'SUNDAY, .JEBBUART H 18S9;
PITTSBURG
THE HEEMIT KINGDOM
An Exciting but Solitary Horseback
Hide Across Korea
WITH A rOXY LOAD OP HARD CASH.
Into the
lifer-Infested
Torchlight
Mountains by
HIE RECEPTION AT THE MONASTERY
JTEOM OCE TEJLVELDTO COSUIISSIOXEB.)
TJT three or four
Europeans have
crossed Korea, and
nothing, unless in a
Consular report, has
been written about
the trip. TheKorean
authorities discour
age travelers, and
the Korean Minister
ntTokyo persistently
declined to give nic
& passport or to apply
to Seoul for one for
me, although pressed
oy the British Charge to do so.
As soon as the Takachibo reached Gensan
I said good-bye to my very pleasant quar-
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glass I could see the ponies already waiting.
A Korean pony is a small, shaggy, scra-rgy
creature, but you never like him less than
when jou first set eyes on Him, ana oeiore J. hajf as disagreeable to a prowling tiger as it
had gone fai with tliese I learned that many ( was to us, no wonder he avoided our corn
virtues were concealed in their little brown pany, for anything so ingeniously ear split
bodies. Four ponies and six men were at J ting as the sound our men kept up at inter
the landing, the latter being three grooms, ' valsof three or four minutes ior an hour
, ," " , . . n .... and a half I never heard.
two soldiers and an interpreter. One pony MMri,!i. , n,l ,.mi,.
was for me to ride; upon the secondwere
strapped my bag, canvas hold-all containing
rur and sleepine arrangement, camera, and
pun; the third was burdened with twoboxes
of provisions and a dozen bottles of mineral
water, for it is necessary to carry with you
absolutelv evervthing you need to eat or
drink here; while the fourth pony had all he
could do to transport the money for current
expenses.
a load or CASn.
This sounds no doubt as if I were travel
ing like a second Jay Gould; alas, far from
itl The pony only carried about 20 Mexi-
U UUIIRI -. J-MV VM. a.uii.uu ...a......,;,
however, consists or miserably made copper,
iron and bronze coins, called "cash" in
English, and sapek or sek in Korean, about
thfsize and weight of an English penny,
with a square hole in the middle by which
they are strung on plaited straw in lots of
500) subdivided by knots into hundreds.
Hence the expression "a string of cash."
In Gensan the rate of exchange when 1 left
was CC0 cash to a Mexican dollar, and the
pony carries about 15,000 ol tueni,
The personnel oi my little caravan is de-
tidedlv curious, but not verr impressive.
The grooms, called mapou, are good-natured
grinning creatures, low down in the social
scale, dressed in extremely dirty white cot
ton robes and trousers, with straw sandals
and battered old wire hats, or none. The
soldiers, called liou, are tall, well-built
fpllnws distinguished from civilians bv a
broad-brimmed hat of heavv black felt, with i torch of pine wood or dried millet stalks
a scarlet tult trailing behind, and a coat of bound together must be produced instantly,
rougUblue cotton, shaped exactly like the the guide must hold it flaming in his hand
exaggerated dress coat, reaching to the when we reach his door, and woe betide the
heels, that one sees in a burlesque on the unlucky being that keeps Korean official
Gaiety stage. Thev carry no weapons but a i dom wajting, if it be only for half a minute,
long staff, and thev appeared amused when Sometimes the stage to the next house was
I asked where, since they were soldiers,
were their guns.'
Of my interpreter I stand somewhat in
awe. Be is a tall, really handsome man,
vith a striking resemblance to the Speaker
of the House of Commons, dressed in spot
less white, topped by a monumental black
pot-hat made of woven horsehaiV, and with
nothing undignified about him but his name,
which is I Cha Sam. It was impossible to
get a Korean, who knew any English, even
a little 'pidgin,' so I had to be content with
one who speaks Japanese. 3Iy only com
munication with the outside world "for the
next week will therefore be in that staccato
tongue. Our respective vocabularies have
proved adequate so' far, but from his pre
ternatural silence and solemnity the sad
suspicion is growing in my mind that his
knowledge of Japanese is on a par with my
own.
TRAVELING EXTEXSES.
The bill of expenses furnished me is as
follows:
4 horses, at 5,000 cash 20,000
1 Interpreter, false v so-called 4,000
2 soldiers, at 100 casli a day, 11 ilajs there
and back 2,200
5 '-turn suawa" (tip) to soldiers and in
terpreter, at 51 2,000
Total, 28,200 cash, sav 43 Mexican dollars.
plus traveling expenses and food. The price'
oi me corses includes grooms. L suppose
everybody knows that a Mexican, "when it is
not counterfeit, which it generally is, is
worth about two-thirds of a gold dollar, 75
cents, or 3 shillings and 2 pence. The cash,
by the way, miserable, battered, verdigris
covered coins of which ten go to a cent,have
actually been debased by the Korean Gov
ernmeni for illicit profit, while they bear en
them snch gracious inscriptions as "Used
for Publio Benfit," and "Enrich the Peo
ple." -The
joumer overland from the East coast
to the capital generally occupies five days,
at the rate of something over 30 miles a
day. Thirty-five miles from Gensan, how
ever, north of the overland road, is the great '
Korean monastery of An-pien (spelled An
byan on Petermann's map), which I was .
seriously assured was the
only interesting
place in all Korea. So I determined to lose
a day and visit this, all the more as Captain
"Walker, of the Takachiho, experienced
navigator, eager sportsman, delighttnl com
panion: anu one ot tne most popular men
Jn this part of the East, promised me his
vuujuttuv ftu ui. e uuucu on last'
througn the filthy lanes and among the I
squalling nigs of the native town of Gensan,
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was that an hour alter starting the mapotf
leading the money-pony, upon which had
been temporarily placed also Captain
Walter's blankets end his provisions for
two days, let it escape and we bad the ex
citing spectacle of all the provisions being
dashed and scattered in all directions as it
galloped wildly across the rice-fields. The
money and one blanket we recovered, as the
former was securely sewed up in strong
sacking, but of he provisions not a vestige
returned.
DUCK HUNTING.
The second incident was that half wav to
the monastery we passed through a valley
of paddy-fields a mile square, where the
wild ducks were flying in thousands. The
captain looked at them wistfully lor a While
as ne jogged on, and I eyed him with anx
icIf hrfttriimilgiKrcrnr Vii. A-., : i
his anchors. Sure enouch. in a few mimitM '
he remarked casually, "I think I'll just J
take one shot at those ducks." In vain I '
expostu.ated.pingout thatit was very ,
'me, mat tne roaa aneaa was Known to be I
very bad, that the gates of the monastery
were shut at sunset, and many more excel
lent reasons for hurrying. I had not half
finished, however, when he was 100 yards
into the rice, and before be had taken a
dozen kteps more a lot of big rice-ducks
arose almost at his Jeet, and bang, bang,
and he got three of tbem. Of course, it was
f useless to attempt to stoj) him alter that, so
I went a quarter of a mile further, sent the
- baggage ponies on, and sat down a little
way Irom the road. For an hour he banged
away, while I got a lew stragglers, and by
and by he reappeared, followed by a Korean
boy staggering along under "a load of
feathers. I looked reproaches at him, but
who couM utter them? As it happened the
rS: gave us a rcmarkable experience.
The red shades of evening were now ap
pearing, and lor the next two'bourswe
jogged along at our best speed. When it
,i wasquite dark we reached a little Korean
inn, where our grooms had already aroused
everybody. Out of a house of apparently
two rooms 20 white-robed travelers, turned
out and squatted in a row, like tired ghosts,
to stare at us. Our men weft all for
stopping the road ahead was very steep,
the woods through which it passed were in
fested with tigers, the ponies were tired, the
monastery would be closed for the night,
etc., etc. But we looked at those two rooms
and those 20 travelers, and hardened our
hearts.
A
SCARING) TIGERS.
Then the soldiers, seeing that we were de
termined, rose to the occasion. One of them
shouted to the innkeeper to turn out and
bring torches to light us, and his manner, I
remarked with interest, was peremptory.
The innkeeper demurred in a nigh tone of
voice, when without another word this ex
cellent kissou took one step toward him, and
whack! with a tremenaous siap in tne lace
sent him staggering across the road. The
suddenness of the blow took me fairly
aback, but nobody seemed inthe least sur
prised or annoyed,-and the innkeeper ap
peared a minute later with a blazing pine
knnt and led the way.
We left the road at right angles, and CO
vards from the inn we plunged into the
woods and began a steep ascent along a nar
row stone path. Then a curious thing hap
pened. As soon as onr last pony was out of
sight, a simultaneous and blood curdling
howl arose from the 20 travelers behind us,
and was prolonged with a series of yahl yah!
yah! till the hills echoed again, and when it
ceased, our six men similarly exploded, each
one putting his back into the yell, till it
rivalled the notes ot a Chicago mocking
bird. The travelers howled again and our
men answered, and so on till we could no
longer hear the former. "What on earth is
the matter?" we asked I Cha Sam. "To
keep the tigers awav! he replied,
The
captain put two cartridges of duck shot into
his gun, and I strapped my revolver outside
mv thick riding roat, but if the noise was
t the stony path grew narrower till at last we
were climuing a mountain side. At one
moment we were in thick woods, at another
a precipice of considerable depth yawned a
yard or two to our left, then we were strug
gling up a stone-heap on to a plateau where
half a dozen miserable houses formed a vil
i lage. No European horse could have made
100 yards of the road, yet ourponies stepped
doggedly over everything, never stumbling,
i and catching themselves again instantly if
I thev fell. We soon learned that the less'at-
tempt we made to guide them the safer we
were. Before leaving Gensan, Commissioner
. Creah had said, "It you don't need the sol
diers as an escort, you'll find them very use
ful in otlipr rpsnpMs " Anil Tsnrni lpnmor?
how.
LETTING LIGHTS.
The theory of Korean Government is that
the people exist for the officials. And as I
had this escort I was traveling as an official,
and therefore entitled to demand any ser
vices from the people to speed me on my
way. The night was pitch dark, and with
out torencs we could not nave gone a yard.
I Therefore the soldiers levied lights from the
people. As soon as they spied a hovel ahead
they shouted a couple of words, the man
carrying the torch helping lustily. I found
later the words were simply Poul k'ira,
"Bring out firel" and no matter how late the
hour, how bad the weather, how far to the
next house no matter even though the sole
I inhabitant was an old woman or a child, the
couple of hundred yards, but there are no
exemptions to this fire conscription.
Our goal announced itself long before
hand by gate alter gate, and the instinctive
feeling that we had got to the top, whatever
it was. Then the edge of the ravine became
paved with stone slabs, and a hundred yards
along it brought us to a pair of great
wooden doors.
They were opened after a little parley,
and we found ourselves in a small court
yard, and surrounded bv a score of young
priests, apparently delighted to see us. "We
nastily unpacked our rugs, a brazier was
brought, we boiled the kettle, plucked and
cooked one of the birds we had shot, and
then, while the monks sat round us in a
laughing, chattering circle, we supped mag
nificently off broiled duck, hard tack and
marmalade, washed down by many basins
of tea. (Nobody but a traveler knows the
real value of tea). At midnight we were
snown to a clean paper-winuowed room
about six feet square, and turned in on the
floor. And when the morning came it i
showed us how strange and romantic a place
we had reached one of the most striking
and picturesque of the unknown corners of
the world. But I must defer an account of
it till my next letter. For I have not even
seen it properly yet, and my diarv is blank
ahead. Heset Noesiait.
A C0XFID1XG STE1XGER.
no Willingly Lendi $25 to a 3tan Whom He
Kerer 5Ict Before.
"I had an amusing experience last
week," remarked a man well known about
town to a Dispatch reporter. "I was
walking leisurely down Fifth avenue when
I was accosted by a well-dressed man, who
held out his hand, and in the most cordial
way, called me 'Charley' and asked after
my health.
"I didn't know the fellow from Adam
and hadn't the remotest recollection of ever
having seen him before. My first thought
was that he was probably a bunko sharp.
As I had never had any experience with
that class I determined to humor him, and
see ho w far he would carry his little game.
So I answered his questions pleasantly, and
nmnnrrnthof Ihinnc ncl-aH htm nli..b. I.
vas iocated now. He pulled a card from
he nri'Dt nfi iin.ia it fK MA w. t-:
that he had moved since he saw'me last, at
the same time giving me a cordial invitation
to call at his place of business,
Come rieht alone- now.' he said, 'if von
, .. ?. - v . ' , -,. -i --
uaven i anytning else to oo. There s a
lot of things I want to talk to you about.'
"These words only strengthened the im
pression I had at at first the stranger was
certainly trying to put up a lob on me.
Pleading other business I asked to be ex
cused. He then invited me to have a drink
and I assented. We went into a saloon and
while the beverage was being prepared the
unknown asEeo me.
" 'How's business?' "
" 'Only so so,' " I replied. " 'The fact is
I'm bard up. Couldn't lend me 525 for a
week, could vou?'
"This I asked merely to test him, having
decided that if a confidence game was con
templated two could play at it. Well, you
can judge of my surprise when he pulled out
his pocket book' and handed me the amount
named. 'telling me not to trouble about re-
named, tel
l""""? u .untl1 ' was. Perfectly convenient-
-lis clearly convinced me that the man had
"laken me for some one else, and thinking
l?l?$ t '?? XaT"?
be knew my name.
r ' v. mm .
" 'That's an absurd qnestion from a man
with whom I've been acquainted for 15
years. Your name is Charley , if you
haven't had it changed.
" 'It's nothing of the sort,' said I, 'and it
hasn't been changed either.' I handed him
my card and it was his turn to be surprised.
Then I explained what my suspicions had
been, and we had another drink and a
hearty laugh over the matter. It was the
most remarkable case ot mistaken identity
that I ever heard of."
IP you want to be fooled, buy humbugs
if you wish to be cured, use Salvation OU.
25 cents.
IF health and beauty you'd maintain.
And keep your breath a perfect charm,
Ue Sozodont with might and main:
For it alone prevents the harm
That mars a woman's teeth and breath
And leaves her mouth as dark as death.
"BTsa
A FAMOUS STKUGGLE.
Capt. Kin? Tells the First Chapter of
the Stirring Story of
THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL EACE
For Gentlemen Elders at New Orleans on
the Metairie Track. '
TWO I0DXG KOBLEMEN IN THE SADDLE
lu'iuiijur roa the dispatch.!
017 say that an instance
wherein- the West Point
preparation was. shown to
lit a man to ride success
fully against experts of the
turf wonld be of interest.
That wtuld imply an atom
of doubt on the part of
some of your readers as to the justice of the
claim made byilr. Eoosevelt and tacitly
indorsed by myself in previous articles.
Tnis is no surprise. I expected it now, and
encountered it 15 years ago. A man whom
I had known in .Kew York, and whom I
next met at the beautiful old Metairie race
course in 2fe Orleans, came briskly for
ward one April morning in '72 and laugh
ingly said: "Xou won't mindrI hope; I've
bet my money against you. You may be a
good cavalry rider, .but these why, they're
all experts."
Kow I shall have tb tell the whole story,
despite its being a personal affair; but if it
serve to illustrate the principle referred to
well and good.
THBEW DOWTT THE GAUNTLET.
It was just before the spring meeting of
the Metairie Jockey Club of New Orleans
somewhere toward the end of March, 1872
and a great concourse ot prominent horse
men from all over the country was rapidly
assembling. It was destined to be the final
meeting on the finest course in the South,
and the directors were eager to go out in a
blaze of glory. The stables of Buford and
Swigert, ot Kentucky, and Sanford, of Uew
Jersey, were among the most notable on the
ground, but every Southern stable of any
consequence was represented. Ex-Governor
PaulO. Hebert was then President of the
Metairie; Generals Beauregard and "West
more were among its leading spirits; Law
rence Barrett sported its colors as an
honored guest; so did Manton Marble, of
the New York JTbrld, then spending a
month at the old Hotel St. Louis. LeGrand
B. Cannon, of New Yorkj was a daily visi
tor to look at the "preliminary canters;"
Cnthbert Slocomb, of New Orleans, was an
enthusiastic member, and the invaluable
Billy Connor was then one of the prom
inent track officers. It is the season of the
year, too, when the quaint old city is crowd
ed with tourists from the North, and this
spring of '72 was the gayest that had opened
since the war.
Among the daily visitors at the club were
two young foreigners. Monsieur George
Itosenlecher, of France, and Count Victor
Crenneville, of Austria, both light cavalry
officers in their own countries; both prac
ticed riders in many a race atLongchamps,
Baden Baden and Vienna; both had brought
with them their gorgeous silken "casaques"
(jockey shirts) and complete race rig; both
lrequently exhibited photographs taken in
their beautilul jockev dress, and both were
eager at the coming meeting to ride a race
against any American gentleman who could
be induced to "pick up the gauntlet." For
sometime there were no takers. Then they
offered to "allow seven pounds" to any gen
tlemen who would ride against them, i. e.,
carry seven pounds dead weight on their
race saddles a heavv penalty. Still no
takers, and then there began to be some
talk. . ,,
THE CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
Just then I got back from duty on which
I had been sent in Northern Mississippi,
andTeporting to General Emory, on whose
staff I was serving as aid-de-camp, spent
the- evening with him at the St. Louis
Hotel, where all these prominent Metairie
men happened to be gathered. Almost the
first thing said to me was by Governor
Heber: "Why won't you ride against these
foreign cavalrymen?" And in this way I
first heard of the challenge. Little by lit
tle the whole story came out, and turning to
my chief himsel t an enthusiastic old cavalry
officer and horseman I asked him if he
thought I'd do. His answer was of such a
character that the matter was fettled then
and there. An American was found to ride
acainst the challengers from France and
Austria, and though New Orleans society
at that day would doubtless have preferred
somebodv'other than a Yankee officer, still
that was better than nobody. Then as
the papers began to take the matter up, and
interest increased, some Englishmen came
forward and said a young countryman of
theirs was in town and had with him the
jockey dress in which he had ridden many
a gentleman's race abroad. He would
gladly lide for the Royals. Then in another
day Ireland added her champion in a tall,
slender young trooper a capital fellow he
proved to be, and all of a sudden it had be
come AIT rNTEEKATIONAI. ATFAin.
By the terms of the race it was to be
known as the International Bace for Gen
tlemen Biders. A dash of a mile and 80
yards (so that the ladies' stand might have
full benefit of both the start and finish).
Prize, the Metairie whip gold mounted.
The club to furnish the horses from the
racers of the stables present, and these were
to be assigned to riders according to weight.
The first meeting of the five contestants,
therefore, was the day we "scaled" at the
club office with old Generals Westmore (the
Admiral Bous of the Metairie) and Abe
Buford, of Kentucky, to supervise the cere
monv. It was then found that I was the
heaviest ol the five by seven pounds (weigh
ing ), wniie iDuui victor was a diminu
tive shadow, barely touching 112. I had to
train down at once.
It was arranged that we were to have
horses ready for us at the judges' stand
every morning at sunrise for track prac
tice, etc My associates rode in and out, but
I arose every morning at 3, and in flannels
and overcoat tramped, hard as I could, the
seven miles from my quarters up on Pry
tanis street out to the Metaire course at the
end of Canal. Then alter an hour of brisk
work in the saddle, tramped again back to
town; took a couple of chops and a pot' of
tea at Moreau's: then went to the office for a
rub down and the duties of the day. In one
week I had trained down iust seven pounds
and was in tip-top trim. In that week, too,
I had learned a good deal about riding thor
oughbreds, and that it was infinitely easier,
handier, prettier work than what I had been
doing for a couple of years previous teach
ing two to five hours a day all the practices
at the West Point School of Horsemanship
and doing it on any and every kind of horse
but a thoroughbred. Alter that experience
I found riding these light, beautiful. EDrincv
creatures, no matter how thev plunged or
tried to "bolt," simply a delig'ht
DELIGHTFUL WOEK.
Of course I bad watched many a year the
jockey seat and jocky hand, ana knew that
there was reason for it all. For an instant
the first day I mounted (under the eyes
of a crowd ot club men eager to watch the
performances of the great horses gathered
there for the races and wildly curious to see
how the "amateurs" would get along) I re
member that the first thing I did was to
slip the reins with my left hand cavalry
fashion but while my "trainer" (the owner
of the horse, but in no sense an instructor)
was setting the stirrups under the instep
Anything but cavalry fashion and giving
numerous orders to the stable boys hanging
on to the head of my pawing," impatient
steed, I slipped both hands forward down
along the horse's neck, gave the reins a
couple ot "flips" around botb wrists, so as
to give plenty of friction against his hard
est pull, and told the grooms to let go. In
another minute we were off, a jockey from
If
the same stable racing alongside on a big
chestnut gelding.
Three and four years previous, on my own
beautiful "Tennessee," when, with the old
light battery with which I served in New
Orleans just after the war, I had been al
lowed to speed over that elastic track; but
delightful as that was, it was tame work to
this.- I seemed simply skimming over the
ground and whistling through the air at a
rateT had never known before. It almost
took my breath away but it was delicious.
Twice thrice on .different horses we were
sent around that morning, and I had a mere
bagatelle of a time in getting along with a
big rangy specimen, against whom the
trainers warned me, saying he was vicious
and a "bolter" but he ran like a streak.
Of course. I wanted to know how my
riding had impressed the experts. There
was still time to get out of the thing if my
cavalry seat was going to make a guy of
me; so, after dismounting, I asked General
"Westmore for his advice. His answer was
that he was ready to make his bets. Next
the old trainer whose1 horses I had, been
trying said quietly: "I didn't want to
allow the use of my .hones 'for this race,
but if you'll ride one of mine I'll gef first
money." , . "" v "
, IN DOUBT.
Still I doubted. I found among my
Northern acquaintances and among com
rades on the staff (none of whom had been
at West Point for many a long'yeat) perfect
willingness to bet anything I wouldn't win
that race. On the other-ban J, the turf men
who were regularly out at the track at .the
sunrise gallons, and the officers of the club
to whom I laughingly spoke of the matter,
all expressed a wish to meet these doubting
friends. It would not do to be the cause of
putting them up to losing their money, so I
deprecated betting in any way -
But even while tending strictly to hisown
practice, it is easy for a man to watch the
style and work of fellows who come along
side. Stuart, the little Englishman, was
the first of the five whom I had a good
chance of seeing, and he was a very trim,
businesslike, thoroughgoing rider. A vast
improvement on Lord W dk s," said
Westmore and others on the judge's stand
who were watching him as be came flying
down the homestretch straight as horse
could run. ' The yonng Lord referred to had
been over a year or two bctore and nad, so
they said, "ridden all over his horse."
Kosehlecher, also; was a pretty riderthough
too high in the stirrups to suit me. and more
than once I thought that the coach whom he
had employed a jockey with a beautiful
seat and hand but a shady record Crenne
ville, I only saw in saddle twice before the
race, and both times it struck me he was
"too much in the air." Hearing a Mobile
horseman commending the Count's style,
and anxious to learn its special points as
viewed by him I asked his reasons.
"Why he's so light Never touches his
horse's back. You would think he wasn't
on him at all."
"Well it that horse should suddenly shy
or swerve he wouldn't be on him," was the
answer that occurred to me, but I said noth
ing at tne moment. Xhe next morning Ins
horse did shy and the Austrian was thrown
headlong. These three gentlemen had their
coaches or trainers with them a great deal,
but after the first day I preferred to allow
no one to touch my horse.
THE MOUNTS.
Then came the announcement of the
"mounts" the horses we were to ride and
then Pmade my bets. Both of them against
myself.
Of course if riding could do it, I meant to
win that race. Tnere was every reason
why I should. Pride in the fact that I
was riding for America; pride in the fact
that I was riding for the cavalry of my
country; pride in being a winner, even.
But when I looked on the horses and their
records my hopes went down. All other
things being even, Boss would land Ire
land's green silk an easy winner, with the
emblazoned arms of the horse of Crenneville
a good second. I was willing to believe
that if the rest of us were not "bunched" I
could come in a fair third. The horses
assigned us were as follows:
To Ireland The brown colt Nathan Oaks.
To Austria The chestnut colt Tom
Aikin. ' '
To the United States The chestnut geld
ing Templar.
To England The brown filly Eapidita.
To France The bay filly Oleander.
I knew every one of them. Nathan Oaks
was a glorious colt capable of anything. I
had watched him in bis practice and had
seen him win two races, making time that
old Templar with my weight couldn't
touch, and the very day before our race
came off he justified my faith in him and,
sent my heart further down in my boots by
winning the two-mile heat under the eyes of
the people who were to watch his struggle
for the "International" on the morrow.
THE WEIGHTS.
The chestnut colt Tom Aiken was another
flyer. He had a record under 90 pounds, of
making his mile on the Metaire in 1:48
about as fast as it could be done
and while he certainly could
not repeat that performance under
Crenneville who was to scale 123 pounds
when he came to the post, he ought, even
with that weight, to brush close on Nathan
Oaks.
Bapidita and Oleander were both fleet and
pretty racers and under normal weights
would haveTun right away from Templar,
but we amateur jockeys could not be made
to .ride the weigbtsof the professionals who
are mere skin, sinew, stunt and bone and
all things considered it was as fair an as
signment as could be made with the means
at hand.
But I had agreed to ride Templar at the
request of old Mr. Harrison, who owned
him, and the Natchez stable. He was more
of a "hurdler" than anything else hid
never won aflat race -such as we were to ride,
was a notorious bolter, and only a day or
two before our race he pitched his powerful
negro jockey over his head and dragged him
all over the field. I saw him.
But the stablemen and experts said Temp
lar and I "got along together firstrate." I
had taken a fancy to him and he was ac:
corded to me. ,
Then came the announcement of the
weights. That meant with his saddle, and
in lull jockey dress, each rider must scale at
mounting as follows:
JKing, 148; Kosenlecher, 135; Stuart, 133;
Boss, 130, and de Crenneville, 128. To reach
his weight, the latter had to carry a three
pound weight.
And thus were the long preliminaries set
tled. The story of the race itself will take
another chapter but not so long a one.
Captain Chaeles King, XT. S. A.
FLEXIBLE STONE.
A Whole Monntnln of the Queer Substance
la North Carolina.
Washington Star.
There lay this morning on the desk of Mr.
Samuel Hodgkins, acting chief clerk of the
War Department, a stone wrapped in
brown paper. It weighed about a pound,
and was perhaps 18 inches in length, 2i in
width, and one-third of an inch thick. The
texture of the stone was fine and presented
no evidence of stratification, and was
smooth over the entire surface. A knife
blade made no impression on the particles.
j.ucc is iiu uuuut us io irs Deing a genuine
stone, but it nevertheless possessed the flex
'ibilityor a piece of india rubber. When
taken in the hand and shaken in the direc
tion of its flat surface it would bend back
and forth with a dull, muffled sound. The
movement was more of a laxity in the. ad
hesion apparently than an elasticity.
When held horizontally by one end the
other wonld drop and remain in that posi
tion. With the two ends supported on rests,
the free centeY could bp pressed half an inch
below the middle line. With nn mA firm
ly on the desk the other could be bent up- J
waru uver an men. xne movement was not
confined to the one direction in the plane
of the flat surfaces but the entire stone
seemed to be constructed on the principle of
an universal joint, with a movement in all
directions under pressure.
It came Irom a mountain in North Caro
lina, and bears the name of "flexible sand
stone." The entire mountain is composed
of this material, and pieces eut at random
exhibit the same flexible properties.
THE SOUTH AS. IT IS.
Bessie Bramble Says Sectional Ha
tred is a Thins of the Past.
HOW WAR CRUSHES . WOMEN,
The Yexations Servant Girl Problem Portly
Solved Below the Line.
SOME STEIKING SOUTHERN OBITUARIES
tcoaaxsposDENCE or the dispatch. 1
IKEN, S. C, Jan
uary 29. To re
move many of their
erroneous impres
sions and long-held
prejudices, North
ern men and women
need to come to the
South. J'lf a man
from the North will
only keep his
mouth shut, he can
get1 along first rate
in the South, is
the general impression above Mason and
Dixon's lino. But if his' prosperous getting
along depends upon his keeping mum, it fol
lows notonlythat theNorthern man will not
be there, but that he willfabhor and despise
a place that is under domination of any
such gag law. However much Northern
capital, energy and enterprise may be de
sired in the South, and however great may
be the advantages of such location, they will
be looked for in vain until opinions and
sentiments pro and con can be as fully and
peaceably and safely expressed and ex
changed as in the North. Whether the
truth of this fact has been duly impressed or
not we know not, but we do know that we
have been in the South for over a month in
close communion with bona fide Southern
people in a State that has been regarded as
the hot bed of treason the forcing house of
the now defunct Confederacy, and we have
not heard a bitter word, or an expression of
sentiment in any way verging upon sectional
hatred or implacable animosity. So if there
is any keeping mum, it is as much enforced
on the side of Southerners themselves as on
the others.
There seems to be a mutual determination
to bury the hatchet completely out of sight
and mind, to let bygones be bygones, to
make the best of things as they are, and
trust to fresh hopes and new enterprises for
the future. Doubtless there are old scars
that bring up sad memories of days gone by
old wounds that recall the battle fields
where the best blood of the South was freely
poured out as a sacrifice to mistaken pa
triotism, and in defense of a principle as to
States rights that has been effectually
squelched for a century to come, and to pre
serve an institution that was a blot and a
disgrace to civilization, but the general
feeling is to let the present dominate the
past, and to accept the promises and inspi
rations of the futtfre
GLAD SLAVERY DATS AEE OVEB.
No one here, even in South Carolina the
"head devil of the rebellion," as some one
calls the beautiful Palmetto State regrets
the abolition of slavery. No one, so far as
we can learn, wonld return to the old order
of things before the emancipation proclama
tion was issued. Even those who in losing
tneir slaves lost fortune, investment, in
come, everything, express their satisfaction
at their release from the responsibility of
slave-holding, and disclaim any desire for
a restoration of the once-held-to-be-divine
institution, even if it were possible. Most
of them have hard words only for the fatu
ous politicians, who were so blinded by their
own conceit and vanity and contempt for
the powers of the North, that they refused
the offer of Abraham Lincoln of compensa
tion for the loss of slaves, and booted at bis
endeavors to save the Union either with
or without slavery. The war was a hor
rible blunder, a most shocking and
tremendous tragedy whose most direful re
sults were felt by the aggressors. Poverty
and privation, death and desolation, broken
hearts and blasted homes, gave token of the
cruelty of the monster of iniquity called
war. In the faceif all the misery and woe,
the sorrow and suffering, the poverty and
wretchedness, the Immorality and evil en-
fendered by the war anything would have
een better. ' It would have been money in
everybody's pocket, as Artemus Ward
would say, to have let the wayward sisters
go in peace to have bought every slave in
the country at the highest rajes to have
killed offtthe loud-mouthed braggarts whose
voices were for war, and who led a peaceful
people into the frightful experiences of a
struggle so destructive and deadly.
HOW WAS CRUSHES WOMEIT.
The Southern women are credited with
keeping the South in a blaze with backing
up the meii when they were ready to give
up with inspiring the brethren in the field
to do and die in the last ditch, when they
were anxious, in oil exchange parlance, to
"lay down with shaming the laegards at
home into service at the front with such
heroic sacrifice ot self and material interests
in behalf of their cherished and, to them,
sacred cause, as only the women ot the
North equaled, and no women in the world's
history ever surpassed. But whether all
the stories of the invincible courage and
blind bitterness of the women of the
South are true or not, the fact
remains that the hardships of war
fell on none more heavily. All.
both North and South, can apply
the moral that leaving aside all other
points women, have no greater enemy to
dread than war. Herbert Spencer some
where says in substance that civilization
and progress lead to monogamy, but war
tends directly to polygamy and its attend
ant evils. If marriage is the highest, holi
est and most beneficent state ot existence,
then war is to both men and women the
direst possible evil. In all this talk of war
with Germany or with any other power, let
women set themselves as Tock against it.
America can defend herself if need be,
but let all such questions as Samoa he set
tled by arbitration. Let us have no such
hot-headed idiocy as a foreign war. The
whole empire of Germany, if made a con
quered province by American valor, would
not pay for it. The game would not be
worth the powder.
A PROBLEM PARTLY SOLVED.
But to turn from the national housekeep
ing to the individual social problem invol
ved in the all perplexing and harassing
servant question, it may be said that part
of it has been solved here bv force of cir
cumstances, and it would appear to dispose
of what to northern housekeepers would
seem the impossible point to concede. The
great objection made by independent girls to
domestic service is that they cannot have
their evenings. The incessant toil of facto
ry work, the long hours of standing and
wear of nerves in stores and shops, the
weary stitch, stich, stitcht bf sewing for
starvation wages in altitudinun garrets are
all offset hy their enjoyment of evenings to
themselves. This privilege is not included
in domestic service,sl nee the kitchen toilers
sleep in the house, and are under beck and
call at all hours. This is not the case here
in the South.
. XThe domestic servants come in the morn
ii.g and go home in the evening. This priv
ilege they claim by virtue of the Emancipa
tion Proclamation by President Lincoln.
This is their idea of Ireedom. They have
their little homes ofi in the oak woods it
may be, or among the pines, or in the back
streets, and there they go to spend their
nights as royally free irom service, or the
thralldom of toil, as Grover Cleveland in
his sanctuary at "Bed Top." Married
women go out as cooks, or chambermaids,
as do also married men. We saw
a family cook the other day of the
masculine persuasion rolling out pie crnst
or dumpling dough, in a Prince Albert coat
all buttoned down before over an expansive
chest, and not a sign of an apron about'
him. The coachman, the stable boy. the
mau-of-all-work, the gardener, the cook, the
laundress, the dairy woman, the chamber
maid, 'the table cirl, the"nurse, all go home
inthe evening with their buckets of rations
for the-family athome. They are paid by
the nfonth so much in money and supplies
agreed upon. They come early in the morn
ing to their work, and so far as we can
see, things work as smoothly and conveni
ently as'Under the old way, and even better,
since there is a sort of luxury in the lack of
responsibility for the help, and a pleasure
for the-family in the privacy of having the
house to themselves. This, to Northern
people will, of course, seem undesirable and
impossible for many reasons that may be
cited, but in the South, where people have
been forced to adapt themselves to the situa
tion, it has become so much a regular insti
tution that they would baldly be willing to
change to the old-time method. We be
lieve that this plan could be followed in
Northern households without any great de
privation of comfort on the side of employ
ers, and be at the same time the removal of
one of the greatest detriments and draw
backs to don.;st:c service on the part of the
employes.
WHAT SURPRISES BESSIE.
In a new country, as South Carolina is to
us, all the points of difference between
North and South are striking, and none
more attract the notice of a woman than
those which concern women. In the daily
papers it appears to be customary to print
obituary notices of people on the anniversary
of their death. In a late paper we observe
that a mourning husbandpuhlishe3 a touch
ing transcript of the virtues and amiable
qualities ot his beloved Maria, who has
been dead just ayear. This is something so
unusual that it attracted our attention at
once. On inquiry it came to light that this
mourning husband had never discovered
that "Maria" had any virtues or cood
qualities to fMk of while she was alive.
She had to etosyed their home that he had
enjoyed real solid comfort he had revelled
in dMHk bliss he had tasted of joys that
the " ht feare envied, but he never
realised Jf tfil sh waa Jad and buried.
Th vooQr 9s was that the anni
verMrr of TarWinth found him still a
monmai !" wearing a weeper. Such
meferauly wilfeg to assuage their sorrow
to caapltui J dear departed, to get
out a seotM jinfen of bliss by hunting up
a wife with eaufh "spondnlix" to wipe
np any amount of tears and smooth out the
wrinkles of the most profound grief.
Another obituary of a 'noted woman was
remarkable in that it did not mention de
votion and self-sacrifice to home and family
and practical piety as her highest virtues
and noblest attributes, but rather presented
her claims to personal beauty, cultivated in
tellect, to ardent support of the dead Con
federacy, and love for and attention to its
survivors.
AS TO SOUTHERN OBITUARIES.
Nearly half a coltfmnis thus given to Mrs.
Philoclea E. Eve, who died last week in
Augusta. Her claims to blue blood and
ancient family were fully set forth. Her
attention to her duties as Vice Begent of
the Ladies' Mt. Vernon Association was
largely dilated upon, as her crowning claim
to fame. She and Miss Ann Pamela Cun
ningham were the original promoters of
the scheme to hold the home of Washing
ton as a sacred shrine and as representing
the State of Georgia, it was her great
ambition to make the Georgia room as ele
gant as any cared for by wealthier States.
She was. it is further said, a graceful
writer and an industrious collector
of the gems of poetry and prose
in a scrap book. Heir devotion as a
Southern sympathizer is largely dwelt upon,
nnd her interest and support of every
patriotic movement in the South was nar
rated with apparent pride. But all through
there was none of the namby pamby con
ventional stult about utter sett sacrifice to
home and friends to charitable or church
affairs or Christian resignation. The
obituary was evidently fitted to the woman,
and not as such notices are usually ar
ranged, applicable to any and all women,
and that mean nothing save as a compli
ment of empty words. An example that
we of the North might well follow in the
interests of truth.
As the cold weather has come at the
North more visitors are to be seen in the
streets of Aiken. From Minnesota, Can
ada, New Eneland, and the Middle States
they come leaving behind the icy winds
and bitter blasts of Boreas to enter into the
ethereal mildness, when "spring unlocks
the flowers to paint the laughing soil." By
the way, talking of mildness, a current of
Arctic frigidity has found its way into the
glad spring time that has been booming the
strawberry patches and new potatoes that is
strongly suggestive of Greenland's icv
mountains. This shows that even the glori
ous Sunny South has occasional wrinkles in
its roseleaves, and snatches of total deprav
ity in its weather.
Bessie Bramble.
ME. CAMPBELL'S AIR SHIP.
An English Naval Ofllcer Negotiating for It
Fnnl Boytou Wnnta to Get It.
NewTork San.l
Last week Mr. Campbell received a long
letter from Lieutenant G. P. Lempriere, B.
N., of Birmingham, England, containing
the terms of a most flattering proposition,
which Mr. Campbell will probably accept
if he does not soon hear of a more advanta
geous home offer.
In his letter Lieutenant Lempriere speaks
of the feasibility of crossing the Atlantic in
an air-ship constructed after the pattern of
Mr. Campbell's ship. "I don't think there
would be the least danger if my plans are
carried out," he writes. "I should want a
balloon about four times as large as the one
you have, and the car, or course, would be
correspondingly large. For ballast I would
use nothing but what was absolutely peces
sary to carry food, clothing, drinkables,
drag-rope, and safety raft. The drag-rope
would be indispensable, inasmuch as it
would keep the ship at a certain altitude,
sav about 1,200 feet. The end of the rope,
dragging in the water, would serve as a
tractiou, preventing a higher ascension.
The cost of such an undertaking would be
not far from 15,000. I have made a scien
tific study of aerial navigation, and am al
most positive the venture would prove suc
cessful. It would certainly not result in
a loss of life if due carefulness was ob
served. Prof. Allen, who operated the ship at the
trial ascension, was perfectly convinced of
its navigable qualities. He is perhaps one
of the best aerouauts in the country, and
at one time was associated with the engi
neers in Emperor Dom Pedro's army during
its engagements with Paraguayan forces,
in which he achieved both fame and for
tune. Captain Paul Boyton, who knows a good
thing when he sees it, is endeavoring to in
terest Mr. Campbell in partnership, but
thus far they have not agreed to terms. In
the spring, if Mr. Campbell does not leave
for England before that time, a trip will be
made to Philadelphia in the air ship,
after which it will be placed on exhibition
in the principal cities throughout the coun
try. That Tcll-Talo Mirror.
Mr. James I'll stay out dis hitch. (Kicks
vigorously right and left.)
Mr. Howells So'll I.
Mr. Biglein I don' see nuffin'inmyhan'
wnf 'rastlin' wiv.
Mr.- French (with his back to the glass)
'Peahster.me yo' gonnleman's bery timid
ter git scart off on a pah ob juices. Judge.
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ThsimMMMMMum LFiSk
THEPEICE OF PEACE.
Key. George Hodges Speala of the
tfecessily and Difficulty of
LIYIKG PEACEABLT AND PIOUSLY.
Truth Host Not be Sacrificed to a Falsa
Idea of Amiability.
THE AESIOE OP THE CHRISTIAN OIGHT
IwairiJUl FOB THE DISPATCH.
F it be possible, as
much as lieth In you,
,lfve peaceably with
all men." It was St.
'Paul who gave that
curious advice. St.
Paul evidentlydoubt-
ed the possibility of
living peaceably with
all men.
He had been setting down a series of short
imperative sentences: "Be not wise in
your own conceits. Recompense to no man
evil for evil. Provide'things honest in the
sight of all men." Thus far there is no
question. The sermon goes straight on.
But just here there is a break. The
preacher stops. He has it in his mind to
add another of these clear, sharp sentences.
He has it upon his lips to say, "Live
peaceably with all men." But wait! Can
he say just that? No; he must modify that
a little. Ana so he puts an it and a
question in front of it. "If it be possible,"
he says, "and as much as lieth in you live
peaceably with all men."
Now, why was that? Why not come out
plainly and without any "if," and without
any compromise or condition, forbid us to
break .the peace? Why say "if it be possi
ble," and "as much as lieth in you?" Is
there any question concerning the duty of
peaceable living? or concerning the possi
bility of lulfilling that duty?
PEACE SOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE.
Yes, there is. There are times when
peaceable living and Christian living can
not possibly be made to go together. There
are times when peace is only a respectable
name for cowardice. Indeed, there have
been times, and there always will he, when
to live peaceably with all men must be both
cowardly and shameful and sinlul.
Blessed be peace, and well paid the sacri
fices which secure and keep peace! But
there is a higher duty than that which we
owe to peace a dnty higher, may we not
say, than is owed to'faith or even to sacred
charity? our absolute duty to truth. It it
be an alternative, as it often has been,
between truth and peace, then for no good
man can it be possible to choose peace.
St. Paul did well to say, "If it be pos
sible." He knew what that meant. In his
life it was not possible. He might have
dwelt amiably with his fellow-men but at
the price of silence. He did not live peace
ably with all men. Wherever he went men
were divided one against another; there
were tumults in the synagogues, and riots
in the streets.
There he was at Thessalonica. Why
could he not have held his peace, and
looked on quietly, while those fortune
tellers deluded the credulous people and
"made much gain?" They werenot deluding
him; they were not getting any dollars out
of his pocketbook. What concern was it of
his? And, anyway, must he not live peace
ably with all menV Ho; he must interfere.
The divine truth impels him. And then the
mob rises up against him, the town is full
of noise and violence, the magistrates rend
their garments, and the apostle is beaten
with many stripes and thrust into the most
uncomfortable dungeon of the town jail,
and his feet made fast in the stocks. And
all because it was not possible for him for
him, the servant of the Most High God. the
disciple of onr Lord Jesus Christ, who is
the truth it was not possible for him to
live peaceably with all men.
THE SWORD OP TRUTH.
And you remember a sentence of the Mas
ter's, how He said, "Think not that I am
come to send peace on the earth; I came not
to send peace, but a sword." Peace He did
send the peace which "passeth understand
ing," a peace which is every day realizing
more and more in this wrangling world the
benediction of the Christian angels. Bnt
peace He distinctly forbade, too, the peace
which surrenders truth, which compromises
with sin, which puts an amiable ease in the
room of duty. For all which hinders men
from serving God. Christ had a sword.
It is true that one of the beatitudes is
"Blebsed ae the peacemakers," but we
must not forget that the last beatitude of
all is, "Blessed are the peacebreakers." Do
you remember that? "Blessed are ye when
men shall revile you, and persecute you,
and shall say all manner of evil against yon
falsely for thy sake." That is a significant
benediction upon those who have not found
it possible to leave their fellowmen in sin
ful peace.
Peace is always possible to those who are
willing to pay the price. The devil has it
for sale. The martyrs of old time might
have bought it with one word. Beformers
the world over might have made even a
cheaper bargain, might have purchased
peace bv not savmcr even one word bv sav
ing nothing. Under every shape, the price
ot peace is truth. You have to hand over
truth to the devil before you can buy peace
with all men. No wonder St. Paul stopped
and wrote "if it be possible" before he ex
horted us to live peaceably; not even saying
"live as peaceably as poisible," but ques
tioning the whole matter of peaceable liv
ing "if it be possible."
THE ARMOR OP OOD.
"Put on the whole armor of God" the
girdle of truth, the breastplate of righteous
ness, the sandals of the gospel of peace, the
shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, the
sword of the Spirit the whole stout armor
of God. And then, what ? Then sit very
quietly and serenely down, keep peace, and
amiably watch the hosts of evil pillage the
town in which you livel Is that
it? No, stand up and fight
against the world, the flesh, and the
devil, in you and in all men. So long as
falsehood, or uncleanness, or injustice, or
oppression, or blasphemy, or wroneofany
kiuu ia iii ina worm, we nave no ngnt to
live peaceably with all men, to let the rust
of a cowardly or lazy peace stain the armor
of God. No peace with drunkenness; no
peace with sensuality "first pure, then
peaceable;" no peace with falsehood and
fraud, with malice and slander; no peace
with corruption in high places, or with
brutality in low places; no peace with false
oath, or with the deceitful balance; no peace
with any enemy of God.
Une-half of the sin of the world exists be
cause men insist upon living peaceably with
all men. The other half of the sin of the
world exists because men refuse to live
peaceably with all men.
That is, if in all men's minds in the
nnn,ds of all good men truth were more
precious than peace, so that we would be
willing to make many sacrifices of our own
comfort in active and earnest and united
endeavors to put down sin, no matter how
many enemies we might make bv it, who
can doubt but that the world's wickedness
would speedily grow less? And if, on the
other hand, peace were more precious to us
than self, so tba't wherever truth and prin
ciple were not involved.but only such lower
considerations as personal reputation and
pride, we would enter into no quarrels, who
cannot see how much misery would slink
away out of human life, and how much
happiness would come gladly in.
A FALSE PEACE.
For while there is a lalse peace which
ought to be broken a false peace.the enemy
of sacred truth; there is also a true
peace, which blessed are they who make
and keep a true peace, the friend of holy
love.
Concerning this true peace SL Paul savs
keep it, "as much as lieth in you." That
does not mean live peaceably as far as your
rxf&Y
natural temper will permit you. Some peo
ple are born peaceable; some are bom
anything but peaceable. That was not what
St. Pan! was thinking of. The emphasis is
altogether on the word "you;" "as much as
lieth in yon;" so far as yon are concerned,
keep peace. Others may attempt to break
peace with you, but your responsibility is
with yourself; so far as the matter lies with
you, be others men of peace or men of
violence, never mind; it is your part to keep
the peace.
The fact is that self is at the bottom of
most quarrels. You may go to either party
in a dispute it matters not which one and
say: "See here, my friend; you are the one
to blame. Ifyouwillonlydowhat 'lieth ia
yon,' this unhappy matter will end."
And so, St. Paul, with this large fact
about human nature in hi3 mind, sets down
several helpful rules. Anybody who fol
lows them wil be both peaceful and peace
making of the right sort. .
"Be not wise in your own conceits-" That
is the first rnle, and it touches the very
uean 01 a majority ui uii xxjisunaersrauuing.
Do not allow yourself to imagine that in
your difference with your friend the fault is
all'on the other side. We look on at other
people's quarrels, and we observe that the
blame is always pretty evenly divided. We
see, qnite plainly, that if either side would
act with entire unselfishness all the trouble
would be cleared away.
TAKES TWO TO QUARREL.
We are very wise and philosophical spec
tators. But, somehow, when we are no'
longer witnesses but actors we lose that
judicial serenity. We go into our own
private fights with our eyes shut. It is the
white against the black, in our case. We
are right and the other is wrong, and the
fewer words about it the better. If you are
in the middle of any misunderstanding, stoi
and look at yourself, that is what St. Paul
says.
As much as lieth in yon;" are yon re
membering that?
If you think that yon are wholly right
you are almost certainly deceiving yourself.
You have given offense, perhaps, without '
knowing it, or yon have taken offense, where
none was intended. Something is the mat
ter with you, be sure of that; take St. Paul's
advice.
Here is another rule: "Becompense to no
man, evil for evil." That takes it quite for
granted that evil has been done you. So far
you are in the right about it. You have
been 'maliciously injured. There is no
doubt of that. Now what will you do?
Why, "as much as lieth in you," stop t
exactly there. You know how many it
takes to make a quarrel. You yourself
make the quarrel, it you count a3 number
two. You are to blame.
Peace rests now with you. The blow has
been struck." Peace has been assaulted. It
depends upon you whether or not peace
shall be thrown down and trampled on.
The whole thing has been written out.
within the past few months, in great red
letters, in a Southern State. I mean that
barbarcfe vendetta, that blood-feud be
tween families, which got so fieree as to
need a company of soldiers. One man did
this, and the other retaliated with that;
and then the first answered more,emphit-i.,
ically. and the second shot him; and thee.
brother of the first shot him,, and. so on; .and"?
on, back and forth, and worse and -worse.''-The
only remedy is for one side to stop. We
can all see that. .,
IP IT BE POSSIBLE.
Bead Tolstoi's story: "If you light the
fire, you don't put it out." "it is the same
thing over again a word here, and blow $
there, and both returned with generous in
terest, and misery for both sides at the end
of it. The only remedy is for one to stop
at the beginning. We can all see that very
distinctly when it is somebody else's
quarrell
But what a difficult duty! No wonder
St. Paul said, "If it be possible." Not to
return evil for evil goes straight in the
face of human nature itself. "Thou ohalt
hate thine enemy," is one of the command
ments of the race. When Christ came, pro
claiming a different commandment, every
body was amazed. To return slight with
slight, coldness with coldness, criticism,
with criticism, angry word with angry
word, to recompense evil with evil
how grievouslv natural I But when
St. Paul said, "You," he meant Christians.
Because you are Christians, he says, there
fore, so far as you are concerned and let
it be amark among men of the followers
of Christ so far as you are concerned, do
this: Live peaceably with all men.
The publicans and sinners, onr X.ord
said, love those who love them; that i3
human nature. But "you" who follow
Me must do more than that; you must love
those who hate you; that is against human
nature. It is well for us to remember that,
every social misunderstanding; every neigh
borhood quarrel, every slight or slander or
unkind and unjnst word or ast, every
temptation to break peace,tests a Christian a
loyalty to Christ. Geoeoe Hodoes.
A STRANGE DfifiAtf. r :
Eight Ilnndred Soldiers Sco tha'SameTUV'T
Ion A Singular VaaU ' ' ea
The Argosy.
It is a most singular fact that under cer
tain combined condition of fatigue, discom
fort and malaria whole bodies of men such
as companies of soldiers have been seized
by the same terrific dream, and have
awakened simultaneously shrieking with
terror. Such an instance is related by Lau
rent, when, after a forced march, 800 French,
soldiers were packed in a ruined Calabrian
monastery which could ill accommodate
half that number. At midnight frightful
cries issued from every corner of the. build
ing as irightened men rushed from it. each
declaring that it was the abode of the evil
one that they had seen him in the form of
a big black dog, who threw himself upon
their breasts for an instant and then disap
peared. The men were persuaded to return
to the same shelter on the next night, their
officers promising to keep watch beside
them. Shortly after midnight the same
scene was re-enacted the same cries, the
same flight, as the soldiers rushed forth in a
bodv to escape the suffocating embrace of
the black dog. The wakeful officers had
seen nothing.
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