HERALD; PLATrSMOUTH NSflilA: SEPTE&BMl 25, 1390
CTOHOON
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BY MISS 11. E. Lll ADDON.
CHAPTEK XI.
KOJI th-s Lour In
which Align tu3
Ilorton II r tj t
looked upon tha
noble faoe and
form of l'aul Ll.-d-mon,
he enter
tained for the
younK Mexh-an
that deUy and
unrelenting ha
tred which leal-
ousy alone can nourish.
Uo It dibtlnctly understood, the plan
ter did not love Citrmllia Moraquitos.
Lovely uu yveta the Spanish Kil l, there,
was one who, In the eyea of Augustus,
wad yet lovelier; and that one was Cora,
the daughter of Gerald Leslie, and the
hapless quadroon slave, I'rancilia.
Cora, the Octokoon 1
Yob, the fatal word which branded thla
lovely and innocent being is contained la
those throe prllables. She was an Ooto-
roon, removed in the eighth degree from
the African race, wit.h a skin purely white
as the tint of the lilies sleeping upon the
lakes of her native Louisiana. One drop
of the blood of a slave ran in her veins,
Eobaoned her inmost life, and stamped
er with the cur&e of Cain.
She was an Octoroon 1
AugiiBtun Horton knowthU. lie knew,
also, that Gerald Leslie was a ruined
man ; and he waited his time.
Cora had Inspired in the proud heart of
the planter one of those all-absorbing
passions, which, in a bad man's heart,
resemble the storm and tempest. They
rape but to destroy. At any price, even
at the price of his own soul as well" as
hers, she must be his.
The Insult she had Inflicted upon him
In dismissing him from her presence, had
Infuriated and humiliated him, but It had
not abated one spark of the wild ardor
of his guilty pasaion; notwithstanding
this he was determined upon becoming
tho huBhand of Camiilia Moroqultos.
The reader is already acquainted with
the laxity of Loulsianian morals. The
wealthy Creole thought there could be no
shame to the Octoroon in becoming his
mistress. What was she but a creature
of the Inferior race, born to obey her
master, the white man? With Camlllla's
fortune, added to his own ample weaith,
Augustus Ilorton would have been one
of the richest men in New Orleans. But
the planter felt that he had discovered
his real and only rival in the person of
Paul Lislmon, the Mexican.
He was not slow to act upon his con
viction. Early upon the morning al ter his
first encounter with Paul, he entered the
office In which the young man was seated
and asked to seo Silas Craig.
Paul Lisimon raised his eyes and rec
ognized one of the most constant ad
mirers of Camiilia Moraquitos. But it
was with a glance of supreme indiffer
ence that the Mexican regarded his rival.
Augustus Ilorton felt the sting of that
careless look ; It was the glance of one
who, secure in the affection of her he
lves, is incapable of jealousy.
"llr. Craig i3 within?" he inquired, ad
dressing himself especially to Paul,
-rCiiough a colored lad at a desk near was
the person who answered all inquiries,
and ushered the clients into Silas Craig's
office.
Ho is," answered Paul, quietly drop
ping his eyes upon his work, and not
lifting them as he spoke; '.'Marcus, take
this gentleman's card to your master."
Silas was seated at his desk, a ledger
open before him, and on the tablo by his
side a large Iron cash box, the lid of
which he dropped hurriedly as the young
planter entered the ofHee.
The ledger contained the secret ac
counts of the transactions of the myste
rious gambling-house in Columbia street.
The cash box wu nearly filled with bank
notes, lost in that den of iniquity by the
miserable and delnded votaries of the
gambler s gieen cloth-covered altar. Silas
closed the ledger, which was secured
with massive brass locks, the key cf
which the usurer wore hanging to a
thick gold chain, which was never re
moved night or day : the iniquitous vol
ume was further secured by being placed
in an iron chest, proof against fire and
thieves.
The money gained by these shameful
transactions was sent monthly to New
York, where it was banked in the name
of Craig & Co., solicitors.
This was done to prevent the possi
bility of the losers of this money tracing
it, by the numbers of the notes, into the
hands of the usurer.
Theee precautions may seem superflu
ous, but they were no more than neces
sary. Silas Craig felt that he was carry
ing on an Infamous traffic. He knew
that were his name revealed as the pro
prietor of a house which bore no very
nigh 'reputation for fair play, and in
which several deeds of darkness wer
stronglj suspected to have been com
' mltd, universal hatred and execration
woiiii be helped upon his guiity head,
.ilore than this, there wa3 a tribunal he
dreaded more than all the established
courts of New Orleans ; he knew that
for such an offense as his the infuriated
citizens would have recourse to the hor
rors of Lynoh Law.
He glanced round suspiciously as Au
gustus Horton entered the room, and
thrust the locked ledger into an open
drawer In his dek.
"My dear Augustus," he said, with his
accustomed conciliatory smile, "this is
indeed an agreeable surprise. I scarcely
.expected to see you so soon again."
"I dare say not," answered the
planter, coolly, taking out a cigar and
fighting it at the taper by which Craig
sealed his letters.
And may I ask to what I owe the
honor of this visit?" said Silas, looking
with considerable curiosity, at his client's
thoughtful countenance.
"I'll tell you, Silas Craig. That young
Mexican yonder; that LImlson, or Lls
mion, or whatever his name may be
that hanger u and dependent of Juan
Moraquitos, must leave your oGice."
Silas started and stared wonderingly
at the planter.
Ay, you may stare," said Augustus ;
"never you mind my motives. I say he
must go 1"
"Bat, my dear young friend, my im
petuous friend, that la utterly impossi
ble. I have no particular affection for
Mr. Paul Lislmon, I assure you, but his
articles have been signed."
"Let them be canoeJed then, let the
fellow be kicked out ef the office."
2 &Ua loked thoughtfully at h)a visitor,
aa thaa rubbing hi handa, said with 4
1 Whnakla
my aear air. wvj
THE 0
uhinspesh&
cannot see why' X am bound to comply
with any absurd whim which even my
mot-t important client may happen to
take into his head."
Augustus Horton threw his cigar
aside with a contemptuous and impa
tient gesture.
"I am not used," he said, with a
chilling hauteur, "to ask for any ser
vice for which I am not prepared to pay
liberally. Send this young man about
his butiness making it appear that he
hasboento blame in the atlalr, and be
sides what you lose by canceling the
articles I will give you five thoutUnd
Send him about his business t"
"Yes. If possible In such a manner as
to disgust Hon Jutuo with his protege,"
A btranee smile illuminated Silas
Craig's crafty countenance.
"Disgust Don Juan with his pro
tege?" ho said.
Yes, find this fellow out in some piece
of low trickery or dishonor. He Is not
obliged to be really guilty, if he only ap
pears so."
"In such a manner that Don Juan may
cast him oilr" atked Silas, with the same
meaning smile.
"Yes, do that, and I will double your
reward. Instead of live thousand dol
las I will give you ten."
"It's rather a critical business."
"Yes, but a sort of business that I
should think is scarcely new to you my
worthy Silas," said Augustus, with a
Bneer.
That contemptuous curve of tho Up
was not lost upon Silas. Craig; but the
usurer himself entertained a consum
mate disdain for theee men who despised
his character, but were yet content to
make U6e of him In deeds to which they
would have been themselves ashamed to
own.
"I think it can be done," he said
quietly, "and 1 have no objection to do
it, upon one condition "
"And that la"
"That, over and above the ten thousand
dollars I am to receive on the day on
which Paul Lislmon is dismissed from
this office and from the house of his
patron, Don Juan, you give me twenty
thousand more upon the day of your
marriage with Camiilia Moraquitos.'
The planter bit his lip, and his brow
grew crimson with vexation.
"How do you know that I have any
thought of seeking to win Camiilia Mora
quitos for my wife?" he asked angrily.
"How do I know ?" answered the
usurer. "Augustus Horton, It may
please your proud nature to despise me,
although you come here to demand my
services. Despise my code of morality,
if you wilL but do not despise my powers
of penetration. There is not a client
who enters this office whose inmost
thoughts I have not reckoned up before
he is rive minutes in my company. It is
a knack we lawyers acquire, if We are fit
for our business. Shall I tell you your
motive in wishing to thrust Paul Lisl
mon from my office ?"'
"Yes, if you can."
"You dread a rival In this handsome
yountr man. You would brand his name,
already an obscure one, with shame and
Infamy; you would cause mm to do
driven from the doors of Villa Mora
quitos, and stamped with ignominy in
the eyes of the woman who loves him."
"Yes," cried Augustus fiercely; "I
would do all this 1 Dog. what right has
he to cross my path? I accede to your
condition, Silas Craig, ten thousand
down, and twenty thousand more upon
my wedding day."
"Then the business fchallbe done."
"Soon?"
"Very soon."
"That fs well ; Silas, lose no time in
turning the fellow from your doors, and
let ma be the fiiot to hear of his dismis
sal. I shall not grudge you your re
ward." As Augustus Horton left the office ho
once more flung a sinister glance at the
articled clerk; but this time there was
triumph as well as hatred in the flash of
the planter's eye.
As he glanced at Paul Lleimon the
glitter of some gold ornaments hanging
to tho Mexican's watchchain caught hia
eye. Amongst thess was an oval locket of
dead gold, ornamented with two initials
in purple enamel.
The planter passed so close to Paul
that ho was enabled to distinguish these
initials.
They were a C. and an M.
"So !' he muttered, as he mounted the
thoroufih-bred Arabian waiting him at
the door of Silas Craig's house, "he
wears a locket inscribed with her init
ials a locket containing hei portrait, no
doubt. She loves him then; but, by the
blue sky above me, she shall be taught
erelong to despise and loathe him."
Silas Craig was not long in putting his
foul plot into execution.
In order to carry it out, he had re
course to a plan as subtle as it was dia
bolical. The lawyer's private office communi
cated, as the reader Is aware, with an
outer apartment occupied by clerks.
There wes but this one door of com
munication between the two rooms, and
there was no other visible mode of en
tering th- inner offloe.
Bu; liiTO was the secret entrance,
thn i rrh i le map of America, which com.
Ta;i: :itx-. with the passage leading into
tho hiu.3o in Columbia street. The ex
istence f ; his secret oaspage was known
only to fsiias Craig, Wiliiam Bowen, and
tho banker and manager of the gam
bling house.
It was by means of this very passage
that the foul plot, waioh was to entrap
Paul btsimon, was to bo carried out.
Three days after his interview wltii
the planter, Silas Craig summoned tha
young Mexican into bli private office.
"My dear Lisinion," he said, motioning
Paul to a seat, "for once In my life I act
tempted to deeert business earlier than
usuaL 1 have an engagement to dine
with my client, Mr. Horton. Tho dinner
hour is five, and I have, unfortunately,
an appointment hero at half-past five
with a wealthy old olient of mine, .who
is going to bring mo a few thousand dol
lars ho wishes me to invest for him.
Now, in this dilemma, I fancy, my dear
Lislmoa, that you can assist ue."
Paul merely bowed. They wore not
alone in the office; one of the other
clerics, a young man of the name of
Morrison, was standing at the lawyer's
desk waiting for further orders.
"What I want you to do. Lislmon, is
to remain here till half-past five and re
ceive the money from my client. You
will give him an acknowledgment for
the sum, and you will place tho money,
whether it should be in notes or gold, in
this small cash-box, of which I will leave
you the key. I shall also give you the
key of the door of this office, which you
will carefully lock on leaving the plaoo.
As there is no other communication, all
will bo perfectly secure. You under
stand?'' "Completely, Mr. Craig." ! Paul.
"I thought you would he able to do
this little bit of business tor mo," replied
tho lawyer, rising ad locking his desk ;
"cere are tko Jctvo. 4a5M, naneiag .
Paul the hoy of tho iddr aid tho imailei i
one oeloBglag to too cash box ; "you wtu
Krn u ammm mmw 11
uaUI you seo nic" tomorrow morning.
Bo very careful of It, fori have no du
plicate. It's now half-pat Jour, to I
hare not a minute to lost. You'll find
my client. Mr. Graham, a curious coun
tryfled old follow, Lisimon, but I've no
doubt you'll be able to manage him.
Good afternoon 1"
Silas Jert the office, followed by the
clerk, Merbiooii; and Paul, taking up one
of tho Nw Orleans papers, prepared to
await tho expected visitor. The client
arrived, punctual to his appointment, at
half-pat five. He wus an elderly man,
a planter, whose estate lay at a distance
of boverai huBJred miles from New
Orleans, and who had tho hiht opin
ion of Silas Craig's professional and
moral character.
"A worthy man," he would say, shak
ing his heiid wisely, when bpeaking of
the nieuey-lending lawyer ; a moral man,
a church-going man, and acreuit to New
Orleans. I urn soriy there are not more
to follow bis piou-4 example."
Paul received the money, which was
In .the bharJe oi a roll of dollar bills.
"'I have the cninbors of the bills In my
pocket-book," suiJ tho ld man, as ho
handed the packet to the 5Iexlcau; "I'm
rather a cautiou- old fellow, you know,
my dear sir."
Paul wrote an acknowledgment of tho
sum, and handed it to biles Craig's
client.
"Perfectly correct, perfectly correct,
my dear sir," Mr. Graham muttered as
ho read it over 'Received o John Gra
ham, fifteen thousand dollars,' dated
and signed. Thank you, sir, and good
evening."
Paul summoned the mulatto lad to
show Mr. Graham out, and them, after
looking tho money, In tho cash box a
small metal casket, which migUt have
easily been carried in the ample pocket'
of Paul's loose linen coat he left tho
office, and double-looked the door behind
him.
"I think that's all right, Marcus' ho
said to the boy.
"Iss, mastta."
"You sleep la this office, dont you?"
"Iss, massa,"
"Then there's no likelihood of any one
entering that room without your being
aware of it."
"No, maasa; not unless Marcus was
very deaf."
"Which, fortunately, you are not.
Keep a sharp lookout, my lad, and I'll
give you a half a doilar tomorrow."
Paul left the oflice and returned to
Villa Moraquitos, where, for once ia a
way, he found Camiilia alenfi with Mule.
Coral. Her father was absent at a dinner
party, given by Augustus Hojoa.
This very dinner party was a portion
of the villainous plot, ooncocted by Silas
Craig and the planter, for tfie destruc
tion of Paul Lisimon.
The evening flew by like some blessed
dream to tho young Mexic. Camiilia
was by his side ; she taag to him wild
and plaintive Spanish ballads, whose
mournful and harmonious cadence
drowned his soul In rapture. The words
written in the love-bieathinj language
of that Souihern lant, fioiu whose
orang? groves and pulacus Ska ancestors
of Camiilia had emigrated to Southern
America.
A happy evening; alas.! Si very last
of happiness that Paul was to taste for
a long time to come.
But even in tho society of Camiilia
Moroqultos, Paul could not cjdffee repress
a certain uneasiness about tlt& money he
had left in the cash box fu Smos Craig's
offioe.
Ho disliked the respoticb&0y of tha
trust whleh had been forced him by
his employer, and was impatient to re
turn the k,V of the office to its owner.
For th&f reason ho was a his poet
earlier than usual tho following morn
ing. Silas Csalgdld not enter the clerk's of
fice till much later than his customary
hour for beginning business. Morrison
and one or two others begaa to 6peoulata
upon the probability or their employer
having drank rather too trwely at the
planter's dinner table.
The attorney appeared in a peculiarly
amiable temper that morning. He shook
hands with Paul, spoke to each of the
clerks, commended their work, and
then, holding out his hand,. eai5, very
graoiously, "Now, my dearLiainio-i, the
key of the office. I suppose Mr. Graham
lodged that money in your hands last
night?"
"He did, sir; you will find it in the
cash box."
Silas nodded and unlocked the dcor of
the inner ofiice. "Oh, byo tne Uvj, " ho
said, just step this wj-, Air. Morrison
I have some directions to give you."
The clerk followed his employer into
the oflice. Five minutes afjfwaxd Mor
rison put his head out of the uoor : "Mr.
Lisimon," ho said, "you are wanted, If
you please."
Paul hastened to the Inner office. Tho
lawyer was looking very gWve, but ho
spoke in his usual friendly tone.
"Where did you say you put the
money, my dear Lisimon?" ho asked.
"In the small cash box," replied Paul
"there I"
Ho pointed, as ho spoke, to the table
upon which he had left the cash box on
the preceding evening.
It was no longer there.
The young Mexican's olive cheek grow
suddenly wbtte.
This fact was observed by tho clerk,
who stood aghast looking on.
"You must be mistaken, Lisimon; yo
very likely placed the box in some other
part of the office?"
"NoPorfcod Paul with energy, "I left
it on that table, and nowhere else.
Come, Mr. Craig, this must bo some lest
of yours. You havo removed the dox
since you entered the office, and are do
ing this to frighten mo."
"'Was there any box on yonder tablo
when wo entered this room, Morrison?"
said Craig, addressing himself to tho
clerk.
STo, sir."
"Yon toe, mty dear Lislmon, it must
be you who axe jesting. Were you any
other than tho beioved protege of my re
spected oUo&t, tJoa Juan Mvaraqultos, I
Should positively begin to be aiarmed."
'JesriBr' oxclaimed Paul.; "I swear
to you that before leaving this offioo last
night, I locked the cash box containing
tho dollsr bills and placed It upon that
table. Search where you will, Morri
son," be said, looking at the clerk, who,
at a wottpered order from rTw employer,
had begun to searoh the office, "unless
there has been witchcraft about, you
will find it there and nowhere else, for
tire re I loft it."
"Come, come, Mr. Lisimon," said
Craig, in an altered tone, "this is really
too absurd. We no longer believe In
magie or the juggleries of tho fiend. You
say you loft the box in this apartment
last night. It must therefore be here
this morning if you have spoken tho
truth."
"If I have spoken the truth !" eehoed
Paul, tho hue of his cheeks changing
from pale to crimson.
"Not a creature has entered this room
since you left Is," continued Silas; "for
Isoto is but one key to the door, and thai
has sees ia ydur possession until within
tho last tea mlnctes. The tor, UarCuS,
aleoc la tho eflco: call him-' Morrison
xne mulatto laa maae nis appearance.
"Marous." said his master, "did any
one enter this room last night?"
"No, maasa, the door was locked."
"I know that; and no one entered by
any means whatever?"
"No one raasua, unless do debit go
through de keyhole."
"Whon Mr. Lislmon left his office last
night had ho anything in his hand?"
"Norlng, uisasa."
"But he might of had something In his
pocket," muttered Kiloe in an undertone.
Paul Lisimon turned upon his employer
with indignant fury.
"Mr. Craig," bo exclaimed, "could you
dare to Insinuate "
"No, Mr. Lleimon. it is rather too late
In the day for Insinuations." answered
the attorney with a sardonic laugh, "you
were loft is charge of a sum of money;
you were told to plaoe It in this room, to
which, no one but yourself had acceps.
The faot is only too clear; you havo dis
graced the bounty of your patron; you
are a thief I"
"A thief 1" shrieked Paul. Tho lawyer's
gold-headod bamboo cane stood in one
corner of the office ; before the clerk,
Morieson, oould interpose, Paul Lislmon
snatched tills cans in his convulsed
grasp, and bounding upon Silas Craig,
struck Iflm across the face.
"Liar 1" he cried, "I seo the drift of this
double-dyed villainy. I am the victim of
a plot, so demoniac that I shudder at the
blackness of it treachery. The money
has been removed through your axency
removed ia order that my name may
be branded with a crime. I fear you not,
vile schemer; be It yours to tremble, for
Heaven looks down upon us, and will de
fend the innocent,"
He rushed from the office, and had left
the house before yilas had recovered from
the terror those words had struck to his
guilty heart.
"Pursue him 1" he cried, hoarse with
fury ; "pursue him and drag him to
prison. Yet, stay, it is too late now to
overtake him. I know where to find him
at the Villa Moraquitos."
CHAPTER XII.
11ISTAN, the ne
gro, sat In bis lit
tle chamber, in
that quarter of
Don Juan's fine
mansion whloh
was devoted
solely to the
slaves.
A dark and
gloomy shadow
rested upon the
inky brow of the
negro. For some
time Dast the
watchful eye of his mother, the old no
gress, Zarah, had detected her son's un
happiness, but she sought in vain to pen
etrate tho cause. There was much of
the savage in the character of this man,
and even in his mother he sometimes in
spired alarm and suspicion.
His was one of those natures, burning,
as Afrio's 6kles, created, sometimes,
like the venomous serpents of those
tropical climes, only to terrify and to
destroy.
Bat he was a privileged being in the
house of Don Juan Moraquitos. He
had saved tho life of the Spaniard's ido
lized daughter.
Yea, only one brief year before the
period of which wo write, Tristan, tho
negro, had by his oourage and activity
preserved Camiilia from a fearful
death.
Late one evening tho young girl and
her governess had sat talking together
In Camillia'B luxurious boudoir. The
slave Tristan had been admitted to tho
apartment to amuse the capricious
beauty with his songs and antics. But
Camiilia had eooa grown weary of this
diversion, and turning to Mademoiselle
Corsl, she said languidly :
"Tell Tristan to leave us, Pauline, he
is noisy, and he wearies me."
Generous-hearted as was the Spanish
girl, her education had taught her to
look upon a slave as an inferior being,
u-nbLft with' these finer feelings which
demand our courtesy and consideration.
She diamlssed Tristan as she would have
dismissed her lapdog when tired of his
antics. A black and gloomy frown ob
6eared the negro's glittering eyos as he
was thus unceremoniously ordered from
the room.
It was unobserved by Camiilia, but not
unmarked by Paulino OoreL
The slave retired, but he did not go
far. Between the boudoir and the
taloon there was an antechamber, the
floor of Whloh was covered with a square
Persian ourpet a carpet of immense
value, thick as velvet pile.
Upon this carpet, oloso to the door of
the bondoir, Tristan threw himself, like a
dog on tho threshold of his master's
apartment. .
"She sends me from her," he aald bit
terly; "I am noisy, and I weary her J It
was not so in the daya that are long gone
by, when she and I were playfellows.
The negro gone, Comilll reclined upon
a sofa, and amused herself by looking
over a pile of French novels, whioh had
lately arrived from Pari. To do tills
she drew toward her a little inlaid table
upon whioh stood an elogant reading
Corsi was seated at the other
extremity of tho apartment, working
briskly at a larate piece of embroidery,
and lost in thought. She did not there
fore observe the proceedings of her
young pupil.
For some time Camiilia read on undis
turbed : but by aad by growing wearv of
her book, oho cast it from her with' ah im
patient exclamation, and stretched out
her hand to reach another from the vol
umes on the table beside her. In doing
this she upset tho reading-lamp.
The glass globe broke with a crash;
the inflammable oil and burning wick
were spilled upoathe gausy muslin folds
of her voluminous dress.
She uttered a shriek of horror, for in
one brief moment she found herself in
flames.
Tho negro heard that shriek ; and swift
as the panther darting from his lair, he
bounded from the threshold where he
had been lying.
Losing all presence of mind, Camiilia,
followed by Paulino Corsi, rushed past
tho slave Tristan, and from the ante
chamber to tho saloon beyond.
Tho flames, fanned by the ourrent of
air through which she passed, rose to
ward her head. In another moment she
would have been lost.
But the preserver was at hand.
With a yell of agony, like that of a
wild bea6t in its death struggle with tho
hunter, the negro flung himself upon the
floor of the antechamber, aad tore up the
heavy Persian carpet which covered the
room ; then, rushing upon Camiilia, he
enveloped her slender form in this mas
sive fabric, and with his own hands ex
tinguished the flames.
The Spaniard's daughter escaped un
scathed from this terrible ordeal, but the
bands of theelavo were fearfully scorched
and wounded.
Don Joan Moraquitos offered any re
ward he might choose to seme to tho de
liverer of his .;hlld. bat, to the Spaniard's
astonlshmoat Tristan refused all his
master's offista.
illll 1
The Spaniard wou!0 have irlven him
freedom, but the elavo chose rather to
stay in the house in which he had been
born.
All gifts of money he also refused re
fused with a gloomy determination which
Dan Juau and Camiilia tried in vain to
overcome
"No I" he said, "let me stay with you,
ray master and my isistress. The poor
slave, Tristan, at-ks no more."
in vain the old negresn, Zarah, pleaded
with her son, imploring him to ask free
dom for himself and his mother, that
they might return to the nativo shoro
from which the captain of a slaver had
brought them. Ho refiinod to liiten to
her entreaties, and turned from her with
a gloomy scowl.
Don Juan and his daughter praised tho
fidelity of tho sieve, ami promlxod hiru
every privilege that could render his ser
vice a happy ouo. Only one person in
that household divined the secret i-lew
to the negro's strange conduct. That
ferson was the seemingly frivolous and
Ight-heartod Frenchwoman, Pauline
Corsi.
A depth of penetration lurked beneath
that girlish exterior. She had road tho
true meaning of Tristan's conduct.
The slave the negro the thick-lipped
wnoily-halred African the lowest typo
of a despised and abhorred race, loved
his ;niatrc.s,the wealthy Spanish he!ros9,
thi beautiful and haughty Camiilia Mor
aquitos !
To lie Cntii;u'l.l
COMING ACROSS.
Every sail Is full net, and t-he sky
And the aea blaze with lilit.
And the moon mill her virgins glides OQ
As SL Ur?h!a mlht;
Anil t!ie throb of the pu!e never Btops
lu the lioart of the ship.
As her measures of wau?r and fire
She drinks down at a sip.
Vot 1 uver can think, as I lie.
And so wearily tosR,
TLal l;y siiit, or by star, or by utiip,
1 am coining across
tut by liht thfit I kfirvtr in dtar eyea
That are bent on the sea;
And the touch I remember of baud
That are waiting for nie!
By the liht of the eyes I could come.
If the stars should all fail;
And 1 ihink if the ship should go down
That the haud.-j would prevail
Ah ! my riarlinps. you never will know
How I pinnj in the loss
Of you all, and how breathless and glad
I am coming across
Helen Hunt.
9I:ui's Perversity.
The jKjrversity of m;m is a.miBingly
illustrated by an anecdote toM by Max
Muller in the course of a recent lecture
at Oxford:
1 was k:tnring at the Royal insti
tute in London. The audience there in
the most enlightened and critical one
has to face in the world, but it is mixed.
It beiivjf iiwesFiuy to prove th.it Hebrew
was no! iii'.' primitive lanua;;t of man
kind I had devoted a lecture to this sub
ject. I explained how it arose, mid
placud before my audience a genealog
ical tree of the Aryan and Semitic lan
guages, where everybody could see the
place which Hebrew holds in the pedi
gree of human speech. After the lecture
was over one of my audience came to
thank me for having shown so clearly
how all language, including Sanskrit
and English, were derived from Hebrew,
the ianguuge spoken in Paradise by Adam
and Eve!
The learned philologist was over
whelmed with dismay, and thinking the
fault lay in his inability to elucidate his
point told Professor Faraday he must
really give up lecturing. But the dis
tinguished physicist cousoUhI Iri: friend
with an anecdote from his own experi
ence. He said:
"I have been lecturing in the institu
tion many years, and over and over
ag::in, after I have explained jukI shown
how water consists of hydrogen and
osj-gen, some stately dowag'.-r him
marched up to me after the lecture to
say in a confidential whisper, 'Now. .Mr.
Faraday, you don't roall' msnn to say
that thin water here in yonr tumbler ia
nothing but hydrogen?' " Boston Tran
script. Work of the Associated Press.
"No." said William Henry Smith to a
reporter, '"you are mistaken when you
say there is less news in summer than in
winter. The quantity of news, as demon
strated by our association, is about the
same the year around. But there is this
distinction, that in the summer there is
more sporting news, naturally enough,
while in the winter j-ou have your con
gress, your parliament and your reich
stag. All in all, however, we handle
about the same amount of newB the year
around.
"The daily average amount of tele
graphic matter received in our New
York office is fully 100,000 words. This
ie transcribed and edited by our corps of
150 men, who prepare it in circuits, to
be distributed to our subscribers all over
the United States. We strive to select
news with reference to its adaptability
to the district in which our subscriber
lives.
"All this fund of news is collected by
our local correspondents. Our aim is to
have a man in every place of importance
throughout the Union, with special men
constantly on the call for emergency
work. Thus at the time of the Louis
ville cyclone we at once sent out a corps
of men from Indianapolis. They had
their special car hurried to the scene of
disaster, and in a few hours compara
tively had prepared many columns of in
tensely interesting matter. Such is an
illustration of the workings of our sys
tem." Detroit Free Presa-
The pacing race We inesday was the
race of the fair and was made in yood
time. St. John a fine grey geld
ing owned by parties in Omaha,
won three heats out of fiye.
The other horses, especially Flossie Reed
were fine movers and the grey had to
move to win. In the second heat St.
John made the first half mile in 1.10 and
the mile in 2.27, with Flossie Reed and
Billy B close behind, yet it seemed that
St. John was not doing his best. At
any 'event the five heats were lively ones
and were the bost we saw.
CURES PERMANENTLY
Horse and Cattle Diseases.
I'or (icneral I'sp.
Tho Amis' Tuliue ami Hlock Tar Co.,
Toledo, Ohio, Jun, IKffl.
Werlieerfnlly rrrniiiiiiend Ht- Jacob Oil a
UiC bcM ir K-ucial use ou t k
II. ARMS A CO.
Cold, Swcllcul Limbs, Inflammation.
N Kinset. 111.. Mny "11,
My roaro rnunht mid; result : dwelled
limbs, lui..p Ih Uvii-ii foro letf and iiitlaimuar
lion. Cuitd her Willi M. Jnrohs Oil.
1 1 . KJ. UAili.Uk
The LarKent nn
til inont Successful Ktok
uh St. .Incolis OtI.
KuImti
rur r l r a t
in n unb " n
For Stablemen and Stockmen.
CURED
Cuts. Swellings, bruises. Sprains, Galls. Strslss,
Lameness, Stillness, Cracked Heels. Scratchaa.
Contraction, flesh Wounds. Strinohalt, Sora
Throat, Distemper, Colic, Whitlow. Poll Cwit.
Fistula. Tumors, Splints, Ringuonea and Spavin
in their early Stag's. Directions with each bottla.
At rKri;)iMTrNi IKAi.rns.
THE CHARLES A. V0UELER CO.. Baltimore. ftU.
M J. Kfnminl a prominent capitaliHt
of Oinuhn, is in tin: city on business
today.
E. II. Misncr has quit the btoru houao
ami gone to work for II. A. Waterman
& Son in the lumber yard.
Jud";e Chapman came home from
Lincoln this morning, ufter a hunl week
work on the Lancaster county bench.
Mrs. Livingston yery pleasantly enter
tained u party of friends at dinner yea
terday in honor of In-r t;uest, Mrs. Thos.
Carter of Salt Lako City.
It is currently reported th:it Thuddou
Clarkson of Crand Army fame is to bo
the next postu.ai-ter of Omaha, in place
of Con Gallagher resigned.
Junes lYxton has severed his connec
tion with the V. Si M. and goes to Kan
sas City Monday where he expects to
move his family.
O. T. Wood 13 uo longer in the employ
of the B. & M. but begins a live month's
term of school at Cottonwood, ono mile
east of Hani Barker's place.
One passenger for St. Louis, one for
Mattison 111., one for Iowa City uud two
for Garden City ilo., were the foreign
inclined people at the depot this morn
ing. The Electric Lamp factory employs
fifteen hands. Two glass blowers are
employed and a third is expected next
week. Supt. Schaefer is a rubtler and a
man that thoroughly understands liia
business.
Will Holly had a handsome cage of ,
pea fowls on the ftir ground that took
first premium which he Las domiciled
temporarily and neatly, too, in one of
lien Elsor s show windows at his clothing
store on lower Main street, They are
beautiful birds and nn-ply r"p-vy a trip
ta the store to see them.
OiDara House,
SATURDAY, SEi'TEMIJEIt 6)
wtf MATINEE AT 2::I0
The .Barnum oftlium ail
SUTTON'S
Monster Double
1 i
I
COMPANY
compbisi rsro-
2 Famous Topsies
2 Marks the Lawyers
2 Educated Donkies
5 Shetland Ponies
6 Cuban Bloodhounds
2
2
2
A
6
Little D&ilie White,
The Plienniinal Child Artist.
The Wonderful
Sutton Children
Maud and Master Eddie, i& Character
Sketches.
Special Scenery
PRICES
35wd-A.TI3STEE, IS and 25C
NIGHT, 35 and 500
SeemagnificeDt Street Parade at 11:4.
a. m., daily.
JULIUS PEPPERRERG,
MAICUFACTf RER OF AKD
WHOLESALE & RETAIL
DEALER IN THE
Choicest Brands of Cigars,
including our
Flor de Papperbargo and 'Bud,
FtXX, LINE OF
TOBACCO AND SMOKERS' ARTICTJ5.
always in stock. Not. 26. 18S5
TRADE tl, MARIC
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