Both,
Grandmother knit for the baby
A jacket of blue,
“No color for boys,” so she wrote it,
“But this one wit do.”
And she sent a gold pin with a blank for the
name,
To walt til he came,
Next day came {from lovely Aunt Mollle~
Now, what do you think?
All scented, embroidered, and dainty,
A jacket of pink! =
“To dress a girl-baby in blue is a shame!
She wrote, “What's her name?”
“Pear grandma,” wrote mamma one morning
“Your jacket in biue
Is just the right thing for our baby,
His eyes are so biue." -
And her note to Aunt Molly was strange, you
may think : a
Our dear little girl is so pretty in pink.
1 fear that you'll say her two letters
At variance seemed,
Or that I'm telling you something
1 could but have dreamed ;
But the fact is her stories were nothing but
rue;
For the twins wore both jackets—the pink and
the blue!
i —-—
“L. B. ST.
Few of the many thousand who,
every season, roam the peerless prome-
nades, the shaded rambles, the seques-
tad paths and handsome grottoes of
Central Park, have any conception of
the amount of real-life romance which
has been enacted in some of the now
celebrated localities, Yet, in this re-
spect, the park teems with dramatic 1n-
terest,
The “Mall” has had its mishaps and
mysteries; the **Lake”’ its love-episodes;
the Ramble” its rhapsodies of love
and rivalry; and the ‘‘Music-Stand”’ its
monographs of melody, in which beat
ing hearts were mingled with the rhy-
thmic straing. The gilded gondolas
have been hallowed by many an episode
of human passion as wild and poetic
as ever lingered along the lagunes of
Venice; and especially the ‘Cave’ —
the subject of the present sketch-—has
been the theatre of a little drama well
worth the telling.
I may as well state that most of the
facts which form the groundwork of
this narrative have been obtained by
conscientious inguiry among the detec-
tives and other officials eonnected with
Central Park
I was awakened to the interest of
my subject while exploring the “Cave,”
which those who are at all familiar with
the Park will remember, is situated in
the northwestern corner of that portion
below the Reservoir.
High up on the dripping wall of this
romantic cavern I discovered, by the
merest aecudent, the initials **L. B, St,
V.” They were rudely traced and
scarcely legible, and I should have
thought nothing of them but for a
connecting circumstance, which, as I
subsequently learned by the news
papers, had occurred in the vicinity of
the Cave on the evening preceding my
visit, A narrow stream of water cros-
ses the park near this point, making its
way through arches of masonry under-
neath the roads. Beneath one of these
arches, or tunnels, where the water has
great rapidity and a depth of over six
foot body of a man was found,
The deser ption of the body, as exhibi-
ted to the coroner’s jury, was that the
deceased appeared to have been a for-
was well dressed, and bore upon
the right arm below the elbow, pricked
in ludia ink, initials “*L. B.
TF sy
f
ine
olorne
oo Bg B 3 .
the Se.
A verdict of suicide by drowning was
rendered, and though several days
elapsed between the finding the dispo-
sition of the remains and my perusal of
the account, I remembered the initials
I had seen in the Cave, and my curi-
osiiy was instan'ly aroused. I at once
apuolied to one of the park officials, who
was also an intimate acquaintance of
mine, and mentioned the coincidence,
His brow wore a troubled look, and
he said with some hesitation:
““The body of the supposed suicide is
already buried; but I always had a sus-
picion of foul play-—though for what
reason I can scarcely tell. Here, how-
ever, is a paper which was found upon
the body of the unfortunate man. You
are welcome to it, on condition that
you never reveal who gave it to you;
for 1 carenot to explain how it came in
my possession, ”’
I gave the promise eagerly, and took
the paper, which, however, only con-
tained some stanzas, written in French,
that were signed **Louis B, St. Vaux,”
Taking up this Light clew, I suc-
cecded, after the most persistent Inquiry
and dilligent investigation, in collecting
the facts for the following story:
A romantic affection having sprung
up between Louis St. Vaux, a poor
young artist struggling hard for fort-
une and recognition in the new world,
and Miss Augusta Von--—, the only
daughter of a wealthy Prussian banker,
doing business in New York, and re-
siding in one of the aristocratic trans.
verse streets not far from the park,
clandestine meetings were frequently
contrived in the Ramble and other se.
cluded parts of the park.
‘The father and brothers of the young
lady were decidedly opposed to the
young man's aspirations to her hand,
Upon the approach of threatened Los.
tilities between Franceand Prussia, this
opposition became so bitter and perso-
nal that Bt. Vaux was peremptorily
communded to discontinue his visits to
the house, and Miss Augusta was vir.
tually kept a prisoner in her own room,
But love will probably continue to
laugh at locksmiths, At any rate he
did so in this Instance.
The young artist, after arguing, but
in vaio, that he himself was a political
exile from his native country, suddenly
ceased to haunt the neighborhood of
his sweetheart’s residence, and It was
rumored that he had, in a fit of desper.
ation, returned to France to join the
army, which at that time was in a bus-
tle of preparation, In anticipation of
war. The young lady's health grew so
precarious through anxiety of mind
and frame that she was permitted,
every morning and evening, to take
long walks in the park,in which she was
always accompanied by her mald, a
young German girl of about her own
age,
The result, as may readily be imag-
ined, was almost daily meetings of the
lovers; the rumored return of the youth
to his native country having been a
mere ruse, promulgated by himself to
throw his persecutors on their guard.
But Augusta recovered her ulealth
and spiries so rapidly as to excite sus-
picion on the part of her father and
brothers, Her movements were
watched so jealously that the Interviews
again became few and far between, and
then not unattended with danger.
At one of these however, an elope
ment was agreed upon, S', Vaux, it
was arranged, was to keep entirely out
of sight for a week or ten davs, to once
more allay suspicion; then, when he had
ment, he was to let Augusta know
when to meet him at the Cave, by
vent discovery, in the event ot its fal-
ling into the wrong hands—was to
contain nothing from which their in
tentions could be constructed, The
lady was to know the author of the
missive by the handwriting, and to un-
derstand by its receipt that her lover
was to have a coach in walting, in the
immediate vicinity of the Cave, at
about dusk; and if everything was
propitious for the tryst, she was
sigmfy us much by signing his (not her}
name to the paper received, and
10
at once,
This was certainly rather a bungling
way of condueting the intrigue; but
they were simple foreigners, young and
inexperienced, and probably thought
that the more oomplicated their plot
the Jess likelihood would there be of
discovery.
So, or the morning of what must
have been the day proceding my visit to
the Cave, a folded paper was thrown
into the garden adjoining the Prussian
banker's house,
As luck would have it, it was first
perceived by one of the young Iady’s
brothers, He picked it up and read it—
for the family were quite as conversant
with the Gallic as with their native
tongue—reflected over the contents, and
then, after replacing the paper on the
bush which it had fallen, retired to
confer with his father and brother,
A little later the missive was found
by the lady’s maid, and speedily found
its way into the hands of the trusting
fair one for whom it was intended,
I am satisfied that that plece of
writing was identical with the paper
which I now hold In my hand, and of
which 1 proffer a free translation,
It is written in a bold, nervous hand,
and is called:
AT rere TRYST.
“The spiendors boru of the roseate mom
Through the gatos of my grotto peep,
And my soul is bright with a rapt delight,
As my lonely tryst | keep
But the drops that fall from the Cave's dark
wall,
They soem 10 be tears that weep
For the lips that were kissed in
fryst,
Io the grotto dark and deep
For the love that was born oo a rosler morn
In the grotto dark and deep.
a tender
“With a hand of flame, | carve my name
On the hard and rocky side
Hard and 20ld as the me of gold
Who would wrest from his bosoms its bride;
And dream of the day, when faraway
By a lover's true knot tied,
Thy sweet name-—-thinel shall be linked with
mine,
As my own, my peerios bride
Be linked with mine as the wild vines twine,
Forever and ever my bride!
“1 hear without the laughter and shout
Of those who their pastime take,
And the rattle of wheels, and the lisp of keels
That cleave the blue breast of the lake,
From flower to flower, in rose-leaved bower,
The wild-tongued birds awake,
With echoes that start from my lonely heart,
Which, but for thy beauty, would break
With a wild unrest in my aching breast,
Which, but for thy goodness, would break!
“Dark, lonely grot, whate'er my lot—
Rapture, or death, in theo
A hideous tomb, or a life of bloom,
Triumphant and happy and free
Thy walls 80 bare my name shall wear
As a sad momento of me,
To all loving ones under steadfast suns,
And to strangers from over the rea
To the buoyant youth and the trust and truth
That may here lie buried with me!”
The name appended to the stanzas,
“L. B.8t. Vaux,” Is in a delicate, fem-
inine caligraphy, and must have been
written In the full confidence that the
lady would meet with no obstacle in
keeping her appointment. She found
managed to raise a ram of 1woney from
Ins friends; a conch was walting on
Eighth avenue, directly on a line with
his position, scarcely three hundred
yards away; the services of a minister
had been engaged: and everything wus
in readiness for the elopement,
Still be felt anxious and uneasy, It
had been over a fortnight since he had
beheld his beloved Augusta, and even
now something might intervene to pre
vent her from keeping her tryst,
But no. A low, sweet voice whis-
pered from above, and Ye saw a slender,
vailed figure coming cautiously down
the rough-hewn steps leading to the
Cave,
He sprang forward Lo assist ber, and,
the next instant, the lovers were locked
in each other's arms.
“Dearest Augustal' sald Louis,
after swift explanations had taken
place on both sides, “we will yetlins
ger here till the dusk deepens a little,
as some of the pleasure-seckers must be
still loitering on the walks above, Why
did you not bring your maid?”
**1 thought it was the best to proceed
alone,” sald Augusta, *“Ob, Louis,
let not needlessly delay! I must
have been followed,”
It was almost dark when St. Vaux
assisted ber up the steps, and together
us
the western entrance, near which the
coach was waiting,
jut just where the stream plunged
noisily through a dark arch leading
under the drive, they were confronted
by Augusta’s father and brothers —the
latter with cocked revolvers in thelr
hands,
St. Vaux started back, but said nota
word, and, clasping the now swooning
Augusta round the waist, himselt drew
Before he could use it, it was dashed
the brothers feared the noise
of a pistol report—Ilaid him stunned and
bleeding on the turf.
When he recovered and staggered to
his feet, it was only to catch a glimpse
of Augusta's white garment,
was being borne up the slope.
tered a cry and rushed toward them;
but ons of the brothers—a large and
powerful man--seeing that he had re.
covered, ran back and closed with him,
throtiling him to prevent his cries,
St. Vaux, naturally of a frail and
delicate frame, was trebly weak from
the blow he had received. He slipped
and fell, with his head and shoulders
over the edge of the rushing stream.
His opponent seized him by the ankles,
and, with a deep oath, plunged his
head and the upper part of his body
down under the water,
With the heart of a fiend, he held
him down till the tctal cessation of
movement in the limbs told him that
He then
crowded and crushed it down the arch-
way, where 1t was found by the officers
the following morning and submitted
to the Dogberry investigation of the
purblind clowns who constituted the
coroner's jury.
The savage murderer, taking the
precaution to secure the pistol which
bad been dashed from the victim's
hand, rejoined his father and brother
and proceeded with them to the car-
riage which they had in waiting for the
senseless form they carried.
Whether he told them the truth of
what bad transpired or not, Is a matter
of conjecture. but certainly to one of
that guilty family must this story
though dressed with Getitious naes—
go home with cutting and terrible ef.
fect; and if the fact of a beautiful and
lovely girl—an only daughter and ouly
sister—being confined in the Bloom.
ingdale Asylum as a hopeless lunatic
caa haunt such inbuman hearts, none
of its members will rejoice at reading
this story,
Customs,
an a
Curious Provencal
Investigation Inlo the customs and
habits of the Provencals of our own
day discloses,” says the New York
Times, **the fact that among these in.
teresting people there are still to be
found vestiges of pagan practices, as
they continue to observe numerous pe-
culiarities 1n their modes of worship
MONSTER CANON.
A Description of a Few of Europe's
Big Guns,
The recent completion of a 135 ton
gun at Essen for the Russians and
its shipment from Hamburg to Cron-
stadt, says the New York Sun, after a
successful test at the Meppen range, has
marked another stage in the making of
monster ordnauce, The largest Krupp
gun previously made was one of about
119 tons, throwing projectiles of 2,314
pounds. Italy has two of these mount.
ed in a shore battery, and it is for coast
defense also that Russia intends to use
the new gun obtained from Krupp, It
has been said that the next step in ad-
vance undertaken by the Essen works
will be the making of 150-ton gun,
which will throw a projectile weighing
3,000. pounds.
Hardly less interesting than these cali-
bres are the more familiar 110-ton guns
of the Elswick work, inasmuch as they
are used for the batteries of British
ships, as, for example, on the Benbow,
This gun is forty-four feet long, or
about two feet less than the 110-ton
Krupp, and its calibre is sixteen and a
half inches. The diameter of the
powder chamber is twenty-one inches
and she maximum charge is 950 pounds
to be used with a projectile weighing
1,800 pounds, With the extreme
powder charge a muzzle energy of 62,
T700-foot tons is expected.
show a great change from thirty years
ago when the largest cannon mounted
on a war vessel threw a shot weighing
only sixty-eight pounds and
an energy of only 1,000 foot tons,
Still there are not lacking complaints
against the 110-ton guns, Those which
have been built for the Victoria and
Sanspareil are sald to have developed
serious defects, two out of the four
ready delivered having failed onthe test
and one seriously collapsed. A gun of
this size costs over £100,000, so that the
loss is serious in case of failure, Yet
this is a matter that may not concern
the government where private works,
like those of Elswick & Essen, supply
the guns. The makers have to stand
the loss if the gun does not come to the
possessing
be much exaggeration in the reports of
the shortcomings of
Italy, and the
made many 110-ton guns for
Dulilio, Dandalo, Italia and Lepanto,
Dosia, the
Morosini. The French have also many
very heavy guns although none of quite
as great weight as the Krupps and Arm-
strong.
——— 3
The Origin or “"Hurrah.'
“Writing to the London Times with
reference to the remark of its Berlin
correspondent that the exclamation
“Hurrah!® is sald to be of “Slavonic
College, Dondon, says: “1 presume
your correspondent must have some au-
thority for this assertion; but I hope
you will allow me to point out that, as
far sa 1 know, the word is of purely
German origin. It is generally assumed
to be derived from the imitative inter.
jection Awrr, describing a rapid move.
ment, from which word the middle
High German hurren, ‘to move rapidly,’
or rather to hurry, has been informed,
Hurrab is, therefore, nothing else bug
an enlarged form of Awr, and, as I
said of purely Teutonic origin. In
when it was first introduced
country in the Anglicised form of
‘hurry.’ In Germany it was frequently
used during the Napoleonic wars by
the Prussian soldiers, and it also occurs
in some political and martial songs of
those days. Since then it seems to have
been adopted also by other nations,
even by the French in the form of
howrra, That the interjection did not
become so popular in Germany as a
cheer at convivial gatherings as in this
country is probably owing to the cir-
cumstance that preference was given
there to the brief exclamation ‘Hoebh!!
forming respectively the end and the
beginning of the phrases ‘Er lebe hoch,
and *Hoeh soll er leben,’ Of late the
word hurrah seems to have become
rather popular in Germany. It is just
possible that the English reimported
it there or that it was revived through
the magnificent poem of “Hurrah;
Germazial’ written by the poet lag-
reate of German people, Ferdinand
Freiligrath.”
Burial Rites of an African King«-His
Wives Buriea with him.
The king of Eboe, Africa, died re-
cently, and, as is costomary im that
part of the country, the traders from
New Calabar went up to pay their re-
in this
ers were aware that for a short time
after the old king's death “lu lu" rites
nine of the king's youngest, wives, and
their deaths had been brought about mn
the most cruel manner. Each of the
poor creatures had both her wrists and
ankles broken, so that they could nei-
ther walk nor crawl.
In this state, and suffering the most
excruciating pain, the unfortunate
creatures were placed at the bottom of
the grave, seven of them lying side by
side, The body of the king was then
laid on them, in a transverse direction
The two remuining women were laid
down by the side of the king, lying ex-
actly like the monarch’s body. No food
or water was given to the poor creat-
ures, who were left in that position to
die, It is said that death, did not as
a rule, take place for four or five days
Four men were stationel round the
grave, armed with clubs, ready to
kn ck back with these weapons any of
the women who, notwithstanding thelr
maimed condition, were able to crawl
to the side of the grave, In other parts
of the t ywn further sacrifices
were Llaking place.
various trees were the bodies of several
placed side by side on the grass, Night
had come on, and by the flickering hight
of lanterns the faces of all appeared
welid ana upearthly in their excitement
and dread
human
Suspende i from
cI ———r————
FORMATION OF GUERRILLAS.
Why Quantrell’'s Cang Was Organ~
ized and Equipped.
In 1861, just after Price had captur-
ed Lexington, Mo., seven of his men
bound themsslves by an oath to stand
by each other and kill all those at whose
hands they had suffered. They were
| Quantrell, Haller, the Little Brothers,
| Hampton, Kelley and Busham, savs the
! Florida Temes Union. Many others
| soon joined them, All complained of
| terrible outrages on themselves or mem-
| bers of their families, and it is more
| than probable the charges were true,
| for that was an evil time. Men were
| whipped, robbed, murdered: women
| were insulted, outraged, driven from
Each srmy contained its
| quota of bad men, and at the begin.
| ning of the war discipline was shame-
| fully slack. Then, as always happens
| in such cases, men with no feeling on
| either mide of the great controversy rob-
i ther homes,
| bed Unionists and charged it to the Se.
| cessionists, and vice versa, and in such
| heated times each party believes the
| worst of the other,
The region in which the James and
| Youngers grew up has had a singular
| experience in lawlessness. From 1519
| to 1854 the western line of Missouri,
| from the site of the present Kansas
| City south, was the border between the
{ whites and the semi-civilized Delawares,
Shawnees and Wyandottes—that is to
{say, the line where criminals were
i safe, The whits population of Jack-
i som, ( lay and adjacent counties had in-
jcreased to a few hundreds when the
Mormons came in 1833; a year later the
“Mormon war” began and raged at in-
| tervals for four years till the Mormons
were expelied, Eleven years later the
emigrants to California made Indepen-
| dence their gathering pot, and life
became generally reckless, Soon fol-
lowed the Kansas troubles, from
to 1857. Hatred burned in the
of the people on both sides of the line;
| hundreds of “Jaybawkers,” “Red
| Legs” and “Border Ruffians” were
| longing to get a chance for revenge.
: Out of this sanguinary chaos of blood
{and fire the Quantrell gang was evoly-
ed.
hearts
Climate ang Phthithis.
The question, Does chmate cure
phthists? is answered in the affirmative,
“beyond question,’ by Dr. James A.
Lindsay, of Belfast, Ireland, in the
current number of the “Popular Science
{ Monthly.” “It does it, not usually by
| a single or specific quality of the air or
by any definite combination of meteo-
rological conditions’ he says, “but by
removing the consumptive from the
evil influences of unfavorable meteoro-
logical conditions and of an injurious
soil, and transferring him to a climate
where fresh air, sun shine and outdoor
life may be enjoyed and their concomit-
ant advantages realized. The best cli-
mates to cure vphthisis are found at
mare resorts and mountain resorts,
The best marine resort is a sea-going
ship—a sailing vessel preferred —and the
longer the voyage the better, Next
are oceans islands, cost islands and
shore place, of which Algiera, Tangier
and Malaga areamong the best, Of the
dry inland resorts, the best are Nubia,
the interior parts of Algeria, the Orange
Free State and the vast interior plains
of Australia, of which the Orange
HORSE NOTES,
~Jockey Bergen may ride for the
Dwyer Brothers next season,
~The winnings of the Scroggan
~Dan Honig’s winnings for 1880
~The running meeting at Birming-
ham, Ala,, will begin to-day.
~The betting-room at the Elizabeth
track is be'ng inclosed with glass,
--Jloseberry’s high jump ol 6 ft
11% in. is now the record for horses,
~The horsemen of General Rapids,
Mich., are agitating for a mile track.
~— Nearly $25.000 will be expended ~n
~ Margaret 8,, winner of the Spirit
Futurity stake, has arrived safely in
~The English horse Indian Prince
has been sold for £10,000 to go to Bue-
nos Ayres,
~—John Hunter and August Belmont
have made entries of the American
Derby of 1801,
~It is said that Marcus Daly's
$206,000 colt Mascot has shown a quar-
ter in 33 seconds,
~ Five of the get of King Rene have
entered the 2.30 list this season, making
a total of nine.
— Orrin Hickok is anxions (o match
Adonis, by Sidpey, against anything in
the country except Johnson,
—Mr. O'Reilly is now sorry he did
not accept the §14,000 offered for Cou-
nemara by the Dwyer Bros. last win-
ter,
~Isaac Woodruff, the veteran trai-
ner, has left Robert Steel’s Cedar Park
Farm and returned to New York,
~William Timble, or Elkton, Md.,
is weaning his prize colt Blossom, and
is at present undecided as to a change
of name,
—Twenty-nine of the 100 horses
which have made records of 2.20 or bet-
ter this season bad no record as tast as
2.30 at the beginning of the year.
~—W. P. Maxwell, of Louisville, Ky.,
has sold to G. W. Poole, of Denver,
Col., for $5000, the fast 2 year old colt
Pligrim, by Powhattan out of Ems,
~it is reported that W. H. Crawford
will ship his 2 year old colt Constantine,
by Wilkes Boy, to California, for the
purpose of attempting to break the 2
year old stallion record.
—illig, the champion 4 year old of
Vermont, is at the home of the owner,
W. W. Moore, Shoreham, Vt. His
shoes have been removed, hnd he will
be given a well-earned rest the coming
winte~.
8 9%
— Alcantara (record 2.23) heads the
list of New England sires of 2.3) per-
formers this year, with Empress U.
Gene, 2.19; Miss Alice, 2.204; Ariel,
2.284; Black Victor, 2.20%; and Monte-
zuma, 2,204,
~—Day, the young jockey who was so
badly injured during the last meeting
at Jerome Park, is recovering rapidly,
taking frequent strolls from the hospi
tal on bright days. It is said that he
will ride for W. 1. Scott next year,
~ What kind of a team Maud 8. and
Sunol would make it is impossible to
say till Sunol has attamed her full
growth, but if once put tegether and
driven for a record, no grand stand in
the country would accommodate the
crowd,
~The Fashion Stud Farm, Trenton,
colt Moloch, foaled 1888, by Strauger,
dam Mystery, by Socrates, to a gentle-
man in Illinois, Also, at Trenton, N.
J., the bay filly Fable, by General
Pacing with Ronning Mate, 1
mile, 2.01%; Westmont, ch. g. by Al
mont, (b. g. Firebrand as Running
Mate, (Chicago, Ii, July 10th 1884,
1 mile 2,034 Minnie R. B. M. by J. C.
Breckenbridge, (b. g. Firebrand as
mate) Chicago, Ill, Oct. 34 1884,
—The following horses have In suc-
cession lowered the 1 mile Trotiing
Record.
~1806, Yankee, (saddle) 2.59.
~1810, a horse from Boston, 2.584.
1824, Top Gallant, (saddle) 2.40,
- 1830, Burster, (saddle) 2.32.
~1834, Edwin Forrest, (saadle) 2.314.
—1843, Lady Suffolk, (saddle) 2 28,
—1844, Lady Suffolk, (saddle) 2.264.
~1852, Tacony, (saddie) 2.26.
—~1853, Tacony, (saddle) 2.2564,
~~1856, Flora Temple, 2.24}.
~1859, Flora Temple, 2.194.
-1865, Dexter, 2.18}.
~1866, Dexter, 2.18,
1807, Dexter, 2.17.
1871, Goldsmith Maid, 2.17,
~1872, Goldsmith Mad, 2.164.
~-1874, Goldsmith Maid, 2.14.
~1878, Rarus, 2.13}.
~1879, st. Julien, 2.114.
1880, Maud 8, 2.10,
~1881, Maud 8, 2.104.
~1884, Jay-Eye-See, 2.10."
~ 1884, Maud 8. 2.00§.
~1884, Maud 8, 2.094.
10 T, Mand 8S. 208};
Lowest record at i
pacing different
1386,
~1839, Drover, (saddle) 2.30,
~1844, Jymes K. Polk, 2.98,
—1852, Roanoke, 2.184.
&
~=1808, Billy Bayos faaddle) 3:14,