Pittston Gazette

              STABUSHEJ) ISr.O. • VOL.. MA'. NO. 1» t Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1894. * Weekly Local and Family Journal. I those whom their swords spared. Soon another monarch must take my throne, as I took your father's, anil I do not altogether grieve, for on him w ill re*t tile glory and the burden of the last fight of the Aztecs. Your report, niece, let 1110 hear it swiftly. What say the elans of the Otomie, your vassals?" "Yes," Otomie answered; "that is, the love of a man—not such love as mine, husband. Had 1 lieen thus—ah, I shudder to think of it—within a year you would havo hated me. Perhaps it had not been so with another, the fair maid of faraway, but me you would have hated. Nay, I tnnw it, though 1 know this also—that 1 should not have lived to feel your hate. Oh, 1 am thankful, thankful!" spread under tnoe, anu tne worms cover thee. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morninjr, how art thou cut down to tho ground which didst weaken the uatlons!" oe known that you are my wire. 1'ass yourself as one of the ladles of Tecuichpo, tlie queen, your sister. If we are separated, and if by any chance I escape, I will try to make my way to tho City of Pines. There, among your own people, we may find refuge." gpjffcfc *-33aa8LjgCy foe, for one evening I)c Garcia came and stared at my prison. lie could not seo me, but I saw him, and tin; devilish smile that flickered on his face as he went away liko a wolf made me shiver with a presage of woes to come. For 10 minutes or more he stood gazing at my window hungrily, as b cat gazes at a edged bird, and 1 felt that he was waiting for the door to be opened and knew that it would soon lie opened. This happened on the eve of tho day upon which I was put to torture. BILL XV K's I LBAG. vates tne nervousness ana sensitiveness of the horse regarding his tail, and so defeats its very object. However, as I said a moment ago, it is merely a fashion, ranking along with that of cutting an eyelet in the nose and wearing a bona collar button in it, peculiar to barbarous dudes, or the silly custom of flattening the head of a child by putting him In the crude squatting machine during infancy.In Africa there is a social set of people who bore a hole in the under lip and wear a large ivory peg in the buttonhole, while others cut or burn long fur* rows across the front breadths of their bodies, so as to raise huge ridges and cicatrices, which they regard as beauti* ful and aristocratic. HE FURNISHES A FABLE AND SETTLES In all these lights I took my part, though it docs not become me to boast my prowess. Still the Spaniards knew me well, and they had good reason. "TWO LITTLE BOYS IN BLUE." "So be it, beloved," she answered, smiling sadly. "But I do not know how tho Otomie will receive me, who havo led 20,- 000 of their bravest men to a dreadful death." "My lord," Otomlo answered, speaking humbly and with bowed head, "may this d intern per leave you, and may you live to reign over us for many years. My lord, my I) us hand Teule and 1 have won hark the most part of the people of the Otomie to our cause and standard. An army of 20, (K)o mountain men waits upon your word, and when those are spent there are more to follow." The Fashion of Docking Horses Is the Dev- How shall I paint tho horrors that day by day wen; heaped upon the doomed dtyf Soon all the food was gone, and men—aye, and worse-still, tender women and children—must eat such meat as swine would have turned from, striving to keep life in them for a little longer. Grass, the bark of trees, slugs and insects, washed down with brackish water from the lake, these were their best food, these and the flesh of captives offered in sacrifice. Now they began to die by hundreds and thousands; they died so fast that they could not bury them. Where they perished, there they lay till at length their bodies bred a plague, a black and horrible fever, that swept off thousands more, who, In turn, became the root of pcstilenoe. For one who was killtxl by the Spaniards and their allies, two were swept off by hunger and plague. Think then what was the number of dead when not less than 70,000 perished beneath the sword and by fire alone. Indeed it was said that 40,000 died in this manner in a single day—the day before the last of the siege. il's Relaxation, Says William, and He So C Homie recovered from licr great sickness, and shortly afterward the pcstilcnco passed away from Tenoctitlan. And now I luul many other things to think of, for the choosing of Guatemoc, my friend and blood brother, as emperor meant much iwlvaiicemcnt to me, who was made a general of the highest class and a principal adviser in his councils. Nor did I spare myself in his serivco, but labored by day and night in the work of prewiring the city for siege, and in the marshaling of the troops, and more especially of that army of Otoiuies, who came, as they had promised, to the number of 20,000. The work was hard indited, fur these Indian tribes lacked discipline and powers of unity, without which their thousands were of little avail in a war with white men; also there were great jealousies lietwcen their leaders which must be overcome, and I was myself an object of jealousy. • Moreover, many tribes took this occasion of the trouble of the Aztecs to throw off their allegiance or vassalage, and, even if they did not join the Spaniards, to remain neutral, watching for the event of the war. Still we lalxuvd on, dividing the armies into regiments after the fashion of Europe, and stationing each in its own quarter, drilling them to the tx-tter use of arms, provisioning tho city for a siege anil weeding out us many useless mouths as we might, and there was but one man in Tenoctitlan who toiied at these taDks more heavily than 1, anil that was (Juatemoc, the emperor, who did not rest day or night. I tried even to make powder with sulphur which was brought from the throat of tho volcan Popo, but having no knowledge of that art I failed. Indeed it would have availed us little had I succceded, for having neither arquebuses nor cannon and no skill to cast them we could only have used it in mining roads find gateways, and perhaps in grenades to be thrown with the hand. Gives Facts to Prove the Statement. Now we were on the deck of tho brigan tine and must stop talking, and thence, after the Spaniards had quarreled over us for awhile, we were taken ashore and led to the top of a house which still stood, where Cortes had made ready hurriedly to receive his royal prisoner. Surrounded by his escort, the Spanish general stood, cap in hand, and by his side was Marina, grown more lovoly than before, whom I now met for the first time since wo had parted in Tabasco. Meanwhile, as time went on, I noticed that, a change came over the temper of the camp. The soldiers ceased to gamble for untold wealth; thjjy even ceased drinking to excess and frojn their riotous joy, but took to hanging farther in knots, discussing fiercely 1 could not learn of what. On tho day when De Garcia came to look at my prison there was a great gathering in the square op]Dositv my prison, to which I saw Cortes ride upon a white horse and richly dressed. The meeting was too far away for me to o\ierlicar what passed, but I noticed that several officers addressed Cortes angrily, and that their speeches were loudly cheered by the soldiers. At last tho great captain answered them at some length, and they broke up in silenco. Next morning, after I had breakfasted, four soldiers came into my prison and ordered mo to accompany them. More Wedding Cake Wanted. [Copyright, 18M, by E.lcar W. Nye.l A kindly correspondent writes on a postal card: "Why do you not touch more earnestly upon the great question of the distribution of wealth? You must notice that there is a dangerous and growing feeling of bitterness on the part of poverty toward capital. Is there ever likely to be a just adjudication of this question so that there will be no more aggravated cases of wealth elbowing honest poverty in the great highway of life? How can we prevent the sequestration of great heaps of wealth while hunger and misery are also on the increase?"C;oio^o«Y/^i»iy"rflE^ vejjrm. ' gtDrY1lgHT.lB99.»Y,Wt AVT»OR.- D "Well done, daughter of Montezuma, and you, white man," gasped the dying king. ' The gods were wiso when they refused you both upon the stone of sacrifice, and I was foolish when I would have slain you, Teulo. To you and all I say be of a steadfast heart, and if you must die then die with honor. The fray draws on, but I shall not share it, and who knows its end?" with grinning demons, we found rest lor ft while. [CON TINTED.] And now, In-fore I go on to speak of the siege of Mexico, 1 must tell of one more matter—namely, of how 1 and Otomie, my wife, went up among thepcoploof the Ototide and won a great number of them hack to their allegiance to tha Aetcc crown. It must be known, if my talo has not made this clear already, that the Aztec power was «ot of one people, but built up of sevtraX tnd that surrouudlug it were many other tribes, some of whom were in alliance with it or subject to it, and some of them were its deadly enemies. Such, for instance, were the Tlascalans, a small but warlike people living between Mexico and the coast, by whose help Cortes overcame Montezuma and Guatemoo. Beyond the Tlascalans iuul to the west the great Qtomie race lived or lives among Its mountains. They are a braver nation than the Aztecs, speaking another language, of a different blood and made up of many clans. Sometimes they were subject to the great Aztec empire, sometimes in alliance and sometimes at "licit war with it and in close friendship with the Tlascalans. It was to draw the tie closer between the Aztecs and the Otomie*, who were to the inhabitants of Anahuac much what the Scottish elans are to the p.xjplo of England, that Montezuma took to wife the daughter and solo legitimate issue of their great chief or king This lady died in childbirth, and her child was Otomie, my wife, hereditary princess of the Otomie. But though her rank was so great among her mother's people, as yet Otomie had visited thom but twice, and then as a child. Still she was well skilled in their language and customs, having been brought up by nurses and tutors of the tribes, from which she drew a great revenue every year and over whom she exercised many rights of royalty that were rendered to her far more freely than they luul been to Montezuma, her father. On the morrow in the great hall of the palace was held a council of the chiefs and headmen of tho Otomie clans to tho number of 100 or more. When all were gathered, dressed as an Aztec noble of tho first rank, I came out with Otomie, who wore royal rolx-s and looked most beautiful in them, and the council rose to greet us. Otomie bade them be seated and ad- thus: ciiicts aim capuuns oi iuy mother's race, who Ikm your princess by right of blood, the last of your ancient rulers, and who am, moreover, the daughter of Montezuma, emperor of Anahuac, now dc-ad to us, but living evermore in the mansions of the sun. First, I present to ytni this, my husliand, tho Lord Tcule, to whom I was given in marriage when ho held tho spirit of the god Tezcat, and whom, when ho had passed tho altar of the god, being chosen by heaven to aid us In our war, 1 wedded anew after tho fashion of the earth and by the will of my royal brethren. Know, chiefs and captains, that this lord, my husband, is not of our Indian blood, nor is ho altogether of tho blood of tho Teules, with whom we are at war, but rather of that of the true children of Quetzal, the dwellers in a far off northern sea, who are foes to the Teules. And as they are foes, so this, my lord, is their foe, and, as doubtless $-ou havo heard, of all the deeds of anus that were wrought upon tho night of the slaying of tho Teules none were greater than his, and it was be who first discovered their retreat. The tenderest portion of a horse's body is that quarter easily defended by« long tail, but entirely out of reach of a docked horse. I cannot bear to look at a crazed animal eating the air wildly with his pathetio stump while the madi dening flies are stinging his poor little stomach. Our eyes met, and she started, thereby showing that she knew me again, though It must have been hard for Marina to recognize her friend Teule in the blood stained, starving and tattered wretch who oould scarcely find strength to climb the azote* But at that time no words passed between us, for all eyes were bent on the meeting between Cortes and Guatemoa between the conqueror and the conquered. Now he lay silent for awhile; then of a sudden, as though an inspiration had seized him, lie cast the sheet from his face and sat up upon his couch, no pleasant sight to see, for the pestilence had done its worst with him. I cannot solve this question. I wish I could. Somebody is evidently sequestering quite a mass of currency whioh actually belongs to me, but I am sorry to say that I cannot identify it, not having kept the number and description of the bills.- I cannot be patient with those who follow this wicked custom in order they may be considered fashionable*. The man who does this, knowing the facts regarding it, is the man who pulUd flies to pieces when a boy, and if fate wife really indorses it her family ought to have the coffee analyzed every morning.And bow can a docked horse be regarded as beautiful? "Alas," he walled, "and alas! I see the streets of Tenoctitlan red with blood and fire. I see her dead piled up in heaps, and the horses of the Teules trample them. 1 sue tho spirit of my people, and her voice is sighing, and her neck is heavy with chains. Tho children are visited because of the evil of tiio fathers. Ye are doomed, people of Anahuno, whom I would have nurtured as an eagle nurtures her young. Hell yawns for you, and earth refuses you because of your sins, and the remnant that remains shall bo slaves from generation to generation till the vengeance is accomplished."Still proud and defiant, though he ■eemed but a living skeloton, Guatemoo walked straight to where the Spaniard •tood and spoke, Marina translating his words: "Whither?" I asked. "To the captain, traitor," their leader answered. One night I caino back to the lodging where Otomie dwelt with her royal sister, Tccuiclio, the wlfo oJ Guatemoo, for now all tho palaces had been burned down. I was starving, for I had scarcely tasted food for 40 hours, but all .that my wlfo could set before me were three meal oaks, or tortillas, mixed with bark. She kissed me and bade mo eat them, but 1 discovered that she herself had touched no food that day, so I would not till Bhe shared them. Then I noted that she oould scarcely swallow the bitter morsels, and also that sho strove to hide tears, which ran down her facp. "It has como at last," I thought to myself, but I said only: "It is well. Any change from this hole is one for the bettor." { "I am Guatvmoo, the emperor, Mallnohe," he said. "'What a man imght do to defend his people I have done. Look on the fruits of my labor,'' and he pointed to the blackened ruins of Tenoctitlan that stretched on every side as far as the eye ( could reach. "Now I havo come to this pass, for the gods themselves havo been ►gainst me. Deal with me as you will, but |t will be best that you kill mo now,'' and I he touched tho dagger of Cortes with his ! hand, ''and thus rid me swiftly of the misery of life." | "Fear not, Guatemoc," answered Cortes, *'You have fought like a bravo man, ftnd such I h%nor. With me you aro safe, for W0 Spaniards love a gallant foe. gee, here Is food," and He pointed to a table spread with such viands as wo had not 1»een for many 4 week. "Eat, you and your companions together, for you must need it. Afterward we will talk," An Unearned Increment was one day passing through a wood called Central park, wj».h a towel tied over his VmhL "Certainly," he replied, "and this is .VOIIP C»hift. " Then I knew that tho man believed that I was going to my death. In five minutes I was standing before Cortes in his private house. At his side was Marina, and around him wero several of his companions in arms. Tho great man looked at mo for awhile, then spoke: How would George Washington look In marble riding a mutilated Does any great sculptor ever pot a hero on a bobtailed steed? Having cried thus with a groat voice, Cultlahua fell back upon the cushions, and "Your name is Wlngfleld. You are of mixed blood—half English and half Spaiy ish. You were cast away in the Tabasm Not unless he be also the editor of a fashion magazine. We may strain a point to be fashionable by patting mourning rosette* on our horses and draping the russet boot tops of our footmen and ooaohmen, bat why disfigure a beautiful horse and cause him needless pain all through the docking process and then each year through flytime in order to be "ii style?" "What is it, wife?" I asked. Then Otoiule broke out into a great snd bitter crying and said: "This, my beloved, For two days the milk has been dry in my breast—hunger has driiii it—and our babe is dead I Look, he lies dead!" and sho drew aside a cloth and showed me the tiny body. river and taken to Tenoctitlan. There you were doomed to personate the Aztec god Tezcat and were rescued by us when we captured the great teocalli. Subsequently And so the months went on till at length spies came in with the tidings that the Spaniards were advancing in numliers, and with them countless hosts of allies. "Hush." I said, "he is spared much! Can wu then desire that a child should live to see such days as we have seen, and, after all, to die at last?" "Chit'fs and captaius of the great ana ancient people of the Otomie, I, your princess, have been sent to you by Cuitlahua, my king and yours, together with my lord, to plead with you on a certain matter. Our king has heard, and I also have heard with shame, that many of the warriors of our blood have joined the Tloscalans, who were ever foes to the Aztecs, in their unholy alliance with the Teules. Now for awhile the white men an' beaten back, but they have touched the gold they covet, and they will return again liku boes to a half drainod flower. They will yet of themselves they can do nothing against the glory of Tenoctitlan. But how shall It go if with them coine thousands and tens of thousands of the Indian peoples? I know well that now In this time of trouble, when kingdoms crumble, when the air is full of portents and the very gtxls seem impotent, there att: many who would wizo the moment and turfj it to their profit, There are many men and tribes who remember ancient wars and wrongs, and who cry: 'Now Is tho hour of vengeance. Now wo will think on tho widows that tho Aztec spears have made, on iho tribute which they have wrung from our poverty to swell their wealth and on the captives who have decked tho altars af their sacrifice!* Now I would havo scijj, Otomie to seek safety among her own jieople, but she laughed me to scorn and said: _ j»QWe Ate. and heartllv. I, for mv Dart, thinking It wouiq Do well to die upon a full stomach, having faood death so long Upon an empty one, and while wo devoured the in eat the Spaniards stood on one side scanning us, not without pity. Presently Teouiohpo was brought before Cortes, and with her Otoralo and six other ladles. He greeted her graciously, and they were given to eat. Now one of the Spaniards who had been watching me whispered something Into the ear of Cortes, an* I saw his face darken. How do we know besides how the sensitive nerves of a horse may be tortured all his life afterward by the strain put upon them during the long hours when his inflamed stump Is tied to the rafters of the stable in order to give ft that sore thumb angle which Central park seems to demand? "Ho was *ur son—our firstborn," ah* rrjoq agtwu. - on, wny must we suner thus?" "Where you wv there I will be, husband. What! Shall It bo suffered that you fuco death, perhaps to iind him, when I am not at your side to die with you!1 If that is the fashion of white women, Ileave it to them, beloved, and here, with you, I stay." •'We must suffer, Otojnio, because we are born to It. Just so much happiness la given to us as shall save us from madness and no mom Ask me not why, for I cannot answer you. There Is no answer la toy faith or in any other." Now, as has been said, some of these OUmiie clans had joined tho Tlascalans, and as their allies had taken part in the war on the side of tho Spaniards; therefore it Wiis decided at a solemn council that Otomio and I, her husband, should go on an embassy to tho chief town of the nation, that was known as tho City of Pines, and strive to win It hack to the Aztec standard. How do we know what dull ache* may oome down the spine and i*hasft each other over the scarred stab at a once tail when there is going to be a change in the weather? There was never a time in the history of the world when men and women were more sensible regarding thei* dress, it seems to me, than the present. Men go without vests even in oongresa if they are more oomfortable, and women are giving up the custom of squeezing the floating ribs into the longs in order to look slender and miserable. The old Roman toga, which was so unsatisfactory in cold, blustery weather, has been discarded, and the present | Cuitlahua fell hark upon the cushlong. before the frightened leech who tended him oould lift his head ho had ]Dassed beyond tfcp troubles of this earth. But the words which be had spoken rcmalnedfixed in the hearts of those who heard them, though they were told to none except to Guatemoc. Thus, then* in my presence and in that of Otomie died Cuitlahua, emperor of the Aztecs, when he had reigned but 15 weeks. Once more tho nation mourned Its king, the ohief of many a thousand of its children whom tho pestilence swept with him to the "mansions of tho sun" or perchance to tho "darkness ln-hind tho stars." And then, looking on that dead babe, I wept also. Every hour In those terrible months It was my lot to see a thousand sights more awful, and yet this sight of a dead infant moved me the most of all of them. The child was mine, my firstborn; its mother wept beside me, and Its stiff and tiny fingers seemed to drag at my heartstrings. Seek not the cause, for the Almighty, who gave the heart Its Infinite power of pain, alone can answer, and to our ears ho Is dumb. CHAPTER XXIV THE FALL OF TENOCTITLAN. Now, shortly after Christinas, having marched from the coast witli a great array of Spaniards, for many had joined his banner from o\er sea and tens of thousands of native allies, Cortes took up his headquarters at Tezcueo, in the valley of Mexi co. This town is situated near the borders CDf the lake, at a distance of several leagues from 'i'enoctltlan, ana Dcing on tfte e«lge of tho territory of the Tlascalans, his allies, it was most suitable to Cortes as a tia.se of action. And then began one of tho most terrible wars that tho world has seen. For etfcht months it raged, and when it ceased at length Tenootltlan, and with it many other beautiful and populous towns, were blackened ruins, the most of the Aztecs were dead by sword and famine, and their nation was crushed forever. Of all the details of this war I do not purpose to write, for were 1 to do so there would lie no end to this lxmk, and I have iny own tale to tell. These, therefore, I leave to the maker of histories. Let it be enough to say that the plan of Cortes was U) destroy all her vassal and allied cities and people Ix-fore he grappled with Mexico, queen of tile valley, and this ho set himself to do with a skill, a valor and a straight iless of purpose such as have scurcofy oom ttj n ■D■!*!■ UuD rt'iy8 of Caosar. "Say," he said to me In Castilian, "aro you that renegade, that traitor who has aided these Aztecs against us?" NATURAL DOCKED TAIL, saturated with arnica, while one lobe of his whiskers had been burned off, giving him a dejected and lopsided appearance."I am no renegado and no traitor, general," I answered boldly, for the food and wine had put new life Into me. "I am an Englishman, and I have fought with the Aatees because I have good cause to hate you Spaniards." Accordingly, heralds having been sent before us, wo started upon our journey, not knowing how wo should bo received at tho end of it. For eight days wo trav eled in great pomp anil with an ever in •creasing escort, for when the trilies of the Otomio learned that their prinoess was come to visit them in person, bringing with her her husband, a man of the Teules who had espoused the Aztec, cause, they flocked In vast numbers to swell her retinue, so that it came to pass that t we reached the City of Pines wo were ac coui]Danied by an army of at least 10,(Xhi mountaineers, great men and wily, who made a savage music as we marched. But with them and with their chiefs as yet we helil no converse, except by way of formal grii'ting, though every morning when we started on our journey, Otomie in a litter and I on a horse that had been captured from the .Spaniards, they set up shouts of salutation and made the mountains ring. Ever as we went the land, Hko its people, grew wilder and more lic.autiftil, fur now we were jKissing through forests clad with oak and pine and with many a lovely plant anil fern. Sometimes we crossed great. and sparkling rivers, and sometimes we wended through gorges and passes of tho mountains, but every hour we mount- Mi higher till at length the climate became like that of Knglantl, only far more bright. At hist, on the eighth day, we passed through a gorfrc riven In the red lock, which wjts so narrow in places that three horsemen could scarcely liave ridden there abreast. This gorge, that Is live miles long, is the high road to the City of Pines, to which there was no other access except by secret paths across the mountains, and on either side of it are sheer and towering cliffs tiiat rise to heights of between 1,000 and a,000 feet. At his ftidc tens Marlnn, "Alas, my friend, you are indeed in a sad plight 1" said a bloody but energetic Anarchist who had just escaped from threatened employment, and who sat by the roadside administering kerosene oil to his gun. "Pray, what has betid you, gentle friend, that you should look so rocky while all nature is so gay? Who could have given you such a jolt?" Then I took a mattock and dug a hole outsido the house till I came to water, which, in Tenoctltlan, is found at a depth of two feet or so, and, having muttered a prayer over him, there in the water I laid the body of our child, burying it out of sight. At the least he was not left for the zapilotes, as the Aztecs call the vultures, like the rest of them. "You shall soon have better, traitor!" he said furiously. "Here, lead this man away and hang him on the mast of yonder ship." you joined the Aztecs and took part in the attack and slaughter of the nochc triste. You were afterward tho friend and counselor of Guatemoc and assisted In his defense of Tenoctitlan. Is this true, prisoner!"'But the mourning was not for long, for In the urgency of tho times it was necessary that a new emperor should be crowned to tako command of tho armies and rule tho nation. Therefore on the morrow of tho burial of Cuitlahua tho council of the four electors was oonvened and with them lesser nobles and princes to tho number of 800, and I among them In the right of my rank as general and as husband of tho Princess Otomio. There was no great need of delilteratlon indeed, for though the names of several were mentioned the princes knew them \rtis but one man who by birth, by courage and nobility of mind was fitted to cope with the troubles of tho nation. That man was Guatemoc, my friend and blood brother, the nephew of tn» D«o last emperors anu tne nusnann or my wife's sister, Montnsuma'a Teculchpo. All knew it, I say, except, strangely enough, Guatemoc himself, for as we passed into the council he named two other princes, saying that without doubt the choice lay between them. Now I saw that it was finished and made ready to go to my death, when Marina spoke Intq the ear of Cortes. All she said I could not catch, but I heard the words "hidden gold." Ho listened, then hesitated and spoke aloud: "'Do not hang this man today. Let him be safely guarded. Tomorrow I will Inquire Into his oase." It Is all true, general," I answered. •'Good. You are now our prisoner, and had you a thousand lives you have forfeited them all because of your treachery to your race and blood. Into tho circumstances that led you to commit this horrible treason I cannot enter. Tho fact remains you have slain many of tho Spaniards and their allies—that is, being in a state of troason, you have murdered them. Wingfield, your life is forfeit, and I condemn you to dio by hanging as a traitor and an apostate." is it not sot Aye, it is so, aim i cannot wonder at it. Yet I ask you to remember this—that the yoke you would help to set upon the' neck of the queen of cities will lit your neck also. Oh, foolish men, tlo you think that you shiUl be siwirod when by your aid Tenoctitlan is a ruin and the Aziees are no more a people? I s;iy to you, never! The sticks that the Teules uso to Ixait shall lie broken one by one and cast into the lire to burn. If the Aztecs fall, then, early or late, every trilie within this wide land shall fall. They shall be slain, their cities shall be stamiDcd flat, their wealth shall be wrung from them,and their children shall eat the bread of slavery and drink the water of affliction. Choose, ye people of the Otomie. Will you stand by the men of your own customs and country, though they have been your foes at times, or will you throw in your lot with the stranger? Choose, ye jDeople of tho Otomio, and know this—that on your choice and that of the other men of Anahuac de- Ilends the fate of Anahuac. I am your princess, and you should obey me, but today I issue no command. I say choose between the alliance of the Aztec and the yoke of tho Teulo, and may the God above the gods, the Almighty, the invisible God, fliwvt. VOIIP rhoirv* " After tha* we wept ourselves to sleep in each other's arms, Otomie murmuring "Alack!" quoth the Increment, "good stranger, I was on my way to the busy mart, where I had an appointment to declare a dividend, when I was set upon by a party calling himself Organized Labor and beaten most shamefully. I have but just escaped with my life and a valuable diamond, which I swallowed. I am indeed most fortunate to find you here, for I feel quite faint from loss of blood, and you look like one who would not stir abroad without having about CHAPTER XXy. THOMAS IS POOMED, At the words of Cortes two Spaniards pame forward, and seizing me one by either arm they led me across the roof of the house toward tho stairway. Otomlo had heard also, and though she did not unOemtand the words she read the face of taken to Imprisonment or deatTT ' 'A's f passed her she started forward, a terror shining In her eyes. Fearing that she was about to throw herself upon my breast, and thus reveal herself as my wlfo ami bring my fato upon her, I glanced at her warnlngly, then made pretense to stumble, and as though with fear and exhaustion I fell at her feet. The soldiers who led me laughed brutally, and one of them kicked me with his heavy boot. But Otomie stooped down and held her hand to me to help me rise, and as I did so we spoke low and swiftly. "Then there is nothing more to bo said," I answered quietly, though a cold fear froze my blood. '"There is something," answered Cortes. am ready to give you your life ;u»l "free1 dom upon a condition. I am ready to do more—to find you a passage to Europe on the first occasion, where you may perchance escape the echoes of your infamy if God is gixxi to you. The condition is this: We have reason to believe that you are acquainted with the hiding place of the gold of Montezuma, which was unlawfully stolen from us on the night of the noche tristc—nay, we know that this is so, for you were 6een to go with the canoes that were laden with it. Choose now, apostate, between a shameful death and the revealing to us of the secret of this treasure."Iztapalapan was tho first to fall, and here 10,000 :tien, women and children wero put to the sword or burned alive. Then came the turn of tho others. One by one Cortes reduced the cities till tho whole girdle of them was In his hands and Te noctitlan alone remained untouched. nip." "In good sooth," said the Anarchist, removing a burdock bur from his beard thoughtfully and then putting it back again, "I fear that liquor might raise your temperature at this time and bring on pyaemia, or blood poisoning. But let me ask you, Did yon not cry out lustily for the police when you were attacked?" It was a splendid and solemn sight, that gathering of the four great lords, the electors, dressed in their magnificent robes, and of the lesser council of confirmation of 300 lords and princes, who sat without tho clrclo, hut In hearing of all that passed. Very solemn also was the prayer of the high priest, who, clad In his robes of sable, seemed like a blot of ink dropped on a glitter of gold. By tho month of May, strive as wo woiild—and never was a more gallant fight made—all our allies were crushed or had deserted us, and the siege of the city began. It lx-gnn by land and by water, for with iucrediblo resource Cortes caused 13 brigantines of war to be constructed in Tuscola and conveyed In pieces for 20 leagues across tho mountains to his camp, whenco they were floated into the lake through a canal, which was hollowed out by the lalxir of 10,000 Indians, who worked at It without cejise for two months. The bearers of these brigantines were escorted by an army of 20,000 Tlasculans, and If I could have had my way that army should have been attiickcd - in tho mountain passes. So thought Guatemoc also, but thero wero few troops to spare, for tho most of our force had been dispatched to threaten a city named Chalco, that, though its people were of the Aztec blood, had not been ashamed to desert tho Aztec cause. Still I offered to lead tho 20,000 Otomles whom I commanded against the Tlascalans convoy, and the matter was debated hotly at a council of war. But the most of the council were against the risking of an engagement with the Spaniards and their idllcs so far from tho city, and thus tho opportunity went by to return no more. It was an evil fortune like tho rest, for in the end these brigantines brought about the fall of Tenoctitlan by cutting off the supply of food, which was curried in canoes across tho luke. Alas, tho bravest can do nothing against tho power of famine! Hunger is a very great man, as the Indians say. "Look, he lien deadt" from time to time, "Oh, my husband, I would that we were asleep and forgotten, we and the babe together." "Rest now," I answered, "for death Is very near to us." "Marry, but I did, insomuch that the wood rang again with the outcry." When tho high priest had matin an end of his prayer, the 11 rut of tho four great electors rose, saying: Tho morrow came, and with It a deadlier fray than any that had gone before, and after It more morrows and more deaths, but still we lived on, for Guatomoo gnve us of his food. Then Cortee sent his heralds demanding our surrender, and now three-fourths of the city was a ruin, and three-fourths of its defenders were dead. The dead were heaped In the house* like bees stifled In a hive, and In the streets they lay so thick that we walked upon them. "Farewell, wife," I sold. '"Whatever happens, keep silent." ' Farewell," she answered. "If you must die, await me In the gates of death, for I will join you there." "And did you not renew your alarm and cry out again and again?" IN BED WITH CAKE CBCltBB. styles worn by English speaking men and women are getting more and mora of a foothold even among the mora remote races. isiiomiu cvaseti, mm a munuur 01 applause went round tho hall. Alas, I can do no justice to the lire of her words any mure than I can describe tho dignity and loveliness of her person as it seemed in -hat hour. But they went to the hearts of the rude chieftains who listened. Many "Voila, Mon Dieu, gocd wight, but I did shriek encore! Plenty, heap encore! Then I did so yet again, but the park seemed deserted even by the nursegirls, and the police, too, ,were down town holding a pantata reunion, so that me voice came back to me a mere wailing echo." "Here Is a place where a hundred men might hold an army at bay," I said to Otomie, little knowing that it would bo niy task to do so in a day to come. "Guatemoc, In the name of God and with the voice of tho people of Anahuac, we summon you to the throne of Anahuac. Long may you live, and justly may you rule, and may the glory be yours of boating back Into tho sea those foes who would destroy us. Hail to you, Guatemoc, emperor of the Aztecs and of their vassal tribes." And all the 300 of the council of confirmation repeated in a voice of thunder, "Hall to you, Guatemoc, emperor!" For a moment I wavered. On the one hand was the loss of honor, with life and liberty and the hope of home; on the other a dreadful end. Then I remembered my oath and Otomle, and what she would think of me, living or dead, if I did this thing, and I wuverod no more. "Nay, live on. Time shall bring comfort."Health, too, is more and mora considered in the choice of homes, food, air, water, eta, and the use of patent medicines is narrowed down to those regions Presently tho gorge took a turn, and 1 reined up amazed, for lieforo me was the City of Pines in all its lieauty. Tho city lay in a wheel shaped plain that may meosure 12 miles across, and all around this plain are mountains clad to their summits with forests of oak and cedar tree*. At the back of tho city und In tho center of the ring of mountains is one, howvver, that Is uot ween with foliage, but black with lava, and al»ove the lava white with snow, over which again hangs a pillar of smoke by day and a pillar of flre by night. This was tho volcano Xaca, or tho Queen, and.,though it i* not so lofty as its sisters, Orlzalja, Popo and Ixtuc, to my mind it la the loveliest of them all, both because of Its perfect shape and of the colors—purplo and blue—of the fires that it sends forth at night or when its heart is troublCxl. The Otomies worshiped this mountain as a god, offering human sacrifice to It, which was not wonderful, for once the lava pouring from its bowels cut a path through the City of Pines; also they think It holy and haunted, so that none dare set foot upon its loftier snows. Nevertheless I was di-stiued to climb them—I and one other. , "You are my life, beloved. With you time ends for me." of them defcpised the Aztecs as a womanish people of tho plains und tho lakes, a people of commerce. Many of them had blood feuds against them dating bock for generations. Hut still they knew that tholr princess spoke truth, and that the triumph of the Teulo in Tenoctitlan would mean his triumph over every city throughout the land. Ho t hen and there they chose, though in after days in tho stress of defeat and trouble many went back upon their choice, as is the fashion of men. Now I was on my feet again, and I think that none noted our whispered words, for all were listening to Cortes, who rated the man that had kicked mo. "I know nothing of tho treasure, general," I answered coldly. "Send me to my death." "And you got no response whatever?" queried the Anarchist as he reached np inside the sleeve of his coat for the sleeve of an imaginary shirt. get only $10 per Tho council was summoned, fierce men, haggard with hunger and with war, and they considered the offer of Cortes. ''You mean that you will say nothing of it, traitor. Think again. If you have sworn any oaths, they an- broken by God. Tho empire of the Aztecs is at an end; their king is my prisoner, their great city is a ruin. The true God lias triumphed over these devils by my hand. Their wealth Is my lawful spoil, and I must have It to jDay my g:Uhuit comrades, who cannot grow rich on desolation. Think again." Let ug, then, show some signs of progress in the treatment of crur dumb beasts. Read "Black Beauty" and boy It for your grooms. Remember that "the merciful man is merciful to his beast," and while yon are using every faculty thai God has given yon to fight flies on thsai long summer days think of your poos; crippled horse beating his system with Uis maimed and mutilated taiL month and board around. Now the prince himself stood forward and spoke: "I bade you guard this traitor—not to kick him, "he said angrily in Castillan. "Will you put us t" open shame before these savages' Do so once more, and you shall pay for it smnrtly. Learn a lesson In gentleness from that woman. She Is starving, yet she leaves her food to help your prisoner to his feet. Now take him away to camp and see that he comes to no ham*, for he can tel) mo piuch." "What is your word, Guatemoof" said their spokesman at last. "None whatever, alas! good varlet," said the Increment sadly, "and it was thus that they done me up." '"You lords of election and you, princes, generals, nobles and captains of the council of confirmation, hear me. None can say what the gods have in store for us. It may be victory, or it may be destruction, but be It triumph or death, let us swear a great oath together, my people and my brethren. Let us swear to fight the Tcules and the traitors who abet them, for our cities, our hearths and our altars, till the cities are a smoking ruin, till tho hearths are cumbered with their dead and the altars run red with the blood of their worshipers. So, 1/ we are destined to conquer, our triumph shall be made sure, and if we are doomed to fall, at least there will be a story to be told of us. I)o you swear, my people and my brethren?" "Am I Montezuma, that you ask mef I swore to defend this city to the last," he answered hoarsely, "and, for my part, I will defend it. Better that we should all die than that we should fall living Into the hands of the Teules." "And was tberp no wayfarer to hear your outcry?" | "Otomie," cried tho spokesman after they had taken counsel together, "we have chosen. Princess, your words have conquered us. Wo throw in our lot with tho Aztecs and will fight to tho last for freedom from tho Tcule." "None, alas!" "Well," said the Anarchist, arising with some emotion and taking a draft of reddish wassail from a concealed receptacle, "that being the case, methinks I will disturb you a moment fbr what olothing you have about your person. Clean linen is an offense against freedom, so I will trouble you to hand it over to me, and I will soon take off that glaring air of whiteness that is so trying to the eye." "So say we," they replied. And the war went on. Then the Noldleps led roe pway, grumbling as they went, and the last thing I saw was the despairing face of Otomie, my wife, as she gazed after me, faint with the secret agony of our parting. But when I came to the head of the stairway Guatemoc, who stood near, took my hand and shook It. "I know nothing of this treasure, general."Ponder these truths whenever yon art in the pondering business And consider what you will say when yon are called upon at the judgment day to give a reason for this ingenious cruelty. Dolly Van Horn, Dayton, O.—Thanks for the generous slab of wedding eaha 1 put it under my pillow, but was restless during the night and dreamed that I had been driven from home; that I became an outcast and was forced to sleep in a borrowed basement on a bin of frosty bituminous ooals. When I awoke, I found that my bed was full of cake crumbs and bits of frosting. "Now I sec; that you are Indeed my people, and I am indeed your ruler," unswerixl Otomle. "So tho great lords who are gone, my forefathers, your chieftains, would have siDokcn in a like ease. May you never regret this choice, my brethren, men of tho Otomie." At length there came a day when the Spaniards made a new attack and gained another portion of the city. There the people were huddled together like sheep in a pen. We strove to defend them, but our arms wero weak with famine. They fired into us with their pieces, mowing us down like corn before sickle. Then the Tlascalans were loosed upon us, like fierce hounds upon a defenseless buck, and on this day it Is said that there died 40,000 people, for none was spared. On the morrow—It was the last day of the siege—came a fresh enilwssy from Cortes, asking that Guatemoc should meet hlnf. The answer was the same, for nothing poujd conquer that noble spirit. "Yet memory sometimes wakens," traitor. I have said that you shall die if yours should fail you, and so you shall, to be sure. But death is not always swift. There an- means. Doubtless you who have lived In Spain have heard of them," and ho archotl his brows and glared at me meaningly, ''by which a man may die and yet live for many weeks. Now, loath as I am to do It, it seems to mo that, if your memory still sleeps, I must find some such means to rouso It—beforo you die," "farewell, W? brqther," he said, with a heavy smile. "The game we played together Is finished, and now it is time for us to rest. I thank you for your valor and 7QU? aid." Now tho Aztecs, fighting alone, wero face to fikce with their foes, and the last struggle began. First the Spaniards cut tho aqueduct which supplied the city with water from tho springs at tho royal houso of Chapoltepec, whither I was taken on being brought to Mexico. Henceforth till the end of the siege tho only water that we found to drink was the bruckisli and muddy fluid furnished by tho lake and wells sunk in the soil. Although it might be drunk after txiiling to free it of tho salt, It was unwholesome and filthy to tho taste, breeding various painful sicknessos and fevers. It was on this day of tho cutting of tho aqueduct that Otomio bore mo a son, our firstborn. Already the hardships of tho slogo wore so great and nourishing food so scarce that, had sho been less strong, or had I possessed loss skill In medicine, I think that sho would havo died. Still sho recovered, to my great thankfulness and joy, and though I am no clerk 1 baptized the boy into tho Christian church with my own hand, naming him Thomas, after mo. And so it come to pass that when we left the City of Pines we took from it to 'Jultlahua, tho emperor, a promise of an irmy of 20,000 men vowed to servo him to fch« death in his war mminst the tioaniard. "We swear," they answered, with a Whereupon he smote the Unearned Increment by means of a pant leg filled with geology. Now, in the lap of this ring of mountains and watched over by the mighty Xa co, clad in its robe of snow, its cap of smoke and its crown of flre, lies, or lay, the City of Pines, for now it is a ruin, or so I left it. As to the city itself, It was not so large as some others that I have seen in Anahuac, having only a population of some thirty and iivo thousand souls, since the Otomie, being a race of mountaineers, did not desire to dwell in cities. Hut if it was not great it was one of tho most beautiful of Indian towns, being laid out In straight streets that met at the square in its center. All along these streets were houses, each standing in a garden and for the most part, built of blocks of lava und roofed with cement of white lime. In tho midst of tho square stood the teooalll, or pyramid of worship, crowned with temples that were garnished with ropes of skulls, while beyond the pyramid and facing it was the palace, the homo of Otonlie's forefathers, a long, low and very ancient building, having many courts and sculptured everywhere with snakes and grinning gods. Both the palace and tho pyramid were cased with a fine white stone that shone like silver in tho sunlight and contrasted strangely with the dark hucd houses that were built of lava. shout. '"It Is well," said Guatemoc. "And now may everlasting shame overtake him who bleaks this oath!" "Farewell, Guatemoc," I answered. "You aro fallen, but let this pomfort you— tn your fall yon have found immortal fame." '"I am in your power, general,'' I answered. " You call me traitor again and again. I am no traitor- I am a subject of the king of England—not of tho king or Spain. I came hither, following a villain who has wrought mo and mine bitter wrong—ono of your company named De Garcia or Sarceda. To find him and for other reasons I joined tho Aztecs. They aro conquered, and I am your prisoner. At the least, deal with me as a bravo man deals with a fallen enemy. I know nothing of tho treasure. Kill mo and make an end." A week later a police captain, while on his way to look at a $88,000 residence which he was about to buy for his wife, it being the anniversary of his first year as captain, he noticed that some one in the park was seeking to attract his gaze silently by throwing out little hints upon the summer air to the effect that ho was dead and desired attention.CHAPTER XXIII. Thus, then, was Guatemoc, the last and greatest of the Aztec emperors, elected to tho throne of his forefathers. THE CROWN I NO OF GUATEMOC. "On, on!" growled the soldiers, and I Went, little thinking how Guatemoc and j should meet again. Could yon spare another hunk of the delicious compound and greatly  fours truly, Our business with the people of the Otomie being ended for awhile, we returned to the city of Tenoctitlan, which we reachad safely, having been absent a month and a day. It was but a little time, and yet long enough for fresh sorrows to have fall- Mi on that most unhappy town, for now .l»e Almighty had added to tho burdens which were laid upon her. She had tasted »f CWth by the sword of the whlto man; Bow death was with her In another shape, for the Spaniard had brought the foul sickness of Europe with him, and smallpox raged throughout tho land. Day by day thousands perished of it, for these ignorant (X"oplo treated the plague by pouring cold water upon tho bodies of those smitten, driving the fever inward to the vitals, so that within two days tho most of them died. [This treatment is followed among the Indians of Mexico to this day, but if the writer may believe wluit ho heard In that country the patient is frequently cured by it.] When all wjis dune, I hurried to the palace to tell Otomjw what had come to pass and found her in our sleeping chamber ly lng on her bed, "Toll him," said Guatemoc, "that I will dlo where I am, but that I will hold no parley with him. Vfp are helpless; let Cortes work his pleasure on us." By now all tho city was destroyed, and we who remained alive within Its bounds wero gathered on the causeways f»nd behind the ruins of walls, men, women (rod children together. They took pie tQ a canoe, and we were paddled Across the lake by T'ascalans till At length we came tq the Spanish camp. "What ails you, Otomie?" I asked. "Alas, my husband," she answered, *' the pestilence has stricken met Come not near me, I pray you; come not near. Let me be nursed by the women. You shall not risk your life for me, beloved." The room of the stone house where they prisoned me had a window secured by bare of wood, and through these liars J could ace and hear the revellngs of the soldiers during Uniu of my confinement. All day long, when they were not on duty, and most of the night also, they gambled and drank, staking tens of pesos on a single which the loser must pay out of his share of the countless treasures of the Aztecs. Little did they care if they won or lost, they wore so sure of plunder, but played on til} drink overpowered them and they rolled senseless beneath the tables, or till they sprang up and danced wildly to and fro, catching at the sunbeams and screaming, "Gold, gold, gold!" Ho stepped aside to look. Lying beneath a small shrub, exposed to the merciless sun, bruised, beaten and discolored, lay the remains of the Unearned Increment. In the WarC Here they attacked us again. The great drum on the teocalll beat for the last time, and for the last time the wild scream of the Aztec warriors went up to heaven. We fought our best. I killed four men that day with my arrows, wh|cl( Otomle, who was at my side, handed me as J shot, put the most of us had not the strength of a child, and what could W« dof They came among us like seamen among a flock of seals and slaughtered us by hundreds. They drove us into the canals and trod us to death there til) bridges were made of our txidics. How we escaped I do not "As a man I might wish to do this. Wlnfrtleld, biit 1 am more tnan a man. i Rru the hand of the church here in Anahuac. Yon have partaken with the worshipers of idols; you have seen your fellow Christians sacrifice! and devoured by yo".r brute comrades. For this alone you deserve to be tortured eternally, and doubtless that will bo so after we have done with you. As for the hidalgo Don Sarceda, I know him only as a brave companion in arms, and certainly I shall not listen to talus told against him by a wandering apostate. It is, however, unlucky for you," and here a gleam of light shot across the face of Cortes, ' that there should bo any old feud between you, seeing that it is to his charge that I am aliout to confldo you. Now, for the last time. I say choose. Will you reveal the hiding place of the treasure and go fn-e, or will you lie handed over to the care of Don Saroeda till such time as ho shall find means to make vou srifeak?" Briggs—I don't think I shall go to the seashore again. The last time I there I tried in vain to pass an evening alone with a girl. ''Peace," I said and came to her. It was too true. I, who am u physician, know the symptoms well. , Indeed hod it not been for niy skill Otomio would have died. For three long weeks I fought with death at b'-r lDedside, and In the end I conquered. The fever left her, and, thanks to my treatment, there was no single scar upon hep lovely (wiC During eight days her mind Wftudered without ceasing, and It was then I learned how deep and per f»ict was her love for me. For all this, while she did nothing but rave of me, the secret terror of her heart was disclosed— that I should cease to care for her; that her beauty and love might |utll upon me so that I should leave bur; that "the flower maid," for so she namCd Lily, who dwelt across the sea should draw me back to her by magic—this was the burden of her madmen. At length her senses returned, and she spoke, saying: Moral—Wealth has in this life a rocky road to travel, and ye who vainly yearn for crowded and overflowing coffers should remember that the day will oome when there will be a grand reckoning also with the rich and when ye shall surely have the laugh on Divest. Griggs—Why, what was there to present it? Now day by day and week by week the fighting went 011 with varying success, sometimes in the suburbs of the city, sometimes on the lake and sometimes in the very streets. Time 011 time the Spaniards were driven back with Joss; time on tlmo they advanced again from their different camps. Once we captured (10 of them and more than a thousand of their allies. All these were sacrificed on the altar of Huitzcl and given over to bo devoured by the Aztecs according to the Ix-astliko custom which in Anahuac enjoined the eating of the bodies of those who were offered to the gods, not because the Indians love such meat, but for a secret religious reason. Briggs—Only about haft a dozen others.—New York Soil Etta Work. Lazarus may have his sad and hopeless days and disagreeable nights treating his eczema, but what is a short lifetime of toil and sorrow compared with eternal dog days barefooted on the hot pavements of the bad place? "Have you done anything far the social freedom of woman?" asked the lady with eyeglasses. Listening at this window also I gathered some of the tidings of tho camp. I learned that Cortes had come back, bringing Uuptemoc and several of tho princes with him, together with many of the noble Artec ladles. Indeed I saw and heard the soldiers gambling for these women when they were weary of their play for money, • description of each of them being written on a piece of paper. One of these ladles answered well to Otomle, my wife, and she was put up to auction by the brute who won her In the gamble and sold to a common soldier for a hundred pesos, for these men never doubted but that the women and the gold would be handed over to them. It was pitiful to see them maddened with suffering ns they wandered to and fro about the streets, spreading the distemper far and wide. They were dying In houses: they lav dead br companies In tho market places awaiting burial, for the sickness took itg toll of every family; the very priests were smitten by it at tho altar as thvy sacrificed children to appease the anger of the gods. Hut the worst Is still to tell. Cuitlahua, thcemjHTor.was struck down by the illness, and when we reached tho city lie lay dying. .Still ho desired to see us and sent commands that we should brought to his lxxlslde. In vain did I pray Otomio not to olDcy. She,- who was without fear, laughed at lyo, saying: '•What my husband, shall I shrink from that which you must facer Come, let us go and make rejwirt of our mission. If the gicknesK takes mo and I die, it will bo becauso my hour has come." know At length a party of (is, among whom was Guatenwc, with hiq Tpeplchpo, were driven f»the shores of the lake, where lay canoes, and into these we ontered, scarcely knowing what wo did, but thinking that we might esoape, for now all the city was taken. The brlgantlnes saw us and sailed after us with a favoring wind— the wind always favored the foe In that war—and, row as we would, one of them came up with us and tmgan to Are into us. Then Uuatemoc stood up and spoke, saying:"No'm," said the Judge, who sat in divorce oases and was a cynic, "but I'f done a heap for the emancipation ot man. "—Chicago Record. Passing from the mouth of the gorge, we traveled some miles iicross the plain, every foot of which was cultivated with com, maguey or aloe and" other crops, till we came to one of the four gates of the city, pnterlng it, we found the flat roofs on either side of the wide street crowded with woineu and children, who threw flowers on us as we passed and cried: "Welcome, princess! Welcomo, Otomie, princess of the Otomie!" And when at length wo reached the great square It seemed as though all the men In Anahuao were gathered there, and they, too, took up the cry of "Welcome, Otomkf princess of the Otomie!" till the earth shook with the sound. Me also they saluted afi I {Hissed by touching the earth with their right bands and then holding the hand above the head, but I think that the horse I rodo caused theiu more wonder than I did, for the most of them had never seen a horse and looked on it as a monster or a demon. 60 we went on through the shouting maso. followed ana preoeaeu ay tnousanag o* warriors, many of them decked in glittering feather mail and be;iring hroidered banners, till we had 1 Missed the pyramid, whero 1 saw the priests at their cruel work above OS, and were come to the palace gates. A ml here, in a straneo chamber sculptured "Two Little Boys In Blue," Frontenac, write: "Wo have a debating club here, and recently wg have taken up the question, 'Resolved, That it is not justifiable to dock the tails of horses.' What is your own opinion?" "I'll take a little of everything,M ■aid Taddles to the waiter after glancing over the bill of fare at the restaurantAn Order Eaally Filled. •'How long have I lain ill, husband?" III vain did I pray Uuatemoc to forego this horror. (TO BE CONTINUED.] I told her, and she said, "And have you nursed me all this while and through so foul a sickness?" ■'Is this a time for gentleness?" ho answered fiercely. "I cannot save them from the altar, and I would not if I could. Ix-t tho dogs die according to the custom of tho land, and to you, Teule, my brother, I say presume not too far." My own opinion is that it is not justifiable, but more honored in the breach than in the observance, if you will permit a delicate pun caused by hot weather and overwork. Squinting In Children "Yes, sir," replied the waiter, who straightway brought a plate ot hash.— Detroit Free Press. "Yes, Otomie, I have tended you." "'I am Guatemoc. Bring nip t° Mallnche. But sjHiro those pf my people who remain alive." Squinting, especially In children, may often be cured by blindfolding tho sound eye for a considerable part of each day and thus gradually forcing tho affected eye Into use and oliedionce to the will. The surgical operation for the same purpose is extremely simple and In the hands of a properly qualified practitioner is not attended with tho least danger.—Family Magazine. "What have I done that you should lie so good to me?" she murmured. Then some dreadful thought seemed to strike her, for she moaned as though In pain and said: "'A mirror! Swift, bring me u mir ror!" Thus things wept for several days, during which I sat and slept In my prison untroubled by any, except the native woman who waited on m° an4 fe*vught me food in plenty Purlug those days I ate as I have neyer eaten before or sinco, and I slept much, for my sorrows could not rid my body of ite appetites and commanding need for food and rest. Indeed I verily believe that at tbe enC) pf a weak 1 bad lfl-j creased In weight by A fu'l h«Mf Also my wrolnpM WW conquered at length, and I WHA fttfonff 1 But when I was neither sleeping nor eating I watched at iny window, hoping, though In vain, to oateh some sight of Otomle or Guatemoc. If I might not see mv Mends, however, at least I saw my It is a fashion which is feebly defended by fashionable people only. My own stud is free from docked horses and my stables from the overdraw check. The overdraw check ia as injurious to the comfort and beauty of the horse as it is to one's equilibrium at the bank. The StrtOfMcr. "Pretty hard times," said memosqui to. Alas, the heart of Guatemoc grew ever fiercer as the struggle wore on, and indeed it was little to lie wondered at. "Now," I said to Otomle at my side, "my hour has come, for the Spaniards will surely hang me, and His |q my mind, wife, that I should do Wel| to Ml) myself, so that I may bo saved from 3 death pf shame." "Yes," replied the other. "I don't know when we hare presented our bills so often with so few oolleotfona. "«*- Washington Star. I gavp her one, /ind rising on her arm eagerly she scanned her face in the dim light of the shadowed room, then let the platu of burnished gold fall and sunk bock with a fa(nt and happy cry; This was the dreadful plan of Cortes— to destroy the city piecemeal as he advanced toward its heart—and it was car rieil out without mercy. So soon as tho Spaniards got footing in a quarter, thousands of the Tlasealans W!'reset to work to fire tho houses and burn .all hi them a)ivo. Hi-fore tho siege was done Tenoctitlan, queen of tho valley, was but a heap of blackened ruins. Cortes might have cried over Mexico with Isaiah the prophet: "Thy pomp Is brought down to tho grave, and tho noise of tby viols: tho worm is 80 we went and were ushered into a chamber where Cuitlahua lay covered by a sheet us though he were already dead and with Incense burning round him in golden censors. When we entered, he was in a stupor, but presently he awoke, and it was announced to him that we waited. "Nay, husband," sho answered sadly, 'as I said in bygona days, while yon live there is hope, but tho deaCl ppjno pack HQ more- Fortune p»py favw us yet| still, If you tlijnk ptjierwlse, I C"n F°C*uy to die." "That J will nol suffer, Qtomle." Wouirq Entomologist*. Besides tho wumaq astronomer, Miss Clarke, London has a woman lawyer and a woman entomologist, Miss Ormonde, whose work on the Colorado heetlo is famous. Missouri, toCi, lias a woman entomologist In Miss Murtfeld, the credit for whose admirable work goes to some one In the do? partmcnt of agriculture. — New Yor* Evening World- / A high authority says recently in The Country Gentleman that the only exouse offered for docking horses—viz, that it prevents their getting their tails over the line and keeping them thereis entirely exploded by recent experiments.•'I feared," she said, "J feared that I had become hideous, as those ant whom the pestilence has smitten, and that you would cease to love me, than which it had been better to die." SoRaltatta Author—Well, professor, how do yoa like my new play? •'Then you must bold your band huatiand, for now, as always, where you go I follow." Critic—Splendid I Wonderful 1 Bo realistic I Especially the burglars in it Even their dialogue ia stolen.—Berlin Weepen. ___C_ "Welcome, niece," he said, speaking through the sheet and in a thick voice. "You find me in an evil case, for my days are numbered: tho Destilence of the Teulya ''For shame," I said. "Do you, then, think that love can be frightened away by some few sears?" ''Listen." J wiiasered. "Pq pot 1st (t The docking process besides aggra-