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CONTINUED.
She bowed slightly, -with a smile on
her lips but an inscrutable look in her
eyos; and left the room, -while Stanley
gazed after her, his heart beating wildly
and her words ringing, like strange
uiucic, in his ears.
"Clarence!" said the voice of Polly
Hamilton close beside him, but in
tones bo low and timid the sound did
not reach him. As Dolores left the
room, Polly rooe quickly and hurried
toward her lover; and when he did not
turn to her, even in answer fo that
timid but impassioned utterance of his
name, she went still closer to him, and
laying her hand upon his arm, she said
again: "Clarence!"
Stanley turned and said sharply:
"Ah! Polly?is it you?"
"Yes, doar. Are you angry with
me?"
"Angry? For what?" And then,
with an effort, he brought his thoughts
back to Polly Hamilton; and, remembering,
he understood' her.
"Why should I be aagry with you,
Polly?" he said with assumed gentleness.
"You seem annoyed thai Rita
should know about?about?"
"About what?" said Stanley, cruelly,
seeing that she hesitated and she
did not know how to put her thought
in words.
"About our engagement," said
Polly, blushing furiously, and with a
terrible sense of being forced to appear
forward and almost indelicate,
and yet with a feeling that she must
understand this man, who seemed determined
to trifle with her, even if it
killed her with shame to fofce the
truth from bim.
"Oh?our enpagement!"said Stanley,
softly; and thinking as he said so:
"Of course, she considers it an engagement.
Why shouldn't she? And.
I dare not offend her, for papa Hamilton
could be a rough customer if he
chose. Besides, I cannot afford to
thrown over pretty Polly just yet."
All this passed through the mind of
Clarence Stanley in the brief instant
that served to show him Mary Hamil- 1
ton's tremulous, quivering lips and
tear-wet eyes imploringly raised to
hin: and with an instantaneous
change of manner, he canght her in
his arms and drew her close to his I
heart.
' Darling Polly! Forgive me!" he
exclaimed. "I was for the moment
quite absent-minded and carried away
by the thought of that extraordinary
girl and the strange story she had
just read to us. Of course, I am not J
angry. How could any one ever be
angry with you, Polly? But, since
rX you speak of it, perhaps it will be
better to say nothing of our?our engagement?for
the present, neither to
Doloreo nor to any one else. At
least, until I have spokan to your
father. Perhaps, when Le knows
what a shocking bad ancestry 1 have,
he may not be willing to give his little
girl into my keeping/
Mary laughed softly and rested her
heail 011 his shoulder.
"And you, Polly?don't you feel
afraid to trust yourself to the descendant
of Pedro Mendoza? How if I
should be the the re-iucaruation of
that wicked traitor?"
"Clarence!" said Polly, in a voice
sweet with indignant reproach.
"Well," thought Clarence, "if
other things fail, old Hamilton is
worth I know not how many millions,
v and Polly is really a very charming
little girl."
He drew her closer within his arms,
and, as he stooped over her, he.kissed
her several times, and didn't even try
to cheat himself into the belief that it
was accidental, for there was now a
settled purpose in his love-making.
CHAPTER XIY.
TCTP. TTVF.YPF.rTF.'n TTAPPP.VS
During the half hour that Clarence
Stanley passed with Polly Hamilton,
and while her hand lay clasped in his
and her eyes and ears drank in his
looks and words, he had followed out
a course of reasoning somewhat as
follows:
"So long as Polly is satisfied by my
devotion, I can come and go as 1
please, which will give ms time to
ntudy Dolores and to gain power over
her so essentit.1 to tbe success of my
plans; and when that is accomplished
and it becomes necessary to break
with Polly, the quarrel can be made
to originate with her by rousing her
jealousy toward her friend. Should
it ever become necessary to return
to Polly, it will be easy for me to make
my peace, and should other and more
agreeable plans turn out satifactorily,
3 have simply to keep away from her
and refuse all overtures of a friendly
character if such should be made."
As be returned to Ilia hotel, Stanley
felt that his day had been well spent;
and when lie reached his room, he
placed the cryptograph before him
with his translation of it, and by the
light of the story he had so recently
heard, he felt that it was all clear to
him.
"The Gold Flower," he thought?
"that was the name of the princess,
and this picture of the Iudian woman
represents her. Anacaona, with the
Indian arrow through the word;again
the Flower of Gold. I see that Dolores
is superstitious and full of spiritualistic
fancies, though she doesn't
know it. I must affect to sympathize
and to believe in the guardian-spirit
business and all the rest of 5t; that
will give xne an influence over her.
Then the mesmeric power;I must not
forgtrt that. There is really something
in it. and if I can but useit'onher
with the same effect as on old Van,my
fortune is made and the girl is miijte,
to do with as I please. What a beauty
she is: aud already she regards me in
quite a different way from what she
did at tirst. She knows nothing of j
of men and little enough of women, ,
least of all. of herself. Wrapt in pov- j
erty, sorrow and devotion ef her J
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:astelar.)
RnttliT eokku'ti scnf.)
mother, she in as inexperienced as a
child; ber heart is as a sheet of white
paper on which no man has vet traced
the first letter of his name. Clarence,
my friend, be it your pleasing pastime
to place thereon your full image and
superscription."
And with a triumphant smile, ^tanley
once more locked away the cryptograph
and his interpretation of it.
Then, as he caught up his hat, there
came a quick knock on the door, which
was immediately opened in answer to
his response, and Professor Henri Van
Tassel entered.
He was so changed, and the change
was so great an improvement, that
Stanley did not at the first glance
recognize him. He was still pale, but
his thin face was no longer cadaverous,
and though there was in his manner
the same air as of submission to a
master, it was a willing bondage,more
than willing?almost joyous. His
clothes, from his jaunty hat to the
tips of his polished shoes, were new,
and even the smile with which he
greeted Stanley's surprise was bright
and fresh,
"Halloa, old fellow! Is it really
you? You have come in good .time.
I was just about to dine. Come on,
and we will make a night of it." And
together this strangely assorted couple
set forth.
Early on the next morning, Polly
Hamilton received by the hand of a
messenger the following brief note:
Tolly, dearest, may I-bring an old
friend of mine to call on you this afternoon?
He may not interest you, perhaps he may
I even bore you, but he 13 a poor fellow to
I whom fate has not been over kind, and I
should be glad to put a little sunshine into
his life if I might. But if you wouid rather
[ not know him, don't be a bit shy about
I saying so.
"Ever yours, * Clarence."
"The idea of asking leave to bring
any friend of his here!" said Polly
Hamilton to her mother, who was
looking over her shoulder while she
read Stanley's note. "But it is so
nice of him, too, and I like it. I suppose
it is a remnant of the Old World
punctiliousness that makes him so
particular, mamma. And he likes English
phrases, too, I have noticed, or
perhaphe usesthem unawares." Polly
suddenly lasped into silence, almost
fearing she had said too much already,
| and wishing that Clarence hadn't
asked her to be at all secret in regard
I to their engagement.
"But it will only be for a few clays,
anyway," she thought, consoling herself
with that reflection and hastening
to write a line of answer to* Stanley, to
I send back by the messenger.
"It is so like Clarence to wish
everyone else to bask in the sunshine
of his own happiness," she thought;
"that is exactly how I feel myself;
and the only objection to his friend is
that I can't have Clarence^so entirely
to myself as if he vere coming alone.
But no matter. Lorita will engage
his friend's attention, perhaps, and it
will really amount to the same thing."
And that was how it came to pass that
when Mr. Stanley, accompanied by
Professor Henri Van Tassel, called on
Miss Hamilton and the Senorita Mendoza,
Dolores found herself acting
the part of hostess to the stranger
while Polly and Stanley sat? by each
other in a distant corner and were
openly devoted to each other; at least
I'ouy was a mi^ie more enueive man
usual and so happy that she*did not
observe that Clarence only -Smiled and
placidly accepted her evident preference
for hie society while he observed
carefully the mann,er of Dolores and
Van Tassel toward each other.
From the moment of first meeting
this stranger Dolores felt herself penetrated
with a feeling of pity and protection
toward him. What Stanley
had Bhrewdly said to himself in regard
to her lack of experience and
knowledge of mankind wbs singularly
true. In her isolated and filially devoted
life she had scarcely been,aware
: of the world around her; and on the
[ days when she had been engaged in
the fashionable cloak-room, displaying
handsome garments on her slender
and elegant figure, her mind had
lived in a world of its own instead of
observing and studying the people
around her. But what Stanley was
not capable of understanding about
Dolores when he complacently put
his comprehension of her into form
was that she possessed a faculty of ixjr
tuition worth the experience of a long
life, by which she read as if in a mirror
the true character of those with
whom she was brougnt into close relation.
This intuition nowtoldher that
the character of Van Tassel was originally
good?by nature he was true,
simple, childlike; but his mind was
unevenly balance:!, his nervous system
was a wreck, and he was morally so
unstrung that he held himself irresponsible
for the circumstances of his
life1; and, especially under the influence
of a dose of opium, complacently
regarded him as the innocent victim
of a cruel destiny. From the instant
when he met her first glance?a
glance so kind, encouraging, almost
maternal in its gentle protectiveness,
Van Tassel felt that he had been born
into a new world. Tliero "was between
them some Bubtle bonil of sympathy
which neither could have explained,
but Van Tassel knew in a moment
that he bad already seen tbe faco
of Dolores?yes, it was the same inspired
and beautiful face that had recalled
his spirit at the moment when,
in Stanley's room, but a couple of
nights before, it had so nearly left his
body forever.
Stanley recalled those first words of
Van Tassel when he was recovering
from the mesmeric trance, and, as ho
now furtively watchcd him, marveled
if it could really be true that lie had
seen the face of Dolores, but at. the
same moment he smiled derisively and
told himself it was all imagination?
and then he tinned to Polly and endeavored
to give a littlo more attention
to what she was saying. Try as he
rould, however, he could net keep his
intention from wandering and his gazo
from returning to the other two at the
further end of the room; and at Inst
he said abruptly:
"J must not tire my pretty cousiu
Dolores with too much of my friend
A'au Tassel, at least on a tlrst visit. I
think I will take him away now.
Tally; but if you will let me" I will
return and dine with you this evening;."
"Do, Clarence?be sure to come.
Mamma told me to ask you, but there
is no need to hurry away now. Lorita
does not seem in the least tired of
your friend.*'
But Stanley would not accept the
it, as you may trouble pure water by
throwing mud into it, but after a
time the disturbance ceases, the mud
sinks to the bottom, and the water is
clear and pure as before."
"Ah, thanks, so much for the comparison!"
exclaimed Stanley, in a
flippant tone, while he thought:
"Addle-headed fool! He's nothing
but a half-crazy dreamer, and I am
probably wasting time trying to learn
anything from him." But after some
moments' silence he suddenly spokfc
again: "Isay, Van, Jet us not quarrel
about the senorita. You know by thia
time I don't give up easily; J.,*m
bound to get control of that girl, and
if you have any secrets in your confounded
hanky-panky mesmeric business
that you haven't told me yet, just
yield tnem up. now, juu me ^uiu^
to help me with this girl in every way
in your power, aren't you?"
Van Tassel turned fiercely, like
some timid animal at bay, and his eyes
gleamed with the frantic fury of weakness
grown desperate.
' No'" he said hoarsely. "No! Not
to save my soul from perdition, will 1
help you to do that girl a moment's
injury!"
"I don't want to harm her, you
fool!" exclaimed Stanley. For a
moment he thought of brushing Van
Tassel aside and out of his life forevev;
but even as he looked at him,
the professor began to tremble, the
fierce light of defiance left his eyes,
and he sighed feebly. "Let's say no
more about it, Van," said Stanley,
with a smile. "Come on over to the
hotel; I want to ask your help about
something easier; only about the
cryptograph, so yon needn't worry..
I shall not speak of the senorita
again."
Van Tassel sighed oncc more, but
he fcould not refuse, even if he had
wished to do so; au4 the two walked
on in silence till they were in the room
of Clarence Stanley.
Van Taosel sank helplessly inlo a
? >/! IaaItaP wi\ nf "hia na v\kc\T fni*
UUItii auu ivuauu mi ?v*
so he felt him to be?with the fascinated
gaze of the bird under the eye
of the rattlesnake. Stanley answered
with a cruel smile, and then raising
hie hands, made swift downward passes
before his victim's face, and in a few
moments Van Tassel's head lay back
against the chair and he was unconscious.
"Fool!" muttered Stanley. "Taken
in your owfii trap! Had yon uot defied
me, I would not have used my
power against you. From this time
forth, refuse me nothing. Come here
every day. When I need yon, I will
use you. ' When I need you not, I
will send you away. In everything
you aro my slave. Bring mo every
book on mesmerism that you possess
or know of. Y6u shall have money
for that and for everything I need,
and for your own needs, also. * Do you
hear and understand?"
"I hear and understand.'
"Do you oTiey?"
< "I obey."
TO BE COXTrXUEP.
Discovered Fishes Wllhont Ern.
t
While blasting rocks to enlarge a
reservoir near Uniondal?, a small pool
of water was discovered under a great
ledgo of rockB. -The water in the pool
was a bright green, arid -ifrhen the mass
of rock was taken ofl it turned to a
dark blue. Arouud Hie edges of tho
pool were strange mosses and ferns,
which witherod as soon as the rays of
tho sun encountered Ihem. Through
the crevices of tho rocks ran great red
and blue beetles and ants, and great
horned snake3 with hoods and double
faugs wriggled arouud the edge of
the pool. In the pool the workman
found fishes with no eyes and having
Kreeu scales. "When lifted from the
water thoy changed their color to a
dark blue. "When Ihev encountered
the air they gasped a few limes and
died. In llio fissures of tho great
rook liorucd loads woro found alive,
irhero Ihey had been for years. They
lived only a few moments. The place
had been vi?ited l>y scientist*, who
are mystified at the bingular find
among the lugged hills of Susquehanna
(!ounly. Eyeless fishes have
been found but twice in Pennsylvania
within a century.?New York Press.
Kqitiillv IVearisoaie. i
A former teacher at Welle?il?y College
had as her guest for a few cUys a
nephew, aged three. Ho was a delightful
little man, andhav:ngno rival
there, seamed quite in dgnget of being
spoiled by his many admirers
among the students. When, however,
one of I ho young ladies ask?d hira if
ho would not like to live there always,
he shook his curly hea I in a most decided
negative, aud exclaimed, with a
sigh: "Such 'otsof 'oman* WAirs!"
?Now Yoik Tribune.
I SCENES IN BLOEMF
| CAPITAL OF Of
^ I Y HE Orange Free State hail no
I quarrel with Great Britain.
; I The Transvaal's quarrel was
6 not her quarrel. She was a
free and independent State, living her
own life and worshiping her own
legislative and administrative gods.
I IT 1, i l_? ll,? cmn I
implied invitation to remain; and as
soon as lie wa? in, the street with Van
Tassel he hastened to say:
"Well, you seemed interested.
Does the senorita strike you as being
a genuine clairvoyant?"
Van Tassel, whose exaltation of
spirit?for it was nothing less?bad
already left him, answered in a tone
of dejection:
"Senorita Mendoza can never be
anything but genuine in every way.
I think she is a clairvoyant, an unusual
and extraordinary one; but you
will never be able to control so high
and pure a spirit. If you will take my
advice, you will not make the attempt."
"Rubbish! Of course I will make
the attempt and succeed, too; it isn't
my way to fail. Already she is undef
my influence." ^ \
"She feels your influence,' site is
not under it," said Van Tassel,
promptly.
' Tka como HiirKr- T'll sonri have her
under it."
"You will find it is not the same
thing at all," said Van Tassel, persistently.
"That girl has a soul like
a deep, clear spring; you may trouble
rier peupie, uuwever, apuac mo
longue as the Transvaaler. A shadow
of the Anglophobia that lurked on the
oorth of the Vaal was also to be found
uorth of the Orange, and Martinus
Th. Steyn, the far-seeing and courageous
President of the Free State, firmly
believed that if the South Airican
Republic were wrested from Dutch
control, either by armed force or by
awe of Great Britain's prowess, the
next victim of the slogan "British
pre-eminence in South Africa" would
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VIEW OF BLOEMFONTEIN, THE C
be his own little Bepublic, the .Orange
Free State. Furthermore, the.;two
Republics were bound by *,'treaty
made in, 1897, after the Jameson raid,
which provided ihat if either State
were attacked the other was to dome
to its assistance with its full fighting
force, which at that time peant a combined
army of about 44,|000 men?
27,000 Tranivaalers 'and 17^^ Free
So the Orange Free i^fcate afnd the
. Viundo, ' < Tllftt thfi
Xiouovaai wwmww? i. _ -?_
Free Staters -were not the fir*? to suffer
by this racial cpalition ^as due to
one of those mere accidents of war or
caprices of fate that can never be
anticipated. Ladysmith and Colenso,
Kimberley and Mafeking chanced to
be the points where the storm burst.
The Free Staters, while descended
from the same Dutch settlers in South
I Africa as the Transvaal burghers, form
I what might be termed another branch
j of the Boer family. They settled in
J Natal after the exodufi from the Cape,
but as that became a British colony,
they fell back and established themselves
in the country lying between
; the two great branches of the Orange
River, known to the colonists as the
I PRESIDENT STEVN, OF THE ORANGE FREE
i STATE.
I Vaal and the Orange Rivers, and separated
from the coast by the Drachenberg
Mountains. The Orange River
Free State, to give it its full name,
forms a connecting link between Cape
Colony, the Transvaal and Natal, and
was for years called the Buffer State.
It is a vast plateau, 3000 to 5000 feet
above sea level. Its undulating plains
-1 ?" Afalrti IVTnnntflins to
j 9lU?/0 li uLu vuv
, the Yaal River. In the south they are
dotted with rocky hills, which the Boers
call "kopjes." In the northern part,
however, one can travel hundreds of
miles without seeing a break in the
horizon. When the Natal Boers took
possession of the country it was inhabited
by different tribes. All except
the powerful Basutos have dispersed.
The Free State is divided into the
i following districts : Bloemfontein,
j Winburg/Southfield, Harrismith and
i Fauresmith. The capital is Bloem!
fontein (of which we give several ilj
lustrations), situated ou a tributary of
I the Modder River and about 800
i miles from Cape Town. The Orange
j Free State was annexed by Great
Britain in the forties, snd continued a
colony of the empire until 1854, when 1
it
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HOME OF PRESIDENT S'J
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1 ifc was granted independence. The inhabitants
then established a government
of their own and had progressed
satislactorily until their .President,
Mr. Steyn. was led by President
KrugeP into an offensive and defensive
alliance against England.
That the Boers have for months and
even for years been uuiicipating some
'ONTEIN, |
iANOE FREE STATE. I
final struggle with the British has
been well demonstrated by the thoroughness
of the preparations for war
nrViirtVi +V10 n/rrornmmit of the flraftv
Oom Paul has been making for some
time past. The same might be said of
the doughty burghers of the Orange
Free State, for Bloemfontein, the capital
of tbe little republic, was carefully
fortified and garrisoned for many
months before the actual outbreak of
hostilities. The accompanying illustration
will give a very good idea of
the Boer fort at Bloemfontein, a spot
which, in view of recent events, has
an especial interest to all followers of
the present struggle between the Boer
and the British.
The Orange Free State is like and
yet nnlike the Transvaal. Its people,
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APITAL OF ORANGE FREE STATE.
j li^e'those north of the Vaal River, are
I simple, bucolic and sincere. An infusion
of Huguenot blood makes them a
I slightly more active and progressive
j people than the Transvaalers. The
republic has an area of about 50,000
square miles. Its present population
! is estimatdftjto be 93,000 whites and
| some 14?Lflfcblacks of the Basuto and
( Barolonglfflffes. The capital, Bloemfontein^irf
ourious, old world look|
ing little city, with a railway leading
I
TEE RAADZAAL (PARLIAMENT) BUILDING,
BLOEMFONTEIN.
4
from the south into the town and again
starting north. Unlike Kimberley and
Johannesburg, the visitor gets no impression
of mushroom growth from
Bloemfontein, for the city is rich in
statuary and public monuments and
possesses a national museum and a
well - stocked public library. The
Bloemfontein raadzaal, or council
chamber of the legislature, is a handsome
edifice, designed in the Qreek
style and costing almost a quarter of
a million dollars. The buildings in
the city are substantial and prepossess-1
ing, for near by are great beds of freestone,
admirable for building purposes.
The presidency, where President
Steyn resides, ig'atoo a very palatial
building.
Qfofii4* nrtf. a Inf.
IUD UiaU(jU X 1WU my ?
est country, for, like Tratifivaal, it
is very sparsely wop^wfc- The *5^
' TYinnntapes inthe^ Stdtc are the
Stall Mountains, which? lie in the east*
ern portion of the republio?r Practically
all of the plains are well adapted
for pastoral purposes. On the Basutoland
border there* is a^ golden, stnpi
of land, thirty mites broad _and 100'
miles long, whioh'' is considered fc? be
the best bit of grain^^^p^jj^f^j^
the world.
Think of land that, wi&oatjiihri^,
tion, ami with scareely any cultivation,
will raise ' seyent^ ' ^ ^eighty
bushels of grain to the acre!. Wbeat^
oats, maize, barley and Kaffir Oton^
| can all be grown, While Herds bf'^c'a^J
tie, horses, Angora goats, - ostriches "
and sheep can live and flouriji^^MM
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'EYN AT BLOEMFONTEIN.
There are threo kinds of regular
Government schools. One is the
town school, another the ward school
and the third the paripatetio school.
At Bloemfontein ttfere is a very fine
college, known as Grey College, where
higher education is carried on.
The vast majority of the Free
Staters are members of theKeformed
Dutch Church. In fact,this is the es-1
tablished church of the State. Even
the tiniest village has its devout congregation,
and the Government contributes
each year $40,000 for the
support of its Dutch religious institutions.
The climate of the Orange Free
State is perhaps the most healthful in
all South Africa. It is both drier and
colder than that of the neighboring
colonies, due to the fact that the voldt
of the Free Staters is so high above
the sea level.
The constitution of the Orange
Free State is founded upon that of
the United States. This constitution
was adopted on April 10,1854, and gave
to everyone living in the country before
the date of its aboption the right
to vote for a president and members
of the new legislature. The commando
law is unique. This law,which
was put into successful operation at
the opening of the campaigu for the
raising of Orange Free State troops,
regulates the calling out of burghers at
all times of danger. Every male inhabitant
of the State between sixteen
and, sixty years of age is, under this
law, subject to the call of the field
cornet.* The number tl ' were found
available for the last cull to arms is
said to"h'ave been 23,000.
MASON AND DIXON'S LINE.
Relict o> the Fain o as Bouadarv Between
- Pennsylvania and Maryland.
The bill introduc*4in the Maryland
Assembly by Senate*'Moses, of Baltimore,
appropriating$5000 with which
to restore Mason &nd Dixon's Line, is
awakening much interest. The State
of Pennsylvania hasvalready voted a
like amonnvfor the purpose.
The liafi; bet ween the property of
Lord Baltimore tmd the Penne aroused
many disputes and much bad feeling
in early and the King and his
counselor^ jjb;"'England could find no
way of sto$?^g the quarrels, which
frequ^ntlyl^pd in bloodshed. Final
iy,in x rov, iwoiamoaa ningnsn asirono-,
NORTH BIDE, BEAJRfjtaABMS OF THOMAS
AND RICHARD MfttS,. AVU SOUTH SIDE,
BEARING ARMS f^'XORD BAX.TTMOKE,
mers, Charles Mason and Jeremiah
Dixon, made the survey and ran the
line which esta$U!?ed ihe boundary
between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
The work cost sMfiHpPbut it'-aettled
all tronble from tha^tyne to this.
The line runs 'the southern
border 01 rransyn i<uuui>jr, ?uu m
132 miles eTerjflm mile* is, or was,
planted a stone VUring on the Pennsylvania
side unarms of Thomas
and Richard Pej$$Wved thereon, and
on the Mary)fti& side the arms of Lord
Baltimore. ^Tte ^tiannedifte miles
were mar^od.y^y jjibnes, upon which
were cut uUKters f'B^Wl the north
side an^HR^ upon the southern
A very/^^oTthese old milestones
are now standing. The one shown in
the cut is no^ at its old position at
Highfield, along the Western Maryland
Railroad. Most of them have
been destroyed, and even stolen. A
farmer in Washington County, Maryland,
has two of them in use as doorsteps
at his house.
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?i . A Queer -Churcli.
A f Santa ftl at a there is a Ban
tist ehai;fl?-hich was built of lumber
made frdmS^skigle giant oak tree.
Under its itiriij&es the first Baptist
service'in Ih^iwregion was held,
1853. WhenW^as decided to build
a churoh. edifi^e it was thought best to
of the original meeting
place..V; With appropriate ceremonies
thegreat tree, whose shade covered
ajn"acre of ground* wad consecrated for
new purpose. Workmen then cut
ofij. the tree feet from the
ground. Thisbig stomp was partially
hdn6w, ^uid ^iwi ^lowed to stand for
the church tower. A lapering steeple
was built on top of ii
The upper part of the tree trunk
L. A Squash That Lifted COOO PnnniT*.
^enM^elated^m Soocesg^ fromjvhicfa
fcfi J ^ MlUtuio JL-J IUUW4.. /ff. ? ,
basket of strap iron was placed over
the squash ill such a manner that, in
Order to grow, it would be compelled
to lift any weight that might be placed
on it. Harnessed in this inauner, on
August 21 the squash lifted sixty
nnnrids! Aucrust 31. 500 pounds; Sep
ternber II, 1100; September 31, 2015;
October 18, 3120, and October 31,
5000 pounds.
It ia a misdemeanor to knowingly
pass plugged money or to destroy
United States 'n 3ni"
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EARLY AMERICAN CIANTS.
Reasons For Believing That a Raco of 28* 3
Footers Lived In Arizona.
Does anybody believe that thero
ever has been a race of giants in thei il
world? Does anybody believe that a
race of gigantic men, who were from
| twelve to twenty feet high, ever lived
i in these United States of America? H
! And yet the prrof that such a race of
1 nonnlfl ilirl livft in this countrv is to bo' J
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! found in the Grand Canyon of the. ' 1
! Colorado River in northern Arizona. 1
; This proof consists of first: Foot- V |
! prints in the red sandstone. Footi
faints that appear to have been made J
I by the moccasined feet of gigantic 3
men. Men whose tracks measured
i twenty inches in length and who
stepped five feet at a stride.
The second proof is that there i9
the petrified body of such a man, like* M
wise in the red sandstone of the Grand
Canyon district. This body was that V
of a living, breathing man, but, aftei a
death the tiesh was replaced by lima ?
or silica, held in solution in the water. V
There is ample evidence that nature <3
was able to perform this feat, as the -gn
petrifying process is being carried on ,>3
in tli? flanvon to this day.
The third fact is that there is and M
was a strong and almost universal tra- J
dition among the ancient people ol |
Mexico and Peru tbat such a race oi *
giants lived in their country.
Perhaps it is almost too much to . '3
call this proof, but it is at least cor-~V?
roborative testimony. (jfl
Last June I visited the Grand Canyon
as a tfturist, says a writer in the., jfl
! Prescott Prospect. The Atlantic and
Pacific Railroad to Flagstaff, thence .- ?
I by stage seventy miles to the Hance
trail on the brink of the gorge. There %
| I met Mr. Hull, who was acting as 3
guide into the canyon and who was a >1
pioneer of northern Arizona. He told \
me the following story, and, with
apologies for my credulity, I believe
*"m* h Wk
Three years ago he and a companion
named Jim Lavello had been , j?
prospecting in this part of tbe coun- jj
try". They found a ledge which they
thought was valuable and had started
out of the canyon with samples of the
ore, expecting to return in a few days.
One of. the Indians wa3 with them. %
Mr. Hull speaks the Indian language
fluently and the Indians have a great
admiration for him. The Indian said;.* 'i
"Have you ever Been the big inaiaa/
up he*e/' volunteering to show it.
They followed him up a foot trail '/V
whioni led through a crevice in the red J
wall, thence on to the bench-like for- < *.<3
mation above, bat still in the midstof "
the red Bandstone. fim
They came to a place where a projecting
rock formed a shelter over a
sloping table-like slab of stone which
was covered with a white incrustation v
of lime. Outstretched on this slab
'was the body of a gigantic man turned
;into stone. The body was entirely
nude and lay face downward. "They
estimated his height to be eighteen or
twenty feet. The left arm was out at
fall length, while the right arm was
doubled under his head. The left
was perfect, but the foot was jammed
into a crack in the slab. The right
leg wae broken off just below the kneeand
thfl broken oart was missing. v
They looked at it ten or fifteen min- A
a tea and then continued their jonr- <|
ney, intending to return and make a J\
m6re complete investigation. Plans
changed and they failed to return. M
Mr. Hull told the story to severaljBB
people, but they either disbelteved.7 J
aim or discouraged him, so it hap^Jk^
| pened that he had never been bacic IB
| there and that he had never tried to a
; do anything with his discovery. 1
j , He also told me that reliable In:
dians had described to him tracks of 3
; Loth men and animals in the solid '<M
! rock not far from this body and in the ' M
same formation. These he htid never 4
seen, but he had no doupt of their ) |
existence. }
This was startling information, but 1
E had been in a measure prepared for 1
it. In the first place it had always- 1
Seemfed reasonable to me that the |
Drehistorio, primeval banting sav3ges ]
should have been of large statue. i
Geology tells us that there was a. J
period in the history of the world
called the Tertiary or Mammalian ago
that was peculiarly favorable to animal
life. It is the age of the mammoth,
the great cave bear, the cave
lion, the iwoolly rhinocerous, the
primival ox, the great' Irish elk, the ?
gigantic sloths and other familiar aui- '<
mala, that were far larger then thaa
now. Was man to be left out entirely
amid all this list of giants?
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Pacific CoMt Salmon For Japan. V
Japan, driven from the Siberiaa '
fishing" waters, now turns to the . s
Pacific coast for a supply of salmou.
M. Go da, of Yokohama, who ropre
sents several of the largest fish import- 3
ers of Japan, has arrived at the Hotel
Seattle. "For the past four or live
years," he said in an interview, "fish
have beea growing scarce in Japan.. .<
Prior to a year ago the Japanese 3
secured their supply of salmon off %
Siberia. Then the Russians passed a
law which practically expels us from j
their salmon waters, and our supply
of this variety is thus cut off. We j
must now look to the United States
for our supply, aud in the hope of
buying from 300,000 to 400,000 salmon
lies the object of my visit to Seattle. ;
The order is small as compared with :
the market demands of Japan. We ]
need and will use, if a trade is established,
many times this number, but \
at this time we are only experimenting."?Seattle
Post-Intellig encar.
Hawthorne's Sofa at Brook Farm.
There was a comfortable sofa under J
the stairs in the hall, says Mrs. Orn
Gannett Sedgwick, in the Atlantic, on
, which Nathauiel Hawthorne, who then i
occupied the front room at the right, 3
' used to sit for hours at a time, with a
| book in his hand, not turning a leaf,
I but listening with sharp ears to the
i young people's taik, which he 3eemecJ
j to enjoy immensely, perhaps with the
I oHcfn??tir>n nf Rnvno's "Phio! oinnnp
? ~?e ^
ye takin' notes." It is, however, but
just to Mr. Hawtborue to say that,
whatever use he made in Blithedalc
Romance of the scenery and "romantic
atmosphere" of Book Farm, he
cannot be accused of violating the
i sanctities of the home and holding up
j to public observation exaggerated
likenesses of his as. iciates there. 1 ?
spent some delightful hours with him
the winter before he died, when h
assured me that Zeuobia represented
| no one Derson thera .. .3
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