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ooh, [ don't know, Bobo, perhaps
never, | shall go away as soon as I get
strong enough; but when did you see
Lalie, Bobo % said Orion in a kindly tone
of inquiry.
The slave grinned and shook his head
significantly. You mustn't ask me that,
Mo'sleu, if you please. Ny master does
not allow me to 60 there. He hates them
all, you know"
But they know that l am here and
safe, do they, Bobo?"
Eyes, Mo'sieu."
And is Monsieur Garcin safe and
weI?"
Eyes, Mo'sieu."
Well, Bobo, if you ever see them tell
them that I send my best regards, that I
shall always remember them"
eyes, Mo'sieu."
The slave sat with his eyes downcast,
and for awhile was silent. Presently he
looked up with a sharp, inquiring glance
and said:
"Mo'sieu would like to get away?"
When [ am stronger | shall co.
Orion answered but he was not thinking
especially of what he was saying. His
mind was full of other things.
Bobo smiled knowingly and shook his
head as if to say that he very much
doubted whether the young man could do
just as he pleased about quitting Rochon
place.
When Orion had recovered sufficiently
to pace his room with the aid of a chair
and to sit in the window that overlooked
the bay or to lounge in the one that faced
the woods, Rochon liked to come up and
spend some time with him in conversation
The old man, reserved in a way, was yet
quite free to speak of certain parts of his
wild, adventurous life, though Orion
noted that time and place were usually
not given when any particularly interest
ing incident was described. He spoke
very fully of his niece, giving Orion a
history of her life, from which it ap-
peared that she was an orphan from in
fancy, her parents having been victims of
some of the dreadful massacres in the
West Indies.
"She has had no one to look to but
me-" said he, land God knows I am a
bad guardian for a girl like her. She
ought to be in Paris or in London among
the people who can best appreciate beauty
and loneliness"
It was the first time Orion had heard a
tender word fall from the old mans lips.
A gentle sentiment from a man like Ro-
chon is ~singularly effective. The ire
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heartlessness the words might seem

heartlessness the words might seem to
imply; -.
home over there on the bayou Galere," be
insisted, cit must be terrible to them to
lose it and in such a way"
"a delightful home, Monsieur" she
repeated, "the Garcins?"
He saw by her looks and by the tone
in which she spoke that she knew moth
ing of the real facts connected with the
tragedy at the bayou-that she was quite
ignorant Of the strange barbaric luxury
with which Garcin and his family had
been surrounded. Orion felt at once that
he must not enlighten her too much.
"Oh, WELL" he remarked, "they had
many comforts usually denied to people
like them"
She changed the sui ject and began to
ask him questions about New York and
the life of people in great cities. She had
the hunger for world-knowledge which
attacks all healthy-minded young persons
reared in isolation with access to books
full of romance and poetry. He had al
ready disclosed his own life-history to her,
but she could not tire Of hearing about
SOClCUH d11u I11C u1dl11CIS d1u CuSUO1uS vi
the people with whom he had been reared.
He told her his experiences as an art
student in Paris and Rome, of his tramps
in Switzerland and his wanderings in
England and Scotland. 1t was charming
to watch the play of color in her face and
to hear the quick come and 60 of her
breath as she followed his words with the
eager, unreserved interest of a child.
What he said was all a fairy story to her
in the wonder of it, and yet she felt that
he was unfolding real life to her.
"And very soon you will be going back
to that delightful world" she said pres
emily with a long huttering sigh. Chow
I wish" she stopped short and a rosy
blush flashed into her cheeks.
Some influence, like the perfume of a
rare flower, stole over Orion. He felt it
creep into every fibre of his heart, exalt
ing him to intoxication. He looked into
her deep sweet eyes, now softened almost
to tears, and saw the innocence and purity
of her soul reflected there. His hand
was trembling when he laid it upon hers.
"Felicie," he said in a voice heavy with
the moments rapture, off [ could tell
you how I love you-may 1 tell your
She sprang up, flushed more, then
turned white. He held her hand. "I
will tell you, for I must, I cannot help it.
I want you to be my wife"
Bobo, wo had been in the room a mo-
ment before, had slipped out as some
unusual sounds, %unnoticed by Orion and
Mile. Rochon, came from some quarter
near the house. A gun-shot had rung
out keen and clear, followed pretty soon
by some confused noises. The quick ear
Of the negro had caught certain significant
accents Of the sounds and he had fed like
a shadow down the stairs and out into the
edge of the forest on the west side of the
house.
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g6EtrN.
AT BEDTIME.

Little hands-dear busy hands,
That your child books marked all DER
Come and lie in mine tonight;
pat HDeor mammals seek" once more
little feet-swift, willing feet,
That upon loves errands ran
Patter DER the floor tonight;
Dance for mamma once agalh'
Little heart-fond, trusting heart,
That for all SO warmly beat,
Fearless, glad, again tonight,
Beat in all thy child-love sweet.
Little head-dear little head,
In beauty's mould with golden crown
Lovingly again tonight
mRyside mammals =" nestle down.
Little eves-bright, beaming eyes
starry light through heavens W Dlue'
Into mammals shine to-nlght,
T~winkIing, tender, thoughtful, 100.
Little tongue-O lisping tongue,
That we listen to in joy,
oh ! come back and say tonight,
Mammals baby, papa's boyH'
little lips-sweet, winning lips,
Meier refusing kiss or smile,
Come and kiss us all "dOod night"
Smiling, too, for us the while.
@. our little blue-eyed boy!
Anguish you will never know
Such as this that sweeps tonight
Der our hearts all bruised go;
And we give you up-our Doy!
All our hope, our life, our light!
Rnt when bedtime comes, our lips
Whisper, "little dear, good night ~
Good housekeeping.
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mendous animal force behind it and the
ponderous roughness which acts as foil
for it, make it so different from an ordi-
nary expression Of human sympathy and
give it such quality as m only Of ex-
traordinary elements of life. Orion felt
this and grew strangely attached to Ro-
chon, studying his giantesque traits and
admiring his lion-like attitudes and mo-
tions. One morning the old man had
come early to Orton's room and was
standing at the window overlooking the
woods. Suddenly he turned upon Orion
and bluntly demanded: "What do you
suppose makes that little niger wench
of Garcin's skulk around here? 1veseen
her every day for a week past, lurking in
the edge of the woods"
"Lalie, do you mean?" inquired Orion.
"Garcin's girl, Lal, yes" responded
Rochon, the little pop-eyed wench has
some devilment in her head, [ think, and
if I get hold of her I'll thrash her with a
cow-whip till she'll be glad to go about
her own business"
Bobo was standing by with a stupid ex-
preston on his face, but Orion noticed a
malignant CLEAN in his half-closed eyes
and a curious twitching at the angles of
his heavy jaws.
Rochon soon after left the room.
rs Lalie really hanging around here as
Monsieur Rochon says?" Orion inquired
of the negro.
II don't know, Mo'sieu, certainly"
said Bobo; but it was easy to see that he
was lying.
Tell her, Bobo, to go home, do you
hear ?"
"Lalie has no home now" replied the
negro with a strange strain OF pathetic
suggestion in his voice.
Orion started. For the first time a
realization of the utter ruin Of the Garcln
home swept into his mind and with it the
desolation of Lalie's life came in startling
distinctness. Perhaps his imagination
made more of it than the facts warranted;
but there must nave been great distress
over on bayou galere after the visitation
of old Rochon and his followers.
"No home, you say, BObo? Lalle has
no place to stay Z"
ooh, she would not 60 up to Honey
Island with her folks" said the slave
dolefully, as he gazed steadily at the foor
and lazily twirled his thumbs. "She stays
with Maume Robert, the fortune-teller."
All this was very unsatisfactory to Or
ton. It distressed him but he could think
of no way to relieve the situation. He
leaned upon the sill Of the open window
and gazed down into the tender gloom OF
the moss-hung forest where a chorus of
birds shook the tangled sprays with their
song. This slender but intense touch OF
tragedy brought out by Bebo's account
of Lalie Garcin had thrilled throughout
Orton's senses. He was in a manner
dazed by the picture suggested And at
this moment, as he leaned out of the win
dow and aimlessly glanced from rift to
rift in the trees, his eyes met those OF
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THE LILY OF ROCHON
A LEGEND OF BAY st. Louis,

FOR THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, B,
Maurice Thompson
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Lalie looking fxedly at him. Her feat
ures were pinched and eager, her hair
somewhat disheveled; in hand she held
heI gun =
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Te|egraphic Tidings
SUNDRY APPROPRIATIONS.
The List Made up Yesterday-SomeR Re-
ductions.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.--The sundry civil
appropriation bill was completed yester-
day by the house committee on appropria-
tions. 1t carries appropriations amount,
ing to $22 1852, 1896, being $6,721 ,451 less
than the regular estimates, and So, 769, ,OOs
less than for the last fiscal year. A num-
Der of limitations upon expenditures are
proposed in the bill. In the following
paragraphs making appropriations for
public buildings are provisions forbidding
preparation or approval of the secretary
OF the treasury of any plan for public
buildings in advance of the appropriation
for the same of approval of any plan in
volving greater expenditures for the build
ing than the sum specified in the act max
ing the appropriation. The United States
is also to be freed from responsibility for
paving the streets surrounding public
buildings.
Commissioners are to be paid on ac-
count of disbursements for such build
lngs, except for moneys actually handled
by dlsbursing agents, and the government
is to be released from legal expenses con-
nected with the procurement of titles to
sites. Other items in the bill provide
that the superintendent of surveys shall
all be appointed by the senate and that
no allowance for subsistence shall be
made to naval officers attached to the
coast survey. In case OF exceptional diff
ticulty compensation for public lands may
be increased to SIG per linear mile, sis
for townships and 81 for section lines.
Expenditures of silver profit funds in the
transportation of silver dollars from mints
or sub-treasuries to Washington is pro-
hibited. The reason assigned is that it
will cost $l75, 200 to transport $25 900 900
from San Francisco to Washington, while
q suitable vault cali be constructed ut the
first named city for one-fifth that sum.
Under the head OF signal service, the bill
authorizes the issue of meteorological
prizes of a value not exceeding $l5 to
voluntary unpaid observers Accounts
OF United States marshals are requested
to be audited within six days after pres
entation.
The speaker of the present house is
empowered to appoint committee of
members selected from the next house
to visit Alaska next summer and make
investigation concerning the necessity
of a uniform code of laws for the gov
ernment Of that territory, for which pur-
pose 81 800 is appropriated. Among the
items OF the appropriations are the follow
ing: Congressional library building,
$500, 900; homes for volunteer soldiers,
81 ,995 5,S66; construction of public build
ings, 81, ,7S7 900; survey of public lands,
$2O5, 900; public printing, s., ,21S,0 900, and
quarantine service, $4,000. Appropria-
tions made of 100000 to complete public
buildings.
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Labor Reorganization.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. "a circular adj
dressed to the Knights of Labor through
out the country, and signed by James l.;
Wright, r. l.. Keen, r. G. McCauley and
Joseph J. Kennedy, has been issued.
The signers style themselves Surviving
founders of the Secret Order of Knights of
Labor" and state that after due delibera,
ton they have come to the conclusion that
under the present autocratic form OF gov
ernment the order has departed from its
original designs to the destruction OF the
principle of self government lying at the
base Of American institutions. Being de.
termined to return 10 the original text OF
principles the signers extend the hand OF
fraternity to all who believe in the princi-
pies formerly promulgated, viz: Secrecy,
obedience, mutual assistance, and the
placing Of industry upon ascientitic basis.
The signers have determined to eliminate
all opposition detrimental to the principle
and progress of the Knights of Labor as
the founders intended.
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Why They Didn't Go.

san Francisco, Jan. g. Speaking to-
day of the immigrationists to this state,
y. A. Bi-ee'l Of the Atlantic & Pacific
said: "lt is true that California has not
received SO large an immigration as last
year. The decrease is 80 per cent. But
our advices show that We shall have very
large immigration later on. l can give
one reason for the smalness of immigra-
ton. The winter east has been very mild
and the people do not care to leave their
homes unless they are driven out by the
cold. Then elections andthe holidays
following so closely upon the elections,
have had something to do with it. have
not the slightest doubt, however, that dur.
ing this month and next month We shall
have as many people as we have ever had
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A Spagup Of Virtue.


WASHINGTON, January o. The civilser.
vice commissioners has provided and the
president has approved series of rules
which are to govern admissions and chan.
ges in the railway mail service. 1t amends
these rules to all persons except the gen.
eral superintendent and his assistant and
provides that the examination shall in
clude not more than the following subjects
Orthography, reading addresses, copying,
penmanship, arithmetic, letter writing
and geography Of the United States. Age
limitations for examination are from Is to
35 years except as to discharged soldiers
and sailors. There shall be at least one
board in each territory and not less than
two in each state except Rhode Island
and Delaware.
Competitors must have obtained gen.
eral average Of not less than 70 on basis
of 100, though with soldiers and sailors 65
will be sufficient.
1t provides that vacancies shall be filled
by promotion. All appointments shall
be made for probationary term of six
months, at the end of which time the per-
son may be absolutely appointed or dis
charged, according to his record. 1t
authorizes transfers from the classified
railway mail service to any classified post
office, and vice versa.
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COREAN COMPLICATIONS.
China Claims the Country as Its Own and
Demands tho Kings Retirement.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9.-The Japan
Herald, received by the steamer City Of
Pekin, has advices from Seoul, under date
OF December 6, to the effect that the
Chinese government has submitted three
demands to the Corean government, and
that if the latter shows any disposition to
object to them measures will be taken to
force the Coreans to ocquiesce.
The demands were that the king be de-
posed and the crown prince be elected in
stead, with the father as regent; that
Corea shall declare herself to all treaty
powers to be dependent of China, and
that Chinese officers be placed at Husiu
kuensow and Jechuan TO exercise diplo-
matte functions.
The Corean premier memorialzed the
king, demonstrating against such course,
and at the same time offering his resigna-
ton. =
Judge Denney, the kings confidential
adviser, also wrote letter to the king, in
which he stated that on the day when
China attains her object as regards Corea,
both nations will have been brought
under the rule Of other powers.
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THE GERMAN FLAG.
Moro InsOlence on the Part OF tho Hay
ticn Government.

BosroN. Jan. o. The steamer William
Caulman arrived yesterday from Port au
Prince, Hayti, having succeeded in run
ming out despite the hostile demonstra-
tions on the part Of one Of Legitimes gun
boats. Captain Scott said the day before
he left a Haytien gunboat had fired on a.
mother north German Lloyd steamer
which was on her regular course and fly
ing the German flag. He thinks Legi-
time will hear from Bismarck ere long.
In speaking of the Haytien gunners, the
Captain said: I was down at port Haytien
when one of the war ships ran down and
shelled the town. One hundred and one
shots were fred and only one struck
which lodged in the wharf in front Of tht
town.
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PERSONAL.
Hon. Frank Springer left last night.

Hon. Frank Springer left last night.
Capt. J. C. Lea, of Lincoln county,
leaves to night for his home at Roswell.
Maj. w. H. Fl. Llewellyn came uE
from the south to-day, and is again guar.
tered at the Palace.
Mr.. L. Kornberg, q well known Albu'
querquean, is among his Santa Fe friends
on an extended visit.
That popular and successful young
business man, Mr.. A. NJ. Grunsfeld, has
been elected director of that solid insti
tuition, the Second National bank A vel
deserved compliment.
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TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

The Gate City hotel at Ration, destroyed
by fire, was insured for $1,000 and owned
by Mrs. Russell Marcy.
Ration wants first class hotel.
The statehood boom is growing in vol
ume Albuquerque Citizen.
Lon. Hartgan and w. $. Plummer are
in Albuquerque arranging dates for the
Gallup Minstrel troupe.
Chama note: DR.. Wood was compli-
mented this week by receiving letter
from President-elect Harrison, who was
an old friend of the doctors father.
Sheriff Perfecto Esquibel is rapidly i'm
proving. So the Democratic hopes that
he would die, and Gov. Ross appoint q
dyed-in-the-woo Democrat has ended in
smoke.-Chama Northwest.
Capt. A. Gilbert, formerly of Albu-
querque, was shot through the heart a
few days ago in bar room difficulty at
Paris station, on the San Diego division
of the California Southern railroad.
Julius Friedman of Chamita wagered
$40 to $50 with Sheriff Ortiz that Rio
Arriba county would go Democratic in the
last election and Mr.. Ortiz put up the
money in his hands. But so far Fried
man has failed to materialize, and refuses
to pay the stakes.
The Kingston Shaft says the mines in
that camp are tlourishing. Some one
started the report few weeks ago that
the mines at Kingston had all shut down,
which is characterized as base slander
by the Shaft. The report was quite too
absurd to receive serious notice.
C. W. Clark is an occupant OF the city
Jail, confined for thirty days for holding
up drunben soldier for his watch, etc,
Sunday afternoon on Gold avenue, be-
,, tween 1st and I'd streets. The affair was wit
messed by several respectable citizens,
who testified that they saw Clark going
through the acknowledgements Citizen.
The case OF the town of east Las Vegas
vs.. Chas. Held, which involved the right
of the new town to tax his delivery wagon,
as he used the same daily in the delivery
OF goods to his customers on the east side,
was argued last week before Judge Long.
After taking the matter under considera-
ton the judge decided that the town was
| fully authorized to impose a license tax
on those who habitually used the streets
of the new corporation for their wagons,
although such persons lived outside the
corporate limits and contributed nothing
to the making or repair of streets which
they contributed to wear out. Mr.. Held
takes the case to the supreme court.
The case of alleged forgery in which
Father A. NJ. Gentle charged Juanita
Martin do Cutinoli with forging his name
to q receipt for 81 300 consumed a portion
Of Saturday, all day yesterday, and result
ed in Judge Wilds binding the defendant
over to the district court The judge held
that the testimony of Father Gentle as
to his not signing the receipt was sup
ported by the records kept at Las Vegas
college and the church at old town, in
showing that the woman was impeached
by her own witness when she said that
she went back for second receipt be-
cause the first was not in proper form,
and that it was suspicious circumstance
that her husband should be lying in jail
for non-payment OF fine if he and his
wife owned 81 1,800.-Citizen.
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Fixed to Fight.

TORONTO, Jan. SIT was arranged that
the Sullivan-Kilrain fight is to be for $lO,-
600 and the championship belt, held by
kilrain.. The next deposit of $1,000 is to
be made with the New York Clipper,
April 5, when the final stakeholder will
be chosen. The referee will be chosen at
the ring. Such is the result of the con-
ference SO far. The articles will probably
be signed on the train tonight. The ar
ticles were signed in blank by Kilrain and
after being filled up to suit Sullivan,
signed by him. The fight is to take place
on the 9Th OF July within 100 miles of
New Orleanss
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-At meeting of
the chamber of commerce a resolution
was passed declaring that the resolutions
of 4 meeting held December 10 to the ef-
feet that "All goods brought into Great
Britain, similar to those manufactured in
England, should pay the same proportion
OF imperial and local taxation as they
would if manufactured in Great Britain, y
does not represent the views Of the whole
chamber, which adheres to free trade.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Gens. Fullerton,
Barnett and Ducat and Col. Corbin, who
constituted the committee appointed by
the society of the Army Of the Cumberland
to raise funds for the erection of an eques-
trian statue of Gen. Sheridan in Wash
ington, have arrived in the city. They
will have conference with the Illinois
delegation with the view of inducing con-
gress to pass an appropriation to defray a
portion OF the expenses of the work.
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De Lesseps' Friends Excited,

PARIS, Jan. 9.--The debate in the
American senate on the Panama canal
excites ill-will here. The friends of De
Lesseps are desperate. When De Les.
seps, fin 1887, asked American Minister
Noyes for an explicit statement of the
views of the American government, Gen.
Noyes replied that, while he thought Amer.
leans viewed the project with suspicion
he was unable to obtain official state
ments from the government.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. S.-Yesterday for
the second time since the admission Of
Indiana to the union the state supreme
court becomes Republican. This morn
ing the three recently-elected Republican
judges, Berkshire, Cofey and Olds, as
cended the bench succeeding the veterans,
Niblack, Rowland and Foelers. The first
Republican court in the state WAS from
1864 TO 1870,