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THREE WEAR CROWNS A Trio of American Queens Who Occasionally Don Them. Mrs. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Mills and Mrs. Webb Are Their Wearers.

Mrs. Vanderbilt's Has a Lot of Big-, Shiny Diamonds in It. Modeled After the One Victoria Wears When Out Shopping. Mrs. William K.

Vanderbilt wore a royal crown to the opera Friday night, says the New York World. Her appearance as a right-down royal queeu, instead merely of a society queen, attracted immediate attention, and started a buzz of comment. The crown was a real unmistakable crown, not a tiara by any means, and is, according to her i friends, made in exact duplicate of the British crown. Mrs. ogden Mills and Mrs.Dr.

Seward Webb also have crowns, and they have worn them at the opera during the last week, but they did not elicit the unstinted and unqualified admiration commanded by Mrs. Vanderbilt's queenly showing. Mrs. Vanderbilt has, indeed, two crowns. The one made in imitation of Queen Victoria's crown was got.

up, after some patriotic hesitation, by a London jeweler. The other one is the crown of a German princess, purchased from the one-time regal and legal owner by "'lrs. Vanderbilt herself. The purchaser every necessary guarantee of its genuineness. She does not wear it regularly, because the princess was somewhat obscure and the crown does not til her as well as the British crown does.

his very well in its way, though, and she keep- it in reserve. The crown that Mrs. Vanderbilt has worn at the opera and which she has previously worn at some society affairs i- a glorious arrangement in pearls and diamonds, rising in a very stately and picturesque fashion from the head. It would make half a dozen tiaras, and it is said to have cost 1300,000. The design is very graceful.

The suggestion has been made that if England should become a republic in a few years it might go out of style. Mrs. Vanderbilt has treated this frivolous criticism with the contempt it deserves. She answered quite sensibly that she had no fear of the fashion in crowns changing, and that if they did she could easily have her 'crown made over. Naturally she did not believe in remade and rearranged French bonnets, but if the question came up of amending an English crown it might be done with dignity and propriety.

The crowns worn by Mrs. Seward Webb and Mrs. Ogden Mills are not so costly as Mrs. Vanderbilt's crown is. One enthusiastic gentleman, speaking in the opera house lobby the other evening on the subject of crowns, declared that compared with Mrs.

Vanderbilt's queenly appurtenance Mrs. Webb's and Mrs. Mills' affairs were simply staee properties. This pawnbroking opinion was taken up very warmly, anil the resulting dispute continued until the curtain went up on the next act. All arguments aside, however, it maybe stated with the utmost positiveness and on exneii authority that the Webb and Mills crowns, although not equal to the.

Vanderbilt crown, arc liist-class articles, made in the best style, riveted throughout and warranted, so far as the number and quality of th'j jewels are concerned, equal to any or tiie minor crowns of Europe. At all events, their exhibition at "the opera house has been sensation of the current season. Simply as a matter of history it may be mentioned that these queenly crowns were brought over from Europe last summer by the queens themselves. They were packed away in trunks with other baggage. It is the only way, according "to Collector Erhardt, that crowns may come Into this country.

There is no duty on crowns, although it is popularly believed that some duties go with them. What those duties are the trio of society queens will probably demonstrate in time, now that they have crowned themselves and the opera house audiences have assisted at the coronation. Without retracting in any way the statements that the appearance of the crowns and the crowned heads at the opera has excited much delight, approaching to applause, it must in all fairness be added that the buzz of admiration that circled the house was touched and modified by the critical comment of a score, perhaps, of radical and revolutionary spirits. Others looked on in a cold and analytical fashion, and one. Union ciub man said that the assumption of $300,000 crowns by millionaire American women has a deep philosophical significance, and he proposed to write an essay on the subject and read it before the Nineteenth Century club.

Some of the criticisms expressed have attained wide currency, and have had some influence, it is said, in checking the regal progress that has been inaugurated. Some atrocious Union club jokes have been put into circulation, and these have had a discouraging, not to say willing, effect Oil the beginnings of United States royalty and the growth of right-down regular royal queens. This was a case where the sublime and ridiculous will have no connection whatever. Those who are interested in the growth of what is exclusive and aristocratic in the midst of us will be pained to hear that the sublime is Hiving way, and that the ridiculous may possibly triumph. Mrs.

Dr. Seward Webb has already had her crown cut down toone-half its original queenly dimensions. She declares that she never felt more sensitive over anything in her life than she did over the unkind remarks that had been made respecting her crown. Dr. Seward Webb's blackballing at the Union club two or three months ago had not disturbed her spirits so violently.

Sue determined, therefore, to reduce the crown in size, and hopes the comments and criticism will vanish at least proportionately. There is a story about a fourth crown, whose owner was so frightened by the irreverent references made to the three crowns already iir evidence that she will not nut it on her head and go out with it. For the present she simply wears it in front of her dressing glass, and then carefully goes out without it. She is considering the advisability of presenting it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The only story that really worries Mrs.

Vanderbilt is the one to" the effect that Queen Victoria only wears the British crown when she opens parliament. Mrs. Vanderbilt really likes to dress appropriately, and the situation suggested here presents an insurmountable obstacle. She has duolicated the crown, but the reproduction of parliament is another matter. There is a congress at Washington, but that is already opened, and it is made up almost entirely of Americans.

The insinuation that these wealthy and cultivated women have purchased crowns because they were married and could not therefore buy titles and a titled husband, and the further insinuation that it they wear crowns and are queens their husbands must therefore be kings and wear crowns too, are ignored altogether. Everybody knows that Willie Vanderbilt and Ogden Mills and Dr. Webb are not kings. But the I parliamentary Ibusiuess must be met soberly and soberly considered. It may all result in the dismantlement of the three American crowns mentioned: or they may be sent to: a safedeposit vault.

For the present, however, Mis. Vanderbilt still cries for her French maid Hortense to hand out her best crown and to send word to the regular detective to follow the Vanderbilt carriage in a hansom. 1 am THE CLEARANCES. Bank Exchanges in the Leading Cities of the Country. Feb.

The clearing house statement: 8R9E38 I Clearings. line. Dee Xew York 5606,740.061 10.7 93,334,548 4.9 Chicago 75,050,000 21.9 Philadelphia fi3.a*2,087 St. Louis 21,876,217....: 2.7 Sen Francisco 16,115,051 6.7 Baltimore 16,4.16,844 New Orleans 12,283.394 0.1 Cincinnati 1:1,514.940 27.3..... 12,210,134 Kansas City 8.061,885 0.2 Buffalo 6,997.404) 3.1 Louisville 7,493,119 12.8 Galveston 851.

221 1200-0 Minneapolis 5,334,329 25.0 Milwaukee 4,984,000 6.4. Providence 5.32:1.008 6.0 Detroit 5.381.0421 .10.2 Cleveland 4J677.077 11.7 Omaha 3.775,9341 Denver 3,821,820 92 St. 0.8 Indianapolis 3.414.256 65.1.... Columbus 2,738.800 16.0..... Memphis 2,831,409 0.9 Dallas 2,143.184 87.8.....

Duluth 1,801,874... 1.4 Portland. Or 1,570,205 6.1 Washington. 1 ,715,767 35.8 Hartford 1,890,641 4.2 Nashville 2,174,458 13.0 Richmond 2,684.778 Peoria 1,790,532 26.0 St. Joseph 1,404,481.....

0.6 Portland, Me 1,127,014 2.9 Worcester 1,066,271 2.3 New Haven 1,508,569 24.7..... Springfield 1.229.407 22.2 Fort Worth 1,680.809 26.1..... Seattle i 1,022,261 32.6 Grand Rapicis 831,351 37.4..... Tacoma 761.882 22.5 Sioux City 925,930 W.O 152,533 33.0. Wichita 506,810.....

38.5 Syracuse 770,885 51.5..... Lowell 774,772..... 5.5 Wilmington 782.269 2.5 Birmingham 287.5113 31.0 Los Angeles 534,388 4.6 Dcs Moines 637,239 15.5 New Bedford 586,465 26.6 Topeka 323,355 0 Lexington 439,569 14.01.. Lincoln 422, 9.1 Montreal 8,544.765 2.0' Halifax 1.086,489 1 "Houston 3.828.854 Lake 2,087.018 1 1,476,498 Total 81047.088,597 I 0.5 Outside New York. $149,338,636 5.2| included in totals.

SHE WORE PLUMPERS. Here's a New "Wrinkle in Feminine Devices for Thin Girls to sider. New York Herald. "Never hear of plumpers?" asked a lady friend of mine the other day. "No," said I.

"What new feminine device is this, for goodness sake?" "Well," she we were calling at the time at the house of a mutual "just you notice Miss when she comes down stairs and tell me if you notice anything strange or remarkable in her appearance." The Miss referred to, be it said, is a tall and somewhat angular young woman of uncertain age, but who is possessed of a considerable degree of personal vanity and a more than ordinary desire to appear at her very best upon any and all occasions. In a few moments she appeared, and, after greeting us cordially, we entered into a general conversation. Nothing very remarkable about her, thought 1. "Well," said I to my lady friend, after our departure, "1 had scanned Miss pretty closely, but failed to notice anything worth --commenting upon in her appearance. She talked as if she had something in her mouth.

I was interrupted at this point by a peal of laughter. "Why, what on earth arc you laughing at?" said I. "And, by the way." 1 asked, "did it not strike you that Miss is growing somewhat stouter? Her face seems to be somewhat plumper "There," interrupted my friend, "now you have it. Miss had 'plumpers' in her To my look of inquiry and astonishment she responded: "Plumpers, you sec. are small, roundshaped affairs like a doll's saucer.

They are made of rubber, and when held in place in the mouth they cause a woman's cheeks to become plump and round. When ladies have lost some of their teeth plumpers come into play; prevents their jaws from becoming lanternshaped or their features from" being angular." "Heavens and earth said I. "What will the feminine mind conceive of next?" "Oh," she responded, "there are lots of things about feminine attire that you have not yet heard of." -SHE SAVED HER BABY. The Heroism of a Young; Mother and a Thrilling Rescue. New York Herald.

During a small tenement house fire on the East side this week there was a thrilling incident that was not chronicled at the time. It occurred at a rear window in the second story. The flames had' been extinguished with trifling damage, but the house was full of smoke. Suddenly a woman tottered to the ooeu window. In her arms she held a bundle tightly clasped to her bosom.

It was in white wrappings. Quickly the crowd of people in the yard below saw the woman. Great clouds of smoke whirled about her head in suffocating volumes, and the crowd called upon her to jump. She hesitated, but extended the bundle at arm's length, from which at that moment there came a faint cry. It was a baby's voice.

"Save my child implored the woman. Instantly a blanket was procured and strong men held the corners. "Drop it!" they shouted. With her face averted the agonized and imperiled mother let the baby fall. Down the little one fluttered like a white-winged wounded bird, with the despairing cry of "Mamma" upon its lips.

Lightly it struck the blanket, and a moment later it was taken up safe and sound, but sobbing, by a motherly-looking woman in the throng. It required but a few minutes to raise a ladder and rescue the self-sacrificing mother from her perilous position and restore her dimpled darling to her arms. This touching rescue was loudly cheered by the sympathetic spectators. MR. TIPPER KEATS.

There is a little poet who is quite a friend of mine, And the thoughts that he confides to me are really very fine. But, with all his wondrous genius, he can never write a line. Though he feels that ned accomplish great things may be, If it didn't always happen when he goes up up stairs to think. Before he has a chance to dip his pen into the ink. His little wife will holloa up, and cause his heart to sink, Tupper Keats, come down and mind the baby!" Not a day but what she calls him.

to his infinite disgust. While his ink is all a drying, and his pens are filled with rust; And he'd rather not obey her, but the fact is that he must; So don't forget the name I've told, fur may be. You will see the richest honors heaped upon it. some fine day, When the wee disturber of his peace is old enough to play, And his little wife ho longer runs out in the hall to say: "Mr. Tupper Keats, come down and mind the baby." Douglas in THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: MONDAY MORNING, FEBRI ARY IG, 1801." PARODIES POPULAR.

Verse-Makers Exercise Their Fondness for Humorous Imitations. How "Pluribusto" Outsold the Original Longfellow's "Hiawatha." The Descent From the Sub, lime to the Ridiculous Very Easy. Scores of Serious Poems Fitted to Funny, Airy, Catchy Lines. As the vine is held up to view by the strength of the tree which supports it, so, too, do the parody and the paraphrase depend upon the strength and beauty and prominence of the master's verse they suggestively imitate for the recognition they receive, says the Chicago Herald. The echo in a weakened measure reverb-rates after the sound started it has died away.

The parody sometimes lives after the original verse has been forgotten. Much of the newspaper verse of, to-day is parodyairy superstructures built upon solid foundations laid by others. Well constructed parodies are catchy and attractive, their forceful depending largely upon their close imitation in form of and wide difference in purpose from the original lines. The more precipitous the descent from the sublime to the ridiculous the more startling the effect. Though some parodies, such as "Pluribusto," which, is a humoious version of Longfellow's "Hiawatha," and which for a season outsold the original work, have been published in pretentious volumes, they are usually mere bubbles thrown upon the passing stream of literature.

Sometimes they "point a moral or adorn a tale," but oftener their purpose is to simply awaken a trausient smile and then to be forgotten. "The Old Oakeu Bucket" has been parodied a great deal, as have also Upon a Midnight Dreary" and "Beautiful Snow." Shakespeare's "To Be or Not to Be" and Tennyson's "Half a League" have been very inucn paraphrased. The latter author's "Break, Break, Break" has been fitted to scores of topics. Here are some of the lines they have suggested Break, break, break. On the quivering air.

high But the much-needed rest you have caused me to lose Can never ome back to me. Brake, brake, brake, Ye brakeman. wherever you be. But the name of the town you so umble and drown Is ne'er understood by me. The third is supposed to have been written by a young lady at a seaside resort, where there were not enough young men to go 'round: Break, break, break, H3l At the foot of thy sea, But Oh, for the presence of one young man, To come and make love tome.

There isn't a youth in Am erica, it is safe to state, but can give the original of the following: The boy stood on the back yard fence, Whence all but him had Hed. The flames that lit his father's barn Shone just above the shea. The bunch of crackers in his hand, Two others in his hat; With piteous accents loud he cried: "I never thought of A bunch of crackers to the tail Of one small dog he'd tied The dog in anguish sought the Darn, And 'mid its ruins died. The sparks flew wide, and red, and hot, That lit upon that brat; They fired the crackers in his han And eke those in his hat. Then came a burst of rattling The boy? Where was he goner Ask of the winds that far around Strewed bits of meat and bone, And scraps of clothes, and balls, and tops, And nails, and hooks and yarn; The relics of the dreadfui boy That burned his father's barn.

hen Gray wrote his grand "Elegy" he did not dream that he would be responsible indirectly for many such parodies as these: Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfatiiomed caves of ocean bear; And yet the genuine are seldom seen, For most of them are paste which people wear. Full many a joke old as the ancient hills Within the funny papers we review Full many a chestnut dressed in modern frills And palmed off on the world as something new. Brief poetical quotations are frequently WESTERN ASSOCIATION SCHEDULE. clues. gs pS ii tr i SS 5.3" 3 a F3 91 .24 Apri1.

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15: 15, 11 r4 22 Aug. 18 Sept. ..12 5 23 19) 9 asi paraphrased and often without any loss to the truth they convey: There's many a slip Twist the cable aud grip. While the gas holds out to burn The meter will the dollars earn. You may smash, you may shatter the case if you choose to.

But the scent of the Limburger clings where it used to. Two voices are there; one is of the sea; Si One the mountains; each a mighty voice J'r Both offe i- summer board vociferouslee, And both are bad, and you may take your choice. "Comin' Through the Rye" has parodied as often as there are words the verses. The following is clever: Gin a body meet a body I.ookin' after rye: -o 2.1 a body treat a body Need a body cry? o-, Gin a body has a quarter. Be it you or Do or don't you think he oughter Put it into rye? Muhlenberg's beautiful lines have been improved upon thus: I would not live alway, 'I ask not to stay, But still lam not ready To go right away.

The originals of the following will be readily suggested: No one has such an ugly face But what some one will in it trace A charm, and make it known And woo it for his own. You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother, dear. For if you don't the chances are I won't get up this year; Be sure and keep on calling me, say fifty times or more. And when I wake I'll growl because I wasn't called before. I never had an early flame To whom 1 did attentiion pay.

But what.another fellow came And coolly stole my girl away. Vhe breaking waves dashed high. Dashed high with a right good will But with ail their dash they were not so high As the seaside hotel bill. Little drops of Bourbon, Captured by a wiuk, Make the soda water Easier to drink. While many persons are so delicate in thought and expression as to make any kind of parody seem like a desecration, there are other types that they cannot harm, in fact, the satirical parodists have it in their power to render unpopular that which they choose to render so.

While they may have done some wrong, they may be credited with' having brought about reforms in poetry for which the public feels grateful. Here is a sample of the ''passion poetry" that at one time threatened to sweep land: She touches my cheek and I 1 tremble with exquisite pains: She like an overcharged river My blood rushes on through my veins. She smiles, and in mad tiger-fashion, As a she tiger fondles her own, I clasoed her with fierceness and passion, And kissed her with shudder aud groan. it was the pen of the parodist that came to the public's rescue and arrested the conflagration before it has completely consumed the normal literary, taste of the times. The happy result was achieved by adding to verses like the foregoing lines like the following: She smiled when I mentioned the And grinned at the sight of a stew, Very much as a frolicsome boy stirs When he dons his first jacket of blue.

I gazed with enchantment aud wonder On her beautiful Omaha hair. And squandered my money lite thunder On this wild, witching maiden so fair. But when she was filled to repletion, With stews and hot coffee aud pies, And the supper had reached a completion In front of her Ben Butler eyes, Behold, she arose from the table. And accepted the arm of another, 1 And ere to pursue I was able, She had gone with her strapping big brother. Her Father.

The faith of little children in their fathers and mothers is one of the most beautiful things in the world, but its manifestations sometimes provoke the involuntary smile. The New York Tribune reports that a Broadway car ran into the rear end of an express wagon. with such force as to tip it completely over. A little child about, five years old was 011 the seat with the driver. The man was pitched head fust upon the sidewalk, but landed "on his hands and knees, and received only a few slight bruises.

The child, who clung to the seat, fell underneath the Fortunately the high seat prevented the weight oj the truck from falling on her, and she was drawn from under the wagon box uninjured. One of the as he stopped to brush her dress, asked if she was "Oh. no," said the little girl, "my papa wouldn't let me get hurt." He Has a Chance Yet. Epoch. "When I was a young man." said the Southern congressman, "people said that I would end my days on a gallows.

Now look where I am and I can't say that I have changed much." "Yon wouldn't be here if you had, general," remarked a brother congressman standing near by. SAVED BY A MARK. The Remarkable Luck That Fell to a Government ScoutSBSH He and a Companion Are Captured by the Savages. i They Find a Queer Birthmark I and Marvel at i Allowing Him to Escape, They I Torture His Friend to Death. In June, 1867, while Gen.

Custer, with his command, was at the forks of the Republican river.in Western Kansas.and the Indian war had fairly begun, I was doing duty with several "others as a scout, says the New York Sun. On the morning of the 19tii a young man named Robinson reached the camp and reported that he, with three others, had been hunting to the west of us, andjiad been stampeded by the Sioux Indians. One had been killed, as he while the others had made a dash for it and scattered, each taking bis own course. Robinson had blundered upon our camp after riding all night. Custer was at.

Tim time hopeful of making peace with the redskins, and the camp at the forks would be permanent for at least a fortnight. It was with this understanding of the situation that I set out with Robinson, after he had had an all-day's rest, to hunt up his stampeded companions and bring them in. We left camp just after dark, both of us heavily armed, and rode straight to the west. As I had never seen Robinson uuder fire I was more anxious thau if oue of my fellowscouts had been with me, but in the course of a couple of hours 1 made up my mind that he had plenty of nerve, and could be depended on. As near as he could judge his party was thirty miles west of the forks when stampeded.

At midnight, after an easy canter of five hours, we halted, dismounted, and went into camp for the remainder of the night, believing we were close upon the spot where the Hunters Were Attacked. Both of us slept from that hour until just before sunrise. As there is another Indian war now od. and as the traits and characteristics of the red man are under discussion, I shall relate some particulars which might otherwise be suppressed. We had a cold bite for breakfast, and had scarcely mounted our horses when we caught sight of the carcass of a horse lying on the plains about a quarter of a mile away.

As soon as we reached it Robinson identified the animal as having been the one he saw fall as the stampede began, its rider was a man named Mc; Henry, who had previously been as a civilian at Fort Lamed, The buzzards and wolves had been at the carcass, but we made out that the horse had received three i bullets and dropped In his tracks. Saddle, bridle and all other portable property had been removed. Robinson estimated that the attacking party numbered 50. After half an hour's search I DUt the number at twenty. He believed "that all who dashed away were pursued.

I found that none of them had been followed over half a mile. Had McHenry been killed or serious. ly wounded by the volley which killed his horse, his body would have, been i found lying beside'- the carcass: As it was not, I reasoned that he had been captured unhurt and taken away a prisoner. The trail of the Indians led to the north, as if making for the south fork of the Platte river, and we followed it at a cautious pace. At the end of five miles we came to the spot where the band had encamped for the night.

It was on the banks of a small creek in a scattered grove, and the first thing we saw was The Dead Body of The Sioux chiefs had declared their anxiety for peace, and were professing the greatest friendship for the soldiers. Indeed, Pawnee-Killer had visited Custer to shake hands and sign a declaration of peace. While the old hypocrite was declaring and protesting, his whole tribe was making ready for war and indulging in While the big chief was "-how-howing" in Custer's camp and declaring his love for the white man, one of his bands only thirty miles away was subjecting a hunter to the most agonizing tortures. They cut out his tongue, blew powder into bis body, cut off his toes, broke all his fingers.prickedhim with knives.and finally ended by scalping him. He must have suffered for many hours before death finally came as a glad relief.

The body was not yet cold when we found it, aud there were evidences that the Indians had not been gone more than an hour. Of the two who stampeded and got clear, one went to the northeast and the other to the northwest. Robinson had held due north and thus reached our camp, although he was not aware of its location. We took up the trail of the one going to the northeast, believing that he was in the greatest danger. He went at a wild pace for at least ten miles, never seeming to have looked back and discovered that pursuit had been abandoned, or to have turned to the right or.

to the left, to thrdw the redskins off his route after darkness came. It took us three hours rto cover the distance he rode in one, as we expected to see Indians at any moment. About twelve miles from the spot where we foundMcllenry's horse we came upon that of Jackson, whom we were following to the northeast. The wild ride had exhausted the animal, and, as he fell down, Jackson had abandoned him and pushed along on foot. The animal was on his feet and grazing as we found him, but so lame that he could scarcely move.

We removed the saddle and blankets, and found Jackson's revolvers in the holsters. K94 From this point we had no trail to guide us, and the ground was badly cut up with ridges and washouts. We rode forward during the rest of the day, hoping to overtake the man, and neglecting no precaution to Insure Our Own Safety. Just at sundown we followed a dry. gully up a long ridge and debouched from it, seeing a sight which for the moment appeared to be an optical delusion.

There were Indians on our right, on our left, In front, and 1 turned in my saddle to see other. Indians clos- ing in behind us. As we halted and looked around us many of the redskins expressed their humor by grunts. They had probably been riding to the right and left of us for hours, and had formed this cul de sac for to ride into. Jlt was taking a great deal of pains for nothing, but the Indian sometimes exhibits a queer vein, of humor.

They were not disappointed in thinking we would be surprised. It was fully, two minutes bsfore a chief rode forward and said "Howhow," and extended his hand to me. and as he did so the whole body closed in. 1 am so unfortunate as to be marked on the left temple. with that birth-mark known as a white stain, the spot being as large as a silver dollar.

My hat was well up aud my hair back as the chief rode up, and the instaut he noticed the mark he let go my hand and said something to those crowding up. Pretty soon he pushed in and touched my face, perhaps thinking the mark to be a wound or sore. Others did the and when they found that it was a' part of skin they. expressed much wonder and reverence. While I had rerved as scout only a few months.

I knew considerable of In-. dian character, and was not lons in realizing that I had made a hit. While no violence was offered us, we were disarmed and our horses were led behind the ponies of the Indians, as we moved off to the east. We traveled until about midnight before halting, and then reached an Indian village on Soldier creek. As we descended from our horses, Robinson was led off by two warriors, while I 'was- conducted to the wigwam of Red Trail, a sub-chief in command during Pawnee-Killer's absence.

I had been busy -planning during the ride, and had made up my mind to pretend to be without the power of speech. I found opportunity to whisper to Robinson to pursue the same policy, but unfortunately he had not the nerve to carry out the idea The fact of his being captured broke him all up. The recollection of what Mc- Henry must have suffered unstrung his nerves, and 1 heard him Bess-ins: and Entreating as he was carried away. Red Trail closely examined the mark on my face, and was as much mystified as the others. I still had a power- in reserve.

Haviug served through the war in the navy, it was but natural that I should carry a sailor's passport. On my left arm was a tattoo representing an anchor. This was seen as two warriors stripped my buckskin shirt off to look for further marks. Not an Indian in that camp had ever seen anything like the mark, and when the examination had been completed I felt sure that I was looked upon with awe aud mystery, if not veneration. I was conducted to a tepee and motioned to turn in, and had every reason to congratulate myself ou the plan 1 had pursued.

I had made signs that 1 could not talk, and the illformation had beeu accepted. Next morning Pawnee-Killer arrived in the village. He had agreed to surrender his tribe and go on a reservation bnt it was bold-faced lying on his part. His very first move was to order the village to pack up and move back about twenty miles. This consumed the entire day.

As we were ready to start.l received my horse to ride, and my hands and legs were left entirely free. I saw Robinson brought out, and he was loaded down with kettles and led by a rope. At no time during the day was he near enough to exchange a word, but on several occasions I saw him kicked and beaten by the squaws and boys. It was 9 o'clock in the evening before 1 was taken into the presence of Pawnee-Killer. He seemed to have accepted the belief of the others, and, in less than half an hour, waved me out of his wigwam.

I may state here what I learned two or three years after, It was the belief of the Indians that I had been struck by iightning as I slept and that the fluid left the two marks to Drove that I was invulnerable. They further reasoned that I lost my speech at the same time, and was therefore An Object of Veneration. I was in no or restricted, but 1 found shelter as soon as possible and wassoou asleep. I wanted to do something for poor Robinson, but just how to do it I could not figure. The treatment accorded him during the day did not augur well for tho future.

When morning came again 1 had a hearty breakfast ana then two old men, armed with only bows and arrows, took me down the creek about a mile and then sat down on the grass. It was an hour or two. before I could make out the significance of the move, but I then heard sounds from the direction of the camp which satisfied me that Robinson was being put to the torture. One of my guards soon left for the village, aud an hour after the other suddenly, rose, and without a word walked away in the same direction. Unable to make up my mind what to do.I remained where I was during the entire day.

In later years 1 learned from one of the warriors of the fate of Robinson. His tortures lasted nine long hours. He first ran the gauntlet. Then he was tied to a sta ke, and every form of mutilation which the fiends could invent was practiced on bis poor body. It was with great animation that my informant related how the poor fellow begged and cried and entreated wonderful vitality he how he could lwve been preserved an hour or two longer had not everybody grown tired of the sport.

It was Pawnee- Killer himself, fresh from signing a treaty of peace, who exhibited the most fiendish spirit. I had a much closer call than I knew. The two old men who took me out doubted that I was what the others took me for. They had some arrows made on purpose to kill witches and keep off baa spirits, and they were to take me off and see if these arrows would kill me. In going down the creek one of them came near stepping on a rattlesnake, aud tbis was taken asa sign that they must not shoot.

When they returned to the village and reported, it was hoped that 1 would go away, and therefore no one came near me. As night fell I started off to the West, expecting every moment to be overhauled, putting In a good twenty miles before daylight. I was picked up by a scouting party. of cavalry just before noon. It was about three months after my escape before the Indians learned that I was a government scout, and that they had been duped.

Red Trail and Pawnee-Killer then offered five ponies each to the warrior who should bring In my scalp, and for the next year I was perhaps "wanted" more than any other man on the plains. It was a curious turn of affairs that, while Red Trail had no less than five of his best warriors out on expedition after me, I crept into his camp one night and sect-re his own scalp-lock, rifle and podny, and ot away. STILLWATER NEWS. The Coming Ski Tournament- Logging Progressing Favorably. Providing soft weather continues, the proposed ski tournament at Lily lake to-morrow may have to be declared off, or at least postponed for a few days.

The members of the local club were busy yesterday erecting the "shoot" and leveling the track. PederCaalaas, secretary of the club, stated that there is a sufficient amount of snow left for the ruu, but that one more day's soft weather wonld at least necessitate a postponement. A large number of ski runners from St. Paul. Minneapolis, Ispenning, and Other cities are expected to take part in the exercises, and the local club has made arrangements to entertain at least 300 guests.

The past week was a profitable ono in logging circles and a large amount of hauling was done In the Northern pineries. A prominent lumberman remarked yesterday that unless a cold snap comes within the next day or two the work would have to be abandoned. The roads in the pineries are worn and a thaw results disastrously. Several of the mills in and near this city are being repaired and the mill men are looking forward to a prosperous season. At the South Stillwater dock yards the new steamer which is being constructed for R.

J. Wheeler Co. will soon be completed and the work of building lumber barges will soon begin. Edward Buggy, a teamster employed at oue of Mussser, Sauutry camps in Northern Wisconsin, was brought down yesterday, having broken one bone ot his right leg below the knee. He was taken to his home in the western part of the city, and was attended by Dr.

B. J. Merrill. Memorial services in honor of the late Judge H. R.

Murdock will be held this afternoon at the court house. The exercises will consist- principally In short addresses by members of the bar aud the adoption of resolutions of respect. At the meeting of the North and South hill whist clubs, held at the Sawyer house Saturday evening, the tables were turned and the North side hill club now has a lead of eighteen points. Itching Agonies the skin and seal p. from infancy to age, are instantly relieved Citticcba Rembdik.s.

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In your recent editorial commenting on the street car service yon "hit the nail on the head." lam a West sider. and only this very, morning a car passed me while I was no more than 100 feet from the coiner, shouted and motioned all I could tor the conductor to stop, but it went on. True, the car was crowded worse than a cattle car. and the conductor may not have noticed me. Then, after waiting patiently twenty minutes.

I decided to save my nickel and walked. Now it seems to me but just if the proper authorities would pass some law to enforce Mr. Lowry to run cars at, regular intervals, say of seven minutes! and if our West side representative and senator Messrs. Dealing and Lienau, would take some interest in this matter they would certainly be highly credited for it by their constituents. Another change in my opinion should be to liave the cars run from each end of the line until midnight.

In every large city that I have lived this is done, and in some cities they run all night. I understand Mr. Lowry is willing to increase the number ot cars, bnt the mere promise will not do. He should be forced to do so in reasonable time. J.

B. THE LOCAL. STAGE. The innumerable patrons of the Olympic will have Slsson's American Gaiety Girls to agitate their risibilities this week. The company is made up of about thirty pretty girls and two or three more or less homely men, and they give a performance full of fun, frolic and prettiness.

Gene Schtitz, the handsome avant courier of the company, says his girls are all natives of this country, but just as full of gaiety as any of the importations we have had from London, or anywhere else. The show opens to-night. Charles H. Hoyt's bright satire on American politics, entitled "A Texas Steer," with the original New York cast, scenery and accessories, begins au engagement of three nights and Wednesday matinee at the Metropolitan this evening. If the play receives the same reception here it has in all the large cities, the Metro politan will De packed to-night.

Every seat and every inch of standing room at the Grand last night was occupied, and many applicants were turned away. Leavitt's "Spider and the Fly" was the attraction, and proved a very strong drawing card. It is simply a first-class specialty company, with good singing and dancing, clever pieces of specialty work and a "host of shapely girls. Everything was heartily applauded, and the compauy put in such humor with itself that it exerted itself to the utmost. It will doubtless do a good week's business.

"The Texas Steer" company, which opens this evening at the Metropolitan opera house, will arrive this morning from Indianapolis, where they have been received with the greatest enthusiasm. The play, as has been described in these columns deals with political life in Texas and Washington, and the satire of A uthor Hoyt causes the keenest of amusement, while it never offends. A feature of the engagement in St Paul will be the fact that while the Minnesota legislature is in session its foibles will be caricatured nightly by the clever comedians of Hoyt Thomas' company. Since the company has been on the road, this is the first time they have played lv any city where a legislature is in session, and to mark the event the popular business manager of the company. Bury Dasent, sent a telegram last evening to the author of the play, stating that he was perfecting arrangements by which a cordial invitation would he extended to the members of the Minnesota legislature to be present at to-morrow evening's performance.

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