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DUELING IN GERMANY.
It la a Cttatom Firmly Established
AniouK the Students.
V
WHAT’S IN
A SHADOW?
In every German university there is
■till dueling, and there will be as long
Marina was a Mexican girl, with the • as German universities exg t. Each
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usual black hair and eye« of Mexicans. has its quota of fighting clUbs, which
"A shadow.” said the lecturer, •‘la
She was only sixteen, but at sixteen correspond to our own secret societies. something formed from the interposi­
many girls of the tropics are as old as , Every student is anxious to be invited tion”—
girls of twenty in the north. Maiina to Join one of these clubs, and, having
“Beg pardon, professor,” interrupted
was but' a poor man’s daughter, with ! been initiated, it is not long before he the facetious student, “A shadow la
is
assigned
to
a
duel.
The
members
of
very little education. One evening a
nothing.”
stranger stopped at her father's cabin. these various organizations are distiu-
The class tittered, while the professor
He was a young man with fair hair , gulshed by their colored bands and
east a provoked glance at the facetious
and blue eyes and above all a winning caps, as our fraternity men are by
smile. He asked Marina If he might their Greek letter badges. The most student. Controlling himself, however,
have one of her Howers growing In a aristocratic of the fighting corps are he paused a moment to consider how
bed beside the door and when be did so ! the Borussia at Bonn, to which all tiie he should meet the Interruption. Tech­
smiled at her. That was the last of Hohenzollern princes belong, and the nically the student was right, but he
Marina's peace of mind. Edwin Coop­ Saxo-Bonissla at Heidelberg, of which was hypercritical. He had taken a like
the stranger, a young civil engi­ most of the German princes outside of course several times before, and the
er.
I
neer on the railroad being built through the Hohenzollerns are members. Other professor desired to put a atop to bis
the valley below, had plucked her heart prominent fighting corps ar,e the Rhe- Interruptions.
as easily as he had plucked her flower. nania of the University of Wurtzburg, I "You think that a shadow is noth­
But there is danger in picking hearts Normania of Berlin, Franconia of Mu­ ing,” he said, addressing the class,
In those tropical gardens. It is like nich and the famous corps of Ilanno- while looking at the facetious student
vera, in which Bismarck was a famous "I think I can demonstrate that a shad­
I tom hing one of the beautiful Insects fighter, of Gottingen. Every corps has ow may be something fraught even
of the country. Marina did not sting
I Cooper, but one Narvaez, a dirty little its own officers, its own laws, rules, with life and death. Some years ago
Mexican, who had seen the engineer’s regulations, but all are bound by a uni­ I I was traveling in the far west, where
things are not done as v-’’ do them
smiie and bow it went to a heart that versal "code of honor.”
The customs and ceremonials inci­ i here, and strolling through the central
I he had in vain tried to appropriate, was
made bls enemy, and such enemies, dent to these student duels are queer I square of a small town 1 came upon
who invariably strike in the dark, are and peculiarly fascinating, the cos­ a gallows. A crowd was collecting,
to be dreaded. When Cooper went the tumes and fighting attire unique and and upon Inquiry I learned that a mur­
next day he had cut an end from a interesting. The duels are of two I derer was to be hanged at noon. I
IS
faded many colored scarf Marina wore. kinds—the one an "honor duel,” where did not remain to witness tiie hanging,
She followed him to the gate, chatter­ one student has insulted another, and but on going back to the hotel I asked
ing as she went, and the last thing honor has to be satisfied by a little the landlord something about the cul­
Cooper said to her was, "See, I will blood letting, but these are often not prit and his crime. This is what he
wear your souvenir in my buttonhole.” Infrequently the result of purpose told me:
“Some movriis previous a house had
Cooper had no sooner departed than rather than of actual insult Just for the
Narvaez, who liad been present the sake of a little fighting. The German been entereu. an old man who lived
evening before—Indeed he hod been student, like Pat, is often "spoiling for there alone murdered, his tin box where
hanging aboui Marina most of the time a "gilt." The other kind of duel is gen­ he kept bis valuables rifled and his
—entered and upbraided her for her erally a more serious matter and is money taken. There had evidently
conduct toward the stranger. This con- known as "by agreement.” It is by a been a struggle, and spots of blood ap­
duct had been without excuse, for Ma- challenge from one corps to another I peared here and there on the furniture.
rina was betrothed to Narvaez, She and partakes of the tournament order. A careful examination of the marks on
A list of dates is drawn up, and on a the box was made, resulting in the dis­
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
I had consented to be Ills wife not be­ certain day of each week a member of covery by the blood stains on it that
I cause she loved him, but because he
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WiHUBII Sold I))- tiK’tiou.
1*1.
on McCullutiJch.
the index finger of the right hand of
was the first man she had met since cite one corps meets a member of the I *
Pitt’« Fontliieiis For Port.
.-'tiier
for
"die
mensur.
”
—
Fritz
Morris
An auction <>f unmarried ladies used
the murderer was missing. But that
Will McConnell and John McCullough
she emerged from childhood. She did
The
ruin
of
Bitt's
health
was
at
­
I was nil the headway made in the case
to take place annually in Babylou. In were playing “Vlrglnlus,” and McCon­
not seem to be at all ashamed of hav­ in Illustrated Sporting News.
every district they assembled on a cer­ nell was doing Icllius. When he had tributed to his physicians, who made ing been led aside so easily. She told
for some months. Everybody for miles
tain day of every year all the virgins to go up to John and shako hands with him take port in large quantities in Narvaez In patois Spanish that lie was
around knew that a murderer was at
FRIENDSHIPS.
his
youth,
so
that
be
could
not
do
with
­
i
j
of marriageable age. Tiie most re­ hint he put a hard Isdled egg Into his
large minus the index finger of his
a miserable specimen of humanity and
markable was first put up, and tiie palm and left It there, and Met ullougli. out it later. Lord Grenville has seen the stranger was a god. Narvaez was Thone of Long; Standing and Those right hand, and everybody was on the
him
swallow
a
bottle
of
port
in
tum
­
Made In Later Life.
man who bid the largest sum of money being In the center of the stage and
watch for such a person.
so beside himself with rage that he
gatiHMl possession of lier. Tiie second alone, could not get rid of It. lie dis­ blerfuls before going to the bouse. Ills was tempted to run a knife into her,
People make friends later than they
"One night about 10 o'clock a woman
hands
shook
so
much
that
when
be
in personal appearance followed, and charged Will, as usual, that night, but
but was too much infatuated with her used to, or at least so it seems to us, was sitting before embers on a fire­
helped
himself
to
salt
he
was
obliged
the bidders gratified themselves with he never stayed discharged, and he
to do so. He resolved that he would probably because they grow old in gen­ place dozing. Behind her on a table
eral later than they did. Friendship was a bright light, before her a white
handsome wives according to the depth was taken on again when they found to support tiie right band with the left take revenge on the Americano.
Stotliard.
the
painter,
happened
to
be
must change Its nature with advancing wall. Opening her eyes, she saw on
of their purses. But, alas, it seems him on board the train on the way to
Cooper
continued
to
wear
the
bit
of
one evening at an inn on the Kept road
years, but whatever makes later life
that there were In Babylon some ladies the next stand.
when Pitt and Dundas put up there on scarf In his buttonhole. Whether he full of activities and new beginnings the wall the shadow of a man. He
for whom ao money was likely to 1 h >
stood still for a moment; then, raising
didn’t have time to take It out or!
their
way
to
Walmer.
Next
morning
How She Felt.
offered, yet these also were dlsposisl of,
whether he expected that he might causes friendships also to begin at bis right hand, in which he held a
the
waiter
said
to
Stotliard:
"How
"I hope,” said Mrs. Oldcastle, “thnt
so provident were th«» Babylonians,
meet the little girl from whom he got even the later stages of the Journey. knife pointing downward, he began to
When all Hie lieautiful virgins were you didn't feel that you were de trop much wine do you suppose they drank it and desiged to let her see that he Of two old men early friends who 1; 1 advance without noise. One thing was
last
night?
Seven
bottles,
sir!
”
—
Rog
­
sold, the crier ordered the i’ most de­ when you called the other day and
noticeable—there was something want­
valued it, no one knows. Several of quarreled Coleridge said:
ers’ "Table Talk.”
formed to stand up, and after be bad found Mrs. Beczum present”
ing in the shadow of the thumb and
his associates asked him what it meant They stood aloof, the scars remalnlnr.
"Oh, no," replied her hostess. "That
openly demanded who would marry
< irefinger. If you will make such a
—was it the badge of a society, a dec­ Like cliffs which had been rent asur.uer.
The Way They Do In Iceland.
her with a small sum she was at was Just the back of my waist that I
Icelanders never think of “kicking oration—what was it? But he only re­ Such an Image of course gives power­ s' .ldow, you will see that In that posi­
kept
feeling.
One
of
the
hooks
was
1 i.gth adjudged to the man who would
fully the sense of fixity, the opposi
f tion it will show the forefinger a pro­
up” nt night, ami yet only two cases plied that be had got It from a girl.
be satisfied with the least, and in this loose, and somehow I couldn't help be­ of thieving have occurred In many
One day Cooper was carrying a theod­ the fluid potentiality of youth. Yet i.i luberance. The woman noticed there
manner the money arising from the in’ kind of nervous about it”—Chicago years. One was a poor man with n olite, which he occasionally set up the same poem we have the hint that was no such protubesnnee. The han­
sale of tiie handsome served as a por- Record-Herald.
dle of the knife took Its place, but did
broken arm, who stole several sheep to on three legs, looked through It at a not all is glorious in youth:
tlon to those who were either of dis-
not completely fill It. At any rate,
rod on which was a slide and made And constancy lives in realms above,
save
his
family
from
starving.
The
An IritUi Gem.
agreeable looks or that had any other
there was a difference. No more re­
I
some figures in his notebook. He And life is thorny, and youth Is vain.
punishment
meted
out
to
him
was
that
An Irish Journal had this gem in an­
imperfection.
This custom prevailed
food was provided fcr Ids family, he found it a tedious process, and once Friendship becomes rid of some van­ markable instance of coolness than
about 5G'< ,\e; rs before Christ.—New swer to a correspondent: “We decline was placed under medical care and wlille he sent his rodsman forward a ity, it becomes more noble and satisfy­ that of this woman threatened with in­
to acknowledge the receipt of your
Orleans Times Democrat.
work was given him when his arm had long distance he sat down on the grass ing to the deeper thoughts and Ideals, stant death 13 on record.
post card.”
‘‘•Sarah!’ she called in a perfectly con­
to wait. There was no one eise about, when the roots of It grow back into a
Which is very much like the Corkonl- healed. Tlie other case was of a for- and lie sat enjoying the solitude ajid long distant past, and if we can keep trolled voice to a servant In the kltch-
Spencer mid lleeclier.
eigner who stole seventeen sheep, The
an
who
traveled
Into
Kerry
to
an
in-'
Herbert Spencer visited America in
listening to tiie birds. Suddenly a the power of making a few new eo.
law demanded that he restore
1882 and on that oecusion a banquet suiting enemy to “tell him to his face value of the thefts and then leave the
“The shadow retreated, Probably the
huge stone came down on his head and I friends in age as we need them to sup­
the
was given in New York in his honor. that he would treat him with silent country or be executed. Naturally he crushed Ills skull. The rodsman, not plement those inherited from youth, man stepped into the hall, Sarah came
Henry Ward Beecher was one of the contempt.”--London Tit-1 »its.
left.
I hearing or seeing anything from blm which grow fewer with the years, but in, and her mistress said to her:
after dinner speakers.
! for some time, finally went back to riper and more select, friendship should
“ ‘I have some bills to pay tomorrow
Only Two Oeoslons.
"I am asked.” said Mr. Beecher, "how
find out what was the matter. Cooper play a satisfying role far along toward morning and some purchases to make.
Where Time Change*.
"You idways appear to !«• nervous.”
I reconcile Spencer with theology. I
the end of life, the best role indeed of There’s n,ot a cent of money in the
The line where "time changes”— was dead.
remarked the friend solicitously.
don't.
There was no clew to the murderer. its career, if, as Emerson thinks, a life­ house. I wish you to take a note to
I "But really,” replied the housekeep­ where a ship loses a day going west
"A man who has a baldheaded dea-
Cooper's valuables had not been taken; time is needed for Its completeness, my brother and ask him to lot me have
gon watching everything lie does or a er, "there are only two occasions when and gains one going east—is drawn ir­ at least none was missed, and no one while an hour or a day Is enough for $50, which amount I will draw from
1
HTn
nervous.
One
Is
when
I
have
a
regularly
down
the
Pacific
east
of
New
gold spectacled lawyer—not a fat one"
could understand how any person could toll or play. The late friendships of the the bank tomorrow and send it to bls
(looking nt Mr. Bristow), "but a long. servant girl, and the other Is when I Zealand, whose time is nineteen and a have bad any interest in murdering I unmarried, the childless and the wid­ office. Stop; he will not give it with­
haven
’
t.
”
Philadelphia
Press.
half
hours
“
faster
”
than
San
Francis
­
lean, lank one" (looking at Mr. Evarts)
him. Not long after the tragedy Nar-1 owed have a special necessity and out the order. I will write one. Hand
co’s.
"can’t afford to talk Spencerism from
vaez renewed his attentions to Marina,' pathos of their own. for mates and me my writing case.’
< "a refill I y llrouKlit l'p.
the pulpit.
“The servant did as she was directed,
who. so far as he coulu see. had for­ children to a large extent at certain
Cats’ Eyes.
“Were you carefully brought up. my
"It is to lie borne in mind that when
and the woman wrote the note, reading
periods
naturally
take
the
place
gotten
the
handsome
strung'
r.
of
Cats
and
other
beasts
of
prey
reflect
u man is driving a team of fractions lad?” asked the merchant of the ap-
it over aloud carefully to make sure
"When shall we be mairi-d?” said other friends.—Collier's Weekly.
fifty times as much light from their
horses that are .lust nil he can manage plleant for a situation.
that she had made herself plain and
the little Mexican one day to Marina.
eyes
as
do
human
beings.
"Please,
sir,
yes.
sir;
I
came
up
in
Xnyhow lie .s not in a state of miiid to
that the ^rvarit understood what she
An Interested Juror,
“I'll tell you.” she replied. "We will
discuss questions with his wife by his the elevator, sir." said the respectful
An instance of nu Interested Jury­ was to do. Then the latter left the
be married when you bring me the bit
youth.
side, who Is undertaking to bring up
of my scarf I gave the engir 'er.”
man was reported not long ago. A Jury house.
Icebergs
delicate domestic matters.”
"For five minutes by the clock on the
“I bring you the bit of s<. rf 1 How i had been impaneled, when a man
Making Stare.
neither so
It had been said that Mr. Sp< ucer
could I get It?”
stepped forward and explained that, mantel the woman sat perfectly still.
Gritty George—1 hope dat bowl of
had no sense of humor, but he Joined coffee won't stimulate yer to go to
"You must find It. rerh: s he left having been summoned to serve, he I She could not be sure that her plan
heartily In the merriment which Mr. work. Sandy Pikes No, pard; I asked
it among his clothing, You i ight steal wished to be allowed to do so at once, would succeed. She must take her
Beecher's speech provoked.
it”
as he had to attend a funeral at a dis­ chances oil its succeeding without at
de lady to put loaf sugar In it.—Phila­
“I will not do such a thin¡
tant place in the latter portion of the effort to determine whether it had oi
delphia Bulletin.
"Then I will not marry yo ”
week. A place was therefore made for I not After five minutes, not seeing the
From that time Marina would have him in the Jury box. The case was i shadow reappear, she got up and went
nothing to do with him. A. last one tried, and owing to this man’s obsti­ i out the front door to the next bouse,
day he brought her the sonvi ir. Then nacy a verdict of acquittal was se­ where she sent a messenger to the po­
she named a day for the wed Ing.
cured. It was subsequently discovered lice station with the following note:
On that day while Narva' was pnt- that the man had never been sum­
"The three fingered murderer came Just
ting on a new suit of clot! < lie had moned to serve at all and that the pris­ now to iny house to murder and rob me.
I
sent my servant with a note to mv
bought at a store for his m.- -riage he oner was his friend.—Ixjndon Tit-Bits.
brother living on the Hilton road for »50.1
was arrested and carried I fore the
The murderer heard me tell her what to
do. He will follow her and on her return
judge. There were present a umber of
Both Died as They Wished To.
i
the men employed on railroai construc­ Tennyson, who was a shy, reserved will rob her.
“The police wore out at once, followed
tion. and sitting In a conspicuous place, man. c uld never understand Robert
wearing on her bosom the lot of scarf Browning's 1 ve of society. lie had the girl and saw her enter the house
which she bad made the pr -e of her been heard to remark that Browning where she was to get the money. One
consent, was Marina. Narv ‘z looked would die in a white choker at a din­ of their number entered, dressed him­
at her in astonishment. She returned ner party. The two poets died as self in the servant s clothes nd started
they would have wished to die Rob­ back as if to deliver the money. From
his look with a cold blooded stare.
Narvaez was accused of the murder ert Browning in the grand Palazzo behind a bush a man sprang up and
of Cooper, and Marina was called to Resaonicco, with his son by his bed­ called out. ’Your money or your life!’
the stand. She told her »tory. giving side. and Lord Tennyson in his beloved at the same time covering the supposed
an account of Cooper's visit and the Surrey home, surrounded by his loved servant with a revolver. Instead of
giving him the bit of scarf, ending her ones.
complying he sounded a sharp whistle.
testimony in this wise:
It was needless, however, for the police
Lens Ttre<
ie.
"I knew, senor Judge, that Narvaez
were in touch and in an instant had
“
Miss
Chatterton?
I
think
I
’
ll
send
had killed the Americano, but I could
the robber handcuffed. His right hand
ber
word
that
I'm
out
”
not make him be punished without the
was found to be minus the index fin­
"Won't the still, small voice reproach ger. There was absolutely no other tes­
proof I knew the Americano would
you?
”
wear my scarf, for he promised me.
timony to convict him of the murder
"Yea. but I'd rather listen to the committed some months before, but
When I heard that It was not found on
him I suspected Narvaez had ft as ■ ■till, small »vice than to Miss Chat­ this bit of circumstantial evidence was
trophy. I pretended not to suspect Nar­ terton.”—Puck.
sufficient. The shadow of the forefin­
ger”—
vaez of the murder, but told him he
Surprise Per Hie College Bey.
must steal it for me from the America­
"Wrong again, professor." interrupt­
Mr. Meddergrass- Who yer sendin'
no's clothes. At last he brought It to
ed the facetious student "It was the
the
sheep
to.
Bill?
Mr.
Ragweed
—
me.”
absence of shadow."
It did not take long to convict Nar­ Why. my son Zeb's np to eollege tryln’ _ “You are Incorrigible." *a!d the pro­
fur
a
sheepskin,
he
says,
and
I
’
m
goln
’
vaez of the murder Just before he was
fessor. smiling. “What can't be cured
ed away he selxed an iron inkstand ter surprise him with a hull critter.— must be endured.”
Chicago
Post
from a table and before he could be
The class, the facetions student and
prevented hurled It at the girl he bad
the teacher all langbed together, and
Ask
no
man's
advice,
but
study
the
supposed he
to marry that day and
the latter proceeded with bis discourse. I
who Instead
>m ng his bride h ’ ’ people you meet and avoid the be bits Rut the Interrupter never offended
and
manners
which
y«n
find
snnoytpc
TTr»
beotr.e the Americano'» .•seiner. Fc
•
Io so. and!
to you in others and cultivate the qual­ in!». Tie had no d
tnnatety he missed her.
he kn<"w fhe Hn-s win’d
A MODERN GULLIVER AMONG THE LILLIPUTIANS.
Mn down J
ities
you
find
are
helpful
and
p.eeeiug
LEVIN Q MORTON.
if he did
—Detroit News-Trlbrne.
-New York Journal.
H enry n. ptyoenyttrge ^ I
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[Original.)
Health'al cream of tartar,
derived solely from grapes,
refined to absolute purity,
the active principle of every
pound of Royal Baking Powder.
Hence it is that Royal Baking Powder
produces food remarkable both in fine
flavor and wholesomeness
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