igm' inwmwijm A PIONEER'S FATE. TH E ROSE'S LOVE. But now comes the ghostly legacy girl, and could not. by a feather's WORSHIPPING THEIR FLAG. veloped to an unusual degree at least, of this tragedy, which goes by the weight, influence the balance of his Origin of the Scalo Legend of the his suffering grandparents entertain name of "The Scalp Legend of the1 attentions Therefore, behind her The rose said to the moon, -when summer's Quee Military Custom Which he Chariters Valley, With a Few Chartiers." Concerning it it is affirmed that opinion. Tod made them a glory smiles she had been not a little wounded Chinese Have Great Faith In. Ghostly Additions to the Story. by the country folks and earlier settlers* Was at its height of power that he had allowed her to come short visit a few months ago, and The viceroy or generalissimo of the of this little valley, that on some O, list deai oi.e, my passionate sad story, There is an uncanny local legend of home without havinggiven expression although they are fond and proud of List to a lowly flower summer nights to this day the shrieks Chinese army, whenever he was about to his sentiments. the lower end of the Chartiers CreekValley, When first I felt that life had any brightness their grandson, it cannot be denied of those murdered innocents maybe So she, too now took on a sober to start on a war-like expedition, near Pittsburgh, which is known distinctly heard,and when storms arise that their principal feeling when they countenance and banished thought I lifted up my face, must worship his' flag. Whenever he to the other inhabitants of that seer they are blended with the blood-cardwhoops said good-by to him was one of relief. Fast heat my heart to feel its dewy whiteness, and regret by joining several new sends away with a detatchment of of the painted savages. And tion as the scalp legend of the Chartiers, clubs and taking membership in two Neither of the old people had very Folded in thy einbiacr«. further and more awtul still, that in soldiers any high military officers a& or three more charitable organizations. says the Pittsburg Dispatch. sharp eyesight, and they seldom used the oppressive silence of warm summer his deputy, and generally, when any I watched thy face, so far away heaven, A mile or so up the crepk the valley their spectacles except for reading, so evenings things strangely like the So far away from me, .Fust before Christmas Randall one high military officers is about to proceed it was not surprising that they failed opens out, making a beautiful pastoral ignusfatuus, or jack o'lantern.maybe From thy soft setting till the dewy even, day experienced in his breast a sort of to discoversomepeculiar indentations into battle, the flag of his division observed to float hither and thither I thought of thee, of thee. expanse of rertiie bottomland. The imperative intimation—perhaps direct which marked the top rail of the over the scene of the massacre, and to I trembled when thy snowy beam did'st of brigade must be worshipped. from the slant-eyed mandarin, who jview over and upon this from the hilly polished balusters on the first morning find me, wander up and down the bank of the The worship is often performed on the knows9—that he might hear of something after Tod's arrival, and which |heights at the rear of Sheridan is lovely Trembled and looked above, little run between the hills and the to his advantage if he should go One tie alone there is on earth to bind me, public parade ground. grew deeper with each succeeding 4rw by day and weird by night. The creeks. I die without thy love. down to the city and call upon Clementine morning. The viceroy sometimes chooses to last-named element in the night scene so, after some futile resistance To all appearance Tod did not Last night I felt thy glances glowing, beaming, sacrifice to the flag on his own parade to the message, he betook himself is partially caused by the flickering, Strang Oversight. notice them, either, until the last day thither. ground connected with his yamun. Lone as a lonely star. gas fires from the wells in the Char It is dangerous as well as -wicked to of his visit. Then he announced in O, why should all my soul of thine be He was graciously received by Clementine—that do wrong in the presence of children. The time selected is often about daylight confidence to his grandmother: tiers field. dreaming, is, graciously enough for The Pittsburgh Dispatch says that an "I'm afraid, grandma, that I've or a little later. Often times the And thou away so far. At an early date in the pioneer history a young man who had played the observant little boy was in a streetcar made some marks on the balusterrails 111 breathe my love in perfume, it may high officials, both cicic and military, of this section, and long before trifler with her invisible affections— with my .iterbury, but you reach thee, in that city the other day, and the days of Indian warfare had ended, connected with the government, are and he seated himself in a cozy chair see I've always run down so fast that Half of ray longing heart, followed every movement of the conductor an adventuresome voyager ran his Be not so cold, but take I beseech thee, near the pretty table which held his I never noticed them till this morning'" present! with the greatest interest. As of my soul a part. canoe into the mouth of Chartiers old friend—the blue jar. It is necessary that all the officers creek. Attracted by its sylvan scenery A very stout woman boarded the As he talked with Clementine—a little "With your Waterbury, Tod!" Night came again, the rose in longing waited, who are to accompany the expedition and the prospects of finding a good car and sat down next to the,, small constraint being apparent on both echoed his grandmother in amazement. should not only witness the ceremony, location to settle upon, he paddled up The heavens were dark above, boy. She took a ticket out "of her sides—he toyed with the lid of the jar, but take a part in it. The same remark Thiough folds of clouds the star* came out a short distance and then explored purse, but when the conductor came and the slant-eyed mandarin appeared "Why, yes'm. I've wound it by belated, is true of the soldiers who are to further along the bank as he ascended. to wink at him three times very knowingly. along he somehow failed to notice her. pressing the winder on the rail, you No answer came to love After particularly examining the locality be sent away or engage in the fight. He passed and repassed her several know, every morning since I came. It But when the moon, touched by her tender he chose and marked out a In the centre of the arena is placed a pleading, Under some occult but imperative times, and finally, with a nervous was such a splendid place, and saved "tomahawk" claim, with fine timber table having upon it two candles, one His silver lovelight shed, pressure Randall removed the hd and glance around, she replaced the ticket such a lot of time, because I could do To reach her heart so long unanswered, and water and a southern exposure. censer and several cups of wine. touched with his finger the silken texture in her purse. it as I ran down to breakfast. And bleeding, Hither the next spring he came, with of some mysterious contents This~was too much for the small always doing it that way, of course it The candles are lighted at the proper The rose lay silent, dead. his wife, a little boy and girl and a Curiosity further constrained him, boy, who had all the while kept his kept me from forgetting to ind it, time. Some officers, kneeling down, brother who was slightly his junior. —LUCY MCKEO:SE STAPLETOK. and he pulled from the bosom of the you see!'' eye on her, and the next time the conductor hold the large flag by means of its staff now jubilant mandarin a pale blue But one fateful evening in early summer came along he exclaimed"You near the table. THE JOLLY-MAKDAEIN. article of singular description for a the brothers returned from a By Another Name. didn't get her money, mister. The viceroy, or the officer who is to parlor ornament, and following it, he long and successful day's hunt and Delicacy of feeling is not confined to I don't see how you missed her. She's command the expedition, standing extracted a pale pink strip of similar found the cabin was a smoldering heap the fattest lady in the car. Anybody before the table and the flag, receives gentle people, commonly so-called. It shape and structure. of ruins. Partially in the ashes were Before Clementine went down to Milltown could see her." three sticks of lighted incense from a is well known, for example, by those the charred, mangled and scalped Turning to Clementine for explanation This complimentary allusion to the professor of ceremony, which he reverently for the summer she made up her who have to do with men confined in forms of the young wife and children. of these unforseen apparitions, woman's weight caused a blush to places in the censer arranged mind that she would bend all her prison, that such convicts never speak he found her speechless with a wildeyed The Indians had evidently been gone between the candles. play over her broad face, and she energies to wheedle Aunt Phoebe out of astonishment and, without a some hours. Controlling their agony the hated word "prison," but invariably He now kneels on th* ground and quickly produced a ticket, while all the old blue ginger jar that Uncle Julius word or gesture seized the old blue as best they could, the brothers tenderly^ bows his head down three time1*. use some euphemistic substitute, the other passengers smiled. had brought home from China, jar and hurried from the room. moved and sadly buried the Some of the wine taken lrom the tahle "this institution" being perhaps the remains of their loved ones beneath Forty Years to Find Salt. Randall smiled the first real soulfelt, is handed to him while on his km little thinking that the old slant-eyed, one oftenest used. refreshing smile that he fiad indulged an immense sycamore tree upon the A wonderful example of patience in which he pours out on the ground fat-sided mandarin would take such a In my girlhood, wrote Mrs. Andrew in for several months and banks of a little brook that ran by the Chinese is afforded by a consular Then a cup ol wine is dashed upon the Lang, the favorite housemaid of a jocular interest in her joys and sorrows. vowed by the pigtail of the old slanteyed their cabin and headed up in the Sherman report dealing with the manufacture flag, the professor of ceremony crying I tnend of mine "gave warning," a^~ as she that he would stay rooted to the hills. Then they left the country, of salt in Central China. Holes about out. "Unfurling the flag victory is was going to be married. spot until Clementine returned. starting eastward to go over the obtained: the cavalry advancing, merit six inches in diameter are bored in the The old blue jar had perched for Indeed," said the lady, "and what What she said to the genius of the mountains, but never reached the is perfected."' race by means of a primitive form of •many years on the corner of a high is your tuture husband9" settlements or were afterward jar as she flew upstair with it only iron drill, and sometimes a period of The whole company of officers and "Please, ma'am, he's an asker." dnantle-piece in the old-fashioned heard of and it was supposed the mandarin can reveal. soldiers, who had previously knelt forty years elapses before the coveted "A what?" that they were killed by some wandering •country parlor, and Aunt Phoebe As Randall paced the floor, pulling down and bowed their heads in the brine is reached, so that the work is "An asker." his moustache and wonderme if Clementine's band of Indians. The only clew to prescribed manner, now simultaneously 'knew that if she gave it to Clementine carried on from one generation to "I don't understand. What does keen sense of humor would this pathetic bit of pioneer history rise up with a shout and commence •ahe would have a dreadful lonesome another. During this time the boring, he do 9 that was left was a letter upon birch carry her safely through the trying their march at once for the scene of as may be imagined, goes down an ieehng every time she stood on a chair "Well, ma'am, he—he goes about bark inclosed in a rude envelope of the hour, she came emaciateedly into the the appointed rendezvous —Overland immense depth. When brine is found the streets, and if he sees any one coming to dust the old clock, the shells, and room, bearing in one hand the blinking same texture and stuck in a split Monthly. it is drawn up in bamboo tubs by a along that looks kind he—well, he old mandarin, and in the other sapling by the river's edge at the the peddler vases, the feather fans and rope working over a large drum turned just stops 'em and asks 'em to give the pleading letter he had borne so mouth of the creek. This was forunately other companions of its lofty abode. him a trifle, and he makes quite a. by bullocks. The brine is evaporated Aid to Memory. long hid in his clever old bosom. found shortly afterward by a comfortable living that way." 'But Clementine was an accomplished in iron caldrons, the heat being supplied band of white explorers who still later "Tod" Walters is a ten-year-old Randall met the dear girl more than "Do you mean a beggar?" by natural gas, which is generally •wheedler, and the fond old Aunt finally conveyed the intelligence half way, and as she whimpered gently boy in whom the spirit of mischief and "Well, ma'am, some people do call East. fcund in the vicinity of salt wells. on his shoulder he promised never, said she might have her wish. the spirit of investigation are de- it that we call it 'asker.' never, never to tell. I When Aunt Phoebe gave over to And when they were married, if you Clementine her right and title to the believe me, that ridiculous old ginger B0 old blue jar, Randall was leaning in jar accompanied them on their wedding "the window and idly sifting rose trip, and Randall packed the bosom of the grotesque mandarin full leaves from the old climbing vine of Clementine's bridal roses, there to through the meshes of his tennis racket. fade, and there forever to remain. He sympathized with her lively Now, as Randall never told, and admiration for the antique and ancient Clementine never told, the entire responsibility in china, and was glad that she of this revelation lies between had attained'her heart's desire but a you and me and the ginger jar. more absorbing interest possessed his Romance. manly breast. Clementine was going home in the SUED HIM AND WENT HIS BAIL. morning, and he had been trying in The Physicians of the vain for several days to get the feeble courage of his ardent convictions up A Wife's Devotion O San FranciscoBoardo HealthCertify to the declarativepoint. She was such Her at Her a Cruelty. •a lively, funloving girl, and love you know, is such intensely serious business. The Magistrates of this city, especially Several times Randall fancied those who mete out justice to the he had found her in a sober and properly criminals in the southern sections, receptive frame of mind, when, with a trifling jest, she would defeat have many queer cases to deal with, his intentions and rmt the littlegodto says the Philadelphia Times, but one ROYAL BAKING POWDER •flight. which was heard before Magistrate Now, however, when the slant-eyed Fulmer presents many peculiar features, mandarin on the blue 3ar winked at 'him through the vines, Randall said and'deserves to be placed on to himself enthusiastically record as one of the most novel in "Well, old boy that's the very the criminal history of this city. Pure, Healthful,of Highest Strength and Character. thing! Thank you tor the blight idea! The casein question was that of Harry Are they all as clever as you are over in China?" Rodgers, who was given a hearing on That night, in his room under the the charge of assault and battery, preferred «aves, he constructed an eloquent letter by his wife, Mrs. Rodgers testified to Clementine, and in the early against her husband, claiming morning sneaked into the parlor and [Fac-simile of their original Report.] deposited it in the robust bosom of that he had brutally beaten her witnout the old blue mandarin. any provocation. Magistrate Fulmer, "It she finds it before she goes home after hearing the evidence, decided ^fev the members of The Board of Health of the City and it is all right," said the timorous, to hold Rodgers in $500 bail for adoring fellow, "and if she doesn't find it until afterward it will be all right, his appearance in court. County of pan Francisco cordially approve and recommend the too." Up to this point the hearing was by But the mandarin felt a little funny no means unusual and was similar to that day so when Clementine packed those which are every day piesenting Koyal Baking Po*der» It is absolutely pin*© and healthful, compos** her trunk he inspired her to stuff the themselves to the attention of the ginger jar full of her silken hose, that magistrate. As is usual in such casss the precious article might take no \f Rodgers was asked if he had any one ed of the beet ingredients of the highest strength and character* risks of breakage in its voyage. So, who would go bail for him. He was when Randall parted from her at the about- to answer that he knew of no etation she made no signs of knowing one who would be kind enough to perform In our judgment, it is impossible to make a purer ©r anything in particular, and his hopeful such an office when suddenly, to heart decided that she would surely the surprise of alljpresent, Mrs, Rodgers find the letter when she reached Btronger Baking Powder than'the "Royal"* who had sworn against her husband home, and he would then hear from and on whose testimony he was put her. under bail, stepped up to the magistrate's Now, Clementine was agirl who always desk and offered to go his bail had a great many things on her for his appearance. mind, and when she had unpacked the This, of course, greatly puzzled the treasured jar and placed it on a dainty Magistrate, but as the woman satisfied g, table her pretty parlor—with a selfcongratulatory him of the fact that she Avas a property-owner thought that it was so he was obliged to accept respectable to have things that one's her as security. The ball was entered, relative had brought from China—she and husband and wife left the office wholly forgot the curious load that together and no doubt will settle the mandarin had on his breast. She the matter between themselves in missed her silken sose, of course, and, such away that it will not require the pestered Aunt Phhoebe with messages' efforts of the couFt to adjust it. about them. & In Milltown, as you may imagine, i|| Randall waited for an answer to his Yellow Flowers Brine Hl-Luck. letter.^ Awhile he waited patiently, Actors have a queer superstition \/#14JW*Z**2& *&*$ jfe* then impatiently awhile, and then about yellow flowers and will not jgl dived into his law books with that wear them. While at Dr. Todd's H. "composure of settled distress" which If lovers have known in every age and booth at the fair grounds 'recently clime. He did not dream that the Bart **anftIeeoY Aoguet 5th. I889« Miss Marie Greenwood saw some yellow siant-eyed mandarin would be guilty flowers, and after admiring them, of intercepting a love letter. asked for them. But the fun-loving mandarin knew •what he was about. He was not without Mr. Guibertson, her -leading man, experience in these matters, and was present, and begged her not to he wanted to punish Clementine a take them, saying they would surely trifle and bring her to the proper con- bring her ill-luck. A laugh was indulged [j? 4 dition of seriousness. in at his expense and she took &$• A, And Clementine was feeling the situm$l&~ the yellow flowers. .ationwith all the sobriety that was In an hour the opera house was in rV£ -desirable. She had suspected all ashes, and Miss Greenwood's ill-luck tftj .uramer that Randall had a tender had cost her $7500. The flowers got V*T* eehngforher which she felt qualified in: their work.—Oweusboro Ky. Regis* to reciprocate, but she was a proud