The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-07

iron post-and her fingers held the paper
OF death. The night was very black
She shuddered
Suddenly she heard crying out. Wom-
en- and men were shouting back 1her,
by the town. She walked in that dircc-
ton. The shouting was increased, and
tEere was scurrying about near two
matched huts.
shout.
She came nearer to a hut. Men IN
sandals went leaping with torches. There
was a strange cracking in the thatches
Behold! the ground was black with
marching millions. Scorpions, lizards.
spiders, ran terror-stricken from that
army The matches We're being pierced
by thousands of unseen marauiers. HUI
man beings, Selling all things of value.
fed crying into the night.
Ihese ants march In terrible battalions
There is no way known to man to stop
them. They have their officers They
select goal. On they come ana all
things flee before. A house is overrun.
Every living thing, or piece of food, van
lshes. All other insects are deVoured
Men must absent themselves till the an
depart. Returning, all is bare. The
army has conquered, devastated, passed
on.
Fascinated, she stood with some SAN
daled laborers, who, on the outskirts of
this scene of ruin, watched it by TORCH
light.
Where will they go next?" cried
one.
Wonder, yonder In this direction. seel
The vanguard is already advancing thlth-
er!"
She beheId the leading battalion form
ing in tours, and heading away across
the barren field. She looked up. A
strange chill ran over her. That iron
post, yonder by the gorge, stood in Their
track
At midnight she passed stlrge's house,
and he was going IN. His door was
open and faint light shone on him. She
paused, where he saw her Sire looked
at him, with her soul in her eyes, and he
spurned her. Her bad self famed up.
She ran away, wild with hate she
stood moment under the palms, and
there diabolic purpose came to her.
1t had long been custom in this dis
trict to lead the culprit out very early
in the morning. Chained in darkness TO
the post, he was confronted by a priest
The black hours dragged on, giving the
criminal that most solemn season for
repentance Five soldiers and an officer
were stationed near. Whsn dawn came,
At II o'clock a detachment of soldiers
had arrived. About 1, Otilla came to the
door OF the decrepit barracks The cap
tain had orders to obsy the chief of 20
lice. She came to him and said: my
brother is i'll His servants are sitting
with him. SO he sent me with this or
der"
She disappeared. The captain read the
command for the immediate execution Of
one Stiyge, American.
A little later the unfortunate Anglo
Saxon schemer was seized in bed. They
put on him clothes somewhat similar 20
those worn BY runners in athletic con-
tests, so that he was nearly naked In
the n ght they led him out and on
through the black mango-grove. In that
stony field by the gorge they chained him
to a post. A priest came was re-
ceived with Eaughty contempt and went
away. Well for the soldiers that they
stood ten yards to the gorges left. Thus
did the flank of that black unseen army
pass them by unframed
Silence darkness, weird waiting for the
dawn. The gold-maddened dreamer was
a stole. He was as iron as the post and
chain. Out of the night shadows a