Pittston Gazette

              Oldest Newspaper ie the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTO PA. FRI OBER 19, 1894. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. I 91.BO PJEB ANNUM 1 IN ADVANCE fashion as to hldo tliein from the sigilt ot the maddenod women engrossed us they were In their orgies. bearing iniants in weir arms. ioey came singing and leaping, many of them naked to the middle. Nor was this all, for in front of them ran the pabas and such of the women themselves as were persons in authority. These leaders, male and female, ran and leaped and sang, calling upon the names of their demon gods and celebrating the wickedness of their forefathers, while after them poured the bowling troops of women. (EMS CcorrMawT.iw».»rmtDvTHo«D) t D them that, licaring with tbem their dead and wounded, they retreated uiulor cover of tho night to their camp without tho walls of the courtyard. cape, lor wt.cn deatli is near au oilier loss seems as notbin*. But with theso Indian people it is not so, since when fortune frowns upon them they do not cling to life. Those men of the Otomie had lost their country, tlieir wives, their wealth, their brethren and their homes. Therefore life, with fi\*xlom to wander whither they would, seemed no treat thing to them, So they mot th* boon that I had won from tho mercy of our foes, as had matters gone otherwiso they would have met the bane, In sullen silence. there lias been no smoke on i'opo tor these two years. Now, if you will lie advised by me, you will turn Christian again and enter tho service of Spain. But come, let us to supper. \V'e can talk of these matters afterward." NYE IS EXAMINED. Answer.—Wo, not perceptibly. Question No. 26.—Did you ever apply for or receive a pension? Now I crept up to the Spaniards. They were squatted upon the ground, bound by their haDds and feet to the copper rings in tho pavement. Thero they sat silently awaiting the dreadful doom, their faces gray with terror, and their eyes starting from their sockets. *N INSURANCE PHYSICIAN ASKS HIM SOME PERSONAL QUESTIONS. Answer.—No; I was not wounded in the discharge of duty; was also in Siberia during the war. Now, weary, but triumphant wo wended our way back toward the crest of the pyramid, but as I turned the corner of tho second angle that was jierhaps nearly 100 feet above the level of the ground a thoughtstruck nie, and I set tho.se with me at a task. Loosening the blocks of stone that formed tho edge of the soadway, we rolled them down the sides of the pyramid, and so labored on, removing layer upon layer of stone and of the earth beneath till whore the path had been was nothing but a yawning gap 30 feet or more in width. So we sat down to cat by tho light of torches in tho banqueting hull with Bernal Diaz and some other of the Spaniards. Otomie would have left us, and though tho captain bade her stay she ate nothing and presently slipped away from tho chamber. Fox Hunting Will Soon Re Opened Uj Again In Wlllitm'H Neighborhood ud He Is Getting His Animal la Conditio*. Hare never spit blood or attempted suicide; parents were none of them executed by law; do not experience dizziness on getting up early iu the mm-r,irfg and do not have fits. ''Hist!" I whispered in Spanish into the ear of the first, an old man whom I knew as one who hud taken part In the war of Cortes. ''Would you be saved?" To and fro they rushed, now making obelsanoe to the statue of Huitzel, now prostrating themselves before his hideous sister, the goddess of death, who sat beside him adorned with her carven necklace of men's skulls and hands, now bowing around the stone of sacrifice, and now thrusting their bare arms Into the flames of tho holy fire. For an hour or more they celebrated this ghastly carnival, of which even I, versed as I was In the Indian customs, could not fully understand the meaning, and then, as though some single Impulse had possessed them, they withdrew to the center of tho open space, and form ing themselves into a double circle, within which stood the pabas, of a sudden they burst into a chant so wild and shrill that ss I listened my blood curdled in my veins. Ever as they sang, step by step they drew backward, and with them wont the leaders of each company, their eyes fixed upon the statues of their gods. Now they were but a segment of a circle, for they did not advance toward the temple. Backward and outward they went, with a slow and solemn tramp. There was but one line of them now, far those In tho second ting filled the gaps In tha Ant ck' M widened. Still they drew on ttU at length they stood on the sheer edgt ot the platform. Then tho priests and the women leaders took their place among them, and for a moment there was silence, until at a signal one and all they bent backward. Standing thus, tholr long hair waving on the wind, the light of burning houses flaring upon their breasts and in their maddened eyes, they burst into the ory of: A Storm of Children. 1 came to Otomie, and to her I also told the news. [to be continued.] [Copyright, 1884, by Edgar W. Nye.] I was asked age of grandparents, If living, and answered that, if living; maternal grandparents would be respectively 130 and 114; paternal grand-118 and 118. He looked up quickly and said In a hoarse voice: "Iliad hoped to dio where I am,"she answered. "But so be it. Death is always to be found.'' A FISH STORY. Arden, N. C., Fall op 1894. ''Who are you that talks of saving usf Who can save us from these she dovllsf" Yesterday I locked horns with a large fife insurance company, and the olive branch of peace is still about two feet aut of my reach. It was only by accident that I discovered this point of difference between the insurance company and myself during my lifetime, for generally such things are reserved for a free for all posthumous fight, which results in woe to the widow and a wine supper for the general offioers of the company. '•Now," I said, surveying our handiwork by tho light of the rising moon, "that Spaniard who would win our nest must find wings to fly with." The Red Faoe.l Man Tells About His El- "I am a Teule, a man of white blood and a Christian, and, alas that I must say ltl the captain of this savage people. With the aid of some few men who are faithful to me, I purpose to cut your bonds, and afterward yon shall see. Know, Spaniard, thut I do this at great risk, for if wo are caught it is u chance but that I myself shall have to suffer those things from which I hope to rescue you." Only my son rejoiced, because he know that God had saved us all from death by ■word or hunger. ' Father," he said, "the Spaniards have given us life, but they take our country and drive us out of it. Where, then, shall wo goP" •'I do not know, my son," I answered. '•Father," the lad Bald aguin, ''let us leave this land of Anahuac, where there is nothing but Spaniards and sorrow. Lot us find a ship and sail across the seas to England, our own country." The boy spoke my very thought, and my heart leaped at his words, though I bad no plan to bring the matter about. 1 pondered a moment, looking at Otomie. Tho rod faced man ordered some picked up codfish and then began to talk about fish. "It makes me sick," he laid, "to hear men go around blowing about the fish thfiy have caught aud the ftsh their friends have caught. As a matter of fact, I suppose I know a stream in this vicinity where there are more fish than there are anywhere else ti this great and glorions country. prrlences. Now the company is trying to crawl oat of the policy on the ground that my grandparents were not living at all I did not pretend that they were living. I said that, if living, they would be those ages. I hate a corporation thai wants to back out after it has made a fair and square trade that way. Is it hot disgraceful, after asking im all about my private affairs and personal habits, things that I never have told uiy one, not even my dearest friend on sarth, that an insurance oompany, slaiming to stand with a large umbrella i as to keep off the storms of adfrom the helpless heads of widorphaus, should seek to crawl •nail a bole m that? which we had prepared under tl»e teocain, nor was there any further fighting during that night.  "Aye, Teule," answered one at my side; 'but, say, what wings shall we find?" For awhile the seven oonsnlted together, then their spokesman answered. ''The wings of death," I said grimly and went on my upward way. CHAPTER XXXII. "Otomie, and you, Teule, we have followed your counsels for many years, and they have brought us but little luck. We do not blame you, for the gods of Anahuao have deserted us as we have deserted them, and ths gods alone stand between men and their evil destiny. Whatever misfortunes we may have borne, you have shared In them, and so it Is now at the end. Nor will we go back upon our words In this the last hour of the people of the Otomie. We have chosen; we have lived free with you, and still free we will die with you, for, like yw», we hold that it ts better for us and ours to perish as freemen than to drag out our days hen—th the yoke of the Teule." It is well," said Otomie. "Now nothing remain far toe except to seek death ao glorious that-it shad be sung of In after days. Husbaad, you have heard.tbe answer of tho council. Let the Spaniards hear It also." THX LAST SACRIFICE OF THE WOMBS OF TH* OTOMIE. It was near midnight when I reached tho temple, for the labor of leveling tho road took many hours, and food had been sent to us from above. As I drew nigh I was amazed to hoar tho sound of solemn chanting, and still more was I amazed when I saw that tho doors of tho temple of Huitzel were open, and that the sacred fire which had not shone thero for many yoars once more flared fiercely upon his altar. I stood thero listening. Did my ears trick me, or did I hoar the dreadful song of sacrifice? Nay, again its wild refrain rang out upon tho slleneo: Here In the courtyard of the teocalll, by the light of burning houses, for as they advanced the Spanish fired tho town, we mustered our array to find that there were left to us in all some 400 .lighting men, together with a crowd of nearly 8,000 women and many children. Now, although this teocalll was not quite «o lofty as that of the great temple of Mexico, its sides are steeper and everywhere faoed with dressed stone, and the open fa « upon its summit was almost as groat, measuring indeed man than a hundred paoes every way. This ana was paved with blocks of marble, and In Its center stood the temple of the war god, where his statue still sat, although no worship had been offered to him for many years; the stone of sacrifice, the altar of fire and the storehouses of the priests. Moreover, in front of tho temple, and between it and the stone of sacrifice, was a deep cemented hole the size o£ a large room, which once had been used as a place for the safe keeping of grain in times of famlno. This pit I had caused to be filled with water liorne with great toll to the top of the pyramid, and in the temple Itself I stored a great quantity of food, so that we had no cause to fear present death from thirst or famine. But now we were face to face with a new trouble. Large as was the summit of the pyramid, it would not give shelter to hall our numbers, and If wo desired to defend it some of the multitude herded round it* base must seek refuge elsewhere. Calling the leaden ot tho people together, I put the matter before them In a few words, leaving them to decide if hat must be done. They in turn consulted among themselves, and at length gave me this answer; Thai it was agreed that all the wounded am' aged there, together with most of the chll dren, and with them any others who wish ed to go, should "leava the teocalll thai night, to find their way out of the city ii they could, or If not to trust to the mere* of the Spaniards. I said that it was well, for death was on every sldo, and it mattered littlo which way men turned to meet it. So they wen sorted out, 1,600 or moro of them, and ai midnight the gates of the courtyard wert thrown open, and they left. Oh, it waD dreadful to see the farewells that tool, place in that hour I Hero a daughter clunt to the neck of her aged father, here bus bands and wives bade each other a lad farewell, here mothers kissed their littlC children, and on every side rose up thC sounds of bitter agfWF, the agony of tho* who parted forever. I buried my face hi my hands, wondering, as I had often won dered before, how a God whose name U Mercy can bear to look upon sights that break the hearts ot sinful men to witness. Presently I raised my eyes and spoke to Otomie, who was at my side, asking her il she would not send our son away with the others, passing him off as the child of common people. "Nay, husband," she answered, "It is better for him to die with us than to live as a slave of the Spaniards." At length it was over, and the gates had shut behind the last of them. Soon we heard the distant challenge of the Spanish sentries as they perceived them, and the sounds of some shots, followed by cries. "Doubtless the Tlascalans are massacring them," I said. But it was not so. When a few had been killed, the leaders of the Spaniards found that they waged war upon an unarmed mob, made up for the most part of aged people, women and ohildren, and their commander, Bernal Diaz, a merciful man If a rough one, ordered that the onslaught should oease. Indeed he did more, for when all the able bodied men, together with such ohildren as were sufficiently strong to bear the fatigues of travel, had been sorted out to be sold as slaves he suffered the rest of that melancholy company to depart whither they would. And so they went, though what became of them I do not know. That night we spent in the oourtyard of tho teocalll, but before it was light I ■aimed the women and children who remained with us, perhaps some 000 in all, for very few of the former who were unmarried, or, who, being married, were still young and comely, had chosen to desert our refuge, to ascend tho pyramid, guessing that this Spaniards would attack us at dawn. I staid, however, with the 100 fighting men that were left to fne, a hundred or more having thrown Qcm selves upon the mercy of the Spaniards, with the refugees, to await the Spanish onset under shelter of the walls of the courtyard. At dawn It began, and by midday, do what ws could to stay It, the wall was stormed, and leaving nearly a hundred dead and wounded behind me I was driven to the winding way that led to the summit of the pyramid. Hero they assaulted us again, but tho road was stoci and narrow, and their numbers gave them no great advantage on it, so that the end of it was that we beat them back with kiss, and there was no more fighting that day The night which followed we spent upon tho summit of the pyramid, and for my part I was so woary that after I had saten I never slept more soundly. Next morning the struggle began anew, and this time with better success to the Spanlards. Inch by Inch, under cover of the heavy fire from their arquebuses and atones thev forced us Howard and backward. All day long the fight continued upon the narrow road that wound from stage to stage of the pyramid. At length, ss the sun sank, a company of our foes, their advance guard, with shouts of victory, emerged upon the flat summit aud rushed toward the temple in its center. All this while the women had been watching, but now one of them sprang up, crying with a loud voice; "Seise them. They are but few." Then, with a fearful scream of rage, the mob of women cast themselves upon the weary Spaniards and Tlascalans, bearing them down by the weight of their numbers. Many of them were slain indeed, but In the end the women conquered, aye, and made their victims captive, fastening thein with cords to tho rings of copper that were set into the stones of the pavement, to which In former days those doomed to sacrifice bad been secured when their numbers were so great that tho priest* feared lest they should escape. I and the soldiers with me watched thlr sight, wondering; then I cried out: "What, men of the Otomie, shall It be said that our women outdid us in cour age'" and without further ad-i, followed bv 100 or more of mv companions, I rush ed desperately down the steep and narrow "Bo assured, Teule," answered the Spaniard, "that if we should get safe away we shall not forget this service. Save our lives now, and tho time may come when we shall pay you back with yours. But even if we aru loosed, how can wo cross tho □pen space in this moonlight and escape tho eyes of those furies?" I was examined three years ago at the general office of the Mutual Endowment Widows and Orphans' Drtaia of "I am not going to give away the tame of this stream, for I am a good leal of a fisherman myself, and I know t good thiug. I am not averse to telling you, however, that summer is tho poor leason in those waters. It is a good deal better fishing there iu the winter. Last winter one day I made up my mind I would go down aud get a mess, and I took my ax aud started out Don't hava to fish with hooks aud bait and all that wrt of thing there. The stream is a shallow one. All you have to do is to build a big fire on the bank aud then chop out a chunk of ice. The stream is generally frozen to the bottom, and when you haul aut your chunk of ice you are sure to And a dozen or so whopping big fish frozen into it Then you prop up the ic« beside the fire and melt it, and there you have the fish with just no exertion tt all. It's a great stream. "The thought la good, Teule," she said, answering my unspoken'question. "For you and for your son there is no better, but for myself I will answer In tho proverb of my people, "The earth that bears us lies lightest on our bones.' " Then she turned, making ready to quit the storehouse of the temple, where we hud been lodged during the siege, and no more was sold about tho matter. \l| l I D spread bo aa Sr\ 'll' I ver8itD 13 ~ 1 I I 0WBf*0 AT THE INSURANCE EXAMINER'S. take pUoP Wealth Insurance association in New and tire \ York, and quite a number of extremely the edifice personal questions were asked by a hand- thai soinely dressed physician, who only pat- stoned w tially concealed his scorn when he no- ory, -there ticed that at the elbow of my red medi- that day. '"You must trust to chance for that," I answered, mid as I spoke fortune helped Qs strangely, for by now the Spaniards in tholr camp lielow had perceived what was going forwa:d on the crest of the teocalll. A yell of horror arose from them, and Instantly they opened fire upon us with their pieces and arquebuses, though, because of tho shape of the pyramid and of their position beneath it, the storm of shot swept over us, doing littlo or no hurt; also a great company of .tlieni poured across the courtyard, hoping to storm the temple, for they did not know that the road had beeu broken away. To Thee we wu rlflct! Save us, O Huitzel, supposed that the Nfe was my friend loyal and true— Coxe says, a friend in ooart would come upon the witness through loyal testimony Bible cradf like a new saddle. » • • neighborhood is talking soma soon opening the fox hunting I am having my parapher— Hgged up ready for the exercises, esterday I sent my fox into Asheville, placed him under the care of a * chiropodist He will be in ior the fray. yew» mgu • «rag hunt was ar which was quite exciting, was used, and the soent Co follow as a pair at waterporpoise hide shoes dressed with -vhich I wore last snasrm was arranged by request to not far from Calvary church, drag Was ' pulled twice around — in an "unguarded moment, so considerable confusion was oocaaeo the pack oame np in full being week day servioes on Huitzel, lord sod! I rushed forward, and turning the angle of the temple I found myself face to face with the past, for there, as in bygone years, wero the pabas clad In their black robes, their long hair hanging about their shoulders, tho dreadful knlfo of glass fixed In their girdles. There to the right of the stone of sacrifice were those destined to the god, and thero being led toward It was tho first victim, a Tlascalan prisoner, his limbs held by men clad in the dress of priests. Near Mm, arrayed fn the scarlet robe of sacrifice, stood one of my own cap tains, who I remembered had pneo-served ts a priest of Tezcat before idolatry was forbidden in the City oif Pines, and around were a wide circle of women that watched, ind from whose lips swelled the awful •hant. Before tho sun set a weary throng of men, with some few women and children, were marching across the courtyard that surrounded the pyramid, for a bridge of timbers taken from the tenSple had been made over the breach ia the roadway that wound about its side. At the gates tho Spaniards wero waiting to reoelve us. We were sorted out. The n»en of small condition, together with the children, were takeu frem the ruined city hy an escort and turned loose upon the mountains, while those of note wero brought to the Spanish Caunp, to bo quqs tloned there before they were set free. 1, With my wife und son, wus led to tho pal ace, our old home, there to learu the will pf the Captuiu piuz. It Is but a littlo way to go, and yet phefe WW something to be seen In the Eth, for yve walked I Iwked up, and (ore We, stftlltUug with folded anna and Apart from all men, was Do Garcia, I had aoarroly thought of Mm for some days, so full had my mind been of other matters, but at tho sight of his evil face I remembered that while this man lived sorrow and danger must be my bedfellows. So I went back to the wall, a white Bag in my hand, and presently an envoy advanced from the Spanish camp to speak to like—not De Garcia, but another. I told him In few words that those who remained alive of the people of the Otomie would die beneath the ruins of their city like the children of Tenoctltlan before tbem, but that while they had a spear to throw and an arm to throw It they would never yield Co the tender mercies of the Spaniard. "Save us, Huitselt Receive us, lord gOd, our home!" Now, though the rites of sacrifice never ccased, what with tho roar of cannon, the shouts of rugo and terror from the Spaniards, tho hiss of musket (tails and the crackling of flames fro"! houses whlph they hud fired to gfve them more light, fcnd the sound of phunting, tho turmoil and confusion grew so great as to render (he carrying out.of my purpose .easier than ( bad hoped. By this time fpj friend, the paptain of the ptomic, wus at piy side, 9Cul wfth him sevpf-ul fiieij whom be could trust. Stooping flown, with a few swift blows of a knife I cut fhu rqpes which bound the Spaniards. Then we gathered ourselves into a knot, 19 pf us or more, and In the center of the knot we set the five Spaniards. This done, I drew my •word and cried: Thrice they pried it, each time more shrilly than before; then suddenly they wore gone—the WOOien of the Otctnio were po morel W ith thoir own self slaughter the* had ponsummated the last celebration of the irltes pf sacrifice that ever shall be held in (he City of Pines. The devil gods were dead, and their worshipers v?lth them. A (ow murmur fan round the lips oif the tneq whq watchecL then ona pried, and his yolce rang strangely |n tbesuddci) silence, our Wlve8D women of the Oto "I remember one day last winter, along about Now Year's it was, when ] needed some fish for brain food. I went iown to the stream and chopped out my piece of ice. When I had almost got it 5ut, I noticed it kind of bulging up in the ceuter, and the first thing I knew it had broken in two and was thrown out an the ice by the force of upward presmre. Half a wagon load of fish shot up into the air and scattered about on the lea You see, the water was a little tleeper in that particular spot, and the fish were packed in so tight beneath the Ice that when the ice was loosened a bit they just expanded and were thrown 3Ut" The envoy returned to the camp, and within an hour the attack began. Bringing up their pieces of ordnance, the Spanlards set them within little more than a hundred paces of tho gates and began to batter us with iron shot at their leisure, lor our spears and arrows could scarcely harm them at such a distance. Still we were not idle, for seeing that the wooden gates must soon be down we demolished houses on either side of them and filled up the roadway with stones and rubbish. At the rear of the heap thus formed I caused a great trench to be dug, which could not be passed by horseman and ordnanoe till It was filled in again. All along the main street leading to the great square of the teocalll I threw up other barricades, protected In the front and rear by dikes cut through the roadway, and In case the Span - lards should try to turn our flank and iorce a passage through the narrow and tortuous lanes to the right and left I also barricaded the four entrances to the great •quare or market place. Now I understood It all. In their last despair, maddened by ttyj Joss of fathers, husbands and children, by thefyprue} fate, tnd standing face to face with 06rta|n leath, the fire of the old faith bod burned lp In their savago hearts. There was tho em pie, there were the stono and implements of sacrifice, and there to their hands were the victims token in wur. They would glut u la.vt fleyongo, they would sac •lflce to their fathers' goils as .their fathers lad done before them, and the victims should bo taken from their own victorious 'ocs. Aye, they must die, but at the least hey must seek the mansions of the sun nade holy by the blood of the accursed Teule. "Tho Teules storm the temple!" which was true, for already their long line was rushing up tho winding path. "The Teules storm tho templet I go to stop them," and straightway we sped across the opun space. He watched us pass, taking note of all. Then he called to me, who walked last: cated flannels a September twilight on the French Broad river had been ■worked with lemon colored Germ an town wooL He asked if pimples had ever shown themselves on my grandfather's side I said no, which was true, althongh I was careful not to say that be had a rising once at the base of the claviole. I considered that fair, as I was there to answer questions and not to volunteer information. Drawing me out still farther, he chatted on about hay fever, asthma, rose fever, roseola, dandelion fever, gcJdenrod asthma, shortness of breath during the haying season and nausea in the harvest field, with feeling of revulsion at the thought of work. I passed, with some difficulty, on these questions. The rector was in the midst of the services, and an elderly gentleman in the pew behind mine had his ear to the ground as the first deep and distant baying of the hounds came mournfully through the solemn air. He had hunted the fox before the disagreeable war, and he rose to look out of the window. ▲ tall hunter attached to a boggy gave a wild snort outside and looked keenly across the valley.' - "Farewell, Cousin Wlngtield. You have lived through this bout also and won a free pardon, you, your woman and your brat together. If the old warhofse who Is •at over us as a captain had listened tome, you should have burned at the stake, every one of you, but so It Is. Farewell for awhile, friend. I am away to Mexico to report these matters to tho viceroy, whe may have a word to say." I mado no answer, but asked pf our pon dubtor—that same Spaniard whom I had •ayea trout tno sacrince— wnat tne senoi mpant by his words. "!fhl«, 'feule; fhat there has boon n aWtrPPi between our oomrade Sarooda and our oaptain. The former would have grant ed yod no terms, or falling this would have jlecoyod you from your stronghold with false promises and then have put you to the sword as Infldels with whom no oath la binding. But the captain would not have It so, for he said that fatth must be kept even with the heathen, and we whom you had saved cried shame on him. And to words ran high, and in the end the Seflor Sarcoda, who |s third In command among us, declared that he would be no party to this peacemaking, but would lie (jone to Mexico with his servants, there to report tq the viceroy. Then tho Captain |)iaz bade him begpne to hell if ho wished and report to the devil, saying that ho had always believed that ho had escaped thence by mistake, and thoy parted in wrath who, since the day pf noche triste, pever loved each other much, tho end pf |t being that Saroeda rides for Mexico within an hour to make what mischief he can at the viceroy's court, and I think that you are well rid of him." "Say," said tho waiter, "where la that stream?" None saw us ®r, if they saw us, none hindered us, for all the company were Intent iipon the consummation of a fresh jpacriflde. Moreover, the fumult was such, as I afterward discovered, that we were scarcely noticed. Two minutes passed, and our feet were set upon tho winding way, and now I breathed again, for we were beyond tho sight of the women. On we rushed swiftly as the crumped limbs of tho Spaniards would curry them till presently we reached that angle In tho path where tho breach begun. The attacking )DD*4 ujnvwly como to the farther sldo of the gap, for though wo poult} pq$ see them wo could hear their cries of rage and despair as they halted helplessly and understood that their comrades were beyond their aid. "Oh," replied tbe red faced man aa he picked up his check, "I'd like to tell rou, but there ain't no ice down there lust now."—Buffalo Expresa I have said that it tvu# the woinpij who lang this chant and glared so fiercely upoij -he victims, but I hare not ye|t told alj the lorror of what I saw, for In the forefront »f their circle, clad In white robes, the necklet of great emeralds, Guatemoc'sgift, lashing upon her breast the plumes of royal green set in her hair, giving the time if tbe death chant with a little wand, Ctood Montezuma's daughter, Otomie, iiiy wife. Never before had I seen her look so beautiful or so dreadful. It was not Otomie whom I saw, for where was the tender imlle and where the gentle eyes? Hero before me was a living vengeance wearing ohe shupe of woman. Thomas H. Dayis wanted to hire foi the part of the cowboy in the farce com-9dy of "Rush City," one of the real jowboys now appearing with Buffalc Bill at Ambrose park. His brother, Charles A. Davis, volunteered to go ovei to the "Wild Wesf'and begin the negotiations. Davis took a friend along, and while on tho "Wild West" grounds Bailed on the Indians. He has a great fondness for the noble red man, having formerly had a good deal to do with Indians when he was connected with the Forepaugh show. Davis wished to show his friend his skill as a conversationist In the Sioux dialect, and he began to talk Indian to the assembled chief a Ta bis chagrin the chiefs gave no sign of understanding him. How Not to Talk to Indian*. Till nightfall the Spaniards bombarded the shattered remains of the gate and the earthworks behind them, doing no great damage beyond thejtllling of about a score at people by cannon shot and arquebus balls. But they attempted no assault that day. At length the darkness fell, and the Are ceased, but not so our labors. Most of the men must guard the gates and the weak spots In the walls, and therefore the building of the barricades was left chiefly to the women working under my commands and that of my captains. Otomie herself took a share in the toil, an example that was followed by every lady and Indeed every woman In the city, and there were many of tbem, for the women outnumbered the men among the Otomie, and, moreover, not a few of them had been made widows on that same day. The choir fidgeted some, and the reotor skipped one of the commandments. When the pack jumped the hedge at the churchyard, the organist, a beautiful English girl, was in the midst of the "Te Deum." It was a very trying time, and half the horses hitched to the tetoe broke loose to Join the hunt 77i* uonicn of the Otomie were no more! rnle, rest softly In tbe houses of tho sun, for of a surety they teach us how to diet" "Did hernia ever break out in you? family, and, if so, how far back?" • This was the next question, and coming, aa it did, from a man whom I did not know from Adam's off ox, as the saying goes, I flushed up to the roots of my hair and told him that my grandfaC ther while trying to move a barn had incurred hernia, but as to how far back it was I regarded that as nobody's business, and I would shrink from saying so even to a well dressed man in New York oity. The senior warden went out to see about his horses and was followed by the choir. Of oourse the peek went twioe around the church in full cry and waa followed by four teams. The congxega- In an Instant I guessed the truth, though ( did not know it all. Otomie, although she was not of it, had ever favored the Christian faith, Otomie, who for years had never spoken of those dreadful rites jxcept with anger, whoso pyery apt Was love, and whose every word was kjndnBSe, was still in her soul an idoiator and a savage. She had hidden this side of her heart from me well through all these yoars; perchance she herself bad scarcely known Its secret, for but twice had I seen anything of the burled fierceness of her blood, The first time was when Marina bad brought her a certain robe In which she might escape from the camp of Cortes, and she bad spoken to Marina of that robe, nnd the seoond when on the sumo day she had played her part to tho Tlascalan and had struck him down with her own hand as he bent over me. "Now wo are sped," said the Spaniard with whom I had spoken. "The road Is gone, uni} it must bo certain death to try the side of tho pyramid." "Aye," I answered, "but not thus. La, women do self murder! Our foes hav* swords for the hearts of men!" 4,Not »pf'' I answered. "Some feet below flic path still runs, and pne by one We w*}.1 jovver you to It with th|s pDpe.'' Thon wo set to work. Making tho corfj fast beneath the arms pf a soldier, w° let him down gently till he came to tho path and was received there by his comrades as a man returning from the dead. The |as( to be lowered was that Spaniard with whom I hod spoken. I turned to go, and before me stood Otomie."What has befaltonf" she said. "Where are my slsteret ph, surely I have dreamed an evil dream! I dreamed fhat the gods of my forefathers were strong once more, and that opoe more they drank the blood of inei).'' It was a strange sight to see them In the glare of hundreds of torches split from the rosin pine that gave its name to the city, as all night long they moved to and fro in lines, each of them staggering beneath the weight of a basket of earth or a heavy stone, or dug with wooden spades at the hard soil, or labored at the pulling down of houses. They never oomplained, but worked on sullenly and despairingly. No groan or tear broke from them—no, not even from those whose husbands and sons had been burled that morning from the precipices of the pass. They knew that resistance would be useless and that their doom was at band, but no ory arose among them of surrender to tbe Spaniards. Those of them who spoke of the matter at all ■aid, with Otomie, that It was better to din free than to live as slaves, but tbe most did not speak. The old and the young, mother, wife, widow and maid, they la bored in silence, and the children labored at their sides. "These Indinns don't seem to know the Sioux language*" charitably Bug jested Davis' friend, *• Your Ml dream has A worse awakening, Otomie." { answered "The gods of hell are st 11} strong indeed In this accursed land, and they have taken ypur sisters Into their keeping." "}s It so?" she sa|4 softly. ''Yet in my dream It seemed to me |ha| (his was their last strength ere they sink Into death unending. Look yonder!" and she pointed toward the snowy crest of the volcan Xaca. I remember that he smiled a cold, hard, tutti frutti ice cream smile and asked me to removo the rest of my clothing, as it w. ..Id be necessary to percuss my chest. "Oh, they're uot in a talkative mood Just now," explained Davis. "Farewell," lie said, "aud may tba blessing of God be on you for this act of mercy, renegade though you are. Say, now, will you lio( pome with mot j set my Ute and honor In pledge for your sate ty. You tell me that you are still a Christian man. Is that a place for Christians'" and he pointed upward. Ju9t then one of the chiefs grunted omt in very fair English: "Are you still with Forepaugh, Da. da?" He also gave lue a little ausculation to see if tbe swallows bad been nesting in my broncho tubes, as I understood him. Ho asked uie some moro things about my parents. They would have enjoyed it if they had known what an interest New York people took iu them. Perhaps we will all take a week off some time and drive in. We never thought that people in New York felt •'Father," said my son to me, "who is that Spaniard who looks so cruelly upon usf" Mr. Davis has pot spoken any Sioux dnce.—Now York Press. All this and much more passed through my mind In that brief moment while Otomie marked the time of the death obant and the paOas dragged the Tlasca Ian to his doom. I looked, but whether I saw tbe sight of which I am about to tell pr whether it was but an Imagining born of the horrors of that most hideous night |q truth I cannot say. At the least I seemed to see this, and afterward there were some among tbe Spaniards who swore that they bad witnessed It aLso. ''No, indeed." I answered, "but still I cannot pome, for my wife and son are there, and I must return to die w|th them if need be. If you I tear me any gratitude, strive in return to save their lives, since for my own I care but little." "That Is ho of whom I have tuld you, son, De Garcia, who has been the curse of our race for two generations, who betrayed your grandfather to tho holy office and murdered your grandmother, who put mo to torture, and whose ill deeds are not. done with yet. Beware of him, son, now and ever, I beseech you." Bow H« Came. Tho man came bolting into the Michgau Central station and flew to the tickCt offlco. The next I was at her side. "I want a ticket to Cincinnati," he puffed. Otomie looked on me with a cold wonder and with empty eyes, as though she did not know inc. '•What passes here?" I asked sternly. "That I will," he said, und I let him down among his friends, whom bo reached in safety. On Xaca's lofty summit now aa always stood a pillar of fiery smoke, and, while I gazed, to my vision the smoke and tbe fire separated themselves. Out of the fire was fashioned a cross of flame that shone like lightning and stretched for many a rod across the heavens, Its base resting on the mountain top. At |U foot rolled the clouds of smoke, and now these, too, took forms vast and terrifying, such forms Indeed as thoae that sat In stone within tbe temple behind me, but magnified a hundredfold. "The train has gone," responded the slork. that way toward us. ' Go hack, white man," she answered. ''It la not lawful for strangers to mingle In our rites." Now we returned to the temple, giving It out thut tbe Spaniards wero in retreat, having failed to cross the breach in the roadway. Here before the temple the orgio still went on. But two Indiuns remained alive, and the prlosts of sacrifice grew Now wo were oomo to the palace, almost the only bouse that was left etanding In the City of Pines. Here an apartment was given to us at the end of the long building, and presently a command was brought to us that I and my wife should wait upon the Spanish Captain Diaz. Then the man betrayed some anxiety regarding insanity, calculus, suicide, shingles, ringing in the ears, acidity of the stomach, thrush, St Vitus' danoe and other sooi:»l features iu onr home life. I told him that there had not been auy maniacs in our family lately, but cranks had married into the family from time to time i« spite of all we could da Looking at tbem, It came into my mind that these silent, patient women were In spired by some oomnion and desperate pur pose mat au xnew ot, out wnicn none oi tbem chose to tell. "Confound it," exclaimed the man, ''and I tried my best to catch it!*' "Did yon walk?" asked the clerk lympathiziugly. STUDYING ART HT VKX1CB. tion went.oat to look after tbe team, and the general enthusiasm reminded me of a service I Attended oooe it ft ■mall town on the Mississippi when the first steamboat came np the river In the spring wttb a steam calliope and Dan Rice's circus on board. As the calliope burst forth gladly with a fantasie entitled "Captain Jinks," and the king of beasts let off a roar that shook the whol* country, followed by the pleasing squeal of tbe Australian bird show, the services were oonclnded hurriedly, and it to an honest statement of the facta that tbe pastor was tbe first one at tbe levee to greet the baby excpbant and help him ashore with his trunk. I stood bewildered, not knowing what lo do, while the flame burned and the ehant went up before the effigy of Huitzel, of the demon Huitzel awakened after many years of sleep. "No, I didn't" "Will you work so hard for your mas tore, the Teulest" cried a man In bittci mockery as a file of them tolled past be Death their loads of stone. weary. "Where are the Teulesf" cried a voice. •'Swift strip them for the eltar." So we went, though Otomie desired me to stay behind, leaving our son alone in tbe chamber whore food had been brought to him. I remember thut I kissed him be fore I left, though I do not know what moved me to do so, unless it was because I thought that he might be asleep when I returned. The Captain Diaz had his quarters at the other end of tho palace, some 900 paoes away. Presently we stood before him. He was a rough looking, thickset man well in yoars, with bright eyes and au honest face, like tbe face of a peasant who has toiled a lifetime in all weathers, only the fields that Diaz tilled were fields of war, and his harvest had been the lives of men. Just then he was joking with some common soldiers in a strain scarcely suited to nice cars, but so soon as he saw us be eeased and came forward. I saluted him, after the Indian fashion, by touching the earth with my hand, for what was I but an Indian captive? "Come in a street car?" "No." Again and yet again the solemn chant arose, Otomie beating time with her little rod of ebony, and again, yet again, the cry of triumph rose to the silent stars. But tho Teules were gone, nor, search where they would, could they find them. "No." "Bicycle perhaps?" "Carriage?" "Are you a habitual drunkard, or have you ever lDeen such?" "Fool!" answered their leader, a young and lovely lady of rank, ' do tho dead la borf" "See," said Otomie again, "the cross of your God shines above the shapes of mine, the lost gods whom tonight I worshiped, though not ot my own will." Theo she bimaH o nH want Now I awoke from my dream, for as an erll dream It seemed to me, and drawing my sword I rushed toward tho priest at the altar to cut him down. But though the men stood still tbe women were too quick for me. Before I could lift the sword, before I could even speak a word, they had sprung upon me, like the jaguars of their own forests, and, like jaguars, they hissed and growled Into my ear: "Their God has taken them beneath his wing,'' I said, speaking from the shadow and In a feigned voice. "Huitzel cannot prevail before the God of the Teules." "No." This question 1 answered in a guarded way, yet truthfully. Once I was invited to visit a neighbor about 11 years ago to try some ooughnuts and cider made on the place. *'Nay," said thlslll jester, "but such a* you are too fair for tbe Teules to kill, and Tour years of slavery will be many. Say, how shall you escape tbemf" "Well, hoyj in thunder did yon get tere?" For some few moments I stood very much afraid, gaslng upon the vision us Xaoa'ssnow; then suddenly the rays of tbe rising sun smote It and it was gone. Now, for three days more we held out against tbe Spaniards, for they could not come at us and their shot swept over our beads harmlessly. During these days 1 had no talk with Otomie, for we shrank from one another. Hour by hour she would sit in the storehouse of the temple a very picture of desolation. Twice I tried to speak with her, my heart being moved to pity by the dumb torment in her eyes, but she turned her head from me and made no answer. Then I slipped aside, so that none knew that it was I who had spoken, but the cry was caught up and echoed far and wide. The man w;ts pawing the splinters ■ut of the floor around tbe ticket office. "Fool!" answered tbe lady again, *'doeD fire die from lack of fuel only, and mus: every man live till aoe takes him? W« •ball escape tbem thus," and casting down the torch she carried she trod It into the earth with her sandal and went on with her load. Tbon I was sure that tliey bad some purpose, though I did not guess how desperate it was, and Otomie would tell me nothing of this Woman's secret. "I ran all the way," he said, and he dfio said some other things which were lot fit for publication.—Detroit Free Press. 1 now look back upon that evening with shame and sorrow. "The God of the Christians has hidden them beneath bis wing. Let us make merry with those whom he rejects," said the cry, and the last of the captives were dragged away. Little did I dream then that I would have to say anything about it in after years in order to get my life insured. "Get you gone, Teule," they said, '"lest we stretch you on tbe stone with your brethren." And still hissing they pushed me thence. Unprofessional Chirograph?. The cider was made of Siberian crab apples and placed in a brandy cask which was not thoroughly renovated. Some two or three quarts of the brandy had been allowed to remain in it, and then the weather turned in to be oold, freezing the cider solid, leaving in tbe center a dose of distilled spirits of a peculiarly restless and felonious nature. I remember driving home in the crisp frosty moonlight, but I did not unharness the horses until the following day. I had no hostler at that time and used to do a great doal of stable work in order to keep well and strong. My phy-' sician advised me to do it, and so did my banker. I will close this by inserting a letter kindly loaned mo by an agent of tbe Charleston, Columbia and Augusta railroad, showing that life even at a small station during tbe cotton shipping season is full of "exsigbtment." I have taken tbe liberty to alter tbe names only. The rest of the letter is verbatim spellatim: Now I thought that all was finished, but this was not so. I have spoken of the secret purpose which I had read In the sullen eyes of the Indian women as they labored at tbe barricades, and I was about to see Its execution. Madness still burned in the hearts of these women. They bad accomplished their sacrifice, but their festival was still to come. They drew themselves away to the farther side of the pyramid, and heedless of the shots whloh now and again pierced tho breast of one of them—for here they were exposed to the Spanish fire—remained awhile In preparation. With them went the priests of sacrifice, but now, as before, the rest of the men stood In sullen groups, watching what befell, but lifting no hand or voice to hinder Its helllBhness. Tbe Experienced Physician—If jon wrote this prescription, you better give lp medicine and go into some other busiless."Otomie," I said to her that night wheiD we met by chance, "I have 111 news for you." I drew back and thought for awhile In the shadow of the temple. My eye fell upon the long line of victims awaiting their turn of sacrifice. They were thirty and one of them still alive, and of these five were Spaniards. I noted that tbe Spaniards were chained the last of all the line. It seemed that the murderers would keep them till the end of the feast; Indeed I discovered that they were to be offered up at the rising of the sun. How could I save them, I wondered. My power was gone. The women could not bo moved from their work of vengeance. They were mad with their sufferings. As well might a man trv to snatoh her nrev from a puma robbed of her whelps as to turn them from their purpose. With the men It was Otherwise, however. Some of them mingled In the orgio indeed, but moro stood aloof watching with a fearful joy the spectacle In which they did not share. Near me was a man, a noble of the Otomie, of something more than my own age. He had always been my friend, and after me he commanded the warriors of the tribe. I went to him and said, "Friend, for the sake of the honor of your people, help me to end this." Dr. Sqtiillers (freshly graduated)— Why, what's wrong with it? "Your sword," he said briefly as he scanned me with his quick eyes. I unbuckled It from my side and handed tt to him, saying In Spanish: "It must be bad Indeed, husband, to be named In such an hour," she answered. "De Garcia Is among our foea " *'I knew It husband." "How did you know it?" "By the bate written in your eyes," she answered. Soon it came to tbe knowledge of the Spaniards that we had enough food and water upon tbe teocalll to enable us to live there for a month or more, and seeing that there was no hope of capturing the place by force of arms they called a parley with us. Tho Experienced Physician—What's ivrong? Why, the thing is positively ogibla—Chicago Record. (Ci»rr.D CaABtoTTR. Columbia and Augusta f KA1M10AII. V Oh»t'k station, Dec. 80. J Colonel Elias lDix». A.: • .. Dear Sir—The I this cotton ' from the C. A L. Rou-1 hadlwina wd v la the exsightmcut u»d) Insu ring Monad this bale got Into mother lot of  8. B. B. and the name night my - wife and twins, and the next morning my billing clerk's wife had only one, and all our mothertnlaws was among us, and when we got dona working with the children I could not Sad th« bale of cotton to save my life. I hope we will not have another storm of children any more during the cotton season. Please tell Mr. Wooley not to be too hard on ua, boath of my children was girls and I am afraid I am going to have a hard time supporting them. Tell him to take the bale of Cotton, tbe price will go op In a few days, and he will make some money on it, but don't send it back this way any more. Yours Ac. Ocoaoa Parent, Agent. "Take it captain, for you have conquered; also It does but come back to its owner." For this was the same, sword that I bad captured from one Bernal Diaz In tbe fray of the noche triste. He looked at It; then swore a great oath and said; A Gift of Nature. Bangle—Nature has been very kind lCo Miss Bluscher. Soo the roses on hex iheeks! ''It seema that his hour of triumph la at hand," I said. I went down to the breach In the roadway and spoke with their envoy, who stood upon the path below. At first the terms offered were that we should surrender at discretion. To this I answered that sooner than do so we would die where we were. Their reply was that if we would give over all who had any part In the hu man sacrifice the rest of us might go free. To this I said that the sacrifice had been carried out by women and some few men, and that all of these were dead by theli own hands. They asked if Otomie was also dead. I told them no, but that 1 would never surrender unless they swore that nelthor she nor her son should be harmed, but rather that together with myself they should be given a safe conduct to go whither wo willed. This was refused, but In the end won I the day, and a parchment was thrown up to me on the point of a lance. This parchment, which was signed by the Captain Bernal Diaz, set out that, in consideration of the part that I and some men of the Otomie had played in rescuing the Spanish captives from death by sacrifice, f* pardon was granted to me, my wife and chjld and all upon the teocalli, with liberty £6 gq whithersoever we would unharmed, pur lands and wealth lieing, however, declared forfeit to the viceroy. "Nay, beloved, not hit, but youra. You ■hall triumph over De Garcia, but victory will coat you dear. 1 know It In my heart. Ask me not bow or why. See, the queen puts on her crown," and she pointed to the volcan Xaca, whose snows grew rosy with the dawn, "'and you must go to the gate, for the Spaniards will soon be stirring." t As Otomle spokf I beard a trumpet blare without the walls. Hurrying to the gates by the first light of day, I could aee that the Spaniards were mustering their forces for attack. They did not come at once, however, but delayed till the sun was well up. Then; they began to pour a furious fire upon our defenses that reduced the shattered beams of the gates to powder and even shook down the crest of the earthwork beyond them. Suddenly the firing ceased, and again a trumpet culled. Now they charged us In column, a thousand or more Tlascalans leading the van, followed by the Spanish force. In two minutes I, who waited them beyond It, together with some 800 warrior,? of the Otomle, saw their heads appear over the crest of the earthwork, and the fight began. Thrioe we drov» them back with our spears and our arro#s, but at the fourth charge the wave of oten swept over our defense and poured Into the dry ditch beyond. Now we wen forced to fly to the next earthwork, for we oould not hope to fight so many In the open street, whither, so soon as a passage had been made for their heraes and ordnance, the enemy followed us. Here the fight was renewed, and this barricade being very strong we held It for hard upon two hours, with much loss to ourselves and to the Spanish force. Again we retreated, and again we were assailed, and so the struggle went on throughout the livelong day. Every hour our numbers grew fewer and fewer and our arms fainter, but still we fought on desperately. At the last two barricades hundreds of the "I thought that it coulCT be .to other man. And so we meet again thus after so many years. Well, you gave me my life once, and I am glad that I have lived to pay the debt Had I not been sure It was rou, you had not won such easy terms, friaiu}. How are you named? Nay, 1 know what the Indians call you," Miss B.'a Rival—Yes, indeed. One oiust have a natural gift to paint like that — Arkausaw Traveler. In tbe morning the horses looked at me reproachfully while trying to eat part of a partition that had been built between them. This was difficult, especially with curb bits in their mouths. One woman did not go with them, and that woman was Otouiio, my wife. She stood by the stone of sacrifice, a piteous sight to Bee, for her frenzy, or rather her madness, had outworn itself, and she was as slio had ever been. There stood Otomie, gazing with wide and horror Stricken eyes now at the tokens of this unholy rite and now at her own hands, as though Bhe thought to see them red and shuddered at the thought. I drew near to her and touched her on the shoulder. She turned swiftly, gasping: A Modern Babylon. The man with tamarack whiskers was standing on the street ill front of the Brush street station about half an hout before traiu time in tbe afternoon, and as a policeman passed he stopped him for a brief conversation. Tlio following day a special providence brought on a merciful snowstorm, which wiped out the tracks I made on that memorable night. "I am named Wlngfleld." "Friend Wing field, then, for I tell you (hat I would have sat beneath yonder devil's house," and he nodded toward the teocalli, 'till you starved upon its top. Sfoipd. 1 su\tea mys^'wl^'onoiKer1manf years ago, and you have used this one gallantly. Never have I seen Indians mnko a better fight. And so that is Otomie, Montezuma's daughter and your wife? Still handsome and royal, I see. Lord, Lord, it is many years ugo, and yet it seems but yesterday that 1 saw her father die, a Christian hearted man, though no Christian, and one whom we dealt ill with. May God forgive us all! Well, madam, none can say that you have a Christiau heart if a certain tale that I have heard of what passed yonder some three nights since is true. But we will speak no mora of it, for the savage blood will show, and you are pardoned for your husband's sake, who saved my comrades from the sacrifice.""Scuse me, pardner," he said, "but ain't you a residont of this here town?" It was tho ftrst time I hid ever been a habitual drunk aid, and I was sorry for it. But I havo uever been in the liabit of passing my time at a gilded hell playing cards and gambling or drinking. "Yes," smiled the officer, born here." "I was I print the above to show that the "new sooth'' is rapidly settling np with American citizens. ''I cannot, Tuule," lie answered, "and bewaut how yoi| meddle in the play, for none will stand by y«u. Now the women have power, and you aco they use It. They are about to die, bnt before they die they will do ps their fathers did, for their strult is sops, und though they have been put aside the old customs are not forgotten." "At the leo*t, pan Dvo not save these Teulesf" I answered. "Hushund, husband!" "It is I," I answered, "but call me bus band no more." "It's a consamed fine place, ain'tit?" "Nothing finer," agreed the officer, with the proper degree of local pride. "Oh, what huvo I done?" she walled and fell senseless In my arms. Of course I have been a great social favorite, and that lias naturally biought temptation with it, and I have been repeatedly an honored guest at the banquet hall, where the victuals cost the price of a good colt. At these banquets wine has often flowed free, but I soon learned that there would be no offense if I did not keep my glass drained. So I consider myself what is called by the agents "a good risk. " "Don't think I'd like to live here, though, fer a steady diet" "Why not?" CHAPTER XXXin. TUK SCRRENUEB. Awfully Entemulic, Taking Otomie in my arms, I bore her to one of the storehouses attached to the temple. Here many children had been placed for safety, among them my own son. "Too much temptation and dissipation and them sort of things." Sue—Did yon hear abont Blanche's terribly embarrassing experience at the theater the other night? At the first corner we met the main ar ray of Spaniards and tbelr allies, couiinf.' up slowly, Cor now they wero sure of vie tory, and so great was the shock of our encounter that many of them were hurled over the edge of the path, to roll down tin steep sides of the pyramid. Seeing the fate of their comrades, those behind them halted, then began to retreat Presently the weight of our rush struck them also, and they in turn pushed upon those below, till at length panic seised them, und with • great crying the long lino of men that wound round and round tlie pyramid from its base almost to its summit sought their safety In flight. But some of them found none, for the rush of those above, pressing with ever Increasing force upon their friends below, drove many to their death, sinoe hen on ths pyramid there was nothing to ding to, and if once a man lost his foothold on the path his tall was broken "Why should yo|i wish to save the Teulesf Will tLey save us some few days hence, when wo are In tlielr power?" "Not any more so than any other large city—not as much." "Weil, I ain't able to jedge of the others, but I know De-e-troit I've been here a whole day, and I've drinked 10 glasses of sody water, et seven banantra, a bag of peanuts and a saucerful of ice cream fixiii's, and I've rid up 25 cents' worth of street car tickets. Ef that ain't headin to'rd dissipatin, pardner, I'd liko to know what you call dissipatin in a town of this size."—Detroit Free Press. Nell— No. Tell me abont it "Her hair oame down." ''Perhaps not," | t-aid, ' but if we must die let us die clean from this shame." "What ails our mother, father?" said the boy. "And why did she shut mo in here with these children when it seems that there is lighting without?" "How excessively annoying!" "What, then, do you wish me to do, Teulef" With these terms } was well content; Indeed I had never hoped to win any that would leave us our lives and liberty. And yet for my part death had been almost as welcome, for now Otomie had built a wall between us that I could never climb, and I was bound to her, to a woman who, willingly or no, had stained her hands with sacrifice. Well, my son was left to me, and with him 1 must be satisfied—at the least, he knew nothing of his mother's shame. Oh, 1 thought to myself, as I climbed the teocalli—oh, that I could but escape far from this accursed land and bear him with me tq the English shores—aye, and Otofpiu also, for there she might forget that once she had been * savage I Alas, it oould scarcely be I "But that wasn't the worst of it It rolled ander the seats and was only recovered after a good deal of trouble, and then yon can fancy what a condition it was in."—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. I have never had hepatic or nephritic colic but once, and that was when I attended a clambake at Long Branch aud ato the founders of the clam family of the western hemisphere by mistake. 1 have had painters' colic once while studying art in Venice, but farm lifo has entirely overcome that sinoe I have given up painting. ''This: J would have you find some three or four men who are not fallen into this madness, and with them aid me to loose the Teules, for we cannot save the others. If this may be done, surely we can lower them with ropes from that point when* the road Is broken away down to tho puth beneath, and thus they may escape to their own people." "Your mother has fainted," I answer ed, ''und doubtless she placed you here to keep you sufe. Now, do tend to her till I return." To all this Otomie listened, standing •till like a statue, but she never answered a word. Indeed she hud spoken very rarely since that dreadful night of her unspeuk able shame. "I will do so," answered the boy, "but surely it would he better that I, who am almost a man, should be without, fighting the Spuninrds at your side, rather than within, nursing sick women. ''And now, friend Wlngfleld," went on the Captain Diaz, "what is your purpose? You are free to go where you will. Whither, then, will you go?" "I do not know," J answered. ''Years Xwhen the Azteo emperor gave me my and this princess, piy wife, in marriage, I swore to be faithful to him and his cause and to fight for them till Popo ceased to vomit smoke, till there was no king in Tenoutltlan and the people of Anahuao were no more a people." It Turned Out AU Klfkt. Young Wife—Just to think, Harry, dear, my new hat blew into the street today and was run over by three wagons, four oarts and an omnibus. "Do as I bid you, son," I said, "and I charge you not to leave this place until I come for you again." r.asy Fnoiiuh. The examining physician inquired if I had ever had delirium tremens or discharge from the ear. I have not, though I had a discharge from my employer 20 years ago, but it did not beoome chronic, and today I regard myself ae perfectly recovered from it, ; ■ "I will try," he answered, shrugging his shoulders, "not from any tenderness toward the accursed Teules, whom I oould well bear to see stretched upon the stone, but because it is your wish, and for the sake of the friendship between us." "The great trouble with you, John, is," said a lady to her husband, who was Buffering from the effect of the night before, "you cannot say 'No.' Learn to say 'No,' John, and you will have fewer headaches. Can you let me have a little money this morning?'' Now I passed out of the storehouse, shutting the door lDehind me. A minute later I wished that I had staid where I was, since on the platform my eyes were greeted by a sight more dreadful than any that had gone before, for there, advancing toward us, were the women, divided Into four great companies, some of them Harry—Humph t That meant a new hat, of conrsa women of the Otomle fought by the sides of their husbands and their brothers. only when hi* body reached the ooart beneath Thus In 1ft abort minutes all that the Spaniards bad won this day was lost again, for except ths prisoners at Its summit none of thorn ramained alive upon the teocolll Indeed to BMi a terror took Young Wife—No, truly. I* waa cued, and I took it to Mm& Wayuppea, •who was perfectly charmed. Tbewagona and things had mangled it into tba moat fashionable shape Imaginable — Tit* Then be went, and presently I saw several men place themselves, as though by chance, between the spot where the last of the line of Indian prisoners and the first of the Boon lards were made fast. In such Coming to the temple, J and those with me told the good tiding* to our companions, who received it silently. Men of m white raoe would h»ve rejoloeCt thjjn (q «- The last earthwork was captured by the Spaniards Just as the sun sank, and under *Dibe shadow of Approaching darkness thoae «rW that routined aUvsied t« the refuge (Question No. 22.—Are yon deaf, dumb, blind or in any way crippled for life? "Then you are quit of your oath, friend, for all theae thlnes have come about, and "No," said John, with apparent ease -—Picture Magazine.