Ki-VI ML s vaw-i ,3Pk. nW -r' . - -v -,,. "st" "?-"" e j ..r' v r. '- , J T-a,-T ?: 15, 1. . it j ....I" 'H-, 'B WMeliMAfeMMMawAefy power. Tae eely trace e )mMatty left about her was her affection for me. Evidently her Me wh te keep me here with her, te keep aw away from you, and te carry eat tfcta Idea she was capable et the ex ercls of every aHtfice and cunning. In that way the waa sane enough, but in erery ether way she waa mad. More Mere OTer, ehe had net forgotten her horrible Jealousy. Already I saw her glaring at Teta, and I knew that the child's mur der was only a matter of time. Proba bly within a few hours the would be killed before my eyes. Of escape, even if I had the strength, there was abso lutely 00 chance, and little enough of ear erer being found. Ne, we should be kept there guarded by a mad thing, half ape, half woman, till we perished miserably. Then I thought et you, dear, and of all that you must be suffering, and my heart nearly broke. I could, only pray te Gudthat I might cither be rescued or die swiftly. "As I prayed, I dropped into a kind of dem from utter weariness, and then I had the strangeft dream. I dreamed that Indaba-zimbi steed ever me noa nea ding his white lock, and speke te me In Kaffir, telling me net te be frightened, for you would seen be with me, and that meanwhile I must humor Ilendrika, pre tending te be pleased te liave her near me. The dream was se vivid that I actually Bcemcd te bce and hear him, as I eee and hear him new." Here I looked up and glanced at old ladaba-zlnibi, who was sitting near. But It was net till afterwards that I told Stella of hew her vision was brought about "At any rate," she went en, "when t awoke I determined te acten my drenm. I took Hendrlka'shand'nnd pressed it. She actually laughed in a wild kind of way with happiness, and laid her bend upon my knee. Then I made signs tnat r wanted feed, and she threw weed en the Arc, which I forget te tell you was burning in the cave, and lieg.m te niake some of the broth that she used te cook very well, and she did net seem te have forgotten all about it. At any rate the broth waa net bad, though neither Teta nor I could drink much of it. Fright and weariness had taken away our apatites. "Alter 1110 meal was ilone and 1 pro longed it as much as possible 1 saw that Ilendrika was beginning te get jealous of Teta again. She glared at her and then at the big knife which was tied round her own body. I knew the knife again; it was the ene with which she had tried te murder you, dear. At last she went be far as tedraw the knife. I was paralyzed with fear, then suddenly I remembered that when she was our servant, and used te get out of temper and sulk, I could nlwayB calm her by singing te her. Se I began te sing hymns. Instantly she forget her jeal ousy and put the knife back into its sheath. She knew the sound of the singing, and 6at listening te it with a rapt face; the baboons, tee, crowded in at the entrance of the cave te listen. I must have sung for an hour or mere, nil the hymns that I could remember. It was se very strange and dieadful bitting there singing te mad Ilendiika andtliose hideous man-like npes that shut their eyes and nodded their great heads ns I sang. It was like a horrible nightmare; but I believe that the baboons are almost ns human ns the Bushmen. "Well, this went en for a Ieiir tlme till my veice was getting exhausted. Then suddenly I heard tlle baboons out side raise n loud noise, as they de when angry. Then, dear, I heard the boom of your elephant gun, and I think it was the sweetest sound that overcame te my ears. Ilendrika heard it, tee. She sprang up, steed for a moment, then, te my lien or, swept Teta into lier arms and rushed down the cave. Of course, I could net stir te fellow her, for my feel were tied. Next instant I heard the sound of a rock being moved, and pres ently the lessening of the light in the cave told me that I was shut in. New the sound een of the elephant gun only reached me very faintly, and presently I could hear nothing mere, straining my ears as I would. "At last I heard n faint shouting that reached me through the wall of lock. I answered as loud ns I could. Yeu knew the rest: and, eh, my dear husband, thank Oedl thank GedI" mid she fell weeping into my arms. CHAPTER XIV. OTII Stella and Tetn w e r e tee weary te bu moved, sew a cauiped that night in the baboon's home, but were troub led by no baboons' Stella would net sleep in the cave; she said the place tcriifled her, se I made her up a kind of a bed un der, a tiiern tree. As this rock bound valley was one of the hottest places I ever was in, 1 thought that this would net matter; but when at sunrise en the following morn ing I saw a veil of miasmatic mist hang ing ever the surface of tlie greuud,-I changed my opinion. However, neithei Stella nor Teta bccmed the worse, se as seen as. was practicable we started home wards. I had already en the previous day sent seme of the men back te the kraals te fetch n ladder, and when we reached the cliff we found them waitins for us beneath. With the help of th ladder the descent w as easy. Stella sim ply get out of her rough litter at the top of the cliff, for we found it necessary te carry her, climbed down the ladder, and get into it again at the bottom. Well, we reached the kraals safely enough, seeing nothing moie of Ilen diika, and, were this a btery, doubtless 1 should end it here with "and lived happy ever after." Dut alasl it is net se. Hew am I te write it? My dearest wife's vital energy &ceracd completely te fail her new that the dan ger was past, and within twelve hours of our return I saw that her state was such as te necessitate the abandonment of nny idea of leaving Babyan Kraals at present. The bodily exertion, the an guish of mind, and the terror that she had endured during that dreadful night, combined with her delicate state, el health, had completely broken her down. Te make matters worse also, she wai taken with an attack of fevcr, contracted no doubt in the unhealthy atmesphere ei that accursed valley. In time fehe shook the fever off, but it left her dreadfully weak, and quite unfit te face the trial before her. I think she knew she was going te die; she always speke of my future, nevcr el our future. It is impossible, for me te tell hew sweet she was; hew gentle, hew patient and resigned. Ner, indeed, de I wish te tell it, it is tee sad. But this I will say: I believe that, if ever a woman drew near te perfection while yet living en the earth, Stella Quatermain did be. The fiital hour drew en. My boy Harry was born, and his mother lived te kiss and bles3 him. Then she sank. We did what we could, but we liad little kill, and might net held her back frenv death. All through one weary night I watched her with a breaking heart. usJnLSmtL m Hf Up im eawn came, te ma nee la mm east. His rays falling en the peak be hind were reflected in glory upon the besom of the western sky. Stella awoke from ber swoon and saw the light She whispered te me te open the deer of the hut I did se, and she fixed her dying eyes en the splendor of the morning sky. She looked en me and smiled as an angel might smile. Then with a last effort she lifted her hand, and, pointing te the radiant heavens, whispered t "There, Allan, there!" It was done, and I was broken hearted, and broken hearted I must wander till the end. These who have endured my J less will knew my sorrow; it cannot be written. In suck peace and at such an hour may I also diet Yes, it is a sad story, but wander where we will about the world we con never go beyond the sound of the pass ing bell. Fer me, as for my father be be bo fero me, and for the millions who have been and who shall be, there is but ene word of comfort "The Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken away." Let us, then, bow our heads in hope, and add with a humble heart, "Blessed be the name of the Lord." I buried her by her father's side, and the weeping of the people who had loved her went up te heaven. Even Indaba- cimbi wept On the second night from her burial I could net sleep. I rose, dressed myself, and went out into the night. The moon was shining brightly, and by its rays I shaped my course towards the graveyard. I drew near silently, and as I came I thought that I heard a sound of moan mean ing en the further side of the wall. I looked ever it. Crouched by Stella's grave, and tearing at its sods with her hands, as though she would unearth that which lay within, was Ilendrika. Iler face was wild and, haggard; her form was se emaciated that, when the pelts she were slipped aside, the shoul der blades seemed te project almost through her skin. Suddenly she looked up and saw me. Laughing a dreadful maniac laugh, she put her hand te her girdle and drew her great knife from it. I thought that she was about te attack me, and prepared te defend myself as I , best could, for I was unarmed. But she made no effort te de se. Lifting the knife en high, for a moment she held it glittering in the moonlight, then plunged it into her own breast, and fell headlong te the ground. I sprang ever the wall and ran te her. She was net yet dead. Presently she opened her eyes, and I saw that the mad ness had geno out of them. "Macumazahn," she said, speaking in English and in n thick difficult voice likoeno who half forget and half remem bered "Macumazahn, I remember new. I liave been mad. Is she really dead, Macumazahn?" "Yes," I said, "she is dead, and you killed her." "I killed her!" the dying woman fal tered, "and I loved her. Yes, yes I knew new. I became a brute again and dragged her te the brutes, and nowenco mera I am a woman, and she is dead, and I killed her because I loved her se. I killed her who saved me from the brutes. I am net dead yet, Macu mazahn. Take me and torture me te death, slowly, very slowly. It was jeal ousy of you that dreve me mad, and. I liave killed her, and new she never can forglve me." "Ask forgiveness from above," I said, for Ilendrika had been a Christian, and the torment of her remerse touched me. "I nsk no forgiveness," she said. "May Ged terture me for ever, because I killed her; may I beceme a brute forever till she comes te find me and forgives me! I only want her forgiveness." And wail ing in an anguish of the heart se strong that her bodily suffering seemed te be forgotten, Ilendrika, the baboon woman, died. I went back te the kraals, and, waking Indaba-zimbi, told him what had hap pened, asking him te bend seme ene te watch the body, as I proposed te giveit burial. But next morning it was gene, and I found that the natives, hearing of the event, had taken the corpse and thrown it te the vultures with every mark of hate. Such, then, was the end of Ilendrika. A week after Hcndrika's death I left Babyan Kraals. The place was iiatcful te me new; it was a haunted .place. I sent for old Indaba-zimbi and told him that I was going. He answered that it was well. "The place has served your turn," he said; "here you have wen that joy which it was fated you should win, nnd liave suffered theso things that it was fated you should suffer. Yes, and though you knew it net new, the joy and the suffering, like the sunshlne and the storm, are the same thing, and will rest at last in the same heaven, the heaven from which they came. New go, Macumazahn." I asked him if he was coming with me. "Ne," he answered, "our paths He apart henceforth, Macumazahn. We met together for certain ends. Theso ends are fulfilled. New each ene gees his own way. Yeu liave still many years before you, Macumzahn; my years are few. When we shake hands here it will be for the last time. Perhaps we may meet again, but it will net be in this world. Henceforth we liave each of us a friend the less." "Heavy words," I said. "True words," he answered. Well, I have little heart te write of the rest of it. I went, leaving Indaba-zimbi in charge of the place, and making him a present of such caltle and goods as I did net want. I Teta, I of ceurse took with me. For tunately by this time she had almost re covered the thockte her nerves. The baby Harry, as he was afterwards named, was a fine healthy child, and I was lucky in getting a respcctable native woman, whose husband had been killed in the fight with the baboons, te accompany me as his nurse. Slowly, and followed for a distance by all the people, I trekked away from Babyan Kraals. My route towards Natal .was along the edge of the bad lands, and my first niglit's eutspan was beneath that very tree where Stella, my lest wife, had found us as we lay dying of thirst. I did net sleep much that night. And yet I was glad that I had net died in the desert about eleven months licfore. I felt then, as from year te year I have continued te feel while I wander through the lonely wilderness of life, that I liave been preserved te an end. I had wen my darling's leve, and for n little while we had lieen happy together. Our haj pincss was tee perfect te endure. Shu is lest te me new, but she is lest te be found again. Here en the following morning I bade farewell te Indaba-zimbi. "Geed-by, Macumazahn," he baid, nod ding his white lock at me. "Geed-by for a while. I am net 11 Christian; your father could net make me that. But he was a wioe man, nnd when he said that theso who leve each ether shall meet again, he did net lie. And 1 tee am a wise man in my way, Macumazahn; and I say it is true that we shall meet again. All my prophecies te you have conie true, Macumazahn, and this ene bhall conie true also. I tell you that you shall return te Babyan Kraals and shall net find me. I tell you that you shall journey journey te a further laud than Babyan Kraals and bhall find me. Farewclll" and he took a pinch of snufT. turned and went. Of my journey down te Natal there U tittle te tell, 1 met with many adven tures, but they were of an every day kind, and in the end arrived safely at Pert Durlwn, which I new visited fur the first time. Beth Teta and my baby boy bore the journey well. And here I may as well chronicle the destiny of Teta. Fer a year she remained under my charge. Then she was ndepted by a lady, the wife of an English colonel, who was stationed at the Cape. She was taken by her adopted parents te Eng land, where she grewupa very charming and pretty girl, and ultimately married a clergyman In Norfolk. But I never saw her again, though we often wrote te each ether. Before I returned te the country of my birth, she tee had been gathered te the land of shadows, leaving three children behind her. Ah met all this took place ' se long age, wiien 1 was young who new am old. Perhaps it may Interest the reader te knew the fate of Mr. Carsen's property, which should of ceurse liave gene te his grandson Harry. I wrote te England te claim the estate en his behalf, but the lawyer te whom the matter was sub mitted said that my marriage te Stella, net having been celebrated by an or dained priest, was net legal according te English law, and therefore Harry could net inherit Foolishly enough I acqui esced in this, nnd the property passed te a cousin of my father-in-law's; but since I liave' come te live in England I have been informed that this opinion is open te great suspicion, and That there is every probability that the courts would have declared the marrlage perfectly binding ns having been solemnly entered into in accerdance with the custom of the place where it was contracted. But I am new se rich that it is net worth while te raove in the matter. The cou ceu Bin is dead, his Ben is in possession, se let him keep it. Once, and ence only, did I revisit Babyan Kraals. Some fifteen years after my darling's death, when I was a man in middle life, I undertook an expedi tion te the Zauibesi, and ene night out spanned at the mouth of the well known valley beneath the shadow of the great peak. I mounted my horse, and quite alene rede up the valley, noticing with a strange prescience of evil that the read was overgrown, and, save for the music of the waterfalls, the place silent as death. The kraals that used te be te the left of the read by the river had van ished. I rede towards their slte; the mealie fields were choked with wccdi, the paths were dumb with grass. Pres ently I reached the place. There, over grown with grass, were the burnt nslicb of the kraals, and there among the ashes, gleaming in the moonlight, lay the white bones of men. New it was clear te me. The settlement had been fallen en by seme powerful fee, and its inhabitants put te the assegai. The forebodings of the natives had coiue true; Babyan Kraals were peopled by memories alone. I passed en up the terraces. There shene the reefs of the marble huts. Tliey would net burn, nnd were tee strong te be easily pulled down. I entered one of them it had been our sleeping hut and lit a candle which I had with me. The hutn had been sacked; leaves of books and broken fragments of the familiar furniture lay about. Then I remembered that there was a secret place hollowed in the fleer and concealed by a btone, where Stella used te hide her little treasures. I went te the stene nnd dragged it up. There was something within wrapped in inelderiug native cloth. I undid it. It was the dress my wife had been married in. In the center of the dress were the withered wreath and flowers she had worn, and with them a little paper packet I opened it; it contained a lock of my own hair. I remembered that I had searched for this dress when I came away and could net And it, for I had for gotten the secret recess in the fleer. Taking the dress with me, I left the hut for the last time. Leaving my herse tied te a tree, I walked te the graveyard through the ruined garden. There it was a mass of weeds, but ever my darling's grave grew a self sewn erange tree, of which the scented petals fell in shower.- en te the mound beneath. As I drew near there was a crash and u rush. A great baboon leapt from the center of the graveyard and vanished into the trees. I could almost bcliuve that it was the wraith of Ilendrika deemed te keep an eternal watch ever the bones of the woman her jealous rage had dene te death. I tarried there awhile, filled with such thoughts as may net be written. Then, leaving my dead wife te her long sleep where the waters fell in melancholy music beneath the shadow of the ever lasting mountain, I turned and sought that spot where first we had told our love. New the erange greve was noth ing but a tangled thicket; many of the trees were dead, choked with creepers, but seme 6till flourished. There steed the ene beneath which we had lingered, there was the rock that had been our scat, and there en the rock bat Stella, the Stella whom I had wed. Ayel there she sat, and en her up turned face was that same spiritual leek which I saw upon it in the hour when we first had kissed. The moonlight shene in her dark eyes, llm breeze wav ered in her curling hair, her breast rese and fell, a gcntle smile played about her patted lips. I btoed tianslixed, gazing en that lest loveliness which once was mine. I could net speak, and fehe speke no word; she did net even beein te see me. I drew near. New her eyes fell. Fern moment they met mine, and their message entered into me. Then she was geno; nothing wastcft but the tremulous moonlight falling where she had been, the melancholy music of the waters, the shadow of the everlasting mountain, and, iu my heart, the sorrow nnd the hope. Tin: i:.si). Ilnnwrd l'iilerriltj' New I'rmlclrnt. The new president of Heward univer sity, the Rev. Dr. J. B. Ilunkfu, left the pastorate of the Valley chinch, iu Orange, N. J., te nsxiime educational duties as the head of a college. He was born in Thornten, N. II., nnd is of Scotch descent. His education was commenced at Seuth Ber wick, Me., and continued at Chester, Vt. At 15 he entered the sophomore class at M i d d 1 e bury college, having previously taught school. He also REV. nn. KANKIN. taught while in college, and afterwards in New Londen, Conn., and Warren county, Ky. After taking his degree at Middlcbury he be calms a tutor there. In 1851 he was graduated at Andover, and for two yeais after preached in a Picsbvtrrian church at Petbdain, N, Y. Then he was settled at St. Albans, then at Lewell, Mass., and then at Bosten. Fieui 1809 te 18SI he preached iu Wash Wash ingten. The rest of his scrvlce has been at Orange. J. T. Trowbridge, the well known writer of boeLs for Iwys. is ecr 70 ears of age, ami liu-s at Arlington, Mass. He has made 11 fortune with his icii. HESTOltATION OF ROME. THE CAPITAL OF HUMBERT'S KING DOM A GREAT MODERN CITY. Tim Krmalna of lln Ancient City Tha Raw City Het Quite en the Sam Slte. The City Hu Had a Contlnaen Kxlrt m for ,60e Yeats. "Reme Is transformed." Such is the united testimony of all recent visitors. Reme is ence mere the capital of a united country, and, though ntit se great as the Reme of the later Ctesars, it is quite a great city of the modern order. Ner are the antiquities disturbed, for the Reme of restored ItalyVicter Em manuel's Reme, the "Sardinian" or "Piedmontese Reme," as unfriendly pol iticians call it does net cover the old sites. Altai OF CONBTANT1NK. Excluding the eras of decay and de struction, there have been three great Hemes and, for aught we knew, a fourth, as there was an Alba Lenga, sometimes called "Mether of Renio" nnd the present Reme, with net quite 800,000 people, is probably net mera than a third as large as the Reme of the Autenines and of the Second nud Third centuries A. O. The present kingdom of Italy covers 114,380 square miles and contains (by the census of 1887) 80,200, 005 iieeplc. It has impartial suffrage, absolute freedom of the press, compul sory education and a responsible consti tutional government. But, alas, it has a standing army of 879,000, and a na tional debt of $2,240,003,485. Americans, therefore, need net be told that there is much poverty, of which Naples, the largest city, has rather the largest share. The Uome of classic history was sup posed, te have been founded 743 B, C, but there are many Italian antiquities much elder than that, for the Etruscans had n fairly well developed civilization befcre Reme and the Greeks hed cities and flourishing provinces in the southern part of the peninsula, The second great Rome was that of the popes, but in art and architecture there were much mera noted cities. And se it has resulted that all Italy is a land of antiquities, a land of never failing interest te scholars, artists and general tourists. TUG QUIUINAr- Frem the foundation of the city there was a tolerably regular growth till the reign of Augustus, and of that era the most interesting lemains nre the old Forum and many engineering works. With the emperors came the great struc tures, bucli as the Circus Maximus, and perhaps the last of these te be erected was the "Arch of Constantine." The Remans of the early period gave much thenght te engineering, theso of the im perial era te architecture. If excavation in Italy develops nny work witli anarch, it is known te be Reman; if it is mono meno mone lithicthat is, of single stones nnd no arch it is probably Etruscan, as that people had net invented the arch. Reme is thought te have reached its highest pitch of splendor and numbers about 100 te 100 A. D., when the city had about a million inhabitants. This city extended ever the seven hills, of which the Quirlnal (still a noted place in Reme) was a center of the Sabine pop ulation. The Campus Martius ("Field of Mars," or war) was thick set with mag nificent buildings, but the modern city ceveis it, and ene leeks in vain for beauty. In fact, rather the densest and poorest population id there. Of the ence noted "Pottice of Octnvia" (sister of Augustus) only the ruins remain. It steed before the splendid temples of Ju piter and June, of which net a trace re- rOlVTA ANGELICA, AK ENTItANCK TO TUB VATICAN, mains. Part of the oft described Mamcr Mamcr tine prison remains, and the two celts alleged te liave been occupied by St. Pe ter and St. Paul nre used as chapels. As no one can prove the contrary, they will de as well as any. The great Flavian amphitheater (founded about A. I). 72), however, still Mauds in sufficient pres ervation te astonish the visitors called from its bizu the Colosseum. The great "Arch of Constantine" com monierates his ictery ever Maxcntius, and is doubly intcrcbtiug because of iu beauty and the fact that it is a memorial of the beginning of Christianity as a ruling power. The "Arch of Titus," commemorative of the destruction of Je rusalem, is of nlmest equal interest and well preserved, in aitihtiu effect, how ever, all the&e yield te the great Column of Trajan in the Forum, which is new surmounted byaMatiioef St. Peter. The column alene is 127) feet high, and en it are carved 2,500 human figures, besides many horses and chariots. Tliu decline of Reme In-gan about 200 A. 1)., nnd, after Constantine founded a new capital, the decline as tapid. . Aftej-its captuie by the Vandals it sunk ten mre waste, and iu the Eighth century a traveUr re marked witli btirpripe that there were still home 25,000 H-ep!u among the ruins. The beceud great Keine came witli the risoef thup.1p.1l Kiwei. Finally, when the statesmen of mifk-rn Italy overthrew all the petty beveicigusauil united Italy became a gieat power, Victer Emanuel In the year 1870 took possesien of Rome nnd abolished the jiepe's temporal k er. Se the third Reme lx-.;au te rise nt once, nnd in it are two gri at centers of inter est (he Qijlrliut! ,111 1 the Vatican. The tirbt u the beat and (.enter, the palace of nMGT jHgf WL the kingdom et Italy, ana tne second tne ccntcref n far greater pewerthe Reman Catholic church. The dumb war between Iho two powers still gees en; the great ecclesiastics are often insulted by groups of infidels, and the government is no ne cused of enforcing its laws but feebly against the insutters. The new city Is tee much an imitation of Paris, nnd in laying out the new streets seme antiquities were destroyed. It's a pity, but it hud te be. There is even n street railroad nearly around the Forum, and one may go along n very Frcnchy street te the great St. Peter's the most magnificent structure ever A aiJMISB OK 8T. r-KTKI.'fl. erected en this earth for. the purpetc of rellgieu. Grand as it, the original de sign would have made it still grander; Bramante nnd Michael Augele intended that the whole central front should rise in ene bold relief, giving the full effect te its height and leaving the whele dome visible from the square before the church. Their successor, Maderna, add ed the prominent lower front, which certainly marred the general effect; but St. Peter's is still unrivaled in magni tude, proportion and decoration. Net far away is the Vatican palace, of which and its great occupant the world has heard and still hears much. By the liberal spirit of modern times scholars nre new admitted te its wonderful libra ry and its marvelous gallery of maps. In its peculiar line no ether collection in the world can rival this. Questions long dctxtted by the learned have recently been settled by the production of n sin gle map, which proved beyond contro versy what the ancients believed, as te this earth. Net the least interesting te Americans is that curious chart en which the pope traced the lines dividing all this continent between Spain and Portu gal! Of all the vast area neither power new owns ene red; it is nil under repub lican rule (Canada but nominally other wise) and one-half of it governed by de scendants of theso very English ngainst whom the decree was aimed. Little, if any, less attractive is the College for Propagating the Faith, com monly called the Propaganda, front which go every year laige classes of cultured men, scattering te every ticctieu of the glebe classmates of whom must will never meet again iu this wet Id, Te all the savage, the barbarous, the uncivil ized races these missionaries carry bless ings; let one's faith le what it may he must leek upon their work. among the heathen as unmixed geed. But many columns might be filled by a bare enu meration of the sights of Reme. Though the modern city is everywhere humming with the noise of improvements, they really encroach but little upon the an cient modern, mediaeval and ctaxmcal Rome coiubiue te nttiact and interest the world. Cardinal Pcccl. The Reman Catholic church has re cently lest ene of its high dignitaries in Cardinal Pecci, an elder brother of the pope. Giuseppe Pecci was Ixmi in 1807 nt Carpincte, Italy, of a noble nnd wealthy family. Hn was well educated at R e in e, una while very young joined the Soci ety of Jcbiis. Be ing appointed professor of phl phl )sephy in the It emit 11 college, he became noted for his theolegio ability. He wrote buveral works en the teachings and system of Themas Aquinas, which cauijinal rncci. works did net meet the approval of his superiors in the Order of Jesuits, nud Father Pecci left the order. In 1851, when he retiicd from his professor ship, he was considered the flrnt theolo gian in Km epe. Upen leaing the Society of Jesus Fa ther Pecci took the position of mill mill utaiite iu the Vatican library, which hu held till his brother wuh elected pope. In 1879 the Litter raised the libraiian te the pOHition-ef caidiual deacon, giving him at the same time the titular Church of St. Agatha. GEN. SALAMANCA. Ileatli of the Caplnln flt-iimal of Hie Inland uf Culm. The late captain general of Cuba, Man ucl de Salamanca y Negrete, was the great-grunt-grandsen of a for mer governor general of that island, who rep resented the Spanish govern ment a century age. Geu. Sala manca was born about 1830 iu An dalusia, In Spain. He was educated in the military bchoel at Teledo, and when he came of age en tered the Span ish army. By OKN, BAI.AMANCA. reason of his birth he was a life senator, nnd while yet a young man achieved distinction as an orator. Hubcrved with Gen. Cordova In Italy with the army intended te defend the temporal power of the poi. When the ' irlist war came en he was made a brigadier general. During that struggle he distinguished himself and was rapidly advanced iu rank. At 0110 period, while governor of Malaga, he wrcetcd the key of their position from the Carlist forces en the line of the Elbre, thus forcing their retreat. IIe was then created a field marshal. Later he relieved Tortosa by running a train at full speed etera railroad w hlch had lieen abandoned for years. The expedition was be hazardous that he was obliged te place guards ever the engineers te enforce his orders. After the war Geu. Salamanra took his seat in the senate; but he was a natural beldierand gave his attention te the better equipment of tiiearmy. About a year age he was npjwiutcd governor general of Cuba. He been made himself very jiepular there, though ill health, principally en account of wounds re. celved in the Carlist war, kept him from paying much attention te society. He endeavored te place the island in a jier feet state of defense, using modern methods, Including new lines of railway, opening rivers licfore net navigable, and strengthening the fortifications. Gen. Salamanca was a bachelor. mam S-4 vf -A MILLIONAIRE OF NOTE. Jehn plankinten, of Milwaukee, and his fortune. Began I.lfa a an Ordinary Ilnteher. The Kduratlenal Menumrnt That Wilt Commemorate Him II la Magnificent Residence. There are few men In the west whose names are better known te the masses than that of Jehn Plank'lnten. Within the recollection of many of his neighbors he began life as mi ordinary retail butcher, killing his own beef, cutting it up for his customers and very frequently delivering the meat himself. With his family he Ih ed in it few small rooms. A yt'jtr age he retired from business the possessor of many millions of dollars. Fer many years he was the head of the great packing firm of Planklnten, Ar mour & Ce., of New Yerk, Chicago, Mil waukeuaud Kansas City, the latest con cern of its kind in the world, which does a business of $00,000,000 n year. Mr. Plankinton's name is a, familiar ene in commercial circles all ever the glolie. The news that thlt commercial giant was dangeruusly ill of Incurable diseases has called atten tion te hh carver, which has been ill many resects n remarkable one. His painful dis orders, paralysis and a cemplica tien of ether diseases tenman 'fef his age (70 ' case hopeless. JOHN 1-i.ankinten. When he retired from business hu was desirous of spend ing the sunset of his life in quiet and ease. Fer years he had lieen a slave te his many lines of business, retiring early, rising early, and putting In a long, full day at his ofllce desk. Consequently when he rctlied and the excitement and strain of his enormous business lessened, he breke down in health, as many a man had dene under similar circumstances be fore him. The story of Jehn Plankinton's life is net without elements of public Interest. He was bem amid humble surroundings iu a mini district in Delaware en March 11, 1820. In 1832 hu removed with his fa ther's family te Pittsburg, Pa., and from that city in 1811 he removed te Milwau kee, where he has continuously lived ever since. He at ence itegnn business ns a butcher nud retailer of meat, a trade he had learned In Pittsburg- Before set tling iu Milwaukee Mr, Planklnten had made arrangements te enter into part nership with a young butcher already located; but finding upon his arri val that his prospective partner had broken faith with him, he roselvod, with characteristic independence mid energy, te go into biisinrtw en his own account. On a capital, nil told, or $1.20 hu set up housekeeping, nud purchased his first sleck in trade, which consisted of 0110 cow, for which he paid, after selling It, the sum of iiine dollars, securing us a home n little frnme building at n rental of eight dollars per month, and, renting a vacant let, he erected his first build ing, a frame structure, that cost $108. In fourteen days after his arrival in the town he was fully equipped for business, opening his little shop iu September of the year he arrived. Being n hnrd work ing, economical, honest man, he seen liccame the leading butcher of the place, his sales for the first year amounting te nearly $12,000. His business constantly Increasing, he was compelled te remove te toemier quartern. In lb.jO he entered into partnership with Mr. Frederick Layten, nnd the firm, in addition te an extensive retail trade, commenced packing perk for market en n scale limited only by the receipts of hogs ut Milwaukee. The business of the firm continued te iuciease until 1801, (whcu it was dissolved, Mr, Plaukiiiteii for the three succeeding years ceutlnu- THK UEKIOBNCE OK JOHN IXANKINTON AND IUS SON. ing the busiiiesa'alenc. In 1801 he formed a pailnership with Philip 1). Armour, under the name of Planklnten & Armour, with an immense business iu Milwaukee, n large heuse ut Kansas City and still another iu New Yerk city. The firm em braced also ene of the largest packing establishments in the world, the house of II. O. Armour & Ce., of Chicago, A few years age Mr. Planklnten announced that he had all the money he wanted and sold out his interest iu the big pack ing firm te his partner, Phil Armour, retaining only his local brunch. This he kept until last year, when he bold it te IheCudahys, who had long been iu his employ and who are new rapidly coming te the front as big packers. In less than two were years Mr. Plankingten's $1.20 has swelled te a fortuue of $8,000,000 or $10,000,000, and the little ene herse butcher became it power in tbe financial wei Id. Whatever Mr.Planklnten lacked in edu cation he mere than made up in shrewd iicsb. In his duy he waa regarded us ene of the lieldest ami most sagacious opera tors in the speculative prevision markets In the country. IIe is n tall, powerfully built man, with smooth shaven face nud btiaiglit dark hair, which he invariably wears long. His home en Grand nvcutie is 0110 of the finest in Milwaukee, and is 11 perfect museum of fine pictures and art bric-a-lnac. IIe lives very quietly with his wife and daughter, his seu oc cupying n magnificent mansion near by. He has always been ene of the most pub lic spiiited men in the city. When an exposition was planned he gave $-VJ,000 outiightte it. During the recent national saengerfest in Milwaukee he gave $1 ,000 for the licst festival com posit ion, the pi ii going te a conqieser iuGcimauy. Hu owns no less than a dozen of the largest and finest business blocks in the city. His great hobby is the splendid hotel which licars his name. It covers a full block, and is 0110 of the best equipped hostelries iu the country. Hu is also the head of one of the solid banks of the city that I ears his name. A couple of years age Mr. Planklnten was much chagrined ever bome local gossip te the effect that Milwaukeeans had te go f 10111 home te secure fiibt class workmen nud artisans iu many lines of business. He fumed and fi cited ever the matter until he determined te preve te his fellow citizens that there were no finer weikmcu anywhere than right ut home. With this idea in view, he liegan a oeupk) of years age the erection of ene of the finest houses iu tlie city. It wasa J ear in courseof erection, and cost alieut $150,000. It is built of undressed btene, arjd nil of the work win done by tlie day by Milwaukee workmen. It is a beautiful lilt of architecture, nnd the in terior is u revelation iu weed carving and decoration. An illustration of this tt" v.4W y rVfMffW .IH. Jl4Ttfr"2&3l mansion is herewith presented. -r , 1 r AN KDUCATIONAt. MONUMENT. It was finally finished, and there Is probably no mere cemplete establish ment in America. The stables are the finest, the lawns nre laid out in flowers, nnd every detail about the place is com cem cem pleeo. But nobody seems te want it. It Is entirely closed, and there it stands, a magnificent monument te this man's public spirit. "Let It stand," he said te seme one who joked him about the in vestment, "it Is 11 means of education. It will tench people that our workmen are as iroed nsenn Ik found nnvwhere. CHOCTAW LEGENDS. BmiiH of an Interview with Chief FaUr rilclilynn. 'Special Corrcaeendence.1 KansAs City, Feb. 13. In a recent talk with the Choctaw chief, Peter Pltchlynn, hu told me of a very curi ous legend in relation te the origin et a subdivision of his tribe known as the "Crawfish," or Crayfish band: "Our people have among them a band who formerly but at a verv rcmote period r of antiquity, long before the separation Inte Creeks (or Mlis-Ko-gce s) Scminelcs, Choctaws, etc. had their abede in the earth, under the mud nnd soft places near the rivers and streams, out of which they sometimes conie and bask in the sunshlne. They were mere like a lobster or crayfish than human beings, and walked en 'all fours,' or rather en their claws. "Their principal place of residence wns a great limestone cave, far down in the bowels of the earth, where there was no light, nothing but clmmerian dark ness, and they had no language, nor could they understand it word that was spoken te them. "The entrance te this cave was possi ble only by wiggling down through the mud, nud they used te scamper away the moment they were seen, se that the Choctaws were for many generations unable te get near them, although they would lay in wait for them for months. "One day, however, n number of them were surprised se suddenly that they did net have tlme te go their usual route through the mud Inte their cave, but were forced into It by a secret opening (hey had in the rocks) "The Choctaws then attempted te smoke them out, and ut last, by insist ent effort, succeeded. They treated them kindly, taught them te talk Choctaw, te walk elect, made them cut off their tee nails nnd pull out the hair from their bodies. After which they adopted them into the tribe, but the majority of them nre still under ground!" Ball playing seems te be common among all tribes, but it is conceded that the Choctaws, In their prlmltivcness, were the most skilled in this gaine. Of ceurse it is net at all similar te the Amer ican national game in any particular, and is played with two huts or sticks. These sticks nre bent into an oral loop at ene end, with n web of fine buck skin thongs stretched across them te prevent the ball from falling out when caught or tossed. One of these bats is held In each hand, and the players catch the ball by jumping into tbe air, and threw it front the bats, nevcr allewed te stiike it or catch it with their hands. In every heuse I visited I Baw one or mere pairs of these peculiar bats, according te the number of mala residents. In the primitive days of these people, It was nu invarinble law of the game that 110 player should wear moccesisn en his feet, and apicar only with the prescribed dress; that is, in his "breech clout," a licaiitiful head belt, and tail made of white herse hair or quills, and n mane uieund his neck constructed of the biimu material as the tail, dyed in colors. The match wns usually made up mouths licfore the day agreed upon, and led by two champions, or captains, as we should call them. These two cap tains had the ewer te go through the tribe, from village te village, and alter nately cheese the men for their re spect! ve sides. This choice of players was elfected generally by proxy; two runners were sent urined with n pair of "ball sticks," elaborately ornamented with paint, ribbons and ether gewgaws, which, touched by the players selected, was nu nvideuce that they accepted, and would be en hand nt the tlme specified and prepared te take part. Lach net et players erected en the ground where the game wus te take place two upright poles about thirty feet high, and six feet apart, across the top of which another pole was fastened. These goals, or "byes," as they were called, were bome eight hundred feet apart; at a point just half way between theso goals was driven it small stake, where the ball was te be thrown into the air at a given signal, usually the tiring of a gun. All these preliminaries were arranged by old men, who were the judges or um pires of the game; they drew a line from one goal te the ether, across which all the betting iu made a nd placed in thu possession of "btake holders" the night before the gauiu commenced. Lvcrythlng conceivable that wigwam or Held possessed was staked, and princi pally by the women of the tribe as bet bet eors. On that night, tee, all the players as sembled nieiiml their respeclive "byes," w here, under the glow of torches, the beating of "tem-toms" nnd the Bengs of the squaws, they for mere than n quar ter of nn hour indulged In the pictur esque "Ball-Play dance," in their proper dress, and rattling their sticks together, all the time chanting as loud as they could. Me.iiiwhile the women who had staked their goods formed themselves in two rows en the "line" between the re spective players and nlse danced, join ing in musical appeals te the "Great Spirit" te decide tlie game iu favor of their side. At tlie small stake, from which the tiall was te be thrown at the opening of the game en the morrow, four old "med icine men," who were te perform the act of "throwing the ball," were busily putt ing at their pipes, smekiug te the "Great Spirit" for success in impartially judging the game, as their duties of umpires de manded. Sometimes seven or eight hundred players took part In the game, and when tlie contest commenced a terrlble strug gle ensued te catch the ball en their 6tlcks and threw it home between their respective stakes, which counted ene. When this happened there was a short halt; then the ball was started again by the judges, and whichever side in that amniier counted a huudred wen. A watch factory In Philadelphia has as aasaycr of metals a young lady. She took a four years' ceurse in chemistry at the Uuhersity of Pennsylvania, ' ',?ity IP A y JV x;i -: M .s& n; ?9 Hfl AT A J 1 J-- . 'y
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