0"
poses; thefjeetrrang Jo piifeat any
.possible carrying of news with regard
to French military matters, should
' there be necessity. . - .
The ' United States Government is
'seeking , by ti ecept 'and " example to
induce towns with - names ending in
the forms burgh, borough, "boro, and
-'burg, to adapt this last form. Burg
is the usual pronunciation in the
United States of the form burgh, and
; most Americans refuse to sound the
final "h," even of Edinburgh. These
several suffixes, and, as well, bury,
brought and burrow, are related to
the Anglo-Saxon verb beorgan and the
German bergen, to hide or to sheter.
' The several suffixes are also related to
several Anglo-Saxon forms meaning
un earthwork, and from this came the
application of such suffixes to indicate
a fortified town.
'' One element of difficulty in bring
ing Spanish-American offenders against
the laws tp justice in our Territories
derived from Mexico is the ties of raoe
and kinship. An atrocious criminal
or Mexican blood may bo protected
through yeats, of a lawless career by
relatives and family friends who tbem-
selves are eminently respectable and,
. except ,there the safety of frjends or
kindred 'are. concerned, law abiding.
.This protection is continued after the
criminal-has been brought into the
courts, ,ih the way of the bribing and
packing of juries and in the providing
of avenves of escape from prison.
Thus for years the murderer and out
law Porfirio Trujillo hasgo.ne at large,
or, when ; apprehendod, has found it
easy to escape , the penalty of his
" crimes. HiB present headquarters are
in the Manzano Mountains, east of
Albuquerque, in Eastern ' Bernalilo
andA Valencia Counties, where, with a
price on his head, he perpetrates his
V depredations and outrages with a high
and defiant hand. One form of plun
. deringjfitb Trujillo and his gang is to
Tntoli flock of ' sheep and drive off
hundreds at a time, orVto run off cat
tle from'the plains ranges, kflf -toem,
and sell the- meat to inhabitants of
the mountain towns. They do not
hesitate at murder, either for oafoj
or revenge.
, ...... . " I
Everybody- is interested m a lovo af
fair, admits the New York Sun, but
, " t.w. vif Mian Martin Morris and Mr.
'Jack Simonson, of Oberlin, Kan., is a
new step in the evolution of law.
Morris va, Sim.onson rises to the dig
nity of a precedent that will doubtless
be bound in calf and go down genera
tions as "108 Kansas," or under some
kindred classification. Miss Morris
and Mr. Simonson were engaged,when
MlVinonson ;. moved to .Oberlin.
There ha met Miss Florence Gilett, a
- school teacher, and sought to marry
S her. V Meanwhile' his, letters to Miss
Morris grew colder and finally ceased.
Mr. Simonsflflkthen sought to have
conveyed toMws MorAs through his
.' sister that, he no longer loved her. and
was going to marry Miss Gilett. , Mi3
-, Morris immediately packed her trunk
and,' goirig.to ' Oberlin, proceeded to
get out an injunction restraining Mr.
Simonson from marrying Miss Gilett.
This bold step . on Miss Morris's part
has half paralyzed the bar of the
State. , Nobody ever heard of such a
thing before. :; Miss Morris's" lawyers
vainly tried . to , get ' her to brtyg
breach of promise suit. TAat tjhey
could handle, there beiag numberless
precedents. Miss Morris wouldi not
be persuaded. "What she, wanted was
not damages,' but her young man. I Not
havinz read Belzw:, she says that if
Mr. Simonson can bo restrained from
' marrying Miss Gilett for a reason
able time, . she can win him baok
again. The lawyers of all sorts regard
the case as a leal nut, and sefem to
incline to the 'unon that the action
is grounded inth common lawj and
that Miss M -vill cot another try.
To feel the torture of delay,
The agony of hope deferred i
To lebor still fromday to day,
, The prize unwon, the prayer unheard.
And still to hope and strive -an 1 wait
The due reward of fortune's kiss
This Is to almost conquer 1 tte,
This is to learn what patience fs.
Despair not though the, clouds ars dark,
And storm and danger veij the sky ;
Let fate and courage guide thy bark.
The storm will pass j the port Is nigh.
Be patient ! and the tidy will turn,
Shadows will flee before the sun.
These are the hopes that live and burn
To light us till our work is done.
4 , i r All the Year Bound.
LILLIAF3 LOVER.
BI HUE&EN FOBBEST GRAVES.
H, I am
afraid," said
Jessie Mor
ton to her
self, "that I
have missed
my way."
Down in
the rocky
gorge the
Ghiqnct Riv
er roared and
foamed ;
across the
snow- man
tled land
scape a red glow of sunset yet lingered ;
while the black pines and cedars
quivered in the wind.
"I wish," added Jessie, "that I
had asked that man below which was
the right turning to take. But I was
afraid of him; he looked so cross."
She was a tall, slim slip of a thing,
with blue, wistful eyes, hair of the
real Scotch gold, and red lips, that
trembled partly with cold, partly with
a certain vague terror at the position
in which she found herself.
In her hand she carried a heavy
bag, for Jessie had no money to pay
omnibus hire, or to engage a sleigh at
the railway station.
"Suppose," she said to herself,
"this lonely road should lead no
where, except into the woods ? Sup
pose it should conduct me straight
into a gypsy camp ? For it seems
more and more desolate the farther I
go. Suppose I should , be frozen to
death, all alone here, with no helping
hand to save me?"
"Take care, child," cried a loud,
clear voice. "Do you want to be run
over?" . .
It was no gypsy, nor yet a black
brown tramp, simply a plump, com
fortable women, driving herself in a
trim little red outter. She eyed Jes
sie curiously through her spectacles.
Jessie returned the gaze with interest.
"Please, madam," said Jessie, "can
you tell me if I am near Bucknor Hall ?"
"Bless me," said the woman, "don't
you know? Bucknor Hall was burned
down last night, and the old lady was
suffocated in the smoke. Friends of
yours?"
. Jessie put her bag down in the
snowy road ; she trembled violently.
"No- not exactly friends," she said.
"But I was engaged to go there as
companion and reader, and and
Oh, what Bhall I do now?"
The old lady looked meditatively at
the lash of her whip.
"Come from New York?" said sne,
after a pause.
, "Yes from the Wilber force Protec
tive Agency. And I spent all my money
for the ticket here." -;
"One of two bright round tears de
tached themselves from the long lashes
and rolled slowly down her cheeks.
, Mrs. Parkhurst, who prided herself
on her knowledge of physiognomy,
made up her mind on the spot.
"One thing is very certain," said
she. . "Mrsi Bucknor will never re
quire a companion and reader now.
Ana it you're puzzled what to do next,
you bad better jump in and go with
me."
1 WlWre ?" said Jessie.
"Hoipe," tsaid Mrs. Parkhurst.
Now, Jessie Morton herself was not
a bad ju'dge of the human face divine,
and in the indescribable solitude of
this moirUni, she caught at the wel
come ideu of shelter and company.
She got; into the red cutter, drew the
buffalo robe around her shivering form,
and nestled, close to Mrs. Parkhurst,
before aha ventured to ask, timidly :
"Where i8 home?"
Mrs. Parkhurot shook the reins. The
pony darted merrily over the smooth
roftd into t he imrplmg duss
"It's the Baett Military Institute,"
place?'
ast nave one.
hen," said Mrs. Parkhurst, "we 11
think of it Fourteen professors and
one hundred and ten boyB that's a
family to take care of, isn't it? For
the colonel's wife is an invalid, and
don't trouble herself about the house
keeping. I and my widowed daughter
run the whole establishment, and
there are nine of us sit down to din
ner in the housekeeper's room. There !"
as they drove in" between two massive
stone gate-posts, into an avenue of
rustling tamaracks. "Do you see.that
pretty young lady gathering, holly
berries? It's the colonel's daughter,
Miss Lillian Bassett."
"You've come back, have .you, '
Parkey?" cried a sweet, girlish young
voice. "Did you bring my chocolate
caramels?"'
"The candy store was shut up, Miss
Lilly."
"Oh, how perfectly shameful !"
And a cluster of glaring red ber
ries, aided by a not unskillful hand,
hustled through the air, and hit the
housekeeper exactly on her hose. But,
instead of evincing offense, Mrs. Park
hurst only laughed.
"Isn't she pretty?" said she. "and
such a mad-cap. Well perhaps mar-,
riage will sober her down." " " i
"Is she to be married soon?" asked
Jessie.
"We don't quite know," said Mrs.,
Parkhurst. "But one of the young
professors admires her very much,
and we think she don't quite dislike
him." V
Jessie looked wistfully back to
where Lillian Bassett's scarlet mantle
lighted up the snowy terrace. Why
were some girls so happy, while others
toiled ceaselessly on in life's shad
own ? Why was life such a problem?
For awhile, however, the wheels re
volved smoothly. Jessie's references,
forwarded from the Wilberforce Pro
tective Agency, proved all that could
bo desired, and she was engaged to
take charge of the linen-room.
During an outbreak of scarlet fever
she found herself particularly efficient
as a nurse,' and Mrs. Parkhurst soon
began to wonder how it was that she
had ever got along without her.
"Married, Lilly! Really married!
And to that handsome young pro
fessor of mathematics!" cried Adela
Maurice, ' Lillian' ex-schoolmate.
"Well, I never expected to Bee you
caged! And he's quite a self-made
man, they tell me."
"I tell dear Lillian," said Miss Bella
Bassett, the sharp-nosed maiden siBter
of the genial colonel, "that she should
not make too sure of anything in this
world. The captain is very hand
some, and all that sort of thing, but
I'm afraid he's inclined to be a
flirt."
"Nonsense!" cried Lillian, coloring
wrathfully.
"Oh, but indeed, I've met him
twice at the shrubberies, walking with
that pretty yellow-haired girl that
takes care of the linen-room," per- !
sisted Miss Bella.
?Wha.t!" exclaimed Miss Maurice.
"One of the servants?"
"Now, Aunt Bella, why can't you
hold your tongue, " flashed out Lillian,
"when you know very well thatojd
Parkhurst says she is a reduced lady?"
"Reduced ladies have no business
wandering : about the laurel hedges
with handsome young engaged toon,"
viciously retorted Miss Bassett. "And
I really think my brother ought to
inquire into it. There she goes,
flouncing out of the room. "Well, I'm
really afraid, Adela, that our Lillian's
temper isn't altogether perfect. "
VI don't think mine would; be,"
said Adela Maurice, "if I were bad
gered like that."
"It is a -dreadful trial, isn't it, to
see your lqver drifting ' off into an-'
other woman's snares ?" said Miss Bella,
wilfully misunderstanding things.
While Lillian, running up stairs,
paused to catch her breath at one of
the big mullioned windows ou the
staircase. ;
"How I should like to crama'oig
bath sponge into Aunt Bella's cen?
sorious old mouth !" said she. "Only
to think of" ,
Suddenly she paused. Down on the
lower pine walk, where the west winds
had, swept the path dry of snow, Cap
rain Moreton was pacing up and down
with the gold-haired young girl at his
side. . v - -
"Well, why shouldn't they?" said
brave Lillian, swallowing the rebel
lious lump in her throat. "I sup
pose he happened to mett her, and"
At this precise moment, however,
the couple paused beside a group of
dark spruces. - She could distinctly
perceive het lover bend his tall head
to kiss yes, to kiss the yellow-tressed
J, kiibic. And then they passed oti into
.i t't'Cni n gT1 W-
liahTIeaft faifelvithin her.
' Haw . sinn ha1 ' hum himnnlf HO
bravely?" she thought. "Where is
his conscience his manly truth?"
"I am glad, Lilly, to find you alone, "
Raid Captain Moreton, tenderly,' tak
ing her hand in hi?.
She jerked it away.
"I hate sitting hand-in-hand," said
she, in answer to his surprised glance.
"It's so so spoony!"
"Well, just as you like, darling," he
acquiesced, seating himself beside her.
"To find you alone, for I wanted to
talk with you very particularly. I
have a secret to tell you."
"There may be more secrets than
one in the world," aiid Lilly, in alow
voice.
"A secret tat is not entirely mj
own a secrat that may, perhaps, altei
all our existing arrangements "
"It nnaoubteuly will," said Lilly,
rhiug to her ie t in her excitement.
"Jlou neea not go on, Captain Moreton.
X know rl), und I give your betrothal
tin? back to you!"
'Lilly, I would scarcrly have thought
this of you !" he said, gravely. .
"No? For what did you take me,
ihen? Am I not a woman, with a wo
man's spirit ? Do you think I can con
tinue to love a man who is false to
me?"
"False to you, Lillian? But I am
not that. Sweet, whether you marry
me or not, I shall go on loving you
loyally to my life's end!"
"How many girls do you love at
once?" bitterly asked Lillian.
"1 ? Why do you ask that question ?"
"Because I saw yon this very after
noon in the pine walk with another
woman. I saw your arm around her
waist. I saw you stoop to kiss her !"
"Ob, you saw me, did you? Then
my story is half told already. It is
but a short time, Lilly, since I knew
it myself. "
She stood looking at him with large,
surprised eyes.
How dared he speak so lightly and
to her?
"Lilky, that sweet young girl whom
Mrs. Parkhurst has employed in the
linen-room Miss Moreton, she calls
herself is my own sister,' and she has
concealed herself from me, fearing
that the knowledge that f he was in the
institute in such a capacity would
prejudice my future unfavorably.
She was a governess in New York
she was coming here ns companion to
poor old Mrs. Bucknor, who was killed
in the fire and Mrs. Parkhurst,
ignorant of any relation between us,
bro.ight her here. And, noble heroine
that she is, she would have gone away
without betraying herself, had I not
chanced to meet her by accident. She
thought I would be mortified, but in
stead I am proud of her beyond the
power of word" to express.
' 'But Miss Bassett?" said she.
"Aaid then I told her that this even
ing you should know all. I have kept
my word. Now I await your verdict.
Have I not reason to triumph in such
a noble sister as this?"
Lillian burst into tears ; 3he hid her
iace on Morel on's breast.
"Oh, - Will," she cried, "what a
dreadful goose I have been to doubt
your love ! Go and bring her here at
once. Tell her I want to see my dear
new sinter Tell her that, hereafter,
her home must be with me. There's
plenty of room in the new house for
yonr sister. But first, .Will, kiss me
and tell me that you forgive me,
quite." .
And so the brave young girl, who
had subordinated her whole life to her
brother's success, was promoted to her
proper place on life's ladder.
"I could have been happy anywhere
had I known that Will's future was
assured," said she.
And Lillian laughingly told her that
the could be as happy in the new col
lege as anywhere else.
"And we," said she, "will be a deal
happier I"
Miss Adela Maurice and Jessie were
the bridesmaids.
' Aunt Bella put her disappointment
in her pocket, and the wedding came
off at Easter, greatly to Mrs. Park
hurst's delight.
. "I knew," said that worthy dame,
"that she was something out of the
common the first look I ' had in her
face. Physiognomy never yet' failed
m "Saturday Night. - '
The Czar and fho-Poe
An utterly unknown British poet
recently sent some verses to the Czar
congratulating him ou his recovery.
Apparently so surprised and pleased
Ht getting a good word from England,
he sent the poet, much to his aston
ishment, a magnificent fur coat. New
York Jonrnal. ,
A tailor in Turkey, if a staled htmJ,
Win command $3.07 per wek.
'Tsoulsfirw
way ot express;
music ever worried
"Ate there not some
liable to be influence! than
was asked by a News reporter,
"Breeding has nothing to do
it," was the reply. "You find s
people who don't care a straw
music. And again there are ot
who. without understanding a
are passionately fond of it. It's
so with dogs. It depends .on the i
vidual character of the animal.
"Is it not a fact that dogs of a
nervous devlopment are most ap
be affected?"
MYou can't lay down any rule as
that. In my opinion it isn't at all
question of nerves. There are ner- j
vous people who ore quite ; indifferent !
to music, and there are phlegmatic
people who will go out of their way to
hear it. You seel compare dogs with
men, and draw my conclusion from
the comparison, because I have made
a long study of dogs and find that
dogs are more like a human being than
are any other animals,
"Look at that big white bulldog
yonder," continued Mr. Mulvey.
"That's Prince, who made such a rack
et at the bench show that they had to
chain him up in the cellar. k His grand
father killed nearly a hundred dogs,
and Prince is like his grandfather, yet
if you pipe for him you'd find that
he'd just as lief dance as fight." ,
Mr. Montgomery, an amateur nat
uralist on West Fourty-seventh street,
confirmed Mr. Mnlvey's - statement
that dogs are generally fond of music.
"I have known even fishes to mani
fest a very positive gratification at
musical sounds," he said also. "You
have heard the story of the carp in the
waters at Fontainebleau that respond
ed regularly to the tinkling of a bell.
It is undoubtedly a true story. In my
aquarium there is a gold fish which I
have had for several years. It knows
me as well as my dog. When I whistlo
to it it comes to the surface and feeds
eut of my hand. Adjoining the room
in which the aquarium stands is a
piano. Let any one play on it and
this gold fish will dart about in the
liveliest possible fashion. "
"You think it has a sense of har
mony then?"
"I know it has. That is shown by
the .fact that mere thumping on the
piano, without producing any tune,
does not affect it. It will lie as still as
if the instrument were silent. ' The
other fish do not seem to have an ear
for music.
"But speaking of dogs, there is a
cocker spaniel in Philadelphia, who
beats the record for- musical proclivi
ties," the speaker continued "He
belongs to a surgeon at one of the
hospitals. Not only is he quick to
recognize melody, but his master has
actually taught him to turn a tune. It
sounds like a fairy story, I know, but
it is an authentic fact. He lifts his
chin, presses his ears close to his
head, like a dog in the act of howling,
and gives vent to a cry that has both
measure and melody."
The following incident ocourred at
the Brooklyn Academy of Music: It
was during a performance by the late
Hans von Bulow, the famons pianist.
He was playing one of Schubert's
compositions -a soft, pensive strain,
which he rf.deredwith exquisite feel
ing and d'iiicacy. Presently two rats
peeped &4ni behind the scenes and
cautiouCl approached, the piano. In
a minut-or so 1they were fol
lowed by three or fwir more. Finally
they all esconced 'themselves under
the instrument and sat there upon
their haunches, listently intently, un
doubtedly charmed by k the strains.
The player was unconscious of the
strange audience which his perform
ance attracted, but the extraordinary
spectacle was witness by nearly every
body in the house.
"Some years ago," Mr. Montgomery
said further, "I had a pet crow which
was as intelligent and mischievous as
pet crows usually are. I gave it as a
present to the little daughter of a
friend of mine. This friend was a tine
performer on the flute, and he often
employed his talent to beguile an old
rat that frequented his back yard. He
used to amuse callers by taking down
his flute and giving them proofs of its
power over the susceptible rodent On
one occasion, while the rat was siVting
listening to this performance, the p
crow happened to oe percnea at an
open window on thje second story. It
was not a crow thacared or that sort
of thing. InJeed.JI never heard of a
crow that did. Suddenly, while the
flute was emitting its most duloet
notes, there was ajSapping of wings
and the bird descended like a bolt
from its perch. Whether the rat was
Wo spellbound
J to 1 on guani agaiasj
w
j
A
Hi
t J.
T, 'V
Jkp.ner wt-k
lOVIW AW J O - JL &
to the kitolffin window and thrusting
Its head out as before. Since then its
Susceptibility to music has been fre
quently demonstrated, and neighbors
often bring strangers in to witness the '
sight. ' ,
Mr. Montgomery told the News man
that next to dogs snakes wera most ,
easily affected by musical sounds? H
xuld readiiy believe the stories wica;
same from India of the use which thfi
fakirs make of their knowledge of th:
!act. He had himself experimented j
irith snakes, but under circumstances'
ihat did not afford the best test. The
Bommon oiacjv nuri P.-, .
be quite easily charmed, , especially
when it is young. Bnt snakes are not
attracted by every musical note. There
re some strains that catch then
iooner than others. He hd not
itudied the subject sufficiently to say
where they drew the line. As aitsnal
thing they seem to prefer a slow , and : ,
mournful measure. ' , .
A Students Confession. .
D. A. Costigan, a student at the
University of Fayette, West Union,
Iowa, who was alleged to have beeu
on Tuesday night, has made a full
confession in writing exoneratii'l?
every one but himself. To avoid taky ,
ing part ' in an oratorical contest.
Costigan besmeared his clothes with
dirt and his face with blood and in
jected fluid under the skia above his
eye so that the eye appeared swelled
as if struck by a club. He reappeared
at his room at 11 o'clock, at night and
told bis room-mate that unknown men
bad knocked him down, carrying him
four miles in the country. The niatfer
was investigateu oy me conege um
cers, but no clue could be obtained.
Costigan' s actions excited suspicion,
and finally his room-mate charged
him with complicity in the matter.
Costigan then admitted that he had
planned the whole affair to escape the
contest and create a sensation. CostaA
(ran ia ithnnt twentv-five vears of age. I
He wasa candidate for County Superin
tendent of Schools in Clayton County
last "fall. He has left the university.
New York W
Chinese in the Photographer's , Chair.'
Chinese are the most obedient sub
jects that the photographer has ever
had. They seem to be in awa of the
big camera when it is pointed at them
and apparently are ready to believe
that picture taking is a process in!
which they are as likely to be required
to stand on their heads as not. They
awkwardly try to fix themselves ia
positions suggested by the photogra
pher, and some .of their efforts have
grotesque results. ' Nearly all of them
pose with fixed faces and staring eyes.
If in their posing they were trying to"
bring about the production of pictures
in which it would be impossible to'
distinguish r' one Chinaman from an
other they could not select more effec
tive methods. , "v ' ' . :
Those to whom proofs have been
given act like delighted children when
the rolled sheets bearing the counter
feit presentments of themselves 'are
submitted to them. C Some of them,
who do not seem to have individual
predjudice against complying with the
law, act as though they feel that in the
picture-taking they have taken an
other degree in becoming "Melican
man." Providence Journal.
Sun Sever gets on American ao'1.
! It is the proud boast 'of the Britoa
fiat the sun never sets on br
Majesty's ; Eaapire. - Someone of a
geographical , turn of mind has jajd
the same in respect to the Uo i t e d
Stttes'i possessions, putting- it in, this
waj; "It is a fact known to but few
that he - sun ' never sets ou American
soil. When it is fl p. ia. at A Ho
Island, 'Alaska, "it U 9.39 a. m. the
next day on the coast of Maine. " Who
ran say it the Ft:teir.rr.t in qnotnt lor
is r"Vly accurate? St. Loui.-i lie-
PUbl... ; "
i