MV ( POUR WALI.H.
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I
Ch torm and night in on the waste.
Wild through the wfnd the herdainan
call.
A taut on willing nng I haate
Home to my own four wall.
Black, lowing cloud, willi rarce a glim
mer, F.nvelon earth like evenfold pnIN;
But wifekin watches, coffee pot doth aim
mer, Home in my own four walla.
A home and wife I too hare got,
A hearth to blaze whnle'er liefalla)
What need a tnnn that I have not
Within my own four walla?
King George has palace of pride.
And armed groom mual ward those
halls.;
With one alout Uilt I Saffl abide x
Within my own four walla.
Not all hia men mny Revei tliia;
It yielda to friend", not monarch call:
My whinatone houne my caatle ia,
I have my Bin four Walla.
When rflU or knaves do make a rout
With gifnieii, dinner. Italia, cabala,
1 tum my back and abut I hem out
Theae an? mv own four walla.
The moorland house, (hough rude it be.
May atand the brunt when prouder falls;
'Twill acreen my wife, my hooka and me.
All in my own four walla.
Thomaa Carljie.
Tnt AKKto I
1 OF MUGGSYj
So it happened that Muggsy and
Mary Ann. the waitress, became en
gaged. Muggsy was tu borrow Home
money from a friend, and get a Job.
and be married.
Now, It Is hard for a burglarious
loafer to get a job. It Is harder still
for him to borrow money. But after
five day's of tramping the streets and
visiting mills and factories and strik
ing old friends Intermittently for pe
cuniary aid, he obtained the promise
of work In a foundry, to begin the
following Monday, and a former "pal"
lent him $10 to begin housekeeping
with. So he was to be married on
Sunday.
It was Saturday night, and Mary
Ann's fiance was strolling through
the streets, restless and happy. To
morrow he would be married. It
seemed impossible, and yet there
could be no doubt of It.
Muggsy found himself staring va
cantly Into a shop window. The shop
was closed, for it was late, and lights
in the window were dim. There were
three glided balls over the door.
Then Muggsy'B gaze fell upon a
tray of rings in the window, and he
started. Tho awful truth flashed upon
him. When people get married they
use weddings rings: And he had for
gotten the ring.
He took only one ring; once he
would have takeu the whole tray. He
was triumphant, but he was in dan
ger. Ho ran quickly down the street
to a passageway ho knew of leading
to an alley and thence to another
street, where he would be safe.
But suddenly a blue uniform
loomed up, and un excited voice or
dered the fugitive to stop. A pistol
shot added force to the command.
Muggsy was frightened. He darted
into the passageway, the putrolmun
after him in full chase. A fence had
been built there since last he came
that way, and he was cornered.
Muggsy was a man of peace. The
game was up, and he surrendered.
When the turnkey searched him at
the police station he still hud the
ring. It went into un envelope
marked "Exhibit A."
There was a big docket in police
court on Monday morning. An end
less line of "drunkB" shuffled out of
the reeking "bull pen" and stood,
nervously expectant, before the
bench, where the magnulmous Judge
O'Rourke dispensed fines and Impris
onment for the protection of society.
"Well, well!" ejaculated His
Honor, with n broad grin, "fftit very
cheerful this morning, Muggsy. What
is it now, Mooney?"
"Burglary and larceny, Your Honor
at 'is old tricks smashed u Jew
elry window an' copped a ring a
weddin' ring, too." The court officer
smiled indulgently, and the prosecut
ing attorney inspected the ring, while
the clerk read the affidavit and the
spectators cruned forward with in
terest for the prisoner had many
acquaintances present.
The proof was too easy. The pros
ecutor yawned, and held up the ring
for the inspection of the court.
"Why didn't you take the rest?"
he asked. "This ain't worth much,
and there was a whole troyful."
L "I didn't"' need any more," mut
tered Muggsy.
. "Didn't need any more?" repeated
the prosecutor, while the court at
taches and police reporters showed
Signs of Interest. "Then you con
fess to the theft?" he shrewdly
added.
"Naw, I don't confess not 'In'."
"Needed u wedding ring, did you,
Muggsy?" queried His Honor, with a
smile that lit up the courtroom.
"Me? Naw."
"That reminds me," remarked
Lieutenant O'Haru. "We found u
marriage license in his clothes -Et-j
btbit B over there. It's got his name
on, too, only he says it's for a cousin
as has the same name us he has, an'
was to be married yesterday. 1 won
der " and while he was wondering,
u light suffused his massive face.
'.'No such weddin' in the sasaiety
colyums," volunteered Moouey. "Why,
what you blushiu' about, Muggsy?"
"You go to the devil," growled
Muggsy, who, now the centre of all
oyes, was really blushing for proba
bly the first time In his life.
Meanwhile a reporter was inspect
ing the marriage license. He was a
tall, lean scribe, with a laiy, far
away took, and wore an eternal atogie
in hit mouth He leaned over to the
Judge.
The Judge banded the license to
the court officer.
"Ia Mary Anu Evans here pres
ent?" roared Mooney.
Muggsy jerked himself erect, his
square Jaw set, his eyes Dashing and
Ills flits clenched.
"Stop that, Mr. Officer!" he cried.
"I don't want that there name men
tioned in this p'llca court!" the
prisoner gasped.
The Judge's bland smile had con
gealed. The reporter critically poised
his stogie andeinltted a 16w, thought
ful whistle.
Then the spell was broken by
commotion beyond the railing among
the spectators, anfli a little figure
with carroty hair a.d freckled face
almost hidden beneath a faded shawl
darted past the officer at the gate aiid
stepped to the Judge's bench. A
young lad about to follow her was
denied admittance.
Muggsy was abashed. His figure
slumped back to Its normal posture,
and ugaln he gazed at the floor.
"I'-please, sir, I'm here." faltered
the figure under the shawl, while a
pair of greenish -yellow eyes roved
back and forth between Judge and
prisoner.
"Are you Mary Ann Evans?" asked
His Honor.
"Y-yes, sir. And I came here this
moruln' because Jimmy that's ray
brother seen In the paper that
Muggsy was arrested, an' he said
they'd try him this mornln'. An' I
thought mebbe I could do sumpln'
fer 'lm." Further elucidation was
interrupted by the necessity for stop
ping a flow of tears with one corner
or her shawl.
"Is it this man, or his cousin, that
you were going to marry?' aBked tho
Judge.
Mary Ann checked an in. pulse to
answer, and looked to the prisoner
for guidance. Muggsy's eyes slowly
rose from the floor, met hers, and
read their honest appeal. That look
shunted the duplicity out of him. He
stepped nearer the Judge, while the
little group narrowed around the
affianced pair, and he addressed the
Judgo In a voice firm, but low, so that
the curiosity-mongers beyond the rail
ing could not hear:
"I'll tell ye the truth, yer Honor."
ho said, "an' It'll be the first time I
ever told It to ye. I lied w'en I said
the license was fer me coubIii, an' I
lied about breakln' the windy by ac
cident. This little girl had promised
to marry me, yor Honor, an' the
weddin' was to 'a' been yesterday.
An' w'en I happened to think how I
didn't have no ring, an' how I need
ed one, and didn't have no money to
buy one, nor not'in', w'y I don't know
how It was, yer Honor, but I Just
couldn't help ferglttin' I'd reformed,
sn' gittln' a ring the best way I
could. An' now I s'pose I got to go
to the works again, an' I don't care
much, fer I don't spose Mary Ann'll
have anything to do with me now
fer she's a decent, respectable girl,
yer Honor, an' not like me. Only I
don't know what she'll do, on ac
count of bein' out of a job, an' no
body to take care of her. But It's all
up now, an' you might as well give
me the sentence right away, yer
Honor, fer there can't be no wed
din', au' my job's lost, an' it's no use,
I guess, tryin' to be decent."
"Well, in view cf the circum
stances, I won't make it so long as I
otherwise would," began the judge,
as he resumed his judicial air. "It
will be "
But the reportorial face had sud
denly approached His Honor's ear,
and there wns a quiet little confer
ence, In which the prosecutor pres
ently Joined.
"It will be ahem!" resumed
His Honor, when the heads separated
"three months and costs." He
paused, impressively. "And, in view
of certain extenuating circumstances
the workhouse sentence Is suspend
ed during good behavior, and the flue
to be paid at the convenience of the
prisoner."
Muggsy stared stupidly.
"Go on!" said Mooney, nudging
him good nnturedly. "No, not that
way," as the prisoner started back
toward the "bull pen." "Out here,
with your girl. You're free, as long
as you behave yourself. 8ee?"
New Orleans Picayune.
Earthquake Depicted.
'RESIDENT JORDAN, OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY,
GIVES THE CLEAREST VIEW.
Unique Town.
A Philadelphia business man, dur
ing the fine weather a few weeks ago,
decided to make a horseback tour ot
Maryland. After being out for a
few days he was struck with the
number of towns In that State which
had claim to historic Interest. The
principal brag of the various villages
through which he passed was that
Washington at one time or another
had been a guest of the leading citi
zen, or that the first President had
spent the night at the local tavern.
The claims of the Marylanders be
came so monotonous to the Phlla-
delphlan that when one evening, af
ter a 1 ng day's ride, he was about to
dismount from his weary horse, he
noticed opposite the hotel that he
had picked out an ornate bronze tab
let with the name "President Wash
ington," in big, raised letters on it,
he was moved to ridicule. Turning
to the proprietor, who was standing
near the curbstone, he said: "You
Maryland people make me tired with
your everlasting claim to have been :
visited by Washington. Why, every
town 1 havo been in lately was once j
his home." With a quiet smile, the
hotel man told his prospective patron
to read the inscription on the tablet,
which, much to the visitor's aston
ishment, was: "This is the only town
n Maryland that President Wash
ington never visited." -Philadelphia
Record.
Ltiquettc in London Clubland.
In some of our ultra exclusive
clubs it Is a serious breach ot eti
quette for one member to speak to
another without obtaining a cere
monious Introduction beforehand.
A painful case has just occurred
in a certain old-established and ex
tremely respectable Pall Mall earu
vanserle. It appears that a newly
joined member, In callous defiance
of custom, ventured the other after
noon to make a remark about the
weather to a gentleman with whom
he was not personally acquainted
The recipient of this outrage glared
stonily at its perpetrator.
"Old you presume to address me,
sir?" he demanded, with an awful
frown.
"Yes, I did." was the defiant re
ply. "I said it was a flue day." The
other digested the observation
thoughtfully.
Then, after an impressive pause,
he turned to Its bold exponent.
"Well, pray don't let It occur again,"
he remarked, as be, burled himself
once more in his paper. -Loudon
CUroulcle.
Stralnsd Sections of the Earth Instantly Became
Misfit-,. Soma Portion! Sinking and Others
Rising ss Thsy Wtrs DUturbtif.
Dr. David Starr Jordan, president
Df Leland Stanford. Jr.. I'nlverslty,
lectured at Swarthmore College on
he subject. "The Earthquake Rift of
California." Dr. Jordan enumerated
the causes of the great earthquake
nd described his cwn experiences
luring the Bhock.
The lecture was Illustrated, show
ng, among other things, views of the
lestructlou of buildings at Stanford.
The speaker said, in part :
It is a wise provision of nature, so
noethe tells us. that c -es shall not
?row up into tho sky. The wisdom
f this arrangement is obvious, nnd
it Is clear that its spirit applies to
oiany other things than trees. It is
ilso obvious that. In order to point
the moral property, there ahould be
orae part of the earth in which the
limit is off. To that end California
was created. In California the trees
io actually grow up into the sky. It
was In California that the Sierra
Avalanche, according to Bret llarte
(referring to the March floods on the
Sacramento) observed, with pensive
local pride. "An area us large as the
State of Massachusetts, under water."
3o It is proper that in California the
most vigorous earthquake of Its class
should be recorded, that the most de
structive conflagration in history
should take plnce: that the greatest
wreck of human effort should occur
and all that in a region In which,
more than in any other, human effort
Is a Joy In Itself.
It Is also characteristic of Califor
nia that the people should not look
on the disaster of the fire, no;- OB the
sickening loss of half a century of
struggle and upbuilding. They note
rather that no great Wooden city be
fore ever went for hn'.f a tgetttUBJt
without a conflagration, In the vis
ion of every Cnllfornian San Fran
cisco is not the old elty, Bitting deso
late on Its bones, hut rather the new
city of steel and concrete, which shall
defy shock and fire alike
A Crack Four MHes Deep.
As for the earthquake of April 15.
the first question is. naturally: What
was It? It was a crack in the earth's
crust about 200 miles long and four
or five miles deep, or as deep as the
crust Is stiff and brittle. .Mori- exact
ly. It was the sudden opening and
closing of an old crack, or. In geologi
cal language, a fault.
The cause was, primarily, the slow
shrinking of the earth, by which all
mountain chains, with their accom
panying folds and faults, are formed.
Secondarily, the cause was a cer
tain strain on the mountain chain on
one side of the fault.
This stf-ain was doubtless slowly
cumulative. It was resisted for years,
until flnully, for some cause or for no
cause, the rocks gave- way. The old
jcar was reopened '.or an instant, tho
strain wns repressed uud the two
sides of the fault came together with
grinding straiu. which reduced tho
rocks on either side of it to dust and
fragments for perhaps a hundred
feet. In this case the two sides no
longer fitted perfectly. Tho west side
of the fault was left some three feet
lower in the Santa Cruz region, and
as much higher in Marin County.
All this was the earthquake pro
per, and it was practically Instanta
neous. But the giant, having
stretched himself in his sleep, the
creaking of his bones went forth to
the rest of the world. In this case
the disturbance went out us short,
swift and violent waves In the rocks,
and In the soil and bouses which were
over them. First to any given point
went the straight waves from the
naarest part of the fault. Such
waves ure interesting and mostly
harmless, however severe, and ot
such waves alone most California
earthquakes are formed. Later, but
on tho Instant, came waves from
points farther uud farther away.
These came at an angle with the first
waves, aud at a broader angle with
each other. Some of them would
partly neutralize others; nome would
reinforce others and at a different an
gle. Everything Was Wavy,
The result when tho waves from
below and the waves from various
distances were received was a series
of twisting motions of great violence
und of every conceivable kind.
Thoy were of such Intense swift
ness that the ground made a daze be
fore the eyes. Xhey were of Buch
extraordinary variety that all things
which an earthquake could throw
were tossod in every direction.
Jurs standing side by side would
be thrown in opposite directions, or
not thrown at all. Trees would bend
to the ground us under a high gale,
but no two in the same direction ut
onco.
The top of a spire of chimney
would be thrown In one direction,
tho middle in another, in one case,
a house undulated so swiftly thul tho
bricks of a fulling chimney struck
aguliiat the clapboards of its side as
thoy fell.
The waves were the earthquake In
the minds of those who felt tboni.
They are so In common language,
and as such, g.-udually fading avvny,
they wero felt tu the seismographs all
over the world. Some who saw the
fault marveled that tho violence of
the earthquake could crack a puBture
Held for a mile. But this crack was
the real earthquake, and the waves
were merely tho Jar carried from It
by vvuves of rock and earth. Litllo
waves they wore, very little, hardly
billowing above the surface, and not
disturbing the face of nature at all,
ut vlclouBly destructive to some of
the little works ot mau.
This earthquake hud no relatlou
with volcunoes, no connection with
Mount Vesuvius, it has nothing In
common with the explosions of steam
which mark eruptive earthquakes.
Like ninety-five per cunt, of all re
corded earthquakes, It is tectonic
that Is, an adjustment of thi earth's
trust.
My experiences In the earthquake
wore tame, but they were my own. I
wns awakened at ft. 13 on the bright,
sunny morning of April 18. I knew
and enjoyed the wheezy undulations
of th house, which mark the usual
harmless California earthquake.
The wave which woke me was gen
tle enough, but the next one, like the
bump of an express train, seemed a
little severe. But It was a straight
wave, and harmed nothing.
When the Real Thing Cnme.
Then the temblor began to tnke
hold. The bedroom on the second
floor swayed like a ship in a hurri
cane. A lantern standing In the hall
leaped In through the open door. Pic
tures swayed, earthenware leaped
about. Some mighty force seemed
to hold the house and to be trying to
whip tho ground with it.
I realized that this was the real
thing; and it seemed to be overdone.
A California earthquake was due
to last for a few seconds only, but
this did not know when to stop. Now
the power wus trying to twist the
house about Ub chimneys, taking
each of the three in turn. ,
I rushed along the reeling gang
way of the house, seizor! the baby
nnd got out on the veranda, where
bricks could not fall.
The older boy, who was sleeping on
the roof, clung on as to a runaway
horse. As things became a little
calmer ho shouted down;
"The church is falling! The gym
nasium Is caving Inl Everything ha?
gone bum I"
I saw the Just of mortar rising, and
the students i-'wd nn in the roads,
and then 1 knew that we had had an
epoch-making eurthquake.
Will there bo any more earth
quakes in California? Certainly
there will. The earthquake of 1868,
the most severe then kuown in this
region, had perhaps half the violence
of the present one. It Is probable
that tho more violent the shock the
longer the Immunity afterward.
There may never be another of this
sort, for the whole strain of the
mountain seems to be relieved for
250 miles. Little shocks occur every
day. Those are but details of ad
justment, the polishing off of project
Ins corners
Not Another in n Lifetime.
The next great shock mav be in
some oilier fault, in Borne other part
of the country. It may appear in the
C.u-lsa Plain, in San Luis Obispo
County, a barren sink in which this
lift seems to terminate. Prophecy
Is cheap and worth only what It costs.
It Is enough to say that a second
great shock is not likely to be felt
here In a lifetime.
Furthermore, no Callfornian loves
California the less for Its great earth
quakes. Thoy come only once or
twice In a century. Little earth
quakes are no more to be feared than
gusts of wind. The loss of life, oven
in the greatest shock, is less In pro
portion than the harvest of pneumo
nia from a single Eastern blizzard.
The loss of property comes because
we forgot. We are safe in low frame
house, or we can hold high houses
together with hooks of steel. It is
as easy to build houses earthquake
proof as rain-proof. The brick chim
ney has no place in' California. It
was Imported from the East with tho
tenderfoot and the tourist.
Indeed, outside of the fall of brick
walls, spires, cornices and chimneys,
which we must renounce, our earth
quakes need do very little mischief.
It was fire, not earthquake, which
destroyed our joyous San Francisco.
Mindful of the lesson, u joyous peo
ple will build the city again. And
for every man who leaves California
In fear there will return tou men,
who will love the laud where nature
is so gracious, man so free limbed,
and where the very stones ure alive
with tho force of creation
BLACK HAWK'S TREASURE
Indian Riches Buried in the "Half breed Tracts"
Recent Discovery Made by an Iowan r Soldiers'
Pay Hidden by Order of Gen. Zachary Taylor
Money Sent to Iowa Mysteriously Disappeared
in Transit. ::: ::: ::: ::: '"
Peaceful Burmans.
One of the characteristics of East
ern peoples which makes life among
thorn hard for Western conquerors is
their readiness to transform them
selves from lighting men into appar
ently meek and humble non-combatants
when au overwhelming force of
soldiers comes along. In Burma this
made much trouble for an English
column, whose experiences are told
by the author .of "A People at
School."
We wore in a very hostile couutry.
That was eusy to Bee. When we
went out of town we wore fired upon.
We thought reprisal necessary, and
tiled It but to retaliate you must
have some one to rotullate on. We
saw no one.
Day alter day we marched over
barren hills and through straggling
vllluges and looked for foes. We
round only villagers. They tilled
their fields aud looked upon us cur
iously. When we asked where the
enemy Wis they shook their heads
and Bald they knew of none.
"Where are the dacolts?" we
asked.
"What are dacoits?" they an
swered. "Evil men with guns," we said.
They shook their heads. They
were all peaceful cultivators, aud
knew nothing of such things.
Then we wont on, and each peace
ful cultivator unearthed his gun aud
followed us, to get a pot-shot at us.
Recklessness of Partridges.
Au extraordinary partridge story
conies from Conlugton, Huntingdon.
A lady was reading in her sitting
room when, to her consternation, a
brace of partridges dashed through
the window. They broke two paues
of glass, but were secured before do
ing further damage. It is supposed
they were being pursued by a hawk,
no guns being out at the lime.
Partridges look backward In flight
aud ure frequently lujured or killed
by telegraph wires Some time ago a
purtrldgo dashed Into the thick look
out glass of au engine on the Great
Eastern Rullway near Ely and actu
ally smashed it. while It Is no uuu
sual thing In Cambridgeshire and
Norfolk for them to fly iuto railway
carriages London Daily Olobe.
Till lately the mining regulations
of Formosa strictly limited all min
ing operations to Japauese subjects;
no foreigners might participate. Now
any person, properly registered un
aer the Japanese law, can work In
'Us mines.
What hr.s became of tho thousands'
upon thousands of dollars, in gold
eagles and double eagles, sent from
St. Louis seventy-flvf and 100 years
ago to pay the Sac and Fox Indians
for the lands which they had ceded
to the United States, millions upon
millions of acres, and to pay the
United States troopi under command
of Col. Zachary Talor, subsequently
President of the United States, at
Fort McKay during the famous Black
Hawk War?
The belief that thH golden treasure
lies burled In various parts of the
State of Iowa has led hundreds of
persons to dig industriously for more
than half a century. The discovery
within the last fortnight of $45,000
in gold in one part of the State and
a map giving the whereabouts of
19000 of Black Hawk's fortune In
another, says the St. Louis Olobe
Democrat, has set hundreds all over
the State to searching the records
and digging tho ground. After a
lapse of a century the fortune, for
the first time, now seems about to
be discovered.
That gold by the thousands of dol
lars, aggregating far more than
1100,000, was sent from St. Louis to
the Northern Indians, both before
and alter the Black Hawk War In
1832, Is undeniable.
In 1804, as a result of the treaty
negotiated In St. Louis by William
Henry Harrison with five Sac and
Fox chiefs, an annuity of $1000 was
granted to the tribe, and was paid
for more thau a quarter of a century.
In 1830 no less than $80,000 was
sent from St. Louis to Col. Zachary
Taylor at Fort McKay, Iowa, to pay
the regular soldiers whoso presence
was necessary in the Territory of
lowa because of Black Hawk and his
anticipated outbreak. That fortune
in gold was burled by Zachary Tay
lor's command, and the men who
knew of Its whereabouts were killed
by the Indians.
In 1S32, following the Black Hawk
War, a treaty was made with Keokuk
and other Sac and Fox chiefs by Win-
field Scott and Qov. Reynolds of 11
linois, by which the Indians were
given a lump sum of $50,000 and
an annuity of $20,000 for thirty
years. Aside from buying whisky
and rifles, the Indians had no way
to spend the money.
A dozen other Instances might be
cited of money sent into Iowa Terri
tory to pay red men and white that
has mysteriously disappeared. Just
within the last few days have the first
traces been fouud of it. Iowa has
gold mines which the plow of the
farmer may turn up any day, bring
ing fortune lo the lucky man.
Such a lucky man is Frank Blint,
a farmer residing near Denmark, In
the famous half-breed tract of Iowa,
Just across the Dos Moines River,
which separates the northeastern
corner of Missouri from the south
eastern corner of Iowa. The half
breed tract was once the home of
Indians as wealthy as the Osages of
to-day. The laud had been set aside
for them by the Government because
they were the children of two races
white man and Indian. The half
breeds inherited wealth from their
Indian forbears, who came to Iowa
with Jullen Dubuque back in 1788
and obtained the right to work the
famous lead mines near tho present
city of Dubuque; of tho white for
bears who went out for Auguste
Chouteau buying furs of the adven
turous content's du hois who carried
on the commerce of the Territory
and took buxom Indian belles to wed.
Frank BUnt owns a farm in the
heart of what half a century or more
ago was the famous half-breed tract.
Deciding to deepen a cistern which
had been on the premises for many
years he went Industriously to work
with pick and shovel. Hardly had
he turned up a dozen shovelfuls of
tho long undisturbed earth when his
shovel rang on metal. A few min
utes work disclosed an old iron pot.
Digging It loose and bringing It to
the light, Blint: was dazsled by the
golden stream which poured forth.
Exactly $45,000 in gold eagles and
double eagles was tho fortune he had
unearthed. It could have come from
no other source than some family of
wealthy half-breeds, unable to spend
their generous patrimony.
The same week in which this por
tion of the vast treasure was discov
ered clues were found to auothor
portion undoubtedly burled not fifty
miles away near where Black Hawk
and his companions spent their last
days after the disastrous close of the
rebellion and their journey down
the Mississippi to Jefferson barracks
und then, iu charge of Jefferson
Davis, across to Washington and
New York.
Tearing down the old Bounifleld
log cabin, near Fairfield, one of the
oldest buildings iu the oldest part of
the State, the workers fouud un ink
horn and quill case, resembling much
in appearance a razor case, and u
musty old pocketbuok which con
tained a newspaper clipping bearing
tho date June 25, 1828, and a letter.
The last two were so faded that a
magnifying glass was necessary to
read them, and oven then parts ot
the letter were beyond deciphering.
The paper Is yellow and lorn where
It had been folded and the ink with
which the letter was written is badly
faded. As nearly as It can be made
out the letter runs in th.s manner:
"Frisco, Jur." HI. My Dear Wil
liam: wagon, had lots of
time to think money which
Is burled near the old Bounifleld
house. You know what I am, found
urn from Black Hawk
over from Illinois. 1 looked
but never thought until 1 nearly got
out here. About, that there map, it
weren't where the lines cross, but In
the middle. Now, don't you tell any
one, but try this here plan. (Map
follows.)
"You see we alius made the mis
take of digging at crossing marked
A. That other Indian that Jim
knowed knowed more than he let on.
There must bo near $9000 and meb
be more, according to what Black
Hawk fetched that time. Don't you
let none of those Burlington fellows
see this map. Well, BUI, I wish I
was there, for probably there Is more
cash there than we think. We will
dig here for a big spell. I want to
write a lot, but the stage leaves in a
minute and I got to quit. Yours,
"J. W.
"PS Mebbe It ain't that house,
but what other big house could he
have meant?"
The purport of the letter Is plnlu.
Tho money referred to is undoubt
edly part of that paid to Black
Hawk's tribe by the United States In
return for the lands sold by them,
either by the treaty of 1804, or of
1832 or some intermediate date.
There Is an old story In the neigh
borhood where the letter wus found
of how three Indian braves were ap
pointed to bury this gold, the num
ber being choBen so that if one was
killed there would yet be some one
left to find the location. Ab the Irony
of fate would have It. however, a
tribal war followed, and every one
of the three In the secret was killed,
so that none of the tribe could locate
tho missing treasure.
The map which was found with
the old letter gives fairly legible di
rections for the search, and already
dozens are at work digging In the
various parts of the neighborhood In
search of the money. Of all the land
marks mentioned on the map, how
ever, but one tree remains, though
pioneers familiar with the neighbor
hood say they well remember when
all of those shown were standing.
The map shows a line running diag
onally 400 feet southeast ot the
cabin. This line is crossed by one
running due oast. A lino running
north and south crosses these two,
and the letter says to dig at the cen
tre of the triangle instead of the
crossing ot the east-west and north
south lines, where all previous dig
ging has been done.
An even greater amount ot gold
treasure lies burled 150 miles north
of where Mr. Blint found his $45,000
and where the Fairfield residents are
digging for the $9000 spoken of In
the Bonnlfleld letter. There is $80,
000 sent from St. Louis In 1830 to
I'm McKay to the soldiers under
Col. Zachary Taylor, which was bur
led until the Indian trouble should
blow over, and which has never been
discovered. Men and even women
have dug for this money for many
years, but the success of the search
ers In the southern part of the State
has inspired those In the northern,
and the search is being taken up
again as never before.
Ttje story ot the Taylor fortune is
interesting in the extreme.
One day in 1830 four bags of gold
were received at Fort McKay, near
where the little town of North Mc
Gregor, Iowa, now stands. It was
the largest shipment ever sent out
from St. Louis to any of the frontier
posts and was to be used to pay off
the white soldiers who were valiantly
preserving order by holding the re
bellious Indians iu leash. Col. Tay
lor, when apprized of the safe arrival
of the money, took every precaution
to safeguard It until the Indians had
been driven awav or pacified, when
the men could be paid aud allowed to
return to the white settlement to
spend their hard-earned money.
Calling together the command. Col.
Taylor chose four of tho bravest and
most trustworthy men and, after in
forming them of the importance of
the mission upon which he was about
to send them, he gave to each a bag
of gold with Instructions to carry the
bags to some safe place, which they
should jointly select, and there hide
the treasure from tho Indians. An
attack being feared at any momont,
the four men started at once. They
never returned.
Hardly hud the four men left the
stockade when a well-planned attack
was made by tho Indians. T'.e fight
ing was fust and furious and extend
ed over several days. When at last
the Judlans had been repulsed Col.
Taylor loBt no time in selecting a
party and sending It out to rescue
the gold hunters. The party searched
for many hours before they came
across the four men lying dead and
entirely naked, the Indians having
murdered, scalped and stripped them.
Not tho smallest suggestion of the
whereabouts of tho gold could bo
found about the place where the
men had lost their lives in defense
of their trust, but after a thorough
search one of tho members of tho
party wa rewarded by finding i
scrap ot paper near the body of one
of tho men, known as Merclerre. It
Is that scrap of paper which has In
spired three-quarters of a century of
dlgglug. On It was scrawled:
: ON HIGHEST BLUFF ACROSS :
FROM FORT IN 4 PILES
; EACH $20,000. :
: PIERRE MERCIERRE. ;
A BENEFACTOR.
Ol' Bill is a romprim' wort o' man.
He' always a-doin' the bout he can
I'n make you think t hn . yonr trouhle iiin't
As bad a your fsncv trie to paint.
When you re feelin weak in the hroilia'
u n.
An' you're aure you'll melt 'fore the day ia
' done,
"It ian't the heat that yon fH." says he,
"lt'a only je' the humidity!"
An' when in winter you Mart to w-old
At the hit in ' wind an' the pinihm' cold,
lie Bay, and he proven it, too, eoraplete.
That cold ain't nothin' hut lack of heat;
'Tsin't nothin' real an' positive
I tell you. it's n relief to live
Where Hill kin come 'round every day,
Ksplainin' your trouble all away.
Washington Slur.
This scrap of paper la still in ex
istence to-day and is positively the
only clue to the burled $80,000 ot
United States money which should
have gone to the troops whom Col.
Taylor took up the Mississippi from
St. Louis a year or two before.
The supposition all aloug has been
that one of the gold hiders, finding
thst his last moment was near, hast
ily scrawled the best directions he
could, In the haste and danger upon
the paper aud threw it from blm iu
tho hope some ot his fellows would
Aud lf Col. Taylor bad parties dig
ging for the money for many days,
but never a trace was found.
She "Have you a copy of 'Prome
theus Bound?' " He "No, ma'am;
but we ran get it bound for you any
way you like." -Minneapolis Trib
une. "Let us at least give trolley cars
and automobiles tho credit for mak
ing us a very active race," remarked
tho thoughtful tourist. Chicago
Post.
Did I not love my neighbor
Ah myaelf I'd be a churl;
Because, you aee, my neighbor
la a very pretty girl.
Philadelphia Ledger.
"Well!" he muttered, butting his
head on a landing as he fell down the
elevator shuli, "as Mr. Kipling would
say: 'That is another story.' " Har
vard Lampoon.
Sunday-school Teacher "Now,
Tommy, can you tell me whose day
this Is?" Tommy "Yes'ni: It's
Bridget's. Delia had last Sunday
out!" Philadelphia Press.
Lady Maud "Do you think It's
unlucky to be married on Friday. Sir
John?" Sir John (confirmed bach
elor) "Certainly. But why make
Friday au exception?" Punch.
"Want anv typewilter aupplies?"
Aaked the peddler of that eort of lix.
turea.
"Not to-day," the young business man
crie.
"She' jut got a poun.l box of mix
ture." --Philadelphia Pre.
Lady " think you are the worst
looking tramp I have over seen."
Tramp - "Ma'am, it's only in the
presence of such uncommon beauty
that I looks so bad!" Scraps.
Country Deacon "Our salary is
$400 per year, and we give you two
donation parties. How il that suit
you?" Clergyman "Call It $350
aud leave off the donation parties."
Puck.
Rawhide Rube "What are these
hero magazine guns, anyhow?" Hair
trigger Hank "Oh, I s'pose they are
the weapons them editors have to
plug poots with." Chicago Dally
News.
Naybor "Is that a new henhouse
you're building?" Mr. Snappy "No;
this Is an old one I'm building to
take the place of the new one I tore
down last week." Philadelphia
Ledger.
Her Mother "Look here, Ernie, I
thought your father told you not to
encourage that young man?" Ernie
"Oh, dear, mamma, that young
mau doesn't need any encourage
ment. " Chicago Dally News.
"Your husband met an accidental
death, did he not?" remarked the
now boarder. "Yes," replied the
landlady; "poor John tried to cross
the street one day and was auto
cuted." Chicago Dally News.
"You don't realize that there are
other considerations in life than
money," said tho censorious friend.
"Yes. I do," answered Senator Sor
ghum. "But whenever I want any
thing done 1 can't get vhe other fel
low to realize it." Washington Star.
"Don't you feel kind of lonesome
since the legislature adjourned?"
"Well," answered the business man,
"It's a good deal with me as it was
with a man who had a pet Hon that
got lost. I feci a little lonesome, but
not near so scared." Washington
Star.
It Is now the custom tu New Tork
City, with few exceptions, tor girls
to attend the public schools without
wealing hats. On pleasant days there
l only. ou; bj to akuul tjfaaty gnu
t Model of Citadels.
If one desired to look for a model
and type ot the citadels of a past,
tottering but still resistant, one that
carries its banner high, one could
not do better than to visit the Hotel
de La Rochefoueauld-Doudeauville.
In the very aristocratic Rue de Va
retiues. all of stone, one notes the
almost complete absence of those
horrible six-story houses, veritable
barucks, which now overwhelm Purls
with their pretentious ugliness. High
gates with coats of arms, big roofs
pooping over walls, spaces belweeu
houses, and a few trees, even, ex
tending their centuried branches al
most over the street, which conceal
the nests of birds. One reads on the
door the name De La Rochefoucauld,
und an entire past is evoked. ' But
that Is the only sign giveu the passer-by.
Who is It lives behind tho
monumental portal? Is the palace
a vast oaa? Are the pleasures of a
park allowed tho lucky owner of the
residence'.' Behind that first wall a
whole selgnioriul existence plays its
part, far off and unrcveallng This
touch of the uukuown is It not sym
bolical? It gives one at the very
threshold s hint of splendor and iso
lation. From Camille Gronkowskl'a
"French Chateaux," In the Century.
In Memory of Nelson.
It Is not generally known that Nel
son's death was the origin of the
block silk handkerchief which the
sailor wears under his broad blue
collar, tied In a loose knot in front.
Tho scarf, or handkerchief, was first
worn as mourning for tho great ad
mirul, and by soinb uieaus or otbur
It' was retained aud eventually bo
cams a part of the naval man's uni
form. The white strrpM aroand the
broad blus collar ulsb represent the
victories at the Nile, Copenhagen and
Trafalgar. London Cc.irt Journal.
A magnificent hospital, to be
known as tho Ho Mlu Llug. has Just
been opened by the Covurnor of
Hong Kong. It was built at the -pease
of Maui Wu Tlugfang, wife o
the Ute Chinese MuiIbi to tho
Uatrad Btates.