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never even heard the romantic history of Dolores Tosta de Santa Anna. UYGIKXIC. courteous request, I should say: Before a hundred books commend me first to the study of two the Bible and Shakspeare. Obediently yours, Henry Irving. was signed to those orders of arrest.

Ke must have known of the circumstances. I stated most of the First Missouri cavalry were rebels. They so acted and said at the time they drew their swords, cursed and railed in a curiouB manner for loyal subjects. Clearly they belonged iu Prices aimv. Some of these slaves led in battle at Poison Springs, at Saline river and three other hard-fought contests.

I still look back after the lapse of twenty-feur years to my jail life and skirmish with the First Missouri cavalry, as the sword of the Lord, and the sword of Gideon. Hansom: L. Harms, M. D. Before tbe return of this messenger a priest arrived.

At first Lola was sure tm liad come to prepare the dictators victims for execution, but ns the padre smiled and patted her on the head she concluded they were pet haps only to be imprisoned, and standing beside her her sLo learned ith profound astonishment that the president of Mexico really desired her to become his wife. An almost regal trosseau was prepared for Dolores, and six months later when she ha completed her 13th year she became the dictators bride. A Spanish dame, through whose veins coursed some of the bluest blood of Castile, but who had been impoverished by Mexican revolutions, was appointed lady of honor in attendance upon tin joung wife, whom she was to instruct in etiquette, etc. Six well bom maidens formed the suite of her highness, and a military guard called Los Musqurteros ue Hu Alteza, was organized. Those musketeers wore an especial uniform of light blue cloth, embroidered with silver thread; their sombreros were gary and encircled by a silver cord.

The duty of his body guard was to escort Su Alteza carriage when she rode out on Paseo or attended the theater. The dictator commanded all persons to address his wife as Your Highness, and treat her with the deference due to a princess, and little Lola was at first dazed by her entourage. The palace seemed to her a sort of wonderland and this regal state perplexed her quite ns much as the mysteries of reading, writing and music, in which she was instructed by professoras who had been appointed to form a part of the household. After General Santa Anna died his family recovered some of his former possessions, and his widow was comparatively wealthy. She owned a city residence here and a pretty country seat in Tacubays.

Her wardrobes were filled with silk, satin and velvet dresses, her laces alone constituted a fortune, and she still retained costly sets of diamonds, pearls and emeralds, but when the stimulus of the old generals ambition was withdrawn Mrs. Hanta Anna became so careless, so insane that she had not energy enough to sustain the position she might have held if possessed of any spirit. Her apathy was not due to any regret for past rank or splendor. She was simply lazy and soon degenerated into a nonentity, and instead of opening her salon to those who respected her and appreciated her virtues, she received but a few relatives and passed her days idly lolling in a rocking chair. Some two years ago a Spanish lady who was really attached to Mrs.

Santa Anna, tried to arouse her from her oyster-like existence. One morning, when she found her ex-highness in a torn, soiled wrapper, with her hair hanging down and her feet thrust into slippers down at the heel, she said: Lola, it is a shame for you to be so untidy. Mrs. Santa Anna replied: I have no person to drees for. Nonsense! exclaimed her friend.

You should remember that you are the widow of one of Mexicos most illustri-lus heroes. Allow me to give you one esson in neatness. What is it asked Mrs. Santa Anna with a languid smile. It must be given in the parlor, responded Senora and, leading the widow into the salon, she pointed to the portrait of the deceased president, saying: Look at that proud face, ther stopping before a full length portiait of her ex-highness, said: Look at youi graceful figure, your beautiful face, those magnificent jewels which you yet possess, and those almost legal robes, then, quickly turning to a large mirror added: And there behold what you are row! Mrs.

Santa Anna gazed at the figure in the mirror, then replied: Yes, mj beauty has all gone. No, responded her friend; yom teeth are still beautiful, your hair is but slightly changed, your figure is still excellent, but you are slovenly that you look worse than any of your servants, and you are so indolent that if you do not soon rouse yourself half of your faculties will be paralyzed for lack of exercise. Mrs. Santa Anna rallied for a while, but about a year ago, when the writer had occasion to see her, and had called and waited some time, a woman in a faded calico dress, having head and form enveloped in a blue cotton rebosa, such as servants and Indian women wear, entered the parlor. I asked Does Mrs.

Santa Anna know that I am here? The reply was: Ah! I see you have entirely forgotten me It was Mrs. Santa Anna. Mortified at my own stupidity, I quickly replied: The parlor is a Little dark; I havs not seen you for two years, and then you were dressed in black. But in very truth. I had never seen the lady looking quite so untidy.

So little was Mrs. Santa Anna known, or rather so completely was her very existence forgotten, that when she was burned some five weeks ago, some of the Mexican newspapers alluded to her extreme old age, although she could not have been more than 55 or 56 years old. They evidently believed the deceased was the presidents first wife, who would have been at least 80. Few of these old gentlemen who in times past had bowed humbly before Su Alteza, pretended to remember her existence and a large majority of the present generation had The lioniunce of Santa Annas lirido A few days ego the widow of the famous dictator or President Santa Anna was buried ithont pomp or ceremony. Dtiois Tot to became the wife of Gen-trnl Snta Anna whin he was at the zenith of liis power.

She had neither talent, ambition nor energy; nevertheless she was a good, soul and a virtuous woman. One phase of General Santa Anna wooing reminds us of Napoleons ove tures to the young countess Eugenie when the assured him that he could reach her only via the church. For a while after the death of his first wife the great dictator seemed indifferent to the fair sex, but one day, whiledriving down the Calle San Francisco, he stopped to speak to one of his officers, and observed at the door of a little shop on the opposite side of the street a beautiful barefooted, shabbily dressed girl playing with a kitten. The child for she was then but 12 years old unconscious of the attention she was attracting, display the grace of a fawn, and just as the dictator was saying adios to the officer the looked toward him and He nodded to her. Surprised at this condeceneion on the part of Su Alteza, the girl first blushed and then smiled, exhibiting the most pearly, beautiful teeth imaginable.

The following day a middle-aged captain of the Palace Guards, in a highly bedizened, belaced and befrogged uniform, entered the shop of Senora Tosta, and the good woman, quite certain the officer had called to purchase cigarettes, hastened forward to him, and was confounded when 6he learned that li9 was file bearer of a message from Su Alteza, the president of the republic. She gave a befitting reply, and the captain retired muttering: Served me right, it was cowardly for a soldier to accept such mission. A week later the palace fop, who had never smelled gunpowder, called on Senora Tosta, and without circumlocution said: His highness desires you to send your daughter to the palace: dont be foolish, my good woman, accede to the desires of the president, and you may shut up your miserable store and live in spendor the rest of your days. The mother, choking with indignation, could find no words for reply, so seizing a jarro of beans which were setting on a brazier, she dashed them at Sir lumler. They struck directly upon his satin vest and he beat an ignominious retreat, while Dolores, who in her simplicity believed that Su Alteza wanted her for a Galopma, or scullion in his kitchen, laughed merrily at his discomfiture.

The widowed mother now hoped that she had routed the enemy, for Lola the pet name of her daughter had forgotten to report that Su Alteza rode past the shop two or three times every day and had never failed to look in. Scarcely a fortnight had passed when one morning the dictator himself walked into the humble store. Lola ran into the back room and took refuge under a high-posted bedstead, the sole remnant her mother possessed of better days. The child was determined not to go wash dishes in the palace. Senora Tosta, brave as a lioness in defence of her young did not even return the courteous salutation of the president, but instantly commenced reproaching him.

You, she said, you who ought to be the father of the people, to try to rob a widowed mother of her daughter! Listen to me good woman, blandly commenced General Santa Anna. I wont listen to you, retorted Senora Tosta. Then Ill send my private secretary to explain that my intention is to Ill scald him if he enters my door, shrieked the mother, and Ill complain to the archbishop. Then, you old virago, shouted the dictator, tell his eminence that I intend to marry Dolores. I cannot tell his grace a lie, responded the motner.

General Santa Annas patience was now completely exhausted, and finding that Lola would not at his solicitation, come out from her refuge under the bed he turned to Senora Tosta with flashing eyes and said: You are a fool! I will send for my private chaplain to propose for Dolores in due form, for I intend to make her my wife, and then he left, h.istiJy mounted a horse which his orderly held at the door, and dashed up to the palace. The moment the president disappeared Senora Tosta sank into a chair, overcome with terror. She was quite certain the dictator had no idea of marrying the poor little Lola; she was positive he would seize her child and as to her own fate she would most assuredly be cast into a dungeon for life or else be racked to death in oqe of those torture chain- bers of the old Inquisition hall, of which she had in her youthful days heard such terrible stories. The terrified Lola crept to her mothers side, sobbing bitterly and expecting every moment a squad of soldiers would come to shoot her and her sole protectress. Hours of agonizing suspense passed.

Senora Tosta desired the aid of her relatives and friends, but when she began to dress Lola shrieked and was almost wild with terror, fearing her mother would be shot in the street. Then the perplexed woman called a neighbor and sent for some of her family. 1 Ileafuml LiumbHinnor. One of the ladies at the deaf and dumb institute, at Ed wood, tells some good stories of the difficulties the ofilicted little ones find in wrestling with words which they caD only see, but neither hear nor speak. One little Miss asked her teacher one day last week what a slip meant.

The teacher explained that it was a small flower or vine that came from a larger one, a sort of plant-child. The figurative answer about it being a child of a plant caught the little ones fancy, and she seemed to comprehend it. A couple of day 8 later, however, she came across the word cowslip. She knew what a cow was from her object lessons, and, remembering what a slip was, she put the two together, and, when her teacher asked the meaning of the word, confidently wrote: A cowslip is a little calf. One day the teacher told her class that the prefix dis meant not as dishonest, not honest.

Then she told the class to write, each a sentence, using dis. One little boy, who. if be lives, will be a newspaper paragrapher, wrote: Boys play; girls display. One of the instructors, a few days ago, showed her class a picture of a burning building, and wrote on the blackboard House on fire. A little boy looked at tne picture, and then at tlie sentence, and then soberly shook his head.

Wimt is wrong with it, Jimmy? aked the teacher with her sign language. Not right, answered the lad, and wrote: Fire on the house, and point ed triumphantly to the picture to prove that he was right. The Wichita Eagle says that the last new enterprise of that city is an Asphalt roofing manufactory with a capital stock of $2,500. WKflOIXG BEIiLS. A Colnmn Matrimonial Paper, published for exdnsive use of those who deslro eor-esponients for Amusement or Matrimony.

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It says the peril of faintness, by the mere determination of blood to the surface of the body, thus quickly depriving the heart of its usual normal support and stimulus, is very great. In cases of muscular weakness of the heart, this danger must be imminent, whenever hot or even the warm bath is used. Dr. A. Brown, United States navy, states in the Medical Record that he has found a specific to the troublesome eruptions produced by the poison oak or poisoned ivy so common in oar woods and along old fences.

The specific he finds in bromine, which he has used with unvarying success in at least forty cases. Ue uses the drug dissolved in olive oil, comoline or glycerine, in the strength of ten to twenty drops of bromine to Ihe ounce or oil, and rubs the mixture on the affected parts two or three times a day. The bromine is so volatile that the solution should ds renewed every twenty-four hours. The eruption never extends after the first thorough application, and it promptly disappears within twenty-four hours if the application is persisted in. It is said that those who have suffered intensely from asthma have found almost instant relief from a single teaspoonful of warm honey.

A professor of medicine has declared that honey distributes the formation of fungoid growths, and has therefore, been of great use as a preventive of thrush in babies. It is also claimed that an ointment made of honey and flour is an excellent remedy for boils. The medical authorities claim that its internal use can not be too highly praised. A Bussian medical journal makes public a system of treatment for acute articular rheumatism, which is represented as having been employed with the greatest success for twenty years past by Dr L. Grinevetrki, of ltostoff on the Don He administers two drams daily of nitrate of potash in raspberry sirup, distributed in doses given every two hours.

At tbe evening, he prescribes an ointment composed of olei 2 oz. uughydrarg. cineri, 1 1 dr. This treatment is said to cure, in almost all cases, in from one to two weeks. Massage is destined in the future to play a very important part in the treatment of chronic maladies of woman.

The art of applying it is simple and easy, and every person ought to know it, as it is one of the very best household remedies. It consists in manipulating all or part of the body, to increase nutrition and circulation, and also to quiet the overwrought nervous system. Herald of Health. abbing a bruise in sweet oil and then in spirits of turpentine, it is said, will usually prevent the unsightly black and blue spots which not only tell tales but deform. Cloths dipped in hot potato water are said to afford immediate and complete relief in the severest cases of rheumatism.

An exchange earnestly recommends the remedy to sufferers. Good HouscJceejoer says that a flannel bag stuffed with hops and wrung from hot vinegar will relieve earche speed ly if it is placed over the ear and the whole side of the face covered with a dry flannel. Who Was the Soldier? In a recent issue of the Iowa Register you call for the name of the Iowa man imprisoned by Gen. Hal-leck for freeing slaves, mentioned in a recent article by Gen. Howard.

I presume I am the man called for, as by orders of Gen. Halleck I was cast into prison in 1862 at Springfield, for the offense of freeing slaves and enlisting them on the side of the Union. I was on detached recruiting service. These slaves had given valuable information in regard to the movements of Ilebel General Price. I gathered up slaves to the number of twenty-eight.

A few had come into our lines of their own accord, mostly leaving their masters in the night. These slaves were gathered up in and around Springfield I got orders from a colonel in command ot brigade (Col. Weir) to take them to Fort Scott, Kansas. I intended to enlist them in the First Kansas (colored,) a part of the regiment I was then forming. I left Springfield by a circuitous route and had got eighteen miles towards Kansas and freedom.

General Halleck sent a company of the First Missouri cavalry (mostly rebel) in 'pursuit. They overtook us at the place mentioned. Some of the slaves drew their knives in defense. I was arrested with most of the slaves. A few escaped to the brash.

We were then taken back to Springfield. I was thrown into prison and the slaves turned over to owners if called for; the balance were placed under the charge of the brigade wagon boss. After weeks of jail life I was released, went on to Kansas and reported the facts to a reporter of the New York Tribune. He ventilated the facts. General Williams, of Kansas, stated the history of the case to Senator James H.

Lane, who, at the time, was commissioner of recruiting service. He appointed me first Lieutenant in First Kansas colored volunteers. Gentral Hallobks name ERICSSON ANTI OLE BULL. How tlie Noted Violinist Charmed the Orent Mechanician A Triumph. Lowell Son.

In a conversation a few evenings ago a distinguished chemist and physician, who is also an enthusiastic and critical lover of mmie, told an interasting story about Ole Bull and John Ericsson, the great inventor. It seems that they were friends in early life, but drifted apart and did not meet again until each had become famous. Bull had charmed the ears of admiring thousands all over the civilized world, while the part the great mechanician played in naval warfare during the rebellion roused the north to enthusiasm and startled the world. Bull, happening to be in New York on a concert tour, determined to look up his old friend and renew the acquaintance. He found him in liis workshop surrounded by tools, machinery, designs, models end materials used in mechanical constructions, directing the labors of a corps of assistants.

When taking his leave Bull invited Ericsson to attend his concert that night. Ericsson, however, declined, saying he had no time to waste. Their acquaintance being thus renewed, Bull continued to call on his old friend when visiting New York, and usually when taking liis leave would ask Ericsson to attend his concert, but Ericsson always declined the invitation. Upon one occasion Bull pressed him urgently, and said If you do not come I shall bring my violin here and play in your shop. Ericsson replie 1 angrily If jou bring the thing here I shall smash it.

Here were two men the very opposite of each other. Bull an impulsive, romantic dreamer; Ericsson stern, thoughtful, practical, proving every movement with mathematical precision. Bulls curiosity was aroused to know what effect music would have upon the grim, matter of fact man of squares and circles. So, taking his violin with him, he went to Ericssons shop. He had removed the strings, screws and apron, so that the violin would seem to be in ba condition.

As he entered the shop, noticing a displeased expression on Ericssons face, Bull called his attention to certain defects in the instrument, and, speaking of its construction asked Ericsson about the scientific and acoustic properties involved in the grain of certain woods. From this he passed on to a discussion of sound waves, tones, semitones, etc. Tc illustrate his meaning he replaced the strings, and, improvising a few chords drifted into a rich melody. The workmen, charmed, dropped their tools, and stood in silent wonder. He played on and on, and when finally he ceased.

Ericsson raised his bowed head, and, with moist eyes, said: Do not stop. Go on! Go on! I never knew until now what tnere was lacking my life. The OueHuudred Best Books Chicago Tribune. Nothing has excited so much comment among literary people, writers and readers for a long time as the recent discussion in England called out by Sir. John Lubbocks List of the Hundred Best Books.

Mr. Kuskin charged upon the list, horse, foot and dragoons; and his comments have been read with a mingling of sorrow, surprise, and amusement that defies analysis or description. He blotted from the list the names of Marcus Aurelius, Aristotle, Keble and many other Christian and non-Christian moralists. He ran his pen through the the names of Sophocles and Euriphides; coming down to modem literature and philosophy ha crossed off Gibbon, Voltaire, Hume and Grote, Mill, Darwin, Adam Smith, Locke and Descartes; and his ruthless pen spared not Longfellow, Swift, Macaulay, Emerson, Thackeray Kingsley, or George Elliott. Among the curiosities of literature will be counted his criticism upon some of these writers.

Darwin he refuses to recommend, because it is every mans duty to known what he is, and not think of the embryo he was, nor the skeleton that he shall be. Because, also, Darwin has a mortal fascination for all vainly curious and idly speculative persons and has collected, in the train of him, every impugent imbecility in Europe, like a dim comet waging its useless tail of phosphorescent nothing across the steadfast stars." He dismisses John Stuart Mill with the ludicrous remark: Sir John Lub bock ought to have known that his day I is over Mr. Wilkie Collins wrote to the publishers a most characteristic and curious letter; and Henry Irving responded to tbe request for his opinions with this note. I My Dear Sir; In reply to your.