OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD.
With burning brain and heart of hate,
I sought my wronger, early, late,
And all the wretched night and day
My dream and thought was slay, aod
slay.
My better self rose uppermost,
The beast within my bosom lost
Itself in love; peace from afar
Shone o'er me radiant like a star.
I slew my wronger with a deed,
A deed of love; I made him bleed
With kindness, 1 filled for years
His 90ul with tenderness and tears.
—Robert Loveman in the Independent,
iL PARE TRISTE.
BY WALTER MATSON.
— 1
Diego sat on the south side of the
ancient adobe church of San Pedro. It
was the time of day when the good
fathers, whose lives had been passed
at the now forgotten mission, were tak-
ing their customary seista. It was Die-
£0's time to be idle. He looked south-
ward, over the almond trees just burst-
ing into blossom, over the stubby vines
that the half-naked descendants of a
once lordly race were training for the
winter's vintage, over the garden patch
and network of irrigating ditches, avar
she great tawny desert of death, toward
the land of his birth, The wind, a very
mild breeze for February, whistled
around the corner of the building. It
ame fresh from the Raton Mountains,
It chilled him. He drew
shelter, It chilied his heart also, and,
as he looked over the orchard decked
with fragrant he muttered
the old proverb, “Presto maduro
podrido (goon ripe, soon rotten).
dently his mind was pre ted
the range of human vision.
With the involuntary
came the thought of a
had not heard
own name, Diego
whom he had lived
imes knew it;
Sebastiano, his
breast a secret was a
grave. He also rememt
name had been giver
his patron saint,
descendant of a
generate as he
ing this fact.
‘El corazon manda las
heart bears up the body), but I
endure this forever. |
the fathers ght
vows.”
closer to his
promise,
presto
Evi-
beyond
jor
axpression
name that Le
uttered his
None
th
for years
none
confes
was,
The
«an
to
carnes’ |
musi speuk
to-ni and take the
Three years before, in
month when the earth spring
beneath the warmth of
sun, a wanderer drew rein at the
of the Mission San Pedro. His face
haggard, his body we ifter the
His he
i
‘ak
desert ride, rse was in as
mentable a condition as its master
was
most boyish, even in the
stranger young He
youth is but a
child and
mounted he st
the portal for
swoon. [It was not
h occurrence
the
AER OTO
support
the first ti
had
the lonely mission on the
ele The good
to do ir such cases
more faithtal ic their
lis serape,
dicated the hidalgo., than
have been had the objuct of their soli
ftation been the t Iodian
New Mexico,
When Diego’ came to him
iad passed, 1
but as often as he did so, Padre Sebas
tiano bid him be quiet and wait until
his strength returned. t chanced
that on a summer's day, as he sat sadly
in the courtyard listening to the trick-
ling of the water, a hand laid
on his shoulder, and Padre Sebastiano,
Yending over him, said:
“Tell me, my son, what troubles yon,
Yon have never confessed, nor taken
the Wessed sacrament.”
“Not here father; not here! come into
the chapel and I will tell you all; Lut
when you hear my story you will tury
tne out like un leproso.”
“Nay; say not 80! The heart
Mother is always compassionate and
often, while you slept, my prayers have
gone up for you to the holy San Pedro
in whose glorious memory this humble
mission was founded; but come”
The old man led the way to th
me
$114 an appened
ff 2)
edge of the
Wiha
+ 3 GR
sert, Knew
were
becau
dust-begrim
t
ed it was
they would
humbles in
self weeks
He strove to tell his story
0 3
he feit
of the
o the little
chapel, frescoed by loving hands that
had long since entered in*o eternal
rest, whose altar was adorned with
spoils of conquest and with relics from
far-distant Spain, and thence into the
confessional where none might hear
Diego instinctively fell upon his knees
and a shudder went through his well-
knit frame as he thus began:
“Father, pray for me. My sin |
greater than I can bear. 1 cannot coa-
fess it, even here.”
“Proceed, my son.
I trust you have repented.
It eannor
has sinned unto death.”
“I have, I have.”
“Tell me, and I will judge.” Thus
encouraged the penitent continnad:
“My name is Diego Dominguez y
Agramonte. My home is, or rather
was, in the Boulson de Mapimi, beside
Laguna del Parres, You know the
place, father—the fairest upon earth,
and where the air is always fragrant
with the perfume of orange blossoms
and of more distant mountain Aowers,
There | lived on my father's hacienda,
ready near the city of Chihuahua, 1 had
read much of the ‘maquina de vaho,
but I wanted to see it for mysolf, and
the peones who went away to work
and came back jingling pesos, when Le.
fore they had never seen anything
greater than un medio, only whettea
my desire to travel.’
“Ah, my son,” said the old man, in-
terrupting, “the love of money is the
root of all evil.” Nudl intravimus, nudi
eximus,'
“But, padre, it was not
1 was after. 1 wanted to
So just before ‘la dia de nocue bueneg'
I started for Chihuahua My mother
blegsed me with tears. and my fa'ler,
who knew my temper and inexperience,
urged me to hasten back and take
charge of the hacienda.
vas the largest city [ had ever
in, and I wandersd about the plaza for
u day or two quite last m the crowd
money that
30a the worid,
beer
seemed to have plzaly of money, and
‘no own everything, wand whon I thougnt
how our beautiful Mexico had belonged
to oid Castile an
rad set foot on tae soil 1 hated the vp
starts, I soon “ound fri who felt
the same way that I did, and we picked
quarrels with the g=ingocs until tre po
lice interfered.
“One night, after I had been thera
about a week, we went to a fandango
There I met my fate I took my seat
beside the most beautiful senorita t
I had She was not
like our Coahuila belles, but her
glinted like the ripening wheat on the
uplands, and her deen
dreamy blue, and her form
heart. She threw back
tilla that covered head
at me. This gave courage,
asked her to dance
get the touch of her hand,
a thrill that I had never before expe-
I felt it often during the next
two weeks, but I aN never known
The next dance
of my friends
dropped a rose
night was
ner names
i
aie
before
A mas
hat
ever seen. dark
hea
eyes were a
well
my
her and
me
n
ai
rienced
or
since gave to on
and. : hey passed nu
she my feet defor
the ove knew all ato
was Maria Sepuev
Of cour
been much s¢
shown nt
This
a3 constant as
at a fandango,
er window
iid her all al
de Mapimi,
things quicl
her at 1
ized
Diego pat
hoked
tiano str
Was ¢
oked
not speak
resume
such happiness
ever, It was te
I was to return
were at a far
ANOS in
great He
3
is
man
8D gliver
§
deal and to gamble
ent
be golden) Hn
together, |
in her
rattle the coins
no lock the Key
thay went on the floor BAW
him whisper sweet words ear,
just as [ had done !
in his pocket, and my art became hot
within my breast wanted the next
dance, but Maria paid no a
me, She danced again with
When they came near me I scowled
ttention
the gring
He
saw me and laughed a rering laugh
and said something
not understand the
know the
derstood him, tus
and laughed also I could stand
longer. | went oufkide into
air. It did not cool me. 1 heard the
sound of music. It had no charms {
now and again, as I looked in, I saw
Maria still dancing with my enemy
For hours | waited At length the
Americanos came out and walked
ward their hotel. There were three of
them. | followed
like cat
have followed that man to the end
the earth. By and by he stopped Iv
hind his friends to light a cigar. This
was what | wanted In an instant my
knife was between his ribs. He fell
with a groan. His friends ran back,
and while they stopped to raise him |
escaped in the darkness. [ knew Chi.
huahua as well as they. [I hunted up
my friend Ramon, and told him ail
about it
"Diego." sald he, ‘they know you,
and you have killed a great hidalzo.
You must gat ors of the city to-night
rght array. You cannot go home, be
cause the police will look for you there,
and the United States will never let the
matter rest.’
“What shall I de?”
“Take your horse and go across the
river, They will never look for you in
| his country. Here is money. Your
| father will repay me.”
“In another hour I was on my way,
II thought that I would go to Santa Fe.
80 1 told Ramon; but the blessed moth-
er brought me to your mission. Padre,
will you turn me away?”
“God forbid, my son.
kill Senor Americano?”
“That I cannot tell
‘Breaser.”
word
me
She toward
it no
the cool
to
a I ecuid
f
ih
But did yon
I meant to’
{if you struck him only once.
, Americanos have many lives. Do you
.ever think of Maria now?”
whole life must be one of repentance
Do you repent?”
“I do, Indeed; and pray all the holy
Ora pro me.’
The confessor had
self, and knew the great world far bet-
than did kis companion. He dia
not speak the word that Diego wished
but gave him a kiss of
ter
to hear uttered,
peace, and said:
“Wait here; 1 go to consult with
brethren.”
The penitent
was safe, but he
would about his re.
this asylum, He had nct
The good man returned
with the news that the exile might de-
part when he wished The fathers,
however, had learned to love him, and
he was welcome emain at the mis.
sion if he chose
“Only,"” said the pr “if you stay
you must earn your bread by the sweat
of your brow. We hope that some day
will be of :
manner Jt
guez y Agramonte,
ruled and never
3
by ti the
LARD J Lae
the
knew that his
wondered what
Bay
gecrot
Pas
Sebastiano
maining in
long to walt
ior
est,
you one us
} that
who
this ame about
Domini
In
Diego
had
went
serves
always
out to
Pueble
and when hi
would comt
in the vesper
endl
height, The we The
wy
be felt
darkness could almost
step might
not think of
dering whence
Were they from
grimage to the Cy
If #n oruld
After
doomed to meet
and ona
false
a
i$
Diego
won-
mean death
this He
these travelers
Mexico,
of the
d wae
came,
making a
Holy Faith
chance re
m
thay
neze him? Years was
He
these things before
of a midnight hia
Journey's end. Voices him,
The gpeech was his mother tongue, On
the ground near the fire lay a man
moaning, his comrades doing all in
their power to alleviate his suffering
Near by, wrapped in blankets, was
sleeping form. Diego tied his horgs and
advanced toward the group. He 44
not gee a familiar face, The watchers
rose to meet him,
“Oh, padre, you are just in time, Jore
is almost dead.”
“Not so, friends.” he repiied in their
own language: “he’s a long way from
being a dead man. Put on some wood
and mae a blaze.
He poured some liquor down
throat of the writhing wretch, bound up
the wounds and set, as best he could.
the broken limb. All this took time,
and as the fire burned more brightly
and the noise of the conversation grew
louder, the form in the biankets moved
Then the blankets were
thrown back and a woman approached.
He saw
had plenty of tin ! ponder
kering |
discl
reached
oh
ight
campfire osed
@
the
“Diego!”
El Padre Triste bounded to his feet
and turned. The hair that glistened
the eyes of dark. dreamy blue
love or trouble. Thus time passed until
I was nineteen years of age, when
strange stories came to us sf the won-
derful railroad that was coming from
the Rio Grande del Nort», and was al-
(bad as I had it in Chihuahua, and some.
{ times I think that if she were here
| could kill her, too.”
i
i
i
!
gone. In its place was an expression
“Senora Maria, how do you come
| as I could, and then-—and then Ramon
| sald he thought you had gone to Santa
(Fe, and I ran away to find you."
{ “But, Benor Americano! If he had
i been alive you would never have
thought of me,” Diego sald bitterly.
“Diego,” the old smile crept around
the lovely mouth-—"Diego, Senor Amer-
cano did not His wife came down
to nurse him two weeks after you ran
away He {as alive yet for aught I
know, He just got a good lesson, and
[1 wanted a little fun, you see, Won't
yeu forgive me?”
“Mariquita!’
| The next morning as Padre Sebas-
tiano was looking toward the north-
west he saw a cloud of dust approach-
ing. It came nearer--a horse, and it
carried two. Nearer yet, It was Diego,
He smiling, and behind him, {a
true knight errant fashion, rode a wo-
man. The father, beside himself with
amazement, ran out to meet them, and
he never quite recovered from the sal-
utation which he received
Madre Dios,’ padre, I am glad
1 not take the vow.,”-—8hort Stories.
die,
WAS
del
I di
Gunning of the Afridis.
cketed, so that the
invest
Smith,
York
frontier,
enemy,
to us,
of
Sun
Donaldson
the Ney
Indian
LO
n the
the
cident that
this
ore in 3
wires had been
y prevent further
od
Kid had
ia
dynamite
two of the poles
CAs~
have
>
ago some dar
a bungalow
'
8r Was gieepin
lac of Largest of Pythons
Hampshire
had, thers
than
During that
1
i principally
fare
iwently years
period it
with ke,
imes swallowed four
R11
gus
+ fox iu
it somet
Its food was of-
it once a week, but it some.
refused eat for a month to-
The specimen will be mount.
the Tring Museum. Scientific
at one meal
fo
to
gether,
What One Horse Can Eat
“An old horse with an inordinate ap-
is of the curiosities
d on a recent trip to eastern Ken
gaid Colonel Andrew Yates last
night. “This ancient animal was once
ridden by a mail rider over in West
Virginia, and had to go in a jog from
daylight till after dark each day, ex.
cept Sunday. But after long service
‘old Bawley’ was traded off to a far-
mer living over on the Kentucky sids
of the mountain, and lie recently pen-
gioned the animal, putting ‘Bawley’ on
the pasture and letting him have ail he
craved morning and evening at feeding
time An ordinary meal for ‘Bawley’
is two racks of hay, thirty ears of corn
a two gallon bucket of bran, a gallon of
oats and all the stale bread and meat {3
the house, ‘Bawley’ is as fond of meat
and bread as of hay and corn; and, in
fact, will eat almost anything not
drawing the line at fruit or sweet
things. The four-legged gourmapd
one broke in the hog pen and emptied
a large trough of slop which had just
been poured in for the porkera. His
owner said he once heard the old horse
whining in pain and went out and
dosed ‘Bawley,” his imprudence in de.
| vouring a bucket of new-made jam
having superinduced serious ilineas
but the horse was ready to eat the fol.
lowing morning as usual.”-Loulsville
| Post.
Richest Princess.
The richest princess in the world 1s
ithe Crown Princess Louise Josephine
!of Sweden and Norway, married to the
in
ii
petite one
ug
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
Minnie Powers of this city is
feet tall, lacking one inch”
young woman evidently stands
high In the estimation of all
know her,
A dozen murderers are under 1
sentences in the penitentiary of North
Dakota, and it sald that no man
guilty of murder has ever been legally
hanged in the State, in compliance
with the verdict of a court jury.
That
very
who
fo
is
men to her army, and her naval ex-
maintains
in readiness
by
the
England
herself
thing.
peace
for other
Among foreign nations Japan is con-
gpicuous for her activity in increasing
her navy, At the close of the Chinese
war she had forty-three warships, be-
sides torpedo boats
have added to her fleet six battleships
of 15,000 tons each, six armored cruls-
ers of 9.200 tons each, five other cruls-
three torpedo
stroyers and ninety torpedo boats,
ers, gunboats, eleven
de
The failure of the harvest has causcd
1 among
particularly
destitution and distress
tussian
great
the } peasantry in
i
t of Tamboff, s«
are compelled
thelr starving from the
ch of their ¢ suffering
3 even greater than during 1801, which
Was a
the central and southeastern provinces
In the distri mtheast of
the
h L&
Af ’
MOBCOW people
cattle
RER he
nia
particularly sever
peopl
maladies of hunge
beginning t
ginning
government
unfortunate Typhus and
' ‘
other i exXposu
w
the
0 spread,
#hot
Lier
fron
roubies
for
can
new I
RDADETR
va pes
farmers
ith symptoms
t
the mala
imals ha
Inve gtigation
Agri
POISONOUS
This hi
an
ulture
exterminate
which end
Agricultural
Assistance
ns 4
reaaqi
£87 (G88 01
riteTr
ype
i $4 TN
S42. 162.184 and silve
ountry
they must necessarily
But as the mineral
the United States is only
i future
» contents of «
vet,
par
can
ur hidden treas-
+ sil " %
eioped; the alone
ry by
luring the
data
ne of the leading
States
adverse financ!
year, it ap-
compiled b
companies «¢
embezziems
other eriminal
in the aggregate
increase of nearly
amount of money
misappropriated during the year
past In other words, it appears that
dishonesty in the United States has in-
creased twenty per cent during the
year. This is a most appalling condi-
tion of affairs, affirms the Atlantic Con.
stitution, and naturally the question
arises, is the home life of our people
what it ought to be? Do parents rea-
lize the importance of instilling into
the minds of ther children right prin.
ciples of conduct, or do the firesides of
the nation rnoed ty be reformed in this
respect? Too much stress cannot be
laid upon the need of vigorous parental
discipline, If boys are brought up|
properly under the home roof they are
more than apt «0 be upright and useful
men. Of course there are bound to be!
sume exceptions, but in the vast ma- |
jority of cases this rule obtains. Most
of the funds misappropriated during
the past year are laid to the charge of
comparatively yong men which makes
the record all the more distressing and
pathetic.
The secret of Germany's manufactys |
ing progress has profoundly impressed
a deputation sent from Manchester |
England, to study continental institu-.
tions. This commission visited at]
Crefield a textile and dyeing school of |
world-wide fame, which is not only
magnificently equipped for teaching
every detail of what all nations have
done and are doing in matters pertain |
ing to textiles, but which makes every |
effort to assist manufacturers and mer-|
chants. A technical school found in:
Darmstadt, a city of only 57.000 inhab-
tants, is one of several now having
equally liberal provision for giving the
most advanced elesirical frstriction.
Such schools have ceen stimulated by
the success of the large and costly
chemical laboratories, where the moat
eminent men of science encourage
pears from rex v
{russ #
i
he United that nts
defalcations and
deeds foot
make a
22 001 HO
nis-
up
total
in the
*G
4 o #
nst
a ——————— A —— AA ANA HOR
pupils to give five, six and seven years
to study, the result being the easy lead
of German and Bwiss manufacturers,
especially the former, in the world of
An exam-
what this of scelentifie
ple of poticy
on
Rhine, This establishment in 1%5
men
chemists,
5.0000 100) trained
aboratorics
including over
its
themselves being on the scale of those
a great university This factory
chemical 1}
duction of Germany's coal tar industry
AFTER MANY YEARS.
Meeting of the Colome! and the Mas Wao
Saved His Life at Chancellorsville.
A few mornings ago a tall, hand-
some gentlemaw, with mustache and
hair tinged with gray, walked through
the iobby of the Ebbitt and stopped in
front of the newsstand He was about
to pick up a newspaper when a little
oid man with gray, shaggy Burnsiders
got up from his seat in of
the lobby and walked over to him
James RK. O'Beirne?"
man asked.
Gen.
“and
“Do JOu
New York?”
“Do |
use 10 rem-mber hin
one corner
“Isn’t this Gen
the Jitti
Li FILL
wy
I am O’Beirne, sir,”
reply, In
who are you, ma)
v } ov +
remember Major
remember h
Ca
life once
“Well
little ma
person,” said the
1e eves of both
¥ ¥
3
iet
lung
regiment
af his
off
()' Bel
the fi
New
soon as he the
broug
wist
EAwW
ht before him
as
Boil
and
ome In
Bell igited the an
H woo
whose
saved
his
ad gpent a
joined
regiment
ate
lar
Fouriezn Thousand Islands
Tart ae
Ying In
hundred
vipelago
peveral
miles sout southern point
of Hindostan thou contair
ftants, does not
from the civilized
a visitor has recently desc:
islands Austrian geographical
periodical number, it appears,
not less than 14.600, and are all com-
posed of rocks Few them
more than seven cight feet
above the sea-level, aithough they con-
tain cocoanut palms and other forms
of vegetation. Hundreds of little isi-
ands, ranged around in a circle, with
narrow and shallow channels between.
form atolls, or rings, having quiet
water within, Occasionally an indi
vidual island is found in the form cof
a ring, with 2 smooth lake caciosed in
ts coral embrace. —Youth’'s Compan-
fon.
he
hab
tors
ibad
in 85
They
coral} of
rise or
Heat Under Alpine Ssows.
One phase of the construction of tun-
nels through the Alps was recently
discussed by M. Brandicourt, secretary
of France, in La Nature. He showed
that only a few thousand feet below
the eternal snows of that region so»
high a temperature may be found tha:
workmen can scarcely live in it. Near.
ly all of the other difficulties encoun.
tered had been foreseen. This one was
It shows how the
interior heat of the earth extends
above the sea level into all great
mountsinous uplifts on the earth's sur.
face,
a
Perseverance.
The Chinese have the best illustra-
tfon of this principle that we have ev.
er seen. One of thelr countrymen who
had been making strenuous efforts to
acquire literary information, discour-
aged by difficulties, at last gave up his
book in despair. As le returned to
mannal employment he saw a woman
rubbing a crowbar on a stone; on in-
quiring the reason, she replied tha: she
was in want of a needle, and thought
she would rub down the crowbar till
she got it small enough. The patience
of the aged woman provoked him to
make another trial. —The Ledger.