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VOLUME XXXII.
LIBERTY, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1SD7.
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GEO. F. WEBB,
Attorney at Law,
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iUMMiT, me.
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Attorney at Law,
LIBERTY, UT6&
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Attorney at Law,
CLOSTStt, MI3&.
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tartan Court at Ju&aca. IMft,
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HLOSTER, till MISSISSIPPI,
"HI practice In the courta of Ainitt
d adjoining counties, in both criminal
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that iho ia now prepared to recoiv
hoarder, and entertain the traveling
oblio, I'are the best the market af
oMs, She i, also proparcd to meet th
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I"?, stabling and groominff stock which
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JHI3 PAPER 13 ON F5LS
IM CHICAGO
asp SMEW YORK
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g Waters of Lethe.
jj By Gwendolen Overton. m
iT IS a danprrous thhtg in (atnper
with the kelf-t-sterm of a woman.
It' vuu hurt a uun (iriiio, he will prob
ably go nu.l suik for a preatcr o.
los t.i.w; or it may lie, if ,l,e casc js
v. :y b:ui, that ho will even kill himself.
Cut a woman will have rereng-s Vcu
iii-iy think !ie lias furotirii, on may
fancy the is i..,tc,i, but there is this
r.m h of the oriental iu every woman
that s-lie ran Wait, lireak her heirt
and she will still let it be in the.l-M for
you to trample upon, nnj ,be will iind
the pain pleasant: yet beware how you
so mueh us scratch her prilc; from'the
wound wiil trickle a stream of prison
thai, may How slow iy.but w ill reach ynvj
ia the end.
James Dudley's eoc went to prove
this. Wry few knew why he eaiue to
the end he did, but this was the way of
it:
When he was very yoiing-aud just nut
from the I'oiut, he was sent, to a post
miles from anywhere, timl there he be
came ensured to marry the 14-er-.dd
daughter of .Maj. tiorsclikov. vM was
beautiful beyond the .reams of art
far too frorseoii for a mere little girl.
.She should have been historical. Such
as Seiuiramis, or the Queen of Sue to,
or Zcnobia must lune ' n, she was;
therefore it was rotund enough that
Dudley should hac thoiiffht himself in
love w it!-, her. Hut he as a clever fel
low, with a very fair shne of brains,
and h was an uyonge child who was
not old enough to return his love, but
was mifhiily pleased iu an innocent
fashion at the importance the engage
lnent irave her.
At the curt of a j car Dudley was or
dered fiway. Absence-opcn-d his eyes
tu the fact that beauty alone was not
enough to make him happy in his wife.
And he wtote to lather and nikt'il iter
to release him, and to her parents he
Kent an rxpiaiwUlon'of his conduct.
The mail orderly put both letters into
Ksther's hands. She read her own first.
She wus Hi years eld now, and very
proud. She had also jfrow n to care
in a vaje.e; sort of way for the
memory of the lover i.f her child
hood. The letter cut her through
the llussian down to the Tartar, and
she hated the man who she chose to
think h.'oi humbled her. She tore it unci
the one to her father into small pieces,
There was one sentence iu the former
that she did not understand. The lieu
tenant had tank "lit time you will
drink of the waters of l.ethe, and for
pet me ns utterly us I deserve to be for
got ten."
A few days later the told her father
the w as not going to marry James Dud
ley. "Does he kuuw it .1'' asked the major.
"Yes."
"What is your reason ?"
"Nothing in particular, I simply
don't want to."
"I'erhapa that won't satisfy him.
However, it is just ns well. I never sup
posed a childish affair of that nort
would amount to much. You arc old
enough to act for yourself now."
In truth, .Maj. (iorsohkov had utnbi
tions that soared above a mere lieuten
ant for his superb daughter. Esther was
thankful to escape so easily, l'resently
she asked: "l'apa what dots it mean
to drink of the waters of 1,-ct-li-e?"
The major explained.
"Oh," she said, "I see," and her long
fyes narrowed cruelly.
Xow it might have happened in civil
life that Dudley and Esthc r (iorsohkov
would never meet again, but partings
can only be temporary in the pervice.
Some years later Lieut. Dudley walked
into a San Francisco theater one night
after the curtain had gone up. The
house was dark, and he kept his eyes on
the stage. At the (dose of the act he
looked about him, and the iirst thing
he saw was a woman whose beauty
startled him. And then he realized that
flie was the one he might have married.
She was in a, box with an older woman
whom he knew. Dudley was seized
with a wonderful dread of meeting
those wonderful dark-gray eyes, lie
would go at once before he should do
so. Hut as he rose the older woman saw
him, and smiled and beckoned to an
empty chair beside her. There wns
nothing for it now but to go to the box.
lie was cold with fear of the low
browed, black-haired, black-gowned
girl with the magnificent neck nnd
shoulders.
She would not have forgotten him.
He knew that; and he doubted if he
would have forgiven. If she had been
less beautiful he might have felt less
culpable, for such is the nature of man.
She smiled when they met with tbc
regtdly indifferent smile that had been
hers eien in childhood.
"Oh, I knew Mr. Dudley years ago!"
she said. "I was a little girl and wan
very fond of him because he used to buy
me'sutler's store candy and ribbons."
If that was her view of the past. Dud
lev resented it. A man does not want
n beautiful girl to treat him ns an old
friend of infancy;
"You might suppose, Mrs. Graves,"
fie told the other woman, ")hat &lie
had been a toddling child and I a crusty
bachelor in whose pockets she felt for
sweetmeats."
Then Esther questioned him in her
deep, sweet voice. "How long shall you
stop here?"
"For a fortnight possibly."
"Where arc you stationed now ?" She
knew well tnough.
"At Apache, fioyoucan imnginewhnt
n trcnt civilization is to me How does
it happen that I find youliere?"
"We are stationed at the Presidio.
You must come to sec us."
"I will," he answered, ne would
have done anything those red lips might
ns k him to do. The rrcedl irg tide o! his
love for her had ewept hack with a
"rit.trhtv force.
How beautiful ycu are, Esther." ke
said, after a moment.
"I always was."
"Y"ou have lo more false modesty
than of yore."
"Why thould I hav? 1 didn't make
myself, eo I'm not praising my onn
handiwork. And 1 iraiikly admit that
it I were to have ui;.de myielf, I think I
should have chosen my 'present model."
"i!ut there U more than mere brauty
of feature, now."
"Character, I suppose w lch I
kicked as a child. It isu'd that liar
acter, even if it happens to be bad, can
so improve a face."
Then fhe turned !n r head and be
stowed the light of her countenance or
the civilian be'de her, whose infatua
tion was obvious.
"Every man in the post and the city
will hate you with a deadly hatred, if
Miss Gorsihkov hapeiis to take a fancy
to you for old sake's sake," Mrs. Graves
warned him.
"Even her fancy would be cheaply
purchased at that cost."
"1'erhaps. A woman of her beauty
is not bom into the world otic"! In a
cycle, certainly-"
Ami Miss Gorschkov was pleased n
fancy him. She advertised the fact.
She was not one to fearany means that
would gain her ends. She threw away
her pride and came nt his call. She for
gave him the past and met him more
than half way.
I'.ut Dudley was too much in love to
de--pise or mistrust her for this. He ap
plied for a two-months' leave and s'pent
every available moment of it w ith her.
Mrs. Graves, mi her quality of a sehool
chum of his mother's and an old friend
of himself, warned him. "Esther has
done this same thing before, James.
Take care. She Is ns beautiful ns Cleo
patra, nnd there are many who say she
is. nn Ivid at heart. Make love to her,
if you choose, Caesar, but let your wife
be a woman who is above suspicion."
Dudley neverspokc to heragain. And
he continued his fannlieni cult of his
godde..
His leave came to an end.uud.hc wont
back to Apache. He who had lcen a
light mocker and a philosopher of life,
saw the bottom drop out of his universe
w lien he had to go from her. She w rote
to him twice a day, for a time, then
nnce a day, then once a week, and finally
the mail orderly handed him a letter
from Esther that was almost a ver
batim copy of the ore he had sent to her
six years before, even to the closing
phrase. "In time you will drwik f the:
waters of l.ethe end w ill forgrt me as
utterly as t deserve to be forgotten."
A light of memory broke, harsh and
crude, through the rosy clouds thai lnul
enwrapped him. F.ut he said to him
self that justice had been meted out tn
him, stern nnd ttntempered. And he
made no appeal.
Something more ttian a twelvemonth
later, Esther Gorschkov sat at dinner
beside the man whom she was Ihen
playing fast and loose, who would not
be. warned by the fate o the many
whose bodies were strewn upon the
shores where this Cythcra had trod.
"You promised, you know," he said
to her, "that you would answer my (ucs.
tion to-night."
"What question?"
"Don't banter, pVase. I am In
earnest."
"You appear to be. And every
body can see it, too. Go on and cat,
and look as though you were discussing
the (lynnmite gun or something."
"I will do whatever you choose, if you
will tell me if you will marry me."
"Oh! is that what you mean? I
couldn't remember w hether it was you
or Mr. Clayton who had asked me. May
be it was both of you. I'.ut I can't see
w hy you should bother about Unit sort
of thing at dinner. Why don't you wait
until the dance. It would be so much
better form. Fancy saying 'no' to n
a man nnd then put ting a piece of harm
less little lamb iu one's mouth."
"Arc you going to say 'no'?"
"Gracious! but wetire insistent. How
should I know what I nm going to say?
Go on and eat, and stop hanging on my
words, or I won't answer you nt nil. It
is so fearfully conspicuous."
Even In his suspense, the man could
not but return. "Whence this new
found dislike to being conspicuous?"
y.'ift Gorschkov smiled slowly nnd
siiirted to answer, but n oice from
across the table stopped her.
"What is it, Capt. Lawrence?" she
asked.
"Have you heard of Lieut. Dudley'
death?"
"No. Is lie dead?"
"lie died nt Apache n week ngo."
"I'm so sorry; but, frankly, I don't
think a dinner-table the place for fu
neral notices," (die rebuked hiin. lire
disliked her, nnd she saw the purpose of
his announcement. Her dead-whita
skin could turn no w hiter, and her smil
ing red lips were painted.
"fold-hearted devil." the captain mut
tered, ns she turned back to the man at
her side.
"So you want me to marry you? I
will. Hut I want you to understand
why. It is because I have just been
told that the only man I have ever loved
or ever w ill love is dead. Do you want
me knowing that?"
"Even know ing that yes."
"Very well."
She spoke across the table again.
"Capt. Lawrence, do you happen to
know how Mr. Dudlev died? We might
as well have the coroner's verdict, since
rou have given us the other notices."
"He died of drink," lie told her, mer
cilessly. "I never knew that he drank."
"He never did until he went back
from here a year ngo. He took to It
furiously after that, nnd would have,
been dismissed if he had not died, prob
ably, fan you account for it?"
Miss Gorschkov Rmilcd. "Perhaps he
! fancied he was quaffing the waters of
! l.ethe," she said. San Francitco Ar
I gonant.
i l,ns of Vessels.
i The average w eekly loss of vessela J
! the seas thronghoat the -world Is 12,
UIKOUDEI) IX MYSTERY.
Tha Origin of tha Moitrd Builders
of North America.
W rrr Th- rTrhlic Oat of Ihe I. out
Trlbrs of Israel f Some Facta
In Support of Till.
Theorr.
ISpecial Washtrgton Letter )
Where did the ludiaus come from,
ami who were th mound builders?
Men aud women who read and study
the history of the continent have ab
sorbed and originated all sorts cf the
ories concerning the aboriginal inhab
itants of the new world.
The bureau of ethnology has w orked
on this problem or the last 20 years
with great energy and earnestness.
The woik has been thoroughly done,
and leaves no room for doubt as to the
accuracy of its results. It has utterly
exploded old theories as to a more an
cicut race of superiorcivilizatioti which
was imagined to have been responsible
for the creation of the monuments in
question. It has been demonstrated
that the objects yielded by the tumuli,
w hich are not of unmistakably Indian
manufacture, were obtained from the
n kites.
Maj. Powell, who was for many years
in charge of the geological survey, has
said that this investigation was as much
of a blind study as the original efforts
to decipher the inscriptions upon the
stone wonders of ancient Egypt.
One of the quiet students of the sur
vey says: "The most Interesting works
of the mound builders are the so-called
clligy mounds, representing birds nnd
many hinds of mammals, which are
confined almost wholly to Wisconsin
and a small part of Iowa. The whole
of the valley of Prairie du Chicii town
hip is (lotted with these ancient ani
mals in droves, all heading to the south
west like the riier. They are enduring
evidence of a dense population and
long occupancy in past time. Some of
the birds hue a spread of "a0 feet from
i ing tip to wing tip."
It is a matter of official record that
in digging through a mound in Iowa
the scientists found the skeleton of a
giant, who, judging from actual meas
urement, must have stood seven feet
six inches tall when alive. The bones
crumbled to dust when exposed to the
air. Around the neck was n collar of
bear's tech. and across the thighs were
dozens of small cepper bends, which
may have once adorned a hunting skirt.
The lntter were formed by rolling slen
der w ire-like strips of metal into little
rings. One skull obtained from a mound
in Alabama was completely filled witli
snail (shells. .
In another mound in Iown was found
a central chamber containing 11 skele
tons, which were arranged in a circle
with their backs against the walls. In
t heir midst was n great sea shell, which
had been converted into a drinking-cup.
Smaller cavities in the same tumulus
were filled with a line copper-colored
dust, which, when first uncovered, gave
out such n sickening odor that opera
tions had to be suspended for awhile.
The dust w as supposed to be the ashes
from burned ileah perhaps that of the
FINDING SKELETON OF GIANT.
Individuals In the central chamber.
Many tribes of Indians in ancient times
made a practice of removing the llcs.li
from the bones of the dead.
Hut nil of these studies nnd discov
eries have not given us anything really
historical concerning the people who
did these things. The officials of the
geological survey, of the Smithsonian
Institution, the National museum, and
other centers of science nnd philosophy
nt the national capital, all agree
that the question as to whence
the Indians originnlly came is still
in dispute, and likely to re
main so. There is- no truth in the at
tractive notion that once a mighty na
tion occupied the valley of the Mis
sissippi, with its frontier settlements
resting on the lake shores nnd gulf
coas-t, nestling in the valleys of the
Appalachian range and skirting the
broad plains of the west a nation
with its system of government nnd re
ligion, which has disappeared, leaving
behind it no evidence of its glory, pow
er or extent, save the mounds and what
they contain.
One thing is certain, and that is that
the mound builders continued their
work for some time after the European
discoverers and adventurers cameto the
shores of this continent and penetrated
its terra incognita. It- is officially re
corded that agents nf the bureau of
ethnology have explored nnd made ex
cavations in more than 2.000 of these
mounds. Among the objects found in
them w ere pearls in great numbcTsnnd
some of very large size, engraved shells,
bracelets of draw n wire, silver brooches,
pins, needles, a silver plate with the
coat- of arms of Spain, a gun barrel, a
Iioman Catholic medal, a copper kettle
and a fur-covered, brass-nailed trunk.
Of course, many of these articlrs were
obtained from the whites, They dem
onstrate that mound building ind burial
in mound Tff0 p for tome time after
the whites landed on the shore of
America. In fact, agents have sea
su n monmis in process of construc
tion by Irdiar.'.
The scientific discovery and disclo
sures of ancient Troy developed re
filings more wonderful than these sci
entific explorers of the niounes; al
though the developments at Troy have
been of more historic value, because
they verify well-authenticated historic
data. Hut some very interesting ma
terial for historic development has been
found in eaves. Tracing the Mississippi
river, six miles south of New Albin, is
a great cavity in the vertical face of
the sandstone bluff. 50 feet long and
12 feet hitrh. The walls and ceilings
ore literally covered with rude etch
ing representing quadrupeds, birds,
bird tracks and symbolical or fanciful
objects. The floor is spread to a depth
, w sMm
HRICK3 WITHOUT STRAW.
of two. feet w ith the bones of fishes and
beasts, fragments of pottery, charcoal
and ashes. Even more remarkable is
the cave near Gnntersville, Ala. Evi
dently it was utilized for iminy gen
erations ns a cemetery, and the num
ber of dead deposited In it must have
been very great. Though much of its
contents has been hauled away In sacks,
for fertilizing land, the floor is yet cov
ered to a depth of four feet with ma
terial composed chiefly of fragments
of human bones, in Tennessee and
Kentucky the flesh of bodies stored in
caves centuries ngo is somctimea re
markably preserved.
On n farm in Iiollinger county, Mo,
is nn area of considerable extent sur
rounded by an undent wall of enrth
about three feet high In places. In
side of it, formerly, w ere many remark
able mounds used for burial places by
the Indians of prehistoric times, but
4o years of continued cultivation of the
soil have ncurly leveled them. Plow
ing over one of the mounds u few years
ago the owner struck something, and,
on digging further in the earth, discov
ered two stone Collins each containing
n skeleton. In one of the coffins he
found a gourd-shnpeu vessel filled with
lead ore, so pure that he afterwards
turned it into bullets.
In 1S79 people in the neighborhood
of a tow n in Mississippi discovered that
the pottery, in which the mounds of
that region were unusually rich, had
considerable commercial value. The
specimens obtained were nold to mer
chants, who in turn furnished them to
museums, scientific institutions and
relic hunters.
lievcrting to the fact that the mound
builders continued their work after
Columbus, Ycspucius, De Soto, Cortez
and Piznrro cursed the ground with
their lawless nnd brutal heels, it must
be said that articles of Caucasian man
ufacture, obtained by barter on the
coast or from wrecks, quickly found
their way to the interior of the contb
ne ii t , passing from hand to hand in the
course of traffic between tribes, or by
capture in war. The system of trade
which existed anciently among the In
dians was surprisingly efficient and sat
isfactory, Aboriginal drummers ac
tually made their way on foot from the
Gulf of Mexico to the headquarters of
the Mississippi river. The products of
the native mines of copper, flint and
mica were distributed in a manner suffi
ciently business-like to be worthy cf a
more educated civilization. Dried oys
ters and other shell fish were shipped
inland, just as the same mollusks are
sent from the Atlantic coast to the
cities of the interior to-day. Thus sea
shells are found in the mounds of Illi
nois and Wisconsin, while articles of
native Wisconsin copper occur in the
tumuli of West Virginia.
That the mound builders were greal
smokers is proved by the large number
of pipes found in their mounds and
graves. So numerous are these and so
widely distributed that pipemakingnnd
pipeRinoking may be considered as a
marked characteristic of that ancient
people. This will serve iu a way as
supplementary evidence that they were
Indians; for the Indian is par excellence
the man who smokes, and the pipe is es
sential to his happiness.
The correspondent is neither a sci
entist nor a philosopher, and yet may
make a suggestion. Maybe nobody will
ever be able to correctly conjecture,
much less prove, where the mound
builders came from, nor w ho they were,
liut is it not a singular fact that they
builded mounds just as the ancient
Egyptians builded pyramids? Has
anyono ever investigated the similar
ity of the methods of the two races?
May not these mound builders have
been descended from or related to the
Egyptians?
What became of the lost tribes of
Israel, after they had learned to build
pyramids, (making bricks without
straw?
The ri'.otmd buildei. by their work,
manifestly were more like the pyramid
makers of Egypt than like any other
people. When we wonder why pyra
mids were built, should we not at the
same time o-sk why the mounds were
built, and whether or not they were
built upon the same scientific, supersti
tions or religious theory, and for 4
siniilar purpose? pMITH S. FRY.
HIS MIND WAS RELIEVED.
On of tlir Aarlrnt llrllra of Iho Seatk
orrtcil.
Old I'ncle Mose is one of the relica
of the old south. He still liven with
his "Old Mistis,"and his heart and mini
will dwell not so much on the things
of to-day as upon the good ld times
"Uefo' de wah."
For some time past Unele Mose ha
been acting as if he were worried, llii
light tasks about the yard and garden
have been performed with an appear
ance of perturbation and anxiety that
caused tome wonderment in the mind
of his "Old Mist is."
A few days ago he appeared at tha
back porch of the house with his ho
and hat in hand, and asked to see
her.
"I want to ax you, ma'am," he said,
when she nppeared, "a question. I been
heariiv' some mighty quare talk goiu'
roun' on (lis place, and I wants you to
put merighton hit. Ole Mars' been dead
now gwine on twelb years, an' I help
cyar' him to de grave. Dis old nigger
am been a pow'rful hard vtukker on
tlis plautushum, by he eyant wuk dat
hard no mo Old Mars', as yon knows,
ma'am, wuz One ob dese here gentle
mans what nebber stood no foolishness
from tritlin niggers. Wheneber h
kotch ore cb '"m fishin' oreatin' wate r
niellums in de fence corner when the
cotton needed tdioppin' he gib dat nig
ger what Patty gib de drum. Ain't dat
so, ma'am?" .
"Y'our master had to stir you up oc
casionally," said the lady, "but you al
ways were the laziest one on the place
and needed it."
j "Y'es'm," aid old I'ncle Mose, "I
'sped dat's so. Tint what I come to ax
you 'bout Is dls: Dis nigger don't want
to be 'sprlsed some mawnln' by habin
Ole Mtirs' come a-jumpin' on him, and
licken de hide off'n him, and ef you
thinks he's gwine to drnp in any time
soon. I'd like to know It, ma'am."
"What in the world do you mean?"
said the lady, somew hat shocked; "are
you crazy?"
"For why I axes," said the old man,
"am dis. Dese here niggers and dese
here po' white trash what rents on di
place been talkin' heap o talk dls last
mnnt' 'bout Old Mars' comln' back
agin. I wuz a-gwine flshin' to-morrow,
and I 'lowed to 'tend dat camp meetln'
a Wednesday, and wuz thlnkin' ob
gwine to town and knoekin' ronn' some
a Sat'dny, but ef you nm 'spec-tin' Old
Mars' to come In mos' any time di
nigger's gwine to be a-hoein' in dat
cann bright and early in de mawnln'."
"I do believe you've lost your senses,"
said the lady. "What ever put such an
idea Into your head'.'"
"U'hy, (ley nys," catd I'ncle Mose;
"(ley says tint some ob dese here peo
ple (ley call 'stronomers done up an' said
tint Ole Mars' hendin right back for
dis yearth and dat he gwine to git here
sho'. Now, ma'am, I says ef dat's o,
he done gwine let Old Mis' know about
it for certain, nnd, ma'am, ef yoo
'spects him to drop in, why "
"Go away; you old idiot," said the
lady. "That is a star, the planet Mar
they were speaking of."
"Lord, now!" said old Uncle Mose,
with n sigh of relief. "Look at datt
l's aw ful glad you 'splnined It dat way,
ma'am. Dis nigger's gwine right off
and dig de bait for lint flshin' trip tomorrow-."
Detroit Free Press.
VISITOR AND HOSTESS.
rolnls to He Obnervea In Clly aad
Country.
The relations between a visitor and
her hostess never require to be more
carefully considered than when tho
visit is made in town. In the country
the visitor has very little opportunity
of taking her own line; on the con
trary, she has to follow the routine ar
ranged by her hostess, It is different
in town, where the rule is for the host
and hostess to accept invitations for
themselves whether a visitor be staying
with them at the time or not, although
the hostess generally informs the in
tended visitor beforehnnd of her din
ner engagements, to give her the op
portunity of making engagements for
herself on the evenings in question; for
when a host nnd hostess dine out their
visitor is expected to do the same at the
house of a relative or friend. As re
gards evening parties nnd dances, it de
pends upon whether the visitor Is a
young nnd pretty gill or n lady of mid
dle age, as to asking permission to take
her or not. In the generality of cases
a hostess prefers not to nsk this favor,
and to allow the visitor to amuse her
self. To nn ordinary afternoon nt home a
visitor is taken as a inatter of course,
but to no other entertainment, and a
visitor is most unreasonable when, as
too often follows, she show s evident dis
pleasure nt not being Included In the
long-standing engagements of her
hostess, or that they nre not given up
on her account. As the obligation is
Incurred by the visitor, she should re
spect her hostess plans nnd fall in with
them, and consult her as to all engage
ments she desires to make independent
of her. Otherwise a hostess feels that
she is put into the position of a land
lady, and that her town house is little
better than a hotel to the visitor who
makes use of it. Shopping and visiting
are great temptations to most visitors
In town, but the conveniences of a hos
tess should never be sacrificed to such
nllurements, and a visitor should en
deavor to hit the hnppy medium and
not give her hostess too little or too
much of her society. Farm and Fire
side. Tnble Saticc
Tut eight large peppers In a hot even
until the skin will slip off. Kemove
skins nnd seeds nnd put pepper in a
spider with three tablespoonfuls of but
ter, using a potato masher to make tliem
fine. Add one quart of chopped onion,
and cook all five minutes. Put into a
porcelain kettle with four quarts of to
matoes, peeled and sliced; two tea
etipfnls of vinegar, one cupful of ugar,
two tablespoonfuls of salt. Cook slowly
on hour, Otn while hot. ITouse-keeper.
A MIGHTY NIMROD,
a Torkrrl Haatvr Who Has Klllvaf
rnr Uaaarra Bran.
Capt, W. II. Basnight.of Boaaok it
land, who la on a viait to Raleigh, U tha
celebrated bear hunter of Dare aonaty.
He has helped to kill over 400 in hk tisocj
"The season for hunlinf bears ia near
at baud," said the captain, "ami it wlU
be a good aeaaon. I judge from tha
berry crop. It 1 cut off back In tha
wood and there is plenty on th water
The bear will come out to get the fum
berries, and then we will kill them
and have fine sport. We ahfp th meat
to Baltimore, after eating all w want,
selling it at 12 cent a pound; waaell
a bear' skin for $20, and bear oil sella
W1L"
"now do yon kill th bears?" I
asked.
"I have a big- double-barreled muzzle
loading gun. I use that on account of
shooting big lead. Yon cannot nsa
such lead as I want out of breech
loader." "What i the biggest ber yoa ever
kHledr I next asked the captain.
"I can't tell you exactly. The largest.
I ever killed I could not weigh. I have
killed bear weighing 500 pounds. They
average perhaps something over 100
pounds."
"Are they hard to kill?" I aeked.
"I have killed some which fell dead
at first shot. But If a bear gets fully
mad before he 1 killed, you can hardly
kill him by shooting him all to pieces.
I have been in some close places. I
had a bear once to grasp me around the
shoulders, and if my brother had not
shot and killed him, the bear would
have killed me. I have never been hurt
except a little squeezing and no man
ought to mind a proper amount of hug
ging," said the captain.
"Do you love the bear meat a food?
You ought to have seen the good cap
tain's mouth water and his eye brighten
as visions of broiled bear meat cam
into liis mind.
Eat bear mentr he saUT. "Why It
is the ber.t- meat in the world. I cntt
eat two or three messes of ber, and1
feel stirong enough to jump ten feet
high."
Capt. Iinsnight has charge of Durant'
Island, which is owned by John E. Eey
burn, of Philadelphia, who comes down
for hunting nnd fishing about twice
n year. This island contains 4,250
acres, I 14 miles around, and 1 lo
cated at the mouth of Alligator river.
"On the island," snld the captain, wa
have 50O head of cattle, hogs and aheep.
fine poultry and an abundance of wild
game, including deer, fnan, geese nd
ducks, and many varieties of smaller
birds. We feed the wild fowl, and at
time I have as many as 700 wild gees
that come regularly to the camp to get
their feed." Knleigh (X. C.) Observer
DRAWBRIDGE RIGHTS.
Vt hr Sho if let Water Craft Hart Rlathl
of War Over Tralaaf
In other day traffic' by water wa
vastly more important than traffic that
went overland, and our ancestors, in
their wisdom, made laws giving in every
Instance the right of way to the former
a against the latter sort of communi
cation. At present the conditions are re
v( rsed, tut regards rivers, at any rate.
A vast majority of all passengers and
freight moves on wheels, and bridge
reader more service in a day than such
craft as frequent inland waters perform
In, a year. The old laws remain, how
ever, only slightly modified In some lo
calities, and wholly unchanged In
others. The results are sometimes ab
surd, sometimes outrageous. For In
stance, a train of seven crowded passen
ger cars, on Its way over the Pennsyl
vania line from Long Hrnneh to New
York, wns delayed for 12 minutes re
cently, while a 30-foot sloop, carrying
two men and a load of clams, was poled
through the draw bridge near Ocean
port. The stopping of this train de
layed for the same length of time an
other, equally well laden, on the Nev
Jersey Central road, and at least l.OOfl
persons, many of whom, doubtless, had
important reasons for reaching the city
on time, were put to much exasperating
annoyance and some possible loss In or
der that two fishermen might not bq
very slightly Inconvenienced. ThisepI-
sode illustrated both the absurd and tba
outrageous phases of the law relating
to "navigable waters." The branch of
the Shrewsbury river where it occurred
Is not more than four or five feet deep,
end Is useful to nothing much bigger
thnn a 'cntboat, but It is "navigable)
water," and the business of a great rail
road and all Its patrons is at the mercy
of every boy who wants to go fishing or
sailing. Legislators find time to paan
ufelcss or iniquitous laws by the hun
dred. They might well employ a little
of their energy in demonstrating that,
Inland navigation and common ens
need not always be incommensurable.
Itivers are not sacred to the memory of
colonial days, and the present haa se)
ral rights which the past Is under some
obligation to respect. n. x. limes.
Wtir He Was Welcome. k
"Here, Harry, is a dime for you," said x
Mr. Harper, to the little brother of tho
one he loves. "Have you ever heardj
Miss Bessie say anything about ma
when I wasn't here?" '
"Oh, lota of times," replied the sweet
child. f
"And what docs she say, Harry T I
"She says she's always glad to hatj
you come here when she's feclln' all
wore out and tired." j
"And." continued the delighted younrj
man, "does she ever explain why aha
likes to have me come at such times 7" j
"Yes. She says you're so easy sin
can go to sleep and still keep you guess
in'." Cleveland Lender. '
She Ml not.
' "Could you learn to love me?" L
tked. j
"I do not know," she answerer
thoughtfully. "The cause of edueatio
Is making great strides these days, an I
It Is possible to learn most any oM
thing'T-Chlcago Post. j
The rnfflesis, of Sumatra," I fri
largest flower In existence. It hat jj
fllameter of nine UtU " .. ; ,w