Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 15, 1895, Page 13

4 OMAHA DAILY BRE: SUNDAY, SHPTRMBHR 15, 1898 1f there Ever Was a Rush for Bargalné v,‘fl: Was Yesterday at the Opening of the s® GREAT BANKRUPT SALE-ww OF THE SUPERB $150,000.00 STOCK OF THE S. P. MORSE DRY GOODS CO: 16TH AND FARNAM STS. 3 , P Such an eager crowd as flocked to our storeto profit i)y the phenbvmenal saving offerings stands unprecedented and withouta peer or parallel in the history of Omaha merchandising. It is a feast of borgains—such as has never been tasted before. This mammoth bankrupt sale has already revolutionized the prices of dry goods and will continue to do so even to a greater extent this coming week. We are too busy at this writing to prepare a list of prices, but we shall open the sale again MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, AT 8 O'CLOCK, with practically new features throughout, lower prices and still greater bargains, if that were possible, than on the opening day. Anticipated future changes and plans, necessitate that the entire magnificent $150,000 high grade stock be closed quick, so if you want a share of the bargains, don’t delay. this golden opportunity pass you by. Take time by the forelock—get up early in the morning and take the first car down town. Don’t let Remember that at the ridiculous prices we have made the goods can’t last long, and there will be no more such bargains when they are gone, STATE FA IR VISITORS shoild lay in their dry goods supplies for future use at this sale and save traveling and other expenses for the weck, Extra force of experienced sales people added for fair week and prompt service assured. For the accommodation of Rural Visitors open eveningsduring State Fair week festivities. EVIDENCE OF EXTINCT RACES Proof of the Existence of Prohistorio Man in Oentral Nebraska. RELICS FOUND IN THE LOUP VALLEY Weapons of Stone, Burned Ware and Cooking Utensils Similar to Arti- cles Fabricated by the Anclents of Europe and Asia NORTH LOUP, Neb., Sept 12.—(Corre- spondence of The Bee.)—While the data on which to base conclusions relative to the condition of a prehistorig race are always necessarily somewhat limited and are often of doubtful interpretation, a curious but deep Interest attaches to the relics of a people, who, ages and ages ago, wrought out thelr destiny fn harmony with thelr primitive environment in accordance with the will of Him who “hath made of one blood all na- tions of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their Babitation In the consideration of the probable status of prehistoric and savage tribes in all parts of the world, we are met at the outset with & painful paucity of materials bearing on the many questions at ssue, nor are our feelings at all relieved by the reflection that the de- structive and ever active forces of nature must inevitably have destroyed much, per- haps most, of the evidences that otherwise might have easily led us up to correct premises and thence onward to correct, com- prehensive and truthful conclusions. ‘Through whatever great branch of the human family as classified In the nomen- ©clature modern ethnology our own descent may have been, when we realize that our remote ancestors presumably passed from a condition of Adamic simplicity through all concelvable degrees of the most primitive elvilization before the pen of the earliest the first writer had been taught to record feeble beginnings of history, thei our minds a feeling of kinship ancient beings who were born on #oll where we are now living; who, widely different their mode braved the care: the very however, only message to us, mute Indeed, but eloquent with meaning, has come down in the form of fragments of stone and roasted clay. LOUP VALLEY FLINTS, Were it not for the persistence of these tmperishable remains, which have with: the destructive action of the eloments for uniold centuries, we would have no evidence t out the fact that a race or races of belngs, at a time long preceding occupancy by the historic nations of the most remote antiquity, occupled large por- tions of the wurface of the globe. That theso c'o.nle were but the widely scattered mem- of one race would seem evident from a careful study of the relics to which all 1s made above. A fragment of prehistoric tery from the val of the Mouse in lglum or of Somme In France, fol instance, would hardly be distinguishabl from a fragment found In the valley of Cedar or the Loup In central Nebras While the form and other details may slightly wary, the material is almost identical. The same general fact is also true of the rellcs of flint, so-called, “filnt” being merely a neral term used to include all classes of plements in stone. Babylonian civilization probably precsded that of all other historic nations, with the possible exception of Bgypt, yot even on her classjc soll, inter- mingled with much that belongs to later ages, are found these evidences of a perished race of which even that anclent people absolutely nothi linson, In his “Seven Great Monarch- fes,” glves the cut of a curved fint knife from a Babylonian specimen in the British museum of which almost the exact counter- art, and possibiy equally ancient, from the Loup valley two miles below Ord, is in po session of the writer. We have been led to treat this subject from the phases promlnently presented in the Loup river country, mot because in other parts of the state similar relics are at all wanting, but because in it we have had most opportunity for careful investigation. When sottlers first came Into this region of country, less than a generation ago, there were occasionally found —generally purely by accident—flint arrow- heads and, more rarely, fragments of broken pottery, and It was generally, almost always, in fact, assumed that these were all the work of that fated race which the paleface was so rapidly displacing and, accordingly, to all such finds the term “Indian relics’ was in- discriminately applied. While some of these relics may have, in comparatively recent times, been in possession of the Pawnee or the Sioux, with others the probabilities are that they are mo less anclent than similar relics fonnd in the valleys of Hungary or France or Britain, and probably antedate all human history. THE TOOLS OF AGES. Men of sclence, when treating of the human race, have divided the prehistoric period into a “stone” age, a “bronze” age, etc., and it has unfortunately been popularly assumed that these several ages mark separate and well defined periods of time. This, however, 15 notoriously not the case. While it is highly probable that stone was the material of the first effective weapons and tools of mankind specimens of which have come down to us, one tribe or peopla may have discovered the art of working copper and have been living in all the glories of a bronze age when their near neighbors may have but few weapons or tools but those of stone. In fact, when Euro- poans first visited this continent this was much the condition In which they found it, and some of the aboriginal tribes are even now but emerging from one phase of the stone a ‘The first weapons and tools of mankind were probably of wood. What more natural than that a man should seize a club to defend himself from the sudden and un- expected attack of a wild beast? A club once found useful would most likely be retained for future service and thus become a perma- nent weapon to be kept within easy reach, but we, of course, cannot hope to find relics of an anclent age of wood because of the perishable nature of the material. Reasoning on a somewhat similar basis, it would seem that men of science have been too swift to assume that anclent peoples were ignorant of the use of Iron because no relics of that ma- terial have, in certaln cases, been discovered. cles at work in 80 pure a water t of the Loup river, a common nail would be but an indistinguish- able Thass of oxide in less than ten years and the same agencies would destroy a railroad rall in less than ten centurles. The fiint relics of the Loup river country include weapons, tools, and the fragments ot flint resulting from their manufacture. So far as the writer has discovered, these In- clude chiefly arrow heads and possibly spear heads of different styles and degrees of fin- ish, and, much mo rely, a stone ham- mer, ete. The location and depth at which these were found are faots not to be neg- lected, but the evidence derlvable from a sur- tace find, If the material be Indestructible, is purely negative in character so far as re- lates to throwing any light on the probable date of its manufacture or ths age to which it may belong. A well burned brick, for in- stance, might be thrown upon the surface of the prairle today and, it it escaped molestas tion, would be found perfect after the lapse of thousands of years. The same would be the case, under like circumstances, with the fiint relics or the pottery. WHERE THE RELICS WERE FOUND, The majority of the relics In the possession found on or near th nts were found in th amp, the surface of which ha probably cLanged but little since the clos of the glacial era. About 600 fragments, chiefly from the same vessel, some of them one to two inches in size, were found about four inches beneath the ‘surfuce of a fleld near Ord; a fleid that had never been dls- turbed by the plow and the location of which would favor denudation rather than accré- tion. These fragments were scattered o a space of about six by ten feet and thelr depth was remarkably uniform. Many of the flints were found fn the earth taken from excavations from four to twelve feet deep at various poiuts between Ord and North Loup. Bome were taken from embankments at various depths where they could not have been recently disturbed. Traces of an ex- tensive manufactory of pettery and fitat im- plements are to be found on Mira creek about two miles west of North Loup. A large number of the fragments of both pottery and | filnts were found at points in a bend of the river about two miles above Olean. Most of the high bluffs flanking the river valley have probably been lookout points for game ever since man became a hunter, and on these he has dropped spalls of fint which were presumably quietly chipped off from arrow heads in process of construction, while the wary hunter stealthily awaited the approach of game into the valley below. The arrow points from the mud of the swamp and from the earth from tho deeper excavatlons are of the rudest character. The material is faulty and the wurkmanship in- different. They are large, rough and clumsy in form, unsymmetrical, twisted or irregular in qutline, and the edges more like the result of a happy accident than skill in manu- facture. May these not properly be taken to ropresent the first crude attempts at weapon making by a primitive people? May their size and Inelegance not Indicaie that the men who made them depended more on mass and weight of material than on neatness and skill of execution? Those from the surface and from the shal- lower excavations are smaller, of material better adapted to take on the desired form, and are brought to a much neater and sharper edge. The material in many cases is brown, reddish or yellow jasper, which lends itself with great facility to the formling process, and the neater specimens are usually of this material. They Indicate care and skill in their construction and the better specimens tell us plainly that they came from the hands of a workman who was a master in his craft and that the manufacture of stone weapons had taken on ths dignity of an art. Instead of the homely outline and clumsy mass of the ruder specimens we find a neat taper and perfect edge which indicates the operation of mind as well as might and from which we might infer that the men who made and used them were, in some degree, superior beings to their prede- cessors. PECULIARITIES OF THE TOOLS. ‘While it must have been a matter of no little difficulty to form even an Indifferent arrow-point from a spall of stone the forma- tlon of a stone knife with a smooth and per- fect edge, several inches In length, would seem to Indicate & much groater familiarity with the cleavage of silicious sto a per- fect knowledge of the mater handled and a very high degres of manual skill. A frag- ment of such a flint kni! from the river val- ley above Olean, has a surface almost as faultless as though ground by a professional lapidary, yet it was apparently formed by cleaving off the entis urface of each side at a single operation and no indications of after- polishing appear. Two knives, found n the river valley about three mil below Ord, are quite curved in form, but the curved sides of even those have apparently been wronght out at one operation, as no traces of chip- ping or finishing are to be seen. Another class of stone tools 1s found which &ppesr to be Intended as a kind of scraper for the purpose of dressing skins, which, since ‘“‘unto Adam also and to hi wife the Lord God made coats of wkins, (Gen. 1i: 21.) have played so Important a part in the clothing of mankind. These tools are somewhat simllar in form to what the India Il a “teshos.” While the e not so acute as are those of the kinves,: thoy would make an admirable tool, when firmly held between the thumb and first two fingers, to remove the flesh and fat from a hide preparatory to tanning. The pattern of this type of tool varies much more widely than would be permlissible in the arrow-polats, byt they are all 1 adapted to the purpose mbation The remains of pottery are almost as widely distributed throughout this region, though not as greatly soattered, as are ths flints, The material is substantially the same as In specimens found in the old world, The ‘material differs radically from that selected in this age of the world for similar purposes. A gralp of sand in his clay Is the hoeror of the molern potter, since it almost certainly resGits in a brok: whon drying or firlng, but his anclent craftsman was not only able to tse ol talning sand, but freely with his clay merely .Ilr.,‘.b\l‘ llllo gravel ol"oonldinm ooarpeness rmingled freely with the finer matter and e deloterious results seem to ave followed in the drying or burning. They also occasionally contain traces of shells, but these are perhaps an accidental addition, re- sulting from the clay having been taken from a silt-basin in a stream where had taken place accumulations of the shells of fresh water mollusca. It would seem likely that this pottery was formed over a core of grass and clay, and not by a potter's wheel, since the impression of grass blades may sometimes be found on their interior surface and no specimens have been found which would indi- cate that the potter's wheel was known. THE POTTER A CONNOISSEUR. If the maker of the better class of arrow- points was an artist the potter has shown himself to have bean a connoisseur. The maker of arrow-points, in making them neater and of finer outline, at the same time made them more serviceable, but the potter did much more than that: He not onlymade a neat, serviceable and shapely vessel, but he also put beauty marks on its border! Marks and stripings and hatchings, which added nothing to its util- ity but were put on solely to gratify a desire for the beautiful. All of these attempts may not have been entirely successful from our elevated point of view, but they admit of but one interpretation, they mark the origin and rise of ceramic art. They show one of the beglunings of the upward march of human progress and human aspiration and, knowing to what marvelous perfection the art of or- nate ceramics has developed in our day, we can well afford to gladly welcome the dawn of the beautiful In fictive manipulation. All honor to the first man who began to cross- hatch and stripe his pots! Of the fragments now in possession of the writer, twelve different styles of border or- namentation appear, the following being the leading types: Next to the plain rim, as smooth as the material would make it, comes the one with three deeply indented lines run- ning parallelly arcund the rim of the vessel. Another style has four such lines or grooves. Another has dlagonal lnes inter- secting one arother at the top and bottom of the rim. Another has similar lines In groups of three, with only the interior ones meeting at the angle. One:has two lines running around merely on top of the rim. One has little prominences on the exterior surface, run- ning around in a row about half an inch apart, made by pushing a round instrument into the soft clay on the inside. Another has little dots or depressions all around on the top of the rim about one-fourth of an inch apart and made with two ears or handles, formed to imitate little hands holding the vessel, ete. SUPERIOR TO THE MODERN. All of the specimens: sre without any at- tempt at glazing and it is not apparently burned to any greaf degreo of hardness, but that it answered thg purposes of cookery is shown by the cake or ingrustation of carboni- torous or charred malter found on the inter- for surtace of some spetimens, and this, by the way, is a test mwlilch the wares of the modern potter would hardly succosstully un- dergo. In many spetlmens the rim has been strengthened by increasing the thickness of the part; a point in whigh the modern potter has been a servile imitator. Immediately be- low the rim, on the éttbrior, the surface is uaually cross-hatched,-or piited with little indentations, giving fhe surface of that part a somewhat rough appearance. In some cases the sharper curves of thé outer surface were apparently formed by gyessure with the scaly surface of a corn cob or grain spike of (he malze plant, which 'léft the negative of its branny surface in itlle woft clay. The re- semblance s often so striking that this form of ornamentation could hardly have been pro- duced In any other way. Whether ancient or not, a well developed corn cob was feund firmly embedded in a tough mass of swamp cane roots three feet below the surface of the river valley at a point near Ord where, o far as could be seen, no disturbance had tak place in the formation in recent times. These facts may indicate an acquaintapce with the maize plant and perhaps considerable pro- ficlency in agriculture, as the cl are cel ¥ known to have had southwest. Though no traces of til this region by abhy former people are now traceable, it Iugt not be forgotien that in our own day a]l fraces of tillage in an gban- doned fleld ari d by the ele- ments and the soll becomes reoccupled by th JRlive srasses in from thres lo Sve ¢ interior of the pottery Is always smooth. Some have apparently been merply baked to blackness whilo othors are a bfick-red In considerable ixteenths to g were probably burned by covering them with a pile of hay, the live coals from which would not only produce a sufficiently intense and equable heat but no risk would be run of crushing the tender ware, as would likely happen with other fuel. The heat produced by this means would be ample to produce the desired result, as is shown where hay- stacks are burned in a prairie fire, the heat often being sufficient to superficlaily vitrify the earth on which they stood. FLINT CHIPPINGS. In addition to these finished articles of clay and stone, which have come down to us as memorials of the habits and skill of a de- parted race, may be mentioned the multitude of fiint chippings which are to be found in some localities. 1In the same fleld where were found the 600 fragments of pottery above mentioned are spots where perhaps a score of flint spalls, more or less minute, lie in a space of a few feet, probably showing where scrapers or other - tools have been made or redressed. While these, at first sight, might be thought scarcely worthy of even passing notice, they are of scarcsly less fmportance than the finished products of anclent art, since both tell with equal force that men have been here before us and they alike are factors in plecing out the story which sclence has to tell. However smail they may be to the practiced eye these spalls could scarcely be mistaken for any- thing other than what they are, and a single specimen tells as surely of human presence and human intelligence as the largest collec- tion can do. In a formation geologically like that of the country under consideration it would be little short of a miracle to find such a specimen which did not come from the hand of man. Such a spall of flint, with very evident indications of human workman- ship in the nicks on its edges (unfortunately siuce lost), was found by the writer in a gravel depogit on the Niobrara river in com- pany with the skeleton of a huge animal, probably a brontotherium, whose femoral bone measured nearly four feet in length, and whose ribs were elght feet long. Somewhat similar bones have been found in the Loup river region and it may be that the same ‘men who made ornamental pots and artistic arrow points were sometimes called upon to go out and repel the invasions of powerful and hideous monsters; monsters the first thunderous bellow of which would put the best trained modern army to Ignominious fiight. While it is unsafe to base an opinion on an isolated fact where there Is the shadow of a chance to be mistaken we feel reason- ably safe in assuming that the human race, perhaps few-in number and feeble in re- sonrces, co-existed with the mastodon, the mammoth, the brontotherlum and a host of other strange and uncanny beasts of a like geological period, the curfous remains of which men of science have described under pompous and stilted names of forelgn birth, and, If so, we must allow that they passed through perils more dreadful than anything of which we read in fabled story. The conclusions we may deduce from the foregoing may be briefly summarized as fol- low: 1. The Loup river country was the habita- tion of a prehistoric race. 2. They were acquainted with the produc- tion and uses of fire. 3. They made offensive and defensive weapons of stone, similar to those fabricated by prehistoric man in Burope. 4. They had some knowledge of the art of cookery. 6. They knew how to fabricate ceramle ware and to harden the same by fire, in all respects comparable to that of prehistoric man {n the old world. 6. They knew how to make stone knives similar to those made by prehistoric man Babylonia and other parts of Asia. 7. They placed certaln ornamental 1 and marks on their earthenware, Indicative of the germs of an aesthetic tas 8. They dressed skins for clothing and other purposes. 9. They had some knowledge of agricul- ture and were acquainted with the malze plant. 10. They were contemporaneous with many glgantic mammals now extinet. E. W. BLACK. —— Perverted Taste. Chicago Post: “There’'s no accountin’ for t s, sald Ragged Rube looking up from an old newspaper. “Right you ar replled Hungry Hank, “I once knowed a feller that liked to woj “That's nothin’, roed Rube. ‘T've been readin’ about some fellers in Chlcago stole water," OUT OF THE ORDINARY. A Matne mother has an old slipper, still in use, which has spanked six generations of her’ family. The telegraph wire used In the United States would go around the world something like fitteen times. There {8 a man in Missourl whose feet are elovation of 3,600 feet, in Brazil at 5,000, in the Caucasus at 8,000, in Abyssinia at 10,000 and in Peru and Bollvia at 11,000, Fruit cools the blood, cleans the teeth and alds digestion, Those who can't eat it miss the benefit of perhaps the most medicinal food on nature's bill of fare. A Minnesota judge was due In court at a town some miles distant. He adjourned a referred case to the car, heard evidence en- route and granted the petition before getting oft the train. A Swiss sclentist has been testing the presence of bacteria in the mountain air, and finds that not a single microbe exists above an altitude of 2,000 feet. A dude In Philadelphla was turned out of the club to which he belonged because he paid his tallor’s bill two days after he got the clothes. o While there are no complete statistics available, careful estimates from all possible sources of information make it probable that, at the time of the discovery, there were no more than 500,000 Indians in all North America. The yleld of 125 bushels of oats to the acre reported from O'Brien county, Iowa, the other day does not appear to have been much of a yleld after all. August Lipkle, a farmer of Greene county, had a twenty-acre fleld which threshed out over 150 bushels to the acre. A Scarboro (Me) man has a cow which recently brought an oftspring into the world. The calf Is said to be all right except as to the tail, and the tail s all right, only it is isplaced, being on tha wrong end of the beast. It Is sald to grow out from between the eyes. In fact, the animal looks more like a baby elephant than a cow. It was found that the calf was likely to starve to death, from its inability to suck and wag its tail at the same time, so it was brought up by fiand, It took a bolt of lightning to make Saul of Tarsus see the error of his ways, and the editor of the Lusk Herald appears to have reformed under the same compulsion. He says: A bolt of lightning pass.d just above the housetops in Lusk during a thunder storm passing to the east. The lightning danced in front of our eyes while sticking type and we felt sure we were going to get it in the neck for having shot “‘craps’ on Sunday. We will not do so any more, — PIONEER EDMUNDS' WHIM, His Farm Covered With Holy Pre- cepts Chiseled im the Rocks, Piloneer Benjamin Edmunds made the stones preach, and left in his barnyard, relates the Lewlston Journal, the most plous and mas- sive tenco post n the state of Maine, a huge, round pillar as large as a hogshead, covered with the ten commandments, neatly chiseled. Grandpa Edmunds hewed the first path Into what 1s now the town of Roxbury, on the Switt river. While he clearsd the path and reared a n his wife lugged on her k all their earthly possessions. spring of 1790, or thereabout, he had pro pected In the region and picked out the Intervale that he upon. first trip. At dusk one chilly April night they resched the spot that promised best, and in the gathering gloom Mr. Edmunds surveyed tho level river bottom from the wooded hillsides ““This suits m T will settle,” he sald to his companion. Both men were w the tramp had been long and tedlou: d Edmunds' friend proposed to lie down and . The other ploneer protested, urging that should they sleep they might ne: awake in that atmosphers, chilled with April’ snow. The man was tired, however, and was bound to sleep. He 414 so, and Grandps Bdminds stolcally stood up and pounded a tree with a club all night In order that he might keep awak His triend did not freese to death, but caught a cold that ended in fatal pneumonia. The 1w Ploneer y terward cleared and settled A friend accompanied him on that hel interesting work of brave old unds’ lite was his qualat stone cutting. It was his hobby and diversion. There were no churches in the whole region around, and so the settler used to slip his mallet and chisel into his pocket, sly out into the woods and chisel passages of scriptures on the rocks. Pretty soon, so Industrious had he been, that go where he might on his farm some holy precept, some apothegm, some stern commandment, some helpful word of spiritual cheer confronted him. The stones bad tongues for him and others who labored with him In the Maine wilderness, One huge bowlder he smoothed and rounded up with great pains, and chiseled on it the ten commandments In letters three inches high. It forms a fence post in the old barn- yard, and s confronted by another sillar bearing the Lord’s prayer. It is sald the presence of those stern monitors In the barn- yard repressed many a hired man's heated argument with a refractory steer. Whether they avalied to soothe when boss stopped in the milk pall, chronicles aver not. Grandpa Edmunds alo attempted other foats In the stone cutting line. He had a little dog of whom he was very fond, and he carved a statue of it that interested visitors may seo on the premises. Prominently dis- played near the corner of the farm house is a life-size representation of a human head. A retired sea captain living in the nelghbor- hood had a Malay whom he had brought home and Grandpa Bdmunds was so impressed by the chap's countenance that he reproduced it in_stone. The entrance to the yard is set off by a stone arch, and over the keystone of this is another human head, very neatly executed. The old gentleman had finished up, at great expenso of time and patlence, a life-size American eagle as an ornament for this stone portal. He was lugging it across th to its position, when he dropped the Mgy and broke off a wing. The stone post witl the ten commandments was directly befors his eyes. Seattered about the prom! many other figures, all laboriously worked out of the stone with such rude Instruments as the settler possessed. All ars quaint and some are quite creditable. Though Ploneer Edmunds has been lald away in his grave many years, bis stono treasures are still care- tully preserved, even that American eagle who 0 ingloriously and exasperatingly pinion. AL Going to Sleop by Degre Now physicians and physologists come to the front with the astounding statement that a man goes {0 s'e:p plocemeal Instead of al'o- gethor and simultaneously, says the St, Paul Dispatch. That 1s, the senses do not lull thomtelves unitedly and at once into a state of slumber, but cease to receve impressions At first the [ sight ceas its susceptibility to outward {mpression. Evon then, the Individual being almost a state of unconsojousness, three rens remaln n a condition of activity—smeliin hearing and thought. Gradually the sense of smelling goos, then hearing, and finally, with the lapse of thought, the eatire body becomes completely ep. The physiologists have gone even further than ths and they say that the senses sleap with different degrees of profounines:, The #ense of touch is the most easy to arouse, next that of hearing, then sight, and taste and smelling last. Sleop steals on the body gradually, o parts of the muicles bezinuing to sleop ber others. Slumber commences at the exfremis ties, beginning with the feet and legs. That is why it is always necessiry to keep the fceb warm, in il — Subjeet to Attacks of Chol While staylug in the Delta (Mississip] Bottomas) last summer, B. T. Moss, repres nting Ludlow, Ssylor Wire Co. of St. Louls, ffered from malaria and became subject to attacks of cholera morbus, stance when i — Weut Boating and Never Came Back, MALONE, N. Y. Sept. 14.—Melville Scranton and Paul Shuelte of Bast Saginaw, Mich., were drowned in Tupper lake, by the upsetiing of thelr boat. Two men went to the rescue, supposing they would rise to the surface, but they did not. The bottem of the 1s filied with floodwood and they must bave become entangled in it. Scrantos leaves & wite and four Children, .