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Captives Of the Slavish Chain

NEW YORK, Dec. 27-(SpeciaI Cor
respondence to The Herald.) The cotil-
lon Ii to be the most popular
of dances in society. this season.
and the leaders whose reputa-
tions depend almost entirely upon their
ability to present an appearance as
nearly as possible like the Apollo Bel
/ vedere in dress suit are in strict train
Ing. To the cotillon leader who can in
vent new figures for the coming dances,
that viii be novel as well as pretty, goes
the palm and the honor of winning ap-
plause where almost everyone is q star
and the calcium light is impartially dis
tributed. Nothing is ridiculous when
suggested for the cotillon. The sight of
grave men of business wearing eccentric
headgear and going through evolutions
that belong by right to the inmates of
an asylum for the insane Is not regarded
as at all out of place in a society ball
room, whatever a stranger to the social
whirl-say one of the Esquimaux now
soJourning in New York-might think
or the spectacle.
Many curious suggestions have been
made for the cotillon that tend to show
that this Is to be a great cotillon year,
but that which takes the lead for nov
city Is a figure that it's designer calls
'The Slavish Chain" The accompany
ing illustration gives some idea of the
novelty of the figure and the comic ele-
ment that attaches to it and makes 1t q
charming suggestion for social gather
ing.
The lady upon whom falls the honor
80 AL
ented with long chain of gold, in
which at intervals are fitted golden rings
large enough to go over a mans head
and encircle his neck. With this chain
in her hand, the lady begins tour Of
the ball room, while victims quake and
tremble every time her glance falls upon
them. Well 1t Is for those men who have
secured partners before the lady of the
golden chain comes their way Never
was woman's protecting influence more
sorely needed than at this moment, for
lonely and forlorn wanderers are power
less to escape from the chain. The first
man the lady of the chain sees alone
is attached by the passing of one of
the rings over his head, and he Is led
away, with mournful aspect, following
his captor wherever she may choose to
guide him. Presently another victim is
captured and harnessed by the golden
chain, and the procession wends its way
through the ball room until every ring
encircles neck, and the lady who leads
the line has as many men on her chain
as the chain will hold
There is only one way by which the
victims can make their escape, and here
the fair sex have their revenge, for So
cial rules and regulations that place
the lord Of creation upon higher plane,
and condemn the women to wait until
they are asked before taking part in the
whirl on the waxed floor. In order for
one of the captives attached to the slav-
ash chain to escape the thraldom, he
must be rescued by lady who ap- i
proaches and requests him to dance with
her. If no one asks a captive to dance,
then he must needs walk through the
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into the group. The first struck Crosby
just below the eye and ranged upward,
coming out at the back of the head. He
clutched at his throat and fell forward,
his spy glasses dropping from his hand.
A bpgler close by sprang from his horse
and caught him just as another bullet
cut through his saddle. The bugler
would have lost a leg If he had been a
moment later. He eased Capt. Crosby's
body to the ground, but the latter was
already dead. A second later third
bullet killed Gen. Gomezs horse. The
old warrior sprang like boy from the
saddle as it fell. The group then hastily
withdrew, carrying Capt. Crosby's body
with them. 1t was inferred with mill
tary honors.
This is all have been able to learn of
Crosby's fate. His clothing and outfit.
brought through the lines at so great a
risk, was distributed amongst Gomez
soldiers. His money is still in Gomez
hands, and may be recovered some day.
The second letter, received from Gomez
after my return to the United States, re-
fuses to surrender it except,into the
hands of a representative of the con-
sulate who will come to his camp to
get it.
CHAPTER TX.
Towards the last of April nearly all
of the newspaper correspondents in
Cuba began to rally at the Inglaterra
hotel in Havana, preparatory to going
back to what they regarded as Goods
country" where it was possible to Sc
cure morning paper, an American
breakfast and free telegraph office.
The reason that they had selected the
last of April was that on May 1st the
United States quarantine closes down
and prevents all ingress into the south
ern states until the next September.
Every one who could had determined to
leave, therefore, previous to that date,
and thus avoid the long sea trip to New
York.
All were not there, of course. sylves-
ter Scovel had been liberated and had
passed through Havana some weeks be-
fore, gone home, married wife and
started for the war in Greece. G. B.
Rea had also passed through He had
had desperate quarrel with General
Gomez and had been ordered to leave
the rebel camp. He had revenged him
self by writing a series of letters, which.
though true, were still unfair, emphasize
ing all the rebel weaknesses and bring
ing out the personal jealousies that sui
lied the character of many of the in
surgent leaders. He went under the
name of Carter, and took great precau-
tions against being detected by the
Spanish. He need not have done so.
They were too grateful to him to arrest
him.
Dawley had come back a week before
and gone on to New York, where he
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BI,OOD-BOUGHT WAR DESPATCHES

won the liking and respect Of all. He
studied and noted down all that occurred
around him, for he did not come as an
ally, but as cold and dispassionate OBJ
server. l cannot tell what conclusions
| he would have reached concerning us.
At Santa Teresa (Juan Criollo) we
fought strong Spanish column and by
my side he was struck down by ball
through the head.
with difficulty we rescued the body
and bore it to a place where it was in
tered. I preserve his effects and OBJ
jects of value until can send them into
the hands of his friends, his wife. chill
dren and companions of the Cuban
league. I am not willing to trust them
to the present means of communication
that I have, and therefore beg that,
knowing the motives that led him to
come to us, you will obtain permission of
the Spanish officials for representative
to visit my camp, that by his hand 1
may send them all to his sad home and to
the society that has lost him. After ma
ture reflection do not believe the Span
ish will permanently refuse this, nor
that such request will compromise
your delicate position. This is the only
reason that leads me to address you. T
have the honor, sir. to ask your ac-
ceptance of my most distinguished con-
sideration. M. GOMEZ"
Bencomo's letter cannot be quoted ex-
cept in substance. 1t contains a quota
tion from the letter sent him by Gen.
Pedro Diaz, which reads as follows:
Il read in the Havana papers that at
the last fight we had with the Spanish
a Santa Taraoo ~ No roI,
s, we had seventy killed and no one knew
how many wounded. In truth there was
only one killed, an American, Charles
Crosby and we had just five wounded, of
whom three are now entirely well. Thus
by their lying accounts of victories the
Spanish officers win promotions and
crosses of honor. The only people they
kill are pacificoes, who remain quietly
at their homes trusting in the creden-
tials given or rather sold to them by the
Spanish. They murder these and then
announce that at such point they took
a rebel prefecture or camp and killed
such and such number. What scoun-
drels they are
Then follows an account of the battle
of Santa Teresa, or Juan Criollo. Mr..
Rea, it seems, was not at the battlefield
and his information was not quite cor
rect. 1t seems Capt. Crosby reached
Gen. Gomez's camp on March S, and was
killed on March 8. The Spanish column
had been pretending to attack Gen. Co.
mez's position for three days. AS usual
they rode out into a great potrero, or
pasture field, near Juan Criollo, while |
the rebels stayed in the woods near by,
and fired at them at long range. The
Spanish formed a hollow square and
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Chinese mission by some one or another.
"Ah, yes" said DR.. Legge-and then he
mentioned sum the magnitude of
which made us stare. When he had given
time to digest the fact, he went on with
his usual beaming placidity: "She was
dear. good old lady but had a great
deal OF trouble over. her affairs. And
when all was unraveled, it was found
she had really nothing to leave. It
was quite delusion. On the contrary,
found myself liable for some hundred
pounds worth of debts"
He had had many troubles, but they
never broke his serenity or dimmed his
brightness. When saw him couple
|of years ago he was Just the same, with
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wrote a series of exceedingly interesting
letters. He had had a most romantic
time of it in the '1ong grass" and had
many tales to tell of his adventures.
Dawley never would take the Spanish
seriously, regarding them as q sort of
dangerous joke. He travelled every
where under his own name, although he
had been expelled from the island only
a few months before and threatened
with death il he returned. He utilized
the Spanish soldiers as errand boys, and
generally conducted himself as though
he owned the island. And yet he never
got in any serious trouble. On a boat
in the south coast on his way to Havana
he talked with Spanish general, who
assured him that the American corre-
spondents were the checklist lot of men
he had ever seen.
Decker had also gone back to the
States, with his mule load of trophies,
including enough reasonable matter to
hang him a dozen times over in case Of
detection, and perilous adventures
enought to fill volume.
Alvord, Stevens, and had decided to
leave on the last steamer of the season,
but as the day approached we began to
lCeNi tAoS oOiAiStAhh6 AAl6AI udRRcu W
prevent our going then and force us to
take the long sea trip to New York, and
we finally decided to leave on the one
before the last.
Accordingly we entertained General
Lee and most of the American colony
at dinner on the night of the 23d, and the
next day set sail for home, followed by
the lamentations of the rest of the cor
pondents-lamentation at being left
behind.
Soon after our departure, Garcia and
a New York correspondent were arrested
and kept in Jail for month or more,
and were then expelled from the island.
McCreedy left several weeks later and
Bryson was expelled early in August.
All the correspondents whom knew In
Cuba have returned and been replaced
by new ones. 1t is impossible for one cor
respondent to remain long in Cuba un-
der present conditions. The tension is
too great, the discomforts too numerous,
and the suspicious jealousy of the Span
iards too potent for correspondents to
make more than very temporary stay
in Cuba. No matter how short their
stay, however, they are bound to accu-
mulate an experience that will last a
lifetime. When the war Is over and
the Cuban flag floats over the island;
when the pride Of the naughty dons has
been humbled, and the Spanish ships
and Spanish soldiers have betaken them
selves home, hope some Of the corre-
spondents who have made 1t possible for
Americans to read the stirring doings Of
the rebellion, will join in reunion at
I. oe I,a;,, C,.L rvyp-
only dampener at the pleasure of such
a reunion will be that some will be alb
sent who sleep their last long sleep be-
meath Cuban sod.
CRITTENDEN MARRIOTT.
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dinner lady sensitive about her age.
Il was told,' said he, with the loudness
of a deaf person-"to take down the old
est lady present" Then as the storm
gathered on the lady's brow he sud
denly realized his offense, and said with
the utmost sweetness-"and here 1 am
beginning with one of the youngest"
His house was full Of Chinese curios,
which he would display to you with the
pleasure of child. Many of these were
gifts to him from his old flock in Hong
kong, where he was much beloved, as
he could hardly fail to be.
once heard some one ask him at a
dinner party If he had not been left an
enormous fortune for the work of his
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don. One could have imagined his long
life spent on Scottish hills in cold pure
air, tramping the heather all day long.
How unlike his later years at Oxford,
in his study walled in by mysterious
books, and absorbed in his strange
learning to which scarcely any other
man held the key.
He had little resentment now and
again over the sparse attendance at his
lectures. If the Slade professor could
draw crowded class rooms, why not he,
with the learning of Confucius and Men
cius? But his pupils were very few.
Young men intending to be missionaries
went to him. or a candidate for the con-
sular service; his class seldom con-
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tanned more than four. or five disciples.
Year after year he worked in his study
at Keble terrace, Oxford, over his
translations of the Chinese classics. The
walls were lined with Chinese books, the
She King, the "Shor-Kin the "Texts
of Confucianism," and so on. Such
scholarship was for the very few. But
Dr. Legge took comfort to himself by
recalling the immense Chinese universi-
ties where young men came for the wis
dom of the Chinese sages in numbers
and with zeal to put mere English uni
versities among the pigmies.
He was In his study every morning at
3 o'clock. winter and summer. He retired
to bed always at 10. When he got up in
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le morning the first thing he did was

the morning the first thing he did was
to make himself cup of tea over a
spirit lamp. Then he worked away at
his translations while all the household
not arrogant. He was benevolently in
terested indeed when slothful visitor
at his house breakfasted in bed. Such
laziness was so far beyond his expert
ence as to make him curious.
His simplicity sometimes led to awk-
wardness He always said what he
thought, and it was fortunate that his
thoughts were SO kind and sweet. Some
times he extricated himself from faux
pas by an artfulness as simple as his
offense. He was given to take down to
The herald., 1898-01-02
THE CHINESE PROFESSOR
Ut Iegge, Charming Old Oxford
4 Don, Is Dead

Dr Legge, who has just died at the
patriarchai age of so, was the most
charming Of old men. After his long life
p varied experiences he was the sim
plest OF human beings. He was delight
Jul to look at The frostiest of silver
hair. the pinkest Of cheeks, the blues.
pr piue eyes-these went with the moe,
benign expression. So honest. 60
healthy, SO much of the open-air life
vas in his aspect that he might have
seea anything rather than an Oxford
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his beautiful frosty coloring and his be-
nignant eyes under the enormous eye
brows. One could hardly imagine per-
sonality more winning. In Oxford, whore
the life makes for self-consciousness or
dryness, or both, this simple, fresh old
man seemed "lovely as Lapland night"
Pail Mall Gazette.
The herald., 1898-01-02

In 1868 Stockholm, Sweden, was COM
sidered large city. 1t had then between
10000 and $4,000 inhabitants, A hum
dred years later the number was $4,000
and as late as 1910 II was only 1900. IN
1894 1t had risen to 20 0OO--a remarkable
illustration Of the extraordinary growth
Of cities In the last decades.
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(Synopsis of previous chapters.-Critten-
den Marriott arrived In Cuba on January
TO- 1897, when the people of this country
were ignorant of the true state of affairs
on the island The American editors were
awake to the Importance of Cuban news
and had dispatched their best men to the
seat of war. All these newspaper men had
narrow escapes, several were killed, one
died in hospital, some were imprisoned.
Marriott vivdly depicts the dangers en-
countered by the stranger in Cuba, the
watchfulness of Spanish spies, and the
ease with which man can be killed and
his death passed over unnoticed. With
this introduction he proceeds to describe
his own wanderngs and adventures
After a trip to Matanzas, a town two
hours and half by train from Havana.
Mr.. Marriott returned to find that thick
columns of smoke obscured the city. The
Spanish were wantonly destroying the
homes of the peaceful inhabitants, driv-
ing them out and burning everything be-
hind them. Meeting Karl Decker, another
correspondent, Mr.. Marriott makes trip
to Sagua in a steamboat crowded with
Spanish officers and soldiers, whose mar
tial songs are quenched in the horrors of
seasickness.
The last chapter left them in bed at
village called Vega Alta, which was in the
possession of the Spaniards, but surround
ed by Cuban troops. After fierce battle
tHd SuDdHS Tttne, ledViHB ruin anu uedtH
behind them, the killed being exclusively
pacificos. as the Spaniards had kept snugy
within their Notifications while the firing
was going on. Crosby gets through the
Spanish sentries on pass, and makes his
way to the Cuban lines. Marriott returns
to Havana, where he Is caught taking pho
tographs with camera in which are con-
cealed letters from Crosby. He escapes
death only through the shortsightedness
OF the Spanish officer who examined the
camera. and who was too intent on exam
ining the innocent photograph films to take
notics of the letters concealed in the box
In Havana Marriott receives the news
Of Correspondent Crosby's death, a Span
ish bullet having killed him while he was
watching fight through his glasses Mar
riott at once makes an effort to obtain
particulars, but meets with all manner of
obstacles from the Spanish authorities.)
CHAPTER VIII
The courier also brought a quantity
of other mail, which Gomez wished me
to forward, including a large Spanish
flag, captured by Gen. Pedro Diaz at
the taking Of the town of San Pedro,
near Trinidad. Most Of the couriers
mail was dated at Ojo de Aqua and
Santa Teresa, about March 81. Both
are near Arroyo Blanco. The letter to
Consul General Lee follows:
Santa Teresa, March 31.-To the Con-
sui General Of the United States at Ha-
vana.-Sir: My duty as chief of the
Cuban army moves me to address this
letter to you, in Difference to our COM
mon love for American liberties land as
testimonial to the distinguished Capt.
crosby, citizen of the great republic
you REPRESENT. Capt. Crosby came here
70 study the war and to give his impress
sions to his country, and to his compan-
ions IN the Cuban league, which had
named him its representative. In the
lew Gays he was at my headquarters, he
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A feature which lends additional COM
icality to this new idea for the cotillon
is that the paper headdresses worn in
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preceding figures must be worn by the
captives. Woe to the man who tries to
assume dignified air when led capt
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over 10O,0o0 tons Of ice will be
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Railroad for Nevada.

A dispatch from Den yer announces
the tact that prominent Denverite
has Returned from New York CITY
with the news that tie California &
EasterA railroad from Marvel to
Deep Water in Nye county is to be
extended forty five miles He also
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lease ann develop mines in the vicin
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Notice of Appointment.

In the District Court of the First Jndi-
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and for the County of Ormsby.
In the matter Of the estate Of John +.
"lI>'n' deceased. Notice of appointment
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Notice is hereby given that the under
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> '|-i 'u'IcIal District, State OF Nevada.
/" and for the County of Ormsbv, on the
"th Gay OF December 1897. as administra
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SAID county, deceased. Frank Helm.
Dated this 10th day Of December. 1897.
GEO. A. TYRRELL, Clerk.
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f1urrah For S srta Cfsts

lie arrived in a box car with half 2
carload of beautiful rocking chairs
tables and lounges for Nmas presents
make happy the children, and please
fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers,
cousins, unrles and aunts and remember
a good friend, a fine lot Of useful thinns
to pick from at prices that will down all
competitor, if y"u call at Geo. ". Kitz-
meyers furniture store in Carson. He
Will tax" special H,-i"> 20 nave every
Customer satl<..v.. if
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Baker & Son, Main street, opposite the
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put up ripe in the orchard whore they
were grown. 1,,,
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82G. 90 REWARD

OFFER \ REWARD OF IS FOR
the return of three horses tn1t s,raved
iron my place on the Trurkee road. fonr
miles from Tahoe City, last summer.
one Is sorrel horse, eight years old,
with a wire mark around the off hind
leg; one bay horse, branded with an "N''
on right shoulder. ana the other is a five
EeAr-old IRON grey, with no mark or iron
The above reward will be paid for their
return to
HOO c. BARTON.
Reno, Nevada.
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