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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1886)
TRUTH. O holy and eternal Truth I Thon art An emanation of hlc Eternal Mind, A glorious attribute, k noble part Of uncreated being, Who can And, By diligent scarcblni? who can And out thee, The Incomprehensible, the Deity! The human mind Is a reflection caught From thee, a trembling shadow of thy ray. Thy glory beams around us, but thy thought That heavenward wings Its daring flight away Returns to where Its flight was first begun, Blinded and dark beneath the noonday sun. Tin. snnl of man. thouch elelilne after thee, Hath never known thee, saving as It knows The stars of heaven, whoscglorlous light we see, The sun, whoso radiance dazzles as It glows Bornethlnt that Is beyond us, anu auove The reach of human xwer, thoueh not of hu man love. Vainly philosophy may strive to teach The secret of thv being. Its faint ray Jllsguldes our steps. Deyond the utmost reach Of Its untiring wing the eternal day Of truth Is shining on the longing eye, Distant unchanged, changeless, pure, and high. And yet thou hast not left thyself without A revelation. All we feel and see Within us and around forbids to doubt, Yet speaks so darkly and mysteriously Of what we arc and thall be evermore, Wc doubt and yet believe, and tremble and adore. E. 1L Gots, (n Harper t Magaxtnt, Sandoifs Revenge, A SEQUEL TO MATHIAS 8AND0IIF AND DOCTOR ANTEKIRTT. 33y .Till e s "Verne, AOTIIOn OP "JOUIIKKV TO Til It CENTOH OP THE J2A11TH," "TJUPTOTJIEMOON," "A1IODND THE WORLD IN 1510 IITt I'AXS," "MICHAF,Ii fjTIlOGOFF, " " TWKHTV THOUSAND JJIA0UE3 tJNDEIl THE SKA," ETC., ETC. Traiitlatton copyrighted by Q. in llanna, is$s. CHAPTER XI Continued. And now an idea occurred to Point Pesciule which ho did not oaro to men tion to the Doctor for fear ho would not give his consent. Hut ho want and whispered it to Capo Matifou. Ho know,, from what ho had heard at Santa Grottn, that a detachment of gendarmes was at Cassono. To reach Cassono would only take un hour, aud it would take another hour to got back. Gould ho not fetch this dotnehment? Yes, but only by passing through tho besiegers, aud making off to tho west ward. "It is nocossary for mo to go ihrongh, and I will go through I" ho aid ; "I am an acrobat, or I am not." And ho told Cape Matifou what ho proposed to do. "But," said Matifou, "you riak " "I will go 1" Capo Matifou novcr darod to resist Point Pescado. Both then went to tho right of the Gasa degli luglosi, whore tho snow had accumulated to a. considerable depth, xeu iniujiies uuerwnrus, wnuo tno truggfo continued along tho front, Cape Matifou appeared, pushing before him huge snowball, ami among tho rocks that tho sailors continued to hurl on to their asa'atlanta ho started this ball, which rolled down tho slopo past Zirono's men, and stopped fifty yards in the roar at tho bottom of a gentle hollow. It half broko with tho shock; it opened, and from it emerged a living man, active, and "a littlo malicious," as ho aid of himsolf. It was Point Pescado. Enclosed in tho carapace of hardunud snow, he had iared being star tod on tho slope of tho mountain at tho risk of being rollod into tho dopths of some abyss I Aud now as ho was frou ho ntado tits best hasto ho could along tho footpaths to Cassone. It wtifl thon half-past twelve. At this moment the Dootor, uot seeing Pcscado, thought ho was wouudod. Ho cnllod htm. "Gonol" said Capo Matifou. "Gone i" "Yes to get somo help 1" "Aud how ?" "In a snowball I" And Capo Matifou told htm what Pes eado had dono. " Ah 1 Bravo fellow I" exolairaod tho Doctor; "courage, my friends I Tho oonudrols will not havo us after all." And the masses of rook continued to roll down on tho assailauts, although the means of defence wore rapidly dis appearing. About throo o'clock in tho morning the Doctor, Picrro, Luigi, Capo Mnti fou nd tho sailors, carrying tlioir wounded, would havo to ovaounto tho houso, and allow it to full into tho possession of Zirono, twenty of whose companions had been killod. Tho retreat would havo to bo up tho central ono that heap of lava, sooriio and cin ders, whose summit, tho orator, was an abyss of flro and all were to nscetid it and carry their wounded with thorn. Of the 1000 feet they had to climb, over 700 feet -would be through the sulphur ous fumes that tho winds beat down from the top. 'The day began to break, and already the orests of tho Oalabrian mountains, above tho eastern ooast of tho Straits of Mewsiua, wero tipped with the coming light. But, in tho position in which tho Doctor nd his men found themselves, the, day had no chnnoo of being wel. oiaetl They would havo to fight as they retreated up the slope, using their bat cartridges, and hurling down the feat masaea of rock that, Matifou sent tying along with Mich superhuman strength. They had almost givon thoiu aflvea up for loit when the souud of gm warn heard below them. A moment of iinleiion was observed among tho bandit. Tjiey hesitated ; and thon ihay broke into full flight down the mountain aide. They had sighted the geatlanaw who Imd arrived from Caa aotMt, Polatreaoade ut their head. Ha lwidH't to go w far jb tho v llage j tk gaiulariuea bd heard the firing TOE DEATH and were already on the road. All ho had to do was to lead them to tho Casa degli Iuglcsi. Then tho Doctor and his men took tho defonsive. Cane Matifou, as if ho wero an avalaucho himself, bounded on tho nearest, and knocked down two beforo thoy had timo to got away ; and then ho rushed at Zirone. "Bravo, old Capo i Bravo I" shouted Poscado, running up. "Down with him! Lay him flat I Tho contost, gentlemoa, tho despcrato contest between Zirono and Cupo Matifou I" Zirono heard him, and with the hand that remained freo he fired his rovolver at Pescado who fell to the ground. Then thoro was a terriblo scone. Capo Matifou had seized Zirone, and was dragging him along by tho neck. Tho wretch, half strangled, could do nothing to holp himsolf. In vain tho Doctor, who wishod to have him alive, shoutod out for him to bo sparod. In vain Piorro and Luigi rushed out to stop him. Cape Mntifou thought of ono thing only; Zirono had mortally wouudod Point Pescado 1 no heard nothing, ho saw nothing. IIo gave ono last leap on to tho edge of tho gaping envtor of the sol fatara, and hurled the baudit into tho abyss of fire ! Point Pescado, soriously wounded, was.liftcd on to tho Doctor's knee. He examined and bathed the wouud, and when Capo Matifou returnod to him, with great tears rolling down his cheok's: "Never fear, old Cape, never fear!" murmurod Pescado ; "it is nothing 1" Capo Matifou took him in his arms like a child, and followed by all, went down tho side of tho cone, while tho gendarmes gave chuso to tho last fugi tives of Zirono's band. Six hours afterwards, the Doctor and his men had returned to 'Catania, and wero on board tho Ferrato. Point Pas cade was laid in tho cabin. "With Doo tor Antekirtt for surgoon and Capo Matifou for nurse, ha was well looked oftor! His wound a bullet in tho shoulder was not of a serious kind, nis euro was only a quostion of time. When ho wanted sleep Cape Matifou told him tales always the samo talos and Point Poscado wuu soou in sound slumber ! However, the Dootor'a campaign had opened unsuccessfully. After nearly falling into Zirono's hands, he had not beon able to get hold of Sarcony's com panion and obtain thu information from him that he wantod and all owing to Capo Matifou 1 Although tho Doctor stayod atCataniafor oightdays, ho could obtain no nows of Sarc"any, If Sareany had inlondod to rejoin Zirono in Sioily, his plans had been ohotigod, probably when ho heard the result of tho attempt on Doctor Antekirtt. Tho Ferrato put out to sea on tho 8th of Soptember, bound for Autokirtta, and she arrivod after a rapid passage. Thoro the Doctor, Pierre and Luig! conferred as to their futuro plans. Tho first thing to do, was obviously to get hold of Carpeua, who ought to know what had become of Sarcauy and Silts Torontlml Unfortunately for the Spaniard, although ho moapod tho destruction of Zirono's bund, ho remainod at Santa Grottn, and his good fortune was of short duration. In fact, ton days after wards, ono of tho Doctor's agents lformed him that Carpeua had been arrested at Syraouso not as an accom plice of Zirono, but for a crime com mitted more than fifteen years ago, a murder at Almayato in the provinoo of Malaga which had caused his flight to Rovigno. Throo weeks later Carpono, whose oxlradition was obtained, was convicted, and scut to Uio coast of Morocco, to Coutn one of tho ohiof penal colonics of Spain. "At last," said Pierre, "thoro is ono of tho sooundruls settled for life I" "For life ? Not" answerod the Doc tor; "if Andrea Ferrato died in prison, It is not in prison that Carpeua ought to die." CHAPTER XLL OKOTA. On the 21st of September, three weelra after the Doe tor left Catania, a swift slui yaoht the Ferrato could have been seen running before a north easterly breexe, batweeti the European tape the English held on Hpautaa jrouud, aad tha Afrieau eaujD the OF ZIUONE, Spaniards hold on Moorish ground. If wo are to believe mythology, tho twelve miles that separate theso capes from each other wero cleared away by Her cules a predecessor of Do Lcsseps who let in tho Atlantic by knocking a holo with his club in tho border of the Mediterranean. Point Pescade would not havo for gotton to toll this to his friend, Capo Matifou, as ho showed him to tho north the rock of Gibraltar, and to tho south Mount Hacho. And Capo Matifou would havo appreciated at its true, value this wonderful feat, and not a shade of envy would overshadow his simple, modest souL Tho Provoncal Hercules would have bowed low before tho son of Jupiter nnd Alcmena. But Capo Matifou was not among tho yacht's passengers, aud neither was Point Pescado. Ono taking caro of tho other, both had remained at Antokirtta. If, later on, thoir assistance became nccosK.ary, thoy could bo summoned by telegram, and brought from the island by ono of tho Electrics. On tho Ferrato wero tho Doctor and Piorro Bathory, and iu command wero Kostrik nnd Luigi. Tho last expedition to Sioily, in search of Sareany and Tor ontlml, had resulted in nothing beyond tho death of Zirono. Thoy hnd thero foro decided to resume tho chase by obtaining from Carpeua all tho infor mation ho possessed as to Sareany nnd his accomplice ; and as tho Spaniard had been sent to tho galloyB, and shipped to Ceuta, thoy wero on thoir way thoro to find him. Ceuta is a small fortified town, a sort of Spanish Gibraltar, built on tho eastern slopes of Mount Hnoho ; nnd it was in sight of its harbor that tho yacht was now steaming somo throo milo3 from the ooast No moro animated spot oxists than this famous strait. It is the mouth of tho Mediterranean. Through it como tho thousands of vessels from northern Europo, and tho two Americas, bound for tho hundreds of ports on tho ooast of tho inland sea. Through it como tho powerful mail-boats and ships of war, for which tho genius of a French man has opened a way to tho Indian Ocean and tho Southern Seas. Nothing can bo moro pioturesquo than this nar row channol through tho mountains. To tho north are tho sierras of Andalusia; to tho south, along tho strangely varied coastline, from Capo Spartol to Almina, aro tho black summits of tho Bulloncs, tho Apes' Hill and tho Soveu Brothers. To tha right aud loft are pioturesquo towns, crouching in tho curves of tho bays, straggling on tho flanks of the lower hills, and stretching along tha bonohes at tho base of tho mountainous background such as Turifa, Algosiras, Tangier and Cento. Between tho two shoros, cut by tho prows of tho rapid steamers that stop not for wind or wave, and the sailing vessels that tho wostorly winds keop back ut times in hundrod, thoro stretches tho oxponso of over mov ing water, over changing; horo grey and streaked with foam, thoro blue and calm and brokon into restless hills that mark tho zig-zaggod current-lino. No ono can romain insensible to tho sublirao beauties that the two continents, Eur opo and Africa, bring faoo to face along tho double panorama of the Straits of Gibraltar. Swiftly does tho Ferrato approach tho African ooast Tho bay at tho back of whioh Tangiors is hidden, begins to close, whilo tho rock of Ceuta becomes moro visible as tho shore beyond trends away to tho south. Abovo, towards tho top of Mount Hacho, thoro appears a fort, built on tho sito of a Roman oitadel, iu which tho sontrioa koop constant watch ovor tho stmita nnd tho Moorish torritory, of whioh Coutn is but a slip. At ten o'clock tho Forrato dropped auohor in tho harbor, or rather about two cablo-longths from tho pier whioh receives tho full strength of tho soa ; for there is nothing but an open roadstead exposed to tho surf of tho Mediterranean waves. Fortunatoly, whon vessels can not anchor to the west of Ceuta, thoy find o second auohorogo ou tho other sido of tho rock, in which thoy lio shel tered from tho eastorly winds. When tho health ofllcor had beon on board, and tho clean bill duly passed, about one o'clock iu tho afternoon the Doctor, aooompaniod by Pierre, wont ashore and landed at the littlo quay at tha foot of tho town walls. That be was fully determined to carry off Carpena, did not admit of a doubt. But how would ho do so ? Nothing could bt. douj until ho had seen tha placo, and mndo himsolf ncqunintcd with tho cir cumstances nnd then ho would be oblo to decido if it wore bist to carry off tho Spaniard by force, or help him to escape. This timo tho Doctor did not nttcrapt to romain incognito. Quite tho con trary. Already his correspondents had been on board, and gono off again to announce the arrival of so famous an individual. Who, throughout that Arab country, from Suez to Capo Spartel, Ilcvtl not heard of tho reputation of tho earned taleb who now lived In retire ment nt Antokirtta, in tho SyrticSea? And so tho Spaniards, like tho Moors, gavo him a hearty welcome, and as thero wero no restrictions on visiting tho Fer rato, very many camo off to her. All this excitement was evidently part of tho Doctor's plan. His celebrity was to bo brought In to help his enter prise. Picrro nnd ho did nothing to restrain tho public enthusiasm. An open carriage obtained from tho chief hotel, enabled them to visit tho town with its narrow streets of gloomy houses, destitute of character and color, aud its littlo squares, with sickly, dusty trees, shading some miserable inn, or ono or two official buildings. In n word, thero wns nothing original to bo seen, except, perhaps, in tho Moorish quarter, where color had not entirely disappeared. About threo o clock tho Doctor requested to bo taken to tho Governor of Couta, whom ho wished to visit an act of courtesy quito natural on tho part of a stranger of distinction. It need scarcely bo said that the governor was not a civil functionary. Ceuta is, abovo all things, a military colony. It contains about ten thousand people, officers and soldier.?, merchants, fishermen or coasting sailors, housed in tho town, nnd along tho strip of land whoso prolongation towards tho east completes tho Spanish possession. Couta was then administered by Colo nel GuyaiTo. Ho had under his orders threo battalions of infantry, detached from tho continental army to servo tlioir timo in Africa, ono regiment perma nently quartered in tho colony, two batteries of artillery, a company of engi neers, and a company of Moors whoso families occupied special quarters. Tho convicts amounted to nearly two thous and. To reach tho governor's houso tho onrringo had to traverse a macadamized road outside tho town, which ran through tho colony to its eastern end. On each sido of tho road, a narrow bond between tho foot of tho hills and tho waato along tho beach is well tilled : thanks to tho assiduous labor of the inhabitants, who havo a hard struggle against tho poverty of tho soil. Vegetables of all sorts, aud oven trees are to bo found and the laborers nre manv X''or tlio convicts aro sentenced to vari ous periods, ranging from twenty ycara to detention for life, and are set to work in various ways, under conditions deter mined by tho government. Thoy aro not only employed by tho Stato in special workshops, on tho fortifications, nnd tho roads, which require constant repair, but fulfil tho duties of urban police, when their good conduct permits. JJuring Ins visit to Uentn, tho Doctor met several of these moving about freely in tho streets of tho town, and oven engaged in domestic work, but ho saw a much larger number outsido tho fortifications, employed on tho roads and in tho fields. To whioh class Car pono belonged, it whs important ho should know, as his schonio would havo to bo modified to suit tho man's being at work, guarded or unguarded, either for tho State or a private individual. "But," said ho to Pierre, "as his conviction is so reconr, it is unlikely that he would havo obtained tho advan tages aecordod to old stagors for good conduct." "But if hois undor look and koy?" said Piorro, "Then his capture will be moro diffi cult, but it must bo managed." 'J. lie carnage rolled slowly along. At a conpJa jf huudred yards beyond tho fortifications, a number of convicts undor a guard wero working at macad amizing tho road. Thoy wero about fifty, somo breaking tho stones, others scattering thorn, and some rolling them in. Tho carriage hod to proceed slowly along the sido where tho repairs had not been commonoed. Suddenly tho Doctor touohod Pierre's arm. "Thero he isM" said he inn low voioo. A man was resting on tho haudlo of his piokaxo, about twenty paces in front of his companions. It was Carpena. Tho Doctor, after fifteen years, recog nized tho salt-marsh worker of Istrio iu his conviot's garb, as Maria Ferrato had recognized him in his Maltose dross, in tho lanes of the Manderaggio. Ho was oven then only protending to work Unfit for any trado, he could not be employed in any of tho workshops, and ho was not really ablo to break stones on the road. Although tlm Dootor hod recocnizod htm, Curpwm had uot recognized Count Mathiua Saudoif. Hu had only seen him for so short a time on tho banks of tho canal, nnd in the house of Ferrato tho fishermau, whon ho brought m tho police. But, like everybody else, ho had heard that Dootor Antokirtt had arrived at Ceuta ; and Doctor Autokirtt, ho remembered, was tho personogo of whom Zirone hod spoken, during thoir iuterviow near tho grotto of Polyphomus on tho ooast of Sioily. He was tho man of whom Sareany had warned them to bowaro of, ho was tho millionaire ovor whom Zirono'e band had mot 'their destruction at tho Oosa degli InglosL YVimt passett in Carpena s brnm when ho fouud himself so unexpectedly in the Doctor's presence? Did ho receive an impression with that lustautaneousness which characterizes certain photogranhio processes? It would bo difficult to say. But lio dirt feel that the Dootor had token possession of him by a sort of moral asoendenoy, that his personality hud been annihilated, that a strange will had taken tho place of his own will. In vain he would have resisted ; ho had to yield to tho domination. Tho cumago stoppod and tho Doctor contiuued to gaze into his eyes with penetrating fixity. Tho bnlluuioy of those eyes produced in Carpena's brain n strange aud irresistible effect. Grad ually the Spaniard's senses faded. His eyelids blinked nud closod, nnd retained only a flickering vibration. Then tho anmsthesia became complete and he fell by the sido of tho road, without his companions seeing anything of what had passed ; and tin-re ho slept in a magnetic sleep from which not ono of them could rouso him. Then tho Doctor gavo orders for tho coachman to drive on to the governor's house. Tho scene had not occupied moro than half n minute. No one had noticed what had passed between tho Spaniard and tho Dootor no ono except Pierre Bathory. "Now, that man is mine," said tho Doctor, "and I can do what I like with him." "Shall wo find out all ho knows?" asked Pierre. "No, but ho will do all that I rcquiro, and that unconscioush. At tho first glance I gave tho scoundrel, I saw I could becomo his master, nnd substitute my will for his." "But tho man was not ill" "Eh I Do you think then that theso effects of hypnosis can only be produced on neuropaths ? No, Pierre, tho most refractory ore not safe from them. On tho contrary, it is necessary that tho subject should havo a will of 1113 own, and I was favored by circumstances in finding in Carpena a nature entirely dis posed to submit to my influence. And so ho will remain asleep until I choose to wako him. "Exactly," said Pierre, "but what is tho good of it, seeing that even in tho stato he now finds himself it is impossi bio to mako him tell us what wo aro so anxious to know. " "Doubtless," answerod tho Doctor, "and it is obvious that I cannot mako him say what 1 do not know myself. But he is in my power ; I can mako him do what I please, and when I think fit I shall mako him do it nnd ho will bo powerless to prevent it. For example, to-morrow or the day after, or a week after, or six months after, oven if ho has awoke, if I desire him to leave Ceuta, ho will leavo Ceuta !" ' ' Leave Ceuta ! " said Pierre. ' ' Gain his liberty I But will the warders let him? Tho influence of the suggestion cannot mako him break his chain, nor open tho prison gate, nor scalo an un scalable wall " to be continued. The Dangers of Stylo. A great French critio has declared that stylo is the man. But surely that cannot be asserted without much quail fication. There aro somo styles which are much better than tho man, though failing to rciloct the least amiable parts of him and many that are much worse for example, styles affected by the ar tificial influence of conventional ideas, like thoso which prevailed iu tho last century. Again, there arc styles which aro thoroughly characteristic of the man in one sense, and yet are charac teristic in part because they show his delight in viewing botli himself and tho universe through colored media, which, whilo thoy brilliantly represent sonic aspects of it, greatly misrepresent or completely disguise all others. Such a stylo was "Carlylo's, who may bo said to have seen tho universe with wonderful vi idncss as it was when in earthquake and hurricane, but not to havo appre hended at all that solid crust of. earth symbolizing tho conventional phleg matic nature which most of us know only too well. Gibbon, again, sees ev erything oven himself as if it wero a striking moral pageant. You roiucm ber how ho describes his father's disap probation of his useful passion for Mllo. Curohod (afterward Mine. Nockcr) "I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son." It was the moral pageant of that very mild ardor and that not too reluctant submission of which ho was thinking, not of tho emotion itself. And Macaulay, again, has a stylo like a coat of mail with the visor down. It is burnished, brilliant, imposing, but it presents tho world and human life in pictorial antitheses far moro vivid and brilliant than real. It is a stylo which effectually conceals all tho moro homo ly and domestic aspects of Macaulay's own nature and represents mainly his hunger for incisive contrast. Contem porary licvicw. Undo Bill's Story. Hero is what he said: Whon I was a drunkard, I could never got my bran moro than half full. Tho first year af ter I signed tho pledgol filled my bran; tho second year I filled ray brau and had two stacks; this j'ear I filled my bran and havo four stacks. When 1 wns a drunkard, I only owned ono poor old cow, and I think she must havo boon ashamed of mo, for sho was rod in her faco; now I own livo good cows, and threo as good horses as ovor looked through a collar. Whon I was a drunk ard, 1 wont from place to ploco on foot; now I can rido in a carriage of my own. Whon I was a drunkard 1 was $300 in debt; sinco I havo signed tho pledge, I havo paid the dobt, and havo purchased 200 acres of wild land, and 1 havo tho deed in my possession; two of my sons, who are toototallors, aro Hying on that lot. Whon I was a drunkard I used to swear; I have ceased to bo profane Tho last year of my drunkonness, my doc tor s oili amounted to !;au; sinco l sign ed tho pledge I havo not been called up on to expend a cent for medicine. Christian Messenger. A Baso Hint "Good morning, Mr. Dallywag. Moving again?" "Yes." "What is tho mattor nowP I thought you wore nicely fixed." " ell, so I was; but l got a week in arrears on my board, anil my landlord served mo cofleo this morning in n fancy cup with gilt lettering on it that read, uiuiiK oi inc.' I paid my bill and got out. You can hot I wouldn't put up with no such baso hints for pay as that was. Bear a hand with ono of thoso grips, old man, if you aro going down my way."--.Va(ioHu Weekly. AROUND PERUGIA. A Hilly Country, Honeycombed Willi IJtruHonn Ilurlnl Vaults. The old town of Perugia is well worth visiting on many accounts, writes n correspondent of 27ic Journal oj Commerce. Traveling by rail from Home to Florence, one sees largo clus ters of houses perched high ou tho hill side. Thoy arc crowned with campa niles and domes, surrounded by high walls, and provoke one's curiosity to make their closer acquaintance. But' on consulting his guide-book tho tour ist finds that these elevated settlement contain few objects of interest, better examples of which can be found elso where. IIo also learns, which Is as much to tho purpose, that they have no good hotels. Now, Perugia is very old, very quaint, full of venerable historical associations, a center of Etruscan tomb nnd other antiquities, 1,700 feet abovo tho sea, and has a first-class hotel. This modern structure occupies the highest ground of the town, and com mands a magnificent view of tho Uiu brian valley. East, south, and west I survey all the details of a landscape of variety and beaut unsurpassed. It is intersected by the Tiber unci .somo smaller rivers, which 11 ash in the morn ing sun. Many villages are visible as brown patches, among them Assassi, famous as the birthplace of St. Francis. Mountains bound this view on all sides. Somo of them nre still tipped with snow, and thoir summits would easily bo taken for clouds, if the latter wero not scurfy'"- past in the south wind. Th'13 wind will soon molt the snow, and is already making l'crugiu uncomfortable. As I write a hazo is beginning to blot out tho more distant villages. A heat ed term is threatening. But Americans aro not to bo frightened by that. Only I wish the roads were not quito so white and dusty. This country is a vast cemetery. No ono can say how many races wero buried hero beforo tho Etruscans passed away in their turn and left tho ground honoycomcd with their tombs. When ono sinks a well or digs a collar for a houso ho is apt to strike his spado aganst a rock, which gives back a hol low sound. It is the roof of an Etrus can burial vault. From this subter ranean chamber the air has been ex cluded for more than two thousand years. I am told that strange tilings aro sometimes seen in these tombs at tho moment when they arc opened, and then vanish forever.'' Thoy say that glimpses arc caught of olil Etruscan lords and ladies sitting at banquets, and that these disappear the instant tho outer air touches thorn. When tho finder proceeds to open and examino tho tomb he discovers nothing but a heap of dust in place of tho vision that had startled him. These arc obviously fables, for tho most part. Though I believe that it is true that an Etruscan knight in full armor collapsed to dusty nothingness in precisely this way when his tomb was invaded a few years ago. Wo havo been to see tho sepulcher of tho Yolumnii, about livo miles below Perugia, and found it and its contents very strange and interesting. It is sup posed to date back totho third century, 15. C. A descent of somo thirty stops leads down to it from the road side. First, a chamber about twenty livo feet square is centered, and from this smaller apartments branch to right and left. Tho sopuleher is hewn out of the tufa rock. It is very damp and cold. Heads of Medusa, dolphins, and serpents aro carved with much skill on tho top and sides of this tomb. All irounrt stand small stono urns, each ono bearing in alto relievo the repre sentation of a fight. Ono man is always Killing anotner unless tlio ccono is var ied by the sacrifice of a bound and helpless woman or child on an altar. The covers of theso urns aro higher works of art. They are surmounted with recumbent figures of men and women. Theso are dressed in the cos tume of their age and sex, and each has in his or her hand a bowl for tears. Lifting oil' tho cover I find inside tho urn about a hat full of ashes. I run my lingers through this mass aniMeel frag ments of burnt bones. But I am rude ly stirring up all that remains of somo gallant warrior or somo haughty beau ty, and I withdraw my hand with a sonso of ri'inorse. A great many per sonal ornaments of exceeding richness and grnco have been taken from theso rceoptaoles, and aro separately exhibit ed by tho custodian. But if one wishes to re'alizo tho full oxtont of the arts and sciences to tho old Etruscans ho should inspect , the splendid collection in tho university niusoum at Perugia. Woman's Best Friend. A hairpin is a woman's best friend. ft fits a multiplicity of uses, and she is novcr without ono. If hoi hair is short you can depend upon it that in a recess of her purse or a pocket of her roticulo you will find the hairpin. If she but tons her shoos sho uses her hairpin, and who oversaw a woman button her gloves with anything olso? If her head itches does she scratch it with her lin ror? Nonsenso! Sho whips out a lairpin ami relieves herself. Suppose a nicklo 1. dropped between tho bars of tho wooiien foot grato in tho strcot car. Does sho soil her lingers as a man would, and then not got jt? Cer tainly not. Out comes the liairpin, and tho coin is lifted out without trouble. If her shawlpin is lost, whero so good a substitute as tho hairpin? If sho oats a nut does sho take a nutpick? Most assuredly not. Tho hairpin again. It is with the hairpin that sho rips ojion tho uncut loaves of a book or magazine; it is a hairpin with which she marks her progress in tier iavoruo uook; ii a irtuiK kov is missing a hairpin opons a re fractory lock as neatly as a burglar's skeleton koy would; with it sho cleanses her fingernails and, if it is a clean one, oven picks her teeth. And tho feats ot uair-securing that she will mako a simple bow-le22ed hairnin ac complish nearly surpasses the belief of man. Aitogoliior, It deserves to oo classed among the great invontions of tho world, and the gravo of the orig inal man who created tho first one could havo no prouder epitaph than this: .11113 13 UIU M11U Ul A UIUH'IU -Chicago News. n