Missouri Botanical Garden PETER H. RAVEN LIBRARY Pagination Note: Since many of the items lack a specific page number, the page number dispiayed oniine refers to the sequentiaily created number each item was given upon cataloging the materials. PHILIP NOLAN’S FRIENDS; OR, ‘‘SHOW YOUR PASSPORTS!” From Edward Everett Hale’s Serial Story begun in Scribner’s Monthly for January, 1876. CHAPTER IV. “ SHOW YOUR PASSPORTS ! ” *‘The pine-tree dreameth of the palm, The palm-tree of the pine.” — Lord Houghton. Philip Nolan had his reasons for avoid- ing long tarry at the Rapids, and when the new boat came with the party to the little port of Natchitoches, he had the same rea- sons for urging haste in the transfer of their equipment there. These reasons he had unfolded to Eunice, and they were serious. After all the plans had been made for this autumn journey — plans which involved fatigue, perhaps, for the ladies, but certainly no danger — the Spanish officials of Louisiana on the one side, and of Texas on the other, had been seized by one of their periodical quaking fits — fits of easy depression, which were more and more frequent with every year. Nolan had come and gone once and again, with Spanish passports in full form, from the Governor of Louisiana. The pres- ent of a handsome mustang on his return would not be declined by that officer ; and, as the horse grew older, he would not, per- haps, be averse to the chances of another expedition. With just such free-conduct was Nolan equipped now, and with his party of thirteen men he had started from Natchez, on the Mississippi, to take up Miss Eunice and Miss Inez with their party at Natchitoches, the frontier station on the Red River. Just before starting, however, the Spanish consul at Natchez had called the party before Judge Bruin, the United States Judge there, as if they were filibusters. But Nolan’s passport from Don Pedro de Nava, the commandant of the north-eastern provinces, was produced, and the Judge dis- missed the complaint. This had been, however, only the beginning of trouble. Before Nolan joined the ladies, he had hardly passed the Mississippi swamp — had, in fact, traveled only forty miles, when he met a company of fifty Spanish soldiers, who had been sent out to stop him. Nolan’s party numbered but twenty-one. The Span- iards pretended that they were hunting lost horses; but so soon as Nolan’s party passed, they had turned westward also, and were evidently dogging them. It was this unfriendly feeling on the part of those whom he was approaching as a friend, which had led Nolan to hasten his meeting with Eunice Perry and her niece, that he might, before it was too late, ask them whether they would abandon their enterprise and return. But Eunice boldly said “ No.” Her niece was, alas, a Spanish woman born; she was going to visit a Spanish officer on his invitation. If she had to show her pass- ports every day, she could show them. If Captain Nolan did not think they embar- rassed the party, she was sure that she would go on. If he did, why, she must return, though unwillingly. “ Not I, indeed. Miss Eunice. You pro- tect us where we meant to protect you. Only I do not care to cross these Dogberrys more often than I can help.” So it was determined that they should go on, — but go on without the little halt at Natchitoches, which had been intended. Inez shared in all the excitement of a prompt departure the moment the neces- sity was. communicated to her. Before sun- rise she was awake, and was dressed in the prairie dress which had been devised for her. The four packs to which she had been bidden to confine herself— for two mules, selected and ready at L’Ecore, — had been packed ever since they left Orleans, let it be confessed, by old Ransom’s agency, quite as much as by any tire-woman of her train. She was only too impatient while old Caesar, the cook, elaborated the last river breakfast. She could not bear to have Eunice spend so much time in directions to the patron, and farewells to the boatmen and messages to their wives. When it actu- ally came to the spreading a plaster which Tony was to take back to his wife for a sprain she had in her shoulder, Inez fairly walked off the boat, in her certainty that she should be cross even to Eunice if she staid one minute longer. As the sun rose, the party gathered in front of the little shanty at which the most of the business of the landing was done. Ransom himself lifted Inez upon her saddle; adjusted the stirrups forty times, as if he had not himself cut the holes in the leathers, just as Inez bade him, a month before. Nolan watched for Eunice’s com- TOPICS OF THE TIME. 265 upon our position, and liis strong sense of equity and right, should use the most convenient and tell- ing epithets that come to his hand to characterize his opponents. Opposition is so unjust, so short- sighted, so inconsiderate of the interests of a class on v^hich the permanent fame and character of the country most depend, that it may well evoke his ire, in any terms in which he may see fit to express it. Our Government fosters agriculture, fosters rail- roads, fosters manufactures, fosters invention, fos- ters mining interests, fosters scientific exploration, and even fosters the weather, but it does not foster, it never has fostered, that great interest of authorship on which its moral and intellectual character and consideration depend. Anybody can get rich but an author. Anybody can realize from his labor his daily bread, except an author. If all the receipts from the copyright of accepted American authors should be put together, and all the authors were compelled to live from it, they would not live ; they would starve. Is this right ? Is it too much to ask of the Government that it place the authorship, not only of this country, but of the world, in a position where it can have an even chance with other inter- ests ? It does not ask for the pensions accorded to useful authorship in other countries; it does not seek for grace or guerdon ; it simply asks for justice and a fair chance to win for itself the return for labor which it needs, and for its country the con- sideration due to productive genius and culture. Winter Amusements. One of the most puzzling questions which parents have to deal with is that which relates to the amuse- ments of their children, and especially to those among them who have reached young manhood and young womanhood. The most of us are too apt to forget that we have once been young, and that, while we are tired enough with our daily work to enjoy our evenings in quiet by our firesides, the young are overflowing with vitality, which must have vent somewhere. The girls and young women particularly, who cannot join in the rough sports of the boys,^ have, as a rule, a pretty slow time of it. They go to parties when invited ; but parties are all alike, and soon become a bore. A healthy social life does not consist in packing five hundred people to- gether in a box, feeding them with ices, and sending them home with aching limbs, aching eyes, and a first- class chance for diphtheria. But the young must have social life. They must have it regularly ; and how to have it satisfactorily — with freedom, without danger to health of body and soul, with intellectual stimulus and growth — is really one of the most important of social questions. It is not generally the boy and the girl who spend their days in school that need outside amusement or society. They get it, in large measure, among their companions, during the day ; and, as their evenings are short, they get along very comfortably with their little games and their recreative reading. It is the young woman who has left school and the young man who is preparing for life, in office or counting-room, in the shop or on the farm, that need social recreation which will give significance to their lives, and, at the same time, culture to their minds. If they fail to unite culture with their rec- reations, they never get it. It is not harsh to say that nine young men in every ten go into life with- out any culture. The girls do better, because, first, they take to it more naturally, and, second, because, in the absence of other worthy objects of life, this is always before them and always attainable. The great point, then, is to unite culture with amusement and social enjoyment. Dancing and kindred amuse- ments are well enough in their time and way, but they are childish. There must be something better ; there is something better. It is an easy thing to establish, either in country or city neighborhoods, the reading club. Twenty- five young men and women of congenial tastes, habits, and social belonginp can easily meet in one another’s houses, once during every week, through five or six months of the year. With a small fund they can buy good books, and, over these, read aloud by one and another of their number, they can spend an hour and a half most pleasantly and profitably. They will find in these books topics of conversation for the remainder of the time they spend together. If they can illuminate the evening with music, all the better. Whatever accomplishments may be in the possession of different members of the club may be drawn upon to give variety to the interest of the occasion. This is entirely practicable, every- where. It is more profitable than amateur theatri- cals, and less exhaustive of time and energy. It can be united with almost any literary object. The “ Shakespeare Club” is nothing but a reading club, devoted to the study of a single author ; and Shake- speare may well engage a club for a single winter. Such a club would cultivate the art of good reading, which is one of the best and most useful of all accomplishments. It would cultivate thought, imagination, taste. In brief, the whole tendency of the reading club is toward culture — the one thing, notwithstanding all our educational advan- tages, the most deplorably lacking in the average American man and woman. There was a time when the popular lecture was a source not only of amusement but of culture — when it stimulated thought, developed healthy opin- ion, conveyed instruction, and elevated the taste. The golden days when Sumner, Everett, and Holmes, Starr King, and Professor Mitchell, Bishop Huntington and Bishop Clark, Beecher and Chapin, Emerson, Curtis, Taylor, and Phillips, were all actively in the field, were days of genuine prog- ress. Few better things could happen to the American people than the return of such days as those were; and the “lecture system,” as it has been called, is declining in its usefulness and inter- est, simply because it has not men like these to give it tone and value. A few of the old set linger in the field, but death, old age, and absorbing pur- suits have withdrawn the most of them. The plat- form is not what it was. 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