Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-06-29

chiefly by the servants of the place.
who are Mexican Indians. Ancient
wooden settles are bolted to the wallis;
from hooks hang Indian baskets
or bright colors; in one corner
are stretched raw hides, which serve
as beds. Small brown children, half
naked, trot, Chamber, and crawl about.
Black-halred, swarthy women squat on
the tiled floor, pursuing their vocations,
or, often, doing nothing at all beyond
continuing placid organic existence.
Boys and men saunter in and out of the
courtyard, chatting or calling in their
musical patois; once in a while there is
thud and clatter of hoofs, a rider ar
irving or departing. 1t is an entertain
ing scene, charming in its monotony of
small changes and evolutions: you can
Sit watching it in a half-doze for twenty
years at a stretch, and it may seem
only as many minutes. or vice versa.
Most of the ms in the wings are
used for the k..chens and other SER
wants quarters; but one large chamber
Is devoted to special purpose of the
Generafs own; it is museums; the
cur1osity-room, he calls it. It is
lighted by two windows opening on
opposite sides, one on the courtyard,
the other on an orange grove at the
south end of the house. Besides being
In itself cool and pleasant spot. it is
full of interest to any one who cares
about the relics and antiquities of an
ancient and vanishing race, concerning
whom little is or ever will be known.
There are two students in it at this
moment: though whether they are
studying antiquities is Their matter.
Let us give ear to their d'scourse and
be instructed
But this was made for you to wear,
Miss Trednoke. Try it. 1t fits YOU
perfectly, you see. There can be no
doubt about your being princess,
now!"
81 sometimes feel it,-herer' she
said, putting her hand on her bosom.
She was looking at him as she said it,
but her eyes instead of any longer
meeting his, seemed to turn their re-
gard inward, and to traverse strange
regions, not of this world. 81 see
some one who is myself, though 1 can
never have been she; she is surrounded
with brightness, and people not like
ours; she thinks of things that 1 have
never known. 1t is the memory of a
dream, 1 suppose she added. in
another tone.
'Heredity is queer thing. You
may be Aztecan over again, in mind
and temperament; and any one knows
how impressions are transmitted. IF
features and traits of character. why
not particular thoughts and feelinos?''
II think it is better not to try to ex-
plain these things said she, with the
unconscious haughtiness which maid.
ems acquire who have not seen the
world and are adored by their family.
''They are great mysteries,-or else
nothing" She now removed from her
head the curious cap or helmet, orna-
mented with gold and with the green
feathers of the humming-bird which
her companion had crowned her with.
and hung it on its nail in the cabinet.
perhaps the thoughts came with the
cap. she remarked, smiling slightly.
81 don't feel that way any more. I
ought not to have spoken of it,
81 hope the time will come when
you will feel that you may trust me-
'You seem easy to know, Mr.. Free
man. she replied, looking at hire con-
templatively as she spoke, land yet Won
are not. There is one of you that
thinks, and another that speaks. And
you are not the same to my father, or
to Prof. Meschines, that you are to
me-"
what is the use of human beings
except TO take one out of ones self2''
"Rutit Is not -FOUR real self that comes