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LOST TRIBE OF ISRAEL? Peculiar Race of People Living Un derground in Central America Chicago Chronicle. Col. J. C. Tucker. former United States minister at Martinique. relates a strange story of a race of people living in an underground city in Cen tral America. Col. Tucker some time ago received information, about a race who live in cities cut out of the rocks in the mountains in Central Amerie.. in an out-of-the-way place. very dinfi cult to reach. and which no stranger had visited before him and returnea alive. He decided to investigate. After reaching a certain point Col. Tucker had to travel 8oo miles through wild jungles carrying his provisions on a pack mule and en during many hardships on the way. As he neared the hidden city his every movement was watched and reportea to the high priest of the tribe dwell ing there, but no harm was offered him: When he shot a pair of lions in the jungle. which had been killiDg the natives, he did an act that turnea out to be the very thing that gave him their friendship and protection. He was welcomed by the high priest, who spoke good English. ana was shown through their Wondertui city, hewn out of solid granite rocks in the mountain side. To the unini tiated- the surface of the mountain gave no clew to the city concealed within it. It was entered by secret passages. cunningly concealed by nature's handiwork. and which led to large, commodious rooms. hand somelv furnished. mostly in old ma hogany. Passages led to hundreds of other ro.ms and to a large hall, in which the strange people met and held meetings. while smaller open i for ventilation went upwara. ending among the rocks and jungles above. so arranged that the rain could not enter The t-dition among these curious people was that they originally came fronr a country far away. and that their mission was to -utwit their enemies, which, in the beginning. pursued them. At all entrances there were side rooms, from which, at a moment's notice. deadly gases could be let loose upon any hostile invaders who might enter, and which would kill them instantly, while by sliding doors of stone the gas would be kept from entering the city. The light of the sun, moon or stars, never enters their underground city, except by certain openings, by which they study the mysteries of the night skies, but they use electricity for lighting purposes. a science they have learned by keeping in touch with the outer world through their young men. The colonel says he was an attend ant at their meetings and was sur prised to find they were going through the Masonic rituals, which he. being a mason of high degree. un derstood. This was an inheritance of theirs from their ancestors of the unknown past. Col. Tucker has written many chap ters about these - people and their city. He has done so because he wishes to preserve the knowledge. He freely shows them to his friends, and has as yet made no effort to publish them. The proprietor of a welt known eastern magazine, who visited the city oi Mexico. and who was given the privilege of reading the manuscripts, with the proviso that he would not publish their contents. offered Col. Tucker nrst $5.ooo and then doubled that amount if the col onel will pilot him to the city in the rocks. And he may yet do so. Col. Tucker believes that these peo pIe are a part of the lost tribe ot Israel. He has many old parchments they gave him. which he has been unable to get anyone to decipher for him, but which he hopes to have reaat by some one of the great scholars of :he world, when the mysteries thiey contain in their time-stained hiero gly phics will be made plain. tnus re vealing to the world perhaps the strangest story that ever linked the dim past with the living present. . Power in Woman's Eyes. A woman's eves are the first ob jects to attract a man's attention, and they are the last things he remembers about her. Long after he has forgot ten the co.lor of her hair. the dimple in her chin and the soft sweet soni of her vo ice. the h.k-in he-r -v-' re mains with him. - He may not he able to single her loveout i apileof eepskes he may have cast her photograph up side down in the waste basket with a lnt of others; the slippers she made him may have been worn out by his valet. but still some particular turn oi her glance or lifting her brown eves will be as clear to him as the daylight. Ten years after -love has been laid away in his little satin linea casket that glance will rise like Ban quo's ghost at the feast and startic him ijust at the moment when the man is looking most intently into the eyes of another woman. It is not the color of the woman' eyes which a Vian first remembers. Nine times out of ten a man will turn from the glance of a pair of soft brown. cowlike eyes to gaze into the green orbs of the red headed girl on the other side of the table. and many a doll like, blue eyed beauty weeps because some pug nosed, tawny woman has lured away her sweetheart. Ask any man the color of his sis ter's eyes and he will look at you blankly, "Jove," he will remark, "I * ACANI + We hearby annou * candidate for more * ourselves to satisfy + MAYES' DR $ We believe in w( AT THE RUSSELL Will find a full line of Gr< Vegetables, Tobacco, Cigars, * thing in the grocery line con my Boneless Pig Feet, Columb Tripe and other nice things us cery Store. I have got the go will appreciate your trade an< I filled promptly; goods delivere you the very best goods you can is possible for them to be sokd Be sure to find the place, the R JACOB L. 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Color, size and shape may make an eye beautiful, but they never cant give it that something which so many beautiful eyes lack and so many homely ones possess. the power. to make a man break a bank or sell his overcoat in order to give his wife what she wants. When the world was sentimental men called it "soul." Then they grew practical and apathetic ana Ithey called it "character." But no man will ever know what it is any more than he will ever know why he married the particular woman 'ae picked out, or why the cook has left. It is a question as subtle and elusive as either of these. )IDATE nce ourselves as a business and pledge all customers. UG STORE. >man's suffrage. AlkmAkmAskMk.AE OLD STAND YOU ecries, Confectioneries, Fruits, &c. When in need of any ie to see *me and try some of 0 ia River Salmon, Seaquads and - mally kept in a first-class Gro Ads and my prices are right. I I treat you right. Mail orders d on short notice. I will g;ve buy for as little money as it t at and live. 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