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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-05-04

you were IeuVIuB uuO uuuuSeu 10 Se'
cure It before anyone else could posi-.
bly, have noticed IT,"
In moment the Colonel sat perfectly
still, thoroughly mystefied.
Then he suddenly sprang to his feet.
"Thunder and Mars" he beloved. II
see 1t all now; Lillian must have drop.
ped q love letter. That accounts for
Montague's epistle being so formal. Ill
swear he didn't call her Mrs. Clifford
last night" And with this amiable re-
Election the Colonel went back to the
house. and smuggling the letter back
into Its envelope he put 1t again on the
hall table.
The day sped on. 1t happened after
dinner that the Colonel. In no happy
frame of mind, wandered round toward
the stables. smoking a fragrant cigar
To his surprise he ran into q groom
who was leading horse saddled ani
bridled.
"Why the dickens can't you lool
where you are going TOT" he shouted
"Confound You, charging into me lik,
that. What are you taking the horse,
out for. at this time OF night, anyway 2
The man touched his hat respectfully
tits note to 20 to Montague Place a
once, sir" he said, "and another"
"Ah, OF course" interrupted the Col
Onel, with great presence Of mind. "
thought ! had sent down word the,
We're not to 20 tonight" He held on
his hand for the letters, and, going I
the harness'room, he read them by tn
light of the lamp which hung from tn
; ceiling.
] u am crushed and oveswhelms
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Tho Green Corn.

Puro color almost always gives the idea
OF fire, or rather it is perhaps as IL u light
shone through rs we'll as the color itself.
The fresh green blade of corn is like this
so pcllucid, SO clear and pure in its green
as to seem to shine with color. 1t is not
brilliant, not n surface glcam nor an
cnamel-it is stained through. Beside
tho moist clods the slender flags arise,
filled with tho sweetness of tho earth. Out
of the darkness under-that darkness
which knows no day save when the plow-
share opens its chinks-they have com TO
the light. To the light they have brought
. color which will attract the sunbcams
from now till harvest. They fall more
pleasantly on tho corn, toned as if they
mingled with it.
Seldom do we realize that tho world is
practically nc thicker to us than tho print
of our footsteps on the path. Upon that
surface We walk and act our comedy OF
life, and what is beneath is nothing to us.
But it is out from hat under world, from
tho dead Il the unknown, from the cold,
moist ground that these green blades have
sprung. 1onder a steam piow pants up
the hill. groaning with its own strength,
yet all that strength and might of wheels
and piston and chains cannot drag from
thee earth one single blade like these. Force
cannot mako it; it must grow-an easy
word to speak or write-in fact, full of po-
tency.-Richard Jeffries In Longman's
Magazine.
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Polycletos and Greek Art.

The mantle Of Phidias descended on
Polycletos, the originator of the Argivc
school of art. Inferior to his great pre-
cursor in colossal sublimity and magnifi-
cence, he equaled him in precision and sur
passed him in beauty of face and grace of
figure, so that the critics have told us that
Phidias portrayed divinity and Polycletos
humanity. II we may adduco u parallel
from dramatic literature, we will term
Phidias the Eschylus and Polyclctos the
Sophoclcs of statuary. and as tho father
of tragedy" called his dramas fragments
from the great Homeric banquet" so the
Attic sculptor said that he derived his con
ceptions of the majesty OF tho father OF
gods and men from tho strains of tho IA
Their of song.
His statue of u boy bearing n lance has
been judged by critics a perfect model of
youthful grace and proportions and has
been called tho "Canon," since from it
artists have drawn rules of art, so that, in
the words of Pliny, "he is held to DO the
only man who has embodied art itself in n
work of art" As may be supposed, he
was successful in the nude and in portal.
lures of boys and youths. Tho Argiyo
school was prolific in sculptors'of ability,
principally disciples and imitators Of Poly
cletos, but we can hardly RAM; among
them Scopas save indirectly London
Spectator.
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They find it incenvenient and clumsy on
the march, and an embarrassment IN
field manwuvres, especially in crawling
up embankments and in passing over or
through enclosures.
should add that tests made include
thai of carrying all the articles of necessity
and convenience hat would be required
on an extended campaign. The weight of
the Merriam Pack" with change of
undertaking, o%vercoat, extra shoes new
toilet articles. house wife, stationery,
etc } everything e1 elusive of rations IN
ammunition, for which ample space was
reserved, weighed 23A lbs, while the
blanket roll with oyercoat, etc but with
out toilet articles etc., for which the
soldier found no convenient place,
weighed 1874 lbs.
The claims made by Colonel Merriam
for his pack, in his circular, were all
practically su~bstantiated.
The opinion of myself as well as subal-
tern officers Of my company is that the
Merriam Pack is far preferable to either
the blanket bag or Dodge Yoke
Very respectfully, Your obedient servant,
(signed) Arthur Williams,
Capt. 3rd Infantry, Com'dg Co. "B."
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on the colonel's bit of shooting. The
colonel himself we found confined to
the house, with his foot on the IA
miliar rest, and though ourselves were
the only guests we managed to do pref
ty well together. 1t was during this
short holiday that the case l have men
toned arose.
When first | began to record some of
the more interesting of Hewitt's opera
tons, l think | explained that such
cases as l myself had not witnessed l
should set down in impersonal mar
rative form. without intruding myself.
The present case, so far as Hewitt's
work was concerned, l saw, but there
were circumstances which led up to it
that we only fully learned afterwards.
These circumstances, however, l shall
put in their proper place-at the be-
ginning.
The Fosters were 4 fairly old Rath-
erby family, of whom Mr.. John Foster
had died by an accident at the age of
about forty, leaving a wife twelve years
younger than himself and three chill
dren, two boys and one girl, who was
the youngest. The boys grew up
strong, healthy. out-of-doors young
rutiians, with all the tastes Of sports
men and all the qualities, good and
bad, natural to lads Of fairly wcll-dis-
posed characters allowed a great deal
too much of their own way from the
beginning. Their only real bad quail
ity was an unfortunate knack of bear
ing malice, and n certain savage vim
dictiveness toward such persons as they
chose to consider their enemies. With
the louis of the village they were at I'M
ceasing war, and indeed once got into
serious trouble for peppering the
butchers son who certainly was a
great blackguard) with sparrow shot.
At the usual time they went to Oxford
together and were fraternally sent
down together in their second year,
after enjoying a spell of rustication in
their first. The offense was never
specifically mentioned about Ratherby,
but wa mourned of as something par
ticularly outrageous.
It was at this time, sixteen years or
~thereabout, after the death of their
father, that Henry and Robert Foster
first saw and disliSed Mr. Jonas
Sneathy, a director of penny banks and
small insurance offices. He visited
Ranworth (the Fosters house, a great
deal more than the brothers thought
necessary. and, indeed, it was not for
lack of rudencss on their part that Mr..
Sneathy failed to understand, as far as
they were concerned, his room was
preferred to his company. But their
mother welcomed him, and in the end
it was announced that Mrs. Foster was
to marry again and that after that her
name would be Mrs. Sneathy.
Hereupon there were violent scenes
at Ranworth. Henry and Robert de-
nounccd their prospective stepfathcr as
a fortune-hunter, a snufiler, q hypo.
critic. They did not stop at broad hints
as to the honesty of his penny banks
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TIE UNFINISHED HOUSE.
It Stood az a Monument to a Party of
Practical Jolers.

The pioneer openings in the woods re-
Cions have their practical jokers as we'll
rs places moro in touch with the world.
AS might he expected tho jokes often take
On = form peculiar to the locality. In q re
mote Piscataquis settlement, we noticed
All opening grown up to weeds and bushes
and a log house partly completed, but long
since abandoned. Such places are no I'M
common sight along the margin of tho
great woods. But, rs humanity always
has an interest, we were moved to inquire
something about the mar who mado so
unsuccessful an attempt to establish T.
home. Our host removed his pipo from be-
tween his bearded lips, looked queerly at
his wifo a moment, and then they both
had n good naturod laugh.
why, you see" said the man. 'that
was done by a ~frenohnan; Il littlo fellow,
with n skin nearly as lark rs o negro's.
ho Thought he could come in hero and
mako % farm. He talked with Ncighbor 3.
over yonder, and was particularly anxious
about the flies and midges. Nei2hbor BIS
q joker, that's what he is, and to oncour-
age tho Frcnchman he told him that the
varmints wouldn't bite o dark complex
Toned man. so he came in early in tho
spring and made a choppinr, and rs soon's
the snow was of began to put III n house.
"Then the warm weather came ard tho
flies. The way they worked on that French
man was just n wonder. Scents if They
knew what he'd been told and put up n
job on him. They hung around him in
swarms and got inside his clothes and bit
him till he was nearly raw. 1t made him
perfectly wild. 'D-n fly, no bite dark
skinned mani he yelled wrathfullv as lie
danced about, trying to shake them off,
BY Gar, that's lie. Zey like good French
blood, if skin is black. SEQ ho-or He
pulled open his flannel shirt, showing
what they had done. Look that, an SEQ
whether they like Fronchman or noti'
He had endured it as long az he could.
and shaking a savage fist over Neiglbor
T.. way, he picked up his traps and Gban-
donod b ranGh.'-Lewiston Journal.
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KEPT IN A STEEL SAFE.
Tho Constitution of the United States Re-
mains In Good Condition.

Ihc constitution of the United States
the original pen written constitution, be
it remembered-is kept in a steel safe in
the library of the state department. The
safe, quito q pretty affair in gray and
gold, is massive and strong. A combina-
ton lock protects it's priceless contents,
and the combination is carefully kept by
one or twS officials. Yesterda7, however,
the steel doors We're swung open in order
to allow Il reporter TO look upon the sacred
pages. No document in the world has been
50 fraught with destiny as this very same
constitution. 1t is today the foundation
Of the government. 70 see it as it came
from the pen Of the cngrosscr on the 18th
day of September, 1857, is a sight worth
travelling a thousand miles to witness.
AS is well known, there arc in tbs state
department two copies of the Declaration
Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. tho official and en-
! crossed document u the other the orig
inal draft in the handwriting of Thomas
Jefferson, with all the crasurcs and altera-
lions that Ucro made before tho language
was finally agreed upon. In the case of
the constitution there is only ono copy
the final cngrossrncnt, with the Signatures
duly attached. AS thus preserved, ii CON
sists of four large shcots of parchment,
each - by % inches, with the words writ
ten out in tho old fashioned chir0graphy OF
q century ago and the curious capitali2a-
ton Of letters then in vogue. III first
three words, ''Wc, tho people" are en-
crossed in very large black letters, so that
they stand out in bold relief. Or the last
page are the signatures of the deputies from
the various states, beginning with the IA
millar autograph OF George Washington,
who signed himself as president and Dep
MY from Virginia." Many Of the names
are closely associated with the carly his
tory Of the republic-Alcxander Hamilton,
Rufus King, Gouverneur Morris, b.. Frank
lin, Daniel Carroll and Roger sherman be-
ing among the number.
Tho constitution is a most excellently
preserved document. The ink has faded %
little, but not sufficient to dctract from
lcgi5ility or appearance. The autographs
are especially clear. This might have been
the case also with the Declaration of indie
pcndence, but it SO happened that when II
facsimile of that paper was attempted in
1924 irreparablc harm was lone to it
through carclcssncs5 and ignorance. In the
case Of the constitution the Utmost care
has been observed and no injury has re-
sultCd.-Washington Post.
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Card OF Thanks.

l take this method to express many
thanks to all of the 100 representative
citizens Of Augusta who so kindly signed
the petition TO the board Of directors of
the VIM. r. Smith Grammar School pray
ing that my son Edward S. Lovejoy be
appointed principal of said school.
Also | wish to say that the chairman,
now that another has been appointed as
the principal of said school, unkindly
withheld said petition upon the plea that
there may be some who may wish to have
their names erased from said petition, and
thus denying my son the influence of those
wh" would be happy to help him in OBJ
tanning a position elsewhere.
Very respectfully yours.
d. 3. LONEJOY.
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A story is told Of Jay Gould while stop.
ping in Manitou some years ago which il.
lustrates the loneliness of wealth and sta
tion. His isolation was oppressive. He
wandered about the village, but though he
vas "the observed Of all observers" none
ventured to accost him familiarly-in fact,
he was avoided. At length he found q seat
at the little railway depot. Presently q
stranger approached and took q seat beside
him. 4 frank a1d cordial interchange
followed. The stranger was n guest at the
Same hotel with the millionaire, though
each was unknown to tho other, but he
had met with bad luck and had lost all his
money. Mr.. Gould returned east that day
When the stranger applied for his bill on
tho day following he found it had been
paid. He also found awaiting him "a cheek
for 5000 signed By Jay Gcu!d.-Chicago
Tribune.
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CHAPTER L

CHAPTER
I think I have recorded in another
place Hewitt's frequent aphorism that
there is nothing in this world that is
at all possible that has not happened
or is happening in London" But there
are many strange happenings in this
matter-of-fact country. and in these
matter-of-fact times, that occur far
enough from London. Fantastic crimes,
savage rcvenges. medieval supersti-
tions, hellish cruelty, though less in
sight, have been no more extinguished
by the advent of the nineteenth CEN
fury than have the ancient races who
practiced them in the dark ages. Some
of the races have become civilized and
some of the savageries are heard of no
more. But there are survivals in both
cases. / say these things, having in
my mind q particular case that came
under the personal notice of both Hew-
lit and myself-an affair that brought
one up standing with q gasp and a
doubt of ones era.
My good uncle, the colonel, was not
In the habit OF gathering great house
parties at his placea al Ratherby, partly
because the place WAS O a great one
and partly because the ~colonel's govt
was. But there was an excellent bit of
shooting for two or three guns and
ever when he was unable to leave the
house himself my uncle was always
pleased if some good friend was enjoy
ing a good days sport in his territory.
As to myself, the good old soul was in
a perpetual state of offense because I
visited him SO seldom, though whenever
my scant holidays fell in a convenient
time of tn year l was never insensible
to the attractions of the Ratherby
stubble. More than once had I sat by
the old gentleman when his foot was
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, amusing him
with accounts of some of the doings of
Martin Hewitt, and more than once had
my uncle expressed his desire to meet
Hewitt himself, and commissioned me
with an invitation to be presented to
Hewitt at the first likely opportunity for
ajoint excursion tc Ratherby. Atlengtb
/ persuaded Hewitt to take a fortnight's
rest, coincident with a little vacation
of my own, and we got down to Rather
by within q few days past September
l, and before a gun had been fred
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cident last set down, that news Of Mr..
Sneathy came to Col. Brctt's place,
where Hewitt and | were sitting and
chatting with the colonel. The news
was that Mr.. Sneathy had committed
suicide-had been found hanging, in
fact, to q tree in Ratherby wood, just
by the side of the footpath.
TO DE CONTINUED.
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Themost painful rartof our bodily pain
is that which is bodiless, or immatcrial-
namely, our impatiencc and the delusion
that 1t will last forever Richter.
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Rhodo Island. in proportion to size end
population, is among the richest Of our
commonwealth, being assessed at $685.,
636, 673.
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The hen Is tho most exclusive Of oil
birds. Shc DOESN'T allow any chicks about
her that don't belong to her set.
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AT Bombay ca inches of rain have fallen
lii q Gay; at Genoa, so; at Gibraltar, 50.
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The Chronicles Of Martin
Hewitt.
By Arthur Morrison.

Copyright ISIS b. BatGheliler, Johnson &
bach-llA.l
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Usage, tho name of G Missouri river,
means "the strong"
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village, attacking with his walking
stick an inoffcnSive tradesman who had
accidentally brushed against him, and
Immediately running home. This as
sault had to be compounded Tor by a pay
ment Of fifty pounds. And then Henry
and RcSert Foster received a most
urgent letter from their sister, request
ing their immediate presence at home.
They went at once, of course, and the
servants account of what occurred was
this; When the brothers arrived Mr..
Sneathy had just left the house. The
brothers were shut up with their
mother and sister for about a quarter
of an hour and then left them and
came out to the stable yard together.
The goodman Che was a new man, who
had only arrived the day before over
heard a little of their talk as they stood
by the door. Mr.. Henry said that "the
thing must be done, and at once. There
are two of us, 50 that it ought to be
easy enough" And afterwards Nh.
Robert said: You'll know best how
to go about it, as a doctor" After
which Mr.. Henry came toward the
coachman and asked in what direction
Mr.. Sneathy had gone. The coachmap
replied that it was in the direction o.
Ratherby wood, by the winding foot
path that led throughit. But as be spoke
he distinctly, with the corner of his eye,
saw the other brother take q halter
from q hook by the stable door and put
it into his coat pocket.
So far for the earlier events, whereof
l learned later bit by bit. 1t was on
the day of the arrival of the brothers
Foster at their old home, and, indeed
little more than two hours after the in
The Colfax chronicle., 1895-02-16
TurnIp Pickles.

Take nice turnips, pare and cut
in thick slices; take water enough
to cover, and color a deep red with
polk berries; put in salt as in cook
ing to eat When boiling, put in
turnips and cook tender, but not
enough to break in pieces. Make
a pickle of one-half gallon Of good
vinegar, three pounds sugar, tea
spoonful cloves, cinnamon, mace
and spices each; let 1t come to a
boil and put in your turDips while
hot If pickle is not sweet enough
to suit put in more sugar: This
pickle is hard to beat Artichokea
may he picked the same way, with
OF without coloring.
The Colfax chronicle., 1895-02-16
war on High..prices.

Mr.. jas. A. Hyde informs us
that he has rented the store oppo-
site the court house, formerly oc-
cupied by Mr.. w. N. Greed. in
which he expects to open up a
stock of brand new goods, and that
he will open the folks eyes in the
matter of cheap prices. As an in
dication of what he means by cheap
prices, Mr.. Hyde authorizes us to
state that he will sell bacon by
the retail at s cents per pound,
molasses 20 cents per gallon, flour
So per barrel, sugar 25 pounds for
dollar, good brown and bleached
cotton cloth 4 and 5 cents per yard.
and all other goods in proportion.
The Colfax chronicle., 1895-02-16

We understand that good deal
of excitement has prevailed for the
past week, in the eastern portion OF
Grant parish near Pollock, over
the investigation in the third mag
istrate's court, over which Esq. J..
G. Ward presides, of an alleged at
tempt at assassination, in which
two parties named Frost and Travis
are accused of shooting at and at
tempting to kill one Mcclure.
From conflicting reports we gather
that the said Mcclure had pretty
close call from some parties who
either wanted to kill him or scare
him badly, and that he luckily es.
capped without injury.
The Colfax chronicle., 1895-02-16
Our merchants frequently crit

Our merchants frequently criti-
else the famers for not raising di-
versiHed crops Do they ever stop
to think how great their RESPONSE
bility is for the present conditionsP
The eternal demand by them for
cotton, and nothing but cotton, has
done it. Let them buy meat, corn,
hay, potatoes, and other produce
from the farmers, and with a little
encouragement in this direction, it
will not be long before our farmers
will take lively interest in diver
styling their crops.
The Colfax chronicle., 1895-02-16
AnUnusual Cold Snap.

The cold spell just now over Is
said to have been not so severe as
that of 1886, by one OF two degrees,
the spell of '86 registering 6 de-
erees above zero, while this one
was 8 degrees above. The cold
snap of '86 got here earlier in the
season, prevailing from Jan. 9Th to
18th, while the one this year came
in on the night of Feb. 9th and con-
tinued until the night of the 18th,
when the weather moderated and
snow fell to the depth of an inch or
more, and we all awoke on the l4th
to find everything feecy white. BY
noon on the 14th snow again began
to fall, perceptibly increasing every
hour until dusk, by which time it
was falling thick and fast It fell
lightly until about 7 o'clock on the
morning of Friday 18th. by which
time there was an average depth OF
two inches of snow, with drifts in
many places six and eight inches
deep. At Z o'clock the clouds rift.
ed and the sun shone out brightly
revealing beautiful sight of daz.
zling whiteness. The weather has
: perceptibly moderated, and in two
or three days more it is probable
that all the snow will have vanished
: The winters of this section usual.
last from Dec. 21st to March lst-
Is or 70 days-but we seldom hav
, an entire week of cold, especiall
: this late in the season, and for thi
reason the February blizzard Q
1895 is one of unusual note.
The Colfax chronicle., 1895-02-16
MARRIED.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the res
idence of Mr.. F. E. Layssard, father Of
the bride, on the night Of Friday, Feb. 8,
1895, DR.. D. o. Spencer, OF Starkvi,le,
Miss, was united in marriage with Miss
Ann Pomela Layssard, native OF Grant
parish, La.
KELSOE-DOWTY-Atthe the residence
of the brides father on Bayou Rapides.
on the evening of Wednesday, Feb. Is,
1895, Mr.. Jno. p. Kelsoe, of Grant parish,
was united in marriage with Miss Elma
Dowty, of Rapides.
We join the friends Of these happy
couples in wishing them long, happy and
useful lives.