The Oskaloosa herald., January 03, 1889, Image 1

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" TAMK3 A. HICK.
" Attorney and Counselor at Law.
Offloe oxer M. Wilton'* atoro. Oakalooaa,
lowa.
T\ A. PBBM7B,
U* Attorney-at-Law,
and Notary Public, ttoae Hill, lowa. *0
VrcFALL A JONES,
•***- Attorney s-at-Law,
And Notaries Public. Office over Smith A
Brewster 1 * boot and shoe store. Qykaioos*. J
TJOLTON A MCCOY,
Attorneys-at-Law,
OitalooM. lowa. Office over Knapp A Spald
ins's hardware atore. 80
/ < Lit KK N. IIOW.VS,
Attornev-at-Law,
*r k>' inaa. lowa, office over Mitch Wilson’s.
N. F. o >rner of Farit. Farm and city property
for sale.
A PttKSTON,
Att..*rneys-at-Law,
Oskalccsa. lowa, W.ll practice in ail the
courts. Office aver the Oskaloosa National
Bank. **
GBOHGF. VV. laffbrty,
Att<>ruey-at-L tw.
Offioe over Oakalooaa National Bank. Oska
louse. lowa. 20
ty W. HASKKLL,
’ ’ • Count >' Attorney.
HASKEt.L * fJRKKR.
Atiornoya-at- U».
Office in Phoenix block. Oekxlooea. lowa,
Business promptly attended to. 20if
TJrfN F. & WM. K. LACEY.
** Attorney s-at-Law,
and government claim agent. Office in Boyer
k Barnee' block, Oakalonea, lowa. Prompt at
ention given to ooiloctionß. Probate business
will receive oareful attention. Bualneaa at
en ded to in tbe U. S. and State courts. 30
James Carroll.
CAItBOLL A DAVIS.
Attorneys-at-Law.
Oskalooaa. lowa, will practice in ail courts.
Collection* made a special feature. Office over
Fraukel A Go’s., Bans. Branch office at New
Sharon. 90
TAR. SETH COX.
U Specialist in Cancer,
Berofula. Pll**s and Chronic diseases. Office aud
Residence on B Avenue West.—No. *O7.
SK. BEBOUI', M D
• H copalhic Physician & Surgeon.
Calls day or night promptly attended to.
Pound nt office at nights. Office over Be**ehler
Bros.’south Mile. 27tl
J SEVAN,
* Physician and Sorgeon.
Office in eraid Blocs, over T K. Smith’s Jew*
•lry store Beside nee. S coml avenue, between
A and B streets- Telephone No 00. 30tf
M JOSEPH IN TENNEY, M. D,
• Fiiysiciah and Surgeon.
Office on west side of public square, over
Miss Anderson's millinery store. Nlgbt calls
promptly attended. 20
f A EO. J. TURNER, ». 0.,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office in Bridges’ building, one door west of
Farcer* and Trader-* National Hank south side
square. Re idence - blocks south aud 3 blocks
we-tt ■>( Herald 'll-wk. ’At
T vK J. C. BARRINGER.
Physician and Surgeon,
Oskaiooaa. lowa. Office northeast corner oi
square, middle rooms up stairs in new Masonic
building. Residence on High street, 3 blocks
•ast of square. Telephone connection at office
and residence with - I parts of the city. SO
O. A. Hoffman. *t. O. R.C. Hoffmab M. D.
I \RB. D. A. A K. C. HOFFMAN
Physicians and Surgeons.
Office two doors north of Simpson M. E.
okurch, near S. B corner of square. Oskaloosa.
jr-7- lowa. Residence on Main street, three blocks
/ »aat of the publio square. 20
J. L. Coffin. A. H. Cowles.
O F F I N * r , O W L B 8
Homeopathic Phxsieians.
mad Surgeons, will attend all calls, d.iy or night.
Office over Hmesiey’s cigar h bop; telephone s<:
office hours of Dr Coffin, from a o’cioca to 9
o’olo 'k a. u , and from ItfOtoi I'cock p. m.:
Maldence 4u9 south A street. Office hours of
Dr. C>wies, from 9 to 12 a. m. and froai 4 to 6 p.
M. Will sleep ia offloe. ds
lJ*
nB. J. W. MORIiAS,
* 9 Eye and Ear Physician.
Kires c*rel>illy tested and measured for epecta
.ties. Oakaloosa, lowa. 20
J. Q. .lowca
President.
K. P. Bacon, Vice-President.
The Farmers’ & Traders’
NATIONAL BANK,
• OP OSKALOOSA, IOWA.
CAPITAL 1100,000.
OORHEBPONDENTB:
Pint National Bank. Chicago.
Importeta' and Trad ra' National Bank. N. Y.
20 Valley National Bank, Den Moine .
J. A. L- Crookiah, H. 8. Howard.
President. V.-Pres.
. Johw R. Barnes, Cashier.
Organized Under the State Laws.
PAID UP CAPITAL. SIOO,OOO.
DIRECTORS:
J. A L Croohaatn, W. A. Beerers. E. H.
Ulbbs, Milton Crook ham. Jacob Vernon,
A. J. Jam*. K. Redman, W.C.
Enpland. John Voorheos.
John Nash, and
IT a Howard.
H. L. Bri«CBR.
President.
—THE—
(Maloosa National Ml,
Wu.B Sumi, jw.McMui.li*.
J. H. Gann*, D. W Loriho,
Jso J. Price Jr. fl. L. »J'x«obk.
Jamb* MoCdlloch.
CORKBHPOSDENTS;
Pint National Bank, New Tork.
Oilman. Son * Co., New Yo»k.
Pint National Bank, Cbicairo.
Citizen** Nat'l Bank, Tie* Molne .
SO Davenport Nat’l Bank, Davenport.
BANKING HOUSE
I. FRANKEL,
The Oldest Bank in Mahaska County
Will receive deposits and transact a genera)
banking, exchange and collection bualnea*. the
name as an laoorporated bank
Exchange on all the principal cities of the
United States and all oitiee of Europe bought
and sold at same to suit the pu rob seers.
Paaeage tickets to and from all points in
Europe for sale at the loweet rates.
Collections will receive prompt attention.
1 do n etriotjy legitimate banking bustneea.
nod give the wants of customers special at
tention 20
JOHN 1. IMS UNO Ml,
I have on my books n large number of farms
aad houses la town; also many thouaand acres
of wild laod, 1/ yon have real estate to sell or
wish to buy. give me n call. I pay taxes in any
port of the state. Conveyancing done. Ofltot
to Beyer A 3trues' block, Oekaloosa, lowa
Oae hundred nice building lots la Lacey's addi
tion to Osh slopes. to
(100,000 U >IOO,OOO
Money to Lou t
At Six Per Gent Annual
Interest,
OB • r*tn lint, la lous of *MO and upwards;
with prirlloc* of parts* »1M sad boot# la u
aual payeoiU, if deal rad.
to JOHN P. HIATT.
Oowan 6c Eambleton’s
Loan & Abstract Office.
fc MOOOOO toloa* at« perceot Interest oo «r«
P*- jNariUa#; borrower barla* the op-
Uoa to pay part or all of pria
eipal after flret pear.
We alee bare a oompiete aet of Aba tract Books
of all
Lands and Town Lota
la Mahaska County. lowa.
ABSRAOTB OF TITLI MADE 01 BIOBT
BOTIOI.
OSes la fseat roots of aew Maaoale baUdla* •
W. A. CRBKB,
Deputy.
Daitiel Davis.
MEDICAL.
BANKING.
J no. H. Warrkh.
Cashier.
ASIA COUNT? BANK,
Or OBKALOOBA, IOWA.
liable for double tbe amount
of Capital Stoek.
C. E. LOFLAHD,
Cashier.
OF 08 K A LOOK A, IOWA.
DIKBCTOKS:
-or
Frankel, Bach & Co.,
MONEY, LA HD Ae.
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DENTISTS.
IVW-fELt.
Office over postofflce, In Times Block. Nl
roue oil'lo ,< used for p.tlutul operations. 80
DK. M. L. JACKSON,
Surgeon Dentist.
Office in Exchange block, on High street,
Oskaloosa, lowa, over Rader A Mowry'a drug
store. 80
MISCELLANEOUS.
Israel M. Gibbs, Broker.
Loana of all kinds negotiated. Mercantile
faper bought aud sold. Koom S, over Farmers
raders* Bank, Oskaloosa. lowa. 20
Mahaska lodge NO. 16, I. O. O. F.,
meets every Saturday evening at the Odd
Fellows’ Hall, Exchange block. West High ave.
Visiting brothers oordlally invited to attend.
O. I*. Biro. h. l. Hakviy.
Secretary. [sl j N. O.
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Models and all General
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Osk&looea, lowa
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guarantee of excellence-
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stores from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
COFFEE
is never good when e r posed to the air.
Always buy this brand in hermetically
sealed ONE POL 1.-v 1 ACKAGES.
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Horse Lives ... 25 years.
Elephant “ ... 400 “
Whale u ... 300 **
Eagle “ ... 100 “
Swan “ ... 100 “
Tortoise “ ... 100 “
The man lives to be eighty.
The poor horse for want of a blan
ket in the stable has to die at
twenty-five, and while he does live
he eats twice as much as he should
to keep warm.
Buy one of the following $4.
Horse Blankets and save money.
For sale by all dealers.
5/A Five Mile.
lu Five HUM of Warp Threw!*.
m 5/A Boss Stable.
M Strocgeet Horse Bluiket Mad*.
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Ju»t the thing for Oat-Door Pee,
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agreeable. Price 60 cents at Druggists; by
tnail. reifl-<tered,6o cts. ELY BROTHERS, 56
Warreu Street, New York. »yl
Dyspepsia is tlie bane
of the present generation. It is for Its
care and its attendants. Nick Head*
ache, Constipation and Piles, that
Tutt's Pills
have become no famous. They act
speedily and gently on the digestive
organs, giving Ihein tone and vigor to
•aaimilate food. Negrlpliiguruiiusca.
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Office, 44 Murray St., New York.
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' and city In the U. 8. and thousand* of '*»oolf
town clt» in _ people
can testify to the wonderful healing power of
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death. Premature Old Age* Barrenness, lose ol
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will tend the purchaser our written guarantee
to refund the money if tho treatment does not
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OSKALOOSA, MAHASKA COUNTY, IOWA, THURSDAYS JANUARY 3, 1889 ESTABLISHED 1850.1;
THE HERALD
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OSKALOOSA, - - IOWA:
January 3, 1889.
WITH SUPPLEMENT.
Across the Border into Mexico-
In his notes on Mexico, Lempriere
said: “The merciful hand of Provi
dence has bestowed on the Mexicans a
magnificent land abounding in re
sources of all kinds—a land where none
ought to be poor, and where misery
ought to be unknown. A land whose
products and riches of every kind are
abundant and as varied as they are rich.
It is a country endowed to profusion
with every gift that man can desire or
envy; all the metals from gold to lead;
every sort of climate from perpetual
snow to tropical heat, and of incon
ceivable fertility.”
A strange blending of the old and
the new is the Mexico of to-day. The
Spanish Moot esq ue civilization of the
sixteenth century, side by side with
the energy and progress of the nine
teenth. Far more picturesque is the
old than the new. The grand cathedral,
hoary with age, the narrow streets, the
quaint construction of the buildings,
with walls as thick as those of a for
tress, the universal balcony and close
ly barred window, the fancifully
phrased signboard, the curious cos
tumes; in a word the utter strangeness
of it all goes to make it difficult for one
to comprehend that we have at our
very doors a land more picturesque
than Switzerland, more interesting
from its romantic and varied history
than Spain or Egypt, and richer far in
agricultural and mineral possibilities
than any country of which we know.
This is Mexioo as we are gradually
becoming to understand it. Under a
wise and liberal administration, such
as the present, which has shown its
grasp of the situation by the construc
tion of a network of railroads connect
ing its various parts with a common
centre, thus making revolution impos
sible, we may hope that this country,
so abundantly blessed by Nature, is now
entering into an era of prosperity which
will bring it to the front rank among
the powerful nations of the earth. The
advance is rapid, for the Mexican ap
preciates a good idea. The electric
light is almost universally used in the
larger cities. The street car is a well
patronized institution, and the railroad
has come to stay.
The completion of the Mexican Na
tional Railroad from Laredo to the City
of Mexico must undoubtedly have its
effect in developing very largely the in
terchange of traffic between the sister
republics, shortening as it does by over
260 miles the distance betweeu the
principal business centres of the United
States aud the City of Mexico, from
whence the commerce of the Republic
radiates. The country opened up by
this new line is without doubt the
richest in Mexico, if we consider the
practically inexhaustible stores of its
mineral wealth, or its surprising agri
cultural resources and possibilities.
The tourist and the business man will
be gratified to ascertain that the jour
ney between this city and the City of
Mexico can now be made in less than
five days, and with only two changes
of sleeping cars from here. The road
has been solidly and carefully con
structed, and will compare favorably
with the best in the United States in
smoothness and safety. The rolling
stock is new aud of the most approved
designs, every effort having been put
forth to make this line the safest and
pleasantest over which to travel, as it is
the shortest.
For the convenience of the reader,
a brief description of the road and its
points of interest is hereby Riven:
The main line of the Mexican Na
tional extends from Corpus Christi, on
the Gulf of Mexico to Laredo, Texas,
161 miles, and from Laredo to the City
of Mexico, 839 miles, making a total of
1000 miles.
OOKPDB CIIRISTI,
the initial point of this line, is beauti
fully located on the bay of the same
name; bere the Nueces River empties
its waters into the Gulf. It was orig
inally settled by the Spaniards, as far
back as the latter part of the last cent
ury, and is built partially on the low
land sloping up from the bay, and part
ly on the high bluffs overlooking the
water. The upper portion of the town
r ery sightly, and is covered with
fine residences. This city is rapidly
becoming a favorite winter resort, aLd
on account of its equable climate and
the abu idance of game in its vicinity,
it is much frequented by the pleasure
seeker flying from tne rigors of a north
ern winter. Corpus Christi is an im
portant business centre, and is doing a
large and rapidly increasing business.
Population, 5000. Connection is bere
made with the San Antonio & Aran
sas Pass Railway for San Antiono and
Galveston.
Leaving Corpus Christi the line passes
through a gently rolling prairie, hither
to roamed over by the sheep and the
long horn, but now made immensely
productive In cotton and corn by those
wiser than their fellows, who have left
herding for the more lucrative pur
suit of tilling the soil, which here only
awaits the slightest encouragement to
blossom like the rose. At about 100
miles from Corpus Christi a broken,
billy country is reached, through which
we continue until we arrive at Laredo.
The principal poluts on this line are
Collins, Kleberg (junction of San An
tonio & Aransas Pass Railway), San
Diego and Pena, where connection la
made with stages for Rio Grande City
and other upper-river points.
LAREDO, THE “GATE CITY,”
as it has appropriately been called, is a
pushing city of 8000 souls, finely located
on the north bank of the Rio Grande,
at an eliiow formed by the river which
here makes a sharp turn to the east.
Laredo has an electric light nlant, wa
ter works, hotels, two. banks, good
schools, churches—Protestant and
Catholic—a concentrator and smelter,
and from its advantage of situation is
rapidly developing an extensive busi
ness with the surrounding country and
northern Mexico. Here are located
the shops of the Mexican National.
The winter climate of Laredo is dry and
salubrious, making it a desirable stop
ping place for the health-seeker. An
Iron foot bridge, a fine new hotel, and
a street car line are in process of con
struction. The river is here crossed
on the Company’s flue Iron bridge, and
we are in Nueva Laredo.;
NUEVA LAREDO DR TAMAULIPAS,
838 miles from the City of Mexioo, is a
city of some 8,000. It is an active bus
iness town. Here has been con
structed the largest and beet appointed
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custom-house on the frontier. There
is a handsome plaza where the military
band plays twice a week. Leaving
New Laredo the train runs for some
distance through a level country. Be
yond Lampaxos the scenery begins to
become noticably fine.
the sky to the right is the Meza de los
Cartujanos, a table mountain, some
1500 feet in height, and accessible only
at one point by a narrow path. It con
tains 80,000 acres of fine pasture laud
fed by several living springs. The
road now passes through a valley
framed in on each side by mountain
ranges, the next place of interest being
VILLALDAMA,
now the most important ore-shipping
station on the line. Here are the fam
ous mines of Guadalupe, which are
reached from Guadalupe Station by
a narrow gauge railway (2 feet) which
winds its way np the mountains for
some sixteen miles, through some very
wild ravines and gorges. The mining
districts of Vallacillos and Candela
are tributary to Villaldama. From
here on the character of the vegetation
continues improving until we arrive
at Monterey, where all kinds of plant
ife are wonderfully luxuriant.
MONTEREY,
situated at an altitude of 1700 feet, is
one of the most beautifully located of
all Mexican cities. Built on the foot
hills of the Sierra Madre, to the left
rises that most peculiar of all mount
tains, La Silla, so named from being al
most the exact outline of a Spanish sad
dle; to the right it is balanced by its
companion height Las Mitras. Behind
the city is a range of low mountains,
in the rear of which, its serrated edge
standing out against the sky, is the
lofty mother range, towering some 4000
above the plain. Monterey is situated
on the border of the most fertile valley
of northern Mexico. It has been the
principal city between San Luis Potosl
and the frontier, and will continue to
bold its importance as a distributing
centre. It has a fine cathedral, a well
kept and artistically beautifully plaxa,
and many curiously constructed build
ings which attract the eye of the
traveler. Near the city is the Bishop’s
Palace, now used as a garrison for a
detachment of national troops. Gush
ing from the earth in almost the centre
of the city, is a sparkling spring of wa
ter, clear as crystal and of great vol
ume. Some three miles north of the
city, and connected with it by a tram
way, are the celebrated hot baths of
Topo city, now coming into prominence
for their curative properties. A fine
bath-house and pavilion have lately
been erected, and a hotel has been pro
vided for the accommodation of the
wayfarer. As there is no possible
doubt as to the virtues of these waters,
Monterey will probably soon be as
great a resort as Hot Springs, Arkan
sas. The climate here is mild and
pleasant through the winter months,
and the invalid is enabled to forget his
ailments, surrrounded as he is by
“fresh scenes and pastures new.”
These springs possess the merit of be
ing as accessible in winter as in sum
mer. The traveler will be glad to learn
that Monterey now has a well-managed
hotel, on the American plan. Popula
tion, 40.000.
Leaving Monterey the line follows
the valle> of the San Juan. Near Garcia
are the mines of San Antonio, in open
ing which a grandly beautiful and very
extensive limestone cavern was en
countered. That is well worth a visit.
The entire distance from Monterey to
Saltillo the road passes through some
of the wildest and grandest mountain
scenery to be found anywhere. The
constantly shifting panorama as the
train climbs upward, winding in and
out through the rocky defiles, presents
a scene kaleidoscopical in its loveliness.
Sixty-five miles from Monterey, and at
an altitude of 5000 feet, is
SALTILLO,
built on the slopes of the table land.
Here are productive orchards, attract
ive gardens, a clear stream rising in
the mountains above the city, a mild
and genial climate, and air exhilarating
as a cup of good wine. Saltillo is a city
of 30,000 people, and is the capital of
tho State of Coahuila. It has an espe
cially fine plaza, fronted by a massive
catbe iral pile, < ne tower of which is
unfortunately unfinished. Some of the
wood carviug au<l iron lattice work to
be met with here is quaint and artistic.
From its healthful situation and equa
ble climate, Saltillo should be a place
much frequented by the tourist. Con
tinuing south .we again ascend the
mountains until the summit is reached
at Carneros, from which point we com
mence the descent into the great pla
teau of Central Mexico. Again we en
counter scenes on which the eye rests
with pleasure and astonishment.
Above and all around are the towering
mountain masses, below us reaches out
the broad expanse of valley framed in
by the blue of the Sierra beyond. De
scending into the plain we pass succes
sively the haciendas of La Ventura
and El Salado. These are immense
properties covering many thousand
acres, and containing much mineral
wealth. This is a grazing country, and
is roamed over by immense herds of
goats and cattle. The valley is level,
hut enclosed by mountaius on either
side. From
VANEGAS,
the next station of importance, a rail
road is now under construction to Oed
ral and Matehula. At Cedral, thirteen
miles distant, are located extensive sil
ver reduction works. Matehula, fifteen
miles beyond, is situated io a product
ive, agricultural country, and is an ex
tremely attractive place. There is a
smelter here where is extracted the sil
ver from the ores brought from the La
Paz mines, which have produced great
quantities of valuable mineral during
the last decade. From Vanegas, south,
we skirt the foot-hills of the mountain
range leaving it on the left. The min
ing town of
CATORCE,
situated In this range eight miles from
the station of the same name, merits
more than a passing notice. Silver
was discovered here about 1780, and
the district at once took rank among
the most important in Mexico. Ore of
fabulous richness was found, and the
records show that far more than thirty
years, commencing with 1790, the val
ue of the outpout amounted to over
three millions dollars annually. Here
are hundreds of mines and miles of
shafting and tunneling. The drainage
tunnel of one mine alone, the San
Agustin, extends Into the mountain
for more than a mile and a half, and
was excavated at a cost of a million and
a half of dollars. For its entire length
a tramway have been constructed
which is operated by mule power.
Gatorcce should be one of the very in
teresting places in Mexico to the tour
ist. Here are found the customs of
Mexioo In their purity, unaffected by
the Influence of the stranger. Diffi
cult of access, the town can only be
reached by horseback or on foot. Ca
torce has seldom been visited by any
exeept those making business trips.
The ride up the mountain into the
town is something, once accomplished,
always to be remembered, partly from
its element of personal peril, but more
because of the beauty of the landscape
encountered at every turn. Glancing
down as you near your journey’s end,
you catch the gleam of the white walls
of the town of Los Oatorce outlined
against the green of the mountain side.
Thousands of feet below shimmers the
waters of a mountain stream. The
shifting coloring of the mountains, as
light and shade chase each other over
their rugged expanse, the browns and
greens of the valley far below, and the
hills in the hazy distance, are “beauti
ful exceedingly.” The Beal de Oatorce
is built on the side of a ravine near the
top of the range, and has a varying pop
ulation of from 8,000 to 20,000, as the
mines are paying well or poorly.
Here are found all varieties of silver
ore from carbonates to refractory ore,
assaying 31b,000 to the ton. Oatorce
has a fine cathedral, richly decorated,
and a pretty plaza, the only level spot
in the place. To use a railroad phrase,
itjis combination of a cut aud a fill, so
that to tumble into it on one side or
out on the other would be extremely
disastrous. The streets are neatly
paved, and run up and down the hill,
many of them at an angle of forty-five
degrees. It is said that the echo of the
roll of a carriage wheel was never
heard in the city, which is not to be
wondered at, when the difficulty of lo
comotion is considered. Altogether
this is oue of the show places of Mexi
co, and will amply justify a visit.
Continuing south through the valley
we arrive at Los Charcos, distant some
three miles from the celebrated mining
town of
CHAROAS
Here there are many invaluable min
ing properties which are now being
actively worked on account of the im
petus given to all classes of business
by the arrival of the locomotive.
Charcas is situated among the foot
hills, and is a typical old mining town.
South of Los Obarcos is Venado, where
are cotton factories of considerable im
portance. Montesuma, the next sta
tion, is a place of some consequence,
having a population of several thou
sand people.
Here they had great pleasure in store
for us, on our return journey. We had
met William W. Price in Mexico City,
and accepted his invitation to call on
our homeward tour. Mr. Junkin, of
the Fairfield “Ledger,” was the lone
member of the party to join us for the
tour,—and it proved to be one of the
most pleasant days of all. Mr. Hamp
son, with whom Charley had played
“shinney” in their boyhood days, was
at the station to meet us, and a quick
drive took us to the Hotel San Carlos,
and a good breakfast. There we met
Mr. Hoag, aud Mr. Ells, both gentle
men belonging to Mr. J. H. Hampson’s
office, in responsible positions. it
should be stated here that Mr. Uampson
had the contract for the building the
Mexican National railroad from San
Miguel to Saltillo, about 565 miles,
and that the work was pushed through
in one year—grading, bridging, track
laying and all. It was great work,
carried on most successfully by these
gentlemen, under circumstances that
would have been deemed almost in
surmountable by the ordinary con
tractor. But the men knew how to
“push things” and they then “pushed”
in a way that astonished that ancient
people. Mr. Price has been doing the
masonry for the railway, and is now
building here a very handsome set of
stations—freight and passenger—out
of a beautiful red stone, called cantora,
We owe much to Mr. Price for a new
treat in a Mexican diet, and for other
favors. Mrs. Price is a delightful lady,
from Alabama, and one who gave a
warm welcome to her husband’s visit
ors. You should see Mr. Price’s som
brero! It’s a daisy, and all the Prices
around about here would think that
one of the old Welsh warriors bad
come back, and called them to war with
lance and javelin. He also had the
greatest luxury in the city, an actual
heating stove, and it was warm, pleas
ant, and decidedly popular with the
callers. We believe it to be the only
heating stove in the city of 60,000 peo
ple. With our friends, and accompa
nied by Mr. M. E. Beale, Consular
Agent, we visited the various and
many places of interest in that strange
but handsome city. Mr. Beale speaks
the language with fluency, and posses
ses a large acquaintance in the busi
ness ranks. He Is also a mission
ary of the United Presbyterian
church, and altogether has his hands
quite full. After a delightful after
noon with Mr. Beale as guide, during
which, among other things, the mint
was vistted, we spent the hour for tea
and rest at his home, where Mrs. Beale
proved to be an lowa lady, a daughter
of Dr. Cochran, formerly of lowa City,
and a woman of flne accomplishments.
At that hospitable table we found the
best water that we tasted in the Em
pire-clear, cold, just like the well and
spring that never will leave boyhood’s
memory. Here also we must not for
get a grand Mexican dinner, with Hoag,
Ham peon and Ells as companions.
There were eleven courses of it—and as
to what it was all composed of, do not
ask, for we cannot answer. We here
by certify that it was excellent from
beginning to end, and that we had an
appetite that staid right with It.
Charley did not, we regret to say, and
as he has not seen flt to explain, we
cannot In the evening we looked at
San Luis by starlight and lamplight,
and liked it. “Romo Calientes Hoag
San Luis” is Inscribed on a cane as a
testimony to that evening. We saw one
thing here—in facta full thousand,that
we could not fall to commend. In this
large city of 60,000 all the streets were
as clean as any of the best streets in
Washington. Dally they are swept
and all refuse carted away to a general
place of storage. The uniform polite
ness of all the people, and all the
authorities especially, made everything
move along with a pleasure that we
shall not soon forget. William J. Price
we saw at bridge 401, where he has
charge of the work. Homer Frey also
was met, and is in the Price employ.
Mr. Price has a great amount of work
on hand, and has a tremendous execu
tive capacity. He employs almost ex
clusively stone cotters from the States,
and does so because he can get much
more work done by them, even though
be pay four times the wages asked by
the native. So you see that there is
something in the knack of knowing
how. This old city will be a great and
busy place, and one that cannot fail to
prosper. We met several Americans
and owe them much for courtesies
proffered. Adios, friends all in that
sunny old city of the plains!
, Leaving San Luis Potosi we enter
the rich agricultural belt of Southern
Mexioo. The country beoomes more
broken and interesting, and as valley
after valley la passed, it is apparent
that the soil is hers extremely pro
dactiva. The population becomes
more dense, and the vegetation in
creases in luxuriance. Villa Reyes is
passed, with the immense hacienda of
Jaral which, during the revolution of
1810, furnished a full regiment of
cavalry to assist the royalists as
against the armies of the patriots.
The hacienda once controlled 20,000
peons. Before arriving at San Felipe
we cross a deep barranca spanned by
a viaduct noticable for its height and
the engineering skill displayed in its
construction. San Felipe is a town of
some 6,000 inhabitants, and is situated
in the centre of a rich farming country.
DOLORES HIDALGO
was given in its name in honor of the
patriot Hidalgo, the Washington of
Mexico, who here sounded the watch
word of liberty which fired the Mexi
can heart and roused the country to
arms to repel the power of Spain. This
is a quaint old town of several thou
sand inhabitants. It has a fine plaza
and interesting churches, and the trav
eler is shown many relics of the Cura
Hidalgo which are here pieserved in
the old house which he occupied.
SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE,
254 miles from Mexico, takes its name
as being the birthplace of the patriot
Miguel de Allende. In many respects
this is a place of more than ordinary
interest, its baths are delightful; its
gothic cathedral, unique in Mexico, ex
tremely picturesque. Situated as it is
on the hills above the valley of the
Laja, at the foot of the cerro of Monte
zuma, the view to be obtained of
mountain and valley is very pleasing
There are many fine churches. The
chapel of the Casa de Lerto, attached
to the oratorio of San Felipe Neri, is a
poem in interior decoration. San Mig
uel has a population of 20,000. The
valley of the Laja through which the
train now winds in its journey south is
a most beautiful stretch of scenic love
liness; the road here follows the curv
ature of the stream, passing beneath
almost perpendicular cliffs which here
rises hundreds of feet skyward. Be
fore arriving at Oelaya, the only sta
tions of prominence are Chamacuero
and Soria, the latter being a woolen
manufacturing tow’n of some note.
CELAYA
ts a city of 18,000 inhabitants, and is a
place of considerable commercial con
sequence. Here are many flne old
churches, especially Our Lady of Car
men, which contains some frescoes of
note and several paintings well worth
seeing. Celaya is built on a level plain
in the valley of the Laja. It is cele
brated for its dulces (sweetmeats), and
there are several manufactories of
woolen and cotton fabrics. The baths
of Celaya are among its attractions. A
tramway extends from the railroad to
the plaza in the centre of the town.
Here the Mexican National is crossed
by the line of the Mexican Cetral. Con
tinuing down the valley of the Laja
we arrive at
SALVATIERA,
noticeable in the distance from the
glittering of its many church domes
which, being covered by a glazed tiling,
present a pleasing contrast to the dark
green of the many shade trees with
which the streets are lined. Salvatierra
has a population of 10,000, and is some
thing of a trading centre. There is a
large woolen mill which gives it some
manufacturing importance. There are
several small hotels. The line contin
ues from here south through an inter
esting and very fertile country abound
ing in corn and sugar cane, passing
many peculiar looking Indian villages
with their quaint, peaked huts. The
valley of the Lerma is followed for
some distance and
ACAMBARO
is reached. This is the junction of the
branch line leading to Morelia and
Patzcuaro. Acambaro is a town of 10,-
000 people, and was formerly of some
importance as a trading station. It is
quite well located in the valley of the
hernia in the center of an extraordi
narily fertile country. Thomas A.
Janvier very aptly remarks in his Mex
ican Guide, wiiting of Acambaro:
“With its tumble-down, one-story
adobe houses, its pretty little neglected
plaza, where the Mexican eagle sits on
a fountain complacently eating its
snake, and with town folk who are
content to sun themselves and be thank
ful that sunshine is so cheap and so
plentiful, the town is very satisfactory
juatasitis.” There is a small woolen
factory located here, the manufacture
of woolens being the principal active
industry of the place at present. Acam
baro is distant 178 miles from Mexico.
There is an eating house near the sta
tion where plain but well cooked food
is served. From Acambaro the road
follows the valley of the Lerma for a
short distance, then striking olf it
curves in among the mountains and on
to Maravatio.
MARAVATIO
is a pleasant little town of 5000 inhab
itants; it nas the.usual complement of
queer looking old churches and attract
ive plazas. Its red-tiled houses give it
a picturesque appearance. From here
on the country is fertile and remarkably
attractive to the eye, the broad lying
valleys covered with bright patches of
brilliantly colored flowers, and the
graceful lines of the mountains, all are
in marked contrast to the wild and
rugged landscape of the north. Skirt
ing the valley of Solis, we pass into the
mountains under a beetling cliff, called
by the natives “El Salto de Medina,”
the tradition being that a famous ban
dit, one Juan Medina, being hotly pur
sued by the authorities, leaped his horse
from the precipice and was dashed to
pieces on the rocks below. A steep
grade is here surmounted and the train
enters Zopilote Canon, along the precip
itous side of which a space just wide
enough lor the track has been blasted.
Above hang great masses of granite,
the mountain here rising sheer upwaid
for hundreds of feet; below dashes a
rushing stream which just in advance
foams and tumbles over the rocks,
forming a waterfall of great beauty.
Passing out of the Canon we enter the
fertile country once more, and continue
onward past Tultenango, near which
are the gold workings of El Oro and
the silver district of Tlalpujahua; past
Bassoco, which derives its name from a
large and important hacieuda here lo
cated; on to Flor de Maria, where meals
are served in a solidly built stone sta
tion, and continuing through the valley
which here indicates exceeding fertil
ity, the train at last pulls up at Toluca.
TOLUCA
is a city of 16,000 inhabitantsjand the
capital of the State of Mexico, from
which it is distant forty-three miles.
Toluca has more an appearance of enter
prise and thrift than most Mexican
cities. Situated as it is in a wonder
fully productive valley, on the border
of the tierra Calient* (hot country), the
quantity of fruits, vegetables and
manufactured articles displayed in its
market is varied and extensive. Its
market house, originally constructed
as an exposition building, is probably
the finest in Mexico. Toluca rejoices
in a brewery which ships great
quantities of a very good quality of beer
to the capital. There is also a flour mill
where good flour is ground. The city
is dominated by an extinct volcana, El
Nevado de Toluca. In its immense
crater there is a lake of great depth.
This mountain is over 15,000 feet in
height, and from its summit a most
magnifleent view can be had. It is not
difficult to ascend. The altitude of
Toluca is 8600 feet.
After leaving Toluca we pass over
the valley through immense fields of
corn and barley, and crossing the
Lerma which here widens into a lake,
we commence the ascent of the
mountain wall dividing what are per
naps, without doubt, the two most
beautiful valleys in Mexico. Upward
and still upward we continue on,
climbing grades whicfi it seems im
possible to surmount, winding our way
in and out, almost over the village of
Ocoyoacac, a thousand feet beneath us.
Further upward we have yet to go,
and as we mount higher into the clouds
we catch now and then, first on one side
then on the other, glimpses of the
scenery below until, as we near the
summit, the whole broad vallev of the
Lerma lias displayed before us. At
the foot of the mountain the river, like
a silver ribbon; beyond the green and
fertile valley dotted with here and
there a hacienda or hamlet; in the far
distance the snow-topped mountain,
the nestling at its foot the white walls
and warm, red-tiled roofs of Toluca. A
few more turns and the fair view is
shut out, and we still continue skyward.
On the left a clear stream leaps and
gurgles in its devious way down the
mountain. This is the head of the river
Lerma which finally empties it waters
into the Pacific. At
SALAZAR,
built on a plan near the summit, we
halt for some ten minutes. Here a cup
of coffee may be obtained. The air is
found to have become sharp, for we
are now at an altitude of nearly, 11,-
000 feet. Leaving Salazar we continue
to ascend until we reach La Oima.
here the descent begins, a tunnel is
passed through, and little by little the
glorious beauty of the noble valley of
Mexico begins to unfold Itself. Through
the gaps in the mountain wall we
catch fleeting views of the panorama
until finally it bursts like a vision of
fairyland full upon the sight. The
glittering towers and domes of Mexico
in the middle distance; a little farther
and to the left the broad expanse of
the waters of the lakes gleaming in
the sunlight like burnished silver; be
yond, and overshadowing all, raising
their snow-crowned heads far above, a
coronal of rainbow-tinted clouds
wreathing them about, stand in ma
jestic beauty like guardians watching
mutely over the whole fair scene, the
giants of the valley, Ixtaccihuatl and
Popocatepetl. Could they but speak
what a history might they unfold.
The building up of cities and their
throwing down; what opulence of pow
er, what cruelty and crime and blood
shed! Races have come and gone;
majestic monuments raised by the
hand of man have melted into dust
and are forgotten. They alone remain
immutable, the hand of time dealing
with them but lightly. Circling down
the mountain we continue on over the
bridge of Dos Rios, two hundred feet
long by ninety feet high, built strong
ly of iron. The mountain sides are
thickly cultivated, the Indians taking
advantage of every spot where earth
will cling to the rocks. We pass Rio
Hondo and Naucalpan and at last ar
rive at Tacuba at the mountain’s foot.
In a few moments we are at our jour
ney’s end in the fair city of
MEXICO,
whose history and tradition are no
more interesting and romantic than its
situation is grand and beautiful. Noth •
like a detailed description can be at
tempted here. A few bare outlines
only can be given. Mexico is a city of
some 350,000 people; it has well paved
streets, a very beautiful alameda, or
park, many neat plazas, grand old ca
thedrals, good hotels and restaurants,
flue theaters, clubs of several nation
alities, a marvelous climate, art galler
ies and museums, and in fact so many
interesting points that a book would be
needed to narrate them. The altitude
of the city is 7500 feet. But of Mexico,
more anon.
THE DIRECT TAX
What lowa Will Do With Its Share
of the Mono/.
Dm Mvinu Begitter.
Now that the House passed the bill
refunding to the States the amounts
paid to the general government under
the direct tax act, approved August 5,
1861, and lowa has a prospect of getting
nearly $400,000 of this money it be
comes a matter of interest to know
what disposition will be made of it by
the State. Chapter 194,acts of the last
General Assembly, makes provision as
follows:
“Section 1. That there is hereby
appropriated oat of any moneys which
may come into the State Treasury in
pursuance of an act of Congress re
funding to the State the amount paid
to the general government under the
direct tax act, approved August 5,1861,
such sum as may be necessary at the
time to pay the amount due and which
is payable under the constitution of
this State from the general government
fund of the State to the school fund of
the State; and the Auditor of the State
is hereby authorized and directed, when
said moneys shall have been reoeived
by the Treasurer of the State, and up
on the approval of the Executive
Council, to draw his warrant upok the
Treasurer for the payment of the same,
and in such amount as shall be neces
sary for the purpose named, and such
monies shall thereafter be treated in
all respects as other moneys in tbe
school fund.
Sec. 2. After payment of the sums
mentioned in the preceding section tbe
balance of such moneys, if any there
be, which may be received from the
source mentioned in said section.and ex
cept the same may be otherwise speci
ally appropriated by the Twenty-second
General Assembly, shall be by the
Treasurer of State placed in the gen
eral revenue fund of the State, and
shall be treated in all respects as other
moneys in such fund.”
The bill for this act was prepared and
introduced by Senator Hutchison, of
Wapello county, who carefully watched
its fortunes in the different stages. It
was approved by the Governor April
11,1888. It will be remembered that at
one or two points the bill met with
some active opposion, but the wisdom
of passing it now beoomes apparent
when the refunding of the direct tax
is likely to beoome a reality. "The re
funding of this large sum," said a prom
inent State officer yesterday, “will vir
tually liquidate the small indebtedness
of lowa. While this State has never
been seriously hindered by an indebted
ness, it is pleasant to contemplate the
day when it will absolutely have no
debt for Democrats to use as a cam
paign cry and for legislators to use as
an excuse for refusing to appropriate
money foi the completion of the Capi
tol grounds.
“Chief,” the big elephant of John
Hobinson.s circu'*, has become so vic
ious and unruly that it has been decid
ed to kill him by eleetridty. Chief has
already killed two men.
BY CHARLES J. BELLAMY.
CHAPTER X.
WEAK WOMAN.
Curran glanced Ivenly at the face of hi
beautiful hostess, whose wonted serenity ha*,
all gone, then he rose to his feet, and stood,
while she spoke his name in the briefest form
of introduction. He did not seem offended
by the stare of surprise Hr. Breton had for
him. It was a new experience to the mill
owner, meeting his workmen in fashionable
parlors.
“Curran, is it? I was sure I had sees you
In the mill, but you had ou a white apron
then.” Mr. Breton laughed familiarly, but
he did not hold out his hand.
Couldn’t Curran see how rudely he was
treated? Mr. Breton’s laugh and tone rasped
Bertha’s finer sensibilities, so that she was at
once indignant with him, and disgusted with
Curran who seemed to bear it so uncon
sciously. Curran’s brow was unruffled; he
had only folded his arms across his breast,
sometimes a sign of excitement with him.
“Mr. Curran had the good fortune, I be
lieve, to do my daughter a great service.’’
Mr. Ellingsworth’s manner was the perfec
tion of well bred rudeness. It expressed the
infinite elevation and polish of the person
who assumed it, far above the very natural
feeling of disgust at the presence of so vulgar
a person as this workman. It suggested irre
sistibly the great contempt such a person
ought to coll forth, but at the same time
that Ellingsworth was unapproachable by
even as vulgar a thing as contempt.
“Indeed!” exclaimed Mr. Breton, as he
seated himself, “I will thank you, too, it was
a good ; »b for you, and I will see it don’t
hurt your interests any, either.”
“How do you like your work?” went on Mr.
Breton in his harsh mill voice. “I hope you
ain’t one of those who don’t know when they
are well off.”
“I can keep from starving; that is well off,
I suppose.”
Mr. Breton was at loss but for a moment.
“But you poor people don’t save what you
get You ought to economize.”
Curran’s eyes flashed dangerously, but he
bit his lip and kept silence.
Mr. Ellingsworth saw a scene was immi
nent How little tact Mr. Breton showed in
patronizing the young man so provokingly
before the golden haired goddess whom he
had :io doubt fallen in love with. Something
must be done.
“Excuse me. Have you had any serious
trouble with your wound, Mr. Curran?"
“I have only lost a few days; that is noth
ing,” he answered quickly.
“But it must be considerable for a poor
man!” broke in Mr. Breton, with his grand
air; “I will direct my paymaster to make it
up to you.”
Curran glanced across the room at Miss
Ellingsworth. He expected to see her face
flushed with anger. She would leap to her
feet in indignant remonstrance to shield him
from such impertinence, all the generosity of
her nature in revolt against such return for
his devotion to her.
She was looking at him, bnt much as a girl
looks at a strange animal she has been pet
ting, when suddenly they tell her he bites.
Curran turned away from her and ground
his teeth. Then he looked at Mr. Breton.
“Can’t your paymaster make up for the
pain, too, as well as the lost time?”
Mr. Ellingsworth was at his wit’s end. He
saw the cloud gathering in the workman’s
eyes, and that his lip trembled with sup
pressed feeling when he spoke.
“How long have you been in town, Mr.
Curran P’ be said to change the conversation
if possible into safer channels.
“Only six months.”
“Why,” volunteered Mr. Breton after an
awkward silence, “that is about as long as
the mill hands have been fault finding so
loudly.” The old gentleman looked sharply
at him. “I don’t suppose you would tell who
has been making the trouble.”
“Yes, sir." Curran had risen to his feet,
the flush of offended self respect in his cheeks.
When I came here I found the mills paying
you 12 per cent, dividends, while the help
who ground them out for you, were crushed
almost to the earth. I felt bound to tell them,
as I now tell you, that the owner has no
more God given right to all the profit of their
work than they to all the profit of his
investment”
“And you are the man who has been stir
ring up this mischief here!” cried Mr. Bre
ton, almost starting from his chair. He had
caught him at last then. “And do you say
that a man isn’t entitled to the interest on
his money? My money represents a thousand
such lives as yours; it ought to have a thou
sand timee the pay.” He had more terrible
guns than of the batteries of logic for the
rebel, but he could not resist the temptation
to explode the fallacies of his class before he
let him go.
The young man's eyes flashed beautifully.
“Your money represents a thousand lives,
then, out of which you have sucked the life
blood? And at how much do you value a
human life? As much as SI,OOO for a soul? A
thousand dollars for all the joys and hopes
and possibilities of a human life? Your val
uation is too miserably small. I tell you,”
and Curran threw out his right hand in a
magnificent gesture, “I tell you, a human
creature ought to have for its service a good
portion of the comforts and delights the
world is so bounteous with. Anything less
Is slavery, a slavery worse than negro bond
age. Do you call it pay that you give the
hopeless men and women that weave gold for
you on your looms? Rather say the daily
recurring fact of hunger chains them to your
mill."
Mr. Ellingsworth had sunk back In his
ssat in despair; he might as well resign him
self to the situation since it seemed beyond
his power to change it. Mr. Breton was
likely to hoar some startling truths before
he succeeded in refuting this dangerous
young man. Perhaps it was just as well,
too; there is no sense in a man’s making his
money as the rich do, by one kind or another
of imposition or injustice and then affect
such ridiculous unconsciousness. There is
no sense in being blind and stupid about
how one comes to be rich, the comfortable
fact remaining. What was the use of Breton
wrestling with such a young giant as this?
“I pay my help market prices of labor.
I don’t propose to make them gifts.” The
old gentleman handled his cane nervously,
but he could punish Hie man enough later.
He felt Ellingsworth’s sharp eyes, he must
think of something to absolutely overwhelm
the arguments of his workman. He ran
over in his mind the smooth axioms of his
class, and tried hard to recollect some of the
perfect syllogisms of the political economists.
Curran stood, his elbow resting on the back
Of the chair he had been sitting iu, in an at
titude so dignified and agraceful that Mr.
Ellingsworth glanced across at bis daughter
to see if she had observed it It was not
quite so inconceivable, after all, that Bertha
might have taken a fancy to him. But then
his whole associations had beea with the poor,
and what possible harmony, even for a mo
ment-then Mr. Ellingsworth remembered
the maid servant crying at this moment in
the dining room.
“Naturally you prefer to let your half
clothed ill fed hands make you the presents;
they earn you big dividends; you thruw thr m
a crust of bread, the market price of labor
you call it, and put the dividends in your own
pocket.”
“But it’s my money made the mill, and my
management runs it.”
"am tor tne money,'’ retorted Curran, “per
haps you inherited a part of it, saved by the
tax laid on the poor of the last generation, or
you borrowed it, perhaps, on interest, and
made the help in your mill pay the interest
every penny of it; how else could it be paid?
You did not make your money; no can
till $2,000,000 out of his farm, or dig it out
of a cool mine. You simply took it. Your
new mills are paid for out of wages you
ought to have given your help; you oall them
Sro; the new machinery oomes out of them.
7 are the real stockholders in it all."
Mr. Breton had sprang from his seat, bnt
Curran went on unflinchingly. “It isn’t
earned, it is simply defrauded. The manage
ment is doubtless good, but no management
could, In the righteous course of Justice, bring
such vast fortunes into the hands of a few
man; while the thousands who work far
them Uve and die with the consuming thirst
for happiness never for one hour assuaged in
their souls.”
The old gentleman had oome up doe* tc
him aa he spoke, and aa he finished, Curran
looked down calmly Into a face almost purple
with passion. It occurred to him that Mr.
Breton was about to have an attack of apo
plexy. Tbe hand that held Ids gold beaded
cane fairly trembled.
“You have earned your last penny in my
mills!” the old gentleman shouted at him.
“W# ought to have laws to shut up such men
as you.”
“Mr. Ellingsworth,” said Curran, as that
gentleman rose to his fast, “I am very sorry to
have brought such a scene into your parlor;
M seemed unavoidable after what was said In
ms, and it stems likely to prove more am
Ho one thought of anyt»~
Ellingsworth vaguely w W&psay. Hr.
man picked up bis neat wKxWhere the
then the wealthy, after aM,mKrVj n g, but
of talent duopoly
Curran cast a withering look o.
on the mill owner. “I am sorry,' n mpt
deprived of the chance to win *V ul
bread.” la^
He did not notice that the express
the girl’s face had changed, or that ahof \
started to come to him, but there wt
grandeur of wrath in his face and beat
that awed her. She stood in the center
the room, with heaving bosom and fright
ened, troubled eyes, watching him out of ths
door. Then her father came back through
the hall with his sarcastic smile finely curv
ing his thin lips.
How beautifully he had known bow to pr*
serve his own honor. It would have been
base and ignoble in him to have crawled out
of her parlor at the entrance of her father
end Mr. Breton, self confessed unworthy to
sit in their presence. And for all their wealth
and power and vantage ground, careless of
what it must cost, he had thrown their in
sults in their teeth and shown himself a
grander man, a thousand times, than either
of them.
The warm flood of returning feeling swept
over her soul, id he could not bear one more
cruel word against him now. Before her
father could speak she had hurried into the
hall and shut fast the door so that she should
not hear the bitter sentence that was just
parting his Ups.
What strange impulse moved her that dm
should go to the outer door and look eagerly
dowu the street? But her insulted guest had
not lingered. In a moment more she was at
the gate, and saw his tall form only at a
Uttle distance. No doubt he was thinking
sadly, or perhaps angrily, of her, as be
walked, and he could not guess that she had
repented, and was eager this moment to beg
his forgiveness, with ail the sweet words she
knew. Bertha glanced back at the house in
hesitation. She could see the slim outlines of
her father’s figure shadowed on the curtains.
She could not hear what he was saying. It
was this:
“It is one of Bertha’s freakn Ail whm
are subject to them.”
“But I don’t understand,” insisted Mr.
Breton, wiping the perspiration from his
heated face. “I don’t understand how die
can bring herself, a girl of her notions, to
entertain a fellow like this. How long do
you suppose this has been going on? Ever
since the dog adventure, very likely. If I
were Philip”
“But you recollect I am only three days
returned from my trip, and am entirely un
able to tell you how many times she has me*
this very striking individual. Don’t hurry
yourself into mental decline by trying to ex
plain on logical principles a woman’s per
formances,” smiled Mr. Ellingsworth. “And
I wouldn’t take the trouble to suggest mi*,
givings to Phil. I would rather trust the
girl’s nature, and I think I know it, than de
pend on a jealous lover’s reproaches. Why,
my dear friend, I would stake my life on the
girl’s attachment to the traditions of her
position. Our wives and daughters are
thrice more intolerable, unreasonable arista
crats than we. If she had been guilty of a
touch of foolish sentiment reaction is cer
tain, and she will only despise the man the
more because of her season of blind ness."
“But supposing the reaction came too
late,” suggested Mr. Breton anxiously.
“Then it better not come at all,” he con
tinued. “The very character you give her
would make three people perfectly miserable
—the man she refuses, the man she marriee,
and herself.”
But tne girl wbo had stood at the gate, ia
her slippers, and with no covering for her
head but her golden hair fastened low on her
neck, had hesitated but a moment. She
could not let Curran leave her thus; perhaps
she should never see him again, if he wen*
away without one word from her to soSte*
the blows she had let them give him. And
then he seemed to be walking slowly, she
could overtake him in a moment. The un
even walk hurt her feet, her slippers
were so thin, and as she lifted her skirt
to walk faster a rude briar tore her soft
flesh, and then hung greedily to her to im
pede her steps. She stopped and called his
name. She had hardly murmured it, but it
seemed so loud spoken and so tender toned
she blushed at herself, and dared not speak i*
again. She might run & few steps, and then
he would hear her voice more plainly. But
her dress clung so closely and her excited
breath came so fast that she gained on him
very slowly. There was no use, she most
lose him forever out of her life; he must al
ways think her cruel and ungenerous. She
leaned against the fence and sent one more
hopeless cry after him. It was more a sob
than a cry, a piteous sob, trembling with
gentle, heart broken reproach. Why, she
was sure he must have heard that; she had
never meant to speak so loud. What could
she say to him when he came back to her?
She must try to be very cold and dignified.
But wasn’t he going to turn? Why, her cry
was piercing enough to go a mile on the still
evening air. No, ho was further away, he
had not heard her.
Then she looked backed, and was fright
ened to see what a distance she was away
from home. And as she stood looking, now
at his tall form drawing away
from her, and then at the distant lights of
her home, the first hint of the desolatioa
that broods over millions of hopeless hearts,
came upon her soul. Her slippers were torn,
and wet with dew, and each step she took
braised the tender feet that had never knows
hurt or weariness. Her heavy masses of hair
had been shaken from their fastenings, and
hung at full length to her waist. She fan
cied herself some lost, friendless Magdalen,
for whom the world, that fawns on the for
tunate and proud, had only taunts and cmel
blows. And were there women who had to
face the world alone? fight their own battle*
with timid heart*? earn their own right to I
breathe, with sinking hearts!
“What was that, a step, a man's step coming I
toward her?” To her excited imagination a*
that moment her beautiful home and the
elegant life she loved so well seemed things of
the past.
She gathered her hair into a loose coil and
let her dress trail on the walk to eover her
feet The man wore workman's clothes.
She had hoped he might be a gentleman.
She tried to keep on the outer edge of the
■dewalk; she would have takes the road if
sne nad oared. She looked away from the
man, but she could see with beating heart he
was coming directly toward her. But per
haps he did not see her, and be might turn
aside yet God grant he be an honest man,
whose wife's loving face was in his thoughts
at this moment There were such men. But
instead of moving aside the man stopped
short just before her, and she raised her big,
soared eyes to his face.
“Why, Bertha, I thought it was you."
Sure enough it was Philip Breton. He had
come from the mill, where there had been
some extra work, and wore his working
clothea
“Let me walk home with yon,” he said
very gently, os if he had no right to assert
any privilege with her.
“I came too far, and got frightened,” ah*
said dreamily, as she rested her hand on his
arm.
Her hand was cold, but it sent his young
blood tingling through his veins.
“I am so sorry.” How he longed to catch
her white hand to his lips, and warm it with
kisses. But lately she had treated him with
a new coldness, and her coldness he dare no*
meet He dreaded to face it, it pained him so
past endurance, and he had called on her bo*
seldom since the night of the fire. But now
his heart was full of eloquent love; so full he
could not conceive of her not sharing in It
It was she called it forth, she must have
something for him.
They had reached her gata *Bll* would
sorely invite him to go in with her. Them
she could tell him if he had done anything to
displease her. He could remember nothing,
but there might have been some unconscious
cold word or tone, as if, poor fellow, be had
not been only too tender with her.
“Good night,” she said. She had lost the
tremor ki her voioe fright had given her, and
all the softness of heart of her loneliness,
“I thank yon,” the added, coldly, as he did
not go, but stood looking as if he did no*
quite understand.
“Good night,” he answered, with a great
throb in his throat. He stumbled awk
wardly, as he went down the steps; he could
not see very well for the mist in his eyea
CHAPTER XL ~*
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Philip Breton sat lata over the tea tablet
one evening some days after. His father had
been detained down in the village, had
oome home with a good deal on his mimi,
Indeed, the old gentleman, who generally
laid aside his hardness outside his own doors,
bad sat in silence wrinkling his forehead
▼ary lnartistioally almost throughout ths
xaeaL
“Poor folks are always ungrateful,” he ex
claimed harshly at last as he shook his head
severely at the maidservant who offered bias
ths basket.
“Here I have whitewashed every house for
them, and it was only to-night I heard sea >
grumbling old woman tall her husband, ths
wondered how old Breton would like to live
in on* of his own tenements."
Philip said nothing. It had been his
lately, when his father got on this t films, te
keep silence. He was pusslad to know what
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