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]STew Series.
THE GEEAT GOLD SEOEET.
CHAPTER X.
I’m a gold digger—that’s about what
I am. You wouldn’t take me for an En
glishman would you now ? No, nor yet
any one else that knsw3 me ; but lam
though.
How old about, should you take me
for ? Fifty five eh ? • Well, they all guess
somewhere near that; but lam just 37
last month. I dare say you don’t believe
it, either, if I told you that all this
wrinkling and turning gray was done in
one week. Well, it was, and when I
think over it all now, and think that
here I am alive after it all, I can hardly
believe it myself. Would you like to
hear about it ? Well, sit down and n ake
yourself comfortable, aud I will tel
you.
It’s nine years ago last Valentine’s day
(I remember all the dates well enough,.l
warrant ye,) that I was at Frisco with a
Yankee, name Seth Hickman. We'd met
in Denver,. and stood by each other in a
row that happened there, and of course
that drew us together a bit; and the
end of it was, we agreed to go prospect
ing together and “share and share
alike.”
Seth was a sharp fellow and knew all
the likeliest spots, and I could do a day s
work with any man in those days
though I ain’t much to brag of now; and
the end of it was we made a pretty good
haul
When wo got to Frisco I thought of
nothing but banking some of the stuff
for a rainy day and having a spveo with
the rest, and * then starting off again;
but Seth didn’t seem to see it all. Ino
ticed that ho looked serious-like, as if he
had something on his mind, for the first
after we got into the town; and on the day
second evening, as we were sitting over
our grog T he spoke out:
“Jim, old boss, I’m a gwine to tell yew
something that narry soul in creation
knows about but myself ; f -r if you had
not been some smart with your derrin
ger when them three skunks went for
me down in Denver they might La’
wrote ‘gone up’ over this child ; and no
man ever did Seth Hickman a good turn,
nor a bad turn neither, but what he got
a cocoanut for you [iff ior t tj, you bet
your life on that.
- When I was ia Arica lasi year I went
up country a bit with my rifle and thr
I happened on an old Injun critter, as
old as* George Washington’s nurse, livin’
in a hut all by himself among the spurs of
the Andes and I camped in his hut for
the night.
“Wal, the aguardient whiskey in my
flask war a lectio- too strong for him, and
he got reg'iar slewed; and when his
tongue got loosened by licker, lie kim
out wi' i-it.cb a yarn as whipped every
thing in Prescot all to fits. He said
that when the Peruvian chiefs stamped
ed from Cuzco after Piazarro took it, a
lot on ’em got up among the mountains,
carrying their gold with ’em till they
kim out on the plateau of Lake Titica;
and tbav lindin the Spaniards close on
their tia.il, they chucked all the gol 1 in
to the lake and skedaddled nobody
knows where. And he said that if any
body took the trail from his hut, north
and by east, till they hit the southern
end of the lake and then look out lor a
big three-cornered rock like a pyramid
upside down, they and jest got to scoop in
tiie mud of the lake whar the rock’s
shadow fell on it at sunrise, and they'd
huff gold to buy up all \\ all street.—
Now, we've got money to put that job
through, and if you feel like tryin it
I’m in. ’
I said “done” at once, and we got our
money together, and shipped down the
coast to Arica as fast as the Pacific
steamer could carry 11s. The minute we
ge t there, Seth went off into the hills to
try and get hold of his old Indian for a
guide, while f hunted about for work
men—for this was a job that needed
more hands than our own.
At last I got bold of two Spaniards
—two sturdy fellows they were, and
honest enough as Spaniards go—and
then a Portigee and two niggers. We
weru’t long buying our stores and work
ing tackle, and by time Seth came back
with his guide all was ready
we went.
Seth was much too knowing a bird to
let on what his real game was as long
as we were within hail- of the town,
for if you say “gold” there only in tt
whisper those blessed Gambusinos [gold
finders] will hear it a hundred milts off.
Ro all we told our gang was that we :
were going prospecting among the low
er i anges, as lots of fellows did every
day; but wnen we were past the old In
dian's but and well up among the hills,
so that our chaps couldn’t easily turn
back if they wanted, he up and told |
them the whole story. They were rath
er taken aback, as they well might be,
for Lake Titica’s a good many days
journey to the northeast, among some
very awkward mountains and a good
thirteen thousand feet above the sea, if
it is an inch.
However a Spaniard will go pretty
nearly anywhere if lie once gets on
scent.of gold ;to our fellows they spoke
up stoutly enough, and said they were
ready to go up to the lake and down to
the bottom of it into the bargain, after
such a haul as that; and off we started
again.
I have seen a good many wonders in
my time, knocking about the world as I
have dune; but anything like that climb
up the Andes I never saw yet. Rocks
that seemed to go up into the very sky,
straight as a plumb line; beds of moss
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three or four feet deep, and soft as a
veivet cushion; trees two hundred feet
high, all one blaze of flowers from top to
bottom ; leaves big enough to wrap you
up like a blanket; tree-ferns as big as
a table cloth, all glittering like the finest
silver lace; hummingbirds, monkeys,
parrots- and butterflies as broad as the
palm of your hand; waterfalls sheer
down over great black precipices a
thousand feet high ; and far away be
hind, the everlasting mountains, piled
one above the other till they seemed to
go right up to Leaven. Among all these
enormous things we eight men. big and
strong as we were, seemed of no more
account than a lot of ants crawling on a
blade of grass ; and I don’t think I ev
er felt so small in my life as I did at that
time.
However, I hadn’t much leisure to
think about it at the time, for you can’t
expect a fellow to have much of an eye
for scenery when he's hacking his way
through a great cobweb of branches too
thick for the light to get through, with
liis boots full of damp vapor
bath heat of the woods melting him
away bit by bit; fifty prickles going in
to him at once a thorn bush scalping
him from above, and a creeper tripping
him up down below.
And so we hammered along, till at
last we worked up the plateau, and saw
the great lane spreading away before us
as far as ever we could see We wern't
long of making out the hree-cornered
crag nor the shado v neither, for it was
just sunrise when we got there, as if 6’
purpose for us ; and once we had made
it out we scarcely waited to take
breath before we were at it tooth and
nail.
The first day was a regular blank one
till just towards sundown, and then tha
Portigee screached out suddenly that he
had got something heavy. I helped,
him to haul up the pan, and there sure
enough, was a bar of gold ovor a foot
long, and pretty nigh as thick as my
two fingers here. *
At that we all shouted at once, and-?
went at it Larder Tian ever; afuLf reap
ly think our chaps would have worked
all night but Seth stopped ’em. He bad!
told ’em that the gold wouLdn’t run offA
and that if. they put on too ..much pt aa?
at first they'd just knock themselves up
before they were half through, and that
they'd better just light a fire, get dried,
have some supper, and fix up sum kmd
of a shelter against the dew, and then
start fair, the next morning. And so
they did
The next day and the next and the
next after that we kept bringing it up
in hanufulis —gold "irclets and chains
and necklaces and ingots without end.
But on the fifth day I found the provis
ions getting so low that I was rather
scared, for up here there was no game of
any sort, there being no vegetation at
that height for the game to live on. So
we hold a council of war. Our chaps had
the gold fever so into their blood by
tnis time that I venly believe they'd
have kept digging on till they died of
hunger ; but Seth and I, who. were a lit
tie cooler, talked them over at last, We
to.'d ’em that we and got enough already
to make us all rich as Jews, that we
must all starve if we didn’t replenish our
stock somehow; that ten to one the
“find' was played out; and that, in case,
the lake was always tin re, and they
could come back and try again whenever
they liked. So, bit by bit, we worked
’em round, and all started to go back to
gether.
We’d hard work of it the first part of
the way, for our loads were heavy, and
stumbling in and out of these great
rocks was no joke, let aloae the five
days’ work that had taken it out of us
more than we expected. One of the
Spaniards got a bad fall, and not one of
us but had his bruise to show. But at
last we got over the barren bit, and
found ourselves fairly down among the
woods again ; and then I began to be
jolly, thinking this was the end of it.—
But it wasn’t. It was only the begin
ning.
CHAPTER 11.
One afternoon, when we’d got well
down among the lower ranges, we were
just looking for a place to camp, as the
Spaniard who got hurt Was beginning to
give up, when one of the niggers said
suddenly—
“ Senor, man watch us 1”
I looked un. and there, sure enough,
was a man—a savage looking fellow
enough,’.but evidently no Indian—watch- ■
ing us from the top of a ridge, a little to
the left.
He kept looking after us for a little
while and then disappeared as if the
earth had swallowed mm.
“Don't like that,” says Seth, “that crit
ter’s. seen that we carry a heavy swag,
and he’s gone to tell some of his chums,
you bet!
“Wheifone has a punkin-pie,
He goes and tells the t’others !”
“I feel like campin’ in a strong place
to night, I do !”
And so we did—with a deep gorge be
! hind ns going sheer down nearly a hun
| dred feet and a thick clump of trees in
| our front that mada cover, while beyond
it the ground was smooth and. level for
j a good eighty yards, so .that no living
thing couid come near us without being
| seen and fired at.
Just as we’d lit our fire, and wen be
] ginning to cook, we saw first one man
and then another ; till we’d counted fif
i teen in all, come zigzaging in and out of
! the bushes down the face of the oppo
• site ridge. They halted just at the e ’ge
|of the thicket, and took a look at the
| smoke of our fire rising above the trees ;
and then two of them laid’ down their
rifles, and were coming across the clear
ing to us, looking as friendly as they
could, when old Seth shoves his head
through the leaves, and says in Span
ish—•
“Gentlemen, we’re talking over a little
business of our own, and wish to be pri
vate, so you’ll oblige us by keeping your
own side, and we’ll keep ours ; for we
have a way of shootin things th ,t come
too near us, and we would be sorry to
hit you by mistake F”
Back the two beauties went, looking
as silly as a ha’porth o’ treacle in n two
gallon jug, and Seth rubbed Lis hands
and gave a chuckle.
“They’d got a bottle in each hand,
them two,’’ says lie; “they war gwine to
make us slewed, and then clean out our
swag ; but they don t fool this child, no
how Naow, you see, they'll wait till
dark, and then go for us with a rush—
that’s what’s the matter with them —but
I guess we'll be ‘not at home’ when they
call.”
He whispered to me to cut down three
or four of the longest creepers and twist
them into a rope; and I, guessing what
he was up to, did it with a will. In a
few minutes we had a rope that would
have stood anything ; and then I hitch
ed one end round a treo and let drop
£he other down the ravine—the rest
making a great shouting meanwhile by
way of a blind. Then the old Indian,
wh® was nimble'as a cat, slid down to
the bottom, and we lowered our packa
ges to him one by one.
“That’s all right,” said Seth ; “now
we’ll just take it easy till dark, and then
take passage by this new overland line of
our'll.”
But one can’t take it very easy when
there’s a gang of bloodthirsty rascals
twice your strength, and armed to the
teeih, waiting barely eighty yards off, to
cut your throat.
“Naow,” says Seth at last, when dark
ness had closed in, "1 guess we 11 begin
to leave.”
But just then, as if this had .been a
signal, there came a flash and a bang
from tne other side of the clearing, and
>■„ “}/ do mu came peppering in
among* the trees. I felt something warm
spurt over my hands, and the nigger
who stood beside me fell all in a heap.—
Like iightuing I up piece and fly, and i
heard somebody give a yelp that sound
ed as if that letter had gone 10 the right
address. And then for a few minutes it
was just flash, Hash ! bang, bang! like a
fire wort—Seth and I keeping ’em in
play while the rest slid down one by
one And mighty ugly work it was, too,
I can tell you, blazing away in the dark
with nothing to aim at and hear the
bullets come rattling about yon without
seeing who sent them. But the rope
was ooon dear, and then Seth stuck up
the dead nigger against a tree, with Lis
gun across th fork of it, that they
might see the glint of the barrel, and
think we were still or the watch. Then
he slid down and I after him.
We took the gold out of the nigger’s
package snd divided it among us. The
rest of the things we threw away, as we
had thrown our tools away long before,
for our only chance now was to march
as light as possible, and then we set for
ward along the gully. For sometime
we could hear the rascals banging away
overhead, but that died away by degrees
and there was silence.
All night we stumbled along the bot
tom of the ravine like men groping in a
tunnel, sitting down every now and then
to rest, but when day came we saw tne
rocks on each side getting lower, and
the great black pit spreading out broad
er, till at last, a little after sunrise, we
came out into the forest again. But just
then the other nigger sat down and put
his hand to his side.
“No can go farther, Senor.”
I ran up to him, and blest if he had
not got a big bullet wound in his side
from last night’s scriinage, an .1 the brave
fellow had dragged on all night without
saying a gord about it, lest he should
keep us Dack! I sat down and took his
head on my knee, and he died as quietly
as a child ; and we covered him- with
leaves, and went forward on. our weary
tramp again.
Our loads were now necessarily heav
ier, and I could see one of the Spaniards
beginning to stagger and the old Indian
tremoled l ; ke a leaf. Then a horrible
fear crept over me they would continue
to drop off until there was one left; and
then at the thought 1 gave a sort of a
veil. But Seth punched me in the ribs
and said?
“Sh! don’t frighten the rest.”
And I set my teeth and choked it
down.
Presently Seth who[had gotten a little
ahead sang out i
“Hurrah
We all looked up.
“Here is something civilized at last,
by the hoe-cake.! Guess we’ve struck
the right path without knowing it. Look
here.”
Just in front cf us was a gully about
40 feet deep, through which ran a small
stream, across it lay a bridge. Then
wo ail shouted at once and stepped out
to crass it; but all in a moment the old
Indian who was one of the hindmost,
lurched over the edge aud went slap
I down into the water, and the gold he
! carried sunk him at once like a stone.—
ISo now we were cut down to five, and
i had lost our guide in the bargain.
I “That’s a bad job,” saysjj Seth ; “but
never mind, boys—we must jest steer by
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the light of natur’ now, Whar thar’s a
bridge like that, tlrnr oughter be a trail
somewhar”
Sure enough there was a trail, and we
tried to follow it, but we soon lost it,
and tramped on all day at haphazard,
i trying to steer by the sun.
! Towards evening we halted to eat and
then pushed on again hot fot; for that
was the last of our provisions
Just as the moon rose we came upon
a gully with a bridge across it, and there
stopped and looked at each other—a
look I shall never forget. It was the
same bridge wo had crossed twelve
hours before!
That minute is one of the thing I nev
er like to think of. There we were, lost
in a tropical forest, and not a morsel of
food left!
“Well, boys,” says Seth [who was our
mainstay throughout] “we re in a kind
of a fix, there ain’t no denyin' it. Naow,
I calc late this bridge ain’t been long
built by tho look of it, and so, instead
o’ goin’ losin’ ourselves outer every
body’s way, I guess we’ll jest stick here
till some party picks us up—it won t be
long I reeiu’. That's my idee; how does
it strike you 1”
We all agreed at once, wo had gone
too far for any more marching. So we
sat down here for three days, bearing it
as well as we could, and trying to shoot
game between whiles. But our eyes
were too dim, and our hands to shaky
for that; and tho birds and monkeys
scurried past, chattering and screaming
as if in mockery. And at last we coul 1
not keep it o.ff any longer. And it
eaiuo.
The Spaniard died first, and no won
der, poor fellow! for though some of
them are brave men ns ever stepped,
they haven’t the pith aud fibre of an
Englishman.
The Portigee held out longer, for he
had the heart of a lion ; but at last he
went too, and old Seth and I were left
alone.
“Seth,” says I “let’s burry these poor
fellows while we can ; for if they are
left lying here and our hunger gets
worse, we might be driven to —yon
know !”
So we wrapped the poor fellows in
their blankets, with a heavy stone in
each, and rolled them over the edge of
the ravine down into the water. Me
buried the gold too, and marked the
spot, in case anything should turn up
to save us at tlw/last; and then we lay
down again, as if we had nothing left to
do but to die.
And after that everything seems blur
red and hazy, like a drtaru. The trees
and the rocks and the sky seemed to go
round and round in a whirl, and old Seth
stood up as tall as a steeple, and great
black things came out of the bushes and
made faces at me ; and then I was sit
ting under the old tree in the church
yard at home, snd heard my old mother s
voice (who has been dead this five and
twenty years) aa plain as print; till all
at once there were men’s voices all
around us, and I felt somebody lifting
my head and pouring someting into my
mouth, and then I fainted right off.
We kid been picked up by a party
coming back from the mines, and they
carried us down with them to Arica;
and when we got round again went back
and dug up the gold and gave a lumping
lot of it to the wives and children of the
poor fellows that had died for us.
But when I got back after that last
week's work my hair was quite gray —as
gray as you see iL now. And tbats all
the story.
TEE UIVIL EIGHTS AO P,
Declared Constitutional by a Life-long De
mocrat.
At Winona, Minn, June Bth, Judge
It. It. Nelson, of the United States Dis
trict Court, rendered an opinion affirm
ing the constitutionality of the supple
mental Civil Rights law. As Judge Nel
son has, been a life-long Democrat,
his emphatic opinion produces no little
astonishment among politicians as well
as lawyers. His opinion was given in
response to a request by the the grand
jury, before whom a cause was brought
by the District Attorney under the Civil
Rights bill. After reciting the provis
ions of the last three amendments to the
Constitution, and after alluding to the
celebrated slaughter house decision of
the Supreme Court of the United States,
Judge Nelson proceeds:
“I call your attention to this case for
the reason that several distinguished
Federal District Judges and an eminent
Circuit Judge, in instructing grand ju
ries upon the presentation of similar
question, have considered that the in
terpretation by the United States Su
preme Court of this first section of tho
Fourteenth Amendment is judgment
against the constitution, and have, there
fore given a negative reply to the ques
tion propounded. With great respect
for the opinions of these Judges, I cannot
assent their conclusions, and while I
have no sympathy with this kind of
Congressional legislation, and believe
that the State government should not
puuish all wrong or outrage of this still
I think where race, color, or nativity or
political belief furnishes the only reason
for the commission of such wrong or
outrage, a proper occasion arises for the
exercise of the power of Congress under
this amendment. The objection urged
against such a law is that it seeks to
punish in the Federal Courts a violation
of certain privileges which pertain to
to State citizenship. It is not doubted
that the punishment of ordinary offenso'
against the persons of anyjjraee belongs
to the State governments. They were
created for the purpose of protecting life,
liberty and pursuit of individual happi
ness, and should Igislate for the object.
Yet as the Fourteenth Amendment ere
ates citizenship and guarantees tho
equality of all citizens before the law, I
think Congress cm provide for tho
punishment of individuals who deprive
any person of tho enjoyment of tho
rights of citizenship and legal equality
solely on account of race or color.
These rights and privileges are derived
from the Federal Government, and are
under its protection. It will be con
ceded, I think, that a State legislation/
making it an offense to refuse the enjoy
ment- of hotel accommodations to white
persons, would be repugnant to the
amendment. If so, cannot Congress in
terpose until some unfriendly and dis
criminating State law is passed? Must
it confine its action to correct obnoxious
legislation, not restrain individuals’? In
the case of McCulloch vs. tho State of
Maryland (4th Wheaton, pp. 400 and
437) the construction of the grant legis
lative power, under Constitution as it
stood before the recent amendments,
was fully discussed and it was decided
within the grant of power to Congress
for the purses of legislation, it may se
lect any proper means of effecting the
object in view, and may adopt and which
might bo appropriate and which were
conducive to the end. Applying the
reasoning of the Court to this case,
where the express power to enforce the
provisory of tho amendment is given in
the fifth section, it seems to me that
Congress can legislate, even though a
State had passed no obnoxious law, and
may also in advance, by such enactments
as it may deem suitable and necessary,
remedy tho evil against which the
amendment proposes to guard. If the
opinon in the caso correctly represents
the extent of Congressional legislation,
the power of Congress can be exerted to
put down all outrage or discrimination
on the part of individuals whon the mo
tivo originates only in race or color. I
do not deem it necessary, at this time,
to more fully discuss this question.
The law is, in my opinion, ermtitu
tional,.
RULES FOR HIVING BEES.
Allow ne one to stir or make the least
noise while tho bees are lighting
What! Not blow a horn, or ring a bell,
or drum on a tin pan, or throw dust or
water? Not do anything? Yes, reader;
just exactly do nothing but keep still.
Now, I have fol'owed this rule in over
eight hundred swarms I have hived for
myself and I toll you tho broad fact, I
have not lost a single swarm in all that
number. Bees will not go two hundred
feet from the hive they come out of if
you let all be pci feet ly quiet and thore is
anything to tight on. My Mot oho
out of a hundred swanns go over one
hundred feet before they always light.
So it will be with your bees, reader. So
make it a rule to have no stirring, no
noise, but all quiet until they are well
lighted. Then bring out the hive from
tho cool cellar—where it has been but a
day or two, lest it got damp and moldy
—neat and clean, and as you of course
have tho Strips of boards or sticks,,
boards, hiving cloth, etc.., ready, proceed
to place your ladder and platform in the
tree or on the ground, and other appli
ances, so that before the last bee has lit
you are ready to hive them.
Never put a swarm of bees directly
into a hive. You ask why not ? Because
if you do the bees may not know it is a
hive they arc in, but only think they havo
had a slight accident or jar while yet on
their lighting-limb or placo. So they
will leave the hive and go off to the woods,
because they don’t know they are hived.
Hence, you will place tho hive so that
when shaken off the limb they lit on,
they all have to creep buzzing into tho
hive and all go voluntarily up on tho in
side of it. Then they all will not make tho
mistake of thinking they are not hived,
but will know they have accepted a hive.
You need not he very quiet or slow
about making bees go into a hive. You
minded the bees till they lit, now is tho
time to change and make them mind
yon. So a gentle rudeness in shaking
them off tho limb is as good as saying to
them, “Bees, you have left your lighting
place.” If they don’t go in tlio hivo
readily take a dipper or flat piece of
shingle or board, dip up a few, a pint or
so, and shake them roughly close to the
hivo, as if to say, “There is the hive,
why don’t you seo it?” Then brush rap
idly,but gently, the rest towards the
hive.
As soon as the most of them are in, be
read to remove them to their permanent
stand Thus you avoid the coming out
of a second swarm, and the lighting and
commingling of the few bees always un
easy and living about the swarm, and
who doubtless are the ones that find and
lead the swarms off to some hollow treo
or log in the woods. These bees are
rarely over twenty or fifty in number;
often not ten of them.
Remember to shade tho new hive
from tho sun until the hatched brood is
in the new comb.—[Dr. S. J. Parker in
Germantown Telegraph.
There is an old story of a man who
went to a country store aud wished to
make some purchaso on credit. “We
don’t trust strangers here," remarked
the storekeeper. “Why not?’ asked
the customer: “We don’t know them,
was the answer. “But you know me,
said the customer, mentioning his name.
“Oh! ah ! yes.” exclaimed the store
keeper recollecting the name ; “we don t.
trust our acquaintances.” “Why not ? ’
again inquired the customer. “We do
know them,"replied tho otber^
“Ish dere some ledder here for me ? ’
inquired a German at a city post office
reee tly. ’ “No—none here,” was the re
ply. “Vhell dot ish queer,” he contin
ued, getting his head into the window,
“my neighbor gets somedimes dree led
dera in one day unt I geds none. I bays
more daxes as he does, unt I hat nefer
got one ledder yed. How comes dose
dingß ?”