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'HOBSCN'S RECEPTICN.
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sTriumphal Entry Into the Amer
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SILENT TRIBUTE PAID AT FIRRT.
Officers and Men Gazed In Admiration st
! the White Faced Young Officer—Then
: Came Three Cheers—Redheaded, Red
Faced Soldier Leaped, Shouting, Into
the Road and Broke the Spell—The
Jackies Rode In an Ambulance.
‘With the rifle pits behind him filled
svith thousands of the enemy, with the
rifle pits before him filled-with thou
sands of his friends, Assistant Naval
Constructor Hobson left Santiago on
Thursday, July 7, with his seven com
rades and was delivered into the wel
coming arms of the American army at
Siboney, Cuba. The trail up which they
came was a broad one between the high
banks, with the great trees above meet
ing in an arch overhead. For hours be
fore they came officers and men who
were not on duty in the rifle pits had
been waiting on these banks, sprawling
in the sun and crowded together as
closely as men on the bleaching boards
of a baseball field. Hobson’s coming
was one dramatic picture of the war.
The sun was setiing behind the trail,
and as he came up over the crest he was
outlined against it. Undera triumphal
arch of palms the soldiers saw a young
man in the uniforin of the navy, his
face white with the prison pallor as
his white duck, and strangely in con
trast with the fierce tan of their own,
and with serious eyes, who looked down
at them steadily. For a moment he
seemed to git motionless and then the
waiting band struck up ‘‘ The Star Span
gled Banner.”” A strange thing it was
that no one cheered or shouted or gave
an order, but every one rose to his feet
slowly, took off his hat slowly, and
stood so, looking up at him in absciute
gilence. It was one of the most im
pressive things I ever saw. Nonoise nor
blare nor shouted acclaim could have
touched the meaning or the depths of
feeling there was in that silence.
Then a redheaded, red faced trooper
leaped down into the road and shouted,
*‘Three cheers for Hobson!’’ The men
roared and cheered: The rough riders
gave a cowboy yell, and officers with
sons of their own in West Point leaped
up and down, and a foreign attache
threw up his helmet into the air. Hob
son rode down between the lines, rais
ing his cap and smiling doubtfully.
Probably no one ever received reward
so swiftly cr from such worthy hands
as those of the men who first taught
him what he was to his countrymen.
They were no seekers after celebrities.
That will come later. They were men
instead, who knew a brave man, be
cause they were brave. They had won
the very ground he was on from the
enemy. It had cost them the loss of
1,800 comrades. They came running
from the trenches with rifles, from the
'lake where they had been washing
w©lothes. They charged up the hills of
San Juan a second time and surrounded
them in a shouting, happy mob. Be
‘hind him rode two Spanish officers who
'had been taken beyond the lines only to
find no one to exchange for them. They
gat on their horses, blindfolded with
‘“first aid to the wounded’’ bandages,
and listened to the tribute the Ameri
oans paid their young countryman.
There is always something humor
ous about the jackies, and after the
serious, earnest face of Hobson it was a
comic relief to see six obstinate mules
dragging an ambulance loaded with
seven clean, smart bluejackets, grin
ning, shouting, rolling over each other
in glee. Every one who had started to
run after Hobson stopped to cheer them,
but they were turned aside from cheers
by the enlisted men shouting, ‘‘Say, but
you sea fellers did not do a thing to
them the other night.*’
i ‘“‘Say, we Leard you; see?’’ yelled the
jackies. ‘“‘Your shellsfell right into our
hospital yard.”” ‘‘Say, but we wished
‘we was with you; see?”’ ‘‘They come
in dead in carts.’”’ ‘‘You could not see
the street for them.’’
It was no time for choosing similes.
‘Men were standing on the rising banks
iand the hills, waving hats and shout
ing. Officers were shouting Hobson's
name. Photographers were leaping
about, perpetuating a moment. It was
the same story all the way to Siboney.
Every little group of soldiers they came
moross stood at attention at the unusual
lsight of & navy uniform. When they
anognized the men, they waved their
ats and cheered.
. Hobson was the first officer I have
‘seen saluted in six days. They have
been too busy to salute. Before he came
Ethe Seventy-first New York was mend
ing a road, but the men gave a yell
i‘when they saw him and rushed waist
high through the river and stopped the
valcade while they mobbed him, shook
h his hands at once and gave him
three cheers. As he rodealong they told
him some things that had happened
swhile he had been in jail and how in a
day he had become a national hero.
+ It was_the most wonderful ride a
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to ride throgugh the enemy’s country
guarded by your own countrymen; on
every side to hear cheers and approval;
at every step to know your work was
done, and well done; to know the weary
days in jail were over; to feel the situ
ation and see the great mountain peaks
and royal palms bending benediction
under a soft blue sky.
Best of all, when he rode through the
twilight and reached the coast and saw
again in the offing the lights of the flag
ship, his floating home, and then from
her across the water came the jubilant
cheers of the bluejackets, who could not
even see him, who did not know him,
but who cheered because he was com
ing, because he was free.—Richard
Harding Davis in New York Herald.
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: PERSONAL CHATS.
Colonel William J. Bryan carries a
sword eight inches longer than the or
dinary weapon. :
John C. Shaffer of Evanston, Ills.,
has presented to the Northwestern uni
versity of that city a marble bust of
the late Miss Frances E. Willard.
At 72 years of age J. H. Twirs of In
dependence, Kan., bas had his left leg
amputated by surgeons. Four years ago
he lost his right one in the same way.
Mrs. Julia Clark of Dallas is a sur
vivor of the days of 1849 in California.
She was the only woman in the gold
hunting party which left New Crleans
in July of that year.
Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson, who
died in Scotland a week or so ago, was
Robert Louis Stevenson’s companion on
the famous ““inland voyage,’’ and was
the ‘‘dear cigaret’” on the dedication
page, ;
The first work done by J. T. Hatfield,
late professor of German at the North
west university, after becoming a com
mon seaman on the United States steam
ship Yale at $l9 per month was scrub
bing the decks.
The empress of Austria, at one time
the most beauntiful woman in Europe, is
described now as pitifully thin and
worn, prematurely aged and losing her
interest in outdoor sports, of which she
was once passionately fond.
Ex-Secretary Richard W. THompson
of Indjana is the one man in the United
States who has seen all the presidents
save Washington and known most of
them personally. He was a member
of congress as far back as Tyler’s pres
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to de war anyway. —Vim.
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THE SACRED FIRE.” '
A Legend ef the Worship of the Natchez
Indiaus,
In the belief of the Natchez Indians
the extinguishing, from whatsoever
cause, of the ‘“sacrad’”’ or‘‘cternal” fire
which had been maintained from time
immemorial in their temple would be
followed by a great mortality among
tha *‘Suns’’ or royal family of the na
tion, who had been their hereditary
chiefs, as they declared, since the re
mote and legendary period when a mys
terious, shining personage who gave his
name to their ancestors ‘‘The,’’ mean
ing “‘Thou,’” had descended from space,
or from the sun, and after founding the
royal family of ‘‘Suns,”” of which he
himself was the first, had commanded
them to keep ever burning in a temple,
called the temple of the Sun, a fire
which he himself ignited, and which
should be forever kept burning from
the original fire in memory of, him.
There was no custom of the Natchez
that was more religiously attended to
than this of maintaining the ‘‘eternal
fire”’ unimpaired, as ‘“The’’ had given
it to their ancestors, as they constantly
dreaded the misfortunes and afilictions
to the nation predicted by ‘““The’’ if
they allowed the fire to become extin
guished. Death was to be the portion
allotted to any of the guardians of the
temple who might allow the fire to go
out. Le Page du Pratz relates a strange
story, told him by one of the old men
of the nation, to the effect that on one
occasion a watcher of the fire went to
sleep at his post in the temple, and
waking discovered that the ‘‘eternal
fire’’ was extinect.
Terrified at the thonght of the death
that awaited him because of his negli
gence, he sought to conceal his guilt by
relighting the fire with what the
Natchez deemed ‘‘profane’ fire, since
it was not the ‘‘sacred’’ fire that had
first been lighted so many centuries be
fore by the hands of the mysterious
““The.”” Accordingly the guardian asked
an Indian passing by to bring him a
few coals wherewith to light his cal
umet. This was done, and the fire was
stealthily relighted from the coals by
the guardian, who, however, kept the
dread secret to himself. Then followed
the threatened trouble.
‘“Thus,”’” said the old man who relat
ed the circumstance to Mr. Le Page,
““this fire was rekindled with profane
fire. Immediately the sickness overtook
the ‘Suns.” They were seen to die one
after the other in a few days, and it
was necessary to send after them to the
country of the spirits many of the pec
ple to wait on them. This mortality
lasted four years, without any one being
able to assign a cause for it. Nine
‘Great Suns’ who succeeded each other
died in this interval, and an infinitude
of the people died with them.”” Fortu
nately—so runs the story told by the
old man—the guilty guardian himself
fell sick. Feeling that he could not re
cover he summoned the ‘‘Great Sun’’ of
the nation in all haste and confessed to
him all that had occurred in the matter
of the extinguishing of the eternal fire
through his negligence in having gone
to sleep. He added that unless the er
ror were rectified the entire nation
would perish. Happily, the ‘‘sacred’’
fire lighted by ‘‘The’’ was not utterly
lost to the Natchez, for they possessed
another temple which also contained
fire which ‘‘The’’ had kindled. The
profane and evil working fire was ex
tinguished and a new flame was kindled
from the genuine fire in the other tem
ple. Theculprit gnardian duly died and
then the dreadful mortality that was
carrying off the Natchez by tens of
thousands became a thing of the past,
to the great joy of the nation.—New
Orleans Picayung, R
There Was no Fatted Calf,
An Atlanta man went to Macon the
other day to enlist in the 3rd immune
regiment, stating tha' he prefered taking
Lis chances with Spanish bullets to liv
ing with his mother-in-law. After tak
ing a meal of hardtack and fat bacon
he sneak:d b: ck;and cow he is uot an im
mune, but is under the eagle eye of the
old lady, who will doubtless make it
v ry interesting for the returned prodi
gal, 1t may be safely put down that
there was no fatted calf business on the
prcgramme| when he returned. He may
have been seen from a far oft, and some
one may have fallen on his neck but it
was not the motber-in-law,} and she
doubtle & gave it to him right in the neck.
He is now, no doubt, both a wiser and
sadder man, His example and fate
should be a warning to others who may
contemplate escaping from their moth
er-in-law by going to Cuba to be shot
Wy the ‘“‘Spaniards.”
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The defendant was startled, for he
had always supposed his lawyer to be
an honorable man, but the latter ex
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good natured, and the jury box was
small anvwe - - Vim
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