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 Wheeling-Pittsburg?
Simply because bearing, chain, tire, frame —all the
parts —are made of the best material. Because we
build the lightest,easiest running wh e 1 t i it is sife 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
way. The PHOENIX guarantee cov
ers every point, but the best point of all
is the fact that repairs or claims tor de
fective parts constitute an exceedingly
small per centage of our cost of manu
facture.
For catalogue and other information
address,
THE STOVER BICYCLE M'f'g. Co.
FREEPORT, ILL. or
J. E. FORSYTHE, Agent.
BDTLEK, PA.
WE LEAD IN BARGAINS ALL THE TIME.
ThU if tbe time of jear that real GENVINE BAKGA INS are appreci
ated. You don't want a bargaio io a wrap, a fine dre** or stylish hat after
tbe *e*a- ois over and it is of no great nee or benefit t<> you. But just now
when the season has Oily opened up nicely we offer yoa special prices in all
tb« different departments
(41 .« ■q 1 Y rncu bay 4 ox* tpria< j icltei, 'h very litem style at
|flj ft 03* tairl >ff 01 *' pise. Capes, 10 per cent, off on
■II capefl.
MILLINERY! MILLINERY!
»Ve bare au auractire at »ck i J thin d-p-irtcn.* it, both iu trimmed and no
tritamed b*ts. A alc< ■•tyiisb trin a<>l b*t t\»r VBe. A nicn t»t» linh un
irimtne-i b»t t>>r 25BitauMful i f.-ruber-t, ribb >us, j<*ti», laces and all
tb« aitrelci.H in milliuiry at aptcitl I ># pricjs.
Dro.a pri ei tkit vrill iiwMrt v >u. A'l thi 1 ■ <M<t r,tii'i;s ui
dresj trimmings, aa<l UiUbii/*. Lin curtain hfr > n 50; a pur up
1J $8 00 There is no h >u<« ii tb » cur ib« c* Isb > v r> 1 sim tr il i • in
laiw curtains at tb'» prices vr 1 off >r tinrn v> v >a. B/ u»li 1 1 1 1 > 1 ot tbe
many purcbisiQ* opp >rtu!iui n are able t > sell ti ie curtains at
prices heretofore uubea'd >f". We civi af>f Itoll I 1' vII '•»' keep
deceitful goods. Our at ». - a shall c >-itain a >l9 *)n*. g> < I * 'l' 1 •!* i » »d «th it
ia
JUST WHAT IT APPEARS TO BE
We a«k tb® favor of a riait to our different deptrtm nits. We do not
solicit you to parebftae; bat we do ask a comparison or our values and prices
with thaw of other booses. Respectfully,
Jennie E. Zimmerman,
Successor to Hitter & 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
indjeement to have you investigate, we have placed on our show
horse a set of Good Harness of our own make, and WILL GIVE
THEM TO THE PERSON WHO GUESSES THE HORSE'S
WEIGHT OR NEAREST TO IT.
; Every adult person allowed to guess once. You arc not ;
; asked to buy anythi tg. It is free as the air you breathe. :
; All you have to do is to come in, register your name in a :
: book we have prepared for that purpose and make your ;
: guess in plain figures. 1
Guessing begins Monday June 4, and
closes July 20, 1894.
.it i > o'clock, noon, at which time the horse will be weighed and the
•t i:\uvi3 .jiven 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 weight,
and will not allow him to be weighed until after the guessing closes.
\ll have an equal chance. No one in our employ allowed a guess.
R imember, we do not ask you to buy anything to entitle you to a
We just want you to see where we keep Buggies, Wagons,
Carts, Harness and all parts of Harness, Wheels, Tops, Cushions and
Lazybacks, Neck Yokes, Buggy Poles, Singletrees, Harness Oil, Axle
Oil, Lap Dusters, Fly Nets, Horse Collars, Brushes, Curry Combs,
and verything belonging to a Driving or Team Outfit.
S. B. Martincourt & C 0..,
128 East Jefferson Street,
BUTLER, ~ PA.
S. B, MARTINCOURT, J. M. LIEGHNER.
P. S.—No one under 16 years allowed to guess. We wil give
them a chance soon as this one closes.
THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
Ivy Poisoning
Eight Years of Suffering
Perfect Cure by Hood's Sarsaparilla
i "C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.:
" Dear Sirs: —We havo tried Hood's Sars»pa
rllla and find It to lie all you claim for it. My
wife was i>oisoued by i\ y when a > oung woman,
and for eight years was troubled every season
Hood's'P-Cures
with the breaking out and terrible itching and
burning. I thought hers was as bad a ease as
! anyone ever had. She was In this distressing
condition every year until she began to take
; Hood's Sarsaparilla. which lias effected a per
fect cure, without leaving any scars, and she
has had
No Sign of the Poison Since.
She is well ami hearty. I have taken Hood'*
Sarsaparilla after the grip with gi>od results, and
have also given It to our four children. We are
all pictures of perfect health and owe it to
Sood's Sarsaparilla." J. C. Fin KMAV, Van
illa. Illinois. <
N. B. If you decide u> take Hood's .sarsapa
rilla do not be Induced to buy any other instead.
Hood's Pills aro hand made, ai:d perfect
In proportion and appearance. 25c. per box.
A Scieul.st claims Hie
Root o t Diseases to lis
in ihe Clo ;es we Wear.
The l>ost Spring
remedy for tlie\blues,
etc., is to discard
your uncom fort able
old duds which irri
tate the bodv:-leave
your measure at
ALAND'S for a
new suit \v hicli ill
fit well, improve the
appearance bv re
lieving von instanl
lv of thai tired I'eel
i o\ and making vou
cheerful and aclive.
The cost of this
sure cure is very,
moderate
TRY IT.
•c. \. D.
A business that keeps grow
ing through a season oi de
pression, such as ihe country
has experienced, is an evi
dence that people realise they
save money by trad : ng wi.h
us. We know, and always
have known, the days of large
profits are past. Without
question we are giving more
for the money than last year.
Our stock is larger to select
from than last year.
CALL AND SEE US.
Colbert <5: Dale.
Perscriptions
m A Specialty.
At Redick's Drug Store. fr-
We do cot handle anything but
pure drugs, next time jou are in
need of medicine please give us a
call We are headquarters for pure
SODA WATER
as wo use only pure fruit juices, we
also baodle Paris Green, hellebore,
insect powder, London purple and
other inffct''cideß.
Respectfully,
J. C; REDICK,
Main &t.,next toHotcl Lowry
BUTLER, PA.
JOHN KEMPER,
Manufacturer of
Harness, Collars,
and Strap Work,
and Fly Nets,
and Dealer in
Whips, Dusters, Trunks and
Valises.
My Goods are ali new and strict
first-c work guaran
teed
Repairing a Specialty.
:o: :o:
Opposite Campbell & Templeton's
Furniture Store.
342 S. Main St., Butler, Pa. i
[COPYBIOHT, 1894.) v
A
"is THAir CASE KVETiY LIVING SOUL IX THE I.ARAN WOULD BE KJUJiO."
CHAPTER XVIIL
In.Tune of that year there appeared in
several of the Indiana papers the fol
lowing advertisement:
••MII.ITAIIY EXCURSION.
"Uniformed military companies in Indiana,
wishing to Join the excursion battalion to mak<
a slimmer visit to New York in July, will pleas#
report to Lieut Bidwell at Indianapolis Un
usunl inducements are offered toorganized com
panies to join this pleasure party. Tho battal
ion will be the guest of New York for twe
days."
This vague announcement of a pro
jected excursion did not fail to attract
some attention in Xew York. Several
of the papers referred to it in para
graphs, which briefly stated that the
militia of Indiana intended to visit the
cit3 - during the summer.
( 0n the Cth of July the superinten
dent of police in New York received a
formal letter from Indianapolis saying
that if the arrangements could he com
pleted a regiment of Indiana militia
would visit the city on or about the
12th, and asked for the usual right tc
parade and a police guard to clear the
Streets. At the time of the receipt of
the letter every man of the regiment
was in New York. The men of the
force were so widely and carefully dis
tributed that a military organization
was invisible. Each man had in his
possession a light uniform consisting oj
a blue flannel shirt, duck trousers and
belt, a thin glazed hat. a knapsack and
Spencer rifle with twelve rounds of
ball cartridges. This uniform could be
put on in a few moments.
At half-past five on t': ■ morning oi
the 12th the men thus equipped
eame to Tompkin'a square from all
points of the city. The inhabitants in
the neighborhood looked on with the
lazy interest that a military parade
awakens in the metropolis, but no one
knew or cared to inquire whether the
regiment had arrived en masse by an
early train or had come in the night
before.
The troops had to wait till nine
o'clock for the platoon of mounted
police that was to precede them. Gen.
Waterson, the colonel commanding',
communicated with the sergeant a 1
the squad through his adjutant. They
had been invited, he said, to visit Wall
street and the sub-treasury. They
were then to march to (Jen. Grant's
tomb for battalion evolutions.
It does not appear that any suspi
cions up to this time were awakened
in the police, who regarded the con
spicuous cartridge belts of the men as
a piece of western military nonsense,
and it was not within their line of duty
to question the visit of the officers to
the sub-treasury. If the sub-treasury
did not want their western visitors
they would shut the doors in their
faces.
It was twenty minutes past nine
when the regiment, preceded by the
police, and with the colonel and his
staff, dismounted, left the park and it
was ten o'clock when it wheeled into
Broadway at Eighth street, making a
solid and formidable appearance in its
homely uniforms and soldierly bear
ing.
Nothing occurred along the route of
consequence to interfere with its prog
ress. The inhabitants looked upon it
as part of the constantly recurring
show of that highway; careless re
marks were here ar.d there made about
the cheap get-up, but the crowds eyed
it carelessly and went on their way.
It was just fifteen minutes of eleven
by the Trinity clock when the arined
force turned into AVall street and five
minutes later it had come to
a halt in front of the sub-treasury
building. The regiment filled all the
space on the Wall street side and ex
tended around into Nassau and Broad
streets. The lines were quietly and
quickly but effectually formed and the
sub-treasury was, for the time being,
cut off from interference.
We have in Police Sergeant McGuire'a
account and in Gen. Waterson's report
sufficient data from which to form
some idea of the scene. The sergeant
says: "I don't think ten minutes had
passed when I found the whole of the
broad steps leading up to the building
covered with soldiers, leaving only a
space of ten feet in the center, and the
colonel and his staff followed by an
other hundred men were marching up
that alleyway into the building. One
of the patrolmen, who was as much
astonished as I was, asked me what the
regiment was going to do in the build
ing, and I made some careless answer
There was a black" crowd of people
down in Broad street looking on and
most of the office windows in the
neighborhood were crowded with peo
ple, but there was no excitement. The
men on the steps looked as If thoy
were drawn up for a show, but I calcu
lated that it would take the whole po
lice force of tho city to dislodge them.
The first thing that gave me a twinge
was that, after the troops went In,
none of the people who were doing
business Inside came out, and the sol
diers wouldn't let anybody go up. In
spector Fairchlld, who didn't like the
looks of things, turned his badge out,
took two men and insisted on going in
to see what was being done. We
waited over half an hour and they die]
not come back, but the company of
troop's that had gone in had come out,
fallen into line, and another hundred
men had been marched in. AVord was
then sent to the central office. That
was about twelve o'clock. It was three
quarters of an hour before the super
intendent and another inspector ar
rived. They went at once into the
building, where they were placed un
der guard. We were then ordered
back, outside of the lines, by one of
the captains."
From Gen. Waterson's account we
lUTTLER. PA., FRIDAY. JUNE '2*2,
learned that there wore about fifty
people in the building and they were
taken completely by surprise, but sc
admirably pre-arranged was the plan
that they had no opportunity to give
alarm and were all shut up in one room
and a guard plaeed over them, after
which the invaders had the building to
themselves. Everything was done with
the utmost expedition and the nicest
pervision, and at two o'clock the regi
ment was in possession of two million
dollars in coin. It was ten minutes
past two when the column was set :n
motion, and at that time there was the
most confused notion in official circles
as to what was going on. The idea
that an armed regiment had taken pos
session of the United States deposits
In the heart of the city in the middle of
the day appeared to he too incredible
at first to be alarming. It was there
fore two-thirty o'clock before the first
attempt was made at police head
quarters to take summary action and
call upon the reserves. The rumors
spread like wildfire through Wall street
and Printing House square, and when
the regiment moved, Wall street, Nas
sau street and Broadway were choked
with people. But Gen. Waterson
handled his men with admirable skill
and the solid column was not likely to
suffer any serious interruption from
m- r ly angry or suspicious crowds. Isy
the time the newspaper bulletins got
the first wave of intelligence, the regi
n -nt was at the foot of Courtland
street. It had marched through that
usually choked thoroughfare with a
tactical adaptation to circumstances
that was amazing. It marched in force
through the two ferry gates; took pos
session of two boats; put everybody off
but the pilots, and the vessels started
just as the first division of the reserves
marched into West street, three blocks
away.
At this point the state line, which
was no embarassinent to the soldiers,
interposed an invisible barrier to the
authorities.
New York stared across the river in
bewildered astonishment and then re
sorted to the telegraph and the utterly
futile police boat.
Hendricks' close calculation of time
was a«°ain shown here. His agents ar
rived in Jersey City with fifteen min
utes margin, and that was enough to
enable them to take possession of a
train of ten cars on the Pennsylvania
road and get in motion before the or
der had arrived to hold all trains.
On the ferryboat Gen. Waterson and
his officers encountered a number of
passengers with large portmanteaus.
They were there by prearrangement
and brought the change of garments
with them. When the boat arrived nt
the New Jersey dock the officers were
in different apparel and were protest
ing most bitterly against the impu
dence and insolence of the soldiers.
The general and two of his aides are
known to have got back to New York
on a returning boat. At leastone hun
dred men had gone out of their uni
forms while on the water. This was
easily enough accomplished,seeing that
they had but to take off shirt, trousers
and hat. These articles of clothing
were weighted with their arms, tied
to the empty and open knapsacks
and flung into the Hudson. On the ar
rival of the boat they followed tho
troops with the crowd and were unob
served. Half an hour later when they
were looked for they had disappeared,
most of them returning to New York
by various routes
Gen. Waterson, we know by his own
pccount, put up at an obscure down
town hotel where lie registered as
John Fielding, of Newark, and that
same night reached an up-towu ren
dezvous where he freed himself from
the gold and then gave himself with
curious zest to watching the course of
events and of public opinion in the
city.
CHAPTER XIX.
The regiment left Jersey City at half
past three with tight hundred and
seventy-five men on board. It had not
crossed the Jersey flats when the en
gineer was locked up in a closet and
the engine taken in charge by one of
the general's own men. The first act
was to cut the telegraph wires when
ten miles out at a secluded spot, and
here twenty-five more men were
dropped. The train was then run with
a view to land the men at the best
point and to keep ahead of the special
that it was believed would be on its
heels. Gen. Waterson's report leaves
us in no doubt as to how his plan dis
posed of the forces. Fifty got off at or
near Newark. Twenty-five were
dropped at Waverly and twenty-five at
Elizabeth. Fifty were disposed of at
Rahway and one hundred before reach
ing New Brunswick. Between Deans
and Monmouth Junction another hun
dred left and at Princeton Junction, at
the suburbs of Trenton, four hundred
more disappeared. Fifteen miles out
of Bristol the remaining hundred
dropped from the cars. The engine
was then reversed and the train
started spinning backwards to meet
the special.
Most of these men adopted the plan
that had been tried at St. Mary's. They
started at once in diverging lines
and disappeared in the surrounding
eountrv.
The excitement in New York over
the affair was widespread, and was
fanned into a flame before evening by
the news that came from Philadelphia
that the United States mint had been
similarly robbed by another regiment
that had seized a train and gone to
Lancaster.
The next morning full details of the
i Mi iipigiiii PTMWI
was no doubt tuat tlicy v.vrj
parts of one plan. Hut no one apjH-ar
to have suspected the exact method of
the repitnents or their plan of subse
quent disintegration. The popular
imagination planted au armed force
iu the field somewhere and added un
told resources of men out of its own
terrors. Something of this feeling wa
reflected by the press and the action
of the secretary of the treastur, for all
the endeavors were directed to the in
terception and capture of an armed
force which as the reader knows did
cot exist. New York now recalled the
St. Mary's alTair which it had formerly
treated as a western practical joke,
and the Louisville papers were rathei
exultant at what they called an eastern
dose of the joke.
Hut it mu6t not be supposed that the
central police-office at Sow York had
been entirely led astray by these
events. It had quietly arrested six
men whom its sharp-eyed detectives
had recognized as being in the ranks
of the visiting regiment, and on one of
them was found five hundred dollars
in gold. The superintendent, who saw
underneath the surface what he con
ceived to be a vast and brainy con
spiracy, summoned his best men: pjit
himself in communication with the
secret service bureau at Washington,
and very .soon began to formulate some
of the inevitable deductions. In this
he was fortunately aided by one or two
circumstances, lie obtained from the
Washington bureau the photographs of
the men who had boarded the Corin
thian. which photographs had been
forwarded from England. One of the
persons in the group was discovered to
be Fenning. The other circumstance
was that the Washington bureau had
sent two men west on his trail and
they had disappeared in Tennessee.
With these facts before him. it did not
take the superintendent very long to
focus his suspicions upon western
Tennessee.
CHAPTKR XX
The one man who seemed to have
the clearest comprehension of all this
was Hendricks, who, from his retreat
underground, watched by some in
scrutable process every move that was
made. Gen. Waterson reached I.aran
on the 20th of July. lie left New
York just six hours before the police
began to look for him, and he found
that four hundred and fifty of his men
had preceded him to the Laran. Dur
ing his absence the sanitarium had
been burned to the ground. This took
place on the Bth. On the !»th (Jon.
Luscomb's party had been attacked in
the rear. The general had been killed
and his men routed. Those that es
caped got in at Covingtou and re
ported the sanitarium burnt and the
gang gone eastward. Iu the public
mind this appeared to explain the ap
pearance of the regiment in New York
on the 12th.
About ten milt* east of the Laran
snugly perched on the side of a wild
glen is a solitary Swiss cottage. It is
built of stone and looks down upon a
rugged but beautiful country. It is
just three miles from the town of
Hoxie on a branch of the Tennessee
railroad where there is a post office
and telegraph station. The people in
the town understand that an eastern
literary woman who has an enormous
mail has hired the place on account
of its seclusion and salubrity. She
lias a pony and two servants, one
if whom is a man, and she coines to
town frequently with her pony to
Bail her letters, get her papers and
meet an occasional visitor from the
2ast whom she takes back with her.
This literary woman is Mrs. Hen
dricks. In her pretty little boudoir
on the secoud floor she has a tele
graph instrument built into the wall,
and she communicates constantly with
Hendricks in the Laran by an under
ground wire that has been laid with
great care and expense through the
wildest and most unfrequented part
of the intervening country and which
enters the cave through an artesian
drill that is hidden by four feet of soil.
In a fragment of a preserved letter
of Hendricks he says: "This wire cost
me more trouble and labor than any
thing else. It had to be laid at inter
vals after a careful survey in order to
avoid observation, and it had to follow
the unfrequented ways and escape the
possible surface water courses, for if it
had been bared and discovered my
enemies would have had the iron clew
that ran to the heart of my mystery."
The man servant in this establish
ment is none other than Penning. The
room in which he and his companion
toil at their mail is tastefully furnished
and the windows on the inside are pro
vided with steel blinds. The two Royal
Dane mastiffs that have already been
seen at the sanitarium lie at full
length on the rug. They can be de
pended upon to hear a footfall on the
mountain side before it gets within a
hundred feet'of the hous*.
In this comfortable and secluded re
treat Mrs. I lendrickf is at work during
the latter part of .Tuly. The mails are
kept guardedly down to a correspond
ence of necessity and to the daily pa
pers from the large cities.
We can thus see how indifferent Hen
dricks was to the prospects of a siege.
He could safely and secretly direct the
movements of a vast organization scat
tered through the country while he
and his immediate forces were safe
from molestation or disturbance while
their supplies lasted.
On or about the 28th of July,
Penning succeeded in getting Mrs.
Hendricks to send for Miss La
port's assistance. But that young
woman refused to leave Laran volun
tarily. Kenning suspected the in
fluence of Stocking. Mrs. Hendrick*
was sure of it. Preparations were then
made at Fenning's suggestion to send
her at night under a strong guard to
meet him somewhere on the route,
when they were interfered with by the
news from Laran. This was on the
80th and Hendricks telegraphed;
"Something of our secret is discovered
by the government-. How much, I do
not know. Watch the papers. A
United States gunboat anchored in the
river this a. m.. opposite the luvyou: a
strong force has been ashore. The
probability is that this is one feature
of a general movement and other forces
are concentrated. It is therefore fool
hardy to send Miss Franklin at this
time."
It was Mrs. Hendricks custom to read ;
off these messages to Penning while J
she was at the instrument and he j
wrote them down with a pencil in
order to be sure of their meaning, I
burning them immediately afterward, j
They never suspected or ever j
that they were read by somebody else
But they were, and it is tbat eurlouJ
fact which enables us to follow tlif
details of his operations.
In the interval between the collision
with Oen. Luscomb and the departure
from Larau of Mrs. Hendricks and
Penning, Calicot had had ample op- !
portunity to cultivate the acquaintance j
of Miss Laport, whom lie knew only as
Miss Franklin, and-as the two young
women in the place were thrown mi)ch
together, he saw a good deal of Miss j
Endicott. The doctor, who had found
him a well-read man. had become quite
attached to him and had told him a
great deal about Miss Endicott's pe- !
culiar temperament and condition.
The young woman herself enjoyed
Calicot's society, and he and Miss La
port spenj most of their evenings visit
ing her. On one of these occasions
she had lapsed into her trance condi
tion and the doctor was not present.
Something that was learned from her
lios made Miss Lajjort and t'alieot con- J
suit toug and ear. fully. The Tory :.t
night when they were alone with her
she again passed into an abnormal
: tate. and t'alieot, with his eoinpan
ion's concurrence, questioned her. Th<;
doctor was busy elsewhere: then* wa-«
no fear of interruption. Mist, l.uport
got the packet of hair that she knew t<
bo Mrs. Hendricks*, and Calieot. with
curious interest, to the girl.
Then it was that she des< rfbed the
scene in the Swi-s cottage and rvad th«
telegram which Fenning ha.l v.rittei
down with a pencil from Mrs. Hen
dricks' lips. Calieot was puzzled. lit
had no means of finding out when
this place was. Miss Endicott could
only describe what she saw. She
no explanations to make, but it slid
denly dawned upon him that he had in
this young woman a complete offset
to Hendricks'secret advantages. Mis>
I. a port acknowledged to him. in corrob
oration of what he had heard, that she
had refused to go away without her
father, and now that she had learned
of the preparations to send her to Fen
ning, she was visibly alarmed, t'alieot
encouraged her by every means in hit
power. He pointed out to her how
great an advantage their discovery
gave them She listened to him help
lessly: but they became confidential
confederates. He cautioned her to say
nothing to Stocking at present and got
her to use her woman's influence with
the girl to carry on the experiments.
When he was alone the disoOven
filled him with all manner of con
jectures and alarms. It kept hiix
awake all night in an effort to make (
correct deduction from the informa
tion furnished. The next day h<
cautiously endeavored to tost the trutl
of Miss Endicott's vision. He me
Hendricks in the rotunda, and after t
polite salutation said: "It is impossibli
for me to wander about in this placi
and not hear the men occasionally dis
cussing your affairs. I have just heart
something that leads mc to believi
that a wnr vessel is watching th«
bayou. Is that true?"
"Yes," replied Hendricks. "She ar
rived yesterday morning. I expected
her before."
He then walked away as if disin
clined to talk further upon the sub
ject.
So this piece of information was ab
solutely correct. Calicot saw that the
affairs of Hendricks and his men were
now too urgent to leave them much
time to think of him and the women,
and he resolved to improve the oppor
tunity with Miss Endicott. Miss La
port made the task an easy one. for she
brought Miss Endicott into her apart
ment. gave her an invalid chair and
admitted Calicot. lie observed that the
girl did not suffer in her trances when
the doctor was not present. She even
acknowleged that the doctor fright
ened and pained her. but volunteered
to take the packet of hair and tried to
do what Calicot desired. She closed
her eyes a moment, gave way to a little
tremor and then said: "Yes, there
they are. He is reading the papers tc
her." Calicot very soon discovered
that she could not repeat what she
heard, if, indeed, she heard anything
at all. Whatever her special gifts
were they appeared to t>e confined tc
vision. She could read the title and
the type of the paper in Fenning'e
hands and she saw his lips move. He
was undoubtedly reading to Mrs.
Hendricks, und she was summarizing
the intelligence in dispatches tc
Hendricks. It was not difficult tc
direct the girl's mind to the news in
front of Penning, and she read it ofl
with her body bent forward as lj
straining to perceive au indistinct
object and speaking slowly like a child
conning a lesson.
What was Calicot's astonishment tc
hear her, in this manner, convey the
import of the matter before her strange
vision.
He learned that the success of the
authorities in tracking the source ol
the widespread Junta conspiracy tc
western Tennessee, had led to sonjc
curious developments. The New York
police had succeeded in linking to
gether several mysterious events whict
pointed to the fact that the mastei
spirit of this new dangur to socia!
order war, no less a personage thai
the audacious pirate who had robbec
the Atlantic steamship two years ago
The United States government ha<
taken means to stamp out thin social
istic rebellion and the gunboat
Arapahoe had been ordered to
Memphis; the Sixth United States in
fantry, with battery A and troops A
and F of the Twelfth cavalry, had
been ordered to report at Paducah
from Leavenworth: orders had alsc
been for varded for two companies ol
the Fifth United States regiment at
Fort Benton. Tex., to proceed to
Memphis. Gen. Harvard Carroll wat
placed in command of the forces with
his headquarters at Paducah.
Here the girl stopped, and Caljcol
with allowable impatience asked liej
to go on: "He has laid the papet
down," she said; "I cannot see it ana
he lias got up. He is looking for some
thing. It is a writing-pad. lie sits
down beside the woman —he is writing.
"Yes, yes. It is a telegraphic mess
age. Can you read it? It comes irotD
Hendricks."
She hesitated a moment —then she
said:
"Send cipher dispatch at once to
G. G. at St. Louis, to M. M. at Chicago
and C. C. at Davenport. Four thou
sand gnus at Leavenworth left unpro
tected by a withdrawal of troops)
Kansas City on the first at nine o'clock
a. m.; impress G. (5. with swiftnessi
twelve hundred men here now; cati
hold everything; getanswer from G. 0.
at once; watch Memphis papers tcH
movements of gunboat."
Here the young woman made anothei
pause. In his impatience, Calicot £ot
up impulsively and strode about tbd
little rporn. fie was shut up helplessly
in a living tomb and events, in wnftj
now seemed like another world, weri
hurrying on to some kind of disast<;f.
He calmed himself by a powerful men'
tal effort. "Well," he said, "what aO
you see now?"
"They are close together at the In
strument. They are sending A ais'
patch."'
Aft«r some delay, there was evidently
an answer received from Ilendrickj,
for the girl began again, slowly
reading from the written pags
appeared to be instructions. Verjf lltj
tie or it was intelligible to Calicot, out
blind as it was he tried to imprest H
upon his memory for after reflection-
He heard her saying: "Will take gun
boat and seiae arms; council
the £3th; all instructions COfi*
form to that date."
Day after da?', as the girl revealed in
broken sentences the communications
that were made from the cave io the
cottage, the bulk of the Information
began to arrange itself in his mind
around certain well-defined points.
The conspiracy, lie now saw,extended
over the whole L'nited States! It had
taken in men in official positions. Its
agents were in the government employ,
in the railway service and in the tel
egraph offices. It must have vast forces
all ready to mass and the brain of the
movement was hidden away safely un
derground. As the magnitude and
method of the plan were slowly com
prehended, lie asked himself: What is
the government doing? Can it be pos
sible that the world has not yet dis
covered the two exits to this strong
hold?—and then he tried to forecast
the result when the exits were discov
ered. Hendricks cannot be dislodged,
he said, even by engineers, who would
have to tunnel a -->ount:un. He can
only K* m: '• 1 .: : • UrwJ toucath.
and in any such attempt what unknown
exit.-- mar he not have. He recalled
the my<tvrioni magazine in the south
western wall of the rotunda with its
wooden door* anil its. sign of danger.
Witt this a uiafuine'.' Might uut that
impression hate )v»-n created to keep
secret an nnknou u exit until an emer
geuey occurred? ll< had heart! La
port speak of the magazine lie would
talk t i the old man ahont if
His imagination pi.-turod a lonff
eha<-m leading to souio unsuspected
region of country with its exit hidden
in the mountains. lie foresaw in
his fancy a besieging iruiy encamping
over a ininc or fallen upon by a sudden
force that sprang up as if by magic in
its rear—and then disappeared, and he
began to ask himself if this conspiyae}
had not gathered into its ranks most
of the malign forces of civilization
which under the nameaof nihilism and
anarehr seek mainly to destroy.
Intolerable as these rejections were
to a man compelled to see the progress
of all this diabolism and prevented
from raising a warning cry or lifting
u finger, there were other considera
tions that were even more poignant.
Here was an inaocent and intelligent
girl who. with her father, would be in
volved in the inevitable catastrophe
or thrown into the hands of Fenning.
and Calieot had grown to have a pro
found sympathy for lier. Lieut. Stock
ing. as he well knew, had with his im
pulsive temperament developed a still
stronger interest in her. and Stocking
by his very nature could not be de
pended on to assist him.
In turning over these perplexities In
his mind he was aware of an undis
turbed conviction hiding away in his
nature, that the normal intelligence
and njoral force ought in some way to
fee able to circumvent all this mischiof.
ftnt liow?
Some kind of a scheme of es
cape for Stocking and Miss Laport,
through what he conceived to be tha
Siecret exit of the magazine, shaped It-
Beji in his mind, and then he got hold
t{ Laport one day after conferring
ith tlie old mail's daughter. The
ree were eating their breakfast to
gether when Calicot approached the
Subject of the magazine guardedly,
with the one purpose of finding out, if
possible, what Laport knew about it.
To his astonishment he knew ail about
It. He had surveyed it. it was an enor-
Oious pocket in the southwest wall of
the rotunda, its mouth facing the
portheastern direction of the cave, and
It had no other outlet. Calicot felt
bis vagUe hopes all vanish as heard
this, but Laport went on talking un
suspiciously. "It is," said he, "a peril
ous piece of business and ( I told Hen
dricks so at the start, but he never
could see it in that light. He has an
enormous amount of powder, fixed am
munition and other explosives stored
there. There must be a hundrtd thou
sand pounds. I believe he has some
kind of a notion that he might have to
blow his way out of the cave at some
time, but he never pan do it at the
point of the magazine."
'And why not?"
"Because the rock is Seventy-five feet
thick at that point."
"And suppose the magazirie should
explode?"
"In that case, every living soul in
the Laran on this side of the maga
zine, would be killed."
Calicot was listening eagerly, but he
did not clearly understand, so the old
man glibly explained.
"If by any accident," he said, "the
powder is exploded there the magazine
tvill simply go off like an enormous
stone cannon, whose mouth points to
the northeast passages. Can you not
see that the sudden concussion and
compression of the air in the confined
spaces. reachii\g to the last wall of the
arena, will kill every thing by shock?
The whole force must expend itself in
what is really an enormous pneumatic
tube. Hendricks is a wonderful man
in dealing with events, but he makes
some singular mistakes in dealing with
physics."
(TO BE CO N'T IX TED. )
Warned In Time.
"I've caught you making love to my
wife."
"Well?"
"I'll give you fair warning—I did
did that once, and I've been sorry ever
since."—Hallo.
Paid the YTronf: Way.
"Do you pay for spring poems?"
asked the poet.
"I do," replied the editor. "Lose slat
subscribers every time I publish one."
—Atlanta Constitution.
IT JI'ST HAPPENED THAT WAT.
EVERY- HOUR
"It may liare been a mere coincidence,
but Mr. Lush forth will never be Con
vinced that his wife didn't set the lx>t
tie in just that place on purpose.—
Judffe.
.liniuilo'a Pn .ileilt^.
I am terribly mixed about things of late,
My mind's In a regular garble:
Why 1B It that urates ain't agate at all,
And marbles are not made of marbleT
-Harper's Young Pe&pl*
A Urtn MUtake.
lteal Estate Agent—Yes, sir, I can
recommend the place to you. No ma
laria. chills unknown. Healthiest lo
cality in the state.
Stranger—Guess we can't do business
—l'm a doctor.—Truth.
UittlDf Square.
Hotel Clerk—Xo. Sfl's curtain go» a
flre from the K'as last pight.
Propr+v tor— I'm—telegraph to the
insurance company, and—and cliarga
No. B*J fifty cents for a fire in his room.
—Puck.
Complimentary.
Mrs. Newcotne invited younjf Mrs.
Smith to step in to dinner.
"Hadn't I better go home and make
myself pretty?" asked Mrs. Smith.
'•Oh, no, dear—come just asyou arel"
Colored School* In the South.
Sam Johnsing—ls de 'tendance at de
school purty fair?
Miss Jolinsing—Some of 'em is a heap
fairer den I is, but mos' of 'em is dark
mulatters.—Texas Siftings.
How It Happened.
Jess—l took off my hat at the thea
ter last night.
Jack—How did that happen?
Jess —Wc sat in the last row, back.—
N. Y. World.
.% Nfrenarf Formality.
"They say that money it a drug in
the market."
"Yes, but the trouble is oi?e hai to
have a prescription in order to get It."
—Brooklyn Life.
N"o '2f>
COULO NOT TOLER " A LIE.
' * <.r«-at frrarh Writer Irian ut
Republican Phil »t.
Victor Srhoelcher eminent
writer, politician an<! dican phil
t anthropist who died 1_ yin France,
> after au honorable life of nearly ninet#
years, was always noted for the rigid
sincerity of his principles and liis acts,
I savs the Youth's Companion. A story
is told in the Parisian Press of his boy
hood which illustrates this
1 istic in him. As a child he was once
i returning to France from a trip to
Brussels with his mother.
She had obtained in Belgium certain
valuable laces which she could easily
carry out of sight, and she remarked
i to the ln>y that she was not going to
declare them to the French custom
. house authorities.
I "But. mother," said Victor, "not to
declare them would be wrong!"
"N\.»r you mind," she said, "it
would be foolish to declare them. The
duty on them is enormous and the in
spectors will never know anything
j shout them. I shall say nothing about
them."
When the custom house man came
Mine. Scliotlcher declared that she
Iliad nothing dutiable. Tne inspector
thought he mw a shocked look in the
boy's face.
"What is it.'" said he to Victor.
"Oh, sir." said the boy, "I think
mother has some Belgian laces that
she ought to pj.y duty on!"
The laces were produced and the
duty paid. Mine. Scholcher, instead
of bein>r angry, declared that she was
proud of having so honest and truth
ful a boy.
Not only did he never learn to lie,
but he had a quick eye for dishon
esty of character in others. As a dep
uty he voted to permit the return of
Louis Napoleon to France, believing
that the time had come for universal
ferglvenuss. Lou4s Napoleon read a
speech thanking the deputies and full
of apparently frank protestations of
"idelity to the republic. Schoelcher
ihoak his head when he heard this
speech.
"I watched him through my glass,"
he said, "and his paper never trembled
In his hand. He is too cool to be an
honest man. We shall have occasion
to regret his coming into the country."
The estimate proved quite true, for
in a few years Louis Napoleon had,
by a moat remarkable series of false
hoods aud betrayals, overthrown the
republic and post«essed himself of des
potic power.
HE WAS A PHILADELPHIAN.
Notwithstanding Which Pact He Made a
Good Bargain In New York.
"Talk about Philadelphians being
slow," said an up-town dealer in rare
books to a New York Evening San
man; "why, I'll tell you about a little
incident that happened the other day.
"A Philadelphia®- who has a nice
private collectlolfdf rare engravings
and etchings came to this city on a
visit and was Almost stranded financial
ly before he knew it. An ordinary
man would have written or telegraphed
home for cash. But this oue didn't.
He was strolling down Broadway, un
decided whether to continue his walk
as far as Philadelphia or not, when he
came to a little shop where engravings
and etchings arc sold.
"His mania for collecting forced him
to enter the shop and examine the
stock, although he didn't have money
enough to buy a fair-sized chromo.
Turning over a number of etchings
and engravings lying upon a sort of
bargain table at the rear of the shop
he cauie across a fine copy of the cele
brated Kanjon portrait of Tennyson,
of which he had a highly prized speci
men in his own collection. Thinking
it strange that the etching shoulal be
lying among the other cheap objects
on the table he asked its price of a
cleak.
'Take It along for a quarter,' said
the elerk.
" 'All right,' said the Philadelphian,
rolling up the etching and paying over
the money.
" 'Shall 1 wrap it up for you?' asked
the clerk.
" 'Oh, no; you needn't mind,'and the
Philadelphian walked off with his
prize. He did not walk far, though-
Stopping at a well-known engraving
dealer's shop not four blocks away the
Philadelphia man offered the etching
for sale.
" 'Twenty-five dollars,' was the of
fer of the dealer. The Philadelphia
man accepted the money, although it
was but a little more than half the
price at which the Rajon portrait la
catalogued, and went his way. He had
paid all the expenses of his New York
trip at one stroke."
sot L'ncomfortable.
The traditional notion of a 4t flsh out
of water" is that of a helple»6. gasping
creature. There are some fish, how
ever, that deliberately choose to diver
sify their existence by seeking land
and air. The perch often leaps into
the air for flies and can be carried long
distances in damp grass without suffer
lag harm. One of this species, which
is common in India, often leaves hit
pool and takes a short journey over the
grass. HS seems to prefer to tak*
these excursions by night or in th«
early morning, when he can be re
freshed by the dew, but sometimes, nt
doubt led by urgent necessity, hat
been known to travel some little dis
tance over a hot, dusty road, under th»
midday sun.
The Terrible Fer-de-Lance.
One of the deadliest serpenta in th«
tropics Is the fer-de-lance, of whlco
theh) are at least eight varieties,
These snakes aro of precisely ttie
Tsolor which will enable them to hid*
among the foliage or roots of trees.
Sometimes they are a bright yel
low and can scarcely be distin
guished from the bunch of bananai
within which tbey lie colled. Again
the reptile may be black, or yellow
ish brown, or of any hue resembling
tropical forest mold, old bark or de
composing trees. The iris of the ey{
is orange, with red flashes, and at
nljrht flaws like a burning coaL
Trying to Escape.
"There!" said the young wife proud
ly, as she deposited the hot plate care
fully on the table. "That's the first
mince pie that I ever made without
any help; all alone myself."
"So it is!" exclaimed her husband
enthusiastically, looking it over crit
ically meanwhile. "And as long as it
Is the very first, my dear, don't yon
think that, instead of cutting it, it
would be nice to keep It for a souve-
How would it do to have It
framed?"—Somervllle Journal.
He Knew It.
Gentleman (who has engaged
aged colored hackman to drive him
from the station to the hotel) —&ay,
unci*, what's your name?
Driver—My name, sah, is Geotlge
Washington.
Gentleman George Washington!
Why, that name seems familiar.
Driver—Well, fo' de Lawd's sake! I
should t'ink it ought to. Here I been
drivln' to this station 'bout twenty'
years, sah!—Stonington Bulletin.
A lllrthmank.
Superintendent Byrnes Are there
any marks by which your daughter can
be distinguished?
Sorrowful Mother —Yes; she lpoks
three years older than she really is.—
Hallo.
A Hustler.
Ediths-And you never permit Jack
to kiss yon?
Maude —