Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 16, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 July 1885 — Page 2

THE MAI la

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TKKKB HAUTE, JULY 18. 1885.

WHERE ARE THE WICKED FOLKS BURIEDf

-headed sexton," I said, Is field are the wicked folks

"Tell me. "Where Iri laid? 1 htiv* wandered the quiet old graveyard through. And KiudLteU the epitaph*, old and new But on monument, obeiixk, pillar or stone 1 read of no evil that men have done." The old sexton stood by a grave newly made With hfccbiaon his hand, his band on a spade I knew ay the gleam of his eloquent eye That hi* heart is instructing hi# lips io re* ply. "Who is to judge when the soul takes Its flight? Who Is io judge twlxt the wrong and the right? Which of us, mortals dare tossy That our neighbor wai wicked who died today? "In our Journey through life, the farther we The baiter we learn that humanity's need Is charity's spirit, that prompts us to And Bather virtue than vice in the, liy«$ Of our kind.

Therefore good deeds we record on these stones The evil u.en do let it die wi'b their bones. I have labored as sexton this many a year, liut I never have buried a *ad m«n here."

The Miner's Story.

little knot of miners were gathered round the tire iu Pat Murphy's drinking saloon, situated in that delightful locality known todlggers as Rattlesnake Gulch. They were listening eagerly to the details of a story related bv Gentleinan Jack, a member of their fraternity who had recently visited San Francisco.

Old Grizzly smoked in silence for some time aud the miners bad resumed the usual occupations of their idle hours, drinking, smoking, playing poker and quarreling, which amiable amusements had been morrentarily suspended in ordar to wclcome the return of the "Wan derer" with due ernpressemenl, when suddenly the deep voice of Old Grizzly was heard above tbe babel of tongues, isaying: ''This story of Jack's about tbe Devil's Panniken and the man they found there puts me in mind of what "befell me and a mate of mine when we were riding through tbe same place one October nigbt bard upon twentv years ago. His Satanic Majesty had a band ib that lob, if ever he bad anything.1' "(Spin us your yarn, old chapl shouted a down voices and passiug tbe word for afresh supply of whisky, they gathered closer round the log-fire, filled their pipes, and prepared to listen with the keen interest of men who lead an solated and monotonous life fa1 from the stir and life of big cities, aud are therefore ever ready and eager to hail the smallest incident with pleasure while a good atorv teller Is regarded with universal respect. Rattlesnake Gulch was at that period a comparatively new aim, on the very outskirts of civilization, and news from the cities was long iu reaching the denizens of this locality. "What I aui now going to tell boys, has never crossed my Hps rr that dav to this, and most likely never would,if I hadn'tchanced income along

Buiuk politely requested by his hearers "Shell it out!" Old Grizzly continuWhether you believe what I'm

to ed iroing to say is no matter now MoveV though

little euougb of them when

N--S

wasyounjr

but as luck or fate would have it, I rode through tbe Davll Paunlken on the 81*t of October, that special night I going to tell you of. I wasn't alone wither perhaps, if I had been,

should

not have fell so jolly for. not to *P®j*k of tbe louellnes* of the place, witb its

great black rocks towering up on either side of vou, and almost shutting out the skv, except for a narrow strip overhead, ami the place had an ill name both with the Injuns and with tbe miners. Many a queer tale was told round camp-fires, and folks said the place was haunted that miners had lost their way there .many a time, and bad never beeu seen or heard of again. "I 'd beeu working all that season at a claim--* new t.a then, but worked out and fvt -inn now—which wo used to «U OtM Dick's, because a Cherokee

Injun first showed us tbe place. There was perhaps a doaan of us all told but I x'ho mated and worked from the first along with a chap they o«lled the Fly jing Dutehutau.' When we had been to gtethar a goodiab bit, he told his real nstue wa« OtrneHns ertnudvn and I acquainted him with mine and where ha led from. He waa a Dutchman, sure enough, but had traveled half over th* "world, I used to think from his talk and he could speak as good English as y*u or me--or any

A dubious am hovered for an instant Gentleman Jack's lips at tbia naive statement, but

nobody

observed

him they were all intent oh Old i'?*«y and his varn, aud that worthv continued "We began to find

oar

claim about

cleaned out, and we—t !*t*e me and vermudyn—reckoned v» make tracks before the winter, and get down

'Frisco

IS 1Vn Tutlli-

i- ilken. &*1 i. »«»st f*l Ung

way.

Well, we each had a good horse ann nice bit of grM. we waa ew^rn watee—come wl-.n^ht-eowertsrt^i riding as far as we dd by a cair-'ng out i! to cb a :le«»" .t or d-.g.*"«*

night, it as it we'd

no i.-.^k from the beginning. We I

:WMM f- na U!'..r.. ag^- StWT I Ml, l-iittK-'"" 1 to ««m.» OI «is-r.-l-d4it We. We'd re** r*~lv ..,da\ ever ft iH:" Annd whee we t»

lt seemed somehow as if I knew tbat place well, and 1 began to ride on quickly. "•Stop!* hollered Vermudyn, 'unless you want to lame your horse or break bis knees among those rocks.' As be came up witb me, he pat his hand on my arm, and 1 drew rein. "'Anyhow,' I said, 'let's get ont of this, and then we'll camp for the nigbt. I'm as tired as a dog, and can hardly stick in my saddle." •"Wby not camp here?' says Vermadyn, with a laugh. 'Who's afraid 'I'm not—if that's what yoa mean, I answered but I'd rather camp oatside." "'A good two miles of bad riding,' said he, quietly.' 'Why shouldn't we content ourselves witb a snog corner of the rocks, where we can shelter from tbo wind As far as I can make oat, there's brash and litter enough for a fire, and we've got a bait for our horses.' "While be talked and argued, I grew more and more tired, exactly a»if 1 bad ridden a hundred miles withowt drawing rein. It seemed then as if 1 didn't care what came next, so long as 1 eould roll myself up in my blanket and snooee. so 1 answered abort enough: 'Have yoar own way. Tbe place is oars, 1 reckon, as mueb as it is other folks." •The pixies and demons yoa mean,' laughed Vermodvn. 'I know a* tbe miners' tales I Never fear. I «tere wager we shall see nothing worse than ourselves, if we stop for a month* of Sundays. Did yoo ever hear,' he vest on, 'of the White Witch of the PsDoi ken She should meet us hereaboats, all tales are true. Sb6 waits for lonely travelers, and shows them gold in the rocks where gold never was iu daylight and if a man is teaspted, for the golds sake or hers, to spend the nigbt wftb her, he's never seer* or beard of in this world again. Sbe feasts bim with tfce sight of big nugget»and her own beauty, while sbe sucks bis heart's blood? like tbe vampyrejjaad when his body ie drained to the last drop, be is flung: aside among the roeks or dropped in some dark gully and then she comeaback to watch the road for afresh prey.''

I've heard of the WbRe Witch many a time but I never knew the rights of the story until to-night,r said I. 'But witch or no witeh, we'll have to stopt tbe road grows harder, and my horseseems to stumble-at every step. It's sedark, too, I can bardly see my band before my face yet it seemed almost daylight when we rode into the gorge 'The pair of os will be too many foa tbe White Witch, anyhow,' said Verinudyn. 'Too much human society don't agree with her ghostly constitution.'

We had stopped together, and I w» just going to get off toy horse, wheH Vermudyn sang out in a burry: 'Isee a light 1—there to the left. Let's ride up. We may find a party forced to camp out like ourselves or they may b® Injuns and any company is better tban none to-night. 'Right enough,' says I, rubbing nay eyes. 'There is a light, and a pret)

!,w«i

ou,

rum

Just now, as Jack was speaking about the body those navvies found in the Devil's Panniken."

I be

can understand how

it all came about. Well, as

said bo

lore, the time was hard on twenty yearn ago, aud the night was the last iu October "Bedad, and it's thatsame night now!"

^l"8o U"is!"^acquiesced Old Grizzly "but I never thought of it till this minute aud now the whole thing comes round again on All Halloween, of all nights in tbe year. Th se ot you boys who've boen raised in the old country will know what folks believe, in most village# and country places, of Halloween, and the straugo things that bapneu then to men abroad at midnight, and to lads and lasses who try the Halloween spells for wives and husbands." "Sure every body knows them things, agreed Murphy, casting an uneasy glance over his shoulder as he spoke. "Well, true or false, 1

for

one thought

strong one, too a steady Jigbt, mate, aul not a Will-o'-the-wispw 1 never heaadt before of white man or Injun dariugto caehp ia th# Devil's Pann&en.' "•Well,

must gdupTjuietly till we

can see our company said my mate. We don't watit to dirop»ou a gang of fi«^t)^tM^wTib'll eaefe us of tbe daet, |and then luave us wiih a bullet through our beads, as a partiug gift.' "After this, we rode forward iu silence for what seemed a quarter of a tnile but we went at a foot's pace, on accouutof picking our way among the roots that lay thick in the road. Then, as we turned a aharp corner, we saw all at once that the li&ht came not from a camp-fire, but from a house!

WgH/sayf I, 'in all tbe years I've worked in these parts, man aud boy, and tramped from claim to claUn, I've never heard tbat there was a nut or shanty in this place.' "•Nor I neither,' returns Vermudyn •but perhaps it's a new spec though what folks could waut a bouse where there's neither gold to Uud nor land to farm is more than I can tell. We may thauk our luck we've tumbled across it.' "He jumped off his horse as we drew rein at the door of the queerest old house levefMaw. It was a tumble-down sort if a place, half stone, half wood aud the wooawork was fast going to decay, though we could see plainly enough that time and money had once been spent over It. The stone was pretty rough but the house was all pointed gable-ends and queer-shaped long windows. The high-peaked, overhanging roof aud the diamond panes reminded me of houses I'd seen in England when I was a young un. The pointed gabies were faced with carved oak and heavy oaken beams, black witb age, formed the framework of tho upper stories while tbe spaces betwen were roughcast with shingle and plaster. The wickedest old faces were grinning and leering ut us from tbe carvings above the windows and we could see the whole place, every sth-k and stone about it, as plain as davlight. We had been riding in darkueas through the Devil's Panniken, a darkness that grew blacker as we went on and the light from the house fairly daaad us at first.. Kvery window flamed as though there were jolly fires in each room, and hundreds of candles. The place seemed all aflame Inside and out the walls were as bright as if the iroon was shining her clearest and strongest full on tbe bouse yet," said Old Grizzly, dropping his voice impressively, "there was no moon at all tbat nigbt 1 We stopped aud looked at one auother in wouder, and then stared at tbe bouse again. We could hear sounds inside now quite plain, men's voices, and women's, too. Ugly sounds besides, that I couldn't understand such howling and shrieking a* though all Bedlam were let loose inside—wailing like some creature In pain, and roars of mocking laughter. I turned deadly cold, and abivwml as if it were midwluter.

For mercy's sake, let's get away from thia madhoa-o—if ttV not »ome*hiug wor«!' sat'I I. 'All's not right iiore and I'd go aftwt all night before I'd re»»t in 'hat plscp.' returned Vermudyn, in bis ii*!(»tuoui wav. 'I'm going in auyhow and you'll stop and see fair play, I IttlQWa* "The Hiho! if "it was be seized my arm and 1 m&iv. -o tbe bouse while a gipsy»k»k:ng felt..** came out for our bors#«. after unloaded our knap*»cks and inn a eta. gold was sawed a around my »d I d* «'rnilr.d har.t ?.»r U'e, 'f need Ur whif" 1 «a-« d^'-i-mimd U» see Vcrmti lyn thimu-ii ine night's adventrr-', f^r it i" mr jv«wer. ••V-rtaiidvn Hpjv-ar afraid ,11 hu .dn»--ik,U wa» «n ir.m. He in tii,'. bawls. :-.--iu j[a^ly,fti»d

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

And stepping across the room, he opened a worm eated cupboard in the farcorner, and took oat a suit of faded green velvet, tbe cot of which reminded me of oid pictures I'd seen at home and when Vermudyn torrk them out and looked

held something to the light, it was a little box of carved ivory, yellow with age, a ad strangely shaped but Vermadyn seemed as familiar wstbltas be war with the rest of tbe wonders in tbat boose, for he pressed a spring, and tbe lid flew up, disclosing a sparkling chain made like a snake, with shining scales of beate»gold tbat glittered in the flickering fireUg-bt. bile vermudyn was aMil looking at its twfeted eoil* and mattering to himself, tbe dbor opened, and* a troop of "figures crowded into the rooa*-" "Of tbe twoop of figures who came flocking in»o th»t8trange and- mysterious bouse, I observed tbatsoraeof those behind held more lights, though the room was bvi{$bt enough already, wbile tbe foremost aarrsed dishea. B*»t I had no «yes for Mie meat and drink they brought, nor fbr anything but a girl in tbeir midst and it was just sfae same with Vermudyny I saw in an i»8tant only, wbile I wa» full of horror aud a dread I cou doti shake off or overcome Vermudyn fel» no fear, no surprise only an intensedeligbt flushed b» face witb joy, and hie eyes glittered^ as he came forward eagerly to meet the girl, who, it seemed to me, was pale aedeath, with eyes tbat glowed like flame, "I think I never saw so colorless a creature to iive and move—if indfced she did live. And bar hair—redder, aud yet more golden tb&3' the chain Veramdyn held—was coiled' round her beautiful bead iu the same snaky folchti Sbe never looked at nae for on instant, but went straight to Vermudyn, a»d putting both ber bands in his, said) some words in a strange- language thatsound'ed line spoken music. It wasthfrsweeteat I ever heard, and the softest. He ,answered in the saoae tongue, laaghing iand clasping tbe bands she put his.

From that minute, he fell uudter ber spell, and had ne^eyes or ears for anything save that strange white woa»an. "&be poured oa4» wine for bim^aAid he drank it with feverish baste, still' looking at ber and holding ber hand. I noticed, though, that he shuddered! when Hbfgtirat touched? him, as if fcer bands 7T* icy cold but be felt tbat no*kmger as be was just mad like and stupid, as a bird with a sna* e. He could oufjg watch Ber with wild eyes that never left her face. "The men and" women who eame in with this awful,,beautiful creature were dark mostly, and reminded me of gyp siea I used to sae when I was a boy at borne in England.

Still I had no power to 3feak or move from n»y place, but I watched Vermudyn mere eagerly than aver. The supper table was pushed on one side aud the room was now filled with dancers, dancing madly to a wild tune, which rose louder aud bighee, and tbe dancers moved faster to keep time with the uneartbky music—unearthly and wild, but solteautiful that 1 could have listened forever

Foremost among them all were Vermudyn and the wouiau in white with the glitteriug eyes and hair. He wsb holding her fast in bis arms as they flew around ber head lay on his shoulder, and bis face was bent down over hers. But I could see, as I watched yim, that he had grown almost as white as tbe girl he held and now her great eyes blitzed with such awful light, I shuddered to look at them wbile. as sbe danced aud clapped Vermudyn, I fauoied a tingue or color came into her white lips and her cheeks were a shade less deathly. "Still tbey danced, and still she grew brighter aud warmer, but not like a woman yet. And Vermudyn, like a mere straw drifting round and round in whirlpool, became weaker and fainter ever minute, and his face now was something ghastly to sec but bis eyea were still fixed on tbe girl, and he could *»ee nothing and feel nothing besides. Her shining hair had got loosened in the dance, aud seemed to be flying arouud them like thin golden flames as they moved. "It was she, now, who held Vermudyu up aud forced him still to danfe. Hi& arnn were round her yet but her strength alone sustained the fainting man.

her feet scarcely touching tbe ground. The noise grew furious and deafening— music and laughter, shouts and screams that made my blood run cold, with snatches of old songs between, were all mingled together in one hideous mighty roar. "The faces of the men, or the demons who took their shape, got more fieuditb as tbey danced when suddenly tbe dancers swept out of the room iu a wild crowd, just as tbey had entered it, and in their midst Vermudyn, lying dead, or senseless, on tbe floor. I tried to move—to reach him somehow at that desperate pass bat I couldn't stit a fin ger. I struggled to shout aloud-to call bis nant«. 1 might have been dead for all tbe nelp I could give bim. I bad no power t" speak or mute. "Dirt iy the demoniacal crew left the room, utn lights seemed to fade and the fire grow dim. Thick darkness fell «ver everything, and I could not see a ray'of light from where I lay like a helpless log. "I remember nothing more until opened my eyes in broad daylight, stiff, and shivering with cold. I was lying at tbe entrance of a little cave among tbe rocks, wrapped in my blanket, and close to tbe ember*of adying fire. My horsey I saw, was picking not far from me. "I was still in the Devii'a Panniken, snre enough. I saw the r»»ad by which we had come 'aat night but the place was af ange t» me those were not the r' I had wen nefure, which sur «.is aded th* place where we had spent the nigbt.

IFc I was quit* alone now, and »marf awake! Tbe house and all ets* had vanl*hed. A* the recollection** of me: she past night cam* crowding hack, I

»v .,.- time.! -prang up and lot kd around me in ar. I -icor f. Tbe h'*u*»-—»he very rt**H _..:b I'd been wa**o di*»ncilj fore mr m»nV«er». that I et/.i staring iii .*!»••,so dud utyacdf t' oe. c11 fwdherli- liajw, i'T Th«? I no Wrinndjn I i»»v m*!i that Wi»* clean u»ad. I t*a«rtied

for bim io a sort of frantic bnrrj, and sbonted his name, hot heard o»ly the echoes answered me. 1 tried to get further into the cave at the mouth of which I'd been lying but soon found the way closed by a big

them over csrwfully, tbe whole thing cbank frock. There was no other ootstruck me so absurdly, that I began to let to tbe cave, and there was nothing to laugh like a maniac, though still I had explain the mystery. There was no no power to speak. I wanted to tell sign of Vermudyn or Ms horse: that, him be would look like a tembling no dowbt, had strayed during the night, mounteback at a fair, if be rigged him- "I *und a hunch of bread and some self out io tbe velvet suit but I only meat to my wallet but I was too exlaughed and nodded at him sUenily cited amd wretched ever Vermodyn'e from the chimney corner, like some disappearance to light a fire and boil drivelling old dotard. some tear. As soon as I'd swallowed "However, do didn't put it on, but, as down my breakfast, I mounted my if struck suddenly by another thought, horse, and" rode backward and forward threw it aside, and opened a cupboard for a good) two hours searcMng for the near tbe fireplace. He smiled again. *1 body, for was dear in my own mind knew it was here,' be said, softly, as be turned to tbe fire, and stooping dow», it. It

tbat my poor ok) mate was dead. "Dead or aHve, I hated to* think of riding away and leaving hist there in Devil Panniken, But it was no good. I bunted every hole and cornerwithin a mile of the plaee—as near as* I could judge—where we had spent the night. At last I gave up tbe hopeless search— signs of Vernrodyn any where and before noon, I1 had turned my borse'a Mead away froaathe wretched plase, and fbr the fii-st mile er so I rode so hard »od fast tbat I began to blame my own fotly iu running away in broad daylight. "I felt my br«u reel as I passed mile af9er mile along the lonely road, t&l at last I began to wender if the Vermudyn I thought I knew was ever a living maor or if be made-part of a long lUde on** dieaui, which* I thought I should forget or get over. "iSnt I couldn't *heat myself so^ tbe maui had written his uauie inside nay poclaetbook, C. Herua»dyn,' and bad given me a ring be told me he esee bougtot in an eastern bazaar. I've worn the 3teg ever since, in memory of him and that awful Hahbween nigbt. "la noy own miudi boys, it's as clear as dayKght that the'body found in that cave Oentleman Jaok was telling jou of a while eiuce was-neither more or less than the skeleton of my poor old mate Vercaudyn. I never»thoiight to hear* of bis beaes being found after all these years,poor old chap? or of telling you to-niyJ&t what happened to us that Hfelloween in tbe Devil's Panniken. 1 only hope he wasu'S alive in that aw!l»l placeS-alive, and sttouAing for hvtp* shut up-there alone, acid hopeless iu the dark^while I was rMing away in sunshine »i»d clear air! Pbbaw!" muttered theboid man "it'n no good to th'n2»of that aow and tsKking dry wo«k. Another go of whisky, i^at!"

The-taurmurs of admiration, astotMshment, and feeble doatot over this wondrous etory of Old Grkariy's were arrested ere they began, and eaeh mau stopjsod short, as a low, b»n« laugh sounded through tbe room, aoa they perceived whatr being absorbed* in tbo "Tale of mystiwy," they had beeu too preoccupied to* notice befoze—nam'ey, that a strao*«r had entered the room seme time etoring the progress* of the narrative, and it was he who bad daredi to laugh.

WW1, old boy, d«nt you know nae now?*' asked the stranger. "Am so little like tbe Vermudyn you chutno»ed with in Cherokee Dick's claim?" "HA* Halloween agtem," muttered'the other hoarsely, still delaying to take the proffered hand. "And an unlucky night for rae- to turn-up, after the seurvy tricK I played you*" laughed the stranger. "BuVlook herey mate—if you« kept my ring,. I've «ept yours and I'm flesh and Wood safe, enough—no spirit or demoo, as youseem to fancy*." ©id Grizzly grasped both of his hands, looking long andi earnestly in Ms face

I thought. At time i^fwwaujFbile- "It AJVermu

seemed lik«* tbe wind sighiag through fast "y«Iaimed.

the aspens at night and thea rose to a roar like the waves breaking on tbe beach in a storm. Ye'., with all the changing wonnds, the roar of a storm, and the wailing of the wind—tears and iaughter and pain—the mus-ic still kept time aud tune, and the mad dance weut on without a pause.

US"Well,

flew around as easily as ever

Vermudynl"' be at

foond your bonea yonder in the Devils Funmken, and yet you're aliive and hearty here to-okgbt, is more than Pat Murphy or any other Irishmaa could explain." 1 had better say at once that there's no mystery about this—this*—gentleman's arrival to-night, at least." interposed Gentlwman Jack.

uHe

is a

chance companion and fellow traveler of mine, iindk, like myself, he» hails from 'Frisco last. "As you seem to be in the humor for telling'stories to night, mates," observed tbe newcomer, "perhaps, it wouldn't be amiss if I explained te my friend here, in your presence, the truth of his strange Halloween experiences on the night he parted company with me—or I with him—which ever yo» prefer." "I told you once," said be, addressing himself to Old Grizzly, "I bad traveled a good deal and spent some years in the East but I never told now much I had learned of the manner and customs of the people I lived witb or that, amoux other diverting knowtedged, I acquired theart of smoking and eating that extract of hemp known in eastern countries as •hashish 'and no one save tbos^ who have been under its marvelous influence can ever understand the wonderful reality of the illusions it produces —strong and more powerful man any o{Jum in itseffejt*, aud less harmful to

I administered a biggish dose

in a fill I gave him for an aguish turn he'd had and after tbat, as we rode alonu I let hi have some tobacco, as his wn was smoked out, and this tobacco of mine consisted almost entirely of he dried hemp, tbe true 'hashish.' Wf had not ridden a great way into the vil's Panniken, talking, as we rode, of the bad reputation of tbe place and ti vasious legecdsconcerning it, wben t| drug b.-sgati to take eflect on mv old ft lend here, and he would have fallen from his horse, if I had not kept close beside bim and supported him with my arm. As matters were then, I decided to dismount and camp for ibe night. For myself, I'd never been afraid of man or demon, and I knew my companion could g'i no farther so I easily persuaded bim to stop, though several times he muttered something about riding on. "Well, 1 wrapped him np in his blanket like a baby, lighted him another pipe, just to compos him, and set to work to make a rousing fire, for the night was odd, and a keen frosty wind came sweeping down the ravine. He behaved strangely enough for some time, muttering and talking, while I watched by him then by turns singing aud laughing, while he stared at me or the fire. On re or twice* he struggled hard to get «f but by and-by the hasbi«h overpowered him, and be slept aoundly. I remained by him tbe whole night, and then tried in the early dawn to awaken him, a* we wanted to push on. But he slept so heavily, that tbe idea occurred tn me to ride off and leave bim to wskealone, thoroughly myatified between hie hashish visions and the loss of mi"! "After I'd left him, I made tracks for the tnwn we'd determined on visiting together, nod waited for bim some days bat be never turned np and then an uneasy few that some harm bad befallen mv friend through mv own folly. *«t h"ld of iftf «nd taking a sodden for a diwoer life made my wav th" n***re*i ai'd w«ut on board a -h i*' tnrtiu for i- and whw-h. s»y ftw.iw*, in iiw4 "fan fj'ni

"Since then, I've led a roving life on sn and shore, till fate landed me here to-aight in time to listen to tbe account of cay mysterious end, as it appeared to my worthy friend'. I am sorry to spoil a good story, mates but the pleasure two o7d ehams experience in finding each other alive and hearty after so strange ar parting—twenty years ago— will, I hope, in some degree compensate for your disappointment in discovering that the White Witch of the Devil's Panniken led no band in my fate after all. "But," interrupted Gentleman Jack, 'a skeleton with a ring on its finger was found recently in tbe cave."

Quite possible," returned the newcomer: "but am happy to say it is not that of Cornelius Vermudyn."

life on the ocean wave and a heme on tbe rolling deep," tsall very well to sing about in poeiic verae, bat the poor 8aikr8 are subject to discomforts that we landman know nothing of, Jaoob Pfeimer, mate on tbe IT. S. 8. Portland*, writes tbat he never starts on a cruise* without laying in a*supfty of MishlerfaHerb* Bitters. It rs-invahJable for diarrhoeay dysentery, eolic, cramp and a!) similar diseases.

UMISS£N&."

[Detroit FteePteaal

"Tbiwfc! throb 1 tbrobl"' As regular as tbe beat of the human heart—more regular than tbe human pulse. It is tie revolution of tbe steam era screw—something heard from end to end andis«de to side of1thegreat ship.

From dawn to dark—froas dark to dawn—aever missing beat Let tbe great ship's heart miss-that beat—let the jar cease for a moment' in said-ocean, and a chit) of fear will strike- every passenger's heart. They Itoow that only a single pkiok separates- tllem* from the relentless waters—that rod—a pin—a bolt—a crank—may snap at any moment andi render the huge shlfv as helpless as a log.

There i» treachery in tbe waters when they lap and gurgle andrun softly up on 'thesaodfe, and breal&so stiti tbat a sleeping infant would be soothed to deeper si amber. There is fire aboard. Under tbe-boilers down to the dark hold —in tbe cook's galley—in half a dozen other plaese lurks a Hind who may spring up at any moment and eiasp the huge sbipin bis fiery arma.

The skjv is without a* cloud, but an hour hence-may bring a hurricane which will vex oaean and land antil every living thing eries out in* suppiication. Puff! puflfe puff! It is tbe exhaust of steam. It is. steam con trailed by watchful eyes and! experienced^ bands. Let it but secure tho mastery for a moment and the heavens will be sent by an explosion. Straight ahead* in ber path, but miles %way, is a ghas&ly obstruction. It creeps— creeps—creeps—mo-ved by some mysterious cur rent*. It is an ice berg of s»«b dimensions that the great steamship i» a button compared to the monster liy-wbeel of a 2Qfti horse-power engine, Oa the starboard bow is a bark under fall sail—on the port-bow a steamer coining head on.

Throbl-throtw throb! And t-he-Hfteyand woman and children go to tbeir befls and sleep in. peace and dream sweet dreams. Bspeand bye a fog creeps op—coming witbeut*a whisper or footfall—coming as a deadly scourge enters aoity and silently marks its victims with the touch of death. The man on the bridge reaches foo a-better glassseems j* trifle uneasy. The lookouts rub tbeir eyes and start up as if half suspecting they bad slept f»»a moment, and a band is raised to &the fog-whistle. "B.o*»! boom! boona!?'

Here and there a nervous {sleeper may start up.fet the sound, but ofely to sleep again* All is well.

Through the darkness—through the blacker mantle of the fog—throbbing, breatbfog, living—the great iron monster pushes her way„ and every few seconds the orpnious sound of tbe whistle booms out to be caught up by the wreathes and smothered in the folds, wbiob are pressing down as if to smother their victim.

Throb! throb! Boojaa boom BuA all its well!

Overdue by five daps, but no cause for anxiety. Ten days, but she may have broken a shaft, twenty days—she mast be lost, but there are hopes that some* of the people got safely away in boats. 83x months—a year—two—three—Sve. Sever a word nora line—not so much as a bit of driftwood. It is simply: "Missing."

THEHRtM IN OREGON. Mark A. Miller, travelling agent for the Erie Railroad, writes frotn Portland, Oregon, than an attack of pleuropneumonia left behind it a severe aud painful cough. After trying several remedies without success, he began using Red Star Cough Cure, and upon taking one bottle found himself on tbe road to rapid recovery.

CHILDREN'S CHATTER,

'•Grandpa,* dear, we have eoiftb to wish vou many happy returns of yonr birthday aud inamma says if you give each of us a dollar we are not to lose it 03 our way home." "They didn't pick tbat stuff qnirk enough, did tbey, mamma asked a little boy as he pusied a grocery where aevoral cakes of Limburger were taking a breathing spell outside.

George: "Do you know, Ethel, old Stokes had a perplexity fit tbe other day?" Ethel: "A perplexity fit? You mean a parallel stroke."

Said Bobby to tbe minister at dinner: "Can a church whistle?" "Why do you ask 'Cos |a owes $12 back pew rent, and he says he's going to let tbo chnrch whistle for it." "Papa, do yoa think our minister writes his own sermons?" "I have bo reason to doubt it, my son whv do von a-k "Why, 'pears to me tbat if be wrote 'eir he'd know enough about 'em to take hit eyes off tbe paper once in a wbile wh^n he reads." "Edward, what do I hear? You have disobeyed your grandmother, wht. told you juftt now not to jnmp down those ste|*»." "Grandma didn't tell qs not to.

steps would -an old lady like her!"

Health, Wealth and It*jplne*» Are more intimately connected with a sound stomach and good condition of tbe tilinod than most people suppose. Thin Wood means weakness, languor and misery, A dys^r'-b means all the horrors *n think of. Brawn's Ir»wt means enriched foiiood, a'"I dig«s-i'», fieaithv appetite, sweet sir and vilfar 'us sir-i»gtn. Mr. Henry Hallam. »»uth 17tb «tre«t, St. Louis, sur*, "Brown'a Iron BHiera relieved t:" *f purified my h| .J .i me an appetite," IU M-.V of 'tesli^ i'» Uie same w»v.

MRS. SURRATT AND STANTON.

TWO STRANGE STORIES TOLD BY WILLIAM P. WOOD, EX-CHIEF OF DETECTIVES.

(Washington Gazette.}

Sometime after the execution of Mrs. Surratt, President Johnson Bent for me and requested me to give my version of Mrs. Siirratt's connection with the sssassination of President Lincoln. I did so, and I believe he was thoroughly convinced ef tb$innocence of Mrs. Surratt. He assured me be sincerely regretted tbat be bad not given Mrs. Surratt the benefit ef executive clemency, and strongly expressed bis detestation of what be Isrmed the "infamocn conduct of Stratton" In keeping these ibets from bim. I asserted my unchangeable friendship) for Mr. Stanton wader all drcumstaacesy and wbile I regretted the course adopted by tbe Secretary of War towards Mrs. Sonatt, I would never ,/ ,• -J hesitate to perforin any act of khidness ifor him. Jresident Johnson coiawend-

ed me for my deviation to friend*, and tbe subject of association was never .afterwards discttssed between bin and 'myself. Tbe-great War Secretarj ef tbe

STnion was ne longev in power. Hfc was ap4ain citizea»of o»rRepublic, brokers in health and lettering between life-and death.

The Repuhllca« leaders had, after much pleading,-hidu«sd President Girvrnt to name Mr. Stanton for a judge of the Sbpreme Court* The* Senate promptly confirmed the nomination, but Grant, fer some reasoa^best baown to bimaelf, did not put his- signature to tbe commission, or if 1» did sign the com mission, he did not forward it to Mr. Stanton. It was at this time the latter seut fcrme, and I called at his residence o» street. When usherad into his presence I was startled at his woe-beg on* and wretched appearaues. He inquired if 1 knew the reason why that man (meaning President Grant) withheld bifr commission. I told him. Then w» drifted iu our talk to the execut.ion» herein referred tot.and he rebuked mefomot making greatereflbrt to save the* woman that was hangedi He said he* would have trusted his life in my keepings that I would* have saved bim the* torments of bell had I been more persistent in my eflbrts. I reminded himi of a»y call on President-- Johnson toplead for mercy for Mrs*. Surratt, and' thai 1 was met by L. C.'. Baker at the entrance of the Pl-esidhnt's house, andf Baker produoed au order over his(Stanton's) signature which set forth thafl should not permitted to enter thehuilding or eommuuieate with the President. "Tbo Uue," be responded, "and the* Surratt woman llaunts me so that my

nights are sleepless andt my days are miserable, and Grant aids my enemies by refusing to sigu my cominiwsiion. which would afford me temporary relief andfperhaps prolong my' life. He will

not*do it, and, \Wod,.thi» is at last the endt" Placing his-bandit» his head hecontinued: "I can not eadure the pressure I am dying, dying surely, dying now!"

A few partingewords were exchanged) between us, and the following day thedeath of Edwin M. Stanton was publicly announced- He never leceived his* commission of Judge of1 the Supreme Oo»rt, though he had been confirmed by the Senate of the United 'States.

AiDVICE TO YOUNG* MARRIED* PEOPLE. June Quiver. "Drive gently over the stonesThis piece of advice, whichkis frequently given to inexparlenced whips, may be respectfully ouggested to the newly married. There are stonyplaces ou the road to happiness, which,, it not carefuily driven over, may upset the domestic coach. Hhe first rock ahead wtJach should be marked "dangerous," is ibe first year ef marriedllfe. Here, especially, it la the first step that costs as a rule, tbe first year wither mars or makes a marriage. Duriisg this period e»rors may be committed wtalch will jast a shadow over every year that follows.

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thein, however ditl«reut from wbat they tbeuiHciveH thought. Self must be sacrificed iu «»der thereby to gain tbe help ol another beloved exlslencs. A lady oace asked Dr. Johnsou bow In bia dictionary hecauie to define pastom the knee «f a horse he immediately answered, "Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.*'

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On awakening, auddienly from sleep we feel put out aJ»d rather cross. May not the young haeband and wife expareitce leelinga not entirely different when they awake to reality from tbe dreams cf courtship and the fascinations of the hoceymoon? Everything must once more be conteteplatwl after the ordinary maimer wf tbe- world, once more witb subdued feeliogji spoken of, considered, and settled. For the first time, husband and wife ceeeach other as they actually are. Each beings certain peculiarities into tbe married state to which the other l-as to grow accustomed. Tbey bavo now to live no longer for themselves, tent

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A Colored Man's T«*tlm«ny. I was confined to my bed with rheumatism for a long time. I could not move nor suffer anyone else to move a limb, so great was the pain. I bad several erolneut physician* to treat me, but y, I found no permanent rellof from tbeir efforts. 1 wss advised at last to use Swift's Specific, which I did. After taking a third bottle I was able to get op by myself. I continued to improve. I gained several pounds In five weeks, and my general health Is better than it has been for m*ny years. If it had not boen for Swift's Specific I verily believe rheumatism wonld have left me cripple for life, as ray joints were already stiff

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