St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 40, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 April 1893 — Page 2

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CHAPTER XV. STRANGE RUMORS FROM NEW YORK. In obedience to Capt. Denham’s last ordeis, as well as in anticipation of being soon ordered to sea, Lieutenant Hedges, now in command, set all the crew to work, painting and tarring and greasing, so that the Sea Hawk looked like a huge floating hive, about which a great number of strange bees weie working with restless industry. Squire Condit was not a seaman- ho couldn't tel! the difference between tho martingale and pennant halyards, but, i as Ralph Denham’s adopted father, he felt that a creat responsibility had been imposed on him by that young gentleman’s absence. He rowed ou'—or, rather, had himself rowed, for he went “catching crabs,” as falling backward is called, whenever he got an oar in his hands—several times a day; and he would climb up *o the deck, and stand with his feet apart and one eye shut. I and his face upturned to tho men aloft, J in away that was highly amusing. Every man on board knew and liked ! the squire, and all dolled their caps to him when they came near; and he, in charming ignorance of naval forms, would shake hands with them, call them by their Christian names, and present his snuff-box to their paint-stained and grimy fingers. As the prospective father-in-law of Second Lieutenant Valentine Layton, the squire felt it incumbent on him to encourage that young gentleman to i greater industry. Valentine, as was his right, made it a point to visit Ellen every evening, and , at such times the squire would exclaim, with the surprise ho assumed when saluting an old toper, who had been brought before him for the twentieth time, for reprimand or fine. “What! you h re, Valentine?" “Here again, squire,” would be the cheery reply. “And you arc quite sure everything is shipshape and quite snug, sir, aboard the Sea Hawk?" “Yes, squire, everything right as a trivet. ” “Sure you’ve forgot nothing that ought to be attended to?” “Quite sure, squire.” “Because if you have, you know, it is ’ not too late to go aboard, sir, and fix up. 1 Though Ralph Den—l mean Captain Denham is oil to New York, I know he I is forever thinking about the ship, and I how she’s ’’ “Oh, she’s well, squire, and I ll bet she's thinking about him as hard as she **''*'- you young rascal, I nm speaking about the ship. ” “And I’m speaking about Cousin Lea. " “Oh, indeed;” and then tho Squire would go off and draw his wife to one ■ side, and chuckle, as he whispered to her: "My dear, I fear our future s n-in-law is addicted to levity, and inclined i to make light of life, which, as the ’ dominie tells us, is a solemn thing, and I not at all to be laughed at. Squire Condit knew Valentine Day- ! ton. ever since that young gentleman, i without any volition of his own, ap- i peared in the village church for baptism. ‘ He knew Valentine Dayton’s father and mother before they were married, and | he often boasted that he could have cut the formerout if And he would ■ give many reasons, the principal ones | being that he was a warm friend of tho j senior Dayton, and was himself in love ! with another g'rl at the time. If Doctor Hedges had known Ralph ’ Denham’s father and mother he would j not have dreamt of refusing him his | daughter; on the contrary, he would । have placed their hands together and repeated something like the thieadbare formula, “Bless you my children.” If he had known Ralph Denham’s father and mother, even if they were not so good a stock as his own—and he flattered himself, as every oth r man of good standing in Sag Harbor did. that his own family was just a "little” bit, better than any one vise’s —why. he would have offered no objections. As a man who firmly believe 1 the days of miracles had passed for some centuries, and he knew nothing about the doctrine of “spontaneous generation,” and wouldn’t have 1 elieved it if he had—he was fully aware that Ralph Denham, like every other man of his acquaintance, had a father and a ninth er

As the tree is known by its fruit, he mitflit have reasoned that Ralph was a ! scion of good stock; but the mischi.-f • about prejudice is that it does not reason. , i So the more he thought it over, and the more he discussed the matter with cood Mrs. Hedges, who was not at all averse to Ralph, the more settled be- ; came his conviction that Lea should ; not marry the young Captain. i With this determination firmly fixed in his mind it follows, as night does the day, that, from warmly liking Ralph Denham, Doctor Hedges gradually grew to dislike him, an I with positive natures dislike is very near to hate. The Doctor went about with his ejes open, and during Captain Fox’s stay the attention to, and the evideht prmerence of that gentleman for his daugh-

ter, did not escape his notice, and in his heart he favored the suit of the M an - derer’s captain. He did not know Fox s father, but Fox was a man of wealth, a captain in the regular navy, and, without doubt, j connected with or a member of one of j the great aristocratic families of Lng- । land, in all of whose veins—it was at this time claimed —the blood of royalty flowed. T „ » “You are my only child, Lea, said the Doctor one day to his daughter, when the question uppermost in I oth their minds was being discussed. “I live only for you, and it is due that you should respect my judgment and o tey me. * i “Have I ever disobeyed you, my father?" asked Lea, quietly—so quietly

and firmly, indeed, that the Doctor would have been better pleased had she shown some excitement. “Not until of late,” stammered the Doctor. “And wherein has been the disobedience of late?” “You persist in loving, against my will, Ralph Denham, about whose origin I know nothing." “And about which I care nothing, with all due respect for you. And again, let me say, that wo do not love or cease to love in obe lienee to any one's will, not even our own. I would be false to myself and a hypocrite to you if I prom-

ised not to love this man.” “Then you give no thought to his an- | cestors?" i No; if they were all living since the I Hood, I am sure there is notone of them I I could love as I do Ralph, or would i care.to marry.” • "You are talking nonsense,” said tho । Doctor, getting angry as men usually do when they persist in a debate in ! which they are being worsted. “Did you j not tell me that you would not marry i Ralph Denham without my consent'" I I did. father?” ,'himr ,On Why d ° you kvvp "Because, as I told you before, I could not help it if I would, and would not if I could.” "This is rank disobedience!" cried tho ; Doctor, rising. “I certainly do not intend it as such, ” ! repli d Lea. still calm and flrm, adding, | “I never have, and I promise now never to introduce the subject so disagreeable : । to you. ” "Hear me, Lea.” Dr. Hedges sat down and pulled his high-back chair closer to his daughter. "I am listening, father." “Next to the duty 1 owe my Creator, you are the one object in life for which I live” “ You forget my mother. ’ “Oh,” replied the Doctor, with much 1 adroitness, “she and I are one—one and the same person, as Squire Condit w< uld say. If I could see you well i married and settled before I passed away, death would be robbed of all his terrors. । “I believe what you .-ay." “Now, I have a husband in my mind; ’ i he is rich, he must be of noble family, and I am sure ho loves you." Dr. Hedges stopped and looked at his ’daughter, confident that she, with tho i curiosity which Is said‘‘to distinguish her sex, would ask him who the man was. But sho went on with her sewing, and seemed ns indifferent as if she ha 1 heard an allusion to the man in the moon. The Doctor wa ■ perplexed, aid lo made up his mind to have her manifest more interest in the man of ids choice. "Do you not know who the gentleman is?" he asked. “I do not “Don’t you want to know?",n ore an- ' grily"Why should I?” "Because ail the chances are that he ’ will be your husband;” with great vehemence. “My own consent is essential to my marriage But, dear rumm, , plague yourself with troubles that exist only in your imagination. Let us wait. I will be dutiful, loving and obedient to you. There is no danger f my leaxing you s> long ns you and mother need me. There, and there, ami there.” Ami she came up behind him, and, throwing het white am - about his neck, kissed his knotb .1 brow with every do- ng word, till th- - melted an 1 he went out, not i quite sure tl a' he had n t been making ' something of a fool of himself. Fire days since i alph Denham sailed away in the Wanderer, and a re. ly i shoul I have com.' inm him in thr e I days. "There lias been a fair wind all ioi time, either for coming or going, -ai l Lieut, Hedges, ad : rearing his neph w, \ alentine Dayton. " There can be- n > ! doubt but the captain got up to New j York the night of the day h left here, j yet there is no wotd from him. " It isn’t like Ralph to write at once. I said Ya'-, ntlue, thoughtfully, adding I "But depend upon it, he has a g -o 1 excuse. ” ■ “No, there can bo no excuse for neglected duty, unless it be in case of strong sickness,” said the bluff lieutenant. “But the captain may be sick.” “No danger of that.” “What makes you think so, Uncle George. ” "Because if he was to get sick he'd send a post through with all speed t> tell the officer left in command of the ship.” “But supposing he was unconscious?” “Then some one else would do it for him. Capt. Ralph Denham is too big a man to be hid away in New York City, to which the Gov’nor ordered him, and bo sick, and us not told of it at once.” “Why, Uncle George, you talk as if you blamed the Captain. ” "Dol, now?”

“You certainly do.” “Then I belle mv intentions. The | mar. ns Nnmrr! ran’rt Ralph in my ronu I p’ny would find himself keel-hauled in no time,” said Lieutenant Hedges, bringing his big brown nalm down heavily on his knee. “But i’ll tell you, Vai, I I aint been easy since the lad left; he s j i in my thoughts by day, and at night 1 । i dream and dream, and keep on dreamI ing ’bout him.” I “You are nervous,” suggested V aleni tine. “Nervous!” exclaimed Mr. Hedges, who had an idea that nervousness was a variety of sickness brought on by fear. “I don’t brag, Vai, but there’s them as has known me, man and boy, for live and forty years, and even them that didn’t like me never dared to say I was nervous.” M TYiSannelnrcf onrl md T HPiA

You misunderstand me, cncie George,” said Valentine, and he proceeded to explain the more modern meaning of the word, after which the Lieutenant was much mollified. | “Yes, lad, I’m unstrung, that is the ! I downright truth, and I’d give all my ; ! share of the prize money made on the last cruise if I saw the Captain coming I up that path. ” Mr. Hedges pointed to the path loading from the veranda on which they were sitting before Squire Condit’s door, to the road that went down to the town, and out to the land of the Montauks. At that instant the gate swung open, and the messenger or post-rider, Thrasher by name, who had brought ! the order, on which Ralph Denham left, [ appeared with his garments travel-

etaine 1, and his saddle bags over nio shoulder. 3 CHAPTER XVL INCLINATION VERSUS DUTY. On first meeting this man, who nroveri himself weak and faithless to his trult in the presence of gold, Fox offered take him to New York on the Wandererr but as the pirate's plans hnkk.t ’ “ matured he changed his mind, as he lound other uses for the man ' w Hi \ l Thrash « r gone to sea on the Wanderer, as he was more than wiling to do, he would have been tied up In a - c and dro PP°d overboard the : hist chance, ior Fox believed in destroy1 ing his useless tools. J < ap.ain lox found in Thrasher just the man to aid him in one of the ' grandest schemes he had yet plotted which was no less than to get possession ot th- cruiser, Sea Hawk, and by the easiest, means to rid himself of such ot the officers and crew as did not enlist under h s piratical standard. I Ab ' ad yKio reader is familiar with > the Identity of Cautain F x with the I traitor and pirate, Captain William Kidd of the Adventure Galley. i There was sc ircely one species of । villainy In which he was not proficient, ; and where he failed, ho foun 1 a most I willing coadjutor in Guy Frenauld. i A good specimen of Ralph Denham's i handwriting was obtained in that • officer’s reply, accepting Fox’s invltaW Hon to sail in the Wanderer to New"' Y or k. Adept In the imij^ an easy matter V<>Torge’'"k t i Captain Denham. fi I Such a letter was forged and given tc । Thrasher—with due instructions—just | before the Wanderer sailed. i The better way to carry out these ini structions, Thrasher was given a large sum of money, with promise of "a ; fabulous amount if he succeeded He was to prevent, by death as a preference, any other post-rider from getting through the forest to the town lot Sag Harbor. He wu o free to associate any other man of like character with him, but he w is advised against it if lie could get on alone. At a certain date he was to appear in Sag Harbor 1 with a letter from Captain Denham to Lieutenant Hedges, and this date hud now com >. Mr. Hcd -es and Valentine Dayton, as well a s u.ie Condit, who had just come out with Ids wJe and Ellen, recognize*! the post-runner as he came up the walk. i “ Hello, my man, where do vou come from?" asked Mr. Hedged in his , anxiety, going oit to meet the courier. “From New York,” was the n piy'l given in the vn:ce of <no much exhausted by the journey. " Have you a letter fur me " "You are Lieutenant Hedges?” “1 am." “Then, sir, I have a letter for you ! from Cap’atn Ralph Denham of the cruiser Sea Hawk. Thrasher camo up on the veranda and took the saddle-lugs from his shoulder, and F.lh n gut him n eh dr, ami I Mrs. ( ondit wont off lor ». ;Ja -a of . ur- l rant wine. Thrasner had not t een thirty mlk I from the town; during his absence he । had a cunij anion ot ike kidney watch- ■ Ing tho road for genuine post-riders. i >o utix.ous was Mr. Hedge- for news I from his well-beloved Captidn Hr fit- ! was a.l out to stoop down nt help i Thrasher to m-on the nom-h, when , lutlel kauUUd him the ietU i. T* i . Ah. there • ■ uld be no d ’' ‘ Otlt . genuin there was the dear low's handwriting, and the Impress o? , the sea' on the wax was nil Huh’; it loro tho design of the provincial im-. press. Mr. Hedges reali . d how anxieu* ti e people about him were to h ar from the I Captain, 1 ut ho was too good an o 1 cer , to icad aloud an "fliclal communication, the * o .tents of which h v a i.- t famil- ■ iar with. As he rend the letter, ali eyes, I Thrasher’s inclu-lt'd. w re m: his faro, which reflected his emotions a- a limpid ' lake does the fol age ov rhanglng its , banks. “Is Ralph well " asked the Squ r , un- i able to s'nnd the uncertainty. "Ite appear.- to be.” said Mr. Hedges, his eyes still on the paper. "Any bad new-.- ' irmu Ellen. “I can’t exactly say." "Is it unusual?" asked Mrs. Con tit. " I'nusual.' W, H, yes. upon my s ul, j it is the most unusual and alt- g» ther the m- -T extraordinary thing that 1 ever ; came up with in the five-ami-forty years of my life, mostly .-pent at sea where surprises ain't uncommon. I'll teil you about it after a bit," said Mr. Hedges, with a glance in the direction of Thrasher, to indicate that he was the obsta -le that prevented his telling them all about it at once. TO HE CONTINUED Sit m the Mi.title ( ars. ••I'm very particular,” sii i a coiamercial traveler to a Washington Star reporter, “what car of the train I s -le t. 1 travel thousands of miles ' a year, and have made it a rule to observe in the accounts of railroad ac-' ■ cidents which cars of the train are ; the most often demolished. The re- । suit of my experience—for I have been in a dozen smash-ups—and oh-

1 nervations are that the toRRWwiIJ; ■ are tile safest. I never under circumstances ride in the rear c>r 1 avoid the car next to the baggageI cur, though this is selected by many as the safest. The greatest danger at present in railroad traveling is ; telescoping. When a man has been in a wreck and has seen the engine of the colliding train half way inside of the rear car, or rather what’s left of it, it impresses him most forcibly. The baggage-car is usually heavily loaded, and in the collision its weight together with the ponderous engine, generally smashes the next car t> splinters, while the central cars an comparatively uninjured. When tlv train is derailed the baggage car ani |

next coach, as a rule, go over. TW roadbeds of our great transcontinental lines are so solid, each section is st carefully examined, the rolling stoca I is so much improved, that a broke; | wheel or axle and like mishaps ad reduced to a minimum. But whe® trains follow’ on a minute or two le* way and the blocks or automatic si> nals don’t work—well, look in tl : Star the next day for further part idlars and see if my judgement is not ; correct ” ’ About 1570, women adopted a kindot . ' doublet, or breeches, to be -worn undel the gown, that they might the mon easily use men's saddles and stirrups.

. FAIR WORK ON SUNDAY' THOUSANDS EMPLOYED AT JACKSON PARK. More Visitors I’aid Admission Fees Last Sanday than Upon Anr T'reccdlng Day —The White City Will Open Its Gates on Time. Going On with n Rush. Chicago correspondence: Sunday has ceased to be a day of rest . at the World’s Fair grounds. It is almost as busy as any other day. Last Sunday was, perhaps, tho busiest one the park has known since that gang of Italian laborers went in to level off Hie grounds and was piomptly driven out by a bigger gang of native workmen. That was about two years ago. Last Sunday there wero lively scenes all over the grounds. Long trains of exhibits i

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camo nimbi ng Into the grounds, workman were busy in all tho buildings, and the park was thronged with visitors. Tho turnstiles showed a big attendance. When Captain Horace Elliott went around to all the gates just j as the Bun was flipping below Midway Plaisance ho learne 1 that 11.904 people had paid to get into the park. But that was not all the crowd that came out. Six thousand more tramped through Midway Plaisance to see tho Arabs in their voluminous rubes of i * 1 ' ' ’ • vW 4 » f w 1 i» 'Oft ^4 r V ' 0 i : i / m" V -•n 1 > t KU ! TRIP-JIAMMi-.t IN TRAX .- >KTAT!ON laiLPIX O. bright calico ;-n 1 U '■ i eople fr< m Java, who are putting up houeis. woven like the bask< ts ti.at Delaware p. a la-s and Indiana canta'.eups come in later in tho i reason. No charge is made to g< t mi Mblway. The 1 people who strut- I ted by the Columbian g ard at Sixtieth street and Cottage Grove avenue Btop'po 1 'when they got down at tho i other end. wh re tho turnstiles wero । clicking a lively tune. There is no occasion whatever for worry al- ut the World’s Fair not being

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ready to open on May 1. A big conflagration or a severe earihquake might prevent, but nothing else that can be anticipated will i e likely to interfere. There has been so much doubt on this point that, it has been necessary to as_sure the publi ■ from time to time that everything was in the best possible condition under the circumstances, and that doubtless all would be in readiness on the appointed day. Now, alter another careful examination of everything and interview’s with all the heads of’departments on whom the opening actually depends, it is possible to assert that | when the Fair opens on May 1 it will be in a far better condition than any world’s fair ever held. “I declare,” said Director General Davis recently, “that If the exhibitors will keep up the hurry that is now going on May Ist will find the Exposition nearer a complete whole than its most sanguine friend expected. There never yet was a World’s fair that was entirely ready on the day of its opening. I do not suppose any intelligent person expects that. But, in spite of unexpected t'^^ranccs, in spite of unforeseen opposition, wo are ahead. I do not wl?h oveistate the situation.” Ar^ so it was with all others. Every m~ 1 having control of any department £>at could in any way promote or imjede the opening has staked his repu-

On the Manufactures Building men on!v7o O rtb n ? dfty , and “toping raihliv i ^ Clr U ? eal3 ’ Thc exhibits are rapidly being placed, and everything Is trleltv Vn n rran ^tation and Eleca iV Buildings, the Liberal Arts, the BdlHn Ura Mines antl M ‘ning tho varioU3 Ptatoand toreign buildings. Nobody connected witn any of them aas any time to waste ^n worrying, and there certainly eeema no need for it Armies of men are at work everywhere, exhibits are being rapidly placed and everybody eays things are satisfactory. Machinery Hall presents the busiest scene on the grounds. It must be ready. A failure here would be disastrous, for without power to move the machinery in the other buildings the opening would not be at all successful. Men are at

work day and night here, too, and when President Cleveland touches tho button that starts things going on May 1 it is quite safe to predict that Machinery Hall will do tho rest. Thore are to be "00 gates at tho hunj dred different entrances at tho Fair grounds, and they will be very handsome affairs of wire netting, steel and Iron. Each of thorn will "bo provided with a self-registering automatic turnstile that will require the attendance of ■but one man at each gate. This official will tako the ticket, see that it is all right, drop it In an opening in the gatepi st, and press a short lever that will at the same time “chop" the ticket and unlock the gate. Then the visitor presses against the turnstile and walks in, registering his own admission. It will bo very difficult for either gateman ' or visitor to cheat this contrivance, for if tho numl-er ot mutilated tickets in tho box does not correspond to the number of admissions registered by the turnstile D o gateman will bo held responsiblo for the difference, and there • is no possibility of any one’s passing thr. >•> «.<>, >,♦ 1.0, 1 ; ... .... n Himple motion of his hand lie can lock tho gate uml hold the crowd back as long as ho pleases. It is going to cost a whole lot of money । to make and print tho ti kets for the ; •hoppers" of these stiles to destroy. A i beautiful ileslgn h is been selected, and j the p.q <-r will bo made especially for । the purpose. At first thought this would j seem to be money waste I, but the a— , tuts Board of Managers knows of the tendency people have to preserve such things as mementos, and estimates tlmt a very large amount can be realUed on the sale of tickets that will never be used. Fifteen Thousand Men at Work. According to the closest possible estimates, 15,000 men went to work at ! Jackson park Monday, an increase ot ‘ over 1,100 over the strongest force that i has bee.n inside the gates since dedica--1 tion. Director of Works Burnham was ' in a very comfortable frame of mind ‘ over tho settlement of labor troubles

' ; and the subsequent increased activity ; ; in all the construction and installation ! forces. “We have a full force in the department of works,” he said in answer to a query, “and are mov.I lug along all right. I should say we had 3,0(0 men of our own besides the labor employed by con- ; tractors on exposition work* That InMl jj jgh IIJ THE WORLD’S F.aIR GATE. eludes the landscape. Installation, color and carpentry divisions. The contractors have all their old men back and a good many more besides. It ; would be hard to say .without an actual count just how many men are at work • inside the fence and on the plaisance, but it is ^enough to make things mov« along at a lively pace.”

CUSICK AND HIS MEN. Xnelr General. 'ate soldier. 1 followed k d ^ jri " ward in various canac tiof U aftcr ’ warfare on the frontier. ""dt^ day if I should see the Genemi 1 hi- Kentucky thoroughbred, seatlda! no man ever sat horse before or s^nce" the U mi Hnv^w * he g ? int ° f the SUn uic mightj sweep of thatsaberof hi< ami see the yellow hair flvin-'straight 1 Ptat ’° n lo sclze a Pokeq or a th U md m an ax f hand!c -j u ^P astride tmit <ld mare of mine, and follow h.m for better or for worse. ‘ ,Al >d no soldier of Custer’s ever did more than follow him. H e was a leader of his men-not a dHver- a t C > gcnera1 ’ asked no man —and^-Vh h ? dare not take thel ead an 1 a> the danger became greater W % S surc to be 1^ so much further in front of his column. Tacticians have censured him ior that, and perhaps he would have been with us to-day had he abandoned it. But he was a dashing soldier, and would r ithfr upon un enornv outnumbering him twenty to one than seek vantage ground or lay siege. He believed it to be his business to tight, and he let but few opportunities go by, provided he thought the enemy worth the mettle of his troopers. 1 Custer had the most unbounded faith in the rank and file of his regiment. but never reposed the least confidence in his subordinate officers. He gave Uis personal attention to the minutest details of his command,saw that exery trooper had his full allowance of rations and chithing, and saw. too, that th*e men attended just as carefully to the physical wants ot their horses. He would never take the word of Captain or Lieutenant on such matters. For that reason the

subordinate commissioned officer? hated him just as heartily as the men loved him. He insisted always on being, absolute in his command. “But how the boys loved that man! Their devotion was fittingly demonstrated in the incident in the General’s last battle on the Little Big Horn. The two hundred troopers of the Seventh Cavalry knew thes' were hopelessly outnumbered by an enemy better arnxid than themselves. Eight ‘ cavalrymen broke through the Indian lines and gained a neighboring bluff. They were practically out of‘danger, for the tine horses the Seventh were equip]>ed with could laugh at the best Indian ponies. But they halted on the b.uif and, looking back, -aw their | leader hemmed in on all sides by the i savage enemy. One of them said, ‘Bovs, we can’t do this!’ and, alighting, he placed his carbine against his horse's head and shot him dead. Then he quietly released his revolvers from ihe saddle. and thrusting them into 11 I I It t if t . I lift wri tbo<l r> r if* 'l'll f? remaining seven followed suit, and the little l and was annihilated in an at tempt to gain their leader's side on to it. Ail but one were killed, and he, being a half-breed, the second son of Theophile Brugier, of this county, by 1 his first wife, the daughter of War I Eagle, escaped slaughter, the infuriI ated Sioux paying no attention to any but pale-faces. Brugier and I were friends, and he told me the incident the second day after the fight.”— Sioux City Journal. Chinese Inns. A word must be said about Chinese ; inns. No one who has ever stayed at one i>f these caravansaries is likely tc forget his experience. They are all built on the same plan—a large courtyard. around the four sides of which are built rows of small rooms, the restaurant and office being in front. The buildings are built of sun-dried bricks hud are usually in the fast stages of dilapidation. Each small room contains a brick bed, in which " a tire can be lighted for warmth in winter, There is no furniture but a rough chair and perhaps a table, while the windows'arc nothing but frames covered with j aper. Tiie average Chinese inn is usually a menagerie and zoological garden combined. In the yard can be seen and heard mules, donkeys, dogs, cats, fowls of all kinds, pigs, and camels, while in the rooms where the weary traveler is supposed -o find rest there is also a rich variety. The scorpion, and at times a small variety of the centipede, often take stinging measures to repel any attempts at friend--100. The chief fflory. however, of the inn is the water. Th s important functionary in China has that patronizing air which distinguishes

his confreres of the profession in other countr-ies. The inevitable napkin always accompanies him. With it in summer he mops his sweating brow or bare shoulders, while in winter wrapped around his head it protects him from rain and wind. At all seasons ot the year it is the only article he has with which to clean table and plates or chop-sticks. Chinese landlords are reasonable in their charges, which to some, degree offsets the unpleasantness of living in their inns. Toning; Down Grief. Mourning is a symbol that should not be made light of. The extent of the phases to which we carry mourning is almost silly, says the New York Herald. The graduations of mourning, from somber, unrelieved black, through black with white, then black and gray, lavender, until at last rosy pink is reached, and life and color are in evidence, have become a thing of the past. There has always been a touch ot grim humor in the observation, as one should say, “Watch me, my grief is subsiding by easy stages.”