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"Anything," said tho mumper, shut
ting lils loft eyo again "anything is
possible th:it comes out of a bout thrlco
the size of Mugger-Ghaut. My villago
is not a small one."
There was a whistle overhead on
the bridge, and the Delhi mall slid
across, all the carriages gleaming with
light, and the shadows faithfully fol
lowing across the river. It clanked
away into tho dark again; but tho
mugger and the jackal were so well
used to it that they never turned their
heads.
"Is that anything less wonderful
than a boat thrice the size of Mugger
Ghaut?" asked the bird, looking up.
"I saw that built, child. Stone by
fitono I saw tho bridge piers rise, and
when tho men fell off (they were won
drous sure-footed for the most part
but when they fell) 1 was read'. After
tho ilrst pier was made they never
thought to look down the stream for
tho body to burn. There, again, I
eared much trouble. There was noth
ing strange in the building of tho
Tjridgo," said the mugger.
"IHitthat which goes across, pulling
the roofed cartsl That is strange," tho
adjutant repeated.
"It is, past any doubt, a new breed
of bullock. Some day it will not bo
able to keep its foothold up yonder,
and will fall as the men did. Tho old
mugger will then bo ready."
Tho jackal looked at tho adjutant,
and the adjutant looked at tho juckal.
If there was one thing they were more
certain of than another, it was that
tho engine was everything in the wide
-world except a bullock. Tho jackal
had watched it time and again from
tho aloc-hedgos by tho side of tho
line, and tho adjutant had seen engines
since the ilrst engine ran in India. Put
the mugger had only looked up at tho
ongino from below, where the brass
lomo seemed rather liko a bullock's
bump.
'M yes, a new kind of bullock," the
Snugger repeated ponderously, to make
"sin: mini) at sib
himself quito sure in his own mind;
and "Certainly it is a bullock," said the
jackal.
"And again it might bo" began the
mugger, pettishly.
"Certainly most certainly," said the
jackal, without waiting for tho other
to finish.
"What?" said tho mugger, angrily,
for he could feel that tho others leno'v
more than ho did. "What might it be'.
I never finished my words. You said it
"was a bullock."
"It is anything tho Protector of the
Poor pleases. I am his servant nt
tho servant of tho thing that crosses
tho rivor."
"Whatever It is, it is white faced
work," said tho adjutant. "And, for
my own part, I would not choose a
pl-H'o so near to it to lie out upon asthit
bar is."
"You do not know tho English as I
do," bftid the mugger. "There was a
white-face here when tho bridge was
built, and ho would tako a boat in tho
evenings and shuttle with his foot on
tho bottom-boards, and whisper: 'Is lie
here'.' lb ho Ihero? Got me my gun.' I
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could hear him beforo I could see him
each sound that he made croaking
and pulling and rattling his gun, up
and down the river. As surely as I had
picked up one of his workmen, and
thus saved great expense in wood for
the burning, so surely would ho come
down to the ghaut and shout in a loud
voice that ho would hunt me, aud rid
the river of mo tho mugger of Mugger-Ghaut!
Mel Children, I have
swam under tho bottom of his boat for
hour after hour, and hoard him fire his
gun at logs; and when 1 was well sure
he was wearied I have risen by his side
and snapped my jaws in his face. When
tho bridge was finished ho went away.
All tho English hunt in that fashion
except when they are hunted."
"Who hunts tho white-faces?" said tho
jackal, excitedly.
"No one now, but I have hunted them
in my time."
"I remember a little of that hunting.
I was young then," said tho adjutant,
clattering his beak significantly.
"1 was well established here. My
village was being buildcd for tho third
time, as 1 remember, when my cousin
tho gavial brought mo word of rich
waters above Pennros. At first I would
not go, tor my cousin, who is a fish
eator, dogs not always know tho good
from the bad; but I heard my people
talking in tho evenings, and what they
said niado mo certain."
"And what did they say?" tho jackal
asked.
"They said enough to make me, tho
mugger of Mugger-Ghaut, leave water
and take to my feet. I wont by night,
using the littlest streams as they served
me; but it was tho beginning of tho
hot weather and all streams were low.
1 crossed dusty roads; I went through
tall grass; I climbed hills in the moon
light. Even rocks did I climb, chil
dren consider this well. I crossed
tho tail of Sirhind tho waterless, bo
fore I could find the set of tho littlo
rivers that ilow Gungaward. I was a
month's journey from my own people
and the river that I know. That was
very marvelous!"
"What food by tho way?" said tho
jackal, who kept his soul in his littlo
btomach, and was not a bit impressed
by tho mugger's land travels.
"That which I could find cousin,"
said the mugger slowly, dragging each
word.
with a shout qvs.
Now you do not call a man a cousin
in India unless you think vou can es
tablish some kind of blood relation
ship, and as it is only in old fairy tales
that tho mugger ever marries a jackal,
tho jackal know for what reason In
Had been suddenly lifted into tho mug
ger's family eirclo. If they had boon
alone ho would not have cared, but tho
adjutant's eyes twinkled with mirth at
the ugly jest.
"Assuredly, father, I might have
known," said the jackal. A mugger
does not care to bo called a father of
jackals, and tho mugger of Mugger
Ghaut said as much and a good deal
more which there is no so in repeat
ing hero.
"Tho Protector of tho Poor has elaimed
kinship. How can I remember the pre
cise degree? Moreover, wo eat tho
fa mo food. Ho has said it," was tho
jackal's reply.
That made matters rather worse, for
what tho jackal hinted at was that tho
mugger must have oaten his food on
that land march fresh, and fresh every
day, instead of keeping it by him till
It was in a fit aud proper condition, as
every sell-respecting mugger ana most
wild boasts do when thoj can. Indeed,
ono of tho worst terms of contempt
along tho river bod is "eater of fresh
meat." It is about as bad us calling a
friend a cannibal would bo among
human beings.
"That food was eaten thirty seasons
ago," said tho adjutant quietly. "If
wo talk for thirty seasons more it will
never come back. Tell un now what
happened when the good waters wore
reached after thy most wonderful land
journey. If wo listened to tho howl
ing of every jackal tho business of tho
town would stop, as tho saying Is."
Tho mugger must have boon grate
ful for tho interruption, because ho
wont on with a rush:
"By the Itight and Left of Gunga,
when I came there never did I see such
waters."
"Wore they bettor, then,
big flood of last season?"
jackal.
than the
said tho
"Hotter! That Hood was no mom
than comes every five years a handful
of drowned strangers, some chickens,
and a dead bullock in muddy water
with cross-currents. Put, tho season I
think of, tho river was low, smooth
and oven, and, as the gavial had warned
mo, tho dead English came down touch
ing each other. I got my girth in that
season, my girth and my depth. From
Agra, by Etawah kihI tho broad waters
by Allahabad "
"Oh, tho oddy that set under the
walls of the fort at Allahabad!" said
the adjutant. "They came in there
liko widgeon to tho roods, and round
and round they swung thus!"
Lie went off into his horrible dance
again, while tho jackal looked on en
viously. Ho naturally could not re
member tho year of tho mutiny they
were talking about. Tho mugger con
tinued: "Yes by Allahabad, ono lay still in
tho slack water and lot twenty go by
to pick one; nnd, above all, tho Eng
lish wore not cumbered with jewelry
and noso rings and anklets as my
women are nowadays. To delight in
ornaments is to end witli a ropo for
necklace, as tho saying is. All tho mug
gers of all tho rivers grew fat then
but it was my fato to bo fatter than
them all. Tho news was that tho Eng
lish were being hunted into tho rivers,
and by the Right and Left of Gunga wo
believed it was true. So far as 1 went
south I believed it to bo true, and I
went down stream beyond Monghyr
and tho tombs that look over the rivor."
"I know thnt place," said tho ad
jutant. "Since those days Monghyr is
a lost city. Very few live there now."
"Thereafter 1 worked upstream very
slowly and lazily, and a littlo abovo
Monghyr there came down a boatful of
white faces alive! Thoy were, as I re
member, women, lying under a eloth
spread over sticks, and crying aloud.
There wa. never a gun fired at us
watchers of tho fords in those days. All
the guns were busy elsewhere. Wo
could hear them day and night inland,
coming and going as the wind shifted.
I rose up full beforo tho boat, because
1 had never seen whito faces alive,
though I knew them well otherwise.
A naked whito child kneeled by tho
side of tho boat, and, stooping over,
ho must needs try to trail his hands
in the river. It is a pretty thing
to sec how a child loves running water.
I had fed that day, but there was a lit
tle unfilled space within mo. Still, it
was for sport and not for food that I
rose at tho child's hands. They woro
so clear a mark that I did not oven
look when I elosed; and they woro so
small that though my jaws rang true
I am sure of that tho child drew them
up swiftly unhurt. They must huvo
passed between tooth and tooth those
small whito hands. I should have
caught him crosswise at tho elbows,
but, as I said, it was only for sport and
desire to see now things that I rose at
nil. They cried out ono after another
in tho boat, and presently I rose again
to watch them. The boat was too
heavy to push over. Thoy woro only
women, but ho who trusts a woman
will walk on duckweed in a pool, as
tho saying is; and by tho llight and
Left of Gunga that is truth!"
"Once a woman gave mo some dried
skin from a fish," said tho jackal. "I
had hoped to get her baby, but horse
food is better than the kick of a horso,
as tho saying is. What did thy woman
do?"
"She fired at mo with a short gun of a
kind I have never seen befo'o or binoe.
Five times, ono aftcr another" (the
mugger must have met with an old
fashioned revolver); "and I staj'ed
open-mouthed and gaping, my head in
the smoke. Never did I seo such a
thing. Five times, as swiftly as I wavo
my tail thus!"
The jackal, who had been growing
more and more interested in tho story,
had just time to leap back as tho tail
hwung by liko a scytho.
to UK CO.VCMJDKI).
fMiturnl Onro ."Morn.
Cumso Jaysiiilth is himself again.
Fanglo What do you mean?
Cumso You know a relative loft him
10,000 a few months ago?
Fanglo Yes.
Cumso It's all gone. IIo struck me
for a fiver this morning, just as he used
to in tho good old times. Town Topics.-
S'lnn of Dufciit.
Cora So you nro sure her husband
had tho best of tho argument? Did
she tell you so?
Madgo No; but I heard her say ho
was a moan, hateful thing, as alio wout
out of tho room and slammed tho door.
Puck.
EXPOSITION ECHOES.
Notos of tho Gront Fair Doing
Hold in Athintn,
Tho Hlimr M u (Ircsit I'luiuicliil nnd .nin
ths Sui'otmn Viirlrty In tlio Scciich nnd
Attractions IVnturon Not to
ltd Ovi'iionltcd.
Spoclnt Atlnntn T.ottor.
UIIE ATLANTA ox-
position is now In
the full tide of suc
cess. In spito of
the fact that for
ho mo time after
its gates w t r o
opened the exhibi
tion was i n com
plete in many of
Its at tract ions, It
has up to the pres
ent lime paid cx
pen son. The at
tendance during
September, notwithstanding the hc
U'rely hot weather, was larger than had
been expected, and has si nee been stead
ily on the increase. Large excursion
parties- from the surrounding states
have become quite the fashion. One
day, not long since, several thousand
Tennesf,ecanH passed through the ex
position turnstiles. Large parties of
journalists hao made thciisclcs fa
miliar with the principal attractions.
The last week of October, including the
first diiyn of November, Atlanta wel
comed within her gates 500 newspaper
men. Three of tho largest state press
organizations in the country arrived at
" ""P'-" wise i
TIIK woman's
the same hour. The editors came from
Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas. Said
one of the editors: "When we entered
tho grounds what we saw astonished us.
Wo looked in amazement for several
minutes from the terrace near the audi
torium upon the beautiful buildings
and the grand panorama that was be
fore us. If we were going to have an
exposition in our state wo would have
the exposition here as our model."
Quite a number of Chicago business
men, together with the First regiment
and a brass band, are on tho eve of in
admg the great fair.
The success of the exposition in the
matter of attendance conies from tlio
tremendous attractiveness of that en
terprise. Nothing could be imagined
more complete and harmonious than
this show of the great cotton states of
the south. The ; educed rates of travel
on the railways have also coiitrihtitcd
largely in the direction, though not go
ing nearly so far us the cordial hospital
ity of i he Atlanta hosts. The action oT
the managers in declining to open the
exhibition grounds on Sunday has
given widespread satisfaction through
out the south, where rewrence for the
Sabbath has not yet given place to the
loose ideas which prevail in some other
parts of the country.
Jtut a word of caution iH not out of
order. The exhibit of rascals and im-
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postors in connection with the Atlanta
exposition is as rich and varied as it has
been at oilier great fairs, and tho vis
itor might tlo worse than look to his
purse strings. It is not the fakirs of tho
Midway who are to be feared, not those
who sell pure gold badges for a quarter
of a dollar, who lure you into cheap
shows or bad dining halls, not even
those who pick your pockets in dense
crowds or sandbag you in dark alleys.
These are open-hearted, honest rogues
whose designs may be anticipated ami
whose deeds may be averted by a keen
eye and a stout cane. The dangerous
rascals am those who shake your hand.
The peerage of fraud thrives on
crowds and vanity. Theio is no oppor
tunity at such times as these toanalye
Koclety. Everybody is on the rush,
seeking invitations, parting their hair
in the middle, wearing their best gowns
and brightest jewels, spending money
with careless grace, holding t heir heads
as high as they can, in fine, being of tho
world worldly and striving for distinc
tion in cosmopolitan society.
In this turmoil and passion, when
heads aro turned with tho thunder ol
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high names, when eyca aro blinded with
glares and glitters, when own the poor
bruin becomes soft because the log
are tired and tho arms arc weary and
the stomach Is jaded with beautiful
foods and bad hours, the fl, smooth,
oily rogue of society glides around
in high carnival. One Invitation to u
swell function, and the rogue's career
is cany; one introduction, and hissnuro
is set.
If there Is any one thing that tho
promoters of tho fair pride them
selves uimn, it is the variety in iU
scenes and attractions. This is found
in plenty among smaller bullding.H
erected by states and corporations,
such as the handsome Knickerbocker
mansion, of New York state; the Long
fellow home, of Massachusetts; tho
superb villa, of Illinois; the. quaint old
Catholic mission, of California; tho
queer looking barracks of Alabama; tho
Cozy bungalow, of Costa llica; tho
iiant log cabin, of the creole kitchen;
the pretty Itcuuissnncc, of the woineii'ii
annex; tlicwoiulcrful plant pyramid, of
Florida; the railway sheds or stables,
in which the iron horses stand upon
exhibition; the campanile, the grace
ful music stand, where Gllmore's band
pours forth its Hood of melody every
day; the Mexican village, with Its in
teresting reproduction of Atoo, Span
ish aud Saracen types of construction:
the Japanese and Chinese villages,
which transport Tokio and Canton to
tlio Gate City of the South, and (ho In
dian village and Dahomey village,
where savage Africa confronts savagu
America in equal ingenuity and dirt.
Hero and there, in rhythmic undula
tion'), winds tho main road, one-half
- jii i; ua LrarziizzS
. A
lllTII.DIXIl.
lnacnilami.ed, as if to show tho mod
ern age, and one-half corduroy, that i.s
to say, composed of a solid roadway
of heavy pine planks, as if to repre
sent t he beginningof the century. Tho
clever artist of tho exposition so ar
ranged road and meadow, hill and
building, .that from every point along
the thoroughfare aro two or three long
vistas, each different from tho rest,
and yet eaoli of the greatest attractive
ness. Devotees at the Napoleonic slirino
will find some interesting mementos' of
their idol in the Virginia Colonial case.
These relies are genuine, having been
inherited by the exhibitor from Mons.
Pascal Schisano, to whom they wero
given by Charles de Montholon, consul
at liichmoiid, Va., who had received
them from his father, Marquis do
Montholou, and from Gen. Jlertrand,
both devoted friends of the emperor.
Minnesota, however, lias the most valu
able Napoleonic relic at the fair; it is
on exhibition in a small case in tlio
Decorative art room, and is a small
iron chest, with a curious lock, in which
Napoleon carried his private papers
when on his campaigns. Other inter
esting things connected with tho
French revolution are also to be seen
in thisexhibit.
In the Lucy Cobb room, Wonian'H
building, are three old prints, date,
hJ4Hll!!
liun.Dixa.
7001, one of the Vatican library, ono
of the Ducal palace, Venice, and tho
third of the guidon of the Tuilerics,
printed for Carrington Howies, St.
Paul's church yard, Loudon, tho art
ist's name, Mareschi. Tho lucky own
er of these rare prints bought them
only a few years ago for $1. 50.
The cradle in which Jefferson was
rocker 's exhibited in the Forestry
building. It is not liko that of Jeffer
son Davis, in tlio Confederate hall.
In the Louisiana case, Colonial room,
no one should fail to note the largo re
pousse silv or pitcher, bearing t lie Cn nip
bull coat of arms, and which once bo
longed to tlio duke of Argyll and de
scended in tho female line to tlio pres
ent possessor, Mrs, Story, of Now Or
leans. There Is no doubt that the exposition
is destined to exert a most potential in
fluence iiioblitcratingsomoof the preju
dices which have operated to tho disad
vantage of the south, and that it will
promote that spirit of national unity
which must constitute so largely the,
buttress of our life and accurity.
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