Bloomington Courier, Volume 15, Number 27, Bloomington, Monroe County, 27 April 1889 — Page 2

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! THE COURIER. I OKLAHOMA IS SETTLED. i

BY H. J. FELTTJ&

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The daughter of the celebrated Prof. Agassis is busy in Boston establishing a in anual training school. Over 2,000 boys and girls shared in the advantages -of this school last year. Efforts are -being put forth to hare the school adopted by the city. President Elliot, of Harvard, says of it, that it is not sim- - ply an industrial school, bnt in the highest sense a school of morals; and that all the pnpils demonstrate the fact. So the work progresses. Baltimore is teaching

? 15Q pnpils industrially in the public - schools; In New Orleans industrial and

manual work are compulsory. In Wash-

ington the General Government has ap-

propriated $5,000 to make an experiment 4 in teaching carving in wood work and

cooking to 1.800 children: It is the idea

- of the ace. "We must go into the twen-

tteth century with the new education universal. l- It hjls been a boast of our country that c unli ks European States we had no pro letariat certainly not outside the very I largest cities. This is no longer true. There is a marked increase of tendency to oppose all parties on the part of the masses and rally about those candidates J who appeal directly to the populace.

The party elite is by no means secure of allegiance. "Whoever has a grievance lays it, if possible, directly before the "ol

pollol." aiid the chances are in favor of his election. Semarkable illustrations

of this fact have occurred in New York

State, resulting in the overwhelming

triumph of independent candidates as

judges and mayors. Is this a growth oi

European socialism, or is it a reaction

from strong party spirit? It is clearly a

revolt against the leadership of the

moneyed classes and professional ppli

ticians. It is as likely to be beneficial

as otherwise.

THE TRIAXS, STRUGGLES AXD 8ACB1

FICES OF THE BOOMKKS PAR- . TIAiM EEWARDED.

Scone in and About Arkansas City Befor o

and During tlie Departure of Trains On the Way Wondrous Transf or mat n Scon e that bogan with the Sounding of a Bugle Wagon Boomo 9 Leave Their Vehicle!, Mount Their Fleetest Horses and Fly for a Homestead Th o Kai tway . Boomers are Frozen Out atGuthrie.Kearly Every Foot of the S20 Acres Having Been Staked Oft byMen Already on the Spot-A Wilderness Converted into a Municipality in Three Hours and 10,000 Voters Select a Mayor and City Council Fall Details.

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STJFREME COURT DKCISIONS. Two important decisions were handed down by the Supreme Court Saturday, one of them granting the writ of prohibition asked for against the Supreme Court Commission, and declaring the act ere ating that bod v void, and the other affirming the judgment of the Marion Circuit Court in favor of the relator in the case of Gov. Hovey vs, the State ex rel. Joseph L. Carson. The decision of the Supreme Court, which declares the Supreme Court commission act unconstitutional and void is a unanimous one, all the judges concurring. It was written by Cbief-iustice Elliott and is an elaborate one, covering thirty-six pages of closely written matter. Assuming the statements of the ; respondents to be true, that the court needs more . assistants, it cites authorities to show that the judicial department of the State government is an independent one and being independent it must choose its own assistants. Such had ' been the practice from the time of Queen Elizabeth in the English courts, in the federal courts and in the courts of this State. The claim that .offices proposed to be created are analogous to master commissioners or commissioners in chancery is denied. . .,- The bill, although obscure, the opinion continues; does not propose to create mere assistants, but uces assume to create judicial officers and a tribunal unknown to the Constitution. Authorities are cited to show that the whole judicial power of the State fa vested in courts composed of judges, and that only such judges can exercise its judicial powers. The Legislature has no right to. vest judicial powers in any other officers. Such powers cannot be delegated. A deputy judge is an officer unheard of in jurisprudence, and un Jin own to the Constitution. The specific duty of deciding every question arising oil eetly is imposed upon the court and as this is imperative, this duty cannot

Do . delegated: to other persons. The people have a right to constitutional

courts, and this right cannot be taken

-.away. ,-,-. . '.-

The decision of the court which holds

that the Legislature has a right to ap

point the trustees of the Insane Hospital

is likewise a voluminous document, the

opinion of the court, which is written by Judge Mitchell, covering about forty

page ot legal cap. in addition to the

main opinion Judges Berkshire. Coffev

and CMsfile opinions stating that they

concur in the conclomons reached by Judge Mitchell, but do not accept all the reasoning by which such conclusions are attained. The main

points in Judge Mitchell's opinion are

that the Constitution en joined on the

legislature the duty of establishing the

. hospital for the Insane and it did not limit it as to hew such duty should be

exercised. The power conferred car

ried with it the right of appointing offi

cers and agents. Trustees . of the hos

pital must come within this right by

reason or the general grant of power to

establish and because prior 10 the ador

sMtion of the Constitution, and ever since.

the legislature unexercised the right

10 appoint sucn trustees and has author-

r ized the Governor to appoint.

Judge Coffey in his opinion holds that

the duty conferred by the Constitution

; on the General Assembly to provide for ': ' the benevolent institutions does not carry with it the power to appoint

. officers to manage such trusts. Certain-

ly nosnch power is expressed, and if it " exists it must be by implication. An appointment by the Legislature to an 1 - office not connected with the discharge V of its duties as a legislative body, in5 I volves the exercise of executive power

or acunmistrative luncUons. By eec-

y tion 1, Article 3, of the Constitution, it

is prohibited from exercising such func-

uun nmess tne power to ao so is expressly conferred upon it by the Constitution. It is not sufficient1 that lan-

guage is uaea irom wnicn such power

-may oe inierred, it- must -w expressly

conferred. In his opinion. Section 1; Article 15, when construed in connec4 tion with the law in force at the

time ot its. adoption, does confer

on the Legislature the power to

appoint the appellee to the office he is

now claiming. By the terms of that

section the Legislature has the power to

npyvmv bucu uuiceru as it naa meneni

j to appoint under the law in force at the iime of the adoption of the Constitution,

unless a different mode of action was

provided for hy the Constitution itself, it is upon this ground and the practical construction heretofore given it alone, that he was enabled to concur. He did not believe that the framers of the Constitution intended to confer on the General Assembly any- general appointing .'power .-, ..... ...,. : Judge Berkshire, like Judge Coffey, concurs in the opinion given, by Judge Mitchell sustaining the right of the Legislature to appoint the trustees . of the hospital, but expresses his belief that the old Constitution was abrogated by the new one, and th at all governmental power not granted by the new instru- ,": ment was vested in the people. Section ' lAiticle 15 of the Constitution pro-.-yideS that all officers whose appoint- " mente ae not otherwise provided for ' m this Constitution shall be chosen in such manner as now is, or may hereafter, be, provided for by law. There were certain offices in existence when the present Constitution was adopted that were continued, and no provision is made in the Constitution for the election or aptiomtment of the officers to fill r " such offices. , , Jurfe Olds filed a statement that he coneurrod in Judge Mitchells opinion, but not in its reasoning, and Judge Elliott concurred without filing any sepa fata statement.

Oklahoma is open, wide open. The longiooked-for 22d of April has come and passed and a country was settled in

a day. lne mais, struggles ana sacri

fices of years are partially rewarded, but the events of the day made those of the days, weeks and months to

follow and will prove how far the supply is below the demand, and necessi

tate fuitber concessions to avert disor

der, bloodshed and other conditions but

kittle short 01 an archv. Tbe history , of

this one day wiil forever be memorable in frontier annals and will leave behind

a heritage of litigation which will be fruit to land sharks and claim attorneys.

but be destructive to the claims of poor

and honest settlers.

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad beean running its sectional trains

out of Kansas City Sunday- night and picking up cars at almost every station

along the route. Hundreds of peope we2e waiting at every depot and at the cars, all of which were full before the bonier line, was reached; . could they have been coupled, they would have made a train miles in length. The crowds were composed of speculators, adventurers, sight-seers, thieves, gamblers and a sprinkle of the demimonde. The farming element was not largely represented, as all of the homesteaders have gone on before. There were men in the cars from every city and important point in the country, and there was not a state or territory in the country which did not have its representatives there who filled all the seats, occupied all the standing room in the aisles and filled up the spaces between the coaches, hanging on the iron banisters and girders with a grip born of despair and determination. The newspaper coach was the first out of Arkansas City; , it contained representatives of all the leading ne wspapers in the country who were compelled to yield room and comfort for tbe good, of the cause. The conductors were vigilant in the collection of fares, but it is certain that a great many deadheads went through to the promised land in the rush and hurry and roar of tbe boomer campaign. There was but little sightseeing indulged in, as the crowd did not care to look at anything until it got to Oklahoma. At Arkansas CSty there were over seventy-five coaches side-tracked in the yards awaiting the rush. All of these were lowered into the yards at some distance below the depot. The crowd, began gathering on the platform two hours before daylight, and long before the first faint of the dawn of the fateful day the city was awake and stirring. The streets presented a live, picturesque appearance. After the sun rose crowds were rushing toward the center of action from all parts of tho city. The hotels emptied their hundreds into the streets, the hot-houses contributed hundreds more out of the hospitable homes of tbe city, nearly all of which have entertained guests during the past week... Some long strings of men carrying grips, bundles, knapsacks and parcels of every possible and impossible description. Hundreds of boomers and rustlers, in their impatience to get abroad, rushed down en masse to the yards and attempted to force an entrance into the cars, all of which were securely locked. The excitement may be judged from the fact that a large number of coach windows were broken out by people who were anxious to secure seats. A Ftrong guard of railroad men was detailed to protect the company's property,and they had a contract ot unusual dimensions on their hands. The crowd was p?nic stricken. After waiting bo many eventful days and nights for the hour of action to come, men were seized with a sudden fear that they would be left in the lurch, and that fear served to make them like a drove of stampeded cattle. There was a vain attempt at good humor in the struggle, which, concealed the grim purpose behind, and there was no quarter shown in the rush for place. It was a wild west crowd, headed toward a new field of enterprise and development, and no one who has never seen such a thing in action can have the remotest conception of it. An amusing, and at the same time pathetic incident of the early morning was a cattle train lying on a sidetrack loaded with a boomer, his horse, wagon and a cow, wife and children and all his little household effects. H was a merry fellow and guyed the crowd unmercifully for not going through , as he expressed it, without change of cars, to avoid the rush. I travel in my own special coach," said he, like Jay Gould or Vanderbilt.'' u You'll get there too late," yelled somebody in 1 he crowd. "Never mind," replied the boomer, 'Til get there all the same." The first section made up cons isted of nine coaches, the newspaper coach and one calaboose. It pulled out at 8:47, railroad time. This was the first train that ever ran out of Kansas loaded with settlers for ' Oklahoma, and even those who were disappointed in ge tting aboard of it joined in a wild, enthusiastic cheer which rent the Kansas air as the first step toward the realization of hopes and dreams of years and the reward ior the sacrifices of the past was taken. It was 9.40 when the sign, which marks the State line and the dividing line from the Cherokee, strip was reached. It was greeted with a cheer which rolled from the newspaper car in front to the rustler's caboose behind. It marked the departure from the State government toward a country where a

government is yet to be created and es

tablished. Bali the Cherokee country lay between them and the rainbow land.' There were no Indians to be

seen until after Willow Snrines was

passed, when a wagon load of bucks of the Poncha tribe passed up the trail who responded to the shouts and cheers

of those on board the train with sullen

looks and gesticulations of defiance, as not evidently pleased at the coming of the pale-iace. Along the Pawnee trail the train also passed caravan's of boomers wagons, many going south, but

some returning toward Kansas.

Between Willow Springs and the Ponca agency somebody in the news

paper car discovered a man riding on the trucks beneath the coach. Immediately an effort was made to open up ne

gotiations with . him, but they resulted

unsuccessfully till the tram stopped at

at Ponca, when the adventurous boomer on wheels was taken into the car, elected an honorary member of the press association and furnished with refresh

ments out of a bottle, which he drank

with a rush and amidst enthusiastic ap-

piause. negave nis name as warvey

Saddler, and said he was born! in England but had been in this country for

oine years, and had come all the way from Seattle, T., to get a good foothold in Oklahama. He was elected as

the representative of the London Times,

and also as the Mascot of the new city

of Guthrie, and, to make the bargain

sure, it was agreed he should have one

of the best lots in the heart of the city.

At the last station outside of the Ok

lahoma strip there was a great crowd of boomera who had forsaken their teams

and hoped to get in quicker by rail. There being no room inside, thev

climbed to the top of the coaches, and

the entire tram, from one end to the

other was lined with them. In this way

the line was leached about five minutes

after 12 o'clock. ,

lefojt th late dad lite W4Mfhi

and passed, however, the great transfor

mation scene had begun and was piainiy

visible to tbe watchers from the train. F'rst came in view the white topped wagons gathered together in groups on the level prairie or in the little valleys which diversify the face of the country. It was at once noticeable that the teams were not to be seen in any of these camps, and it was plain, that they had been taken out of the harness to be rode across the border by the bard riders, who were to locate the claims. A little further on, and this conclusion was proven to be the correct one, for the entire face of the country, as far as the best field glass could carry the sight,was overrun with horsemen, galloping to the southward. Their fleetest horses had evidently been picked for the work, and they were carrying their riders rapidly to the longed-for goal.

The ride of Paul Revere dwindles into obscurity beside the feats of horsemanship pej formed in Oklahoma Monday.

Rides of fifteen or twenty miles were

made in an incredibly short space of

timebv old boomers familiar with the

country and who knew where desiraoie

lands were located. The day was cloudless, and far away on the horiaon, both

to the east and to the west,ciouds ot dust could be seen ascending from the hoofs of hundreds of horses, rushing toward different destinations in most cases, but some of them toward the same. One race for a goal could be easily distinguished; they were neck and neck for a mile or two along the trail as far as they could be seen, and their eager and intense looks and merciless slashings were sufficient evidence of the prize that they were running after. One saddled but riderless horse was seen galloping along the trail, an ominous sign of some accident or fatality, which had befallen the rider. Some men were in charge of two horses and were evidently riding relays toward the goal. Out of the dust which arose toward the east could be seen, after the train reached the summit of a high ridge, a wagon caravan fully two miles in length, and which was being sped to the utmost speed, of its horses. These caravans were plainly out-distanced by the horseback riders, and, after several miles of the territory had been traversed, it was seen that the best riders were winning the best prizes. One homsteader, who had secured a magnificent quarter section of rolling land, had dug a hole two or three feet deep , at that corner of it where the surveyor's section mark was located, and where he. had. driven his stakes, not looking upon these evidences of possession as sufficient to confirm his title, he seized a Winchester as the train ran by and fired out all its contents and then emptied his revolver, yelling like a cowboy or a Comanche Indian all the time. Kot onlv the .yells, but the shots were responded to lrom the train, and a volley went up into tho air from the entire length of the section, which proved conclusively how well the party was armed in expectancy of what might happen a few miles the other side of the line. . The train stopped at a military post. The white tents of the soldiers and the officers' tents, surrounded by the national colors, were a gratifying evidence of a power sufficient to maintain order. The troop D of the 'Fifth regiment of cavalry of the army, was quartered there, and the officers said that at the sound of iho bugle there at high noon there had been a movement among the boomers camped along the border, which had extended across the entire frontier line, and that the riding had been fast and furious ever since, some of the prospectors running to Guthrie to file their entries and others going to locate on the land and secure a prior right to p oases ion by actual occupancy. . . The scene was one of the most stirring and picturesque ever witnessed. . The smoke of a myriad of camp-fires, lighted to cook the first meal in Oklahoma, began to ascend in. all directions, and before the first train of land-speculators rushed to the future great city. of Guthrie, the farmer had already -become the possessor of a great deal of the land, and more than one furrow of. virgin soil out of the land which had never before been tickled by the plow, was turned oyer to the sun, which has' made the day gloriouB as well as memorable. , It was twenty minutes after 12 o'clock when the first section of the great Atchison train reached the line, and its progress from that point on was notrapid enough for the rapid men who wanted to get there in a hurry, before all the cream was skimmed off the milk. Nevertheless, it lacked a few minutes of 1 o'clock when the train stopped in front of the Guthrie depot, c hajidsome and substantial edifice, which has been greatly libeled by the numerous news-, paper artists, who have drawn on their imagination tor its picture, since this excitement began. Before . the . train came to a stop it was seen that somebody was already there; in fact, the town was already well populated. Tents were numerous on the eastern slope andstake6 we're sticking up out of the ground like poles in a bean patch. , Men could be seen racing in the direction of the valuable holdings, and the scene was as busy and animated a one as it is possible to imagine. The profanity among the Ar kansas City, Wichita and Kansas City cpeculators was both loud and deep, if there has been a prospect of shooting at any time to day, it was wh en these , men found themselves bafBed at the game of freezeout. but they were compelled to swallow their wrath, for, according to all the technicalities in the law, the men in possession were the rightful owners, and the men who had been left out were the ones who had been most persistent in their demand for the law's enforcement. There was nothing to do but to take what was left, and it was in the scramble to get that that the most ludicrous scene of the day was presented. Falling over each other in the effort to get out of the cars, every variety of men along the frontier made an army which charged the land office at the top of the knoll, not in a body but in detachments. Theiand office was not their point of destination, though it stands at the corner of the section, and is, therefore, the present center of the town. But it was to secure the lots nearest to it that the rusk was made; there was but little left near it. Stakes had already been driven almost to the limit of the half section of 320 acres allowed for ai town site. As the law now stands, there was but a small

margin, and this was being rapidly wiped out by the same men who had already appropriated nearly everything in sight. It was but a few minutes until the line was reached, and the back action movement of taking up the lots, which nobody wanted before, began. They were not long on the market after the ebb of the tide set in, and when the second and third sections of the Atchison train arrived and found every thing cornered the air was blue for miles around the metropolis. There was nothing to do, however, as every? lot was protected by rifles and revolvers, and if the shooting began there was no telling where it would stop. . The only recourse left "to the disappointed men was to buy out such holders of lots as were willing to sell or run the risk of taking outside the legal limit. Both courses . were adopted. A , good number of Guthrie City lots changed hands. The first sale was made by a man namedR. C. Runnels of Mulvan, Kan,, who sold a fine twenty-five foot front lot near the land office for $5 to aa old doctor, a resident of one of the Indian reservations adjoining Oklahoma. The purchaser refused $50 for, the lot five minutes later. Several transfers were made and others who were determined ,to locate here, drove srakes outside the town line. This is prepara

tory to the purchase of the homesteader's rights and an extension of tho city limits.. SCBJfES AT QTJTIIBIB. . When the train arrived at -Guthrie from Arkaneas Oity the embryo Htreuts and lots of the new city had already been laid out by enterprising citizens who had been early on the scene. Wnrdlv had tha nflralriwd down at the

utaMsR when m$ts Is&psd f?5 th

car windows, slipped irora the 'roofs of the coaches and poured cut of the doors in streams. In a minute the slope lead

ing up from the station was black with men rushing headlong, eager for tho town lots. In t wo minutes not one of the men who bad filled tho train was left in speaking distance of the railway. By the time tt is crowd had reached the top slope ne ar the 1 md-ofiico, men who had ben running parallel lines for streetH and driving in stakes for town lots, were well on their way. along . the level titrip of land ef.st of: the land-office. The next train arriving from Arkan

sas uity orougtit i,ui:; home seed

ers about fifteen minutes later. The men in this train poured across the prairie like an army charging the wing of the enemy. They spread out north and south with aa es and. spades and stakes and began with wonderful energy the ocation of town lots and streets. The' third, fourth, fifth and sixth trains from Arkansas City swelled the number to as many thousand.

When the seventh arid eighth trains

came in later in the afternoon the crowd

had overflowed all bounds. On the east

the streets and town lots had been ex

tended hilly two mues. on the north a

mile and and a half and on tbe south

nearly a mile. No attempt has been

made. to lay out a town on the west side

of the track. This wesi; land has been

all filed on for homesteads.

Almost with the first rush of home

seekers from the cars the home Eeekers

who had started acrossi the Oklahoma

north line at noon in wagons and on

horseback began to pour into the new

city, their horses reeking wet from the

hot and lurious dnye. They tooK pos

session of such town lots in the future

Oklahoma metropolis as they could lay

claim to. Meanwhile nhe land office was

besieged by an eager and determined

crowd of men, waiting to file claims upon homesteads. As the afternoon wore on

this crowd grew larger until at closing time it reached in a regular line far

down the street toward the railroad sta

tion. Business in the land office went

rather slowly. The register and receiver did the best they could,but the pressure upon them was tremendous. The men

who were waiting to hie claims were

forced into line two abreast. Dealers in

real estate began business before

o clock in the afternoon. One enter

prising dealer had as a background for the safe transaction of business a stock of rifles which had been placed there by the government troops on duty at the land office. Near bv waB the tent of U.

S. Marshal Needles. The tent was sur mounted by a large American flag.

KING SOLOMON'S MINES.

BY H. RIDER HAGGARD.

Be Was Posted. N. Y. Sun.

The late Andrew Haight, who was for

many years Barnum's road contractor,

had a most thorough knowledge of the

railroads of this country, and kept him

self so well informed that he was fre

quently able to instruct railroad m

concerning the condition or their own

roads. "You can't stop at that point," said

railroad agent to him. "becaufie there is

no side track." "Yes there is," reF'lied Haight,

"Well. I guess I know," replied the

agent.

"Well. I gues3 von don't," retorted

Haight.

The agent made some inquiries and

discovered that Haight was right a side

track having been built at the place

few days before. On another occasion Haight was asked why he did'nt take the show direct to the objective point, Instead of making a wide detour. . "Can't o it," he replied. "There is a tunnel on that road so low that the cars carrying our wagons couldn't go through it in safety," Haight's knowledge of the country was remarkable. "Aren't we going to Texai this year?" Barnum once asked him. "No," Jie replied ; "the crops were bad there last year. Everybody is too poor to spend money for shows this year." Barnum's First Hippopotamus.

he first, hippopotamus ever seen in

this country," Baid Tody Hamilton, "was brought here by Mr. Barnum. It was about twenty-five years ago. Mr. Barnum wanted one the worst way, and had been on tbe lookout ior one for many years, when he heard" , that some natives in South Africa had caught a big fellow in a pit, and that it'had been sold to a German dealer in wild animals. The dealer got an offer of $25,000 for it and the offer was accepted. Ten thousand dollars was to be paidV when the

brute was safely placed on board vessel that was to bring him' vbver, other $10,000 was to be paid when

arrived here, and the remaining $5,000 at the expiration of three months in case the brute lived. He arrived here in good condition and was the centre of curiosity for several months. But he was so big and clumsy and required so much room that Mr. Barnum consented to rent him to a man named BerrVj who wanted to take him around the country exhibiting him. Berry paid $500 a week for him, and the venture wfts so profitable that he cleared 360,000 in one

the

year.

THE DENMARK'S ORE WAND PASSENGERS SAFE. A cablegram of Monady says: Fortytwo of the crew aad 320 of the passengers of the Damn ark have arrived at Lisbon on the steamship Acor. Mr. Raben, the first officer, who is. among them, reports that on April 4 the Danmark's shaft was broken. On the next day the disabled steamer met the steamship Missouri, from London, March 28; for ... Philadelphia and Baltimore. The Missouri towed the Danmark until April 6, when the latter seemed to be about to sink. At first the Missouri was only able to take aooard twenty of the Banmark's passengers, but after having jetsamed a portion of her cargo, Bhe found accommodations for all the orew and passengers of the Danmark. The Missouri then proceeded to the Azores and left there the first and second officers and 320 passengers. She then continued her journey to Philadelphia with 320 passengers, and the remainder of the crew. The captain and three engineers of the Danmark left the Azoros on April 14 for London on board a steamer from Danmarka. The Danmark was about 800 miles from New Foundland when the accident happened.

Some say that tho engines broke down Engineer Knas was found dead in the engine room after the accident. Thfr Bteamship Missouri, says a Philadelphia dispatch, which is now known to have 340 of the Danmark's passengers on bard. has; been watched for here forseveial days past, she being due about seven days ago, and the hope that she would knowuoaiething of the Danmark ha betn realized. The Missouri iaa new steel v ssel belonging to the Allantic transport line, and has only crossed the ocean a few limes. She is described as beinr? one of tho finest and best built boats carrying tho EneliPh flag. She is commanded by Oapt. Murrell, who has been trading between Philadelphia and London for the past six years. She sailed from . London March 26. with a general cargo. The vessel arrived oil the Delaware breakwater Sunday Tm'ht. When anidQ g .voo ior 2,000 pounds of conl he oays an exceedingly larg? pries -far eiS3piiitm

CHAPTER XV Continued. After Ignosi's visit I went to see Good,

and found him quite delirious. The

ever from his wound seemed to have

aken a firm hold of his svstem, and to

be complicated by an internal injury.

For four or five days his condition was

most critical; indeed. I firinlv believe

hat had it not been for Foulata's inde

fatigable nursing he must have died.

Women re women, all the world

over, wnatever toeir coior. . xet, somehow, it ...-seemed curious

to watch this dusky beauty bending

night and day over tbe fevered man's conch, and performing all the merciful errands of the sick-room as swiftly.

gently, and with as fine an instinct as a trained hospital nurse. For the first night or two I tried to help her, and so

did Sir Henry so soon as his stiffness

allowed him to move, but she bore our interference with impatience, and final

ly insisted upon our leaving him to her,

saying that our movements made him

restless, which 1 think wTas true. Day and night she watched and tended him, giving him his only medicine, a native cooling drink made of milk, in which

was infused the iuice oi the duid of a

species of tulip, and keeping tho flies

from settling on him. 1 can see the whole picture now aa it appeared night

after night by the liglit of our primitive

lamp. Good tossing to and fro, his teat-

vires emaciated, his eyes shining large and luminous, and jabbering nonsense

by the yard; and seated on tho ground by his side her back resting against the wall of the hut, the soft-eyed, shapely Kukuana beauty, her whole face, weary as it was, animated by a look of infinite compassion or was it something more than compassion? .

For two days we thought that he must

die, and went about with heavy hearts. Only Foulata would not believe it. "He will live" she said. ,. For three hundred yards or more

around Twala's chief hut, where the sufferer lay, there was silence; for by the

king's order all who lived in the habita

tions behind it had, except Sir Henry

and myself, been removed, lest any noise should come to the sick mau's ears. One night, it was the fifth night of his illness, as was my habit, I went across to see how he was getting on before turning in for a few hours. I entered the . hut carefully. The lamp placed upon the floor showed the figure of Good, tossing no more, but lying quite still. So it had come at last! and in the bitterness of my heart I gave something like a sob. "Hush-hh!" came from the patch of dark shadow behind Good's head. Then, creeping closer, I saw that he was not dead, but sleeping aoundly, with Foulata taper fingers clasped tightly in his poor white hand, The crisis had passed, and ho. would live. He slept like that for eighteen hours; and I scarcely like to say it, for fear I should not be. believed, but during that entire period did that devoted girl sit by him, fearing that if she moved and d?ew away her hand it would waken him. What she must have suffered from cramps, stiffness and weariness, to say nothing of want of food, nobody will ever know; but it is a faotithat, when at last he woke, she had to be carried away her, limbs were so sti ffthat she could not move them. ; After the turn had once . been taken Good's recovery was rapid cmd complete. It was not till he was nearly well that Sir Henry told him all he owed to Foulata; and when he came to the story of how she sat by his side for eighteen hours, fearing lest by moving she should awake him, the honest sailors eyes filled with tears. He turned and went straight to the hut where Foulata was preparing i;he midday meal (we were back in our old quarters now) taking me with him to interpret in case he could not make his meaning clear to her, though I am bound to say she understood him marvelously as a rule, considering how extremety limited was his foreign vocabularly. Teli her,' - said Goocl, "that I owe her my life, and that I will nevsr forget her kindness." I interpreted, and under her dark skin she actually seemed to blush, swimming to him with one of those fast and graceful motions that in her always reminded me of the flight of a wild bird, she answered softly, glancing at him with her large brown oyes "Nay, my lord; my lord forgets! Did he not save my life." and am I not my lord's handmaiden?" It will be observed that the young lady appeared to have entirely forgotten the share which Sir Henry and myself had had m her preservation from Twala's clutches. But that is the. way of women! I remember my own dear wife was just the same. I retired from that little interview sad at heart. I did not like Miss Foulata'i3 soft glances, for I knew the fatal amorous propensities of sailors in general, and Good in particular. There are two things in the world, us I have found it, which ean not be prevented; you can not keep a Zulu from fighting, or a sailor from falling in love upon the slightest provocation! It was a few days after this last occurrence that Ignbsi held his great "indaba" (council,) and was formally recognized as king by the "indunb" ("head men of Kukuanalaud. The

spectacle was a most imposing one, including, as it did, a great review of troops. Onthidaythe remaining fragment of the Grays were formally paraded, and in the face of the army thanked for their splendid conduct in the great battle. To each mim th kiug made a large present . o cattle, promoting them one and all to the rank of officers in the corps of Grays

which was in process of formation. An order was also promulgated throughout the length and breadth of Kukuanaland that, whilst . we honered the country with our presence, we three were to be greeted with the royal salute, to be treated with the ceremony and respect that was by custom accorded to the king, and the power of life and death was publicly conferred upon us. Ignosi, too, in the presence of his people, reaffirmed the promises; that he had made, to the effect that no man's b! ood should be shed without trial , and that witchhunting should cease in the land. When the ceremony was over we waited upon Ignosi. and inf ormed him that we were now anxious to investigate the mystery of the mines to which Solomon's Koad ran, asking him if he had discovered anything about them. "My friends," he answered, "this have I discovered. It is there that , the three great figures sit, who here are called the 'Silent Ones,' and to whom Twala would have offered the girl Foulata, as a sacrifice. It is there, too. in a great cave deep in the mountain; that the king3 of the land are buried, there shall ye find Twala's body, Bitting with those who went, before him. There, too, is a great pit, which, at some time, long-dead", men dug out, mayhap

I for the atones ye speak of, such as 3

have heard men in .Fatal speak ol; at Kimberley. There, too, in .the Place of Death is a secret chamber,

known to none but the king and Gagool. But Twala, who kne w it, is dead, and I itnow it not, nor know I what is in it. But there is a legend in the land what once, many generations gone, a thite man crossed t ne mountains, and was lead by a woman to the Becret chamber and shown the wealth, but before he could take it she betrayed him, and he was driven by the king of the day b.ick to tho mouutainei, and siuce then no mn has entered the chamber." "The story is surely true, Ignosi, for on the mountains we found the white man," V said. . ".Yes, we found hi m. And now I have promised ye that ii! ye can find that chamber, and the stones ar there" "The s'one upon thy forhead proves that they are there," I put in, pointing tn the great diamond I httd taken from Twala's dead brows. M!tf hapt if m fcbei V 5 SSM I

"ye shall have as many as ye can take hence if, indeed, yo would leave me, my brothers." "First wo must find the chamber," said I. "There is but ono who can show it to thee Gagool." "And if she will not?" "Then shall she die," said Ignosi, sternly. "I have saved her alive but for this. Stay, she shall choose," and calling to a mess&nger he ordered Gagool to be brought, . In a few minutes Bhe came, hurried along by two guards, whom she was cursin g as Bhe wal iced. . "Leave her," said the king to the guardu. . ...

... 1 1 ,

As soon as their support was with

drawn the withered old bundle, for she looked more like a bundle than, anything else, sunk into a heap on the floor, out of which her two bright wicked

eves tf;eamed like a snake s.

W hat will ye who me, lgnoan hub piped. "Ye dare ! not touch me. If ye touch me I will blast ye as ye sit. Beware of my magic." "Thy magic could not save Twala, old she-wolf, and it cannot hurt me," was the answer. "Listen; T will this of thee, that thou reveal where is the chamber where are the shining stones." . "Ha! ha!" she piped, "none know but I, and I will never tell thee. The. white devils shall go hence empt-handed," "Thou wilt tell me. I will make thee tell me." "How, O king? Thou art i?reat,. but can thy power wring the truth from a woman? ' "It is difficult, yet will I do it." "How, O king?" "Sfay, thus; if thou tallest, not thou shall, die,"

"Die!" she shrieked, in ierror and furv; "ye dare not touch ma man. ye

know not who I am. How old think

ve am 1? I knew your fathers, and

your fathers' fathers' fathers. When the country was young I was here, when

the country crows old I fchall still be

hero. I can not die unless 1 be killed

bv chance, for none dare slay me."

"Yet will I slay thee. . See, Gagool, mother of evil, thou art so old thou

canst no longer love we. What .can

life be to such a hag as thee, who hast

no shape, nor form, nor hair nor teeth

hast naught, save wicseaness ana evn eyes. It will be mercy to slay thee,

Gagool."

Thou fool," shrieked the old fiend,

"thou accursed fool, thinkeut thou that

life is sweet only to the young? it is

not so, and naught thou knowest of the

heart of man to think of it To the

young, indeed, death is sometimes weh

1 11 i m 1 1 1 - hi Bfc?w.;:s?'-.;

cotae, for the young can feel. They

love and suffer, and it wrings them to

see their beloved pass to the land o

shadow. But the old feel not, they love not. and. ha! ha! thev iaugh to Bee an

other go out into the dark; ha; ha!

they laugh to see the civil that is done under the sun. All they love is life, the warm, warm sun, and

the sweet, sweet air. Thev are afraid o

the cold, afraid of the cold and the dark, ha! ha! hal" and uhe old hag

writhed in ghastly merriment on the

ground.

"Cease thme evil talk and anewer me," said Ignosi, angrily, " Wilt thou

show the place where the istones are, or

wilt thou not? if thou wilt not thou

diest, even now," and he teiaed a spear

and held it over her.

"I will not show it; thou darest not kill me. darest not. He who slays me

will be accursed forever."

. Slowly Ignosi brought the spear

till it pnoked the prostrate heap o

r.gs. ...

With a wild yell she sprung to her

fet, and then again fell and roiled upon

the floor.

wav. 1 will show it. uniy let me

live, let me sit in the sun and have abi

of meat to suck, and I will show thee,"

"It is well. I thought I should find a

way to reason with thee. 'JLo-inorrow shalt thou go with Intadoos and my

white brothers to the place, and beware how thou failest, for if thou showest it

shalt thou die. I have

"Then it is clear that you have never seen tho diamond mine?; at Kimberley. You may depend on it that this is Solomon's Diamond Mine; look there," I . said, pointing to the stiff blue clay which was yet to be f.een among tue grass and .bushes which clothed the sides of the pit, "the formation is the same. I'll be bound that if we went down there we should find pipes' of soapy brecciated rock Look, too," and I pointed to a series of worn flat slabs of rock which were placed cn a gentle slope below the level of a water course which had in some past age been cut out of the solid rock; "if those are not tables once used to wash the 'stuff1,' I'm

a Dutchman." '

At the edge of this vast hole, which

was the pit marked on tbe old Don's

map, the great road orancnea into two

and circumvented i';. In many places

his circumventing road was built enirely of vast blocks of stone, apparently

with the object of. supporting the

edges of the pit and preventing

falls of reef. Along this road we

ressed, driven by curiosity to see what

the three towering objects were which

we could discern from the hither side of the great hole. As wo got nearer we

perceived that they were colossi ot some sort or another, and rightly conjectured

that those were th3 three "bilent Ones" that were held in nuch awe by the Ku

kuana people. But it was not until we got quite close that we recognized the full majesty of these "Silent Ones." , There, upon huge pedestals of dark rock, sculptured in unknown characters,

twenty, paces between each, ana loosiing down the road wh ich crossed some sixty

miles of plain to Loo, were three colos

sal seated forms two mates and one

female -each measuring about twenty

feet from the crown ot the head to the

pedestal. .

The female form, which was nude,

was of great though severe beauty, but unfortunately the tb.aturee were injured

by centuries of exposure to tne weatner.

Rising from each side of hr neaa were the points of a crescent. The two male colossi were, on the contrary, s draped, and presented a terrifying cast t features, especially the one to our rigwt, which had the face ot a devil. 6 That to our left was serene in countenance, but the calm uppn it was dreadful. It was the calm of inhuman cruelty the cruelty, Bir Henry remarked, that the ancients attributed to beings potent for good, who could yet watch the sufferings of humanity, if not with rejoicing, at least without suffering themselves. The three formed a. most awe-inspiring trinity, as they sat there in their solitude and gazed out across

the plain forever.. Contemplating these

not then

spoken." , "I will not fail, Incsi. I always

kaen mv word: ha! hal hai uace a

woman "showed the- place to. a white man before, and behold evil befell him," and here her wicked eyes glinted.

"Her name was Gacool, too. Perchance

I was that women." "Thou liest, that was ten generations gone." "Mayhap, mayhap, when one lives long one forgets. Perhaps it was my mother's mother told me, surely her name was Gagool also. Bus mark, ye

will find in the place where the bright

lavthines are, a bag oi hide mil of

i-tones. The man filled that bag, but he

never took it away. Evil befell him, I say, evil befell him. Perhaps it was my mother's mother who told me. It will be a merry journey we can see the bodies of those who died in the battle as we go. Their eyes will be gone by now, and their ribs'will be hollow. Ha! ha! hal" CHAPTER XVI. Tins rLAoa oT DEATH. It was already dark on the third day after the scene "described in the previous chapter, when we camped in some huts at the foot ef the "Three Witches," as the triangle of mountains were called, to which Solomon's great road ran. Our party consisted of our three selves and'Foulata, who waited on us especially on Good Infadoos, Gagool, who was borne along in a litter, inside which she could be heard muttering and cursing all day long, and a party of guards and attendants. The mountains, or rather the three peaks of the moun tains, for the wholsmasa evidently consisted of a solitary upheaval, were, as I have said, in the form of a triangle, of

which the base was toward us, one peak being on our right, one on our left, and one straight in front of us. Never, shall I forget the sight afforded by those three towering peaks in the e&rlj sunlight of the following morning. High, high above us, up into the blue air, scared their twisted snow wreaths. Beneath the snow the peaks were purple with heaths, and so were the wild moors that ran up the slopes toward them. Straight before us the white ribbon ot Solomon's vreat road stretched away uphill to the foot of the center peak, about fivs miles from us and there stopped. " It- was its terminus. I had better leave the feelings of in

tense excitement with which we set out on. our march that morning to the imagination of those who read this history. a.tlast we were drawing near to the wonderful! mines that had been the ause of the miserable death ot the old Portuguese Don, three centuries ago, of my poor friend, his ill starred descendant, and also, as we feared, of George Curtis, Sir Henry's brother. Were we destined, after all that we had gone through, to fare any better?. Evil befell them, as that old fiend Gagool said, would it also befall us?.. Somehow, as we wrere marching up that last stretch of beautiful road, I could nor help feeling a little superstitious about the matter, and so I think did Good and Sir Henry, For an hour and a half or more we

tramped on up the heather-fringed road, going ao fast in our excitement that the bearers with Gagool's hammock could scarcely keep pace with us, and its occupant piped out to us 'to stop. "Go more slowly, white men," she

paid, projecting her hideous shriveled countenance between the curtains, and fixing her gleaming eyes upon us, '"why will ye run to meet the evil that shall befall ye, ye seekers after treasure?" and she laugh ed that horrible laugh which always sent a cold shiver down my back and which for awhile quite tooic the enthusiasm out of us. . However, on wv wen c, till we saw before us, aud between ourselves and the peak, avast circular halo with sloping sides, three huud red feet or more in depth, ami quite half a mile round. "Can't you guess whit this is?" I said to Sir Henry and Good, who were staring in astonishment Uowin into the awful pit heiort us, , They eteeok thsjr awm!b.

"Silent Ones," ae. the Kukuanas called

them, an intense curiosity again seized us to know whose were the hands that had shaped them, who was it that had dug the pit and made the road. Whilst

L was gazing and wondering it suddenly.

occurred to me being familiar with the Old Testament) that Solomon went astray after strange gods, the name of whom I remembered "Astoreth the goddess of the 2iidonians, Chemosh the god of, the .Moabites, and Mileom the god of th e children of Ammod" and 1 suggested to my companion that the three figures before us might represent these false divimties. ... "Hum " said Sir. Henry, who was a scholar, having taken a high degree in classics at college, "there may be something in that; Ashtoreth of the Hebrews was the Astarte of the Phoenicians, who were the great traders of Solomon's time.. Astarte. who afterward was the Aphrodite of tho GreekB, was represented with horns like half-moon, and there on the brow of the female figure are distinct horns. Perhaps these colossi were designed by the Phoenician official who managed the mines. Who can say?" Before we had finished examing these extraordinary relics of-remote antiquity, Infadoos came up, and, having . saluted the "Silent Ones", by lifting his spear, asked us if we intended entering the "Place of Death" at once, or if we would wait till after we had taken food at midday. If we were ready to go at once, Gagool had announced her willingness to guide' us. As it was not more than eleven o'clock, we driven to it by. a burning curiosity announced our intention of proceeding at o:cce, and I suggested that, in case we should be detained in the cave, we should take some food with us. Accordingly Gagool's litter was brought up, and that lady herself assisted out of it; and meanwhile Foulata, at my :request, stored some "biltong," or dried game 1 flesh, to aether with a couple of gourds of water, in a reed basket. Straight in front of us, at a distance of some fifty paoes from the backs of the colossi; rose a sheer wall of rock, eighty ieet or more in height, that gradually sloped up till it formed the base of the lofry, snow-wreathed peak, wbich soared up into the air three thousand feet abovt us. As soon as she was clear of her hammock, Gagool cast one evil grin upon us, and then, leaning on a stick, hoobled off toward the sheer face of the rock. We followed her till we came to a narrow portal solidly arched, that looked like the opening of a gallery of a mine. Here Gagool was waiting for us, still with that evil grin upon her horrid face. Now, white men from the stars," she piped; "great warriors, Incubu, Boug wan, and Maeumazahh the wise, are ye ready? Behold, I am here : to do the bidding of my lord the king, and to show ye the store of bright stones." "We are ready" I Baid. "Good! good! Make strong your hearts to bear what ye shall see. Comes thou too Infadoos, who betrayed thy mas

ter?" ... ... ,: ,.. Infadoos frowned as he answered "Nay, I come not; it is not for me to enter there. But thou, Gagool, curb thy tongue, and beware how thou dealest with my lords. At thy hands will I require t hem, and if a hair of them , be hurt, Gagool, be thou fifty times a witch, thou shalt die. Hearest tbou?" "I hear, Infadoos; I know thee, thou didst ever love big words; when thou wast a hibe I remember thou didst threaten thine owii mother. That was but the other day; But fear not, ' fea? not, I live but t& do tbe bidding of th$ king. I have done the bidding of many kings, Infadoos, till in the end they did mine. Ha! bal I go to look upon theh faces once more, and Twala's tool Corns

on, come on, here is tne lamp, ana sne drew a great gourd full of oil, and fitted

with a rush wick, from under her fur

cloak. ; , v "Art thou coming, Foulata?" asked Good in his villainous kitchen Kukuana, in which he had been improving himself under that voung lady's tuition. "Hear, my lord," the girl answered, timidly. ... "Then give me the basket." " Nay,my lord,whither thou gpest,there will I go also." "The deuce you will!" thought I to myself; "that will be rather awkward if we ever get out of this." ., Without further ado Gagool plunged into the passage, which wsb wide enough to admit of two walking abreast, and qjiite dark, wo following her voice as sne piped to us to come on, in some fear and trembling, which was not allayed by t he sound of a sudden rush of wings. "Hullol what's that?" halloed Good;

somebody hit mo in the face." "Bals," said I; on you go." . b When we bad, so far as we could judge, gone some fifty paces, we perceived that

the passage was growing iamtiy. ugnc. Another miuute, and wo stood in the most wonderful place that the eyes of living man ever jit on. , Let the reader picture to himself the hall of tho vastest Ciithedral he ever stood in, . windowless indeed, but dimly lighted from above (presuma bly by shafta counected with the outer air and driven in the roof, which arched away a hundred feet above our head), and he will get some idea .oi the size of the enormous cave in which we stood, with the dinerence that this cathedral designed of nature was loftier and wider than any bmilt by man . But its stupendous sis e was the least of the wond$jr f th? place fox icuOTi&g hi

down its length were gigantic pillars of

what looked Jike ice, but wiwe, in, -i ality, huge stalactites. It is impoesiblci. for me to convey any idea of the oy";,' powering beauty and grandeur of theses pillars of: white war, some of which -were not less iSm twenty feet in v diamenter at the base, nd sprung rm V .,' in loftv and vet delicate ieauty sheer ttf - :r the distant roof. Others gain were in y process of formation. Onr tAe rock noor, ; f there was in these cases wh at looked, ' Sir Henry said, exactly like J01 C column in an old Grecian temple whilst high above depending f om, tto roof, the point of a huge icicle cox dimly seen. And even as wo gase. wv ..'

riresently with a tiny splash a dwo$ ?f ? water would fall from the far-oflf Mek9 on the column below. On some colnraar, the d'fops only fell once in two or three - ; ' minutes, andih these cases it would form an interesting calculation to discover W v long, at that rate . of dripping, it wonlcr ' ..i take tc form a piller, say eight feet high - by ten in diameter. : That the process 4'. was, in at least one instance, incalculably slow, the following instance will suffice, to show. Cut on one of these, pillars; fwe ciiscovered a rude likeness of amunv ' i my, by the bead of which sat what ap-: -Z

peai ed to be one of the hgyptian goda, -doubtless the handiwork of some old- . world laborer in the mine. This work of s.rt was executed at about the natural height at which an idle fellow, be to Ph canican workman or British cad, is in, the habit of trying to immortalize hjmj V i self at, the expense of nature's master ; pieces, namely, about five feet from the ground; yet at the time we saw it, which r; , must have been nearly three thousand

years after the date of the execution of the d rawing. .. the. column was onlj

eight feet high, and was. still mv pKoe8, ? jof formation, which gives rate of

grc wth of a foot to a thousand y ears, or an inch and a fraction, to , flntury.:. This we knew because, . as" we werestanding by it, we heard a drop of atet' fall. -,: r-'- M. ' ,. (Continued next week.)

Ufgh Priced Clothing for Jjadies, " Ne-y York Sun. '..-:-.."" -A woman who wants to be extravaga35u.t can walk to any of the largest the Sixb avenue stores and buy a fdM suit of underclothing from the stock on the shelves.' She can even make -neW? choice between a number of different; styles at that price When it comes to ? the. cheaper sort . of goods, suits that, sell from $125 to $175, there are scores of different styles from wbich she can select.. There are whole shel yes filled, with boxes containing nothing bnt these goods for which it would seen!.', that there could be no demand- Kk head of such a department in ono of tb ; stores said. the other day, 44 Yes, yom would think the ' -woman who comldlr afford to have that sort' of underclothing;; would have it made to order, so as to bti sure of getting something different from what anybody could boy, : but they dor k not. We have scorea: of regular custom-: eis for the .most expensive underwear;

that we can make up, and they make their choice right from our stock. I suppose that they think that the prion is guarantee enough that the goods awn ' not likely to be very common: ; Another thing about it is that it would very hard to get such fine work as there . is upon r these garments by having them mad to v order. Even if we took an order ouselves we should have to send to Parisi

to get it filled, and that would be too much delay. There would be scarcely ; ; more work on a garment entirely of laos than upon some of these high priced ones that we sell. All the ae win g upon them is as finely "done as though it were embroidery. - You cannot tell when 11. . If 1 jil J At ALT .

tne imen eawa on ana me jace inm!

ming begins, so neatly is the work done.

Then there is a great deal of real embroidery about them besidesi and the lace has to be made, srcially loathe; garments." : T '"' v-'v . . 7 .

. . . .V ..

areTr.

Violets, although the fiower moat

frequently seen on the streets,;

played put. It is no longer the the corr, rect thing to carry them or to use them in trimming hats or bonnets. At a fashionable millinery shop the other day the saleswoman was asked what' flowers were being used for trimmings this spring, and violets were suggested;' ; "Oh," said the woman, "don?t say wo have violets; it would spoil our traded Violets had become too common, she explained, and no woman with1 ;p ' tide of regard for ner reputation would ' think of putting them on a hat; , " :-: ;

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Si

"Smoker Heart," Clucinaatl Enquirer,

If, as alleged, it was too much smokr tng which upset Mr. Edwin Booth ai

Rochester, it is far from being the. firajt

case of the kind in our history. . .

Within the past twenty years tho medical faculty has come to clearly

comprehend, and to accurately diagnose, a disease which they denominate as - v "smoker?s heart'- Excessive smoking, ' whether by pipe, cigar or cigarette, affects the action of the heait and dia-

turbs the circulation. The pulso wil intermit not with any regularity sometimes one beat in four, sometimes one in ten, sometimes two or three at a time, and then comes tomble. Tho brain, missing its regular pulsations of-

blood, wavers, the heart flutters, and then follows a temporary collapse. ' '

- Strong cordials are Vindicated."

Strong coffee is good strong soirits befc ter. But the remedy,"too often retted -

upon, is as bad as the disease; and the ; ; subject grows slowly worse. Angina' pectoris is said to sometimes result One of the leading physicians of this v

city relates a case in point. A patient suffering from "smoker's heart" believed

that he hid chronic heart disease, and came for a careful examinationearly -in.i the day-before he had eaten , anjp breakfast. The stethoscope showed the -heart to be sound as a dothe Had no smoked for twelve hours. Greatly ra- r lieved at the verdict he lighted a bi l .black cigar, and sat " smoking, upon an . empty stomachj, while he talked. In

few minutes, as he rose to go, his feet, failed him, and he fell in a momentary faint. The heart was fluttering wildly but yielded at once, and resumed its normal action, after a strong stimulant. The moral of this story is that, if you smoke at all, you should smoke in,, moderation, and only on a well-filled stomach. It is recklessness that hurts.

,iiJ53".

Jesse Lamb, son of Caleb Lamb, of "s Howard county, twenty-two years sgo h , left for the West in company iifihy ': ton Growl, and in time Growl returned, and reported that Lamb was a prisoner among the Indians. H -, to accept this story, and there was strong ; suspicion that Lamb had met with foul -Xplay at the hands of Crowl. Last 8atur- : day Jesse returned to his boyhood home : -to find his father dead and his kin scat! : tered. He confirms the story of Growl - , hat He was captured, and he claims to - '

have heen $f$n , years savong tnsw