EMINENT CHINESE WHO WILL HAVE PART IN GREAT WAR IMPENDING IN FLOWERY KINGDOM
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CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
3eneral Resume o f Important Eventa
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readera.
Taft urges California women to use
the bailot. now that they have won it.
Henry Hona, a laborer, completed a
walk from Jersey City, N. J., to San
Francisco, in 71 days.
The Wright Brothers are working
on a new type o f aeroplane, safety
being the first consideration.
PEKIN IN TERROR;
REBELS ADVANCE
The Panama canal commission pre
diets the early opening o f the canal
and urges congress to fix tolls.
A woman agent has been sent by
the government to study the price of
foodstuffs in Portland markets.
Birth of New Republic Declared
in Wuchang.
Sixty-five thousand Chinese rebels
are marching to meet the imperial
troops, being sent against them.
Suffragists trailed a candidate for
governor o f Massachusetts through
five towns and broke up his meetings.
Revolutionist Forces en Route to
Meet Imperial T roop«--F ore
ig n Consuls Notified.
London—A dispatch from Shanghai
to the Central News says that a re
public has been declared at Wuchang
and that the rebel leader at Hankow
has notified foreign consuls that a new
government has been established.
The rebellion is spreading rapidly.
Formidable outbreaks have been re
ported at Tientsin and Paotingfu, and
similar outbreaks are expected at any
moment at Canton and Nanking.
The authorities at Pekin are in a
panic.
A strong force o f rebels has
left Hankow to meet the imperial
troops from the north.
The rebels have commandeered
trains and forced terrified engineers to
take them where they demanded to go.
Revolution Nears Capital.
Pekin— With a revolution nearing
the gates o f Pekin, the government
has partly abandoned its efforts to
minimize the situation, and it now ad
mits not only that the republican up
rising has gone beyond the confines of
the more central provinces, but that
the entire imperial army is honey
combed with disaffection. Not a di
vision is absolutely to be trusted, it is
said in Pekin.
The revolutionists are well organ
ized and have formally proclaimed the
republic.
It is reported here that the
president chosen is Li Yuen Hung,
lieutenant commander o f the new im
perial army, though it is believed that
if this is so his election is temporary.
Dr. Sun Yat Sen is still reganled as
the man who eventually will have the
place. Dr. Sen was reported to be in
the United States recently, but is said
by some to have returned to China, by
way of Singapore, which for some
time past has been headquarters for
the revolutionists.
Hankow has been ravaged by out
laws, who are not connected with the
revolution,
and the revolutionary
authorities are making every effort to
restore order. The announcement was
promulgated officially that rioters
caught in acts o f lawlessness will be
dealt with summarily.
The revolu
tionary army is strongly entrenched
and it is the policy o f the heads of the
movement to give protection to foreign
ers o f all nationalities, hoping thereby
to demonstrate that they have the situ
ation in hand and to win sympathy
from abroad.
It is no secret here
that the dynasty is regarded with
more or less contempt by the repre
sentatives of other governents, and
the consuls are continuing their policy
o f insisting upon strict neutrality.
The rebels are under command of
General Li Tuan Hong, who is an ac
complished military strategist, and
are otherwise well officered, despite
reports to the contrary circulated by
the government.
Above (L e ft I» Might >, M inister o f W a r Y ln -C h u n g , Prince T n a l-F n , o f the Im -
perlul G uard«} Prince Twal-Hunn, M ln la ter o f the N nvyj Prince Taal July
Pre«l<1ent o f the W a r C o lle g e ; Pr lace Taal T ao, C om m ander Im p eria l
(suardm llu k c Lin, o f the Im p erial G u ard ai Prince Pu and A d m iral Tauy
V ic e -M in iste r o f the N a v y — llr lo w , L a r g e r P ictures o f G eneral F u and Prince
Taal Ilnur» and P ortrait o f Prince T a a l Claun-
ELECTRIC TRUST BEATEN.
Big Monopoly Can No Longer Dictate
Retail Prices.
Washington, D. C.— By the sweeping
decree entered in the United States
Circuit court at Toledo, the backbone
of the so-called electrical trust was
broken and in the judgment o f Attor
ney General Wickersham the govern
ment was equipped with precedents o f
genuine value in its prosecutions of
commercial combinations forbidden by
the Sherman law.
Meeting the government's charge
that the trust controlled the lamp
business of the country, regulating by
agreement prices at which all lamps
were sold, the decree severs all con
nection between the General Electric
company and the National Electric
Lamp company.
The latter concern
and all its subsidiaries are ordered
diBSovled.
The important principle was laid
down, according to the attorney gen
eral, that once a lamp is sold by a
manufacturer, the price at which it is
resold by a dealer or jobber must be
open to free competition. The decree
was acquiesced in by the defendant
companies and this gives the govern
ment the moral certainty that there
will be no appeal. After the Supreme
court’s decision in the Standard Oil
and Tobacco cases, Mr. Wickersham
Haid, the electrical companies ex
pressed a willingness to withdraw
their original answers and submit to
a decree, Mr. Wickersham added:
"T he National Lamp company and
all its subsidiary companies are or
dered to be dissolved, and the General
Electric compuny is forbidden hereaf
ter to conduct any business in the
manufacture or Bale of electric lamps
except in its own name. The practice
of fixing the retail price on any style
o f lamp is hereafter forbidden.
"T he method by which competition
in unpatented articles has been sup
pressed through the use of a patented
article is declared to be unlawful and
is forbidden. The practice consisted
in a system of contracts with dealers,
jobbers and consumers by which they
were compelled to agree to purchase
from defendants all their supply of
carbon lamps on which the patent had
expired, as a condition to the right to
purchaae certain lamps known to the
trade as tungsten, tantalum and metal-
ized filament lamps, which are patent
ed, it is still asserted.
"B y means o f aggregating dis
counts on lamps claimed to be patent
ed with discounts on lamps not patent
ed, another weapon was used to sup
press competition
in unpatented
lamps.
“ Both these practices had the effect
o f continuing a monopoly on an aritcle
long after the patent had expired, by
tieing up its sale with a patented arti
cle which the trade required.
Women "Gloriously Happy.”
New York—The National headquar
ters o f the woman suffrage organiza
tion are in gala dress over the news of
the victory in California. “ We are
gloriously happy," declared Dr. Anna
Shaw, national president of the suf
frage party. This is the beginning of
the end. The victory in California
gives to the cause as many voters as
in the five other states where we
Fruit Fly Real Menace.
have previously won. Kansas, Ore
Sacramento— In an effort to prevent
gon and other Western states are the Mediterranean fruit fly from en
bound to follow the lead at the next tering California, State Horticultural
election.”
Commissioner Jeffery has cabled a
quarantine order to Honolulu directing
Cadet Candidates Unfit.
that no bananas or pineapples shipped
Washington, D. C.— Legislation au to California until a method o f pack
thorizing the president to appoint four ing which shall insure that no pest is
senators and representatives to nomi carried in the wrapping ia adopted.
nate candidates for admission to the The reports brought back by E. K.
West Point military academy, and a Cranes, superintendent of the State
$3,000,000 appropriation for complet inseetary, who returned from the is
ing buildings there, is recommended, lands recently, indicated that atrin-
and admission of foreign students to gent precautions are necessary.
West Point strongly disapproved, in
the annual report o f Major-General
Schooner Olson Lost.
Thomas H. Barry, suerintendent. Gen
San Francisco — The four-masted
eral Harry complains that many of the schooner Oliver J. Olson, lumber laden
candidates this year were totally unfit from Gray's Harbor to Guayamas, was
to pass examinations.
Mown ashore at Cap«1 Kalso, Lower
California, during the recent hurri
•1,000.000 in Gold Coming.
cane in Southern waters, according to
Nome — The steamship Victoria, advices received here by the owners,
which sailed for Seattle Tuesday, with Olson & Mahony, of this city. Captain
600 passengers, has more than $1,000,- C. W. Stream and his crew o f 10 men
000 in treasure aboard.
The gold is escaped, hut the vessel is a total loss.
the output o f several mines in the The schooner encountered the same
Seward Peninsula district and is the storm which forced the Panama liner
second large shipment sent to Seattle City o f Panama, to return to this port
within the last few days. Two more to refit.
steamships are to sail for the states
before navigation in Bering Sea is
Fisher Appoints Brooks.
closed, and it is expected that they
Washington, D. C.- Secretary of
will carry large amounts of treasure. the Interior Fisher has selected Alfred
H. Brooks, for ten years geologist in
Bomb-Dropping Aeroa to Be Tasted charge o f all work in Alaska, to suc
Rome- Four aeroplanes have arriv ceed A. Willard Hayes as geologist in
The
ed here from France.
They will be chief o f the geological survey.
sent to Tripoli, where it is proposed appointment will he made immediate
to make experiments in the use of Hy ly upon the arrival here o f Mr. Brooks,
Mr.
ing machines in actual warfare. They who is returning from Alaska.
will be piloted by Italian officers, who Brooks ia a native o f Michigan an«1
will undertake to drop bomba into the haa been in the geological service of
the government IS years.
enemy's encampment
Promoters o f the Pacific highway
from Oregon and California met and
exchanged greetings in the Siskiyou
mountains.
Mexican Federal troops surrounded
a force o f Zapatist rebels and killed
over 200 of them, wounding and cap
turing several hundred more.
The captain and third officer o f the
steamer Santa Rosa, wrecked off the
California coast in July last, have
Dr. Wiley Begins Inquiry Into Ingred been suspended for 12 months.
ients Used.
An alleged plot to dynamite a rail
Washington, D. C.— An order for road bridge in Southern California
the immediate consideration o f the just before the presidential train was
perplexing questions, “ What is beer?” due, was frustrated by a watchman.
“ What is vinegar?” and "W hat is a
The Chinese rebellion is growing
soft drink?" was passed by the board and seems to be well directed and well
of food and drug inspection at a meet financed
ing in the office of Dr. Harvey W.
Arbuckle will make war on the sug
Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemis
try and chairman o f the board. The ar duty, declaring it only helps the
three problems have been under con beet sugar interests.
sideration nearly two years, but mem
A tremendous submarine landslide
bers o f the board have been unable to is believed to have caused the recent
agree. Vinegar will be the first sub break in the Alaska cable.
ject considered by the board.
Hear
Italy is rapidly landing troops at
ings have been held on the subject of
pure beer, vinegar and soft drinks. Tripoli and will proceed against the
It is the contention o f Dr. Wiley that Turkish forces in the surrounding
pure vinegar should be made only country.
from cider, and that vinegars made
The Great Northern railroad ex
from malt, sugar, molasses, wine and
new construction and
other ingredients should not be brand pended for
ed as " pure vinegar. ”
Dr. Doolittle equipment the last year, $6,404,037.-
83, the largest sum ever expended in
is said to hold similar views.
Action against “ soft drinks" sold one year for that purpose.
from soda fountains will be taken.
A tidal wave leaped the sea wall at
The government police power will Guayamas, Mexico, causing several
give Dr. Wiley the opportunity to deaths and immense damage.
enforce his rulings in Washington by
T aft’s car looked like a florist’s
confiscating impure drinks at local
shop when he left Oregon and his
soda fountains.
"T he pure soft drink should contain voice was husky with speechmaking.
only a pure fruit extract, sugar, spice
Late returns from the California
and pure w ater," said Dr. Wiley. election changed indications and mako
" I f I had my way, no other soft it practically certain that woman
drinks would be permitted on the mar suffrage has carried.
ket.”
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Vice President Sherman severely
CORN CROP WILL BE SHORT.
rapped Pinchot’s conservation ideas in
a speech at the opening of a new mu
Flax Only Leading Staple to Show nicipal power plant at Sturgis, Mich.
Increase Over I9IO.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Washington, D. C.—The govern
ment's crop report estimates that corn
W heat— Export basis: Biuestem,
will yield 256,000,000 bushels less
than last year and that flax is the only 88«/85c; club, 80<irt81c; red Russian,
important crop to show a greater har 79(«j80c; valley, 80ftz)81c; forty-fold,
80C<D81c.
vest than in 1910.
Millstuffs — Bran, $24.600(25 per
Official preliminary estimates o f
ton; middlings, $32; shorts, $25.500/
production of crops follows:
26; rolled barley, $33.50(8)34.50.
C rop
1911
1910
Sprlnir W h e a t................... 200.SS7.000
231.999.000
Corn— Whole, $33; cracked $34 ton.
W in ter W h e a t.................. 45S.149.000
4S4.044.S00.
Barley— New feed, $320$32.50 per
A ll W h e a t.......................... «55.616.000
696,443.000
O u ts.................................... S73.4S1.000
1,120.765.000 ton; brewing, $37.
H arley.................................. 146.951,000
162.227.000
Oats— No. 1 white, $300/31 per ton.
Ity e ....................................... .'10.677.000
33.089.000
Hay ( t o n s ) .......................... 46.S94.I3I0
60.97S.000
Hay— No. 1 Eastern Oregon tim
The indicated total production of othy, $170/18; No. 1 valley, $150016;
$12.50;
clover, $100011;
important crops not yet harvested, as alfalfa,
shown by the condition on ^October 1, grain hay, $110/112.
Poultry— Hens, 14c; springs, 14c;
follows:
ducks, young, 150016c; turkeys, 18(3
1911
C rop
1910
C o r n .......................... . 17W .3 48 .20 0
1126.718.000
22c.
17.239.000
H u c k w h r a t ............ .......... 16.WB.600
Butter — Oregon creamery, solid
838.811.000
P o ta to * «................. ........ 278.561.000
T o b acco (llm ) __ ........ 716.641620
984.349.000 pack, 33c; prints, extra.
14.116.000
Flax ....................
........ 24.046,400
Eggs— Fresh Oregon ranch, candled,
24.610.000
H ie« ............................
22.682.400
340036c per dozen.
Revolutionist* Beheaded.
Pork— Fancy, 9JOOlOc per pound.
Hankow— Much firing is heard in
Veal— Fancy, 13«/.134c per pound.
the direction o f Wu Chang.
Several
Fresh Fruits — Peaches, 350065c
large fires are seen. Twenty-eight box; plums, 600075c crate; prunes,
Chinese revolutionists have been ar 2002Jc per pound; pears, 76c0/$1.76
rested at Wu Chang, which is the cap box; grapes, 86c00$1.25 per box; ap
ital o f the province o f Hupeh.
Four ples, $10/2.25 box; cranberries, $9.25
of them were beheaded in front o f the 00.9.60 per barrel; Casabas, $1.75 per
viceroy’s yanien. The arrests and ex dozen.
ecutions followed the discovery o f a
Potatoes—Oregon, l j c per pound;
revolutionary plot in the Russian con sweet potatoes, 2|c.
cession here.
A bomb was exploded,
Onions—California, $1.25 hundred.
whereupon a search revealed a factory
Vegetables — Artichokes, 76c per
for the manufacture of explosives and dozen; beans, 50010c; cabbages. Jot)
a plan for an attack on Wu Chang.
l j c pound;
cauliflower, 75c«/$1.25
dozen; com, 26oz 30c dozen; cucum
bers, $10/1.25 per sack; egg-plant, 6
Italy's Fleet to Attack.
garlic, 100012c per
Rome— It is officially asserted that (08c pound;
Italy has notified the powers that she pound; lettuce, 400(85c per dozen;
will send a fleet to attack Smyrna and hothouse lettuce, $1.25001.75 per
Salonika if other massacres of Italians box; peppers, 5o(6c pound; radishes.
should occur like those reported by 124 c dozen; sprouts, 8c per pound; to
consuls to have taken place on the matoes, 40 (075c per b ox .; carrots,
Hodjas railway on the boundary be $1.25 per sack; turnips, $1; beets,
tween Syria and Egypt. The consul's $1.75.
Hops— 1911 crop, 330i35c; olds,
report stated that 30 Italian laborers
were massacred at Kerak, Syria, dur nominal.
W ool-- Eastern Oregon. 9(816c per
ing October. General Valleric has been
entrusted with the entire work o f or pound, according to shrinkage; val
ganising the forces occupying Tripoli. ley, 16«/ 17c per pound; mohair,
choice, 36^037c.
The cost is estimated at $6,000,000.
Cattle—Choice steers, $5.25«t.5.50;
good, 96.1O06.SO; fair.
$4.75(85;
Navy Band Wrecked.
San Francisco— Run down by a gas medium, $4.60«i4.75; poor, $3.76«t
oline launch a cutter from the flagship 4.50; choice cows, $4.25(84.60; fair,
California, o f the Pacific fleet, which $4(84.15; common, $2.50«/3.60; ex
was returning to the ship with 36 tra choice spayed heifers $1.40«/4.60;
members of the band aboard, was up choice heifers. $4.26(i/4.40; choice
set in the bay and J. R. Charlie, one bulls. $3.50(83.76; good. $2.76(83;
calves,
o f the bandsmen, was drowned. Roats common. $2«t:2.50; choice
from the fleet rescued all the other $7.26(87.50; good, $7«i7.75; com
men. but their instruments, valued at mon, $4<86; choice stags, $4.50(8
several thousand dollars, were lost. 4.75; good, $4.25«t'4.50.
Hogs— Choice light hogs, $7.400
The band had taken part in the recep
7.50; good to choice, $7«£7.25; fair,
tion to President Taft at Oakland.
$6.75«i7; common, $6«/6.50.
Madaro la Conciliatory.
Sheep — Choice yearling wethers,
$3.25«z3.60;
choice
Mexico City Deairious apparently coarse wool,
o f conciliating all factiona, F. I. Ma- yearling wethers, east o f mountains.
$2.75*i3;
dero has issued a manifesto declaring $3/(/3.25; choice ewes,
he will accept for vice president any choice lambs, $3.76(34; choice year-
to choice
one op the three candidate«, even Dr. ings, $3.500/3.75; good
iambs, $3.50(<l3.76; culls, $2.50(33.
Gomel.
WAR ON "S O F T DRINKS.”
Courtship °l
M iles
Sta
W ith Illu stration s by
Howard Chandler Christy
( C opyrigh t, T h e B o b b j -M e r r i l l C o m p a n y)
Sailing o f
the M ayflow er
Meekly, In voices subdued, the chap
ter was read from the Bible,
Meekly the prayer was begun, but
ended In fervent entreaty!
Then from their houses In haste came
forth the Pilgrims of Plymouth,
Men and women and children, all hur-
rylng down* to the sea shore.
Eager, with tearful eye6, to say fare
well to the Mayflower,
Homeward bound o’er the sea and
leaving them here In the desert
Just In the gray of the dawn, as the
mists uprose from the meadows.
There was a stir and a sound In the
slumbering village of Plymouth:
Clanging and clicking of arms, and
the order imperative, "Forward!”
Given In tone suppressed, a tramp of
feet, and then silence.
Foremost among them was Alden.
Figures ten, In the mist, marched
All night he had lain without
slowly out of the village.
slumber.
Standish the stalwart It was, with Turning and tossing about In the heat
eight of bis valorous army.
and unrest of his fever.
Led by their Indian guide, by Hobo- He had beheld Miles Standish, who
came back late from the council.
Stalking Into the room, and heard him
mutter and murmur.
Sometimes It seemed a prayer, and
sometimes It sounded like swear
ing.
Once he had come to the bed, and
stood there a moment In silence;
Then he had turned away, and said:
"1 will not wake him;
Let him sleep on. It Is best; for what
Is the use of more talking!”
Then he extinguished the light, and
threw himself down on hts pallet.
Dressed as he was, and ready to start
at the break of the morning,—
Covered himself with the cloak he
had worn In his campaigns In
Flanders,—
Slept as a soldier sleeps In bis
bivouac, ready for action.
But with the dawn he arosG; In the
twilight Alden beheld him
Put on his corselet of steel, and all
the rest of his armor,
Buckle about his waist his trusty
blade of Damascus,
Take from the corner his musket, and
so stride out of the chamber.
Often the heart of the youth had
burned and yearned to embrace
him.
Take His Musket, and 8o Stride Out. Often his lips had essayed to speak.
Imploring for pardon;
mok, friend of the white men.
All the old friendship came back,
Northward marching to quell the sud
with Its tender and grateful emo
den revolt of the savage.
tions;
Giants they seemed In the mist, or the But his pride overmastered the nobler
mighty men of King David;
nature within him,—
Giants In heart they were, who be Pride, and the sense of his wrong,
lieved in God and the Bible,—
and the burning fire of the Insult.
Aye, who believed In the smiting of 9o he beheld his friend departing In
Mldlanites and Philistines.
anger, but spake not.
Over them gleamed far off the crim
son banners of morning;
Under them loud on the sands, the
serried billows, advancing,
Fired along the line and In regular
order retreated.
Many a mile had they marched,
when at length the village of Ply
mouth
Woke from Its sleep, and arose, In
tent on Its manifold labors.
Sweet was the air and soft; and slow
ly the smoke from the chimneys
Rose over roofs of thatch, and point
ed steadily eastward;
Men came forth from the doors, and
paused and talked of the weather,
Bald that the wind had changed, and
was blowing fair for the May
flower;
Talked of their Captain's departure,
and all the dangers that menaced,
He being gone, the town, and what
should be done In his absence.
Merrily sang the birds, and the ten
der voices of women
Consecrated with hymns the common
cares of the household.
Out of the sea rose the sun, and the
billows rejoiced at his coming;
Beautiful were his feet on the pur
ple tops of the mountains;
Beautiful on the sails of the May
flower riding at anchor.
Battered and blackened and worn by
all the storms of the winter.
Loosely against her masts was hang
ing and flapping her canvas.
Rent by so many gales, and patched
by the hands of the sailors.
Suddenly from her side, as the eun
rose over the ocean.
Darted a puff of smoke, and floated
seaward; anon rang
Loud over field and forest the can
non’s roar, and the echoes
The Common Cares of the Household.
3aw hlnf go forth to danger, perhaps
to death, and he spake not!
Then he arose from his bed, and
beard what the people were say
ing.
Joined in the talk at the door, with
Stephen and Richard and Gilbert,
Joined In the morning prayer, and In
the reading of Scripture,
And. with the others, in haste went
hurrying down to the sea shore.
Down to the Plymouth Rock, that had
been to their feet as a doorstep
Into a world unknown,—the corner
stone of a nation!
There with his boat was the Master,
already a little Impatient
Lest he should lose the tide, or the
wind might shift to the eastward.
Square built, hearty, and strong, with
an odor of ocean about him.
Speaking with this one and that, and
cramming letters and parcels
Into his pockets capacious, and mes
sages mingled together
Into his narrow brain, till at last be
was wholly bewildered.
Nearer the boat stood Alden. with one
fool placed on the gunwale.
One still flrra on the rock, and talking
at times with the sailors.
Seated erect on the thwarts, all ready
and eager for starting.
He. too. was eager to go. and thus
put an end to his anguish.
Thinking to fly from despair, that
swifter thar keel Is or canvas.
Thinking to drown In the sea the
ghost that would rise and pursue
him.
,
But as he gazed on the crowd, he be
held the form of Priscilla .
Standing dejected among them, uncon
scious of all that was passing
Fixed were her eyes upon hit. aa if
she divined hts Intention.
Fixed with a look so sad. so reproach
ful. Imploring Xnd patient.
That with a sudden revulsion bis
Standing Dejected, Unconscious of All.
heart recoiled from Its purpose.
Heard and repeated the sound, the slg As from the verge of a crag, where
one step more Is destruction.
nal gun of departure!
Ah! but with louder echoes replied Strange Is the b- art of man. with Us
quick, mysterious Instincts!
the hearts of the people!
j
Strange ts the life of man, and fatal
or fated are moments,
Whereupon turn, as on hinges, the
gates of the wall adamantine!
"Here I remain!" he exclaimed, as be
looked at the heavens above him.
Thanking the Lord whose breath bad
scattered the mist and the mad
ness.
Wherein, blind and lost, to death he
was staggering headlong.
"Yonder snow-white cloud, that floats
In the ether above me.
Seems like a hand that Is pointing
and beckoning over the ocean.
There Is another hand, that Is not so
spectral and ghost-Uke,
Holding me, drawing me back, and
clasping mine for protection.
Float, O hand of cloud, and vanish
away In the ether!
Roll thyself up like a flat, to threaten
and daunt me; I heed not
Either your warning or menace, or
any omen of evil!
There Is no land so sacred, no air so
pure and so wholesome.
As Is the air she breathes, and the
soil that Is pressed by her foot
steps.
Here for her sake will I stay, and like
an Invisible presence
Hover around her for ever, protecting,
supporting her weakness;
Yes! aa my foot was the first that
stepped on this rock at the land
ing.
How Good You Have Been to Me.
So, with the blessing of God, shall It
be the last at the leaving I”
Meanwhile the Master alert, but
with dignified air and Important.
Scanning with watchful eye the tide
and the wind and the weather.
Walked about on the sands; and the
people crowded around him
Saying a, few last words, and enforc
ing his careful remembrance.
Then, taking each by the hand, aa If
he were grasping a tiller.
Into the boat he sprang, and in haste
shoved off to his vessel.
Glad In his heart to get rid of all this
worry and flurry.
Glad to be gone from a land of sand
and sickness and sorrow.
Short allowance of victuals and plenty
of nothing but Gospel I
Lost In the sound of the oars was the
last farewell of the Pilgrims.
O strong hearts and true! not one
went back In the Mayflower!
No, not one looked back, who had set
his hand to this plowing!
Soon were heard on board ths
shouts and songs of the sailors
Heaving the windlass round, and
hoisting the ponderous anchor.
Then the yards were braced, and all
■ails set to the west wind.
Blowing steady and strong; and the
Mayflower sailed from the harbor.
Rounded the point of the Gurnet, and
leaving far to the southward
Island and cape of sand, and the Field
of the First Encounter.
Took the wind on her quarter, and
stood for the open Atlantic,
Borne on the send of the sea, and the
■welling hearts of the Pilgrims.
Long In silence they watched the re
ceding sail of the vessel,
Much endeared to them all, as some
thing living and human;
Then, as If filled with the spirit, and
rapt In a vision prophetic,
Baring his hoary head, the excellent
Elder of Plymouth
Said, "Let us pray!” and they prayed
and thanked the Lord and took
courage.
Mournfully sobbed the waves at the
base of the rock, and above them
Bowed and whispered the wheat oa
the hill of death, and their kin
dred
Seemed to awake In their graves, and
to join In the prayer that they ut
tered.
Sun-Illumed and white, on the east
ern verge of the octan
Gleamed the departing sail, like a
marble slab In a graveyard;
Burled bei enth It lay for ever all hope
of ascaping.
Lo! as they turned to depart, they
saw the form of an Indian,
Watching them from the hill; but
while they spake with each other.
Pointing with outstretched hand., and
saying. "Look!" he had vanished.
So they returned to their homes; but
Alden lingered a little.
Musing alone on the shore, and
watching the wash of the blilo'we
Round the base of the rock, and the
sparkle and flash of the sun
shine.
Like the spirit of Ood. moving visibly
over the waters.
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C O N T I N U E D .)
T h e H id d e n
P u rp o se .
A young lieutenant from a New
fork regiment surveyed /he Texas
scenery gloomily and reflected upoe
hi* great distance from the lights of
Broadway. Tbs amoks from e smelt-
ei and he swirling sand from the low
lying hills bad spoiled (he lieutenant’s
disposition ‘ Tell me." said an editor
from HI Paeo. "isn’t there some hid
den purpose behind this mobilization?”
“There la." replied the lieutenant
‘We are aolng to force Mexico to taka
pack Texan."