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VOL. X.
IN THE EVENING HUSH.
What witchery dwells in the evening gloam
When the fire burns low and the shadows
roam
Like flitting ghosts where the dim light
■-•alls
I What 11 flickering spirits shapes on when the dusky heart walls?
come the goes
back, darkened
And moves again o’er the track—
That walk with me through the long ago
•In the evening hush when the lights are
low?
What shadows over the dim room creep
To silent mourn or to pause and weep
And place a wreath on some crumbled
tomb
Half lost in the dust of the ancient gloom?
Forgotten shapes that in silence come
When the ears are dulled and the lips are
dumb.
And only the dream tides ebb and flow
lri the evening hush when the lights are
-ow.
Gray spectres out of the vanished past
Come The stealing forth; from and alloying fast,
And mystic ones the future greet
clasp white hands as the winding
slieet
I'nrolls. quick flooding the haunted room
With the scent of a long dead rose’s bloom;
And memory’s visions come and go
In the evening hush when the lights are
low.
THE AURORA DIAMONDS
Being the True Story of Cuban Anita
and the Bast Indian Prince.
LL the American residents of
±t Havana were interested in
the masquerade hall which
was given by the American
officials to the distinguished Cuban of¬
ficers at the closo of hostilities and at
which function diplomats of every
■country were entertained, when all
hostile feeling were to be laid aside,
and peace and harmony were to pre¬
vail. On this account the ball was ex
ported to establish an era of prosperity
.as well as one of returning luxury and
splendor.
A number of Americans in high offi¬
cial positions had rented palaces in
Havana from their impoverished own¬
ers, tmd they did not hesitate to con¬
fiscate for that one occasion the price¬
less jewels and laces on which they
had advanced money to necessitous
■Cubans. Costiy raiment, such as princes
alone possess, attracted and enslaved
1 he eye. The barbaric opulence of
-dress was the feature of the evening;
dominoes were not worn, a mask being
the only safeguard of the face, the
gorgeous character costumes prevent¬
ing identity. Every one present was in
costume, excepting one, and he was the
most superbly and elaborately robed of
any there.
The exception was a Hindu prince,
wearing the cloth of gold which only
those of the royal caste may wear, a
chaplet of great pink Oriental pearls at
is neck, a jeweled sash about his
waist, a turban, the crest a cluster of
Oriental jewels, covering his head. The
Hindu’s breast was covered with decor
in ive orders also blazing with gems,
lie accompanied an impersonation of
the goddess Aurora, a woman sumptu
ously robed in transparent laces and
white satin overlaid with pearl em¬
broidery. A pale tissue of white
floated over the costume like a mist,
and this was accentuated by rose-red
diamonds of fabulous size and beauty,
the jewels forming jnto a stone for
her slender waist and a tiara for her
hair. As she turned in the undulations
•of a mystic, dreamy waltz Aurora at¬
tracted admiring and ecstatic attention
from all the male dancers, but the
Hindu prince was her constant escort.
Tlie jewels she wore flashed in constel¬
lations of light : ml sent out prismatic
rays that seemed alive of their own
volition.
"Who is she? Who is she?” was
asked with intense curiosity. At last
4i masker in the character of Mcpliisto
liheles answered:
“NVho should she be in tow of the
Oriental but old Lynde’s daughter, tlie
beautiful Anita, who has some foreign
blood, although born in the neighbor¬
hood of Sixth avenue. New York. Her
father had some money, but hasn’t
much now, and if the girl would save
him from bankruptcy she must marry
her Hindu right soon.”
“Bankruptcy, when he can give his
daughter a dower of diamonds fit for
the Queen of Sheba! I thought it was
she,” and the counterpart of King Solo¬
mon sighed regretfully.
“The diamonds are new to the fair
Anita,” said another of tlie company,
this time a woman, dressed as Martha
‘To thine own self be true,and it will follow, as night, the day, tnou caas’t not then be false to any man.”
LINCOLNTON, GA , THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13. 1002.
Ah! Always thus in the eerie time
’Twixt night and day, 1 can hear the chime
From the clock of fate, on either hand
From the curtained past and the unknown
land
I have dreamed about but have never seen;
And 1 hark to both as I sit between,
While the white ones mingling come and go
In the evening hush when the lights are
low?
There are ghosts of dreams that I dreamed
when young;
When hope her shimmering bright scarf
All jeweled, flung
And love’s bright streaming chariots adown the sky,
thundered by.
Bright dreams they were; but the brightest
now
Arc they of the palest and care-lined brow
W hen the ghosts of the old days come and
In the 8°
evening hush when the lights are
low ?
The firelight dies and the night is here;
The flickering shadows disappear
To roam again in the far-off land
And beckon me with a spectral hand.
Ah, well! not long till I, too, shall be
A silent one of the company,
And haunt the gloom and the firelight’s
In the glow
evening hush when the lights are
low.
Lowell O. Reese, in the San Francisco
Bulletin.
Washington “I presume they are a
betrothal gift from her lover, the
Hindu. Yet I am to id she has refused
him twice. His devotion to-night is not
discouraged, however.”
“Perhaps the diamonds are treasure
trove of some Cuban lord who has
abandoned them. Saw you ever finer
gems or any to compare, indeed?”
“Their brilliancy is unnatural—they
hurt the eyes. Can you estimate their
worth?”
“By my faith, no. Mine uncle would
advance several fortunes on them.
Hush! They are coming this way. I
feel dazzled.”
“There are representatives of every
nation on earth here to-night. It is a
hit weird. I believe that Hindu is
mumbling his prayers. Did you hear a
strange oracular chant as they
passed?”
NY hat they had heard as Aurora and
her Hindu prince swept by was appar¬
ently said for the purpose of sustaining
interest in the character impersonated.
It was intoned monotonously, iind was
heard hut indistinctly through the
crash of music and the clatter of con
versation. But a few caught the
words. They had a sound of forebod¬
ing.
“Death! Death! Forgive, O God of
the Universe! Death to the innocent.
Death! Para mesh war! Forgive the
sin of a Christian.”
Aurora’s red lips paled as the fateful
words reached her, but she was not
sure she had heard aright. It must be
her conscience that affrighted her.
“Did you speak, Prince Sanyaka?”
she asked in a low voice.
“2s 0 , Light of the World, I spake not.
What has disturbed my Pearl of the
Occident?”
Anita Lynde was playing a desperate
game to save her old father from the
disgrace of a failure in the great finan¬
cial scheme of which he was the pro¬
moter. It was not the prospect of pov¬
erty that appalled her for herself, but
for her loved ones, It was not true
that she had rejected the Hindu prince
—he had not asked her hand in mar
ringe, and she feared that her lack of
fortune would remain a barrier be¬
tween them. And she was perpetrating
a crime for his benefit that should have
sent him back to Indian had lie known
it to grovel at the feet of his gods.
Not that she believed it a crime. She
was but following tlie example of a
lady of high degree who had done the
same thing. Now her one fear was
that her prince might gain an inkling
of the truth, when her pretty conceit
would in his eyes become a deadly
sin.
At the height of the revel the beau¬
tiful Aurora vanished as suddenly as if
she had been translated. Her Hindu
prince did not aeompany her, but at
the moment of her sudden departure
he stood in the centre of the ballroom
waving liis jeweled hands in semi¬
circles in tlie air, and after a revolu¬
tion or two like a whirling dervish he
laughed, declaring that he was for¬
saken by his goddess and joined with
the rest in the further festivities of the
night.
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Aurora’s diamonds and the peculiar
actions of the Hindu furnished food
for much speculative gossip after the
ball. The rumor went forth that the
young American girl had been followed
on that occasion by armed detectives,
who were present to guard her dia¬
monds, that they : er.lly were a be¬
trothal present from the Hindu and
were worth a king’s ransom. But they
were all wrong. The diamonds were
her own, and her scheme laid worked
so well that confidence in her father
was restored and she had piloted his
plans to success. And Anita was be¬
trothed to the Hindu the week succeed¬
ing the bail.
The annual American ball which has
just been held ill Havana was graced
by the presence of the Princess San¬
yaka, more lovely that when as Aurora
she appeared there the preceding year.
(Jems of great value and diamonds like
drops of light decorated brow and
bosom, but they had not the subtle
radiance of those of a year ago. The
prince was dressed in the evening
clothes of an American gentleman and
looked especially bright and happy.
Before coming to the ball they had
each made some admissions.
"Light of my Life,” Sanyaka had
asked, “why not wear the diamonds
that made thee a queen at the last
ball?”
The heart of the princess throbbed
violently. “I cannot, my prince. They
—they—I no longer possess them.”
"I would see thy costume, my Anita.
Send the maid for it, my heart’s de¬
light.”
The beautiful head of the Princess
Sanyaka drooped. “My sin has found
me out,” she said, but she sent for the
dress. When the maid unfolded it
from the tissue paper in which it was
wrapped in careful layers there was
visible only a mildew of tiny black
spots, which covered the whole rose
and white fabric.
“Those were OrokeW^^i. ruy J^monds,” she said,
in a low. and then she
took her prinee’slhand in hers and led
him out on the balcony. The perfect
Cuban night was aglow with millions
of tiny lights corrugating the atmos¬
phere like hosts of electric sparks.
“We caught them in nets—my maid
and I—thousands and thousands of
them—the pretty glow-worms that die
in a night, and we tied them in little
bags of rose gauze, and. struggling to
be free, they emitted that wonderful
light, and every flash of my diamonds
cost a life—and I know the Hindu doc¬
trine that souls might be in transmi¬
gration there—and, oh, my dear lord,
what shall my punishment he?”
“This, O my beloved,” and lie kissed
her with the tenderness of renewed
love, “know, O my princess, that I
helped thee do that brief cruelty. My
race has many secrets, and I have
solved them for my own knowledge,
It was I. Light of my Byes, who ex¬
aggerated tlie feeble brilliancy of llie
glow-worm into that rare glory of dia¬
monds. I who made the curious see
what did not exist, and it was I
held them spellbound, that you might
leave unseen.”
“But my Lord of Rajput, how gained
you this strange power?”
“Ask me not, O Splendor of the
Earth. I practice it no more, since in
renouncing my people and my faith I
lose the power.”
“But is it not accounted a sin in
your country, my lord, to destroy life
—even the life of an insect?”
“.Toy of my Soul, I am no longer in
India, and I believe no more in its tra¬
ditions, beloved one. since I have
known thee.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
Itobespievre's Clock.
Robespierre’s clock, which stood in
the room occupied by him in the house
of the carpenter Duplay, is now in the
possession of Mile. Geniat, an artiste
of the Franeaise. The clock, aside
from its historical value, is most inter¬
esting on account of its curious works.
The face is of copper and has only one
hand. At the Chicago exhibition this
clock was an object of much interest.
It is to be placed in the Carnavalet
Museum, by the side of the great clock
of the Tuileries, which struck so many
historical hours from the time of the
Directory until the burning of the Tuil
eries on the evening of May 24, 1S71.
A Hercules Found.
At Boscoreale, a small village near
Pompeii, excavators have discovered a
magnificent bronze statue of Hercu¬
les reposing, seated on a rock, with
his club" on his shoulder. The work is
in a good state of preservation, and is
similar in style to the famous Farnese
Hercules in the Vatican in Rome,
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