tr 'VK'-,C. r 1 THIRD PART. THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. PAGES 17 TO 20. LIVING F0RPOETRY, Whites Who Drift to the South Sea Isles Go to Listen to Nature's Music. THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE IT. -Great Popularity of Captain Hart and Bishop Dordillon. A FKIESTLT WIZARD OF TAHUKU Who Amused Eobert Louis EteTenson and the Crew of the Casco. EOliE PECULIARITIES OP A GENIUS rwEirrrx fob the dispatch. Letter No. 5. If the most horrible experience was Mr. Stewart's, it was Captain Hart himself who ran the nearest danger. He had bought a piece of land from Timau, Chief of a neigh boring bay, and put some Chinese to work. Visiting the station with one of the Gode froids, he found his Chinamen trooping to the beach in teiror. Timau had driven them out, seized their effects, and was in war attire with his young men. A boat was dispatched to Taahauka for re-enforcements; as they awaited her return they could see. from the deck of the schooner, Timau and his young men dauc- ing the war dance on a hilltop till past 10 at night, anJ as soon as the boat came (bring ing three gendarmes, armed with chasse pots, two white men ironi Taahauka station, and some native warriors) the party set out to seize the Chief befor: be should awake. Day was not come, and it was a very brinht moonlight morning, when they reached the hilltop where (in a house of palm leaves) Timau was sleeping otf his debauch. A Shot Tired in the Dark. The assailants were fully exposed, the in teiior of the hut quite dark; the position far lrom sound. The gendarmes knelt with their pieces ready, and Captain Hart ad vanced alone. As he drew near the door he heard the snap of a gun cocking from within, and in sheer self-defeuse their being no other escape sprang into the house and grappled Timau. "Timau, come with me!" ho cried. But Timau, a great fellow, hU eyes blood red with the abuse of kava, 6 foots in stature ca him on one side; and the Captain, instantly expecting to be either I STEVENSON ANNOYED shot or brained, discharged his pistol in the dark. "When they carried Timau out at the door in the moonlight, he was already dead, and, upon this unlooted-'or termination of their sally, the whites appeared to have lost all conduct, and retreated to the boats, fired upon by the natives as they went. Captain Hart, who lmost rivals Bishop Dordillon in popularity, shared with him the policy of extreme indulgence to the na tives, regarding them as children, making light of their defects, and constantly in fa vor of mild measures. The death of Timau has thus somewhat weighed upon his mind; the more so as the chieftain's musket was found in the house unloaded. To a less del icate conscience the m.itter will seem litrht. If a drunken savjge elects to cock a fire arm, a gentleman advancing toward him in the open cannot wait to make sure if it be charged. Captain Hart's Popularity. I have touched on the Captain's popular ity. It is one of the things 'that most strikes a stranger in the Marquesas. He comes in stantly on two names, both new to him, both locallv famous, both mentioned br all with afleetion and respect the Bishop's and the Captain's. It gave me a strong desire to meet ith tne survivor, which was subse- quently gratified to the eunrhmentof theee j columns. Long after that ag.iin, in the hood, only, perhaps once, before he dies Place Dolorous Molokai I came once J the rude and wintry landscape of Caps Flat- 7 - .1 NATIVES DRIVING FISH more on the traces of that affectionate popu larity. There was a blind white leper there, an old sailor "an old tough," he' called him self who had long sailed among the East ern islands. Hnu I used to visit, and, be ing Iresh from the scenes of his activity, gave him the news. This (in the true island etyle) was largely a chronicle oi wrecks; and it chanced that I mentioned the case ot one not very sucrestful captain, and how he had lost a vessel lor Mr. Hart; thereupon i e bliud leper broke forth in lamentations. "Did he lose a ship of John Hart's?" be cried; "poor John Hartl Well, I'm sorry it was Hart's," with needless force of epi thet, which I neglect to reproduce. Scenes In the Anchorage There was a certain trafSs lnfonr anchor- age, different indeed from the dead inertia and quiescence of the sister island, Nuka hiva. Sails were seen steering from its mouth; now it would be a whaleboat manned with native rowdies, and heavy with copra for sale; now perhaps a (ingle canoe come after commodities to bny. The anchorage was besides frequented by fishers; not only the lone females perched in niches of the cliff, but whole parties, who would some times camp and build a fire upon the beach, and sometimes lie in their canoes in the midst of the haven and jump by turns in the water, which they would cast eight or nine feet high, to drive, as we supposed, the fish into their nets. The goods the purchasers came to buy were sometimes quaint. I remarked one outrigger returning with a single ham swans from a pole in the stern. And one day there came into Mr. Keane's store a charming lad, excellently mannered, speak ing French correctly, though with a baby ish accent; very handsome, too, and much of a dandv. as was shown not only in his shining raiment, but by the nature of his J purchases. These were five ship biscuits, a bottle of scent, and two balls of washing blue. He was from Tauata, whither he re turned the same night in an outrigger, dar ing the deep with these young-ladyish treas ures. An Experience With the Natives. The gross of the native passengers were more lll-iavored; tall, powerful fellows, well tattooed, and with disquieting man ners. Something coarse and jeering dis tinguished them, and I was often reminded of the slums of some great city. One night, as dusk was falling, a whaleboat put in on that part of the beach where I chanced to be alone. Six or seven ruffianlv fellows scrambled out; all had enough English to give me "good by," which was the ordinary BY ROTTDY NATITES. salutation; or "good morning," which they denied to regard as an intenitive: jests fol lowed, ihev surrounded me with harsh laugh ter and ruie looks, and I was glad to move away. I ha 1 not yet encountered Mr. Stew art, or I should have been reminded of his first landing at Atuona, and the humorist who nibbled at the heel. Bnt their neigh borhood depressed me, and I felt, if I had been there a castaway and out of reach of help, my heart would have been sick. Llvlnj for the Poetry of It. Many of the "white who are to be found scattered in the South Seas represent the more artistic portion of their class, and not only enjoy the poetry of that new life, but came thete on purpose to enjoy it, I have ben shipmates with a man, no longer young, who sailed upon that voyage, his first time to sea, for the mere love of Samoa; and it was a few letters in a newspaper that sent him on that pilgrimage. Mr. McCallum was another instance of the same. He had read of the South Seas, loved to read of them, and let their imaye fasten in his heart, till he could refrain no longer must set forth, a newKudel, for that unseen homeland and has now dwelt for years in Hivj-oa, and will lay his bones there in the end with full content, having no desire to behold Brain the places of his bov. INTO THEIR NETS. tery. Yet he is an active man, full of schemes; has bought land lrom the natives, and planted 5,000 cocoa palms, has a desert island in his eye, which he desires to lease, and a schooner in the stocks, which he has laid and built himself, and even hopes to finish. A Specimen of Sooth Sea Verse. Mr. McCallum and I did not meet, but like gallant troubadours corresponded in verse. I hope he will not consider it a breach of copyright if I give here a speci men oi his muse. He and Bishop Dordillon are the two European bards of the Marque sas. Sail, hot Aboy! Casco. 4 First among the pleasure fleet, That came around to greet These isles from San Francisco. a teadeh's hut. And first, too; only one Among the literary men That this way has ever been Welcome, then, to Stevenson. Please not offended he At this little notice Of the Casco, Captain Otis, With the novelist's family. Avoir une voyage magnificat. Is oar wish sincere. That you'll have from here Allant sur la Grande Paciflcal. But our chief visitor was one Mapiao, a great Tahuku which seems to mean priest, wizard, tattooer, practiser of any art, or, in a word, esoteric person and a man famed for his eloquence on public occasions and witty talk in private. His first appearance was typical of the man. He came down clamorous to the eastern landing, where the surf was running very high; scorned all our signals to go round the bay; carried the point, was brought aboard at some hazard to our skiff, and set down in one corner of the cockpit to his appointed task. He had been hired, as one cunning in the art, to make my old men's beards into a wreath; what a wreath for Celia's arburl Ills Beard Was His Fortune. His own beard (which he carried, for gi eater safety, in a sailor's knot), was not merely the adornment of his age, but a sub stantial piece of property. One hundred dollars was the estimated value; and as Brother Michael never knew a native to de posit a greater sum with Bishop Dordillon, our friend was a rich man in virtue of his chin. He had something of an East Indian cast, but tallerand stronger; his nose hooked, his face narrow, his forehead very high, the whole elaborately tattooed. I inay say I have never entertained a guest so trying. In the least particular he must be waited on; he would not go to the scuttle-but: for water, he would not even reach to get the glass, it mnst he given him in his hand; if aid were denied him, he would fold his arms, bow his head, and go without; only the work would suffer. Early the first fore noon he called aloud for biscuit and salmon; biscuit and ham were brought; he looked on them inscrutably, and signed they should be set aside. A number of considerations crowded on my mind; how the sort of work on which he" was engaged was probably tapu in a high degree; should by rights, per haps, be transacted on a tapu platform which no female might approach; and it was possible that fish might be the essential diet. He Knew What Bom Was. .Some salted fish I therefore brought him. and along with a glass of rum: at siebx,; which Mapiao displayed extraofdidaryani- mation, pointed to the zenith, made a long speech, in which I picked up umati the. word for the sun and signed to me once more to place these dainties out of reach. At last I had understood, every day the pro gramme was the same. At an early period of the morning his dinner must be set forth on the roof of the house and at a proper dis tance, full in view, but just out ot reach; and not until the fit hour, which was the point of noon, would the artificer partake. This solemnity was the cause ot an absurd misadventure. He wan seated plaiting, as usual, at the beards, his dinner arrayed on the roof, and not far off a glass of water standing. It appears he desired to drink; was, of course, far too great a gentleman to rise and get the water for himself, and spy ing Mrs. Stevenson, imperiously signed to her to hand it The signal was misunder stood; Mrs. Stevenson was by this time pre pared lor any eccentricity on the, part of our guest, and instead of passing him the water flung his dinner overboard. I must .do Mapiao justice; all laughed, but his laughter rang the loudest. He Was a Man Among Hen. These troubles of service were at worst" occasional, the embarrassment of the man's talk incessant. He was plainly a practiced conversationalist; the nicety of his inflec tions, the elegance of his gestures, and the fine display of his expression told us that. We, meanwhile, sat like aliens in a play house we could see the actors were upon some material business and performing well, but the plot of the play remained un discoverable. Karnes of places, the name of Captain Hart, occasional disconnected words tantalized but not enlightened us; and the less we understood the more gal lantly, the more copiously, and with still the more explanatory gestures, Mapiao re turned to the assault. We could see his vanity was on the rack. being come to a place where that fine jewel of his conversational talent could earn him no respect; and be had times of despair when be desisted from the endeavor, and in stants of irritation when he regarded us with unconcealed contempt. Yet for me, as the practitioner of some' kindred mystery to his own, he mamlested to the last a measure of respect. As we sat under the awning, in opposite corners of the cockpit, he braiding hairs from dead men's chins, I forming runes upon a sheet of folio paper, he would nod across to me as one Tahuku to another, or crossing the cockpit, study for awhile my shapeless scrawl and encourage me with a heartfelt "mitai 1 good 1" So might a deaf painter sympathize far off with a musician, as the slave and master of some uncomure bended and yet kindred art. A silly trade he doubtless considered it; but a man must make allowance for barbarians chaque pays a ses coutumes and he felt the princi ple was there. The Pay for His Work. The time came at last when his labors, which resembled those rather of Penelope than Hercules, could be no more spun out, and nothing remained but to pay him and Bay farewell. After a long, learned argu ment in Marquesan I gathered that his mind was set on fishhooks, with three of which, and a brace of dollars, I thought he was not ill rewarded for passing his forenoons in our cockpit, eating, drinking, delivering his opinions, and pressing the ship's company into his menial service. For all that, he was a man ot so high a bearing, and so like an uncle of my own, who should have gone mad and got tattooed, that I applied to him, when we were both on shore, to know if he were satisfied. "Mitai ehipe?"I asked. And he. with rich unction, offering at the same time his hand: "Mitai ehlpe, mitai kaekae; kaoha nnil" or, to translate freely: "The ship is good, the victuals are np to the mark, and we part in friendship." Which testimonial uttered he set off along the beach with his bead bowed and the air of one deeply in jured. Eoberi Louis Stevenson. We Are Spellbound. PbllailelphU Becord. An international agreement with Eng land about spelling "honor," "labor," etc., would be a useful spell-binder. PITTSBTJEa, SUNDAY, MARCH S2, 1891. PILLAGE OF IQUIQUI. Fannie B. Ward Describes One Result of the Chilean Rebellion. THE KUmS OP A PROSPEROUS CITT. Cruelty of tie Soldiers That Leads Them to Batcher the Wounded. FACTS ABOUT THE H1TRATB BEDS rOOSBXSFOXDCNCI Or TBI DISPATCH.! Iquiqui, Chile, March 2. When we first saw Iquiqui, little more than half a year ago, it was one of the most peaceful and prosperous cities of Chile a seaport second only to Valparaiso in population and commercial importance, in wide contrast to the burned and battered ruin the rebels made of it on their recent raid. As most of my readers are aware, St has long been the great shipping point of the world for nitrate of soda a vast business, practically con trolled by English oapital; and therefore in the eyes of Englishmen, Iquiqui is of more consequence than all the rest of Chile put together. By the way, the queer name; which on foreign tongues sonnds like the quacking of a durk, is of Aymara Indian origin and should be pronounced E-kee-kee, accented on the middle syllable. On the 19th-and 20th of Inst month there was hard fighting in the streets of the town, between the rebels and Government troops, being attacked by soldiers in the rear and bombarded bv the fleet in the bay both parties struggling to gain possession of the Intendencia; and the doomed city suffered little more from the foe than frou? the friends who were trying to defend it. Bevelled In Destruction. Every building in the six principal squares was completely destroyed. The in surgents seized the Custom House, pillaged private residences, and finally set fire to the business quarter and reduced it to ashes. The terrified women and children, who were hidden la the inner rooms of their houses to escape bombs and flying bullets, had the walls burned or pulled down over their heads during the sacking process, and in this way several hundred defenseless crea tures perished like rats in a hole. Low-olass Chileans are proverbially cruel, and the soldiers, having once had a taste of blood, are worse than so many savages. This was many times proved in the war with Peru. After one or two disastrous bat tles the Peruvians knowing what to expect if they fell into the hands of the merciless enemy when defeat was certain leaped into the sea or killed themselves with their own bayonets. There is small need of hospital f ... U 'ii h iAi llMiU raj.LXHtfw. 1-7": HbtsHfrkinmwinnvm rrirr nrr rrnnufsninmi nru inn iiirr m khtc ' i -ii - i BCENK IS A CHILEAN "WAYSIDE POSADA. From a picture by Don Manuel Antonio Caro. service on the part of an army engaged against Chile, forif the latter country comes off victorious there are never any wounded to be nursed. No Mercy for the Woanded. Disregarding all rules of civilized war fare, as well as the common instincts of hu manity, the bloodthirsty wretches, assisted by the rabonas (degraded women who fol low the armv), make it a point of duty to go over the field, rob the dead and murder their wounded enemies. The term "cut throat" applies well to the Chilean soldier, for every one of them carries a short, curved knife sharpened on the inner side of the curve that just fits a human nerk, and is terribly expert in its use. Not long ago we were entertained in the house ot a wealthy citizen of Santiago, when he showed me, with great prioe and I satisfaction, a glass . rd of 200 gold and sil- case containing unwa ver medals, such as these Southern Govern ments delight to bestow upon their soldiers for distinguished bravery, and related how they were all torn from the breasts of dead or wounded officers on the battle fields of Peru. To-day there Is hardly a family in Iquiqui that is not mourning for some of its mem bers. The hospitals are crowded to their utmost capacity, and so are all the churches and bouses that remain standing, for every body in this Irving hour of sorrow is doing all he can to assist bis lellow sunerera. Sheltered on the Ships. A great many women and children, having lost their homes as well as their natural protectors, are temporarily shelted on board ships in the harbor, being still too frightened to go ashore. Comparatively few of the loreign residents were killed, though the loss ot property among them (they being the wealthiest people in the place), was much greater than among the native citi zens. For more than a year past the nitrate peo ple have been doing little profitable busi ness, principally on account of the (Govern ment, troubles and consequent strikes among the laborers, and also because the English market is overstocked with the commodity, and therefore its price is correspondingly low. From this nitrate industry alone tbe Chilean Government has been collecting a revenue of about $20,000,000 per annum, in export duties. Some eiijht months ago, when workmen were striking all over tbe country, nn account of hard times, occasion ed by the persistent refnsal of Congress to pass the appropriation bills, these Iquiqui laborers made a great deal of trouble. They had no particular interest in the questions at issue, and were affected by tbem only in the consequent lowness of exchange; but the latter phase of the muddle was a serious matter, especially to those foreigners whose families remained in the mother country and could receive no support from the bread winners ot Chile. Nitrate Companies' Labor Troubles. The workmen had been receiving from ii to 10 a day in Chilean paper currency (worth about one-third the amount in United Stales or English gold), and when exchange dropped lower and lower they de manded to be paid In silver, instead of in paper, as formerly, which would in reality about double their wages. "This the nitrate companies refused to do, because they were making no money themselve and tbe estab lished rate of payment was exceptionally goodfor Chile. Then the Is borers "struck," en masse, and threatened to burn'down the works and warehouses unless their demands were acceded to. There was not a sufficient military or- police force at band to afford the companies any protection, and after a few incendiary blazes the managers to save their property from further damage ostensibly gave in to the strikers, meanwhile importuning the President to send troops to their assistance. But the Government was So distracted with its own troubles and the revolts that were springing up all over the country, that aid was not dispatched to Iquiqui in time to do tnuob good. The consequence was that several of the largest nitrate companies were compelled to suspend work entirely, to their own ruin and the suffering ot hundreds of poor families, and the loss to Chile's treas ury at a critical time when she can ill afford it. The Deposits of Nitrate. Perhaps the greatest natural curiosity on the Southern Continent is this inexhaustible deposit of nitrate of soda. Beds of it are strewn along the Western coast for 500 miles; and throughout all that distance the physical aspect of the country is the same everywhere an arid range ot hills from 4,000 to 6,000 feet high, rising abruptly out of the Pacific, backed by a desert pampa (plain) from 60 to 100 miles wide, which gradually ascends to the foot of the snowy Cordillera. Nowhere else in the world except in this particular pampa are nitrates found in quantities worth mentioning. And here they exist under variable conditions. For example, in that part of the desert known as the Pampa Tamarugal where all the great English-companies have their fac tories and the British public has millions of pounds sterling invested the deposit is tound only on the seaward edge of the desert on the first slopes oi the coast range. In the Koria district they lie in the most depressed portion of the plain, in a kind of basin be tween the hills. One can scarcely bear to touch the scorching sand, at 130, and a light sonth wind continually raises whirl winds of dust in every direction. Neither bird, beast or plant ot the lowest type can live in these barren wastes; and yet their hidden wealth has led to the creation of sev eral villages, whose every necessary of lift is Drought lrom a long distance. Water a?Bear as Whisky. A few years ago water sold on the Ata cama desert for $20 the arroba, or about $2 0 per gallon, and a drink for a mule cost 15 Ed elish shillings. Finally, at a place in the desert called Carmen Alto, a sun condenser, with 60,000 square feet of glass, was employed to distil fresh water from that of the sea. This was afterward wrecked by a whirlwind; but a smaller apparatus, on the same principle, is now being worked at Sierra Gordo, and realizes a handsome profit, though the water sells lor only 30 cents the arroba. Most of thecoast towns and inland factories are now supplied by means of con densed steam, some of the condensers pro ducing no less than 25 tons of good water for every ton of coal burned in the boilers. More recent schemes have been started for supplying the coast towns with water by means ot pipes, running across the desert from springs at the foot oi the mountains. Iquiqui, Taltal, Antofogasta and Mollendo are supplied in this manner, and other simi lar aqueducts are being constructed. Belore Europeans came here this region was almost unnihabited. Two or three hun dred Changes Indians, who live by fishing, still prowl along the face of the coast ranee, but until recently they had no idea there was anything of value i"n their territory. No Banger ot Floods. The tamarugal shrubs that grow in places on the Pampa, owe their existence to the floods which every few years rush down from the Andes and run almost to the edge of the nitrate grounds. Of course one good overflow, or shower bath, would ruin all the nitrate; but as the region is entirely rain less there is no danger of either. Water may be found almost anywhere, at the depth of from CO to 150 feet, but that in the middle ofthe desert contains too much salt to be drinkable; that near the western margin fbut not in the nftpp bprl V.lAnf tUa. calcareo-magne-'ian class and is totally unfit for domestic and culinary purposes. South of Coquimbo, all the way down to the tip end of the Continent, thecouutry is well cultivated or wooded and possesses abundance of water; but the .Northern des erts are far more valuable because of their mineral wealth. The entire Province of Atacama is one vast mine of ores and alka lies among them being gold, silver, iron, copper, lead, salt, borax, gypsum, cobalt and saltpetre. The amazing number of mines in this desert may be inferred from the fact that in the district of Caracoles alone, upwards of 4,000 silver mines have already been surveyed and assessed! The locality was so named (from caricol, a snail shell), because the mountains thereabouts consist mostlyof fossiliferous shelly lime stone, abounding in ammonites, Fannie B. Waed. MISSION OF THE MAECH WUTD. A Burlesque on Eiop Which Is Appropri ate This Month, Somervllle Journal. 1 A March Wind came out of the north one night and swept down upon a forest, bend ing the trunks of the tall trees and making their great branches to creak and groan. At length an oak tree put out its headand said: "Here! who's there?" "Oh, it is only I," said the March Wind. "I have come to awaken you from your long winter's sleep." "Well, did you shake the rest of the trees like that?" "Oh, yes. I have been all over the lot" "Did you shake up that old chestnut over there?" "Certainly." "Well, he's dead." "Never mind. I shake them all, both the quick and the dead, then no one is slighted. But soft! The morning dawn now purples the empurpled East, painting it purple. Farwelll I must leave tbee now." "Farewelll" said the tree. "1 must leave myself in a few weeks." WILL BIBS OH BEAG0US. The Novel Sleigh Recently Made for the Emperor of China. The Board of Admiralty has purchased a foreign sleigh for the Euipferor of China. The body consists of lour dragons with scales and claws complete. The four tails are cnrled up, forming the bick of the seat. The top of the seat is between tbe two dragons' heads. The whole sleigh is covered over with gilding and its cost is said to be several thouaaud taels. It will be .trans ported to the Palace gardens lor the use of His Imperial Majesty. NAMES OF HOLY WRIT That Dave Been Attached to Places . in Western Pennsylvania. OUR SHAKE OP SACRED MOUNTS. There Is a Sharon and a Sodom, and Hosts of Titles Like Them. W0ESHIPIKG IN THE HIGH PLACES iwsrrrsx von mi dispatch.! Mrs. Sigourney, who lived and died ere the glamor surrounding Indian character wore off, wept because of their sad fate, but comforted herself with the reflection that they had impressed their memory in the nomenclature of mountain, hill, river, forest and dale.' Our Covenanter fellow citizens sigh be cause they cannot force on our secular Gov ernment an express recognition of God and Jesus Christ in our Constitution and else-' where, but they may get some comfort from the fact that they and their cousins Ger man Presbyterians of every shade of belief, and, in fact, by the aid of all religious or ganizations have succeeded to a remarkable degree in fastening scriptural nomenclature on most parts of the United States, and es pecially in Western Pennsylvania. Seen With a Field Glass. Standing on a knob in Robinson town ship can be seen bv the aid of a field glass Mt Gilead, Mt. Calvary, Mt. Nebo and Mt Lebanon. Within a mile is Mt. Union Church, and why the United Presbyterians happeoed to make the break is not explain able. Were it not for the smoke and a range of hills Mt. Olivett, on Wylie ave nue, might be seen from the same eminence, and down in Beaver county a short distance below is Mt. (Jarmel Going down the Fort Wayne Eailroad we soon come to the ancient town ol ubaron. A little further out is tbe village of Galilee. Further still Palestine and "Enon near Salem," though there is not much water there, not enough to induce a John the Bap tist to loiter, and the majority of the native population is of sprinkling Paedobaptist leaning in theology. Galilee Beyond Jordan. Until a few years ago there lived for a large part of the century north of Galilee a colored man named Jordan, who became famous in a controversy that ended lately in the State Supreme Court. He lived be tween Galilee and Enon, and a standing joke with the population in the vicinity of Hell's Hollow was to refer to "Gali lee beyond Jordan." If by any chance a person failed to see the point of the joke, in 1855, or therea bouts, he was set down as either ignor ant, stupid or nnregenerate beyond hope of reformation. The disreputable denizens of Hell's Hollow had been cleaned out long before the Ft. Wayne Bailway was built. Within a few miles of Salem is the village of Damascus. This name has a sort of heretical sound, but it is scriptural never theless and was probably bestowed by the Quakers, a mild sort of heretics. Ohio also has a religious center named Zoar and such names are given localities at short intervals all over the early settlements of both States, and we have Beulah in Wil kiusbnrg. Near Mt. Lebanon; on tbe South side.is the village of Sodom. As there is noth ing in the topography of the neighborhood that suggests the name, it is coujectured by a Presbyterian clergyman that it was named forthe reason that a mother wanted her baby called Beelzebnb. She said it was not only scriptural but had a distinguished sound, and she couldjsM.wJjXPJliKiJJgdi tur'ameVasftr&OctlxaVBnother.' - . Worshiping on High Places. In this connection it is interesting to note that man, as far back as we -can follow his movements in the world's early dawn, always had a penchant for worshiping on high places, and this preference is still noted, es pecially in the rural districts. If "tbe groves were God's first temples," it is as certain that those groves, whether in the land of Shem, Ham or Japhet, or in those of "Indians, not taxed," were on hill tops, and where the natural hills did not suit the worshipers' fancy tbey made them to order. Tbe Mound Builders worshiped on high places as is evidenced by tbe discovery of sacrilicial tools in an tne mounds that nave been explored. Is it hot just as probable that the Tower of Babel was built for a place of human sacrifice, as for a retreat in case of flood and that the builders caused "their sons and daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech?" a practice de nounced by the Prophet Jeremiah on those who built the high places of Baal. Balaam, the prophet who was engaged by Balak, King of Moah, to curse Israel, went up into the high places of Baal," after the con troversy with the donkey and offered seven bullocks and seven rams preparatory to the cursing. Samuel, the prophet, went up to "the high place" also to bless the sacrifice before anointing Saul, King of Israel. There Are Plenty of Instances. So also Solomon, before dedicating himself to tbe work pf building the temple, went to "the high place that was at Gibeon" and there offered a thousandfjsurnt offerings. In the first book of Kings, xiv., 23, Judah was denouced for its sins, "For they also built them high places and images and groves on every high hill and under everygreen tree." It is probable that in the latter years' ot the Jewish Theocracy the idolaters had brought the "high places" into disrepute and the feeling engendered against them seems to have pasesd down to apostolio times, for Paul in writing to the Ephesians speaks of wrestling against spiritual wickedness in "high places." Though commentators hare put a differ ent construction on Paul's meaning, yet the the fact that Epbesus was in a country fnll of sacred groves and mountains dedicated to tbe worship of heathen deities, seems to make it probable that he was denouncing worship similar to that of the Mound Builders. M. V. B. Dotjthitt. SHELF-WOBH BOOKB. The Big Publishing Houses All Arrange With Second-Hand Men. New York Sun. Who knows that almost every publishing house has a regular arrangement with some cheap bookseller or second-hand book dealer for the sale of shelf-worn books? It is a fact And akin to this' is the lurther fact that one of tbe great Broadway shop ping stores never exposes what are called "bargains." Whenever they have remnants, or broken sets, or goods out of fashion, in stead of getting rid of them on bargain counters the proprietors send them to a great Sixth avenne store, where they are sold in that way. Thus the Broadway firm guards its sense of dignity. TEE COLOB OF A BOOS Has Much to Bo With Its Sale In This Intel lectual Age. New York SanJ One of the most expensive books brought out this year has failed to sell because it had a dull-colored cover. It was very ricnly illustrated and elegantly printed, and, as a further effort to make it unique, the idea of binding it in leather was adopted. Tbe booksellers offered it to their lady customers, but tbe ladies listened to nothing that was said tor it They brushed it aside with the remark, "It's not pretty," or "It will not match anything in tbe house." Vastly Inferior books with a splash of red ids. on tne cover or witn goia or suver cnas-. i ing on tbe binding were sold as fast as they could be printed, J A FANTASTIC TALE, INTRODUCING HYPNOTIC THEORIES. WKITTEN roil THE DISPATCH BY F. MAEION ORAWFOED, Author of "Mr. Isaacs," "Dr. Claudius," "A Soman Singer," and Many Other Stories That Have Taken Hank as Standard Literature. CHAPTEB XV. pace more the cloud of passing time de scended and was lifted. Then the walls of the house weie opened, and in a low arched chamber the rabbis sat about a' black table. It wis night, and a single smoking lamp was lighted, a mere wick projecting ont of a three-cornered vessel of copper, which was full of oil and was hung from the vault with blackened wires. Seven rabbis sat at the board, and at the head sat Lazarus. Their crooked hands and claw-like nails moved nneasily, and there was a lurid fire in their vulture's eyes. They bent forward, speak ing to each other in low tones, and from beneath their greasy caps their anointed side curls dangled and swung as they moved their heads. But Levi the Sbort-Handed was not among them. Their muffled talk was interrupted from time to time by the sound of sharp', loud blows, as of a hammer striking unon nails, and as thnneh a. rnr. i penter were at work not far from the room in which they sat. "He has not repented," said Lazarus, from his place. "Neither many stripes, nor cold, nor hunger, nor thirst have moved him to righteousness. It is written that he shall be cut off from his people." "He shall be cut off," answered the rah- uin wuii one voice. i "It is right and just that he should die," j HE STOOD BEFORE continued the father. "Shall we give him over to the Christians that he may dwell among them and become one of them, and be shown before tbe world to onr shame?" "We will not let him go," said the dark man, and an evil-smile flickered from one face to another as a firefly flutters from tree to tree in the night as though the spirit of evil had touched each one in turn. "We will not let him go," said each again. Lazarus also smiled as though in assent, and bowed his head a little.before he spoke. "I am obedient to your jndgment It is yours to command and mine to obey. If you say that he must die, let him die. He is my son. Take him. Did not our father Abraham lay Isaac upon the altar and offer him as a burnt sacrifice before the Lord?" "Let him die," said tie rabbis. "Then let him die," answered Lazarus. "I am your servant. It is mine to obey." "His blood be on our heads," they said. And again the evil smile went round. "It is then expedient that we determine of what manner his death shall be," continued the father, inclining his body to signify his submission. "It it not lawful to shed his blood," said the rabbis. "And we cannot stone him lest we be brought to judgment of the Chris tians. Determine thou the manner of his death." "My masters, if yon will let it, let him be brought once more before us. Let us all hear with our ears his denial, and if he re pent at the last, it is -well, let him live. But if he harden his heart against our entreat ies, let him die. Levi hath brought certain pieces of wood hither to my house, and is even now at work. If the youth is still stubborn in his belief, let him die even as the Unbeliever died by the righteous judg ment of the Eomans." "Let it be so. Let him he crucified?" said the rabbis with one voice. Then Lazarus rose and went out, and, in the vision, the rabbis remained seated, mo tionless in their places awaiting his return. The noise of Levi's hammer echoed through the low vaulted chamber, and at each blow the smoking lamp quivered a little, casting strange shaddVs npon the evil faces beneath its light At last footsteps, slow and uncer tain, were heard without, the low door opened, andLazirusentered, holding up the bodv ot his son belore him. "I have brought him before you for the last time," he said. "Question him and bear his condemnation ont of his own mouth. He repents not, though I have done my utmost to bring him back to the path of righteousness. Question him, my masters, and let ns see what he will say." White and -exhausted with long hunger and thirst, his body broken by torture, scarcely any longer sensible to bodily pain, Simon Abeles would have fallen to the ground had his father not held him under tbe arms. His bead hung forward, and the pale and noble face was inclined toward the breast, but the deep, dark eyes were open and gazed calmly upon those who sat in judgment at tbe table. A rough niece of linen cloth was wrapped about tbe boy's shoulders and body, but his thin-arms were bare. "Hearest thou, Simon, son of Lazarus 1" asked the rabbis. "Knowest thou in whose presence thou standest?" "I hear you, and I know you all." There was no fear m tbe voice, though it trembled from weakness. "Renounce, then, thy errors, and having suffered tbe chastisement of tby folly, return to tbe ways of tby father and of thy father's house sad of all tby people." "I renounce my sins, and whatsoever is yet left for me to) suffer. I will, by God's help, so bear it as to be not unworthy of Christ's mercy." Jl JPJ 111 p3&HLtK4w-AJ , Li-Li J wr -if Mfi iSrwiTO- The rabbis gazed at the brave young face, and smiled and wagged their beards, talk ing one with another, in low tones. "It is as we feared," they said. "He is unrepentant, and he is worthy of death. It is not expedient that the young adder should live. There is poison nnder his tongue, and he speaks things not lawful for an Israelite to hear. Let him die, that we may see him no more, and that our children be not cor rupted by his false teachings." "Hearest thou ? Thou shalt die." It was Lazarus who spoke, while holding up the boy before the table and hissing the words into his ear. "I hear. I am ready. Lead me forth." "There is yet time to repent If thou wile but deny what thou hast said these many days, and return to us, thou shalt be forgiven, and thy days shall be long among us, and tby children's days after thee, and the Lord shall perchance have mercy and increase thy sroods among this fellows." "Let him alone," said the rabbis. "He is unrepentant." "Lead me forth," said Simon Abeles. "Lead him forth," repeated the rabbfc. "Perchance when be sees the manner of bis death before his eyes, he will repent at the last." The boy's fearless eyes looked from one to the other. "Whatsoever be it," he said, "I have bnt one life. Take it as you will. I die in the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ, and into His hands I commend my spirit which yon cannot take." THE 'WANDEEEE. "Lead him forth! Let him be crucified!" cried the rabbis together. "We will hear him no longer." Then Lazarus led his son away from them, and left them talcing together and shaking their beadsjand wagging their filthy beards. And in the vision the scene changed. The chamber with its flickering lamp and black table and all tbe men who were in it grew dim and faded away, and in its place there was a dim inner court, between high beuses upon which only the windows of the house ot Lazarus opened. There, upon the ground stood a lantern of horn, and the soft yellow light of it fell npon two pieces of wood, narled one upon the other, to form a small cross small,indeed, but yet tall enough and broad enough to bear the slight burden of the bv's frail body. And beside it stood Lazarus and Levi, the Short-banded, the strong rabbIs,holding Simon Abeles between them. On the ground lay pieces of cord, ready, wherewith to bind him to the cross, for they held it unlawful to shed bis blood It was soon done. Tbe two men took np the cross and set it, with the body hanging thereon, against the wall of the narrow court, over against the house of Lazarus. "Thou mayest still repent during this nient." said'the father, holding up the horn lantern and looking into his son's tortured face. "Ay there is yet time," said Levi, bru tally. "He will not die so soon." "Lord, into Thy hands I commend my spirit," said the weak voice once more. Then Lazarus raised bis hand and struck him once more on the mouth, as he had done on that first night when he had seized him near tbe church. But Levi, the Short handed, as though in wrath at seeing all his torments fail, dealt him one heavy blow just where tbe ear joins the neck, and it was over at last. A radiantsmile of peace flickered over the pale lace, the eyelids quivered and closed, the head fell forward upon the breast and the martyrdom of Simon Abeles was consummated. Into tbe dark courts came the rabbis, one by one, lrom the inner chamber, and each as he came took up tbe horn lantern and held it to the dead face and smiled and spoke a few low words in the Hebrew tongue, and then went out into tbe street, until only Lazarus and Levi were left alone with the dead body. Then they debated what tbey should do, and for a time tbey went into the house and refreshed themselves with food and wine, and comforted each other, welt kuowing that they bad done an evil deed. And they came back when it was late and wrapped tbe body in the coarse cloth and carried it out stealthily and buried it in the Hebrew cemetery, and departed again t their own houses. "And there he lay," said TJnorna, "the boy of your race who was faithful to death. Have you snflered? Have you for one short hour known the meaning of such great word3 as you dared to speak to me? Do you know now what it meausto be a martyr, to suffer for what you believe, to perish in your sufferings? Ton are standing on the very spot where be lay, you have felt in some small degree a part of what he mnst have felt You live. Be warned. If you again anger me vour life shall not be spared you." Tbe visitors had all vanished. Again the wilderness of gravestones and lean, crooked trees appeared, wild and desolate as before. The Wanderer roused himself and sawUnor na standing beside Israel Kafka's prostrata body. As though suddenly released from a spell, he sprang forward and knelt down, trying to revive the unconscious man by rubbing bis bands and chafing his temples. Note. The deeds here described were don's In Prague on the 21st day of February, in the year lttM. Laziros and his accomplice. Levi Knrtzbandel, or Brevlmanns. or "the Short handed," were betrayed by their own poopU.' i - & tf A 1?f"-, ys- '-KH wmmmmmBmBm -vil
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