Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 51, Number 18, Jasper, Dubois County, 15 January 1909 — Page 2

The Wonderful Elixir

Hy i:ttle M. lUj-imr.

In the corners of the long old room. should bring you back to me again with its lofty celling and quaintly- tthe one bit of brightness my uull carved wainscoting, the shadows were lifo had ever known), which should gathering thickly, and oven the search-1 make your young heart bent quickly in light from - tho high arched , as of yoro. and send your blood danenorth windows failed to dispel tho ing through your veins. And 1 havo tliH.m. for the winter twilight was nl- found it this wonderful elixir of tuoht over and night was near at , lifo and youth, for which the old hand. At a large oak table (a curious , philosophers sought in vain, which . r - . I 1-1 ...11. It.. AliAmliUit ,k-nil,ir

taiwe, wnow Druncmng ieoi wwb cuwum j icmivi

formed by the twisted bodlos of ser

pents with opened mouths and extended fanus) drawn close to one of the windows a man was seated. His finely shaiwnl head, with its long white hair, was leaned wearily against the hlgh- . arved back of his chair and the ineruless north litht brought out clearly and distinctly every feature of his strange face

On the table before him wero

ties the InUuieible essence of life

found It at last after all these weary years without you. And to-night you shall come bock to me, my bride that was. my wife that is to be. as young and lovely ns you wero on that never-to-be-forgotten day." He rose to his feet and stood boside her. his tall figure seeming to have become more erect and the Are

of youth Hashing again in his deep

I'll lilt tU i I U lH 141 14 v V f J. J V W . It 0 - ransed a motley collection of oild-j set eves. Though apparently calm

shaped vials and flasks filled with

ar:ous Moulds, some or wnicn

he was In reality strung up to tho

hiebest nitch of excitement. uraw

gleamed like gtms in the thickening in.; from his pocket a tiny xneiisur-

piutini. Wime Wiera suuwu uh n w , iwr

wi rd yellow light like a cat s eye in tr-e dark. His long, slender hands, like y-1-It'W'd ivory, which rested on the arms of his chair, opened and closed ionulMely. This was the only slgu cf life he betrayed. Presently he began to mutter to himself in a low tone: To-night! 1 will put it to the test the final test to-niRht ! For surely the Elixir has stool all previous tests anil now it only needs this crowning prtf of its infallibility." He leaned over the tab! and lift

ed a beautifull -shaped flask loving

thulty owin to the unsteadiness of hi hnn.li a small Quantity of the

liquid from the flask he still held in his hand. Then placing the precious flash on the floor near him, ho turned to the quiet figure before him. Gently, with a little ivory instrument, ho pressed the closed lips apart and poured the contents of the vial between them, then breathlessly, with oyes riveted to her face, ho watched to see the elixir take effect Gradually, so gradually that any eye less keen and loving than his would have failed to notice the

almost Imperceptible change, a tinge,

h in his hand The transparent as faint as that of a blusn rose, stoie

trvstal. the fluid it contnined. glowed into her white cheeks, her Hl pnrtetl like a gem like some rare ruby i slightly, nnd her bosom began to rise shining through a delicate mistlike ' and fall regularly as tho heart that uii. had lain so long dormant took up its A.- he withdrew the stopper a drop work again, fi.l from it into his hand, looking "Ah, it was not for nothing I for ai! the w--rU like a dr--p Ji' Mood pored over those old black-letter fr-.-h drawn from some rr.es heart, folios so faithfully. ' he cried, exultingHe r. placed he stopper at last, after iy. -At last, my long years of labor snx .ling an 1 examining the fluid are crowned with a great success." tri', ally, handling the flask as j Then leaning over her, he called

Kut! as If he were touohine some softly. "Tanna."

1. . m; thing which was pn-eious to

Lit.. nd in ery trutn, me ihiuiu.

The lone lashes oulvered on tho

soft eheeks. and round her lips stole

a . ... ..,.)...... ... ,i. ..i.iA - i- .. nn.(iA - t- if l'Iiu .iron ni ni

I . J.V!Il t- liuioair n HJippj, Blunt', Of . v.. ....... -. - httante life of it own and to ra'n him and found the dream passing l,.i,,v-.ion of it he had spent man gweet. Ion:, laborious ears ot his own dfe. , Yanna," he called more loudly, ai Still with the flask in his hand ne ; t to reach the ear dulled by so long p.-e and walked slowly to he a slumber. farther end of the long ro.m. He Then came the realization of all npiw-arwl lot in thought, not notic- j j,is dreams and desires. The long Ir.; the nols) scampering of the n ice ( lashes were lifted and the large dark l. hir.d the wains oting at they hur-: eVn smiled back gladly into his ne! away at his approach, and push- wait in ones. Itij: aside al.-ent-mindedl a long Heinrich." she murmured, caresii.:w.b whi !. in eomtiny with; singly, and held her white arms out i.th.-rs. hung fmm the ciitng and : ingly toward him. ir-ished his heek as he passed With a wild burst of passion he ni'ir.e;. The room, overlaid witn , raised her in his arms and strained c ;.-r as it wa seemed to belong to ' ner to him. But even as he held her the p?t and rot to the busv present, ' cir. feeling her heart beating and he. this old Herman doc'r of met- j against his own. and realising the .vi, xir. its soie Kcupant. was in consummation f all his hopes, a harmony with his surroundings. strange sensation passed through Pu-hir.K ast.:- th moth-eiTE dam- him. The slender form he held ask curtain which hung over the wall teemed to be growing lighter and bt fore him. h pressed hi finders iiun ; urht er, and shrinking within his the caned head of an Ai. that ! caper embrace. formed part of "the wainscoting. Inj Laying hor gently down, bn answer to his light touch a panel of tho watched with anguish the awful wall slid aside leaving n large aper- j change which was coming over the ture in its place. He passed thro-igh, beautiful face. and. closing the secret door behind Ah. Yanna, my little one, my love! him. entered the room whkn lay be- j what is It that has come to you! What yt nd. fatal mistake havo I made in the elixir It was Indeed a -t range place and that it Is bringing death, not life, to presented almo-t the aspect o a you!" mausoleum. Tho room was octagon-! " Then ho sprang desperately to his ai jn shape and wlndowles. while feet and stood looking down at the the walls were carved in panels woman for whom he had tolled for win. h txtendtd from floor to ceiling. 30 long years. Before his horrorwuh narrow tn-atings at the top to stricken eyes the beautiful face and admit air. The hum of the busy world supple form with its graceful curves without these quiet walls sounded ; Bhrank over smaller and smaller, till rau'lled and far away. And the noise ' nothing was left but yellow shrivof the heavy wagons rattling over the s 8fcin and shrunken bonos, liko rough cobble stones of the old German j some mummy of old Egypt, citv did not disturb the reverie of tho An1 thcn Oh. ve gods, that he man who had Just entered that silent shottW navo lived to behold such ruom It was lighted by a globe-like ( horror8 As he watched her with lamp of crimson Bohemian glass which braJn on ftr0 anii breaking heart (for

swung by sienuer cnnins irora 111 ; m. ag he misht he could not tear cen'f-r of tho ceiling, and directly un- t . fascinatC(i gaze away from her).

der it stood the object upon wnicn me

old man s gate was riveted.

On a long, low couch, like a bier, draped all in ruby velvet, which hung in soft folds to the dark polished oak floor, stood an ivory casket, the only f imifiire the room contained. The

doctor approached it sottly. as if

his fascinated gaze away from ner).

there came the last most awwi change of all; and dlwolution (that great organic force that works so much more rapidly than growth) reduced to nothingness before his very eyes that which had onco been the Int'n rf Vila life.

ivy . V w " - - - ' -

With a wild cry of "anna. an-

UIH Uli UflUUtllii l cu"; I IUI H IUI VAJ ui fearing to disturb the woman whona" hla breaking heart gave way. He . ... . - T , 1 - . Ä n.n.a.A 1 1 .1 ...fn.v . . Kl nrmo

lay wunin iu umu some iiiib swiuo 'staggered, anti nirowius i' or Übe the far-famed sleeping prin- j fen lifeless across tho empty bior. . & fc . I mm tHlA äs a t r v InAnt . 1 .HAln,l nllo Wltlffht 1 T (ha

CPSS Ul inf lairs, anc , WnllG inO JUlUUlUii

Willi nuttni vjlio ttiiw asfc-wi iii'df - nOllOW MMIllU, ouu t;vwi hfr long curling lashes casting a 1 ghastly mimicry the old well-loved shad w on the whiteness of her ; name: "Yanna, Yanna." And across cheeks, seeming as If In a gentle the floor llfce a stream of blood, from slumber, though her sleep was thnt j tne broken flask, flowed the wonderful

whii n Knows no waning, not olixir. sunny aouui. aubhw.

S11K roue mil Hie luuuu i uuu wium j

etnoed on either side from hor per

fect face and rippled In shining masses to her feet. Tho lamp above her cast a faint glow on hor fair face, giving it almost a semblance of life. The doctor sank on his knees beFlde her nnd drew a strand of her shining hair across his llp3. 'Oh, my perfect one, my swoethoart," ho murmured, passionately. "Who would dream that you had slept like this for 30 long years? Those credulous fools who saw you dlo on our wedding day when that fatal valve gave way In your heart, and who think you are burled In the old cemetery on tho hill, what would they think of my powers and my knowledge of the black art now! How reverently they carried that casbct filled with nothing but stones

-.r(mln.-il Finncrc.

Remarkable testimony to the value of the new system of identifying crlm trials by their finger impressions was atforded In the casw of a man charged ni iimlnn with theft While In Hoi-

lowny prison the accused hail finger

imtirosfllons taken, nnd they wero

fnunit tn nrrord with those of a man

cnntancMl nt Konfllntr in 1&99 tO SlX

months' hnrd Inbor for a Jewel rob

bery. Prisoner, who gave a umorent

name, admitted that ho wns the man.

The Undying Past

-By F. HA'R'KIS HEAJV

Dreyfus Stilt Unpopular.

FvCnptnln Dreyfus Is still having great trouble to get a flat In Pari. Recently he succeeded In obtaining he Ioofo of a place in the Boulevard tnlrtulinrhrt hut the on tanluc tnnnnL

casbct filled wth nothing hut stones', , Covered who was his bucto Its last resting plaeo under the CM f , h, to te

pines. Did they think wou let , h neceliwry nttruoUoni, jou go away from mo like thai, my i . ..holsterer and decorators.

10 .-Sr. V2I hi whin Z , Tho rarls courts have now ordete-1 you back to the home which was to Q dmJt M Dppyfus, ftRrp hae been yours, and by the aid of . f h ü

some rafe old remedies wuicn l nnti ,,,rÄt.Qn of thp lai,e learned from my master, Dr. Fail- lrAtlon or tue ieae. tu. who was a pnstmnster In thews Bane magic arts. I kent you as you ' Football.

w r the day you died, as young and Littlo Emerson Mother, football fmr ns the irfrttah hrtita wlirwe I will- must lie a rerv hetortxloxiral came

ty was to have brightened my an- ' Mrs. Browning (of Boston)- In what clont gltwtny house, who loved tno - regard. Emerson? and mo alone though I had passed I Littlo Emerson Why. William Hn!f-

tho half- entury stone and my hair hack Informs mo thnt I can be present

wan turnmc white even then. And i and "root" for the game nil right, even all these years I havo studied and though I am not nt all familiar with

labored to discover an elixir which its rudimentary principles. Judjjc.

She was tho prettiest of maids, in the daintiest of sun-bounots; 'but his eyes were fixed on tho little white gate. He approachod It with reverential steps. It was hero thoy had met; It was here they had parted. That summer of 'SS never had there been such another summer. Ho felt himself senile, prehistoric. Involuntarily his shoulders bowod, his face grew creased with wrinkles. It was not until he raised his eyes and saw himself observod by the lady that he rognlned his youth. Though startled, he lost nothing of his customary graco. "I crave your pardon," he murmured,

doffing a hat which disclosed no grizzled locks.

She aranted It with a gracious bow;

and then, ns he still lingered, raised Inquiring, almost protesting eyebrows. Wns she not a woman? Would she not sympathize with his pilgrimage? He resolved to confide in her.

"I am rovlsltlng." he said according

ly, "the scenes of my boyhood."

"Indeed!" said she. "it was somo

time ago?" Twenty years." he sighed, "by the

calendar; by memory, yesterday."

"You soe." he explained difiusoness was not one of his failings "sho was my first love."

"How romantic! Do you remomuer

her name?"

"I shall never forget lt. Her nnmo

ho groped In the rececses of his memory "her namo was Mnbol."

"Mabel," echoed the young lady, her

Hp between her teeth. "It was here" he lnld his hand affectionately upon the gmo "we flrst

met"

"It's wet," she warned him. He withdrew his hand hastily. "It had Just been painted," he

mentioned as a strange coincidence.

"on that unforgettable day. She had

on a white frock, but I wore a red

blazer; I went to bed without tea that

night. At the time It struck me as a hardship, but now. to feel again that

divine thrill. I would gladly sutler

such martyrdom."

"Twentv years." ho mused. "Time

is a curious whirligig. Everything U gone, but the old gate remains."

Sho shook a regretful head. "It's tho third I remember; It was

only put up yesterday."

"At any rate." he consoled Minsen

after a momentary pause "its where

the old gate used to stand."

Tho girl hesitated and glanced at a

spot some yards lower down, but being unwilling, perhaps, to shatter another illusion, held her pence.

"I feel." mentioned the young man, as though I wero again seven." "Was It exactly twenty years ago?" "This very month." he assured her. You were not then born." She admitted the fact "And you came," she suggested, "to

visit her her shrine?"

"Her tomb." he corrected. "My

little sweetheart slumbers beneath the sods of twenty years. Her only monument Is doubtless a stout matron, and her epitaph. 'Mrs. Somebody. And yet I am probably hor ojdy mourner."

"Your constancy is remarkable," "It Is so oasy," ho murmured, "to

bo constant to a memory. It s not

until one's Ideal materializes that the

strain comes.

"She may not be stout." remarked

tho girl, seoking to cheer him. "After all. twenty years" . . .

"It was hereditary." he said, sadly.

"The fear haunted mo even then."

He glanced at tho house. "Thnt was hor window," he Indicated. "Oh," said the girl, "oh. really!" "Every morning I would come and whistle beneath It, nnd she would pull the curtains on ono side and smile

down at me. We would go out to

gether nnd awaken tho Inrks to emu lation I taught her to cycle." "To cycle," half protested his listen or: "twenty years ago."

"It was early In tho morning," he romlnded her, half reproachfully, "and we saw no harm in it. Tho bicycle was much taller than we were, which

made mounting difficult and dismount

Ing less difficult, perhaps, but even

more dangerous.' "You were on a holiday." "A month. How wo wept at part

ing hero, at this self same gate, or. rather, what was the gate then. I broke a slxpenco In half. I remember.

for a keepsake. He smiled remlni

scently and glanced at his hand. "I

have tho scar still."

"And to think thnt you should be

living here."

The girl gnzed nt him with puckered

brows and eyes which hinted at secret

amusement. "Somebody must live hero," she re marked. "Wall, yes," ho ndmlttod; "one can not expect constancy of a houso."

Tho remark draw a scornful smile

to her lips.

"Had you found her here you would

havo been sorry.

"You ihlnk so? You havo seen hor;

she Is much chsnged?"

"She Is my slstor," said tho girl,

calmly.

The young man gnzed at tho distant

trees In silence for a moment; when

his eyes came back to hor, sho saw

thev wero full of a strange wonder.

"Her sister." he repented, and his

volco had tnken on a now tone; "and

she"-

"She has not forgotten you," she said gravely. Her volco shook n little

as sho addod, "and sho is not mar riod."

"She Is" His questioning glance

traveled to the house.

Th girl shook her bond, nnd hor eyes caught his ns If they would rend his most secret thoughts. "Sh returns tomorrow. If you still care to meet her, you may come nnd have tea with us. If not I hall say nothing of this meeting." "Thank you." he said quietly; "I shall be here." But she. as hi footsteps died away down tho road, shook her head doubt-mgly.

"You?" sho criod. almost In dismay.

"You didn't expect mo? "No," she ndmlttod. Tho tablo seemod to boar out hor stntomont. or, If visitors had boon oxpectod, but sparso provision had boon made for them. "Your slstor has not arrived?" Sho nodded assent, nnd hor oyes sought tho tip of a restlos shoo. "I'm so sorry." sho niurmurod, nftor a slight pause. Ho smtlod consolingly. "After twenty years," ho said cheerfully, "another day" "I don't mean that." She hesitated nnd Hushed. "I-I haven't tt sister." Her eyos now mot his brnvoly. "But" "I know. I told a lie." Hor volco wns linn, though the effort was apparentthe tone of n sinner who awaits punishment, white facod, but unshrinking. "I thought you wero tolling a story. Don't interrupt, please. I said the girl wns my sister to frighten you. I never dreamed you would come this afternoon." Her white hand Quivered ns it lay on the table, and she bent hor head before him. "I thought you made up the story as an excuse to peak to mo." Tho young man's Hps twitched. "Don't reproach yourself." ho said softly; "I did." Tho Skotch.

ONE WOMAN

In the World Was a Full-Fledged Mason Years Ago. In the elaborate History of Freemasonry in Canada, Mr. J. Ross Rob

ertson. Past Grand Master of the

Grand Lodgo of Canada, writes as fol

lows:

"An incident In connection with the

Grand Lodgo of Ireland will bo of in

terest to Canadians. It was in Ire

land that Elizabet.i St. Leger, daugh

ter of tho first Viscount Donernile.

was initiated into Freemasonry about

1710. History relates that she hid her

self in a room adjoining that in which

the lodge worked iu Doneraile Castle.

She married Richard Aldworth, of Newmarket. In the Comity of Cork,

who was a distant relative of the late

W. Bro. Mattlce. a P. M. of Lodge 235. Paisley, Ont. The early period

fixed for this unique inception is most

remarkable, but the evidence discovered of late years abundantly con

firms the fnct."

A recent American traveler In Ire

land had an opportunity of visiting Donernile Castle and seeing tho very

room In which Mrs. Aldsworth (or Miss St. Leger) hid herself on the

memorable occasion to which Mr. Rob

ertson's narative refers. He has changed her name from Elizabeth to Mary and has substituted 1725 for 1710

as the date of the Incident. As to tho

lady's namo, Mr. Robertson is right.

But the date was probably later than 1710. Mr. M. M. Shoemaker, the trav

eler to whom reference has been made,

and whose informant was Lord Castle

town, son-in-law of the fourth Vis

count Doneraile. gives 1C15 ns the date of Mrs. Aldworth's birth and 1775 as

the date of her death. She was, there

fore, thirty years old at the time of lur

initiation and lived for half a century after that experience. Mr. Shoemaker has a portrait of her In her early youth, which disclosed her as a beautiful woman. Tho picture of her thnt he has reproduced for his readers is that of a mature woman of about 45 years of ago. She was unmarried when discovered In tho lodgo room, and her threatened doom was the death of a spy. Her hiding place was the great clock. In remembrance of which the lady who had risked so much had to wear certain ornaments on her stockings. Mr. Shoemaker was shown her Masonic emblems. The room (nn alcoved apartment), with book cases arranged around the walls) Is. he believes. Just as It was when the lady's discovery startled the lodge. Mrs. Aldworth's portrait (the one reproduced) presents "a strong, determined countenance," with just the shadow of a smile. The expression of the face has some relation to the passage In the book Indicated by the forefinger of hor lefthand, as she fronts the reador. Her right hand Is placed above tho heart. Her smile is calm, as if she were mistress of tho situation. She is richly, but not at all showily dressed. She wears a sort of a ruff. Her arms, well developed, and shapely, are bare to the elbow. If the book be meant for a Bible, her finger is pointing to somo passage in tho Gospels. When tho Indy's presence In the Iodgeroom was discovered, the members of the lodgo wero nearly all for putting her to death. Among those who sided with the harsh majority was Elizabeth's future husband. After relenting he "so plead for her thnt her Ufo was spared nnd she was mado a full-fledged Mason, tho only one In the world's history." In later years, ns Mr. Shoemakor was Informed, Mr. Aldworth was more than sorry that he had not adherod to his original purpose.

The Mouth Organ Trade. Although the United States Is by far the largest purchaser of harmonicas, comparatively few of them nre made In this country. Most of tho mouth organs sold hero are Imported from the Black forest, whore one factory alone turns out somo C.OOO.000 harmonicas In the course of a year. This establishment employes 2,000 hands. Only the higher grade of harmonicas are of domestic make, since it is impossible to compete with tho German articles In the cheaper grndes mostly sold, but at the same time most expensive mouth organs nro nlso obtained from Germany because of the care used In their manufacture.

As a hrvstop Rounded, nn the gravel ath the girl lookt d up with a start.

A Contrast In Dinners. A French writer has ascertained thnt Napoleon's favorite dish wns bean salad nnd that he held that CO cants n day ought to be enough for any olio's meals. Louis XV., on the contrary, had a favorite dish, mado of tho oggs of various birds, which cost $100.

Fiesta Season in Mex,

HELIGIOVS- FEST I VA L, U 1 T MEXlC O USE, R V JS IT UV G u M Ii L I JVC

The Battleship Ram. The battleship ram was first usotl In the civil war of 1S01-6 In the action between tho Föderal fleot nnd the Confederate ironclad Virginia or Morrlmac, In Hampton Roads, 1SC2.

Tho fiesta season In Mexico Is just concluded, ending with tho Clirlstinns holidays. It is n religious fiesta, colebnitlng in honor of Our Lady of Gtutdalupo, but the principal feature of tho celobrntion Is tho gambling of the natives. Nowhoru else in the world does such a condition prevail. Everything, from a Mexican penny ns big almost as an American half dol

lar and worth Just half as much ns i ono of tho American copper cents up j to big sums in gold, Is lnld as a wngor i on the gambling table. And every game known to man is offered for thu sportive Mexican with a desire to1 "buck the tiger" and tho desire is In! tho hearts of all; it must bo, for they all "buck" It to their last cent A I Mexican Is a good losor nnd tho same

nun ui ;i winner, uo can piny nil tiny for a few pennies or n few dollars, according to his station in life and tho size of his hots, and always his face wears the same stolid look. Win or lose, a smile rarely over illumines his face, nor docs his manner change. Americans gamble for the money nnd when a "bunch" of them ontor one of the casinos at a Mexican border town in fiesta time they wake things up. Not so with the Mexican. Ho gambles for fun nnd he never hurries. If ho loses he merely shrugs his shoulders, gets up from the table, stretches, and ambles off. either for home or work or to the pawn shop to ralso somo more money to resume tho game next day. If he wins he gets up only when ho feels that it is necessary to sleep or eat, but always with tho sumo stolid Indifference to his luck or surroundings. He puffs his cigaret as nonchalantly when the luck Is with the denier as when it Is coming his way and he never gets "rattled." The Mexican Is always serious when he Is having his fun. A bull fight will bring forth a few cheers and "vivas," and sometimes the fireworks thnt a paternnl government explodes for his amusement on a patriotic holiday will elicit an exclamation of appreciation, but seldom does he change countenance unless something unusual hap

pens. Whether It Is at the cockfight! when his best rooster flops over dead In tho dust or knocks over the other I rooster and utters his crow of victory; I in the bull ring when his favorite mat-j ador stabs a bull to tho death, or at) the gambling table, ho is generally always the same quiet, slow-going, but sure, individual. To bet with a Mexl-j can is second nature, and It is a seri-i ous matter with him. Hence there is J

no frivolity about It. This lends an attraction distinctively different from anything nn&where else to their fiostns, for gambling Is

the chief event of a fiesta. It Is tho , concession for the gambling privileges ( that pays all the expenses of the. music, the fireworks, and tho other; fentures of the annual observance in j honor of the greatest mythical rolig-j lous idol In the country. Tho celebrations are always held in the shadow of the village church, for while church nnd state are officially separate In I Mexico, all the soclnl features of tho; average Mexican town center about i tho ancient whitewashed adobe struc-j ture erected by some band of venture-j some nnd pious padres away back in the long ago. Large buildings of sheet j iron or lumber are erected In these!

plazas for the blggex games, and In the space between the smaller tables are operated tho tables where 5 cents Is a big bet and a claquer the big copper penny Ib the rule. Inside the big structures tho bands play and the dancers sing and dance to hold the crowds. Here the wheels of tho brightly colored roulette games whirr twenty-four hours a day and tho tobacco smoke Is so" thick that breathing is next to Impossible. It Is those games thnt attract the Americans, for hero the gold and the silver and tho bills pass over the green cloth and tho wagors of the game aro high. It Is

theso games that pay tho exp tho celebration. Ono man i, concession and gets out of it ho can. Joso Touche, known c huahua n3 "Touche tho Tun ?30,000 In Mexican money for llego of operating tho Kam id cessions in Ciudud Juarez. El Paso, this year. As interacting the houses for his v paraphernalia, paying for dancers, and employes to o gnmos Is tremendous. In ad' tho purchase price of tho to from the municipality, It Is n . parent that a groat deal goes ovor the cloth and that it over comes back, for the ti. od lasts only from four to m. Outside tho big "stalls" the mils with tho penny games an ted to operate free of churn theso who lend tho touch of the entire celebration. It is h tho peon smokes and play i indifference to his surround hours und hours un a few pom It is here that the American greatest amusement n sp. Inside the "stalls," where games nre In operation, the of tho players nre Americans wealthier Mexicans und forei, all classes, bent upon winning upon having the real onjoym comes to the peon nnd the lain bets his pennies at the little g the outside. Not only aro there gnmblin of every description known but where there is not a v tablo of some chnracter and ci sido nn aged Mexican wonuu senorita. or an alllictetl old in. something for sale. It may i. of "dulce" candy for a pern may be a hot cake fried in gn sulls for the samo price or especked npples for a Mexieai but it is all picturesque an helps to make up the pictur tlon's peculiar way of celeb religious festival. Through It nil Is the pj presslonless, careless indifft manner. The hawker of the , street fair is not in evidenc there anything to remind tli that, such a person ever exist, aged woman with h'-r htm. pumpkin candy, the senorita grease cakes, tho crippled with his gunnysack of pen mi to sell as small or ns large an as the purchaser Is willing sit in the same place for ho time. St. Guadalupe Is one of t picturesque figures In the history of the country'. Tin goes that she appeared to , priest out of Mexico City ways and told him that he c water nt a certain spot tha sure cure for all Ills. Th'ti dess, as she Is called h-re herself Into a beautiful bunrl blown roses, tho padre plurk wrapped them In his s ra started for the point Indira;

found the springs as the god. described, but when he unrt serape tho roses had disappei had taken form in all thelf color on the serape. A grn was erected on the site, th. was hung within its walls, am to this day. The church of f of Gundnlupe Is the scene of ages of the afflicted on all fe at Mexico City, and they ev from the interior thousands nwav to bathe in the cleat of the spring. The church with crutches left behind by t ful, nnd who Is there to say waters are not all the godd thoy wore? And why shou Mexican people enjoy the apart In honor of such a ptui Is a time of colobratlon, not o thoy say.

LORE REGARDING PEARLS. Ancient Beliefs and Superstitions Touching These Beautiful Gems. The belief prevailed In Asia, and was shared, to a certain extent, In Europe, that pearls woro produced from non-molluscan sources. To this

persuasion may be traced the lines of John Bimyan, written in prison as nn apology for his immortal work; A ponrl may In a toad's head dwell. And may bo found In an oyster shell. Shapespoare himself alludes to tho same superstition in tho familiar passago: "Which aro the uses of adversity, Which, liko the tend, ugly and venomous, Wenra yot a prqclous Jewel In his h?ad." Tho authors refer to tho work of a Kashmir physician of the thirteenth sontury, who speaks of tho origin of pearls "from bamboos, coconnuts, heads of elephants, hears, serpents, A-hales, fish, etc," but they dismiss with a lino n much earlier nnd more celobrtd allusion to the same subject. Among tho gifts sent to the Great Asoka by the ruler of Ceylon, according to the Mnhawninsn, were eight vnrietles. Including the gaju (elephant), haya (horse) nnd walaya (conch) pearls. At tho sumo time, the authors rightly explain that, in this extended sense, the term "signifies only hnrd concretions of a spherical form." The gnjn "pearl," for Instnnce. Is a small Ivory sphere, highly prized in the East, nnd believed to bo secreted In the tusks of elephants. The value of pearls In tho ancient world appears to havo boon fabulously high. Pliny states thnt thu two famous pearls which Cleopatra woro at tho celebrated banquet to Mnrk Antony "the singular and only Jewels of tho world, nnd oven Nature's wonder" wero worth fiO.000.O00 sestertii, equivalent to 1,875,000 oz. of silver. Suotonand heavy pearls, brought by an nrnlus relates that two remarkably largo bassador for tho Empress, found no purchaser when offered for sale by Alexander Suvcrus, and that tho

Emperor hung them In the tho statue of Venus, saying: "If the Empress had such p would set a bad example to t men by wearing an orname much value that no one coub it." In spite of their cost pe. Untied to he used so profuse Roman world that Pliny exn "'It Is not sufficient fr wear pearls, but they must and walk over them'; and th wore pearls even In the si of the night, so that in th they might be conscious ol lithe beautiful gems." A sumptuary law of Ca"f; them to women beneath n rank, while Martini, Tibul Horace Inveighed against tingnnce thoy caused. In Hinges similar extraxngnnce ca similar legislation in Franco. Germany and other countries. The Arabs, after the eluhth Introduced a new use for p Europe. They were suppost tain extraordinary medlclal n cnl properties, nnd to possess ful Influence In human affairs heavenly bodies. A dlffeton Inspired a different service: In wine, thoy wore consider rich a banquet. The clastiHon that Cleopatra dissolved : loss pearls as a tribute to disposed of by the authors as cable, for the reason that t do not dissolve without 1" vlously pulverized. They re: when powdered, however. Thomas Gresham Is credl

having drunk a pearl worth to tho henlth of Queen Eli? ordor to win a wager ng. Spanish ambassador. Th "poarl" itself seems not to li Into general use In the En gunge until tho fourteenth r From a Review of "Tho Um Pearl," in London Times. Naturally. Tho wny sho "cuts" ncquai Makes ono Buspoct Tho scot that sho bolongs t Must be the vivisect. Town