t. FIGHTMG APACHES. Captain King Relates Interesting and Thrillinsj Incidents of SOME WILD EIDES IN THE WEST. Chasing Indian Cattle ThiCTes Through Arizona. A LIVELY BATTLE AT SUSSET PASS rfBtmx toe the DisrATcn.2 EN. CEOOK was completing in 1874 the task of subjugating a hith e r t o intractable tribe and no mau erer commanded in Arizona who better knew the Apaches, treated them better when they would behave or thrashed them better when thev wouldn't. All his predecessors had found their methods too slow for so nimble an enemy. Precipi-J tons mountains, jagged and impassable can yons and scorching deserts all aided the In dians and hampered the troops. Finally the Government selected Crook, despite the fact that he was then only a Lieutenant Colonel, and gave him command of that dismal department on his brevet rank of General; sent him a regiment of cavalry to replace one that had had some years of un lucky experiences in the territory, and the General himself took the field and prac tically taught the new troopers how to tackle mountain Indians. He had learned the trick years before the "War of the Rebel lion. Tribe after tribe and band alter band did he whip into submission and finally in '74 they were nearly all gathered into great reservations and there remained out in the mountains of Northeastern Arizona only a few scattered par ties, prominent among them being the adherents of two bull-headed chiefs known as Eskiminzin and Eskeltet see. These "hostiles" were nearly all of the Tosto and Sierra Blanco tribes. TRAILIXG IXDIA2TS. All the spring and summer of '74 the Gen eral had scouting parties of cavalry, each with its complement fit Indian allies for trailers, and its little train of pack mules hunting through the mountains for these re calcitrants, and the orders were, wh-n we found them, to fight it out then and there. The two northeastcrnmost stations ot the troops were at that time Camp Verde some 0 miles, by road, east of Prescott, and Camp Apache, down among the foothills of the Mogollon range of mountains, and it was from these points that the detachments sallied forth on their raids. Thev also served as guards lor the great Verde' and San Carlos reservations, where thousands of the once fierce and untamable Apaches were now living in apparent peace and content ment. The oldei officers remained in gar rison with the infantry and the "young sters" were kept at the tireless work. I was then First Lieutenant of K troop of the Filth Cavalry and stationed at Verde. We had had some hvelyfights with the Apaches along the Black Mesa and down in the Tonto Basin in May and June, and then came a summer's rest during which we hardly had a scout. Early in the autumn, however, it was demonstrated that the renegades, re-inforced by some young men from the reservations, were again show ing in the mountains to the southeast of us, and once more the cavalry were called on to find and fight them. I had been making a survey of the mili tary reservation at Camp Vtrde and was busy with my maps one warm October atter noon when come herders came riding in to the post and reported to the commanding officer that a war party of Apaches had swooped down from the "Bed Bock" coun try northeast of us two days before and had run off a lot of their cattle. They had trailed them, supposing at first the cattle had merely stampeded and strayed; but Tonto moccasin prints soon told the story, and they came back to give the alarm and beg that their beef might be recaptured. A FORTX-MILE SIDE. The marauders had a big start, of course, but could not go very fast. They had taken a course indicating that they were making for the neighborhood of Snow Lake, over towards the Colorado Chiqnito, and in half an nour j. was in tue saouie ana galloping up the Verde Valley to the Indian reserva tion 20 miles away. My orders were to find my comrade, Lieutenant Schuyler, who was there in command, get 15 or 20 Indian scouts, and return to the post as soon as possible. Meantime Colonel Mason and Lieutenant Eaton would organize a party to be ready to start at day break on the morrow. Unluckily, the scouts I wanted were gone and instead of the Apache-Mohaves, who had been my trailers earlier in the season and good ones too Schuyler had nothing to offer but some Apache-Yumas whom I did not know at all and whom he could not especially recommend. Even thev were out hunting soniewhcre,bnt he could have them sent lor, armed and equipped and hurried down to the garrison tbat evening. Ye turned about, therefore, ray horse and I, and trotted back to the post, arriving there soon after sunset with appetites for supper, you may be sure, after our 40 mile Jaunt. Meantime 20 men from A and K troops had been selected, and with Lieutenant Eaton for second in command, old Harrv Hawes for packmaster, and the Apache Yu mas for scouts and trailers I was ordered to start at dawn and recapture the cattle and "larrup" the cattle thieves. Late that night hile Eaton and I were writing our home letters (sometimes our officers and men never wrote again after these affairs) we heard a clatter ot hoofs coming up the hill behind our adobe quarters, and the Apache Tumas arrived. They were given some thing to eat and a place to camp for the night and then we, too, turned in lor a snooze. At 3:30 in the morning we were up again, dressed in our rough and serviceable mount ain rig, and at 5 just as the trumpets were rounding first call for reveille, we filed out from the corrals, forded the Verde river i nd rode swiftly away northeastward. My purpose was to go as far as Arnold's ranch; bivouac there untildusk; then begin the as cent of the mountains when the sharpest eyed lookouts of the Indians could not see Us. Of course all the reservations knew by this time that a party was going out, and before nightfall Eaton and I were convinced that our scouts were most reluctant to go With us. BOUGH BIDING. "Winding up the valley of Beaver creek in the early morning, we had reached the ranch ot 8 o'clock and unsaddled in tus prove at the edge of the stream. Here we hid all day long while Eaton and I had a talk witn "Wales Arqold.the owner, about the trail over the mountains. There was a lair road, but a very roundabout one, leav ing the'valley some miles to tbe north and making a wide circuit, sweeping around east of us to Stoneman's Lake,some 40 miles away. Just at dusk -we saddled, mounted and with a "good.luck to you" from Arnold and his ranch people, away we went There was no moon, and, though a crisp starlit night, it was very dark when we began our climb up the rocky sides of the first canyon and the ascent of the range. Biding in Arizona, for mountain scouting purposes, differed from any riding I had ever done beforeor have done since in that pardon the Hibernianism it was mostly walking. The mountains are so precipitous that one has to dismount and lead or follow his horse. V- The whole command, moves in single file with the Apache scoutvgenerally in front; then the commanding officers, then the troopers, and finally the pack train. This march of ours the night ot October 28 was no exception to the rule. Hour after hour we slipped, slid, fugged and climbed over loose, flinty rocks and jagged stones, up, up, tip, twisting, turning, panting and towing our unlucky steeds by the bridal rein and at last, about 10 o'clock, found ourselves on the crest of the westermost spur of the range, and one after another of the men silently clambered to the point; the pack mules followed the tinkling bell of their lead horse and finally the whole command was grouped along a little mesa unaer me cloudless and starry heavens all but the scouts. Long before they had begun to mur mur and protest "Soldiers go too fast!" a preposterous statement as we could hardly make two miles an hour. HEAP SICK. One after another they had slipped back to the rear of the column, and when, pres sentlv, thev came wearily dragging up the cliff and siientlv grouped themselves at the brink, it was noticed that their "sergeant" was not there to answer questions. He had "gone home," one of them explained. Two others were "hc3p sick" and could go no farther. More than ever was it evident that for some reason they were mortally afraid to go with this detachment 2f ever before had I encountered any shirks or cowards among our scouts when we knew the hostile Apaches were all around us. "What then could account lor the utter "weakening" of these fellows? An hour later a partial reason was mani fest Turning a high, rocky spur we came upon a point from which we could see the sky line to the northern horizon; and there perhaps 20 miles away at the eastern edge of the Indian reservation, glowed against a rocky wall, that hid it from all eyes in the valley, a huge signal fire throwing its glare far across the Bed Bock country and the pine covered crests of the Black Mesa be yond. Later stil that night, slipping and slid ing down the jagged sides ot a dark canyon, Indians again hopelessly behind, we reached a sheltered spot where there was water and grass for our stock, and here Me rolled our selves in our blankets and slept till dawn and then had a good look about ns. Nine of our "scouts" had managed to crawl in, the rest are gone. Here we breakfasted, inspected our horses', feet and found that, although every horse aud mule had been carefully attended to by the blacksmiths and paniers before we start ed, four had cast shoes in the scramble up and down the rocks and 20 more had loosened theirs. A SCRAMBLE. The next night, crossing in its course three deep and rock-ribbed canyons we struggled along. Three times the Indians were ordered up to the front, but each time they managed to slip back in the darkness. "Tonto" signs had been discovered soon before sunset Fresh signal fires blazed against the northern sky and these poor devils were evidently convinced that we were tramping straight into the jaws of de struction. I say "tramping" advisedly be cause not until late at night did we mount at all. It was all climb or scramble, but about 10 o'clock Sergeant Taylor and Trooper Frank Biffar, who were foremost "feeling the way" halted, and when, I joined them, pointed to what appeared to be a broad dark patch against the low east ern sky and said, "There are the woods, sir, we must he nearing the road." At mid night we found the trail of the cattle: had locked upon the star-decked , surface of btoneman s late; bad Inst our scouts en tirely and halt the shoes in the? command. "When we left Verde our comrades were wearing light summer clothing all day long and no fires were in except for cooking pur poses. Here we had climbed so high that the water froze solid in our canteens. At 8:30 in the morning seven of our hapless scouts came limping into the bivonac. All "heap sick" yet able to eat like hounds. "We pointed out the cattle tracks, told them they could sleep and rest until 4 in the af ternoon, then we would push ahead through the woods nntil we reached their eastern verge and wait there until dark before rid ing out across the open mesa. The next day, October 31, we were close at the heels of our quarry and still keeping under cover. "We waited not only to get the cattle but to include the Apaches. Late that afternoon, just as the sun be gan to throw long shadows across the hol lows in the Mesa we peered over the crest ot a low range, and there, two" miles in front and just entering .a defile known as the Iarvis' Pass, we caught sight of our missing steers. Two or three men and the Indian scouts were left with Harry Hawes to look after the pack train; the rest of us reset pur saddles, took an extra loup on the cinchas, looked to the breech blocks of our carbines and the chambers of the revolvers (officers and men went armed, dressed and equipped alike in Arizona. "We had no more use for swords than we had for shoulder knobs.) Then "mount" was the word and, moving slowly and cantiously at first, we rode to the crest, formed line, and then there was no help for it since the country was an open, undulating surface, destitute of shelter for over two miles,struck into a rapid tropj next, as we reached the level below, without a word of command, bugle call or any of the stirring accompani ments of other warfare, the riders simply conforming to the gait of their leader, away we went at a gallop. FIGHTING HOSXHES. Ours were the short coupled, stocky Cali fornia horses, not very fast, but very useful for mountain climbing; it seemed to me an unconsionable time before we were half across the plain and then the men began to open out a little so as to surround the cattle as we neared them and at the same time te less "bunched" in case the Apaches were lurking in ambuscade m the rocks beyond. Eagerly as I looked, not a hostile Indian could I sec, nor, indeed, did I expect to see until we hustled them out of their holes. Alarmed by the thunder of advancing hoofs and tbe irrepressible cheering of some of the men, the cattle were beginning to trot wildly about with tails and heads alike in air, but all sight of their captors was de nied us. As we rode around the herd, some north, some south of and some in their eagerness, through them we closed in a trifle confidently expecting to be greeted by shots from the rocky entrance to the pass. Even at the gallop quick eyes could detect the print of Tonton moccasins in the solt earth of the roadway, but not a shot nor a sound was there. Warned bv the signal fires they had kept sharp lookout to the crest and so soon as our coming was detected, they had scattered for the nearest height, shrewdly arguing that so long as we had got the cattle we could afford te let the captors go. But that wasn't General Crook's idea of dealing with these renegades at all. As soon as it was dnsk, leaving four men and the used up Indian to drive the herd back by slow and easy stages to the valley we pushed ahead that night through larris' Pass, forcing our few Apache-Yumas to keep alongside, and at 1 o'clock in the morning we found ourselves in the heart of the "Sunset Pass," only 18 miles from the Colorado Chiquito. Here in the wild haunts of the mountains was the likeliest place for the renegades to rest, believing themselves safe from further pursuit, and here we hid in a deep canyon until dawn; and here again our scouts protested, "No Tonto! No Tonto! No Injun," until we showed them the prints of the moccasins under their verynoses and here on Sunday the 1st of November climbing the high mountain to the south we caught the scamps and carried out our orders. Our Httle squad of allies turned tail and ran at the very first fire and, sure enough, their views were just ifieJ;the hostiles were many and the tight was lively for a while. I wrote no letters lor many a week thereafter, nor fired an other shot from the right shoulder from that day fo this, but, there was no more cattle thieving in the upper Verde. Charles Kino, TJ. S. A. Ilow They Catch Lunntlci. Boston Gazette. Son Papa, how do they catch lunatics? Cynical Father "With large straw hats and feathers and white dresses, jewelry and neat gloves, my boy. Mamma (musingly) Yes, I remember that's how I dressed before we were married. " THE ' IN MCEBST IRELAND. Edgar L. Wakeman Unearths a Num ber of Very Interesting ANTIQUITIES OP ARRAN ISLES. A Fortress Built 1,500 Tears Before the Christian Era. RELIGIOUS BEHAINS OP THE GROUP f MUUXTJUT FOB TOT DIRFATCn. J Arran Islands, Ireland, March 4, '89. rHE Arran Islands on the west coast of Ire land possess deep in terest to the traveler, chiefly for three rea sons. They are very wild and picturesque in physical formation, in scenery, and as the resort of millions of sea-fowl, as with the ,Z ,Skelligs off the south west coast Their archaeological remains are the most fascinating and impressive to the student of remotest history to be found in western Europe. And they are inhabited by a race of people whose stubborn clinging to the bleak spot, whose patience in human misery, whose vocations and character and whose garb and home life, are beyond or dinary explanation, conjecture, or descrip tion. From the moment Conn, the boatman, set me ashore at Killaney from his oldcurragh, it has seemed to me that any one in search of desolation to depict in mau or nature, could find it wholly typified here. "The habitable islands of Arran are three in number, setting across the entrance of the great Bay of Galway which should be the European entrepot for swift-going American steamers to the northwest,from the mighty headlands of Clare; and they show the same limestone formation. Next to Clare is South Sound, four miles in width. Then comes Inisheer, the smallest of the group, but 1,400 acres in area. Foul Sound, but half a mile wide, separates Inisheer from Inishmaan, the next larger and central island, with an area of possibly 2,500 acres. Gregory Sound, tne same width as Foul, in turn separates Inishmaan from Arranmore, Great Arrah, whose confines comprise nearly 8,000 acres. At some remote time, no doubt they were a part of a continuous ocean-barring range or band of heights, locking in a great inland lake now outlined by Galway Bay. WAE BETWEEN EA AND LAND. I have stood at their peaks, almost at the edge of precipices whose sides fell straight as a plummet -to tbe ocean, when it seemed tbat the whole Atlantic was rising to engulf them. As far as the eye could reach at sea the ocean was as a boiling cauldron; and to the right and leit to the island's ends a fierce and furious line of spray spumed and seethed between heights and ocean. The onslaughts of the sea, the thunderings within the caverns beneath, the weird whis tling of the blast, the gurgling and roaring of tremendous volumes of water tossed into cleits and moving back upon on-coming waves, the concussion bttween falling tor rents and up-hurled stas, and above all the wild shrieking of millions ot gannets, sea eagles and puffins, plunging deliriously ' about their threatened homes, fill one with an awful fascination and dread. Perhaps at no spot upon the earth's sur face, save possibly where the Atlantic cur rents meet and battle with the Arctic cur rents" along the extreme northwest Irish coast, is there such illimitable fury between sea and land. At the height of one of these furious struggles, a puffin dropped dead where I stood. In its crazy flight among the myriad fowl above, it had possibly been lucklessly struck by another crazed bird; for I could find no wound upon it. It was quite warm; and in the thought that came of these unrecorded tragedies of things in nature, I telt an interest in the puffin which I found warranted by its relation to these islands and the islanders themselves. The puffin is the Fratercula arctica of natural history, and belongs to the auk? or Alca, family of web-footed oceanic birds. It displays more activity on the wing and in the water than others of the same family. The bill is enormously developed, is larger tha the remainder of the head, and has the appearance of a great helmet, corrugated in angles from the front and back rim, to side seams, into which the puffin has somehow got its real bill and head wedged, and from which it cannot become disengaged. This grotesque seeming is made more apparent by the form and situation of the puffin's legs, which compel it when on land to sit ridiculously upright. But it moves under water with marvelous rapidity. The sea lowl is also known upon the west coast as the sea parrot; but, from its sedate appear ance and wise, fussy ways, the Arran islanders call it "ccJliaheen" old woman; and it is known by no other name among these people. FIRST INHABITANTS. The most ancient manuscripts of Ireland are authority for the revelation, that the first conquering, or possessing, occupants of Erinn, were Parthalon, Lady Cesair, and Nenideh; all of these far in advance of the semi-mythical Firbolgs and Tuatha De Dannan. Both of the latter races were de scended from two Nemedian chiefs who sur vived the destruction of Couaing's tower on lorry Island, off the Irish northwest coast. One, lobath, passed into Northern Europe. The other, Simeon Breack, went to Thrace. Their descendants 237 years thereafter, in the year of the world 2266, retuned simul taneously, by different routes and unknown to each other, and took possession of Ire land. The Tuatha De Dannan occupied Northern Irelandjthe Firbolgs, the central and southern portion. Their discovery of each other led to an attempt at satisfactory division of the island. This failing, a great battle was fought between the rival races at Hf...!. ntiM.ailli rw ArY.t.ttu, tl.a .!..!. l AU.UU J.1414SW", w . tutu, mc piaiu VI Nia, near the old town of Cong in county Mavo. The Firbolgs were defeated with great slaughter, their King, Eophaidh, killed alter pursuit into the present county of SIigo,-at a place near the village of Ballysa dare; but a remnant of the Firblog forces, under their warrior chief, Sreng, whose un exampled bravery secured the magnanimity of the enemy, were given the present province of Connaught, which to as late a date as 1650, was recognized under no other title than Cuigead Sreing, or Sreng's Province. All this, having been well es tablished by archaeological and antiquarian research and comparison as the affairs of ancient Greece, is interesting and valuable in making clear the otherwise mystery of the extraordinary remains, both of a pagan and Christian character, to be found upon the Arran Islands. The remnant of these Firbolgs made their last stand and built mighty duns or fort resses on these then remote and almost in accessible islands. Their very magnificence and strength seem to"fnrnish the prompting to the subsequent erection here ot churches and cloisters by Christian recluses; as was also illustrated in the tremendous monu ments to the zeal of this class at Iona, "that illustrious island, which was once the lu minary of the Caledonian, religions" so astounding to the phlegmatic and cynical Dr. Johnson. Of the Arran pagan remains, Dubh Cathair, or Black Fort, Dun Aengus or -the Fort of Aengus, Dun' Conchofar, Dun Onaght, and Dun Oghil, on Arran more, and a great Firbolgian dun on Ini sheer, the eastern island, are remarkable examples. AN ANCIENT FORT. It is well established that Black Fort was built 1,600 yean preceding the Christian era, and the dun upon Inisheer not more than 600 years later. The, former rises from one ol the southwestern cliffs of Arranmore. A Cyclopedan wall stretches across a noble C " i- -v 5 PITTSBURG - - DISPATCH, promontory quite similar in form to that on which stands the ruins ot the lainous jjuu luce, Castle, near the Giant's Causeway. The natural formation of the rock upon this cliff gives a natural defense in its elevated sides. "Within this great inclqsure over hanging the sea are the remains, in some in stances well preserved, of many claughawns, or beehive structures, in the well authenti cated form of the remotest pagan Irish places of retreat in times of danger. The ablest archaeologists of Ireland pronounced these as old as the fort itself. A little distance from this, at Mainister, will be found Dun Oghil. The height and thickness of the ramparts of this relic of pagan times are, simply in conceivable to one who has not stood within them. In this respect Dun Oghil is far more impressive than Black Fort, although its site is less picturesque and its antiquity is not so great Dun Onaght is remarkable for its similarity to the great Grianan of Aileach, near Londonderry, in the north of Ireland, recently restored "by Dr. Bernard, the antiquarian of that city. Its form is circular; it is 92 feet in diameter; three consecutive ramparts inclose it, and series of steps lead along the inner wall to the top of tbe grim structure, as in the Grianan., But of the Arran Island pagan remains, Dun Aengus is the greatest and most stu pendous. Dr. Petrie, the profoundest arch aeologist Ireland ever produced, pronounced it "the most magnificent barbaric monu ment now extant in Europe." It owes its origin to Scottish adventurers. Three brothers, Aengus, Conchovar and Mil, came to Arranmore from Caledonia in the first century. They were men and warriors of great note, and the monuments to their power and.prowess were three great cash els, raths, duns or forts Dun Aengus, Dun Conchovar or Connor and another, now ob literated, at Port Murvey, formerly cilled Murveagh Mily or the seaside stronghold of Mil. r.ELIGIOTJS BELICS. To many the ecclesiastical remains of the Arran Islands possesses still greater inter est Their origin here is due to Aine, Aen deus, or Enda, son of Natfraich, King of Munster, in the latter part of the fifth cen tury. He was a "spear-hurling, ax-wielding" chieftain; a pagan or pagans. Con verted to Christianity by his sister, Fan chea, who is said to have taken the veil from St. Patrick himself at Eossory, near Enniskillen, and further crushed and hum bled by the death of a noble maiden under his sister's care to whom he was betrothed, his life thereafter became that of a religious recluse at Arran. Here he built a church which ever after bore his name, a portion of the original structure being still in exist ence. The sixth, seventh and eighth centuries witnessed in -Ireland unparalleled zeal for the monkish profession; and in this period a wonderful number of oratories, monasteries and sacred edifices were built The fame of the then pagan rums of Arran, and of St. Edna's establishment, drew other religious zealots to this, desolate spot, until at one time the little island of Arranmore, which, is still called by the peasantry of the west of Ireland, "Arran of the Saints, or Blessed," was dotted with no less than 12 monasteries and 13 churches. Of the churches the oldest to be found in a good state of preservation on Arran is that ot St Benan. It is but 15 feet long and 11 feet wide, but it was built over 1,200 years ago. Edgab L. "Wakeiian. A CUESE TO THE lOtJTH. Tbe Damaging Effect of tlio Cigarette Upon the Rising Generation. Mew York Sun.i The cigarette habit appears to be grow ing among the boys of this city, and there are physicians who tell of its evil effects upon the constitution and health of those who indulge 'in it It promotes nervous affections, interferes with the digestion, in duces insomnia, leads to muscular debilitv, causes diseases of the mouth and eyes, and blunts the mental powers. It befouls -the air, leaves its taint "upon garments, and is apt to create a liking for liquor. It is in jurious in every way and advantageous in no respect. Several State Legislatures, including those of New Jersey and Michigan, have bills under consideration for the prohibi tion of the sale of cigarettes to minors, and a large amount of testimony favorable to such action has been presented to them. In Michigan the testimony of 300 teachers of boys has been taken on the subject, and many of the facts given are of a kind that might well alarm parents! In this city, es pecially at night on the east side", one may often see groups of sallow-faced urchins in dulging in the baneful habit. 0XI0X BILLIARDS.' Tbe Iititcst New York Game, Jnst Imported From Bermuda. New York Graphic The latest new game about town is onion billiards, so called because it came up from Bermuda. It is played with two balls, and the game consists in hitting the object ball after sending the other to the cushion three or four times. The skill consists in select' ing angles when shooting,and in leaving the object ball in the center of the table for your opponent, it being more difficult to hit there. John Adams, of Denver and Charles Bonner, of Butte City, cave an exhibition of the new game in the Fifth Avenue bil liard rooms last night. Mr. Adams is just back from Bermuda, and -won the game by seven points. A Distressing Mistake. ""What's de matter wid me 'r jumpin' in dis hamper and taking a free ride ter dc QuakerCity ?" "Be th' powers!, I must be rattled this mornin'; put the tag on the trunk that be longs on the hamper, and forgot to lock the hamper. Well, it's all right now. " THE ARRIVAL AT BED DOG. The Traveler (in a hoarse whisper) Ex cuse me, gents, but will yer please ring fer a nambulance ter carry me to 'r bakery? Life. ( Tk&'--w ! SUNDAY, . M ATICEU ,17,, SOUTHERN SCHOOLS. Bessie Bramble1 Writes About the Pnblic School System. DOES EDUCATION CAUSE CRIME? Colleges and Institutes for Southern Col ored People. THE ELECTION LAW AS AN INOENTITE rCOUBXSPOOTESCE Or THE DISPATCH.1 I K E N, S. O., March 10. While the North is all broken up on the school question, as ,between the pa rochial and the public schools, the South is equally in a muddle on the subject of educa tion. On the one "hand, it is con tended that the stability and prosperity or the Bepublic depends upon the maintenance ofthenublic schools, in which children shall be grounded in the principles and duties of good citizenship without sectarian bias. On the other, it is maintained that such schools are immoral, godless and de structive of the highest and best interests of humanity, the church and the State. On one side it is claimed that the State must educate its children, without regard to religion, to be moral and upright citi zens; on the other, it is asserted that with out religions instruction in the schools that they fall short of their highest calling and noblest end. Joseph Cook affirms that if Americans are loyal to their grand com mon school system they are unmistakably at war with the papacy. But while this is perhaps the great matter in controversy at I tne .worth, the question south, is largely as to whether common schools shall be estab lished for the benefit of all its citizens or whether education shall be left to parents and individual option or not Many thoughtful men in the South claim and back their views up with statistics and the opinions of philosophers that a free State should neither 'administer religion, educa tion nor charity. SOME OBJECTIONS. , Others base their objections to the educa tion of the massis by the State on the ground that it promotes rascality aud does not in crease morality. This is the view of Cardinal Manning, who has no hesitation in saying that much of the growth of crime in the United States is due to the secular teaching of the public schools, and who strongly maintains that the system of com mon schools tends inevitably to the extinc tion of religion. It is somewhat staggering to the enthusiastic advocate of free educa tion for the masses to have the fact thrust into his face that the Government reports in England show that the number of criminals has been steadily increasing since the insti tution of free schools; that the districts of England where the status ol the population is very low as to education, they constitute nevertheless the least criminal sections of the country, and that as regards the women of the mining regions of the North, who work in coal pits and iron works, and whose ignorance is absolutely appalling, yet among none of the population of Great Britain is there shown less of wickedness and crime. And to come to our own coun try, says this disciple of Herbert Spencer, it can be shown that there is less crime in the southern part of the United States, where illiteracy so largely prevails, than in the North, where education has produced such wide-awake discontent and dissatisfac tion among the laboring classes, and the re sult of which is the inflaming of class hatred that will end in revolution, and may hap anarchy. But the sympathies and affection of the American people in the North are too closely connected with the common schools to have much attention paid to the hard philosophy or to the specious talk of those whose preju dices fall into consonance with it Free education for the masses is what the South needs, says the North, and to this end money is poured out like water by Northern re formers and philanthropists. More money has been given by the North for the collegi ate edncation for negroes in Alabama alone than any six States of the South together have given to the edncation of white boys. OPPORTUNITIES FOB EDUCATION. The Northern Methodist Church alone, it is said, is spending more money in "the South for the higher education of the col ored race than is given by all the Southern States combined to their own colleges. The Baptist and Presbyterian Churches are in no way behind with their benefactions, so that as far as education goes the negroes of the Sonth have not only more than half a chance, but ha've the best of it all around as far as education is concerned. In this State of South Carolina the law provides for three months free schooling in the year. This is not so bad, considering the poverty of the people engendered by the war. The term is supplemented by the teachers carrying on the schools for pay,as is done in Pennsylvania in the country districts where the term is short. But the best schools are those established and supported from large contributions of money from the North by societies, churches and individ uals. In this little town of Aiken two such schools are carried on successfully. One of these is nnder control of the Pre's bvterian church in the North, and the other, more famous, was established son after the wir by Miss Martha Schoficld, under the anspices of the Germantown branch of the Freedman's Commission. Since the Freedman's Aid Bnreau was abolished this school has been largely sup ported by voluntary contributions from its friends, and by some aid from the State. Pennsylvania has given during the past year 1,902 toward its support tbe larger part being from the Philadelphia Associa tion of Friends. New York comes next with $1,228, other States North and "West are set down for smaller sums, while dona tions of books, clothing, barrels and boxes of everything useful seem to be endless in quantity and variety. This institution is known as the Schofield Normal and Industrial School and is largely visited by the winter guests of the town. Miss Schofield, the principal, is an ener getic business woman, who superintends and manages .the school in a most imposing manner. She came here, as we are, told, about 21 years ago, and by NORTHEEN THRIFT and good management has built up a suc cessful school and her owp fortunes as well. By a singular want of tact, and by manners that are aggressive and dictatorial, she stirred up the prejudices of the white people in such wise, and rubbed them so decidedly the wrong way, that she is completely os tracised by society in the town and has found opposition and resistance even among the colored folks themselves, many ot whom hesitate not to say that they greatlv prefer the Presbyter ian school. 'Still the Schofield school has heldyts own these many years, and has done much good work in the way of enlight enmentamong the colored race." It is quite pretentious in.its showing forth as compris ing a normal aud industrial school. In the last, it has reached the long-debated point in Pittsburg, as combining manual labor with the- training of the mind. Sewing, gardening, carpenter work and print ing constitute the prominent feat ures in this line. A large frame building nearby is dignified- in college lashion by the name of Carter Hall. Here the Northern teachers and the girls are domiciled, and here the kitchen and the dining-room for all the students from a dis tancenre, presided over by Mauma Gloveiy a typical Southern cook, to whom as a re cent writer delicately says of Mrs. Harrison nature has been liberal in the way of flesh, and genial good humor. Her hoe- ,1889.. cakes and bread are said to besuperlatlvely good by-vliiung magnates front .New xorK and Philadelphia. On the occasion of our visit we went a lit tle beyond the usnal .order or things by ex pressing a desire to visit the school-rooms and inspect the work of Ihe pupils. "Where upon Miss Schofield slipped out of the room and we could not restrain the inference that she was notifying the teachers to get ready for inspection and have things put Into apple-pie order and visiting trim. OLD-FASHIONED MELODIES. The show time for visitors is during chapel exercises, when the entire school is assembled for a Bible reading and prayer and singing. This last is the most attractive feature for visitors, who listen to "Swing Low," "Steal Away," "The Gospel Train," "One More Eiver to Cross," "Mary and Martha," and other religious songs sung with the melody and abandon only to be found among the colored folks. It is in the chapel that Miss Schofield shines as the patron saint; the devoted missionary, tbe majestic principal. "Under her eagle eye and firm month the silence and setness of those' 350 children were so intense as to almost chill the blood of those upon the platform. The smallest child was as dead quiet as a tombstone, and the older ones were as grave and solemnas it love and laughter had never been in vented. To one who has been behind the scenes, this -spectacle was not so imposipg as those who "in the'North" live in palaces and know nothing of the schools of the com mon people. It was quite rich to hear their wonder and surprise over the attainments and per formnnces.of the pupils that were far, far behind those of the common schools of the North. They were so gushing and full of praise thatit seemed plain tbat only a black skin had power to reach their sympathies and find the key to their emotions. Kind ness, charity and benevolence are always to be admired and appreciated, but wben it comes to simply "coddling" 'the colored folks, only because they are black, while the little white pagans in the slums are wholly ignored, it is too much like the mis sionary work of sending flannel shirts to the Hottentots, while the denizens of the back alleys at home are left to freeze. It is really astonishing what affection and con cern are manifested by good people for the heathen and the Indian and the African, who are far away, while the poor in their midst are ignored as uninteresting' and in tolerably disagreeable. TOUNG LOVE'S DBEAM. But to get back to the Schofield school, where the sweet singing and beautiful be havior of tbe bright young darkies took hold of the sentimental side of the visitors, and it is to be hoped reached for their cash as well. Four or five of tlje teachers in the schools are colored, while two are white. The head instructor is Miss Criley, of East ern Pennsylvania, who struck us as a very able teacher. In tbe highest, or normal department, there were 11 bright young girls and young men preparing to become' teachers. The oldest pupil in the school is 60 years of age. Several grown young men were in one of the lower departments, an.d were struggling in their arithmetic lesson with the deep mystery of cancellation. Some mafried men attend the school whose wives go out to work and cook in the meantime. Miss Schofield was heard to say that young love's dream was the wort thing she had to con tend with in the way of government The young folks thought little of playing 'hoo" in the woods near by to dally with the divine passion, even though tbe charms of spelling, the allurements of arithmetic, aud the delights of the higher branches beckoned them within the classic walls. Great masses of clothing, books, papers, and of every conceivable thing, even to old nails and rag-bags, are sent by friends in the North to the school. The available clothing and supplies thus donated are sold to the colored people of the town. The fees for tuition are from 20 to SO cents a month for each pupil. The religious services are unsectarian. THE BIG HEAD. Objections are made by some that the school produces the disease so well known among statesmen as the "big head?" and makes the young colored men disinclined to do anything but sit on the fence and wish they had an office while in the girls it cre ates a soul above housework and buttons. Others contend that the school does evil by fostering hostility between the races, who have to live together. "Whether these criti cisms have any basis of fact, we, an out sider, do not pretend to say, but to us it seems clear that much more is being done for the colored race in the way of education than for the whites. The former have the better schools, the greater advantages as to colleges, and will ere long become a power that can neither, be ignored nor despised In the line of politics. Moreover the doctrine of equal rights for men and , women alike is being strongly inculcated by Miss Schofield and the other teachers and this in a State where nobody's rights are respected under the law, save those of the white man in a State where women are subjected to, and dominated by the worst features of the old common law. It is rather unfortunate for the cause that Miss Scho field boars a strong resemblance to the strong-minded woman,Jas pictured by the fiends of the opposition. She is not bright and affable and smart and tactful and ge nial as Snsan B. Anthony, who has the happy faculty of getting on the warm side otwise men, still less has she the sweet, at tractive manners of Lucy Stone, or the warm"" motherly, delightful ways of Mrs. Livermore or Mrs. Stanton. She has rather the aggressive, independent, push ing style of the spinster who "is sot in her way," and bound to have it if the world should turn upside down. One of the positive characters who, when not endowed with consummate tact, give point to prejudice and ground to opposition. But with the benign countenances ot the sweet Quaker, Lucretia Mott, and John G. "Whit tier, and Abraham. Lincoln, and "William Lloyd Garrison and others upon the walls, and the story o their lives related for ex ample and precept, the cause of equal rights can hardly fail to grow and prosper. And talking ot education it may be said that the election laws of this State, which have been devised to defraud the illiterate negroes of their votes, are proving to be the strongest incentive to their acquirement of the ability" to read and write, thus proving that Except wind stands as never it stood, it is an ill wind turns none to good. Bessie Bramble. A Slight Error. Sleeping-car Conductor That's too big a bundle to take in here you ought to "send it by express. Passenger My friend, It'll be a cold day in de museum biz when de Ossified Man can't travel in de same car wid his man ager I See? Puck, TBE FIRESIDE SPHIEX A CoMoii of EiiaMMs for Home CracMi. Address communications for this department to E. R. CltAiB0UBN,trf3fon, Maine. -516 A PARADOX. In a quiet nook and shady. Once I watched a little lady Work away with lingers nimble. Plying needle, thread and thimble. Long with interest undiminished Gazed I On ber; wben she finished I took up ber dainty task (It Neatly rested in her basket; And a portion amputated, "When, though strange to be related, This last process made it larger. Then she smiled and said, "How arch you're?" But I knew what the wag meant "When she told me throw the fragment Not upon her needle cushion. For she dreaded its pollution. And were 1 to be so needless It would leave her needles needless. Wm. Wilson. 617 transposition. The tun first high in heaven, and two The grass Iroin walk preventing dew; Then let us roam tbe vales together. This bright and beautiful spring weather. Enjoy the present and be gay, "Whene'er there comes a perfect day. For storms will come, and clotidswiil lower, And frosts will blight eaeh perfect flower. Bitter Sweet. 518 a biographical narrative. The names are given In Webster's Un abridged Dictionary. A small boy visiting his grandpa at the Thanksgiving season, went to the barn soon after bis arrival to find what ho could with which to amuse himself. He turned tbe Amer ican poet who died in ISiS in the American to urist, to prevent interruption, and then pro ceeded; to ransack. In one corner were two American general(s) of the present century, with handles of an English physician who died m 1819. The English admiral of the nth century was lying with the American inventor on the .floor of the barn. A(n) French novelist of the present day was on the carpenter's bench with a bit of a German theologian who died in 16Se, and a piece ol paper covered with a German student and political fanatic, who came to his death in 1820. Our boy found a French philosopher of recent time andi(n) American sculptor, and began to ulay with th'ero. but, spying a long English cardinal, who died in 1558, he thought he would rather jump with ic He next tried to light a Are with an American physician and medical writer and an English essayist who died in 1720, but fortunately could get no American historian who died 1866. So he turned his at tention to a In mp of an American statesman who died about the middle of the present cen tury, which was jnst inside the door on aflat adiocate of woman's rights, and essayed to make a Governor General of Canada, who died in 1868. But he made such a mess of this tbat he was about to make a Dean of St. Fat ticKs retreat, wben bis grandfather appeared at the English Arctic navigator di'd 1878 of the bam, and made bis strong Swedish Lieutenant General who died in 1S1L while he wielded the English Egyptologist of the present day. Howttt T. 519 ENIGMA. We journeyed while we slumbered, And came one morn at length Where mighty hills, nnnnnibered, Uprose In peaceful strength. It was a glorious waking. As we through grandeur sped, Our lifted souls partaking. With awe, the pageant spread. But pausing in a canon, Our steaming steed gavo time, To hear the hill's companion Sing forth a silvery chime. The song it was so cheery. The singer was so meek. That travelers aweary Aroused to hear it speak. "What though I journey single," 'Twas thus It seemed to say "I greet each rocky dingle In lightsome, merry way." "Each mountain is a brother, I love to feel their might. And kindly they bend over And hail me irom their height" Thus sang this winsome rover To us at break of day Of mighty hills above her. Now, name this mo antain fay. S. 520 ANAGRAM OF CANADA. A scribe who drove a martial pen Thonghtit a due of partial men, Each like an imp alert. To play a menial part. While each leader fain For bis ample tram Would the palm retain. If houses disunited tall, I wonder this one stands at all. W3I. Wilson. 521 A CURIOUS TTNION. Nothincjoinedtoa treasury of knowledge forms an .article which a drummer must use; is a sonrce of profit to publishers; indispensable to bankers; contains officers of courts and legis lative assemblies, and brings to mind forests In summer. Carl Obey. 522 CHARADE. u ThaflrsCs a creature fleet of limb. The monarch of his tribe; Infantile Skin and. Scalp Diseases. Boy one year and ahalf old. Face and body in a terrible condition, being covered with sores. Sulphur Springs fail. Cured by Cuticura Remedies. 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What Is short when It is lorgT z. What gives weakness when Ttia strong! 3. What painful loss can make U3 glad? ' .' 4. What risks more heights than any ladt 5. What Is It that is always tired When there is strength for work reanlredT 6. What thing to live must lose its head? - 7. And what Irom too much breath lies dead? 8. What while running always HesT 9. What Is a disregarded vice? 10. What book still lives when robbed of leavest 11. And can you name the unseen thieves? Clamor. A GBANp PRIZE HUNT. All Dispatch Headers Should Join the Party. In tbe letter below are hidden a number of well-known mammals, for which all are In vited to seek. To tbe most successful hunter that is, to the person giving tbe largest list ot the concealed or expressed names a large and beautiful quarto volume of illustrations and descriptions of prominent features of America will be presented. Tbe names mast be formed by taking consecutive letters as indicated by the italics in this sentencef "Do go and fetch me the catalogue, friend Scoteler." They must be given In the order in which they are hidden in P. U. Mason's letter, and mast be sent In within ten days after the date of this Issue ot The Dispatch. In case of a tie. preferenca will be given for the list containing fewest un allowable names, Webster's Unabridged Dic tionary being the authority to decide whether the words given are the names of mammals or not Send on thellsts.1 Yakima. Wash. T., January 10. 18S9. Friend Grnu: Having often received aa invitation to go on a bear hunt, a3 Scott, Jack, Mart and Dolph are all here I announced my intention of going this morning. The first day's bunt being numbered with tbe things of tbe past I will tell yon about it. Of course all were eager to join the party.. We boarded tbe cars at Snetman and ran down to Starbuck. where we got horses for the chase. We landed all safe, and as they stopped the car I bounced out, followed by the others, all amazed at tha wild scenery. Dolpb, in his harry (now bale and eager for tbe hunt near at hand), catching the excitement, ran over Jack, almost crippling him. Now. friend Gibb, only picture to yourself fifteen greenhorns (there were no old hunters with us) debating what to du and how to do it, and you may imagine that the hurry and clangor 111 allayed tbe excitement. Mart engaged rooms for a week, assuring us plenty of sport. Jack came limping along, leading a wild mus tang which he mounted, urging us to go at once, and, giving bis steed a tap, irritated him so that he ran into a thicket: bnt getting con trol of him as soon as he was able, he emerged from the maze, bravely determined to ride him. We rambled about all day, and still I only got near enough to fee Scott shoot once, the only shot made by the party. We had succeeded In driving one close to where some of our party were stationed, bat Scott erred in shooting too hastily and only wounded the grizzly, which staggered, but escaped in the jangle, and wo did not see it again. Satisfied that thick brush is not conducive to success, and having no dogs to trail, we returned, bat hope bad luck will not attend ns all the week. Jack never ate less in bis life than be did at sapper, and says we molested his appetite more than tbe game. Tours truly, P. U. Mason. answers. 607 L Switch. 2. Tow (toe). 3. Caps. 4. Soul (sole). 5. Bole (bowl). 6. Heal (heel). 7. Ayes and noes (eyes and nose). 8. Seam. 9. Browse (brows). 10. Wheel. U. Hare (hair). 12. Hob. 508 One is a cat in a rage; the other a rat in a cage. 00 Tbe min'strv of love. X 510 Tombigbee, Defiance. Shawl, The WasHJ Worms, Man. 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