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LAST OF THE FASCAGOULAS. An Indian Legend From the Shore* of the Gulf of Mexico. An Indian legend of the Pascagoulas Is told by the fishermen and oyster men down on the shores of the gulf of Mexico. A point reaches out Into the gulf near the mouth of the Pascagoula riv er. The pine trees on it come almost to the water's edge, and between lies a strip of white sand; across a marsh, a border of light green swaying and rustling grasses and beyond u gray cypress swamp the hanging moss of the trees swaying In the wind. To the south the blue waters of the gulf stretch away, with little waves lap sing on the chalk white clam shells of the shore. There In the evening during the short twilight one hears soft music, as 1f If were the notes of a violin, insist ent. changing, sweet It is tlie song of the Pascagoula*. I.ong years before the PnscagouWi Indians had lived upon this point. The white men. the Spaniards, came In number*, and with them the hostile warriors of other tribe*, to make war and to drive the Pascagoula* out of the country. Coming from the Inland, the enemy took away all chance of fight and hedged them in on the point The Pascagoula* fought for days and nights in tlie dark pine woods against outnu mitering foes. Then they saw that all was useless, that they could not overcome, and starvation stared them in the face. The Pascagoula* called a council of the trllte and talked long together. To give themselves up meant lives of slavery or death, and to tight to the last man was to leave the women and children to the mercy of the white men and their allies. The next morning the Pascagoulas put on all their paint aud trappings and burned their wigwams. The men, women and children slowly, deliber ately, unflinchingly backed step by step Into the water behind them, sing ing. Not one faltered. They died with their faces toward their enemies, brave and free, and now in the even ing when the wind blows over the marshes the pines aud grasses sing the song of the Pascagoulas.—New York Past THE LAND OF WORSHIP. The Eet Believes Too Utterly to Cere if Others Disbelieve. Prayer pervades the east. Far off across the sands when oue is travel ing iu Hie desert one sees thin min arets rising toward the sky. A desert city is there, it signals its presence by this mute appeal to Allah. And where there are no minarets in the great wastes of the dunes, in the eter nal sileuce, the lifelessness that is not broken even by any lonely, wandering bird, the eatnels are stopped at the ap pointed hours, the poor and often rag ged robes are laid dowm and the brown pilgrims prostrate themselves iu pray er. And the rich man spreads his car pet and prays, and the half naked nomad spreads nothing, hut he prays too. The east Is full of lust and full of money getting and full of bartering and full of violence, but it is full of worship—of worship that disdains con cealment, that recks not of ridicule or comment, that itelieves too utterly to care if others disbelieve. There are in the east many men who do not pray. They do not laugh at the man who does, like the unpraying Christian. There is nothing ludicrous in prayer. In Egypt your Nubian sailor prays in the stern of your dababiyeh. and your Egyptian boatman prays by the rudder of your boat, and your black donkey boy prays behind a red rock in tlie Band, and your camel man prays when you are resting in the noontide watch ing the faroff. quivering mirage, lost in some wayward dream. And must you not pray, too. when you enter certain temples where once strange gods were worshiped in whom no man now believes?—Robert Hk-bens iu Century. Scared fc> Frcgs. It is said to be owed to the frogs of western Australia that that part of the empire is English and not French. About 1800 a party of prospective French colonists landed on the west coast of Australia, but on the first morning they were alarmed by the loud croaking of the frogs, which they took for demons, and retired with all speed to their ships. Western Austra lia might bpve preferred the frog to the swan as her emblem, just as Rome might have preferred, instead of the eagle, the goose that saved the capital. In His Line. “I’m surprised that you should be so interested in watching those silly dudes.” “Force of habit, 1 guess. I’m presi dent of a real estate improvement company.’’ “Well?” “Well, they're a vacant lot.*—Phila delphia Tress. Circumstances are Deyond the con trol of man, but his conduct is in his own power.—Beaumont ‘HUMBLED THE PRINCESS.* Fall cf a Dusky Beauty Frcm the South Sea Islands. One night .John Sharp William*, while a student at Heidelberg, tier many, was in attendance upon a swell function at which the guest of honor was a dark skinned princess alleged to hall from One of the south sea is lands. Till* princess was magnificent ly bedecked and be jeweled, and her warm olive complexion, set ofT by a mass of black, kinky hair, full red lips, snow white teeth and black, sparkling eyes, made her the center of the function. The masculine-like Germans swarmed about her like bees around a honeysuckle vine, and even Dutch femininity could not discount the charm of her manner or the beauty of her persop. John Sharp was introduced, of course, and Immediately upon obtain ing a near view of the princess (?> bis southern Instincts rose to tlie surface and his southern blood began to boil. Watching his opportunity, be managed to get to the beauty's elbow. Then, re ducing his voice to a low, but perfect ly audible key, he sent into her star tled ears this alarming query; “Look here, nigger, where did you come from?” Panic stricken and with all her self possession scattered, the alleged prin cess turned upon her Interrogator as she heard the familiar Intonation of the southerner and looked into his tin relenting face. Then she stammered: “Kum South Onroliny. boss, hut for de laiwd's sake don’t tell it.” Whether John Sharp respected tiie pitiful plea of a southern negress in a faraway land and permitted her to continue her bold Imposition upon the credulous Germans the story does not tell. But the fact remains that the “princess” realized that she was in the presence of one who. from intimate knowledge of her race, had divined her African origin, and she could only throw herself on his mercy.-Biloxi Herald. THE BASTILLE. Men and Methods In the Famous Old French Prison. The Bastille as a prisou was appar ently better kept and cleaner than either Ricetre or the Chatelet, and im prisonment within its walls did not, it would seem, dishonor the prisoner or his family. A great many prisoners were charged as mad. and under this elastic term the violent maniac, the ambitious madman, the young spend thrift. the megalomaniac, the ronchcr for the philosopher's stone or the se cret of perpetual motion all these tiresome persons might be and were included. How, then, did these prisoners live? In the underground cells or dungeons, as in the cells in the towers, the prison ers were on bread and w ater, as a rule. In the other rooms in the main build ing three meals were served a day, with drinkable wine—“vin potable.” In cer tain cases, according to the quality and distinction of the prisoner, he might supplement the meager furni ture of his prison and get a provision of books. Very favored persons were allowed their own servaut if be would consent voluntarily to undergo con finement. Voltaire began to write the ‘•llenriade” as prisoner in the Bastille; Ablie Morellet of the Encyclopedia speaks of the great fortress as the cradle of his fame, but we must re member that it was perhaps not ad visable to say much about the Bastille when you were still living within its wails and that, as M. Mouin has re minded us, ‘‘the old Spartans offered sacrifices to fear.” Prisoners, more over, had to sign on their release an elaborate declaration by which they swore never to divulge, directly or in directly, anything they might have learned as prisoners concerning the Bastille.—Mrs. Frederic Harrison in Nineteenth Century. A Fyat Fcr Blondin. “Speaking of the straight and nar row path,” said a congressman, “re minds me of a story about a man 1 knew in Chicago who stayed very late at a dinner at the club. When he came out he started to w’alk in the middle of the street. “ ‘Hey, John.’ said a friend who met him as he was making the best of his way along the car tracks, ’why don't you walk on the sidewalks?’ “‘Walk on the sidewalks?’ snorted John. ‘l>o you think I'm Blondin?*” Saturdsy Evening Post. An Idea of Business. “Does your titled son-in-lav know anything about business?” “Well.” answered Mr. Cumrcvx doubtfully, “he has had a lot of ex perience with promissory notes, and he knows Low to get a check raised.”— Washington Star. The Lightweight Champion. Simpkins—You say that little man was formerly the lightweight cham pion? Timkins—Yes. Simkins—How did he lose the title? Timkins—Oh. he didn’t lose it. He merely sold his gro cery and retired.—Chicago News. To feign a virtue is to have its oppo site vice.—Hawthorne. ARE YOU SATISFIED TO FACE THE FUTURE with its uncertainties without endeavoring to provide protection for those who have been entrusted to your care? 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