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FACES.
In the eye that lights to meet us. and the fat 6 that smiles to greet us
Are the shadow ot the future and the impress of the past;
AuU the cheek that, in its dawning, flushed as rosy as tile morning,
Shows tho outline of its beauty as it fades away at last.
And the little chi Idron’s faces.—mid their dimples are the traces
vi the maiden’s glowing beauty and of manhood's brow of care;
Anil the prophecy of gladness, and the shadow of the sadness,
io the thoughtful eye that gazeth, are they lurking ever there;
But the faces that are nearest, and the faces that are dearest
Are the true, the tender faces that our trust and loviug win:
ihen, when comes to them the shading, when tlio roses shall bo fading.
Like the vase, with light illumined, shall we see the soul wltlitn,
—Anna Olcott Commelin.
Hellene 01? Mycenae.
By W. H. COMSTOCK,
T last, Scott, we’re
o u Homeric
ground. I suppose
K Olytemnestra su¬
m perintended the
family washing for
the lordly house of
Agamemnon down
r' yonder at that
- brook, ”
il Thus spoke one
1 of the two stalwart
njrJjliSJSYW '/lr 3§idvl 1 and sun-browned who
s, young men
xvere seated be¬
neath an olive tree
on the hillside just north of the site of
ancient Mycenae,in the Pelopponesus.
They were American students, who
had finished their studies in Berlin,
aud xvere noxv making a pedestrian
tour through Greece and had arrived
on a hot September afternoon at this
famous place.
This elevated position gave them an
extended view of tho beautiful Argoiic
Gulf, xvith a tall man-of-xvar riding at
anchor in the oiling, from the mast of
which the American flag floated, bril¬
liant in the slanting sunshine. At the
foot of the hill on xvhiclx they xvere
seated, across the little fields and or¬
chards where the peasants were busy
xvith the harvest, they saxv 'a group of
women at the brook in the -valley be¬
low.
The young man xvho had spoken put
his field-glass to his eyes.
“By Jove, Scott,” he exclaimed, “T
toll you these Greek women ate the
handsomest in the world! Well might
one of their great-great-graudmothers
have kept two Nations in commotion
for ten years! Do you see that tallest
girl in the group? Look at her, I say
—a form like a goddess! An ideal
Helen of Troy!”
Scott slowly took his pipe from 1ns
month.
Come now, Lyle, you’re raving
again,” he replied. “Your neiv-dis-
covered Helen is doubtless a goat-herd
from that miserable village doxvn there,
with a breath rank of garlic, and a
soul as ignorant of sentiment as her
garments are of soap.”
“Well, Scott,” replied Lyle, with
severity7 “11kank the Lord for one
thing at least, and that is that nxy soul
isn’t yet quite dried up xvithin me, till
it has lost all poxver to see the beauti¬
ful, as yours lias. Come, let’s go
doxvn to the x'illage and get something
to eat.”
There is a good hotel in the village
of Kliarvati, where visitors to tho
neighboring ruins are entertained.
Here the Americans made a hearty
supper of rye bread, mutton and tea.
The harvest moon rose early and
flooded the country with tier beams.
The two students sat a long time be¬
fore the open xviudow of their room,
xvhieh overlooked the xvlioie village.
They had smoked in silence for an
hour, xvhen suddenly Lyle pointed
doxvn the road, and exclaimed in an
excited whisper to the dozing Scott:
‘‘There she is again, as I live! Noxv
look at her and take hack your-vile in¬
sinuation about, garlic and soap.”
A young man and xvoman wove
strolling sloxvly up the street. He xvas
a swarthy, Greek dark-eyed fellow,iu the uni¬
form gf a soldier. Tho young
girl at his side chauced to raised her
face to tho searching moonlight, aud
both the students xvere struck xvith
her remarkable beauty. Her head xvas
uncovered, and her luxuriant hair xvas
combed low over her brow, and fastened
in a simple coil at the back of her
shapely head. Her face was purely
classic in outline—such a face as the
old sculptors loved to cut in marble—
full of intellect and of passion.
The couple walked leisurely up the
street, evidently talking in the melodi¬
ous Greek; those light nothings that
youth and moonlight inspire in ail
languages. They paused before the
door of the inn, and the txvo strangers
were familiar enough with their speech
to understand their parting “Good¬
night, Stephano,” and “Farexvell,
Hellene.”
"There, Scott; what do you think of
her, noxv? See xvhat a superb creature
you would fain have maligned!” ex¬
claimed Lyde.
“Well, I must say,” replied Scott,
“either the moonlight played us a
trick, or she is a rather pretty girl.”
Next morning the two students com¬
menced their explorations among the
famous ruins. The region is replete
xvith interest for the student, and as
their daily intercourse xvith the people
afforded opportunity for the study of
the modern Greek—one of the chief
objects of their tour—they decided to
emend some time in the place. They
itid not see Hellene again for several
(lays. But Lyle did not scruple to
find out xvhat he could about ber from
the peasants.
He learned that she xvas the grand¬
daughter of tho rich old landlord xvith
whom they lodged. Her parents xvere
dead, aud her education had been in¬
trusted to an old tutor, famous for his
learning, who bad died the year be-
tore, And soon, they said, slio was to
marry Stephano, the young soldier,
the son of a xvealthy neighbor,
One afternoon the txx’o students
were the resting in the shadow of
massive walls, which form
the entrance to those celebrated mins
called tile “Tomb of Agamemnon;”
They Were dismissing a fragment of
pottery xvhicli they had just discov¬
ered, xvhen Lyle, looking up, saxv Hel¬
lene ing coining sloxx ly toward them, pick¬
here and there the late flowers and
grasses, of their evidently quite unconscious
presence. The ground over
xvhieh she was advancing xvas strewn
with blocks of breccia from the ancient
walls, xvhieh made her progress often
difficult, and tke.txvo friends watched
with admiration the ease auxl grace of
her movements, xvhieh brought out
the fine lines of her agile figure.
At length she raised her head and
saw the txvo men with surprise aud
point embarrassment, for she seemed oil the
of flight.
Lyle stepped forward, hat in hand.
“Pardon us,” he said, “for startling
you. Wo should have made our pres-
ence knoxvii sooner, But xve have
found a curious piece of pottery here,
and xvere trying to determine its on- ’
gin. Will you look at it?” and he held
out the fragment in his hand.
Her first fright had vanished, but
the girl stood regarding them xvith a
look of indecision, xvhieh threatened
to end the interview on the slightest
occasion. But gradually a more con-
ftdent expression took its place, and
she asked: “Do you know Homer?”
“No,” replied Lyle, “I can’t say xve
know him vary wall, but. xve read ilim
and have learned to love lilm. You
Greeks have a great advantage over
the rest of the world in reading Homer
in your own tongue.”
“Indeed xve do,” replied the young
girl, _ her embarrassment rapidly dis¬
appearing, “but fexv of our country¬
men appreciate it. Yet some do, for
all Greeks are not like those that go to
America to get rich. There are still
many xvho love the glorious language
and traditions of our people. Oh,
yes,” she continued,’ daintily taking
the fragment from Lyle’s outstretched
hand, “there are many such specimens
here; I have a collection of them my-
•self. ”
A beginning thus made, they passed
easily to other topics of common
interest. The students found that this
young girl xvas thoroughly trained in
the literature of her country, as xvell
as its history, and loved both fer-
vently.
An hour passed in eager converse.
At the earnest request of the two
students, Hellene finally consented to
recite for them some of her favorite
passages from the Iliad. She seated
herself on a rook which had fallen
from the gigantic ruin belaud her, and
xvith the xvestering sun shining full on
her beautiful face, glowing xvith the
immortal xvords she spoke, she formed
a picture against the background
of those massive walls which
would have xvon the admiration of a
far less appreciative audience than the
two listeners. When she had finished,
the three walked back to the village
together.
For a fexv clays thereafter the Amer¬
icans saxv much of Hellene. They ex¬
amined the fine collection of antiques
xvhieh she herself had made, and
found her of invaluable assistance in
several lines of study in xvhich^tliey
xvere engaged.
But no xvoman could long fail to see
in Lyle’s every glance and tone, that
wondrous something xvhieh women
long and fear to look upon. A shy-
ness and diffidence quite, contrary to
her former frank and easy mariner,
gradually interposed a barrier to their
intercourse, till at last the students
rarely saw her. Scott grumbled and
olained Lyle for it all.
It s only another case of your con-
founded enthusiasm spoiling things,
Uere 1 was nearly through with my
to-be celebrated thesis on ‘Ancient
and Modern Greek,’ and you knew the
girl xvas my main dependence for the
xvork, and yet, like a fool, you must
go and fall in love xvith her, and put
her to flight. Why can’t you study
anything from a purely scientific
standpoint?
But Lyle’s dejection at Hellene’s
avoidance of him at last became so
utter tlmt even Scott xvas moved to
pity. The disconsolate lover tried all
in vain to have a word with the girl,
She deftly thwarted his clumsy mas-
culme plans until he became well nigh
desperate.
One evening xvhen this condition of
things had gone on for several weeks,
the two men xvere smoking in the little
front room of the inn. The village
had been quiet for some time when
they heard a light footstep and caught
a glimpse of Hellene as she slipped
quickly out from a side door into tho
moonlit street. Lyle rose with a look
of grim determination on his face and
folio-wed her. In a moment lie xvas at
her side. “Hellene,” he said, "can’t
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t wail with you—I have wanted to
speak with you about something for a
long time.”
She made him no answer, and they
walked on in silence together.
The road led past the last scattering
houses of the village, along the bank
of the stream. It was bordered by
gnarled old olive trees through whose
branches a mosaic of light and shade
Altered from, the nwott to the ground.
A sleepy gurgle came now and then
from the stream near by.
Lyle stopped, took Hellene’s hand
in his own, and Said:
“Hclibne, yOn must kriow what I
xtftut, trt tell ydd: Ytlxt liflOxt that I
hive juki better than life, Don’t you
see you’ve been killing me by inches
of late? Why do you shun and avoid
mo?”
The girl's eyes were downcast fcr a
moment, and he saw her bosom heave
in quick sobs. Then she raised her
face to his, and there were tears of a
great joy in her glorious eyes. The
lovers did not seo the crouching fig¬
ure fii the man, which glided away
from the wall near by oil into the
placid night,
The next day Scott was hard at
work all day on his Motes, In the
early afternoon Lyle went aiono to
visit a distant part of the ruins, where
he was to obtain Certain measurements
which had been forgotten. Hello ne
sart him prtss from the iuu, and an ex.-
pression of surprised anxiety dis¬
placed the radiance in her eyes.
Lyle miles proceed ihe to rt village, lonely spot some
two front and xvas
bending over to examine a broken
fragment of rock, when he was sud¬
denly seized from behind by a power¬
ful hand, and hurled backward on the
ground with such force as to render
him for a moment unconscious. When
he opened his eyes his feet were tied,
and his hands securely pinioned be¬
hind his back. Stephano Was seated
on a rock nearby. The two men looked
at Cnck other for a moment in silence.
Stephano was calmly rolling a cigar¬
ette in his tawny fingers, and a mock¬
ing smile played about his month.
Lyle could not long control his wrath.
“You sneaking coward!” he cried.
“Is this the way n soldier fights?”
Stephano regarded him a moment,
then replied, and his voice was low
and melodious;
“Yon Americans have a saying, I
believe, that ‘all is fair in love and
war,’ Yon came and stole the heart
of my Hellene, the fairest girl in
Greece. Did yon think you could
carry her off so easily? All Greece,
yon know, once fought ten years for
one woman You should have been
wiser; Now I’m gofttg to Cut the
artery in your ami xvitn my ,in 8 . S i,
point hero, and titbit I shall sit stilL.
and see you slowly bleed to death!”
“What, you infernal villain, do you
mean to murder mo without a chance
to strike a blow? If you have a grain
of manhood in you, set me free and I
will fight you in any way you choose.”
“Control yourself, stranger,” an¬
swered Stephano, with maddening de¬
liberation. "There is no need of such
excitement. You have brought this
on yourself—you risked it and lost.
Noxv take the consequences like a
man.”
With careful precision Stephano
felt for the artery in the bared arm of
his victim. A quick stroke, and Lyle
felt the warm blood trickling down
over liio tied hands. Stephano seated
himself opposite and spoke as fol¬
lows:
“Yes, this is an artistic xvay of deal¬
ing with an enemy—not a bungling
job of a common assassination. This
is the very luxury and refinement of
revenge. Ah! My fine Paris, think
of the Helen you are losing! Think
of those eyes! Hoxv they look at one.
Think of the kisses of those lips—
nectar for the gods!"
At first. Lyle’s soul xvas filled xvith
a mighty surge of passion, together
xvith a desperate resolve not to gratify
the villain by any sign of fear or suf¬
fering. As his strength failed, he
gradually became calmer. He heard
distinctly the long-draxvn shrill of a
locust, in the grass near by. He im¬
agined curious shapes in the clouds
that floated high up in the blue vault.
His truant thoughts recalled a yelloxv-
cOwereil novel, xvhieh he had borrowed
xvhen a boy and, hidden till he had
read it through. He even smiled as
he thought of the swaggering hero,
bound and tortured by the Indians,
yet making his escape by miraculous
feats of strength and daring. He al¬
most laughed aloud as ho made a
whimsical comparison of the story
xvith his own condition.
But his strength xvas going fast,
Great blurs of darkness came and
went before his eyes. He had almost
lost consciousness, when he seemed to
see Hellene suddenly appear, with
Scott dimly visible in the background.
The girl paused a moment, then with
a bound like a tigress she sprang up-
on Stephano, bore him to the ground
and something in her hand flashed in
the sunlight, Then Lyle felt his head
raised and a handkerchief bound
tightly around his arm.
Several hours later Lyle was roused
from his torpor by the fresh sea
breeze, and the motion of the little
steam launch xvhicli was rapidly mak-
ing xvay out from the harbor to the
great man-of-xvar in the bay. He
found himself bolstered up on the
cushions, beneath the stern awnings
of the little craft, with Hellene seated
„t his side. "The light of a deathless
love shone in her lnstrons eyes. Scott
stood by the hatchway, looking back
toward the fast retreating shores of
Greece. Lyle caught the words he xvas
muttering to himself:
“Yes—had to do it. Girl wouldn’t
; be left behind—lncky thing I knew
1 the Captain—big if they’d found
j row
him before xve got off. Ail on account
i of the fool’s confounded enthusiasm-
genuine never can investigate anything like a
it scholar—alxvaya puts his foed
m somehow.”—The White ED
phant.
FURTHER INTERESTING HISTORY
OF NOTED INDIAN CHIEFS.
DISCOVERS EXISTENCE OF OLD BOOK
'Wlaloil Throws tight tlpon tlio Subject
An Old tddy In Tex ns Write* Id
'tvmiaui.
■ Now here is a book that is worth
having. A book that, is 24x18 inches
and weighs twenty-five pounds. It is
sixty-one years old, and has 120 large
size plates of the most notable Indian
chiefs, each plate covering a page and
being accurate aud graphic likenesses
and all done in colors, with the fuss
aud feathers and tribal ornaments and
as finely executed in face and features
as oil paintings. I did not know that
there Was such a book or that, such
Work Cottld be done -in those days.
Each plate has a biographical memoir
accompanying, which is in largo type,
So largo ihat I can read it offhand
Without glasses. This work Seems to
likVc the bceii Indian compiled gallery from o( the records
iii the war de¬
partment at Washington by Thomas
M; McKenney. The book I have is the
ptoperty of Ml’. David Black, of Al¬
Santa, and as ; it has cflxne down to him
in the family, I did not suppose there
was another in the state, but my friend
Joe M. Brown tells me that his brother
Elijah has it, and also another volume,
which I wish to see, for this one lias
neithor Ross nor Osceola. It has Ridge
and McIntosh and other Greek and
Chsfokee fiimriiis eliiefsi fluid Paddy Carr, the
interprets, whose father wtts
Scotch-Irieh and his mother an In¬
dian. I’’or many years he was in Gen¬
eral Jackson’s service and in govern¬
ment service, and got rich and invest¬
ed his money in laud and negroes, and
owned eighty slaves when he died. A
wax'in friend of his had a beautiful
daughter Eiiddy’s named Ariadne, and when
wife gave birth to twin girls
he named one Ary aud the other Adny.
This book lias a charming biography
of Major Ridge, and makes him a very
strong-minded and noble man. His
likeness shows as much force and de¬
cision of character as does that of Wob-
Bter or Calhoun, Indeed, Indian some of the
speeches made by the chiefs in
their long protracted discussions with
the government are as pathetic, elo-
fiiieiit Arid xinanswerdLD ns if they
came from patricK Jlenry or nn,
great orator. It is touching and tear¬
ful to read the pleading, poetical elo¬
quence of Black Hawk aud Keokuk
and Tnstenuggee and Major Ridge and
Big Warrior. Mr. McKenney was the
government’s agent in all these trea¬
ties, anti declares their oratory to be
a natural gift, aud no race of people
could excel them. They spealc with¬
out (trt or effort, and roost of them had
fl ibxv, soft, sweet and musical voice
that gave fit expression to their earn¬
est pleadings. Ridge’s
The account given of Major
greatest embarrassment in contending
with John Ross is very amusing. Ross
w»m bitterly hostile to Ridge and his
policy, and in order to alarm the In¬
dians he got a half-breed named
CliRfles to pretend to come down from
some far-off mountain with a message
to them from the Great Spirit. Charles
said: “The Great Spirit is angry with
you. He tells me that you arc follow¬
ing tho customs of the white people;
that you have already gotten mills and
olothes aud feather beds and books
and cats—yes, cats-and, therefore,
the buffalo and other game are fast
disappearing. The Groat Spirit is an¬
gry, and says you must cut short your
frocks and kill your flult cats living axel in give ftoUsds, up
your mills and
and then your game xvill come back,”
This excited the Indians very much,
and they cried out that tho talk xvas
good. Ridge nfose Willi anger in his
face and voice and said: “The talk is
not good. It is false. It did not come
from the Great Spirit.” The Indians
rushed upon him xvith fury and a xvild
fight ensued, and some of his friend 9
were stabbed, but and Ridge xvas hiinse' tt ver.V f
poxverful man defended The tumult
xvith great courage. x as
quieted after a time, and Jcsso Vann
and John Harris and some old men
brought about a reconciliation.
There xvas much trouble all along
those years. I hai-o a long letter
from Mr. R. M. Edwards, a venerable
lawyer of Cleveland, Tenn. Ho says:
“In my youth I spent many happy
days in fishing, hunting and playing
with the Indian boys of the Ocoee dis¬
trict in east, Tennessee and among the
many sad scenes of an uneventful life,
one of tho saddest was to see my little
play fellows start on their long and
weary journey to the xvest. They left
the most beautiful country I ever be¬
held. It resembled more a magnifi¬
cent park than a forest, owing to theii
tribal custom of burning the xvoods tc
keep down the undergrowth. * * *
It is singular that so great a concourse
of people—fourteen to sixteen thous¬
and—could be gathered up by force as
it were and removed, going through
Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and
Missouri. They crossed the Tennes¬
see at Blythe’s ferry, just below tho
mouth of the Hiaxvassec; then crossed
the Cumberland range at Pikoville,
then to Bparta, Lebanon and Nashville;
then crossed the Cumberland river,
and next the Ohio arid Vincennes;tlien
on to the Mississippi, xvliich they found
frozen over, and had to xvait a month
for the ice to break, and finally reach-
Tallaqnah in April, 1839.
“In the debates in congress great
opposition xvas made to this treaty by
John Q. Adams and Henry A, Wise,
and it was stated on the floor by one
of these men that John Hess was ar-
rested by the state of Georgia and
carried to Milledgeville and his house
xfii§ Libbed of ton thousand dollars
while he was goiid. The speakers
very severely criticised President
Jackson for his ingratitude to Ross,
who served him so faithfully at the
battle of the Horseshoe.”
This old gentleman is full of memo¬
ries of those Indian times, and says
that there is yet living at Charleston,
Tenn., Mr. II, B. Henniger, who ac¬
companied the great cavalcade all the
way to their home in the west
And here is a characteristic letter
ftom an old lady living in Myrtle, Tex.
She says: “.Please excuse axl old
woman for trying to write to you
about those Indians that you have
been telling ns of in The Constitution,
and as I was boni and raised in the
Cherokee nation, I will venture to tell
you some things that may interest
you. My father, Wan Thompson, set¬
tled at. the mission station on the
Etowah (or Hightower river, as we
called it.) My eldest brother, Perry
Thompson, was the interpreter for the
nation u long time. My father’s
sister, Nancy, joined the mission
when she was only fifteen years old.
She followed them to the territory and
keut ui) her mission work there, and
spent a long and useful life, and died
in her eighty-fourth year. When
Boudinot was killed she was standing
Oil the porch very early in the morn¬
ing rtnxf saw a man running as if for
his life, and two men pursuing him.
They soon caught him and killed him
and ran away as fast as they could go.
Slits hurtled to the tnan and found it
was Boudinot.J families
“There wero several who
had Indian blood in their veins xvho
did not go west with the tribe. The
Lynch family xvas part Cherokee.
Barelia Lynch married Lowry Wil¬
liams. I expect you knexv him. They
had but one child aud she xvas named
ClierdkeC. She married Robert
Wylie, a son of Clark Wylie. 11‘emenl*
ber a good many Cherokee chiefs and
braves, but can’t spell their names for
you. John Boss xvas not an Indian.
His mother xvas a white woman and lie
left her xip north when he came to tho
nation and married an Indian xvife.
John Ridge xvfts part Indian. I ex¬
pect your friend George Adair is of
Indian blood, for xve liad txvo Adair
families there. Black Wat and Red
Wat. They wero cousins. When John
Howard Payne xvas staying in the na¬
tion xve saxv him often. He named
lxiy little sister Ann Payno. One of
my sisters went to school with an In¬
dian girl named Lizzy Slioboot and
she taught my sister to flxviui. The
CW'nkeen Xiiompwv— called my father Connehana
M*\ 1 ml wish™ me
to prove my rights m tho nation as
one of them, but I luivc never done so.
His name is R. D. Ivie and lie xvas
born in Laxvrenceville, Ga. We often
see names in The Constitution that xve
remember away back. Old Georgia is
our dear mother, anil though xve ha ve
been separated for sixty years, xve
love her still.
“ ‘Out of tho fullness of the heart
the nloUttl speftltetli,’ and this is my
oxcuso for writing to yoib
“Mrs. R. D. Ivie.”
Well, noxv, that is a good letter. Hoxv
the chickens would come home if they
could.
Nest, comes tho advance sheets of
"The Young People's History of Ar¬
kansas,” written by my friend E. Por¬
ter Thompson, noxv at Frankfort, Ky.,
but long a resident and editor in Ar¬
kansas.
The chapter on Colonel Elias C.
Boudinot is full of interest and makes
him a very remarkable man. His
father's name was Kelle-kee-nab, but
New being adopted took by Elias Boudinot, of
siiled Jersey, with Ridge his In name. l'cgard Boudinot
to the
treaty and Ross became his bitter
enemy. Ross xxms a powerful vindict¬
Ihmiilildt ive and unscrupulous man. He had
all tlnd Major Ridge and John
Ridge assassinated. Colonel-Elias
C. Boudinot xvas born near Rome,Ga.,
August 1, 1885, Ho xvas educated at
Manchester, Yt. Iii 1855 he came to
Fayetteville, Ark., and studied law
xvith Hon. A. M.Wilson, xvas admitted
to the bar in 1850 and soon rose to the
front rank as an able lawyer and gifted
speaker, In 1800 he became editor of
The Democrat at Little Rock. In 1801,
after the state seceded, ho and his cou¬
sin, “Stand Watie,” laised a regiment
anil fought the battle of Elkhorn. He
was chosen as a member of the Con¬
federate congress in 1863. After the
battle of Elkhorn Ross deserted the
Confederacy and assailed the southern
Cherokoes for helping the south. Bou¬
dinot defended them xvith signal abili¬
ty and delivered such a phillipic
against his treachery that lie was con¬
signed to inmfny.
Some years ago Boudinot, by invi¬
tation of senators and representatives,
delivered a lecture in Washington on
the Indian race that made a profound
impression. Judgo lialluin says of
him: “Some years ago he married a
beautiful and accomplished lady of
Washington. He is an able lawyer, a
polished and refined gentleman and is
possessed of tho most fascinating con¬
versational powers. He has a most
wonderful musical talont and one of
the most charming voices ever given to
men. ”
Isn’t that splendid? T wouldn’t
mind being that sort of an Indian.
I have many more historic letters,
but this will suffice for this time. I
f have great rox-eronce for these mem¬
ories; they make up history that xvill
soon pass into oblivion unless some¬
body records it. There is a house on
tho hank of tho Oostanaula river two
miles above Romo that J have refer¬
ence for. It was built by Major Ridge
nearly seventy years ago arid is still a
good old-fashioned two-story house.
I It xvas built of hewn logs, but
long afterwards ceiled inside and
I weatherboarded. When I firBt
it Colonel A . N. Verdery lived there.
T. P. GREEN. MANAGER.
Ho was the father of Mrs. Warren
Akin, and she was married there to
that eminent lawyer. Mrs. Akin's
youngest brother was born in that
house, This good lady is the mother
of Judge John W, Akin and she still
lives in our town and is full of many
sweet and many sad memories. My
observation is that women have better
memories than men, especially con¬
cerning marriages, deaths, births and
the social statistics of their youthful
days. —Bill Anr in Atlanta Constitu¬
tion.
SIXTY i*EW CASES
ITiii Fevpr Itocord In New Orleans Wed¬
nesday-Six Deaths.
All previous records as to the nil in-
ber of new cases of fever in New Or¬
leans were broken Wednesday. Early
in the evoning sixty new cases had
been entered on the books of the board.
At the same time there had been six
deaths. Those had all occurred dur¬
ing the early hours.
The flight from Montgomery con¬
tinues. Upwards of 500 refugees from
Alabama’s capital are in Atlanta, Ga.
The tables have been completely turn¬
ed, and those who were so violent in
insisting on a stringent quarantine
against Atlanta have been compelled
to seek refuge within her gates.
o'clock Montgomery’s board of health at 1
five Wednesday afternoon reported
new cases and one death.
The executive department of state
has been removed to Birmingham.
The department of agriculture is also
there temporarily, and the convict de¬
partment lies taken its books to
Speigners. Birmingham
is now practically the
southern terminus of traffic on (lio
Louisville and Nashville. For fear of
the inadequacy of the state quarantine
the towns of Jacksonville, Auburn and
Tuskegee, for which places a very
large percentage 0 ? the refugees wero
headed, have organized local quaran¬
tines.
Selma, however, has the most de¬
termined quarantine of all. Every
avenue into the central city is guarded.
APPROVE SOUTHERN HISTORIES.
Virgin I a ICx-Con federate* Want the Truth
of Invents Taught.
The Grand Camp of Virginia Con¬
federate Veterans met in Richmond
and adopted the following resolutions:
“Resolved, That only such histo¬
ries as fairly present the principles
mid facts upon xvhieh is grounded
pur American republic be used. In
this spirit xve would recommend
as Virginia histories, those by Mrs.
Mary Tucker McGill and General “fLIilift
United States, those of Mrs.
Pendleton Lee, Rev. J. William Jones,
Shinn, Hansel series and Holmes.
Further, xve would suggest for its
moral and patriotic influence as aux¬
iliary reading tho admirable life of
General Robert E. Lee, by Mrs. Mary
Williamson—in our opinion it might
be adopted-—such is its clearness and
verbal simplicity, as a current reader.
< 1 We desire, also, to express our ad¬
miration of the recent utterance of the
grand commander of tho Confederate
veterans of Virginia, Col. John Cus-
sous, in his tronchnnt arraignment of
the south in his "Glance at Current
History,”
STOCKHOLDERS HIT HARD,
Their Investment* In footed Southern
Mutual May Come To Naught.
Stockholders of theSoutliern Mutual
Building and Loan association, which
failed in Atlanta last February, have
received tho report of the receivers,
James A. Anderson and M.H.O’Byrne,
shoxving the condition of that concern,
anil the report makes it clear that
stockholders xvill not receive more
than 25 Tier cent of the amount paid
in.
The general report of Accountant !>.
F. Moore, attached to tho letter of the
receivers, shows assets of 1051,202.53
und liabilities of $879,208.66, leaving
n deficit of $227,940,13. The real_de¬
ficit. xvill be much larger than this'be-
cause most of tho items in the list of
assets are worth considerably loss than
their fuce value.
BOHANNON ROBBERS FOILED.
Gang Mn<l© Almost Successful Attempt at
Jail Breaking.
Bohannon and his accomplices were
caught Wednesday night in an attempt "had
to break jail at Dalton, Ga. They
obtained a small steel saw and had cut
seven bars in two. They bad three
more to cut to get to the brick xvall.
An hour’s work would have let them
out of the cage. They did most of their
xvork during tho day while it xvas rain¬
ing hard.
At night the prisoners in tho cage
appeared to be very jolly and sang for
an hour. The singing, which was to
droxvn the noise of tho saxv, aroused
suspicion aud they xvere detected at
xvork.
There are twelve in Bohannon’s
cage. All the car robbers are there
except Kinneman and Morris, who
uto in another cell.
DALTON TRIALS RESUMED.
Captain Peeples Fares Charge of Pur¬
chasing Stolen Tobacco.
The car conspiracy trials at Dalton,
Ga., were resumed last Tuesday, xvhen
Captain T. J. Peeples xvas arraigned
for receiving 8 boxes, 220 pounds, of
stolen tobacco from tho Bohannon
gang.
Tho only two witnesses the state had
to sustain the alleged transaction be-
txveen tho gang of train robbers and
Captain Peeples was Walter Bohan¬
non, chief of the car pirates, and a
negro. the defense
When the time came for
no evidence wax introduced but the
statement of T. J. Peeples, xvho denied
the charges in toto.
BRITAIN REFUSES TO TAKE PART
IN NEGOTIATIONS.
SALISBURY MAKES FINAL REPLY.
Say* I tidin 'k Mints Cannot He Reopened.
Bimetallism Is Thu* Turned Down
and Silver is gldetraeked.
A London cable dispatch says: Lord
Salisbury, Wednesday night, sent to
Ambassador Hay the reply of the Brit¬
ish government to the proposals of the
American bimetallist special commis¬
sion, headed l>y Senator Wolcott.
It is a diplomatically worded note.
His lordship »nya that the govern¬
ment of Great Britain is not able to
re-open the India mints at present.
Ho regrets the inability to accede to
the proposals of the American com¬
missioners. Great Britain having as
great an interest as the United States
and France in securing a stable par
exchange for gold and silver and an
enlarged use of silver.
In these circumstances, continues
Lord Salisbury, the British govern¬
ment does not see the desirability of
an international monetary conference,
but will bo pleased to consider auy
other practical suggestions from the
United States.
Lord Salisbury incloses with the
note a copy of the statement of Sir J.
Westland, Lead of the financial de¬
partment of India, which was under
discussion at the meeting of tho cabi¬
net council Inst Saturday which takes
strong grounds against the reopening
of the India mints.
Ambassador Andrew White came
from Berlin last Saturday. He has
avoided publicity, but has had several
conferences with Senator Wolcott.
In the course of an interview xvith
the correspondent of the Associated
Press, Mr. White said that Germany’s
action as to bimetallism will depend
upon England’s.
NO RECEIVER APPOINTED
For the Southern K. and L. Association of
Huntsville, Al».
Tho mao of Mrs. M. L. Sfcraton ct nI.
vs. the Southern Building and Loan
Association of Huntsville, Ala., asking
for a receiver to xvind up the company’s
business xvas dismissed by Judge
Bruce iu the United States court.
The bill alleged tho to
continued frauds upon its stockholders
among xvhom were the plaintinffs.
Attorney for the defenso adduced evi¬
dence shoxving the assets of tho South¬
ern to bo over n million dollars.
O 11 convening court Judge Bruce
asked tho plaintiff’s Attorn ys how
much more time the case would con¬
tinue if heard to the end. They said
they wanted three more days.
Judge Bruce then announced that in
the txvo days devoted to the caso lie
had found the allegations in tho bill
to be groundless. He then dismissed
the case without argument.
BRITONS ARK JEALOUS.
Tln'y Say That. Wo Are Distancing Them
In Iron Industrie*.
The Pall Mall Gazette Wednesday
afternoon, in the course of a long ar¬
ticle on American competition in tho
iron and steel industries, says:
“Today xvo find tho United States
not only challenging our supremacy in
neutral markets, but even obtaining a
foothold in England.
“The causes xvhieh are giving the
United States such a favorable recep¬
tion are permanent aud everything
points to tho United States remaining
the cheapest steel-producing country
in the xvorld.”
OFFERED TO UNCLE SAM.
Bethlehem Iron Work* Woul<l Sell Their
1*11111! To tli© Government.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: Will¬
iam Wharton, one of the largest stock¬
holders of tho Bethlehem Iron Com¬
pany, confirmed the report that tho
company has made an offer to sell its
plant to the government.
Mr. Wharton said ho understood tho
Carnegie company had also made the
similar offer, but doubted xvbethcr
either of the propositions would ever
amount to anything.
WHISKIES OF BOOR QUALITY.
Chicago I’d it I fd Detected In ftlgantlo
liquor Counterfeiting Hchcine.
Iu a musty and darkened cellar at
No. 131 Sangamon street, Chicago,
lawyers, detectives and constables
have unearthed xvhat they claim to bo
one of the largest liquor con 11 terfoit-
ing schemes ever operated in this coun¬
try. hours’ xvork $25,000 iu
After four
counterfeit labels, representing nil the
leading brands of liquor, bottles and
oases were found.
The loss to the liquor dealers and
manufacturers through counterfeit has
been nearly $500,000, and it may even
reach a higher figure.
DEAD JOURNALIST BURIED.
Dana Funeral Services Were of Simplest
Nature.
The funeral services of the late
Charles Anderson Dana xvere held
Wednesday morning at the beautiful
St. Paul’s Episcopal church, Glen
Cove, Long Island, and the interment
xvas in tho churchyard distinguished there.
Hundreds of citizens
xvere present, including many men and
■women whose names are prominent in
journalistic and political cirolea.