Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 21, 1893, Page 3

L ——————— THE \LLY UNCIL BLUFFS, OFFICE: NO. 12 PEARL STREET Delivered by carrier to any part of the city. n. W. TILTON Manager. 3 § Business Offce PHONES | Night Editor T MINOR MENTION, N. Y Plumbing Co. Hoston Store, dry goods. Furnished room to rent. 710 First Ave. Th. Mayne Real Estate Co 621 Broadway Wanted, a_good girl on Mondi George]Will and Walter Spooner of the Gany took a wheel run to Plattsmouth yes‘erds A snoak thief made a raid on S. B. Wads worth's ofiee in the Merriam block Friday evening while the elovator boy was up stairs but failed to find anything ho wanted. Tho school board wiil hold monthly meeting this evening. The ass ment of teachers as published in yesterd Br tember 4. N Children of Sidney and Tra Chamber lin of Riverton were brought in yesterda and deposited 1n tho county ja r sufc keeping until the next torm of f They a the drink without having a license. . John H. Bock gave a plensant party las Saturany evening at his residence, South First street, in honor of his 21st birth day. acd friends were present, and the evening was most onjoyably spent in dancing anc other amusements. He was as: tertaining by his cousing, Misses Mamic Hein, and Miuneapolis. CoraReed dmilia and will have a b for which Dutch Boynton and 1t is ¥eported that she was willing to wi examination and be bound over to the gi veral days ago, but her attorne nge her mind and stand a liminary hearing. Don't fail to hear the Tmperial Quintet at the Presbyterian evening. ureh Cook your meals this summer on a gas range. At cost ab the Gas company. Ask your grocer for Domestic soap. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. El Brown is in A0, 1. C. Baldy and fanuly left yesterday fol Chicago. W. H. M. Pusey left Saturday evening for the World's fair. Mr. and Mrs. John L. Temploton left terday for a visit to the World's fai will also go to Milwaukee to view parade of the national firemen’s tournamen 10 be held there next week. Charles Nicholson, Mack Goodwin, W. Rogers and Georg Zluffites who will attend tho tournament at Milwaukee. They that place Saturday ovening, way of Chicago. T Dye Works. Although engaged in e building, getting new custome their work promptly done and in the most satisfactory manner. All king dyeing and cleaning. Omaha office 15 Farnam street. Oflice and works 26t and Avenue A, Council Bluffs, tric motor ling A. Schoed The Young Peopl tian Endeavor of th chureh will give a soci ing in the parlors of the church. will be a fine program rendered. mission, 25 cents. es. R. left for Tho New machine ete. ol ok oeiety of Chr Ther Ad Greenshields, Nicholson & Co., estateand rentals,600 Broadway. Tel. 151 Pensiol The United States authorities have been investigating the case of L. isin Jail awaiting the s C. Taylor, wh been unable to discover how he got po sion of the pension papers which prom give him even more trouble t 80 far. Besides his youth, which prevent his securing a pension his sorvices as a soldier, the fa has been discovered that ' all durir the time while he was nogotiatin for and securing lis pension papers he wi sorving a term 1n the Nebraska penitentiar ac Lincoln. His secems to be a rather con plicate , but as he seems lik some time in the kX beforo the Unitec States authoritios get hol of him they have hopes of securing enougl additional testimony to convict him. fo! Domestic soap outlasts cheap soap Notico Pleuie Parties, Change in time, commenecing Monday Aug. 7. Trains for Manawa leave at th following hours: Morning trains leay Broadway at 10 a. m, 1,23, 4 and 5 and every ther after until 12 p, m. 30 minute Coal cheap for Carbon Coal Co. 34 Pearl street, Grand hotel bldg. Fire fry Alamp explosion came very noar Qestructive blaze in the Sanborn block, cor ner of Broadway and Bryant streot, at 10 o'clock last evening. Mr. and Mrs. Breze oceupy the front rooms on the second floor and had just left the place a fow minutes be- “The sound at- tracted the attention of some of the neigh- bors, ana tho fire department was called out The dumage was contined to the 1oss of o rug curtains, The destruction of the whole block was avoidea by the prompt fore the explosion took pluce and some of the action of the fire department in throwing th lamp and the blazing articles of furnitury out before the blaze had a chauce to communicated to the rest of the furniture. Stop at the Ogden, Council Blufts, t test $2.00 house in lowa. Domestic soap is the best. Mra. Wadsw orth, a popular singer ¢ our city, will take part in the prograr Monday night at the Presbyteria church, Smoke T. D, King & Co's Partagas. Broke n Jall Lock, Johu Rich, a burglar, was interrupted Sa urday night while enga operation of painting Council Bluffs an torestng red color. was imprisoned in the county Jail of Harr ROn county serve u fail sentence for burglary. He ha only been in fifteen days when he came U the conclusion thut loafiug for his countr was 1ot what it was cracked up to ve. i accordingly sawed his way out, and the au- thorities of Harrison county were none the Al hours the start of wiser until he had s them. As soon us hi euce wis disco: ered thoy notified the Council Bluffs polic who nailed him to the cross withwn twely hours. fiuish his sentence. Bad Bills Made Good. Business men need thei these times, people not living in Iowa employed b, any railway, express, telegraph or tel phone company entering lowa, write t the Nussau Investment Co., Blufs, Collections guaranteed. All will be glad to again hear Mrs. Dr. Simons, who will sing Monday night at tho Presbyterian church, No. 43 No. 28 for general house- work. Mts, I, M. Pryor, 34 Lincoln avenue. The city schools will open the year's work mson, Ray Bixby, C. H.Ogden edes | its regular ¢ will be brought up for adoption by the al court, charged with selling whisky by government 1510 A large number of his old schoolmates el in en- Miss Emma Koehler of ring in police court this morning on the charge of being icated in the highway robbery of young hey the tockert are among the firemen’s w go by the g a new will find no delay in getting on elec- First Presbyterian Monday even- real ssion of the Potta- wattamie county grand jury, but have so far an be has haa would ¥ to spend t Madison penitontinry Evening trains at be Uuntil Friday night he at Logan, having been put in to He will be taken back to Logan to 1f you have bills against Council | Coroner's Jury in the MoMillan Case Unable | 3 to Reach a Verdiot. MYSTERY OF A WOMAN'S DEATH UNSOLVED | | | Evidenes Taken Falls to Show if She Was Muardersd—More Testimony Wanted ad Anotuer Session to Be Held Today. The coroner's jury in the McMillan shoot- ing case mot yestorday morning, and, after trying in vain to decide upon a verdic agreed to a postponsment until this after- noon at 8 o'clock. Indications now are that there may be necessity for another inquest, and the coroner has given the under instructions not to bury the body until after the jury meots this afternoon. as the st tutes provide that the jury must view the body over which the inquest is held. It is stated on good authority tha two of the Jurymen votea yesterday forenoon in favor of a verdict of murder and the third for sui- cide. Since the vote was takon more testi- mony of a more or less important nature has transpired and will be introduced this after- noon. Mrs. George Blaxsim and & man named Johnson, both of them living near the saloon where the shooting took piace, heard sounds of o man and woman quarreling in the 5 | saloon shortly before the fatal shot was fired, § | and they will testify tothat fact. Oficer Henry Leuch was witaess of the same thing. B. Cousins, H. Y. Bates ana Charles Brown, together with Chief Scanlan and a fow others, paid a visit to the Phanix saloon Saturday night for the purpose of determining for themselves whether it i | would be possible for Jones to see whether his gun was in its proper place without the aid of any light save that from the street, as he had said he did. About oven this point there some doubt in the minds of the investi- mators, Bates and Scanlan saying that they could sce whother or not the gun there, while Cousins and Brown did not seom 1o have so good an optical apparatus as their companions and took the contrary view. Henry McCardle, one of the South Main street firemen, who was first to get into the saloon after the shooting, is said to hav little information under his_hat which was not brought out duriug the inquest. He states that when hie entered the place there was a light burning over the wine room, Jones' statement to the contrary notwith: . standing, and this would have enabled Jones to sec all the contents of the barelcarly. The apparent discrepency between his sto that of Jones wight be explained awiy the theory that Jones was so drunk thit he . | did not know much about what was going on, and s theory is by no m question, since Jones' barkeepe Mitehell, said ne brought the quartet cral rounus of beer—five or six or seven any- W 2 A great many with the affair drunken quarrel wasin prog Jones and the woman, and it doubtful if Jones could tell o straight stor about it, even if he were so disvosod. Another attempt will bo made to arriv a verdict this afternoon, and if_the jury dis- agrees the probability is that it wiil be dis- charged and a new one empaneled. 4 | L. Monday r v o circumstanc seem to indic connected » is Williamson & Co., 105 Main street, largest and best bicycle stock in city. { 1 L Domestic soap is the best e, TO SHIELD HIS WIFE, 2 for Fourteen Years Rather than Reveal Her Perhdy. - A peculiar and not unintevesting story of the devotion of man to woman is told in an application vecently filed in the office oithe governor of Indiana for the purdon of Jicob Noel of Bikhart county, v serving a lifo sentence in the state on for murder., On the morning of p sel and his wife, an attractive woman, engaged in an altercation in the rear of their home in Eikhart and Abraham Paulus, a neighbor, eutered the yard and took the part of the wife and was shot and in- stantly killed by Noel. ‘The murderer immediately surrendered himself to the authorities, but refused to make any statement of the circumstances leading to his erime except that Paulus had en- tored iis yard and interfered in g quar vel in which he had mno con-! cern, The trial was lled in December following and on the stand in his own behalf Noel still adheredto his determination not to tell anything more of the crime than was alre known to the public. Further than the statement that he and his wife were quarreling and that Paulus interfered he would say nothing. Iy counsel showea his previous good character, his quict, inoffensive dispos tion and that the fatal encounter with Puulas was the only trouble that he had ever had. It was shown that, before sing to Elkhart, he had hved at Pull- man, near Chicago, and had there se- cumulated some property and that he had been employed for a number of yeurs as a draper by Mavshall Field & Co. of that city. Beyond this nothing was offered in mitigation of the crime and, whils the jury believed that something - | was lacking, it had to be governed by 0 | the facts adduced and Noel received u o | life sentence, When Noel reached the prison he was placed at work in the cooper shop and for nearly ten years he performed his daily tasks without & murmur, never in this time referving to nhis crime and, us fur as known, never making a contidant of anyone regarding it. The attention of the prison autho, was attracted by his uniform good behavior and sonfe years ago he was made a “trusty” and placed in charge of the grounds surrounding the warden's residenc In this capacity be has been always faithful and has the unlimited confidenc of the prison officials, taking full charge of the grounds, going to and from the railway station with visitors und keep- everything in the most order, At night he vounds of the premises hing is secure und then reports at the prison, goes into his cell and is locked up till morning, when he I it again tor his duties outside the prison walls, During all his fourteen {‘u-m'hul confinement he has never been nown to utter a complaint, and, though the officers would gladly have secondod an efforc to gain a pardon for him, he never suggested such a step till within 4 | the past few months. It was then that o | the story of the killing and the events v | lewd ng up to it was first told by the e | conviet, who had kept silent for years in veference to a crime that had wany ex- tenuating clrcumstances and the pun- ishment for which he might have es- caped entirely had he shown as little re- wrd for the fair fame of his wife as she had shown for her marriage vows, According to Noel's story, he had dis- covered that his wife was unfaithful to him and he was upbraiding her on ac- count of her infidelity on the morning of the murder. He loved her with a passion that dwarfed every other senti- ment in his breast and his fecling was ) | that of commiseration rather than of anger for he believed that she had been subjected to some terrible temptation and had fullen without being utterly bad. Just at that moment Paulus ap- | peared upon the scene. 1t was ho who had Goes to Pris 0 d h o o 5 e of n n the t- ¥ o DALLY BEE!\EWS FROM C0UNCIL BLUFFS brought ruin upon his housc and when Paulus appeared and sought to pose as his wife's protector, it fired his brain and almost without knowing what he did he fired the shot that sent the soul of the seducer into eternity. He re- grotted the act the moment it was com- mitted and resolved that, however un- worthy the wife had been, he would be true to his vow to protect and honor her. Under the magic influence which she exerted over him, he still belioved her capable of living a correct life, and though he believed that he might es- cape the vengeance of the law if he would show the great provocation under which he labored and give the proofs upon which it was based, he de- termined to suffer vather than to send the woman he loved out into the world with a reputation forever blasted. Act- ing in accordance with this resolution, he refused to produce in court any of the proofs which might have saved him from conviction and which certainly would have mitigated his crime and resulted in a lighter sentence. He said that he had lived in the hope of being some day | a free man, but he had proposed to die in prison rather than let one word cape him that would sully the reputation of his wife. *He had expected that his wife would get a divorce, and wished that she would, but even this would not have caused him to break his long sif lence. Sie had recently married, how- ever, without going through the legal form of getting a divorce, and this had proved to his mind that she had not only ceased to care for him, but as well had no respect for the obligations of the law or regard for the estimation in which her own name was held. Unknown to Noel, rumor had been busy in Elkhart with his wife's name in connection with that of Paulus before the murder, and it was generally be- lieved that their intimacy led to the killing. Noel's r explained and his conviction followed as a matter of course, for he had refused to lay hold of the only thing that would save him. As soon as it was learned that he had made a statement of the facts his friends in and around Elkhart got up petitions to he governor for a pardon, and some three weeks ago the case was formally called to his attention. Warden French has written a letter in which he speaks of Noel's splendid prison record, and many of the prom- inent citizens of Elkhart have written personal letters to the governor in his behalf. Inaddition to these, the gov- ernor has evidence which he has himself gathered in the case, and Noel will be liberated. el AN OYSTLR OF WORTH., The I'earl Clusn and Where They Are Found. Very few people are aware that the pearl oyster is not in any way like the oysters which we eat. It is of an en- tirely different species, and, as a matter of fact, the shells of the so-called pearl oyster are of far more value to those en- wzed in *‘pearl fishing” than the pearls. here are extensive pearl fisheries in the Gulf of California, says Havper's Young People, and some of the finest pearls have been taken from these wate In 1881 one pearl, a black one, sold for $10,000, and every year hat time many pearls have been taken from the beds in the California gulf valued at over $7,000 each. But such “finds” are very rarve, and, as a rule, the pearls which are brought up are of very little value. The shells, however, are very valuable: most of them are shipped to Europe, where they are manufactured into ornaments, knife handles, buttons, and the hundreds of other articles for which ‘‘mother-of- pearl” is used. Another fact concerning the pearl oyster and the pearl itsell is very little understood. I have seen in books of in- struetion both in this country and in England the statement that “‘the forma- tion of the peail in the oyster shell is caused by a dis of the oyster;” and this statement is more or less generally believed, as is also the erroneous in- el to be drawn from it, that the ter referred to is the edible oyster. mother-of-pearl is nothing more than a series of layers of nacreous mat- tor deposited by the oyster upon the in- tervior of the shell, and the pearl itself is a per accidental formation. It 15 caused by a similar deposit of nacre around some foreign object. This for- eign substance muy be agrain of sand, a parasi similar object; but most authorities agree that it is more usually an undeveloped egg of the oyster around which this natural deposit is thrown. . The largest pearl ever found measures two inches long, and weighs three ounces. This is of eastorn origin. The rgest found in the Gulf of California did not exceed an inch and a quarter long, and was somewhat larger than the egg of abluebird, Many of the Cali- fornian pearls are black and speckled. These are considered more valuable than the white pearls in Europe, but the most highly prized pearls of all are pink, ey BISERIA’S SALT LAKE, Evaporation Has Formed a Roof Under Which Travelers Muy Sail, At the first view it was a vast snow plainn, surrounded by fields of ripening wheat, says a writer in the Goographi- cal Ma, The great salt lake at Obdorsk is nine miles wide and seven- teen miles long, yet, except in a few places, it is solidly roofed over with a pposit of salt, which is getting thicker and thicker every year. Our guide, who is an old man, said that he could remember when the salt crystals first began to form upon the surface of the water. Year by year, owing to the aporation of the water, the erystals scame more numecous and then caked till this great roof tormed the water bencath this salt voof found an underground outlet into the River Obi. This low- ered the laki surface about three feet, leaving that distance between the water and the roof. Looking down through one of the openings made for the purpose in the roof, we saw a low- sided small boat. Our guide put us one at a tigie into the boat, We lay flat on our backs and looked upat the curiously beautiful salt ceiling overhead. We propelled the hoat by pushing with our hands against the irvegularities of the roof. The guide held a long rope at- tached to the boat to prevent our going too fur and getting lost, a thing, he said, it was easy to do, 1t was like a palace of enchantment, with the sun shining down through the salt crystals, the colors were 80 rich and wonderful, Many springs surround this lake. Their water flows over the roof and evaporate; there, and thus con- tinually adds to its thickness. After ; years the springs will probably me choked with their own deposits, and then the whole will uruduuhy be- come covered with earth, and so a great salt mine will be found—a treasure for the Siberians hundreds of years to come, ———— Effect of the Bicycle. The bicycle has produced some queer changes. It is restoring the wayside inn, among other things. Along certain country roads not far from Boston,which are much frequented by wheelmen, and especially along those in the direction of the beaches, there are little summer restaurants or cafes which derive the largest part of their income from pass- ing riders of bicycles. lce cream, | | O = THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: M%!) DAY, AUGUST 21, 189 chowder, coffes cak ind that sort of thing find a ready &le to varties of heated wheclmen, &it upon open platforms and @ossip with the waiter girls, who are generally of a nice sort of country persons, ahd presently they fare along the road' wigain, quite like cavaliers of old. —— BOSE IN HARD LUCK. j—re’ The Big Dog DId Not Know the Trap Was Loade A sample rattrap was in drug store in Lewiston, Me., a few days ago waiting for a austome It wasa new-fangled rattrap which some one had left there for fun or sale, or to be called Gerrish's | for. The trap was set and was in the open shop where it_could be seen. About 10:30 o'clock a big dog came in with a little girl, or vice versa, although the dog was bigger than the girl. The little girl bought something and the proprietor was tying up the package, while the girl went prowling around after the manner of dogs and was in & moment forgot. “P'ease, thir, has you got any car Just then “Whoop lal Rip-p-p, s-s-t- boom-ah, Ki-yi-yi,” out came the dog with about seven inches of tongue pr. truding, to which dangled a rat trad full size, hanging to the tongue with? fifty-light dynamo grip. In an instant there was fun in the apothecary shop. You have seen a dog fight with eleven dogs in it? No? Well, maybe you have seen a rooster with his head cut oft? No? Then you haven't any idea the way this dog did up the drug store. Why, he fairly owned it. Over the boxes, in behind ‘the counter, out again, seven laps around the stove, three trips into the back shop, kicking up his heels until the dust flew, knocking over bottles, opening up cases of iast year’s almanacs. howling like a_calliope, clanking like a threshing machine. For about two min- utes they gave him full swing. The clark tried to corner him, but it was no use. *“Bothe! Bothe!” ericd the little girl, but Bose didn’t know her. He regarded her as an utter stranger. He had a nearer and closer attachment than any mere family affair. He had too much business to bother with little girls. He was t00 much “init” to waste his time in responding to mere friendly calls, Twice he dashied at the door, but it wus shut and the proprietor didn't want to lose the trap. He'll run a week.” said a man who was climbing into a chair to give the dog move room. “Chloroform him," said the news- mun from behind the soda foun- “Give him a dose of fly powder,” shouted the clerk. Snup.” The dog had stopped sud- denly, had shaken his head and the trap had been llung three feet away, taking with it a dainty movsel of his tongue. “Poor Bothe,” said the little girl, as she opened the door, but Bose never even wagged his tail, as with one de- spairving look at the fnside of the store s0 that he could remember it next time, he fled like awild, “whooping, demoniac witch on a broomstick down Lisbon streot. Aud he may be going yet. I cea RELIGIOUS. —— Miss Blancne A. Wright of Lewiston, Me., has been ordained pastor of the Newport, N. Y., Universalist churca. The Cardinal Manuing memorial fund in London has reached a total of £30,000. The money will be given to the homeless poor of that city. r The annual convention of colored Baptists will be held in Washington on Septembor 14 It is expected that the attendance will num- bar 1,000 delegates, representing 1,500,000 Baptists. Hon. B. K. Bruce will deliver the opening address. z “The first Sabbath school was instituted in 1787. There are now in the United States 108,939 Sabbath schools, with 8,049,000 schol- ars, The world has 20,078,595 Subbath school scholars, Kev. B. Fay Mills, like his father before him, refuses the doctorate n divinity. He will devote the fall and winter to the east, begiuning his labors ut Concord, N. H. An- other year he will probably visit Europe. Three missionary societies have passed the million-dollar mark; to-wit: The English Church Missionary society, which is almost half w toward $2.000.000; the Methodist Episcopal and the Presbyterian; nor are two or three more 8o very far behind. Five representative counties in Now York have been cavefully canvissed and it is found that not more than 44 per cent of the people are church attendants. A canvass of representative villages and rural districts in Maine, Vermont, Ohio and Pennsylyania re- veals an equally deplorable state'of things. Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon was asked not long before his death by an American preacher, Rov. Dr. William Wright, if 1t was truo that ho once said: *Resist the devil and he will flee from you; resist a deacon and he will fly av you™ The great preacher answered that the sentence was older than his grandfather, and so could not have originated with him, and that he nover had any experience which would have justi- fied him jn repeating it. Rev. Elijah Kellogg, whose “Spartacus to the Gladiators” has been so many school boys favorite declamation for many years, is still preaching on Sundays in_bis church’ at Harpswell, Me., altnough he has passed his S0th birthday. He has done a wonderful zood among the fishermen of the n his long carcer. Ho expects s00n to retire from active service, but he can er cease doing good as long us life lasts. The investiture of Archbishop Hen of Dubuque with the pallium will pro! ke place in his cathedral on September #), which day will be the twenty-seventh anni- versary of his consecration, ~Cardinal Gib- bons and a large number of prelates and priests have been invited to attend the cere- mony, and_after the investiture the visiting clergy are to be entertained at St. Joseph's college, Dubuque, an institution of Arch- bishop Hennessy's fouuding. At the conclusion of a recent sormon at Silver Mine, Coun., Rev. I. A. Smith faintly remarked: 1 come to you this morning with an cmpty stomach; 1 have not had a mouthful to eat today because 1 could not getit. Forovera week 1 and my family have lived entirely:upon blackberries and bread. ‘The reason my: family is notv here this morning is theyhave no shoes to wear. 1do not ask charity,but ouly that you pay me my salary, thab I wdy not starve) Strangely enough, one deacon and o prom- inent woman in the church took the ground that it was poor tasteto thus reveal church secrets | LA Dionysius Latas, thé archbishop of Zants, irecce, has been in New York for some time, and, accompanied by his descon and secre: tary, Homer Beratis, has been quietly see: ing the sights. The grchbishop has held his present office in the Gireek church since 1834, Previous to his promotfon as archbishop he waus, as archimandtite, the best known preacher in Greece. /e was born in Zante in 1836, At an early) age he attended the Greek seminary inJerusalem, and has studied in the Univegsity of Strasburg, and at the universities af Horlin aud Leipsic, “1 cawme to this country,” he said, “in response to an invitation to attend the religious con- gress in Chicago. For a long time from afar I bave admired this glorious country, and u‘;n:l1 that I am here wy dearest wish is grat- itied.” Rev. Dr. D, B. Randall is said to be.the oldest Methodist pastor in Maine. He was born iv Hardwick, V., July 18, 1807, aud al- though now 80 years oid, he is sl a very active man. When 15 years old he wus ap- prenticed to a blacksmith, but soon broke down, and was sent to school and studied law instead. At the age of 19 he was con- Narked ok 2 CAME SAstLR, and! was cRiained as 8 minister about & year later, He has been in active service nearly ever since, and has received many church houors. He' was a member of the general conference in Balti- more in 1840. und wgalu in New York in 1844, and 1850, He has been secretary of the Maiue conference, and is _unow president of its board of trustees. Six times he has served as chavlain of the Maine house of represeutatives, KIT CARSONS LEAP FOR LIFE. Thrilling Incident in the Career of the Famons Frontierama Tromson in New York Ledger, In the summor of 1851 our crossing the great plains en route to California. We numbered thirty-eight mon in all, and our outfit. with its eight wagons, teams and necessary supplies was a very valuable one. In those days overland emigrants had literally to fight their way. Eternal vigilance was the price at which life and property w. s we had reached well into Arizona, without serious mishap, having lost neither a man nor an ani- mal on our long journe, One day we were toiling along bo- tween Mogollor mouvntains and Black Butte when far away to the loft, riding diagonally across our course, we saw a single horseman whom, even at that dis- tance, we knew to be a white man. Splendidly mounted on a jet-black horse, he was making rapid progress, but we could not at first imagine why he pressed on so furiously, nor why, as he could plainly see our white topped wagons, he did not make directly for us. Our surprise at his apparent avoidance of us was increased when our guide, Joe Carroll, riding in advance of the train,. presently called out “'Close up, boys, and form corral. We'll likely have a fight before long. There’s sixty or more Apaches chasing that lone 1 K:\‘, and they'll have him, sure! See how they're spreading out, the murdering villains! They know the ground ahead of them.” Sure enough, we could now see, coming over the ridge of a distant in the plain, a band of mounted Indians who, as they advanced, gradually ex- tended their line as if to prevent the hunted man from swerving to the right or left., “Why in thunder don't the blamed fool ride straight for us?” impatiently exclaimed Tom LRoss, our captain. “For a mighty good reason,” replied Joe. “Between us and him, right in tho middle of that smooth looking plain, und running square across his path, lies Devil’s Gulch. It's more than threc miles long, very wide in places, and no living thing has ever seen the bottom of it. The reds say it has none. There's no rise on either side of it, and it can't be seen till one gets close up; but those dovils and that poor fellow, too, know it’s there. He's opposite the center of it now, and the bloodthirsty brutes see that he won't have time to clear either end before they overhaul him. they're sure of his scalp, but they'll have to ride around the gulch to get at us.” “They'll pay dearly for that scalp, then,” savagely shouted Captain Ros “Grab your rifles,boys, and thirty of y come along. Let the others stick to the corral. Um afraid we can’t save the man, but if a lot of you can get to the gully before the reds retreat beyond rifle shot we'll have revenge, anyhow.” We had no saddle horses except those ridden by Ross and Carroll, and as we were barely a half mile from the ravine, no time would be gained by unharness- ing and mounting the draught animals. So our leadors spurred on ahead and we followed on foot as fast as our legs could carry us. 3 Af the moment we started the beset horseman was about as far from one side of the gulch as were we from the other. He was still riding at top sveed, but to our amazement, as we judged, within 400 yards of the bavrier hé brought the pace of his horsc down to a hand-gallop, thus enabling the yelling, exultant savages ta gain rapidly on him. 1t seemed strange that the apparently doomed man should deliberately, in this manner, shorten his brief span of life. It must be, we conjectured, only be- cause he wished to sell it more dearly, for now we saw him half turn in his sad- dle and throw up his rifle. A puff of smoke, 4 report, almost inaudible to us, and the foremost warrior, who had come within 150 yards of his hoped-for prey, reeled in his seat and pitched headlong to the earth, his trained pony remaining motionless by the dead body. Never checking the casy lope of his horse the white man reloaded with in- credible speed, turned once more and brought down another of his pursuers, while the scattering volley fired at him in return proved harmless. Our mounted comrades had by this time nearly reached the gulch. Sud- denly one of them, Joe Carroll, turned back and, galloping toward us, shouted: S Kit Carson, boys! And suve as you live he's letting his horse gather himseif for an attempt to leap the gully in one particular spot where it's only twenty feet wide. Hurry along liko lightning, so as to get within shot of the reds if they'refools enough to follow him to the cdge.” Loud cheers greeted this startiing revelation and every man of us ran as 10 the world's fate depended upon his in- dividual speed. But, strain as we might, we were still over 300 yards from the, to us invisible, ravine” when Kit Carson twisted about, fired again with unerring aim and a third savage fell. Then he dropped his rifle, threw his heavy holsters and pistols to the ground, and, sitling well down in his saddle, rode straight for the yawning chasm, Tom Ross had gained the hither of the gulch and the guide was hurry ing buck to join him; but we, now that the crisis had come, 0 fascinated by the sight of Carson’s sublime daring thav we involuntarily came to a full stop, breathlessly awaiting the result, On, with short, springy bounds, came the black stallion and Ross, as he after- ward told us, was close enough to mark how his mighty muscles seemcd to bunch and gather into hardened knots as | caught sight of the awful leap before him, Calmly resolute, his unblinking ga fixed upon the spot selected for his d; perate venture, sat the rider, With tightened rein he holds the noble horse to his course until within fifty feet of the ravine's shavp brink, then giveshim a free head and, for the first time, lots the eruel Mexican spurs touch his glossy flanks, while from his lips rings out a defiant cry of triumph, as if victory were alveady assured. Shortening yet more his stride and crouching like a panther about to spring, the beautiful animal nears the gaping void, ana we sce him shoot, rocket-like, high in air, while the In- dians, still 100 yards distant, ave stricken dumb and motionless by sheer wonder. One half second of suspense; then we break once more into wild cheers, for the powerful stallion has cleared the chasm and reached the oppo- sito bank. Ah, no! Something is wrong. From where we stund we can see the head and shoulders of rider and horse; but both are stationary. Neither shows out in full, and instantly we understand, that, although the latter may have jumped far more than twenty fect, he 1as been obliged to “take off” too far back from the crumbling edge of the ravine and has fallen short of perfect success, A low moan of horror runs through our helpless crowd. All seems lost. Not for ten seconds can the chest and forefeet of the good horse maintain their precarious hold. He and his rider must full backward into the terrible abyss. Tom Ross sits in his saddle, not twenty foot away, paralyzed by the imminence of the danger. Not otherwise can we just ide party was | [ han account for his inaction while fractions of seconds ate precious. Ono instant more and the gallant pa must perish bofore our eyes. But, n the old plainsman, Jos Carroll, comoe within fifty yards of the o when the leap was made, and now he spurs on still fastor, we sce his S whirling around his head too far off to see what the hand we know what the motion means feot from his mark, he has loop of his lasso around the imperile man's body and his horse upon i haunches at the same time. The wel trained animal instantly pulls back ward the tough rawhide lino tightens, an Kit Carson lies safe upon the sward! Alas, though, for the poor steed! fore his master has been fairl from his back, he topples ove with ashrill cr, of & human being down—down—down to happily painless, death. Then we awoke from terror and ran toward the scene. We found leaders each clasping a hand famous scout and were in timo him s thrown tl B draw ang its a fal bu in agony, swift, our trance « “I've squeezed through lots of tighter places than this, men, but before paid such a price for my life amount of money could have t me to part with that horse. my s last_died for me. “qui de have neve with your rifles, bo, s are going to run fo Thoso re Glancing toward the bafllod Apaches we saw that they had not advanced an inch since Carson’s leap, but had cor verged 50 as to form one body, and were Bofore evidently preparing to retroat. turning, however, each warrior erouche: low on the side of his pony and the whole band delivered a mixed volley of arrows and bullots. Ten of the former fell among us an the latter, being fired from old flin lock, smooth-bore buffalo guns, did no exceution. “Steady men, steady, Carson. “Shoot to kill." At that time repeating rifles had ne como into general us ried first class muzzle though somewhat blown by our each man of us stayed his vapid by ing for a moment and 1 fire effectively. “Now, boys, now eran fightor, as the aloud of ponies turne: tail to us, thereby partially exposin their ridors, Thirty rifles eracked at the word, four mustangs und nine braves w down, but before we copld reload ev deafl or wounded Indian was caught u between ‘two of his and, with demoniacal yells of rage, th whole crowd skurried awiy Then we brought our wa onjoined K oaders, and, a ath n ons with their poles lashed together end t end in pairs, and quickly recovered Kit Carson’s weapons. “How was it, Mr. Carson?” asked Car- roll. he reds seem to have got th start of you this time?” Yes,"” quietly replicd the renowne pioneer, “I was fairly surprised once. I've been out for ing to loca! foothills, Having scen no Ind about these parts, 1 rode round a bluff this morning, almost on top of | They were coming straight toward me not more than forty rods offand nothin, but the speed of iy horse saved They've paid pretty dearly for their fuc though. You'll see no more of ther this trip.” 3ut why did you take the ek such a jump, instead of rviding off in an other direction?” 1nquired another c our party 5 “Well,” replied Carson, “it was But [ knew the width of that nar spot to an inch, and believed Blackbir could clear it thus in a moment gainin, three miles. The reds would have give up tho chuse then, even if your part hadn’t been in sight, for they woul have been obliged to ride a mile and half twice over to get round the revin whereas if I'd tak they would have followe: Those wiry mustangs have no end ¢ bottom, “My poor horse did jump more thas far enough, but, as you can see by th marks of his hoofs on the other side, 1 started fully four feet from the edg and so fell short in his landing. Stil he would have saved himselfif he'd bee perfectly fresh, for he has more tha once, with me heavily armed on back, cleared a space of twenty-fiv measured feet.” Kit Carson, with beeame acquain the prime of li ago, form, low, soft voice and modest de meuanor was the last maun in the world casual observer would have pitche carele: and v whom I afterwar . was at this time i hout years ¢ upon as one of the most adventurons seouts known and successfu pioneers, daring i to Ameri ndian-fighters frontior histor; He remained with us two days, but ol the third day we overtook a large part of emigrants, from one of whom he pur- ¢ mure, chased a_thoroughbred Kentuck aad bidding us a hearty Godspecd, rod off toward his headquarters on th Rio Verdo as unconcerncdly though totally unaware that mies thirsting for his blood. Unspetted by the Tazgithoerer. The talk about the revival of the in- come tax law reminds treasury ofli Salmon P, C Washington one of an ol ial and a remark whic haso once made, says th Nows. Mr. Chase was man of great dignity, almost austerity to un- of manner, yot when he chose bend he wad fascinating and conversation. The story told;b, treasury official relates 1o an ¢ witty i the ol READY MADE MUSTARD PLASTERS We wero tho first manufacturers o Continent, Our latest i) anything éver beforo prod er tin. - Bo sure to havo or them epread o cotton cloth. SEABURY'S SULPHUR CARDLES: Provention {s bettor than cure, by burning these candles bad smells in baseraenis, closcts, "HYDRONAPHTHOL PASTILLES, whh:hpln bménlna. Qisinfeot a..I produch s fragrance refreshing anl invigorating, 20c. per box of 12, Bole Mauufacturers, BIEADBURY & JOIINSON, Pharmucchtioal | NEW YORK. had as right though holds, and in anothor moment, while yet a score of more fearful that that with might and main our of the to hear N mpted | Ho's saved | alp over and ovor again and has at | But,” turning to us, | d , but we all cav- race, aced himsell to prompted the vet- unhurt comrade: down to the ravine, made a temvorary bridge ! for some days try- wn easior road through the an ‘sign’ band of Apaches. me. | to the open country, 1 mo for days. his I think; and from his rather slight as every- where in that region lurked ruthless ene- ir ch ho hd ts 1- 1, d n 1, 1s at of ot 0 As d d t- it ot 18 d d nt P °s © d I n, n nces of N of e | n vl d a of n o 1) n n © d n f a d il N n y o © d h e a n d . what this kind. It occurred when he was socretary of the treasury and at a social gathering at his own house, The sub+ Jeet of taxation as it related to the enormons expenditures of the war came up and & distinguished naval officer presoat said he had paid nearly all his taxes, including the income tax on his have," property he explained, which brings me rental, but the taxgathorers have not yet succeeded in spotting it. Idon't know whether 1 really ought to let the thing g0 onin this way or not. What would you doif you wore in my place, lie inguired, addvoss “a little a yearly think,” said Mv, Chase, with a merry twinkle in his oyo, “it is the duty of every man to live unspotted as long as he can.” - - WHAT IT COSTS, Comparative Tests Made by Columbla Cole lege. A most valuable comparison of the cost of eleotric lighting by separate plantand by contract with companies has been made at Columbia college. Tha comparison shows that in a large build- ing, where boilors, engines and engi- neers arve indispensable for heating, pumping, the running of elevators, ete., the electric light furnished by dynamos run from the same boilors is very oco- nomical. This has been belioved in a goneral way for a numbor of years, but exactly how much money is saved by having & private plant, over what it would cost if the lamps were fed by currents supplied from some contral station electrie lighting company, is & problem which fow persons have taken the trouble to solve. or several years a portion of Columbia college has heen lighted by electricity, and during the last two yoars almost oxclusively by its own plant. It appeared that a com- parison of what it cost the college for 1ts electrie lighting for a cortain num- ver of “lamp hours” before it used its own plant with what it now costs for thé ane numbar of lights would be valuable, since the conditions in almost rgo building, hotel, club, ete., ave similar to those in the casein question. By an imspection of the com- y's bill for provious years, and the reerds kept by the engineer in charge of the plant, it was found that the average load per year was 175 amperes at 118 volts. The initial cost of the | plant was £5,000, and allowing 15 per cent intorest, depreciation and repairs, this L amounts to $750 per year. This, reckoned | with the cost of additional labor, coal, oil, water and an item for waste, made a total cost of % for running the plant tor 919,275 ampere hours, i. e.. for one year's lighting. The company’s bills for the year previous to the ins lation of “the plant amounted to 90.22, the price per lamp hour work- ing out to three-quarters of a cent. This makes the total numbor of lamp hours per year 652,029, or 326,014 ampera hours. But the plant supplies light for an average of 919,275 ampere hours per year, and at the above rate the company would have charged $13,780.12. Henca the college sav $10, per year by having its own plant, thus decreasing the cost of lighting to about one-fifth it otherwise would be; i. e., the lighting costs on an average one-seventh of 1 per ceat per lamp hour. This ine structive comparison was only arrived at after a careful examination of accounts, combinca with tests of the boiler, ens gines, dynamos, ote. ) e S DON'T_LISTEN to tho dealer who is bent on_ bigger profits. The thing that ho wants you to buy, whon you ask for Dr. Picree’s Favorito Prescrip- tion, tsn't “ just as good.” Proof of this is casy. 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