FREELAND TRIBUNE. I'inil.IKHKD ! EVEItY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. ; TITOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. SUBSCRIPTION KATKS. One Year Jl!50 ' Six Months f 73 Four Months 50 Two Months 25 Suliscrilicrs are requested to observe the da to following tho name on tho labels of their lupors. By referring to this they can tell at a glance how they stand on the books in this office. For instance: U rover Cleveland 28JuiieOT means that Grovor 1b paid• up to June2f>„l39s. Kcop the tigurea in udvance of tho iinsenfcdate. Report promptly to this office when your paper is not received. All arrearages must IH> }aid when puper is discontinued, or colluctian will be made in tho manner provided by'law. Holland puts all beggars to work nt fanning, whether they like it or not, and thero is less of that sort of thing* in that country than in any othor civ* ilized country in tho world. Canon Wilberforcc, in a recent in terview published in tho Westininstci Gazette, contends that the lower aui mala are immortal, and uso3 his belief as an argument against tho establish ment of a Pasteur institute iu Eng land. "If it is true, as the Census Bureau alleges," asks tho Chicago Record, "that thero are 100,000 more married men in the country than there are married women, what, in tho name oi Hymen, are those 100,000 mcu mar ried to?" The proposal of Kaiser William tc mako tho peanut a liberal portion ol the German soldier's rations has an unusual interest for American farmers, maiutains tho American Farmer. First, it is something that thero is u fnir margin of prolit on, which there is not on wheat and corn sold abroad. Second, wo would not have, for the present at least, the destructive com petition of Russia and Argentina. But wo fear that just as soon as the Kaiser's saldaten begin to cat peanuts in considerable quantities, lie will ol der the German colonies in Africa to go into peanut raising. Anyway, it will bo some years at least before the,) can produce as good and cheap pea nuts as we can raise in tho South. While thero are no night mirages in the far West like the one oi' an in verted shore, lighthouse, and vessels, recently seen oil' tho North Carolina coast, the twilight or dawn upon plains o • mountains sometimes bring* attrauge magnifying of celestial bodies near the horizon. Thus, at close ol a day, when from evaporating snow oi a recent rainfall tho air is humid near the ground, tho going down of a red and sullen sun below tho western sky line is sometimes followed almost co incidentally by tho rising in tho east of a full moon, as vast and fiery, which, red and portentous, seems to poise at tho moment of its complete emergence over prairie, ridge oi mountain, threatening to roll, a burn ing sphere, down the slope toward the beholder. Similarly, the morning and evening stars at times take or size and colors so extraordinary thai even the experienced plainsmen car scarcely believe that now and vast con stellations have not appeared for the first time in the heavens. The western part of Kan sap, it is said, has been losing its populutioi.- rapidly within the past lew years. Twenty-two counties, which in 183.1 contained u population of 102,00.9 souls, now have but 51,003. This <-.. odus has been due to the long and de structive droughts, to which tho re gion is subject; and Iho farmers who remain are still setting up windmill* and endeavoring by their help to ir rigate their fields. The loss of popu lation has not been so marked, how aver, in the farming districts as in the towns. All along t;e railroads are downs, which once contained a teem ing population, and promised u grout future, but are uow practically tenant less. AtChico, for instance, tho train now stops only on signal. Once it arrival was a great event, and crowd* of people swarmed to the st ition. Iu that day Chico had the appearance, at least, of prosperity, and boasts were made of its growth. Kanopolis was to be the hub of Kansas, and eastern capitalists, some of them men of note, invested liberally iu the future of tho town. To-dny its ambitious Capitol square is used for a sheep pasture, and the train rushes by as though it. wer.) a tank station. South Hutchinson lurches another illustration. It wu a young giant at its zenith, with brick hotels, churches, Rchool-houaci and u street car line. Prairie dogs now run about the chancel of tho biggest church, aud the hotel door is by a sank bonk. THfc OLD WOMAN TALKS. | I'nt on 1 bo liottlo. Molly, an'make tha firoßurn Whileil'm a-btudyin* politics an' tryiu' for to loaru WhaMu^koß attractive, withtlis flgbtfu' Wliy rlio nifui r nn ler tbo offlco, an' the effici runs fcr lifo! i Tho oi l man's Bold tho oxen, mi' mortgaged I bull tho mule ; . lion give tip iiis religion, an' tho children's took from school; An' he's fordin' of tho rivers. he's runiiiii' roundabout. An' u ohttHin' of tbo office, tRo ollico hidiu' out I I'ut on tho kettle. Molly- though nil tho codec's out, 1 It's Still n conifir; jes'to roo tho stoma coinu l out tbo Hi'out ; Tlioroiiin f " ''ro <1 for breakfast, ami thoro's lit i/i' iiopo o' bread While fl" old uum hoops a-ruunin' an* tho office keeps ulioad! I omit iimko out these politics—no matter how I try; 1 1 or every tiny tho candidates go dush'n', spliisl.in' i>v; An* tlm old mini don't any "iiowtly," an' I'll wondor till I'm dead. Why ho still keeps on u-ruunin' an' tho ollico kcui s nbcuii! II MI CONFKSSIOX. It was a sunny morning In April, the month of ruses in tho South, that I awakened in my hotel In New Or leans fo ■ the llrst time in nearly ton years. The song of birds was in my cars, tho scent of roses in my nostrils, -itting by a side window and look ing out into the beautiful garden ad joining, with its old Creole home stead surrounded by shrubs and mag nolias, thoughts of the past came to mv mind. Hero in this room mv bridal eve was spent, and here my happy 'honeymoon waned and died. Here a year later my beautiful Ora was born, and hero, when she was a year old. 1 lost her, a d with her a husband's love and tenderness. Oh, the agony of that time! The. rippling laughter of a sweet girlish voice broke through my reveries. Then I heard another voice, a woman's;, richer, deeper, broken now and then by a slight, hacking cough. It came from tho garden, but through the dense foliage 1 could see no one. I longed for a glimpse of their faces, but in vain. T~~* f T 'T**- J.; 11 I CAUGHT SIGHT OF A WHITE DKESS AND OOI.DEN CUBES, Hut the music of their voices lin gored in my ear, and throughout the lay it followed me in my rambles about New Orleans. When I re turned to tho hotel 1 again peered into tho garden, for there was a fas cination about it I could not resist. Again 1 beard those musical sounds, and again I longed in vain for a glimpse of the woman and child. Tho /louse was surrounded by a high wall. An arched door led into the garden from the street, but it was always locked. The lollowitig lay 1 got a glimpse into this para dise, for, just as I w is passing, a big negross came out with a basket on her arm and 1 caught sight of a white dress, golden curls, a black log, and a lovely Creole woman sit ting in a trellised balcony thrum ming a guitar. Then tho door closed and Eden was no mora Another Jay, as i was jjassb g, the door stood open wide. 1 peered in and saw the same scene as on tho previous oc casion, the child romping about the garden with the dog. All at once there was a severe lit of coughing, a faint cry, a wild shriek from the girl; and as the lady sank swooning back into her chair, sho let fall her deli cate handkerchief which 1 saw was saturated with blood, and blood was trickling over tho bosom of her white gown. In an instant 1 was by her side. '•bring mo a cup of salt, a glass ol water, and a spoon," I said to the frightened child at my s do. She lifted her great blue eyes to mine in mute amazement, but did my bidding without a word. I bade my self-appointed charge bring freely of the mixture 1 con cocted, and soon bad tho pleasure of seeing that, for the time being, the hemorrhage was checked. "You must pardon my intrusion," I said; "hut tho door being open, siPt TO V . V 'V' "nil! NO ME A CUP OF HAI.T," I BAID TC THE FRIGHTENED - HII.D. the child's laughter attracted me; and when 1 saw what happened, 1 came at once. Now. I must entreat you not to talk; and, once in a while, you must take a swallow of this salt and if you keep quiet, I think you w 1: do nicely." "Who are you. " she whispered. "I am a friend. You may call nic Mrs. G evillo." It was my maiden name I ga\c: what prompted me, 1 know not "I am staying at the ho tel, next door. If I can bo of any as | slstanco to you oryour(laughter, con* I in and inc." The friendship thus formed was cemented by frequent visits by mo to the garden. The sick woman took to me with feverish eagerness, while the child, whom they called Incy, loved mo from the llrst. One day I was summoned by the old iiegrcss to tho Creole woman's bed side. ".-he am goin' to die," said old Chloc. I responded promptly. When 1 seated myself by the woman's side she said feebly. "I have something very sacred to ask of you. 1 want a promise from you that you will help me right a wrong " I prow'sod her, and then she con. tinued: "I must tell you my story. My father was Spanish, my mother an octoroon, educated anil retlned. She had a friend, a Spanish lady who married an Englishman of great wealth, unto whom a son was horn a few days after my birth. She died and my mother took her child, The little boy, whose name was Gerald, became my foster-brother, and wo grew up to love each other fondly. Wo were very happy until one day I realized that my Jove could be that af a sister no longer. It had sud denly developed into the deep, pas sionate love of woman. 1 adored him, and I told him so. He said to me: 'You should not say such things, nor will I listen. 1 can never love you other than a sister.' I raved. I swore I would not live did lie not return my mad devotion. He talked long, and earnestly, and kindly, hut only added fuel to the lire that was consuming me. At last lie said ho loved, and was about to wed another. I heard she was alios ton heiress, a beauty, an only child. L lost my mind, I think, alter that. I went to my uncle in Mexico, i was his pet, and he gave mo this house and a handsome income when he died. I could not stay where I would be compelled to see their hap piness, but I heard of it. "A year later 1 was told they had a child. How I hated her and her child, her wealth and beauty, and her white blood! Then 1 returned, but not to the old h mo. My father and mother were dead, so I came here where 1 was not known. Ger ald's people had gone to England to live, and he and she were traveling in Europe. I was alone. I had boon settled but a week when 1 heard they had returned, and were stop ping at the hotel next d or; had a room that overlooked this garden. Great heaven! How did I hold my self quiet? I used t.o go up to the room above this, and watch them until my heart was like to burst with jealous rage. I would see him hiding roses my roses in her bosom, her hair, and would gnash my teeth in impotant wrath, and pray there might be an adder hidden in the leaves that would sting her to death. He would toss them to the child as she sat at play, and 1 would gladly have killed them all; but 1 did something that hurt them more. "One night, when 1 knew them all to bo away, 1 stole up to their room and hid a letter I had written —a passionate love-letter, as if in an. N 111k. J! TL_ J K VFP 'V-ataiwiwHr |P 'I WANT A PICOMISE THAT von VII. i, in:i,r Ml lil'JllT A WITONU." Awer to one from him—and my pic ture. where I knew she would see them. She did, but not until next day. I had hardly hidden them when I heard footsteps. It was the nurse returning with the child. I hid myself. She laid the sleeping babe upon the bed, and left the room. No sooner was her back turned than the ch Id was in my arms, and under my dark shawl. In less time than it takes to tell it, I was in this room, and the child was on my bed. I meant to kill it, but it waked, lo Iced at mo with its eyes, and held out its arms. I could not harm it tlion. Ah, what a time there was! All New Orleans was searched. Money was spent like water; but no one dreamed of look, ing here. "Then the letter and picture were found, and hot, cruel words followed, she accused him of stealing the child and intending to elope with me. His proud Spanish blood was llred: bitter words followed, and ho left her, swearing be never would seo her again until ho could place their child in her arms, and she should beg his pardon on her knees;but he never has found the child, for she lias never left me." "Inez?" I exclaimed. "lnoz," she answered. "Dolores Dominiquo!" I uttered in low, awful accents. The creature before mo seemed to shrivel, as her great hollow eyes sought mine. "Who are you?" she hoarsely whis. pored. "• crald Stanton's wife." "Thank God!" she said as a glad light broke over her face; "I shall, perhaps, he able to undo the wrong I have done." "You can only give me hack my clo d; my husband is lost to me. I have been a wanderer on tho face of the earth for ten years, searching for him. i have advertised, hut all In vain, lie is dead, or he must have forgivon " "lie thought you were dead.' "ITow do you know? What do you mean?" "Oh, do not look at mc that way, do not curse mcl" she implored: "ho has been as true as steel to vou." lie lives. I confessed all this morning to the father, lie knows of him, w 11 And him, will bring him back. Ah, how I have prayed for this day: 1 have wearied heaven with my pe titions, and at last lie has been merciful." Overcome by emotion I went out into the garden. L.ttlc Inez.—my Ora—ran to meet me. 1 icissed her and then hearing a footstep looked up and beheld a man evidently a priest. "Dolores wishes to sec you, madamo," he said. i started lor tho bouse. As 1 entered the room I grew faint and dizzy. I should have fallen, hut 1 found myself caught and pressed to a wiluly beating heart 1 lay upon my husband's breast when 1 awakened from tho swoon into which 1 had fallen. Ilia voice was like sweet music. "All is well, my darling," lie said. "All is forgiven and all shall he for gotten. That poor misguided woman has gone to her God for judgment, but die told me all ere she went. 1 have forgiven her, as you will." 7 riE MAGIC WHEELS. Ilow to Make SIUKIOWH Turn In Dircctiona Opposite to Kacli Other. Cut out of a piece of pasteboard a circular wheel with large teeth iround it, and pierce the center of this wheel with a pin, which next stick into a wooden ru!e held vcrti ;ully. Then lilt two candles placed upon a table about three feet apart, I tnd both at equal distance from the wall. If you i.o'd the wheel parallel with the wall, so that it projects i/jQ QLFT'T ■V " I " A upon it two circular shadows, and make tho wheel turn on its pin axis, you will see the shadows turn also in the direction indicated by the little urrows in the cut. All this is very easy. Hut now to make the two-shadow wheels turn in opposite directions—how would yon go at work to accomplish that? Place your wheel perpendicularly with tin wall. Then back olf until you bring tile shadows into circular form. At that moment turn your pasteboard wheel, and you will see the shadows turning In opposite directions. PATENT POSTAL WRAPPERS. It Does Away wltll tho Trouble Usual]} Kucounterotl In Opening l'apsrs. The patent postal wrapper shown below Is designed to do away with the trouble usually experienced ic opening a tightly rolled parcel. It is an English idea, and Is described a follows: Kunning from end to end ol the wrapper are two series of perfora tions, half an inch or so apart, and inclining toward each other, in the manner shown in our illustration, while at the left-hand side tho outer two perforations conic right up tc tho edge, and provide a small tab 01 PATIiNT POSTAL WItAPI'EIIS. slip that can easily be grasped be tween the thumb and linger. Tc open the wrapper, it is hold in the manner shown and tho tab lirmlj pulled, when at once a thin slip is torn out of the wrapper throughout its length, tho strip being strictly limited to the widtli of the perfora tions, and thus preventing any dam age either to tho papers within or tc any advertisements that ma.v, as i sometimes tho case, be printed inside the wrau .or. fo-al Suasion in South Dakota. CSBH :-r? Wj l U 'B New Teacher (from Philadelphia)— Sobloskl McClosky, you have broken the rules, but 1 will sulVer in youi stead. Take this rattan and strike 1110. Strike, Sobloskl, and spare not. m Ifa, ¥? mm yqj Sobloskl (swinging concealed brick) —One cigar!— Judge. , 1 IN GOVERNMENT EMPLOY. ; riXEPwE AHE NEAr.LY 7000 FEMALE | | CLEEK3 IN WASHINGTON. i riiey Arc Scattered All Through the Departments—The Varied Work They Do—Cupid Also at Work. I WANT to Hl ly a word about the women clerks of Washington, writes Frank G. Carpenter in the (f Detroit Free Press. They are tlio brightest and ablest people in the , service. They do their work con scientiously, and some of the most cf : fieicnt of Undo SaniVi employes are of j the gentler sex. If I had my way I would give the women the preference ; is to all classes of work which they I can possibly do, reserving only the harder places for the men. As it is, j however, there are two men to every i woman in the departments, and the utunbor of women all told amounts to less than 7000. These women are of \ nil ages, from eighteen to eighty, and i there is, by the way, one woman in the Treasury Department who has now reached ninety years. There are many women over sixty and hundreds I of sweet young maidens of twenty live. Those women do all sorts of work. Starting in as counters in the Treasury about a generation ago, they have extended their work to all sorts ! of clerkships, and they now pass UJJOII | quest ions of law, examine patents, translate foreign languages, and do I everything under the sun. Homo of the most expert counters of the Gov : i rnment are women, and several of the very best bookkeepers of the Treasury wear petticoats. Women riro fast making their way as typewriters and stenographers, and the chief j trouble to the outside employer of labor at Washington is that as soon as lie trains a woman thoroughly into his work as typewriter or stenographer she makes an application to Uncle Sam and gels a place at a higher salary in one of tho departments. I have had this experience happen to me a half dozen tunes, and I have come to look upon my oilice here as a kind of training school for tho Government service. Jn tho dead letter ollico the most expert translators of bad writing are women, and it would surprise you to know that the Treasury Depart ment has a woman lawyer who pre pares the briefs for internal revenue matters and who oould probably make more outside of tlie department by practicing law than she gets by acting as a law clerk within it. Thoro are a number of women editors in tho ser vice at Washington. The ollicial rec ords of the Civil War are to a certain extent gotten up by women, and in ■ the Navy Dcpa:tment you find women who are making maps and tracing charts for our ships in different parts of the world, and in the Government printing oilice there are women type setters, women stitchers, press feeders i and compositors. j Everyone lias heard of tho pretty ! girls of tho Treasury, but you find j beautiful maidens in all of these Gov , eminent departments. Hoke Smith directs tho handiwork of ?500 girls, and Secretary Lament lias a company of li t in his department of war. Fost liiastcr-Goneral Bissall has hundreds of ; maidens under him, and in tho Gov ! eminent printing ollico there are more than 100 ) women. Many of tlieso come of tho best families of tiio coun ! try. Not a few are tho daughters of noted Generals, Governors of States, Senators and Representatives and now and then you find a relative of a Presi dent or a Cabinet Minister. The ma jority of them aro women of good edu cation, and with but few exceptions they arc educated and refined Indies, llioy rec ivo salaries raugiug from $7-') to TBUO a year, and a large num ber of them support families. Many of them are widows, not a few are old maids, and thousands arc sweet mar riageable young women, who have too much sense to change a Hiiro living un der Uncle Sam to a prospective one in company with some good-for-nothing man. The be3t of them are, however, open to engagements, and not a few of tile most notable marriages of Wash ington in the past have been in con nection with Government clerks. At torney-General Brewster got his wife, whos • features wore Venus-like in their beauty, in a Government department hero. She was the daughter of Robert T. Walker, a former Secretary of the Treasury, and us sue sat at her desk one day in tho Treasury department the future Attorney-General walked Through the room. She made some ; emarlc about his homeliness. Ido not ! A now whether Brewster overheard it >r not, but he saw her, and with him it was a <sti.se of love at first sight, lie ' ought au introduction and shortly af terward oiler od her liis hand and his wealth, and his name for herself and ier children. It is said that lie pro >oscd to her in w- rds something like his: "My dear, you are beautiful | nd J am hideous, but if you will marry no it will not bo the first instance oi ho niatiug of beauty and the bea3t, uid I assure you you will never regret ..larryiii" me." His proposition was i coop ted, and the next time Mrs. Brew dor came to Washington it was us iho wife of the Attorney-General of the United States. Stephen A. Douglas ot his wife iti one of the departments of Washington. It is u won dor to me that tliero fire not nioro marriages among clerks. Young 111011 and jouug womon of mar riageable age work nido by side in the departments. They come in contact with each other hourly ami sometimes full in love with olio another, but not oltou. In the bureau cf engraving and printing, where the money is made, there is one man and one wo man at every printing press, iftul there i no separation of the sexes. There are, I believe, more plat.mie friend ships here among young men and young women than you will lind any where else in the country, and cases have been known where couples have married and kept their marriages a se cret for years in order to avoid tho rule that a husband and wife shall not bo employed at tho same timo in tho civil eervico at Washington. Many such cases have been found out, and tho recent investigation of the Con gressional Committee will probably lead to some changes in this respect. According to its report there were last fall twenty-four bin bauds and wives drawing salaries from Uncle Sam, which the husbands and wives who are out of work and have no job at ull think is decidedly unfair. SELECT SITTINGS. Mail is distributed in 68,-103 post offices in the United States. Postal cards have been in use in the United States since May 1, 1873. In Japan cows arc used as beasts of burden. Milk is not used by the Jap anese. A featuro of a New Zealaud concert was a comic Irish song sung by a Maori native. Tho Portuguese say that no man can be a good husband who does not cut a good breakfast. A Now York dealer in men's furnish ing goods displays a sign reading: "Shirt Constructor." Buckingham Palace, London, exclu sive of its contents, represents an ex penditure of $30,000,000. A Vermont turkey that was sold in tho Newport market recently had sev eral pieces of pure gold in its crop. A block sawed from a tamarack tree in Lost Canon, Mono County, Cal., has embedded in it tho horns of a deer. There is a well at Scarpa, a village near Tivoli, Italy, which is 1700 feet deep, all but twenty-six feet being cut in solid rock. Nevada (Mo.) people nre wearing iron linger rings for the rheumatism. One blacksmith has made over a hum drod of them. Aurora, 111., was tho first city in the world to illuminate its streets with electricity. The wires were placed in position in 1881. Mr. Faux, a man of forty years' ex perience in English libraries, puts down the ordinary life of a popular novel ut nine months. A New York doctor has put over his door an illuminated sign, "In all cases that I do not cure I guarantee to pay half the funeral expenses." Russia, Roumunia and Servia arc the most illiterate countries in Europe, eighty per cent, of the population be ing unable to read and write. There is a mountain in Oregon which is slowly moving into the Salmon River. It will, in course of time,dam the stream and create a largo lake. A company has been formed in New Zealand to establish a whaling station on the Kerinadee Islands, in tho Paci lie Ocean, northwest of New Zealand. Vienna, Austria, has entered upon an extensivo scale of embellishment, and unsightly public buildings are to give place to new ones of urtistie do sign. Martin and Carbcrry Clack, of Lam bertville, Ohio, are twins, aged twen ty. Martin weighs 190 pounds and is deaf. (Jarberry weighs 103 pounds and is blind. A globe of water fell near London in 1616, striking a gontloman sitting on his veranda, and completely drench ing him. It is known in history aa "the water fnotcor." General Sterling Price, "I was on the staff of General Ster ling Price," said Colonel E. D. Par sons, of Kansas City, "aud from long acquaintance with 'Old Pap,' as the boys called him, was able to form an accurate estimate of his character. Here is one side of it: On our retreat from Springfield, as tho General was riding along on a splendid horse ho caine across an old Confederate, who limped at a snail's pace, evidently drag ging his exhausted frame with great difficulty. " 'Here, get up on my horse,' said Pap. The wounded soldier, with tears in his eyes, protested that ho couldn't think of doing it, hut the General jumped down, lifted tho man in the saddle, and plodded along tho miu'Uly road, paving no hoed to his subordi nate's thanks. "And this another side : It was dur ing tho battle of Lexington, aud tho bullets Hew thick and fast. A ball struck General Price's saddle, shatter ing it -and turning tho occupant half way round in his seat. His son, who was near by, came up in haste, and cried out: 'Father, are you hurt?' " 'General Price, if you please, sir!' Then, after a minute's pause—'Gen eral Price can assure Colonel Price that ho is unharmed.' "—Washington Post. Nature's Treasure Caskets, Geodes are frequently received by tho Geological Survey at Washington from persons who come across them. Nature's treasure caskets, they might be called. They are nodules of chal cedony, tilled with beautiful crystals. At the beginning there was a cavity in a rock. Water percolating into it de posited silica in crystalline form. S'ometimos the silica was stained with iron oxides, and in such cases the no dules are lined with amethyst. It of ten happened that tho supply of water was cut off while tho process was go ing on, and thus was produced a no dule containing water. There are few things in nature uiore interesting than a geode holding a bubble of air, and perhaps a gill or two of water to bo seen through tho translucent coat of tho nodule —which has been shut up in tho little box for ages. When the rock containing a geode in broken open the latter falls out A TERRIBLE REVENGE. 1 Smallpox-Infected Illankets Destroyed tit-ores of Indians. fan Antonia (Tex.) rorrenpondent in the Globc-Detnocrat: John Fer ris, the. veteran stage driver, who in the early 50s drove the stage on the jvcrluni loute between independ ence, and Santa Fe, was relat ing soiiit of his interesting exper iences to a group of friends the athor d.Jy wlion he told a story, the jircunislances of which will be re called hj many of the pioneer citi tens of Su Louis and the Western :ountry.. . "The smallpox outbreak among the Comanche Indians in the ycav c.f 18.'55," sad he, "cuused a stir tlirougiiut the Western country. I carried tho llrst news of that devas tating plague to the outside world I was maid rig one of my regular trips from Santa Fe to Independence, when 1 stopped at a small trading post silnkled on tho Neosho liivcr. There wis groat excitement among the few white settlers at the post, snd when 1 inquired the cause of the ■oiumotion 1 was told that smallpox had been raging for several weeks among the Indians who thickly pop j latcd tliit section. 1 was taken to the plat J where the dead rod-skins nal been buried, and there were aundrcds'of newly formed moulds, each of viliich represented a victim if the setMirge. "Smallpox had up to that time oooii an unknown dlsca-o among these Imßaiis, and tho outbreak was tho rcsiilo of one of the most turilile icheincs of revenge 1 have over seen recorded In tho spring of 1885 two young m e of wealthy families, whoso I names 1 have now forgotten, went jut from ft. Louis to the plains fot the pui'ifiso o.' spending a few months, the object of tho trip being for tho benefit of one of the young men's health. They reached Council jjrove sa:ly and decided to reman there a (-hurt time. They decided to get a taste of the sport or hunting ouifalo, which at that time came within twfcnty or thirty milos of Council ('dove in large numbers. Ac cordingly tlicy left Couno 1 Grove one morning cprly on a two week's hunt. They werJ mounted on good horses, which s >h attracted tho covetous eyes of straggling bauds of Indians whom they met. On the third day ifter the young men left Council Grove til i came upon a large herd sf buffalo, and they had an excit ng chase. The invalid young man silled on ,of the animals and had lismountkl to view his prizo when a big, straliing Indian rode out of a cluinp of jottonwood trees, and with aut. wari ihg shut tho white man lown aujjthon proceciled to take Ids scalp. The companion of the rnur lercd mill witnessed the horrible crime mil thinking that a similar fate awaited him if he tarried in that section, put spurs to his horse and hea.kd In tho direction of Conn c 1 Groij. Ho was closely pursued by the flood-thirsty Indian, who had Bxchanad his mount for that of tho man lit had just killed. After a ty hard am long rio tho white mail ™ escape! and reached Council Grovo in an lhaustcd condition. A parly was aitince organized to go out and lirngßithc remains of the mur dered jnan, and it was led to the spot If the survtvor. The body was founi lo ho horriolv mutilated, and It halllioen stripped of every par- Liclcaf raiment. Tho companion of the ifurdercil man vowed that lie wnul have revenge upon the whole trihJof Indians for the foul deed whii ono of tlie members had com milled, and he kept Ills vow. •jle returned to St. Louis, and wljn lie arrived in that city he leaned that the hospital there con- • 1 tailed a number of cases of smallpox. 1H made tho acquaintance of one of tjb attendants of tho hospital, and irlticcd the latter to sell hiin a num. tIT of blankets which had been used wi cover the smallpox patients. Ho lien boxed these blankets up secure- A nud shipped them lo Council prove. He went out und personally distributed the infected blankets among tho Indians gratis, and re /coivea much praise from the Indians and Dcoplo generally for his phi lan- w throphy. When the necessary time i had elapsed after receiving the A blankets there was a general out- '■ of smallpox among the Indi- A litis. The disease spread rapidly and i theyldlcd hv the score. As soon as an Indian would feel tho fever which attepds the disease coining on lie would make a bec-iino for ttio Noo- M sho liivcr, into which lie would g plulgc. lie would die in a short time after getting out or the water." His Last Word A New York man iias taken tho hanicr fur stinginess. Ho was very rich and correspondingly close, llav- A ing linen sick for some time, ho was convinced that, his time had about ionic. He made his will and dis posal of ills immense fortune, then lie sent tor the undertaker. He had noticed IHIW i rone the avorago uu- ( dertakor is to lake unfair advantago financially of tlic remains, so ho do torialiiod not to ho swindled, even ai tcr ho was dead. .So when tho un dertaker come thc.v wrangled over the price of the collin and the shroud. The undertaker wanted to make the shroud largo and comfortable, und with frills around tiie bottom. It was cut down several yards, however, until It was a pretty tglit lit, and then came the discussion about the ice. The undertaker wished tu charge 57 for ice. "It will tako $1 worth of ice to freeze you properly," lie said. "You will have to kno k off a dollar," said the sick man feebly, f "I will not need so much Ice as tho p ordinary corpse beraiiso 1 always have cold feet, and—lnstwint-r—my leet —were partially frozen." These were his last words. *
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