Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 6 July 1894 — Page 8

Deadly War Duels

FRANK LESLIES'

Scenes Portraits

—OF THE-

Civil War.

..PART

II contains the following

full and double-page illus­

trations of Our Great

Rebellion:

Portraits of General Sherman. United States cavalry scouting in the neighborhood of Fairfax Courthouse, Va. Movement of troops from Collins' Line Line Dock, Canal street, New York. United States arsenal at Charleston, S. C., seized by State authorities, Dec. 28th, 1S80. Portrait of Jlujor Robert. Anderson. Portrait, of ISrigadier General Beaurgard. Scene on the floating battery Charleston Harbor, during bonbardment of Fort Sumter. Uattle of Rich Mountain, Beverly Pike, V., July 12. Battle of Carrick's Ford, July 15tli, 1861. The engagement at Healington, Va., Letween Ohio and Indiana regiments and a dotachment of Georgia troops. Rescue of Major Reynolds' Battery of Marines from the foundering steamer "Governor" oil Cape Hatteras, Nov. 2nd, 1801. Explosion of shell in cutter ot United States steamer "Niagara" Nov. 3d, 1861. General McCowan addressing the Tliirtylifth Abbeville (S. C.) Volunteers, in front of Charleston Hotel. Group of Ellsworth's Chicago Zouave Cadota. The Railroad Battery protecting workmen on the Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Return of Federal foraging parties into camp near Annadalc Chapel, Va. The attack upon the Batteries at the entrance of A(juia creek to Potomac river, by the United States vessels "Pawnee," "Yankee," "Thomas Freeborn," "Annacosta" and "Resolute" June 1st, 1S61.

WEEKLY JOURNAL

ESTABLISHED IN 1845.

FRIDAY, JtJLY 6, 1894

BONKVILLE.

John Harshbargn ted Henry 'Bonk Sunday. Mrs. Manna Ronk and daughter, Nellie, visited at Sam Cook's Thursday.

The correspondent would like for someone to interpret Nellie Ronk's •dreiun. •Jonas Keim came over from North Salem Sunday on his bicycle to attend church at Mt. Pleasant.

Quite a number from this vicitity attended the graduating exercises at Wesley Chapel Saturday night.

The friends and neighbors met Monday morning to mow the grass and clean up the Mt. Pleasant graveyard.

Dick Radford has sowed his garden in buckwheat so he can have a hiding place when Coxey's army comes this way.

Messrs. Olla Lane and Jacob Zimmerman, Jr., with Misses Effie and Bertha Sanders, spent last Sunday at the Shades.

If you want to hear good singing call on the "Ronkville Quartette." It can be heard for quite a distance and when the echo comes back it sounds like, "'Sing them over again to me."

I will vote to the affirmative on the motion made by the Flat Creek scribe concerning the ice cream banquet given by THK JOURNAL. I thiyk it would be as nice a meeting as could be given and I am sure we would have a good time.

I have noticed in several letters where the scribes were in favor of meeting at the Crawfordsville fair. I think it would be nice for them to get acquainted and make the occasion an enjoyable one. My vote would be for the affirmative.

OPOSSUM RIDGE. 4

The storms have been doing much •damage. Fans, ice cream and gasoline stoves are in demand.

Mrs. Sarah Mullikin has been visiting her son near Mace. The raspberry crop is very good this year. There will also be many blackberries.

Curtis Herr found one of his pigs dead. He supposed it was killed by lightning.

S. S. Stilwell has returned from Terre Haute where he has been attending the normal.

Grant Bayless says of all the towns in the United States he prefers Jamestown to all others.

Lizzie Stilwell has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Albert Rice, at Veedersburg the past week.

W. J. Miles, who broke his tongue a few weeks ago, has purchased a new OJ»e. He is ready to talk now.

SWAMP COLLEGE.

The wheat is very good in this vicinity. Geo. Grimes is plowing his corn this week.

Geo. Jones is plowing his corn this week. Bob Strauglian is planting his corn over this week.

Dan Gott went to Russellville Thursday on business. Dick Finley is planting his corn and beans this week.

Uncle John Uaner has his potatoes hoed out this week. Frank Bilbo is plowing tatoes. beans this week.

his corn, po-

Harvey Oliphant went to Russellville Thursday evening. Ike Hester went to Brown's Valley Wednesday for his health.

Mort Slirader went to town to get twine to cut his wheat with. John Kennedy and the boys are plowing their corn this week.

William Gofll went to Russellville Thursday evening on business. Ike Nice is not very much better. He has to lay in bed most of the time.

Charley Doyel went to Russellville Wednesday evening to see his lady love.

Uncle Thomas Findley went down to Russellville Thursday on business matters.

Henry Evans went to Russellville to get some twine to bind his wheat up in bundles with.

Sam Grimes likes to work in hay harvest. Hay making is almost play. He likes it very much.

Mr. Foster took his wheat binder down to his lower place to cut his wheat crop Friday morning.

James Allen and family went visiting Wednesday among their many friends and had a good time.

Ilezekiah Evans #has got his clover hay put in the mow. He says that he is done for this year in the hay.

Bob Williams has so far recovered that he is able to walk around the house some without his crutches.

Ihe farmers down here are going to cut their wheat as soon as tliev can, while the line weather is on hand.

Jake and Mort Shrader have sold their hogs. They averaged three hundred pounds. The price was §4.00 pethundred.

The farmers here celebrated the 4tli in the wheat field. Their motto is, "if you get a job stick to it Fourth or no Fourth.

Mack Doyel and James Galey are fixing to cut their wheat fcrop. Jim says the wheat, hay and corn have all come together this summer.

Miss Lulu Edge was married on last Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock to Dr. Wright, of Chicago. The Reverend Zetser, of Russellville, officiated.

Dr. Bilbo was riding out the other day to see some of his patients when his horse got seared and turned the buggy over, but no one was hurt.

Dr. J. W. Straug-han has twelve acres of clover hay cut clown and twelve acres more to cut after he gets his wheat cut. He has not srot his hay put up yet.

James Glover is making hay this week. It has been hot for the business. lhat is right Jim make hay while the sun shines, for that is the time to make hay.

Jake and Mort Shrader are going to cut wheat for George Grimes Friday. George says that he has always been the last man to cut wheat, but this time he will be the first.

James Glover and Eli Grimes cut eight acres of wheat Saturday with a new binder. Jim says that this binder cannot be beat. It ties the bundles tight and does not miss any.

Samuel Galey is hoeing his cabbage out this week. The cabbage is doing nicely. If there are nojbugs to destroy the cabbage he will have lots of kraut this winter for his neighbors to eat.

John Rusk has cut some wheat this week. The wheat is good grain, but the price the farmers will have to take for their wheat crop is very low. Farmers ought to have 81 per bushel.

Robert Leisure has purchased a new cyclone threshing machine for threshing the wheat crop of this community. He says that he is going to thresh at 5 cents per bushel and stack the straw. He says that he will do good work or no threshing.

The prize that I received is one of the best books that can be read by any one. I appreciate it very much and I am going to try for another one. I like to hear from the correspondents all over the county. Where are some of them that used to write.

Fred W. Shrader says that he is getting the biggest salary that he ever got in his life. He says that he is keeping books for Clark Company for 885 per month. He has a class in music. He can play the fiddle. He can almost make the "fiddle speak the music.

James Evans says that he can cut more wheat than any one can. He went into twenty-five acres of wheat last Friday and finished the field Saturday at 4 o'clock. Now if anyone can beat this let them whistle. This is a fact, no foolishness. He cut the field of wheat just the same.

There was a fight took pldce in Brown township last Wednesday evening. The parties were Link Hester and Charles Penn. The fight was over some money Charley said that Link Hester owed him and would not pay him, so he thought he would take the amount out of his hide. But Hester was too much for Charley, and he is in a bad condition. To fight is not the way to collect debts.

OAK GROVE.

Frank Mullen and wife are at A. F. Needliam's. Mrs. L. R. Butler and children have the whooping cough.

Asliton Vannice, of Lebanon, visited the Mounts last week. Mrs. W. H. Mount has about recovered from her recent illness.

Elmer Shaver has stated appointments at Dover Presbyterian church until autumn, when he will enter some theological seminary.

Our new school house is rapidly nearing completion and while it is not so handsome in appearance as the old one was, will be quite neat.

Asocial was given by Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Lafollette at their home last Friday evening in honor of their niece, Miss Grider, of Fincastle. About thirty young people were present.

A sight worth traveling miles to see is the Bundy woods, east of here. Persons who think they have seen wild roses in profussion are willing to admit, after seeing said woods that they never had. The damp marshes, the dry and more open places and even the old rail fence are all abloom.

Miss Ella McDaniel, aged twentythree years, died at her home, near Center Grove, last Thursday. Ella was very popular in the circles in which she moved, being possessed of superior personal attractions and an amiable disposition. Rev. Akers preached the funeral. Much sympathy is felt for the parents and only sister in their bereavement.

As to the proposed reunion it seems to us that the dining hall at the fair will be a very poor place for the correspondents to visit. The deep thoughts with which the air will no doubt be laden will be marred somewhat by the rattle of dishes and the odor of boiled cabbage. Besides there will be merry-go-rounds and doubtless many beautiful spotted snakes and charmers to divide the attention. Why not picnic in the woods some midsummer day? A few cookies and a bottle of cold tea would be easily handled refreshments, or if W. C. Stewart is in the crowd more eatables would be necessary. But seriously speaking, any arrangement that would incur either time or expense on the part of TIIE JOURNAL COMPANY should not meet the approval of a single correspondent.

STONY CROSSING.

Tobe Harris is slowly improving. The Y. P. S. C. E. is progressing nicely.

Harvey Linn still thinks of going to Josh Evans'. Arthur Davidson visited Ora Armstrong Sunday.

Miss Maude Williams is working for Mrs. Wm. Harris. The ice cream supper was a howling success. Amount

Miss Rena Edwards visited Misses Rosa and Julia Crane Wednesday. Quite a large crowd attended the entertainment at Mt. Tabor Sunday night.

Walter Vanscoyoc is attending school at Frankfort. Miss Nellie Hipes is taking music lessons of Mrs. Minnie Johnson.

Chas. Crane has shaved his white dog and sold the wool for 15 cents per pound.

Harley Moody has traded his interest in the Edward estate to Wilbur Hipes for a half interest in the Crane estate.

Misses Bessie Crane and Dessa Edwards went fishing Wednesday afternoon and caught fish that measured one inch in length.

Sunday evening Misses Nellie Hipes entertained the following: Messrs Wallace Linn, Wilbur llipe.s and Harley Moody, Misses Iiena Edwards, Rosa and Julia Crane.

RATTLESNAKE.

Timothy meadows are very good. Fred Herrington is the champion barber of the creek.

It won be long til we hear the hum of the hum of the threshing machine. Uncle Will Galey and Samuel Cash celebrated the Fourth at Crawfordsville.

W. J. Coons had a field of wheat that took four pounds of twine to the acre to bind it. Beat it if you can.

Mrs. Ada Powers and little daughters, of Crawfordsville, visited W. J. Coons and family on Tuesday.

Rev. Hood Nelson preached at the U. 15. church in Balhinch last Tuesday night. His text was "Abstain from drinking intoxicating whisky."

Wm. Rush, of Cayuga, died on last Sunday and was brought here and buried in the James Davis graveyard He was a brother of Frank and Churchhill Rush, and leaves a wife and four children.

There will be a basket meeting in Balhinch at the Baptist church on the fifth Sunday in July. Everybody invited to come with full baskets of good things to eat. Elder Faulk, of Ladoga, will preach in the forenoon.

Wheat all in the shock, the corn is looking fine, everybody in good spirits and happy, the oat crop was never better, the potato crop is excellent in quality and we had a fine rain on last Sunday morning.

We are in favor of having a re-union of the correspondents of so grand a paper as THE CRAWFORDSVILLE JOURNAL. The Possum Ridge correspondent suggests Thursday, but does not state the date. Now, we will say on Thursday, Augurt 1(5, and the fair ground the place. By that time the wheat will all be threshed and it will be a leisure time.

Now, let every Republican stand by the ticket and victory is sure. Suppose some of the candidates did sign that petition to give Wabash college that 810,000, look what the college has done for the county and will do in the future. Every tax-payer in the county ought to be proud of old Wabash. Brother Republicans, don't stop to listen to the enemy. If your hands are hold of the Republican plow, don't look back.

OFFIEL.

Farmers celebrated the Fourth in the harvest field. Josephine Miller is at home for a few weeks vacation.

The wheat here is heavy on the ground and the grain is well matured. M. C. Miller and little daughters visited relatives at New Richmond this week.

Miss Rice, of Possum Ridge, is giving instructions in music to some of our young ladies.

James Lewellen has closed his saw mill oand is getting his machinery ready to thresh the wheat crop here.

A number of persons crossed the swollen creek in the camper's boat on Sunday evening to attend services in the grove.

Margaret Lewellen died on last Thursday at her home in Shannondale and was buried at the Weir cemetery on Friday evening. She was the last member of the ancient Lewellen family and the third one to die in less than a year.

We would heartily support our Tiger Valley and Flat Creek friends with regard to a reunion of THE JOURNAL correspondents being held in the city on the 28th of July. The fair week would prove too busy a time for most of us to enjoy ourselves.

The showers on Sunday kept quite a number from attending services in the grove at the mouth of Offiel on Sugar creek: but the few attending were well entertained by the able remarks of Messrs. McCay and Grimes. Everyone present joined in a hearty invitation for these ministers to come again at an early day.

POTATO CREEK.

Ed Maguire went to Colfax .Sunday. Frank Custer went to Darlington Friday.

Ed Maguire went to New Ross Thursday. Charlie Peterson went to Crawfordsville Saturday.

Silas Peterson went to Crawfordsville Tuesday, a Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Custer Sundayed at Thorntown.

Geo. Cashner, of Darlington, was at Mr. Maguire's Thursday. Miss Maggie Maguire spent Saturday with Mrs. BellHuster.

Miss Glee Irons and cousin spent Friday with Ethel Snyder. Mr. and Mrs. Maguire Sundayed with Mr. and Mrs. Buskirk.

Wheat harvest in full blast. It is very heavy but will it pay expenses? Charlie Maguire and daughter, Miss Anna, went to Darlington Thurseay.

Mrs. Charles llyker and children were the guests of Mrs. Tribbet Monday.

The new iron bridge over Potato Creek near Levi Horner's is completed.

Mrs. Mattie Hollowell and Miss Jennie Stewart went to Darlington Tuesday.

Rev. Worrel, of Darlington, took dinner with Charles Maguire and family Thursday.

Aunt Millie Peterson, one of the old pioneers of this county, was 70 years old Sunday, July 1.

Mrs. Bell Custer, Mrs Fannie Maguire and Mrs. Katie Little spent the Fourth with Mrs. Harriet Maguire.

Clifford and Georgia Peterson, of Crawfordsville, are visiting their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Silas Peterson.

TIGER VALLEY.

Farmers have laid their corn by. Clover hay making is a thing of the past.

Chas. Sanford is painting for S. A. Trout. A. B. Caster was in town Tuesday on business.

S. E. Finch and family Sundayed a W. Shanklin's. Isaack Crane has purchased a McCormick binder.

Everybody here spent the Fourth in the wheat field. S. A. Trout has purchased a fine lot of hogs of B. Beck'

Wheat here will average thirty bushels to the acre. There will be plenty of fruit of all kinds in this vicinity.

II. C. Finch will begin steel roofing as soon as harvest is over. We had almost the second Johnstown flood here Sunday morning.

Frank Armstrong has purchased a fine lot of timber for his mill. Ward Walkup says he would rather pitch hay than to teach school.

John Perry will not build an embankment under his barn this fall. A. W. Johnson was here the first of the week on the hunt of a tarantula.

Gilbert Wilson and II. Finch were in New Market Sunday viewing the gas well.

Earl Perry and W. Sellers will have a debate on Catholicism here in the near future.

The Mace scribe has become to be a fine bicyclist. He has the appearance of Whittaker.

Quite a large crowd attended the ice cream social at High Delaney's last Wednesday evening.

There was a man here from New Ross Monday posting bills for the New Ross races which will take place Aug. 9, 10 and 11.

Ode Wolliver and Frank Shuey had quite an accident Monday by letting A. J. Abbott's team run off. No serious damage done.

Some of our farmers are wondering if they will get SI.25 for their wheat this year. Under the administration we are living we do not think we will get more than 42 cents per bushel and not less than 19 cents.

Children's day at Mace next Sunday evening at the Christian church. Everybody is invited to come and see what the little ones have to say. Fine music will be given by the Mace orchestra. There will be forty different speakers.

The correspondents all wish to know each other's opinions in regard to getting acquainted with each other. I suggest that Mr. McCain give a supper. It would be much better than meeting each other at the fair ground for it will be so hot there that we could not enjoy ourselves. Neither could Mr. McCaia. And on Saturday night, July 28, would be a very good time for the supper. Whatever the majority of the scribes say I am willing to abide by.

LOVERS' LEAP.

Corn is looking well. Wheat harvest in full blast. Ira Clossin was in our midst Monday. We wonder why Elmer French is so fond of pickles.

We wonder what has become of our McKinley scribe. Rinda and Bessie Moural visited at Mr. Moore's Sunday.

The road to Otterbein is ready for gravel. We think it a good thing. Ettie McCormick, of Crawfordsville!, visited James McCormick Thursday.

Mrs. Warbington has returned home after a visit with her daughter, Mrs. T. R. Clossin.

We think when our Otterbein scribe gets a gravel road they can get more items in.

MAPLE GROVE.

Dr. Mahorncy was at Russellville Monday. May Peffley and Chas. Kessler visited John Cline's family Sunday.

Linn, Corn and Hostetter will thresh our farmers wheat this year. Mat Anderson and wife of Ladoga, were in this vicinity"Sunday.

Chas. Hines made his usual Sunday evening visit near Whitesville. Geo. Clark and wife visited Mrs. Lawter near Whitesville Sunday.

Ike Huffman and family visited his mother in Hendricks county Saturday. The hay-making is finished and the farmers are very busy in wheat liar vest.

Will I'l-iend. of Whitesville. and Miss .Bertha Linn.ol Ladoga,passed through this vicinity Sunday.

Mrs. Catharine Mahomey has returned home after a two weeks visit with her son, Dr. Mahorney.

Tom Mangus has returned from Illinois. It is well, for during his absence another almost carried his May flower away.

Misses Lulu and Annie Canine, of Waveland, with their father and brother were Sunday visitors at G. W. Harshbarger's.

Misses Olla, Clara and Cora Peffley and Miss Martha Burger with Messrs. Frank Buchanan, Oil Vannice, Will Terry and Bertie Peffley visited Miss Lula Ilarshbarger Sunday.

We make a motion that when the correspondents meet at that anticipated reunion, in order to better recognize each other, each wear a badge with the name of their respective letters written thereon. Who Will second the motion?

The farmers met Tuesday night to decide if they should feed the entire lot of threshing hands, or if the hands should furnish their own meals. They decided to feed all the hands. So the farmers met at Maple Gro\e and decided the women should roast over the stove.

CIPHER CODES WELL GUARDED.

Nevertheless ar» Occasional I^eak Ievclop in Diplomatic Correspondence. There visited New York recently an emissary from the state department whose mission was the investigation of what is diplomatically called a leak. The dispatches received by the government are, as is well known, sent in cipher. This cipher is guarded with a sfecrecy meant to be awful, but it was suspected that some unauthorized person had obtained a clew to it. This suspicion was sufficient to start a rigid investigation, and the trail led to New York. All facts bearing on these matters are carefully hidden, and the upshot of the New York visitor's trip was that there did exist a suspicion, but no certainty. When he got back to Washington there was a change in one of the codes. So quietly was the business managed that not a soul in the state department, with three exceptions. knew what was afoot. This incident. related by the Washington Post, illustrates how wary the department is with its codes. One of them is styled the "sphinx"—it is so guarded. The slightest reason to believe that a code clerk may be responsible for a leak results in his suspension. However, our government has been far more successful than some foreign ones in protecting its ciphers. The "sphinx" was devised by a New Yorker now in the state department, and it is as susceptible to changes as the combination lock of a safe. Hundreds of messages have been sent in it, and it has never leaked. The Hawaiian correspondence with Willis is carried on entirely in this cipher, and it is never employed except upon urgent occasions, while those intrusted with the mysteries of it must be absolutely above suspicion: yet even should there be a leak, the alteration of a key letter would destroy every clew to an outsider. The Brazilian correspondence is not written in this mysterious code. Indeed, it is doubtful if the administration would consent to its use on an extensive scale, as the most expert in its mysteries must spend an hour or more in the deciphering -of a single paragraph.

HOBBIES OF NOTED WOMEN.

Actor* and

Singer*

Particularly Noticea­

ble for Tbelr Odd Fads.

The princess of Whales has a mania for collecting postage stamps. Queen Victoria's hobby finds vent in the collection of curious coins. The late Comtesse Ruspoli spent many years of her life in collecting Napoleonic relics and succeeded in acquiring a very valuable assortment.

Professional women are, according to the Philadelphia Times, most given to this sort of thing. Clara Morris and Mrs. Langtry dote on horses, the latter having put to good use her love of them by the discretion she exercises in buying those that win many a purse for her on the turf.

Mrs. Bernard Beere buys mechanical dolls as other women invest in bon bons, and her collection is a large and valuable one. Fanny Davenport goes in for antique jewelry and odd hair pins, while Pauline Hall's more modern taste inclines her toward sapphires and turquoises. It is said she possesses more beautiful marquise rings than any woman in the profession.

Christine Nilsson has a fancy for fans of rare lace and exquisite workmanship. This little hobby is one of most expensive ones that can be thought of, and unless one possesses royal friends or a royal pocket-book the mania should be transferred to something less apt to bankrupt one.

Agnes Repplier, as a representative literary woman, divides her time between her essays and a large and interesting family of cats that she adores. Bemhardt's fada are too numerous to mention, while there are many women in private life who let their fancy run rampant on shoes, old silver, laces, autographs and in fact hundreds qf queer fancies, for individual tastes lie in different directions, and the world of women is ever growing larger.

SAVED BY A KAT.

Thrilling Experience in a Caving Arizona Mints.

Tbe Rodent Burrows His Way to an Imprisoned Mine Surveyor. In Tins Manner Supplying: Ilim with the

Needed Air.

"You were asking about that stuffed rat in my room," said Prof. Churchill, the mining expert, to a New York Sun man. "The story concerns an experience that made my hair curl. I was once retained to report upon the workings of a mine called the Little Whoop Up, in southern Arizona. On an ad-. joining claim was another mine called the Atlas. A dispute arose. The Atlas people claimed that the lower tunnels of the Whoop Up had been bored into their ground and a half million in ore taken out. The first thing to do was to make a survey of the Whoop Up, and, of course, the Whoop Up people objected. Finally an order for the survey was secured from the court and Dr. John R. Parks and I were sent to make the survey. There are tricks in all trades, and the Whoop Up superintendent knew a few. When we reached the mine he said the tunnel we wished to explore was in a dangerous condition. There had been a cave, the timbers were rotten, and so on. It meant a ten to one chance that we S would be crushed if wo tried it. Of course, we classed him as a liar, though he turned out to be right. "We worked our way in the tunnel until we ran against a jam of fallen timbers which were sound and were plainly arranged to stop our progress. 3 Parks went back for an ax, while I worked at the roof with a pick to dislodge the center pieces. I succeeded and had climbed half way over into the other side of the tunnel when there came a terrific crash of loose ore from the roof. It fell on both sides of the timbers, pinning me in a hole which would have been a grave right there but for a few sticks which held the mass of ore above. The place was barely large enough to move in, and I knew it was certain death in a few hours unless Parks could dig me out. Even then I believed I was gone, for I did not know how much ore had fallen. In a few minutes the air got heavy, and my eyes began to feel drowsy, and it seemed like the roof and sides of the hole were closing in on me. This oppression and drowsiness increased until I was forced to hammer the sides of the place with my fists and head to keep awake. Still not a sound could I hear from the outside, and only the slow crumbling of ore from above. The foul air was getting into my brain, and I think I was actually insane with the fearful dread of being buried alive. Anyhow, I remember of dropping to the floor of the hole, and giving a few faint shouts which echoed back into my ears. I had given up all hope, and was almost swooning when I heard a strange scraping sound above me. I yelled, but received no answer, and then 1 threw my body against the walls and tried to pick out the ore from between the lodged timbers. Still came the queer, scraping noise which seemed to come nearer and nearer and sounded not unlike the steady grinding of a saw. It seemed to last for hours, though it could hardly have been a minute after when a bit of earth' dropped to my feet from the upper end of the wall, and along with it came a big gray mine rat, who saved my life, for he had left a clear hole for his trail, and through it came a breath of fresh air that gave life to me. The fellow had bored his way from the shaft side of the cave." I stayed there two hours after that, until Parks found the cave, got help, 'and got me out without breaking the air hole. I caught the gray rat, too, and kept him well fed until he died, and wouldn't take a lot of money for his skin now."

NAPOLEON WAS IN SING SING.

Locked Up by a Keeper While on a Visit of Inspection In 1837. Tt is not generally known to the world at large, says the New York Times, that Emperor Napoleon III. of France was once behind the bars in Sing Sing prison. In the spring of 1837 Prince Louis Napoleon, afterward Napoleon III., emperor of France, made a visit to Washington Irving at Sunnyside, a little north of Irvington-on-the-Hudson, accompanied by a y«ung French count, and escorted by Anthony Constant, of Hastings. Prince Napoleon expressed a desire to visit the prison at Sing Sing, and Mr. Constant drove him there. Upon arriving at the prison the party was welcomed by Warden Rowel, who, after taking them into his apartments, explained the means that had been attended with the most successful and beneficial results in the government of the prison. The warden told the prince, who had been an interested listener, that he had a convict in the prison, a Frenchman, who was an old soldier, claiming to have fought at Waterloo and to have been in several battles with Napoleon, the first emperor. The prince naturally asked to see the man. The warden then explained that the prisoner was in a dark cell for misconduct that it was contrary to prison rules to take him out, but as the guests were going to visit the cells he would open the door of the Frenchman's cell.

Then all followed the warden down the stairs and across the keyroom and the narrow passages to the galleries, where the cells were and are to this day. He paused at the second cell on the right hand tier of the main galleries and unlocked and opened the door. Louis Napoleon stepped inside. The warden, with a merry twinkle in his eye, turned the key and locked him in. It was too good an opportunity to be lost. The gentlemen were amused and brimming over with fun, when, after a momentary detention, the door was opened and the noble Frenchman joined them once more. They all enjoyed the joke except the subject of it. His sallow countenance reddened perceptibly for a time and then he joined in the laugh raised at his expense.