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THE BOYS OF NEW. YORK.
the mae foe he did not wish to talk further about
the mat
Welle son's the Blizzard,” sald his conductor
after this Tebaff, “ You'll ee the smoke comin;
out of the smelt works, Reekon you can flod
your way.”
Then, with no more words, and ° without
waiting to hear Joe’s thanks, the man turned
sharp off into the woods pout skirted the road,
as lost to sight in an
Kept on, aud reset cae toa collection
of low buildings, where strew!
with rubbish, where the sonst of ‘machinery and
stenmi-eni ines could be heal ‘eman| One thin mo
seemed to have one his best area rthe earth I was ourior 0 learn how this race of giants
inside out. became converted to Christlanity, and my sur-
From one of the buildings a man now ap- Ban ean well be imagined when’ I state that I
Proached and asked Joe what be wanted, found abundant evidence that at they be had reeeived
“Po seo Me. Hammond.” struction in regard to the of the Sav-
“Ta jour of mankind from no less & -poroon than St
Joe the! a San ed over his note, and Hammond, & rian Bimsol(
rending it, siniled grimly, and’ scrutinized t
young engineer from head to to00
K 2 ean accommodats Mr, Urquba
(come with me and Til shor
They entered 807 oueke looking buildings, was Insel idea the fe late
and presently Mr. Hammond sai tood| This was sych tangible proot of the absolute
trath of ‘the writing on the Hubler, which during
in front of one of the shaft houses :
“Th what we call shaft No, One of the
Bilzzard. it wasn't the f frst sto py any means, | sion of the Welby family, t that even i “eould 10
Dut it as not boon, and logger dou
eared of Now! found myself fired with an ambition to
Maybe thats, ‘why it's callod Number One,” reach the mysterious elty of Tedla whlch T had
sald Tae mietly. ever felt before.
“Yeo"lov's go in and take a look at it. I's] "Let Gus rave abont the beauty of the queen
very deep, and has beon in disuse a long time.”
They entered the house and approuched tho
month of the shaft which was
railings of any k
‘A dangerous "place, muttered Joo, bending
over Hand gazing Wows lato the blade darknose
low.
“ Yea, that’s why Ibrought you here!” hissed
Hammond, as he gave poor Joe a sudden push.
Ta another fostant Joe bad lost his balange and
Sib wairling through the black arkness of shaft
ambe
rersser was only obeying onters, for the
. not that Joo hsd d delivered, read as fol
bearer down some olf a ft 01
otherwise a “alspose 20 of ie 1, 80 that he will never nore
a trouble to hiraweif or any o ne else,
“onagcnann, | chapter tok ea haa
So hi bearer of his ow: last, woes trom scarce been
. deat eth area Joa, ad been the bearer o | spoken, “whon a loud yell of terror from the
OGiiliganntteacted the attention of
‘tno BE CONTINUED.] :
pits ba
that I could discover.
n { settled differences when any aroso, W which Kat-
unga informed me was seldom the
Arabic language bearing the autograph of that
Charen, below whieh | fore
so many centuries had ri
rho is mover geen” as much
fortune go favored 01
‘uuprotected by once behold tho original Grosk version of the
Bible it would bo quite enough for me,
set
ate trom ‘SUE palntul journey across the
top of the ran;
afternoon when the
been hollowed out as far back as the
9,568 before Christ,
rt had become of these people wasa mys-
‘et he Quiloa did not know,
No one ever will kno}
The Quiloa bad no king or ruler of any kind
Four elders of the tribe
83 proven beyond all doubt by the dis-
covery that ‘there. was preserved among them
Single copy of the Sucred Sorittures weitton tm the
ious father of the earl,
ined in t!
as he woul
nidortaking that T could
Qa the Nth day wo resumed our Journey,
ht Katunga ns our guide and our gigantic
peclmons of te Quiloa as bearers of our in-
tniveling was quite a ditlerent
“Pio crossed tho river Quil and spanned the
ertilo plains beyond, and sere now nenring the
ge of mountains which I had’ de-
Seried from the ali
ic it was a little after threo o' vetoek in the
conversation between my
y and mysoif, noted at the biginning of the
1c attracted the attention of tung too, and bea
back to ascertal
in houor of the discoverer, Come, O’Gilligan,
‘What do you any to thut?”
cun be found, all Lean eny fs, if you never have |
examined it do so at once, and rest assured that
It him what
yea don't vall ion my way, Masther Gas, Sorra
would I ever stirrod’on this journey. had
t Enown we re to meet eraytures like
“eWhat's that Katunga was just eaylng?™” broke
ja Gus at this junctur
“Simply thit the Pierodactyle Is nothing to
another creature We may have to encounter, 1
can't quite inake out from his deseription ‘what
its, but I'am strongly inclined to bellove that it
may be prebistoris too.”
uch as I would have liked to have preserved
the Prerodactylo, we wore forced to leave It where
It was more than I could do to lift it from the
Rronnd, and to think of burdening ourselves
With the strange creature W
“If we are to reach thetop p of the mountain y
fundown we must be moving, ob, friends,” Ka~
tu
Biove we did forthwith, and such o gerambling
over rocks and debris I’never experienc
What was to bo the end?
ind of a country should we behold be-
yond tho opposite slope?
Katunga bind culled it a desert,
Firmly’ as both Gus and m
come believers in the truth 0
certain that neither of
least Sonesttion of what was to come.
wl bad. frequently observed am
Quilon rude ornaments of gold and not & fovw
small xuggots ploreed and worn about the necks
of the women, sometimes singly, at others in
strung’ together as one Would string a
necklace of bends,
When I asked ‘Katunga where all this gold
game from, he shook bis head and sald that gold
t with it a made men kill
nd talked aitogettor In a very curi-
had now be-
the wring on the
jong the
hiking by the sidé of my gigantic
friend, and the top of the mountain was just be-
fore us, when all ut once be alluded to this eon
versation gala,
b, friend, it is stil ee resolve to Journey
tothe inyeterious Tedla?” he asked
“Tt anga. ing can deter us from
inlet me warn you of the dangers before
‘Listen, Suppose that I could give you all
they ‘zold that it wero possible for you and your
mpanions to carry, would you not then turn
‘Answer not hastily, ‘Fake time to re=
-|as we start in what had ‘hap- | fleet.”
peuel, the Guilow came ne roaning after us wita| "Ob, Katunga,” I replied, “wo must not turn
3UST OUT! “OLD CAP BRADLEY; on. sigantic strides, ack. “We are men, not children; that to which
THE MYSTERY JN ROOM 32," IN No, 23: can bo the matter now?” exclaimed | we bare put our hand must be d
Or tue NEW. YORK. DETECTIVE Ei ous inpat alsines, Fitton ‘rubar| At the risk of lle, certainly. But tell x
eominy ti aor isance, series eA we thin, “ @ ris! life, cer fe ut me—
BRARY. PRICE 10 CENTS. FOR SALE BY |{i'thon lanotiier, Seo! Ho 18 00 ‘up the | what do your words imply? Is it then in your
ALL NEWSDEALE! montana with his Sed hr tll on cad: wer to put us in possession of the gold of
nn “And he his aarm, oh, | wh{ch you s speak
ot wo, eas op Taw Bows o7 xem | gna” Sat K Hatin ook g down the slope,| | “OF moro than al, threo ea could carry
["" reas commen ro. ‘BX Bors of New!‘ Do you not see that ‘black o| ject ke ind him? | hence ar ites tinae,” rep ied the ilo jet ting
Yous. Back numbers can he ettained from any newstewer.| Quick | Have your rifles ready! ‘There, it riseol | his voice fall. © Wo ero
{risaboat to swoop fortu. | You shall Behold Yor yourselves”
nate servant ! Quick, ort age oe too lato!” ing mad?” whispered Gus, ia En-
6 3 im Bot certain which of us observed it | gli ie i "sfore gold tan, we could carry away In
Gus o mysolt 4 lifetime | Tis abs
staat Wwe stood as though paralyzed} |“ Depends upon how far we havo to earry th
at ie feast sighs. first load,” 1 austwered, somowbat sontentiously,
. s “ But see, Katunga has reached the summit at
A Story of Strange Adventure, |"
By GASTON GAENE,
bimsolt, with four leg
ela
a gigautic creature with wings, whose
st buve excended the height of Matanza
more terrible to behold than the teeth of a shark.
CHAPTER XI.
EA WITHOUT WATER.
gt?
Anthor of “ Hantsom. “ ck Arte); a Rit “
arson tle Ring at the Suing sas | BANGLE MOET A on myo
"Witcher ve ‘Minter a one site = job did the business it would bo ard to
wer raat, son’ a
Little Sout.” ete, ete. | ytyit a strungo, almost deafening ery, tho hugo
sa 1 CEM TBR
ke Sy iebiawy 3 sia ame
ets ged
ou tal to the earth within two feet of Terrene
illigal
Po Heavont
Gus, bn
pheeey pes ket anaes ‘question to Katunga in
“The & fume whieh has escaped
PS rite,
PATS QUE tan same rosblog toward us pale as
daain, ned Sov -onc9 sposehios
4 javier b nawaters bad suddenly risen into the|
: weakove bin, I di
7 ie dadetstand ET mats ‘ented nut eronea
T replied, since ho has nothing but himselt to} "Look here, profess! Telaim to know some-
carry, the Quiloa bearers having taken charge of | thing of natural history, but never, never have I
his uéual loud, one would think that, he might | seen or rend of any creature resembling this!”
ma anage 10 Now we were bending over our euptare, with | “
a > mnortal. 4 Katunga and the Quilos bearors—who had ‘come
ened at the 8 Unga, W believe he | hurrying up—boside t
rill never forgive for having saved hislife In the | ‘Thera was euch @ chattering in Arable that I
thi
fellow is not the devil Iam certain he considers ata.
him cousin 10 Bestzebub—bat, by the way, creature, and then won-
Gus, where is Katunga? We have allowed our- der at the Skeitemont, it you
selves to fail ag far belind our guide as Terrence It was a true erial re]
to
O'Ghligan bas ss fallen bohind us
ou ahead there,” anawored Gus,
“Took, don't you see bis head
bowlder. There! he is beckoning to us. Pro-
fess, you are right, We aro as bad as the O'Gilli-
gan ourselves.”
‘We had been tolling zap th the side of a mountain ite oats rrovehedd Tigges ixtoon,
inches ‘and an eighty of its mouth from the thin,
rehed neck to
ng and so stenp that it
F seemed t to me that we wou! a
e
thar endow atrip of bountry at the base of fe | 8
lifs dividing the sunken lands from tho highor
bordors on the river Quit, from
Sheate tbeit onto nay be derived,
'e had dwelt four days among this friondiy
ple} m stay not only exccedingly pleasant but
Eigbly proftable wa well
in the first place my boy found in bis father’s
signature ent in the rock beneath hat glorious
Painting of the myatie “ Que ‘who ie never | I
Been,” uncontradielable evidence that thus far
wwe had been bat tllowiog inthe footsteps: of his | so
could searea
the
above that groat | 1i
in
igantic but peaceful race inhabit only | big round as a man’s fingers, it
toad sw
grew mad Re fon
soon ns onr servant had regained bis powors of
Misther Ioctbald
wanst, an’ that was sidewny .
i
make my voice heard above
Pietaro to your inncy a anti thing having
a frog, the win; at, a mouth
ko an alligators and @ head: fond nock Like a
Is color was jet black and it bnd no feathers
pocket tape line the span vot
feet, soven
the end of th
Gloven inches and one
‘Ke for ils lous, they measired two feotand over
in length, and each being provided with claws.as
won-
ered that when be beheld this torrine flying
coping down upon him the O'GIigen
@ snout, four fest,
“Where did you Tarst see it?” I demanded as
ure it was sitting perelied on yonder cli
looked at it but
ike an aigle and made wan
“And it's 6 lucky thing for
What ‘ort of a creature fs it?” we
zling whiteness,
out water,’
now.”
iS believe that tt
lashed waves, but 0
beyond all question bh
at pome time in tho distant pas
a
would have
much to
the go gold, ner did mention it agnin
rou
occurred
of my hea
last, and is beckoning for us to come oi
And we burried forward to the spot Erhore the
“profuse! profess! Look! ob, look
Never shall sorget tay rst connations when
that wondrous prospect ‘broke upon my gaze in
the light of the setting sun
ere ¢ the very top of a mountain now,
ant bolow— tar, far below. le y spread out befora
usa rast expanse of what for the moment, T
Quiloa
the gehoo 1 of geologis
Es
F
5
2
s2
Eo
23
2
&
&
rate so neue to
him.
His body was thick and clumsily shaped and
covered all over with saates like a crocodile:
there was a ump above the shoulders just
back of the sunull, ugly head, which more closely
resembled the head of some 2 slant codish t
anything else with which I ean compare.
qld to thls ata of ho ahaa or the erocodilo's
8 lon rt legs—say ten feo
Irina ine ‘apie hoof koa cov al core
h the samescales that incased the body,
and you have the best ‘description Tam b capab 6
of giving of the monstrous crenture I saw shut-
fling along over that waterless
1 gazed 80 long that Gus got tired of waiting to
hear me spea!
“come, Vm “aying to know what you call it,”
he sald. “OF course, you know all “about him,
Heavens! what a harvest we could reap if we
only had bi pened up in the Madison Square
Garden home in New York !
“T-do know all about him,” I replied, quietly.
“For this sight 1 would ‘not’ exchange oven the
ginal Ptolémale, Bible which we hope to Bnd.
Gus, 1 shail begin this very night to wriee
for the Selentitle Review, showing up t the modern
ts 49 “bo the idiots and Ba
bugs they really are. Now.
ition to prove m: toon rth the Sorealted
prdbtotore animals actually aul 8
“Well, Id ther you etn oF not,”
EF
ko
any one will wallow hoe ever saw profess?
Even with me to id me "teel sure
your statement vol ‘Be vdoatie iil bo Uke
he sea sel pent, yo NO, FOU ai
bad off aa you were before,
He was rig! ae
I saw it ate
elt, I
ntl out return,” Tauid, with a sigh,
“Suit yourself about that, profess, but will
tell me the name of thot bras Edown there?
of going to ask you
oe Oh excuse mo tien
nosaur, of « terrible lizards” of the’
loge period as the Peorodactyle.”
wee
sue
* Good enough
Ist aot ‘eve, minutes. Hore, i tl
o bare another ‘Gok at him, ‘and
fee he ts Ihoving
By the time Gus got through ins inspecting the
megalosaur Terrenco (Gilligan had spied it,
and came running up and “making a terrible
atter.
‘bis aroused Katunga and the Quiloa, and
whon af lust the hago boast. disappeared boli
2 group of eand-hills he certainly could lay ela
toan admiring audience, if nothing é
rom Katunga I learned that thie was the ante
mal to which he ferred, and that these
strange beasts were rit Seldon and never
Outside of the great basin of the waterless sea,
He claimed also that they wore entirely harm-
less, which, if true, upsets the selentists, who
have pronounced | the meguiosaur a flesh ea
But enough of
‘e Saw no more a the megalosanr, and it was
much to the relief of Terrence O'Gillignn, T am
‘Katuage had prepared us a superb broaktast,
and having partaken to out hearts’ content, the
descent of the mountain began, for as Gus aa
b bal ear surmised, the 2 Way to this Gbongo country
a
Not watil we bad “gained the foot, of the
scont and this was Searly uoondid the recols
lection of Katungw’s mysterious allusion to gold
recur to my m:
Nor was the ‘Sudden recollection without am-
‘ook to be water Inshed into enormous wares, as | plo ca
though by some furious i
‘Was not a bredth of wind stirring at
the tim
al teoia at Gus, only bo find him tooking at
knew
TThey were ats great masses ot éand of dnz-
a up by the wind into jonu-
Gus!"
“ enh writing on the tablet has been confirmed
ow 80?"
“How so!” he exclaimed almost petulantly.
“ If ever there was such a asa ‘sea with-
you and I ara jookiug down upon one
CHAPTER X11.
N VALLEY,
sea without water 1”
Nonvand ao
omer He fiey below us as the sun wort down,
looking 80 like, 80 very like, that it soomed hard
ere "was ‘no Water, no storm-
nly a stretch of burning sand,
It wae a desert, completely surrounded by the
mou
out of the range, which
been filled with water
a iamneose hollowin,
its name, and the words he
mo sienitiol “sea without water” la Eee
glish, sure enoug!
To’ longer question the truth, of the writing
re folly, and T admitted
‘Gus as we lay in exp Upon the moun-
tain top that night.
@ way, Katunga said nothing more about
that night;
‘hen we wel next morning somethin,
that drove it for the time Deing all out
This time: it was Gus—not Terrence O'Gillixan.
y boy had rison before me, and walking out
jong pissing, pare ee, whic mana; eep up with us. Profess, what is the | I saw him suddenly spring in
rmed by niew’saceoant of the Inst Christinn | matter? “You are chuckltn ing away ‘to yourswlf | ning toward me shouting my name.
visitor ike gtling country, which tallied with | over that tskiony nightmare as though you had| “Profess! Oh, Profess!” For gracious sake
a ollection 2 of his father in many rar struck a jook here!"
Years had passe eluce the older we y had nd fo t ‘havo, my boy, 50 I have.” J joined him fnst ny ad
cut the letters of “ts 2 upon “How hat now?” T exelai
‘Bo you know what this creaturo is?” “Another of your prebiateries, and a veritable
The thonght kept Gus in a state of such fever] | “No, I’m sure don’t., It looks more Ike a | monstor ie nowhere alongside of him
ish anxiety that I cei o, mention the matter | hnge fying seulpin than anything I ewn think of] "You doa't mea a i.
ald | just no “Down on the send below. T caught a glimpse
entirely, since to talk about it constantly cor
do no ood.
“It's nothing of the sort,”
was.
of tt, but in m: inyanxletyte let you know, did not
Finds that Wve Wore detarmined to precead,| “I didn’t say stop for a here, See for yoursell.”
e good Katunga ‘sot about looking after our| “Gus, I know exactly what it is, and tt proves | Tata not need the glnas to
Pies welfare, ¢ theory which I have always maintain that waterless
He himself promised to conduct aig,to the| | “Leuppose you do. Show me the man “who | tance from the foot of the Tmowiainnd i gould per
of the Obongos, whom he des: dares to bay that you don't know everything ap- | colve with the baked eye a hago beast M0ving
1e8 over, than the united tacks of
Gan. the Oilignn and I could have carried a
jozen
Wim to the sciences, and I'll thrash bina!
ir 8
i
re
an. ‘ae, presioris an
’s your theory, profess? Let's hav
eory hes always boon that iany, if not
nimals whose remains geolo-
ts find ia the roeks, stl exist emote places
Bhere man has nevet
“Good! Til agree with you Fithout giving it
slowly with a heavy, lumbering ie
“What do you make out Ra it?” ered Gus,
rrustiog the glass into t
seized it, and, Aalasting the. focus, had the | y
reo:
extreme pleasa pon ene of those
Sirango creations belfoved by all gelentists to
have disappeured from the face of the e:
fore the coming of man,
yar
‘Now while, Gus did the “‘soctalact ” among the|a thought. Now, then, oof skinny frlend fe pre-| Can I describe it?
llog beauties “and evea Terrence O'Gilligan | historic, ts he? What's his name?” Ican try, though va poe doubt if any words
so far forgot his fears ke a hand in this--| “It’s a lo ono. of which it is a my pow
Ldevoted my time | to ade the trogiodytic] ‘And a tough one to pronounce?” vey an securat ression of hint Te faa to tho
dwellings, a3 the hese eurions | “You may well beileve It.” eader’s mind. .
tock chataberss and 1a ne aking. acarefulexam-| “Allright, Let's have it. I can stand it,I| Picture to you huge monster of o
ota” Innghed Gus io ‘his merry ry WAY. iy font th longth and standing higher than
nation of the pits,
1 Temay be deemed an oni
I mayas ‘roll montion that ‘on the wall of’ one
of the pits 1 discovered an Exyptian hleroglyphio
inseriptio: h prot '¥ miod conclu- | J
pively that the: ncitet I ‘bland of this sunken
land were colonists from Egypt, and that the ' o
gu
important matter, but
« Prerodaetylo; "the great winged lizard of the
jaznssio Period.
herai” oried Gus, “None of that
owt He'll call him Terry-—a good Irish name
a trunk of an elephant of ordinary size could
iti ie bard 1 work to taney such a brate, and I
word will be dor ates
Neva ortholose since in al n go-
‘Doring the last half hour of our descent I had
ont on looking out upon the sand a curious
yellow ehieen intermingling self with the daz-
ling whiteness of this ancle
thon the runlight would eaten fe, and
it would glitter strangely,and all at once 0 Tknew
that it was the glitter of gold.
Gold? It was everywhere
a bout us in litle yellow
the instant our feet strack the
“gang shot torard me a glance of Slump.
« friend.” be said in bis quict
way, ao Spoke the truth. We have envere
valley of gold.”
{ro BE coytrsvED.]
ALL BUT IFANGED.
‘Tae story of a man who is reprieved while
gunding on the scaffold with the noose about
his neck, must always thrill. The fact of any
one e standing in the resenes of death for a mo-
aa a strange fascination about ft, and his
reli anxious to kno’ his
thoughts nnd feelings wore a8 he expected ‘tobe
ushered into eternity, Tt has bean my ill tuek fo
look squarely into the eyes of rim dentn
several occasions, and my good Iuek to preserve
my life against the fate which seemed to hunger
for it: wnd somovof the incidents may prove in-
teresting to the general rea
During the sloge ot ektown by MeCtetlan T
was detailed fr
Work. While my reports nodoubt wont to the
commander bimelt, Prepared, directly toa di-
ision commander, whom T never met without
Boing forced to notiee the fact that ho was
worse for liquo’
Tater on in tho w
T 01 ar thore was a chief of sents,
but nt this eine’ were
half a dozen of u:
this general and re
et post
thought to add to his Importance
believe my story,nnd sending me to the head
quarters of rigade. There I was regarded
a verisabia rebel Spy, ‘and the general in com-
‘mand wes extremely pompous demennor
rt) ne veougensmin as
giriig a ai wok wince yesterday. By the time
id his tent my arms had been tied bebind
me, and I was | jooked upon a8 a very dangerous
ollow
co by refusing to
0
Bo you ro the spy captured down there at
the picket?” “shouted the goneral as T stood bee
ote an no spy, sit,” Troplied
pote Yourse not; but don’t you talk
me, you internal traitor! Who sent you
ripe into’ Gur camp’
fm a Union wali, sir, and belong to
mandrel! Don’t think that
command do you belong to?”
“None, sir, Iam a Union scout, and was de-
ai
“Stop?” he shouted, while
gon, srl the truth ‘may not help Sour bate
a stand in the presence of denth with a
Ties pon your lips, Guard, remove him,
taken away and ¢o: in a guard-
taken to anothor tent ia the same encampment,
and Tentered Itto find four or five general officers
‘sent to
0 bad rep! lied: “Try
he bi r
my vision as to make it seem to me that ull I bad
- | to do was to stretch forth my hand and touch | ret
the
hse T will delay beginning my paper
and
Mo: galosaur, one of the
wi
shall remember his. ‘bam | tra
Dlasken t the earth as far
0
It is convened to convict. The idea is that the
Fretim is guilty, but must be disposed of aceord-
ing to the regulations of the War
Tho fact that T openly and boldly appronebod tho
icer of the picket said I was certainly
that settled it.
When they finally condescended to hear
explanation T gure my name, aud stato
general to whom I made my reporis would ken
I stood in neither
‘ourt were opposed to giv=
ing me this ehance for my life but it was Dally
decided to dispatch an orderly and adjourn the
court for an hour, ras conducted back to fe
guard houso to wait, and when agaia, take
fore the officers I expected to be schanged
without delay. You can therefore imi
feelings when I was informed that by ete
terly repudiated me, My regiment and company
were a dozen miles away, and I felt that ft would
be useless to ask furtherdelay, In ten minutes
I was found guilty, and sentenced to execution
at sunrise, and before midnight seatfold had
er ented my identity? The
r him was that he
st (0 Want me to overhear thoir unfeeling
remarks, About an hour before daylight a curi-
took place in me, a -
ec
the pain would be something awful, but Tw
consoled at the samme time with the rofleetion
that it would soon be
Halt an hour betore si I was bro
gut and escortad to the foot of the alles,
Pomenibor right there wae abou
of infantry on the ground,
soldiers in eam BP Mero 0
dings. had grac‘ously provided mo
‘with epiritenl gonsolation in ths prosones of
chaplain, bat, though the good man talied tomo
t hear one word in
‘stinrise ught
itl
for tou
twonty he uttere:
I was all the time wondering how long before
it would be over, and every minute of delay
made me impatient, When the time came for me
tomoust the senttoid Twas really glad of it.
There was nothing in the © sight ofthe dangling
rope to chill me. _f too! on the trap,
the chaplain uttered a a pmases, 8 od then, & soldi
quickly tied my elbows and ankles, and pulled a
cap over my hi It was a matter of Seconds
neh and Pani mysel
ieis coming now. Good-bye to all! It will
j00n be over.”
_ They had to ont a ropa underneath to, spri
‘My senso of hearing was6o acute tat f
fooatod iho than who stood within as ready to
do this service at a giver signal, and I heard him
whisper to bimseif:
Vhy, in God’s nume, do they keep the man
so long in suspense
Then I began to count o: and
s0 on, and had got up to nine, when I hevrd a
shouting not far away, and mingled with it the
sounds of horses coming at a gal
“ Don’t cut that rope!" comndea the officer
in charge, and I sad to mysolt:
one—two—thre
* Something has gone wrong, and there will be
a turthor delay, Perhaps Iam to be shot, That
woul an easier way to die.
There was some loud talk around me, two
three
and directly a hand pulled the eap off my head,
and a voice said:
“Captain, there is some terrible mistake here,
This is Roberts, one of my set
“ Bot you did not know him Inst n
“know him now, and you will rolase him at
e awoke from his
drunken sleep at an eat
brance of the mesngo crept into his mind, aud
he rolled out of bed and found the inguiry’ sent
by the court martial remember
what word he had sent in erly, but he jumped
into his clothes and then into the saddle, and he
camo just in time to prevent a military murder,
What jas the effect of this close cull? Well, £
t to the hospital for two weeks a fever,
End ie wea a full month before L-was positively
certuin of my identity,
re.
Buffalo-Raising.
Tae annihilation of the > great herds of buffalo
that twonty-flve years ago biaekened the pinins
on the east side of the Rocky Mountains fcom
the British po:
often put astop to the first railway trains
passed over the Union Pacifle road hile ‘thoy
crossing the track in such n as to
as the eye could reach,
id for
‘4
buffaloes moved by
ero haunts in the all, going far enough south to
avoid the rigors of sueh a winter a3 the last one
same herds
in the Noth.
dnnliation of al tho great butfalo herds,
a very few hundreds of these lange gam:
tals Are now known to exist between Mlanitobe
tone.
he turned, and buffalo ment fs
a eoat rarity and hard to got, and it briogs 1
bigh prieo, ‘and when, atimal ‘are
Wanted for show purposes it requires a geod dent
of patient effort to secure them by reason of thir
y over all the country where mit-
tasily domeritentod and
ake very eluate
No or sorons in
constitution? they are easily kept, aan establish
ology an accurate portrait ol eyaew Prehitore
-bead
pata aud if found Pulley dog bl ia at caution
A drum. court martial is a dignified farce,
ment hea latoly been started in Kansas for rais-
ing baffal
al
“rns .
ee people came up the ladder to the platform,
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