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The herald., 1895-03-24
CHAPTER XIX
How We Took Counsel as to How to Counter
act the Plan Which the ChoIulans Had
Made to Destroy Us; and of the Pun
ishment That We Inflicted Upon Them

1t was also determined that we should
dissimulate with the ambassadors of Mon
tezuma, so we told them that these trail
tors of Cholula contemplated treachery,
and intended to throw the blame on Mon
tezuma and on them as his ambassadors,
and that we did not believe that he or
they had any part in it, and that we de-
sired them to remain in the quarters of
our Captain for that night, so that there
might not be any grounds for suspecting
them.
They replied that neither themselves
nor Montezuma knew anything of the
matter of which we spoke, and altho ugh
they did not like it we put guards over
them that night that they ght send no
| message to Montezuma.
| We then placed good watches around
] our quarters and remained under arms,
| for we feared the Mexicans and those of
Cholula might attack us at any moment
| 1t was this same night that an old In
| dian woman, the wife of CaCique, came
with one of her sons secretly to Dona Ma
rina and told her that if she wished to es-
cape death to go with her to her house,
because certainly either that night or the
next day we would all surely be destroyed,
and that Montezuma had already ar
ranged everything for our destruction,
and that because of a liking she had
taken to Dona Marina (because she was
good looking and had much riches, she
wished to save her and would take her
to her house and marry her to one
of her sons, the brother of
the one who was with her. When Dona
Marina heard this, for she well understood
every thing, she said: 'Oh mother, how
grateful l am for what you have told
me. | would go with you now, but who
can | trust to carry with me my clothes
and jewels. By your life, wait little.
mother; you and your son, and we will
go this night; but now these Teules
are watching and will see us if we
attempt it,.
The old woman believed her and re-
mained with her, and Marina then asked
her how they intended to kill US, and the
| old woman told her neither more nor less
| than the Papas had already told us, and
| when Marina asked her how, the affair
having been conducted so secretly, She
| had found out about it, she said that her
husband was Cacique and had told her.
and that he was now outside the city
| with the forces OF Monetzuma waiting un-
| til we should march out, and that Monte
| yuma had sent her husband a costly dag
ger and had sent other presents to
other Chiefs to induce them to attack us.
| Dona Marina then said to the old wo-
man: Il am pleased that your son. To
whom you are going to marry me, is a
man OF rank; and now mother, as we
have been long time taking in order
that they may not hear us, | will COM
| meMce to bring my jewels and cloth ng
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was much discussion in the camp. Those
who talked most were those who left
houses and repartimentos of Indians in
Cuba, and seven of the malcontents, who
for the sake of their honor | will not
name went to the tent of Cortes. as
though to advise with him. and they
pointed out to him how we were all
wounded worn out with fatigue and
hunger and constant watching and fight
ing by day and night. and that fifty five
of our companions were already dead, and
that we knew nothing of the fate
of those we had left at Villa Rica;
that while God had given us victory
ever since we had been in this country
yet we should not tempt fortune too often,
and that all we could expect would be to
be one day or another offered as a sacri-
flee to the idols of these Indians, which
God forbid; and that we had better now
return to the town we had founded and
by the assistance of our allies, the Totona-
ques. build II ship and send to Diego
Neasquez in Cuba or some other island
for succor, and that they hoped to
God that he and those who had
counselled the sinking of our ships
might not repent of their folly; that
we were III worse condition than
beasts of burden. for the beast, when his
journey is ended gets rest and food, but
we got neither, being forced to carry our
arms by day and night. And they fur
ther said that IN all the history of Roman
Conquest and the conquests of Alexander
the Great and other great Captains, there
was no instance where commander had
a x,aI I,i I,;, Ioft Ia, ,ealr
such small force in the midst of so
many and such powerful enemies.
Cortes replied mildly that he was well
aware of most of the circumstances they
had mentioned, and that he firmly be-
lieved there was no other body of men in
the universe more brave nor which had
suffered SO much or had fought with
more spirit than we had, but that as to
the fatigues and battles, we had to suffer
the one and fight the other to protect our
lives, and if other and greater dangers
arose we must still pass through them.
'God, " he said, "has aided us in the
past, and we ought to hope and expect
that he will do so in the future, for since
we have entered this land, we have
preached His holy word in every town. -
In the matter of the sinking of the
ships, it was we'll done, Cortes said. and
if they had not been consulted, as other
cavaliers had BEEN it was tor reason
which he had perhaps better not men
ton; that he would now advise them that
there were great many other cavaliers
in camp who were entirely opposed to
what they asked and that they had bet
ter in this matter trust entirely to God.
'And, as to what you say, gentlemen,
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they might be enabled to get salt and cot
ton and other things they were in need of.
But Nicotenga said it was useless to talk
OF peace, as war and enmity would still
remain in their hearts, and that the peace
would only afford the Mexcans an oppor-
tunity to practice their treasons against
them, for they never kept faith in any
thing they promised, and not to think
any more of such Il thing, but to guard
himself well and see that he did not fall
into the power OF such perfidious people.
We now took counsel as To the road we
should take to Mexico, because the am
bassadors of Montezu.na VINO were to be
our guides said that the best road was by
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our master of camp. Cristoval de Oil, to
tell the Tlasclans not to enter the city,
but to make their camp i'll the country
outside, excepting those who drew our ar
tillery, and to explain the reason to them,
and to say that when we intended to
march for Mexico he would notify them.
He then said to the Cholulans that we
were the vassals of great King. who had
sent us to this land to tell them they
should not adore idols, nor offer human
Sacrifices, nor eat the flesh of their neigh
bors, and that if they did this and gave
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have to watch carefully by day and night,
for the first moment the Mexicans found
us unprepared they would attack us; and
that whenever we fought with them to kill
all we could; to kill the young man lest
he should again take arms against us and
the. old that he might not give counsel.
Our Captain thanked them and gave to
Xicotenga and Maseescasi many presents
and much OF the fine cloth given to us
by Mon ezuma. and told them that it
would be well for them to negotiate a
peace with the Mexicans in order that
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Choulla. and that the people thereof
being vassals of Montezuma we would be
well received. and this seemed well to
us. but when the Caciques of Tlascala un
derstood that we intended to go by the
road the Mexicans travelled they were sad
and said that we should by all means go
by way of Guaxocingo. the people of
which were their friends and relatives.
and not by Cholula, where Montezuma
always had a large garrison. and where
he would certainly lay some trap to de-
stroy us.
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But, Notwithstanding, we finally deter
mined to go by way of Cholula because it
was large city surrounded by densely
populated and rich agricultural country
and nearer our allies of Tlascala. and we
also intended to stay there until we
should find some way of getting into
Mexico without fighting. And in truth
at this time Cholula was large city,
with many towers and large cues; it
looked like our own Valladolid in old Cas-
tile.
The herald., 1895-03-24
CHAPTER XVI
OF the Reply of Herman Cortes to Those Who
We're in Favor of Returning to Cuba--.
OF the Advice and Warning Given Us
by Maseescasi and Xicotenga the Elder

HEN, when we had been
seventeen days III Tlascala
we took counsel as to our
future course. and it was
resolved that we should
proceed toward Mexico
with al possible dispatch,
and on this point there
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kccpsake Teeth.

There is q curious "Reminiscences of the
past in usage by some European mothers,
and it is shown by the keeping of the first
castoff teeth-"the milk teeth" of their
little onoS-and to preserve these they
give them golden setting, wearing them
in Il ring. 10 fond mother there can be
nothing out Of the way or approaching to
repulsivencss in q souvenir of this charac-
ter. The preservation of such little teeth
we do not think is common in England or
in the United States. We make, however,
distinction between tooth and a lock OF
hair. 1t is the indestructible quality of
both things which makes them suitable
mementos. Nevertheless, all poetical SEN
timentality being put aside, the preserva-
ton of the tooth is a return to the ways
of the most remote antiquity. The ex-
cellert lady who, then, is u mother, and
who cuts holes in the lobes of her pretty
ears and wears on her finger ring with Il
little snow white tooth in it initiates in
many ways The tastes of her ancestral sex,
say 5000 or 10000 years ago.-New York
Times,
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JOURNALISM OF THE FUTURE,
Mechanical and Scientific Devices That
VIII Soon BE Used.

The twentieth century journalist Will
be too busy to write with his own hand
The stenographer and the typewriter will
be his constant companions To these hui
man and steel machines he will dictate
editorials, letters, articles and sketches as
the rate of 1870 words minute The
journalist who can most thoroughly mas
ter these machines of flesh and metal will
be the master of the coming newspaper.
The needs of the hour will require light
ninglihe thought, spontaneous language,
ready information and a compact ana
brilliant style. Tho man who requires
time for thought and action will be crowd
ed out. One man will do the work Of
three men today. Only the brightest and
best will remain on deck. Modiocrity win
be thrown overheard.
The manager Of great daily in the
course of few years will be ablo to util-
ize certain mechanical and scientific adj
vantages which have not yet been per-
fected. The printing press of the future,
the typesetting machine, the art of rapid
picture making and the facilities for gath
ering news will be greatly improved AL
ready experts are sending Geographic mes
sagcs without the use of wires, and when
tlllS Hiouilou is ueNciOpcu lHcre Will DC no
limit to the collection and transmission of
news. The flying machine, or airship is
looming up as q possibility, and the Keely
motor is getting on its feet again. Per-
haps telepathy will assume a practical
shape.
1t fatigues the mind to speculate upon
the wonders that will be under the con-
troll of the newspaper man of the next cen
tury, and it goes without saying that,
with the facilities at his command, he
will mako his paper literally "a map of
busy life-its fluctuations and vast con-
cerns"-while he will more than realize
Puck s boast Of putting girdle around the
globe in 40 minutes.
1t is not too early to put this forecast
on record. There are men now living who
will see it fulfilled. Atlanta Constitution
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National Nicl1names.

Englishmen have submitted to the name
of John Bull as suited to the national
character. A Scotchman is Sandy. The
Irishman derives his name, Paddy, from
his national patron saint, while an ancient
nursery rhyme records the fact that Taffy
was Welshman. English sailors call the
Frenchmen, in contempt, Johnny Crapaud,
but in France he is Jacques Bonhomme,
or, as bourgeois, NJ. Prudhomme. Cous-
in Michel is the name by which the Ger
man is known to the continental nation.
Mynheer sums up the Dutch, while the
Switzer rejoices in the name of Colin
Tampon. Don Whiskerandos is almost a
national nickname for the Spaniards, dat
ing from Elizabethan times. Italians are
known as Lazzaroni and Danes as Dams
kers.-Current Literature
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FATIGUE FEVER.
A Form of Danger to Which Injudicious
Athletes Are Liable.

Sometimes, owing to faults in the train
Ing or to the selection of exercises that are
not lifted for the body or to injudicious
efforts to excel, certain parts of the body
are lrregularly developed. We are aware
OF this irregular development by the cir
cumstance that it may actually become
visible to the eye. In the opera dancer
there may be undue development Of the
muscles of the Leg in the rowing man
there may be undue DEVELOPMENT of the
muscles of the arm, and in the cyclist
there may be not only undue deyelop-
ment of the lower limbs when the exercise
Is carried to an extravaganza length but
owing to the mode in which the body is
bent over in the act of cycling there is in
duced not infrequcntly a temporary de-
formlty which may pass into permanent
one II 1t be permitted too long; also, in
some instances, from excessive exercise
the heart itself becomes enlarged, irreg-
ular In action, at first much too powerful,
In the end too feeble.
These are serious disadvantages which
creep gradually on and often are not de-
tected until it is too late for them to be
remedied. There is another disadvantage
which is more direct in its nature-that
Is, dangerous degree of muscular fatigue
followed by feverish condition and fol-
lowed again by q considerable exhaustion,
precisely, in fact, as if the person had
passed through fever, SO that physicians
sometimes speak of the condition as STA
tigue fever"
We have learned q great deal on this
point in the past few years. We have
learned that unless the muscles have been
brought into fair condition, not an over
condition, they are very susceptible to a
change OF structure, which is, in its way,
actually dangerous, a sort of suppressed or
subacute tetanic state, called commonly
rigidity, stiffness of muscle The uncon-
dltlonal muscle, in wearing out under ex-
ercise of an extreme kind, becomes incapa-
bic OF natural movement, becomes painful
and produces in itself positive toxic or
poisonous products, which have to be
eliminated or thrown out of the body and
which act truly as poisonous products
causing fever and ultimate depression az
d result of the fever
In the lower animals we occasionally OBJ
serve this disease from overexercisc attend
ed WltliTatal results, as in the horse that
Is oyorridden or in a smaller animal that
Is too severely chased. We see the disease
specially in the human subject in young
folks who are training too intently and in
those old who take up some exercise of "a
severe kind, such as mountain climbing
or cycling, under the idea that they arc
going to renew their youth and strength
We find it again in those who are fairly
trained when they are endeavoring to
make their muscles what is called hard
like iron, as they boast, q condition which
Is quite q mistake to consider good and
which has led to the saying by the train
ing fraternity, "Overtrain, overstrain,"
an excellent warning.-Dr. Richardson in
Asclepiad.
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Has the following entry in the parish
register of Chislchurst ever been publish
I'd, and how does it fit in with the ascer-
tanned facts of the Washington pedigree?
"1614 Laurence sonnc of Laurence
Washington s. Anne his wife was christen-
cd on yo 2lth dale of July in the place at
Nottingham, gencrosi. "
Nottingham, now Nottingham, Is q
hamlet between Chislehurst and ETHAN,
and according to Hastcd's "History OF
Kent" $40 edition, volume Q79O, page
4So, Nottingham place belonged to tho
Stoddard family through the whole of the
ccntury.-Notes and Queries.
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stNosey" Cromwell.

Oliver Cromwell had a head large In
proportion to his body; his features were
rugged and uuprepossessing. He had three
or four warts ON his face, one being on the
side of his nose. He wore small mus
tache and imperial, after the fashion of the
times His complexion was bronzed by
exposure to the sun, and he had fiery red
nose of generous proportions that gave rise
10 many nicknames, "The Almighty
Nose" "Nosey," 1.-THE Copper Nosed
Saint, ellis Eoseship" and Rosy Nose"
being among the least complimentary.
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Roots From Human Skin.

In 1876 the firm of Hahreaholtz Bros,
boot and shoe manufacturers, New York
city, made a pair of boots from human
skin, which they sent to the Centennial
exposition at Philadelphia They were
never put on exhibition, which shows that
there was some humanity left in the ex-
position officials If not in the maker of the
CHASTITY footwear. They were aftarward
sent to the Smithsonian institution, but
were not allowed shelf room.-St. Louis
Republic,
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very handsome matched pair, one by Err
vim NJ, the other by Action. Mr.. Went
worth sustained very heavy loss by fire,
losing a five-year-old Erwin NJ, that bad
gone public quarters in 35 seconds, but
believes the horse business is on the
mending hand, and has at present about
Is head Of gentlemen's drivers.
HI. Horne of Norway, has sold Tanner
Girl to Lewiston parties for 800. This
is the fastest marc in the two towns both
by performance and by breeding. She
was sired by Hebron 22711z, out OF Jenny
j., 2.1SN.
J. p. Clark Of Arson, has fast year-old
filly by st. Croix out of a dam by Pres
colt Jr. Columbus Marshall of North An
son, has young stallion which, after
few weeks handling by Will French, can
show ?. 40 gait. The James H. Steve ms
mare Is said to be as good as there is in
the town.
A. r. Bucks string Of trotters. Ca
mile, Ansel W. and Aaron been sent from
Bucksport to Pitts1eld where they will
be fitted for the seasons campaign.
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CnuIdn,t Marry Nelly.

Dickens had been recently in Edinburgh,
and Miss Rigby told me good story of q
lady knew well who said: Il can never
forgive YOU, Mr.. Dickens, for the death of
Nelly in Tho Curiosity Shop. You
would not have liked her." he said in re-
DIV, ..to marry butcher or baker,
!. Recollections of the Rev. G. d. Boyle"
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Not Sufficiently Definite.

Mother-I told you to give your sister
half of that apple, and you have eaten it
Ill yourself.
Small Son-I offered it to her, and she
sucked it little, and then pushed it away.
"She says you didn't"
ooh, you mean that sister! thought
You meant tho baby. London Answers.
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Sea Moss Farine. Tooth
some, Nutritious, Econom-
ical 25ct. package makes
Is quarts various dessert
dishes. Receipts with each
package. Write for Fairy
Story Book, illustrated.
Buy Farine of allGrocers,
or package mailed on re-
ceipt of IS cents.
Lyon Manufacturing Co,
q South Fifth St, brooklyn, n. Y.
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The word Papua is Portuguese for 'friz-
vlod J, and the district inhabited by the
pan,,ans was named in honor of their
n,,,ch decorated headdresses.
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You've No Idea

How nicely Hoods Sarsaparina hits the
needs of the people who feel all tired out
or run down from any cause 1t seems
to oil up the whole mechanism of the body
so that all moves smoothly and work be-
comes delight. If you are weak, tired and
nervous, Hoods Sarsaparilla is just what
you need. Try it.
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Mime. Recamier was one of the most
ethereal beauties ever seen in France.
Even in old age, when she became totally
blind, she was regarded as a singularly
handsome woman
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Robespicrre had a thin, piping voice
that was the derision Of his enemies. One
of the nicknames given him was the
"Squealses"
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The leatliern apron worn by the black
smith is mentioned by Pliny as in use In
his tiMe.
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Hoods Pills cure liver ills, constipation,
biliousness, iaundice sick headache, indi-
gestion.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-08-24
State University.
Point Pleasant Register.

The splendid condition and bright
prospects Of the State University are
a source of qualification and pride
to every patriotic West Virginian.
Never before was our chief institu-
tion Of higher education so thor
oughly equipped as now, and never
before did the people Of the State
take as great interest in it as they
do to-day. All Of the friends of the
University are uniting to help it
along in its glorious work for the ed
vocational advancement of our PEG
pie.
Those who have not visited Nor
gantown for few years can hardly
realize the extent to which the Uni
versity has been improved in build
ings and equipments.
Four new buildings have been
erected during the past three Or four
years, splendid new apparatus put
in and other advancements made,
so that everybody who goes there
now is proud of the University
The faculty has also been greatly
enlarged and strengthened. The new
President, DR.. j. L. Goodnight, is
certain to be a great educational
force in West Virginia. He has the
reputation of being profound
scholar and a pleasant Christian
gentleman. The election Of Judge
Okey johnson as Dean of the Law
School strengthens that department,
and the establishment of a business
department, in which typewriting,
stenography, etc, are taught, makes
it possible to get a thorough husi-
ness education The standard of
the regular classical and scientific
departments is high, and thorough
work is characteristic Of the in
stitu tion.
The departments of Mechanical
and Mining Engineering are becom-
ing very popular because they fur
nish that practical sort of educa-
ton which is so much in demand in
West Virginia,
When we remember that tuition
in all departments at the University
is free to all West Virginia young
men and young women, there is no
excuse for any West Virginian go
ing to other schools. In addition to
free tuition, cadets get their books
and stationery free.