QUARRELED OVER TREE Petter to hide from the Indian ecouta the graves of our people. tn his eyes, as the sunbeams Pane« on the waves of the sea, and I.est they should count them and see bow many already have perished!" vanish again in a moment. Alden laughed as he wrote, and •till Sadly his face he averted, and st rods IT HAS COST »0,000 RUPIE» AND up aud down, and was thoughtful. the Captain continued: A DOZEN LIVES. "Look! you can see from this window Fixed to the opposite wall was a my braaen howitzer planted shelf of books, and among them High on the roof of the church, a preacher who speaks to the pur­ Prominent three, distinguished alike Long Series of Feuds Between Two Bengal Estates Ended by Calcutta for bulk and for binding. pose. Business Man. Steady, straightforward, and strong, Barlffe's Artillery Guide, aud the Com mentartes of Caesar. with irresistible logic. A certain mango tree. It appears, tn 1 Orthodox, flashing conviction right Out of the Latin translated by Arthur Goldlnge of London, growing up would not observe the Into the hearts of the heathen. Now we are ready. I think, for any And. as If guarded by these between boundary Hue between two Bengal ee< them was standing the Bible tales and distributed Its foliage and assault of the Indians; l^t them come, if they like, and the Musing a moment before them. Miles fruit impartially over both Aa a con­ Standish paused, as If doubtful sequence the owners of the estates sooner they try It the better— Let them come, if they ltke. be it saga­ Which of the three he should choose have spoilt about 60.000 rupees lit litigation. killed a dozen people and more. sachem, or powwow. for his consolation and comfort. Aspinet. Samoset. Corbltant, Squunto. Whether the wars of the Hebrews, the fought the blttereat armed fights. During the bearing season the Iren or Tokamahamon ! " famous campaigns of the Homans Or the Artillery practice, designed tot was productive of many mangoes Th«» 1 first quarrel seems to have started- Long at the window he stood, and belligerent Christians. wistfully gazed on the landscape Finally down from Its shelf he dragged among the women folks of the two families, who Insisted that the man­ Washed with a cold gray mist, the the ponderous Homan, vapory breath of the east wind. Seated himcelf at the window, and goes belonged to one. then ths other, They even resorted to picking the Forest and meadow and hill, and the opened the book, and lu silence steel blue rim of the ocean. Turned o'er the well-worn leaves mangoes at night until one party hap­ where thumb-marks thick on the pened to catch the other poaching A Lying silent and sad. in the afternoon tight followed In which. It is said, two shadows and sunshine. margin. Over his countenance flitted a shadow­ Like the trample of feet, proclaimed were killed. After this quiet reigned for some like those on the landscape. the battle was hottest. Gloom Intermingled with light; and Nothing was heard In the room but time, when the two principals met one his voice was subdued with emo­ the hurrying pen of the stripling. day In a neighboring village and par­ tion. Busily writing epistles Important, to ticipated tn a free-for-all fight over the Innocent tree They were sep­ Tenderness, pity, regret, as after a go hv the Mayflower. pause he proceeded: Ready to sail,on the morrow, or next arated In a bloody condition and were flned by the police Then followed a long series of feuds and battles cov­ ering a period of many years, during which the tree yielded its luscious fruit to the one who happened to be cunning enough to pick It first Huai ly both sides established armed guards around the tree and kept watch on each other night and day. This went on with occasional fights for several years. It was a case of one trying to wear the other one out. Thousands of rupees were paid out for these special parties and fines, for burials of victims, court expenses and ammunition. It was not until Just re­ cently that a prominent business man of Calcutta was able to settle the dis­ pute. He asked the two land owners to Jointly deed the tree to him In re­ turn for many favors be had rendered both of them. This was finally done and he has caused a large cement clr- cular wall to be erected about the tree, to which he has acquired full title and possession. The quarrel has not only been ex pensive and fatal, but has kept a com­ munity In a constant state of hostility for many years. Any one traveling In eastern Bengal can easily hear the story and visit the scene of the feud. If sufficiently Interested In the case. The gentleman whose strategy saved the situation desires that his name should remain unknown.—Calcutta English man. This be said with a stulle, that danced . SERIAL STORY 2 C Courtship i ef ¿TVIiles r Standish With Illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy Miles Standish In the Old Colony days. In Plymouth, the land of the Pilgrims, To and fro in a room of hU simple and primitive dwelling. Clad in doublet and hose, and boots ot Cordovan leather. Strode, with a martial air. Miles Standish, the Puritan Captain. Buried in thought he seemed, with his hands behind him, and pausing Ever and anon to behold bls glitter­ ing weapons of warfare, Hanging in shining array along walls of the chamber— Cutlass and corselet of steel, and trusty sword of Damascus. Curved at the point and inscribed with its mystical Arabic sentence. While underneath, in a corner, were fowling-piece, musket and match­ lock. Short of stature he was, but strongly built and athletic. Broad In the shoulders, deep-chested, with muse'es and sinews of Iron; Brown as a nut was his face, but his russet beard was already Flaked with patches ot snow, hedges sometimes In November. Near him was seated John Alden, his friend and household companion. Writing with diligent speed at a table of pine by the window; Fair-haired, azure-eyed, with delicate Saxon complexion. Having the dew of youth, and the beauty thereof, as the captives Whom Saint Gregory saw, and ex­ claimed, "Not Angles, but Angels.” Youngest of all was he of the men who came in the Mayflower. Suddenly breaking the silence, the diligent scribe Interrupting, Spake, in the pride of his heart, Mlles Standish, the Captain of Plymouth. "Look at these arms." he said, “the warlike weapons that hang here Burnished and bright and clean, as if for parade or inspection! This is the sword of Damascus fought with in Flanders; breastplate, Well I remember the day! once saved my life in a skirmish; Here in front you can see the very dint of the bullet Fired point-blank at my heart by a Spanish arcabucero. Had it not been of sheer steel, the for gotten bones of Mlles Standish Would at this moment be mold, tn their grave in the Flemish morasses. Thereupon answered John Alden, but looked not up from his writing: "Truly the breath of the Lord hath slackened the speed of the bullet; He in his mercy preserved you, to be our shield and our weapon!" Still the Captain continued, unheeding the words of the stripling: "See. how bright they are burnished, as if in an arsenal hanging; That is because I have done ft my- not left It to others. self, The Puritan Maiden, Priscilla. Through the “Look at These Arms, Said. High Degree of Devotion ------------------- F-delity Siown by Virginia “Darky” That Annals of History M iy Be Searched to Mitch. 4-------------------------------------------------------------- ! sides enduring the exposure, we had Dick was a nigger, just a Virginia slave nigger. When a little boy, be was scullion in the kitchen, He car- ried the wood and water for the cook, and scoured the pots and kettles, and turned the spit when the turkey was roasting, dipping and basting the gravy from the pan, and nodding in his work after the manner of all small darkles. When the war came the carriage rested in the carriage house, the horses were taken by the Yankees, and Dick became my servant in the army of the south—a gentleman s gen­ tleman, as he called himself. No man ever had a more faithful and devoted follower than I had in Dick. He was captured twice with me by Union forces, and each time re­ fused the freedom which his capture gave him. "I don’t want to be no freer than I always has been,” he said on both of these occasions. Once I dis­ charged him for being drunk. Think of discharging a slave! It was at Chattanooga, and Dick hung around headquarters for several days and was very unhappy. Finally he came to me with a Bible In his ban* and said: "I wants to swear on this that If you will take me back I will not drink a drop during the war.” He took the oath and kept it faithfully to the end, at Appomattox. When I was captured at Rich Moun­ tain I was ill, and was sent to the Federal hospital, an Immense tent. I had not fully recovered when we evac­ uated our position, and wandering about the mountains In the rain for two days and two nights without food forded the river nine times In the vain effort to avoid large bodies of the enemy’s troops. The sand had got into my boots, and when my socks were taken off. the skin came off with them. I was a pitiable object. Dick stuck to me. He was free now to go where he pleased, but be never left me. He was by my cot all day. kept off the files from my raw and skinless feet, and did what he could to allevi­ ate my sufferings. At night he crept under my cot and took his only rest on the bare ground. When I was well enough to go north with Colonel Peg­ ram, I asked Dick what he was going to do, now that he was free. He said that he would go with me. When I told him that was Impossible, he said: "Well, If I can't go with you, I will go back to Mis’ Llzle" (my wife). When he was leaving I gave him »200 in Virginia Valley bank notes (It was before the days of Confederate money), and he walked 263 miles—by way of Staunton 150, and down the valley, a hundred and thirteen—to my home In the valley, and gave my wife 196 of the money.—Maj. A. R. H. Ran­ son, Late Major of Artillery, C. S. A., in Harper's Magazine. Physics! Limitations. There was a very stupid play pre- sented early in the New York season, an "adaptation” It was called by tbs author. Even the best-natured critics went away In disgust. One newspaper representative turned to another and said: "If this Jumble bad been pre­ sented on the other side of the wrier It would have been hissed. As there were a lot of foreign visitors present I wonder that it was not." "It really is a wonder,“ was the other’s reply. “I would like to have hissed myself, but—you can’t yawn and hiss at the same time.”—MStro­ And be- poli tan Magazine. I Lines. The young man who had come with­ in an Inch of being run over, said be always butted across the street that way to keep folks from finding out he was a country chap unused to city 9 ways. "If I should hang back.” he said, "everybody would take me for a ETeenhorn, and I want people to think that 1 at least know how to cross tbo s reet city fashion." "But the real town man doesn't cross the street tn that bull-dog fash- ion," said a gray haired relatlve "He drifts with the tide. Instead of butting through the middle of a wagon he ambles along beside It watching for an opening Sometimes he la carried a block out of his way In the midst of vehicles before he finds a way out. but he la never In danger because he Ir going with the current. So If you want to be set down as a man who knows the life of city streets, don't break through a heavy line of traffic by main force, but follow the stream and take advantage of the point of least resistance.” day at latest, God willing! "Yonder there, on the hill by the sea. Homeward bound with the tidings ot Iles buried Rose Standish; all that gerrible winter. Beautiful rose of love, that bloomed Letters written by Alden, and full of for me by the wayside! the name of Priscilla. She was the first to die of all who » came in the Mayflower! Full of the name and the fame of l the Green above her is growing the field Puritan maiden Priscilla! of wheat we have sown there. (TO BE CONTINUED.) yourself, would you be well served, is an excellent adage; So I take care of my arms, as you of your pens and your Inkhorn. Then, too, there are my soldiers, my great invincible army, Twelve men, all equipped, having each his rest and his matchlock, Eighteen shilling a month, together with diet and pillage, And. like Caesar, I know the name of each of my soldiers 1" Lad brought on a relapse. Serve --- Prayer Halls In Russia. In the villages of Russia the "prayer hall” Is the common "izba" or cottage of a StundiBt mujik. or a shed attach­ ed to a very primitive famished sur­ rounded by prodigious quantities of mud, dust or snow, according to the season of the year A separate build­ ing erected expreshly for worship among the rural evangelicals of Rus­ sie Is a luxury yet to be provided In the great majority of cases. The meeting place, whether "Izba” or out­ house, has walls of earth, It Is with- out celling The floor Is the bare earth, trodden hard by many feet through the lapse of long years, and worn Into lumps and hollows. Ths walls are lime washed and destitute of decoration or adornment. 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