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Cleveland County Leader.
VOL i
NOBLE. CLKVELAN I> COUNTY, OK„ SATl'HDAY, 1 KHKl A UN
THE PATH OF PEACE.
age named Maln-1 Wilson. In the ' raont Lincoln was going to his death
- course of the forenoon we came to a and he knew it.
Wu«t ent Jwlwtl Mull* grt%i rock. un-l-T u hi« h there was a Mll ti lof KUl and the baby, hi
deep, black hole some six or eight muttered, as lie pressed forward ai
torn
Ab I tortured v*.th love - l t«*.st agony;
When to mvm*lf *• tolvumly hud Mworu
To wulU liff 's J) Ay ulon you come to me
With th<>-'- hlf eyi-i. mysterious and .-trunffe.
And * ul **tvt face soW-iun a- the Kruve,
Wuat 1 had thought ti;- end was hut a change;
And I ttnd myself a voiuan a lav«.
Hut do not yw dMll taktawaf those eyes
\v.. . . : • 'V - •'1 ?■ >x 1 • ■.11• ■
M Jit lea*a m« now? Yes. yes: the hour flies,
Bat thou hunt broufctt me nearer heavens
Thv ^''ntle h* vnd thy jovinjr hand ho led
Me from thi shores of sin. from stone to
atone
Has taught my faU rlnf feet to tread
Tno n.ith that le*ds lo ptui'e I • k alono.
—Cy Warren ti* the New York Sun.
THE BR ASS* BOUND BOX.
Bad luck had
I.lncoln from tlio
K a Hackett and i
in the old Hackott
followed Fremont
time ho married
>t up housekeeping
homestead. She
was un orphan without a relative in
the world, hut tha aid (Mm h*
inherited was hei.vily encumbered;
and when it conies 1« gnawing away
all hope and life an<l love, as well ad
property, there is nothing iu the
world that will compare with a hun- ;
giy, merciless mortgage.
.Sickness had fallen upon him and ,
his. Four children ha.i come to thom
rapid succession, but i^ie little low
pounds in the hillMde centetery be-
yond were all that veraainod to tell of
vhreo of thom, save tho many unpaid
tills of which they had been the oc-
fcsion. Yes, FYiMuoiil Lincoln had
i©en unfortunate.
Other troubles oAtne thick and fast,
freraont was not u practical farmer,
udeed ho knew very littlo about ,
igrioulturo, and crop aftor crop :
'^iied him. Then sickness smote tho j
strong man himself, and for weeks he ^
tovered between lifo and death.
But ho did rally ut last. Slowly. I
rery slowly indeed, health and
ttrength came ba^k to him, and he |
began to creep painfully and wearily
ibout the premises, but tho doctor :
laid that many lorwg months must yet
elapse before ho would bo able to
work again. In the meantime how
was tho little family to live?
tho mortgage had
inches in diameter, apparently bur-
rowed out by some small animal.
•« 'I don't believe but what thoro
are snakes in there,1 said Mabel with
frightened, wondering eyes.
♦ • 'Pshaw! I don't believe a word of
it,1 said I, always bound to bo on the
contrary side.
• 'You don't dare put your hand in
there, anyway,' said Mabel.
*Vei I do, too,' I defiantly an-
swered: and lying down upon the !
: ground I thrust my arm into tho hole
* up to the very shoulder.
♦•And now comes the strangest part
of the whole story. As true as you
live, Fremont. I felt tho hard, cold
corner of a metallic box far in under
that great bowlder in the old West
pasture.
••♦What did you do next?1 asked
Fremont, with a good deal more in-
terest than he had yet exhibited.
••I neither did nor said anything. I
1 was a verv peculiar child, and
somehow or other 1 felt afraid. I did
not know but 1 might have found a
coftin or something of that sort, and
so I called Mabel and hastily left the
place. I presume it was more than
half a dozen years before I ever ven-
tured near that part of the pasture
again.
••Tho first time 1 heard tho story of
groat-grandmother Hackett's buried
treasure this adventure of my child-
hood came back to me with startling
distinctness. There certainly was a
box upon tho premises, and buried
under a great stono, just as tho old
lady had always declared in hor rav-
ings. I had not a doubt then that
thoro was a good deal more of truth
in thom than people were disposed to
admit, and that I myself had acci-
dentally stumbled upon the long-con-
cealed wealth.
••With a beating heart I hurried
out into tho old West pasture in
search of tho cotter, but alas! I was
doomed to disappointment. I could
not remember in what portion of it
the rock was situated, nor oven how
rapidly as his feeble strength would
permit.
Plunging deeper and deeper yet
into the tangled thicket, ho at last
came out into a littlo clear space en
tirely enclosed by tho dark and gloomj
evergreens that crowded around.
There he paused and took a last,long,
lingering look around; for there, in-
side that little circle of softly mur-
muring pines, his young lifo wai
about to end.
Then he cocked the fowling-piece
TOMBS IN TREE TOPS.
HOW NAVAJO MOTHERS BURY
THEIR BABIES.
Story of the Trance hl« per The fc«ci
of Ouray—A tirave at the Hot-
toiu of the Stream--V|"®er
Indian Chief*.
The holder of i wlooked
ivowed his intention of foreclosing ^ ^ q( ,and that aU
upon a certain date if the ">onej wer, alikc Rml woro nll
not forthcoming, and tho payments 11 . - ....
upon the heavy lifo insurance policies |
Fremont carried were almost duo. i
And the unhappy man did not have a
single dollar in the world
that had elapsed
thick scrub pines had grown up and
covered the ground so completely
that in places it was almost impossi-
ble to find ono's way through thom.
Tho stone 1 sought was still more ef-
fectually concealed by the great,rank
ferns that filled every crevice be-
tween the roots of the trees, and
•Would to Heaven I had died with
the fever rather than have lived to
become a lielj>les-> burden that I am!
he groaned in anguish. "The in-
surance money would have saved my i
lov ed ones and paid the fatal tmried the earth in a thick layer of
moitgage. . o • ' , . ; green and feathery fronds. Seek as I
policies and all that; time already ;ould the stone was not t0 be found,
paid upon them, and hope and homo ^ tQ ^ Jay j hav0 noyer bcen
ablo to locate it."
"All your imagination, Ella,
i joined her husband, "You must have
felt a squaro corner of the rock, that
was all. No one would have been so
foolish as to conceal a treasure-cas-
ket in such an unheard-of place."
Klla Lincoln only shook her head,
She was far from being convinced,
debts to the very last dollar, and yet ' but she would not ar*ue the raatter
have a little something remaining.
Oh! if we could only find it!"
••What is it about great grand-
will both be snatched from me at |
one and the same time. W ould to
!iod that the disease had finished its
deadly work!
• Would to God that wo might find j
great grandmother Hackett's hidden |
treasure, for babv and I could never I
live without you!" responded his al-
most despairing wife. "Her secret
last dollar, and vet but she would not argue the
further, and the pressure of many
mother Hackett's hidden treasure:"
asked her husband with a semblance
of interest that he was very far from
feeling. "Tell mo about it."
"Why, tho old lady used to live
here with my groat-uncle Alfred be-
fore they both died, and she was
Crazy for a great many years," was
the reply. "She was always kept
confined in the front room, and her
ravings were nearly all concerning
buried gold. Nobody ever paid any
attention to her, for everyone consid-
ered her mutterings only the sense-
less vagaries of a lunatic.
• I remember hearing that my
great-uncle and his men were once
blasting out some large rocks in the
field near the house, and when she
saw what they wero about tho old
lady hurried to the window in great
excitement.
"She ordered them to leave at once
and let the boulders remain, as she
had great chests of money buried be-
neath them. All day long the men
worked under a running fire of en-
treaties, commands and imprecations,
as by turns she begged and ordered
them to desist.
"No body ever credited the poor
old lady's tale save myself, but I can
not help believing that, the hidden
treasure really exists after all. Oh!
if we could only find it now."
"It is only wasted breath to wish
for the chimerical treasures of an in-
sane person," said Fremont. "Even
if the wealth were real and had only
lain concealed all these years, it
would be only a hopeless task to at-
tempt to find it now.''
• But I have a good reason for
thinking that the hidden wealth is
not a chimera," Mrs. Lincoln went
on."
"WThat is it?"
"After uncle died my father moved
here, as you already know," Ella con-
tinued, "and of course he brought me
with him, a wild, strange hoiden of
six.
• One dav not long afterward I was
out in the old West pasture at play
with d little girl of about xy owa
j cares soon drove it entirely from the
minds of both.
The weeks rolled by and one more
month would witness the foreclosure
! of tho mortgage and transform the
once happy Lincoln family into so
many paupers. Only five days and
#5,000 worth of insurance policies
must be forfeited for the lack of a
^single payment.
"Oh! if I could but die now, before
it is too late!" groaned the unhappy
man. "The price of my life would
place Ella and the baby in possession
of comparative wealth. As for me, I
am only a useless burden and shall be
for a long time to come. Oh, if I
could only die now!" And then a
dark, dishonorable thought crept into
the desperate brain of the despairing
man.
" 'If I could only die01 I can."
But how? Self-destruction would
also forfeit the policies, and so the
sacrifice of his life would be all in
vain. Could not the manner in which
he came to his death be effectually
concealed?
Slowly the dark plan grew and j
took shape in his mind. An acci-
dental death would draw the insur-
ance just the same. Could it not be
made to seem an accident?
"I am going out gunning, Ella,"
said he to his young wife the next
day. "I can manage to get around I
considerably now, and if I can only
shoot something we will be sure of at
least one more good dinner before we
are turned out to perish in the high-
way."
Again and again did Fremont Lin- ,
coin kiss the sweet face of the uncon-
scious little one that lay in the cradle,
and his parting embrace to his wife
was given with all the impassioned
energy of despair. She little knew
that it was destined to be their last
parting upon earth.
Slowly and painfully the feeble and
emaciated man drew himself over the
fence, and disappeared from the lov-
ing gaze of his wife among the thick
growth of pines in old West pasture.
Neither heart nor foot faltered, and
yet his dark purpose of self-destruc-
tion was firm and unchanged. Fre-
heparried, and rested the butt of 11
on tho ground, preparatory to dis-
charging it with his foot; when sud
denly an angry whirring caused liim
to spring to one sido with all the
quickness possible in his enfeebled
condition. He well know tho fatal
warning of an angered rattlesnake,
and even in that extremity instinct
made him leap to a place ofcompar
tlve safety.
There it lay. close-coiled among the
ferns on which tho butt of the gun had
rested, with thick, sluggish hotly but
swiftlv vibrating tail, the deadly dis-
gusting. L.'oaeherous length of a fivo
foot rattler. Its neck was erected, its
jaws distended, its fatal fangs thrust
upward from their sockets, and with
Hashing, glaring eyes it swayed and
swung its ugly fiat head as it sounded
its battle-note and waited for an at-
tack.
Fremont stood motionless for soms
minutes watching the snake in terri-
fied silence, his intended suicide mo-
mentarily driven from his mind
Then tho reptile, finding that tho in-
truder was not disposed to molest
him, slowly dragged his sluggish,
slimy length into a hole under a neigh-
boring stone. Then, and not till
then, did the memory of his grim pur-
pose return to Fremont with ten-fold
force. But another thought cam,
with it.
Could ho be sure that no ques«toa
would arise as to how it happened, iu
case ho wero found dead from a gun.
shot wound in the old pasture? 11
suspicion should onco bo aroused thj
insurance-money would Inevitably ba
withheld, and his dying purpose
thwarted. Bettor that the snake had
bitten him; for then no doubt as to It
being an accidental death would ever
have arisen, ami Ella and the baby
would certainly have been provided
for.
Ho thought of the horrible suffer-
ings that would have been his, but
felt that he could willingly have
borne anything for the sako of hl9
family. Then a new purpose came to
him in an instant, fixed and unchange-
able as fate.
With pale cheoks and teeth tightly
clenched, he uncocked his fowling-
piece and tossed it recklessly to one
side. Then he resolutely bared his
thin and shrunken arm to the
shoulder, and, kneeling upon the
ground he unhesitatingly thrust its
entire length into tho serpent's den.
With compressed lips and great
glittering eyes ho knelt there with
his hand beneath tho stone awaiting
the fatal blow; but still it came not.
Where was the rattlesnake?
Suddenly Fremont Lincoln started
to his feet as if electrified. The
blood rushed back to his face with a
force that nearly overcame him in his
weakness, and he drew his broath
hard.
The next instant he threw himsel!
upon his knees again and began tear-
ing away with his hands at the earth
around the hole as if he had sudden-
ly gone mad. Snake and shotgun
were alike forgotten.
The hole in the soft soil rapidly
grew larger beneath his eager as-
sault, and five minutes later a good-
sized child might easily have crawled
underneath the stone. Then, with
an excitement that was fairly terrible
in its intensity, he dragged a heavy
brass-bound box of rotting wood from
its resting place of years.
Even as the excited man tore the
antique casket from its hiding place
its decaying joints of rotten oak,
gave way. It fairly fell to pieces in
his hands and from all sides of th«
shattered receptacle a shower of shin-
ing golden coins of ancient date
poured forth and dropped in glitter-
ing, jingling, yellow heaps upon the
trampled and tangled ferns.
It was great-grandmother Ilackett'
hidden treasure.—Chicago Sun.
If it bo true that wo originally
,prang from trees, ami that like those
humanesque verfl-antlques there is j
is much of tho human race under
ground as above it. then the
|)ino tree is the true ambush out of
which the shade of tho subled Indian
iprang and back to whoso closest
tent he retires when his tent on earth
is struck. The totems, the watons.
he masonry of the medicine bag are
ill In losed" In its burial urn and the
Druidieal legend of aboriginal des-
tiny sealed in tho chronicles of its
Apocryphal books. The pine tree is
tho true Indian funeral tree. It
{eeps the ghost of the dead fed at its
granary and memory of the departed
green in tho tropics of its eternal
y-outh- It mellows tho sun in its
uidt1a\ twilight to a moon of dav*
tnd, bowed with snow, holds in its
mystorioi'... spell tho leafy shade of
summer. It is tho ululant tree,
writes .Miller Hay-man in tho New
Vork Herald.
But there is a burial trait of the
pine tree w hich has been strangely
overlooked even by dendrolo|;ical
writers. It is the secret process of
•mbalming.particularly in a tlry..aln
loss air, which, preserving a corpse,
makes it a true mummy cave. I'o
this melancholy tree tho Ni.vajo
mother goes on only one errand- to
bury a still born child.
The burial of the dead amonj the
Navajo- i- peculiar to thom-eivi s. A
resemblance only to their mortuary
I o their tracks and erase theli
' fc.Hprint-. The mouit- of .Ua-<ka am
the sealed caverns in Ohio. Indian#
I and Kentuokv all tell the same story.
' In this the 1,'to differs from all othei
Indians. I have no doubt but Mutn
mv cave is full of Utes.
Black Bird, the great war chief o!
j the Otnahas. at his own request, was
j liurleU on the top of a high hill,
I togged out in all hU plumed finorj
i ami seated astride the hack of hi*
i living snow-white steed. Gradually
the turfs were heaped around the
! limbs and Hanks of the animal, cover-
ing him all over the body a- they
rose higher and higher, till at la--1
onlv the nozzle of the noble bruit
peeped out of the mound for a last
breath, when with a single largo turf
the smooth mound closed overforevot
and not u struggle lieneath its level
surface told the story of the li\iny
stood that lav folded beneath it.
STORIIS OF KINGS.
Three of Tliem All V.'ry I'ltmMiit
RvatllnK-
A great French monarch, who, in
addition to being great, was a man of
much benevolence, once while hold-
ing court, brought the con monies to
an abrupt ending, dismissing every
guest from his presence. \\ hen asked
why he had done so, he explained
that he had observed one of lus guest
pocketing a repeating chronometer
watch that did not belong to him.
Tho king knew that the dishonest
guest was poor, and was driven to
stealing by a most pressing necessity,
and he also knew that it war.ted only
; a few minutes to the hour, tin: chro-
nometer would soon ring out the time
and the culprit would be discovered
and publicly disgrae- I«' avoid
this tho king dismissed all from his
' huIou, ami doubt -s late did some-
; thing to better the condition if the
| unfortunate robber, and put him in a
customs is to be found among the position to lead an honest life.
Bound Valley Indians of California. A mora or lea* gyoophantlcto;lergy-
the Kagonlas and llilloxis of l-ouisl- | man was once preaching before Loui«
ana and the Indians of Virginia The
Navajo, however, is the more u iiquc
The house is the tfrave. The body
Is buried just where it dies. An soon
as death takes place a shallow j-rave
is scooped out in tho center ol the
liotfan. In this grave the body is
placed by the nearest relatives, who
pi v'ously smear their bodies with
tar from the pinion tree in o'dor to
protect themselves against tho evil
influence of the devil's work.
XIV., tho king of France. In tin
course of his address lie cried out,
"We must all die," and then f« «'liny
that this was perhaps not quite the
manner in which to speak to a king,
he turned deferentially to Louis, and,
with a low bow, added, "That is, your
majesty, almost all.1'
Dr. lVusby was a great hehoolniaster
in England in th« time < f Charles II.,
says thr Philadelphia Times. Upon
Thi.t | ono occasion the king paid a visit to
Oh, What a I)IfYVrenre.
Tailor, measuring ('happie—Georgi
take down the gentleman's measure
—chest, 38 full: shoulders, broad and
square; back, extra wide; arms in
proportion.
After Chappie has departed smiling
—George, make that measurement
read like this: chest, 32: shoulders
stooped and sloping; back very nar-
row, arms to match. N*. IV : Pa l so
as to have garments correspond to
measurement first given -Smith,
Gray & Co.'s Monthly.
A Martinet of n Teacher.
"How Is your cooking chus g 'tting
along, Ethel?"
"1 don't know, I left it "
••Indeed! Why?"
••The teacher wouldn't let ni • wea:
gloves when I was clean; ::g ohiekjns.'
—Judge.
is no sooner done than the hogan is
leveled to the ground anil the spo'i
abandoned. If the deceased has no
relatives or is not a person of impor
taneo in the tribo, no grave is dug,
but tin- hogan simply pulled dow i
over the body. A Navajo would
sooner freeze than kindle a li/o wit.i
tho logs of a fallen hogan. 1 liav
seen these mortuary hogans In ths
mountains. The survivors smear
themselves on the forehead and litt-
ler the eyes with tar as a sign of
mourning. When it wears o:T it is
not put on again, and the name of tha
lead is never mentioned.
The Dakota Sioux paint a corpse
red across the mouth, the hand black i
with the thumb on one side of the j
nouth. A Sioux never cries with
pain and never exhibits alarm at |
leath or shows fear of any kind. The |
medicine bag is placed on the heart.
There is little or no preparation for
leath. The corpse is blanketed,
i >xed and buried with the head to
ihe South, whence they believe they
ariginally came. A pe.-son who has
been murdered by one of their own
tribe is alwavs buried face down,
.villi a fat piece of pork or bacon in
lie mouth to prevent the spirit of the
murdered person from scaring the
-fame from that section. A kettle of
'ood is sometimes placed at children's
rraves. Girls eat the food out of it
it girls' graves and boys at boys',
l'he scalplock is cut off. hung up in
;ho lodge and considered "keeping
the ghost." Formerly these Indians
buried in a tree or on a platform and
burial in the ground was a disgrace,
l'hey even sometimes carried the
lead body of a person with thom on
their journeys. Tho most cruel
mourning is practiced. Ihe squaws
hack themselves to pieces with stone
Hints until thoy arc covered with
blood. The braves run sharpened
sticks through their flesh until the
^cene is fairly sickening. A single
■<calp avenges the death and stops the
mourning. While they mourn they
never laugh, wash or comb their hair,
l'hey also have what is known as the
••ghosts' gamble." The Minnatarree
Indians of Dakota cut off their fingers
for the dead till the whole ground is
strewn with them. They are invari-
ably buried in a green blanket, though
thejf never wear green when living.
The mortuary custom of the I tes
is cave burial. Ouray was but lately
dragged off secretly to one such rock
cave and buried. The deathbed
scenes, the final preparations, the
journey to the grave, tho place of de-
posit, are all with the Utes pro-
found secrets. He will not talk or
tell. It would be a very dangerous
thing for a white man to be in a lite
camp when anyone died, for they
would lay it to his evil influence. No
white man ever saw a I to buried.
Thev bury in a rock cave, seal it up
carefully "and cunningly with stores
ind steal away, even taking care to
tho school, where ho was received by
tho doctor, and by him escorted
through tho establishment. It wns
j observed that 011 tho tour of Inspec-
tion tho doctor preceded tho king,
i wearing his hat. while the monarch,
following meekly in tho rear, held his
under his arm.
When the Inspection was over the
doctor walked to the door with
Charles, and in parting apologized to
him for wearing his lint in tho royal
presence, saying that ho was forced
to do so.
••For," he said, "if my boys wore to
imagine that there is a gi eater man
in tho kingdom than myself. 1 should
never be able to ruld them.
Tho king, it is said, took the ex-
planation iu good part, and remained
a friond to the eminent educator ail
his days.
A Not on Portugal.
"Female beauty is rare through-
out Portugal," says an English trav.
eler. "and of that encountered in the
port wine capital the larger share
certainly pertains to the peasantry of
the environs. At the principal thea-
tre of the city, after a minute in-
spection of the boxes, it is possible
to count upon the lingers of a single
hand the few pretty faoes you will
have succeeded in discovering, and
the process may be repeated night
after night. Ladies still go to the
theatres here in the old-fashioned
Sedan chairs, the unexpected appari-
tion of which, with their quaintly at-
tired chairmen, in one of the more
ancient tortuous streets relegates one
back for at least a century. These
dimly-lighted, long, narrow, winding
thoroughfares would appear to be
slightly dangerous at night time,
judging from their being regularly
patrolled by helmeted horse-guards
with drawn swords, who, from the
slow pace at which they move, have
been irreverently nicknamed 'tor-
toises' by the Portuguese. Why tho
latter have given tho name of -mus.
sels' to tho guardians of the peace
posted after dark with their loaded
rifles at the end of many of these
thoroughfares is less compre-
hensible."
I.nui.tluiiit Oynter Fisheries.
Reports lately made concerning the
oyster fisheries of Louisiana lead to
tiie belief that a large share of this
country's supply of oysters will cuinu
from that quarter in the future, ll
is reported that the beds are ol
enormous proportions, possess every
natural advantage for the growth ol
tho shellfish, and in many eases are
1 hardly touched by the rake.
The < u\e of Burmah.
The eaves of Burmah are rich in
wooden carvings, glazed tiles and
images as well as tablets in terra
I cotta, marble, alabaster and other
materials. These relics illustrate
the ancient and modern phases cl
Buddhist worship.
NO H.
A ST. LOUIS ROOM
for Had hreanu unit (ili atly ll«p-
cl It lout of a Tragedy.
There is a building in St. Louis fil-
iated not a hundred miles from the
Slobo-Demoerat, containing a room
nrhieh, to say the lea- t about it, is de*
jidedly uncuuny. This building at
ihe present time is rented out in of*
ices, but a portion of it at least, was
times gone by used as a dwelling
louse. This particular room of
which I speuk was, I understand, a
gambling resort, and a murder is said
to have been committed therein.
With the particulars of this crime I
im entirely unacquainted, and it is,
therefore, impossible for mo to say
whether the experienco I had one
sight when sleeping there bears iu
iny way upon it, but I think that its
recital may prove highly interesting
co any one not altogether incredulous
with regard to things supernatural.
I had occasion to sleep in this room
tor several months, and I can truth-
cully say that I never once retired to
•est without being disturbed by
1 reams of a most hideous character.
I would not lay much stress upon this
jircumstanco were it not that every
>ne*who happened to take a nap, day
jr night, on tho couch which tho
room contained complained of tho
iame thing. However, I was ono
sight visited by something of a more
inaccountable nature than the usual
ipecios of nightmare from which I
vas wont to suffer. Quite a numer-
als party had been in tho room with
no till 11 o'clock or later, and I had
tcnrcely undressed and disposed my*
lolf to rest before two heavy sighs,
coming from tho far eorncr of tho
00m near the window, arrested ray
Ittention-
At first I supposed that some ono
lad remained behind when the rest
iad bidden mo good night, but a mo*
ncnt'rt consideration convinced me of
tho fallacy of this idea, and wonder-
ng whence the sounds could hav *
£Otne, I rai "d myself on tho couch
ind peered at that portion of tho
room. In that particular corner was
a gas jet, which I was in the habit of
turning low when I went to bed, and
by its light I could plainly discern
everything in the vicinity, and the
outlines of those objects beyond its
immediate radius were dimly visible,
fct apparently there was nothing in
the room capable of producing tho
•ounds I had heard.
I had scarcely assured myself of
this fact when a woman's voice, in
tones of tho most heartrending pa-
thos, exclaimed: 4,<>h, ray God!" and
this after a short interval was fol-
lowed by a gasping sob, preceding a
long-protrm'ted moan of anguish,
which g/adually subsided and gave
place to a silence so profound that I
Bould pluinly hear the beating of my
own heart and tho throbbing of my
tomplos as the blood rushed wildly to
my head. No words can describe tha
emotions I experienced at this, I pre-
sume, ghostly enactment of a crime
that had taken place years before; I
seemed incapable of movement, and
still preserved my upright position,
staring wildly at the spot where the
invisible tragedy had taken place.
Still I could see nothing, and yet,
by some undefined instinct, I knew
that an impalpable presence was
there, bending low ovor his victim.
With the same instinct I followed
his movements as he dragged a heavy*
burden across the Moor and flung it
into a closet at the far and of the
room, and then made his exit at the
door, and lied down tl;e stairwav with
utealtliy steps. As these died away
in the distance tho sjm* 11 which had
hitherto held me motionless was bro-
ken, and I sank back on the couch ex-
hausted, with the perspiration break-
ing out at every pore and saturating
my clothing as though it had baen
dipped in water.
I slept in that room for a good
many months afterward, and though
my dreams still continued to be of an
uncomfortable nature. I was never
troubled further with ghostly visit-
ants, palpable or impalpable.
( tinning <;ulls.
An example of the cunning of gulls
was observed at Tacoina. when sever-
al alighted on a bunch of logs that
had been in the water for a long
time, with the submerged sides thick
with barnacles. One was a big gray
fellow, who seemed to be the saptain.
lie walked to a particular log, stood
on ono side of it clos« to the water,
and then uttered peculiar cries. The
other gulls came and p -iched on the
same side o the log. which, under
their combined weight, roiled over
Several inches The gulls, step by
step, kept the log rolling until the
barnacles sh r.ved above tho water.
The birds picked eagerly at- ''his food,
and tho log was not abandon--1 until
every barnacle had *>een picked off.
No Ordinary llouor.
"What .mis your mu.. exciting ex-
perience during ti • war, ( olonel
Kimberly ?"
••Wall, sah? Wall?"
••Why, yes, you wet' in the army,
I suppose?"
••No, sah, my title has a deepah
significance, mi!:, tha:: that of tni'.i-
tui-v gen'leman- I' wasconte'edupon
Ine by fellow citizens as a ma'k of
theah esteem aud V:,'.ia(i, sail."—De-
troit Tribune.
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