VOL XXXI THE PHOENIX. Do you know why the PHOENIX bicycle is the most popular wheel in Pittsburg? Do you know why it won the Butler-Pittsbugh race, and the \\ heeling-Pittsburg? Simply because bearing, chain, tire, ira:ne all the parts —are made of the best material. Because we build the lightest,easiest running whee' tit it is safe and reliable for the roads. We also make a specialty of an easy running and light lady's wheel, which is equally popular. A guarantee is a good thing in its wav. ° The PHOENIX guarantee cov ers every point, but the best point ot all is the fact that repairs or claims for de fective parts constitute an exceedingly small per centage of our cost ot manu facture. For catalogue and other information address, THE STOVER BICYCLE Mfg. Co. FREEPORT, ILL, or J. E. FORSYTHE, Agent. BUTLi2IR» pa, WE "LEAD IN BARGAINS ALL THE TIME. tb* ueaa-a is over ao<l it is of uo great ut-c or tsneiit to you But jnst now wh»n the season has oaly opeoed up nicely we offir y m special prices iu a ! the different departmeuts . , , lit n ft You can bov a new *pri(ig jacket, <n verv lateac Btyle. a' |jy nA* O ooe-tuird off ou regular price. O-r**, P p-r oft on all capoo. MILLINERY! MILLINERY! We h.;ve &u attractive stock io this <t-panm.uK. botb in trimmed and an trimnx d hoie. A nice Htvitsh trimmed hat for 98c. A rro« at) lan u« tr«rume'f bat for 25'. Beauuiul II >*'er<. feather*. ribbons, jeta, Uwi and ad ihf nyi'lt'*** in milliner? at Hpooial I >w pries r Pri-a# tf o.,da at pri ea tb«t will interest you. Ali ibe ficweat tiling* ,u drew trimming*, linio*« and fiuihbiug*. L«oe curtains from oOc a up to $8 00 Tnere i« no bou-e iu the dry that can *bow you name value in lace curtain* at the price# we offer th-m io you. By taking ad/autage Jt Hi* jiitinv opportunities offered, we are able to * II hue curtains at prices heretofore unheard of. We caun-t afford to t'l'i will not keep deceitful goods. Our M,o-e -hall contain none but «•>•>•! reliable goods tnat is JUST WHAT ITC APFEAiU rO Bfci We ask the favor of a visit, to our different departments. We do not •olicit you to purchase; but we do ask a ootrparisaa of IK values and prices with those of other bouees. Respect!ully, Jennie E. Zi Successor to Kilter <fc Ralston. Harness Given Away! There are about 24,000 adults in Butler county, and we want all to know that we are the largest dealers in the State in everything pertaining to a Driving or Team Outfit, and sell cheapest. As an inducement to have you investigate, we have placed <>n our show horse a set of Good Harness of our own make, and WII.L GIVK THEM TO THE PERSON WHO GUESSES THE HORSE'S WEIGHT OR NEAREST TO IT. ■ Every adult person allowed to ouess once. You are not I asked to buy anythi tg. It is free as the a r you breathe. All you have to do is to come in, rej, ster your name in a : book we have prepared for that purpose and make your ; guess in plain figures. : Guessing begins Mondav June 4, and closes July 20, 1894. at I? o'clock, noon, at which time the horse will be weighed and Un harness given to the person guessing his exact weight or nearest to it. Should more than one guess the exact weight or be tied the har ness will be given to the one whose name is first on the register. The horse has never been weighed. We do not know his we : yht and will not allow him to be weighed until after the gifessing closes. Ml have an equal chance. No one in our employ allowed a jjuess Remember, we do not ask you to buy anything to entitle you to a guess. We just want you to see where we keep Buggies, Wagons, Carts, Harness and all parts of Harness, Wheels, Tops, Cushions and Uazybacks, Neck Yokes, Buggy Poles, Singletrees, Harness Oil, Axle Oil, I ap Dusters, Fly Nets, Horse Collars, Brushes, Curry Combs, and verythlng belonging to a Driving or Team Outfit. S. B. Martincourt & Co. 128 East Jefferson Street, BUTLER, - PA. S. B. MARTINCOURT, J. M. LIEGHNER. P. S.—No one under 16 years allowed to guess. We wil m v e them a chance soon as thjs one cjoses. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Ivy Poisoning Eight Years of Suffering Perfect Cure by Hood's Sarsaparilla " C. I. Hood ti Co., Lowell, Mass.: " Dear Sirs: —We have tried Hood's Sarsapa rilla and And it to be all you claim for it. My wife was poisoned by ivy when a young v.oman, and for eight years was troubled every season Hood's Cures with theT>reaklng out and terrible itching and burning. I thought liers was as bad a case as anyone ever had. She was in this distressing condition every year until slio began to tako Hood's Sarsaparilla, which has effected a per fect cure, without leaving auy scan, and she has had No Sign of the Poison Since. She is well and hearty. I have tak. n Hood s Sarsaparilla after the grip with good result*, and Jiavs also given It to our four children. W-* are all pictures of perfect health and owe it to good's Sarsaparilla." .T, C. FREEMAN. Van illa, Illinois. a ' N. B- If you decide t> tuk ■ Ilo"d'» rilla do not be induced to buy any other instead. Hood's Pills are hand made, and perfect »n proportion and appearand . 28C. per box. A Scientist claims tiie Root of Diseases to fce in the Clc 'es we Wear. The best Spring remedy tor thenblue.s, etc, is to discard vour uncomfortable old duds whiclj ir\ i late the bodvr-leave vour measure a ALAND'S for a new suit which will tit well, improve the appearance by re lieving. von iu>tai)i lv ol thai tired feel i o\ and making von eheeiiul and actiuv The cost of i in sure cure is ve. \ inodei in c TRY IT. c. X D. A business that keeps grow ing through a scat on oi i - prcssion, such as I lie country has experienced, is an evi dence that people realize they save money by tradiig vviili us. We know, anil always have known, the days of large profits are past. Without question we are giving more for the money than hist year. Our stock is larger to select from than last year, CALL AND SEE US. Colbert & Dale. Peremptions M A Specialty, At Redick's Drug Store. Wo do not handle anything but pure drugs, next time you are in need of medicine please us a call. are headquarters for pure SODA WATER aa we use only par*' fruit juices, we also handle Paris Green, I e'llnbore, insect powder, London purpla und other insecticides. Reppectfoll v, J. W KBDICK, Main &t.,next toHolel Lowiy BUTLER, !PA.. JOHN KEMPER, Manufacturer of Harness, Coll a T <, and Strap Work, and Flv Neis, and Dealer in Whips, Dusters, Trunks and Valises. My Goods a c; ' 1 i wand si \'- first-c iwork ♦ t-ed Repairing a Specialty. :o: :o: Opposite Campbe!' & T v..' <• Furniture Stoic. 342 S. Main St., - Butler, l'a. COPYRIGHT, 18P4. r~ JP Al_j I .... I felfM | / \L 1 M ~ /fr Jf\ p^kd-Jfr /Vfe: • "PO YOU KXOW WHO I AM, SIB?" CHAPTKR XV. It is necessary now to keep in mind two orders of events. One is the slow focussing of public suspicion about the ppersitiona at Laran. The other is th. extraordinary relationship of the prin cipal personages at tlio headquarters of the conspiracy. A week passes and men are strag gling back to the Laran from all over the country. They come in through the woods at night singly or in little groups. They arrive at the Wash bayou, coming down from St. Louis and crossing at night from the Ar kansas shore; they como up from Memphis looking for work and some of them ride in from the mountains oi East Tennessee. Hendricks watches the reassembling with cool calculation and appears to have been satisfied of the main ro suits. About fifteen per cent, of the men never reappeared. This was ac cording to his calculations. But the rest, actuated by the fear of individual peril, the esrrit de corp. 3 of military organization, or the desire to go on with the war which a master-spirit had planned, had, in great part, re turned at the end of the week. At that time there were by count five hundred and fiftv men of the rejriment back in the cave. Hendricks sat up all one night read ing the papers that had been brought him from Memphis. He went over all the accounts carefully. There was not in any of them a surmise as to the truth. The regiment had got away and it had accomplished its purpose, but the further away from the scene the comments were, the less seriously the uewspapers regn:ded the occur rence. In Sew York there was some kind of enormous western practical joke suspected. "How,' . aid »ne jour nal, "a regiment of a thousand men can come and go without observation, can dismantle a bank and then depart with a million dollars in specie without being detected or interfered with or tracked, remains for the imaginative west to explain. It looks very much at this distance as if the English company had been operating in phan toms to bear its own market." An angry official correspondence had taken place between tho governor of Tennessee and the governor of Indiana. The town of St. Mary's and the city of Paducah swarmed with newspaper men and detectives. But it was plain to Hendricks that fresh troubles at St. Mary's between the director and the men threatened to draw attention from tho search for the soldiers. An official report of Gen. Waterson, the officer commanding tho St. Mary':- expedition, has been preserved. Whether it was forwarded before Mi re turn to Laran or was written subse quently is not known. But it gives a very clear explanation of the novel method adopted in this military cam paign. It reads as follows: '•The whole plan has worked, with a few slight discrepancies, aH projected. Tho feasi bility of getting tho whole regiment Into St. Mary's and the neighborhood without attract, ing attention was easily proven. My tnen be gan to come In four days beforo they assembled, 'l'hey woro In fairly good shapo and passed for workmen out of employment {and Idlers drawp In by the excitement It was Impossible to go anywhere without seeing them mingling with tlio workmen and standing about on tho corners with tho unemployed. In three days seven bun dred were In St Mary's and three hundred iu and about I'aducab, wlta orders to come In strag. Eliugly to tlje former place on tho fourth day. At any other limo a thousand men suddenly added to the population of so small a town would have excited suspicion, but the excite ment of th« strike was supposed to be drawlnf the men from all Quarters, and great credH must be given to ou# forces who, as a rule, kept themselves close and avoidod attracting atten tion. (In tho night of tho third day, three hun dred were already in the old house on tho bar. rens or iu the lmihedlatn vicinity undergoing the most extraordinary discomfort on account of the want of accommodations, and an hour before aunrise on the fourth day, I had the whole command within reach and most ot them uniformed and armed. We funned columu at five o'clock in tho barrens Just three miles southeast of the town and marched In on thr railroad track: took possession of the bank at nlno o'clock, distributed money among regl ments us planned without opposition, cacti man carrying a hundred and'flfty eagles. Tho buck skin belts worked admirably. I deployed two hundred mob, Companies A and S\ and kept crowd one thousand feat from bank, withdraw ing them In squad* and replacing them with other msn who were loaded up with specie; successfully avoided collision with sheriff who was completely bewildered by events; took camp at six o'clook p. m. ou tho terrace us planned and tho regiment began at once to I mclt>way. Four hundred men got out of their I uniforms In tho oonter of the camp (where j they were securely ahleldad) before nlnn j o'clock. The suits la tho knapsacks turned | out better than I expected and Commissary Fenuing should bo crodlte 1 with great skill and ingenuity In tho provls >n of these suits. Tho uniforms were put Into the kna|>sacks ond at twelve midnight I started tiie men in Indian tile to the old house, and, as by that time I had four hundred more men ready, there were eight hundrod knapsacks and eight hundred guns to bo disposed of; by making each man carry two guns and two knapsacks, I easily got tho whole sight hundred into tho house. The Intense darkness of the night was n great advantar and the hardness of the ground and the spoclul guards -tatloned along tho lines to prevent Straggling or the littering of the rout, aided us much. "At three o'clock la the morning the regi ment, as a uniformed organization, had disap peared ''The disposition of tho men was as follows: One hundred went scatterlngly from tl.e camp back to town In their former clothes at ten o'clock; another hundred got off at elevea o'clock, and a third at twelve o'clock. I drow them up by companies in a circle In tho center of the carnp and started them out In radiating Unas. I (calculated that In fifteen minutes, If the men walked briskly that thero would be a distance of flvo hundred feet between each i man. und, of course, thoso going south and east ; would have to make a large detour to reach the town. At 1 2:30 I was reduced to Ova hundred mon, at least two hundred having gono toward faducah lu tho same straggllag iuanner. The remaining five companies wero started from the old house betwoeu 2:80 and four o'clock, going In widening lines south, southeast and southwest through tho barrens and about one hundred under orders 1 to strike the railroad track at long Intervals and return to towu. I held a detail of twelve trusty men with mo to complete the work clearing up the fragments and arranKlnx tho material In 'he house. The guns were flung Into iho cellar *nd the knapsacks heaped upon the first floor and saturated by the two barrels nf kerosene that were knocked In the bead on ihe floor above. At five o'clock Capt. Einstein, jf Company I), who was left behlad to complete the destruction, touched a match to the build- HUTLRR. PA., FRIDA Y. JUNE 15, 1 89-t. Inr? r.n<! t'irn r T_..t to il.t: railro.ul ir:»< Lack later with few inhabitant who wt-re uttrac ted at that horr by the flam ••llemet ne tbc next r.igfct at Snowilcn's »;u« on the Mississippi, rrhcro I rvas -waiting fo Ulnj, andreporteJ that the destruction was coi:. plete and iha't the guns had been effectually c<>\ Crcd by the ashes anJ debrii :iM - ould not ' discovered until ou utumpt was m.i le to r< move tho rubbl.sl»- "My calculations with ic the uirectici the search would take fur the regiment itert right, as you will see by the papers, and th< plan ot bring the scows over from the other side of the Ohio and cutting them loose abovi Paducah was a good one The general belief at once seized tho authorities that 'he met h;id crossed the j-ivev frcn; Xadli,r,L. "I am now convinced by actual demonstn. tion that I can, with a thousand men, carry nut the eastern scheme of which you spoke. Th. chances of success aro increased by the audac lty of tho attempt. Whatever appears to I<i incredible will succeed before the communltr bring itself to acknowledge it " CUAI'TER XVL Enough has been already told to in dicate that Hendricks had in his keep ing two prisoners whose presence add ed a perilons element i-O the under ground society. These men, employed by the secret service of the govern ment, were to Hendricks the first direct intimation that the forces of society had in some way put facts enough to gether to warrant an inteilißutu at tempt to ran him down. Wliatevor theory these officers had been working on had been summarily frustrated by Hendricks taking them both prisoners. He had, with his usual ot decision, summed up the whole chain of consequences. Their mission was u secret one and only the secret service de rtm'lit knew of it, but their dis appearance would speedily bring about nis pUco the whole enginery of tho I overnment. He expected to be be sieged in the end, but as war on a large scale had been part of his calcu lation from the start this did not deter him. He calculated as usual with great shrewdiyjss on the element (if tin.c, and he felt suro that if the under ground rendezvous could be kept from the knowledge of the public until al. his plans were matured he would pre serve an enormous advantage even in a fight with the government. In order to narrate what occurred ii the Laran at this time it is necessary to go baak to Miss Laport. Miss Laport was u slender and pretty girl of twenty, with serious gray eyes, a great abundance of beautiful wavy chestnut liair and a rather pensive ova) face, in which there were indicationr of strong character ami much spiritual ity. She had received an excellent education when her father's means were ample and she had suffered deeply when his disgrace came. She was now living a life of expectancy and mystery, waiting only for the release of het father to redeem the promise early made to go away with him and forget in soiho distant place their wrongs an their troubles. Placed under EcnniuK' in Memphis she proved a valuable amanuensis and clerical assistant. Sho worked patiently and uncomplain ingly and got to know a great deal of the confidential business that was car ried on between the Bayou house and the office. She awakened Fenning's interest and respect and sho was grate ful for his consideration imd care ol her, and when he began to evince n deeper interest she did not repulse him, although ho awakened in her none of the emotions to which a girl of her age is susceptible. She treated Penning with an undisguised kindness for he had shown a real solicitude in her personal comfort and her future welfare, nnd had secured for her a handsome salary which she scrupulous ly put in the savings bank. When tliey went to I/aran Mrs. Hen dricks treated her as an equal and a guest. l!ut if it had not been for Fen ning, lier life there would bavo been monotonous enough- lie secured for her the latest b;»oks, took her out for long rides and looked after lier amuse ment and comfort in a thousand ways. But Fenning's was evidently not the nature to touch lier deeply. Mi* eool, mathematical mind may have won her admiration when she saw it exercised in a crisis or dilemma, but it did not move her affections. She was under heavy obligations to Fenning and she would not hurt bin feelings. The mo ment that Lieut. Stocking became a guest in the house, the whole aspect of things changed. Here was a passion ate, heroic and emotional southerner, who immediately exercised over her an influence that she could not resist. llis nature was the antithesis and the complement oWiers. He was immedi ately attracted by her. They came to gether easily and often, and all the amusements which had been enjoyed with Fenning now woro a new ardor of romance. I brief, these young per sons fell instantly and deeply in love. When, therefore, on that morning of the fight, she had seen him wounded and dragged fighting to the signal room, her indignation was unbounded and her misery uncontrollable. She knew enough of Hendricks' affairs to suspect that he was in some way acting in opposition to the authorities, and she had gathered from Stocking some thing of the peculiar nature of his visit. When, therefore, he disappeared down the shaft, her heart sank within her. She believed that he would never return. In this wretchedness she took to her room until Mrs. Hendricks en deavored to extricate her from her de spair- That lady found her in a con dition or morbid melancholy from which It was no easy matter to rescue her, and it did not take her long to as certain that contact with the lieuten ant had changed the girl's views ma terially. She wanted to go away and reminded Mrs. Hendricks that Hen dricks had promised to release her father at the expiration of a year. To this Mrs. Hendricks replied that he had been at liberty to go for some timo but had become interested In the com pletion of a gun and was staying vol untarily to sec it tested. She further ■u.sisted that Lieut, stocking would be treated well, and probably was anxious to communicate with her in the signal room. This brought about a request from Mrs. Hendricks to Hendricks to let Stocking speak to her through the telephone, and the lieutenant was sur prised to hear Hendricks say: "There is a young lady who wishes to com municate with you at the shaft. I will accompany you." They walked to the instrument to gether. The lieutenant said nothing WlieTFhe took.the mouthpiece in hi« hailflTie aske^J "Are you going to listen?" "Is there a lady at the other end?" "Yes," replied the lieutenant. "Then I wiU not listen," said net.- dricks. ne lifted his hat and walked away. This little unexpected show 01 chivalry touched Stocking. The mo mcnt that he was alone the following colloquy took place: Miss Laport—ls that you? Lieutenant—Yes. Miss Laport—Are you getting well: Lieutenant —Yes, I'm all right. There is a good doctor here. Miss L. —Are you a prisoner? Lieutenant —Yes. Miss L. —Are you happy? Lieutenant —Xo. How could I be? Miss L.—What can be done? Lieutenant—Nothing but wait. Miss L. —Suppose I come down. Lieutenant—Can you? Miss L. —Yes. I think J shall prefei tv. Mrs. Hendricks is coming. Lieutenant —11a* anything happened since on the grounds? Miss L. —Xo. Everything is quiet But it is lonesome and Mrs. Hendricks is going away. Lieutenant —Do you know where sin is going? Miss L.—Xo. Lieutenant —Why do you not seizi the opportunity and go with lier n Miss L.—l must si»y here a little longer. I cannot tell you why. Two days after this conversation Miss Laport and Mrs. Hendricks were down in the Laran, and with Miss Ei dieott and the negro servant this made four women now in the undergound community. The hurly-burly of preparation ami -xeitenieut of camp life extended at this time from the rotundp. fur at least two miles and tilled all the echoing spaces far beyond the lake. A little community was living in comparative [>eace in the I'ortal arena. The fragile cottages that encircled the spitce Jcjokcd like a }V>re. pi, lieu under tiie central light, and dried branches that profuse ly ornamented a column in the center space fretted the ground with sharply outlined shadows. It was eternal night here, but maii »mtitje(t it of most of its noxious terrors and woman had left the traces of her presence round the doorways of some of thi habitations. In front of one cottage there was a stand of strnngi. curious crytcm-unows gt-uwths that had hem gathered in the recesses of the place; and arranged in symmetrical order were crystals of carbonate of lime, symmetrical and translucent stalactites and foss;Ja do# rrom the wajls> oi i lie illstant passages. It was Stocking's amusement to gather these curiosities in his moody rambles, and it was Miss Laport's mel ancholy delight tq afrqußti\lieui where thw electric light piayod fantastic tricks with them at all hours. Under the awning which on one side of the little house offered a protection from the light, sat Miss Laport and Lieut, Stocking. At a short distance on the same side were t vvq n)her rind «iioilur abodes, of which was given over to tho lieutenant and Calicot: the other, connecting with Miss Laport's by a latticed alleyway, was in possession of the doctor. Miss Endicott having u room in Miss Laport's establishment. "Now that you have told me about your-father, Miss Franklin," said Lieut stocking, "and there is nothing to pre vent you both from leaving this place, why do you not urge him to go at once? Mr. Calicot asked me to speak to you seriously about it and impress you with the urgency of it." "Why should ho be anxious about it?" asked the girl. "He lias made up his mind about the result of the conflict and he fears if you delay much longer you will not bo able to get away at all," "And you?" said the girl with real solicitude. "I'm in Calicot's hands. I suppose we shall bo liberated at some time. He seems to think so." "You appear to admire and trust him very much." "Yes. I wish I could got you to trust him. Ho Hays you ought to go away at once. Shall I tell you what he said to me?" "Yps. Do." "It was this: 'Stocking,' ho said,'you can get Hendricks' permission to take that old man and his daughter out, if you will give your word of honor not to betray his ictreat and to return. You could then put them in a boat and help them to cross the Mississippi.' " 'Why,' I asked, 'are you so anxious to get them out?' " 'I want to save thetn,' lie said. " 'But you do not eare to save me,' I objected. " 'Yes,' he said, 'if you follow my plan it will save you.' •' 'Then I am not to return?' " 'Yes.you are. You must come back. But It will take you two days.' " 'To come buck here is not to be saved,' I said. 'You will have to ex plain yourself.'" "Yes," said the girl, with interest. "Did he explain?" "Xo. Ho merely said: 'I wish you would take my advice.' " 'You arc frank with me,' I ex claimed. " 'lf you will do as I bid you,' he re plied, 'everything will explain itself and wo shall all be released.' " "Then why not do It?" asked Miss Laport. "Because I have to pledge myself to give up liberty and you, and come back to this tomb to be buried alive. Do you think that an easy matter?" "And yet you say you trust your friend. Xow I would obey him im plicitly and trust him If I knew him as well as yon do." "Yes," said the lieutenant. "It Is characteristic of a woman. But I am a man—a helpless one." Twenty minutes later these two young people had taken the train and got off at tho platform in the rotunda. It was Miss Laport who first discov ered Calicot standing in a pensive at titude, and, with a sudden burst of un selfishness, sho said: "There is your friend now. Why not go to him and prove that you trust him? I am going to leave you together and go back with the doctor." Stocking' was disinclined to accede to tliis request, but Miss Laport was pleasantly firm and, « few moments later, ho had joined Calicot. The first thin# lie said, rather grimly, was: "There is mrrder going on over head." "Yes," replied Calicot. "That is the naino for war when we are not in it." The two men walked side liy hide through tho exit of the rotunda until they ouino to the lalic, where at inter vals there was a natural bench of satin spar, very pure ami beautiful in the electric light—and here they sat down. "Calicot," said Stocking, "I give you credit for too much manliness to lose your v indie tlveness under pleasant treatment and for too much good sense to bo overthrown by the mag nificence nf a sophism when it is put into execution." •'(Juite right,'' replied Calicot. willhv.* to set- that lav opposition to 'leiv.iricks and lii.s conspiracy is much deeper and broader than yours. With yon it is an impulse. With me it is a -'■x'l conviction. Your impulse prevent •ou from admiring his skill. My con ietion will enable me to thwart his purpose." "If I thought you could without being a traitor to your conscience, I would place myself underyour orders and ask no questions," said Stocking. "I was going to ask you to do that." "There is only one reason why I should." Stocking said. "What is that?" "Miss Franklin has asked me to." CHAPTER XVII. While this conversation was going on there arrived at the sanitarium a sheriff s posse. Among them was the deputy who had escaped when the house was surrounded. The doctor was now in charge of the place and uo obstruction was offered to their en •ranee. They were led by the sheriff of Tipton county, a grim and grizzly veteran, known as Clip Davis, who hail a wide reputation as a fighter, and he brought a pocketful of warrants. The doctor expressed his entire sym pathy with their purpose, denounced Hendricks as an outlaw>and offered to aid the officers in any*uwy in destroy ing the gang, ne the house at their disposal, treated them hospitahly and gave it as his opinion that Hen dricks and his men had gone east. The old sheriff was suspicious, blunt and unceremonious. "You've got a d d suspicious house here," he said, 'and I'm goinjr to get to the bottom of it. Where does thai wire go?" "It was Intended to go to Memphis, hut it was never finished." "Well, sir, there has murder been committed here. If I don't find the guilty parties I'm In search of I'll bag tho whole establishment and take you to Covington." The doctor smiled—remarked th»t that would be rather rough treatment for innocent people and then asked the iheriff to drink. But Clip Davis was not a man to settle down comfortably under any of the amenities. He took possession of the house, searched it thoroughly, locked tho iurualt-s tn their rooms and nut guards In the halls. It was thus impossible for the doctor to Inform Hendricks of what was going on, and the next morning ho was astonished to learn that four stragglers had been picked up In the woods, brought in and searched and a large quantity of gold taken from their persons. Thf,\ refused to give any account uf Them selves and were t>hut up in an upper ro/yi, aiui guarded until they could be *ent to Covington. In the course of the day two more were brought in and Ave hundred dollars in gold taken from eaeh of the.»;», The doctor's nervousness, »<ver these proceedings iian well be Imagined, especially as he could not communicate with Hendricks and the sheriff's remark, tinder any other circumstance-v would havo had a flavor of huiuor. "We have struck a bunai-aa,' 1 he said; "the woods are full of them." He then sent to Covington for reinforcements and scoured the whole neighborhood, making his head quarters at tho Laran house until he had g<it to the bottom of the mystery. The next day in attempting to arrest two tramps one of them was ciiasdfl far down to the southwest and sud denly disappeared, lie undoubtedly reached the Bayou house and com municated with Hendricks, who im mediately suspected the truth, and, making up a party of twcxity-avu mounted men, headed them himself and started off in the night for a re connoissancc. They were out two nights, and on the first afternoon over took and killed the chasing party of two that was returning to the Laran house. They then went north, picked up one of their own men who had man* aged to escape from the sanitarium, ancfc learned that Clin Davis was systemat ically baggiug the returning men and had possession of the house. As It was above all else necessary to protect the return of the men of his regiment, and as the sheriff wason the point of arming thi) country and pre senting it, he determined to make short work of him. It was not a diffi cult job witii his facilities. He got to the Laran house in the night, disposed his men in the Woods so as to intercept reinforcements and then picked off the sheriff's men as they appeared on the grounds or balcony. At the first shot, two of them rushed out and were killed on the steps. Clip Davis knew instinctively what this meant. lie barred his doors and stationed himself at a window and succeeding in killing cmo of Hendricks, men and disabling another. His idea was to gain time and wait for his reinforcements. Tho doctor, who saw from his window In the room where he had boen locked, what was going on, succeeded iu breaking out and went straight to the shaft. In twenty minutes he had ten men in the house. Tho captives wore liberated and a rush made upon Clip Davis who, received them with all the fire lie had and was killed at the window. Hendricks kept this work up with vigor, Intending, if possible, to prevent the escape of a singlo soul who would report the discovery of tho gold upoa the men. Before two hours were over, ho was master of the situation and then waited quietly in the house for the reinforcing party. The result was a cruel and success ful one. The posso of only six men rode up to the gate unsuspiciously and had no sooner got upon the lnclosure of the lawn, than they were received with a murderous volley from the house and another from the wood. In & moment the lawn was strewn with their bodies. Hendricks knew very well that all this meant war and he faced It with a vigorous military energy. He con verted the house into a fortress and barracks and bejfan moving all that was valuable into the cave. As the affair was reported to tho governor of Tennessee, it looked like an organization of robbers who had taken possession of the Laran house for their lioadquarters. He therefore appointed a new sheriff and placed the Memphis Tigers (eighty men) and the Crockett Euseliers of Paducah (sixty four men) under his orders with in structions to proceed ut once to Tipton county and arrest the gang. Adjt. Gen. Luscomb met part of the troops and the sheriff of Marshall and pro ceeded overland with them to Laran. The sanitarium stood upon a rounded knoll of about ten acres, corresponding to another and larger knoll which Hen dricks had by measurement fixed upon Os the crown or root of liis rotunda. The ground sloped gradually to tho foad two hundred feet away, which road marked the valley between this hill and another slight but extended excavation that began on the other side and stretched away eastward into the wilderness. To tho west there was a clearing oud the stables and extensive outhouses, and beyond a heavy timber belt that ran with occasional breaks almost to Marshall. It was from this direction that the troops came. They surround ed the house in the early morning and the adjutant general, on a fine white horse in full uuiform and gold epau lets and cocked hat and sword, rode upon the lawn and in an impressive voice called upon all the house to sur render. A voice from the house replied: "This is private property. If the eom- I manding officer will come in, I will I confer with him." ' There wag a on horse: 'luck, the slieritf and the general leaning orer and evidently comparing views. While thus engaged Hendricks made his appearance upon the balcony. "General," he said, "it is my desire to avoid bloodshed. If you will step inside we can prol>ablv arrange mat ters. I pledge you my word tTiat no treachery will be attempted." The general and the sheriff moved their horses up to the steps. and the general said, with much pomposity: "Do you know who I am. sir? I rep resent the outraged dignity of the sov ereign state of Tennessee. I command you to give yourself up instantly, to gether with all your confederates and belongings. That is the only way to avoid bloodshed." Hendricks smiled. "\ou are too old and experienced an officer," he said, "to be foolhardy, and the lives of these men you have brought bore are in your hands. 1 have expressed a desire to avoid bloodshed." "Sheriff, arrest this man," cried the general. "He defies a law, andVe are under cover of the guns of the state troops." Hendricks took a step toward them. "One moment." he said, "before you attempt to arrest me. You and your men are covered by four hundred re peating rifles. One move on your part to arrest me and your force will be au niliilated. I mention this in the in terest of humanity. If you decline to treat me with the courtesy due to a brave enemy, you had better retire. I will give you two minutes to rejoin your men." The impulsive general wheeled his horse, galloped into the center of the lawn and called, in a loud voice, as he drew his sword: "Capt. Hawkins, mass your men Bring up the reserves. Prepare to storm the house." Ilendricks leaned against one of th«- pi liars of the balcony. "You see," said the sheriff, "resist ance is useless. It would be better to surrender at once, as I propose to take you now," and he made a motion to draw his pistol. Before he could get it fairly into hit hand, there was a sharp craok of a rifle at short range aud he half raised himself in the stirrups and foil heavily backward upon the horse's haunches, the pistol railing- upon the ground Hendricks stepped down and glcked it up as the horse reared aud backed away—and at thai moment a crack of firearms >vas heard and lie went quick ly back into the house and shut the door. As soon as ho got to an opening in the barrieadod window, he saw the general wildly galloping up and down, flourishing his sword and calling upon his men to fall in. But many of them were past falling in. Their bodies were conspicuous by their uniforms, lying where they had fallen in the srrass and the rest were huddling con fusedly, running indeterminately Into the trees«at the foot of the slope under a murderous fire from all parts of the house. He could see when the general turned his head that a stream of blood was running down his face from a cut in the temple and had dyed his white whiskers. Wounded as he was, the old general succeeded after awhile in withdrawing his men across the road to the opposite ftcclivity, where under the shelter of some rocks, he reformed them and tried to encourage them. His condition was a distressing one. He had lost, out of a hundred uuA forty-four men, Irwt fifty. He could not even bring them all off and consequently did not know if they were killed or wounded. The sheriff was dead. He had no hospital stores or stretchers, for It would have required more than the ordinary mili tary presience to have calculated upon such a reception as this. However, he did the best he could, and the first act was to dispatch couriers to the nearest telegraph station to summon assist ance and notify the governor, he giv ing up his own horse to one of the messengers. What was his surprise about noon to receive a communication from the house. A man dressed like an ordinary workman was brought into his little cainp by a picket and delivered the following note with a military salute: "To the Commanding Officer: "Sill: You can safely reinovcyour deu.i and wounded. II you aro In need of bandage*, surgical assistance or medical stores, and wiU send for them, they will be supplied until you receive help from tho state. Respectfully. "OrrtcEti COMMANDING OPPOSING FOXOES." The audacious coolness of this pro ceeding aroused the old general to an eruptive state of indignation. Ho tore the message to pieces and ordered the arrest of the messenger. Half an hour later another arrived. "I am ordered," he said, "to say to you that if you do not release the mes senger a sufficient force will be sent to take him." "Away with him!" shouted the iras cible old general. "If he attempts to escape shoot?him." During the night Gen. Waterson and Penning got in nt the bayou entrance, and before morning Gen. Luscomb'J forces were fallen upon and complete ly routed. (TO HE COVTIXOKD.) \ t ail' of Indisposition. Two Houston (Tex.) journalists met on the street. "Haven't seen you for tho last twa dayv Have you been indisposed?" asked Faberpusher. "No. it's my washerwoman who is in disposed," replied Shears. "Is she very sick?" "She is not sick at all. It's me who is sick because she is indisposed to bring back my shirt." "I wish 1 had the luck to own a shirt that I could send to the laundry," was the mournful reply of the other jour nalist, whose coat was buttoned up close to his chin. —Texas Siftings. A lIKATIIEN PROPOSITION. Ah —No checkee, no washes. O'Flaherty—l'll bring the cheok 'round later, begob! Ah Long—No checkee, no washee. O'Flaherty—Kats. All Long—Allee lightee, blingee tne lata.—Hallo. A Musician. Friend—ls your boy making any progress on the cornet? Father —Some. Frletid—Can he play an air yet? Father—Yes, but it is such bad air that the neighbors have declared it a nuisance.—Detroit Free Press. After the Opera. "Well, it may be as you say. They may have,been in society, but they have not society manners." "Why do you think so?" "Hecausc they gave their entire at tention to tbu opera and seemed quite interested in Y. Press. N0.20 AN EXPENSIVE LIGHT. An lovctcrata Smoker Paid Thirty ThoV 4 MUD Dollar* far a FDM. Inveterate smokers acknowledge that the habit i-. a most expensive one, but it is seldom that a light for a cigar costs a smoker a fortune, as in ths story told by the author of "Glancea Back Through Seventy Years." He was an inveterate smoker, having con tracted "a diseased habit of puffing away at a cigar every moment he wa® not eating or sleeping." He smoked only the very best brands, and in those careless days spent, he says, mort for cigars than it afterward cost him to live. Well, one afternoon a day or two be fore "Palmer's Life" was published, t had been to a prize-cattle show at Chelmsford and then to a dinner with the iloyal Agricultural society, and on aniving in town by the last train, as I was walking homeward my cigar un fortunately went out and, much to my annoyance, I discovered I had no fuses al>out me. The streets, too, were de serted, so that there was nobody from whom a light could be obtained.* On descending Ludgate hill I noticed that the gas of the gas lamp, perched high against the wall just within itelle-Sauvage yard, was broken. There being a slanting ledge at the lower part of this wall 1 placed my foot on it, and. springing up. succeeded in light lug a paper-spill which I had impro vised, but in my rapid descent one of my feet unluckily caught the edge of the curb and I dislocated my ankle and broke the small bone of my leg. Quick us thought I wrenched the an kle into its place again, but it was not so easy to unite two pieces of fractured bone, so 1 hopped to a neighboring post and there awaited the protecting peeler's periodic round. He came at last and charitably put mo into a cab and accompanied me home. I was carried upstairs, a sur geon was sent for and the broken limb was set. Then I was put to bed and told I should have to remain there a month or more. It was while I was fretting under this involuntary confinement that my part ner In "Palmer's Life" paid me a sym pathetic visit and bought me out of the speculation for a mere song, with out, of course, saying a word to me of the phenomenal success our joint ven ture had already met with. Owing to this circumstance I have always reckoned that the going-out of :ny cigar cost me about fifteen hundred pounds, which actuaries tell me would, with compound interest added, have amounted to some six thousand pounds at this date. A sum sufficient, I fancy, to buy up all the "partagas imperiales supcrfinos" in the world. PATENT LEATHER. The I'roooM fur l'roducluc ih« Shtif Surface. Japanned leather, generally called patent leather, was first made in Vmerica. A smooth, glazed finish is first given to calfskin in France. The leather, says the Nfew York Telegram, is curried expressly for the purpose, md particular care is taken to keep it is free as possible from grease: the «kins are then tacked on frames and ■oated with a composition of linseed .jil and umber, in the proportion of eighteen gallons of oil to five of umber boiled until nearly solid and then mixed with spirits of turpentine to the proper consistency. Lampblack is also added when the composition is applied in or der to ff' l " l ji.ru! hndy. Fvooi three to four coats of this are neces sary to form a substance to receive the varnish. They are laid on with a kniia or scraper. To render the goods soft and pliant each coat must be very light and thoroughly dried after each application. A thin coat is afterward applied of the same composition of proper consistency to be put on with brush and with sufficient lampblack boiled in it to make a perfect blaok. When thoroughly dry 11 la cut down with a scraper having turned edges, when it is ready to varnish. The princi pal varnish used is made of linseed oil and Russian blue, boiled to the thlolc* aess of printer's ink. It is reduoed with spirits of turpentine to a suitable consistency to work with a brush, ana then applied in two or three separate coats, which are soraped and pumiced until the leather Is perfectly filled and smooth. The finishing coat Is put on with special care In a room kept closed and with the floor wet to prevent dust. The frames are thou run Into an oven heated to about one hundred and seventy-five degrees. In preparing this kind of leather the manufacturer must give the skin as high a heat as It oan bear In ord«r to dry the composi tion on the surface as rapidly as pos sible without absorption, and Cau tiously, »o as not to Injure the fiber of the le&ther. Barbarous Japanese Customs. From evidence that it seems'difficult to dispute, it appear* that in the Celes tial empire old, incurably diseased and hopelessly depraved persons arc fre quently burned alive in order to rid tne community of the burden and re sponsibility of their care-takiug. This arrangement is the result of a mutual understanding, the victims assenting to and sometimes assisting in the pre liminary ceremonies. The usage seems to have been recognized by the high est authorities, and the burials hfcrt certainly been conducted with ths sanction of the ruling powers. Great preparations are made and there is much ado, and sometimes a show ox grief, but a great deal of ths latter Is evidently perfunctory, as there Is aa all-around feeling of satisfaction on the part of the spectators and more pr less complacency on the mlsd of the victim, who is comforted by the as surance that he is fulfilling a tradition and will earn the respect of his an cestors and gonc-beforea. This custom is scarcely more strange and barbarous than tho Japanese practice of eon#' pell lug a man for certain crimes or calamities to commit suloide. It would, at least, have Its compensations In that the criminal could be made to take himself off and thus leave no un pleasant reflections upon the mind of nanorman or executioner. The Wrong SensaltM. Skinner—lt's a shame for you to ex pose your shoulders In that manner. Mrs. Skinner (tartly)—l never kijew a man to show so much jealousy in all my life. Skinner—lt's not jealousy; it's morti fication! —Puck. Just L.tke Illm. Mrs. Oofrequent—Your husband has insured his life for twenty thousand dollars? How good of him! Mrs. Offenround —Good of him? He did it just to tantalize me!— Chicago Tribune. Horn and Made. Poet—Poets are born, not made, sir. Editor—Perhaps; but most of their poetry isn't.—Detroit Free Pres. Wot to be mteoiieerted. "Yes, madam," said the cement sell er, holding up a plate whose fragments had been glued together, "you will ob serve that Stickum's patent family com fort cement holds anything firmly and lastingly. To this plate, for instance, I now suspend by a wire a twenty-five pound weight and the cement holds tirm. I increase the weight to thirty pounds and—" Here the plate broke along its cracked lines. "And you will observe, madam, that the plate breaks with ease, thus giving an opportunity to cement tho edges more evenly whenever it is desirablo to do so."— Chicago Beijjrd. ,
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