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The Diamond Bracelet
By MRS. HENRY WOOD.
Author of Emt Lynne, Etc.
CHAPTER XVII.
Cnee more Gerard Hope entered his
uncle's house; not as an interloper
stealing into it in secret, but as an
honored guest to whom reparation was
due, and must be made. Alice Seaton
leaned back in her invalid chair, a joy
ous flush on her wasted cheek, and a
Joyous happiness in her eye. Still the
shadow of coming death was there,
and Mr. Hope was shocked to see her
•—more shocked and startled than he
had expected, or chose to express.
“Oh, Alice! What has done this?”
“That,” she answered, pointing to
the bracelet, w hich, returned to its true
owner, lay on the table. “I should not
have lived many years, of that 1 am
convinced; but I might have lived a
little longer than 1 now shall. It has
been the cause of misery to many, and
Lady Sarah says she shall never regard
it but as an ill-starred trinket, or wear
it with any pleasure.”
“But, Alice, why should you have
suffered it thus to afTect you,” he re
monstrated. “You knew your own in
nocence, and you say you believed and
trusted in mine; what did you fear?”
"I will tell you, Gerard,” she re
sumed, a deeper hectic rising in her
cheeks. “I could not have confessed
my fear, even in dying; it was too dis
tressing. too terrible; but now that it
is ail clear, I will tell it. I believed my
sister had taken the bracelet.”
He uttered an exclamation of amaze
ment.
“I have believed it all along. She
had called to see me that night, and
was for a minute or two in the room
alone with the bracelets; I knew she,
at that time, was short of money, and I
feared she had been tempted to take
it—Just as this unfortunate servant
man was tempted. Oh, Qerard, the
dread of it has been upon me night and
day. preying upon my fears, weighing
down my spirits, wearing away my
health and my life. And I had to bear
it all in silence—that dreadful silence
that has killed me."
"Alice, this must have been a mor
bid fear."
“Not so—if you knew all. But now
that I have told you let us not revert
to it again; it is at an end, and I am
very thankful. That it should so end
has been my prayer and hope; not
quite the only hope," she added, look
ing up at him with a sunny smile; "I
have had another.”
“What is it? You look as if it were
connected with me.”
“So it la. Ah, Gerard! Can you not
guess it?”
“No,” he answered, in a stifled voice.
“I can only guess that you are lost to
me.”
“Lost to all here. Have you forgot
ten our brief conversation the night
you went Into exile? I told you then
^ there was one far more worthy of you
than I could ever have been.”
“None will ever be half so worthy;
or—I will say it, Alice, in spite of your
warning hand—half so loved.”
“Gerard,” she continued, sinking her
voice, “she has waited for you.”
“Nonsense,” he rejoined.
“She has. I have watched and seen,
and I know it; and I tell it you under
secrecy; when she is your wife, not
before, you may tell her that I saw it
and said It. She Is a lovable and at
tractive girl, and she does not and will
not marry; you are the cause.”
“My darling——”
“Stay, Gerard,” she gravely inter
rupted; “those words of endearment
are not for rne. Give them to her; can
you deny that you love her?”
"Perhaps I do—in a degree. Next to
yourself-”
“Put me out of your thoughts while
we speak. If I were—where 1 so soon
shall be, would she not be dearer to
you than any one on earth?- Would
you not be well pleased to make her
your wife?”
"Yes, I might be.”
"That is enough, Gerard, France^,
come hither."
The conversation had been carried
on in a whisper, and Lady Francis
Chenevix came towards them from a
distant window. Alice took her hand;
she also held Gerard’s.
“I thought you were talking secrets,”
said Lady Frances, “so I kept away."
"As we were,” answered Alice.
“Frances, what can we do to keep him
among us? Do you know what Col.
Hope has told him?”
"No. What?”
"That though he shall be reinstated
in favor as to money matters, he shall
not be in his affection, or in the house,
unless he prove sorry for his rebellion
by retracting it. The rebellion, you
know, at the first outbreak, when Ger
ard was expelled from the house be
fore that unlucky bracelet was ever
bought; I think he is sorry for it; you
must help him to be more so.”
"Fanny," said Gerard, while her eye
lids drooped, and the damask mantled
In her cheek, deeper than Alice's hec
tic, “will you help me?"
“As if I could make head or tail out
of what you two are discussing!" cried
she by way of helping her out of her
confusion, so she attempted to turn
away; but Gerard caught her to his
side and detained her.”
Fanny—will you drive me again
from the house?”
She lifted her eyes twinkling with a
little spice of mischief. “I did not
drive you before.”
"In a manner, yes,” he laughed.
"Do you know what did drive me?”
She had known it at the time, and
Gerard read it in her conscious face.
"I see it all,” he murmured, drawing
her closer to him; "you have been far
kinder to me than I deserved. Fanny,
let me try and repay you for it.”
Frances endeavored to look dignified,
but it would not do, and she was
obliged to brush away the tears of hap
piness that struggled to her eyes. Alice
caught their hands together and held
them between her own. with a mental
aspiration for their life's future happi
ness. Some tfine back she could not
have breathed it in so fervent a spirit;
but—as she had said—the present
world and its hopes had closed to her.
"But you know, Gerard,” cried Lady
Frances, in a saucy tone, “if you ever
do help yourself to a bracelet in reality,
you must not expect me to go to prison
with you.”
"Yes, I shall,” answered he, far more
saucily; "a wife must follow the for
tunes of her husband.”
THE END.
Morley Roberts,
Mr. Smith, who ran a sailors’ board
ing-house in that part of San Fran
cisco known as the Barbary Coast, was
absolutely sui generis.
Every breeze that blew, trade-wind
or monsoon, had heard of his iniqui
ties. He got the best of everyone.
"All but one,” said Smith, one night,
in a moment of weakness, when a doz
en men who owed so much money that
they crawled to him as a Chinaman
does to a joss were hanging on his
lips; "all but one.”
"Oh, we don’t take that in.” said
one of the most indebted; "we can’t
’ardly believe that, Mr. Smith.
“Yep, I was done brown and never
got the best of one beast.” said the
boarding-house keeper. He looked
them over malignantly.
"I kin lick any of you here with one
hand,” he went on, "but the man as
belted me could have taken on three
of you with both hands. I run against
him on the pier at Sandridge when I
was in Australia fifteen years ago. He
was a naval officer, captain of the
Warrior, and dressed up to kill,
though he had a face like a figurehead
cut of mahogany with a broad axe.
And T was a feelin’ good and in need
of a scrap. So when he bumped ag’in
me I shoved him over. Prompt I
shoved him. Down he went, and the
girls that knowed me laughed. And
two policemen came along quick. I
didn’t care much, but this naval jos
ser picks himself up and goes to ’em.
Would you believe it, but when he’d
spoke a bit I seed him donate ’em
about a dollar each, and they walked
ofT round a heap of dunnage on the
wharf, and the captain buttoned up
his coat and came for me.
“I never seen the likes of It He
comes up dancin’ and smilin’, and he
kind of give me half a bow, polite a«
► you like, and Inside of ten seconds I
knew I’d struck a cyclone, right in the
■pot where they breed. I fought good
in The Strand.
(you know me) and I got in half a
dozen on his face. But I never fazed
him none, and he wouldn’t bruise
mor'n hittin’ a boiler. And every time
he got back on me 1 felt as if I’d been
kicked.
“He scarred me something cruel, r
could see it by the blood on his hands.
Twarn’t his by a long sight, for his
fists were made of teak, I should say.
And in the end, when I seemed to see
a ship’s company of naval officers
around me, one of them hit me under
the ear and lifted me up. And an
other hit me whilst I was in the air,
and a third landed me as I fell. And
that was the end of it so far’s I
remember. They told me afterward
he was the topside fighter in the hull
British Navy, and I’m here to say he
was.”
“And you never got even?” asked
the bartender, seeing that no one took
up the challenge.
“Never set eyes on him from that
day to this,” said his boss, regretfully.
"And if you did?”
Smith paused—took a drink.
"So help me I’d Shanghai him if he
was King of England!”
And one of the crowd who had put
down the San Francisco Chronicle in
order to hear this yarn picked it up
again.
“S’elp me,” he said, in breathless ex
citement, “'ere’s a funny cohincidence.
’Ere’s a telegram from ‘Squimault,
sayin’ as how the flagship Triumphant,
Hadmiral Sir Richard Dunn, K. C. B.,
is cornin' down to San Francisco!”
“By Jove, let's look,” said Shanghai
Smith. He read, and a heavenly smile
overspread his hard countenance. He
almost looked good, such Joy was his.
“Tom,” he said to the bartender,
"set up drinks for the crowd. This
is my man, for sure. And him an
admiral, too! Holy sailor, ain’t tbiB
luck?”
He vent *at into the street and
walked to and fro, rubbing bis bands,
while the men inside took their drink.
"Was there ever such luck? Was
there ever such luck?" murmured Mr.
Shanghai Smith. "To think of him
turnin' up all of hts own accord on
my partlc’lar stampin’ ground! Holy
sailor! was there ever such luck?”
The morning of the following day
Her Majesty's ship Triumphant lay at
her anchors off Saucelito, In San Fran
cisco Bay.
Though the admiral did not know’
it. one of the very first to greet him
when he set his foot on dry land at
the bottom of Market street was the
man he had licked so thoroughly fif
teen years before In Melbourne.
"Oh, it’s the same,” said Smith to
his chief runner, who was about the
"hardest case" In California. "He
ain't changed none. Just so old he
was when he set about me. I'm gom’
to have thishyer admiral shipped be
fore the stick on the toughest ship
that's about ready to go to sea. Now
what’s In the harbor with officers that
can lick me?"
"Well, I always allowed (as you
know, sir) that Simpson of the Cali
fornia was your match. And the Cali
fornia will sail in three days.”
“Righto,” said Smith; "Simpson is
a good, tough man. Bill, the Califor
nia will do.”
"But how'll you corral the admiral,
sir?" asked Bill.
"You leave that to me," replied his
boss. "I've got a very fruitful notion
as will fetch him, if he’s half the man
he was.”
Mr. “Say-it-and-mean-it” Smith laid
for Admiral Sir Richard Dunn, K. C.
B., etc., etc., from ten o’clock till half
past eleven, and he was the only man
in the crowd that did not hope the vic
tim would come down with too many
friends to be tackled.
The admiral came at last; it was
about a quarter to twelve, and the
whole water-front was remarkably
quiet. And the admiral was only ac
companied by his flag-lieutenant.
The two were promptly sandbagged,
the lieutenant left on the street and
the admiral carried to the house in
the Barbary Coast. When he showed
signs of coming to he was promptly
dosed, and his clothes were taken off
him. As he slept the sleep of the
drugged they put on a complete suit
of rough serge toggery and he be
came Tern Deane, able-bodied seaman.
By four o'clock in the morning Tom
Deane lay fast asleep in a forward
bunk of the California's fo'c’s’le as
she was being towed through the
Golden Gate. And his flag-lieutenant
was inquiring in hospital what had
become of the admiral. And nobody
could tell him more than he him
self knew. Flaring headlines an
nounced the disappearance of a Brit
ish admiral, and the wires and cables
fairly hummed to England and the
world generally.
(To be continued.)
Game to Tempt the Sporteman.
Hunting big game has an irresistible
attraction for all sportsmen, and the
more rare the species being sought,
the more keen is the hunter’s delight.
The big game of this country Is com
paratively well known, but Asia offers
some rare species, they are sought
every year by countless sportsmen of
all nationalities, usually without suc
cess.
An ambition of big game hunters
is to capture, or shoot, a snow leopard.
This rare animal lives on the snow
covered Himalayas, and seldom Is seen
at an elevation of less than 11,000 fept
He is a beautiful creature, white as
the snow he lives among, and -Is both
wild and savage. Even in the great
altitudes where he makes his home
he is extremely rare, and not only
have few persons shot him, but few
even have seen him. Any one who
wants to stand in the first rank of big
game men should try for a snow
leopard; if he gets one his reputation
is made.
An animal known to exist, but of
which no white man ever has seen
the dead body, is the mountain ibex of
Kamchatka. This great peninsular of
Kamchatka, whose half a million
square miles is inhabited by less than
7,000 people, is probably the least
known of any land in the world not
circumpolar. Down its center runs a
chain of great mountains, many of
them active volcanoes and others cov
ered with thick forests up to a height
of 4,000 or 5,000 feet. Above the tim
ber line lives a species of ibex, or
mountain sheep, larger and stronger
than any that exist elsewhere. The
natives show bits of the skins of these
animals and some of their enormous
horns, but no white man ever has seen
a whole one alive or dead, much less
killed one.
Monumental Hraiisfa.
At the beginning of the thirteenth
century it occurred to some one to
preserve the likeness of his departed
friend, as well as the symbols of his
rank and station, says the Gentlemar-’s
Magazine. So effigies were introduced
upon the surface of the slabs, and were
carved flat, but ere fifty years had
passed away, the art of the sculptor
produced magnificent monumental ef
figies. Knights and nobles lie clad
lu armor with their ladies by their
sides; bishops and abbots bless the
spectators with uplifted right hands;
Judges lie in their official garb; and
merchants with the emblem of their
trado. At their feet lie animals,
usually having some heraldic connec
tion with the deceased, or symbolical
of his work; e. g., a dragon is trodden
down beneath the feet of a bishop,
signifying the defeat of sin as th# re
sult of his ministry. The heads of
effigies usually rest on cushions which
are sometimes supported by tvf
angels.
WOOL AND TARIFF.
WHY CHANGES IN DUTY SCHEDUESL
ARE UNDESIRABLE.
Instable Condition! Would Hr Injurious
Alike to Manufacturers and to American
Farmers fcnffaged In Sheep and Wool
Growing.
Most opportune is the publication of
the year's domestic wool clip by Mr. S.
N. I). North of the National Associa
tion of Wool Manufacturers. Reciproc
ity schemes and methods for the bene
fit of one industry at the expense of
others have thrown upon Congress an
avalanche of literature, and some of
the recommendations indicate that
selfish constituents are willing to sac
rifice the sheep raisers if they can
thereby secure personal profit. That
no change is desirable in the tariff on
wool will appear obvious after a little
study of experiences in this industry
under the last three revenue hills. Dur
ing the wise operations of the McKin
ley law domestic ranches increased and
the home production of wool rose to
348,538,138 pounds In 1893, while im
ports were but 55,152,585 pounds. Im
mediately after the enactment of the
Wilson bill foreign wool was thrown
upon this market in such abundance
that imports rose to 350,852.026 pounds
in one year, an increase of 536 per cent
over the receipts from abroad under
the protective tariff, and exceeding
even the high record of domestic yield.
Meanwhile the home grower found no
profit in competing with Australian
and other cheaply raised wool, so that
sheep were sold for mutton and invest
ors in the industry lost large sums of
money. Tne annual yield In the United
States steadily decreased until only
259,153,251 pounds were clipped in 189".
W'ith the resumption of a reasonable
harrier against outside producers there
came a renewal of domestic interest
In this crop, and each year brought
a larger total, until the report just
issued shows a clip of 302.502.328
pounds.
This question of price3 has been the
most remarkable feature of the situa
tion, although less bewildering when
studied in connection with the records
of imports and general business condi
tions. According to the circular of
Coates Bros., one hundred grades of
domestic wool averaged 22.78 cents a
pound on May 1, 1892, when the coun
try was prosperous under a sound tariff
law and woolen mills were actively
engaged. By September 1, 1896, the
full effect of free trade was being felt,
and the same grades of wool averaged
12.22 cents a pound. This fall of 46
per cent in price was not only due to
the competition of outside production,
but also to the disastrous condition of
all industries and business under low
tariffs, which rendered the wage earn
ers unable to purchase freely of warm
clothing. With the reversal of tariff
policy and restoration of a duty on
wool there came prompt recovery in
this business, together with such confi
dence that the speculative influence be
came prominent. Despite large stocks
there was inflation of prices and in De
cember, 1899, the average price was
24.70 cents, nearly two cents higher
than in 1892. That the advance was
obtained too rapidly has since appeared
in the reaction to 17.06 cents, July 1,
1901. Numerous and heavy failures were
precipitated by these erratic fluctua
tions, not only among growers, but
dealers and manufacturers. Misfor
tunes must of necessity follow unstable
conditions, and these irregularities are
directly traceable to tinkering with the
tariff.
It is not difficult to understand why
the recovery in all departments of this
industry has been slow, and only with
in the last few months have distinctly
satisfactory conditions prevailed. In
addition to the enormous quantity of
woolen goods of all kinds that were ac
cumulated by importers, the receipts
of raw wool from abroad during the
three years ending July 1, 1897,
amounted to 787,797,405 pounds. No
amount of prosperity could absorb this
enormous stock in a short time, and it
was a short-Bighted policy that permit
ted the violent advance of prices, which
was naturally followed by severe re
action. Even after the flood of cheap
foreign wool had subsided, home pro
ducers and holders of domestic wool
made the mistake of inflating quota
tions all out of proportion to the gains
made in prices for the finished prod
ucts. Consumptive demand, it is true,
was greatly increased by the healthy
tone of all business, but the rise In
price of woolen goods was slow. Manu
facturers were compelled to resort to
the usual method under the circum
stances, which w’as a reduction in qual
ity. Shoddy and cheap substitutes were
used, while adulteration with cotton
was general. Ultimately the lack of
orders produced a salutary effect on
the wool market, and prices were
brought down to a point where the
mills ■ could do business at a profit.
Within a very short time the situation
has developed signs of an encouraging
nature, and a slight recovery in prices
is recorded. Manufacturers have or
ders assuring full occupation of mills
until well into next year, and within a
few weeks their purchases of raw ma
terial in the Boston market established
a new record for a single week’s trans
actions, while the resulting movement
also produced the largest week's ship
ments. At the same time there is every
evidence that supplies will be ample
for all needs until the next clip begins,
for Mr. North's report placeB the stock
at 650,054,842 pounds.
In the light of these facts It must be
seen that this industry is in no condi
tion for a revival of revenue changes,
even if special advantages might ac
| crue to some other industry by recipro
cal arrangements. Every state and
territory in the Union has a share in
the raising of sheep. Even little Rhode
Island Is officially credited with over
10,000 head, while half a dozen states
average about three million each.
Struggling against greater disadvan
tages than any other industry, at last
wool and woolens appear to have at
tained a sound position, and capital no
longer hesitates to lend Its aid to fur
ther expansion. At such times it is
impossible to overestimate the harm
that might he done by disturbing the
situation In regard to customs duties.
WHAT THEY DECIDED.
In the language of one of its dele
gates. the National Reciprocity Con
vention has proclaimed to the world
that the manufacturers of America
want no reciprocity that Is not spelled
PROTECTION.—New York Times.
An eminently correct conclusion.
That is precisely what the convention
decided after a consideration of the
subject In all Its hearings far more ex
haustive than any heretofore given to
it by the manufacturers of this coun
try. Prior to assembling in Washing
ton they had thought about reciproc
ity only on the basis of its possible or
probable improvement of the export
trade in a few special lines. They had
not thought about it In relation to the
general Industries of '.he country as a
whole nor as to its bearing upon the
country’s prosperity as a whole. Once
they had gone deeply and thoroughy
into this question they discovered that
as an economic and a business propo
sition it would he the extreme of folly
to sacrifice the entire home market for
the benefit of a few specialists whose
industries are not directly dependent
upon a protective tariff. The manufac
turers of this country know a great
deal more about the true inwardhess
of reciprocity than they did previous
to the Washington convention.
AN INDIGNANT PROTEST.
American Wage Earner—"We don’t
want any of this infernal nonsense.
Tariff tinkering has always worked to
our injury. Let the tariff alone!”
CARRYING KINDNESS TOO FAR.
The annexation of Cuba would
amount to exactly the same thing eco
nomically as freeing Cuban sugar
from duty. Possibly annexation may
be “manifest destiny,” but we are not
destined to have it if we don’t want
it. Expanding the country is a good
enough thing, but we are not called
on to sacrifice tho interests of this
country to those of any other country,
not even Cuba. The thought is bub
bling up in the minds of a good
many people that perhaps we have
done enough for Cuba, at least for a
while. The wealth producing possi
bilities of the island are quite sufficient
without the strangling of our fast
growing and wholesome beet sugar
manufacture in order to favor Cuban
sugar. The Cubans should be satisfied
with what they have and not seek to
ruin our industries in a reckless effort
to build up their own on the jump.
Their country is fertile in the high
est degree, and they have only to de
velop it to become a very rich people.
We have no call to impair our own
welfare to still further enhance the
prosperity of Cuba.
ARE THE TREATIES YET ALIVE ?
Senator Warren of Wyoming raises
a question which might form an in
teresting subject of inquiry and de
bate at the Reciprocity Convention in
Washington this week. He says:
“In my mind there i9 no actual dan
ger to the wool industry from the Ar
gentine or any other reciprocity
treaty. These treaties expired by limi
tation and cannot be revived. It is
questionable, even, whether new treat
ies can be negotiated and submitted
under the two-year restriction of the
Dingley act provision. If they can
they will never get past the watchful
friends of protection in the United
States senate if they contain aught of
danger to any American industry. I
hope, however, to see all one-sided
reciprocity treaties effectively killed
off, so that they may no longer serve
as a bogy man to the timid wool buyer
or afford a pretext by which the bears
of the wool market may depress prices
at the expense and loss of the wool
grower.”
This view is shared by many emi
nent lawyers in and out of congress.
TRUSTS AND PATRIOTS.
With the American sugar trust add
ing its facile Ingenuity to the abilities
of Cuban statesmen it will be strange
if the insular patriots do not almost
persuade us to give them anything
they want—reciprocity, free sugar,
free tobacco, free anything—even If
we have to destroy an Industry ot
two of our own to do it.
E ARLYIN DIAN BATTLE
RELICS RECENTLY FOUND TELL OF
SANGUINARY FIGHT.
tfpot Where the Army of the Buo and
Fox Indian* Was Exterminated Proved
to Have Keen Near Chicago—Impor
tance of the Event.
Indian relics that have been dug up
at the Glenview Golf grounds, six mile3
west of Evanston, Chicago's aristocrat
ic suburb, furnish evidence that here
was once fought one of the bloodiest
and most eventful battles of Indian
days. This battle is supposed to have
been fought more than 170 years ago.
and resulted in the complete extermi
nation of the army of the Sac and Fox
Indians that swept down from Wiscon
sin and invaded the Illinois river coun
try. Opposing the Sac and Fox Indians
were the united armies of the French
and Indians, consisting of the Chippe
was, the Mascoutens, Menominees, and
Kickapoos.
At that time the French had es
tablished a trading post here, which
was known as Fort Miami. This and
not Fort Dearborn, as many contend,
was the beginning of Chicago as a
trading center. Had the invading In
dians been victorious, the trading post
would have been abandoned and the
central point of commerce established
somewhere else on the lakes.
Hundreds of arrow-heads were
found, and there were spears (the fav
ored weapon of the Kickapoo), axes,
war clubs, tomahawks, and, in fact,
almost every Instrument of war known
to the aboriginal tribes. Adjoining the
fence of the golf grounds and directly
south was found an Indian mound,
from which were dug out partially cre
mated skeletons, a French breastplate
made of German silver, numerous other
metallic devices, and flint-locks and old
medals. From the nature of the relics
there is no doubt that many of them
belonged to the Sac and Fox Indians.
Others were those used only by the
Kickapoos and Mascoutens of the Illi
nois confederation. And then there is
also the style of battle ax or war club
employed in battle exclusively by the
Chippewaa and Menomlnees.
The discovery makes clear the disap
pearance of the detachment of the Sac
and Fox Indians that were not killed
at the battle of Plano. This latter was
the engagement that many erroneously
believe to have taken place at Starved
Rock. The great army of Sac and Fox
came down from Wisconsin over the
Green Bay trail. They attacked the
French fort at Detroit and were re
pulsed by Du Poisson, who called to
his aid the Pottawatomles and Miamis
and other friendly tribes. Proceeding
on southwestward the Sac and Fox en
countered the Ottawa Indians, and by
them were driven to the Mississippi
river. Here they opposed the fierce
Sioux, and by them were driven east
ward again. The tribe settled in the
Fox river valley, about fifty miles west
of Chicago. In time they recuperated
from their repeated defeats and start
ed out once more to get vengeance on
the French and Indians who were in
peaceful possession of the fertile val
ley of the Illinois. They advanced In
two divisions, intending to surprise the
enemy. They came upon the French
and Indians unexpectedly, however,
and were separated. One detachment
was driven from the Illinois river up
the Fox river to where Plano now is.
There all of this division were killed.
The other detachment was the main
part of the army. Desperate over their
recent adversities, they rallied every
young Indian that could bend a bow
and made an advance on the combined
forces of the French and the four tribes
of Indians. They were under the lea
dership of PemouSsa, chief of the Fox.
Shortly before starting out they were
joined by another band of Sac and Fox,
fresh from Wisconsin, and Pemoussa
was made the leader of the entire
army.
At the advance or the great army ol
the Sac and Fox the French and In
dian forces retreated from Fort Miami
and made a stand on the site where
the Glenview golf grounds are now lo
cated. They had little time to fortify
themselves when the entire army,
united, bore down upon them. They
fought until every man was dead. Pe
moussa himself was killed.
Every indication seems to point to
this battle as one of the most impor
tant of Indian days. The Kickapoo
and Mascouten Indians are known to
have been in this vicinity in those
days. These two tribes were always
allied. They belonged to what is known
as our Illinii confederation. It is prob
able that the present golf grounds
were the site of an Indian village, and
that the battle took place at the vil
lage. There is but slight mention ol
the early French Fort Miami, and its
origin is unknown. It was probably
one of the La Salle forts.
Rchool U* No Enforced.
Kansas has a compulsory school law,
but the 6tate superintendent of public
instruction asserts that of the 400,000
children of school age in the state
120,000 do not attend school.
I’erfniue Factories at Gras«e.
Grasse, in Fiance, contains over 100
factories which distill perfumes from
the flowers of the orange, jasmine,
rose, violet, cassia, tuberose and other
plants.
Of late there has developed among
the native Hawaiians. especially among
the younger men, a desire to engage in
a sea-faring life.
Only one-tenth of the dwellings In
New York city are occupied by a single
family each. •