville.”
“And you have neither wife nor cull'
dren?”
“No."
At that Instant the conductor came in
with a telegram and called cut the aa
cress. “Tnat s for me,” said the man in
the seat ahead.
It was handed to,, .m, and he was smn
ing as he toreitbpen? Next mcimsnt
he fell forward in a heap and rolled Into
the aisle in a dead faint. Ha f a dozen
of ns, excluding the girl, read the des
natch. It was dated at Indianapolis and
le *Yuur wife and baby burned up with
Ci
the house last night. Come at once.
It took n* a quarter of on hour to bring
him to, and it was half an hour later
wnen be left the train. He had forgot
ten the girl who shared his seat, and she
wvs crouched down and crying like a ba
by.
A Sharp Letter.
A laughable iUlnstration of how anger
causes a man to make himself ridiculous
is given in the following incident, from a
German newspaper:
p.nirAr Rosenthal directed his book
keeper to address a sharp letter to Baron
Y who had promised several times to
pay what he owed, and had as often neg
fppVoi] tO dO BO.
When the letter was written it did not
pleaee Banker Rosenthal, who is very
excitable, and he angrily penned the fol-
l0 “Dear Baron Y: Who was it that
that th’s man was no mo: ta), but a god
come from tbe under world
Then the Wanaertr mounted the char
iot of bronze-that had been m. de ready
for Mm, and gave the word to n arch.
All that night the host marched swiftly,
and at daybreak they camped beneath
the shelter of a long, low hlu. But at the
sunrise tbe Wancerer left the host,
climbed the hill with certain of the cap
tains, and looked forth. Before him was
a great pass in the mountains, ten fur-
ion, s or more in length, and through it
ran the road. The sides of the mountain
sloped down to the road, and were strewn
with recks split by the sun, polished by
the sand, and covered over with bush
that grew sparsely, like the hair on the
limbs of a man. To the left of the meun
tains lay the river Sibor, but nene might
paes between the mountain and the river.
The Wanderer descended from the hill,
and while the soldiers ate drove swiftly
in his chariot to tbe further end of the
pass and looked forth again. Here the
river carved to the left, leaving a wide
plain, and on the p!ain he saw the host
of the Ninebow barbarians, the mightiest
host t! a’, ever his eyes bad looked npon.
They were encamped by nations, and of
each nation there were t wenty thousand
men, and beyond the glittering ca np of
the barbarians he saw the curved ships
ofthe Act a; bb. They were drawn up
upon the beach of the great river, as
many a year ago he had seen them
drawn np on the shore that is by lllioe.
He looked npon plate and pass, on
mountain and river, ard measured the
nun. ber of the foe. Taen all bis heart
was filled with the lust of battle, and hii
warlike cuanlng awoke. For of all
leaders of men he was the most skilled in
the craft of bat:l:, and he desired that
this, his last war, should be the greatest
war cf all.
Tumi jg his horses’ heads, he ga loped
back to the host of Pharaoh and mus
tered them in battlo array. It was but a
little numter as agntest the number of
the barbarians—12,000 sptarmen, 9,000
archers, 2,t 00 riorbeinea, and 300 chariots.
The Wanderer passed up and down their
ranks bidding them te cf good caurage,
for this day they shou d sweep the bar
bari&na from the land.
As he epohe a hawk flew down from tue
right and fell on a heron and slew it ip
mid-air. Tue host shouted, for the H<*wk
is the Holy Bird of Ka, and the Wanderer,
too, rejoiced in the omen. “Look men,”
he cried, “tne bird of Ri has slain Ihe
wandering thief from the waters. And
so shall ye smite the spo-tere from the
sta ’
Then he held counsel with C (plains,
and certaia trusty men were sent out te
the camp of the barbarians. And they
were charged to give an iii report of the
host of Pnaraoh and to say that such cf
it as remained awaited the barbarian
onstt behind tbe she.ter of me hill cn
tbe hither side of “he pass.
the flames and reached tbe ears or mo ^Tne« te watt
women, who, forgetting their rage, ^luug P * - t e * oe into fcho pt^ss, and wiib
one to another in rear. Thus she sang- Mat a part of the spear-
of beauty, which men seek in all women . the archers chariots he hict beneath
and never find, and of the eternall war meni, bni all‘ “ft r *“ tbb hither side
for her sake between the women and tne the shelter oi me mu o
men, which is the great war ofthe world. | of the pass. ^ Emb3sh waa eet and a u
were gene save the horsemen only, his
Tpies came In and told him that tte host
cf the barbariaaB marchea from their
camp but that the Ac se .as marched
nc“ P Dut step, ed by the river to guard
trie camp ana ships. t ‘?srou^h t ,. e
er bade the horsemen ride through the
pass and stand in the p!am beyond and
there await the foe. but when tue hes s
oi the barbarians cuargo- ^tm, tney
must reei before the charge and at length
fly headlong down the puss m uoug
tear. And no hims t womd itau the
fl gnt iu his chariot, and where ho lea
there they should follow.
So tho horsemen rode tbroogn tne pass
and formed thrir squad:uui cn tee p airs
I beyond. Now the toe drew nign, a..a a
blackened faces of the women nor ° n the rto^with girls and eunuchB holding
No'; awnings of ails
did she go alone, for with her came a bide him ^nderer hung back behind
fl*nue^that'burned™SomnrttSng^The J qa f( d l ft ) pre < senU 1 ^tmsent messtngtre
u°eTr en fe 8 a a r W covfri^ftaefr eyes Meri bidding thejaptains of the squadrons to
amun aloAe fell not, but she, teo, muot caarge the fiist nation and f f
cover her eyes because or the Glory of w “‘ e ’ * ut t '®' bl ^ B Worses ’and ^^galiop
Helen and the fierceness of the fl ime saw hi t *“ r “ ^ t0 foUow a f ttr him as
£aar«us jSSsSs
treads. Draw nighi and: ■’J*™? t de hosts of the barbarians taw them
hand° and I would greet him ere he die^’ turn they set np “ “j^^^hargfd^Her
Rei heard her and drew near trembling, ter that rent tne s-i— a
tearing from him the woman’s weeds he them. Wanderer looked back and
nn.fi Rod noward ilk© a cloak of flar. Sli© J them swept ihe hosts of t q., .
le Tnen 8 he“‘led her to the chariot, while the foe, sy, until the half of the fi^t^of
fear° ^he^ounLd^he^bariot, and he ‘pMhat hSTb^twIen the hill andl the
t he, bounded forward and were lost in all the
^But Meriamun cried in Uerwrath: horsemen shouted alcud^ At tee^ h^st
‘•The Witch is gone—gone with 1 flash bjhold irom behina ev y
own servant, whom she hsth led astray. I bush of the mountai fliah
Brins chariots, and let horsemen come I helms of armed men. At the , fceD
with the chariots; for where she passes, I there cam ®?taird flishofthe gold*
there I will follow, ay. to the ena of the quivMS, andi at the_teird tte
world and the coast of D .ath. flVhto&wwm As the sea birds on a
I lonelv isle awake at the cry of tne sailor
CHAPTER XXV. an d wheel by thousands from their lofty
On the very night of the burning of the tfgjgSgfi&Sf Wd^n"^
Shrine of Hathor, the hoot of Pharaoh I r ^ l hed do wnward on the toe, r »tUingllke
marched forth from On to do battle with apon their harness. F•**' *
host marched, the captains came to the I b^s cj^riots, maddsned with
Wanderer, according to the command of “ pandBj plunged this way that.
Pharaoh, and placing their hands in his, breaking their ranks and trampling the
swore to do hU bidding on «J^mewer“fa?n to fly bock*
and In the buttle. They brought him the an empty chariot was dragged
great block bow of Eurytus and his keen ^ way and that, bat-ver thepltllMS
aien, wniuu w ’
And thus her soug ended:
Will ye briu? Ilnme to burn my shrine
Who am mjself a liame,
bring death to lame this charm oi null-:
That death can never tame?
Will ye bring fire to harm my head
Who am myself a tire,
Briug vengeance for your lovers dead
Uyon the world’s desire'.'
Nav women while the earth endures
Your loves are not your own,
They love you not, these loves of yours
iielen they lov e alone I
My face they seek in every face,
Mine eyes in yours tin y see,
Tney do nut toy with you a space,
And rise and fo.low
sword of bronze, Euryoms- gm, g^nerththe gale of death,
many a sheaf of arrows, and his heart I tde i r mighty host of the Ninebows
ijrssts's.'SHs ssasrastesMB
Cu, my dew Baron—you are the man. Aie last time It sang B ^ily of shelter of the hil‘, and, followlng afte
— ——*—* “■*” he The captains heard the song of the I they charged down upon thoseibar
how, thongh what it said the Wanderer borians who ^had PJ-- •“bush’
knew alone, for to their ears R eam® mH B ® Among those nigh the mouth
as a faint, keen cry, like the cry of one char„eo b the nation of
who drowns in the water g r “at man, black and terrible
wndir, Md s e 5d“one toMother to see. ihe Wanderer drew his bow, the
Who was it that promised, then, to set
tle on the 1st of March? You, my dear
Baron. Who was it that didn’t settle on
the 1st of March? You, my dear Barra.
Who Is it, then, who has broken his word
twice and Is an unmitigated Ecoundrei?
Your obedient servant,
Moees Rosenthal.”