Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1893 — Page 11

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, AVEDXESDAY MOKNTNG, JULY o, lbi)3-T WELYK rAUJiS.

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THE GREAT BLACK PM.

Mr. Enoch Black, swollen with wealth and the pride of accumulation, invited a well-authenticated English correspondent of his house to spend Sunday with him at his country scat at Ovington. This wellauthenticated correspondent hesitated and suggested other engagement, as if he had not adroitly sought the bidJing; and then accepted, thus giving to courtesy the xest of the compliment. And Sir. Black went down to his home Friday night, prepared to stay there and get things in readiness for the distinguished arrival on the following afternoon. It is said that married pvople grow alike with years. JJ.it thia condition occurs, it seems, when there has beer constant attrition, as two stones will r",lLh each other, or as pehhles become r.unded - In the brook. Now in their poorest days little Mrs. Black had never dred resist her burly husband, and prosperity had deadened her with the bludsooi. of surprise. There are couples that become, separated In the race for succea, and while one reaches the goal and find it a very every day affair after all. th. other remains hopelessly entangled amid doubts and fears. Such a pair ruled over the Tilack household like an active and passive verb In a single sentence. 1'he master had achieved, and was well satisfied that he had merely attained his due; th mistress was spent, and was makLng her he among the brambles. So when Knoch Ulack. announced that his particular friend. Mk Chauncey Auckland of KiiKland. an '-out-and-out swell a hummer, too," j ould be down on file morrow, and that t ie must all "dust pretty lively, for he knew what was what, and no mistake." Ms. llack faintly smiled an expression, ty the way, as devoid of comfort as a nurtyr s resignation. Her husband understood this peculiarity through that intuition whl.di is such an aid of marital infelieitj. He straightway grew angry and süukI.i an explosion in arjpiament. Crivin;; a nubject of common Interest for di.-sa;rrv-eint.iit, he found one in the absence of his Ui.ushter. "Where's lJmm.i?" he asked fiercely. "I don't know." ans.ven.-l her mother, faintly stil'.. but no Sunt. er sinilHi. "And haven't 1 told 'you tb.it you must watch over the child- l'on't you know that she is ymm,' an J foolish, and that deviginn;? p-ople ki'uw it. and know. too. that in the cojrs of rature she mast inherit all the I'.lack wei.lth? Yah! and yet you let her wander tht.u,:h the tie I is like a farmer's daughter. 1 shouldn't be sursurprised if she was walking with Frank klaxon this very moment." "I shouldn't either," und the faint smile reappeared "Wt 11. 1 won't have it. that's Hat. 1 said so once, and that settles it for all ti:ne Oh! I know what you would say in your molish way. lies an old friend and industr'ous and tub-oted and all the rest of the twaddle. lvrli.i;s he is; but he can't keep up with this procession Mrs. It. He may in time te-o-iue a country justice and tiU.. in i; ! ii I ii n a -i worth of lees lcT day and preside at town i:-etin;s. "Hut my d.iuahtr: My dollars! u'u. no! It's not a marriage we waul, it's an alliance, that's the wl; and when you see my friend Auekl.ui 1. you will see where we can get one. At bast, you would, if you could see anything beyond your nose. Hut no, I've talked and I've prraehed " and so on, brr brr brr while .r Mrs. Idack clsl her eyes as on- will before the incessant dm, of a mill. There was a litfht step, a graceful youri' arm was thrown protecting ly around the in.ttr,-n and a clear, sweet voice cried: "Why, what's the matter, papa, are you talking about me?" There wu.s a hidden tlaw in Mr. Ul.ick'a panoply (.f conceit which the candid glance of his daughter's eyes could always pierce. Somehow when she looked at hiui he felt unworthy of hi parentage; she was so dainty, so charming, so beautiful, li.it: the fresh bloom o! the arbutus, while lie was so rough, so coarse. s uiuouth, like the sodden roek which it disd;i iiled. His hands and feet had always set-in. -1 eminently useful and comparatively oni.iinenial to liiui, yet at such times he became uncomfortably conscious of them. He now twitehe 1 the former and shuiile.1 the litter as he tered: 'We. were ouiy wondering where you were." "th. I have been walking with Frank Maxon. He is a ijood comrade, don't you think?" "Hum! lVrhaps so. at- a comrade." "I wouldn't want him as a groom I mean as a servant. He is u:n using an-1 clever, arid so fond of mamma." "Well. well, my child, it's natural. I suppose, that you hh'ml 1 remember your old playmate. Kut keep l.'.ia in his place. These young sprigs are apt to be pres.mip-tiou.-?. You have a position to maintain, you know. What was that French motto you explained lo m-'.' Nub nob " "Noblesse oblige?' "Ah. that's it. That means. I take It. that the possession of ttocks and de-nt-ures and -bli(;ati;ns of all s-iMs confers a nobility. Now we are rich, remember, Very rich." "Rather. p::p;t. that position imposes loftv principles iind noble actions." "Well, that's what I said, isn't it? Now, in my friend Auckland, who comes tomorrow, you will tai l one who is your ep:al in birth, cultuiv and Wealth. I know, therefore, that he will appeal to your ur higher nature in a way that no paltry 'good comrade' could." And Mr. IJi.tck. biwni; grown purple in th efa face in the tiTort of preserving the continuity of unusual ftpecch.couj'hcd solemnly an 1 waddled away. "We know that I shall hate him, don't we. mamma, tK-.-ir?" said Fmma. The I.taclt family, with their distinguished pii-st, lingered ovir the fruit and coffee of an elaboate dinner the next evtninir. The western sunlight strearnel through the broad, low windows that opened on the garden and gave a ruddy plow to the wei-hty plate and a ruby sparkle to the cut-t;lass decaiu.-rs Knoch Hlack had broach-d his favorite topic of possession and his friend was meeting bim more than half waj. "Oh. yes." said Auckland, "we have In our own family a parure of Golconda stones handed down from that historic ancestor of mine who in KIizaI-th'.s time circumnavigated the gloe and burned the tl'-et of Spanish galieons off Trafalgar. You may have cerne across the incident in your r-?adinir." "Ves," sail Mr. lilack. who must have happened upon it in a newspaper then. "It has been sacredly preserved as an heirloom ever since. Even in the days of Charles I. when our gold and silverware proclaimed our loyalty from the melting pot it was untouched. Even after the tine and F'iuestration resulting from I'rince Charlie's rising it was spared by distress. And so. too, would the pearls have been, but unfortunately" "Pearls." interrupted Mr. Jllaek. "I think I can match you there, or any one els for that matter. You must have heard of the (?reat Ulack Pearl, so called, rot only oh acc of its hue. but because it has ben ia our family for many hundrls of years, since the day of of Itichard the Conqueror, in fact." "Oh. long before that. papa. Queen Guinevere wore it, you know," said Km ma, laurhint?ly. "Very likely, my dear, very likely. I have a printed catalogue describing it of about that date. My ancestor, who came over in the Mayflower, brought this pearl with him. and without any primogeniture law it has been handed down from father to son ever since. Enma. Just step to the library and fetch it. there's a &ood girl. Here's the key." Now. Mr. Chauncey Auckland, for an Englishman, was very kr owing. In exact Information regarding 'lie prent Il'.ack Pearl," he could give points to its owner. He remembered its sale at Paris, not ten years before, and how all Europe gossipped about the enormous price which the American parvenu had paid. He. knew, too, where a ready market awaited it without the attendance of any embarrassing questions. Hut he was prepared tocwallow all, th Crusaders and KnU.hts of the Hound Table with the excellent dinner, in order get a glimpse of its glcry and a hint of Its hiding place. Kmma returned with the shagreen case, which her father opened and handed proudly to his fcuest. The great Rem lay In awhite satin nest and somberly glowed like the moon behind a cloud. No setting marred Its perfection; like a fair eastern nueeen, its dusky nakedness was its splendor. Into Auckland's li'tle eyes came a retponsive glitter which honor never kindled. I"h sinews of his hands tightened. He had I fortune in his grasp. ' The windows were wile open, and from the brow of the adjacent hill, ovr which the curtain of night was descending. Stretched miles of woodland. Was he not a foo! to yield It back to two frail women and a pudy old man? But no. violence wasn't his forte. Lanirour had become a habit and ease a requisite. A night of concealment in the cold wet brush, surrounded by all manner of creeping things, and followed by days of pursuit! Oh! no.What he desired he should take as he always had. but- after his own fashion, which left no clue for regaining. He

closed the box and returned It to his hont. "It's unique, it's superb." h exclaimed with unfeigned enthusiasm. "But what a pity that anything so priceless should be so fragile!" "Fragile!" repeated Enoch, turnln? pale at the thought. "What do you mean by that? No one is goin at it with a hammer, is there? Why, this may have bn worn by the queen of Sheba. for aught we know." "I'ossibly it was." retorted Auckland coolly. "Uut that doesn't affect the mystsrious chance which always exists of its destruction. Pearls explode lndn't you know it .' Why. that is what I started to tell you about those rare specimens which shared with the diamonds the honor oi being heirlooms in our family. Let me ee, was it mv great-grandmother? No. my great-great-grandmother, the laiy Cathererine, of course. "It was the eve of the majority ball of her eldest son, Chauncey. whose name I also bear. She went to the secret crypt in the strong room to get the pearls, meet ornaments for such a function. She opened the oaken casket, and. behold! the.e, where the milky necklace should lay. was a little gray, leathery ash and the golden wire an 1 links. The pearls had burst, and UU.uoO vanished into air. The noble dame gave oni despairing shriek and expired." Here Mr. Auckland sipped his wine, as If to hide a natural emotion. "You don't tell me!" ejaculated Mr. P.lack. silling uneasily in his chair. "Explode! Why should they? They ain t loaded." "I hop they don't make a noise or do any damage, father," said little Mrs. Elack, meekly. Mr. P.lack looked his disgust at the idea

, and the epithet, but male no reply. I "No. madam." said Mr. Auckland, turni lng courteously to the affrighted matron. . "The di:.im-gration Is sudden but noiseless, i Science has thus far failed to explain its cause, although a good guess is, some subtle disease." "I didn't bargain to buy an explosive disease." sail Knoch ruefully, qu.te forgetful of Richard tne Conqueror and the Mayflower. "Is there nothing one can do to prevent such a rlare-up?" "I would suggest that it be kept in some cool place w here there is a slight currentof of air." "1 hen the inner compartment of my ornamental fire-proof, etagere safe is hardly the place. Let me s. e. There's the ormolu desk bv th- window in the library. The sides are" mere lattice work. Here. Emma, ray chili, just put the pearl in there and brin me tne key." "Eut father." a.zain ventured poor little Mrs. I'.lack. "humlars." Mr. Ulack hated to be called "father" by his wife, for he was her senior by a good many year j and it ma le him ieel them. She was well aware of this aversion, but una'ole to break the habit from nervousness. "Nonsense!" he blurted forcibly bit incor.sequentiy ; "there aren't burglars in these days! and haven't I an electric alarm at every window?" "Yes. father." "That's a curious little key." sali Mr. Auckland, bv way of diversion, on Emma's r-tnrn. "May I look at it? Thanks. Of foreign manufacture, I presume?" "Yes, Eurmah." This visit proved so pleasant that Chaun. cey Auckland repeated It several times during the summer. His devotion to Emma became a subject of neighborly comment, which did not fail to reach the cars of Frank Maxon. At first be outwardly ignored the gossip much as he feared; but soon an incident caused htm to act with the tmrsv which was his characteristic. j He met his lady love one afternoon, and j be.-in operations at once, as follows: 1 l-n'l vnii love me?" "Whv. Frank, vou know I do. Why else I would I l.e here?" i "And et you are going to marry this ! Englishman. 1 suppose on account of his i wealth." I "Frank. Ik' careful. If you doubt me. ! you will no longer be the man that 1 love, j and s 1 shall no longer love you." ! "Eut your own father told me so." "Papa?" ! "Ves. He sntd that this was an alliance which your affection and his interest made desirable, and he asked me not to be a marplot. Can you wonder that the man that vim love doubt' I?" "No. dear. Vet you might have trusted. Poor papa! Despite his wonderful executive abilities he is as simple as a child in his weakness-. This man has studied bis weaknesses, and for some reason takes advantage of them." "1 believe he is an imposter. and I shall mail" it my business to prove him one." "Why do you Ktill doubt?" "Eecause 1 beli-ne it my right and duty to shield you from annoyance and persecution." Frank Maxon found many suspicions on ! inquiry. His city friends smiled and shrugged their shoulders when Auckland's name was mentioned. Perhaps he was all right. He was plausible and gentlemanly, but -well, after all, it was none of their affairs. Frank Maxon persisted, and his patience was rewarded. He learned that Auckland had no connection with the !-Jn-gbsh h use which he claimed to represent. He learned that he ha 1 obtained money . through this representation. Warily he j laid his plans He was ready to strike i When to their trysting place came Emma ; in awhirl of excitement. "Oh. Frank." she cried, "such a misfortune! I'oor papa is fairly beside himself." "oh. he has discovered, has he? I was just about inform him." "Why. how could you know? It's less ! than a half hour since we found it." I "lndn't 1 promise you that I would expose his imposture?" "Frank, dear. I don't know what you are talking atxiut. I think It's a siiame when i I'm so anxious to tell you. What has "he" and 'his imposture.' whatever they may mean, to do with our pearl?" ! "What pearl?" "Why. the great black pearl." ! "Why. has he stolen It?" j "h. dear. There you go again. Now J listen, stupid. That famous pearl, of which ! father has been so pro id. is ruined, destroyed, a little heap of dust." "Why. who smashed it?" "No one; it exploded! Don't Interrupt me, sir. You see papa had promised to exhibit It at the loan exhibition. So this n-Kin he took the case from the desk and opened it. And there in place of that lovelv gleaming, as I tell you. was a little heip of dust, of feathery ash! Ah, if It only had been stolen we might recover It." "it seems to me that 1 have read of such j a casualty, but it's happening is so rare as , to be almost impossiole. lou say your ; father took the pearl from the dsk? Iddn't I he keep such a valuable article In his I safe?" "He used to until Mr. Auckland warned him. Oh, it's such a coincidence! The very same ctaastrophe happened to an heirloom in his family over a hundred years ago. I That poor Eady Catherine! Her fate was ' so tragic!" I "My dear. I don't believe in coincidences. They are an excuse tor a lack or reasoning-. The only heirlooms this Auckland ever had in his precious family are a noose and a pair of handcuffs. If he predicted such a probability as this, it was because he was prepared to make it a certainty. I have just obtained proofs of his rascality." "Then he is the 'he' whose "imposture you would expose ."' "Yes, dear. Don't you remember?" "He hasn't troubled me lately, and I've been so happy that I had forgotten." "let me think. This great black pearl may prove the talisman of our happiness. Hasten, Emma, to the house and bring me some oX that dust." "I wi.l. oh. I will! You think it Isn't destroyedthat he may have stolen it?" "I am sure " "Oh. joy; papa would do anything for us. And it is to be mine some day you know when. Wait, wait, 1 11 be back instantly!" It was late the following evening that Mr. Chauncey Auckland entered his hotel and oi loitered In the desk. "Vou sail tomorrow, sir?" aaid th clrit as he handed him his key. "Well, goodbye; a pleasant voyage to you." Despite his habitual langour. Mr. Auckland started as he opened the door of his room, for the gas was burning brightly, the wardrobes and trunks were in a state of confusion, and lollin? in the easy chair smoking was Frank Maxon. What are you doing here7"asked Auckland, fiercely. i Maxon raised his hat from the center table. I'nderneath lay a revolver, which he leisurely pointed at the Englishman. "Sit down." he said, and the man silently obeyed. He sat for a moment in silence until he had recovered hi3 self-control, and then askel. but more affably. "What are you doing here?" "I have been looking for Mr. Black's jearl. but haven't found it. Ioubiless you wid kindly assist me." "What preposterous nonesense! Why, he told me this very morning that it had exploded. ' "Pardon rne. That was a slight mistake. The pearl is all right. It's only your ridiculous story and career of chicanery ' that have exploded." "You can't bully m, sir. I shall ring the bell and have you kicked out." "You will admit, as a man of acuten, that I can prevent you If I choose. Vv'tlli go ahead. A detective with a warrant is awaiting such a s immons." 'Vou haven't the nrof for a warrant." "For the theft of the pearl? Well, perhaps not. The time has been so short. I have the evidence of your ccnver.ati m, an analysis of the dust in the shagreen box. which turn3 out to be ground glass, ini several false keys and black beards, waich

I just found in your drawer. After awhile I can make a case, I think. And there will be plenty of opportunity, for the warrant of which I spoke Is for 'obtaining money on false pretenses,' and a score of such charges will succeed it." Mr. Auckland turned about in his chair and faced his accuser u Ith the tranquil, assured air of a successful business man. "You have me on th-i hip." be sail. "Now, what amicable arrangement can we make?" "I want that pearl." "I have an important eneag'-ment in Eondon, and I'm booked to sile tomorrow. If I return the gem will you molest me?" "No. oil Mr. Black is fond of you an 1 very sensitive to ridicule. I would not expose his credulity unless necess.iry." "You woull best keep papa in-law under a glass case for jerked ieef. he's very fr.h. Well, here it Is." and Auckland, with a smile, toc-k the shagreen cas" from his plsf I pocket and dl -played its shimmercontents. "It will be an heirloom." he continued, as Maxon opened the door, "so I fully understand yoir interest. And I rincerely trust that your good wife may be preserved from the untoward fate of my great-great-grandmother, the l.ady Catherine. OoMnight, sir. I am most pleased to have met you. N. Y. Times.

HIUFK lirMHtF.D OF TIIKM. Spirits Svrnmp Dr. Iianmiinn While lie Slept In the Cabinet. Dr. Hansmann has had one physical experience So strange and so incredible to unbelievers that he hesitates to tell it, says the St. Louis filobe-Democrat. He was at Onset, in Massachusetts, one summer, where the spiritualists gather annually f'r a kind of campmeeting or Chautauqua. In lining auJul. iol a iDuIll lie ciianceu to make inquiries at a cottage occupiel b Mrs. Hoss. a medium, and the Catiells of Washlnet n. This Mrs. Koss is the medium with whom one of the scientists of the Smithsonian institute made a series of curious experiments. He had constructed a large cage. Tins cage was supended by a strong rope which passed over a pulley and had weights attached. A registering device was so arranged as to note any change in the weight of the cage an 1 its contents. The professor put the medium in tne cage and hoisted it up toward the ceiling. He then wtachel the weighing apparatus to see if either reduction or increase in the averdupois took place when the medium passe 1 under spirit control an i maniles'.ations took place. The spirits came one or two at a time and showed themselves -in form materializations. While the spirits were present tne casre and the medium weighe 1 form eighteen to twenty poun is less than when the medium, in a natural condition, was hoisted from the floor. Put this is to be the story of Dr. Hansmann's most remarkable experience. He took a room in the cottage of Mr. and Mrs. Koss. In the course of a conversation, soon after he had located, the doctor suggested th.U he would like to try the experiment of sUt ping in the medium's cabinet some niht. "You can sleep there any night you like," said Mrs. Koss, "but I wouldn't do it for JCO" The next night the doctor attended a Seance at another medium's. His wife's spirit materialize i anJ said to hin: "Jo into the cabinet: I will be there." The- doctor's si-n np; fared and said: "Ves. papa, go; I Will be there." The doctor had not meiuici.ed his purpose to slfp in the cabin-t to anybody but Mr. and Mrs. Koss. but his spirit friends had soi-.ithow divined his intention, and came through other mediums to urge him to carry it out. "A fur that." said the doctor, in narrating this experience. "I couldn't bark out. Indeed. I had no idea of giving up the notion. As soon as theu weather became cooler I sail one ni-.-ht: " 'Well. Mrs. Koss I think I'll sleep In the catiin-'t tonight." "'All ii 4 ti i . ' she said; 'I've no objection, but i wouldn't do it for the whole world.' "I didn't propose t hive any tricks played on me. So when the other people wt re out I mad-.' a thorough examination of the cabinet. Some time before I had tried the planks in the floor and had looked under the house and all around to see if there were any contrivances to aid in deception. Well, after the- foil: ha! j-'one to bed that ni.-ht I entered the cabinet and sat down. It wasn't with the. expectation of anything happening th.it 1 made the experiment. It was simply because I was looking into everything connected with spiritualism, and the idea of a ninlit in the cabin- t struck me as a novelty. I sit up for some time without observing" any thin unusual. The f!rst development was the formation of a white cloud. Next I thought 1 reeotni.'-ed three forms, but they quickly passed away. "Then 1 thought I heard whispering all around me. The sounds were contused, as if many persons were taking part. I could catch word:; and phrases in diiferent languages (Jorman. French, Italian. Greek, Knglisli. llul 1 couldn't ret them in sentences to in'ike any sense. "Does K iss talk that way to his wife?" I asked myself. 'Are they whispering in 1 1- room.'' "The bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. Koss was next door, and the thought came to me thit they might be getting up a little entertainment at my expense. I de ide l not to show that I bad observed anything unusual. Suddenly four forms stood before me. They were Indians in illuminated garments. " 'How do you do. Mr. Koss?' I asked, still on my guard against a joke. "'Me not Mr. K .ss. Me Ills Chief lied Cloud.' was the reply. "Itel Cl-ud havin-r announced himself, introduce I his coin pin ions as White Wing, White Feather and one oilier, whose name I have forgotten. We conversed awhile, and then Jted ("loud proceeded to thump and rub me all over, as If giving a vigorous message. As a conclusion to this program he put his lingers upon my eyes and a most delicious feeling ensued, something I cannot dt scribe, for 1 never feit anything like it before. Just tlun there was ascream, and Mrs. Koss came rushing to the cabinet, crying out as If alarmed: " 'Oh. doctor, how are you?' , " 'J'm all right.' 1 said. " 'Give me your hand,' she cried. "I took her hand, and as 1 stepped out of the cabinet 1 saw the whole room tilled with spirits. There was my wife and my son, and over, so many more. It was as if as many people as possible had crowded in. Hut directly the conditions beiran to fail. As the power decreased the spirits sank. Those in the rear farthest from me. went down fastest. The crowd seemingly passed' thio.ieh the rlo-r. I was very t.-rry. after all was over, that Mrs. Koss had come to the cabinet. She and Mr. Koss, however, said thatthe whole house seemed to be full of terrible noises. This statement was confirmed by the Cabells. Nobody could sleep. "It took some time to pacify Mrs. Koss," continued the doctor. "When the household and quieted down I determined to try again. It was of no use. Nobody came. I went to bed. In the morning I was up at 5:30 and Into the water for my bath. When I returned to the cottage all were sleeping. I went to the hotel and took breakfast. On my second return to the cottage the people were still In bed. evidently making up for the sleep lost in the night through my cabinet experiment. It occurred to me that I would go right away to a medium and learn something about the events of the night. 1 acted at once. TlJe medium was Stansbury. I wrote out this question: " 'W ho were my visitors?' "Immediately these names were given by occult teleprgahy: Ked Cloud, White Wing, White Feather, my wife Sophie, my son Otto, Prince Kudolph of Austria, Albrecht Dnrer. Gen. John A. Hogan. James A. Garfield, Gen. U. S. Grant. Raphael, Walker Haine, Sir Joshua Reynolds and several other artists, Abraham Lincoln. Ole Bull, Charlemazne, Confucius, Cicero, Homer, Hytpaia, Socrates, Piato, Hippocrates. Cleo-r-itra. Josephine, Robert Burns and his lypatia, Socrates, Plato, Hippocrates, CleoHeine. my brother Christian, Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Martin L.uther, Xenophon, three of the Herods. Osceola, Miantonomah. Samosett. Massassolt, Pocahontas. Tecumseh and others, SOU friendly spirits in all. "From Stansbury I went at once to Colby, the medium, for a slate writing. I sail nothing, but held the two slates in my hands. When he took them apart there was the picture of Red Cloud. " 'Ho. Red Cloud!' said I. T m so glad to receive your picture after that visit of last nicht.' Then Rel Cloud gave me a communication in which he told me the names of the fourteen other Indian spirits who had been with him on tht isit. He said that altogether more than 3'W spirits had materlalizwl for me on that occasion." What will the psychical science congress say to this? Dr. Joh niton's Monomania. The boundary line between habit and monomania is rather shadowy and vague. Dr. Johnson had an irresistable impulse to touch every post he passed. Sometimes he would force himself to po by one, only to return and gratify his strange wish. New York Recordjr. Willing Trade. Haverly "Ird Ston-ycrops Is over htc making American notes,- is he not?" Austen "Y'es. I have two or three of the.n in mv poci t. Do you wi.nt to take them o.T my uan'.s?" Agents male big money telling The Sentinel Almanac fr 1833. Write for terms to Sentinel. agents. Address IndianapoHs

A LARGE ELEPHANT LOOSE.

UOW AJAX DEFIED TIIK MOB AMI SAVED THE SHOW. Those Who Mere !ot Killed Flrd In n I'll nie Th Kxvltlnu Ks pe rl .Mice of a Circus in South Amrrira Thr i Elephant Aftt cvv.ird Fell TIirouKb a 1 Itril;;c iindWas Killed. Three or four times In my ca as a circus man I saw one or moie - .ephants get Ioo.sp and raise Cain, but I never saw one turned loose tut once, and then it was to sive the sh' w. and he did. Thus said a Michigander who was waiting ur his train at the Tlurd-st.' depot the other day. Of course l.e was asked lor th details, and he continued : "It was a good many years ago, wv-n De Haven had the .'greatest show on earth.' H13 as the first American circus to make a South American trip, and he made barrels of money. He put the price of admission at about 50 cents in our money, and we took dye-wool, hides, blankets, t. nd lots of other things in place of money. I was at the door once when I took in four good horses, and again when I took in ten fat cattle. People would come for forty or fifty miles to see the show, and if they had no money we stood ready to accept almost anything else. The menagerie tickled them most to death, ani the cireüs performance Just raised the roof. Our performers were looked upon as something more than mortal, and the girl who rode bareback and jumped through hoops coul 1 have had her pick of millionaires for a husband. "We had four elephants, one of them a very big fellow who now and then had ug'.y and dangerous moods. He didn't take to the people at all. and on' their part they evinced the greatest fear of the elephants. I don't suppose one person .in a thousand had ever been one before. When we got to Lima, in Peru, old .-ijax as we called him, had a fit of the sulks. I was saperlntedent of the menagerie and when we came to make ready for our street parade it was reported to me that Aj.ix refused to go out. I found hnn standing very quiet, which you may set tiown as a dangerous sign in any elephant. His trunk hung almost motionless, his eyes were half-close 1, and now an I then his tail switched in a vicious way. Th-re wa plenty of signs that that he was 'otf,' and 1 gave orders that he should remain lw-hin-1. He was chain 1 by a fore and a hind leg to stakes driven in the groan 1, an 1 his dnve; remuii-M with him. keeping bis weather e e op. n. "1 expect that Ajax was further stirred up by being left out of the parade, for he was a proud oi l chap, un I wanted to he-id ihe procession on al: occasions. Wh-n we returne.1 he showed h s tempei by k ie ekln q over a horse, whkli cam" within rech of his trui.k. a'.d for a quarter of an ho ;r he kept trumpeting and R:rair.ing at his bon Is. We l-t him alone and by and by he quiete 1 down. "Ve got in from the parade about noon. Kvei-yliody had had dinner and we w e getting ready for the 2 o'clock performance w'hen one of the canvas-men got into a row with a native on the outside. We never could find out just hew it st 11 ted. but the native drove a knife into our ma 1, and was promptly shot bv another canvas-man. and then the row in-ja.i. U lr men were driven into the tent, and though the poKce came up and tried to quiet tilings they grew worse. A mob beg. in to gather from every direction, and in less than half an hour fully öoa natives, most of whom wer a tough lot and reaily for a shin ly. formedfor a rush. Every man of th'-rn was aimed.'and the intention to annihilate tne whole outht was freely expressed. Th a mob had formed to the east ot us In a wide street. We could gather only about fifty men to oppose it, .ml things were looking blue when old Ajax leg.in to trumpet Hjain. The excitement bad worked him into a state of fury. It suddenly occurre 1 to nie that the elephant mi;:ht save us. and without Consulting anybody I ran over and slipped off his chains, and yelled to the men to raise the flaps at the door and stand clear. . "If the elephant hadn't been so excite 1 he would have ben the death of me as I worked at the chains, but as it was he gave me no attention. When I cast him loose he male straight for the open.ng and the crowd. He was mad all over and 1110; e dangerous than thres wild locomotive.-.. Screaming with rage and flinging his trunk about he dashed into the crowd, and what hfppened will never be forgotten in that old town. The c. owl was panicstricken at the s.ght of the m. nster, bat the people were wedged in an " cu 1 n d move quickly. Ajax used his trunk as a soldier would a club or musket, and he shoved the fellows down by the d-'Zen. He Just swung riht and left, anJ cleared the way through and then came ba?k. Now anil then he pi r ked up a m in a-,.d fluni; him over the heads of the crowd, and again he smashed one flat by a blow en th? head. Itwas sever or eight rn;n ites before the last man got out of his way, and then he turned his attention to otehr things. There was a bronze staue in street set up in honor of srae military hero, and he pulled it down and rolled ft asi le. He uprooted four or nve shade trees, tore down several awnings and 1molishel an iron fence, and no one dared to interfere with him. Among other things he picked up a horse fie 1 l a pjsi wrenched him loose and Hung him a full thirty feet through the air." "How- lid it end?" was asked, as the man paused to reii jht a cigar. "Weil, he worked his 'mad' off and came back to the tent of his own uccorl. and for the next two months was the best natured elephant in the business, lie .broke about four inches off his right tusk in the men killed and about forty more or Ifss rumpus. There were seventeen or eighteen hurt. We expectet a blo- nung row with the city o;fioials. but were agreeably disappointed. They got the ilea that the eiephant had gained his liberty by accilent, and you can be sure we didn't give ourselves away. Then our canas-man and it couldn't !e shown that we had sought revenge. We had simply gathered to defend ourselves, as we had a legal right to do. I took four or live days to get thnuh with it. but we came out on top at the er.d. and for the next six months Ajax was the greatest drawintj card in South Amelca. After we got out of Lima we used to hang a placard on his sides which real: Tiiis elephant killed 100 men at Lima and tore down twenty-two buildings.' and you couldn't hire a native to go within ten feet of him. Poor old chap, he returned with ns safely to fall through a bridge in Virginia and meet his death on the rocks below. It was, perhaps, as well that he did so, however, as he had been sulking for several days and had made a break for the wagons ahead of him. It was a narrow highway, hemmed in by a dense forest, and had h run amuck he would hive created damage to rive times his value. Don't long to see an elephant get loose, my boy especially a tig fellow who is aching to make things hum. He isn't as long or w ie as a cyclone, but he is more to be dreaded." Detroit Free Press. JOHNSON'S MACH ETS C OIL! instant Killer of Pain. Internal and External Cur? RIIEUMATISU, K EUKAL (Vt- , Hwlliuet, Surf Joluto, CcUäC and t- Y. --""ORAM PS lufiitlj-. CholeralorPJF .J1- -dm. Croup. lJiptheria. bore Throat, Pii ij-Jff itwfiH EADAC11E, i lr niagic. TUC UflBCw POQUn Especially prer.cred for int nUriot Dil ARU. sto. Double StroiKTh, theraoFt Powerful und PenetrnliugLinlnientfor Man or Beast ia eiisteuce. Large $1 tire 7öc 5oc. elzc 4oc JOHNSON'S ORIENTAL SOAP. Medicated and ToUct. Tha Great 6 kin Cur- and Face Beautifier. Ladies wid timl it etaio. t cielicate and highly perfumed Toilet Soap on tho market. 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