VOL XZVIU > PROFESSIONAL CAEBBL B. M. LBAKE. M. D. f. B. MA]l*. *»• BpectaMea: ayWBVH/ an< 9fir- *rs. jar. »—» *d frry. Tlim DRS. LEAKE A MANN, Butler, P». r, u. / :MMCRUAI. nvittul omce li NO. u. *. Main (treat. m| >!■■>» Oe"» Din* 8tor«. Vatlfr. P*. SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. PkyddH and Snr|aoa. A*. 91 Iwl JHEmoo BC, Bate, ft. W. R. TITZEL. PHYSICIAN AKD BUBGHOH. a W.Oeener Main aM Moett M. MMt. ffc J. W. MILLER, Architect, C. E. and Sarrejor. Contractor, Carpenter and MUk Hep*, plans, specification* Md *ett- Bate*; all lind# of arcbitoOtwal ■< fneefine work. K# chaege (w 4w■»»> Hobm, bp Wa. _ utsee open daily, except Ttiundays CommunlcatJ •on M., Boiler. Pa. W. C. FINDLEY, Attorney at Law and Beal Estate Ami. « Bee rear of L. T Mitchell's ofltee ea aiHB mi « Diamond. Barter, Pa. H. H. GOUCHER. AMomer-at-iaw. omoe oa eaeead Bear at Anderson banding, near Court nanae. Balls* J. K BRITTAIN. AtryatLaw-oaoeat s. E. cor. Mala K, aid Diamond, BuUer, Pa. NEWTON BLACK. Att'r at Law— oaiee on South side at ***«n~*T- Satwr.Pa. JOHN M. RUSSELL, Attorney-at-Law. office on South ride «f Dia mond, Butler, Pa. ' • ■■■ ■ V, L. & McJUNKUS, ligaranee and Beal Estate Ag't 17 LAST JEFFERSON ST. BUTLER, - PA. E. E A BEAMS &OO Fire and Life . IN SURANCE lnsarauc u Co. of North AmerW, iaoecv porated 17tr*, capital 44,000,000 sad oikei Strong oompaoies repreeeated. Hw Tan Life Imnrance Co.. aaMts 9W>,000,000. OBn New Batelton bnildinic near Colli Heaae. BI'TLEK COUNTY ttutvai Firs insuranci Ci, OftiCA Cor. Main & Ounnlngtiaaßis. ■}. C. ROESSINU, Fmnmmm. H. O. HEINEMAN, HwonXAm, "V DIKKCI'ORS: O. C. Boessloc, Ueadenaa Ottear, J. LPurrtt, JaiaealltjilMl , A. Trout man, H. C. HenfaaiM. Ptjr.liTM, : Dr. Bickaabaek. If. Burkhart, f l».T.Borrta. LOTAL M'JUNKIN, On. 3XJT.LBII?., PA. MitfiTiitiiii K BIE,PA. AU .lock gnarauleod tuba in fl«o4 eon fitiou when delfrerrtd. We replace all tree* that fail to mow. ) REFERENCES IN BTTTLIit; J- F Lowrr, \V. T. 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EVERYBODY USES IT. ••ntUta tr» clean f*i*o teeth. En qln n ern to ctaiu V*ttf A(nNilliu. WoMimldE to scrub raarblo floor*, •effwee to pnllah thuU iMMMnto. SJinktUira to rtt»erui* q!J cbtpe.a. C:.cmh»u to rctuuvo aoiuu autlu*. r* to aoour their pou*. Ist r.toua to clean tlto toortwumc*. Carve re to etmrfeu tbtftr kulrce. VMbaa!cetoUrl^ht«tttbcU > t< : Jlotttera i»oa. £!ir«wd unoatoacur old straw bets Cboka '• dean L»:ch«n alnk. Artl»U to cU.mx ttiulr yuUtUa. S»,i4luia W brighten t!>»ir oroie. I rfctoUra to clean offeorfaroa. V!,#,lm*u to clean blrjrck»*. Uan ore tore to clean carpet*. EVERY ONE FINDS A UIEW USE. i Strange Ride »f Jtorrowbie Jnkc& BY BCDVAHD KIPT.IN"«. (Continualfrtmt last tn-ek.) SO EM-APE. Whereat, to bin gre»t delight. I winced ' you Jive hero : I'riim day to dayT \V Ua*4<> you dot" The i question elicited exactly the same answer | u< before, coupled wifc the information that "this place w liko your European heaven; there is neither marrying nor giv ing in marriage." finnga D&B3 had beea educated at a mis sion school and, as he himself admitted, had he only changed bis religion "like a : wise man," might have avoided the living ; was now his portion. But as ! long as 1 was with bint I fancy he was J happy. Here was a Sahib, a representave of the ! dominant race, helpless as a child and | completely at the merey of his native I neighbors. In a deliberate. lazy way be | .-.et himself to torture ma as a school-boy would devote a rapturous half hour to i watching the agonies of an impaled beetle, > or as a ferret in a blind burrow might glno i himself comfortably tojhe neck of a rabbit. The burden of his conversation was that | there was no escape "of no kind what i ever," and that I should stay here till I 1 died and vra* "thrown on the sand." If it i were possible to forejudge the cenversa i tion of the Damned on the advent of a new ! .soul in that abode, I should say that they > would speak as Gunga Das* did to me j throughout that long afternoon. I was I powerless to protest or answer: all my ) energies being devoted to a struggle against the inexplicable terror that threat ' ened to overwhelm me again and again. I ! can compare the feeling to nothing except ' the struggles of a man against the over i powering nausea of the Channel passage— I only my agony was of tie spirit and in ! finitely more terrible. As the day wore on the inhabitants be gan to appear in full strength to catch the rays of tho afternoon sun, which were now sloping in at the mouth of the crater. They assembled in little knots,and talked among themselves without even throwing a glance in my direction. About four o'clock, as far as I could judge, Gunga Dass rose and dived into bis lair for a moment, emerging with a live crow in his bands. The wretch ed bird was in a most draggled and deplor able condition, but seemed to be iu no way atraid of its master. Advancing cautiously to the river front, Gunga Dass stepped from tussock to tus sock until ho had reached a wnooth patch of sand directly in the line of tho boat's firo. The occupants of the boat took no notice. Here ho stopped, and with a couple of dexterous turns of the wrists pegged the bird on its baek with out stretched wings. As was only natural, the crow began to shriek at once and beat the air with its claws. In a few seconds tho clamor had attracted the attention of a bevy of wild crows on a shoal a few hundred yards away, where they were discussing something that looked like a corpse. Half a dozen crows flew oyer at once to see what was going on, and also, as it afterward proved, to at tack the pinioned bird. THE CITASK. Gunga Dass, who had lain down ou a tussock, motioned me to be quiet, though I fancy I this was a needless precaution. In a moment, and before I could see how it happened, a wild crow, who had grappled with the shrieking and helpless bird, was entangled in tho latter'a claws, swiftly dis engaged by Gunga Dass, aud pegged down beside its companion in adversity. Curios ity, it seemed, orerpowered tbo rest of tho flock, and almost before Ganga Dass and I had time to withdraw to tbo tussock, two more captives wore struggling iu tho up turned claws of tho decoys. So the chase —if I can give it so dignified a name—eon tinned until Gunga Daas had captured seven crows. Five of them he throttled at once, re»«rving two for further operations another day. 1 was a g#od deal impressed by this, to me, novel method of securing food, and complimented Gunga Dass on his skill. "It is nothing to do," guid ho. "To morrow you must do it for me. You are stronger than I am." This calm assumption of superiority up net mo not a little, and i answered peremptorily:—"lndeed, you old ruffian! What do you think 1 have given you money for?" "Yery well," was the unmoved reply. "IV-rhupsnot to-morrow, nor tbo day after, nor subsequently, but in the end, aud for many years, you will catch crows aud cat crows, and you will thank your European God that you have crown to catch and eat." I could have cheerfully strangled him for this, but judged it best under the cir cumstances to smother my resentment. An hour later I was eating ono of tho crows, and, as Gnnga Dass had said,thank ing my God that I had crow to cat. Nover as long as I live shall I forget that evening meal. The whole population were squatting ou the hard sand platform opposite their dens, huddled over tiny fires of refuse and dried rushes. Death, having once laid his hand upon these men and forborne to strike, seemed to stand aloof from them now; for most of our company were old men, bent and worn and twisted with years, and women aged to nil appear ance as the Fates themselves. They sat together in knots aud talked—God only knows what they fonud to disenss—in low equable tones, curiously in contrast to the strident babble with which natives arc accustomed to make day hideous. Now and then an access of that sudden fury which bad possessed me iu the morn inir would lay hold on a man or woman and with yells aud imprecations the suffer er would attack tho steep slope uutil, baffled and bleeding, ho fell back on the platform incapable of moving a limb. The others wonld never even raise their eyes when this happened,us men too well aware of the futility of the fellows' attempts and wearied with their useless repetition. I saw four such outbursts in tho course of that evening. Ganga Dass took an eminently business like view of my situation, and while wo wore dining—l can ufford to laugh at the recollection now, but it was painful enough at the tirno—propounded the terms on which bo would consent to "do" for me. My nine rupees eight uuuus, lie argued, ut the rate of thrco annas a day, would provide me with food for fifty one days, or about seven weeks—that is to say, lie would bo willing to care for me for that length of time. At the end of it 1 was to look aftsr myself. For a further consideration— RlDl-URIT, my hoots—-he would he willing to allow me to occupy the den next to his own. nnd would supply me with as much dried gnias for bedding as he could spare. "Very well, Guuga Dass," I replied; "lo tho first terms I cheerfully ugree, but as there i. nothing on earth to prevent my hilling you as you sit here and tuking everything that you have —(l thought of the two iavaloable crows at the time}—l BUTLER i-A.. FRIDAY. Jl LY 25,1890- flatly refuse to gire you my boots and shall take whichever den I pieose." The ctroke was a bold one and I was glad who* I Raw that it had succeeded. Gunsa Uass changed his tone immediately and disavowed all intention of asking for my boots. At the time it clit an average Englishman, should thru ealmly threaten murder and violence agniusl the roan who had, for a consider ation it is true, taken mo under his win*. 1 had left the world, it seemed, for cen turies. I was as eertain as I am now of my own existence that in the accursed settlement there was »o law save that of the strongest; that the living dead men had thrown behind them every canon of the world which had cast them out aud that I had to depend for my own life ou iny strength and Vigilance alone. The crew of the ill-fated Mignonette are the only mat who would understand my frame of mind. i "At present," I argued to my*«lf, "I am strong and a match for six of these wretches. It i» imperatively necessary that I should, for »iy own sake, keep both health and strength until the hosr of my release comes—if erer it does." Fortified with these resolutions I ate and ; drank as much as I could, and made Gnnga | Dass understand that T intended to be his ! mat ter, and that the least sign of in | Mibordination on his part would be visited ! with the only punishment I had in my power to inflict —sudden and violent death. Shortly after this I went to bed. That is to say, Gunga Dass gave me a double armful of dried bents, which I thrust down the month of the lair to tho right of his and followed myself, feet fore most, tho hole running about nine feet into the sand with a slight downward inclina tion, and being neatly .-bored with timbers. ! From my den, which laced the river frout, I was able to watch the waters of the Sut lt-j flowing past under the light of a young moon and compose myself to sleep as best I might. The horrors of that night I shall never forgot. My den wan nearly as narrow as a ' coffin, and the sides had been worn smooth aud greasy by the contact of innumerable naked bodies, added to which it smelled abominably. Sleep was altogether out of question to ouo iu my excited frame of mind. As the night wore on it seemed that tho entire amphitheatre was filled with legions of unclean devils that, troop ■ r.g up from the shoals below, mocked the unfortunates in their lairs. THE QfICKSAXD. Personally I am not of an imaginative temperament—very few engineers arc— but on that accasion I was as completely prostrated with nervous terror as any woman. After half an lionr or so, how ever, I was able on«e moro to calmly re view my ehancos of escape. ANY exit by tho steep sand walls was, of course, im practicable. I had been thoroughly con vinced of this some time before. It was possible, just possible, that I might, iu the uncertain moonlight, safely run the gaunlct of tho rifle shots. The place was so full of terror for me that I was prepared to undergo any risk in leav ing it. linagiue my delight, then, when when after creeping stealthily to tho river front I found that the iuferual boat was not there. My freedom lay before me in the next few steps! By walking out to tho,tint shallow pool that lay at the foot of the projecting left horn of tho horseshoe, 1 could wade acrose, turn the flank of tho crater aud make my way inland. Without a moment's hesita tion I marched briskly past tho tussocks where Gunga Dass had snared the crows aud out in the direction of the smooth whito sand beyond, ily first step from the tufts of dried grass showed me bow utterly futile was any hope of escape, for, as I put my foot down, I felt au ir.describle draw ing, sucking motion of the sand below. Another moment and my legs was swal lowed np nearly to the knee. In the moon light the whole surface of the sand seemed to be shaken with devilish delight at my disappointment. I struggled clear, sweat ing with terror and exertion, back to the tussocks behind me and fell on my face. My only means of escape from tho semi circle was protected with a quicksand! How long 1 lay I have not tho faintest idea; but I was roused at last by the malevolent chuckle of Gunga Dass at my car. "I would advise you, Protector of the Poor" (the ruffian was speaking Knglish), "to return to your house. It is unhealthy Lo lie down here. Moreover, when the boat returns, you will most certainly be rifled at." lie stood over me iu tho dim light of the dawn, chuckling a.'.d laughing to himself. Suppressing my lirst impulse to catch the man by the neck and throw bim ou to the quicksand, I roso sullenly and follow ed him to the platform below the burrows. Suddenly, aud l'utiloly as 1 thought while 1 spoke, I usked:—"Gnnga Duss, what is tho good ol the boat if 1 can't get uot, an} how?" 1 recollect that even in my deepest trouble I had been speculating vaguely on tho waste of ammunition in guarding an already well protcctd fore short;. Gunga Dass laughed again aud made answer:—"They have the boat in daytime? It is for the reason that there is a way. I hope we shall have tho pleasure of your company for much longer time. It is a pleasant wheu you have been here some years and eaten roast crow long enough." I staggered, numbed and helpless, toward the fetid burrow allotted to me, aud fell asleep. An hour or so later I was awakened by a piercing scream—tho shrill, high pitched scream of a horso in paiu. Those who have ouce heard that will never forget the sound. I found some little difliculty iu scrambling out of the burrow. When 1 was in the opeu I saw Pornic, my poor old Pornic, lying dead on the sandy soil. How they hud killed him 1 cannot guess. Gunga l)asn explaiued tbut horse was better than crow, aud "greatest good of greatest number is political maxim. We are now a republic. Mister Jnkes, uud you are entitled to u fair share of tho beast. If you like we will puss a vote of thanks. Shall I propose?" Yes, we were a republic indeed! A re public of wild bcusts penned at tho bottom of a pit, to cat and fight and sleep till we died. 1 attempted no protest ol' any kind, lint sat down and stared at the hideous sight in front ot me. In less time almost than it takes me to write this Por nic'* body was divided iu some uftclean way or other; the men and women had dragged the fragments on to the platform find were preparing their morning meal. Gunga Itass cooked mine. Tin: oriu.u SAHIB. The nhno t irresistible linpnl.-o to fly | at the sued walls uutil I was wearied laid hold of me afresh, und 1 had to struggle against it with all my might. Gunga l)a«s was olien-lively jocular till I t»ld hiui that il he addressed another remark of any kind ! whatever to mu I should strangle him where he sot. This silenced hint until ( silence became insupportable, aud I bade j him say something. I "Von will live here till you die like the other Keringhi," he said coolly, watching me over the fragment of gristle that he was g:.awing. "What other Sahib, you swine? Sp*ik at once and don't stop to tell me a lie." "lie is over there," answered Gunga Pass. pointing to a burrow mouth about four doors to the left of my own. "You can see for yourself, lie died in the burrow as yeu will die aud I will die, and as all these men aud women and the on# ehild will also die." '•For pity's sake, tell me all you know about him. Who was he? When did he come and when did he die?" This appeal was a weak step on my part. Gunga Pass only let«red and replied: '•! will »ot—unless you give mo something first." Then I recollected where I wa.s and struck tho man between the eyes, partially stunning him. lie stepped down from the platform at once, and cringing and fawning and weeping and attempting to embrace my feet, led me round to the burrow which he had indicated. "I know nothiug whatever about the gentleman. Tour God be my witness that Ido not. lie was as anxious to escape as you were and he was shot from the boat, though we all did all things to prevent him. lie was shot here." Gunga Dass laid his baud ou his lean stomach and bowed to the earth. "Well, and what then? Go on." "And then—and then. Your Honor, wc carried him into his house and gure him water aud put wet cloths on the wound, aud he laid down in his house and gave up the ghost." "In how long? In how long?" "About half au hour after he received his wound. I call Yishu to witness," yell ed the wretched man, "that I did every thing for him. Everything which was possible, that I did." He threw himself down on the ground and clasped my ankles. But I had iny doubt, about Gunga Dass's benevolence, and kicked him oil as ho lay protesting. '•I believe you robbed him of everything he had. IJut I can iind out iu a minute or two. How long was tho Sahib hersl" "Nearly a year asd a half. I think ho must have goue mad. liut bear me swear, Protector of tho Poor! Won't yonr honor hear mo swear that I never touched an article that belonged to him* What is Your Worship going to do?" I had taken Gnnga Dass by the waist aud had hauled him upon tho platform op posite tho deserted burrow. As I did so I thought of my wretched fellow prisoner's unspeakable misery among all theso hor rows for eighteen months aud the final agony of dying like a rat in a hole, with a bullet wound in the stomach. Gunga Dass fancied I was going to kill him and ho howled pitifully. The rest of the popu lation, in tho plethora that follows a full lie:.-h meal, watched us without stirring. "Go inside, Gunga Dass," said I, "and fetch it ont." I was feeling Kick and faint with horror now. Gunga Dass nearly rolled ofF the platform and howled aloud. "But I am Brahmin, Sahib—a high caste Brahmin. By your soul, by your father's soul, do not make me do this!" "Brahmin or no Brahmin, by my soul and my father's soul, in yon go!" I said, and seizing him by the shoulders I cram med bis head into tho mouth of the bur row, kicked tho rest of him in, and sitting, covered my face with my bauds. At the end of a few minutes I heard a rnstle and a creeak, aud thon Gunga Dass, in a sobbing, choking whisper speaking to himself; then a soft thud—and I uncover ed my eyes. THE JH'MMIKIKIt CORPSE. The dry sand had turned the corpse in trusted to its keepftiginto a yellow brown mummy. I told Gunga Dass to stand off while I examined it. The body—clad in ou olive green hunting suit much stuiued and worn, with leather pads on the shoul ders—was that of a man between thirty and forty, above middle height, with light, sandy huir, long mustache and a rough, unkempt beard. Tho left caiiino of the upper jaw was missing and a portion of the lobe of the right car was gone. On the second linger of tho left hand was a ring—a shield shaped bloodstone set in gold, with a monogram that might have been either "B. K." or "B. L." On the third finger of the right baud was a silver ring in the shape of a coiled cobra, much worn and tarnished. Gunga Dass deposit ed a handful of trifles he had picked out of the burrow at my feet, and, covering the face of the body with my handkerchief, I turned to examine these. I give tho full list lu the hope that it may lead to the identification of the unfortuuate niau: I. Bowl of a brinrwood pipe, serrated at the edge; much worn nml blackened; bound with string at the screw. 1!. Two patent lever key*; wards of both broken. !1. Tortoise shell handled penknife, silver or nickel, name plate, marked with mono gram "B. K." 4. Envelope, postmark undecipherable, bearing a Victorian stamp, addressed to "Miss Mon " (rest illegible)—"ham ' —"nt." 7). Imitation crocodile skin note book, with pencil. First forty-five pages blank; four and a half illegible; fifteen others fill ed with private memoranda relating chiefly to thrco persons—a Mrs. 1,. Singleton, übln-eviuted several times to "Lot Siugle," "Mrs. S. May" and "Garmfson." referred to in places as "Jerry" or "Jack." (t. Handle of small sized hunting kuife. Blade snapped short. Back's horn, diamond cut, with swivel and ring on the butt; fragment of cotton cord attached. It must not be supposed that I in ventoried all these things on the spot as I have here written theii down. Tho notebook first attracted my attention, and I put it iu tuy pocket with a view to study ing it later ou. Tho rest of the articles I conveyed to my burrow for safety's sake, und there, being a methodical man, I in ventoried them. I t.ien returned to the corpse and ordered Gnnga Dass to help mo carry it out to the'rlver front. While we were engaged iu this tho ex ploded shell of an old brown cartridge dropped out of ono of tho pockets and roll ed at niv feet. Gunga Dass hud not seen it; and I fell to thinking that a man does not carry exploded enrtridgo cases, es poeie.Hy "browns" which will uot boar loading twice, about with him wheu shoot ing. Iu other words the cartridge case had been fired inside the crater. Con sequently there must be a gun somewhere. I was on tbe verge of asking Gnnga Dass, but cheeked myself, knowing that he wonld lie. We laid the body down on tho edge of the quicksand by the tus-ocks. It was my intention to push it out and let it be swal lowed up—tho only possible mode of burial that 1 coti'.d think of. I ordered Gunga Das> to go away. Then I gingerly put the corpse out on the quicksand. In doing so—it was lying face downward—T tore the frail aud rotten khaki shooting coat open, disclosing a hideous cavity iu the back. I have already , told you that tbc dry sand had, us it were, j mummified the Imdy. A moment's glance I showed the gtfifig hole had been caused j by a gun-shot wound; the gun must have becai lired with the niuzsle almost touching the back. The shooting coat, being intact, had been drawn over tho body after death, which must have been instantaneous. The secret of the poor wretch's death was plain to me in a Soihc one of the crater, presumably Gunga. Da»s, must have shot bim with his own gun—tbo gun that lifted (he brown cartridges. He had never attempted to escape in the face of the rifle fire from the boat. TUH MYSTERIOUS PAHKH. I pushed the corp-e out hastily and saw it sink from sight literally in a few seconds. I shuddered as I watched. Iu a dazed, half conscious way I turned to peruse the notebook. A stained and discolored ship of paper had been inserted between tho binding aud the back, aud dropped out as I opened tho pages. This is what it con tained:— "Four out fiom crow clump; three left; nine out; two right; three back: two left; fourteen out: two left; seven out: one left; nine back; two right; six back; fonr» right; seven baok." The paper had been burned and charred at the edges. What it meant I could not understand. T sat down ou tho dried bents turning it over and oyer between my fingers, until I was aware of Gunga Dass standing immediately behind me with glowing eyes and outstretched hands. "Have you got itf' he panted. "Will you not let me look at it also? I swear that I will return it?" "Got what? Return what?" I asked. "That which you have in your hands, it will help us both." He stretched out his long, bird-like talons, trembling with eagerness. "I could never find it," he continued. "He had secreted it about his person. Therefore I shot him, but nevertheless I was unable to obtain it." Gangs Dass had quite forgotten his little Cctiou about the rifle bullet. I received tho information perfectly calmly. Morali ty is blunted by consorting with the dead who are alive. "What ou earth are you raving about? What is it you want mo to give you? "The piaco »f paper in the notebook. It will help us both. Oh, you fool! you fool! Can you not *e« what it will do for us? Wo shall escape!" His voice rose almost to a scream and he danced with excitement before me. I own I was moved at the chance of getting away. "Don't skip! Explain yourself. Do you mean to say that this slip of paper will help us? What does it mean' "Read it aloud! Read it aloud! 1 beg and pray you to read it aloud." I did so. Ganga Dass listened delight edly and drew an irregular line in the sand with his fingers. "See now! It was tho length of his gun barrels without tho stock. I have those barrels. Four guu barrels out from the place where I caught crows. Straight out; do you follow me? Then left—Ah! how well I remember when that man worked it out night after night. Thou nine out, and so on. Out is always straight before you across tho quicksand. Ho told me so before I killed him." "But if you know all this why didn't yon get out before?" "1 did not kuow it. lie told me that ho was workiug it out a year and a half ago aud how ho was working it out night after night when tho boat had gone away and be could get out near the quicksand safely. Thon he said that we would got away to gether. But 1 was afraid that he would leave mo behind one night when ho had worked it all out, and so I shot him. Be sides, it is not advisable that the men who once got in here should escape. Only I, and 1 am a Brahmin." Tho prospect of escape had brought Gunga Dass' caste back to him. He stood up, walked about and gesticulated violent ly- Eventually 1 managed to mako bim talk soberly, and he told'me how this English man had spent six months night after night in exploriug, inch by inch, tho passage across the quicksand; how bo had declared it to_be simplicity itself up to within aboat twenty yards of the rivor hank alter turning tho flauk of tho left horn of the horseshoe. This much ho bad evidently not completed whon Gunga Dass shot hiin with his own gun. In my frenzy of delight at tho possibili ties of escape I recollect shaking bands ef fusively with Gunga Dass after wo had do cided that we were to make an attempt to get away that very night. It was weary work waiting throughout the afternoon. THK ATTBMPT TO ESCAPE. About ten o'clock, as far as I could judge, when the moon had just risen above tho lip of the crater. Gunga Dass made a move for bis burrow to bring out tho gun barrels whereby to measure our path. All the other wretched inhabitants had retired to their lairs long ago. The guardian boat had drifted down stream some hours before and wo were utterly alone by tho crow clump. Guuga Dass, while carrying tho gun barrels, lot slip the piece of paper which was to bo our guide. I stooped down hastily to recover it,aud as 1 did so I was aware that the diabolical Brahmin was uimiug a violent blow ut the back of my head with the gun barrels. It was to Into to turn round. I must have received the blow somewhere on the nape of my neck. A hundred thousaud liery stars danced before my eyes and I fell forward senseless at the edge of tho quick saud. When I recovered consciousness tho moon waM going down, and I was sensible or intorerable pain in tho back of my head. Gunga Dass had disappeared aud tuy mouth was full of blood. I lay down again and prayed that I might die without more ado. Then tho unreasoning lury which I have before mentioned laid hold upon me, and I strggcrcd inland toward the walls of tho crater. It seemed that some one was calling mo in a whisper. "Sahib! Sahib! Kuhib!" exactly as my bearer used to c*ll me in the mornings. I fancied that I was delir ious until a handful of saud fell at my feet. Then I looked up aud saw a head peering down into tho umphiibeatre—tho head of Dunuoo, my dog boy, who attend ed lo my collies. As soon as he bad at tracted my attention he hold up his hand und showed a rope. I motioned, stagger ing to und fro the while, that ho should throw it down. HAI'KTY AT LAST. It was a couple of leather punkah ropes i knotted together, with a loop at ono end, I slipped the loop over ray head und under my arms; beard Dunuoo urge something forward; was conscious that I was being dragged face downward, up the steep saud slope, aud the dext instuut found myself choked and half fainting on tho sand hills overlooking tho crater. Dunuoo, with his face ashy gray in tho moonlight, im plored me not to stay but to get back to my tent at onec. It seems that ho had tracked Pornic's footprints fourteen miles across the sauds to the crater; had returned uud told uiy servants, who flatly refused to meddle with uuy one, white or black, puce fallen iato tbo hideous Yillag'o cf the Dead, whereupon Duuuoo had taken one of my ponies and a couple of punkah ropes, re turced to the crater acd hauled me out as I have described. To cut a long story short Punnoo is onw my personal servant on a gold mohur a moath—a »um which I still think far too little for the services he has rendered. Nothing on earth will induce me to go near that devilish spot again or to reveal its whereabouts more clearly than I have done. Of Gunga Dass I have never found a trace, nor do I wish to. My sole motive in giving this to be published is the hope that some one may positively identify, from the details and the inventory which I have given above, the oorpse of the man in the olive green hunting suit. Colors. The great chemist Michel Eugene Chevreul, who recently died at the ripe old age of 103 years, terms his research in the realm of colors as the philoaophy of natural phenomena. About all the knowledge we possess in this vast and beautiful field is duo to this grand old man. Chevrcul's genius has demonstrated that the harmonies of color are submitted to immutable laws which he hss revealed, and the certainty and fruitfulness of which he has demonstrated by calculation. There aie but three primary colors gen erally recognized—blue, red and yellow. Theae are called primary because they can not be produced by compounding any other colors. Then we have the" seconda ries—green, purple and orange. From these we derive the tarthuies—olive, cit rine and russet. Purple and green make olive; green, citrine; purple and orange, russet. Thus we have the threo classifications denoting all the colors extant. From these are dorived the hues, tints and shades. A hue is obtained by tho combination of any of the primaries. The buo may vary according to the pre dominating influence of one color over an other. To obtain a ''tint" we simply add whito to any of these colors; and to form a ''shade" we add black or the dark colors. So from the above we have the alphabet of colors. The variety of tones, tints, hues or shades to be obtained from this alphabet are as kaleidosocopic in their pos sibilities as the alphabet of letters. The hand of man or the skill of the artist will never exhaust them. We have still another term we use in re lation to colors which bears its own signif icance also, and that is "tone." While we have our three primaries to start from, yet wo have no standard "tone" from which we shall start our secondaries. There are many different kinds of red, yellow and blue, and we signify the difference as "tones," the same as we apply the term to different instruments of the name kind. You will say that this piano has a much better tone than that piano. So we will find in selecting our primaries. While some of the "high-toned' reds will produce a much more beautiful tint,yet they are too fugitive to use for exterior house painting; so, too, with tho greens and yellows, while some are quite permanent. Below we give a list of formulas for mixing oolors which will be of servioe to the amateur house painter and to ladies who decorate their own "bric-a-brac." French Ked—This color is simply Indian red, lightened with vermilion and glazed with carmine. Chocolate Color—Add lake or carmine to bnrut umber; or take Indian rod and black to form a brown; then add yellow to bring about the desirod shade. Yellow Lake—Take of umber and white equul parts and Naples yellow and scarlet lako; glaze with yellow lake. Olive Brown—Mix one part of lemon yellow with three parts burnt umber. Change proportions for different shades. Clay Drab— Kaw sienna, raw umber and white lead, equal parts; then shade with chrome green. Bismarck Brown —Take carmine, crim son lake and gold bronze and mix together. 11' a light shade is desired, use vermilion in place of carmine. Jonquil Yellow—Mix flake white and chronic yellow, and add vermilion to car mine. Aledinir. Gray—Eight parts of white to two of black. Lead Color—Eight parts of white, one of blue and one of black. Light Huff—Yellow ocher, tinted with white. Deep Buff—The Bame, with tho addition of a little red. French Gray—"White shaded with ivory black. Gold Color—White and yellow shaded with red and blue. Pearl Color—White, black and red in proportions to suit tasto. Canary Color—Five parts white aud three parts lemon yellow. Oak Color—Five parts white, two of yellow, and one of red. Olive Color—Eight parts of yellow, one blue, and one black. Snuff Color —Four parts of yellow and two of Vandyke brown. ltose Color—Five parts of white and two of carmine. Bottle Green —Butch pink and Prussian blue for ground; glaze with yellow lake. Salmon Color—Five parts white, ono yellow, one umber, one red. Brown- -Three parts of red, two black, and one yellow. Copper Color—One part red, two of yel low, nnd ono of black. Lemon Color—Five parts of lemon yel low and two of white. Straw Color—Five parts of yellow, two of white, aud ono of red. Fawn Color—Eight parts of white, ono of rod, two yellow, and one of nmber. Flesh Color—Eight parts of white, three of rod, and three oi chrome yellow. Chestnut Color—Two parts of red, one of black, and two of ohrome yellow. Wino Color—Two parts of ultramarino und three of carmine. Grceu—Blue and yellow or black and yellow. Maroon Color—Three parts of carmine and two of yellow. Tan Color—Five parts of burnt sienna, two yellow, and one raw umber. Pea Green—Five parts of whito and one of chrome green. Stone Color—Five parts of white, two of yellow, and one of burnt umber. Citron—Three parts of red, two ol yel ' low, and one blue. Brub Color—Xiue parts of white and one of umber. Lilac—Four parts red, three whfte, and 1 ono blue. Purple—The same as lilac, but different ly proportioned; say two parts of blue. Violet—Similar, but more red in than purple. Cream Color—Five p#rt« white, two yel low, and ono red. NO 37 01 a ret—Ked and black, or cumins and blue. Dove Color —Ked, white, blue, and yd low. ijight Cray—Nine parts whit#, one blue, and one black. ■Willow Green—Five parts white, two verdigris. Peach Blossom—Eight parts white, on* red, oue blue, and oue yellow. Bronze Green—Five parU chrome green, one black, and ric umber. Carnation Ked— Three parts lake and oue white. Grass Green—Three parts yellow and one Prussian blue. Brick Color —Two parts yellow ochre, one red. and one white. Portland Stone— Three parts raw umber, three yollow oobre, one white. Plnm Coior—Two parts white, one bine, and ono red.—N. Paris Datis, K. W. HutUier uml Decorator. Conspiracy. PROVISIONS OF THE PEN AX COD*. Act 31st March, I860; Binn's Justice; Pages 250 and 251. PEC. 127. If any two or more persons shall cmispire or agree, falsely and maliciously, to charge or indiot any ether person, or cause or procure him to be charged or indicted in any court of crim inal jurisdiction, the person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thous&ud dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment either at labor by separate or solitary confinement, or t< simple imprisonment, not exceeding three year*, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 128. If two or more persons shall falsely and maliciously conspire, and agree to cheat and defraud any person, or body corporate, of his or their moneys, goods, chattels or other property, or to do any other dishonest, malicious and nnlawM act, to the prejudice of another, they be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on con viction, be sentenced to pay a fine not ex ceeding five hundred dollars, and to under go an imprisonment, by separate or solitary confinement at labor, or by simple im prisonment, not exceeding two years. JUDICIAL DECISIONS. SEO. 1. The offence of conspiracy, according to all the authorities, consists not in the accomplishment of any unlaw ful or injurious purpose, nor in any one act moving towards that purpose, but in the actual concert and agreement of two or more persons to effect something, which being so concerted And agreed, the law regards as the object of an indictable con spiracy. SEC. 2. The gist of a conspiracy is the unlawful confederacy to do an unlawful act, or a lawful act for an unlawful pur pose, aud tho offeuce is complete when the confederacy is mode. SEC. 3. All who accede to a conspiracy after it is formed, aud while it is in exe cution, and all who, with knowledge of the facts, conenr iu the plans 'originally form ed, and aid in executing them are fellow conspirators. Their concurrence, without proof of an agreement to conour, is con clusive against thorn. They commit an offence wheu they become parties to the transaction or further the original plan. SEC. 4. A combination is a conspiracy in law, whenever tho act to be done haa a necessary tendency to prejudioe the pub lic, or oppress individuals by unjustly sub jecting them to tho power of the confeder ates, and giving effect to the purposes of the latter, whether of extortion or mis chief. SEC. 5. A conspiracy to publish a libel or to dotame by spoken words, not action able as slander, would be equally a subject of prosecution by indictment Any persou offending as is set forth in any ol tho abovo sections shall bo guilty ot u misdemeanor, and ou conviction be sen tenced to pay a fine, not exceeding five hundred dollars, aud to undergo an im prisonment by separate or solitary confine ment at labor, or by simple imprisonment, not exceeding two years, either or both at tho discretion of tho court. It would be well lor persona before using slanderous words to dclame a man in his reputation, profession or livelihood to care fully examine the Oth section of the above article. J- T. —A good government, like'a good coat, is that which fits the body for which it is designed. A man who, upon abstraot principles, prononnucs a constitution to be good, without an exact knowledge of the people who are to bo governed by it, judges as übsurdly as a tailor who should measuro the Belvidere Apollo for the clothes of all his customers. — Macaulay. —The baryta deposits on McKellar's Island, Canada, are now being worked. Expurts pronouueo this to be the finest de posit in America. —"William," said his wife, in a pained tone of voice, "you were seen coming out of a saloon last evening.—"What was your business in such a placet" "I only wont in to sample an 'origina package' my dear," replied her husdand. "Oh, Is that allt I was afraid you went in to get a drink of whisky. —A eortain Consus Enumerator was heard to say that ho was astonished at the number of sick people in his district; that is, those who aro troubled with either acute or chronic diseases. Ho said that it seemed to him that about half the inhabit ants were unsound, and yet that neighbor hood is considered as healthful as any other district