Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 2, Petersburg, Pike County, 21 May 1897 — Page 3

— fike€otttttgimo«at M*C. STOOPS. Editor id P«c.prl®tor. PETERSBURG. INDIANA. A NICE ARRANGEMENT. BY CONSTANCE SMITH. 1 [Copyright. MW.l “I don’t want him at all,** said Mrs. ©t Julian. t“Then why not tell him so?** returned her husband, from behind the outspread Times. “Surely you needn’t atand upon ceremony with Ted!” “But I should be sorry to disoblige him—and, unluckily, he seems really anxious to come. He says”—referring to a letter which lay open beside her plate—“that the Morrisons have put him off on account of their mourning, and he can’t go to Mary, because her children are down with scarletina—” “Then he must e’en make the best of things here. I don’t suppose he’ll find Harding and his boys very congenial company.”

“Congenial! Eleven cricketing youths who will describe everything iu heaven and earth as ‘rippinV And half a dozer girls to match—I chose them to suit the boys’ taste." “Well, Alleyne comes—if he does come —rather for his own convenience than to please you. So you needn’t take the matter greatly to heart." “But I must get some one to talk to him. Tom. I can't have him on my bunds all day. Let me see. Maud Affleck's at home—I think I'll ask her over. She knows nearly as much about the Mongols as he does. I will write to her at once. She must come on Monday afternoon. Ted proposes to arrive by the 7:15. The house party assembled for the Cumberleigh cricket week—consisting of the fatuous Cambridge Double Blue. Norman .Harding, and his eleven; the maidens invited to admire the prowess of those heroes: Miss Affleck; and the St. Julians themselves—was gathered together in the long library when Prof. Alley ne entered it at eight o'clock on Monday evening. His entry—wery quietly made—was followed by a geaerui sensation of disappointment. The youthful company hungrily awaiting his appearance to adjourn to its dinner had es pee ted to find in him a more typical specimen of the professional genius; it had looked for a long-haired scholar of 50, who should have stooped, and worn spectacles, and an ill-fit-ting coat. Now Alleyene (who appeared to be about five-and-thirty, and was | bv no means ill-looking) had a singularly upright figure; his clothes were - perfectly well cut; he used uo glasses, j end actually boasted a mustache, j Maud Atfleck, who had been promising, herself deep draughts at the fountains of his erudition, reflected sadly that his profound knowledge of all things Mongolian had probably been much exaggerated by report. * Two hours later, on the men coining into the drawing-room. Mrs. St. Julian beckoned the professor to her side. “Well, bow did you get on at dinner? I saw your partner seemed to be enjoying herself. Clever girl, isn't she?" “Why on earth did you tell her who I was?” demanded the professor in re- ! turn. •“My dear Ted, I didn’t tell her any- j thing. , She knew all that was to be known about you, beforehand. Most; people seem to know- you beforehand, j That's the penalty you pay for being j famous." Mrs. St. Julian showed her i pretty teeth in an engugingsmile. “1 did not suppose." he began, in a! mollified tone, “that a young lady—” “But Maud is no ordinary young lady, j Surely you must have discovered that I for yourself. She was educated at Gir-1 too—" “I felt sure of it," murmured the professor. “-*And ahe took a first-class in his- J tore. (Not that that's anything, com- j pared with what she’s done since. Dr.; Duns tan told me. only last week, that t something she wrote a little while ago j had made two bigwigs in Berlin ‘sit ’; »p,’ as he expressed it.) Won’t yon go] and talk to her? I'm sure she's dying to ask you questions about the Mongols." “Thank you—I had quite enough of that interesting subject during dinner Besides, you mistake. These tripos heroines never have anything left to J learn. It is enough for them to get an j opportunity of airing their own opia-! ions." “Maud isn’t at all that sort of girl, 1 assure you. She is most anxious to im- i prove herself. Have you noticed her hair? Isn't it odd and pretty?" The professor looked again. The hair j in question—a dusky red. set off to admiration by the girl’s white&tia gow n, was undeniably curious, and—ves, it j

was prvttj. "Miss Affleck seems to hokl aloof from | your other guests.'' he remarked. "If you iihink she would really prefer miking to me to—to—“ ■ "Spending the evening by herseifV i Oh* 1 am sure of it.** Mrs. St, Julian's eyes were innocence Itself. But the professor did not like her tone. Me rose, and sauntered across the room in the direction of Miss Affleck's comer. Miss Affleck, wise in her generation, lot the Mongols severely alone-and not for that evening odIt. She refrained from mentioning them for two whole days, daring which she made herself so unobtrusively agreeable that the professor began to forget she had ever stud- j led at dirt on. and to wonder how his armsi a Laura could have described her ] Stair as "odd." But cn the third morning she resumed the subject, in a fash-; . ion w hich showed she meant business. 1 No sooner had the great Harding and Ms team (attended by Mrs. St. Julian and her bevy of girls) started for the cricket ground after breakfast than she descended upon the professor, who was yuufdtr smoking under the great m.c

cedar on the lava, with her arms foil of papers, and her fine eyes alight with eagerness. “Mr. Alleyne—yon are so kind—I’m sure you won’t refuse to help me!” This appeal was uttered with a tremulous confidence which some men would hare found extremely engaging. Not so the professor. He knew too well all fha% such an appeal portended. Reluctantly he made room for the newcomer on the bench beside him, and looked ruefully at his pipe. “I wanted to ask you—oh, please go on smoking! I like it. Your cousin tells me you are writing a great book on the peoples of northern Asia.” The professor could hare groaned aloud. Perfidious Laura! What! eren this last secret delivered into the hands of the enemy. Perhaps, he thought, this very pushing young woman would presently demand to see his unfinished j manuscripts. “Because,” the pushing young woman j continued, “I am writing something on j that subject, too. Oh, not a great book, of course! Quite a small one.” Between his teeth the professor muttered something about “an interesting coincidence.” “And I thought, perhaps, you would kindly help me with the spelling of the proper names. You see, I know nothing of the dialects.” There was nothing for it but to accede to this exceedingly cool proposal. Alleyne took the sheets and began to run his eye over them, indicating an error here and there. Suddenly, at the bottom of a page, he stopped short. “That is a novel idea.” “Which? Wherer “Here, on page 91. You suggest that the Ostyaka—” The approach of a servant with a note for Miss Affleck caused the professor’s sentence to remain unfinished. Maud, when she had glanced over the scrap of paper addressed to her, heaved an impatient sigh. “Laura wants me to join her; I suppose I must go. There is nothing I hate quite so much as a cricket match... May I leave these with you? or shall I—” “Pray leave them—by all means.”

Miss Affleck's age to have mow than the most superficial acquaintance with such a large subject. But a novice occasionally stumbles—by chance—on a solution of some difficulty that has long been a puzzle to experts.** “And that is what Maud has done! I understand. Forgive me for laughing; but, really, this is top funny.” “I do not see—to use your friend Mr. Harding’s favorite expression—where the fun comes in, exactly, Laura. The tabor of two years rendered vain bv a girl's random guess, which it probably took her a couple of mornings to elaborate!” muttered the poor professor, easting dignity to the winds in his irritation. Mrs. St. Julian heroically stifled her amusement. ‘ “There is only one thing for it, that I can think of. You two must marry, and —and fuse your wandering books into one.” “Laura!” “Why not? She is very pretty and well-bred. , Eventually she will come into a good deal of money.” “If this is intended for a Joke, Laura,” the professor interposed, severely, “excuse me for saying that it is an extremely bad one.” “1 never was more serious in my life!” his cousin protested. “It would . be an admirable arrangement. Do think ahout it!” But this the professor indignantly declined to do. ! By the end of the week Alleyne had serious thoughts of going back to Oxford. He made up his mind to this step on Monday morning (Mr. Harding having shown himself peculiarly inane, and Miss Affleck more than ordinarily tolerant of his inanity on the preceding Sunday), as he smoked his after-break-fast pipe in the shrubbery. And he had ! no sooner done so than a sudden wind- ! ing of the shrubbery path brought him plump upon Miss Affleck, seated upon I a rustic»bench. She had a writing | board on her knee and a pencil in her I hand. I “The book?” inquired the professor, [ with a sickly smile. She nodded. “My poor little book!—

**I DIDN’T FEEL COMPETENT,” STAMMERED THE PROFESSOR.

The professor’s tone had grown qftite cordial. It seemed this girl did know something of the Mongolian problem, after all, and had opinions of her own on certain vexed points connected with it. He turned the page with some curiosity. “Very good. Very good, indeed. Remarkably well worked out.” The professor read on. ignoring the misspelt proper names, and was covered with confusion when the owner of the manuscript retumtd to claim it. “I’m afraid,” he stammered, “that there are still some corrections to make. The truth is, I grew interested in the subject matter. Perhaps you will leave the sheets with me a little longer?” Maud accepted this kind offer with alacrity and went in to get ready for luncheon. The proftWor remained behind and took out his note book. That hint about the Ostyak wanderings had set him thinking, and he At that his thoughts were worth sett inflow n. Suddenly the pencil fell froin his hand. Good heavens! What was he about? This train of ideas was absolutely new; but for Miss Affleck’s manuscript it would never have arisen in his mind. The professor was a man of honor; a cold sweat of dismay broke out upon his forehead as he realized Ike nature of the crime he had been near committing. He. to pick a girl’s brains! He shuddered at himself. He shuddered. Yet was he sorely tempted to look again at that half-read chapter. For. if the theory put forward in it would hold water, well, the best half of his second volume was just so much waste paper. He pushed the temptation from him to the opposite end of the bench. Then he fell to writing b*isily on certain slips of paper. These slips—together with her manuscript in a neat parcel—he took occasion to present to Miss Affleck the same afternoon at tea-time. Maud was bitterly chagrined. She made no secret of her mortification to Mrs. St. Julian, and that impulsive young woman, moved w ith indignation, seined the first opportunity of finding herself alone with her cousin to remark: “Ted, how could you he so horrid to that jpoorjgirl about her book?” “1 suppose you are speaking of Miss Affleck ? I gave her all the assistance she asked.” “Yes, and refused to discuss the subject any further. Let her performance be ever so contemptible—” “I did not say It was contemptible.” —“You might have condescended to speak of it, one would think! What has Maud done that you should snub her so unmercifully? If she were a rival authority on—what do yoo call them? —Mongols, you could hardly treat her worse.” The professor was silent. “Ted, do you consider her a rival ceihority?” “An ‘authority 1’ My dear Laura! LI * L

which you wouldn’t even deign to criticise.” Her garden hat was very becoming and her blue cambric dress gave the utmost “value” to her auburn locks. “I didn’t—feel competent,” stammered the professor. •>< “Was that why you wouldn't read it?” “No.” r\ Miss Affieelfs/expressive face was one large note ofmterrogatkm. “Yon wish to know why? Well, it was because I found you too full of suggestion. You put me upon new trains of thought. It^ wouldn’t have been fair to you—to go on reading.” “But—but I should have been so glad to be of any use to you! ” she cried. The professor stiffened. “You are very good.” “Won’t you look at the thing againT* humbly. The professor set his face as a flint. “Many thanks. But I could not think of trespassing on your kindness. Besides. I am going away this afternoon.* “This afternoon? Oh,l am sosorry!” “I really don’t see”—with increasing asperity—“why you should be sorry. I am unable—for the reasons I have just stated—to assist you in your work. And it is impossible that my society can give you any pleasure.” Will it be believed that this childishly ill-tempered speech had the effect of bringing tesrs-to Maud Affleck's eyes? “I wish.” she murmured. “I knew what I had done to offend you.” The professor looked at her hard— for perhaps half a minute; "then he. too, took a seat on the bench. “You have not offended me at all,” he said. “How beautiful!” Maud Affleck sighed, ten minutes later. “What is beautiful? The day? or your hair? or the dispensations of Providence? They are all beautiful, ia different ways.” “Nonsense! I was thinking that— that you would let me help you with the book, now.” The professor started guiltily. To do him justice, hr had quite forgotten the book. “We will collaborate—we will write it together” he answered. Then he kissed her and rose to new heights of magnanimity. “And publish It la our joint names—Edward and Maud Alleyne.” Maud blushed. “Oh, no! It must remain your book. Perhaps you might put a note in the preface, saying you had been aSpisted in your researches—” “By my wife. That sounds charming. But”—he kissed her again, and waa pricked la conscience—“would that be giving you your due share of credit? You see ia that matter of the Osty•ka-* 1 should like It best so,” she de“Of it must be aa you

THE CAUSE OF CUBA i b the Hands of Its Friends at Wathtaf too Bros tor Chandler Writes a Letter, 1b Which He Takes Strove Grounds In Support of the Right and the Duty of the United States to Intervene and Stoj the Slaughter. Washington, May 17.—An enthusiastic audience of men and women, many of them A-ell known in Washing* ton, packed the Columbia theater to its doors yesterday afternoon at a monstei mass meeting1 held in behalf of the cause of the Cuban insurgents. The theater was appropriately decorated. Seated on the platform and participate ing in the exercises were Senators Gal* linger and Allen, ex-Senator Butler, of South Carolina; Rev. Hugh Johnson, pastor of the Metropolitan Methodist church; Rev. Howard Wilbur Ennis and a number of others identified with the interests of the insurgents. Gen. William Henry Brown, presi- ■ dent of the Cuban league, called the | meeting to order and introduced Sena- , tor Gallinger as the presiding officer. The latter made a brief address and read a number of letters and telegrams of regret, among them being those from Senators Frye and Burrows and Commander Clarkson, of the G. A. R. Mr. Chandler s letter was as follows: Washington, D. C-. May t& Senor A. A. Again, Washington, Ik C Dear Sir—Although unable to attend the meeting to-night, I send a few words of sympathy, and of hope for the relief and independence ot Cuba.

As I wish to see the United States declare and maintain the independence of the Island as Prance did that of the American colonies, and made the United States a nation, of course I shall, as a practical friend, vote for every minor method tending to the same beneficent end. I hope and believe thht congress, and the president will soon formally recognize a state of war and Cuban belligerency. This step, followed, as it will be by all the other independent nations of the western hemisphere, cannot fail to insure the Cuban independence which is sought for. Moreover, without delay, we ought to send a fleet to enter the harbor and an army to land upon the soil of Cuba, first to protect the lives and property of American citizens, and. secondly. to stop the atrocious and uncivilised methods of warfare adopted by the Spanish generals In advocating all these measures I am conscious of no passionate hostility to Spain. In 1861 she recognized the southern confederacy within less than three months after its military struggle began: and surelv. if she cannot hold Cuba without making it one vast desert pnd graveyard by driving the inhabitants intc the cities to starve, and by hanging, shooting or garroting Cuban odicers for rebellion and incendiarism, she ought to lose the island. If between 1861 and 16&> one confederate general had thus been put to death, all the powers of Europe, with one accord, would have sent their Beets and armies 3.000 miles across the ocean to end ■uch barbarous warfare an I to establish and maintain the. southern confederacy. Yet Gen. Robert E. Lie and ail his generals were as truly guiltv of rebellion and incendiarism as was Theodore Mendez Gonzales, who was shot for that oSense at Cabanas fortress, in Havana, on Monday last. We blame England for ibandoning the harmj less and peaceful Armenian Christians to massacre by the Moslems and for submitting the liberty-loving Greeks to slaughter by the Turkish despot. England retorts that we dare not atop the methods of uncivilized warfare at out very doors in the American Crete— the fair island of Cuba -and both charge and countercharge are justly made. In helping to make Cuba independent we aft observin' a traditional and universal American policy, th; dut? t> promote at the first good opportunity th ; s;veranee of Cuba from Spain. In 1886, aisx the democrats pledged themselves to do this by their declaration of sympathy "for the people of Cuba in their heroic struggle for liberty and independence;" and the republicans by their promise that the United States should endeavor to "restore peace and give independence to the island." There need be little fear that these pledges will be violated. President McKinley will-v ingly recognizes the bin ting force of the platform upon which he was elected, and will do his part towards making Cuba free and independent. He may proceed with what will seem to impatient spirits to be undue caution, with the cries and groans ringing in his ears of unarmed men. women and children enduring inhuman cruelty and dastardly mutder. but he will not fail to be faithful to his pledges, and he will before long register the decree whiih went forth in his triumphant election that Cuba should be taker from the control of Spain and made peaceful and independent. In this faith in a great party and its president let us rest patiently and hopefully. Very respectfully. William E. Chav dusk. Mr. Karl Decker, of Washington, who. as correspondent of the New York Journal, spent some time in Cuba, much of it with a branch of the Cuban army in Santa Clara province, gave a description of affairs existing and o! the pitiable plight of many of the. people suffering for the necessaries of life. He ridiculed the claims set out by Gen. Weyler that the island had been pacified, and said that the Cubans were granted belligerent rights by the United States they would certainly win. Mr. Decker has just returned from Cuba.

In the eou~se of some interesting' ry1 marks* Senator Allen, of Nebraska. | humorously declared there was no di- ! vision in the populist ranks on the j question of Cuban liberty. In this j whole matter he thought there had | been too much sacrifice to a spirit of ! commercialism, ami it was time this | government had a little more humanity | and a little inure Americanism. He declared that the Unite 1 States could not i afford to have a decaying monarchy I with a foothold on this continent, and he would be delighted to see Spain and the Ottoman empire wiped from the ! map of Europe. If the president were to send a fleet to Havana, war in the island would cease m 30 days and it would not be necessary lo tire a gun. If the United States should say to Spain “you shall not war upon the hospitals, upon women and upon childhood." Weylers occupation would be gone. Mrs. Clara Belle Brown, of the Woman's National Cuban league, said the league had but one platfo.-.u. one aim and one end. and that end was the establishment of the republic of Cnba. Remarks were also made by Rev. Dr. Kent. Mrs. l inordn. vice-director of the Woman's league, and Rev. Howard Wilbur Eank. Ex-Senator Butler, of South Carolina. read a series of reanlutioas. which had been prepared, and these were unanimously adopted. They earnestly protest against the “barbarous and inhuman methods of Spain in conducting the war in Cuba, declare that this government should recognize the insurgents as belligerents, and that Cuba has demonstrated that it is her mankiest destiny that, like Mexico, aha should he free and independent without the payment of indemnity.*

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