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i- i lewis m. ^ ? -independent <#imilg jfleirepaper: -for the ^motion of the political Social, Anrindtiira! and (Commercial Jntrrpti of the ^outh. ~ TEr|?^.oo a ^eau in advance. VOL. 41. ? __i \ YORKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY S, 1895. "A " " " No7l7 BY ZRJTOIBf 1 Author of "King Solomr 8 ? "Allen <^ar^ Copyright, 1893, by the Author. SYNOPSIS. Chapter I.?Thomas WingA?**"?? born in England of an English faBR*"? a Spanish mother. His mother <f* to him that a certain Spaniard haf orn to take her life. f Chapter II?One day, when J: was about 18, he went out into HF1** ' flelds to a tryst with Lily Bo*' A .Spanish stranger attacked hintf* Jf*-' road, and the boy cudgeled Into'helplessness, leaving him** trCHAPTKP. III.?Lily's fatbj^ov!) Thomas kissing the maiden to?* J? compact and forbids further jg the, lovai^- JUicuuiogr ^^Kiother f' finds the Spaniard gone an?y"2 te lying dead on a sceno where F betray a straggle- ? . IL, been Chapter iv .-The moth#"* ?. stabbed by the Spaniard, Je#h^ her cousin. Thomas'father#??, A of his own early a^iventurear,i", ' Ds Garcia. An T ily Chapter V.?He sails fo#"1, y Bozard pledges eternal lov? , Chapters VI and medical student and findRPf 1 in Seville with a popugr:, : Fonesca. He I vented from killing hinfl whom the villain has wrqf' Chapters VIII and I*A ?^ -j?? and leaves vast wealth#??/ ? Garcia has gone to the**?" ThomassenSs his wealtra^gffig1 ate Lily's father and saijjg?^ ^ i c,HhAPTndun -^aByoSSS! in the Indian seas, esoff TnrijnnH of ! power and falls amojfc,1 ^"? ?f Tabasco, where a nati?J?? 114,116(1 j Marina saves him fromflj"^* h Chapter xl-moj^ and ! Guatemoc, befriends #4? | a 8ESS.I ? anadooniod to saci#JJ rdl"^to^,f toe custom, with ojgjfjjj- Th? kingdom is dMnrtf?*? m. and auguries. Four A'p^ ToI tS^SSlfSS^B sah asaafej ? * bCu? *XVlW"-*?nm "*>* n ^n.i by Montezu4L?JiUtbe 1,10 SP411Cortes'. oun^W0,6 sacrifice of the r?Afl ToiMi *ivi flB* : le god sne of priest ought blow, slain. , I ;ther, noth- I of a wing j > put I 1 rdld ' who J : their ; Id be 1 nseland I a i| I ' tie J Bed #iiu roe rou my of j Ter j lth ; elr : t d I j T.. . _ am heaty child. Moreover, mj?iner i 1b theiaperor. Therefore my 1> is of j no smmorth now in this time 4 trou- ] ble, fof>ugh I am nothing in?ysclf ; yet lt? chance that I can brinf 10,000 I warriflto your standard. Th? priests j knew! on yonder pyramid, cti when I clatt my right to lie at the s* of the TcuWsy gainsaid me, nor they > suffe% though they hungered the ft# venge- i N?w, my l uiiis: tjfiv* Jjrm Q ifcm ^ ^'0n,iuT l^^ord o: i the Sp J closely [ their al i within surrenc way ba thoym are cut benoe to esw covet a will be stroy tl I ce went? "It 6 ment v man's he tells had fo Now, li our br you?" "We words presont the end Then :il b rotveil ni| d by tJ n that 'p'M met fl^Tuj''''1 ll,0l!,n8l?"S hnd me, 01St f? ",?"mn, ,tl,? " 22 te -v >' ?' s~ turned and looked nt Cuitluhim as tbouK, !c.y , fn question, and Cuitlahua anwewd with ! hJ9/ > hitter laugh: ' i, i that >' thl ^.h,J* ** the blood of V??Z t n , nc*" Otomlo, my niece, for she is ^ ball for hhn." I mn< "'Nay,ikM/* gaid Gnatevioc, ''these two ^ie,P' 1 have mingled bloods already upon tho stone of jacriflce, and (hey are man and heard^ ^ ?h? lmvJ vouched for hiln,^?tiW',f ^ ' Wlno in oomost of my faith^^ .m,ns -uld*w "vfcha9 ^"?(xl fricnt!.v>^sald tJ*^ Butso5e\v,. ^l^lonor tiim overmuch. keen U Thoaj GncteriKN s~ _, , manw svhen il^rie-a wj?i'di"^f<,rvv"r m '1 of the tho k Jf],o luuWQfefcvo cut him with <* bR???jr^teS&raii&ft,lsItis>fr^ oners. Nlnqcd priest ^loei rnn? <***??. herofcat w.m-6hod by tho Teulcs \' or, a ti c-iwu Wllttc^^r this purpose." * ? wonde y t)l0 Jpestf^ew away the hnnfUm she spe and suffcrjthe blood of tfuati into a eccoi\BinIliler bowl TWvtodrop herTk to me, and dipping S7 fn ,ho ??? oJ? blood he drew the >-Wn Qt nto the iMc,X, fumhmd as a upon the forehead of an IntanT draws it ??_ ?' "In tbo presence and the 1^ ^d: i our Lord, who is everywhere^ ofGod, J Jjwfl things, I sign you with thu h\^* all aJ*5f { make you oi this blood. In "You a ^AOGARI), lines,'* "She," "He," "Jess," ermain," etc. and tho name of God, our LoKl, who Is everywhere and sees all things, I pour forth your blood upon tho earth!" (Hero ho poured as ho spoke.) "As this blood of yours 6inks Into tho oarth, so may tho memory of your pust life sink and bo forgotten, for you arc born again of the people of Anahuac. In tho presenco und tho name of God, our Lord, who Is everywhere and secsall things, I mingle these bloods" (hero ho poured from one bowl into the other), "and with thcra I touch your tongue'1 (here, dipping hls'lingcr into the bowl, he touched the tip of my tongue with it) '"and bid you swear thus: v civnr- Tti arfommn rn me* pcoplo of Anahuac and to their lawful governors. I swear to wage war upon their foes and to compass their destruction, and more especially upon the Tcules, till they are driven into tho sea. I swear to offer no affront to tho gods of Anahuac. I swear myself in marriage to Otomie, princess of the Otomie, tho daughter of Montezuma, my lord, for so long as her life shall endure. I swear to attempt no cscapo from these shores. I swear to renounce my futher and my mother, and the land where I was born, and to cling to this land of my new birth, and this my oath shall endure till tho volcano Popo coascs to vomit smoke and Arc, till thcro is no king in Tonoctltlan, till no priest serves tho altars of the gods and tho pcoplo of \nahuac arc no moro a people.' " When I had sworn, Giuitemoc came forward and embraced me, saying: ,l\Vcloomo, Tcule, my brother In blood and heart. Now you aro ono of us, and wo look to you for help and counsel Come, be seated by uic." I looked toward Cuitlohua doubtfully, but be smiled graciously andsoid: "Teule, your trial is over. Wc have accepted you, and you have sworn tho solemn oath of brotherhood, to break which Is to die horribly in this world and to bo tortured through eternity in tho next Forget all that may havo been sold In the hour of your weighing, for tho bahuico is in your favor, and be suro that if you give us no cause to doubt you, you shall find none to doubt us. Now, as tho husband of Otoinio, you aro a lord among tho lords, having honor and great possessions, and as such bo seated by your brother Guatcmoc and join our council." I did as ho bado mo, and Otomio withdrew from our presence. Tbcn Cuitlohua speko again, no longer of me and my matters, but of tho urgent affaire of state. Ho spoke in slow words and weighty, and zuuru Lllttil UUW 1115 u1\u1u lu uid dm*' row. He told of the grlcvoui misfortunes that had overcome the country, of tho death of hundreds of Its bravest warriors, of tho slaughter of the priests and soldiers that day on tho teocolli and tho desecration of his nation's gods. What was to bo done In this extremity? ho asked. Montezuma lay dying, a prisoner in the camp of tho Tculcs, and. the lire that he had nursed with his breath devoured tho land. No efforts of theirs could break the iron strength of those white devils, armed with strange and terrible weapons. Day by day disaster overtook the arms of tho Aztecs. What wisdom had they now that tho protecting gods were shattered in their very shrines, when the altars ran rod with tho blood of their ministering priests, when the oracles wcro dumb or answered only in tho accents of despair? ?Tb"" by nn? pyir"^a nt?i uyncmli IfgfMtft" AfrHmgth ?il-fci# ' Cuitlahua said, looking toward mo: ' We have a new oounselor among us who is skilled in tho warfare and customs of the white man, who till an hour ago was himself a white man. Has ho no word of oomfort for us?" "Speak, my brother," said Guatemoc. Then I spoke. "Most noble Cuitlahua, and you, lords and princes, you honor mo by asking my counsel, and it is this, in few words and brief: You waste your strength by hurling your armies continually against stone walla and the weapons: of Teules. So you shall not prevail against them. Your devices "biust bo changod if < you would win victory. The Spaniards^ ltbp other men. They are ho the ignorant imagine, and upon which ?*?cruatpreg I f?i> demons, hut j I '8 j^TOfWnTsuch as are used tor J?1,0 h-poses in the land whew I was 1 : Q I found Spaniards aro men, I say, and do LE?Ttoc n hunger and thirst? Cannot men be tur,l5r nt by want of sleep and bo killed in & vays? Aro not these Teules already la|T8 to the death? - This, then, is my u?" I comfort to you: Ceafce to attack I aniards and invest t^clr camp so q*1 that no food can roalh them and >,? [lles,*h? Tloscalans. If this is done, : 10 days from now either they will ^ ; ler, or they will strivo>to break their r . ck to the ooast. But tb do this, first T nst win out of tho city, and if dikes ! wa through tho causeways that will j asy matter. Then whtn they strive : ^ ^ ipe, cumbered with the gold they j ^ tj nd came hero to seek, then, I say, I crle(j the hour to attack them and to dehem utterly." j , ' * ? , , 6Uinn used, and a murmur of appiauso I k jund tho council j? 0 * eems that we canic to a wise judg- : ^ ^ rhen we determined to spare this i life," said Cuitl ah no, "for all that ' tlicro i us is true, and I would that we [ ilkn f llowcd this policy from the first. ; ' ords, I give my voice for acting as ; other points tho way. What say j tfao pj say with you that our brother's , . aro good," answered Guntemoc j ly, "and now let us follow them to i . T> i? , after some further talk, the coun- I :c up, and I sought my chamber, ?h blind with weariness and crushtie weight of all that I had suffered ' eventful day. Tho dawn was flar222r*n skv, and by its glimmer , gj?rfl ??P^>^j^*hocniptr corridors j j}J* ^^ kpcununs of my fch J K 3 and passed ?Af,UI Thcro, fa2 thcfaint gfjjj: dr and ornan? stood my bride. ~ ^BjJ\ ! Joncf t toward her, and >&sho , niJ ) meet me with oatstrq^Hk una. , y they were ulxnit n^K, and en 1 was upon my brow. . j ?>ero all is done, my lovc^^Hlord," ?D0_,' spcrod, "and come gc^^Vnl. ur >?*, e are one until deatl^^W' mu-Ii ouracannot be broken." . . .. is done iiulml, Otoinie, and our ^ vlifelonc. though other oaths have | ^?8 a akcn that they might l>u sworn," iro^ Guatc then I, Thomas Wingflcld, whs br'dg< Otomle, princess of tho Otomic, leaves nma's daughter. orusi er 110 CHAPTER XXI. ^cai THE NIGHT of FEAR. I AlasG before I awoke that day the com- j P?urc of the council had been carried out, 8IJng o bridges In the gnat causeways w<j"11 oken down wherever dikes crossed , 0' ?ed roa^s that ran through the wa- that r the lake. That afternoon also I ?; ltlre??xl as un Indian warrior, with NVns : hoc and the "t?ther generals, to a par- t,rossc fch was held with Co*tes, who took ovor ltd in the same tywer of. the palace Im,(l Imtezuma had itood on.when tho furl?i ot Guatemoc struck hifn down. widoi is fittlo to 1m* sa!4of this parley, and no? C) cmhred it chiefly beoousc it vas " 500 for tic first ti-wff since I had left the looso jana, saw Murina close and I he s and gentle voice, for I *wos by the side of Cortes. of tf" ntl^Hl'proposals of peace to the A*tec l AjMrig these proposals was ono WR11 < iowcdi? that De Garcia had not an^ 0 lie. Masked that the false white 1,lo^e ho had ifcen rescued from the altars burly gods nrtu tho teocalli should lie cc*tle In exehunw for certain Aztec prlsin order tttlt lie might bo hung, tic- , K to his m&ts, as a spy and desert- 1 aitor to tliv emperor of Spain. I la*e red as I hcaro if Marina knew when c&nw ?ke the words that "the false white J and y-'as none otht* than the friend of ; J ^Wan days. lslied llitt'that you are fortunate in hnv- ; kV(,ap among us Aztecs, Tcule," a f iiatem^^vith laugh, "for your s 011 a r<'PP-" v p sayingjr>h- I th" Si a %-jsu*. ik; lso irt^t Dc9y^36^09' i?u abaii I perish of hunger and Kit; you shall per- | I lsh on the altars of tho gods. Thcro is no j escapo for you, Tculcs. The bridges are broken." And all tho multitude took T^ho words ! | and thundered out: "There isno^apofor i you, Tculcs. Tho bridges arc broWj" Then the shooting of arrows begth, and ' I I sought tho palace to toll Otomi^jny j wife, what I had gathered of the staty f ' her father Montezuma, who tho SpaniaJ^ j said still lay dying, and of her two sisteraL, | who were hostages in their quarters. \ Two days later came tho news that Mon- ' j tezuma was dead and shortly after it his I body, which the Spaniards handed over to | tho Aztecs for burial, attired in tho gor- i ! gcous robes of royalty. They laid it in tho j I hall of the palace, whence it was hurried secretly and at night to Chapoltepec and there hidden away with small ceremony, for it was feared that the people might rend it limb from limb in their rage. ; With Otomie weeping at my side, I looked j for the last time on the face of that most unhappy king, whoso reign, so glorious in its beginning, had ended thus. Otomio, ceasing from her tears, kissed Ills clay and cried aloud: "O my father, it is well that you arc dead, for nono who loved you could desire ; to seo you live on in shame and scrvitudel May tho gods you worshiped givo mo Strength to avenge you, or if they bo no gods then may I find it in myself. I swear i this, my father, that while a man is' left j to me I will not cense from seeking to j j avengoyou." ; Then, taking my hand, without another j word she turned and passed thence. As I will bo seen, sho kept her oath. ; On that day and on the morrow there j j was fighting with tho Spaniards, who sal- ' ! lied out to fill up the gaps in the dikes of ! j the causeway, a task in which they sue- ' ceedod, though with somo loss. But it availed them nothing, for so soon as their backs were turned wo opened tho dikes ugaln. It was on theso days that for tho first timo I had experience of war, and armed with my bow made after the English pattern I did good service. As It chanced, tho very first arrow that I drew was on my hated foe, Do Garcia, but here my common fortuno pursued me, for, being out of practice or overanxious, I aimed too high, though tho mark was an easy one, and the shaft pierced the iron of his casque, causing him to reel in his saddle, but doing him no further hurt. Still this marksmanship, poor as it was, gained mo great renown : among tho Aztecs, who were but feeblo j archers, for they had never Ixfforo seen an ! arrow pierce through the Spanish mail. | Nor would mine have done so had I not J collected tho iron barbs off the crossbow bolts of tho Spaniards and fitted them to my own shafts. I seldom found tho mall that would withstand arrows made thus j when the range was short and the aim I good., . After tho first day's fight, I was appointed general over a body cf !i,000 archers and was given a banner to bo borno before me and a gorgeous captain's dress j to wear. But what pleased mo better was I a chain shirt which came from the body of a Spanish cavalier. For many years I always wore this shirt beneath my cotton mall, and it saved my life more than once, for even bullets would not pierce tho two of them. I had taken over the command of my archers but 48 hours, a scant time iu which to teach them discipline, whereof they had little, though thoy wcro brave enough when tho occasion cumo to uso them in good earnest, and with it the night of disaster that is still known among the Spaniards as tho nocho tristo. On the afternoon Ko(V,?v\ th?t. nl??ht n wnshiOrl in tho palace, at which I spoke, saying I was certain that the Teules thought of retreat from the city and In tho dark, for otherwise they would not havo boon so eager to fill up the canals In tho causeway. To this Cuitlahua, who now that Montezuma was dead would bo emperor, though he was not yet chosen and crowned, answered that it might well bo that tho Tcu'es meditated flight, but that they could never attempt in tho darkness, sinco in so doing thev 1 ' ^J^pJfeauSot^hwugh it was not tho Az- I tec habit to marcli and fight at night, such things were common enough among white men, as they had seen already, and that because the Spaniards know it was not their habit they would bo tho more likely to attempt escape under cover of the darkness, when they thought their enemies asleep. Therefore I counseled that sontrics shouldip|(|J^^"*7^^d trances to lahu* jgwntoA4*"", of ..wayo#W^opiuUoUig^BBr , wiljcj, WU! -making us>^ c causo- I AztccsWo, iJJ^^Tifttlians of its safety. f^ut or Guatemoc and I, with 601110 thousand* fvent out toward midnjght to visit t]M. jiowcr >1 that wo mux piuceu upon me rate, they i?v it was very chirk, anil a ruin turo. I'r n^nnn fniild soo no farther he- street ran hisses tjiau ho can at evening ens, garlti gh iorfofk roko In uutuinn. Wo Toulcs ai an-rcUwtod tho guard, which re- j Toulcs ax I tin ^ "was quiet, and we woro ro- wore not lgrwoairt the great square when of ! houses we la'Theard a dull sound as of thou- 1 statues ol <f mtn tramping. j the great acn/' I said. | built, the is tjb Teulos who escape," whisper- had place itttoc. Huitzcl a ikljcvo ran to where tho street from tumbled < n\t luaro opens on to tho causeway, that after hete *cn through the darkness and er8 who 1 rce Wbht tho gleam of armor. Then jt waB Gi d aloj in a groat voice: ''To irms! this sacr 'ins! ho Teulos escape by tho caaso- tion for if Tlapan!" our faith, tantivy words woro caught up In heathen mtriosnd passed from post to post believed le cltyang with them. They were j vftg ft tr In cveigtroet and canal; they echoed i tlv)Ugh 1 tho rdg of houses and among tho | thctv Hi ilts of hundred temples. Tho city | th0 ij_j 0 with auinnur; from tho lake caxno ; XowS >und of bter beaten by 10,000 oars, | ovcrciuii* iugh myi.ds of wild fowl had sprung saying: nly frointholr reedy beds. Here, l>i ftm and cvorji'herc torches flashed out my brot oiling sgfc, wild notes wcro blown blood, b rns and bolls, anil alxovc all arose tho jt ia an i Ing of io snakeskin drum, which blood sti lests upq the tcocalll bout furiously. accursed 'scntly t^murmur grew to a roar, cratcd t "rom thl^direction and from that pomo be 1 men potrcd toward the causeway whero yc copan. feme came on foot, but the 1 him fore if thein w*e in canoes which covered j Thus itorsof lako farther tlian tho ear 1 though ] hear, ifev the Siianiards to tho j ^ my j1( er of 1,000 or so, accompanied by j iny wri 0,000 or.jp.OOO Tlascalans, were ; Btandp u ;lng on the causeway In a long thin j jn ; (juatcmooead I rushed before them, j triumph tiilg men at wo wont, till wo cunio to stand w st $anal, whore canoes were already i '.you ring by scores. Tho ho.ul.of tho Span* | temoc n lumn reached the canal, and tlio light j ^ hi V- which, so far as the Aztecs were worjg_ rncd^sa tfty without plun ?.rtm!" I you ovc l that aurliacsrf and confusion the stnn(iin) Ins could not ko iil'lUj >"V.11 "'I1'1" j honor v. tear their ^.dnT "ounoil. in wmntJand had only : 7 "j* J l<|l?^^drbiivMt-to kill tho I cannon roqmd, spndinff a sUir?-? - rslVp'HyK lets througli us, and" by Its flash wo . ^.n do hat tho Spaniards carried a timber | j^n do ) with them, which they woro plac- j your wj cross tho canal. Then wc fell on ( moro Qf every man llchting fof lumseli. , >,rnt)w,r ?ioc and I wcro swept over that I 5 by the first rush of the enemy jus j wor(. 1 'arc swept hi a gale, and though both | ?ur v< kvon through safely wo saw each oth- j u s nioro that night. With us and after ' "Aye he the long array of Spaniards and j row 8 s' alans, and from every side the Aztecs 'n d upon them, clinging to their strug- ! sinco tli "no as ants cling to ji wounded ' Pftn- I , tlio swo v can I tell all that came to pass 1 <Jown I dghtf 1 cannot, for 1 saw but little [uro1 'l 5' All I know Is that for two hours I af;vrft*i Qghtiug like a madman. The foe ] *?l ^ the first canal, but when all were brother the bridge was sunk so deep in the that y that it "ould not l>c stirred, and three juust li ags on ran a secoiid canal, deeper and . ?cust, ~ ' than tho first Over this they could viper t '"oss till It was, bridged with the dead. | s['n^s mcd as though all hell had broken upon that narrow ridge of grounu. ~ J1 , ?und of cannon and of arquebuses, my bed irieksof agony and fear, the shouts well. : Spanish soldiers, the wareries of the |no si the screams of wounded horses, the , by Cm 3f Women, the hiss of hurtling darts 1110 to nows and the dull noise of fulling I f?rvlco. i went up to heaven in one hideous i ",c "''l burly. Liko a frightened mob of ft Con"' ' ^bo long Spanish array swayed this J' ac.1*, and that, bellowing as it swayed. , 'rolled down the sides of the cause- been rt ? bo slaughtered in the waters of the 11 c . borne away t<> saerilice In the m,m " iiany were drowned in the canals, At fl yet mors were trampled to (Whin l.'10 nud. Hundreds of the Aztecs per- conihif also, fqr the most part beneath the large ( ens of Ujcir own friends, who struck tbnt w, hot, not knowing on whom the blow canoes Id fall or in whose breast the arrow none f d find Its home. were 3 r my fiat, I fought on with u little we pat _uf nifn wh i had gathered about mo | I bo Iai t lastthe dawn broke and showed an thcr Kl 1 .signL The most of those wIh) were i a fair ft the Spauiar ls ;??l Uieir allies cloths natl crossed the second canal upon abridge mado of the dead bodies of their fellows mixed up with a wreck of baggage, cannon and packages of treasure. Now the fight was ragttig beyond it. A mob of Spaniards and Tlascalans were still cross- i ing tho second bruich, and on these I fell | with such men as wcro with me. I j plunged right into tho heart of them, and , suddenly l?cforo mo I saw tho foco of Do : Garcia. With a shout I rushed at him. He heard my voico and knew me. With an onth ho i Struck at my head. Tho heavy sword camo j Nwn upon my helmet of painted wood, I Bering away one sido of It and felling J ere I fell I smoto him on tho breast [ withth* club I carried, tumbling him to j the earth. Now, half stunned and blinded, I crept toward him through tho press. All that I oonitl was a gleam of armor in j tho mud. \ threw myself upon it, grip- j ping at inoycarcr's throat, and together wo rolled ddVn tlio side of tho causeway Into tho shallL water at tho edgo of tho lako. I was "Wriuost, and with a flcrco joy I dashed thoVv,(j from niy 0yCS that I might sec to kfli^jy ciicjuj^ caught at ! last. Ills body wa?ln tlio lake, but his . head lay upon the slh^lc bank, and my plan was to hold '"^^Qcnth tho wator till h? was drowned, fokT had lost my club. \ 'At length, Do GarcialNj crjc(j ln Spanish as I shifted my grip.;^ "For tho lovo of God, let iik^m g^p. ; ed a rough voice beneath mo. \jfqo1, I am no Indian dog." Now I peered.into tho man's fiv, jjo- ! wildorcd. I had seized Do Garcia, DVhn voico was not his voice, nor was tho j his face, but that of a rough Spanish so. dler. ''Who arc you?" I said, slackening my 1 hold. "Whero is Do Garcia, lie whom you name Sarccda?" ' Sarceda? I don't know. A niinuto ago ho was on his back on tho causeway. Tho fellow pulled mo down and rolled behind mo. Let mo be, I say. I am not Sarceda, and if I were, is this a time to 60ttlo private quarrels? I am your comudc, Bcrnal Diaz. Holy Mother, who aro you? An Aztec who speaks Castilian?" ' I am no Aztec," I answered. "I am an Englishman, and I light with tho Aztecs that I may slay him whom you namo Sarccda. But with you I have no quarrel, Bcrnal Diaz. Begono and cscapo il you can. No; I will keep the sword, with your leave." ''Englishman. Spaniard. Aztec or dovll," grunted tho mnn as ho drew himself from his bed of ooze, "you ore a good fellow, and I promise you that if I livo through this, and if it should ever como about that 1 get you by the throat, I will remember tho turn you did mo. Farewell," nnd without more ado ho rushed up the bank and plunged into a knot of his flying countrymen, leaving Ids sword in my hand. 1 strove to follow him that I might And my enemy, who onco more had escaped by craft, but my strength failed me, for Do Garcla's sword had bitten deep, and I bled much. So I must sit where I was till ncanoecamo and boro 1110 back to Otomic to bo nursed, and 10 days went by lxjforc I could walk again. This was my share of tho victory of tho nocho triste. Alas, it was a barren triumph, though more than 500 of tho Spaniards were slain and thousands of their allies! For there was no warliko skill or discipl ino among tho Aztecs, and instead of following tho Spaniards until nono of them remained alive they staid to plunder tho dead and drag away tho living to sacrifice. Also this day of rcvengo was a sad one to Otomio, seeing that two of her brothers, Montezuma's sons, whom tho Spaniards held in hostage, perished with them in the fray. As for Do Garcia, I could not learn what had l>ecorao of him, nor whether ho was dead or living. CHAPTER XXII. THE BURTINO OK MONTEZUMA'S TREASURE. Cuitlahua was crowned emperor of tho A?t-.wa in cnnccssion of his brother Mon tczuma, whilo I lay sick with the wound gfSP Willi Rgcfrtff&'ffiflultur of sacrifice. This hurt had found no timo to licul, and in tho ficrco fighting on tho night of fear it burst open and bled much. Indeed It gave mo troublo for years, and to this hour I feci it In tho autumn season. Otomle, seemed to bo oo?-" loss of her frArt of woman, o\en olub set I hfliaru'd in her sorrow at the thcro by MffivriiiHl nearest kin, because Now t! ned the slaughter and won fame, dusky sk the ceremony of tho crowning, , 'What 4 splendid enough. Indeed tho | "You 1 lv almost mad with rejoicing bo- j cd Guat Tenles were gone at last. Ihey and lifto seemed to forget the loss of Then ; of their bravest warriors and of knees ci of their rank, and as yet, at any sounded did not look forward to the fu- place thr om house to house und street to ting thc troops of young men and maid- ; '-Toa nded with flowers, crying: ,lTho ; nonC)>' ? re gone; rejoico with us! Tho : tbo clul >o fled!" and woo to them who j and kilh merry?aye, even though their ; tho bod; :ro desolate with death. Also tho i into tbc : tho gods were set up again on j tllcro it pyramid and their temples re- g0m3 aI holy crucifix that the Spaniards . being w< d there being served as tho idols M ti10Ug nd Tozcat had been served, and to hid ht lown tho sides of thc tcocalli, and Now sacrifice of some Spanish prison- 6lain hi lad been offered in its presence. hand als iatcmoc himself who told mo of ! princes ilege, but not with any cxulta- i shot I had taught him something of | ,?Fuar , oud though ho was too good a , moc .. to change his creed, in secret ho ! bastard that the God of tho Christians , bo strovi no and mighty God. Moreover, I jvj0r0i jj :ie .vas obliged to countenance ! wcaitb t :e Otomie, Guatcmoc never loved j an(1 to fl] d rites of human sacrifice. I from a T ylicn I heard this talc my anger j but wh0 Amy reason, and I spoke fiercely, j herself 1 _ . i Now let swVrn to your cause, Guatcmoc) ; j10w bo | Lher, vid I am married to your I nc ut I iclKjou that from this hour . breast, iccursul cause. Bccauso of your | Annhim lined idols and your priests it is j flll 1. That Cod whom you havo dpsc- i ~0lxTS u md thoso who 6ervo him shall I ^>0 {oK ick iu pow <r, and he shall sit jt tb, >ur Idols sat, uul none shall stir Scaring vor"' May it i [ spoke, and my words wero true, niay | [ did not know what put them In- i jy t0 th< yirt, since I spoke at random (-ln I Soon ith, for today Christ's \chtircb j get the ! non tin" site of the place of sucri- ' squares Mexico, a sign and tcJuat of his f the bull i over devils, and there it Bliall I j;or hilo thc world endures. I 0penin? speak rashly, my brother," Gua- | treason msworod proudly enough, though j house, in quail at tho evil onien of my | there, 6 '1 say you speak rashly, and were ' on hear rheard there are tho6f\ notwitli- j erald r cj the lank we have given you, the i?ihero, 1 hicli you have won in war and i jar fmd "ami } '< ? poj-jgd tho i the rigl sacrifice, who might ' -ij^^oii to lm was aln uxuiIL tliU liUXid ot, I'iHITS inf??fit 5&E?nd. ' Wtfnt wt 1 '?HffB TTT nc to your Christian Ood tli*n has the; up no again mid again to our gods by | o iito kindred? l)ut lot ua talk no Very this matter, and I pray you, my* we flni do not utter such ili omened wo wit 0 mo again, lost it should "Strain ftnd k 5. Do you, then, believo that lIio Was gl ivill return?" above i , Guutemoc, so sorely as tomor in the .m shall rise. When you held Cor- up till your hand, you let him go. and black len ho has won a victory at Otom- stone c she a man, think you, to sheath i who si rd that he has oneo drawn and go j This nto darkness and dishonor? He- wo pu ear is past the Spaniards will 1m; prcscn the gates of Tenoctitlan." t sound, 1 are no comforter tonight, my which ," said Guatemoc, "and yet I fear the tr jur words ore true. Well, if wo i those 1 ght, let us strive to win. Now, at j powde hero is no Montezuma to take the I The o his bronst and nurse it till it I the su him." Then ho rose and went in Nov and I saw his heart was heavy. had g he morrow of this talk I could leave more. 1, and within a week I was almost "lie Now it was that Guatemoc came to | trcasu in, saving that he had been bidden such t tlahua, the emperor, to command Guatc accompany him, Guatemoc, on a j dud, u of trust and secrecy. And indeed ; The tire of t he service showed how great row si ilenco the leaders of the Aztecs now i work! initio, for it was nono other than broke ling away of the treasure that had at iui, captured from the Spaniards on the i panioi of fear, and with it much more tered 1 ho secret stores of the empire. | two y< lie fall of darkness we started, some | him ii great lords, Guatemoc and I, and ho did j to the water's edge we found 10 ; to nun lanoes, eaeli laden with something ; cred u ,is hidden hy cotton cloths. Intotlic \ ing in we entered secretly, tliinking that tlio m law us, three to a canoe, for there , ing p Oof us in all, and led by Guatemoc j our w Idled for two hours or more across j as we ike Tezcuco till we reached the far- | ; lore at a spot where this prince had j estate. Here wo landed, and the were withdrawn from the cargoes of I tho canoes, which were prp*t ]ors and I sucks of gold nnd jcw?jJ*ruesidcs many | otlier precious objects, juiiong them a likeness of the head of Montezuma, fashioned in solid gold, which was so heavy that It was as much as Guatcmoe nnd I could do to lift between us. As for the jars, of which, if my memory servos me, thcro wero 17, six men must cariy each of them by the help of paddles lashed on cither 1 side, and then tho task was not light. All this priceless stuff wo bore In several journeys to the crest of a rise some hundred paces distant from the water, setting it down by tho mouth of a shaft behind tho shelter of a mound of earth. When everything was brought up from tho boats, Guatemoc touched mo and another man, a great Aztec noble, born of a Tlascolan mother, on tho shoulder, asking us if wo wore willing to descend with him into tho hole and thereto dispose of tho treasure. "Gladly," I answered, for I was curious to sco tho nlaee. but tho noblo hesitated awhile, though in tho end ho came with ^ us, to his ill fortune. 1 Then Guateir.oc took torches in his hand I 1 was lowered into tho shaft by a rope, j ' cunio my turn, and down I went, t '^/ing to the cord like a spider to its ^ thread, and tho wholo was very deep. At t length I found myself st uiding by tho ; sido of Guatemoc at thc^oJf. of tho shaft, 1 round which, as I light of tho 21 was built up to tho height of a man above t our heads. Resting on this edging and against tho wall of tho shaft was a massivo block of stono sculptured with tho picture f writing of tho Aztecs. I glanced at tho writing, which I could now read well, and x saw that it recorded tho burying of tho a treasure in tho first year of Cuitlahua, I ) emperor of Mexico, and also a most fear- t< | curso on him who should dare to steal ( . Beyond us and at right angles to the' ran another passage, 10 paces in j ] lcnf? and high enough for a man to walk iy which led No a chamber hollowed s I in tho <*rth, as large as that wherein I 11 I writo totny at DltdVingham. By tho a I mouth of ^is chamber were placed piles j of adobo brVks and mort^ xnuch of the j| blocks of hew^ stones had been placed in r that undorgrouad vault at Seville where I Isabella do Slguenza was bribed uj livI ing. "Who dug this ph?c?" I asked. "Those who know i*t what thej^tg," , answered Guatemoc. uBut see, 'jg . ! our companion. Now, my broth* j i chargo you bo surprised at nothing wJtcj, ! I comes to pass, and bo nssivcd I have ! reason for nnything that I *jay do." Before I could f.pcak ogif-n tho Aztec 1 | noblo was at our side. Then those above { began to lower tho jars and sacks of trcas| urc, and ns they reached us ono by ono j j Guatemoc loosed tho ropes and checked j them, whilo tho Aztec and I rolled them j j down tho passago into tho chamber, as i here in England men roll a cusk of ale. j : For two hours and more wo worked till [ at length all were down, and tho tale was complete. Tho last parcel to bo lowered 1 was u sack of jewels that burst open ns it ; came and descended upon us in a glitter- j ing rain of gems. As it chanced, a great ' necklace of emeralds of surpassing sizo and beauty fell over my head and hung upon my shoulders. "Keep it, brother," laughed Guatemoc, "in memory of this night," and, nothing I loath, l hid the hnuhic in my Dreasc. xnac i i nccklaco I have yet, and a Btono of It?the | , smallest savo one?I gave to our gracious ! Queen Elizabeth. Otomio wore it for many years, and for this reason it shall bo burled with nio, though its value is priceless, so say those who are skilled in gems. But, priceless or no, it is doomed to lio in the mold of Dltchingham churchyard, and may that Bamo curse which is graved upon i the stone thut hides the treasure of the 1 Aztecs fall upon him who steals it from j my bones. | Now, leaving tho chamber, wo three entered the tunnel and began the wcrk of building tho adobe wall. When it was of a height of between two and three feet, Guatcmoc pnused from his labor and bado mo hold a torch aloft. I obeyed, wondor u "lanur tn Sthen Ju* drew back some threo Daces into the tunnel and spoke to the Aztco noble, our companion, by nnmo. "What is tho fate of discovered traitors, frlond?" ho aiid in a volco that, quiet though it was, sounded very terrible, and with spikes of glass that hung the past fe a thong. his attenti ic Aztec turned gray benenth his wealth of in and trembled in his fear. the result ; mean you, lordf" ho gasped. secured a ' ;now well what I mean," answer- ?iinn?h he emoo in tho mme terrible voice, ? [1 the club. , . . tho doomed man fell upon his sor Licbc ying for mercy, anil nis waning | me iuuoi, bo awful In thai deep and lonely | itself in s< it in my horror I went near to let- j tonishiug torch fall. |1C j)ns c0, foo I can give mercy?to a traitor i . , r, inswerod Guatemoc, and whirling I f . ? aloft ho rushed upon tho noblo j that what id him with a blow. Then seizing j the begun y in his strong embraco ho cast it ! ments in I i chamber with tho treasure, and I The reu lay still and dreadful among tho j pretty far id gold, tho arms, as it chanced, j ??(jul0ric 1 mind about two of tho great jars ; , qu ;h tho dead man would clasp thorn ?> * 11 sart. f-' tolu. I looked at Guatenioc, who had from wee) in, wondering if my hour was at up a rc< :o, for I knew well that when But this 1 bury their wealth they hold that s0 to spi lid shnro the 6ccret. enterprise not, my brother," said Guato- 1 Listen. This man was a thief, a ^ and a traitor. As wo know now, | , a twice to betray us to tho Tcules. i Blacksbu was his plan to show this nest of j getting n o them should they return again the work hare tho spoil. All this wo learned j Major Joi coman whom ho thought his love, ! resentati' was in truth a spy set to worm Danv>s c nt? tho secrets of his wicked heart. { iT : him tako his fill of gold. Look tooK pan grips it even in death; a whlto man a thorou it hug the stuff moro closely to his plant. Ah, Teule, would that tho 6oil of As ma; c boro naught but corn for bread engravin it and copper for tho points of Q jeep I ? nd arrows; tiien had her 6ons been i ?pjie j)rcJ sver. Curses on yonder dross, for ; . . , j bait that sets these sea sharks . at our throats. Curses on it, Isayl i 0,1 11 ( lever glitter moro in the sunshine; j River ai jo lost forever I" And ho fell flcrco- j trestle w j work of building up tho walL j a side tri it was almost dono, but beforo wo facilitate last bricks, which wero shaped in building liko tho clay lump that wo usofor ding of farmeries and hinds'houses i ore ' ' folk, I thrust u torch through tho ! oae Slae f and looked for the last tlnioattho ! Extendi! 3 chamber that was also a dead- j over the Thero lay tho glittering gems, j the left, itood upon ajar, gleamed the gold- | heavy oi 1 of Montezuma, ot "Which tho cm- i erg j0C{ yes Siccmcd to glnnj at mc, and j Us baokAvstlng against this samo I ?",. to ; ' ast hise^^hat wero shut j wards tl u'liud. und they stand at mo liko ' nnrvimh . jiiideycav-t frol,?V? statue nbovo I "/'P, nly moro fearfully. x I 1 if hastily I withdrew tho torch, and ,e * shed in silence. When it was done, J *l|rc ot lulrew to tlie end of tho passage j building inked up the shaft, and I for ono j laborate :ul to seo tho stars shining in lieuven corn pat) me. Then we made a double loop The v rope, and at a signal were hauled f|)(, jj,)H we hung over the ledge where tho .. ? moss of niarhle rested, the tomb- ' . if Montezuma's treasure and of him ecps among it. gralifyn i stone, that was nicely balanced, | gaged ii islieil with our liands and feet till i cry. A tly it fell forward with a heavy ! trentiii" and catching on tho ridge of brick j no (j()(1 had been prepared to receive it shut j ... ensure shaft ill such a fashion that . f . ivlio would enter it again must tako r with them. ! crusher n we were dragged up and came to 1 small p rfaec of the earth in safety. . j in a mi one asked of the Aztec liohlo who powi one down witli us nim reuirnuu ?u | j)pj.R | ? has chosen to stay and watch tho : 1,1 ci est re, like n good and loyal man, till As it ime as his king needs it," answered j powdei moc grimly, add thoJistcners nod- j and go nderstaiuling all. quart/ n they fell to and filled up the nar- j step is iaft with the earth that lay ready, 1 whole i ng without cease, and tho dawn 1 1 before the task was finished. When I . gth the hole was full, one of our com- i is took seeds from a bag and scat- ! 'y hglil them on tho naked earth; also ho set torial, jung trees that ho had brought with playiiif l tho soil of the shaft, though why i washes . this I do not know unless it was i i0 ijse| rk tho spot. All being done, we gath- ! vr. p tho ropes and tools, and embark- , tho canoes camo back to Mexico in pyi'ilos ornlng, leaving the canoes at a land- j farnaei laco outsldo tho city and finding J four ot ay to our homes by ones and twos, j one al thought, unnoticed of any. centre I'd UK CONTINUED NEXT WKKK. |-uke ! there i Easter falls on April 14 this year, water CALORIC REDUCTION WORKS. SIGNIFICANT FNTFH I'll IS F ESTABLISHED AT BLACKSBVltd TO MANUFACTURE SULPHURIC ACID. How Gold 1h Extracted From Fyrltc OresRed Faint a Ill-Product?Employment for Idle Labor and a Market for Hlth- i , erto Worthless Roek?Promising Developments in Northwestern York. "The day is not far distant when the northwestern section of York district will be alive with a great mining tnd manufacturing population. It >eems that Divine wisdom has here 'nncpnt rnfprl nil the plpmpnfs that cnn. ribute to man's comfort, pleasure and mppiness. Full investigation of the /ast naturul wealth stored in these lills is reserved for a future generation ; ' )ut is not deuied the observer of the ! present, with prophetic vision, to fore- i ell the coming events that must open ' lp a train of operations in which capial and industry will give range to the nherant power now lying dormant, ! ind force this section to a state of development, u^urpusserf on this-eoninent." So wrote Oscar M. Lieber, the State J ;eologist for South Carolina, while in 857, ho was making a geological sur- ; ey of Northwestern York, and on nother occasion, in a letter to The i Dnquirer he said : "I am almost empted to hope that the other porions of the State will not prove so *<h in minerals as this, for it they do, shlm-^vp^i|)e ftble to complete my urvey. -A- corps of engineers aight be profitabTjr^v?^i^vc^ jn York I lone for an entire year/*"*^.^^ Even before Lieber made his stTT*^^ t, was well known that the section eferred to was immensely rich in various minerals anii||ce ,j3 , at east liolf a dozen \,,cr geologists have been ova ?|e ground with the result oC,.hj t I the snme opinion. But n?^ Vg i little has been done looking rv? I zation of their glowing l?i"?uwons ! The reasons are numerous, air/L^i j of them are good. A suflicienA^ ! however, is the fact that no^eVj- j those who best understood the mui\ : and extent of the rich rewards Qrej lying ready to be opened up atflbe i bidding of capital and industry, hiv> j been able to control the means neceV sary for their development. But once again there is a gleam of hope. Everybody in York county either knows or has heard of Maj./u. John F. Jones. During the ''ls' years, he has added more ' values in the county theifer' single individual.^o'seusenof nears ,t Die word hg^per, and during becomes w years he has been giving the top i on especially to the mineral ture at Northwestern York. As form. 1of his investigations, he has comes in rust fund of information, and to the be may not be quite so enthu- ore mass to possible results as Profes- drawn o ' and others, his faith, like j inder, a lrd seed, has already shown j wooden line practical results of as- j The tr proportions. What is more, ed and u mmenccd to meet with sub- continue sward1, and the probability is portion he has already done is only j another ling of still greater develop- j er. Tin he same direction. j ed from iders of'The Enquirer are j cleaning niliar with the history of the } retort w deduction Works," at Blacks- | heat to r viurilant correspondent, "W. another - * "O of their establishment, and and ma k to week has been keeping round i jord of their development, been col las only been by piecemeal, j from wl eak, and believing that the ! ble, and ; is one in which our people meut to e or less interested, The ! Left i r sent a representative to ' process, rg recently for the purpose of | large q lotcs for a full description of : Theliqt :s as they appear at present, j due to t lies kindly introduced the rep- ; ties of c re to Prof. Burger, the com- I is filter* hemist, and that gentleman I of a thii is to afford every facility for dried, o igh inspection of the entire I as the in barn y be seen by the accompanying on accc g, the buildings are located in of color iviuc between two high hills. ! Thg i rk in the background, just to j of whal >f the taller building, is a cut : Caloric arthern division of the Ohio j The tr id Charleston railroad. The ; the ma oik on the right, is the end of J pyrites ack especially constructed to | gold ar ! the delivery of ores. The j reduce* on the right is for storage*of ; ly in al 1 is between the sidetrack on > of com and a wagon road on the other, j tant u ng from the storage building I phosph wagon road to the building on J fertiliz is a gangway over which the ) zer pli res are transferred to the crush- | ductioi ited in the farthest building I ing pr ?ft. Below the crushers is the . But w lepartment. The rousting dc- | rcduct it is located in the tall building j develo us, and in the last one,Is done < the res ctinir. The ji'nall builtl'"H variou l,r iu~rtr>vnti?d to the iiniiuitho-'?^uini-yff red paint, and in tin* small timJei* ; on the right, is located the . templi >ry and also the ofliecs of the | the \vr y. tons a vorks were not in operation at j a largi ;! of the visit of the representa- 1 meat Tjik E.Nqulltlilt. The compa- now id just completed some highly now o ng* experiments, and was en- and pi a putting in additional maehin- , little I description of the process of 1 Tlio ; pyrites ores, however, will, peopk lit, he read with interest. OnJ only t moval from the storage httild-"! the pr e ores are first- placed in the Calori s, where they ure hrokeu into furthe ieces. Then they are placed in this II, and, by attrition, ground to they I ler as line as Hour, and it is sary c at the process begins to grow ; Every ing. j will in: comes from the mill, the finely husint ed ore contains iron, sulphur there ild, mixed with quart/.. The the f; is worthless gang, and the first | her ai to secure its elimination. The ( mass of powder is thrown upon endless belt, slowly moving up ('ill e incline. . The gang is slight- j >?oopl ler than the more valuable inn- const! and a slow stream of water, : cold \ ; on the belt from above, some i it away and the pyrites is saved altere f. enced separated from its gang? the arc e< i is conveyed to the roasting cnce. ?. This consists of eight retorts, warm 1 a side, and lying horizontally, quont )ove the other. Through the sleep! of each retort there is a hollow feet, shaft, and through each shaft from s a constantly (lowing stream of becat to temper the heat and preserve the e j ' " j its rigidity. Playing among the retorts, there is a fierce llame fed by j kerosene oil, atomized with steam I and regulated with an automatic ar. rangement that subjects it to absolute j control. This beat, which is very j strong nt the bottom, diminishes in ' intensity as it rises to the top. The ' pyrites is placed in the retorts at the'* | top, and by means of the automatic 1 rakes, is drawn first through one retort and then another to the bottom, the heat growing greater and greater until in the last retort practically all of the sulphur is roasted away in the form of gas. This gas escapes from a flue into n large lead lined chamber, where, upon condensation, it becomes sulphuric acid, the first Valuable pro duct of the operation. The sulphur having been driven . away by the roasting process, there is left for further treatment a large quantity of oxide of iron, a little worthless gang and a small per cent, of gold, and the next step is to extract this gold. As everybody is aware, mercury has a perfect affinity for, and quickly amalgamates with, free gold ;but under no circumstances will it amalgamate in the presence of sulphur. Gold miners huve often tried to get around the trouble by simply burning away the sulphur in an ordinary furnace; but for some reason they have always failed. It is easy enough to burn off < the last particle of sulphur; but still 1 there is no amalgamation. Some i chemists believe that when subjected i directly to a flame, the gold takes on i a glaze that effectually Resists the action of mercury. Whether this is true < or not, it is certain that after the roast- i ing process just described, the gold is ! easily amalgamated, and. the Caloric 1 'a It "c CALORIC REDUCTION WORKS. only this, they claim thut theirs is the y only furnace ever invented that leaves f the gold from roasted sulphur ores in v such a shape that it can be amalgam- t ated at all. .. From the roasting furnace, the ore, t now free from sulphur, is discharged I into a specially prepured cooling chamber in which it is allowed to cool. It o is then taken to the amalgamator, h which consists of two large cylinders? e one perpendicular and the other hori- p zoatal, and connected by a "T" in a o >rick chumber at the bottom of the h .perpendicular one. The lower por- v 1 ou of the amalgamator is subjected to ^ I ^."?,r.^Qkignt to valorize raercurv? m the ternpemtujMM^^P VAUA1UES * lere it seizes.^haj81" 8?'" Nothing cai contact with an<?ps ?^a'n the vagaries c >ttom, where, m with the ^ Jn hj3 5, by means of Tew, it is n? mnn ^ ir through the hontal cyl- dgad and U1 nd discharged i immense thi tubs, called colltjjg; pans. , consent! euted ore is thorjhly wash- ^j. &nd cu, illowed to settle Chen, by a ^ j.Qur mcn | us automatic prss, the top tjiem Up tc of the mass is oved luto ession a, pan, and this yti?dx)^anoui- : ^ey werc ^ -H ni' me tuiiuigi|ia w.,vw. the bottom of tlUns? in the [ t0'(lup process?anMuced in a j "Ay> aud i here it is subjectio sufficient ^10 world 's vaporize it umfrive it into an(l vicious chair.' i^v^here) condensed sootier or lal de readj^|jBfc)'in a similar lows." igain. A^J'bld that has The woul lected is left^h retort pan, t,lis> poppei lich it is pourdlnto a cruci- that they < melted down rdy for ship- themselves the mint. fame, and n the settlers 1 during the would thra which is coutipus, there is a insolence, uantity of brij red liquor, "tter the it tor is water, anhe coloring is Dead flesh i he admixture large quanti- longer and xide of iron, hen the water ,,fter th< 3d, the iron is 1- in the shape ; hausted. I ck paste, whicMhen pressed, j violent exei ind subjected tvhat is known ! eJ profuse air floating- piess, is packed ; naately reci ;ls and sold ajaint, of which, i Then the >unt of its bod3'iid permanency | maker, rein ', it makes the^st known. ; that he h above giv?s?a ktty fair outline another he - is to be seen jthe plant of the : placed ou Reduction tyks at present. ! ?wn. lain intent o/be compauy is "Look a: i)ufacture of sfhuric acid from ! "Miuower and saving, aji>i-products, the ! are Poor id paint contlied in the ores i was sound .1. Sulphuric id is used large- I How diflei il the arts, an# a staple article j my own hi merco. One flits most impor- ' Believer ses, howeveps in dissolving Florentine lute rock forp manufacture of writes: " ers, and the Action of a fertili- 'lu* a pei jut in couniiion with the re- l'e eoncei i works, we,/s to be a promis- | into a'pile a i t yuijjvi tr belber m u t s J k ' d y \y/ to enbugc vh^nbriu that '/l Wl nnchincry I hoi f handle iwt less thaii-^^K . "ftornooi ['his will.wtHi the 'o those sr of li',*ns)(>lie emplc show it. s of jabprers who no,Juoutive taa'ket for what i^^^ W'lIK; uly worthless rof, and industry Amon< rosperhy whereJhore has been It >ut stagnation, j -? full mooi ugh more tbn^onoe bavc our j from the ; had their hales raised high j change o 0 have them dijhed down again, ' year beg osjiect looks e?:otiraging. The I the ehai c Reduction pople have gone i sion in d i" t han (any boy lias ever gone j ter was I 1 section be fort It seems as if Even lave at their cnnmanTl all noces- times el npital to go as.'iir as they please, I modes ( twidv who knftvs Major Jones, is j made un g to admit hat he knows his | place m \ss, and from lie present Cntlook ! lowing, is every reaon to believe that j The { iuryland predetions of Prof. Lie- | on Janu e at last to b? fnllilled. ! is not a \v. i> ?s. ! eial star ... | The ' Honic Chiminkss.?How some | with th e sutler in winter! They are j year of mtly bavin; chills, a feeling of ! Amor vater tricklhg down the hack, or j there w local stagmtion of blood, with : ginning d nervous sensations, ia experi- ' unry 1, i; the bancs, feet, nose, or cars in two specially lilely to give iuconveni- j year n Such individuals cannot get present i, even in bed, and, as a conse- I months e often suffer from insomnia, for j Feast c lessncss is often caused by cold , The Many such conditions arise ' also va the fear of taking outdoor exercise 1" F ise the wether is too cold. Hence ' the yet irculalion is not kept going, and i vingim the blood, Vitiated by the close, impure air of the house, has no chance offered it of'being allowed to purify itself. The foulest river or stream ?f water is rendered pure by exposure {to the air as it comes along, and, altera run of a few miles becomes fit for-consumption. Why, then, will delicate pebple deny $be stream of life an opportunity to purify itself as it comes though their veins? Here is the secret' qf how JLo keep warm in winter-~otj$(lbor exercise in pure air. -?xi K BY TIMKLTAgg ' The great savant, M.'$jkimas, that France lost a couple ofyeip ago, was tnnn-n for his kindn?oir >1 * " * ? ?vw w mo nviivmen. The following antidote does the greatest honor to tiK i ejfninent chemist: /?< \ One day a woman in deepest of distress came to his houa and begged to see him. ~ , 1 y. "Forgive my intrusion;^v?e' cried, when she found herself ihf tie great man's presence, "but I came to implore your aid. Iam ihe wife ypf a painter who has lately^! know not by what mttfl nesfcTgflTra yp'h"TS~atft in order to try some things m chemis^y. Just now he is trying to discova- a process which will 6x pictures upbu plates of polished copper. , M. Dumas listened in silence, ripd* ding his head. ? "My poor husband is losiug tis' 3enses, sir ; he is selling all we possess^ in order to procure the ingredients' necessary for the work." ^ "But," objected M. Dumas, "I really do not see what I can do in thematter." "This, ;? st if you will he is doing is useless } oil will prevent him conti^^li resent wuy of proceeding , f T kill soon reduce us to the/^ eX" j remity of poverty." J . "Give me your adr18' ^ J hink the matter said fif. . )innas, and dismiW 6 woman- /a Left alone, he*#*>ught the 8ul,je}' 1 ver long and ?5^- Whafc sho/ a e do ? If he/fceoaraged this see/1 r ufter an ^known art he rf N , perhaps, parent a great dis^-' N\ n the otj*T?.And, to let him /tl" ? Kj is^^^i&ode of life was ttrann LlJfcjfaydioK and uj* ffoney you need." ^nTump r contiuued, thanks to tion in a str ous help, and succeeded, correct they ire, the inventor of the why cotton named alter him called '?o?'o large I; s. '. tentioiuo ii , ? . staple" "Mj OF TI1K IMAGINATION. j ^Vuc, i be more uncertain than j factories wo if the imagination. Hay- ! for nil the c "Hierarchy," tells of a woui(j i?crc J **"* ","C ' vbo tuncieu mm m, ....w 1U1|J1 ged his friends to bury j tives would 3 advice of a physician, 1 have the rei ;d. He was laid upon a j and the goo ried upon the shoulders many ways :o the church, when some j ?the business, stopped the ! Pastk T nd inquired who it was ' many peoj out to inter. They were stamp in a I of ten sticl i very good job it is, for j the recipiei , well rid of such a bad , and genera character. He would j to release i ler have come to the gal- | perating th l altogether d-be dead man, hearing inclosed, f 1 his head up, and said wasted. I Dtight to be ashamed of of us seldo in thus traducing his fair stamp, for if he were alive he us than tl sh them soundl}' for their The tenth But they proceeded to is well cue lost outrageous language, out unseet and blood could stand it no ly depravi up he jumped. They ran, ] of doing. ;m, until he fell down ex- J simple on le was put to bed, and the , two para) rcise he had tuken prompt- letter, am perspiration, and he ulti- will thus ivered. * special pa re is the case of a watch- Perhap ited by Pintel, who insisted , village w! ad been guillotined, and I notes are ad hud, by mistake, been j son, it I his shoulders instead of his j change i | light carc t these teeth," he would say. j Insert th eextremely handsome; these j paper aci and decayed. My mouth , orest's M I and healthy ; this is foul. ; 'ent is the hair from that of \ Ixueni ead." | smuggliti mto Cellini, the celebrated j ion{, ?g( ! artist, in his own life, j bank-no) The governor of the castle ! tion will -iodical disorder. One time ; They coi ted. himself metamorphosed j aU(] alth iher of oi 1^; another^m^^^^mle ha fain. At length he thought j smu?*lii Jbwtj and when he went to eredTV jaade just such noises as bats Accid ikewise used his hands aud { the my if he'vi^re going to fly." One j that so remthe writer, ; nmuLo* Lit himseVouTjJrtrne^s uv'po- , i*ji,g e ie?, djonl(Vjiini*eIl s'nte that pfr^m a | nlent light shone over his own officer, m morning tiff gfolock in the ahd use ), and that it was conspicuous deliver* to whom lie thought proper to siguee. his oWi - he poii \ Till- NEW YEAR BEGINS. there v Oriental people the ; further maraud begins with the first V> 1 of DecerA^^. j . gfin place v Fourteenth century to the be. T f calendar in 1752, tin* legal notes,! an on March 25, and after smugg ige was made much confuates resulted before the mat- i Hk?f" 1 ally understood. is that yet a historical issue is some- , when ouded by the difference in the : starts >f reckoning, and it is thus nap? iccrtnin whether an event took i you c:i the year named or in that fol- j dog < | This li irescnt heginiiing of the year j our ti ury 1, in the middle of winter, ! long i natural hut an entirely artili- { wild a ting point. I Their Greek year originally began j and 1 e winter solstice, as did the I cnoug most northern nations. j leave? ig the Latin Christian countries j uroun ere seven different dales for he- : wouh the new year. March 1, Jan- keeps December 25, March 25, used j there ways?first, by beginning the j of eo ine months sooner than at i why ; second, by beginning three I later?at Faster and on the if Ascension. | antid usage of the same country lias Aula ried at different times. the < 'ranee, under the Merovingians, been ir began on March 1; the Carlo- j arid, ins began their year on Decern- I were ber 25, and the Capetians at Easter. The Romans, 'till Ciesar's time, began the year on March 1, and an illustration of the reluctance to change names is seen in the fact that, although the names September, October, November and December originally denoted" ?i.? i>?.. 11, .1 me uuiiiuui ui luu uiuuiu, nicy mu now grossly inapplicable. The Egyptians, Chaldeans, Persians, Syrians, Phoenicians and Carthaginians began their year in the autumn, as did the Jews their civil year. FOUR GREAT BATTLEFIELDS. Among the first bills passed by the house at the present session, was one making an appropriation of $75,000 for establishing a national military park at Shiloh, and Another appropriating <$20,000 for the dedication, next September, of the park already fouuded on the battlefields of Chickamauga and Chattanooga. The Richmond Dispatch ' says: uThe United States is engaged to some extent in buying battlefields of the late war to convert into national parks. As yet, however, we have observed no disposition on its part to purchase any field on which its troops suffered with defeat. Perhaps it may do this later on. If so, we know several fields in Virginia worthy of the government's attention?fields where i there were large numbers of men enI gaged, where the losses were very heavy and where great valor and [.strategy were displayed. Among these ! are dVIanassas, Cold -Harbor, FrederKScksburg, ChancelJorsville, the Wilder' iSess,' etr^>?*g~*have doubts, however, wTtiiiirTne Grand Army of the Republic, in which most of these schemes / originate, will ever urge the purchase of any of these battlefields. But there is a field in Virginia, where they won the conclusive triumph of the war, and which from their standpoint even, aiight well be acquired for a national /' Pfcrk. Thut field is Appomattox. W' betiftvje that Northern and SoutI?''a . sentiment both would commr* uS movement for the purchase r /* the United Stutes govd70?n<Xft Appomattox is a field / f live in history : it will V when the names of .J. have been forgotten. 7<&doar lh? recollection of. tUl tho#/^ mustered thenv whether undet*^? or (-rlanJThe Confederate/ possesses u parole issued at Apj/Wl?xJias tt whieWhe wunVTjT*1 ?0W" bi? lato^o8t?pf?<Vi<,1.the Fe1eral xpiHUnattox as dear. r^"-K inaj^^nurvy*l,c very noblest +nalituv*'^ both armies manifested. L'here /he American sdldier displayed jimsvf to the best advantage.' /Chan?k in Cotton VaLUiiSr=H4iv^ . . X. \V. Humphrey, of Carteret county, J. C., in a recetrt\cQjnmunication to he Beaufort Herald;;jjBafls attention to hf great increase in, value between ' yw cotton and manufactured f the same materials even at thprtflfiT rice of the latter. He sav^^ffit and yard of common caBfrrorer gets for ilculate whata(<l^wid^hto calico bale cost of the id set; ^^nufaeturing, ileVBi show' p^3( pf0Vej. | j 0^ t^yhat ^ laces one' .Teoteotto^SsVi^etfroat 0f r tovveig*1 .'aces ^ nd T u'*6 mrey^sl^ires put (lie arc should More H^si no r |Sies around. u' Nte a home :otton N*; could con^H^H^^BBB^^^M !aSC .' 3?"<1 , ,ch\!|ic I sucn>r . iie8 iini^^^Cr^B inly cash to payv" them,^^^^ <1 effects would in his in Your Desk.?hV. >le know liow to send iK letter? Nine persons out JjKKm k it so carefully down that j^BS it always loses his temper \ ^^^B lly the stamp, in the etl'ort \ ^^^B t. It is really more e?0o- \ inn when the sender forgets \ the stamp he should have v N^H or then, at least, it is not ^^^B Oven the most extravagant \ m have souls ahove saving a it is, strangely far, dearer to le two eents it represents. BB person sends it loose, which ^^B >ugh provided it does not slip 1 and vanish, as those total- ^B >d small things have a trick The proper way is a very e. Cut with a sharp knife ^B lei slits at the top of your I slip in your stamps, which ^^^B travel as safely as if in a per case. s you have been in a country ^B here money orders and postal ^B unknown, and, for some rea- ^B becomes necessary to send H| II a letter. Cut a piece of ^B Ihoard the size of your coins. 3b e coins and paste a strip of oss one or both sides.?J)emagazine. lous.?An ingenious device for ig was detected iu Russia not ). A great number of false H ,es had been put into circula- B lin the dominions of the czar. B aid only have been imported, B ougli the strictest search was B ibitually over every vessel en- B nni't. no truce of the,, - * ~ ""B lvuiB'"? I?-, ? ng of false notes wasjlieeffv- ? e!t\lin\veveiv.jit last brought I steryS!o_ M&nt. It happened vejpd-e.isfe\of lead pencils ar *c day from Eb^tined, and while I xamiueiLftUe. of rhein f.-ll out I package, and the custom M picking it up, out it to a^b^d, :d it to sign the order whilth i ^ ?d up the pencils to the coiil^ . ' He kept the loose i use, and a few days afterwards nted it again, and founts that ' 1 T?'? "itt still i-as no more leuy*, - . an<J wis surprised to find a MAjJ'papcr nested in the hollow ftiere the lead was supposed to he paper was one of the false and in this way they had been led into the country. law you ever thought why it a dog turns around and around he jumps upon his cushion or to settle himself any where for a Now that you are reminded, ^ in recall that you have seen a lo it many times, can't you? lahit is about, all that is left of line little doggies of the days ago, when they were a race of ^1 iiiimals and lived in the woods. beds then were matted grass eaves, and it was to trample ;h grass and properly arrange the i that the dog always trod d a narrow circle before he 1 lie down. The dog of today : up the same old habit, although is no longer any need for it, and, urse the animal has no notion lie does it. Cobalt nitrate is found to be an ote to prussic acid. l)r. Johann I, a chemist of Hungary, has tried cobalt on 40 persons who have accidentally poisoned by prussic and it is reported that the results satisfactory in all cases.