Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1889 — Page 10

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10 THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1889-TWELVE PAGES.

THELILYOFROCHON .A. Legend of Bay St- Louis. BY MAURICE THOMPSON.

cnAPTEn viii. THE LILT PLUCKED FROM KOCHON. It was a striking funeral scene which followed this sudden and tragic close of old Kochon's career; bat we nay not describe it here, more than to say that a motley crowd of rough people came together to do the last solemn honors to their king. The history of Kochon's exploits would read like some buccaneer romance; indeed, it would be little less. Publicly his story is not so well known as LaFitto's, but in its details there is far more of the picturesque, the daring and the desperate than can be found in the Barratarian pirate's adventures, lie was one of the few born leaders of men, and ho "was born to lead the wild reckless ruffians of the southern co?t at a time when that coast T,as a hive of outlaws "whose swarm was composed of every grade of criminals from runaway slaves to the most desperate murderers and robbers. His personality pave him easy command, and the wealth at his disposal set him as if on a throne in a part of our country where at that time law was an unknown factor in life. Tradition has preserved in the Bay St- Louis region a nuite legible trace of the Kochon regime, and the descendants of the Garcins still dwell in the remote and even now lawless fastnesses of Honey island. As a matter of course there were many conspiracies against Kochon's power, and Garcin's wai. perhaps, the strongest of these in both numbers and character; but like all the rest it failed, as we have seen. Fortunately for Orton, his visit to the Bay St. Louis region was Just at the culmination of Garcm's mutiny, and owing to the lively imagination of Captain Victor he had been taken for a government official in disguise, whose mission was to capture old Kochon. Under almost any other circumstances the young man would hare come to grief soon after his arrival at Bayou Galere. As it was. we have seen how apparently the merest turn of chance bore him through alive. It is from a part of his jonrnal, and from a few letters written by him to his father, that I have been able to write the outline of this story. . - . No stretch of the imagination Is required to realize the situation in which Kochon's death left Ox ton and Mile. Felicie. On one hand there was a certain sort of relief in knowing that the huge, nery-tempered, rough and roaring old lord of the place was no more; but on tho other hand, with Rochon dead, there was no protection against the lawless men of the region. Orton had contracted with Captain Victor to return for him, but, as we know, Victor could never return, for, along with the Zozo, he lay at the bottom of the lake. Through trusted servants of the household it soon became known that danger to Kochon place was brewing in the neighborhood. Orton was quite powerless to reach the people who could have controlled the movement, and he was practically without means of defense, having but a few men, mostly negro slaves, to depend upon for assistance in any emergency. A Viinrr Vi o tat-ti fl nnn nffer TZfichon a death) which almost drove Orton mad with a sense of the dreadful danger it boded to Felicie. He and Felicie were standing at tho window, a place which, since their betrothal, had become very dear to them, and for the moment had quite forgotten the threatening aspect of their surroundings. They had been quietly planning to set sail for New Orleans with the first favorable breeze: but just now they were exchanging those light sweet phrases known to lovers since the beginning. By the merest chance Orton's eye discovered a lurking form and a lereled gun just in time to thrust lYlicie rudely aside. The bullet sang through the window, cutting the space tilled a second before by the warm breast of the girl. It was a narrow escape from certain death, for the aim of Lalie Garcin had been steady and true. . , . Up to this time it had been thought that Bobo was the murderer of old Kochon; the slave's sudden disappearance at the same time lending strength to the suspicion; but it now flashed into Orton's mind with the force of certainty that Lalie had sworn vengeance against tue family. The expression of her face he could never forget as she glared at Felicie throngh the sight of that deadly gun. It was a look of such intense and naming passion, of such dark and merciless hatred that it impressed hira with the suddenness and power of a bloodcurdling revelation. From that moment there was not ajooint of time, waking or sleeping, that Orton could rid himself of the dreadful vision of .that face, with its burning eyes and set, ashen features. He kept Felicie within doors and away from the windows; every noise frightened him as though he had been Ithe veriest coward in the world. He orAlfred a watch to be kept on the woods; but Tie felt the insecurity of depending upon negroes in such an emergency. Dreadful, indeed became the isolation and remoteness of Bay St. Louis now. The romance was all gone, and in its stead the horrible reality of an utterly lawlesss region was asserting itself. Even the songs of the mocking-birds, ringing out gaily from the perfumed shadows of the magnolia foliuge, had lost their charm, and the ceaseless roar of the bay had a dreary, lonely strain in it suggestive of the great distance between the solitary mansion and any center of safe, wholesome human societv. Never before had Orton been made to realize tho valne of great cities and dense populations; certainlv he never before had felt how specious and vain is that romance which clothes with a mi9t of purple and gold the life of those who prefer solitude and lawlessness to the sweet, tame comforts of the highest civilization. It now seemed very strange to him that Felicie couid hesitate for a moment to leave a place made doubly dreadful; still she did nesitato to take a step which appeared to be the ouly safe one left for her. It the deadly enemy, whose shot was the constantly-brooding terror of the household, had been a man, Orton would have taken heroic measures at once, but to his chivalrous nature the thought of killing a girl, even in self-defense, was revolting, and especially so when the girl was Lalie Garcin. Moreover, he felt in a degree the justification, from her point of view, of the desperate course she was taking. It was impossible, of course, for a person like Lalie Garcin to philosophize: she could see only the facts as they appeared, an'd to her the household at Kochon place stood responsible for the desolation in which 6he now found herself. The Kochon slaves began to disappear, betaking themselves to freedom and the woods. Thero was no one now to follow them with gun and bloodhounds scurrying after them and hurrying them through marsh and swamp until thev were caught, flogged and brought back to intenser slavery. It was but natural, indeed, that all the negroes should feel in sympathy with Garcin. Many of them joined him on Honey island where they became freebooters of the most desperate kind. But Lalio Garcin, making her home with a miserable old crone who. as a fortune-teller and charm doctress, dwelt in a cabin in tho midst of a swamp on Bayou Galere evaded her father's authority and pursued the dark purpose which had become the one thought of her life. The tradition of her killing Kochon and of the other acts iu the tragedy she evolved is sti 11 the common propeity ot the French speaking negroes of all the Bay St. Louis region. Orton at length prevailed upon Felicie to jet out with him in a small sioop for New Orleans. He found live faithful sailors to man the craft, and Drenar.it ion -went forward rapidly, but with greatest secrecy, as tent of by 1,1,1 come to Orton g ears, and he felt the force of it. that ; Garcin now thought Orton's mission, instead 0f iin directed against Ivocnon. had been for his own destruction, and that in fact tho young artist had treacherously connived at Kochon's murderous raid upon his premises. Such a con"ti on of things left Orton no alternative but flight, and even this would be attended by extreme dangers. Anything, however, was preferable to the awful suspense, doubt and dread that hung about the place; it was as if an invisible and invulnerable loo were behind evcrv tuft of palmetto or veiled by every festoon of fcpanish moss in all the forest Felicie Kochon had been reared in the midst of startling Incidents and lawless Crcceedifijp, but ehe had seen very little of

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the worst features of the life around her, nor had he ever before felt the presence of real danger to herself. At lirst she was dazed and helpless under the effect of old Kochon's shocking death and even the attempt upon her own life scarcely roused her to a full realization of her situation. It was not till a second shot aimed at her had grazed Orton's temple, as they were walking through an open hall, that sne became quite willing to sail for New Orleans and leave behind her forever the dreary, shady, bird-haunted and bloom-covered old home by the bay. They embarked at midnight, just ns the moon, a heavy silver orescent, had cut through a bank of scudding gray clouds. Their little sloop already had her canvas up aud although the wind was not favorable they hoped to make their way out of the bay before dayliirht. Kocking idly on the water near by lay the little white sail-boat which had attracted Orton's attention on the dayof hisarrivaL The yellow stem-board with its delicate lily gleamed brightly under the moon's rays. It was a beaiitiful vessel, graceful in lines as a swan, riding the bubbling waves with a lightness that foresaid the speed with which it could sail. This boat had been Feline's own, and to her it was as dear as if it had been endowed with life and with the power to return her affection. As the sloop's sail began to draw, ami the vessel to move slowly away, the girl stretched forth her hands overthe gunwale, as if to take the little craft in her arms. "My beautful Lilv," she murmured, "and my dear old home.'f Orton had discovered before this that it was the little sailboat, and not Mile. Kochon, that had real title to tho name of Tho Lily of Kochon. In truth, he had fonnd out that nearly everything that Victor had told him was merest fiction, woven out of the plentiful films of the Creole imagination. The lovers stood upon deck watching the familiar landscape on shore fall slowly away from them. It would seem scarely reasonable that, at such a moment and under such a stress of circumstances. Mile. Kochon could regret leaving the place: but the reader must rot forget that home.no matter how isolated or how different from any other, has about it tho endearing imagination of sacredness. Felicie wept, despite the protestations and persuasions of the faithful maid servants beside her. "Come below, Felicie," whispered Orton. "You will be much in the way of tho sailors here, and they need all the deck-room they can get." JShe and her maids followed him down into the cramped little hole called tho cabin, where the air was stale and close. "We may have to tight for our liberty yet," he said, "and here is the only place of safety for you. Garcin's boats and a 6chooner lie just around tho point northward. If they sight us we shall have a chase for life. I know yon are bravo, Felicie, therefore you will keep your selfcommand. Do not come on deck, no matter what happens. I cannot stay with you. I must help to man the vessel. Be courageous for my sake." He kissed her hand, in the good, old chivalrous way, and went above. CHAPTER IX. A BATTLE FOR LOVE. As Orton's little vessel drew away from where the Lily lay at anchor near her own landing-dock, two persons came at a swift run down tho path that zig-zagged from the top of the bluff to the sand beach. The bright moonlight shining full upon them made the guns they carried gleam sharply. They were a man and a woman, or rather a boy and a girl, rushing in furious haste to tho slight plank footway that led out to the landing-dock. It was evident in a moment that they were going to take possession of the Lily. Orton's first thought was that some of the missing household slaves had returned and were desirous of coming aboard his sloop and following their young mistress; some movement of the girl, quick and 6light as it was, told him that Lalie Garcin was one of them. Then instantly he recollected that tho Lily was the fastest craft on the bay, and he knew that a vervdangerousand difficult problem wan before him. The wind was contrary, making it necessary to tack, and the bay being quite narrow here, progress must be very slow indeed. His vessel was fast, but could not keep so close to the wind and Hy along as could the Lily whose main sail was now going up. It was but the work of two or three minutes to put nn every inch of canvass and set the Lily bonndintr in pursuit, yes bounding is the very word, for a little sea was running in with the breeze, foaming and chopping, so soon as the point was cleared. On these short brisk waves the little boat fairly galloped, the foam leaping over her bows and her long boom raking the cream from the highest white caps. To Orton the situation was a terrible one for a reason entirely extrinsicof theqnestion of danger. Ho saw at once that the Lily would out-sail his sloop, which meant that one of two things must come to pass very soon: Lalie's gun would kill every one on board his vessel, or Lalie herself must be killed. Neither alternative seemed at all bearable. But for the thought of Felicie weeping down below and of the fate that would be her's were he taken from her at this crisis, he would have given little thought to the chances. The sloop was sailing as well as could be expected, beatinc; against the wind to wear round the western curve of the bay shore. Orton let his glance sweep over the scene again and again while in his heart memories and emotions were mingling in a bitter tumult. For the moment ho felt himself a criminal a devil who had come into an cden and worked its destruction. He saw the strange luxurious cabin home of the (Jarcins as it was when he first entered it: he saw little Lalie, dark, sweet, full of health and bubbling over with animal happiness, and then he saw Felicie going about at Kochon place, contented and serene. What a change since he came! Had he caused allthisf Had his coming into this lovely and beautiful nook of the South set sinister influences to work by which had been engendered a resistless impulse of evil? Kvery scene of the past few weeks Hashed before him with the vividness of reality. He saw the spinet in Lalie's room, her fantastic little hat lay on it; he heard her sinciug an old French dittv. His rambles in the verdurous and odorous woods, his satisfaction in sketching scenes so new and strange to him, his portrait and sketches of Lalie, all these, and then the battle and his hand-to-hand conflict with Kochon came up in his memory. It was as if he. were living them over again. The breeze freshened as the slooo passed

from the lee of the bluffs, and Orton gave orders to the sailors to keep well away from the now fairly Hying little boat. He saw the shore begin to sink and assume its true proportions, the masses of forests with marshy openings between taking on fantastic forms under the influence of motion and the brilliant moonlight. Tho Kochon mansion, with its flankintr rows of outhouses, loomed heavily against the almost puvple sky, the pointed roof and tower-like chimneys appearing1 to almost touch the low-hanging clusters of western stars. Curiously enough, Orton, at sight of the bouse, felt a deep touch of regret for old Kochon. Somehow the man with his master will, his giant form and his gusty humor had impressed him and won upon him as some old heathen hero might have done. To the young man's imagination the doughty and stormy old outlaw had presented himself in the attitude of a tinure of romance set upon the doubtful line between heroism and degraded, criminal masterhood. About himhung the nameless fascination, the singular personal magnetism which belongs to extraordinary quality of mind aud physique. A light shone from the Kochon house while Orton was gazing, a mere flicker, like the flame of a lamp. In an instant he felt what it meant, for already a roll of black smoke was tumbling above one of the out-houses. Tho beautiful place was in the hands of its enemies. A glance northward showed two or three of Garcin's smacks and hisschooner rounding Magnolia point. Truly the departure from Kochon place had been none too soon. A swivel w as tired from the schooner, probably ns a signal, and at the same time it was plain that pursuit was intended. The Lily, admirably handled by Bobo and Lalie, was gaining steadily upon the sloop. It soon would be within gun-shot. Ortoa said nothing more to his men until

the time came for decisive action and even then he knew not what was best. He could not order them to fire upon the little boat. How could ho do thatf How could he 6ay to one of those dark, brutal sailors: "Shoot Lalie GarcinT" A shot from the Lily whistled over the sloop's deck. Nothing but the motion of the vessel could have thwarted the girl's faultless aim. Another flash at the bow of the little pursuer and one of the sailors clapped his hand on his ear where the bullet had touched it. The two vessels now flew apart, not having the same course. Orton could not see plainly, but he knew well who had fired those shots, and he felt that the time had come when he must act; but howf Two of his men had brought up their heavy muskets and were excitedly preparing for the next approach of the Lily. "Put dow n your guns," he ordered, firmly but kindly, "and listen to what I say.'.' They obeyed, rather sullenly and with a dull look ot inquiry. "There is a woman in that boat," he went on, "a woman -who is mv friend. If you lire you may hurt her. It you can kill the man without endangering her, do it; but," and here ho handled the hammer of his own gun. "if you hurt her I will kill him who does it; remember that." Meantime the Kochon mansion was showing fire through every window, and a heavy cloud of dark smoke was slanting upward and away from the roof. It was just as the flumes burst ont at many places with a great flare and flash, lighting up the water and tlindng a wild light over the breeze-tossed woods, that Orton heard Felicie's voice. Turning about he saw her coming upon deck. She was very pale, aud the reflection of tho distant fire-light in her face exaggerated her appearance of excitement. Meantime the Lily had come about, and was heading so as to cross the course of the sloop and very near her bows. Felicie lifted her clasped hands above her head, and looked fixedly at the wavering tongues of flame that were lapping the roof of the mansion. For the moment Orton forgot everything else in the rush of tender feeling. He hurried to where she stood, and passing an arm gently around her, strove to take her back to the cabin again. She scarcely noticed him. The scene upon which she was looking seemed to have fixed her to the floor. In a little while, however, she had realized tho whole situation, aud she strove mightily to be strong and brave. Garcin's vessels were not as fast as the sloop. They fell back gradually and soon found it as well to give over the chase; but the Lily, like some courageous little bird worrying a hawk, swept back and forth, now and again coming near enouge for the gun to flash its spiteful fire in the direction of the sloop's deck. But quite a 6ea was on, the waves rising higher every moment, and the little boat was so tossed and tumbled that accuracy of aim from her deck was altogether impossible. Orton, however, remembering with a shudder that Felicie had been the especial mark of that gun, almost forced her back into the cabin. It was just as they started down the narrow little stairs that Orton felt a heavy, numbing blow on his arm, which still encircled Mile. Rochon's waist. At the same time rang out the sharp, slender report of Lalie's gun almost under the prow of the sloop. Felicie uttered a quick cry of pain and sank, as if fainting, while Orton, with greatest difficulty, prevented her from falling below. He knew that she was hit in the side, for the bullet had passed through his arm, making a slight wound. As he staggered down the stairs with his precious burden, he saw the llames all meet in one grand blaze above the sinking roof of Kochon place. The rough crew of the sloop were not the men to tamely bear a thing of this sort. No sooner was Orton out of sight than they hurriedly rolled forward a clumsy little carronade loaded to the muzzle with musket balls; at the same time the sloop's course was changed several points, so as to bring her quickly within range of the Lily, which was again coming about. The explosion shook the sloop from jib-boom to stern-post. The Lily was fairly lifted out of the water, not so much by the missiles hurled acainst her, as by the sudden sideHow which just then struck her. It was a critical moment, even without the blast from the carronade, and when a ball struck Bobo inthejiead he tumbled overboard and the boat was capsized. As the sloop rushed on grazing the tumbling and tossing hull, a small figure crawled upon the wreck and clntig desperately to it. Orton knew well what the men had meant by tiring the cannonade nor was he sorry for the moment that they had disobeyed his order. Of course he was ignorant of- the result; indeed, he scarcely gave a thought to it as ho knelt beside Felicie trying to stop tho bleeding of her wound. The servant women were wailing around him and the vessel was rolling uncomfortably. The glare from the burning mansion was sinking lower, softened by distance and by thedestrnction of themore inflammable material. The moon was shining serenely and there was little, if any, visible aspect of nature to suggest the gale which was soon to rage across the gulf. The sloop was forced to seek shelter between somo ontlying islands of the Chandeleurs where she lay at anchor for two days beforo 6ho was able to resume her course. It would not be a pleasing part of this rapid and imperfect sketch if the suffering of Mile. Kochon should be described here. Her wound was doe p. and must have been dangerous to her life under the most favorable circumstances; as it was she arrived at New Orleans in a delirium, and for two months the balance between death and recovery wavered pathetically, while Orton lingered about, like the ghost of his former self, a prey to all sorts of romantic qualms of conscience, and haunted by the memory of the strange scenes through which he had been hurried. Nor was trouble at an end when at last Felicie was pronounced out of danger. The yellow fever swept over New Orleans that summer with dreadful f fleet. Orton was ono of the first to contract the malady in the most healthful part of the city, and when he arose from his bed his fine physique was completely shattered for the time. If I now tell the reader that this story is not fiction that it is little changed in the writing from the tradition which any body may find on the spot it will not I hope dotract from its interest. Orton's letters, still in the hands of his descendants, agree quite well, in their statements of facts, with the legend as it is told by French speaking grandmothers to dusky 'listeners under the vines and fig-trees of the west coast of Bay St. Louis. Strange enough it is to find that Lalie Garcin escaped heiug drowned and was picked up by ono of her father's boats. She is said to "have lived to a great age, probably a little crazed; at least she was very eccentric and a fortuneteller in her later years. Orton and Felicie were married, and were afterward, for a long while, residing in one of the chief cities of Europe, where he was an otlicial representative ot the United States. They kept tho romance of their first meeting and the incidents following it as much hidden as possible, but a story so picturesque and so out of the common order of life could not be kept forever from the public. Near the site of the old Kochon mansion the action of the spring or autumn stormwaves often lays bare for awhile the remains of a rude brick oven, and the legend runs that in this the old king of the coast used to roast his refractory slaves, and cook brown his most dancerous mutineers. A grim relic of such a character and tho few fraRinents of beautiful old china picked up by tourists are tho only remnants left of the household belongings of the most noteworthy outlaws ever resident on the coast of Mississippi. THE END. Copyright, 1999, by Maurice Thompson. Teasing the Beetle. Tld-Bits. Customer "That was splendid insect powder you sold me the other day, Mr. Oilman." Mr. Oilman (with justifiable pride) "Yes, I think it's pretty good the best in tho trade." Customer "III take another couple of pouuds of it, please." Mr. Oilman "Two pounds!" Customer "Yes. please. I gave a quarter of a round that I bought before to a black beetle and it made him so ill that I think if I keep up the treatment for about a week longer I "may manage to kill him." Why the Extravagance in N'Ight-Itobes? Philadelphia Inquirer. Men's night-shirts are becoming more beautiful and more expensive every day. Some of the dealers 6how certain varieties, which range in prices from $10 to $i. They are of the softest silks, and come in varying colors, the daintiest being in changing shades of pink and blue. They have eyelets, too, for jeweled buttons, which may be had from $00 to 100 a set None but the rich really enjoy this life.

Written for the Snnday Journal. Away for Happy Hollow! I wonder, are the leaf buds Awaking in the trees! Arc any bonny bloomy things A breaking In the breeze I I'm anre the early r.iood-root Are thrusting through the mold, And Mender-stemmed hepatic Beginning to unfold. The robins and the blue-birds Are all already here; And yellow, mellow nunbeams glint And hint that spring is near. And Is the stream a-flnting Through mossy, fretted stones! I dreamed last uiht I heard it sound In son, enticing tones. Oh, I can wait no later! I long to go and know How fare In Happy Hollow now The sweetest things that grow. Evaleen Stein.

Written for the Sunday Journal. Spring Fangs. When trees is all a-buddin'aud grass a-jrlttin green. An' birds a-fllntrln' music on the air. In pplto uv all tho sunshine, an' teauty uv the scene, I feci my heart a 6lnkin in despair. Ti not thet with old Satur' my soul is out o timelier everlastin charms I much respec,' But ever ltvin scribbler thet ever slung a rhyme Will go an try his hau' on dialec. I Cut the Corn. I cut the corn, the yellow drilling corn. That marches to the music of the morn; Above the castle lovers on tho crag. And cast the shadow of its fluttering flag; I labor here from purple peep of morn, I only cut the com. The castle court resounds with festive din. Wide portals show the revelry within. And thither brightly borne athwart my view A lover prince and all his retinue. While up the road foreruns the winding horn; I only cut the com. The lord rides out arainst the Western skies, I follow through the dust with shaded eye; He carols to his horse's lively tread, A helmet plumed upon his haughty head; Devices brave his sdver targe adorn, And I I cut the corn. The great lord's daughter down the pathway trips, A half-unworded song upon her lips A greyhound guards the whiteness of her hand. Her velvet vestments bruxh mo where I stand. How proudly fair! I think I almost mourn I only cut the corn. The lord, a corse borne from the battle-field. Comes slowly by upon his battered shield; The castle in a grave of gloom is laid. The lady by her lover is betrayed, And In my heart dwells no difease or sorrow That I but cut the corn. Edward Abram Valentine. The Beggar. I know not If 't were best, beloved. That you and I should part; t I only know a little while You made me happier with your smile; fconie bitter tears you did beguile, And stilled my hungry heart. I know not If t were best, beloved. The idyl should be done; From grudging Fate's reluctant hand I took the gift as thirsty Kind Drinks in the rain when all the land Has blistered iu the sun. Love's citadel la strong, beloved. But not of senseless stone; Though forced so wearily to wait, A beggar, by the shining gate; I know it opens, soon or late, To give me back my own. O patience, heart! O peace, my heart! Who feasts with love must drink of grief; The draught is bitter past belief. But love is sweet and life is brief, Oh, peace, my heart! Clara G. Dolliver, in March Overland. "Why Shouldn't 1? My canary sings the whole day long Behind his gilded wires, Hhut in from all that birds enjoy And hapny song inspires, ' The f recilom, grace and action fine Of wild birds he foregoes. But. spite of that, with lightsomeness His little heart o'erflows. "The world is wide. And birds outside In happy cheer always abide Why shouldn't 11" I. too. must dwell behind the bars Of toil and sacrifice; Froni heavy heart and weary brain My prayers or son es arise; Yet, all around, pa 1 hearts abound Aud troubles worse than mine, If aught of comfort I can bring To them, shall I repine! God's world is wide; If I can hide My crowding tears and sing beside Why shouldn't It Helen M. Wlnslow. Looking Forward. But life is sweet though all that makes It sweet Lessen like sound of friend's departing feet, And Death is beautiful as feet of friend C'ominsr with welcome at our Journey's end; For me fate gave, whate'er she else denied A nature sloping to the southern side; I thank her for it. though when clouds arise Huch natures doubly-darken gloomy skies. I muse upon the margin of the sea Our common pathway to tho new To Be, Watching the sails that lessen more and more. Of good and beautiful embarked before; With bits of wreck I patch the boat shall bear Me to that unexhausted Otherwhere, Whose friendly-peopled shore I sometimes see By soft mirage uplifted, beckon me. Nor sadly here, a lower sinks the sun. My moorings to the past snap one by one. J. It. Lowell. Labors Reward. Ah! if thy fate, with anguish fraught, Hhould be to wet the dusty soil With the hot tears and sweat of toil. To struggle with imperious thought. Until the overburdened brain. Weary with labor, faint with pain. Like a Jarred pendulum, retain Only its motion, not its power. Remember, in that perilous hour. When most afflicted and oppressed. From labor there shall come forth rest. Longfellow. rAU'CEFOTE AS A VICTIM. Is Washington Regarded as a Botany Bay for British. Diplomacy? ew York Town Topics. Although Sir Julian Pauncefote is personally a very estimable and respectable man, it can scarcely bo regarded as lettering to the United States that his appointment to the post of British minister at Washington should be looked upon in all the oilicial and social circles in London as a severe set-back and a distinct "comedown" in the world. To such an extent is this the case that he is considered at the present moment as one of the most shamefully ill-used men in her British Majesty's service, and instead of receiving congratulations on having obtained the mission his friends and acquaintances believe it to be their duty to condolo with him. The fact is that Sir Julian has been made the victim of a most disgraceful intrigue, and, greatly against his will, has been forced out of ono of the most pleasant, iutluential and relatively lucrative berths of the government service. As Permanent Assistant Secretary of State at the Foreign Ullice he was the perennial chief of the department, the great man at whose frown even embassadors trembled, and who thought nothing of scolding Queen Victoria's ministers and envoys abroad as if they were so many schoolboys. The salary attached to the oftice amounted to $13,. O0U, there was noentertaining required, and not a single treaty was signed, not a negotiation concluded without tho Permanent Assistant Secretary figuring at the head of the list of men honored with ribbons and stars. Moreover, Sir Julian Pauncefote is a martyr to gout, exceedingly fond of his club, and being a pompous man, simply reveled in the worship of all tho smaller official fry. It was with extreme reluctance that he surrendered his post at the Foreign Olhce, and all the privileges thereto attached; and indeed he was only induced to give way by means of a promise that he should only oe kept a few months at Washington, after which he in to be promoted to a lirst-class embassy, probably either at Madrid or Home. He will then be succeeded at Washington by Sir John Maori onald, who will be recreated a peer, and resign the Canadian Premiership to Sir Charles Turner. Sir Julian's stay at Washington is likely to be brief probably that is the real reason why neither Lady Pauncefote nor his 'pretty daughters are to accompany him when he sails for New York next month and the short duration of his mission to the United States may be gauged by the fact that Sir Charles Tupper has alieady given up his charming house in London and proceeded to Canada, where he is making his final arrangements for resigning tho high commissionership of the Dominion to England in favor of the premiership Sir

John Macdonald will within a few weeks Froceed to Kngland and take his seat in the louse of Lords before Parliament closes its summer session, aud he will then return in the autumn to Washington as British minister plenipotentiary. The intrigue to which reference is made above and which has led to Sir Juliau Pauncefote's being literally kicked into tho Washington mission, has been in progress for some mouths past, the object being to put Sir Philip Currie in Pauncefote's place. Sir Philip Currie is a man about town, and one of the lights of society which can hardly be said of Sir Julian Pauncefote. Sir Philin Currie's career has consisted ?hielly in tilling the post of private secretarv to many succssive Ministers of Foreign AtVairs, and in rendering himself not onry agreeable but even indisEensable to the wives of his chiefs. One of is most iniluential patronesses, and indeed the one who has been mainly instrumental in bringing about his present promotion, is the Marchioness of Salisbury, whoso excessive vanity he flatters to her heart's content.- Although exceedingly arrogant and short-tempered with those whohavo the misfortune to bo placed under his orders, he is popular in society, owing mainly to the fact of his having a reputation for being Vso very wicked, you know." With all Loudon's feminine influence arrayed in his favor, it is not surprising that poor, ponderous, pompous Pauncefoto lias been forced out to recommence his travels. I should much like to be a witness of Sir Julian's dignified demeanor on the first occasion when he meets in the refreshmentroom of the Capitol some statesman like Senator Ifiddleberger, for instance, at a moment when the latter is bent on treating his friends all 'round to cocktails.

Time Flew. Arkansaw Traveler. An old negro woman, while walking along a street, met an old negro man. "Look vere," said the woman, "ain't dat yon. lWl?" "Dat's my name, lady." "Is 5ou de Dan'l datTwnz my husban an wuz sent ter de peny tenchy fur ten year?" "Yas, 'urn." "Au' is de ten years out!" "Yas, 'urn." "Wall, law me. Ps had three hnsban's sense dat time. Huh, ole man, I'd dun furgot you. An' you's all crippled up. aiu't 3'oui 1 'clar, I neber 6ced time fly so." WHEN purchasing a fine Shoe it is natural to select that which is pleasing to the eye in style'and finish; the material must be of the finest texture, and when on the foot the shoe must combine beauty and comfort. The Ludlow Shoe Possesses this Feature. IF YOU TRY ONE PAIR You Will Wear No Other Make 3 Sold by over 100 dealers In Chicago, and the best trade throughout the United States. Wee That They Are Stamped "IVUIILOW." C. FRIEDGEN, 21 North Pennsylvania St., SOLE AGENT FOR INDIANAPOLIS. RAILWAY TIME-TABLES. PENNSYLVANIA LINKS THE DIRECT AND POPULAR PA8SE5GCB llOCTES. Trains loave and arrive at Indianapolis as follows: PANHANDLE ROCTR EAST. Levefor "PltUhjr.A N. Y.. 4:30am...3:0Opm 5:10pm " Illchinond fc Columbus 9:00am 4:00pm Ar.trom N. Y.fc Pittbjr..ll:40aiu.....6:5opm 10:'20pm " Columbus, Richmond, etc 9:40am 3:5Upm Sleepers to 1'ittuburR and New York without change. CHICAOO DIVISION. Leave for Cblcaro and Northwest...ll:40am 11:20pm Arrive from Chicago and NortweeU. 3:60am 3:50pm J., II. ALB. R.-30UTH. Lcavp for Lonisv'lefc tneSo'th. 4:05am 8:30am 4:0Opm 5:10pm Ar. from Ixmlsv'le&tbeSo'ULlO:45am 11:10am 6:10pm 11:00pm I. 4 V. R. R. SOUTHWEST. Cairo Erpress, Leave - ........ 7:10am Vlncennes Accommodation. Leave .... 4:00pm Vlncennes Accommodation, Arrive ... lO:M)am Cairo Eiprens. Arrive 5:O0pm yTantdalia LINE SHORTEST ROUTE TO ST. Y LOUIS AND THE WEST. Trains arrive and leave Indianapolis as follows: Leave for St, L...7:30ara ll:5Sam 11:00pm 7:Hpm Greencastle and Terre Haute Accom 4:00pm Ar. from St. L 3:45am 4:15am 2:40pm 5:00pm Terre Haute and Oreetioastle Accom 10.00am Sleeping, Parlor and Keclininff-chAir Cars are run on through train. For rates and information apply to ticket agents of the company or 11. It. Derino. Assistant General Passenger Agent w 1 The Short Lino BOTH E AST & WEST. The only line with solid trains to Springfield, o.. Bloomington and Peoria, with through cars to principal Missouri river points. In several hours less time than any other line. Alao. through Sleeping and Reclinln?-rnalr Cars to Peoria and Chicago. The authorixed differential route Kast. Trains at Indianapolis Union Station: Leave, going East x :OOam 3:OOpm Leave, going West.... 7:OOani LUOpra ll.-05pm Arrive, from East 1:00pm 10:40pm Arrive, from West.... 7:40am 2:40pm 8:40pm Daily. City Ticket-Office, 42 and 44 Jackson Tlace. ONLY LINE With morning train at a seasonable hour for Please note following time-card: Trains leave Indianapolis: 3:55 a. m. Vlr). 8:00 a. m., (Vly) 3:oOp. nv. 6:23 p. m. Trains arrive at Indianapolis: 8:30 a. m., 11:40 a. m. daily). 4:55 p. m., 10:55 p. m. (daily.) Only Une with night train for Toledo and Detroit. Pullman vestibule sleepers, dally (except Sunday) to Washington and Baltimore via C, II. & D. and B. & 0 without change. Ticket OUice Illinois street and Kentucky ave. The ONLY LINE running a MORNING TRAIN U Chicago, returning the same day. Leave Indian. rrdls 7:10 a. m., daily: returning, leave Chicago at 1:40 p. m., daily, arriving Indianapolis 8:10 a. m. Other trains l ave as follows: 11:55 a.m. (except Sunday), arrive at Chicago at B:3; n. m. :00 n. m. (daily). Monon AccommHlatlon. Pullman Sleeninjr and Chair Cars on all throuza trains. Ticket office, 20 S. Illinois street, INDIANAPOLIS.

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Donald MeKty. the wnite people in if4o, aim iuw muii'hs ahuiuu medicine' has accomplished more cures than any fimilar medicine known to civilization. The -x: OREGON INDIANS - first used it to eradicate tho roisonous Blood Taints contracted from tho white adventurers. It cures DYSPEPSIA, LIVER COMPLAINT AND DISEASED KIDNEYS. All druggists keep it. It has been imitated and counterfeited. The genuine has the name blown in the bottle and a cut of tho greatest Indian fccout, Donald McKay, oa White Wrapper, Red Letters.

BUSIXESS DCTORY VrpT-TxTC! F.. C. & CO., mannractnrerw and 1 Ivl i O liepairm of C1KCULAK, CKOfct.

CUT, BAND and all other -S A W S, Belting. Emery Wheels anJ Mill Supplies. Illinois Street, one square south Union Station. RIDLEY SHOE FACTORY, MANUFATURER OF LADIES', MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S FIjSTE shoes. Shoes made according to standard measurement adopted bv Chicago convention. Honest work and the best ot material nel In making bLoes. orders frum the trade solicited. 79 and 83 South Pennsylvania St SAWS BELTINO AND EMERY WHEELS. SPECIALTIES OF W. B. Barry Saw & Supply Co., 132 & 134 S. Penu. St All kinds ot Saws repaired. THE SINKER-DAVIS CO.. Saw-M Maeir, Engines and Boilers, Plpe-Fittinps and Natural-gas Snrplles, 111 to 140 South Pennsylvania Street. HOLLIDAY & WYON, Wholesale Manufacturers of Coupe, Surrey, Buggy and Erpress II .A. R NESS, No. 77 South Meridian street, Indianapolis. rp-Price List sent the trade on application. ELECTRIC LIGHT SOAP Absolutely pare. Will save one-half the labor of w ashing if used according to directions. Manufactured by the JOHNSTON'S SOAP CO.. Indianapolis. PATENT SAW KILL DOG. IMPBOVID. PLAIN" OK 3DTJ"IXJE3:. Aim pit, Dartb!. Rtpi4. T9?Uv: Baa rWfM le. Will hold frca timber veliM tofk Cm b tucid l any lltxd Block. -jR0CKW00D, NEWCOMB & CO.. (lairitu TpT T alley C.) 180 to 290 8. Pennsylvania St. INDIANAPOLIS. IN XX THE BEAUTIFUL, CLEVELAND YARD FENCE Over 20,000 feet put up In Indianapolis during 1888. Cheap, everlasting und ornamental. office and Factory, 22 BIDDLE ST. Three squares south Mass. ave. Depot. FINE SHOW-CASES. WILLIAM WIEGEL. MAXtTACTOKr, No. 6 West Louisiana street. LUMBER. II. T. BENNETT, wholesale and retail dealer In Lumber, Lath and Shingles. ash. Doors and Blinds. 151 to 161 South East street llEHIHGTOH TYPEWRIlEn RECENT SPEED TESTS. Cincinnati, July 2fi, highest speed on legal work. New York, Aug. 1, highest speed on correspondence. Toronto, Aug. 13 (International Tournament for the World Championship), First and Second Prizes, bustness corresiwndeuce; First and Second Prizes, legal testimony (Oold and Silver Medals.) Wyckoff, Seamans Benedict, 61 North Pennsylvania St. COMSTOCK & COONSE, WOOD. CHAIN and WOODEN FORCE PUMPS. Dealers In Iron Pipe, Driven-well points and all Driven-well Supplies. Tj7 and lt9 S. Meridian St INDIANAPOLIS STOVE CO. Manufactures of Stoves and llOLLOW-WABK, Nos. 85 and 87 South Meridian street. i rAP.ROTT fc TAGUA11T WHOLESALE BAKERS. Crackers, Bread and Cakes. M. MTJRRY & CO, Saw and Planing Mill, DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, Hardwood Finishing Lumber, Ash, Quartered Oak, Walnut aud Mahogany, a specialty. PINE LUMBER AND SHINGLES. Comer Home Ave. and Alvord St fTelephone 14f. Bicycles and Repairing. WORLD TYPE-WR ITERS. Price $10. Bend for catalogue. IL T. HEABSEY, 147 A 149 N. Delaware St. Nordyke fc Mnnnon Co. Estab. 1S51. FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS MILL AND ELEVATOR BCILDERS, m iviinu:, DfiiiiiK, iuiijim-i tutu, mam v f jff'K'UIIUlK Pin, uiuri), juiuuuuKn-iruiuiris, W l'ortaMf M Ills, etc- etc Take streetcar L-T'Oty tor stockyards. THE HOOSIER BURNER Im the result of much exin;rlmentlnij It combine the best qualities of all burntTS. It Is the favorltn anions all gas-titters, bold to tho trade at a liberal discount. STEEL FULLY AND MCE HOIS, Sole Makers, 79 and 85 Sonth Pennsylvania St. OATeWT CALL ON OR AOCRESS ... S. rr C. &E. W. Bradford, gz 16iO 18 Hi!?M Block, ill INDIANAPOLIS, IND. r-u

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BUSINESS MBECTQRY. THEODORE STEIN, Successor to Wm. C. Andrvm. 80 East Mnrkot Street, ABSTRACTER OF TITLES. ELLIOTT & BUTLER, NO. 3 -CTS A BtlLPrNO. ABSTRACTS OP TITLES. AUGUSTUS LYXCH MASON, (Formerly of McTvralt, BntfT Muon,) ATTUKXKY AT 1W, yot, East Mjtrkft iXrttL DU. K. IL LEWIS. rractlc llmite.1 to diwuw of tb TIIKOAT AND NOSE. 130 North Merilian rtt.

MOSKtf, OPTICIAN. Lar:rost and best sUm k ot Optical r.4 in lh dtr. Len8 ccurat"2.r atjnMcil. lrscrHtic clalty. Ixm't miHtaktt the place fr another. Oar name. "Mof." on M-lnlor. 4 Xonh l'euDvtrDu. W. II. COKBALKY, Attorney and Claim Actn 43 Vane Block. Indianapx'ha. Ind. '.'7 yeaxa ex perieuce collecting U. . claims. J. D. GEORGE, M. P., rartner of the late Ir. D. llarcert, cmtlnnea Vhm iratire at Boon land U. Baldwin 1'lm.k. corner eL aud Market ata. llevulence, 205 Collcire ate. dentist! MARY C IJ)YI. ever Fletcher Bant. Teetl at reduced price. Ftlilnit at reaoniMe rate. CUT FI.OWKKS. BEBTKBMANN BROS.. 37-43 Maachuottii avrmic. one-half qnare north eawt of len'.;on Hotel. e-Op n until 8 p.m. CT1?1C A" ktn,l" tor the OARDBN' anl kM jrjWO. FARM, at either nf our tores, 11 Weat Wash. St. or 10 North Delaware St. Oata loguefree. J. A. EVKRITT '., Seedsmen. Indianapolis. lr&. GEO. J. MAYEK, Soal. Stencils, Stamp. Etc. 15 South Meridian street, IndUuajiolia. Ind. Sen& for catalogue. ICfiiiid' Itetiii Miiio Co., M.VXI TAC1TBEKS OK BINDERS, KEAl'EUS AND MOWERS. Headquarter for Indiana, 17 A 1. K. WaMhUijrtna at., Indiauapolla, Ind. J. B. I IKY WoOD. Mauairer. R. S. FOSTER & CO., Commission Menrltants in Graia and Si!I-Fe?l STORAGE "WA1IF.ROOMS for toraee rf all klnda of Parcel Merchandise. Honeh!d OohV, Piano. ta. Importer and dealer in Foreign, aud Domestic Ce menta. Plastering, stucco, etc, 08 iV- TO South Delaware St. NEWTON TODD, Fipe Iiasixpance, 24 y2 East Washington St CUSTOM TAILORING. I have had 18 years experience in the finest worklu Cnstora Tailoring. I uui iu:ihtifd to take any roronl hiliiy which I may be ealleri upon fo uume In tne interest nf my jwtroti. I have a larreand rell-electel line of Sprine and Summer tanl -a. If I have not pot what you want 1 can it. Int olject in po.nir up ttaira, w hen you cau pet pod work coueforleaii money. I amnot the heapct, tmt I ptve you aatia faction and the worth of your money. It ave your order at onceforyonrsjnrinirtinitkud" rnuera. 4a Kast Wasdi. at., over ?. I.rink'a eitrar More. J. MOUSLF.lt, The Vahintrton. 1. C Fine Tailor. . THR Phot (I'M (ft Finest rhoto for U nl money. ( K. Wash. SU REMOVAL. JOS. ALLERDICE, A.k J IEALER IV C5 Hides, Pelts. Furs, Wool and Tallow To 124 Kentn' l-y Avenue, near lli 4 Railroad. RcyircHenting V. t. Steven Co.. ttoston, Maxa. H. 13. HOWL AND & CO., 1 General Weatern Aeutj for Genuine Rancor aud IVaeh Rot torn slate Com'p'tr KflTablin'ird lt';l. Mannfrw turer of wclioo" an& rooting alate. Room 22 In galls 1-lock. National Collecting Agency, 10 Vance Rloek. IndianapolTi. Indlpenahle to dealer w antinir to make cloae eoft leetioua. seud $1. ami ro-eive hook that will hot worth JflO in et tins your money. J. PIATT V JO., COMMISSION" MR ICC 11 ANTS. Kntter. RprV. Poultry, Oysters, Game, etc., VI, 1 1 and 40 Kentucky ; avenue. ( t oi;tor of una PATENTS fcu' Jrtl Bailaiag. a. iRDUIUrOLlB THE CITIZENS' ODOKLESS CO. T V nil pvpt Minwr rvflr Ititntn 7 TlaM1 1 win Rlock, corner Delaware and Market afreet. I Vaults, Sluka. etc., eleaned by their Improved' Odorieea Aaratn. in daytime, withm offecae. and j disinfected" free of chartre. The hest Iiainfertant 111) use aold hy the bo. Telephone 14 1. Orders ty inail.1 or telephone promptly at-ndd to. CHEAPEST PLACE IN THE CITti TO BUT j Harness, Collars, Wtipss Lap Dusters, Etcrf E. O. SOUTH, J No. 13 Indiana Avenne. NEW YORK STEAM DENTAL CO. From $3. M, f fl. $. 510 V' ?.'.( j r m-t. All kln.la of flue dental work at rinced price. Fine coll fillinz ut $ 1 and upward. Milvtr ainA'pttm. Roc and 7.'C. TeetD eilTMCted f t J&c. Teeth extracted without pain. All work war. rautod a rennaetL Fif teen years experience. A. Jr. HEKltON. M'ltr. ltuuma 3 and i Grand Opera- homw. i American Tribune. Th Soldier Family Taper. Fverr soldier should be a reader ot ttl paper. It will keep yon pouted on all newlawa on Penun rrvUUrt.wd. in full cf aood War Stone, written by soldier. cr.ntliuuc valuable War History. The pair in xubli.hed tj adTr;ce the interest otfcoldien,. ilibllried every week. Price One Ihllar r Year. Mi rrj; kiU free. Addrewi TI1F. A.MUUt AN TlUltl -Si. M The Soldier'a Family l'aiwr. iiiUla.uaiulia, lad By Ti R, Bill, PitentSolIdterindMechinlcif. Dreuchtamaiw 69 local 2ick.lad'anaJoi.!nd. INSURANCE DIRECTORY FTXSTON, CTI AS. retary JR Vanee. Bloc Mannfactunra Mutual Fire Insurance to. HOLLAND. CHAS A. : : : : 82 Eaal Mart Facinc Mutual Ufe and Accident. LEONARD. JOHN K. : s : : -ina Building Tlie.Ftna. , 1 he North Brltlfch anJ Mercantile, or Imflon. McCII.I.IART tAICK.On. rn. Atrtu .M K.Mwk Indiana ltiMuraiicet?mjHiny, lndiaiiaplia. ritiiena' Insurance Vmiiany, l.vansyi.le. Ir.d. Farratrut Fire lnuranre'oiKpany, New T ork. iernian Fir lnauram-e Company. iMttnhurg, Fa People's Insurance Con:iaoy, rntahurjr. Pa, BUT) LOW & MARH. Managers .mi 2 E. Market at, f.-r Indiana, Ohio. kntu r. rmnwwmJ Weas Virginia fortbe lTovider.t !avi!iirs Lifo Asurano Kociety of New Yoil M.e- pard Ho!iiati pUntf pure fifo insurance, "anmiied with banking. a apcelalty. K I lC ATI ON A I(UutUhl ISM.) (Uorf aals4 1S3. SiUSiSiESS UiilVERSIT7 2X13 ft 0C3f. xCa ul rrrUtn. at C'ulvcraity ullice, SI Wheu Mock.

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