Current
G7 Kfotva Ghatl "Dance.
Under ordinary circumstances newa
that an Indian tiibo Is Indulging In
the wild frenzy known ns tlio ghost
danco Is enough to call up visions of
murder and rapine. In pant days num
erous murderous raids of the red men
have been preceded by such festivals,
But a ghost danco now being held in
the Wichita and Kiowa reservations
of Indian territory Is not believed to
proMgQ any such tcrrlbio scenes. The
reservations named arc to bo openod
to white settlors whon the allotment
of lands to Indians shall have bcon
completed, and the rod roon fear that
once the palcfaco gcis In among them
Ihc days of tribal power will liavo
been numbered. With I ho vlow of
preventing tho impending Incursion
thoso older chief have organized tho
DIANKI.
Leader of tho Ghost Dance.
ghost dance, which will, thoy hope,
Kcrvcto koop tho whlto men away.
Blankl, tho leader of tho ghoat
danco, 13 n High priest In his tribe and
a dreamer aa well. He is a quiet man
between CO Rnd CO years of age, of
dignified manner and with a thought
ful countenance, according well with
his tribal positions as chief priest nnd
head man.
He Stole S70Q.OOO.
Cornelius L. Alvord. nolo tollor In
tho First National bank of Now York,
2 Wall street, bos stolen $700,000 of
tho bank's funds
nnd has abscond
ed. Tho bank's of
Accra positively do-
ny that anyonoln
tho bank or that,
any of lt doposlt
orn was in collu
Blou with Alvord.
Ho had boontwon
ty 'yoars In tho
bank's omnloy. six
Trcsldeut Baker. ynnr8 ft8 Ita noto
teller, nnd had tho implicit confldonco
of its officers. It Is probable that Al
vord lost tho groator part of tho
mouoy he slolo In speculating In tho
fitrcot, at tho very ontranco to which
ho handled millions of dollars. Qcorgo
V. linker, president of tho bank, has
Isr'iod this statement:
"Tho aggrognto of tho falso entrlos,
amounting to 1700,000, has boon
charged off on tho books of tho bank,
out of tho rcservo fund, without di
minishing tho surplus, and profits of
tho vauk aB roportod in Its last pub
lUhed stntomont. It Is expected that
tho uhortugo will bo materially ro
duccd by n substantial sum, of which
thoro lu a fair proapect of rocovory.
Big. Gallo, tho now Italian mlnlstor
of public Instruction, is being criti
cised by tho Gorman press bemuse- ho
has eliminated tho study of Gorman
from tho curriculum of tho intermedi
ate schools, That language was intro
duced In tho Italian sohools by Slg.
Haccelll, Hallo's prodocossor, Tho Ger
man papors assert that Italy's commer
cial relations with Germany, Austria,
and Switzerland nro becoming closer
year by year, nnd that tho Gorman
tonguo Is necessary to Italians.
JVcto Count Cominff.
Daron Von Sternberg, who has bcon
first secretary to tho Gorman embassy
horo for several yoars, haa beon trans
ferred to a now
post and will be
nuccoododby Count
Quadt.who haa Just
arrived and Is now
looking for u suit
a l I o residence
Count Quadt has
spent his llfo In
tho Gorman diplo
matic service and
Is a man of great
wealth and nodal
Inclination. Tho
Count Quadt.
Countosd Quadt 1b a daughter of Slg
nor Martina, tho Italian ambassador
to Denmark,
Tho lato Lord Russoll onco presided
at a dinner given to Sir Henry Irving
on tho latter'a return from America,
Whllo tho dinner was In progress I-ord
Russell suggested that Comyns Carr
propose Sir Henry'B health. "I can't
mako epcoches, you know," said ho,
Sir Henry gently replied: "I heard
yon mako a fine speech before the, Par
nell commission." To which tho pun
gent Irishman answered: "Oh, yes, but
them I bad something; to talk about."
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Topics
Say Mrs. Cruder Is to tOed.
From Italy come rumors that Mrs.
Van Rensselaer Cruger Is engaged to
marry a wealthy
young Dos ton lan
named Oardnor,
and New York bo
cloty Is pleased
thereat.
Dcforo tho death
of hor husband
W i1t
into tho habit off '
writing n h ort
stories nnd novels.
which deult whol- Slr8- wugor.
ly with socloty, and fov which publish
ers eagerly bid. It wan then sho came
as near founding a salon as was pos
sible In Now York. Her houses at
Oyster IJay and in tho city woro tho
rendezvous of persons of both sexes
with literary and artistic tastes.
After tho death of Mr. Cruger and
tho discovery that wealth wan not horn,
Mrs, Cruger dipped deeper Into tho
stream of light Jlctlon, and under tho
nom do plumo of "Julian Gordon"
wroto cleverer sketches than over.
Then camo tho desire to llvo abroad
and for the past year or moro Mrs.
Cruger has occupied a charming vil
la In Florence.
A Galveston Hero.
Thcro aro few mon In Texas with
such a woll dovolopcd propensity foi
getting into dlsagreeablo Jobs as Col.
Hunt McCalob, who was adjutant gen
eral of tho city forces when Galveston
was under martial law. When Gen.
Thomas Scurry was appointed to tho
military command of tho city by May
or Jones ho at onco offered the- ap
pointment of adjutant genoral to Col.
McCalob. Why ho did so nobody ap
peared to know, for McCalob Is not
popular. In normal times ho Is an
unassuming nowspapor plodder of tho
moat ordinary Btrlpo. Dut ho seems
fairly to revel In a row, and perhaps
that Is why Gen. Scurry appointed
him to tho rcsponBlblo position of
adjutant goneral, and gavo Into his
hands tho work of managing tho great
mass of detail which devolved upon
tho military government.
Thoro was no law to gutdo him savo
common sonso, and, according to his
story, when ho needed a law right
badly to cover n caso which presented
Itself nt tho adjutant general's ofllco,
COL. McCALEB.
ho would grind ono out as fast as his
stonographor could work a typewriter.
During tho ton days of martial law
forty-Blx general orders woro Issued.
Gon. Scurry says they woro models of
military conciseness. In theso forty-
six orders this nowspapor plodder,
whom tho hurricane had tossed Into a
position of despotic power second only
to tho military governor himself, gavo
to tho town a codo of laws which
brought order out of chaos, donned
tho common law rights which would
bo rospected and Indicated In no un
certain terms tho common law rights
which ceased to exist under this fear
ful and peculiar military despotism.
Dut mora wonderful than this was tho
fact that tho people proper, who had
bcon governed with an Iron hand and
often at tho muzzlo of a rlflo, roso up
and proclalmod against tho proposed
abrogation of martial law, It was
McCalob who first suggested to Gen.
Scurry that tho timo had como to got
back to civil government As tho ad
jutant general had 'been In tho closest
touch with tho pooplo, Gen. Scurry
placed groat Btoro on his opinion. Ho
saw tho correctness of it, and told tho
mayor Hint martial law must ceaso,
and In twenty-four hours tho machin
ery of civil process was again In mo
tion.
The Utifht to Htss.
A Kansas City Judga has laid down
n now canon In thoatrical criticism.
Two men at tho Standard theater In
that city who did not like tho performance-
oxprcsfod their disapproval
by hissing. They woro arrested nnd
flnod, tho court deciding that whllo
ovory citizen has tho right to Indulgo
In criticism, ho has no right to dis
turb tho enjoyment of others, Tho
learned Judge apparently did not re-.
member that porsons sometimes ap
plaud and usually applaud In tho
wrong tlmo, which disturbs many
porsons. Tho two victims ought to go
to Paris, where recently an nudlcuco,
displeased wltli ttho performance,
broke tho windows and chairs and
wound up by turning a hose on tho
performers. Thoro nro many occasions
whon an audlonco foola llko turning on
tho hoso, but Paris is tho only placo
whoro this luxury is enjoyed.
pi
mm
l i Panorama.
"Belittled to Tie Ali-Oe.
A London papor prints a story to
tho effect that Charle3 Stowart Parnell
Is not dead, but leading the Doer
forces in South Africa.
Parnell la by no
means the only
man officially re
ported ns dead, and
concerning whom
a popular belief
prevails that ho
still remains In tho
land of tho living.
Throughout Rus
sia a slmiltar
fiiinnrtftlriTi nvlaffi
concerning that charlcB s- parnon
General Skobeloff whose suddon death
at Moscow has always rcmalnod
shrouded In a certain amount of mys
tery. Tho Idol not nlono of tho army
but likewise of tho masses of tho
Russian people, tho popularity of this
horolc figure, who still lives' In tho
hearts of his oountrymon as thp
"Whlto General," at ono moment gavo"
serious concern to tho govommcnt at
St. Petersburg, especially when tho
general, having without authority
pledged Russia's
co - operation in
certain nntl-Gcr-man
enterprises of
France, showod a
disposition to use
his influence with
tho pcoplo to force
the czar Into an
Immediate war
against Germany.
Moreover, his c'.o3c
Intimacy with tho
Gen, Skobeloff,
leaders of the
pan-Slavlst party at
Moscow, and his pronounced sym
pathy with their vlows, all contributed
to render him n species of "enfant
terrlblo" to his government.
It is these- circumstances, coupled
with tho fact that his alleged death
took placo precisely at tho moment
when Russia found herself on the
vergo of a war with Germany, for
which sho was In no sonso propared,
that has glvon rlso to tho bo wide
spread belief that his demise wa3 fic
titious; that ho merely vanished from
tho sceno; prompted by motives of
patriotism and expediency, and that
ho remains to this day In the land of
tho living. So
firmly Is this con
viction rooted In
tho minds of the
pcoplo that only
two years ngo the
cntlro population
of a largo town In
tho Interior of tho
omplro, after
adorning tho chief
thoroughfares with
l.nnMi. ntwl Arch DllltO John.
umphal arches, flocked to tho railroad
stntlon with- bands of music and sil
ver salvors .bearing bread and salt, nil
for tho purpose of welcoming the
"Whlto Genornl," who, according to a
rumor, originated no ono know how,
wns to arrlvo by tho midday oxpres-j
train. In Austria many bcllevo that
Arch Duko John Is still alive.
Librarian Putnam has abolished
tho custom of permitting porsons of
responsible character and unquestion
ed position occasionally to take books
from tho Congrcjstonal Library, atter
making n deposit, as a precaution
against ncctdont, Mr. Putnam says
that thoro havo bcon no abuses of tho
custom, but that he thinks tho absonce
of all risk tho safer plan.
JVtlvs of Andree Still LacKing.
Tho dispatch buoys of Andrco's lost
enterprise, Just brought to Stockholm,
glvo little tidings of his fortunes, for
thoy were cast to earth nnd wind and
wave In tho onrly time, whon tho aero
nauts woro full of hope and their
friends had not begun to despair.
Thoso messages wore sent nt brief In
tervals back to tho world by tho man
who was all too probably to seo it no
moro, and nftor tho last message si
lence nnd distance swnllowod up tho
expedition tho men, tho balloon nnd
tho wholo project of a new Invasion
of tho pole.
DISPATCH BUOYS FROM ANDREE.
Among the Jurgo army of tho "mles.
Ing'' thoso who aro not returned as
prisoners or slain In tho battles of tho
raco, because their end had no wit
ncsses and because, but for the lnpso
of time which porsuudod us of their
death, thoy might bo living still An
dreo has a lofty placo. No now hopo
Is afforded by tho. experiment made
some weeks ago to tost tho sustain
lng power of n balloon of 8,000 cubic
meters, supplied with all scientific np
paratus and provisions for threo weeks,
Dr. Thomas H. Norton, American
consul nt Hnrpoot, Turkey, recently
gavo a dinner to tho members of tho
Phi Beta Kappa society resident In
Porn. Nearly a dozen porsons wero
prcsont, representing Harvard, Prlnco
ton. Ynlo, Vassar, Hamilton, Bowdolu
Amherst. Williams and Columbia.
In tbe Public i?c
Mrs. Astor a Mascot.
Mrs. Jack Astor of Now York and
Newport Is regarded as a veritable
mascot by tho yachtsmen of tho sea
board. She has an unbroken lino of
yacht-satllng victories to hor credit
and Is in great demand by tho skip
pers of the thirty-footers at present
The finish of a race Is a foregone con
clusion when Mrs, Astor steps aboard.
Mrs. Astor braved tho elements ono
day last week In tho race for the cup
offered by Harry Payno Whitney.
Gowned in a natty costume of black,
with tho onds of a whlto feather boa
about hor neck streaming out In the
fresh breeze, sho made a beautiful pic
ture. There wns qulto a sea on tho
outsldo, but tho llttlo races made bet
tor weather of It than tho seventies,
and Mrs. Astor added to her triumphs
MRS. JACK ASTOR.
by bringing victory to tho Pollywog,
which was sailed by Mr. Whltnoy's
brother-in-law, Almcrlc Hugh Paget.
Frederick Macmounles, whose foun
tain at the World's Fair Is still fresh
In tho memory of many Americans,
has determined next spring to glvo up
tho mallet and chisel for tho palette
and brush. Ho Is now In Paris, nt
work on an equestrian statuo of Gen.
Slocum.whlch Is to be set up in Brook
lyn. Whon that is completed he will
tako up painting, and make New York
his residence
Sampson Son for Jfai)y.
Admiral Sampson's retirement In
.February will not
tnko his family
out of active serv
lco in tho navy.
His threo sons-in-
law, Lieutenants
Jackson and Roy
Smith and Ensign
Cluverlus, arc
young men In tho
service, and his
son will enter the
Naval academy
Ralph Sampson,
next year by a promised presidential
appointment.
An English paper says that the
only reason that Queen Victoria does
not appear personally at the opening
of parllnmcnt Is that sho la physically
unable. Sho would have to walk a
long distance and climb a flight of
stairs, and has now passed the ago
when sho can do that.
She Is All American.
Miss Arllno Pock, duughter of Ferd
W. Peck of Chicago, commissioner
genornl to tho Paris exposition, has re
nounced hor tltlod foreign suitors.
Sho Is true to hor early determination
to wed an American. The engage
ment was announced last week In
Dayton, Ohio, of Mies Peck and Will
lam A. Slmins of Chicago.
MISS ARLINE PECK.
Tho family will return from Parli
lu December, and It la expected that
tho exqulslto lingerie, gowns, hats and
cloaks, which aro piling up In Miss
Peek's Parisian trunks, nro to bo part
of her trousseau, and that the wedding
will tako place shortly after their re
turn. It eeoms to be tho growing fashion
In tho smart sot for tho Bisters of on
ramlly to marry tho brothers of an
other. Miss Peck's older sister Is the
wlfo of Mr. Charles Slmms, a brothsr
of William.
Commander Robert II. J. Stowart of
tho British navy has been specially
promoted to tho rank of captain, with
nonlorlty from Sopt. C, 1900, for Bervlco
In connection with tho capture of tho
Taku forts In China.
Cnpt. Gustavo Gorsdorf of Now Or
leans Is the holder of tho oldest com
mission as a mombor of tho Bar Pilots'
association. Ho Is still an active mem
bor of that association nnd Is as nim
ble as a boy.
The Happiness of Hearts.
BY E. S. BRAINERD.
(Copyright, 1900, Dally Story Pub. Co.)
Years ngo Mrs. Marchmont stood at
tho foot of tho social ntalr and deter
mined to scale Its heights. At first it
was slow work; but of lato, In fact,
alnco Honoro had grown up, It had
bcon comparatively easy climbing.
Limited means had restricted the
Marchmonts to rather small nnd out-of-the-way
summer places. "But
really," Mrs. Marchmont declared, one
sometimes met tho most charming
peoplo at theso quiet resorts."
Truth to tell, Mrs. Marchmont had
tho good sonso to know that Bhe
couldn't be much In a pond of cxten
slvo dimensions and that she was
something of a big frog in tho llttlo
puddles; so sho stuck to shallow
waters. However, when Honoro de
veloped such astonishing beauty and
popularity, Mrs. Marchmont had wan
dered farther up the coast whero the
waves ran high and where ono came
In contact with such people as tho Hcr
bort Van Alstynen nnd the Mamllton
Warcs' and It seemed to Mrs. March
mont thnt sho was almost about to
reach tho goal on the upper landing of
tho Btatr.
Everything depended on Honoro now
Honore, with her superb bearing nnd
her Titian hair and her always abso
lute correctness. Mrs. Marchmont was
very proud of Honore; sho had always
been a dutiful daughter, even from tho
tlmo when she was a llttlo girl and sat
.'propped up In bed reading novels and
eating chocolates and things until her
mother camo in from a danco or a
theater. But lately Mrs. Marchmont
hadn't known qulto what to make of
Honore. Not that sho was any tho
less devoted or attcntlvo to her mother,
but sho seemed to bo developing new
Ideas not strictly In accordance with
thoso of her mother. For Instance, the
night alter tho hop at tho Crceton'B,
at which event tho Herbert Van AlB
tyncs' and tho Hamilton-Wares' had
actually asked Mrs. Marchmont to sit
with them on the gallery and the ugly
llttlo foreign count had danced threo
times with Honore, Mrs. Marchmont
playfully nlluded to herself as tho
mother of a possible countess, Honoro
had thrown herself Into her mother's
arms, and, bursting Into tears, begged
her to go away anywhere she would
work, and they two would be so happy,
giving up all this tawdry sham and
1
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jtrv
Sho was so tired of It alL
make-believe,
all!
She was so tired of it
It would seem bo good to havo a llt
tlo home Just ono little room, and to
mako it bright and happy; sho was so
tired of ru files and silk skirts bought
after months of scrimping and hoard
ing their Itttle Income; sho had never
had a home; a real, real home llko
other girls. It had Just been roving
and pretending ever since sho could
remember, Mrs. Marchmont, too, began
to weep, and to tast self-accusations, to
quoto tho threadbare Yorso about a
"thankless child," and wdnt to bed
with a case of norvous hysteria. After
this all blew over Mrs. Marchmont and
Honoro resumed their usual relations,
and, oxcept for a tired, weary look In
her eyes, Honore was the same dear
girl she had over been.
From this tlmo on the attentions of
tho Count became more and more
marked. Ho was not a pleasant man
to look upon, but around htm there
shono tho halo of a titled name and
ancestral halls. Mrs. Marchmont be
gun to patronizo tho Herbert Van Als
tynes' and tho Hamilton-Wares wero
spoken of by her as "really very clover
peoplo, don't you know." She dwelt
In tho glaring light of titular fame;
sho had passed tho upper landing and
wob making her way to the dome. But
ono thing marred tho sunny glory of
her llttlo day. It was tho other man!
The' other man, James Howard, who
laid at tho feet of Honoro only tho
coronet of a glorious manhood, a great
brain and a greater heart; a big,
broad-shouldered follow with clean-cut
features and eyes that looked straight
Into thoso of his follow men and women
unflinchingly, und whose only offering
wob tho gift of a great love.
The few weeks at the seashore was a
terrlblo strain on Mrs. Marchmont's
purso strings and sho was obliged to
retrench. So, with the aid of tho Count,
who followed thorn very sosn, sho, with
Honoro took rooms at a llttlo hotol far
up In tho hills. For days Honoro was
almost happy, riding every morning
up among tho fresh, fragrant hills. Sho
grew to love a llttlo house that lay on
hor way and one morning as she
passed, a woman camo down the llttlo
trodden path botweon the riotous
growth of hollyhocks und larkspur and
met a man at tho gate. Sho seemed a
young woman, a woman not very fair
or beautiful, but with an earnest,
Ml qA
I happy faco that made Honoro look for
hor each morning.
Somehow or othtr that man re-
minded her of Jim, with his strength
and vigor, and then sho trlod to fancy
that sho was tho girl, and that Bhe
camo down tho path to meet him, and
sho wondered it all tho blazo and
sparkle of a tltlo would bo worth tho
glory in Jim's eyes!
All day long there lingered In
Honoro Marchmont's memory the
picture at the gate. Tho llttlo path of
trodden earth that led from tho door
way through tho dew-wot swaying
hollyhocks to tho gate beyond, and at
tho gate, tho woman in tho bluo print
gown and tho cagor, happy eyes of tho
man who waited for her. At nightfall
sho could ondttro It no longer. Tho
Count was leaving on tho lato train;
ho was Impatient it must bo now or
never, ho told MrB. Marchmont, bo with
tho recriminations, pleading and en- 4
treaties of her mother in her ears and '
a letter In her bo3om from the man sho
Iovod, Honoro spurred hor horso on
toward tho hills.
It was Just dusk when tho horso
stumbled along .tho dusty lano, now
through tho somber wood. There were
only tho Bounds of tho night to bo
heard. Tho low cry of a lato bird, tho
muffled lowing of distant cattle, tho
strumming bass of a bullfrog by tho
stream and tho lighter melody of a
locust's trill. A covey of birds, fright
ened by tho passer, How with a whirr
of brown wings Into a hedge by tho
roadside, a fluttering bat went blindly
by and tho dark range of forest trees
stood silhouetted against tho flushed
western sky.
Sho camo again to tho llttlo houso
she had passed In the morning and
tho girl was waiting nt tho gate.
Honoro reined hor horso and Bpoko
quickly: "I saw you hero this morn
ing I hoped you would bo hero when
I camo tonight, I wanted to speak with
you." Sho hesitated. "Was that man
at tho gate this morning was ho
your lover?"
Tho girl peered up into tho faco
above her and answered "yes."
"Was he do you love him arc you
happy?"
Tho girl at the gate camo closer and
laid her hand on tho bridle rein. "I
know what you want I knew this
morning I wanted you to como back.
You aro Miss Marchmont nt tho hotel
over there," sho nodded her head to
ward the lowor rango of hills. "I
saw you that day when you rodo past
with tho two of them that little, black
Count and tho man that looks like my
Jim."
"Jim!" uttered MIsb Marchmont
breathlessly, "la his name Jim, too?"
"Yes, Jim Jim Watson," tho girl
went on, peering up into tho faco that
bent down over her.
"I've watched you, oh, so often. I
was sorry whon ho went away and the
other ono staid. I Just knew you
couldn't lovo him, but I was afraid for
you. Let me toll you about myself and
then you'll know, you'll understand.
I'vo lived hero all my llfo," Bhe went
on In a quiet, passionless voice. "I
was born in that little room thoro,
whoro wo cook and cat and sleep, and
when I was a llttlo thing no higher
than your knee, Jim and mo played to
gether, and ho carried mo over tho
stony places In tho mountains and
brought me tho first arbutus and tho
finest trout and quail and all the sim
ple gifts of thero woods of ours. When
I was seventeen I went to work at tho
hotel, and I saw tho other girls over
there, who, llko you, had como to spend
tho summer, und I envied their drosses,
swishing with silk and their whlto
hands heavlcd with rings, and when I
would como homo after my work wns
over, I hated this poor little path and
I loathed tho one crowded room and
spurned the flowers with my feet and
Jim poor Jim I broko his heart.
"1 used to sing, and one day at my
work, a lady heard me. She called me
to her; sho made mo sing again and
again; she showered mo with praises
and flattery and I believed her. I went
away. I worked and studied and sang
and tho world was good to mo. Maybe
It was ono year maybe two but ono
morning I nwoko and my mouth
yearned for tho taste of new milk, and
my eyes ached for the mountains and
tho streams and the hollyhocks and
my heart hungered for love; love, for
which all tho wealth and famo and
power In tho world will not com
pensate; enough; I camo home and
here I am and hero Is Jim and hero
alone is happiness."
Sho ceased speaking, nnd tho girl
on tho horso bent down and klssod the
straight whlto part where tho brown
hair rippled away on either side tho
woman's head.
"Goodnight," she said softly. "God
bless you und yours.
"Goodnight," called out tho other, In
tho fast gathering gloom. "Good
night, and- God bless you and Jim."
Health Oflloeri 1Ire Trouble!.
Troublo Is brewing In Frankfort,
Ind., between the school-teachers ana
tho board of health. Thero was a small
pox scarce somo tlmo ago and tho
board ordered that no scholar should
bo admitted unless able to "present
satisfactory evidence of successful vac
clnntlon." This tho board defined as
a scar showing where tho virus "took."
Teachers refuso to examine tho chil
dren's arms, declaring that thoy could
not tell whether tho scar camo from
vaccination or somo other cause. At
Evansvlllc, in tho same state, thero la
much grumbling among taxpayers he
causo it cost the county $10,000 to
stamp out the smallpox there. Some
of tho bills are held to havo been ex
orbitant and nn ordinance regulating
all such charges in futuro has beoyi
adopted by the county commlsslours.