Pittston Gazette

              Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming /alley. t'lTTs'i'oN. i.r/.r.;;.\i; C CD., pa.. Friday, fkukVauy mD, r«C«. ESTAIIUISHED I HBO. ' VOL. X 1,111. SO. 54 ( A Weekly local and Family Journal. prison e :il vt theni recognized a minute elajtsed between the signal and his arrival there; (Mi 00 Itotli Souri and Jakey, and told the mar-8lial that they were what they pretended. It » i.ot long before Mrs. Fain was heard grC%pi»g about upstairs in the dark, wanting to know who had turned out the lights and calling on a servant to relight them. When she entered tiie parlor she was surprised to see her daughter in company with a stranger, who was standing, hat in hand, as though he had just come in from without. i itz Hugh spoke with his hand on tho handle of his pistol. "May I trouble you to throw up your hands, professor?"' "It is not necessary'* said Mark. "I THESPIAN THOUGHTS I money no nas taicen our or tne town, ror he will use it wisely, it ia said. The Troy laundry will get the most of it, we opine. "The tragedy played here ia a stolen piece, but the theft was not a crime; it was only a misdemeanor. It was not a great play in the first place, and Thespis with a road company has not elevated it. "The Attica papers all speak of Thespis in a friendly way and call him The Child Wonder, though he is forty-nine years of age and dyes the whiskers on his jokes. "Thespis needs a new play with some pop to it. The writer is now working on one that wotild bring out the abilities of the great tragedian and give him a standing so that he could, with better support, play a return date at times. Now his company is constantly thinned out by the police and filled up from the corn fields along the roads. "Thespis also drinks too much. Our reporter called to see him yesterday, bat was told that ho ' was resting up for the evening.' That will not go with the Grecian press. The walk from his last stand was not an arduous one, and if he ever expects to succeed he must show more consideration for the press. "A little more sceivjry and less realism about the frost brcten feet of the support would help Thespis, and a little more dignity or more clothes in the chorus would bring out a better class of people. The twelve men who saw the play last evening agreed to tell their wives that they had been serving on jury and couldn't agree. This and their youth, togi-ther with the fact that the provost marshal was not a harsh man, saved them from punishment. Th "re was a great deal of feeling against "renegade" east Tennesseeans. and had they been men they would havt- been taken back to the "black hole" at thrt jail and kept there till it was found necessary to more thorn from the approaching enemy. As it was, the marshal directed that they be taken into another room till he conld hear from headquarters regarding them. He kuew the Triggs aad the "black hole," and feared to let them go back to them. t no' m v v ,1 •Tiini Cl'lVHl i!;». i Du reminded DILL NYE REVItWS SOME ANCIENT r all the world "M am unarmed." "You are A liore and com toplieles. Yon conif; 1 me to harbor yon. Von are seeking to injure the cause 1 favor, and I give yon my brother's clothes] when that brother is lighting for that cause. Why do I not send for some ouo You fl ■1 -Mark in irouv jhiu A iiicir.ro of his certain fate flashed across his mind, and he wished Fitz Hugh would shoot him. "On your word of honol•?', "W hy do you ask sneh a question? You know that I am an arch deceiver." "At any rate, yon are a gentlemau. Never mind throwing up your hands." Meanwhile Mark had been giving his heart time to cease thumping, and naa gathered his wits. Laura re.% .lined silent, staring at them l»fDth as tbougjh she had lost her reason. Had she a hundred things to say her tongue could not have been made to STAGE HISTORY. f n r Dan now Artcnius Ward First Found Out How 1 nn,,T H* Was—A Short History ofTlies- pis and About the Audiences He Had—A "Mamma," said Laura, with her heart in her throat, but with the most assured of innocent tones, "this is a gentleman who—Mr."—— That hem Story of Jefltergon. to come and take you oiled [Copyright, I«93, by Edgar W. Xye.] It may be interesting to know that the pioneer American humorist.who was first to study and depict the humor of the \ aukeo and good naturedly to attack the brag and bluster of the enthusiastic American, got bis first inspiration from Joseph Jefferson in "A Terrible Fix." "On account of your native loveli Da* y TAf "Rhett," supplied Mark "Mr. Rhett, of"  "South Carolina." ness me aiu And IS that You arc 1 never regarded my TV devil WffClCMt, 1892, BY-AMUICAn Any old Virginia or South Carolina name was quite enough to insure a welcome from Mrs. Fain. Without waiting to hear what he might say further'or an account of how he came to be t here so suddenly, she said: "And the worst of it i Alui ;: v and sudd the eve. 1 B113T gVC near Dame [CONTINUED.J ppoed when old Triggs re-entered the prison grounds. anCl mounting the flight of stops leading to the second story went into the jail. No one seemed to be about the place. He entered his bedroom and found his wife dozing in* her chair by the window. He asked for the colored girl, and his wife told him that she had not yet returned with the medicine. He waited, expecting every minute that she would come in. Had he not noticed an absence of the groans to which the supposed invalid had been treating him all the evening he might have waited for S Duri without a movement much longer than he did. As it was, it occurred to him that perhaps the prisoner might be dead. Taking np a tallow dip he went to the room where Mark was supposed to be confined. A figure was lying in the corner. The jailer went to it, and by means of the candle saw what he supposed to be the prisoner. The face was to the wall, and he did not at first discover the deception. The officers at headquarters were too busy to meddle with snch a case. The provost marshal's communication was returned with the following indorsement: her eyes sparkling 11 the whil she went on and looked him in 'In another moment 6he was standing son the ladder with the tray in- her hand, .half her body below and half in the attic, regarding a handsome fellow lo iking very much like a gentleman in her brother's clothes. He in turu was regarding what he considered a very pretty picture in the half exposed figure of a young girl holding a tray in her hands on which he knew full well was a breakfast he was hungry for. Then he took the tray and laid it on the lounge. It was the first time that Laura bad •seen Mark dressed becomingly. This was the man she had been instrumental in saving, the man she was protecting, the man she must exercise her wits to give an opportunity to get away to a land of safety from the halter, it was pleasant to see that he was good to look upon. What a fine brow, what a reso- Jute monthl Those locks are golden and fitted for a womau's head. The eyes are heavenly blue. And all this beauty holds a soul capable of plunging into the most frightf. 1 of dangers. And this being, so dazzling to a young girl scarcely twenty, was in her power. CJould she not at a word give him over to An ignominious death? And could she not by care, almost certainly insure his freedom? He was her slave, bound to to her fac more securely than Alice, her .maid, who had been given her by her father. She could order him to crawl on the floor before her, and he would iiave to do so. She hod once seen a ■woman enter a cage of a lion with only a slender whip in her hand, and the huge beast had obeyed her slightest motion. Mark was her lion, and she felt inclined to give him just one tonch of the whip to see what he would do. Sh6 stepped into the room and let down the trap. talking rapid! especially fa.- i that such deviltry to nif I would of f id lie. "are yon all right on utter one. Respectfully referred back to the provost mar.-.lull will) Authority to do with these prisoners as he thinks for the beat Interests of the e to be a m 1 would i 1 would do what vq Reckon I Mark turned toward Fitz Hugh and looked him square in the face. He had conceived an idea; a forlorn hope, it is true, still a hope. Quick to discern people's peculiarities. he had gotten an insight into Fitz Hugh's character when "I'm pleased to see you, sir: are you related to the Rhetta, of South Carolina?"would !k» a sC "Sp v/" • IfUol to the cavalry. I i would be a i had hanee to favor service The spy having escaped it does not appear that there in auy reason to hold them. that c I it tri- The brother and sister were brought in again to hear what was to be their fate. Souri was aware of the enormity of her offense and expected a severe punishment. She had determined to beg the officer to send Jakey back to his parents, then he might pnnish her ae he liked. "An would thir Telijj I had the courage to b ikies free, would "We all came of the same main stem, madam," said Mark, assuming the tons of a southern gentleman. in battl s, II von "Ret The exclapiation was occa horseman who bad ayproai heavens!' med bv a "Well were to that officer had defended him at Chattanooga. He now resolved to take advantage of that knowledge. "Mr. Rhett is traveling, mamma says that—that"  lied while id not no- they were tal •• T1K "Yo' COB'* iarto _ "v.aptsuu," he said, "notwithstanding the iDositi(Sh in which yon saw mo a few days ago, notwithstanding the painful situation in which you seo me now, you have on both occasions done me the honor to consider me a gentleman. I assume to a perception in this respect not less keen than yours. Indeed so sure am I of the delicacy, the refinement of your instincts, that I feel perfectly s;;fe under this roof." "ITow so?" asked Fitz Hugh, surprised. "I am the guest of that young lady." Mark stood With his arm outstretched, his finger pointing to Laura Fain. Laura gave a glance at Mark as be spoke, which caught the eye of Captain Fitz Hr.gh. It contained admiration, devotion. Fitz Hugh gazed from one to the other without a word. "I am looking for mines, madam. You may not know it, bnt you are in the center of a rich mineral region." ticed Mrn rill he rfrufopeiifd the gate and was half way between it and the house. Laura sank into a seat; all color left her cheeks and her heart seemed to stop beating. "Suppose I let you and your little brother go home," said the marshal, "will you go there and keep out of any interference in matters that concern the Confederacy hereafter?" '•Gkhl biV; Mr. •' I wonder if yo' It is pleasant to hear that fortune may come soon, and Mrs. Fain was evidently innch pleased at tbe information.air 2 Or tlDe ( il rirl o came here "Don't be frightened," snid Marlr bending over her and whispering in her ear. ''It is only a private soldier. 13rj's not after me, and if he is he can't confid the o Mark a.sked in a low, "I'll go hvmo." said Souri. "Well, I i-eckon you'd better go," replied the officer. Tben to the guard t Lo'df mind t "Indeed!"' she said calmly o I az Daniel. I'm "Yes, madam, I have been looking for ore. 1 presume I need not say whether in government interest or not; we must have cannons, you know." have me. a Union niau into. Chattano ow I wuut you to go and learn all you can y news. Don't" trust "Take these children," he said to that person when he arrived, "to tbe other side of t he river and turn them adrift, and see that they don't get back here." "Send the corporal here." Mark left her and advanced to the rail of the veranda. "Thespis claims that his entire chorus is composed of young lads, but a man from Attica came on here to lpok for his wife and took one of the chorus home in his buggy -weeping bitterly." Colley Cii/ber was born in 1671. Thespis had severely criticised the tendency of the people, and so did Cibber 200 years ago. They were the same tMnga that are grumbled about now. There are many reasons why audiences are criticised yet from the stage, but it u the same with press, pulpit and president. And yet how necessary an audience is to all of us! We cannot demand that the audience shall be best pleased with what least pleases us. There are a good many elements in an audience, and it wants all kinds of things in two hoars, just as the reader wants news, spar'., humor, poetry, opinion gossip, weatbarrivals, departures, science and lawn tennis in a paper.—for two cents. your own eyes, but ask people what TEYTNO TO 1TAKE THEH LACQH. "Yank," he said, "air y' dead?" No answer. He took hold of the figure's shoulder and shook it. Still no reply. ° Turning Sonri over he at one# recog- "Government officers are not bound to disclose their identity or their objects, sir." "Can you tell me luw fyar 'tis ter Chattenoogy?" asked the man. going en t to know if troops are Charlie Browne (Artemus Ward) had amused his friends many times by his look of intense sadness even while he was in some grotesque situation which itself made everybody laugh, but he did not know that he was acting. He did not know that he was doing a comedy part without support or stage till he saw Jefferson in "A Terrible Fix." "About two miles, J reckon, as the leaving Chatfc ooga, and if so, where Heye are ten dollars, i for the old woman and Souri's heart jumped into her throat for Joy. Turning her expressive eyes on the officer, she said, "Thank yon." "I have been prospecting, madam, and am senarated from mv oartv owine io the stupidity of the driver of the veiiieitwhich contains my crucibles *tjd chemicals. I appeared at j our door and yonr daughter was kind enough to ask me in—not surprising, considering your far famed Tennessee ncspitalfty." crow flies: three or four real tbev ? gon "Htrniirht 'Ion:* "Yes." utD the road?" Buy some things "Mr. Osifer," Baid Jakey, "J thank y* fur gimmeu me back my gun." "I'm the c people1 mean, nor hen, and ask qnestionsi-of other nized the face of the "mulatto girl." patehe hot j didn't a ronner 1 be'n carrven dis this wa ruutne oia nun, and going to the stable lie lx?gau to har- '•I not explain farther, captain," Mark added. "A gentleman cannut mistake my position; o«ly a gentleman can Iu an instant be saw through the ruse that had been practiced. Without stopping to interrogate her, he rushed from the room past the sentinel at the door and out to the guardhouse. There he gave-the alarm, and in a moment the whole guard was in motion. A smile broke over the faces of those present. '.'Well, yon just keep the road and you'll jiot through all right. Any news r da ness a horse to the family wagon Then his Yankee shrewdness showed him that he might utilize this power to his own advantage and '-he entertainment of others. Then he said to him- "I need not ifely wholly on my pen to give me a living. Here's a chance to do better, and at the same time to do something that is agreeable to myself." So he became the first lecturer in America and England who could please and delight an audience alone with his humor, heightened by the art of the stage. Yet Daniel Dougherty told me once that he and Edwin Forrest went to hear Ward together, and Forrest especially was disappointed. That never impaired iny good opinion of Ward, for another man once said that the greatest task of the humorous lecturer is to work all of one evening to make those laugh whom God had never intended should laugh. Forrest belonged to a time when school children believed that the celebrated Indian chiefs. Black Hawk and Logan, were greater men than John Quincy Adams and Benjamin Franklin. Franklin used to say humorous things between times, and wheu worn out after a day'9 angling in the sky for a new kind of lightning wrote humorous things Iter an almanac. This lowered hini in the estimation of those who worshiped the solemn dignity of Logan,-who "was the friend of the white man," and who dared "any white man to say that he ever entered Logan's cabin hungry without getting a drink-" It is said that "Colonel Cressap in cold blood killed the family of Legan," so t'dht there ran not in the veins of any living creature one drop of the blood of Logan. Later historians say that Logan had no family, dying a bachelor and entirely up a stump as regards his family tree, being utterly destitute of parents as far back as the eye could reach; also that a school teaclier near Cohasset wTote all of Logan's speeches for him. The next day the brother and sister arrived at home, and great was the rejoicing in the Slack family. from the front Whi into li M.-trk finished smoking he went house. He passed into the li- understaiid it." "Yon are quite welcome, 6ir." "Don't know any. I bo'n away from brary, wl "You mean, sir," said Fitz Hugh, "that I cannot honorably enter this house and profit or cause my country to profit by what I find here without the consent of the inmates." Mark bowed low, with his hand on bis heart, like a South Carolina gentleman of the old school. Chattenoogy two dav Well, you haven't far to go." lie found Lanra. She seeinCD.», to fed C" i'.-r than when Mark iaCl lw?n njD stairs. bnt s?)A wan in conher to sit on CHAPTER XVI. A SOOTH CAROLINA GEOLOGIST. "(jrOO'l til# t. sir Souri ho{)fil that the sentinel at the door would join in the chase, in which event she intended to go to Jakey's room, get him out and attempt to escape. Bat the soldier only went as far as the door at the head of the long staircase. Then, remembering that he would doubtless be punished for letting one prisouer escape, and that there were several negroes in the "bliick hole" for him to guard, he went no farther. "Have you supped?" asked Mrs. Fait. "Good niirlit tin mil Clr Mar m "Yes, madam; I succeeded in getting A meal by the way. A poor one, indeed a very poqr onC1. with burned beans for coffee. But since the alxDlition Lincoln government has violated all rules of civilized warfare by this cruel blockade —intending to starve us into snbjecCion —I suppose we must take what we can get. I repeat it, we must take what wo can get, madam." Mark went buck, to Lanra. She had not rt covered from Iter fright, and he a not'a laeir facing anot if* one window while he sat ber. we'll have the "1 do.'' was obliged to wait a few moments be fore !:■• reiii'i act h \v- :il f 1 ■ Cjii her "1 • ii enfiladed," h '•Mrs. Fain is.the acknowledged head of this house. anil slie is evidently deceived. But I concede to Miss Fain the nght to speak for her. I acknowledge Miss Fains right to hold me to this secret, if any one has such a right. But when Miss Fain shall have been fully ml vised of all the facts" v Lsuinv Cli«l not understand what that saul •«m t.lui niii at' last k me a fit ilful meant .it she did as lie desired "Miss Fain," Mark said, "yon cannot have any conception of the fervor of my gratitude. You »iand between me and death—not the death of a soldier, but -of a felon. And here," pointing to the breakfast, "you are ministering to my •wants with your own hands." coward "After all Th wato without Buffering the delightful I'm tmh a rdhr for 3*Onrs t rel; fin ring ti'T \\ - j 1 devil neck is in a halter N'l't cor for a poor ger Mark v.-as in delightful notwithstanding thf Laura wanted an I'm oiityva g U tllf soldier, a recklesf irl. hut I o iccmint of his adventures in Chatta:nCl he tcave it. WhD-n she came ''Pardon me; she knows all you know." In five minutes Souri heard the barking of hounds without. Mark's eyes flashed with well feigned indignation. life rDf a brave man mrtnuf er, a lien J noC  to Bonn's a spy irt in his escape Laura was "Then when Miss Fain shall have duly considered the interests of her country I aik quite sure she will give her consent."' "And yet 1 told you not to come here." No word was sent to headquarters regarding Mark's escape till the hounds had followed the scent to the river anrl there lost it. Then one of the guards was sent iu to report the whole affair. Being an infantryman, he was obliged to walk, which took time. Cavalry was the only arm of the service capable of following the escaped man with a chance of success, and cavalry must be ferried across the river or ordered from Dallas, on the other side, ten miles above. The latter course was chosen, and two squadrons were directed to proceed at once, the one to throw a chain guard across the neck of Moccasin point, the other to scour the river bank for a distance of several miles below. Had there been any cavalry nearer, Mark would have had a very slender chance to get away. As it was, he barely escaped one of the squadrons, "It is our duty to bear our deprivations cheerfully," said Mrs. Fain. "We shall gain our independence at last, and lhat should be an incentive." "Anything else visibly affected; indeed so intensely were her feelings wrought u{Don by this portion of the story that she started at" every sound, realizing the more  fectly that Mark's neck was still in jvopardv.Mark was hurt. His heart was full of gratitude. He could not understand how, after doing and risking so much for him, she could blame him for throwing himself on her generosity. "1 did not understand vou so." "There are no more words to express what I mean.'' "Laura," called Mrs. Fain, "if you're going to stay out any later you'd better get arsliawj," The attention of both men became fixed npon Laura, for it was evident that she would be called iipon to make a decision between her country and her lover on the ona hand and the defenseless Union spy on the-other. She was standing near t ho sofa on which she had been sitting, steadying herself by resting her hand 011 the back of a chair. It was a moment of intensest feeling "to all three. La ira knew the sterling worth, the high sense of honor and duty of her lover. She knew that if she held liiin to he would consider it evidence that she permitted her interest iu the_ spy to overwhelm her sense of duty. And would he not attribute her protection to something more tender than an ordinary interest? Fitz Hugh realized her position; indeed there seemed to Hash into both of them the feeling that her decision would lie between two inen—her lover and the Federal spy. With Mark it was a question of lift* or death. "It should, madam, and let me tell you we are about to see stirring times and great successes. This region has become of especial miliary imjDortance. Our foveas will be in front of Nashville, perhaps Louisville, very soon, while General Lee can't fail with such noble men be has in his army—the very flower of the south—the flower of the south, madam—he can't fail, 1 say, to drive the Yankees o«t of Virginia!" "I'm going in, mamma Then camc an account of the trial; the "1 am sorry that you regret your kindness," he added, with almost a tremble in his voice. "t did not say that I regretted it." — "This is a cattleman who—Mr."  They walked into the house together Mr. Flhett, of South Carolina, made a few ci mmonplace remarks to Mrs. Fnin and then tx-ggeU to tDe excused, a* he had been prospecting during the day and was very tired. lie bowed low to the lau.es and then went up stairs. march to the courtroom; the waiting for the counsel; the arrival of Captain Cameron Fi« Hugh. Wlieu the trap door of the attic had closed over Laura Fain after her interview with Mark he stood for a few minutes pondering on her strange treatment of him. Then he turned to the breakfast. He had eaten nothing since the evening before and the sight of the greater part of a fried chicken (it had been killed by Laura's orders for bim only that morning) was especially grateful. Mark applied himself to his meal, and while he ate he went over the scenes through which he had passed since he set out on his mission. Surely he must have been gone a month. He counted the days. He had reached Jasper on the evening of the twentieth of August; Chattanooga on the morning of the twenty second, tried on the twentyfourth, was to have been hanged on the twenty-seventh, escaned on the twentysixth. That was only the evening b«r fore. It was now the twenty-seventh— only a week. Never had he passed such a week before, and he hoped he never would again. Captain Cameron Fitz Ilnghr "But you remind me that' it is not agreeable to you." Then it was all out that Laura's lover had defended the spy, and L.-.ura confessed that she was Fitz Hugh's betrothed."How can it be? You are a Yankee— a spy—and on a mission to discover the movements of our troops." "You are very hopeful." CHAPTER XVII BiRrniKF.D. In the midst of the excitement attending nil this Mrs. Fain entered carrying a silver tray, on wLi'-a was a basket of JL TALK WITH JEFFEBSO!?* "Why, then, do you not give me up?" She shrugged her shoulders. "Can ! turn executioner?" While Mark was thus performing, Laura stood with downcast eyes, and if her mother had not been so interested in the hopeful words of the garrulone South Carolinian she would have noticed a slow heaving of her daughter's bosom, with here and there a slight spasmodic action. Colley Cibber married a Miss Shore in 1693. Being a cautious man-he handled his matrimonial bark so as to hng the shore occasionally, but Cibber was a man with a set of morals that had been handed down to him from an ancestor who was a Roman senator, and in those days the morals of Rome were very much in need of a suitable fly "screen. Cibber was a dramatist and comedian, born in London. He wrote "Love's Last Shift," referring doubtless toOnpid, who has seen some of the most rigid winters, but never wore an overcoat yet. /rD) r}t V ft? wkmw 1 a c nter and glasses. "I see. I am indebted for my present safety to the fact that you do not care to do an unwomanly act." "You must draw your own inference."Mr. f A !itt!o hjjDcheou inaviK)t br amiss i CfertTC •^nsvs your £ i Carolina cristomsXih sneh About noon of the day after Mark's escape the military authorities began to relax their efforts to recapture him, as they had ether matters of importance to attend to, but they induced the country people, by hope of a reward, to continue the search within a radius of ten or fifteen miles from Chattanooga. The provost marshal sent for Souri and Jakey with a view to gaining from them whatever he might concerning Mark's identity and his mission. matte itit my CIai ,sliter :snd' I occafi.-i-uit at this hour." sionallv talif "But I should like to be grateful. How can I when 'you tell me that you do all this for me that your white hands may not have a stain upon them?", "And now, madam," said Mark, "may I beg a night's lodging? I fear it is too late to find my party." Mark rofttarid f.icc l about. His hand went to liis heart and he bowed low. Laura, too, rf mother. and stood looking at bo. "Certainly, sir. Call Miranda, my dear." "It is not necessary that you should feel grateful." "31aCIam, s; get thvs kinrim 1 Marl:, "can I ever for- "Miss Fain—Laura." said Fit* Hugh. speaking slowly and impressively, "J ask your permission to give up this im(Kjstor—pardon me, sir, for the plainness of mj- language; it is essential—thisspy, who desires 4o carry information north But sir.ce that time we have learned that the best dramatic work is the best representation of lmman action and human life. Human,life is not all poison and murder, and "Save met Save me! for I am but a poor sewing girl" (pronounced sueing girl), but there are times when people eat well, sleep well and have fun in preference to running around with a 4-foot sword sticking out between their shoulder blades. Miranda was summoned and directed to show the gentleman to the guest chamber on the second floor in the front of the house. Mark studied her face for a moment earnestly. Then his manner changed. "Miss Fain," he said, pointing, "take away the breakfast." If vou wiil discover the ore yon seek rty I tshall feel amply re- Cibber also wrote "The Careless. Husband," "The Nonjuror," etc. paid,"f "Trn He and Thespis both referred sadly to the decline of the drama. Mark went with the servant and remained in his room long enough to have made a toilet and then launtered down stairs. At the door the parlor in which Mrs. Fain and her daughter were sitting, he paused, as if waiting for an invitation to enter. This was given him, but he did not stay long. For a hot blooded South Carolinian, he seemed not to bear the heat well, and manifested a desire to get out on to the veranda. Indeed he had a wholesome dread of the light. Besides he desired to be where he could converse with Laura. .'in, I wfll have dili nteniiimslv "Why so?" she asked, startled Souri, whose only clothing was that left her by Mark, liegged Mrs. Triggs to get her more suitable apparel before being taken out of the jail. Had the old woman any excuse, indeed had it not been for the presence of the guard at the door, there is no telling what she might have done to Souri. To have been thus duj»ed put her in a towering passion. She went into Souri's cell and berated her with her tongue and shook her fist in her face, but refrained from touching' her. When Souri asked for a woman's dress she at first flatly refused, but fearing she would incur the dis pleasure of the provost marshal still further than she had if she should send a girl to him not properly dressed she selected an old calico frock of her own and gave it to her. "1 am the ijurst of Vint young lady.'' ent M to the detriment of our country; who seeks the defeat cf i.ur cause—the cause in which vour brother is every day risk- Pope regarded Cibber as the most stupid man of his time and said many untrue and cruel things of him. He was made poet laureate in 1780, and then ceased writing anything of merit. "I will not be under any further obligation to one who acts from pride rather than sweet charity. Yon have saved me from the hounds and from the gallows. Were it not for you 1 should now be either about to mount the scaffold or have passed by this tinie into that land where the only human attribute I can imagine as fitted to be there is charity. Whether the danger is now passed from this neighborhood I don't know, but I am going to risk it. I am going down stain and out from under this roof." Soon after ho had finished his breakfast a hand was extended through the trap, a pitcher of water and toilet articles were left and the dishes taken. At noon a meal was handed in by the same fair hand. The next morning Mark hearing a tap at the door got out of bed and opened it cautiously. As was natural under tlie circumstances, he saw danger in everything that occurred. He halt expected to we through the slight opening he at first made yje muzzle of a revolver pointing dirwjV at him. Hesaw a very different eight/Mt was a large tumbler, with a straw in it, on a silver tray in the hands of a negro. iist won] d be hunt- ing fc i »■ e in t niuei t service." ing his life; lastly—though this may be a matter of small importance—thecause for which I, your lover, would lay down my life as 1 would lay it down for you. It su ms to me that it is a question between your duty and your inclination, ..fit •lass the stem of a wine tiinib and finger, ap- I presume that in the days of Thespis, when his first tragedy was produced, there was nothing to laugh at except his poor Greek pronunciation and the dignified way his dead men had to walk off the stage without assistance. Not long since, referring to the stage, I had a happy afternoon in Chicago, and later on in St. Louis a very charming evening with that well balanced gentleman and rising young actor, Joseph Jefferson.propn mcnt; of a South Car mpresse- Though but two meals had been thus left, Laura began to perceive that she conld not thus feed her charge without soon being discovered. When she took Mark's dinner to him she entered the attic and had him close the trap after her. •i would t tum.llv fill the breast tin geologist hunting the govC run for iron y i wh iOllt. i lo malic cannons for Does it seem so to von? That is i: nr~ studv," re- ■Tlu- n veil mo, may I send for a guard ' it d06S No doubt Thespis did the kerosene oil circuit with his first tragedy. The dressing rooms were as bad as they are now. It's pretty hard to say, but very likely in the smaller town?, after you left Attica, the star had a three cornered room with the record of Alvin Joslyn's company in pencil on the wall and a rude lithograph of Alvin with a dried quid of tobacco on his 2-pound diamond. Dressing rooms in those day s also had a view of a colored gambling hell on the alley, and Thespis entered by means of the trunk chute. Every little while something recurs to his mind that should have gone into that autobiography of Ids. "Mr3. Fain's compliments, sail." and ho handed Mark a mint julep. marked 1D l, who was a great to take i "If I may beg you to excuse me, ladies," he said, "I will go out for a little fresh air." "A1 exclaimed Mark, with intense reader :md a vC Now Mark, t tolligent woman Laura'. C yes shown like those of a tigress at bay. In a firm, clear voice, "Fifty years ago," he said, "here in St. Louis, on the ground where we played this evening, I was a fairy and had gauze wings. I won? pink tights, and when the orchestra made the remark— ''I will!" And had she not placed herself between him and the trap he would have earned out his intention. "You will do no such thing!" "It will not do for you to stay here much longer," she said. "My mother has already become suspicious that 1 have something on my mind, and I ffcar being detected carrying these meals. 1 dare not tell her all, and I dare not risk her discovering that vou are here." "I will go tonight." satisfaction igli an educated man He strolled out into the night and walked back and forth on the veranda. "Present my compliments to yonr mistress, and tell her I perceive with pleasure that this noble Virginia custom has found its way into Tennessee, as it has long ago into South Carolina." "Yes, sah!" fortunately knew sion he had teinj and burn to a t for the ; ounces, un- she said "No r sh abont the profc ily adopted than For a few moments there was the stillness of death. „ "Stay where jrou are!" she said in a Toice in which there waa something commanding. "Laura," said Mrs. Fain, "go out and entertain Mr. Rhett. I'm afraid of the night air myself." anv other Souri and Jakey were led to the marshal's oilice, followed by a crowd of curious people, who were aware that they ha l been the means of the escape of a spy, but when they arrived the crowd were left outside. "Tlicr are pome c ns gcoiogical "Slie has decided in your favor, sir," Tammy turn tie. I pulled the string that worked my "Tnraiuy turn teedle. "By what authority do you assume to direct me?' facts," Mrs. Fnin went or ways interest me. I w day tbui a famwu.s wliich al ruiil Fitz Hugh, whose color left his cheek wbein Laura spoke the little word that decided his and Mark's fate. "Yon have nothing to fear from me/' Then turning to Laura: "It will be sure capture for you to go. The negroes tell me that the country people are all out looking for the—the spy." "Do you think it essential, mamma?' "Certainly I do. South Carolinians are especially particular about the entertainment of their guests, and 1 wouldn't have it go back to Charleston that we had been remiss for the world." "There are alleviating circumstances even in the life of a spy," said Mark, contemplating the beverage, "uncertain as that life is. Why will man not always he a philosopher? Here 1 am in a beautifully furnished room; have been sleeping lietween the whitest linen, on the softest of beds. 1 arise and behold this delicate attention on the part of iny hostess, who. if she should know who 1 am, would bring a dozen bayonets to hedge me in, and I should bo waving in the soft summer breeze at the end of a ist has said that ccuturi"!* I h;tviD f■ 'tti'ii how many 8-rending yoster wings and gladly skipped up and down stage like thistle down borne on the bosom of a playful wynd." "Your life belongs to me." "True." He bowed his head —were f(i.i eCl while Niagara falls were wealing tliuir wny from . Lewiston Dressing then was less difficult, no doubt, and the star wore his street costume and had no valet. If the roads were bad he turned up the edges of his drapery till time to ring up. and then turning it down and powdering his legs where the brier9 had cruelly scratched them he sailed in. "You understand me." She spoke with Csren more authority than before. "1 own you. I own your life. You are my slave in a stronger sense than my colored girl." Never was a man more puzzled what to do with prisoners than the marshal m the case of Souri and Jakey. He saw a simple, modest, poor white country girl, apparently not out of her '-teens," and a "I can understand the motive, tlie temptation. The act remains." Mr. Burbank said: "I sent a man to see Rip many years ago. He went from Buffalo on purpose. He was a clergyman and asked me if there was anything about the play that would demoralize him if he went." "I can't stay here and compromise you." to the i How Ions was it "1 have a plan. This evening I will watch for an opportunity for yon to go down stairs. Y ou can introduce yourself as a guest, and though you will be every minute in danger you will be safer than here." Laura obeyed her mother and joined the guest on the veranda. professor'/ It "It could not have hundred vears, mad a tm ha •sa than five that title "You may consider yourself released from all ties with one whose act you do not approve," said Laura. "Be it so," and lie turned to go. Mark sprang forward and seized liitn Mark lifted his hat respectfully to her. 1 Mark, lav "It is that ownership of human beings, Ifiss Fain, coming down to you from past generations, that has given you the spirit to tyrannize over me now." "I tyrannize?" "The moon is rising," he remarked. "I see the waxing light. If you will come this way," going to the end of the veranda, "you can see it better." mg great si ress 011 ti figures as-some- stupid looking boy, who was hot very far into them. thing enormous After he was over with his work friends came back to shake hands with him and hear him tea meekly of his success, and how they hi/ed a field near Icaria and then turned people away. "Did he go?" says Rip. "Who are you?" he asked of Souri not unkindly. Five h I ti glit it was by the wrist "Yes. He was greatly interested in Irving's story and was anxious to see how it looked on the stage." "And, in case I am discovered, will not lie caught like a rat in a trap." Laura followed him to the position, where they were out of hearing. Mark perceivrd gross bhtnder, l)ut it would never do for something like tv hat lie bad r thousand!' "MyGod, this shall not be! Yon believe that this is due to more than an ordinary womanly interest in Miss Fain for me. It is not so. I swear to you, on the honor of a gentleman and a soldier, that Miss Fain has manifested norther feeling tlum one of commiseration for a man hunted for his life," There was a snrprise that was not feigned. She did not realize what she was doing. "Missouri Slack." "Where do you live?" hemp cord in twelve bom's. But sludoe3 not know who 1 am, and, considered philosophically, 1 am Mr. Rhett, of South Carolina, and in clover. Here's to Privat" Mark Malone, poor devil!" .ue a "He was a clergyman, you say?' i a "Yes, he was a clergyman of the Dutch Reformed church." "You can appear as a traveler. You must have a hat. I will bring you one. At tlio first opportunity after dark IH come to the trap and knock. Follow me down stairs. I don't think any one will recognize you in these clothes. They have been packed away since my brother went to Virginia a year ago. Mamma only saw you, when you were here before, after dark on the veranda, and— well, 1 think there will be a very good chance for you to play guest without detection." The relief from keeping Mark concealed in the garret, the success of the imposition of the spurious South Carolinan on her mother, Mark's talent for playing his part, all combined to place Laura Fain in an exhilarated frame ol mind. Like most women she admired daring, and like most women appreciated that daring in one in whom 6he was interested in proportion to the extent of the danger attending it. lim to acknowlt'd "Yes, never have I been so trodden npon as by yon." There was a submission in the young soldier's ton. that satisfied the imperious girl. She v. js ready to heal the cuts she had given, out she waited for him to speak again Jasper." "On the Anderson road, not far from "I am aware,'' he said, '-that such is the opinion of a certain school of geologists with more assurance than brains. I refer to those scoffers who are continuously trying to find evidence against the Mosaic account CDf creation, but I regard their position untenable." Pisistratus was a contemporary of Thespis' and admired him very much. They collaborated on a play called "How Greece Was Tried." It ran a week in Attica and then went 011 the road. Thespis furnished the blood and Pisistratus the teams. The support was poor and immoral. Pisistratus took tickets at the door and drove the team daytimes. "Well," said Mr. Jefferson, 'Tm afraid he was disappointed, for there is nothing in the nature of Dutch reform about Rip." "Ana tnis 6nyr "He's my brother." "When did you come from home?" However, Mark desired to keep his head cool, considering the circumstances, and contented himself with a few swallows of the julep, and after completing his toilet joined the ladies at the breakfast table. He praised Mrs. Fain's fried chicken and light biscuit and corn bread, and was about to give the coffee a few words of encomium when, tasting it beforehand, he discovered the prevailing chicory. So ho entered upon a tirade against the blockade, and ended by hoping that Abo Lincoln would at last be hanged higher than Hainan, a reference that gave him a disagreeable sensation about the neck and caused Laura's bosom to heave tunmltuously. "Your words ilo you credit, sir. Miss Fain, will you make nay adieus to your mother? And I leave it to you to impart to her whatever, if anyt "Three days ago." "What brought you, or how did you know that the prisoner was here and in jail?" "What do you wish me to do?" he asked. There was a ] )lt!Hse»l look 011 Mrs. Fain's .She belonged to the Bullion, and believe! thor- yon "Jakey sent me word." "This boy?" ;ist denom: countenance may have to say as to the reason lor u farewell to you." When the gloaming came Thespis, who sat on the front seat, would say, "Stratus, do you reckon we are far enough away from the last town to try it here?" "Remain where you are till I regard it *nfe * "ft." "Then yon have a desire for my ttfety?" he asked, looking tip at her quickly. "Yon i: re safe for the present," she said, h r eyes glistening in the moonlight and a bright spot on each cheek. (Highly that tl (lays of twent' world was made in lie turned cjnicklyand left the room "Yes." four hours each [TO Br: CONTINUED.] A Compromise. "How much is it from here to Baragossa?""Eight reals." "He Kent me a silk Uankerclier what I give t'other nn." "How?" "The servants?" "Thanks to your courage and ingenu- "Professor e said, withdrawing Thespis played mostly by main strength end often carried his audience with him when the house was light. "They would never betray a Yankee. They think you are all coming down to free them, and they'll have nothing to do but lie in the sun." ity." from the 10011 r the game tin •1 trust Nothing: to Toar. "You came here nnbidden and placed yourself in my hands. Do you think it proper to come and go at your pleasure?" Mark approached her, and bending low took her hand and kissed it. There was something in the act to remind her of the lion—after the training. a v. "How did you send it, boy?" "Niggers." "Um." "Oh.no; no! That's absurd! For you to speak of iny courage! Do yon know that the recklessness with which you pot your neck into a halter is as unintelligible to me as mathematics would be to one of our servants." that yon will remain in 1hiD neighborhood a lony: while, and 1 lies; von to honor Friend—That lur. itti ntivc to M Isonie is Van Ritenhouso, "Carambo! that's a lot. Won't you take four?" as by making tl our hume ia very Confidentially, he 6aid that in one character where h*e delicately killed his adversary bv means of noisnn b* nlnvori over the heads of his audience. At that time the tragedian had to loll a man sc that no autopsy was necessary, or the audience went homo grumbling. "Not an unpleasant occupation on a pleasant day," said Mark irrelevantly. "Should anything happen, I only fear mamma. And, after all, she is a woman,"' she added significantly. ie mcantvr If you are not careful he v.-ill cat you out. . "There's no chaffering here." "Carambo! I'll give you six, thenP "Well, you two are pretty young to be engaged in such mischief." Mark was sta t .i luilf filled j Jan of Fashion—3 ami hers wouldn't I j danger. Ilia name uk well with a hy- "No." The officer looked at them with interest and vexation mingled. lie had lost a prisoner for whom he was responsible, but he could not but wonder at such a dull looking boy achieving so difficult a task as sending the communication, and could not but wlmire the sacrifice made by the girl. The comforts surrounding Mark, the kindness of his hostess, and above all the presence of a girl whose !Dosoui seemed to contain such volcanic forces as would, best harmonize with one whose chief object in life seemed to be to get himself hanged, conspired to make liim feel a safety that he should not have felt nndtfr' the circumstances, lie had been campaigning for a year, during which period he had experienced no greater comfort than a McClellan saddle, and Ihe women of the country through which he had passed had not received him with any marked evidences of pleasure. Is it to be wondered that he 'felt approximate content—if one can feel content ■ whose neck is in a halter— glass of wine in 1 "I say, can I take my dog with me to Saragossa?" "For the cause," said Mark, ought to"  "one right was on his heart Mrs. Fain made phon.—New York Weekly BOURI AND JAKEY. "Which you pretend not to be." ind coii:.\ ojiC As the door elC -il J the floor, admirably rC fier exit through the door by which she Kg room. Thespis played exclusively a one part play, aside from the chorus which he introduced at a reception given to Dionysius. He held the center of the stage and gave a dialogue with himself till he got tired, and then the chorus came in and sang "TheSuwanee River" or "Dundee." The choruses in those days were "Yes, in the dog compartment, if you get a ticket for him?" "For how much?" "Two reals." "If all goes well you will be assigned a room- the guest chamber perhaps— and if it is not safe for you to be down stairs, you may feign to be ill and keep your apartment," "Nonsense! The cause! You love these dangers." f .;u k w.r- i»vndin;; t "I didn't see anytHng funny in lh% story that fellow just tolil. What made you laugh so over it;" IIaCl tiD lie runny "There is a fascination in them, I admit. So long as there is one chance for me, no matter how many there are against me—so long as 1 have an arm or a weapon to fight with 1 am a man. When cornered and taken I am the veriest coward in the world. While in prison in Chattanooga 1 moaned and whined like a frightened child. The truth it that danger is fascinating only either lDefore it is encountered or after it has passed. When I am in it 1 want to get out of it; when 1 am out of it 1 want to get in it again." lag Carolina KC-nt in of the olden time. "Ah, then, let us have two dog tickets."—Almanaque Espanol. | half enrpri lie .heard something lik* low cry— "Do von kno ho he i "What do yon think I ought to do with Mark was better pleased with the plan than remaining where he was. He did not exjDect to remain in the bouse longer than till the next night, when he hoped those who were seeking for him would become fired of the hunt and give him a chance for his life. Turning l eyes fixed in a s(;ir» on 1 1D: I' • rror—from Laum. T'l l»-r bo saw her "No. "Who is her" 'He's tlie l;euCl of our firm —Life "Reckon y' mouglit gimme back my gun," saiil Jakey. you?" ie object at A Striking Brunette. the door opening into the hull. Another tnrn of hi.-i head and t i are of Captain Camera Twice before had Mar A ppropriatc not attractive, The officer could not repress a smile, "What gun?" I the lig "I want," said the astrondtner, "ania pcription for liiy new telescopo which shall bo in the nature of an address to the stars." Horace said that Thespis was a bad actor anCLC not worth the salt he ate on Ids scenery. I have a little notice of the work of Thespis, aa written by Horace, from which I inako excerpts. There is nothing I find that makes a better excerpt than something from Horace: i Fits. Hugh •» a that fnce, "Th' one yer tnk t'other day." once when Fitz Hugh had approached he Pain li'. ;-.Cr Mark had "Go and get tiie boy's gun, orderly," he said to a soldier on duty at the door. "I'll do all you suggest," he said to Laura, "and whether you wish it or not I am very grateful." mormn How would 'IleFe's looking at you' "—Buffalo Express. The gun was not to be found then, but was recovered later, and Jakey was happy in receiving it. ft it nooira ■I OIK when She lowered her eyes under his look of gratitude and then went below. in tlu- Fain manor liuust - But Mitrh liail something else on his mind which he knew was of more importance than his own safety, though its value, if he should possess it, would be dejKmdent on that safety. lie wanted he \ edcrate bad C1 :mec "I don't believe you know the mean ing of the word fear." aim at tii No nt r had Captain Fitz I 5I) laid gnized What a Tityl "Thespis with his company played here vesterdav to a small house heretofore used for storing oats. He played his own play and even 'failed up' on that at times. It was called, .'How Greece Was Tried; or, Render Unto Greece That Which Is Greasy.' "In this Mr. Thespis dies by his own hand, but he is too long in leading up to this point. Very few people were out, and they were not out so much as they would have been had not Thespis made popular prices. "Do you know what you've been doing?" the officer resumed, addressing Souri. "You've helped a spy to escape who will doubtless carry information to the enemies of your country." As soon as it grew dark Mark listened for the signal. It came a few minutes before nine o'clock. Mrs. Fain had remained in the parlor up to that moment, when she went up stairs to get some article necessary to a piece of work she was doing. Laura followed her, turning out the lights by the way and keeping on up to the attic. 'ark's face tlmn 1 on ?• rwu: Judge—The sentence of tho court i3 that you he committed to prison for five "Indeed you are mistaken. If I did not feel fear there would be no fascination in danger." the spy he had defended at C. attanooga yesirs indication of 'Profes )r," 1 said coolly, "you are Prisoner—Oli! And only yesterday I ordered a now suit of clothes!—Spass- "Then you have a way with yon of making people do what you like. When you were here before you fascinated all the servants. You completely captivated Uncle Daniel, who has talked of 110 one else since." soin won id as to t Ho w wher "D fooliiardy the enemv verv adr Mark turned scarlet, and then ashy pale. For a moment it seemed that his legs would not support him. It required time for him to collect himself to malce Souri made no reply. She stood looking at the officer with her big black eyes. Fortunately for her, he had a daughter about her age. k of litig hack to Chattanooga vogel himself, but he resolved to send a messenger. If he conhl rind some one to go to town that day, the latest news could brought him in the evening. Then lio would assume a disguise and be off in Not Vet. "What do you think I ought to do with "I spe," said one real estate dealer to another, "that yon still have a vacant house in your new row." "Yes," was the reply; "it was last, but not leased."—Boston Transcript. your* Meanwhile some Tennesseeans who hailsd from Jasper had been sent for, and they came in to have a look at the Within a few seconds after her knock iMark \va~ descending the stairs and in a twinkling was in the Darlor. Not half any reply whatever It was scarcely more than fifteen minafter Souri had bid Mark god- "Daniel is a good man. Ile'll lie of ase to me yet." "Since you are so gowl at extricating yourself from difficulties," you have a lineoDUortunitv to show vour skill now." the night, "We do not reproach him for the —Life,