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A LAND OF ANCIENT STOEY

It Is Arid and Barren, but Is Rich in Historic Fact and Romantic Legend, What New Mexico Das Been Under the Knle of Superstition and Bigotry, and What It Promises Under Civilization's Light. Special Correspondence of the Sunday Journal. Santa Fe, N. M.. Feb. 21. New Mexico can he fittingly called the old-new land, a land of ancient romance and wondrous hislory. Side by side with the ancient, indolent, ignorant, contented Mexicans and Indians are the busy, intellicent, restless Americans, injecting into the civilization of the past their energy and thought, and gradually molding it in accordance with their ideas of development and. progress. The origin of the first inhabitants of this country is lost in the mists of fable. All along the summit of the Kooky mountains are evidences of the Chflf-dwellers, who are supposed to have lived, loved and labored before imperial Cesar ruled the Roman world or tho children of Israel wandered in the wilderness. Far more ancient than the Incas of Peru or the rich Montezumas of Mexico are these simple people, who. gentle of nature and possessed of aspirations for a higher life, cultivated the soil in their primitive manner and tried to live in peace with the world. Nothing will attract more attention from the student of history than the exhibits at the world's fair of the Colorado Historical Society of this pre-historio race. Skeletons, skulls, mummies, household and farming implements, will be on exhibition. And taken from one of their houses in the deep canyons will be cloth woven by maidens and matrons 1,800 years ago. Archaeologists claim that the human race sprang from the Ohio valley, and has been moving in waves with the sun from age to age. too Cliri-dwelJers being left in their roc&y homes of retnge, while the balance of the race was swept on across the Pacific to people Asia and Europe in its onward course. Their civilization not being enlightened by reason nor advanced in science, art or morals, and being gentle and timid of manners and nature, they were soon overcome by the stronger, fiercer tribes, and were wiped out of existence, and nothing now remains bnt a few meager relics and monuments to attest their existence in the world. The first authentic history that we havo of the people who inhabited this country was in the early part of the sixteenth century. At tho time of the invasion and conquest of Mexico and Fern by tho adventurous Spaniards. For centuries previous to that time the Indian races had peopled all this sunny clime, extending through old Mexico and into South America. In Peru, especially, had they attained a wonderful degree of civilization, and were a rich, powerful and prosperous people. Their form of government was as near the perfect 'Bellamy colony'7 as history atVords any example. Who that has read Prescott's history of the conquest of Mexico and Peru does not wonder at the marvelous development of these Indian races in agriculture, in the arts, in soience and morals! And who, on the other hand, is not shocked and embittered against the Spanish invaders for the atrocities and cruelties perpotrated by them in their conquest and endeavor to plant the cross in the new world in the name and in behalf of the Castilian crown! True, the Incas, of 1'eru. and tne Montezumas, of Mexico, instigated by their superstitions priests, who carried the eonls of their people in their pockets, wero-guilty of the most heinous crimes in t'leir human sacrifices to their numerous gods, and in their cannibalistic repasts on the tleah of their victims, yet but little better have been the morals and religion under Jesuit control. In this territory, to-day, are Mexicans called "Penitenters." who lacerate their baoks with sharp knives and endure the most cruel punishment, self-indicted, in order to appease the wrath of their offended God. Priest-ridden have been theso Mexican Indian races during all their history, until to-day tho life and energy is crushed out of the masses, and indolence and stupidity are their ruling characteristics. Many of the monuments of these aborigines, two hundred and three hundred years old, still exist, and their mode of life, hxed by their religion and traditions, is much the same for cen'nries past. Here at Santa Fe is the oldest abode bouso, the oldest church and the oldest palac of a ruler within the limits of the United States. They were built before the founding of Jamestown ortholanding of thePilgrims of Plymouth. A visit to-day to tho old church and. by tho kindness of Governor Prince, an inspection of the historic old "palace," with its quaint and curious old pictures and relics, vividly recalls many stirring and chivalrous events that have occurred within this histerio old place. In modern times this "palace" has been made memorable by Gen. Lew Wallace, who, it is said, here wrote his immortal "Ben 11 ur," and the principal room in the palace is now called the "Ben-llur" room. EFFECTS OF EVIL RULE. During more than, throe centuries superstitious rnlers and avaricious priests have ruled the masses of these simple people until independence is an unknown quantity, and ambition is not in their oategory. Peonism, handmaid of slavery, a system by which a debtor is held in servitude till the debt is paid, blighted the prospect of the toiling masses and was only abolished a few years ago. This system is still in force in some parts of did Mexico. The larger part of the inhabitants of this territory have come down through these centuries through great hardships and tribulations. The races of Indians, Mexicans and Spaniards are somewhat mixed, and all have the dusky skin of the sunny clime. Still living on a frugal allowance ther show evidences of great endurance and are physically a stout and hardy people. Their wants are few and are easily satisfied. They seem to be a happy and contented people, caring nothing for tho morrow provided their wants for to-day are supplied. They live in adobe houses, such as have been in use for thousands of years. These adobe bricks are the same kind that the Israelites were making for old King Pharaoh down in Egypt when he cnt off the supply of straw which has to be mixed with the adobe mortar and raised snob a row among them that they went out on a strike trie first strike on record. However, after the acquisition of this territory, in 184$. and when the American began to establish himself here, then there began to be a great stir among the dry bones. Priests who had guided and controlled the people for ages began to lose their grip as soon as tho education and enlightenment of the nineteenth century got a chance to ehme on the darkened mind and conscience. For many years the growth of population was slow, but when the wave of emigration got started and tho Yankee got "in it" the old story of his supremacy and power was repeated again. Along with the tide of emigration the wicked element lloats. and somo years ago the dime novelist claimed this reuion an his own peculiar field. "Kit Carson." Uncle Dick Wootten." "Old Pill Williams." the scouts, trappers and Indian lighters of that day were the heroes of the times. The thrilling adventures of Indian hunting. Mexican raids, buffalo hunts and the "walking arsenals" on the streets of tho towns U passed away soon after the advent of the railroad in 178. Put tho bad clement wad not gotten rid of without an eiJort, and vigilant committees and "necK-tie" parties were organized and order came out of chaos. THE rilKSENT SITUATION. The Territory Jia a population of about 1C0.C00 three-fourths of which is Mexican and Indian, the other one-fourth being composed of Americans and a few of tho higher class of Spaniards, who have kept pace with the rigorous, industrious Yankees. This one-iourth has pushed ahead, built up some good towns, and is

the life and heart of the Territory. The three principal towns are Las Yegas, Santa Fe and Albcqnerque, the last being tho largest, most beautiful, modern and enterprising. The population of each if from seven to ten thousand. All put on metropolitan airs, and enjoy all the conveniences and luxuries of modern life. Water works, -street cars and electric lights are in common use. With plenty of fine building stone close at hand, all publio buildings are models for beauty and strength, and of the most modern style of architecture. One is surprised at the number of fine school buildings and other public buildings in these small cities. They are building for the future. Four new school buildings were built last year at Albuquerque at a cost of 8T5.000, and the Commercial Club of the same city has just completed a new clubhouse at a cost of S75.COO that would be a credit to a city of ten times its population, and shows great enterprise in the business men of that city. As to the resources and future of this Territory ono is at a loss i n attempting to conjecture. All admit that the Territory can never produce enough to feed her own people, and that there will always be a good home market for the produce of the farms. The wide plains, broad mesas and sandy hills are a vast waste. Only a small portion of the soil, that along tho river valleys, can ever be cultivated, and that only when irrigated at a considerable cost. Owing to the very dry climate the water for this purpose is also limited, unless great reservoirs should be built at enormous expense. The cattle business is a thing of the past, and the sheep industry, it is feared, will sailer when the "robber tariff" is taken off; Almost everything needed for man and beast is imported into the Territory corn, flour, hay, potatoes, apples, canned good. etc. Think of a land of cattle, as New Mexico has been, buying somo of its beef and a largo portion of butter and cheese from Kansas; think of a clime of almost perpetual sunshine and warmth annually importing fifty thousand pounds of poultry and three million eggs! Yet when we call attention to these facts the exultant Now Mexican will say: "Look at our mountains, bursting with all the rich minerals of the world gold, silver, copper, lead, iron and coal and as yet hardly touched by the haud of man." We are glad they aro happy, and wish that their highest hopes may be satisfied, but to one accustomed to tbe luxuriant vegetation of a humid retrion, the dry and'desolate plains and valleys present a very un

promising outlook. LOCAL QUESTIONS. The Legislature is now in session here, and many subjocts are agitating their mighty minds. Tho removal of tbe capital from this old, out-of-the-way place is a bone of contention. Santa Fe has been the capital of tho Spanish province and Territory three hundred years, and the Spaniards, who are in a majority, will oppose its removal on account of the antiquity and traditions that cluster around the old place. Taxes in the cities are ample and easily raised, but the country districts havo but little for schools, roads, etc. The cities raise their revenne by licensing all kinds of business, from a dray to wholesale houses. Tbe saloons and gambling houses, of which there are an abundance, pay most of the taxes in cities, and it ail goes into the school fund. The country districts suffer greatly for laok of school funds. For example, oneechool district has ono month's school, and pays its teacher $18 for services; another countv had 3.200 school revenue 81.200 was paid to the county superintendent and $SC0 for other expenses, leaving $1,200 to be distributed among forty schools. There is one place where the ordinary Mexican can make a full hand, and that is in politics. They say they are born and bred to tbe trade. However, I am sorry to say they are of the (Jresbam variety snbject to frequent vibrations and changes often showing a laok of courage and sincerity in dogdingand shuffling when partisan attitude is put to the test. A Mexican will go into one convention seeking a nomination, and, if beaten, will turn up the next week in another convention of opposite politics, and is ofterrnominatad and elected. - v - . With all the high hopes and loud boastings of the New Mexican there is only Ono thing in which 1 will agree with him, and that is in reference to the climate of this region. Her climate is her brightest jewel and most drawing attraction. It is not cold in winter nor hot in summer. Its high elevation famishes a light, dry, pure and invigorating air. a paradise for consumptives and those of kindred diseases. Hundreds have come here whose friends expected to receive them back home in a box who have been restored to almost perfect health. While one-fourth tbe adult population of the New England States die of consumption and kindred diseases, the natives here know nothing of it Those who have made their homes np among the mountains cannot be induced to change their chosen abode. The air. tho sky, tho mountains are their song, inspiration and delight. w. H. c. T03I THUMB OP LOCOMOTIVES. The World's Smallest Htcnm Engine to Be Sent to the Fair. New York World. Henry Case, a jeweler, who lives inGloversville. N. Y., is the designer, builder and owner of tbe smallest locomotive ever built to bo run by steam. He will send it to the Chicago world's fair. The spare time of fifteen years has been spent in constructing and perfecting this locomotive, or, condensing the time into ten hours a day, it oost a little over three and a half years of steady labor. "When the engine is in motion the engineer and tire man can be seen to put their heads out and in the cab window, and the whistle can be beard to blow. The engine runs by steam upon a track ten feet in diameter. Tho dimensions of the little engine are: Weight of engine. lVfc pound; with tender. 2 pounds 2 ounces; length of engine, bVi inches; with tender, 12 inches; height of engine, SVa inches; gauge of track, 1 inch; diameter of cylinders, 510 of an inch; stroko of piston. Ms inch. The piston heads are fittodupwith sectional or ring packing; stroke of valve, 116 of an inch; length of mam and parallel rods, l3i inch; length of links. 716 of an inch; width of links, ls of an inch; diameter of eccentrics, 1a of an inch; diameter of drive wheels, 1;8 inch; diameter of truck wheels. inch; length of whistle, 710 of an inch; diameter of whistle, 5S2 of an inch. The reverse lever in the cab is arranged with thumb latch, click and gaudron. In the cab there are also a throttle lever, deck lamp, safety valve, glass water gauge, lazy plug and steam gauge The drivingwneel boxes are loose in the frame, titted np with wedges, springs, hangers and equalizing bars. The materials used in the construction of this midgut locomotive are solid gold, silver, steel and brass. There are 1.815 pieces, exclusive of screws, bolts and rivets, t&i screws and bolts and 5$ rivets, making in all 2.SC6 pieces. The Farmer la Europe. Harold Frederic Ixm5on Letter. Emperor William will get his army bill through .much amended bnt in principle what he wanted. He will then have time to face a very serious agricultural agitation in Germany which is splitting up tho old parties and creating new strange alliances, forcing tbe Prussian crown to look for political support from the liberalized big towns and industrial centers, instead of old, crusted, rural Toryism. This is a very curious change not at all confined to Germany. Every year's expansion of the wheat fields of Dakota and increaso of milling activity in our lake cities piles new burdens on the aching back of the old world farmer all over Europe. Agriculture is at the point of revolt. Here in England the problem is being met, or rather eluded, in a characteristic way. The farm laborer has been captured by tho Liberals, who have persuaded him that the real trouble is landlordism, and have promised him that everything will be all right ay&tn when the landlords have been cleared out. On the more backward continent the laborer still assumes that his interests are the (tame as his landlord's, and both join in an an cry shout for higher tar ills against foreign breadstuff. William and other monarchs who are perplexed over this problem cannot take a leaf out of Gladstone's book and break the force of aerarian combination by arraying the laborer against his landlord because their very crowns depend on Keeping the laborer down and humbly in his place, but they must do something, and in Germany, at least, very soon, too.

TALES OF THE P0ST0FFICE

Interesting Stories Told by Inspectors of Their Cnrious Adventures. In Straightening Affairs of ths Service They Meet Queer People, and Encounter a Little Romance and Some Danger. The "Story of Our Postofflce." as written by Marshall Cushing, is a collection ' of facts and incidents not less interesting than a novel. The postal service of the United States is a vast system whose development is a part of the history of the i country, and whose workings aflect the interests of every citizen. Every phaso and feature of the system, from the duties of the Postmaster-general to those of tho remote country postmaster, are well described. The book is a mine of valuable information concerning tbe operations of all departments of the service, but among the facts and statistics are threads of romance and advonture. The inspectors havo a varied experience, and have related numerous tales of their travels to Mr. Cushing. A part of the duty of an inspector is to visit the ofiicea in bis distnc'; at certain intervals and to examine and report upon their condition. This is a mere form when the postmaster is honest and syatematio in the conduct of his business, as is usually tho case. Often, where thero is no dishonesty, . carelessness in keeping acconnts has wrought t confusion, and trouble is the result.' Another condition, when the inspector is greetea with uervous demeanor, is when the postmaster happens to be a woman, So anxious is she that her ofiice will appear as well as if it were conducted by a man, that she beoomes frightened at the sound of the word inspector. In this early part of the era of tho woman in business she has not generally been able to adapt herself to the methods of men in conducting atlairs. She lacka confidence from want of experience and long continued business habits, and though her work may be as good as a man's or better, she imagines it is faulty. In a small Southern town an inspector found the postmaster hard at work with a Bewmg-machine. "What is it?" she chirped lightly when he tapped upon the door of tho mail room. He responded by announcing his position and by asking admittance. Tho whirr of tho machine ceased, tUen a few moments of silence, and then r. door was opened by a woman with a fare that nature had been very mischievous in making, but it was covered with an expression of fear and amazement that detracted much from its gentle lines. The inspector . pretended not to notice the postmaster's embarrassment; but ho weighed its meaning. Very soon he conclded that tho possessor of such a face could not have been guilty of any serious violation of the postal laws; the manifestation must come from other cansey. Ko inspector had ever visited this otlice before, which might account for the excitement. News of the inspector's presence was passed from mouth to mouth until a number of tbe citizens gathesed in the lobby. The most frequent comment was that women were not fit for business, anyway, and this girl should never have been appointed, fcoveral of the crowd were bold enoush to ask how mnch the shortage was. All this, of course, only made the little woman more nervous. Finally she burst into tears. The inspeotor asked what was tho matter. "I don't know," she said, "but there must be something wrong or yon would not have come here. They say that inspectors visit only those offices that are not properly managed." .; Sio was told that the examinations were of a purely routine character; and it was shown that her books were correct in every particular, for higher excellence woula be hard to find anywhere. Then the crowd outside insisted npon poking their hands through the general delivery window for a congratulatory "shake." "One of the commonest abuses of tho malls, and the hardest to detect, is the claiming to have sent, or the claiming not to have received articles alleged to have been mailed. This is done not only by professional swindlers, but by and between friends and acquaintances. For instance, at Colorado Springs complaint was received from the postmaster at Kearney, Neb., that a small box, mailed shortly before from the tiprings. accompanied by a letter saying that the box contained a gold watch, was received empty at Kearney. The sender and addressee were cousins and presumably no fraud was intended. "I telegraphed to Kearney for the box, which 1 received the next day" says the inspeotor. "1 put my own watch, an ordinary one, in the box, and upon weighing the package then found it was deficient in postage, and npon weighing the empty box found there was just postageenongh to cover its carriage in the mails. This was good evidence that tho box was mailed empty, and especially so as the package was registered, because postmasters must nse extra care to see that registered packages are fully prepaid. There would naturally be doubt about a man's sending a gold watch by mail, either registered or unregistered, though it is too often done. When 1 visited the sender of the watch he strongly protested that he had inclosed tbe watch, and His wife declared she saw him do it and wanted to call in several neighbors to corroborate her. They protested eo much that 1 knew the watch was intentionally withheld. Then I told tho man that the postage was justenough to cover the mailing of an empty box. He replied: '1 hat may be, but some of tbe stamps fell oil' on the way. I remember very well of putting on more stamps.' "I asked bim what amount, and he answered, after figuring mentally a minute: 'Seventeen cents.' 'Yes added his wife, I remember, Charley put on 17 cents, becauso he came home and told me that the postmaster gave bim S cents change for a quarter. 1 got the quarter out of my bureau see, in there and I've got tne 8 cents now somewhere. If yon want to see 'em I'll get 'em for you.' Hut,' 1 suggested, 'was your watch a very heavy, extra thick silver-case watch like railroad men carry, or like mine?' "'Oh, thinner than yours light Swiss watch.' i " 'lint the box and mine would only take 14 cents, and yours would have taken no more postage.' "Oh, that's all right, because, now I come to think of It, I had a long talk with tbe clerk, and told him to put on 3 cents extra, solt would go all riant. 7 hat's the way it was.' " 'Well, then, come with me, and we'll see the clerk about it,' 1 said. He held oil' awhile, but went down. None of the clerks was 'tbe clerk.' While he was talking with tho postmaster, 1 drew up a letter to the district attorney, purporting to inclose the box and letter as evidence for him to prosecute the sender for fraudulent use of the mail, but the man held oat doggedly. I was engaged on some other matters until late that evening, but when 1 went to dinner 'Charley' was anxiously awaiting me. watch in hand. I had it sent forward duly to the owner at Kearney." "Sometimes an inspector will stumble upon clews most curiously. There had been a great number of losses reported on a 'star' route, and several vain efforts had been made to cateh the thief. I looked over the reports in the case and concluded 1 would take a new (plan of action. 1 left the railroad several miles above the office where the 'star' route came in, and there procured a horse and buggj and started out. A terrible wind and rainstorm came np. and, crossing a stream, the water ran away oyer the buggy aud I got very wet ana cold. Hut I drove up to a littlo store, and askod permission to dry my clothes and get something to eat for myself and horse. While waiting I fell Into conversation with a young physician, and soon found him very talkative. He told me that about once a week he would go to the railroad and have a good time. lie finally told me about a game of poker be had enjoyed on his last trip to Blacksville. and be said: ' W'y, I broke tho crowd, and Jo (calling

the assistant postmaster by name) had to pay me in stampsten-cent stamps and I would hold them until Jo got money enough to redeem them.' "Joe did not redeem them, for I had bim 'in' in three days, and he's learning a trade now. "We once had a complaint from a man in Missouri in regard to a land and lumber company. I found that tho person complained of was usingaletterheadof a company representing themselves as owners of one million acres of timber, coal and ironore land, with a capital of $250,000. The fellow turned out to be a crank, but be had taken in shotguns, molasses, fine setter dogs, flour, boots, shoes and numerous other articles. 1 found he had received by express and freightat different times large quantities of goods, and at tho depot 1 found a crate of tinware and agricultural implements of various kinds marked to his address. His last speculation related to ten head of Jersey cows. All the necessary evidence wan in. but he 'played the crazy racket and got clear, although he was bright enough to secure about $7,000 worth of stuff and money." "I was on an important green goods case," says another inspector, "where the postmaster bad been invited to assist New York green-goods people. They ottered him GC0 and he turned tbe bid over to tho Postoftlce Department, and Lellin and myself were selected to go to Olga, Mich. The postmaster was notified that we had come up there on business, aud we took him into our confidence. We asked the postmaster to accept this tender of 000 from the New Yorkers. The green-goods men sent out a letterhead in which they called themselves the Coal Hill and Trust Company, having ten directors and ten trustees, whose names appeared on this letterhead. Our scheme was to decoy these people from New York to get the accumulation of mail at Olga, so wo fixed up a letter, which the postmaster sent, saying that he was fearful that the inspector would come np and demand the mail, and that he thought the best thing they oould do. owing to the fact that he was not on friendly termswith the expressman, was to come out and express their mail to Now York themselves. The best thing they could do was to come and gbt their mail. "Then they opened np on tbe postmaster. They said: 'What will tho Postmaster-general think of yon when we go down to Washington and tell him that you have ottered to help ns for $C00 a year, and that you weakened and backed out?' The postmaster replied that they oould goto the Postmaster-general. They then sent several letters signed with alleged signatures of the chief inspector and Attorney-general, and linally the inspectors got another letter from New York saying that they proposed to write letters to such ana suoh people, showing what kind of a postmaster they bad at Olga. The postmaster

replied to that that he didn't care wnat they did. Along came a telegram then, saying. 'We will be -with you by tho 15th.' Soon he got another, this from Buffalo, giving the hour of their intended arrival. Friday morning, early, the fellow walked into the postoHice at Olga. He said: " 'Is this Mr. Shippenf My name is Mullen, and I see yon reoognize me. 1 want my brother's mail.' "That was not his brother's name, but he kept on: " 'You know who I am when I tell yon 1 want my brother's maiL Ho told me to give you fortv more.' "Ho pulled out 940, bnt did not lay it down. " lf you will have that mail wrapped up like an express package,'" he said, " T will be in about 8 o'clock. I will ask yon for the mail and be gone about my business.'" "1 chased tho fellow after be left . the office and halted him. 1 told him I was a government officer. He began fighting. Leltin, who had gone on ahead, ran back and said: ' 'See here, we're not here for any prize fighting or foot races. Better stop!' '- "We slipped the handcuff's on him and took; bim' to Grand v Kapids. He was searched, and there was some $75 in gold and greenbacks found on him, and a physician's prescription written inEaston, Pa. Lenin got on the train and went to Gaston, and found the doctor who wrote it it was for George Moyer. Everybody know him about there twenty-five years before. Ho would come back to Easton penodioally. Lellin then went back to New York and found that Inspector Byrnes uad a photograph of this fellow. He had been arrested in Michigan, charged with having beaten a farmer out of 3,000 on a card trick near Seymour, Ind. In that case they 'hung' the jury, and he was not convicted. After tbe jury bad disagreed be was remanded to jail and hia bonds reduced to $1,000; and threo men came to pny the money. So justice will miscarry." An inspector had a queer experience some time ago in a pretty little town in Maryland. As bis train neared this village he walked into the mail car and asked for the mail clerk, showed bis commission and put in a letter addressed to James Lancaster, a fictitious name. The letter contained a ton-dollar bill. The inspector stood npon the platform of the mail car wnen tbe tram stopped and tbe pouch was thrown otf. A boy took the pouch over his shoulder and started up the village street. There was a crowd of visitors inside the otlice who swarmed towards tho little desk. Tho inspector waited fifteen minutes until they had all gone to get their mail. He entered the place. A handsome girl, seventeen years old, and dressed in an old-fashioned bodice and light-colored skirt, sat behind the wire grating in a rocking cair. sowing. "Is there a letter here for James Lancaster!" he asked. "No," she said, after sorting some letters in a case marked "L." "i am sure tne letter must have come," eaid the inspector. "It's not here." "Are you the postmaster!" "No. I am the assistant. My father is the postmaster." "Who opened the pouch that came in by the last traint" "I did." "No one to help yon!" "No, sin" "May bo it's stnek in the pouch. I have heard of such things. Won't you look!" She took the pouch, turned it upside down, shook it and looked insrde. No letter. "Won't yon let me eome in and help yon look foritf" "No. No one is allowed in here." Tbe inspector drew out his commission. "May 1 come in now!" he asked. "Yes," blnshingj "I beg your pardon." "I mailed a letter myself to James Lancaster," tbe inspector said. "It is a fictitious name Lancaster. The letter was put in that pouch by the mail clerk on the train, who took a memorandum of it and locked the pouch in my presence. When that pouch was pat off at tho station I followed it. and kept it in sight until it was taken into the postollice. Now, yon say you opened it alone and that no one else touched it. Where is my letter!'' "I never saw it, sir. If yon doubt me, you can search me." The inspector began to pace the floor in deep thought. Tho girl, more beautiful than ever in her excitement, sat down in the chair, crossed her legs, and began to rock herself to and fro. "Call your mother, and she can search you in my presence." "My mother is dead." Again the inspector paced tbe floor. As ho walked back and forth he noticed the swinging feet of the postmaster's daughter. One of her stockings had fallen a little, and under it was tbe sbape of an envelope. "Your stocking has dropped." ho said. kThe girl turned scarlet and then white, and stopped rocking. She caught her breath and almost fainted. Then she recovered, took tho letter from its hiding place, handed it to the inspector ana burst into a llood of passionate tears. Tbe girl had admirers, as was natural; her father was miserly, not giving her the money even that was needed for a bright bit of ribbon, let alone a new dress. Mie had been tempted to take money from the mails for bits of finery. The inspector bitterly accused the old man of being the one to blamo. "I suppose yon will arrest her!" be said. "Will you make restitution of the sum stolen!" It was handed over. "Will you arrest her!" "If 1 did what would be her future! No; unless yon or sho tells this will never bo known."

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Urlef Excerpts Showing tbo Drift of Thought in the Month's Periodicals A Variety of Subjects, frcm American P itfici to Intelligence of Animal?, Are Ally t-L-cassed by tbe Best Writers. Animal Trial) by Jury. CaMoH's Magazine. Among the beavers it is undoubted thai courts are held and judicial function exercised, and the sentences carried out vrith most exact discipline. This is prove J by the fact that near to every beaver settlernent there exists a class of what are called "bachelor beavers. " This is composed of two sections, old males who had lost their mates and were held to be no longer of true nse to the community, nnd younger "bachelors" who had been expelled from the settlement for misconduct, idleness and laziness, more generally theft, and by a jury awarded a sentence of perpetual exclusion, a kind of penal servitude, which all the community of beavers wero bound to join in order to see thoroughly carried out. These "bachelors'' live alone, not in warm houses, protected by dams, as in community, but in holes in tho bauks of tbe rivcro prison cells, in fact where they just manage to live, aud where they can. at a pinch, succeed in storing sumcient winter food. Sometimes their privations must be great, but there is no escape for them. If they endeavor to build a proper beaver houseat all events, within ken of any of tbeir old associates it is reported, and it becomes the bonnden duty of the members of tbe community to turn out and destroy what has been don lVnal servitude among beavers really existed, as it does among ns. The beaver thief is compelled to work hard, in isolation from his family, and yet cannot secure the most primary personal comfortscan not exercise himself in that craft of con-. 6trnction in which alone he can hud true pleasure. He must atone to society for his fault, just as our convicted prisoners do. Any one who has seen the beavers at the zoological gardens ceaselessly comforting themselves and passing their time in constructing houses that they do not need will realize what a punishment a jury of beavers mete out to one of their own kind who is idle or lazy, or has been guilty of theft, or violated any of the essential laws of the beaver community, when they make bim a "bachelor" beaver aud will' cot let him erect a bouse near to them. Destruction of th Mave Trade. Henry M. Btaulej, in TIarr er'a Muff'ilnp. Tho partition of Africa among tbe Euro--pcan powers, as will have been seen, was the first elective blow dealt to the slave trade in inner Africa. The east coast, whence a few years ago the slavers marched in battalions to scatter over the wide interior of the continent for pillage and devastation, is to-day guarded by gcrri sons of German and British troops. The island of Zanzibar, where they v.vto equipped for their murderous enterpri.", is under the British liag. Trading steamers run up and down the coast, tbe Tana and Jub rivers are being navigated by British steamers: two lines of stations secure communications inland for three hundred miles from the sea. Major Von Witsman is advancing upon Lake Tanganika, 1 1 err Boorchert is marching upon Lake Victoria, Captain Williams is holding Uganda. These results have followed very rapidly the political rartition of the continent. The final blow has been given by the act of the Brussels anti-slavery conference, lately ratitied by the powers, wherein modern civilization has fnliy declared its opinions upon the question of slavery, and no single power will dare remain indifferent to them, under penalty of obloquy and shame. Opinions of the Aged. II. G Mr rwln, in Atlantic Monthly. But it is a lelicity of old age to hare no final convictions. In old age one perceives that it doea not make a pin's weight of difference to the universe at largo whethei he holds to this. or that theory; and therefore, without o lien so to his conscience, ht declines the gigautio task' of settling disputes that have divided great intellects and good men since the dawn of civilization. Who Am 1, he reflects, that I should pronounce between nominalism and realism, between the idealistic and the materialistic school, between aristocracy and democracy as forms of government! The old man can employ his mind better by pondering the good and tbe bad in opposing schools and systems. Nay. more, he will have a certain reverence for&ny system, religious, political or social, which has arisen spontaneously in the hearts of men, which has been nourished by their blood and tears. In short, to keep one's mind in a state of sympathetic poise better suits the serenity, the lassitude, if yoa will, of old age than to be a partisan in the thick of the light Final conclusions seem ideally necessary in youth, practically necessary in middle life, but in old age superfluous and misleading. Tho ISet Health Resort of America. Dr. Allan McLean IT am 11 ton. In the Marcn Fcrnm. I have been asked, "Why, for instance, should a man go to southern California, Colorado, or to Florida, or why should hi go to one of these places rather than to any other!" From a medical point of view, there is no doubt that tho winter climate of southern California, with no sudden changes, whero the air is warm and there is a peculiar kind of soft sea breeze that belongs to tbe Pacific, is admirably adapted to a certain class of consnmptires and to enflerers from organic nervous diseases. Colorado, on tbe contrary, possesses a high altitude, dry, clear, cold air. and stimulating influences like those of St. Moritzor Maloja, wbleb are specially adapted to the person whose nervous system is depressed; but, so far as my experience goes, it is likely to aggravate nervous disorders with excitement, epilepsy, or chorea, or, in iact, any neurotic disorder, though there are exceptions. Certain parts of Florida are adapted to thos who can stand an ordinary summer temperat ure, and if the drainage is good it has its advantages where the particular ailment is aggravated by cold. Who Are the Politically Corruptible? Anonymous Writer, In the March Fornm. As to the classes of men most easily accessible to corrupt influences, agents invariably agree. Easily first are leaders of workingmen's or farmers political movements. In estimating an elected body the members elected on such tickets are placed on the directly purchasable list without much inquiry. Next come the editors of country newspapers and newspapers in small cites; tbjn country lawyers and thai class of eity lawyers who usually seek such positions, though lawyers and editors, as a rule, prefer to gloaj over the transaction by tbe pretense of professional services, which . deceives no one concerned. Keligious profession rarely makes much difference) with politicians, althoagh it tends to render them more cautious and leadi them to insist on indirect methods of approach when both parties perfectly understand th end to be reached and ar6 equally anxious to attain it. The Ileal Monroe Doctrine. "American r.litlc." In Eevlow of Review. Of course this does not mean that tbe United States shnll go careering about the world in search of distress to succor, like Don Quixote. Nor does it mean a policy of entanglement in a flairs purely European nor a reversal of tbe Monroe dootrlne in any real sense. Bnt it does mean an in telligcnt and modern construction of that doctrine. The Monroe doctrine has never been defined in any statute or treaty; but its essence is clear enough. It means simply that tbe United States does not propose to interfere in any question! that beiosfj