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. There
are rough wooden benches around and
across the room. The place Is usu
ally packed to suffocation with men,
women and children, crowded on the
seats, thronging the doorways, and
huddling together on the top of the
huge stove.—Sunday at Home.
First Aid.
A Good
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When the food had been dlacuaaec
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