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Ally told him, ''went TO our SCHOOL,"
that he had very dismal visions of that
school.
But his politeness never failed him i,
and doubt whether Ally suspected in
what tumult of disgust his young guest IS
soul was sometimes, sitting In a narrow
boat next to some particularly grimY and
unkempt comrade of Ally's or forced to
draw up to hospltable board covered
with brown oil cloth) and trying to eat
strange mixtures of grease and dirt, the
very sight of which sent cold chills down
his back.
Ally ate like the unfastidious savage he
was, but Cts thought often that the hor-
rors OF an ocean voyage were much over
rated, he preferred them to fried pork.
Yet he was by no means unhappy.
There is constant ripple of small ex-
element on a plantation. Every morn
ing, for instance, the mail rider, who
was boy hardly older than Ally, rode
his white Texan pony up to the store,
and the letters were collected and names
called by the head clerk in the store, as
sistant postmaster. Col. Seaton was the
postmaster, and the postof1ce was neatly
built into the far corner of the store,
which was not asking much of the store,
either, since it consisted of nothing more
than writing desk with frame of let
ter boxes.
Twice week, sometimes oftener,
Cecil heard from his father, short letters,
but how eagerly he read them!
Sally and Alan heard every day, either
from Col. SeYton or their mother. The
invalid in Little Rock was better; next
week Mrs. Seyton hoped to come home
''Well,' said Alan, "next to her
dying, reckon her getting well is the
best thing that can happen
fWe oughtn It to wish anybody dead -
said Sally, tits a great deal nicer for
her to get well. -
''NO, 1t amt answered Ally,
bluntly, f'and you know it. If she was
dead she couldn't be forever tolling
mamma off, could she? or coming here
and shopping round and dying when I
tried to have ice cream. No, sir
''Well, she amt always mean. She
gave me paper doll once, !" Sally inter-
coded, "and mamma said its like being
a murderer to wish folks dead.
Ally declined to discuss the moralities.
He proposed instead that they go and
ask Cobbs when the wild hog hunt was
coming off.
''Because CHS and am to go, said
Ally.
''Oh, Ally, papa wouldn't let you'll"
''He said himself last time 1 could go
next time.'
''But he thought he would be here. -
'fShaw, Cobbs can take me. He
knows more about pig killing than any
body; papa says so himself. -
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A WALK UNDER THE SEA.
The Wonders of the Ocean World, by Prof
Alexander wlncheT,


Alexander Winchen
Author of ''sparks from Biologists Ham
mer, theological Excursions etc.
copyrighted 1890 by Arthor.l
The deep, mysterious sea! We listen
to its loud resounding roar along the
beach, but it brings US no tidings of tbs
world buried in its silent depths. Ships
lie there, with their unreturning sailors
still at their posts, or fallen asleep
in the embrace of the lethean waters.
There lie those steamers which went
out from their docks blessed by q hun
dred waving adieus, but never returned
to receive a wanderers greeting. Men
and women went on voyages into those
voiceless abysses, and no messenger has
returned TO whisper a syllable of their
fate. Oh, vast, insatiate sea, that has
engulfed fleets and argosies, and rem
dered no account of the destinies to
which the hast consigned them, we chal-
lenge thy unresponsive defiance, we dare
thy secret depths!
Come with me, reader, to the foam
grit shores Of rocky Nahant. We have
learned to solve the mystery Of the deep
sea. We will go down under its pillows
and bring back tidings of the silent,
hdleES Tedlms hOW luCeSsduLlg luS great
waves break on these porphyry cliffsl
They are white with rage at the unmoved
resistance of the firm land. See, from
beyond come the higher swells, like q
caravan of heaving mountains, to con-
tinue the attack upon the shore. The
surface of the sea is afoam with moving
masses, which testify to q pitch or ex-
element at which we stand and tremble,
while transhxed by the sublimity OF the
scene.
Here are the forms of seaweeds strewn
along the shore-strange forms, beauti-
full, decorative forms, which grow in the
gardens under the surf-torn up by this
battle of the pillows and the shore. They
tell US of quiet retreats where the sea-
MOSES grow, and the tempest seldom in
trudes. Down into those peaceful gar
dens we glide-along the stormy slope
which separates them from the bowling
beacb-the drifting slope where the
sands are moving to and fro, and the
fragments torn from the porphyry cliffs
are beating their angles against the bur-
led lodges. Onward we glide, discover
ers in a new realm, until our feet touch
the gardens of the ulve-the green and
black and purple nlve = rooted
in the restful mud, stretching their
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ing things, plant and auimai-things nj
crosoopio and mulfitudinous, float in
clouds around us and over US. They are
dead Demonstrations homes Of thy
creatures which swarm about in the sun
light near the surface. Abandoned.
rhey are now settling down through the
abodes Of midnight and silence, and we
are strewing the cold sea bottom with
white and chalky ooze. We are two
miles beneath dsylight-shut in By q
wall as impervious as If it were granite.
Beyond US stretch the slopes of
the ocean floor, down three miles
deeper. These are the abysmal plains.
They cover hElf the earth's surface. Our
thermometer has sunk TO the freezing
point. 1t is some degrees below freezing,
yet this sea water does lot solldify. The
pressure is four to five tons on every
square inch of surface. The darkness is
total; the silence is that of non-exist-
enoe. We listen for the roar of the
waves at the surface above. 4 storm Is
raging there. A stout steamer is creak-
ing with the strains she can not long ea-
dure. The mate is crying TO the sailors
in an agony of anxiety for the safety of
his iron ship, and the hundreds Of pas
sengers Entrusted to its strength. We
listen intently, but not a creak of the
ship-not blow of the wild waves sends
sound into the abysses where we are
buried. Yet but three miles separate us
from the storm. Can three miles create
transitions so vast?
We crawl over the plains. No hillsand
valleys are here-no diversity OF peak
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s'Cobbs WON'T take you-not while
papa is away, y" said Sally, firmly.
Alan only grinned.
The great hog hunt, OF rather its dis
oussion with Cobbs, and the listening to
thrilling tales of former hunts was an
other excitement.
Then almost every day the wagon went
to the railway station. To watch for its
coming, to open the freight boxes and
the express packages, here again was an
interest.
But these were every day breaks in the
monotony. Their was something far
more stirring. Not every day did the
loafers at the store have a proclamation
from the governor of Arkansas to read;
Offering $500 reward to each and any of
them who should discover the perpetra-
tors OF crime committed III their own
neighborhood.
They somehow felt vaguely important
and spelled out the words for themselves.
And certainly not every day did Sally
come to Cecil, with pale face and
sparkling eyes, crying: "Oh, what do
you reckon, Cousin Cecil? They are go
ing to lynch Old Man Dawsey to-night!"
SallT's information came from a dIa-
logue which she had overheard, she be-
ing in the "dark c,oset' where the meat
was kept, and the speakers, Aunt Cindy
and her nephew, Rafe Baxter, outside
on the steps.
Two white men had proposed the
lynching. Like Baxter, they had lost
their little worldly all through Dawsey's
hard-hsarted greed. Baxter himself
was in state Of mind ripe for any VIC,
lence. The negroes Of the settlement
were more inclined 60 panic than re-
venge, but Aunt Sally and Baxter, to-
gether, had succeeded in arousing them.
Aunt Cindy-was pacific soul. She dis
couraged Rafe Is riotous schemes. ''Let
de Lawd punish dat wicked man,
honey, she said .Doan' you 20 pro-
jiekin raoun' bad white folkses; you
get in right smart er trouble fust ye
knows"
~ III new get in trouble lickin ole
DswseY," Refe answered. tsWe all
doesn t aim = kill him; jes guy him de
bud good, an warn i'm t. light OUT en-
dis kentry. Oh. doan We worry; he
am q got friend on earth. -
WAL. but he got W lite skin, - said
Aunt Cindy, ''tell ye, Niger, de Wits
folkses won enjure havin de euIled
foikses lynch W lite raskills. Now. honey,
wait on de Lawd, dat man git his de-
sarvin s sho' - =
At this climax OF the conversation,
however, Aunt Cindy must needs get up;.
and they both moved away. nor couf0
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she gestioulated, for the twentieth time,
repeating her story. land T. tink 1t
ben Abram Lin Kun, the mule dat like
POI MIST Henderson de bes' dat be de
cause er me wakln' an watchin ~
"'But she said, before, it was Me-
lodeon. - said Sally.
"Maybe she forgot, - said Ally, 81
thought she said Melodeon. -
'she did - said Cecil. "But at any
rate, Abraham Lincoln was getting all
the credit now. She dilated On his in
telligence and from him she passed sadly
to the lamented Mr. Henderson g rare
gifts. It was an easy transition back to
Dawsey again.
The crowd had no good word for him.
Indeed, when tall, grinning black man
said that it would be the best thing to
run him out of the country, there was
general hum of approval.
"You wudn t Objeck ,wud ye, Rafe?'
some one said, addressing sullen-look-
ing negro who, so far, had not said
word.
"I ain t complainin' - he answered,
turning on his heel.
"Had he ought to complaint Mitch
ell asked, in his sluggish voice.
"Wa al ole man Dawsey chiseled him
outer $500 pension money, sellin him
fyarm for sixteen, an promisin' him
long time and not givin it, an sellin
up minnit the note come due. Say, it
plumb soured Baxter; an call Rafe
Baxter a mighty decent darkey -
Some one else added TO the story. The
detective listened to each talker. AT
the same time ne gradually edged his
robust person nearer the door.
Anyone who stood in the door could see
Rafe Baxter and little knot of negroes
gathered about some plows on the river
hank
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graceful lengths upward toward the
stormy surface, and the stimulating sun
light. No storm is raging here. The
agitations which stir above reach this re-
treat as tender caressess, and the sway
ing fronds nod trustful dalliance with
the rude forces of the waves. Beyond
the fringe of the kelp, along par :erres
still more protected, we tread upon the
tender forms of this bronze and pink and
yellow moses which only the fiercest
storms have hitherto brought to the
bleach for our agmiration-ce
krinneilisas VI sd theiEfairy
tcompsnions. M fhsy Cow kisitedS
by adventureysff ron the 5z4d ots
life, which MIRA ptufed on the manE
gled beauties which the terrible tempest
wrenches from their deep security.
We are less than half mile beneath
the upper air and sunlight. But we are
in the dim vestibule 20 the dark abysses
which lie beyond and below. The crea-
lures of the shore have scurried about us
on our way-repelled by fear and at
tracted by the novelty of trespassers on
their domain. Within this half mile
far within it-are the homes of the fishes
with which are familirr. This is the realm
of the arfful crab and his case mated
allies-skulking in the forests of sesweed
to escape the hungry search of the rowing
shark: In this zone hordes of swimming
and crawling creatures protect their
lives by strategy. and prolong them by
process. Now an autumnal chill per-
vades the element which battles
US. On that summer day
which witnessed our start, the
temperature of the water was perhaps 20
deg now it is 40 deg. twilight has
settled down on us. Looking upward to-
ward the day which we have left, it is
but yellowish, dusky haze which over
hangs. Clear as the water appeared to
be, the sediment fioated from the land,
seen through the distance Of half mile,
shuts out the blue sky. "The dust of
our continents to be'' is settling down
around us, and in another age the pulpy.
relic-frsighted sea bottom will be up
lifted into daylight, and other popula-
lions will settle on 1t and call it theirs.
We pass on. Our distance from the
shore becomes such that q mile of water
hangs over US. The sediments from the
land are diminished; but total darkness
Shuts us in. We grope. Nothing Is Wis
ible. No sound Is heard. There seems
TO be no life. The species which dwell in
twilight do not pass the wall of darkness.
There are no more seaweeds-only dis
toms and oslcareous alg9-plants with
frames of silica, and the curious power
of unconscious locomotion. swarming in
the depths, and plants like vegetable
limestone, rooted and branched.
It is fearful sealm which we are en-
Eering There are no enemies to encoun-
ter. The pitfalls have been buried be-
meath the smooth slime which thou
sakds perhaps millions of wears
have thrown down. But it is an unfre-
quented abode. There are no charts to
show the way. There are no footpEths
to follow. We know not what We shaIl5
meet. Twilight is extinguished. The
sparse sediment from the land can no
longer be detected. but the forms OF iiysa
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material. clean and whole. Aunt VAL
ley having thrifty son, saw no reason
why she should give up the good part Of
q frock because the other parts were
worn; she simply made as much of a
dress out of her material as she could and
pieced out deficiencies with something
else, only particular that the ad dition
should be gay; by consequence her pres
ence commonly reminded one of second
hand rainbow.
Now, a dozen colors flashed in the Air, as
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Ancient Gold Fringe.
Dry Goods Chronicle.


The earliest term applied to the g0iD
frlnges that bordered the garments OF tDs
ancients, and that are supposed to ns''
given the idea OF lace was Auriphry gum;
1.-THE Phrygian embroiderers in gold az
silver were world famed, and hence 'n'
word, though the work was not neeessa-
rily executed by them. Canon Brock usl
riyes the more modern word '0rphrel
from Aurifrisia and Auphrygia, and eoI on
siders that these borders q cope or 81 s.S
were the combined proas of goldsmi'H
and embroiderer.
10 al q .hskEsa Ga,ss. ~:
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PROOF of Affection.

Cynic = ''The. old days are past
Women do not fan IN love any mcrel"
wentman-.. Absurd ny dear fellow.
Just look inside ons az e1r fashionable
NIL inerr storas. =, lr.sAE
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What silences do we keep ys4f after yesr
With those who are most nser to us and deari
We live beside each other ~ oy day, st
And speak of myriad thing R1ts .seideai say
The full sweet word that lies o. = our reae1'
Beneath the commonplace Of common speech
Then out of sight and out of reach they go,
These close. familiar friends who loved US sol
And sitting in the shadow they have left,
Alone with loneliness, and sore bereft,
We think with vain regret Of some fond WORD =.
That once we might have said and they nav
heard.
For weak and poor the love that we expressed
Now seems, beside the vast, sweet, unc'H
fessed;
And slight the deeds We did to those nndone,
And small the service spent to treasure Won;
and undeserved the praise for word and deco
That should have overlooked the simple need
This Is the cruel cross of life, to be
Fuii-visioned only when the ministry
OF death has been fulfilled, and in the place
OF some dear presence is but empty space.
What recollected services can then ,,
Give consolation for the might have been!
-[The HoGssEeePe''
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CHAPTER 1x.-rHE DETECTIVE.

E's comet cried
Sally.
ally and Cecil
were sitting on the
uneven steps of the
stone piazza. In
the dusky vista be-
hind them, shoul-
ders os pork swing
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Y OF YOUTHFUL LIFE AND ADVENTURE IN ARKANSAS
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by OCTAVE THANBT.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-12-18
CONDENSED NE > =.

Defiance, Iowa, claims to have a case OF
genuine leprosy.
The CearGeld County bank, al Clear.
field, Pa, closed its doors to-day.
The Santa Fe railroad has laid off $50
employees at Topeka, Kas.
The Pottstown Iron company, Potts
town, Pa, has posted notices Of a cut in
wages.
Baron Hirsch is organizing meeting
at Vienna i'll behalf Of the Russian Jews
Prince Christian, OF Denmark, ant
Princess Margaret, oi Prussie, are soon tC
be betrothod.
The Popeis sick and his physicians fear
the worst.
Theodore Ash, dry goods Palestine
Texas, has failed.
A Kilkenny special declares that Par
nell's case is lost.
The Chicago grand jury is investigating
the lumpy jaw beef question.
f. and O. W. Norton are putting in
Vh Piouo Hiahula1tolS ia SlllGdSO.
Increase Of pension has been granted
A. j. Clark, Of Deming, n. M.
Chicago is to have a hydrophobia hos
pital on the Pasteur plan.
Senator Gorman's residence at Louret,
Md, burned. His wife and daughter es-
capped in their night clothes and did not
save anything. The senator was not
home at the time.
The trial OF Gen. Lewis Sandova, on a
charge of violating the neutrality laws of
this country, has commenced IN the
federal district court at San Antonio,
Texas.
The trouble between the Cattle trust
and the PeGnix Farm x Ranch company,
which refuses to come in and become a
part of the trust" had another airing
before Judge Rising in Denver.
Pigs feet, tripe, salt mackeral and salt
meats, at Bishops.
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OUT OF WHOLE CLOTH PROBABLY,
A Sensational Dispatch from Durango
Concerning the Southern tie
indians.

! DURANGO, Colo Dec. l8.-The South
ern Utes are on the eve Of an outbreak
! At late hour last night the Ute Indian
police invaded the camp Of Chief Engi.
neer Wigglesworth on the La Plata, and
warned them to break camp aud leave al
once, as a gang o. bad Indians were not
far away, and tnat there would be trouble
unless they moved at once.
They agreed to wait two days for them
to get out and assured the party that they
must do it, as the Indians were not afraid
of them and said that the soldiers had all
gone to the north. 3
Several Of the party started for this city at
once, while some were left in charge of
camp.
They are bold in saying that the red
skins certainly are in earnest and are
holding regular ghost dance.
A courier was sent to Fort Lewis, and
one from the fort was sent to this city.
There are now only forty soldiers at
the post, and all the wires are down and
telegraphic communication is cut off.
1t is feared the Nayajoes will Join them
but Agent Bartholomew thinks the Utes
will be quiet, but he declares that thev
are restless and uneasy. The people are
not much excited, but further develop
ments are awaited with much anxiety
and great interest.
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ARMY ORDERS.

Capt. Gilbert P. Cotton, 1st artillery
Capt. Alex. Rodgers, 4th cavalry, and 1st
Lieut.. George p. Shriven, Sd artillery,
have been assigned to duty in connection
with the Worlds Columbian exposition.
They will visit the countries Of Central
and South America in the interests of
the fair, and will endeavor to secure
large and representative exhibits from
each of them. Capt. Rodgers goes to
Brazil. He was formerly located in Santa
Fe as lieutenant, and is a son-in-aw of
Don Cameron.
I'd Lieut.. J. A. Perry, 10th infantry, is
appointed recruiting officer at San Car
los. He will take charge OF all property
and papers per aiming to the recruiting
service at that post, relieving lst Lieut..
Frank H. Mills, oath infantry.
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A Novel Strike,

TOPEKA, Kas., Dec. 1s.-The shop men
in the Santa Fe shops here have inaug'
urated novel strike. There are about
500 men employed in the shops. When
the winter schedule was put in, the
working hours were reduced from ten to
nine hours. The men were afterwards
notified that they could work ten hours,
the last hour being counted as overtime.
With the change the hour given the men
on Saturday during the summar is not
allowed, and the men being dissatisfied
refused to work after o'clock, but stop
each day at that hour. No action has
been taken by the company, but it is ru-
mored that the men will be discharged as
fast as new men can be found to fill their
nlacaR
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W"uldn't WORK in New Mexico.
Prof. Heerdegen and his alleged water
finding invention are not unkn wn to the
people OF Ration, Las Vegas, White Oaks
and other points in New Mexico. They
will therefore learn with much surprise
and some regret that o'worthy publica-
ton as the Mining and Engineering
Journal OF New York this week de-
votes its editorial leader to udlng
the professors invention. owe have
just been informed by resident
Of Cincinnati that he recently
employed Mr.. lleerdegen to find water
on his place near the city with entire sue
cess, the underground stream being defin.
itely located throughout a long distance,
and its depth correctly predicted. We
learn OF many other cases of success, and
have not yet heard CT any faiurea." The
editor Of the journal could find several
persons in Colfax county that know more
about this water scheme developer than
he does, evidently.
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The commanding officer Fort Huachuca,
will send Scrgt. William T. Slime, trans.
ferred from company X to company A
attached 10 company G. 9th infantry
to joiu hia company ut Fort Wingate.
The commanding officer Fort Marcy,
will send Musician Sylvester Haines, as
signed from company | to company B
(attached to company d., 10th Infantry,
to join his company at Fort Stanton.
lst Lieut. Frank II. Mills, cath infan-
try, will proceed to Fort Grant, A. r.,
and report to the commanding officer for
temporary duty.
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--7=|7~@7@~-7-777
Tho Pope's Part In Politics,

ROME, Dec. 1S.-The pope has appoint.
ed a commission consisting of Cardinals
Rampola, Reglia and Pottini and three
laymen to organize and direct the move
ments of the Catholic societies in Italy
This action Of the pope is regarded as in.
dicating that his intentions are to take q
more active part in politics.
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The House Committee ON Coinage,

WASHINGTON, Dec. IS. - The house
committee on coinage yesterday unani.
mously elected Mr.. Wickham, of Ohio,
the senior member OF the committee, as
chairman to succeed Mr.. Conger, who re.
signed to become United States minister
to Brazil.
There was no serious discussion of the
Republican senatorial silver proposition
and it is evidently the disposition to de-
fer consideration pending some definite
conclusion in the senate.
A bill introduced by Mr.. Carter
Mont, was ordered to be layorably re-
ported. 1t provides that gold coin may
be exchanged into gold bars, but gives
the director of the mint power i'll his
discretion to impose for such exchange a
charge which in his judgment shall equal
the cost of manufacturing the bars.