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12 BILL TOMPKINS’ RIDE. From the Dakota Bell. Blow* What the wind! Out here in Dakoty! Why. 'seuse me. mister, I shed say it did: I/e sea! ‘t were just about a year ago That ole Bill Tompkins' wife were taken ill— They lived out on the r claim, six utiles from town— -1 disrvmember now what made her sick. But all I know is- she were mighty had. Bill seed at once that, 'less the doctor came An' fixed his wife a dose, her time was up. But how to get the doctor, puzzled Bi.'l; The only team he had was plowing ground Jes' four miles distant- at his nearest neighbor's. An’ cept himself an' wife, they lived alone. Bill was a 'elite one, though its you will see And sark'mstanei-s couldn't down liim. sure! The wind was fairly lamming it that day An'kipped along full fifty miles an hour l ust thing he did. he got a counie o' sticks An nailed them oil each side his two wheeled cart; Across these yer he stretched a canvas cloth An' firmly tied it at the back with cord*. Then shovin' out from leeway of the bam He st nick the open prairie, where the wind Was jest a-dancin' on in furious blasts: An' fore Bill had a chance to clamber in It Bwep' that prairie schooner fifty rexls An' half the time the wheels spun in the air Bill was scan mos" to death, but dursn t drap For fear be.d skin his nose, or bark his chin, An' so with legs a hanging, dangling down. He gripped the tailboard, yelling out for help. In less time than it takes for me to tell The wagon struck the main street of town Jest as Bill's arms were nigh a giving out. Say. mister, you'd oughter heard them Imy* LalT out an’ shout to see Bill hangin' there; They yelled to him ter stop an* hev a drink. So jes’ from force of habit he leggo An’ tumbled right afore the doctor s door. An' would you bleeve it, mister, thet there cart It keiv a-goin' on—an" to this day Bill Tompkins' never seed it—hide nor hair. STORIE3 OF THE SEA. Anecdotes of Old Seafarers—The "Gal Who Browsed Above Deck.” From the Xew York Star. . There are many good stories told of the ol* n days, when there was less betting HHkut the ship's time in the twenty-four ■Mtirs, and whether the pilot at Sandy Hook step on board with his right or left first, or whether he would wear a wide- or a hat. ■ well remember hearing of “Sam Slick” Hall burton i standing on the deck of on a voyage to England when a can:e up to him and said: “I hear, that you come from the place where Hm SlicV lives.” “Ah,” said the Judge, I know him as well as any man for I have shaved him for forty The Yankee at dinner told hi* Wads that the man whom they all thought and clever was only a barlier, be had himself stilted that in his native he had shaved “Bam Slick” every for forty years! ()ne one occasion who had never been at sea be came on deck in the morning, and, all the tore and alt sails set, rushed the cabin, tolling everybody: "There's wrong: the curtains are all ■V u.” when an old ladv, whose daughter been sick most of the voyage, ex- “There's notliing wrong; my has lieen browsing about the Hfk all morning:' Some of the relate to old captains. Harrison, Asia, going to Halilax, t-ucoiiiitercd a fog off the hanks of Newfoundland, Hi at breakfast told his liassengers that he .■Buld make the land In ,i in the afteriiixm. day wore on, when close to the hour *Hfl the cry came from the lookout, . ale-ad!” and down went the helm Harrison, who stexxl amidst a of anxious jiassengers, took out, his and calmly remaikol, "Very good; land to the minute!” That Harrison, as brave uiul time a as ever lived, afterward eoin- the Great Eastern, and was in the Sol. when going asHor.- in and splendid navigator, could be as as a lamb to beautiful woman, and is a l-oar to the oilier sex if they his ja!h; hut even to the lady pas he could soni tin.,-- growl, as when to the buxom willow who asked |H*' were always logs on “the Banks," live upon them, madam.” Lott" was another veteran com- and in tin-dayso; his burhrlurhnod, minister officiating on board his unconsciously took for his text, Lot’s wife'," which made the jjlHem Lott rage furiously, as he also did another occasion, when a sailor com- Hi*i within his hearing that the pork was salt as Lot’s wife,” the good Captain -H: peculiarly sensitive to all such al tJßfr-s to his distinguished biblical luune- a voyage to Now Y'*rk wi*h the Commodore of one of the great At ' fleets, Theodore Cook, the tvpe of a gNHuI Captain, with u nerve of cold blast and who lias commanded no less than f Wty-lour ships. He was taking his noon one day, when a cloud inter his vision. A passenger, (aiming up, “Capt. Cook, I'm aft-aid that cloud you from making your observn “Yes, sir,” replied the potentate of "but it did not hinder you from ■>K your’a" oai'oer of steam traffic, extending half a century, lias not lu-en de ’Mßol inteiesting episode* outside the ’-^B' 1 limits of ordinary business routine, lx- seen from the two following inoi which I have selected to conclude The first relates to nil action pMjWHHvidry in the yet undegenerated day of ■" 6Mnu"rr-inl emulation, and well deserves grateful remembrance. In 1 850, one decade after the formation of the Cunard line, there started into existence the Collins line, w hich in its day was a great power, and for a series of years fought hairl and fought well for the supremacy of the Atlantic trade. At the very height of the struggle, the steamphip Alps was seized by the United States customs in conse quence Of an accusation brought against some of her crew for smug gling, and bond was demanded to the extent of £BO,OOO sterling, when who should come forward and stand surety for the Cunard company but the great firm of Brown, Shipley- & Cos., agents in New York for the Coffins line. That was truly gener ous, and it told both oompanies that they could fight as men and act as men in time of trouble. The second incident occurred in 1861, when the friendly relations between Great Britain and America were put in Jeopardy through the forcible arrest of Messrs. Mason and Slidell, Confederate commissioners on board of the British Royal mail steamer Trent, by the com mander of the Federal war steamer San _jJancinto. This was at the beginning of winter, when time was of exceeding value, and the resources of the Cunard company were at once brought into requisition to con vey troops and stores to Canada. On the ♦th of December orders were telegraphed to Liverpool to tit up the Australasian as a transport. She was completed on the 10th, took in her coals on the 11th, embarked tho first buttalion of the Rifle Brigade and ■tores on the 12th and soiled on the l'ltli, under the command of (.'apt. Cook, for Bic, on the Bt. Lawrence. On the 6th of December similar orders were received with regard to the Persia She received her coals on tho 14th, embarked 1 ,“70 officers and men of the Guards on the 16th, sailed the following day under the command of Capt. Judkins, and landed them in duo course at Bic, but the ice threatening to envelop the ship, Capt. Judkins had to I silt for the open sen, leaving all his boat* be hind. The story of t hose charters is a curi ous line. The company made the contract with the admiralty for about £30,(100, but utter it was dosed they received official inti mation that if this special service was suo cok .fully carried through they would be paid u premium of £IO.OOO. Well, an slated, the Guards were landed in the Persia at Bic, but, the Austinla-imi, although she made a gadffijt attempt to roach that port also, wag prevented from doing so by the ire closing in noon her, and she was obliged to debark her troopa at Halifax. The company' bad clearly, therefore, forfeited her premium, but what did the government nay' They heard the story, ami Dot’d Pal merston, who was then Prime Minister, HOMES PO XI THE PEOPLE. raw* wmMdw U zsht ■ na-air- E I ’ Krfchen ;t==4 irfocn! ]W; g iVmnts |\m l\m ! V/ il zasffiTmrtr jnrrr e; IA! j pr f or I'f-r'X \ 7 • J FIRST FI.OOR who and t3 Thev invdt/,su-resn,m .. uc7" k ’ Uk ' dn ! w,n t> rs a! ' d specificftHons for more- than three huadred different designs, "mostly of low “1“ ™ ftan % dIS, rZS7I. ' om a “ intending buildora, however distant. They will sen l their latest publication (called Shopped s Modern Housi, No. 5) remarked: “You can claim nothing as you did not land the Guards and Rifles at Bic; but, inasmuch as you put the Guards ashore there, we might give you £6,000.” Then, in a moment afterward, with a twinkle in his eye, he said: “No, gentlemen, you shall have the £IO,(XX). You did your best, and I like pluck.” Alackaday! would that be done now f VENERABLE BUT LAUGHABLE. The Clever Cadet and the Court Martial. From the Philadelphia Times. Year* ago hazing was very common at West Point, but is now pretty nearly abolished. The officers of the academy have tried hard to wipe it out entirely and have about succeeded. The most that new cadet* have now to do is occasionally to stand on their heads in one of the streets of the camp or some small penalty like that. Of course, if tho officers of the day should see the older cadet compelling the younger one to do this the former would be promptly punished. Sometimes they are caught, ana then trouble and demerits follow. Another penalty is to compel the young cadets, when the table stewards in the me** hall are not looking, to put the butter remaining on the plate at the close of the meal in their pocket. The best w-ay in such cases is for the young cadet to submit to the joke as well as he can. It is the easiest way. Young Logan did not graduate at the academy. He was there nearly two years and was well liked by his companions, but some of his wild oats were of a rank variety and had not lx*m sown, and gotten rid of before he entered the academy. West Point is a bad place to sow wild oats, as Logon and many young fellows have found to their sorrow. The Senator’s son was dismissed one day. His mother felt very badly for his disgrace, but he never seemed to mind it. It waa very wrong of him to cause his mother pain, but he has ample opportunity to make amends, and as he ha* now sowed his oat* and become a fine young fellow, he will no doubt make full amends. Sometimes when the offense of cadets are very flagrant court martial* are called to trv them. These are composed of army officers, who sit in trial like judge and jury when the offender is in civil, instead of in military life. These court* martial are often very funny. Once there was a young ster who had acted so perfectly outrage ously thut he knew he would lie disnxised at the approaching examination. *o he deter mined to have a good time before he left. On the grounds was an old disused shell of some kind, and in it young hopeful piled all theshuvings, rags aiid everything els* com bustible he could get, and one fine night he set a match to it and had a magnificent bontire of his own. Of course suspicion jxiinted to him, and a court of inquiry wus organized to investigate the outrage. Gen. Thayer was superintendent and Col. Fry commandant of cadet*. When the prisoner was called up for examination lief ore the court, composed of officers of high rank, imposing ill the majesty of the law, he was asked Pi state what he knew about the fire. “I—l don’t know anything mvself but what is hearsay testimony, and you won’t admit that,” he replied. “Tho Court does not desire your views on hearsay testimony,” severely remarked the prosecutor. “You are directed to state what, may have oonie to your knowledge re garding Ibe affair.” "Well, but," objected the culprit, “I don’t know anything about it, and what I heard I don’t believe." “The Court, sir," thundered the officer, “ha* not inquired into your lielief. You will immediately state what you heard." “But—but—you don’t iielieve me, either." By that time the Court, was in a rage. “Go on sir." roared several officers together. “Well, they do say,’’ stammered the cadet diffidently, “that Gen. Thayer got the shuv- I lugs and old Fry net ’em afire.” ' 'IHE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1887—TWELVE PAGES. PERSPECTIVE VIEW. DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN. Size or Structure— Front, 33 feet Side, 44 feet Size of Rooms— See floor plans. Height of Stories— Cellar, 6 feet 6 inches; First Story, !l feet; Second Story, 8 feet. Materials —Foundation, brick; First Storv, clap boards; Second Story, shingles; Gables, shingles: Roof, shingles. Cost—fl,7oo to $2,000, complete. Special Features —Plenty of rooms and most of them good size. An excellent seaside hon e by adding more veranda. Brick walls under the whole house with cellar under the dining-room. Large cellars are not necessary in these days; with a wall under the house it is just as warm, dry ane healthful as if the whole were excavated. Large cellars are costly if they are well built. An illy built one is ot little use and a iiositive Source of danger. <•: course there are certain kinds and conditions of soil which make it desirable to excavate under the whole home, but ordinarily where there is a good dry top soil a large excavation is neither necessary nor desirable. There are four bed-rooms on second floor. The smaller one in the rear can be made a bath-room, with tub and water-closet far an additional 8200. PRACTICAL JOKING. A Baker County Journalist Floes from the Wrath to Come. From the Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Union. A rumor was circulated very freely on the streets here yesterday' that a political out rage had tieen perpetrated a few days ago at McClenny, resulting in the editor of the Maker Counly Sentinel being driven out of town by a number of prominent citizens of that village. A reporter took the first train for the scene of the alleged outrage, arriving there about 5 o’clock, and immediately proceeded to investigate the matter. He first saw Mr. H. H. McDonald, agent of the Florida Rail way and Navigation at McClenny, from whom he learned the following facts: I-ast Friday night about 12 o’clock he was awakened by someone loudly' ropping at the door of his room, which is located on the first floor of the hotel. On going to the door he was confronted by Mr. E. V New bera, the lute editor of the Maker County Sentinel, who severed his connection with that paper Thursday. The latter was in undress uniform, having no clothing on but his pants and shirt On being admitted to the room he said that a crowd of men were after him and he was afraid that they in tended to mob him. He slept in the btiild ing in which the paper is printed, and said that the men came to the office and de manded admittance, which was refused. He was then informed that unless he came out they would force the door open. This frightened him, and ho jumped out of hed. ana, hastily putting on his pants, junqied out of the back window and made for the hotel, where, as above stated, he presented himself at the door of Mr. McDonald. He had scarcely got safely inside the room when several knocks were heard again at the door, and several voices demanded ad mittance. Mr. McDonald told them they could not come in, whereupon they thi-eat ened to force an entrance. By this time Newbera was thoroughly frightened, and without waiting longer jumped out of the window and fled to a swamp about a half mile distant, where he remained all night. Early Saturday morning he made his way to Glen St. Mary, two miles dis tant. when- he found protection at the house of a friend. A man was immediately dispatched to McClenny to get his clothing. When he arrived at Glen St. Marv he pre sented a pitiable spectacle. His "clothing was torn into shreds and his limbs were cut and scratched in a fearful manner from con tact with the briers in the swamp during his flight. Dr. Foster, of McCJpnny, and Mr. Pearce, the Marshal, had gone several miles into the country on Friday, and returning Saturday monung'by way of Glen Bt. Mary saw New bern on the depot platform. The latter re lated his experience of the night previous, and on being asked the cause of it said it must be because he favored Btoxham for Senator in his paper; that he could assign no other rt<ason. A rejiorter saw Dr. Foster, who said that so far as he could learn the whole proceed ing was intended as a joke. He snia that he took no stock in the cause assigned by New hern, as h<> as well as nine-tenths of the citi zens of Mot'leiuiy and of Baker county fav ored Btoxham, and thut Newbera’* paper had been for Bloxham from the openiug of the campaign. On inquiry it was learned that those who took part in the affair were C. B. McClenny, J. C. Barrs, J, W. McClenny, E. 8t Bhuey and two or three others, whose names coulil not lie learned.,,. The reportdr nilkdflp Mr. Barr* at his store and fu.md •tigagrd In writing a letter to hi* brother fif this city. Dr. Barrs, in relation to the afTaii He expressed him self as pci ltMry witling to talk about the mutter umflnid thaSllowing story: ,l fu {ds paper lost week that he had severed his connection with the Sentinel, and would leave in a day or two for other fields. Several of the men and boys here proposed that we give him a serenade and a little scare. Accordingly about midnight Friday night seven or eigh t of us gathered up tin pails and horns and proceeded to the office of the Sentinel, where Newborn slept. We made a big racket and demanded admittance, which was refused, and on one of us going in we found the bird had flown. The party then broke up, but two or three of them heard that Newborn had gone to the hotel and went over there. Newborn again got out and the next thing wo heard of him he was in Glen St. Mary.” I “Mr. Barrs,” said the reporter, “it is ; claimed that this assault was mad;- on New - born because he was a Bioxham man.” “There is nothing in that at all. None of us even thought of such a thing. It was simply a joke we were playing on him before he left.” “What was the political complexion of the party who took part in it?” “Well, that is one thing which makes it look bad. Unfortunately they were all Perry men. The truth is, though, that it was sim ply a scare. Nevvbern is a crank, as every body in town will admit, and on several oc casions the boys have 'scared’ him by simi lar capers, but nono ever went so far as this.” The reporter talked with a number of other citizens about the matter. They nearly ail express themselves as satisfied that it was u joke, but there are some who declare that it nad a serious aspect. All join in expressing regret at the occurrence, saying that it looks imd for the town, and if the story goes abroad it will hurt the place. Newbern is now in Tallahassee, and the Sentinel has suspended for a short time, until Mr. Moore, the proprietor, who is Bergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, can make other arrangements for its publication. Mr. Brewster’s Little Mistake. /Voia th> J Pittsburg DtHjxiteh. Yes [said a man on the train], he’s a good fellow [ex-Attorney General Brewster], but there’s a lot of blarney about him. I know him well, you see; used to visit at, my house. Did I oyer toll you that joke about him! No! Well, you see, lie hat a great fashion of calling his personal friends “my dear fel low,” and addressing young ladies as “my dear” in u pleasant way. VV e had a colored rook ut our house who wasn’t handsome, but slio could beat all Dauphin county baking waffles. One evening aliout dusk there came a ring at my door bell. My library was just at the head of tkostairs. The cook answered the call. It was Brewster, and in the semi-darkness he thought it was one of the family, “flood evening, my dear; I hope you are well,” and ho put oiit his hand for a shake. It was too late to back out when he saw who it was, so ho kept right on, talked about the pleasant weather and the family just as though it was an every day matter with him to shake hands with the servants, while I hung over the balusters about ready to die. ills urbanity mid self possession were equal to the occasion, and it tickled the girl nearly to death. Afterward whenever she knew Brewster was to take dinner at our house we hod waffles and chicken that beat the world. An Englishman who was recently In Kan sas City for a few days on a business trip dreamed one night that he woa walking rapidly up the main street of the villiage of Bunbury-on-Thames, the home of his mother, in England. On arriving at the door of his mother's house he saw that cra|>o was tied to the knob, ami that the shutters were dosed and the blinds drawn. He related the dream to a friend at break fast in the morning, and then dismissed it from his mind. In the afternoon he received u cablegram from his brother announcing that, his mother had died suddenly the night before. i ! ■ \ • : ; ! ' a'x?T ; (^eC j |\oom | ‘ ii" K>f I' j)^ conl j J)ecl \oozvi il o <,r * Pf xi;> v l SECOND FLOOR. BOTH HUSBANDS CLAIM HER. And Also Some Valuable Property—A Case Without Parallel. A Lynchburg, Va., dispatch to the Knox ville Tribune says: A case was practically decided in the Circuit Court, Judge HorsWy presiding, this morning, which probably has no parallel in Virginia jurisprudence. The facts are briefly stated as fWows: In 1849 James Dolan, proprietor of the Rose Cottage nursery, died, leaving a widow, who subsequently married James McGowan, who was for many years one of Lvnchburg’s most prominent and highly-respected o;ti I zens. Mr. Dolan left a daughter, who mar ried H. E. Smith, who after some time de serted her, leaving an infant child. Mrs. Smith removed to New Yorx and after seven years had elapsed, during which time she had not seen her husband, she had the right under the laws of that State to pre sume that he was dead, nnd accordingly married a man named Richaiii Dorney. Mrs, McGowan, the mother of Mrs. Dor ney, died leaving her husliand in charge of the property without having made any ar rangements for its division among her heirs. Her husband subsequently died, and now the anomaly is presented of two husbands claiming one wife and all the property she inherits from her parents; for no sooner was Mr. McGowan’s death amiounced than Smith put in his appearance and claimed his wife and the share of the property though he had linen previously not heard from for more than seven yeai-s. Mr. Dor ney, considering himself the legal husband of the lady, resisted the claim of Smith, ar.d upon the issue the ease come up for trial be fore the Circuit Court. The decision was practically that Smith, by his desertion of his wife, was not en titled to any share in the valuable property involved, and that the marriage to Dorney in New York is valid. After this decision the plaintiff submitted to a non-suit, and it is impossible now to say whether or not the case is ended. It may be revived and the litigation indefinitely continued. Incongruity. From the Boston Courier. That incongruous mixing of sentiments and emotions of which some people are ca pable will never cause U> be astonishing and equally amusing. A visitor tells of an incident which occurred in a village of Maine, where he was visiting, which may serve as an illustration. A neighbor came running into the house of a relative whom he was visiting, and exclaimed excitedly: “Oh, Daniel Webster is dying. I don’t know but ho is dead now!” The hostess rose to the occasion by ex pressing the proper degree of astonishment and sympathy, finding time to explain to the Bostonian that Ilaniel Webster was the eldest son of the sudden visitor, and that lie was dangerously ill of fevers. “Yes,' the mother went on. “He is dy ing! I know he is. I just ran in to tell you that my bantam roost# I lost day before yesterday came home last night.” Daniel Webster really did yield up the ghost the following morning. A Very Lucky California Merchant. Two portions of a $150,000 lottery pri*e won here. One of them it hapi>ened was number 00,551, drew the first capital prise of $150,000 in the March drawing of The I/uiisiana State Lottery; Joseph Dttiinen bamu sent for one-tenth of that amount and received his money through the London, Paris and American Bunk, of tills city. His firm is well known here and in Han Diego and Vallejo, where they have stores. An other holder of a one-tenth received his • 15,000 through Wells. Fargo A Co.'s bank, of this city, but his name lias not transpired. —Nan Francisco (Cal.) Call, April 0. Tint oldest living member of the Supreme Court is Justice Miller. He was appointed in 18G2 STRANGE AND SAD. A Prodigal Son Found on the Scaffold. From the San Francisco Examiner. The romance that even the most casual observer can see in the lives of many people never had a stranger and sadder illustration than is to be found in the life of William Douglass, particularly in so far as his own family is concerned. The man is a murderer, 24 years of age, and just a few days before he is to be hung for his crime his father and mother discover by the merest chance that he is their long-lost son. Like many others in this State, they had read the history of the midnight crime. They had read the daily reports of his trial, ami the strange and sullen silence maintained by the prisoner before the bar of justice,‘to gether with the sentence of death imposed by the Judge, and the reaffirmation of the judgment by the hightest tribunal of the State, all in utter ignorance that one of their own flesh and blood was the subject. William Douglass, alias John Rogers, is the man in question, and he is to lx? hanged to day in Eureka, Humboldt county, for the muider of Judge John H. Kimltall on the night of May 28, 188*5. THE FATHER’S DISCOVERT. On April 10 last as a gentleman was walk ing through the Humboldt, county jail he took a look at Douglass, more out of curi osity than anything else. In an instant he recognized the prisoner. He had known Douglass and his family for a great many veal’s, and was absolutely sure that John Rogers was an assumed name. “Is your name not William Douglass?” he eagerly asked the prisoner as he gazed at him through the bars of the cell. The latter replied only with a look of stolid indifference. Not a word would lie utter, but the friend of the family was so positive in his belief that he immediately notified a brother of Douglass’ living in Kero county. The latter, without delay, apprised his father, William Douglass, living at Los Gatos, that the son who had been absent from home for nine years, and who was looked upon as one dead, was not dead, but very near unto the grave. The old mail received the news with strong feelings of doubt and grief. He wrote to the Sheriff of Humboldt county, requesting him to see if the prisoner had certain scars on one of his legs and several on his body. The county official found that they tallied exactly with those mentioned in the letter. Mr. Douglass was notified of the fact, and this convinced him that the prisoner, indeed, was his own son. Last night Mr. Douglass was in this city in consultation with a lawyer, in the hope that some step might be taken to have the execution deferred. He is nearly 60 years of age, and his head ami face are covered with long gray hair and heard. With the utmost determination he refused to disclose who he was and where he lived, and it was only through inadvertent sen tences that his name and address could be derived. THE BOY'S WANDERINGS. “No, I have not seen my son since I have received news about him. It is an awful experience to pass through," said the old man, and the tears rolled down Ills cheeks and his emotion became uncontrollable. “It is like a horrible nightmare. I would just like to see him if only for a moment, and then the disgrace that he has brought upon mo makes me stay away in order to shield my family and their good name. “When the hoy win; only 15 years of age he ran awny from liome, and until a few days ago we heard nothing about him. This was in 1878. Shortly after I moved with my faintly to Washington Territory. He had frequently ran away from home before, but I was always able to get on his track and bring him back in the course of a month or so. I went to Carson City, Nov.. to get him. His running away from home was not because of any natural depravity or on ac count of ill-treatment. From about the time he was 14 years of age he showed symptoms of insanity. He cut a large gash in his leg one flay with an ax, and it seemed to have upset his nervous system, for fre quently after that he was subject to violent nervous fits. He used to act most strangely at times. I remember one day in particular he walked into the jewelry store of a next door neighbor of mine, and, deliberately taking a watch from one of tho show-cast, s in broad daylight, walked across the street into a blacksmith shop and hammered it to pieces. Ke did not act as if he had done wrong, and the jeweler, being familiar with his strange actions, did not even take him to task for what he had done. “I know the lxiy has not a sound mind. There is insanity in the family. I have a daughter 14 years old who is insane. She is violent at times, and has the peculiar mania of wanting to chop up every big stick that she sees for fear someone might try to kill her with it. One of my sons, It* years of age, is also partially insane. My father’s sister and my brother were confined for a long time in an insane asylum in Europe, and whan a boy 15 years of age I was sub jected to catalepsy. Finding Pharaoh. In the May Century are two profusely illustrated articles under the above caption describing the discovery of Pharaoh’s tomb anil picturing its contents. From the ih-st article by Mr. Wilson, the photographer, is taken this account of the way in which the tomb was located: “In a line of tombs beyond the Ramesseum lived four sturdy Aral* named Abd-nr-Rasoul. They supplied guides and donkeys to tourists who desired to visit the ruins of Thebes, and sold them genuine and spurious antiquites. When they found a mummy, it lie mg forbidden by law to sell it, the head anil hands and feet were wrenched off and sold on the sly, while the torso was kk ke 1 about the ruined temples until the jackals came and carried it away. I purchased a head and hand of one of the brothers amid the dark shadows of the temple at Qurneh. Early in 1.881 circumstantial evidence pointed to Ahmed Abd-er-Rasoul as the one who knew more than he would tell. Prof. Maspore caused his arrest, and he lay in prison at Keneh for some months. He also suffered the bastinado and the browbeating of the women rejieatoly; edly ;he i esish and bribes,and showed no meitii g mood when threatened with execution. His lips told no more than the unfouud toinb— and not as much. Finally his brother Mohammed regarded the offer of ‘bakshish,’ which Prof, ilaspero deemed it wise to .. ------ * * iu un jinn il, * IA make, as worth more to him than any sum he might hope to realize from future pillaging, and made a clean breast of the whole affair. How the four brothers ever discovered the hidden tomb has remained a ‘family secret.’ On July 5, I ski, the wily Arab conducted Herr Emil Urugsch Bey, curator of the Bulaq Museum, to Heir ei- Bahari and pointed out the hiding-place so long looked for. A long climb it was, up the slope of the western mountain, till, after scaling a great limestone clilf, a huge, isolated rock was found. Behind this a spot was reached where the stones appeared to an expert observer and tomb-searcher to have been arranged ‘by band ’ rather than scattered by some upheaval of nature. ‘There,’ said the sullen guide; anti ‘there’ the enterprising Emil Brugsch Boy, witli more than Egyptian alacrity, soon had a stalf of Aralts at work hoisting the loose stones from a well into which they had been thrown. The shaft. had been sunk into the solid lime stone to the depth of aliout forty feet, and was about H feet square. Before going very far, a huge palm-log was thrown across the well and a block and tiu'kle fastened to it to help bring up the debris. When the bottom of the shaft was reached a subterranean passage was found which ran westward some 24 foot and then turned directly northward, continuing Into the heart, of the mountain straight except where broken for about tiOO feet by an abrubt stairway. 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