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DURING THE WAIL
Two Incidents In the Career of an
Kxprees Messenger.
la the First the RabWrt not Itatdly Left,
Bod la the Second We Came Oat
Beet la a Triad of Shoot-
laaIroaa.
Even In thes days of peace, with
every money-handler armed, for defense
and surrounded by every aaf fpuard,
hanks are "touched," stag-cs held up,
express oars robbed, and the highway
rober and the horse thief have no com
plaints oflack of business. This bein?
the rase now, you can imagine the state
of attaint during the war, even thoufrh
you were not a living witness. Alon
uNiut the bad men of the times
reaped a constant harvest- Money was
abundant, every day full of excitement,
and embezzlers and absconders outnum
lred honest men. And. Uo. banks,
express companies and other hig money
handlers were jrreen t many of the
tricks and sc hemes, and the idea of bu v
intf a revolver for an express messenger
out of company funds would have been
voted down instanter. He must arm
himself, and if he pulled through he
was a pood fellow. If he didn't, it was
looked upon as an act of IYovidence."
My first adventure occurred while
making: the run between Cincinnati and
St. I.ouis. I had been on the road about
Hix weeks and the business was so
heavy that we had to have an extra
man. While I Uxk charpo of the money
he looked after the parcels and boxes,
and we had a whole car to ourselves.
My assistant was named John (toodhue,
and he had been one of the check clerks
in the frvijrht department of the Cincin
nati office. lie was an easy-poinjf, frood-natur-d
man of forty, much jriven to
taking things eay. but as he was the
only man the company could or would
spare I had to take him as I found him
and make the best of it. Whenever wo
pulled out of either city we were very
busy for tne first half hour. I saw that
every tiling was properly checked off
and accounted for in the line of money
and valuables, and then assisted him if
he was not already through. It thus
wometimea happened that I was busy at
my safe in th corner for tbe first twenty
miles out and that little or no conversa
tion was exchanged between us.
On this particular evening ttoodhue
was ten minntes late at the train, but
he took hold with unusTal spirit, and
when the stuff was all in we had the
car pretty well filled. I was at my safe
when the train pulled out and I heard
ttoodhue moving about and going
through the usual routine. We had
nothing to put off until wi reached a
farm thirty miles away and then it was
something in the line of freight. I
therefore took things easy and was
smoking as I did my work. I bad on
that night, in addition to my own safe
and $V,(M0. a paymaster's safe which
contained nearly a juarMT ttt a million.
I was sitting on this and la nding over
my iitu when 1 received a blow on the
head iroin behind. It fell upon the left
sido of my head and glances! to the
shoulder, but it knocked me over side
ways in a hap on the flior. I was not
stunned, but it came to me in a tweond
to "play 'possum." Kven while failing
I realized that it was a plan to rob the
car. and I wondered who (tuodhue had
Ix-hind him. 1 rolled over on my back.
grxan-d two tr three times and then
straightened out. and after a minute I
heard a voice say: 'Come out, Jim
he's settled:
It ws the voice of the man who had
struck me, but not the voice af Good
hue. I heard a second man com for
ward, and then the plot was exposed.
Neither was Goodhue, and both were
ttrwpgera.
"Guess you've done for him, Tom,
said the last comer as he stood over me.
"Couldn't help it. Jim he'd bad
given us a fight if I hadn't. Now, then,
we've (rot things coopuresl. In five min
utes we shall be at Itlankville. There's
nothing to go off. but 111 open the door.
Sit here on the safe."
The whistle blew, the train slowed up,
and pretty soon we were at a standstill.
The robber opened the sliding door
and stood as cool as you please for two
or thre minutes, and I heard him re
ply to the agent that there was nothing
to go off. As sHn as the train pulled
out he shut the door and came over and
"Open the other door. Five miles from
here is the stretch of wood, and w
must be ready to dump the safes at the
wor-l."
My revolver was under m, in Its hol
ster, and I was hHpless.. The first move
I made would have brought them upon
- me, and they would have leen certain
to make suro worlt of it this time. I
had to let them carry out their plan,
but I was forming another. The stretch
of woods was t-o miles long, and -be-twten
Illankville and the next stop was
a distance of eights? n miles. The two
small stations between were not on our
time card. The train sped along at a
rate of forty miles an hour, and pretty
soon out went the safes. Thea the men
ran out at the end of the car, set the
brake, ana pulled the bell cord. That
was what they did. bat I did oot wait to
Bee or hear it. They were no sooner
clear of the car than I rose up and took
a flying leap straight out into the dark
ness after that money. There was a
to a; pi Is of gravel on that side, and I
struck into this, turned over and over
half a dozen time, and finally brought
up In a potato patch on the railroad
strip, badly shaken up, but not a bone
broken. The engine was whistling for
brakes a mile away, and as soon as I
could free my mouth and ye of dirt I
started down tho track. I found the
first afo ou" tho edge of the diu.h, and
the beevni hundred feet away beside
a stump. I dragged mine down to the
paymaster's then got out my revolver
and hid liehind the stump, and pretty
soon I heard the fellows coming down
the track. They had brought the train
almost to a standstill, and then sig
naled it to go ahea l and jumped. Tney
were hunting along the ditch as they
came, and I waited until they were
within five rods before I opened fire and
shouted: "Here they are, boys; shoot
them down!"
They didn't stand for a second, but
went off as fast as they could heel it,
followed by my bullets, and half an
hour later I had tbe safes aboard of a
freijrht train. An investijration proved
that ttoodhue was blind drunk on that
night. He had accepted an offer to
drink with a stranger, and had been
plied with liquor until he fell down on
the street. The robbers must have
known him well, and have also been
familiar with our w-ay of working. Who
they were we never knew.
In November, la4. when I began the
run between St. Louis and Chicago,
there was scarcely a week that some
thing did not ocsur to arouse my suv
pic ions. The heft of the money went
South, but there was always enough on
either run to tempt a roblx-r to take des
perate chances. I had a middle-aged,
steady-going man as assistant, and it
would have had to be a sharp man who
could get the better of him. Now and
then, w hen ve were carrying big money
for sonse army contractor, he was al
lowed to send a man along to act as a
special guard. These men were general
ly Chicaco detectives or police, and they
rode on an order prepared by the Chica
go superintendent. One afternoon about
two hours before train time, and while
I was at the office, a military-looking
man, who claimed to be a paymaster,
entered and arranged to express his safe
to St. Louis. Ita contents were said to
be upw ard of c-iOO.OoO, and he applied
for permission to send two trusty sol
diers along in the car. I heard this
much without having taken any special
interest in the case. When we came to
receive our stuff from the wagons chere
w as a paymaster's safe, and a little later
on a man dressed in the uniform of a
sergeant of infantry and accompanied
by a private soldier psesenuel an order
permitting them to ride in our car as a
guard.
While every thing was rerular, I did
not like the looks of the men. They
seemed to me to be tough characters,
and when I got a chance to speak to Gra
ham, my assistant, I found tlmt he en
tertained the same opinion and had be
come suspicious. I therefore gave them
the other end of the car and whispered
to Graham that we must keep our eyes
open. The iarst thing we did after the
train pulled, out was to place our revolv
ers where we could grab them on the
instant, and as we worked over our way
bills we kept a weather eye open for
signs. Kor a time it looked as if we
had done the men an injustice. One
took a seat on the safe and tiie. other in
a chair. Kacb lighted a cigar, and their
conversation, as we overheard a word
now and then, related to military matters
and was honest and straiit. When
Graham and I had finished our work we
sat down at the other end of the oar and
the quartet of us rode in this fashion,
with only a break now and then, as we
stopped at a station and put off some
thing billed there.
Our longest run was between midnight
and one o'clock. We then passed three
or four small stations without stopping,
making the run aboat nineteen miles.
If the men were not what they repre
sented they wosld show their hands dur
ing this run. They appeared to be sound
asleep when we enured upon it, and
Graham, who sat near me, was nodding
in his chair. They had the end of the car
noxt to the engine, and all of a sudden,
while I was looking at them from under
the vizor of my cap, loth arose, stretched
themselves, and as the sergeant started
for my end of the car the other unlocked
the door and admitted two men. Things
moved like liphtning. Iloth of us Raw
w hat was up. and as we sprang to our feet
every man in that ear began shooting. I
can't say whether the tight lasted one
minute or live, but when it ended I had
a fleh wound in the left arm. a rake
across the cheek, and a bullet hole in
my cap. Graham had an ear split by a
bullet, and another embedded in his
shoulder and the ear was in darkness.
I struck a match, lighted a candle, and
found that we were alone. Not exactly
alone, tut safe from further attack. Tbe
sergeant lay dead on his back, shot
through the head, and beyond him was
one of the men w ho had been admitted,
so near dead that he gaspei his last as
we rais-d him up. The door was open,
and the other two had leaped from the
platform. me of them at least was
badly wounded, as a trail of blood
proved.
Tbe train had made its run by the
time we had sized up tho situation, and
a doctor was put aboard to dress our
hurts as we continued the journey.
Iloth corpses were carried into St. Louis
for inquest and identification, but they
could not be identified. As you have
surmised, the paymaster's safe was a
dummy. It did not contain one dollar.
The w hole job was put up to get hold of
express money, and the fellows didn't
propose to ive us any chance to save
our lives by giving it up. 1 think that
one of the robbers who jumped also
came to his death, as a man was next
day found at that spot who had been
cut in fragments under the wheels.
Some parts of this adventure reached
the press, but the express company
hushed matters up in every W-ay pos-
l sible, and in this effort they were aided
by the Government. It was afterward
said that every member of the gang was
a Chicago crook, and that the man who
personated the paymaster at the office
w aa tbe senreant aboard my car.
A Uaeatlon of Honor.
A judge had overruled a motion of
Counselor Garvey, one of tho best
known lawyers of the St. Louis bar.
The counselor is usually most respect
ful to the court, but he lost his temper
this time and declared in his broad
though rich and cultured Irish brogue:
"Your Honor, I hope for your Honor's
honor that it will never be noised
i abroad to your Honor's hurt that this
j honorable court ever made a ruling &o
dishonorable to its own honor."
A Sin; alar Woman.
In Houlton, Me., lives a lady who
never wore -an article of jewelry, a piece
of lace, nor a collar, even in the days of
courtship, which experience she has
passed through more tliaa once, baring
married twice.
HORRORS OF MODERN WAR.
Made More Horrible) by Beoesit Improve
ments la Arms.
In a recent article concerning the
next great European war Prof. Emll de
Laveleye prophesies that the number of
killed and wounded will in one day sur
pass that of an entire wax in former
times. Human blood will never have
soaked the earth in such streams. On
the continent l'rof. Laveleye has long
been regarded as a professional alarm
ist, and most of his published opinions
of the approach and magnitude of the
coming war have been taken with a
grain of salt. 'Of late, however, the
majority of men on the continent who
write for the magazines on military
subject have been gradually swinging
around to his extreme position, which
they formerly ridiculed.
The vast superiority of these weapons
over all weapons of former time is the
basis of recent estimates of expert that
in the next war tbe losses of the com
batant will be thirty or forty per cent,
of the men in active service that is far
more than double the losses of the war
of IS?-?!. The famous needle gun,
with which Germany won her '
battle nearly twenty years age,
is to-day considered a pretty an
tiquated weapon. With a weight of
&S kilograms and a caliber of 19
millimeters, it had a range of but 500
me tens, hardly one-third of a mile. To
day the French consider a gun with 4
kilograms weight, 8 millimeters cali
ber and 2.000 meters range somewhat
behind the times. The German gun,
new twenty years ago, delivered eight
shots in the minute. The French gun,
already passing out of date, delivers
eig-ht shots in twenty seconds. During
the next year the German army will be
provided with new magazine guns, and
the guns which were deadly enough
for it five years ago will be laid on the
shelf or used as old iron. Three years
ago Austro-Hungary began to introduce
modern magazine guns of big caliber
among its infantry. During the last
year, however, the introduction of the
big caliber guns has been given up and
guns of small caliber have taken their
plase. Italy, too, has given her army
guns of tbe latest pattern. Russia alone
with her colossus of nearly 900,000 men
sticks to the weapons of former days.
In a recent issue of Die Nation, a Ger
man weekly, Hugo Ilintxe make the
following prophecy:
"The various 'zones' in which mod
ern infantry may act are as follow:
l.eoo-J.oOO meters (one mile to three
fifths of a mile), zone of evolution;
I,0v0-So0 meters, first fighting zone;
&oo-'5e meters, zone of increased and
hot firing; 23O-200 meters, zone of the
last fixiisg, whence the decisive volley
is fired and the attempt to take by
storm is made. The only cover possible
for attacking infantry is to be gotten
merely by lying fiat on the ground dur
ing the firing. Cover, while advancing;
from position to position, does not ex
ist. The losses of the advancing in
fantry will be enormous. To cross a
field of boo meters breadth, swept by
constantly increasing volleys, requires
of soldiers a degree of moral courage
and persistence tnat in past war nave
never been dreamed of. No will the
losses of the infantry be confined to its
operations within the zones described,
for, save in a most disadvantageous
country, the artillery will be able to
sweep the advancing columns with a
destructive fire.
"The battle of the field artillery will
not be less murderous. Aside from
small variations among - the different
kinds of artillery the extreme range of
grenades may be stated as 7,000 meters
(well over four miles), and the range of
shrapnel 5.000 meters. The real duel
ing distance is between 2.OO0 and 2,500
meters. A prominent German officer of
artillery describes a modern artillery
battle thus: 'It is a battle of life or
death, a duel at the end of which one
of the principals lies dead on the field.
It would be a criminal and inconceiv
able piece of recklessness to enter into
such a struggle without utilizing every
possible means to victory.
"I would apply a similar remark to
the whole struggle on the battlefield
and say: One principal lies dead on
the field, the other leaves the field a
cripple.'
"The effectiveness of the siege and
fortification guns has been brought to a
frightful degree of perfection- The big
siege cannons have a range of 10,000
meters. The weight of the projectiles
of siege cannons of shorter range Tuns
as high as 175 kilograms. Naval guns
and guns of the coast defenses carry
ahot weighing 1,000 kilograms. No
armor, no earthworks can long with
stand the explosive power of these shot.
Formerly a fifteen-centimeter grenade
was exploded into forty or forty-five
pieces; to-day it is torn into S00 to S50
pieces of over ten grains weight and in
bOO pieces of one-tenth grain weight,
while the smallest piece of less than
one grain weight are thrown with
sufficient force to penetrate a plank of
two centimeters thickness. No fortifi
cations can be constructed which can
long withstand a bombardment with
such grenades.
Herr Ilintxe also speaks briefly of the
Zalinsky dynamite gun, although he
considers its formidability to be largely
curtailed in these times of enormous
gun by the shortness of its range.
A Surprise Cor the Dw.de.
A First street merchant tells of a very
funny incident which happened in front
of his store recently, says the Portland
Oregonian. A young lady was standing
in the doorway beside several dummies
waiting for a street-car when there
came along an attenuated specime n of
the exaggerated dude, with a pair of
pince nes glasses astride a very prom
inent nose, and mistaking, or pretend
ing to mistake, the lady for a dummy,
took hold of her cloak as if to examine
the quality of the material. In less
than a second an umbrella whirled by a
well-developed arm came down crash on
the dude's plug hat, driving it down
over his ears and completely extinguish
ing him; and, as he extricated his
hypsistenocephalus head and passed on
amid the shouts and laughter of the
spectators, the young lady calmly re
sumed her statuesque pose, as if set to
catch the next gawking; fool that came
along. . 1
Modern Improvements. Real-Estate
Agent (out West) "This i the
house 1 told you about." Eastern Man
(anxious to grow up with the country)
"Rather pretty place! Contains all the
modern improvements, does it?" Agent
"Yes, siree. Which will you look at
first, the cyclone cave ox the earthquake
cellar?" IS Y. Weekly. v
A CURED HEARTACHE.
Oh, dear lost heartache sweetest pain.
When hours were weeks and weeks were years.
And eyes had always room for tears.
How blest It was to pine and sigh.
To wait for letters, sirk at heart
Of hope deferred to kiss and part
On dim street corners In the rain ;
To win a smile or madly feel
A frown divide toe soul like steel. t
Oh, loveliest misery t Why, why
Did we curtail that happy grief.
Or make one darUnsj pans; more brief?
For now the days are simply days.
We part each mora, each nlpht we meet ;
We kiss and yawn, we talk and eat
In married life's calm peaceful ways.
But, oh, for those dear woes abjured.
And the sweet heartache that is cured 1
Judge.
A SPECTRAL TRAGEDY.
Strange, Weird Experlenoe in tbe
Far West.
In the summer of 1873 I w as thirty
years of age in perfect health and of
steady nerve. I was no believer In the
uncanny hardly in the supernatural
and had always pooh-poohed at tales of
ghosts, phantoms and visions of all sorts,
liut at the time mentioned above the
experience I am about to relate put my
intellect and sensibility to test in such,
a manner as to make me sparing hence
forward of ridicule and forced me to find
a place in credence for the possibility
of apparition.
It is unnecessary to explain how I
came to be traveling in the far West
without companions, except for horse
and dog and gun. Following the gen
eral route of the old overland trail, I
camped one night in the edge of a con
siderable forest and at a point from
which I could look forth over a broad,
open plain.
It was already after sundown. The
good horse was picketed, and, having
provided a supper for myself and the
dog from a rabbit which my dog had
brought down an hour or two earlier, I
disposed things for the night, and, as
the stars came out, lay down to Bleep,
comfortably rolled in a blanket.
It was probably in the small hours of
night that I awoke and rose to a Bitting
posture. The moon was climbing the
eastern sky, with not a feather of cloud
in her course, and every object stood
forth as clearly as in the day.
But it was net for me to contemplate
in quietude the rare beauty of the night.
In almost the first moment of conscious
ness my eyes fell upon a slowly-moving
fVhiect In the disfanco. Tt. u-sio. nn o tf
those canvas-covered wagons, the "prai- I
rie schooners so familiar in the early l
days of overland travel to California.
It was approaching almost directly to
ward me and my curiosity was at once
aroused. Why any one should be trav
eling thus and so late at night I could
not imagine. The movement was heavy,
as if the horses were jaded, and the man
who walked by their side had a weary
step.
Twenty minutes passed, the vehicle
approaching nearer and nearer. Still
on it came, until when about thirty
yards from me it suddenly stopped, and
the man looking about seemed to be
considering the wisdom of making cam p.
At this point I suddenly realized that
bhe approach of the wagon had been ut
terly noiseless. Not a chuck of the
wheels, not the sound of a step either of
horse or man. And furthermore there
w as no indication that I bad been dis
covered, although I should have been as
visible to this man as be to me. What
could this dipui? Was I dreaming? No,
I was never more awake. Was this
hallucination? No, for the dog, who
had been aroused by my movement in
awakening, now turned his head in the
direction of the new arrival and uttered
a low growl. I laid my hand on him to
keep him quiet.
The man now stood by the forward
wheel, looking in at the opening of the
canvas top, and though I heard no voice
I imagined that he was speaking to some
one within. A woman's head appeared
and after a glance around gave a nod
assent and the man proceeded to -unharness
the horses and turn them loose to
graze. . Then, after a moment, in which
he seemed to be anxiously surveying the
trail over which they had come, he
helped the woman to alight.
And now their movements greatly
puzzled me. Walking to and fro they
seemed to be searching for some par
ticular spot of ground. As I said above,
I had selected my camping-ground in
the outer edge of the forest. They
were moving about therefore amid
mingled shadows and moonbeams, but
every motion was visible. Finally the
woman pointed a space between two
young trees, and the man after locking
at it for a moment went to the rear end
of the wagon and brought foith a spade.
With the edge of this implement he
marked off a rectangular space about
five feet by two, and began to dig. All
this, let it be remembered, was in abso
lute silence. Here were apparently
living beings, actively engaged, and not
more than one hundred feet away, and
yet no sound was borne to me on tbe
quiet air.
By this time my curiosity had turned
to marvel. Here was a contradiction of
common sense! I could not believe that
what I saw was real; these beings must
be apparitions. And yet here by ray
side was the dog, as alert as I, and
trembling with aa impulse to investi
gate, while obedient to my hand of re
straint. The digging proceeded, and the soil
being soft, some five feet of depth wa
soon reached and then the man threw
out the spade upon the ground. The
woman meanwhile had been plucking
branches of evergreen, bringing them
in armfuls and throwing them beside
"the grave," I thought. And now, with
the utmost care and patience, the whole
cavity was lined with these sprigs of
evergreen, held in place by twigs tkrust
into the banks on either side.
This done the man sprang out. The
two surveyed their work for a moment,
and then, after gazing once more, as if
in anxiety, over the route by which
they had come, they approached the
wagon. Having rolled up the canvas
on one side they lifted out a small
mattress, depositing it upon a blanket
which they had spread upon the ground.
The mattress was not without Its bur
den. The beams'of the full moon ena
bled me to see thereon a slight form
thatof a little girl who had scarcely lived
out three years. The pretty white bands
were folded over the . breast. Long
golden curls fell upon the pillow. The
face which I could see with astounding
clearness was wonderfully beautiful in
its aspect of innocence and wore a life
like smile, as if in answer to tbe radiant
queen of the sky, iflio seemed to be
smiling, too, as she looked steadfastly
down upon the living and the dead.
Tbe mother forthwith proceeded to
arrange the spreads upon the child,
tucking them and smoothing them
down as if she were only putting her
little one to bed, although while I heard
no sob nor any expression of grief I
could see that her breast was heaving
w itb sorrow and her face was visited by
tears.
The two now knelt on either side,
kissing their darling many times and
weeping over her, though trying ap
parently to comfort one another in their
mutual wretchedness, if perchance there
might come in their hearts a calm like
that with which the moon was still
.sending down her beams to illumine the
tearful scene.
Then laying hold of the blanket they
carried their darling to the, grave, and
by the aid of the bridle-reins let the
precious burden down into the place
which they had so carefully prepared.
Green boughs were scattered over her
until they covered the beautiful form
many inches deep, and then the clods
were gently replaced, and a little mound
was heaped, and the child transferred
from her mother's bosom was sleeping
at last in the bosom of the greater
mother Earth. The two sad mourners
knelt again beside the grave, and
seemed to be engaged in prayer, lifting
their faces now and then to the sky as
if in its indefinite clear depths they saw
the future hopes. .
All this though I still thought it
unreal had awakened in me the keen
est interest and sympathy. But my at
tention was now suddenly diverted to a
line of figures in the distance, some
what beyond the spot where I had seen
the wagon when I first awoke. These
were horsemen, who came sweeping on
at a rapid pace, as if engaged in eager
pursuit. From the manner in which they
rode I knew they were Indians. Ah! -1
saw it all now and understood why these
spectral visitors had so often looked
back apprehensively in the direction
from which they had approached. These
pilgrims across the plains had seen signs
of savages and had used night to push on
beyond their reach, if haply they might
bury their dead in peace and find safety
for themselves. But tho foe had dis
covered their trail and followed them,
bent on massacre.
I laid my band instinctively on the
rifle under the edge of my blanket that
I might join in the defense, and was
about to cry out in warning of the dan
ger that I saw approaching, but instant
ly bethought myself that this was un
reality; a mere vision, calling for no
practical action, and I might better let
these shadows work out their tragedy to
the end. I again restrained the dog,
wno seemed agitated, wnetner Because
he saw what I was seeing, or out of
sympathy with my emotion I know not
which.
The two at the grave seemed uncon
scious of the threatened danger until
their enemies were within a few hun
dred yards, when the man sprang up and
lifted the woman also to hex feet. They
turned toward the wagon as if to gain
its shelter and secure -weapons for de
fense. It was too late. I saw flashes of
fire and also a flight of arrows, still
without a sound, however, to break the
calm of the night.
Both the man and woman staggered
as if wounded. They stopped and
turned face to face, throwing their arms
about each other as if realizing that this
was their last embrace. Another vol
ley, and, still clinging to each other in
the agony of death, they fell together
upon the grave of their child.
The Indians were not long in com
pleting their work. Thea catching the
horses and harnessing them into the
wagon they hastened away, as though
themselves in fear of pursuit. I watched
them until they disappeared, and then
was alone with my thoughts and the
brilliant night.
I realized that I had seen a vision.
and though I turned myself resolutely to
rest my sleep for the remainder of the
night was fitful and disturbed. When
finally I awakened again the sun had
risen, and under the influence of that
great dispeller of illusions and in spite
of the vividness of the night's experi
ence I began to think that after all I
might have been only dreaming, espe
cially when I saw the space where I had
seen the burial and the tragedy that fol
lowed was not open and clear but over
grown with brush and young trees.
Nevertheless, yielding to a curiosity
of which I was meanwhile almost
ashamed, I soon made my way up into
the bushes. Parting these with my
hands as I went forwnrd, and scanning
the ground closely, I shortly experienced
a new shock of surprise. For there, in
the exact spot marked by the night
scene, was a little mound, and over it
the remains of two skeletons.
And now for a retrospective fact
which gave to this weird experience of
the night a personal significance. While
I was yet a lad in my teens my brother,
twenty j-ears older, had taken hisyoung
wife and only child and set out across
the plains in pursuit of fortune. The
mails bad brought home tidings of the
progress of their journey up to a certain
point. Beyond this all trace was los t,
and we never heard of them again.
I have not btten able to account satis
factorily for what I have related. Was
this an indubitable Information vouch
safed to me from another world as to the
fate of my relatives? If so, why was it
reserved for this time and place? Was it
impossible that I should have this vision
elsewhere? And if this is the case, then
why? Had nature photographed these
tragic scenes and preserved ttieir rtfl"C
tion, to reproduce them for an eye that
was fitted by some occult law of sym
pathy to behold? Let the savants answer
if they can I can not. Edward B.
Pavne. in " I
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Where Slavery Still Exists. '
An Indian woman in the Lahore dis
trict has volunteered to accompany a po
lice officer to Sind, and there promises
to point out several other women who
have been decoyed away and sold to cul
tivators as slaves. The police authori
ties have sent a police sergeant with the
woman to Sind, and have asked tbe dis
trict magistrate of Multan and Sukkur
to render every assistance to the woman
in their respective districts in discover
ing tho slaves and their kidnapers. A
Sikh. Kishen Sinch. is alleired to be a
great dealer in the slave trade. This
disgraceful traffic in women has been
carried on from time immemorial, and
the authorities are now taking meas
ures for its prevention.
IRON FROM THE SKY.
The Its w Material front Which the
As-
tecs Made Their Implements.
When Cortez had completed the con
quest of Mexico, the Spaniards, among a
great many other peculiar and extraoui
nary observations which they made in
that remarkable country,, tvere particu
larly struck and puzzled by one- fact.
They noticed that tho Aztecs possessed
certain implements, such as knives, dag
gers, etc., made of iron, but it seemed
that only the most distinguished of the
natives possessed such, that iron was a
great rarity, and was prized higher than
gold.
At first the Spaniards believed that
the Aztecs extracted the metal in some
crude fashion from its ore, which
abounded in many parts of the country,
but they soon ascertained that this was
not the case. They found that not a
single smelting furnace existed in the
empire, and their surprise was not small
w hen they learned that the Aztocs were
totally unacquainted with any method
of extracting the iron from the ore,
which indeed they had never suspectvd
of any kinship with the highly valued
metal.
The question whence the Aztecs had
procured the little iron they possessed
became a perplexing problem to tho
Spaniards, a problem which they were
never able to solve. The natives do not
seem to have enlightened them much
on the subject, for when asked they
mysteriously pointed to the sky and in
dicated that they obtained their iron
from the regions above. Such asser
tions no doubt the Spaniards received
with an incredulous smile, and they con
cluded that the Aztecs received it by
way of traflV- with some other perhaps
more civilized nation, which they sus
pected to exist and kept looking for,
north and south, for more than a hun
dred years.
It was left to modern science to un
ravel the mystery. Tho Aztecs were
quite correct. The iron of which they
had made their implements was not
fashioned from materials of this ter
restrial globe, but had come to them
from the unknown regions of space.
Their iron was, in fact, of meteoric
origin, like that of the Mayas of Yuca
tan and the Incas of Peru, of which
many weapons are still preserved in col
lections. OVERHEARD TALK.
Some Droll Thiols propped in Mcmoryi
Casket by a Boston Editor.
The things which one overhears in
the horse-cars are unlimited, and often
they are very droll, says the Boston
Courier. Only laildly diverting was the
bit of dialogue overheard the other day.
The speakers were two old women, who
were cackling away in an animated gos
sip, their meeting evidently being the
first for some time.
'"Well."' observed one, 'I guess Sarah
.Tones will bo srprised when I tell her
I seen you."
"Land o' Goshen!" exclaimed the oth
er. "You don't mean to tell me that
you know Sarah Jones. Well, if that
don't beat all. Why, if you know Sarah
Jones you must know pretty nigh every
body in this world."
The logic of tbe observation was not
evident, but the tone of admiring won
der in which it was delivered made every
hearer feel that in failing to know Sarah
Jones he had failed to make his lite a
success, and that socially he could never
be any thing but a most complete fail
ure. And speaking of talk which one over
hours reminds the editor of a bit of
worldly wisdom spoken by a countryman
on one of the Lake Sebago steamers.
The rustic was talking with a somewhat
wizened-up old lady, who was evidently
his mother, and the latter was heard to
say to him:
"Wall, now, Sam, I don't think you
treated Luciudy just right in the matter.
She felt awful bad about it."
"Wall," tho son responded, medita
tively and with an amount of worldly
wisdom for which one was not at all pre
pared from such a source, "I'm kind o'
sorry, but then gals will stand a sight
more from fellers than fellers will from
gals."
And the wrinkled old woman sighed
and was silent, as if 6be felt the impos
sibility of controverting so obvious a
proposition and remembered her own
youth and the things that had happened
to her then.
A WASHINGTON WOMAN.
Two Koraewhat Xoteworthy Episodes In
Her Social Ctrrrr.
A well-known society woman here,
says a Washington letter to the' New
York Tribune, told the following story
and was surprised that her listeners did
not commiserate her on the indignity
sho suffered at the hands of two strange
women. Others had been telling of
the rudeness they had endured from
callers, and my lady thought her's
would cap the climax.
"On one of my afternoons last sea
son." said she, "two women whom I had
never seen or heard of were ushered in
to the parlor. Mrs. was receiving
with me and we both had tho dearest
little pugs in our laps. They staid,
fully ten minutes, and, as it was quite,
early, no one else bad dropped in.
Theyialked about every thing. One of
them asked for whom I wore mourning,
the other fingered my friend's lace,
gown and asked if it was machine-made.
When they got up to go one of them
said:
"'I heard, madam, that you had two
babies. Seems to me a woman bad bet
ter have her babies in the parlor with
her than her dogs.'
'It was tim most Impudent thing I
ever beard of, but that is Washington
society for you. Just as if my nurses
couldn't take care of the children."
This same woman gave a largo din
ner party some time ao in honor of
the polished and courtly members of
the Chinese Legation. As soon as they
were seated at table she horrified her
other guests by turning to one of tho
Chinamen and saying, indulgently:
"John, likeo Melicca?"
Misinterpreting his look of disgust,
she continued: "Ah.John.no speakee
Englishee."
fjuro Cure for Cigarettes.
Habitual tobacco users and whisky
drinkers have been cured by the follow-
' ing plan: Those who smoke their firs
i cigarette, say at seven o'clock in th
j morning, begin by putting it off just tcii
I minutes past the hour for a few days.
I then make it fifteen or twenty minutes,
and soon until it will be noon and theu
- night before tbe first one is smoked.
I f it is slow it is certainly a sure way of
1 tapering eff, if faithfully followed.