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om hing Amant it of Indian Té lllorsea to water at the i that horso does re- 'Of Blucher }\ : p‘egpl' R 'smille. that she recalled some an, eminiscence of the long ago. Do tell me!\ I said coaxmgly. } «>, | Bho Inid down the scarlet stocking she was knitting for Pearlic, and let her eyes wander to the hills, golden with the October-sunlight, as she dreamingly went back over the long stretch of years inter- vening. “Me, it's sixty years and over, for T was coming on fifteen and Busie was two years older. Busie was an orphan- with,seven brothers and sisters who had found places among relatives and friends -living with Weymouth Brewster, her cousin «Pauline's husband, who was a %* merchant in Lime Rock She wasa quiet capable girl, and they set great store. by her. | Her sister Sallie bad-mar- [ried during the summer and gone to housekeepm\ over in Massachusetts, and Busic had been longing to go and see her for quite a while, So when it came a slack-spell on the farm, late in Septem- ber, Weymouth told Susie she could take Blucher- a great ron horse-and go over to her sister's one day and come back the Hext. - \Bugle was wild with delight, as she Tan over to get me to come and help along 'with the work during her absence. She did look sweet, to be sure, as she came out with her batiste dress of soft, silvery «gray, her jaunty velvet hat, turned up to 'show the pearl satin, lining, with its os- trich plumes a-nodding in the wind You see, that hat was bought on pur. pose for her in New York, when Wey- mouth went after goods. There was not another in town to compare with it. \'Well the hired man held the horse while Weymouth helped her on, and sho was off down the rood while we were calling out good-bye to her. Wonten in \those days mostly rode horeoback when they went anywhere, and Susie went on« happy as a bird, until sho got over the state line, when her earcaught the sound of drums and fifes, and her horse began going ss though he was 'a-walking on eggs) Thon Susie remembered all at once that it was 'general trainin'' day over in Massachnsetts. Her horse had been owned by an . ~. Lofficer of the troopers for several years, 'afidcalways . stepped in time to music, 'Blic spied the troopers now on a cross street making for the main street. If they only would pass before she reached them! Sho tried to restrain hor horse, so'that ho-would not overtake them, but: he heard the martial strains, and as \ flung]: tho sweet elixir had filled all his -- veins with life, he pricked up his ears and swept on like the overwhelming leap of atataract, to join them. On he went, .. neverpansing at the rear of theglittering Teolumn,. on, past the array of matting r adly within their saddles; on, to front; and there, beside tho tall | general) fthe gallant chptain, he deigned igtly to form:in 'line:and-swesp on ar shred of Inspiring Hains; 10] he would have Eh won: mcd 1h? the desired effect, and he hit ppot the 7 - happy ides of the dask to keep anything : fromtemgwfiaenmmeibnmm. The froot Yash, wotked for a m on nd. as “Barney I saw 'by her Ewéet wife just:as they. had irmed line on the village green, and\ the. way they would cheer her} ' So thi Sawhat 1 thought of when I, saw.- the horse that , lookéd like Bluclicr.? ‘Good Ufieor comme...... - The Shark and the Pearl mvprs. *The reason why blg strikes in pearls don't create a boom, as & gold discovery would,\ said an old: hand' at the busi ness, \'is because most evetybody knows the danger of it, and if you don't super- intend it yourself you are at the mercy of a pack of the biggest thieves that over lived. The principal dangers are sharks, ° rays and drowning. The sharks aro the . worst, and soma. grounds have old man- eaters that hang about-them_for years, at least the men think so. | 'Iremember one season we got on the grounds early. I was owner of an outfit comprising ten mon, but when we got ready not a man would go over, I didn't blame them, as they pointed out the fin of a big man-eater that was swimming about, I wouldn't have gone over myself for.all the pearls on the farm. 'The shark had a notch on his top fin where some one had put a 'bullet through, and one man said it had eaton his brother, another that his cousin was killed the year before by the same brute; and you would have thought that every man in the place had lost a relative of some kind, so I con- cluded it would be a chatify to put the old murderer on the retired list. I find a harpoon with mo that had barbs that fitted into the iron so that it wonm go in easily, and then when a slight pull was made they would set back. This I rigged to a pole and fastened to a line about one hundred feet long, having it fastened to a keg. Henving the toggery into the boat I got one of the men to pull me to the shark that was swimming around and around, and as it came by the boat I put the spear into its back as well as I knew how, 'We didn't bother about hauling in, but just threw over the rope and keg and lethim go, and that's the last wo ever see of the old man-eater, I reckon he ain't stopped yet, as we kept hearing -of-the-keg-up-along-tlre-coast for-several. |. weeks.\-San Francisco Call. -.~--oai---_--~ .A Senator's Signature. When Senator Don Cameron of Penn» sylvania writes his name in a hotel regis: ter, he invariably puts a dash in front of it thus: -J. D. The dash is very long, and begins where the page of the book is fastened in its place. If the register is a very wide book, the eccentric dash of the Pennsylvania senator is supplemented by on affix: --J. D. -- Whenever he writes his name on the Fifth Avenue Hotel register, which is a wide book, he uses the double dash. A gentleman gives this explanation: \I have lived in Washington; know Benator Cameron well;-and the reason he tses a dash before his name, Hemever uses a dash except on a hotel register, At the capital nearly every man has a handle to his name. When s senator or registers ata hotel, the cletk politely adds the prefix, whatever it may be; and if appears that General So-and-so Has deliberately written his entitle. Sen- étor Carkeron, instesd of being s vain fman, is very imodest snd upassuming. The polite cleres put the prefix, Senator, to his name: frequently on the registers, which was erceedingly repugnant to him, His simple request to leavp off all § to his signature did nof hva» . ‘eusy to Jean enoughof it; for: trading Fai pnrpusea‘fbun, | most. Indian tongues, the lexicon eqn- \| tions.' There are. twenty-two > letters. ,| not marry a white woman. The native -| wearcitizens dress, and only in color «'The, \Choctaw: tongue, declared by'Walter Low sonce. rm thoroughly‘is very Jt has more wordsithan tammg about 10,000; The Choctawe for over fifty yoars have had publications | in their Tanguage. .; They_.use the Roman alphabet, with gome modxflca They now have a revular representative form of government, and have had for many years. 'Their principal ~chief is Edmund McCurtain. This officer is elected every two years. Thomas Mc- Kinney has recently been clocted suc- \cessor. . The Choctaw SIs T och- 'kahomma. They have a general council, . consisting of a senate and a house of rep- resentatives, and have county, district and supreme courts, The Choctaw na- tion had the prohibitory liquor law thirty years before Maino, and it was i their constitution thirty yéars before Kansas had it. Itis enforced fairly well, par- ticularly as the United Btates intercourse laws prohibit the introduction of intoxi- cating liquors into the territory, As to the general-laws of the nation, they are not as well enforced as they might be. ''One of their young wgn, brother of the recently elected pricipal chicf, graduated at Yale divinity school last spring. The fact that a white mah by marrying a native woman, se- cures the rights of a citizen in the na- tion is a strong inducement to many men to intermarry with the Choctaws. This, in course of time, will eliminate the Choctaw blood and bring about a solu- tion of the Indian question so frr as they rre concerned, Of the five civilized tribes of the Indian territory it has been found by enumeration that 55 per cent. of them can real. 'The proportion of the Cherokees who can read, 'as> com- pared with the Choctaws, is greater than that of the latter nation, while the Creeks who can read are fewer in num- ber than the Ohoctaws. Bequoys, or George Guess, as he was called, was a Choctaw, who invented a syllabicalphs- bet for his people. It contains eighty- [five characters, and to read, all one need do is to mention the names of the lotters. A smart Cherokee will learn to read in a fow hours. Bequoya formed a better aiphabet for thom than a white man could have made. The, Choctaw alphabet is phonetic, and therefore learned with greater ease than English, I suppose that fully 10,000 of the Ohoc- taw nation do not understand English, ''The Choctaws live almost wholly by agriculture. They ore all farmers sand generally poor farmers, though some of them are quite good. A few ate large formers. There is an erroncous impres- sion concerning Indian territory. The land-is not, us many suppose, very fer- tile, There is a groat deal of waste land there and a great deal of poor land. There is a considerable admixture of white blood with the Indian race, and It is constantly increasing. The Choctaw lands are held if common, and a white man, by intermarriago, gets Choctaw citizenship and equal rights in land, holding them as long asthe does population of the nation is between 13,000 and 14,000. They have two boardingschools, each with ons hundred pupils-one at Spencer for boys and one at New Hope for girls, ey have an orphan school at Wheelock for boys It has fifty pupils, and asimilar school for girls at Wheelock: has fifty- pupils, They are paying much attention to edu- cation. There is a provision for neigh- borhood schools that wherever there are ten pupils aschcol may be established, TX to be paid $2 & month for each pupil | The law riakes attEidatice of-children a¥ school . compulsory, parenfx‘lmnv fined 'for ut sen their ding \The Choctaws sre generally qulst and arderly, except when under the in- Suencaof liquor, There have been a greater number of 'crimes since the war, owing to feuds originating then. They would bedkflngms'fietl fmmwlnte . | that it. was formed by hot springs. of sul- d d other, - \35; 'A bfihla for the. tongue I a “l“ NVWhatnfve hhnritablk forgive will)» : recompensed as well gs what we jam. -ably-give. - s [. ..The.chains of habit. are generally to sinall to be felt till they are too strong to be broken. G lfe‘Wh‘lBu will beits Hui-\AWE. during the coming year. | This. is a of our own country in its most critical -time, as set forth in a. NICDLAY AND COL JOHN HAY. ,_ n with the sanction k, be This groat wor & of President Lincoln, -THE LIFE OF LINGOLflij ~ ny; -He ~CONFIDENTIAL SECRETARIES, *A a fine donndin'fg First seen from the opposite _ some twenty .miles (off, iplooKed'lik breastglfiegf axlver on a great monn‘t | glant. . A néaror inves gation -phur lime, . which 'des great:élovation in. dazeling. white catai acte; and formed in their passage down- | ward by their pétrifying , pote fce-like cliffs and seemingly frozen. waterfalls, . running info natural basins of beautifu 'and varied geometrical shapes, all stalac- etiefcovered ' petrifications of fantastic' forms. On the high plateau whence the once appropriately dedicated to Pluto. 'The holy hot bath 'which stood in the temple courtyard, surrounded by a col- onnade, is still in fine preservation, and beneath its deep, cleat, blue waters can still many-o fluted column and bubbling up from the bottom of the bath. 'The chief source of the sulphur springs (the ancient plutonium) is a cave, from which a vapor issues fatal to ani- mal life, 'This was considered a short cut to Pluto's infernal realms, Not far off is a ruined fountain and cistern, neat to a cave of sweet water which supplied the wholo bo‘wn with that necessary of life. The writer adds, as interesting to the Chistian archssologist, that on a ruined lintel near Pluto's temple he saw these words sculptured: \Js. Cs. nika- Jesus Christ Conquors.\-London Tele graph. e Spires, The tall spire, conveying to the mind an idea of immeasurable height, and seeming to fade away in a point, is, per haps, the most perfectly beautiful bxter- nal feature of the pointed-or Christian styles of architecture to which it prop- erly belongs. In. all ages and countries there has been an apparorit tendency to carry buildings to as great a height as possible, and hones have originated the various architectural forms of pyramids and obelisks, towers in endless varicty, domes of various shapes-classic, Byzan- tine and Baracenic-the minarets of the cast and tall monumental pillars; but the spire, obvious as its form seems in it pure sitnplicity, was unknown in archi- tecture till toward the end of the 11th century,\ There have been many dis- cussions, somewhat unprofitable, though interea'ting, as to the source whence the mediaeval builders drew their first ideas of the pointed arch and spire, and gen- eral opinion has apparently settled to the conclusion that the pointed arch was simultaneously suggested to the various nations of Europe by the sight of the Baracenic arch during the crusades, If this were really so, it must be added that the Christian builders improved so vastly upon any hints they may have re- ceived from the cast that all traces of such origin rapidly disappeared. The spire, however, is a purely self-cavolved feature, which originated in the general tendency of pointed architecture, com- pletely independont of external hints or examples, Among other suppositions it has been said that the form of the spire might have been suggested by the pyra- mids or obelisks of Egypt; but there aro so many points of dissimilarity between these objecta and the true spiro that it is extremely unlikely.-American Archi- tect. Virtues of Cord Coffee. A good mark for Gen. Boulanger! In the instructions sent to the officers com- manding the regular army and the mili- tin reserves engaged in the autumn manceuvres they wero told to inevent, as much as possible, soldiers drinking at the first well they meet, and if the weather was hot, tomake each man take with hiri before setting out on & long march a provision of filtered water, If he had said, \s provision of cold cof- Tee,\ it would have better, 'There is no such safe and 'sustaining drink as coffee for the morcHing soldier, tourist or sportsman. It prevent, in places where food is | the tissues, | Theinternal waste caused byfafigus’ls the most dangerous of any, inasmuch asthe vitality is foo Tow to throw 16 off, and so all the dead stuff in the bodypoisons what is living, | T have springs descend are the ruins of a temple: L fnely-carved cornice... Gas is continually | in pain ; and the worst pains usually spring out-of pleasures.. '- To-all infonts and purposes, 'he who will hot'open his eyes is, for the timg. 'being, as blind as he that cannot. \bright side and a, dark Sidey. gain or loss from mémory defends on the 'slde of it which we have in our mmds as it is recalled. by us. * ._ Heo that gives good advice builds thh \ome hand ; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both ; but he that gives good admonition and bad ex- ample, builds with one hnad and pulls down with the other. . The Stature of Great Men. This is a subject with respect to which 's young man in New York asks us to give himvinformation: \In a dis- cussion the other night I~claimed. that the majority of the world's groat men were of largesstature, Am I right?\; . The men who arse commonly accounted great may be of either small~ or large stature. Samucl J. Tilden, was short, slight and throughout his life delicate in and much nervous-force. My. Glad- stone is a tall man, and so also is Bis marck, bug Disraeli was of middle height only, and Napoleon Bonaparte was short, while Wellington was not tall. Jefferson was tall, thin and angu- lar; but Alexander Hamilton was slight and considerably under middle stature, Franklin was short and fat, and Peter Cooper was only about 5 feet 6. Com- modore Vanderbilt was tall and com- manding, but Jay Gould is short and unimpressive in his physical appearance. Grant was short, and so also was McClellan, Farragut was a rather small man, but.Robert E. Lee was of a com- manding stature, as was also Charle- magne, but Hannibal was very small, and Julius Cmsar was not above medium height. These, we suppose, are men whom you would call great, but, you see, some of them were short, and only a few were remarkable for their stature. It might, perhaps, besaid generally that such men are more apt to be under than above the ordinary height; for what you call greatences largely deponds on capacity for continuous application, and, on the whole, the most enduring men and the best proportioned are apt to be those of medium stature, if not those somewhat under the medium. -New Fork Aun. Hadn't Had Aoything Lately. The lecturer had penetrated into the the interior.of Missouri, whore entertain ments of any kind were \rarely known. He had some doubt about securing an cated his fears to the hall proprietor. 'Don't be alarmed,\ said tho latter; ''you'll have a crowded house, 'cause, you see, we hain't had anything here in a long time.\ Thus encouraged, tho lecturer sent out his bills, But his fears woro realized, the audience being of the thinnest kind, though it wasn't half as thin as the lec- ture was, I am disappointed,\ said the lecturer,\ ashe reluctantly counted out five dollers for hall rent that didn't haul. \Bo am I,\ replied the hall man, dry- ly. *I thought I would have a full house.\ (II m.\ **'Oause you said you hadn't had any- thing here in a good while.\ ''That's just it,\ said the hall man, cramming the five doliars into his wal- let aud pocketing it, \and we Hain't had anything yeti\ The explanation was sufficient, - Teras Biftings. Lines in a Bible, In oue of the bibles used in the supe rior court at Atlanta the following lines are written on the fly-leas: ° «'This good and holy book By Sheriff Green was took To satisfy a debt, - But now itis Riven To point the way to heaven To the sheriff and his set.\ There being 244 days to the season, the aggreifsts consumption is placed st Lwrmym (”Sm Et Jacobs ON is dizary core for [ Hxriancecyi poorer beichin an farmer's l ced a mast extraor- by Hou. James cr, ic. | nm-fmmmmmm-fl relief, for aNMeary wold on the chest, accaosi- parted by @ severe cough, I tid Red Star f- Cough Care, and in a reryshort time was . I2 (§ entizated that <e vast-36h «Ymuwmfig -The groatest pleasuresoften originate - 'There, aro twoaldea to all- memories, a} 'and. the [: health, though with a strong vitality | audience in one town, and he communi- | and I the: aad Deaths of Mr. Es tas was mafia?“ mam ; authority of his son, the ~. Hon. szt \T. 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