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VOL. XVIII.
ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY MORNING AUGUST 31 1886
LOUP 6AR0U.
V A STORY OF THE GULF SWAMPS.
By Maurice Thompson, Author of "A Legend of
IhaWlill*/' Hodson's Hide Out," "Ho«wfcr
Mosaics," "The Witchery of Archery,"
etc., etc.
* Copyrighted 1836, by S. S. McClure.
Secicts. of which naturalists havo not dream
cd, lurk in the great dark swamp* of tho south.
Mystery is always fascinating and never more
so than when It is hedged with physical bar
xiers. DeSoto and Ponce Do Leon were not
the first men to feel the strange influoncoof
to Teach his destination, was shipwrecked and
cariitd to western South America/ bad a long
illness and many other hindrances, so that it
wssi the old'timed year and a day before ho
Appeared, weary and travehworn, but still full
of fight at his dear old plantation home, and
began to look about for Tonlmo Do filieu. Of
covno Teulme was not hard to fiud, for no
PRICE FIVE CENTS
wu bl, chagrin, therefore, when upon inquiry
he found Ihet there wa* so male Coupcourt at
hand. Reluctantly enough ho put away hit
sooner waa it raid that Jacquoa Coupcourt had
‘ of too male Do Blioua
those gloomy, Tino-tenglcd and moss-matted
&i '
‘orcsts whose trees stand ankle-deep in utsg-
f at Water and whose very sounds are like
jlb’.e expressions of silence. The rod men
d their legends, from tho remotest sources,
connecting the iwampi with the molt pictur
esque oreatlone of their fancy and imagination.
Iniiiqt,4t la donbtfal if any person who has
■pent much Urns In the low oonntry of tho
aoptjrhss quite escaped* very definite tmpres
s!on of the weird isflnenea exerted by tho
(loom, tho solemnity, the silence and the tan
gled intricacy of those plash/and dismal jam
glee of live-oak, magnolle, cypress, cane and
Spanish moss. The effect on the imagination
ianotelevating, nor la It,exactly speaking, de
pressing. At flret ono It repelled by the flat,
heavy monotony, then follows a recognition of
the awfbl sketch of mystery outlined In tho
shadows, the bewildering tangles and the
funeral depths of those moss-hang aisles, and
finally one’s imagination begins to Had tho
stuff of .Which strange dreamt aro made, ma
terial as Irunhatantlal and airy as tbs bins flint
on tho mountain, bat as gloomy and dismal as
uu Wtu U1UUUUI1U, UUil M
the swamps themselves.
I havo found it very Interesting to study
with ruinate care tho effect thia swamp tafia-
~iave boon born
1 noon persona who ha'
rithin the shadows of those J angle l
I
There is * marked difference bet woe a the
‘Cracker’ of tho pine woods sod the msa of the
swamps. The Utter shows ia hU hollo w cheeks,
In hititUow, withered skin and in his pathetic
ally melancholy eyes the strain of a llfo long
fear, the worry of a gloomy anticipation. I am
quite suic, however, that the swamp*deniz«n is
bat obscurely conscious, If conscious at all, in
most cases, of this torture of a constantly im
pending dread; and yet oven tho children,
playing in cotton-slipped freedom on the
"knees'’ of tho cypress treos, carry unmlstakv
blotmer, of tho hereditary swamp gloom in
Vthefr bloodless faces.'
hi*t *r wtn-njfon ih./ncgco slave
©Id rcitinie that those scowlihg and mUtSOtOf
swamp jungles wrought their inoit posuliar
"" ’ ** ailed crcolo nogross woro
effect*, and tho so-call
like some subtle malaria, crept by night out oi
those damp and almost impenetrable meshes of
tt-etft, vires, moss, water-woods and suffocating
cane-brakes to hover about tbo plantation
cabins. It is trno enough to say that those nc-
but It is quite as truo to record the prevailing
•nd persistent duskiness and desolateness, so
to eprtk. of their superstition. Their songs
wore light, their langhtor as gay as it was an-
mtrftined; bat song and laughter died on the
edge ot the swamp. The quill-blower, that
Pin of the African race, was upon every low-
country plantation, and his "quills," as the
canc joints were called, came from tbo brakos
along the sluggish swamp-rivers; but tho crude
returned than the last
Was in an ocstacr, a very rapture of murderous
emotion. Pistols were examined and knives
put in good alasbing and stabbing order.
This fend between the Do Blien and the
Ccupcoort ftmUfos had, as a matter of aarao,
extendi d to tbeir slave.*; but in the latter case
tlie fightshad usually been very noisy butqulto
bloodless. One instance, however, had varied
ffrin hib family name and tbit ho,the last of
•ibe DeBliens, was. left 'with on t a- future, and
tbe monotony. Far back, in 1857, perhaps, a
De Blicu negro hy tho nemo of Toossant had
killed a Coupcourt negro by the name of Loup-
garou. The fight had taken place in the swamp.
under peculiar circumstances and pine knots
were the weapons used. The two combatants
were run-aways, each having fled to the swamp
were run-aways, each having fled to the swamp
to avoid much merited punishment at the hands
of tbe overseer. They met in the very middle
of tho swamp. “Beet—diabl’ do Coupcourtl”
"Chlen do l’enfer!”
They spoke as nearly as possible each in the
accent and with the manner of his master.«
Each flourished his pine knot, which had.boon
csre/hlfy selected for another pnrpoee—there-
polling of bloodhounds—ana glared at his
ebony-faced opponent
That waa a vigorous if not a graceful duel.-
The parrying was awkward, but the blows
. - ... T —iwamp.
awoke nnd hoot<d, tbo big woodpeckers quit
their drumming to listen to that koavior
pounding.
The two black
_ mself with fishing and sailing. To tell the
whole truth he soon ceased to tbink about tho,
feud and gave himself up to his sloop, his fish
ing tackle, his pun and his dogs, with genuinely
boyish enthusiasm.
Old Tete-cbanvo. the chief, so to speak, of tho
De Biieu negroes, had remained true to nis for
mer owners and had hailed the retnrn of Toulmo
with inch demonstrations of delight as no ono
bnt an aged and loving negro can mako. He
row followed tbe young master of De Blien
place about, as if he could never tire of serving
him. He was a garrulous old fellow, given to
stories of the marvelous and the uncanny.
Tonlmo listened to Tete chanve with an idle
interest. It revived his boyhoods memories
nrd called up again the bunting legend of the
Loup-saron. No matter how lUht hearted the
youngman was, he felt in no indatlnite way the
great change in his old home aud its surround-
itfge. and day by dsy a melancholy as tenuous
Mb t * “ * s
was enough for her happiness that she loved
kte ah^ tkat he lovea her. There was n»
reem for any other passion, sentiment or ex
Ffrience, her heert was full.
•Day after day they met out on the water and
lashing their, little sloops together, drifted
* } ‘ ~ aide, rocking on the gontle waves aod
"■"v mur. ivvj>u>|uu iiid guuww waves nuu
conversing in the low .oft tones of lira. Al<
ways tomowhere botween thorn ami th. horl-
zon fluttered tbs while win,, of tho two birds,
it,» • good onien, thoj argued, till, appart
• ion of a.Pair of bird., pure whico and Insepn-
lo as tne hearts of true lovers, always flit*
■ound or before thorn. Thus the time
? ’ sweetly enough for theso furtively
oven until at lut they were betrothed.
urtcame homo when
expected, and, indeed, when leaet need'
t was obscure grew in hie breast. It was hard
«CA|l6VlVtl| IUIU) 1UUCCU) nucu iBWV lluvtl
He had had a hard time of it, after his
wreck, and ho wee lint tho moro shadow of
•self, scarcely recognizable hr hU mother,
i wholly a stranger to Auais, when he stood
m tho threshold of tbe old house by tho
o gulf-acs. But Jacques Coupcourt had
Isotio of tho spit It of hie fathers. He rub-
euC DeBliens, was left without n ......... _•
•jet ho did, In a fliay, understand that this
wes to.
Mott of the time, however, he was
tt knives in shining order,
i to the end.
fne feud must
V.
r-chnuve. when ho found that his young
with tho arind and waves, coasting abont, now
In tho bight* and cores and now under tho
white sand blank, or anon under tho gloom,
shadow ot the Terre Anx I.onps Qsrous, aa fros
and curlers aa the whlte.capa and thobreose.
Ono day ho taw another sloop, almost exact
ly liko bis own, running close to the wind not
fnrahetd of him. Ho bore down upon it for a
ncc, thinking It a fisherman, bnt aa ha ran
Ftod, grow raolancboly aud ailsnt. Ho
jore.ttories totoll, no moro songs to sing.
% ho did not abandon bis "qnllls,” but tho
it he piped front that rude syrinx wrro as
lrful as the tremulous voico ot tho swamp
icreccb-owl. Hit whole aonl had baoomo th
ru bid in his young master and tho thought of
' befalling him waa tho most distress'
.rhaim ,
I that con Id come to Toto chsuve.
. Ruhliu Do Utlou waa wofhlly torniontod by
the picdicstucnt In which ho now found him-
fighting groi
‘' ft ont In, and *o
to fight _
Thud—thnd!
ao strange that some time passed before Tonlmo
could oollecl himself and batten to the stricken
cmy. It was white and calm. Something in
thoro finely ent features reminded hlnrof Antis
and there esmo a rush of emotion.
It was a groat load, hut Toulmo Do Blien
lifted the heavy form of Jtcquet and bearing it
out of the swamp laid It in the Conpcourt men
tion. Thru, overcome by tho exertion, ho
reeled and fell to the floor tuaenslblo.
Of course uooto in the house knew tho de
tails of what htd happened in tho swamp, but
it wss thought that there had been added an
other link to tho dark chain ot tho family
feud,
It would have been acurlouiand Intonating
study for some realist to havo watched tbe
slowly developed outcome of this atrango
drama, There fir weeks and mouths tho two
young men lay In tho ramo room, painfully
and by lnflniteisiuul degrees convaleiotug.
Toulmo suffered from a nervous fever brought
on by excitement and exhaustion, whilst Jac
ques had concussion of tho brain from a hoary
blow on tbo back of the head.
Anal* waa the nurse to both, and it Is not by
this story to detail huwaho artfully and sweet
ly worked a reconciliation betwoen them. It
eras lore's golden opportunity and loro was
iqoal to tho occasion. Tonlmo’. mother waa
sent for at the beginning and It did not take
long for the womon to becomo friends. This
wrs half the halt!.; tact did the raet.
Loop garou, that meustor of tho iarstnp,
ante in for a full abara of thus happily dosing
ho great fend; but Tonlmo in the deepest re-
(Ml*
the great fend; but Tonlmo In the deepoet
resata of his heart kept the seoret of his better
knowledge, for he knew that the hand of old
Tkto-chtuve, and not that of Lottp-garon, had
wielded that pins, knot on that ever memorable
day. '
A WINGED MONSTER.
Remarkable Midnight Adventure ol a Cali
fornia Traveler,
From the Ventura (Cal.) Free Press.
A newly arrived emigrant, a very respect,
able-looklng man Indeed, giving the name of
Peter B. Simpson, la authority for a story ri
valing the fables of tho Nibolungen Lied, He
says that “ “' —
statement for what
He had removed bit family—a wife and threo
Interesting children—from the Kimerudn
mining country Jn Nevada, and, having an
excellent wagon and good team among bit per-
I, besides some dozen boil ofc.it-
tonul effects, .
tie, concluded, tlmo being no o'jjptq to como
overland to SadIs Barbara county. Of
Lslic. On tbo evoniugof tho loth of July—tho
moon being thcuncur its full—thollttlo ptrty
P»rty.
encamped at the Upper end of thu Izho. about
' luiiowc.t of tlm gjllago. - Mr. "
PULLING FODDER.
AN INTERESTING ARTICLE FROM
BILL 'ARP,
1'lifi Plcaiact and Unpleaiant Bldoor a Farmer** Lifs
-TUe Secret of Sucoeiala In Bela* Willing-
Blaine end tbe Negro at tbe floath-
Nortbern Labor ve. Southern Labor
I i 1 J
mx
Palling fodder looks like' a hard bnalnear.
My tenants get to tho field early whllatho-
grata and the weeds and tho morning glory
vines are all wet with dew, and the ground Is
sticky with moisture. They aro soon wet up
to their knees, and their pants flop ground
their anklca and tho dewdrops fall in tholr
eleerts, bnt they fioti’i. ecem to mind it. By
aud by aa the inn mounts up over them tho
dew disappears, and tbo inltry host comet'
down and there ie no chance for a hroezo in
the low ground corn, bnt still tboy pull away,
and talk and laugh aa marry aa It they worn
haviDga froUa Then thty havo lo Uo it np
and carry It through long rows to tho end of
tho field, and tha big pile of twenty or thirty
bundles la all over hla head and Ms shoulders,
snd he goes bumping along among tho corn-
•talks snd gats the trash all down blj neck
and In bis eyes, but ■till ho don’t mind It, and
brags how many bundles he carried and never
dropped nary one.
There la something mighty cheerful about
willing labor,toll that la contented—sweat that
la no rnne. I conldent pull fudderif I waa will-
lug, bnt .1 am not willing. If l had a step-
ladder and a boy to toto it along from stock to
alock and then waa >0 dew and the sun
was behind a cloud, I might viator* a abort
tow. Bring willing la th* great thing about
labor. Bring willing Is the secret of success
In anything. I heard an old man lay that
any man could quit drinking whisky orehow-
lug tobacco If ho waa williog. Ho mint get
hla own consent tbe first thing and then It is
insy to do.
Itiaaman'e nature to work up oxaclly to
hlitenalon. Hla task must bo dono. Pulliug
fodder la disagreeable, but tho firmer, mind
hat been worked np to that for years aud so it
Is all right. It it a part of his boalnon. We
allttringup our nerns and our will to the
(fusion of our condition, oar necessities. It Is
like tumlng tho screw 011 11 violin to got the
strings up to tbe chord. When thuy
slacken they wont plsy In har-
minty and wo must tighten tho tension
Siam. Dr. Felton lives two mllos from town,
m.u J livo five aud my nabor Woe015 lives tou.
long to him
, livo fivo aud _
dbe doctor's road Is just
pine knots. Thoro was littlo danger of any in
terference; they had tho entiro jungle
id and the rest of thoir lives
Thud—thnd I
e tax of tho Innglo by night, notwithstand
ing the mad lova of music, of area that sim
ple to, t, burning in th* half ttvago breasts of
tho slaves. Tho pan-pipe of th* plantation
save a peculiar aemi classical touch to negro
life. It was,too, a singularly oonstant element
Tvbfiro every other quantity was variable. The
came melody-sketches were fluted from Btyou
Tcche to tbe “bottoms’’ of tho Savannah; hut
each plantation had Its separate and sasred
ngularly fault-
_ - or giving and receiving.
Whin Touatanl’e broad back reeonnded under
Loop.geron'g pino knot, the very next moment
U-o shoulder hf Lonpgaron gsvo forth the
echo of tho noiso. Tho combatante leaped
nimbly about at A rat; but soon they began to
faiL Ten ism it forced l-oup-garou back and
finally bit him on the heu just aa he got
fanglcd between tho pronga of a many-forked
littlo tne.
Poor Loup *aron, that waa tho last of him.
Toussaut deliberately pounded him to iloath
there and then. Bnt Touassnt had not escaped
unhurt. He mutt haveaufi'eredaleslouofthe
action of bis terrible deed upon Ms already
suporatition-tainted Imagination. Atallovanta
whtn he saw that Loup garou was dead he
stood as if rooted to tho spot, glaring horribly.
How still th* swamp waa, how lonely, how
gloomy and strange!
.Sonic days later Toutaant came rushing out
and picturesque) of eome local preternatural
phenomenon connected with the darkest tan
gles of tho nearest swamp; and, to my mlndat
least, this patois, along with the touch of
French realism it alwaya bears, suggest, a
cbarmlcg departure from the broader and
coiner ntgro nature. Still, on tho other hand,
1 that tha creole low-conntry negro la
it la truo
in many wan the Inferior of tho npesuntry
one. Holalem civilised, more savage in his
appetites, posaeesed of coaner passions, moro
easily influenced by externsl things, Ferhaps
it was tho influence of tho swamps that
wrought this difference between th* npcountry
negro and hla constn of th* lowconntry. Tbit
must have been tho ease, for all the slaves sent
Into the far south at lut cune to tho tamo level,
cither in themtelvei or ia their offspring. The
shadows of th* swamps got Into tholr Imagin
ations. The masters, especially those of Pro
vencal origin, were touched with the same
taint of superstition. Indeed, th* alavea may
have caught it from thoir owners. In a certain
degree, or the reverse miy have been the ease,
' for even the speech of tho negro had begun
to perceptibly effect tha parity of that of hit
master, before th* advent of freedom. I men-
iif the swamp into tho negro quartets, all hag-
i - ■ (de-cyed, flourishing tho pins knot
gird ind wl w ,
•nd crying; “Loupgarou! Loupgaron!"
And ho fell down and died In awful agoooy.
That cry “Loup garon, Loup garou,’’ took
Arm hold on tho hearts of tho plantation no-
one fieud grew many, and so tha awtmn got the
nsmo of Terre Anx Lonpe Otroni. No negro
would enter that haunted region If ho could
help It, especially a Do Blleu negro, for fear of
the terrible bring that had cruelly
Tt *
tlon provencal planters, became there were a
au around tho gulf coast and
them WSHBHSISSBHIIBSB
especially were their number noticeable in the
southeastern anglo of tho Miteimippi to the
palmieet daya of slavery, or abont th* tlmo
whsn the feud between theConpconrta and the
De Bllem. two old and mighty families, was at
its highest pitch of bitterness sad deadlines*.
Since the cloae of tha war many of th* old
plantation* in that great swamp region have
been wholly deserted aad nothing remain, to
tell where they onoe were save a young growth
«f close-set treos and th* scattered raim of
mansions and negro-quarter*. Too Do Blleu
aid Csupconrt find ended ia tha year IK
Jut at Inagreatatam of war h*d>t fast ceased
in the npcountry. It ended very etranjely
ard, aa befitted tha predicament, with a singu
larly dramatic coop do main in the very heart
ot the iwamp known at tho Torre Anx Leaps-
Carom.
IL
lion
It dees not matter, ao iar aa this story g:
whtn or why or how tha tioopconrt-Da B!l
fend began. Suffice it to say thal
decade immediately preceding th* ono critic
that I am about to describe, no year pstiod
without on* or mors Altai meetings between
numbers of tho waring families. At last the
- only male representatives left above earth to
Jririethe feud, were two yanng mea, Tealoe
DcIBlieu aad Jacques Conpcourt, both of whoa
*» Frannsatachool when tholr respective
f*****”’ already grown old, met, fought and
kUltAticb other with dao dignity and nerve.
Of courtsTtulmeand Jacques, upon receipt
of a detailed account of thia narrate! conflict
auditotragicending, hastened backto Missis-
aippi with hearts homing for revenge. Trains
wooM m 1 Jacques and Jacques trooW kill
?*>■«.whlchwnoidaMthathad. laaythat
both battened hack, hot, in feci, Jacques &Uod
meeting the tcrribla bsint, ..... ...
tieatsn and mangled poor Toussaut. It might
b ato been very different if Toumnt bad been
til# to explain; but ho mu anted beyond soy
power of connected ipeech. He canid do no
moro than glare with his wild b!ood*shot eye*
and cry aloud: “Loup garou, Loup garou!”
Such s death m bo died could not fail to leave
a deep impression In tho minds of Tousssnt’s
ccropnninns. Ever afterward it was meotiuaed
with bated breath snd with awo-insnired ges
tures.
The Term Aux Loops Garou* became, in tbe
imagination of tbs nogrors, a demon-land in
which bad congregated all tho goblius and
devils of earth and of the nether regions.
So things were when Toulmo DeBiieu, a
mere jouth of 20, returned from France to the
old Do BUeu place.
Ths Coupccnrt mansion stood upon an airy
bluff overlooking a wide roarab-meadow*nd a
blue space of the Golf of Mexico. It was a
large, roughly built wooden house, surrounded
by a broad veranda and cut into four equal
patta by two wide balls crossing each other at
iks and msgno<
right angles. Immense livo oal
■ ided it.
lias abided it. sub tropical flowering plants
snd vines grew around snd over it—it hid it*
senppernong vineyard—its orange grove—ita
pecan trees—Jts peach orchard and its tropical
vegetable garden. Across the marsh-meadow,
from tbe house to the gulf, ron a natural canal,
as deep and straight as if cut by man, betide
which steed an old boat shed. AUttiosloop
... ?}* #n aaj3 *t°n was the coanterptrt
of Its neighbor. Betwoen them lay the great
black swamp— tbe Terro Anx Loap-gsrans.
— * * * Br
Frtm one place to tbe ether, although n
t.nce a »• several milts, the shrill qaiH-muIe
of i ivel it,ro pipers could bo hour.!, when (ho
Unti l r wos very fzvorabie. S> the eon*, of
the care cuttere would meet on tho half way
guard and struggle and die in the s vamp.
Toulmo Do Blien found a treat change in
things at the De Biieu place when he return* 1.
He had hern away seven years, the war hzi ia-
terviccd.and now freedom wee proclaimed to
the (laves upon tho cloriug echoes of the war,
Bla father end ell hla brother* wero doad.
Slaters ha bad not, and his mother wee growing
vtiy feeble for one of her age. He looked over
the plantation and found it badly run to weeds
slocgaidr, near enough to havo tossed nil
oranse Into It, ho taw a beautiful yoitmtcirl at
UieheJm. For a tpsco the two littlo sloops
sped side by tide, tholr aaila alantlag in
l-nrsllcl lines, tho white wlspi of foam ahlnlng
their dipping gunwales, whilo just ahead
ItlloTO t
snowy sea birds. Yonder on one band was the
dreary old swamp, on tho othorlay tho beauti
ful boeom of tlio guir, rialng and falling like
that of a sleeper.
Tonlmo Do Blleu felt exhilaration thrill
through hla heart. Thote largo aof, oyes
"id those half-
wuimrd his blood liko wine am
parted lips seemed to lend their pare sweet-
nrs. Into tho most isorod nooks offals can-
stlontness.
So side by side rped the boats and wing by
»rso thia
wing led on the anowy birds. Of course
Cl uld not hut, Tho beautiful girl adroitly put
her boat abont and started on the other traqk;
Tiolme could not honorably follow, 10 ho hope
on, lot he watched the little aril, aa a child
watches a star, until it passed behind the head
land beyond Terre Anx Lonps-Claroni, then he
sighed and smllid as one who feel, a rara new
joy tingling through every nerve.
IV.
B What a picture a young man’s heart can
make of two boats and two blrda, with hlmiel ’
In one boat and a waiden sweet and beautlfu
in the other.’ The whole of all lovely and
fuicinatlng romance Is crowded into tho sketch,
Ah, youth and love, a tea breeze, a bine iky, a
cool, foam-touched reach oftalt water, an ex-
clacroef eyebeams and then follow, a world
of bliss crowded Into a dream.
ly prize, and,shy as tha maiden wae, aomehoi
l*cr staunch little craft felt^often la bis way.
All love etorict are alike and they are all
delicious. Hearts are blown together by all
icrts of winds hot the contact it ecstatic In
every Instance. Th» older grows tho .lory,
the diopcr becomes it* paasiooate hold upon
the great heart of the world.
got* away to enjoy wide liberty unler to.
new regime.
Tonlme wae a youth of flue pretence, of good
Impale* sadboltleeemanners; bathe frit that
hit fiat doty wttto kill a Coupcourt. Great
Tonlme ttd A nets became Invert beftre they
knrw that It west renewal of the Shakepear-
«n story—before the dreamed that he wae
Roaro or he inspected that she was JultetU-
Ttt so It war, tha children of the rival house
holds had exchanged hearts.
Old Tete-cbanve shook his big bald head and
locked gloomy when by ebane* he discovered
how matter* stood. He frit at one* how ter
rible might he th* end, aad slthoogb his klud
heart warmed towerd th* eweot yonog girl, h*
coold not help witbiog that hit master had
never seen her.
When at length Tonlme found out who Me
eweetbeart waa it wu too 1st* for him to tara
abont. 8b* bold Mm bit la hor lovely net,
loet beyond hop* of oiespo. As for Assig
Ccnpcort, the icarcely wasstartlc-l bv the die
'red Tonlme De Blleu, It
covcry that she Iotk
self. He very much desired. In pnrsuanco o'
the finally habit, to kill thia last rcmalnln(
it was _
hU mother waa very anxiona that he ahonll
uliaiidon tho fend and abandon Auais as well,
fn hit distress he went to old Teta-ohinve for
advice.
root old negro, ho did not know what to lay.
For once in his llfo ho was without au expe
dient In thu face of an exigency. He itood
hslo of white wool—bowed In porptcxlty and
tlltncc, 'Toulmo turned away.
That very day JacqucajCoopcourt held along,
bitter conference with hla alster Aunts. 8ho
pleaded iwltlr him eloquently, tenderly,
i urncatly, for eome promise of safety for hor
Inver, but In vain. Jacques was inexorable.
Ho denounced liar ss|-i traitor to hor family—a
liter dispalr.
About tbie time great excitement arose
smong the uegrocs on lioth e.'.atas on acconut
of certain sights and sounds In the sarsmp it-
uLcn nil utru liiunOly ricoping bVnoit
covorcd wagon, Mr, .Simplon rnya he wet
;aackcned by a tarrihlo commotion, which
mmed tocomc from out In the lake. Tucro wrs
an an ful roaring, ho said, like tho muttering
of distant thunder, aocompanled hyaiiciullzr-
ty hud, fudiacribahlyhbalcguoiio. Ofourw
(Mr. Bimpton rose at one* and seized Jil. Win
chester, bnt ho could tee nothing, nr oat
In tbo lake waa what teamed to bo a black
cloud, nnd below It tho water wu aoothlug
and boiling.
fleeing nothing to alarm him Mr. Simpson
again aonghthla blanket, but no aooner had
ho settled to stoop than thoro wu a great
rushing through tho sir u of mighty wing),
and ho
1 him, hut our
iots of symp.-i-
i* toiry for lotmbcdy bty
sympathy if wnsftitl Tm
thy stutfd in this world, but It .hows „
hcuit to bnvo tt. As tho bunion is so the
uigtli .hull bo. If labor Is rewarded it fs
niJ right. Howland *y* ho don’t mind pull
ing fedder at all If ft don’t got wet and spoil In
the curing. Contentment Is whnt wo all want,
and tho poor loan tan ho as contented >s the
rich ono If bla labor Is* re
warded-* reasonable reward, Thou
ft willing labor. Tho watchman goes
and tbo wagon wu lifted bodlfr from tho
tied about twenty yards out Into
, making tho wired* a
ground carried about twenty yards out Into
wreck. There was an Immnuu atom
ptdo of stock, aud tho terrified family arou
at once front their rccombont positions, but
they only uw tholr stock scattering over
rho plain uud a dark form whining tho air
iu^the iliitance, Tka noiu of rushing wlrigi
tributed to a n vlval of sctlvltlu by the spirit
^ * ••• ghi
if tho orlpinal Loup garou. Indeed the „
of tbe slave ruurdoroaso long ago wm seen,
pine knet In hand, aad atraugo cries had bun
hi urd.
Tete ebanve wu exceedingly disturbed and
lugged Toulmo to ccuo going into tbo iwamp
tohuntdm and turkey; but oloounatha
’ to the negro's fairl.
young man save no hood
Foetlbly Tcte-cbanvc, knowing that Jacques
Coupcourt wu also shooting In the iwtmp, bid
nioredreid of tho two hunt.m.u meeting
t heu of any danger to bit young muter from
Loup-g.rou. 8UI1 superstition wu Ingrained
•o deep In his nature that nothing short of
cron the limit of Terr* Aux Loupe Gamas,and
he wu doubly allvo to the great risk hu
nisi ter wu taking. Tha many tragedies Hi
which the De Bltens and tho CjnpconrU had
teen chief actors were nut to far In th* past
that Teti-chaure'a memory wu not full of
them.
VL
Ono day Jacques wu wandoriag in tbe
ramp with a gun on hit ubouldor darkly
busying hlmaelf with thou thought* of von
l cance which lately had occupied the who!* of
hi. mind. Suddenly, In some obicart way, he
became aware that be wu bring followed
•tealtbily by some light-footed, wary being.
He tamed abont, bnt uw no one, Again and
again this happened.
Jacques wu a. man of strong nerves, and,
help thinking ofth*
although he coold not
legend of Izmp-garou, ho fall quite sure that
nospirit, bnt a being of Huh and ' *
. ... blood, wu
dogging bla fcot-sten*. lie triad many shrewd
tom* to outwit aad discover hi* pursuer, all to
no avail.
It wu ia th* midst of this eurloni experience
tbst tbo oyu of Jacqnei Conpcourt foil upon
Toulmo Ds Blleu a littl* “ "
. way offinth* swamp.
Instantly the devil of mnrdor took full pons*-
•loo of Jacques’s heart aud ha forgatevery-
tbiag (a th* deriio to clay his enomy. if*
deliberately raised hie gun, buthefort he could
noiictes-,
grin and again he caught
bound, Jacques g|!
eager punalL A| _
ulimrae of bla enemy through chase* rifts In
tbadana* folleg*. Bat aven during thliex-
clilsghunthe wuall the time conscious of
foot step* behind him, Porbsps this Mon ol
being panned by an Invitihle person urged
him on more rspidly end fiercely. Bo this u
it may, he sprang along through tbo swamp
with burning eyes and fitreely hissing breath.
vat all uncaniciooi of
bis danger, standing w ith hi* hack to th* uus-
tin snd bat a rod or two distent.
Then came a great burn cry that treat bel
lowing through tbs swamp, accompanied by
10 aonna of a crushing Maw.
Tsulm* turned jost la time to tee Junta
Conpcourt ftll hndlany, while a dark, skulk-
lr* Ispr* glided away lato tha densest corst
of a btake. The right wu ao npexpactad and
eontioued, growing fainter. Than all wu
For u moment Mr, Blmpaon thought that he
had encamped in the. path of a cyclone.
Thoroughly btwlldarod, with, rid* ia band,
be stood listening intently to tho great allenc*
vlilib hung upon the desert, when from ont
that .Hence there arou afar off the sound of*
great cinfllt-t. l’cter B, fllmpion is a brave
man, fur aenm tbo duett be followed that
►omul. It teemed u though fifty tattering
rams wero rattling together against tho
nulled sides of loma moated fortress.
Arriving at the summltof * law knoll, Ur.
Bimpton Mined and gazed down Into a little
valley below him—and over all th* eoeue there
fell t flood of warm southern moonlight.
Tbe monitor bad como npon a drove of an
telope sleeping in thegnleb and bad at ones
attacked them. Abont ten fut from whore
Mr. fllmpion stood a fine buck lay bJoeding,
bitten clean through at ono stroke of tha
"ihlnaV’ horrid Jaw. Around another buck
tho monttei'a wings uemed folded, white ita
long tall, barbed at th* and, played around
the air incessantly. Two othsr antslopo
were vigorously trying th* effect ot thoir
short horns upon tho scaly eidu of th* men-
Iter. Mr. Hlmpsou’o description ot this
on doty willingly at midnight. The doctor
“ ’ -tell ring willingly when (loop
-.. jjji - .
,hears tbo door
eleep bssjioesessed him on a cold and stormy
night. Tho night editor of the daily pspor M
a willing slave to tha lamp, livery trno man
w bis eonragonp to the etlcklng point
ward Jo In sight,
bat Jim Main* hu been delivering
>I»n tho poor negro ageln. Uo calls
itlon of tho Knight* of Labor to tbo
hlmaelf up
IbaatteBE.
condition ct tbe colored men atthesonth who
la foiced to work fora pittance, and does not
*«t half u much per day as tbo laborer at tbo
north. I have no patience with Jim Blaine.
1 look npon hlmaaan nrtf-il demagogue—s
malicious hypocrite. He knew that wu s Its
when he wrote It. Tbo negro get* Juct as
much for hla labor at th* tenth u tho white
man. In fact/hegctatho preference In many
ortnpailoqs lie gate more ah
th* mine* for be can do more.
He geti tbo preference on tho farm*, for be Is
(trier to pltwt. Alt mechanic, whether at
tie btnoh or tho anvil, or tho trowel, he
studs ride by sldo with the whiteman. I
teller* that onr working men, both white snd
black, gel u much per day u they do at tho
north; hut If they do not it h '
north; hut if they do not it Is becaaio they
<»n afford to work for leas. Ronte aro lower,
and fuel is cheaper, and tha winter* aro milder
and not so long, Jim Btaln* Is a humbug.
Hu puts on hla apvctariu, and looks away off,
and then flies to hla Inkstand aud writes a pit-
id of lias, Old Jim HoGinnia used to bos
niaplatratsln thsu parts, before the war, and
“iMtg" la very lUcclnct: _ “It wat about thirty
ft tt long over all, I should judge," he trio
“and of a warm, reddlab color, with* long
snout ami Jsgged. yellow teeth. It had
rnozmons wing* repged like thou of a bat
vldcntly, long hind leg* and long tail,
ohs day when * osso *bpp>. tbs hire of a negro
“ i, h* wouldn’t let the lair-
corns np before him,
ytrread
with s seemlogly hard, barbed point. From
Hi ke»d and neck fell * shaggy mane, snd Its
hues eye. gleamed like horrid dres.”
l or ten minutes Mr. flunpaon itood as one
faiclnated by this atrango conflict, and thee,
bring a true eportiman, he lifted hla gas sad
took s rhot st th* monster. He hnrd th*
ballet strike and rebrand. Then, dliturhod
by the abot, tho two antelopes took to flight,
th* bvaatof tbo gra.p of th* monitor was
tian.flxed a moment later, and the “thlog'*
In lie
rcu Into the air, carrying Its prey I
mouth, ard msde for the lake, where it lank
with s splarii tbst muat hare bun audible for
mllee.
There waa no farther disturbance that
night, (u tho morning Mr, 8imp>on returned
to tbe*coo of the atrango conflict and aa-
cored tbe curcsee of the dead antelope. He
c antelope might have knocked
frem the aide of the mounter. Those sestet
• (•round, semi transparent, about the alas
of dltuer plater, and of a reddish gUud *p-
persnee, (omewhat aimflu to ground glaw.
Mi. Bimpeosttlll hu them In hit possession.
“In a Caotrack—Couldn't do.”
;om the Waihlnatun, Os, Chronicle.
While the drum end life bond that wu uut
in hy Jim Aimitrong and BIB Smith for the
puiporeof teeming volunteer* forth* M*x|.
on war, wu pending the eUcete on Saturday
week, a Chronicle reporter met s colored u-
qualntance sad Inquired, “(Fell Jake aro you
going out to Mexico with tbe bays?”
“I dunno bow, whnt dey gwine for
"Well," uld the reporter, “Mr. Bi
Mr. Ann.trong are getting np a company to
flghttho Mexicans, snd w* shall haves war
Ilk* thstw* bsd with th* ysskte*. It will
b* aclrndld fitn. Don't yen wont to go.”
“No, bou, I couldn't go-I’m In * con-
from Orconleef on evidence, becsore
Urunlvaflived in Boston. “What doer ho
know shout th* hire of a nigger ?" uld he.
“Hu never owned one nor blrod one, nor lived
where there wu one, snd be don’t know
no more abont ’em then tbs msn In tho
moon," ‘If Jim Blaine wonld coma
dawn hero snd stay long enough to And out
simcthlog be would have tome excuu for talk-
paiul of Uu anyhow—»let him rip. Ha will
die some ot these dsy* and bo forgotten.
W hat s comfort there Is In that. F.rery bsd
man will die. A new set will com* np andtsko
their piece*, but It will bu a change and that
. .... - *-too,b
will be tome relief. Good men die too, but In
th* wire dirpsnisthm of Providence, their
Jnlnenc* Use* long after them—much longer
then the iuflurnce of tbo mean and mtlidous
nnd ulflah. Blander la rolled about for awhile
under tbe tonguo aa a sweet morsel, but It soon
wllber* sad dies In Its own stench, Butkind*
nets and lore and charity never die. These
virtues an like the atiar of roxt that exhales
III twiet odor for month* and years with un-11-
mlnlahrd (trengtb.So hurry up, 71m Maine,m-l
die unless you can reform and live to a bettor
pujpez*. Bill Aar.
Th* Niagara Whirlpool.
From tha Philadelphia Kn«h American.
The whirlpool, well called “tbs angrleat bit
of water In the world,” Is three miles below tho
gnat fills of Niagara. At this point tha riser,
bending towards th* Canada tide, u contracted to
a width of about 73) feel. The water* rmh vio
lently into a despdepression in the steep eUir that
lire* OB the Canada (Ida, then they emerge, turn
ing back almoit st *' right angle to tha American
rid*. This .pot Kean tola a pottlos of the bed of
an ancient channel. Here the angry waters boll
snd chum with a (lerrsusm s'mott incredible.
Th* want are never at rest They tou and whirl
snd toy with the heaviest Umber. Itmakesone
direr to look at th* date* tamnlt of tha waves
The greet maebtrom covert a space of about a
quarter of a nils rqoarei Its depths are enorm-mv
sud unknowa. One thousand mu of cord wu
found too short to reach th* bottom. Tho whirl-
pool Is In tbe term of a largo rirclo. The averip*
force Id the volume of water moving thvouzh the
ttnyoo shore Is IvS.OfPAWUoere. This con;-u.-.
of water
|_ indistinct erdtc^