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THE DAILY PICAYUNE NEW. ORLEANS, SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 182. 16 ar A Little Tour in SL James. CO CREVASSES THE FIXE PLANTA TION HOUSES THE VACHERIE THE uincrnvr TCTR HOME OP valcour AIME. I i Hiiro 4Vi a pan hprftnn recall, the country between New Or went bv the Ann lent nanM of "The Golden Coast." To this day it isan old, familiar phrase 1 1T that II murmured orer mauj a dead wood in the etony hearted town.

recalls to the worker bending tnere parable lanu. it was a pnucij uqu. 1 thnu hnm ill.fnrtnno lta forced 1 1 1 to leave it most needs look hack with a longing on its powerful river so tranquilly and forcefully moving between 1 1 An a1 i na like castles in a new Spain, each one inspired by remembrance of Parthenua or Temple of Diane, on sunny old courts all tapestried with Tines and alleys all one pink blur of myrtles and oleander; of brown belfries under the shadow and protection of the cross; of far green fields where corn and caue, tobacco and yams tnate this with their riches indeed a va11II OfllBt St. James parish has always been the home of aristocrats. Its traditions 1 1 I I hreailox spienuor.

urunaucj uu nciuu and of a rehned and elegant society, excellent educational institutions, su perb comes, grana I aim lies wearing: with honor brave and distinguished names. To this day it is famous for its w.vgrw, once only rnale for the kins of France Mint in this narish. for its Jefferson Col lege and Convent of the Sacred Heart, and for its beautiful old plantation i i a Homes. 11 19 tun lauu ui uiAjsuiubcut Tt .1 nmned dwellings, great square edifices Hits ma ariueaoa, wiiu porcues hko cloisters rising one above the other three and four tiers high, on all four sides, and topped by a quaint pent roof studded with blinking dormer win aows. line ohi iaaeu eyes looking calmly out on an outlived world.

Seen from the rirer. brimming to its banks and giving back its own mirrored Idea of sky and cloud, ot oak alley and ehurcli. and convent and home. how beautiful it is. thia parish of St.

James. The brown and rutty road winds on endlessly far below the dyke. OnMr ir.iv rimMler! TAa iivit it Uread carts, piled high with the sweet, wholesome, real Freuch bread that is made as in the douce pays de France, with a leaven ofrllour ami water alone, rumble by, the vender in his cool, pro fessional blue blou. stopping nt every house to hand oat gmirlcd. loaves 'like twists of an old orange tree.

OH, under the trees, like an old mother hen, the sweet parish church spreads her red skirts, and the baker, "when he passes that sanctuary, lifts bis hat. It is an old world courtesy that thriveatvell in thin nirish nf th golden coast. Cottagers, farmers, ped HlArs'aRnmaTir wnrnn.ii with a. Kti rtlu of laces on her back, and the bronze of Andalusia darkening on her brow fi erhlA with si. natnis riin wliili thA bloom has never been brushed; Sicilian, his oval basket piled high with the tender crescents of the inevitable baaan; his young legs, long, gaunt.

tor. bared for the fray with distance and rough roads; carriages, pulled by blooded horses, priests in their graceful, flowing gowns, that whip in the winds silhouetted into the sky as they stand on the crest of the dyke; rows of oaks leading from the grandsires' home to the son's; scented avenues like clois ox oleanders; etitt and stately wlks laid' out with bridal white gardenias. the whirr of doves' wings, fluttering to their half ruined cotes all this, with green fields unfolding far their pale ViaI ta rf lira i Tn iA WAVO A. VJAVLUfcU CJ Ufa suw golden coast as one sees it from the river. It seemed to me that sunny, summer morning when I stood on the narrow rim of levee, the level river touching with its frothy tongues the hem of my town or occasionally splashing over in hong curling waves a trough of water Into the roads, that never was a coun try piace more zair, more arusiic, more untieing.

For two days I had been domiciled in a big, cheerful house under treat oak trees that stand on the cor ner of the Jefferson College grounds. It ww WW MV LU BUW M. Jk. WW WW MUU MM day for the hundred gallant and manly young lads to whom this old, famous 1 1 1 iaii is Aims juaier. In the great park they were all at play, a black skirted priest tossing ball like a boy one of them in love, spirit a ft 1 .1:1 uiu luuucuco.

a Bpwuum peacocKsav in thA ann nn the hiirli. white wall, hia train of Juno eyes trailing over the mossy stones, his strident cry woven in i li thA 1 1 1 iin nf vnun tr vni amh thA "whistled concert from the oak trees, i i wnere oirus were leacning ineir young, the mellow winding of a horn. ij The long, white college building "with its forest of columns might for an eye flash have passed for a side view of the great church of the Madelaine iu That day Hags floated from it eyery the yellow and wnite papal flag flanked by our national flags, 1 i 1 i i ana tnese in mm uy otners. roia me bnildinc an ivenna nf tre HTUndiiniit for half a mile, nearly, over what' in dry weather is known as College Point batture. Now it is an avenue through the water lovlier than Yenice, because such trees may not be had in Venice.

Am ixtfwwl f.imiirfinlir rialai nn 4h. levee I could hear the faint, far off ft 1 ui lruu uu anvit. a Knew well the little crowded junk blacksmith shop, cariosity shop, all in one, that stands behind, the college. Had I not loafed there and tried a halting talk in French with old Frere Jean Marie, the grey headed old 80 year old brother who planted the avenues of trees and lovingly named it avenue Pere Rapier in honor of a gentle brother whom no one in the college can speak of with dry eyes. The tankle of the iron sounded musically if one could only make a picture of Frere Jean bending at his bellows, a little bushy, gray man.

burrowing in a jungle of rusty metal, with old clocks, old pipes, bid barrel hoops, faucets, staves, locks. keys, hinges, piled every where, the only beautiful thing there the patient work, and high on the stone chimney above the blinking eyes of fire in a cheap, wooden frame the tender face of old Frere Juan's divine mother. Jefferson College is well known to be one of the finest educational institutions for young men in the south. It is in charge of the Marist Fathers, an order distinguished for their scholarly attainments. The present president of the college is Rev.

Father Blenk. a man of ripe culture and a most lovable and winning personality. The college is admirably equipped the library and physio room being all that could be desired. At present there are a hundred students and this year seven will graduate. The many manly sports are wholesomely cultivated, and under the excellent care of Mr.

Homer Dupuy, the college ''band is one of the best in the state, and the boy. choir for the college chapel is equal to one of the best in any English cathedral. This beautiful chapel, with tine oak raftered ceiling, a handsome altar and a very fine copy of Mnrillo's Annunciation," is one of the most perfect pieces of Gothic architecture in the country. It is lovely inside and out. The chapel complete was the gift of a rich' planter many years ago, Valcour Aime.

who named it Felicite, after one of his daughters. Only the other day it was further enriched by the gift from Mrs. Captain Joe Brown, of Algiers, of a tine jewel studded missal holder and handsome altar cloth of Mexican work, from Miss Le Bourgeois, of Mount Airy plantation. An outgrowth ef Jefferson College is the Progressive Educational Society, that, in the Fourth ward of Ji'nfi parish, maintains a good school for ten months of eao4i year. This society was the idea of plr.

John Lu Peytavin, of New Orlean who interested his fellow property owners in his patriotic project, orgauized the society practically and manages it so well that an excellent school is maintained all year. It was a patriotism unique and unexpected in a young man. Last year, on his own pretty place, "The Ancient Domain." Mr. Peytavin arranced a fair and concert, aided by Muie. Thibodanx and other artists.

The fete lasted for two days, and $300 was raised iu this way as a nest egg for the school fund. What, with this line and steady day school, the college, the Convent of the Sacred Heart for girls, and a somewhat less regular public school system, St. James tiers admirable facilities for education. I forgot to say ie the proper place tiat St. James resources are well summed up by the gardens and stables of Jefferson College.

Here is supported a model farm. Thirty sleek Jersey cows crop clover iu the pastures, nine beautiful horses, gentle and unafraid as tame deers, come whiumying at tivo call of their cassocsed owners; enormous Berkshire pigs feed under the oaks, pigs that ought to be sent to the Shreveportfair; ducks, geese, chickens, rabbits and pigeons swarm in the green lanes, where) grapevines grow; sheep yield their profitable tribute of wool, and in the gardens are an abundance of fruits and all manner of vegetables. A i windmill carries river water all over the buildings and grounds and in all thrifty, enterprising and material ways the college is an excellent advertisement for tiie "golden coast." It is, indeed, a parish to be proud of. St. James, with its fine old traditions, its grand old houses, its superb crops, its king's tobacco, and its present plucky and patriotic citizens.

Why. by the sheer strength of their broad backs the men of the coast kept oat a crevasse the other day. The river is level to the brim with water. A falling leaf would almost seem to send drops splashing down into the road. Several crevasses have occurred and have been closed by the plauters.

This is the first time crevasses have ever been closed. When the planters do this work it is by a system too successful to be criticised. They will havo nothing to do with the steam pile drivers. These jar and looseji the ground and seem to increase the damage. The boards or cribbing, as they call it, really a fence of posts and lumber, is driven in by big mallets wielded by stout arms.

These are braced on the land side and then filled in with sacks of earth. In the Tessier crevasse, successfully closed last week, 150,000 sacks of earth were dumped. At the Hope crevasse a few days ago, on the right bank of the river, when the boards were pounded in the men got down in the water and set their backs against the boards and kept out the river by sheer physical force until the wooden braces could be set. The boards bent in landward, with a curve, under the mighty force of the baffled river if only one man had given out all would have been drowned and three parishes ruined, but no one gave oat, the crevasse was closed and it was closed by these men black, white, rich, poor, high, low. laborers, professional of this golden coast.

Just after the Tessier crevasse, and while all the men available were at work there, an ugly break occurred in the river bank just above. No men were to be had, the Italian watchers lost their heads, and a dreadful fate might have been in store for the planters, but the plucky and accomplished daughter of Mr. Trudeau gathered up the colored women out of the quarters, led the way to the levee, and for an hour, until the men came, kept them bravely busy filling and piling sacks. It is perilous times along the levee. "Watchmen parole the levees day and night.

At night, armed with lanterns and rifles, they are on the lookout for crawfish holes aud levee cutters. These last come to cut the levees in order to save their own domains. The firing of a gun is the signal of a break. Then the guards rush away crying "Crevasse! Crevasse!" The plantation's bell rings out its alarm. The people rush out pell inell and the valiant fight begins.

The other night tne gallant Marist Fathers of Jefferson worked at an incipient crevasse on their levee until 4 in the morning. It was a picturesque spectacle to see those black gowned shapes, in broad brimmed hats, spading in the half moonlight, their soft robes beating in the wind as they strenuously worked to save the parish from a crevasse. Rext to its fairy tale accounts of sugar fabulous rice crops sd the yellow yams, that grow so freely here, the great produce of St James is Perique. that famous tobacco nat tries the nerves of the most nicotine hardened smoker, that but few persons are bnve enough to smote pure Perique, the corner stone of how many castles in Spain Perique, the Pegasus on which many a poet has attained Olympus. Perique the solaee of the lonely, the wife of the widower, the song of the musician, the lost chord of the singer.

It is at Grande Pointe, the Grande Pointe that Cable wrote of so correctly, the best and most is made. Nothing is quainter than a carat of Perique. all rope twisted and looking like a section of weatherbeaten Atlantic cable. It has been said that Perique is a secret of applied flavor handed down by word of month from generation uuto generation of Creole tobacco farmers. But this is not so.

It is only "Perique" in St. James; the same seed, the same methods, applied elsewhere, produce an inferior tobacco. The method of culture and drying is extremely crude, bat the re salt is a leaf lit for incense in a temple. No wonder in those old days, "dead beyond recall," Perique was saved for the royal pipes of France. There are tine plantation homes in St.

James, whose names and whose beauties should pass into history. Among these are Belmont, the property of Mr. Le Bourgeois, set in a grove of magnolia trees, a house fit for a temple, that originally cost 00.000, whose superb tinted columns were the work of the original owner, and which to day is a treasure house of art, of statuary, of books. Another place on the river that is of note, famed for having the most beautiful grounds of any place in St. James, is the Union plantation, the property of Mine.

Jacobshagen. an accomplished andcharmiug woman, who while chatelaine of a lovely home is none the less capable manager of her line plantation. BetweeniUnion and Belmont, on the left bank of the river, lies Couveut Town, with its horde of stores, its many sweet homes, its parish Vhurch and presbytery and convent and college. Convent Town is one of the most importaut commercial centers on the river front, the only town on the left bank between New Orleans aud Baton Rouge. On The opposite bank is the magnificent old homestead of the Chopin family, like Belmont, oue of the few estates of the golden coast in the hands of its original family.

The "Home Place" is now occupied by young Dr. Chopin aud bio brilliaut wife. It is a three story and a half high building, with galleries 20 feet broad all around. The stately apartments, as if planned to lodge a king, are filled with old oak and rosewood, with priceless volumes and antique portraits, and all these are graced down by the dainty devices of modern luxury, directed by a retiaed and cultivated taste. Tt trr.ly enough to turn a Ver inonter or a New Yorker green with envy to penetrate such homes as the artistic and sumptuous Union plantation or the Home Place, whern there is a little nigger to fulhll every; idle wish of the day.

"How would yon like to see a mad said the courteous owner of Home Place, as we sat, a large party, at breakfast in this great dining room the other morning. It was 10 o'clock, the men at table looked tiredj Planters, guests, professionals, all had beeu up all uight watching the levee. At that moment the telephone rang up from New Orleans, Truly these hospitable people of the golden coast are witbin twelve miles of their lemon. Half an hour later found us iu a bin carriage drawn, as the i leal country carriage is, by wo strong nules. and on our way to the "Vacheiie." The Vacneri is down on the maps.

It means a cow pi nee. It is a sugar land. half prairie, half cleared swamp, that lies fifteen inilet west of the river and flanked by cyrjress forest and a most beautiful lake lake des Alleinaudes whose practical outlet to the gulf is via In the Vacherie the Barataria bay original settlers were German, but now only a trace of the Teuton survives in wnerS.are picturesquely names, whose a Gallicized. In the Vacherie dwell iu the simple hombs their forefathers built about 2000 souls. They are prosperous.

peaceful and si ha pie. Nothing could be sweeter or cleaperthau the home life of the Vacherie Their doors are wreathed in grape vines: fig trees fill their flower gardens with 6hade. One little church and one quiet priest offsets their temporal natures. On the dun adobe walls of. their homes peaches of fabulous size and flavor ripen in the sun.

and in their fields the cane grows as nowhere else. The lake des Alle mands, with its little semi occasional steamboat beating its way up from the city, is at their pasture bar. On our way we met a peddler. His cart was a caravan, such as one sees in England. It was drawn by two mules, and looked like a Noah's ark.

It held seven hundred dollars' worth of goods, the owner said, "But the New Orleans exposition killed oar trade," said the peddler. "Before that everyone bought of us. Then they all visited the city, and since then nothing will do but they must deal direct with the city men." It is the.king of the Vacherie who owns the madstone. Mr. Joseph Webre the largest landed proprietor in the Vacherie is known by all his neighbors for many miles as the king of the Vacherie.

His fields are the broadest, his home the richest, his cattle the sleekest, his crops the finest. The madstone is a small bit of a brittle friable shining stone with a remarkable and lovely polish, a beautiful purple, brown and gray in color. It was given to Mr. Webre'g father more than thirty five years ago by an Indian chief. Mr.

Webre had befriended the Indian and as he was bidding him good by he drew the stone from his breast and said "It is all I have, bat while you have this yoa need never fear the bite or sting of any animal, bird or fish." It has been tested a hundred' times. Last year a man, horribly bitten by a mad dog and already affected with lockjaw, was cured by this stone. Another man. said by physicians to be literally dying from rattlesnake swollen to a great size and vomiting, was cured in half an hour. The stone is put on the wound, it sticks there and after a time falls off.

like a leech sucked full. It is put in water to cleanse it. but the water is never discolored and no stain or liquid ever comes from the stone. Only the other day a man badly poisoned by the sting' of a catfish was cared by applying the mad stone to the wound. Who in Louisiana is there who has not in aoiueifaint and legendary way heard of that splendid spendthrift, that prince among gentlemen, that gentleman among princes, that American Monte Christo.

with the heart of a Don Quixote and the purse of a Fortunatus, Valcour Aime Along the aristocratic right bank of the river yon will be shown plantation after plantation all had belonged to Valcar Aime. This one he gave stocked with slaves to one daughter; the next, worth $500,000. to another daugh 1 ter; a third, equally fine, was a bagatelle of a gift. As we drove slowly along the hot. sun washed levee road my historian stirred all my pulses with stories of that gallant, generous, chivalric Valcour Aime.

They fairly drank gold in those days, said be. In the old days at the grand home house they entertained princes from France, and the best people from everywhere. It is said that once, when a particularly distinguished guest had been entertained, as they left the table Blaves came in aud. lifting the corners of the cloth, tilted off on to the marble floor all the priceless service of rose cut crystal aud Sevres. It had served royalty, and was never to be used again.

"And then they say that once when the beloved son went abroad he spent $25,000 dollars in six weeks, but Valcour. Aime wrote him it was not enough, he should spend like a gentleman and give like the son of a Valcour Aime It was a member of this family who once gave a dinner party for gentlemen in New Orleans, ail put ou the mantel shelf 20 bills rolled into cigar lighters. At least, that is one of the traditions of St. James. Oh.

yes; at any rate that family drank golti. as one may say. Just beside us. in a bend in the beauti iefil river, there appeared 'at the right of the road the red crumbled remains of an old brick wall. Over it had been spiked the iron bars aud iron columns of a trisou likefece.

Far away.peering out like a timid stranger through a green tigle ot bramble aud bloom, its old porches washed in sunshine, its multitudes of windows grayly blinking iu the mid summer noon's glare, stood, or rather huddled, the stately, solitary, half ruined home of Valcour Aime. All above the tangled garden grew vines luxuriantly, as if in' haste to knit a tapes! ly of secrecy a.id awe over the old palatial home that never again shall have so tine a master. Just inside the stone fence, half bidden by the trailiug moss fingers of greu time, there was a marble slab, ou which whs cut 1SH. It slept half sunken ia the earth, like an old, needless tombstone above fortiotteu dead. A lizard rested on its edge, panting in the sweet sun and tilling its red pouch with air.

All about, feebly and ineffectually outlining paths, were forests of acacia, mimosa, magnolia, catalpa trees. In the midday hush we could hear not only the bees crooning in the Hower cups, but the little, whispered rain of petals pelting down into the lush asses, ami the perfume of these floated out to the breath of the ri.er like incense swiugiDg from a censer in the brown hands of au acolyte. Between the iron gate and the house there stood stagnant and sad long green pools of water all lily ringed and bearing barks of Magnolia leaves in whose pure fragrant shallows butterflies rested or beetles droned. A splendid palm held its feathery crest like a proud Indian prince high in the air. It was set like an emerald mosaic in the turquoise shield of the luminous sky.

A mocking bird tilted on one of the branches. The sweet bird song knocked against the stone walls of the deserted house and came back like a homeless soul refused sanctuary. Oh, Valcoar Aime, Valcour Aime; what ehosts of your sp leudid past troop down these palm planted alleys, listening to the hopeless dirges of frog and mocking bird all set to that inevitable sad refrain "Life And Thought have gone awar, Side by side." In a cool stone house with brick columns and a broad pent roof and long rooms all in a row, true Creole fashion, lives old Andrieu. the last remnant of the grandeur of Valcour Aime. As we lifted the latch and came past the ruined conservatories, where once were orchids of fabulous value, and pines fit for an empress' table, where trumpet vines held aloft their scarlet cornets about the capitals of the yellow and red stained marble columns, as if ready to bleat out a funeral march, old Andrieu, a stout knit, sad faced negro, like a statue done in onyx and framed in with beard, came oat to meet us.

His hat was off. his greeting was courtly enough for a king. He stood on the stone courtyard where tangled vines adventured, a protest from the past vainly asserted against the present. In the air was the mingled perfume, melted down into one by the June sun. of magnolia and jasmine and geranium aud oleander and spruce and thyme.

In the air was the knitted music of falling leaf and burr of bee and croon of locust aud croak of frog. In the air was the faint memory, set in the mind like a fern frond in a bit of amber of the "Bamboula's" wild, weird music, of leaping, laughing blacks keeping time to its barbaric rhythm, of laughing guests and of the sweet voice of Valcour Aime. I prefer, all afraid to touch so perfect a picture with my crude hand or pen. to let Andrieu tell the story of the home of Valcour Aime. The old man led the way across the cool gTay flags of the deep porch.

The house was a large square house, with two deep wings on each side, forming, with the broad balconies that spread everywhere a noble courtyard, looked down upon by three tiers of porches and the wide glass folding doors of the great dining halL with its black and white marble floors and wide mantel shelf of hand wrought iron. Andrieu led the way to the dining halL "It is fifty one years I have been living here," said he. "We did not finish the house until 1844, bat my old marster and me lived here and built up the place. This room was the dining halL When we had company all the slaves were sent into the courtyard here to dance "Bambonla." and the great ladies and gentlemen came out and tossed money to them. In this room my marster's only son died.

He had the yellow fever, and from the beginning there was no hope for him. After he die. my old marse he pray, pray all de time. Every day he go to the grotto in the garden, and in that cave where all was dark he put the crucifix, and there he pray, pray for all the sins of the world. "My marster very good.

He give us everything. He send three times a year cartloads' of food and clothes along the road on both sides the river for the poor. No one too sick or too sorry or too poor for my marster. He live to make smile come into' some body's face." Oh. Bare my marster he is" in heaven this day.

And as for me, well. I more slave now than then." We climbed the broad stairs running np through the porches, and old An drien led us into the big salon. "All this once very grand." saidtheoldman, "but everything gone away now. Then' the new marster come Marster Porche Miles and when Dom Pedro come to New Orleans they fnrnish np the place and put in these leather chairs and beds for dat emperor, He copie. he walk through, he look like he think of my old.

old marster, and then he go away." Out on the broad porch we stood in the wind whipping off from the, opal tinted river. A sleepy crooning seemed to sigh np from the old. deserted garden. made of leaves rubbingin the wind, of insects of birds calling. Through the tangled coverts I could see a blackbird pluming himself, a green lizard slipping like an enierata shuttle, a butterfly poised above the white vaie of a holy ghost lily.

"Hit cos' my master eighty five thousand dol," said Andrieu, strangely lapsing into a dialect. "Once we have eighteen gard'ners for dat, now only me. You see the lak' was full of long, black boat, wih silver prow. You see the red stone wall, whar de myrtle climb and de palm tree lay its shadow That the isle St. Helena, once a fort, and bon it the statue of Napoleon.

The gentlemen go on the fort, then, bime by, the ladies come in the 6ilver prowed boat and bombard the fort with oranges. Oh! those gentleniens surrender easy Yonder the banana grove, there the pineapple house, near the big camphor tree, and there the cactus house. It my heart to see the vines, like cobwebs, the gloom, the ruin. I did think to buy it back. For long time I buy every month a lottery ticket, but when I spend height dollars my hope give boat" Never again will the home of Valcour Aime.

my dear old marster. be fit for him." Slowly we drove away, and a bend in the road hiI from ns, from me forever, the deserted homo of Valcour Aime. with its faithful, loving servitor, whose memories are fond and sweet, but who has no hope of ever buying back and making beautiful the grand old mansion and its garden of dead delights. Cathaiune Cole. GKTIiSBURQ.

There wan no union in the land Tnoujfh wue nieu labored long With links clay sad links or sand To biud the rigbt and wrong. There was no temper in the blade That once could cleave a chain It edxe was dull with touch of trade And doused with rust of gain. The sand and clay munt shrink away tiefore the lava tide By blows and blood and fire assay The metal must be tried. Here sledce and anvil met. and whin The furnace nerosst roared.

Ood's unuisceruing workinjrmea Keforgea Ms people's sword. Enough of them to ask and know Tho momeui's duty clear The bayonets flashed it there below. The guns proclaimed it here To do and dare, and die at need, But whita life lasts, to nght For right or wrD a aim Die creed. But, simplest for the rixht. They faltered not who stood that day Aud held this post of dread Nor cowards they who wore the gray Until the gray was red.

I For every wreath the victor wears lne vanquished half uiav claim. Aud every luonuateut declare A common pride and sine. We raise no altar stones to Hate, uu never unwed to 1 eu Ko proriuoe crouches at our gate To shame our triuuipb here. Here, standing by a dead wrong's grave Tne blindest now. may see, Tue blow that liberates the slave But acta the master free I When ills beset the nation's life Too dangerous to bear.

The sword must be the strgeoa's knife. Too merciful to spare. Soldier of onr common land. Tis thine to bear that blade Loose in the sheath, or firm in hand, But never unafraid. When foreign foea assail ojur right.

Oue nation trusts to thee To wield It well iu worthy fight The sword of Meade and Lee James Jeffrey Roche. USES OF SILK IX TIIE MIDDLE AGES. In the days when knights wore chaius on their wrists to symbolize their captivity to somo fair lady of their love, aud when noble dames gave sleeves and knots as favors to be guarded as jealously as life itself, weaving in silken threads was an occupation in England as dainty as is now embroidery or painting. The lady set in the midst of her bower maidens, and they all worked lengths of silken ribbon, which were as beautiful as anything that Coventry has since turned out. These ribbons were not for sale nor yet for barter, but for personal use perhaps also for gifts to some belted knight or powerful prince, or it might be some prelate more powerful stilL At all events the ladies and their maidens wove these silken ribbons, which afterwards they embroidered which was in a manner like painting the lily and throwing perfume on the violet.

But it is not to be supposed that they wove those famous silken dresses in which a few of the grandes dames of the period appeared at that famous Eenilworth ball, given A. D. 1266. Those were probably Drought over from the continent, where, after many futile efforts, and only at the risk of life and cost of treachery the silk industry had. taken Alexander the Great brought wrought silks from "Persia, but not the worm which made them; and Marcus Antoninus, four centuries and a half later, sent ambassadors to China to open a direct trade therewith.

In the time of Justinian, when the price of a pound of silk was limited to the sum of X4 15s. and interference with the laws of commerce ruined the trade altogether, two Nestorian monks of the order of St. Basil found oat the secret in China itself, and brought back the eggs concealed in hollow canes. Constantinople had now the monopoly of the manufacture, and one ounce weight of silk cost six pieces of gold, or eight times more than in the days of importation. Dyed imperial purple, its price was quadrupled.

At a later date "Maniak," a prince from the kingdom of Bokhara, went to Chosroes. king of Persia, to negotiate for a renewal of the carrying trade between Cnina and Persia, and for the right of thus supplying Persia with silk. He took some bales with him as samples, but Cnos roes, who wanted to keep the traffic by sea to the Persian gulf, burnthis bales to show his contempt for both the proffer and the prolferer. 31amaK (ilaniaces t) afterwards came to Constantinople, where he found the silk industry in full working order, and where he bore testimony to the fact that the Koinan silk was as good as the Chinese. After this Venice took the business, and was for centuries the recognized channel for supplying western Europe with silk.

The clergv. who had at first so stoutly inveighed against this new luxary. anathematizing both it and the 'Jr ers thereof, gave way to the pre sure of public acceptance, and soon became the most excessive of all the lovers and wearem of silk. Bede. in his history of the abbots of Wearmonth, Mates that the first abbot and founder of the monastery.

Biscop, surnamed Benedict, went five times to Home for ornaments and books wherewith to enrich bis house. The fifth time (A. D. 6S5 he brought back two scarfs, or palls, of incomparable workmanship and entirely of silk. Amongst the relics of St.

Kegnobert. bishop of Bayeux. in the seventh century, wero a chasuble, stole and maniple of silk, interwoven with gold and adorned with pearls. The same kind of things, in fragments, were found in the tomb of St Cuthbert. also of the seventh century, when opened A.

D. 1S27. A list of the vestment at St. Benet s. Grace church, some centuries later, is wonderfully tantalizing.

"One cope of eioth of gold. A cope of red silk with fringe of gold. A cope of blue damask. A cope of satin with blue birds. Another ola green cope.

A vestment with lions Of gold with all that appartaineth to it. Another of red velvet with the lily pot. Another of blue satin Bruges. Another of white satin fustian, with roses and liowers." The velvet carpet for the altar in St. Paul's for the obsequies of Heury II.

of France, cost lb' 13s 4d, which was an euormous sum in those days when monev was so dear; and in lbOS a cloth of gold aud a enshiou for the pulpit in fit. Margaret's. Westminster, cost In lt4 8ir Francis Brogden gave the pulpit of St. Margaret's, Ludgate. a crimson velvet hanging and border, both fringed with gold; a cushion and an altar cloth of velvet, fringed with gold; with a cushion and a praver ook bound and embroidered in velvet and gold.

The copes and vestments of the clergy were of satin, velvet, damask, save, etc Following the example of the ancients, the early Christian kings were wont to send presents of silken garments one to the other, as things which kings might send and emperors accept without loss of dignity. Charlemacue (A. D. Tl sent a silken vest to U3a. king of Mercia; aud when Kenneth, king of Scotland, paid a visit to Edgar, king of the English about A.

D. V70 Edgar gave his guests silks, rings and gems, aud one hundred ounces ot pure Kold. In the "Lady ot the Fouutain." a Welsh tale, translated by Lady Charlotte finest. King Arthur is described as sitting iu the center of his chamber at Caerleou upon Usk "on a seat of green rushes, over which was spread a canopy of tlaine colored (satin and a cushion of red satin was under his elbow." About A. D.

1000 the Danish kings began to use silken threads wherewith to attach their waxen seals to their charters old bindiugs of books and manuscripts are often of red velvet; velvet is introduced iuto old armor, of which a specimen is to be seen at Treves; aud in the inventory of books possessed by Charles of rauce, we find as bindings soie. silk; veluyau, velvet; sata uin. s.ttiu; damas. damask; falletas, taifety; camocas sendal and drap or. cloth of gold.

A shred of cloth of gold in the Museum of Antiquities at Leydeu is said to have been found ia one of tne Etrurian tombs; the gold was a compact covering aver bright yellow silt. It was long after the use of silk as robes and ribbons that silken stockings became Known. Henry 111 wore woolen stockings till he received a pair oi weii tuit silk stockings ironi Spain, aud Edward VI. our bonny boy king. received Irom Sir Thomas Gresham.

of city lame, also a pair of long knitted Spanish silk stockings. Queeu Elizabeth, in the third year of her reign, got from he.r silk woman Montague a pair of black silk knitted stockings, and never after would wear woolen; though nearly at the same time Jlenry II. of France according to "an old tract done out of the French original of d'Olliuier tie berres. Lord of Pradil, into by Nicholas He tie, Esquier" "would neuer weare silke stockiugs, although that in his time the vse of them was then receiued in France." Howell's "History of the World" says a little scornfully: "Silk is now grown nigh as common as wool, and become the cloathing of those in the kitchen as well as the court; we wear it not ouely on our backs, but of late years ou our legs and feet, and tread ou that which formerly was of the same value as gold itself." The dates and introducers of silk into Europe are brieriy these In tho sixth century the seeds" or eggs were brought by those two monks aforesaid. In the ninth.

Moors took the worm and the black mnlberrv tree into Soain. In the twelfth. Koger, king of Sicily, took aiso ooin tree ana worm into feiciiy. lu the thirteenth and fourteenth, Calabria took up the industry, and thence it spread all over Italy and under Ama deus. of Savoy, and Sy bile de Bauge.

to the foot of the Alps. In the beginning of the fourteenth century. Pope Clement went to Avignon, and planted there the first mulberry tree. Iu the fifteenth it was brought to Dauphine by the lords who had. followed Charles VIII to the conquest of Naples.

It the sixteenth it flourished, under Henry IV aud Olivier de Serres, in Lanquedoc, Provence. Tonraine aud the royal gardens of the Tuileries. In 1548 the black mulberry tree was brought to England from Italy, and in lG6t the white from China But we were never able to effectively breed the worm, which, indeed, does not flourish where the mulberry has only one crop. "Where the vine gro weth there also cometh silk" is an old. proverb, to be taken with some grains of salt, but yet is ou the whole true.

But if we could not breed, we could 'weave and StSwe says that we have had the manufacture bere since the fifth of Elizabeth, when the knowledge of it came from straugers. Iu the year 1562 the silk throwsters of the metropolis were united into fellowship, which was incorporated in 162, but did no great good till 171U. Still the queen and mother of the manufacture in axone was that fair Italy, who took the lead in all things lovely and progressive; but we in England have also had onr part in the distribution of the wealth created by this industry. The QOfiea. London.

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