,?. - f " ., f ii "- - - ,nm .i . tf fi ' -J -'yV o- i ii T SECOND PART. I ' PAGES 9T0I6. .'? VM- .SSS) fe : S 1 i-- & 3" E A Visit to That Mecca of Loving Hearts in, the Court House Known as the MARRIAGE LICENSE OFFICE. WHER C S fjL Some Scenes and Incidents of Daily W Occurrence. , HOW'TO GET A PERMIT FOR MATRIMOKI. Allecbenv Conntv's matrimonial Record The Patient Marriage Llccnie Clerk A Bridegroom's Search Tbe Usnnl Qacii lions Some Peculiar Replies Didn't Know Bis Bride's Name Her Father Was Not nt Home A Qnestlon of Su premacy His Bluff Did Xoc Go A White Woman's Benson for Slarrylng a China man How They Act When Taking- Ont a License. mamm roE im dispatch.: HEN Cnpid wander- ' ed through the groves of Venus, clad in lit tle.but a pair of wings and a saucy air, and entered into partner ship with Hymen, thus organizing the most popular firm on record, love and mar riare were not snb 'tt!!L'!l) jected to as many so. ciai sua legal restrict ions as at present. The Olympian gods never realized the utility nor necessity of marriage licenses. Their successors, who meet bienniallv at Harrisburg. saw where Jupiter and his Satellites had made a mistake, and there fore enacted a law making it a misde meanor for loving hearts to be united in matrimony without first securing a permit from a County Blister. Since the marriage license law went into effect in October, 1885, nearly 19,000 licenses have been issued in Allegheny county, thus giving 38,000 persons the privilege of solv ing for themselves the chestnutty problem, "Is marriage a failure." The returns are not all in, but tbe records of the divorce courts of tbecountv show quite a number of affirmative answers, about 4 per cent of he number of the licenses issued. Marriage, The Dispenser of JIarriage Licenses. however, is not going out of fashion, plenty of men and maidens being willing to take chances on being among the presumably happy 95 per cent. If there is a patient man in this world it is Captain John Hieber, wbo is tbe official dispenser of marriage licenses for this county. All day lone he is besieged by persons who insist upon being married, whether they can read their title's clear or not. Day after day tbe Captain explains the provisions of tbe law to the obstinate, the ignorant, the hot-tempered and the tear ful applicants. HUNTING FOB A LICENSE. The marriage license office is located in tbe southeast corner of the Court House, in a gallery overlooking the Register's Office. It is not a difficult place to find, yet tbe man who desires to play a leading role in a "a double life," almost invariably wanders into every other office in the building first. He naturally feels shy, unless he is a widower, when he makes the first mistake, but by the time he has struck the fourth or fifth office without finding the right place, he is so overcome with confusion that he is ready to apologize for his very existence. That is, unless he is a red-headed man, and he is generally mad enough to fight. When the young couple go together alter a license it is worse yet. More than one marriage which would have been annulled later for incompatibility of temperament has been ar rested on the threshhold of the niarnrn Ii. cense office, by the parties quarreling over which one was responsible for their wander ings through the long corridors of the legal temple, and parting then and there because neither wonld assume the blame. Once in the marriage license office the ap plicants feel that their troubles are over, but they are sometimes mistaken. Thev feel as sured that a man of Captain Hieber's mild appearance will not refuse to crown their happiness. But the Captain won his title on many hard-feught fields of battle, and is as ready at the calf of duty to face the flashing batteries of bright eyes, albeit some of them are very pretty, as he was to charge upon the glittering bayonets ot the Confederates. He has a few questions to ask some of them mt0T TVMnfpH nnil 4l!titliaMnM.. rrl,... "being answered satisfactorily and the an swers sworn to, the license is forthcoming. The question of age is put first. It bride and groom both confess to being 21 years old, the worst jart is over. If one is under age, the parents or legal guardian must first consent to the marriage. A delicate question. "Have you ever been married before?" is an awkward query to put to a young and prepossessing lady, and is generally an swered in the negative with a decided toss ortheead. But it is part of the formula, and hai to be answered by both parties. It tbe answer is in the affirmative, then the questionls asked, "How was tbe marriage dissolved; by death or divorce?" Some pe culiar answers are given to this query. There are many Ben and women who be- L IR imxm I "A ' ,i I k ft Lff&LvuJ A l VS "V- vWm a I'Mi' MBsT Taking the Oath. lieve, and act upon the belief, that if their aforetime partners have deserted them and married again in defiance of the law. they, themselves) are freed from the chafing bonds. There are also many who think, that the willful absence of the sharer of their bed and board is equivalent to a divorce. This is a mistake. Desertion for two years or more is sufficient grounds for a divorce, bnt a decree must be obtained before another marriage is consummated. The questions of age and previous marital -conditions are the two hard spots. The other queries relate to birthplace, and are of comparatively little importance. If the groom goes alone for the license he must be able to answer all the questions on behalf of his bride. Many young men do not know the date and place of tbe young lady's birth, and that generally results in a postpone ment of the wedding. It is on record that one applicant did not know his bride's sur name. "I always call her Mamie." he said. He knew more when he came back next day. It is not an uncommon thing for ap plicants to be unable to give the date ot fH fw' Wf- Win p M, Signing the Record. their birth, many of them merelv approxi mating their age, as "past 30." So long as tbeir appearance shows that they are more than 21 years old this ignorance does not impede their progress to matrimony. HEB FATIIEB "WAS ATAY, An amusing case occurred recently. A young couple came after a license. The lady was only 20 years old, and was told that she must have her father's consent. She hesitated and then said: "My lather can't get out" "Well," replied Captain Heiber, "take tbe blank consent to him. get him to fill it out, have a notarv public swear him to it, and then bring it back." "Oh, he's not at home." "Well, why no? wait till he comes back. How long will he be away?" "Oh, for nearly six months. We don't want to wait that long." "Why, where is he? Out of the country?" "N-o," and here she hesitated and blushed; "he's in the workhouse." "Well, that's easily fixed," replied Cap tain Heiber. "Take a blank consent to Claremont. One of the officials is a notary public, and he will swear your father to it. On another occasion a stern-visaged woman came to the office to give her consent to her daughter's marriage. The clerk asked the girl if her father was living, and she said he was. She was told that the old gentleman must give his consent, as he was the head of the familr. "Oh, that's all right," interposed tbe mother. "I run the house. Whatever I say my husband agrees to, and he'd better, too." It took some time to persuade the woman that she could not ruu the Commonwealth. and the next day the old gentleman was produced and meekly cave his consent, .but m a. manner which showed "he Telt flattered by the consideration paid him by tbe great keystone State. An evidence of superlative cheek was given by a yonngman from Troy Hill who wanted to marry the daughter of a neigh bor who objected to the match. A license was reinsed because the lady was under age, and the yonng man tried to bluff the stern parent into consenting. He asked the old man to accompany him to the Court House to help him transact some legal business. The old gentleman agreed, al though it was a stormy day, and the two finally reached the marriage'license office in a wet, bedraggled condition. The young man called the clerk aside and said: "Here's the father of the girl I want to marry. He'll give his consent." A HITCH IN THE PBOCEEDINGS. The clerk made out the proper papers, and calling the old man up, asked: "Do you consent to the marriage of your daugh ter with this young man?" . "What?" "Do you consent to the marriage of your daughter to this nnn?" "Who me? What do you mean?" Then it dawned upon the old man that he had been looled. The young man had a start of a few feet, and he kept it down the corridor and out of the building, wnen both were lost to view. It is not an uncommon thing for white women to marry colored men, and although the officials scan these cases closely they us ually obtain a license, as there is no law in this Stale against miscegenation. On one occasion a white woman and a Chinaman applied for a license. The woman was asked if she did not think she was making a mistake, but replied that she knew the bridegroom was industrious and would sup port his wife, while she had known many ldle.worfhless Caucasians. Her argument was invincible. Under the marriage license law self or common law marriages are permissible. The parties sign a paper very similar to the or dinary marriage license, their signatures are attested by two witnesses, a fee of 50 cents is paid, and the couple are legally married. This is not often done, as most people feel that marriage is a religious ordinance, which should receive the sanction of the Church. It is quite a pretty sight to see a young conple in the marriage license office. The pretty bride and all brides are beautiful teels, or acts as if she feels, a little timid. She is not accustomed to legal procedures, and is not quite sure but she may be ruth lessly torn away from her gallant lover. To prevent this she clings closely to his side. THE SBEAD OEDEAL. The clerk picks up a blank in a cold, pro saic manner, and tbe girl wonders if he realizes that "John and I are to be mar ried?" The clerk asks the usual questions. The lady is usually ready with her answers, although she protests with her eyes at the impertinenceJf the law, and often prompts the brrjiegroom when he forgets whether he was'born in the United States or in Asia Minor. Then they have to sign the record. The lady generally takes off her gloves, and thereby shows her engagement ring. After affixing her signature she looks at it critically, apparently wondering whether she will like her new name better, and if it will take ber long to learn to write it. Both hold up their right hands while they are sworn to their statements. John pays half a dollar, puts the precious paper "in his breast pocket, and the couple depart. Ten to one, before the office door closes you hear a suppressed giggle and an injunction to John not to lose tbe license. Occasionally John doesn't have 60 cents, and hat to borrow from the lady. More than oncethe happy groom has had to leave his bride in the office while he went out to skirmish lor the lee. A peculiar thing abont people who are about to get married is that most of them object to having their names published in the daily list The reasons they give are various. One man works in a mill, and he doesn't want his fellow-workmen to plague him. Another man had a grown-up daugh ter, and she might make things unpleasant. A widow did not want her first husband's family to know she was remarrying, and so the reasons multiply. JE "WAS UNCOMMON. One aristocrat from the Pacific Slope was I very frank. .He didn't want Ms name pub lished among the plebeian cognomens of "common people." By a peculiar freak of fate, his name appeared in the newspapers the next morning sandwiched between the names of two Hungarians, and as the latter could not read English, they did not ob ject Bribery is sometimes "attempted to prevent publication, but without effect, as the officials at once suspect something is wrong, and therefore endeavor to give wide publicity to the names on the license. In cases where there have been recent deaths in the family, or where there are other cogent reasons, the names are omitted from the list given out for publication. Making false statements to the Marriage License Clerk for the purpose of obtaining a license constitutes perjury, and is severely punished. Several cases have already oc curred, and have always been vigorously pushed bv Begister Conner and his prede cessor, Register Hoerr. There is always a great rush for licenses a day or two before Easter, the Fourth of Julv, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Yearss', but the latter has a little the best of it, many persons apparently feeling that it is good to enter upon a new life with the new year. The old adage that "lovers are supersti tions" is strikingly illustrated in the mar riage license office. Very rarely is a license taken out on that ill-omened day Friday. Jenks. ROMANCE iND HOTEL, The Difference Between the Two Classes oflmneinntlTe Works. New Orleans PIoLynne.3 There is a clear distinction between those works of the imagination known respect ively as the romance and the novel. The romance owes its name to the fact that it was composed by the trouveres or trouba dours in Romaic dialects. It was originally poetic in form and is still poetic in sub stance. The modern novel is a development of the novella or nouvelle of the Italian, Spanish and French literatures of the 'fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and may ne traced bacK to tbe labliaux of tbe old Provencal poets. The romance deals with great characters and extraordinary events. The novel proper is confined to a lower plane, and is strained in its action by con siderations of probability. These definitions are more general than precise; but they will serve, perhaps, to indicate plainly enough, though roughly, the differences we have in view. In point of fact, many works of fic tion partake in part of the nature of the romance and in part of that of the novel. There is no reason why a romance should not be, in a certain sense, realistic. We suppose that most readers would class "Robinson Crusoe" as a romance; but we know of no work in which the imagination is at once more free and more sober. It is not a story of common life; but 'its whole movement is suggested and defended by probability. Crusoe is never placed beyond our comprehension or our sympathy. He is always natural and always human. In the "Arabian Nights" we find genuinely human men and women, and we recognize the uni versal motives of humanity in their condnct; but the machinery employed is largely magical and supernatural. 17. L. SCOTT AFTER A PAbS. He Might Be Able to Do Depew a Good Tarn In Congress. Chicago Tribune. 3 " When the letters asking Chauncey M. Depew for railroad passes were published awhile ago one irom W. L. Scott, the Dem ocratic leader and friend of Grover Cleve land, was overlooked. This is the way Scott asked for s. pass: Erie, Pa September 1SS8. My Dear Mr. Depew: I don't often ask for favors In the way of passes, but if I could get an annual pass, good until January 1. over the New York Central Railroad and it would suit me better if I could get it from New York to Erie in favor of Harry Batterfield, it would be of great ad vantage to me in my figut here in this district; and, although you are a Republican and lam a Democrat, we do not differ much in regard to our views in connection with corporate prop erty, and I may be able to serve these interests should I poll through again. 1 am sure the pass would be used three times between now and January L Yours truly, W. L. Bcorr. Mr. Scott got the pass, but the records of the Honse will have to be examined to ascertain whether he voted "all right" when corpora tion interests were involved as he promised. A TEEDANT I0UTH. The Old Man Conldn't Eren be DeceWed by French Polish. Youth's Companion. "That young man is terr'ble green," said a farmer, who did not admire the airs of a neighbor's son, just retnrned home after a year's post-graduate study in France. "Why, pa, I don't see how' you can call him green!" Baid the farmer's daughter. "Such a splendidly educated young man, and he's been in Paris, too!" "HumphI" said her father. "I suppose you never heard of such a thing as Paris green!" Pretty Soon. Lawyer Switzer Call a messenger, Rich ard. Richard Yes, sir. Lightning Charley (ten seconds-Jater) Sorry to be late, boss, but some gravel got in th' tube, an' I rasped 'a little comm' 'round th' corners. Puci. Q . to PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, FOE ALL HALLOWEEN A Day of General Merriment, Feast ing, Dancing and Visiting in THE AKCIENT CITY OP MEXICO. Commencing the Fun With the First Ap pearance of Dawn. GAT KIGHT SCENES ON THE PLAZAS ICOnBZSPOJfDKltCI OV THE DISPATCH. J City op Mexico, October 24. Of all the many feasts and festivals celebrated by the Mexicans, there is none which they observe more universally, and hail with greater joy, than that of October 31, or All Hallow Even commonly contracted to Hollow Eve which falls this year on next Thursday. It is the commencement of a period of merri ment and festivity, which continues for three days, and is participated in by all classes of the people. So eagerly do they long for its approach, that, unable to wait until even ing, they commence their celebration at day break. Any stranger going abroad after sunrise would know at once that it was a holiday. Look up or look down the leading streets, which way you will, everything is stirring. All are arrayed in their best, while their faces are wreathed with smiles, of expectancy that speak more eloquently than words of the pleasures they are antici pating. No Persian everpaid more respectful obeisance or attention to that great planet, the sun, than do the Mexicans.' No sooner does he send a few scattered threads of light over the twin towers of tbe great cathedral, than countless groups of worthy citizens, who are making holiday because to-night will be Hallow Eve, assemble in the Alameda and the Plaza Mayor, the two great public pleasure grounds of the capital, to bask in his beams. The fact that HallowEve was in tended by the church as a vigil preceding All Hallowmas or All Saints' Day is en tirely lost sight of. How to crowd the great est amount of enjoyment into the hours of festivity is the uppermost thought in the minds of all. SOME TYPICAL GROUPS. Many of these groups are strikingly pic turesque and would be a fine study for an artist in figure painting. They include all classes of society. Here a knot of high- spirited blades are chatting over the last' robbery, xhey are arranging operations for the night, when they anticipate a rich har vest dnring the absence of the many house holders' who will celebrate Hallow Eve away from home, and they are discussing the possibility of winning to their purpose some frail sereno (night policeman), whose co-operation may be necessary, or whom it may be desirable to have opportunely seized by an unconquerable lethargy at a given tjme and place. Mexican criminals are among the shrewdest and most expert in the world, and, though the police of this city deserve great credit for the fidelity with which they perform their duties, robberies are of frequent occurrence, especially at night , But a short distance from these gentry are a bait dozen omcers ot the armv, dis cussing the merits of tbeir cigars and their horses, and laying plans for a merry Hallow Eve. Just beyond them a group of thin, sallow, disappointed looking men are are heaping anathemas upon the President and his ministers because they have failed to recognize their merits and to give them an opportunity- to .fatten at the public crib. But even these " finally agree 'that this is not the time to disenss their wrongs, and that only pleasure and enjoyment should occupy one's thoughts at Hallow Eventide. Groups of lechuginos (dudes) saunter down the flagways to the common center, where prosperous and substantial fathers of families assemble in gronps to hear and communicate news. The fair sex, ever kind hearted and prepossessing, grace and ani mate the scene with their presence. If you will strain your neck a little and take in at one view the Calles de Esperitu Santo and Plateros, you will see the graceful forms of MEXICO'S FAIBEST DAUOHTEBS, supported and watched in the rear by pru dent mothers, who well know the wily ambush prepared for their offspring by the crowds of young fops and ancient idlers wbo lie in wait for their passage. The blue roboros of the women and the red serapes and 'white duck trousers of the men, who are vending their wares in the adjoining flower market, fill in with bits of bright color such a picture as you can never hope to see else where. Both plazas are crowded with verduleras (hawkers), who are vending every imagin able species of holiday edibles and holiday wares, and filling the airwith hoarse cries. Sombreros, elaborately trimmed with silver lace and ornamented with their owner's monogram in silver letters, flash in the light side by side with the glossy and more mod ern silk hat. Brilliantly-colored handker chiefs on the1 heads of manolas (young women) contrast prettily with the blacc lace adorning the graceful polls of the muchachas (young ladies of the upper class). Seemingly one of the most philo sophical observer of this varied scene is an enormous hog, boxed up in a corner of the Plaza Mayor and flanked by a shed where he is put up to be raffled for at a medio (6 cents) per ticket. .bven the animal creation is well repre sented in this motley throng which has turned out to keen holiday time. The burros those invaluable little donkeys which play uch an important part in Mexi can life enticed by the sunshine and the hope of picking up some salad leaves near the fountain, have taken advantage of the temporary absence of their masters, the ar ricros (hucksters or carriers), who habitually leave them in the street untied, and have strolled down from various directions pack on back to nose their way through the crowd, which seems perfectly accustomed to this familiarity. A donkey is not looked upon as a nuisance in a Mexican throng. People step aside to let him pass, with as much politeness as they would show to a Christian. As the day advances everybody begins to think about dining. A good dinner is as important a feature of the celebration of Hallow1 Eve in Mexico as it is of Thanks giving Day in the States. Mexico, true to the Spanish customs introduced by Cortez, dines near tbe middle of the day, and when the great cathedral clock points to the hour ot 1 it is a warning to all who have a din ner waiting them at home to go and eat it, and to those who have none to set their wits to work to obtain one. Some plate-hunters try the effect of a lively anecdote as they accompany a pros perous householder homeward. Others in vent a piece of news calculated to flatter his vanity. But the door is reached and there is no invitation not even the freezing and always-to-be-refused, "Guste usted comer con "miejo? (Do yon wish to dine with me)." Then a happy thought strikes the Mexi can Jeremy Diddler: "Well, I declare, Senor Sanchez, your conversation is so entertainidg that here I have walked all the way home with you, and I have an engage ment to dine with some young fellows at the Cale del'Comercio! Oh, by the way, I have leit.my purse at home. Could you loan me a peso (dollar) or two till we meet?" Senor Sanchez's hand reluctantly draws out a bright silver dollar. "Tome usted (excuse my frankness)," says the sponge, as he drops it into his pocket and turns the corner. "Bah!" mutters Senor Sanchez to himself. "Better lose a.dollar than have that lellow sitting at table, with my wife aud daugh ters!" ' GOING TO A BUtL FIGHT. r The people have no sooner dined than the OCTOBER 27, 1889. street is filled with carriages, many of them as handsome and stylish in every respect as any to be seen in New York or London. The fashionable world is en route to the suburbs to attend the numerous bull fights there a pastime now prohibited within the limits of the Federal district in which the capital is located and to the theaters, every one of which gives a matinee in honor of the approaching Hallow Eve. But tbe principal feature1 of the'Hallow E'en celebration are to be observed in the evening. Then tbe Flaza Mayor and the Plaza de la Constitution are' brilliantly illuminated. This is in itself a wonderful treat to the inhabitants. Gas is a luxury here. Only a very few of tbe principal stores are lighted by it, oil and wax lights being much more generally used. The darkness of the streets is made visible by oil lanterns hung from wires stretched be tween the opposite buildings. The jtertulia. or circle of acquaintances, which is attached to almost every house in the capital, from the President's mansion to the humblest shop, is in its glory on Hollow Eve. "Everybody who comes on that occa sion is made welcome by the master and mistress of the house. The room is soon filled, and the, scene becomes animated. Marriages that have just taken place, those probable and those only talked of, supply a considerable part of the conversation, for here it is not considered at all indelicate for young ladies to talc of that which is every where their only hope of figuring in society, and which naturally occupies most of their attention. Dissimulation in this matter is better taught farther north. - AIT EVENING DANCE. r Two fiddles and a cornet now set a con siderable number of legs to whirling about in a waltz and bumping against the specta tors. There is one young saltero (bachelor) with fuliy 15,000 pesos (dollars) a year, who seems to take pleasure in getting in the way of the waltzers, and who is proof against the witching smiles of all the mar riageable girls who are trying to entice him to dance with them, some even keeping themselves disengaged in the hope that be may relent in their favor, and "Que buenas rentas tiene (what good rents he has)!" ex claimed the mammas. "The best match iu town!" "It is very odd he doesn't many. He was slightly entangled for a time with my Anita, but like an eel he slipped away in a twinkling. He is a sly fox." "All the men are becoming consummate egotists. They merely want to dance with our daughters to pass away the time. I am out of patience with them! A good marriage is now as rare as a thin alcalde (magis trate)!" Many more waltzes and dances follow the first, until at length the fiddles and cornet stop short, thereby rousing a sleepy specta tor who looks at his watch and says it is 1 o'clock in the morning. Alarmed for the fresh looks of their daughters, the worthy mammas hurry them off to home and bed, all declaring loudly that they have spent a most delightful Hallow Eve, and all look ing forward with eager anticipations to re suming their festive pleasures on the mor row, which will'be All Hallowmas or All Saints' Day. Fkank Peen. THE SING'S JTAK0E HOUSE. Where the United States Is Represented In Ancient York. Klchtrd 'Wbeatly In NoTember Earner's J Oue of the checkered, ivy-grown bits of old York as it was under the Tudors and Stuarts is the King's manor honse, which is in part the building where tbe wealthy ab bots of St. Mary's dispensed princely hos pitality. Little of the abbatiol palace re mains except the wide and heavy staircase. Here successive monarebs were received, and here Charles LT. held Parliament -Now, -after instructive' vicissitudes, it is a school lor the Dlind; and, as such, the county memorial ot the immortal philanthropist William Wilberforce. Sixty blind children iere receive education and instruction in useful handicrafts. Quadrangular of form, and of architecture in which the Jacobean predominates, it is warningly suggestive of coughs, colds, and. rheumatisms, which, strange to say, are not there in unusual number. Boyal and noble coats of arms, which task all the pedantry of heralds to explain, adorn the principal entrances and tome of the rooms. The United States are graciously repre sented here by raised and dissected maps, books in the Boston raised and in the New York point type, and writing guides, pre sented by the American Printing House for tbe Blind, at Louisville, Kentucky; wool work articles and books presented by Mr. Anagnos, Superintendent of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind; and bv a pathetic lace collar worked by the deaf, dumb and blind Laura Bridg1 man. All thne lent added interest to the jubilee of the institution in 1883. One of the many historic rooms now used as a dormitory for blind boys that display the taste and magnificence of the builders contains a curiously grotesque Tudor fire place still intact. This was Lord Hunting don's room, and "is probably tbe place in wmch titrauora neia nis uourt of star chamber." ONE WAt TO FIND OUT. Mr. Peters' Way or Ascertaining What Plnco He Was Ylsitlno-. Youth's Companion. Young Mr. Brown one day invited a friend in Boston to go with him to the conn-' try next day, to pay a visit to his native place. "We can go to-morrow and spend our va cation in my native place," said he. "My old aunt keeps the bouse my father left me, and if you're agreed I'll just telegraph the dear old lady to look out ior us. We'll have some fine fishing." Mr. Peters accepted tbe invitation, and Mr. Brown rushed away to telegraph to his aunt. When Peters went to his boarding house that night he told his landlady that be was going with Brown to his native place. "What place is it?" she asked. "Why, I don't know, I declare!" laughed Peters. "I never thought to ask." A messenger boy soon after brought a note from Mr. Brown. He wished Mr. Peters to meet him at the Eastern station next morning at 10 o'clock. Business would prevent his seeing Peters until they met at the station, ready for the journey. Mr. Peters went to the Eastern station a few minutes before the appointed hnr. Mr. Brown met him. "Come, hurry!" he cried. "Our train starts in three "minutes. This is tbe car. Get in, I have our tickets." Mr, Peters got into the car, and had a pleasant journey of two hours. That night he wrote this letter to his friend White in Boston: Dear Dick I arrived safely in Brown's native place about noon. It's a very pleasant place. There was no signboard on tbe station. Write me at once and tell me wbat tbe post mark is on this letter. Yours, J. Peteks. A 8UEPKI8ED I0UNG TBAPPEE. A Boy Vfho Captured an Animal Bigger Than Ho Conld Lift. Concord N. H.) Monitor. George Bourassa, "a 6-year-old hoy who lives in the house next to that of County Commissioner Thomas J. Courser, in Web ster, set a steel trap for mnskrats last night. This morning Mr. Courser was aroused by the boy, who was shouting with great ex citement: "I've got him, Tom! I've got him, Tom!" "Qot what?'' said Mr. Courser. "I don't know what it is, but I've got him." It turned ont that the boy had caught a coon, which yeighed 235. pounds, and had pounded it to death with an iron .hook. The boy. who is so small that he couldn't lift hjs prize, is justly proud of his success as a trapper. A STORY OF By (3-eoxg ElDeD7s3 Author of "UARDA," "SERAPIS," Etc.. (NOW FIRST PUBLISHED.) SYNOPSIS PRECEDING CHAPTER. Tbe story opens with the death of tbe first born of Egypt. The Egyptians, frenzle'd by the great calamity that has overtaken them.descend upon the Hebrew quarter with intent to slay allot that race in tbeir midst, to whom they attribute their troubles. One man isf ound and stoned to deatb, tbe other houses being de serted by tbeir occupants. Hornecbt, Captain of Pharaoh's bowmen, passed by tbe rnins of the Hebrew village, and in rescuing some cats, held sacred by tbe Egyptians, discovers the un conscious form ot Ephralm, a Hebrew youth, wbo was tbe bearer of a message from Miriam to his uncle Joshua, a Captain in Pharaoh's army and a warm friend of Hornecbt. The latter has a widowed daughter, Kasana, who was compelled by her father to marry an Egypt ian while loving Joshua. Joshua bad Just re turned from a long campaign, and knew little of wbat bad transpired among bis people. He was satisfied with his position, whlcb was one of honor. He has determined within himself to stay with tbe Egyptians, when Ephraim deliv ers his messagefrom Miriam, tbe prophetess calling upon Joshua to lead bis, people out of Egypt CHAPTEB VL OGLAH, the granddaughter o! the old slave,Eliab,hadcome , to entreat Joshna to go with her forthwith to see her grandfather, whose strength had suddenly failed him, and who, feel ing death near., at hand, could not die without seeing him and blessing him once more. So the Captain bade her wait, and after as suring himself that Ephraim slept -peacefully, he charged a man he could trust tokeep watch over the lad, and went with Hog- lah. As she led the way she carried a small lantern, and when the light fell on -the girl's face and figure, he saw howU-favored I she was, for slave's toil had bent the poor child's back before its time. Uer-voice had the rough tones which a woman's tongue often acquires when her strength is too un sparingly taxed; but all she said was loving and kind, and Josbua forgot her appearance as she told him that she had a lover among j tne men who nau gone lortn, DUt mat she had remained behind with her grandparents, for she could not bring herself to leave the old folks alone; that as she was not fair to look upon, no man had coveted her as bis wife till Asser had come, and he did not look to appearances, because he was hard working, as she herself was,, and had ex pected that she would help to Save his earn- t &s IrJli - imufelwouhT naTft beehjrilling'to" atiyJs behind with her,: buusuauier bad com manded him. to. set out with him; so he had no choice, bnt must'obey and part from her forever. The tale was simply told, and iq a harsh accent, but it struck to the heart of tbe man who, for his part, meant to go his own way in opposition to his father. As they presently came in sight of the harbor, and Joshua looked down on the quays and the huge fortified storehouses, built by the hands of his own people, he thought once more of the ragged troops of laborers whom he had so often seen cringing before the Egyptian overseer, or again, fighting madly among themselves. He had marked, too, that they did not hesitate to lie and cheat in order to escape their toil, and how hard it was to compel them to obey aud do their duty. The more odious objects among these hap less hundreds rose clearly before his mind, and the thought that perhaps his fate in the future might be to lead snch a wretched crew came over him as a disgrace which the humblest of his subalterns, the Captain of SO, would fain be spared. There were, of course, among the mercenaries of Pharaoh's' armies many Hebrews who had'Won a repu tation for courage and endurance, but these were the sons of owners of herds or of men who had been shepherds. Thetoilingmulti- tnde whose clay hovels could be overturned with a kick formed the greater mass of those to whom he was bidden to retnrn. Eirmly resolved to remain faithful to the oath which bound nim to the standard of the Egyptian host, and yet stirred to the depths of his soul, he entered the slave's hut, and his vexation was increasedwhen he found the old man sitting up and mixing some wine and water with his own hand. So he had been brought away from his nephew's bedside on a false pretense, and Me Attured Himself That Ephraim Slept Peace fully. deprived of his own night's rest that a slave, who, in his eyes, was scarcely a man at all, should have his way. Here he him self was the victim of a trick of that cunning selfishness which, in the Egyptians' eyes, was the reproach of his people, and which, in deed, did not attract him to them. But the wrath ot the clear-sighted and upright man was soon appeased as he.saw the girl's un feigned delight at her grandfather's rapid recovery; and he then learned from the aged wife that Hoglah had hardly set out on her quest when they remembered that they had some wine in the house, and after the first draught her husband got better and better, j though she nad oeiore tnougnt he had one foot already in tbe grave. Now' he was mixing some more of the blessed gift to strengthen himself with a draught of it every sow and then. Here the old man himself broke in, and said that he owed this and much that was better to the goodness of Nun, Joshua's THE EXODUS. father: for besides this hut and wine and meal for bread he had given him a milch cow and likewise an ass, on which he could often ride out and take the air. and he had left him his granddaughter and some silver, so that they could look forward with con tentment to their end.all tbejnore so as they had a patch ot land behind the house, which Hoglah would sow with radishes, onions and leeksfor their pottage. Bdt best of all was the written deed which made them and the girl free forever. Aye, Nun was a true lord and father-to his people, and nis good gifts had brought with them tbe blessing of the Most High, for immediately after the departure of the Hebrews, by tbe help of Asser; Hoglah's betrothed, he and his wife had been conveyed hither without any de nv or difficulty. "Weold folks," theold woman added,"will die here. But Asser has' promised Hoglah to come back for her when she had done her duty to her parents, to the very last." And turning to the girl'she said in an en couraging tone: "And it cannot be for much longer now." At this Hoglah began to wipe her eyes with the skirt of her blue gown and cried: "Long, long may it be! I am young; I can wait." Joshua heard the words, aud it seemed to him as though the poor, ill-favored, desert ed girl was giving him a lesson. He had let the old folks talk on, but his time was precious, and he now asked whether it was for any special cause that Eliab had sent for him. "I could not help sending," was the 'answer, "and not only to ease the longing of my old heart but becauie my lord Nun had bidden me to do so. "Great and noble is thy manhood, and now art thou become the'hope of Israel! Thy father, too, bath promised the men and women of his house that after his death, HE KISSED THE SOUJIEB'S AB3I thou shalt be their lord and their head. His speech was full of thy glory, and great was the rejoicing when he declared that thou wouldst follow the departing tribes. And X am he whom my lord vouchsafed to command that, if thou'shouldst return be fore his messenger could reach thee, I was to say that Nunr thy father, awaited his son. By sunrise, or at latest by midday, thy people shall stay to rest by Succoth. He would hide a writing in the hollow syca more before the house, of Aminadab. which should tell thee whither next thev take their way. His blessing and the blessing of our God be'with thee iu the way!" As the old man pronounced the last words Joshua bent his head, as though an invisible hand were inviting him to kneel, 'Then he thanked the old man and asked in a subdued voice whether all had been willing to obey the call to quit house and home. The old woman clasped her hands, ex claiming: "No, no, my lord; by no means. What a wailing and weeping there was be fore they went away! Many rebelled, others in to hide. But in vain. In the house of I our neighbor Deuel you know him his J young wile uau ueeu intciy uruugu, uj ueu with a boy, her first-born. How could the poor creature set forth to wander? At first she wept bitterly and her husband blasphemed, but there was no help for it. She and her infant were laid in a cart, and as things went forward they got over it, he and she both, like all the rest; even Phineas, who crept into a pigeon house with his wife and ve children, and even old crippled Graveyard Keziah you remember her, Adonai? she had seen her father and mother die, her husband and then five well grown sons; everything the Lord had given, her to love, and had laid them one after an other in our graveyard; and every morning and evening she would go to their Testing place, and as she sat there on a log of wood which she had rblled close to the tombstone her lips would always be moving; bnt what she muttered was not prayer; no I have listened to her many a time ovhen she did not heed me no; she talked with the dead as if they could hear her in the tomb, and could understand her speech like those who live in the light of the sun. She is nigh npon three score years old, and for three times seven years she has been known to the folk about as Graveyard Keziah. It was a senseless way she had, bntfor that very rea son perhaps it was doubly hard to her to give it up; and she would not go, bnt hid awav behind the shrubs. When Ahiezer, the-head oi her house, dragged, her forth her wailing was enough to make your heart ache. But when it came to the last she plucked ap courage and could not bear to stay behind any more than the rest." "What had come over the poor wretches? What possessed them?" Joshua here broke in, interrupting the old woman's flow of words; for his fancy again pictured the Iteople that he ought to, nay, that he mast ead, as snrely as he held 'his father's bles sing ot price above all else; and he saw them in all their misery The old woman started, and, fearing lest she might have angered tbe first-born son of her master, this proud -and lordly warrior, she stammered out: "What possessed them, ray lord? Aye, well I am-hut a poor; simple slave woman; but indeed, my lord, if' you had but sees them also n "Well, .what then?" oried the soldiee roughly, and Impatiently; for now; for site first time in hi life, he fouad himself 5a- HHHHMkB sssssssssHssssssssssH r IWfiPssssW Til l-je-w,'V WWff'l BsssssssssHssssHsssssI mSmW-WWjWW7VtMl M$BBBUbE3e58sBm &Mze&fim?flJ?2y 4mpmK' IssRssnssBBr 1 zz52&wiwmMmj8ummMMWMmm: z3Zgi5S&sB&mV UIvWishssuBSbIssb SB " ! Bssssvn3sssB ' pelled to aat against his incliaattow aa4. cenvicuw. . . . , , Al WHS wre uiu mixa w - -... - , r rjfw a; "W.. tnirlnrrl tnnrae Oannot tell Of K. ..... U'a .li4ftnr!fnr MfMeivfi Of 1L It came upoa Israel from the Jjoti, aad evB t . I could describe bow mightily He wkd n the souls of the people .' "Try," said Joshua, "bnt ayHmeis siert. Then they were forced to depart? It was against their will that they test up ttwlr stall xnat tuey nave raiwwn mmj Aaron for some tifflapasijas steep "Mow the shepherd, is known even tlwB)rT-ff At Stu Led the Way Sht Carrtea a Small Lmtttrn' tians. And have those men, who bresgbt ' down the pestilence on so many inBoesot beings, worked a miracle to blind the eyes j of von and your wife here?" The old man lifted supplicating haad te the warrior, and replied, much troubled, fa a tone of humble entreaty: "Ob, my lrd. you are the first-born son of ray master. Mm ' greatest and noblest of his house, aud if ye ,' will you can tread me in the dust Hke a beetle; and yet will I lift up my veise a4 sav to vou thev have told vou falselv. "Y have been among strangers all this Yewr, yJ while mighty signs have been wron;fct upon us. Xou were Jar from zoas'as A fJ have heard when the people west fern- AND CLOTHING AOAUT AXD XBAjS. For any sob of out race who had haheM thing would sooner tfeat bis tesgae wither in his mouth than, lsoeh te e mighty things which the Leisl & safed to us to behold. If yea has! m indeed, aad could graat se te test storv2 " "Speak." cried Joshua, snwsod at old man's fervor; and BWab thoaked Mst -with, a glowing look, aad eried: ;. ., "Ah! would that Aares, or "Bloassn, ar my lord Nun, your rather, wete hats sirs, that the Most High weM grant s tfce gift of their speech! But as k is, welL Xwi, indeed, me seems as though I saw aV kssssl ' it all, as though it were all hsiissalsMi ' . again; and yet how may I tell it? ? sw uoa-s neip i will try." He passed, aad as Josfcw saw i old man's hands and lips treaMM, 1m sen reacnea nira me cup, ana Hte MjMstr thankfully emptied it to the bettem. ?" he began "with half-closed eyes 04 Hi wrinkled features grew more seesly sages' as heproceeded with his tale: "What befell after that it beBM ksuwws what command had come to the poopie .Sag' wife has already told you, aad we,' Vs, wsMa among those who lost heart asd marasspM. xub last uigat wts aii wao were ex see Jssvsv of Nun were bidden to the rsoat evom shepherds aad the slaves aad. the there we ate oi roast lamb aad fresh leavened bread,, and had plenty oi more than ureal at the harvest J which begins oa that night, aad wUsh jsW yourself have often witnessed as a M There we sat sad enjoyed oanesvtf, ssH my lord, your father spoke warsw of ew agement ana xeid us of the tred of mm; latners ana oi tne great tsuaffs at as, uone ior uispeepie. jmow, sssa e.;sl wsT the Lord's will that we should set fcsta sad depart out of this lsad wass' we have borne contempt aad This was no such satrifi u for wbieh Abraham had sharpened his to shed the blood oi his soalsaae wHhaL at the bidding of the Mc4f High, aHB.t "would fall hardly on as te leave a asaft growa uoskr v& as anu -raauy aa OMfSaieSB). Nay. it would at last briBg saaek asMSsasast on us all. Eor, cried he, we were aat ' wander lortn. into tne unknown, bat a lordly land which God himself before us. He had promised as a aew instead of this land of boadsys, should dwell as free men oa nrahfal and find rich pastures where a bmm aad household might be fed aad their beaata made glad. Just as a man most weric SssssV to earn mi wage so were we to aaaasa a onei space ot privation aaa serrow to eaa that beautiful aew home for ourselves asaf our children, as the Lord bad premised. A. land of God.it must surely be, siaee it '., the gift of the Most Hizh. '- "Thus he spoke, and thui he blessed .as all and premised that yea, toe, woaM saJa the dust from off your feet aad jeia ywsjajIsV to the people aud fight for taess waist stron gratia as an experienced warriarsad aa obedient son, "Hereupon we all shouted tar jaav aski when we were all gathered is tW. asssdssl plaee and found that all the boadsassss.-ssl been able to' escape from the evtsasMssf oourage-rsse. Taen eaase Aarsa 1M HiiaH ana ssoea upon tae saiesasatvs. 1 ana au sue my lord .m an.had si feast we aew beard freta Ms j words he seeks leaadad bow Hfta.1 tfeuadetaM.aswlffct tbeswsstta lutes, aad M aH kw that it as. Tbe BQ&Li .i. -M 1Z vs U? ri iM ?i V 4- . HRaflMssH
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