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PART TWO.
THE CANYON OF THE DEAD.
Ad Uncomfortable Camping Spot in
Lower California.
Nothin* Really Supernatural There,
but Still It Is Not a Place in Which
to Enjoy Life—The Solution of Its
Mysteries.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
San Diego, Cal., March 20.—Canyada
de los Muertos, “Canon of the Dead,”
(jrewsome appellation, that, and sugges
tive. but see it and you will admit that it
is appropriate; camp in it over night,
and if you are sane enough in the morn
in-' to jabber an intelligible phrase you will
designate it as the “Canon of Lost Souls,”
••Canon of Unknown Horrors,” or some
thing equally as suggestively descriptive.
Canada de los Muertos, as it is known
to Indians and prospectors, is situated in
the Black Buttes, a northern spur of the
Cocopah mountains, and surrounded by
tho desert of that name, Just over the
border, in the eastern part of the penin
sula of Lower California. But few men
have visited tho canon, at least of late
years. There is gold in its bed, but not
in sufficient quantities to attract prospect
ors. and you cannot hire an Indian to go
within rifle shot of its shadows after the
sun has dropped behind the highest peaks
of the range to the west. 1 never was in
the canon but once, and great, indeed,
must be the inducement that will occasion
a second visit.
IVe were on a prospecting trip. Georgy
and I. “Georgy,” as he is known from
the Nevada lino to San Isidro ou tho
pulf, and from the eastern border of Ari
?. .:i to the Pacific coast, is (50 years of
a' h v or more, tall and spare, a tireless
mechanism of bono, blood and muscle, rc
ti.vnt among strangers, but talkative
over his pipe, around the camp lire with
compadres. Out outfit consisted of four
burros, two carrying our tools, provisions
ami blankets, each of the others bearing
two zinc canteens, each containing six
gallons of water. We were headed for
the Cocopahs, and since yesterday morn
ing had boon toiiing across that ninety
mile stretch of burning sand that lies be
tween the Canyada de las Palmas in the
Sierra Madras to the west and that deep
notch in the (leaks of the Cocopahs that
marks the location of the next water hole
in the Canyada de las Mujer Perdida,
“Canon of the Imst Woman.” The sup
ply of water in the canteens had been ex
hausted hours before, and, with the ani
mals. we had begun to experience the
discomforts of the burning thirst of the
desert, yet we were not alarmed, as
“Lost Woman's Canon” was now but a
few miles ahead, and although our
shadows now fell in front of us and
gradually lengthened as wc plodded east
ward. we felt eontident of reaching the
water hole before dark. This confidence
was shattered just around the base of the
next sand hill, where vve came upon an
Indian, who. with a short, thick-bladed
knife, was digging out the pulp in a “nig
ger head” cactus. Indians seldom, if
ever, carry water in crossing the desert,
but rely on tne cactus for nourishment,
the pulp of which yields a bitter acrid
juice unpalatable and unsatisfactory to a
white man. in a jargon of Indian-Spanish,
he informed us that a temblor (earth
quake. common in that region) had dried
up the spring in “Lost Woman's Canon”
a few days ago; that tho nearest water
was in tho Can.vada de las Muertos, fur
ther to the north and east.
"1 know wbar’ ’tis,” said Gregory.
We changed our course from dirootly
east to east-northeast and plodded silently
on through the sand. The burros'heads
were drooping, their tongues lolling and
wtrteet dragging wearily as we entered a
broad, deep, rocky “wash” in that arid,
tan-, n spur known as the Black Buttes.
" ihis is not bad,” I remarked, refer
ring to the broad wash.
‘Wou wait,” replied Georgy. Half a
utile further up, and he pointed ahead
and to the right. “Thar' ’tis.”
• saw a narrow rift in tho towering
wa.l of rock, as if Jove had cleft the
mountain from summit to base. A deep,
narrow gorge, its precipitous walls of
oiac.i porphyry rising to a hight of 1,000
tes tor higher. Behind us tho sun had
disappeared over the mountain, and the
Barkening purple shadows of tho canon
already looked gloomy and forbidding.
as we approached it I involuntarily
j.i.moed overhead, half expecting to see the
inscription, “All hope abandon, ye who
T j ro ;" At tho entrance the burros
opped The old gray in the lead threw
oi ward his long ears, sniffed the air,
Vn'lo'?*' or two steps, then paused again,
t itiiting between his desire to slake
,j, lll ? t at the spring ho scented ahead
f“! ai f instinctive dread of what might
' i -ii'King in the deep shadows beyond.
'• ■ on. Jack,” said Georgy, ‘-it air that
camp. ” As if he understood the
ftth . .• t * le °ld burro, followed by the
' , ls went forward into the gorge.
„i, l 0" ( 'd we’d bettor take an armful
r, ~ Uv ,''; oo< * wl th us,” suggested
in don’t guess there’s a stick
.':®r’ , an Wo 'l‘ need some for the
, e- v rom a drift in the wash we
-.cit'd mirseives with the dead limbs of
tmchn'i 116 juniper and followed the
1 ' vo or three hundred yards
“ (i and wo came to where they wore
itself', ma little stream that lost
Acm-i V' 1 16 sa nds near the entrance,
a, T' m a short distance we camped,
the m,,Y . (,< : or Sy built a lire 1 unpacked
a inn, i ( s ' , n ,ho k'oom I stumbled over
light m . , w !“ tlsb substance, that felt so
. 1 .‘1 might ho ’’honey-combed”
it . V ~" 1 indication of mineral. 1 picked
it ir -,, 111 / 1 'j°serexamination, but dropped
;{‘YIdatedy. 1 datedy. It was a human skull.
e\... i 4 V . ‘ l , tarantula slid out from one
io, kV an scuttled away ainon# tho
1. , ~ 1,1 ado a brief examination of the
and thA.. a i ( oun< * skulls. Here
whm V v lo !^ e(1 among tho boulders,
beun carriuJ b - v >o
hd -.."iVi e 1,0nC9 of leRS and rcrnis,
bin and then a foot or hand, bleached,
lpiiTi,. 1 ) f°°° state of preservation. I
iiiif ■ 1,. 'l'k to where Georgy was plac
bla ii '. a itened coffee pot among the
?“ and told him of my find,
slic*. iti s i Ruthin’,” he replied, as he
■p . ' bacon “H o n(y ii K ht I
i.r th, -Y a I,na I' mo’ uv 'em. They
k aroun l yeh.”
•’x’‘ I ‘-', ls A 1 ■ A graveyard ?”
.'or*! i, ,V l ! ut w,iat yer mout call a gravc
heali.i,A, lle y wuz, a sirgivus ol’ killin’
it afp,,, 1 u a S P°U back. I’ll tell yoabout
t. i i ’ That meal, which eon
bean. , |iros Pectors’ regular fare, coffee,
a "r inn i anb a cako of baking pow
socn ov , bak( ;d in a frying t>an. was
rra„ , A ft '‘r lighting our pipes and
comfortably on our
[*,!*■,5 ,c ' #, ’g.V began:
!::i;;. ,Y', s ° l ,ow 'ful long ago sonce what
u ' Hu- 11...; ' , n , vo . l *ie name uv ’Kenyon
he-. ~ ‘*o for this gulch, an' seein’ az I
many uv t in- man bo war’
' u ecbria-n<m,l'lw tain’t aU talk.
Wat Jfioraittg
Ner see, they uster be a gang of rustlers
operatin’ aroun’ these paths: they was
Mexican outlaws, American renygade.s
an half-breeds, an’ I ’low they wuz a
pow’ful hard lot. They uster lay fer em
mygrant trains, an’ after killin’ the men
an chillun ’ud kyah the young wimmin
off down heah whar’ they’d die uv abuse
an’ grief. Thev’s caves up in tho rocks
whar’ they useter keep ’em. Sometimes
some uv 'em ’ud git away, ’an that's how
’Lost Woman’s Kenyon’ to git its name—
but thet air anutlier story
\The rustlers 'ud keep ’emselves sup
plied with horses and beef cattlo from
the ranches ter the west , an’ tho emmy
gi*ant trains furnished ’em with pervi
sions. They wuz lots uv gold seekers
them days a conain, over the southern
trail, an’ they wuz lots uv trains uv two
ur three ur half a dozen wagons that wuz
never heere uv after they erost the river.
Well, these fellers kep’ on a runniu’ off
stock an’ a killin’ prospectors an’ emmy
grants until the ranchers an’ miners on
yon side uv the mountains concluded to
tako a ban’. They got tergether an’ orgy
nized a committee of vigilantys, an' tuk
the trail right after a raid. They wuz as
hahd riders ez the rustlers an’ pushed
’em mighty dost. The rustlers lef the
cattle an’ scattered, taking the diffuut
d’reetions ter git heah; but the vigilantys
wuz good trailers an’ didn’t stop ter feed,
so by the time the leaders rid ter the top
uv that ridge uv sand hills we passed
back yender ter the west they seed the
last uv the rustlers a rulin' inter the big
wash.
"The vigilantys laid low tell night, an’
then sent out scouts, who foun’ tile camp
in this yeh gulch without no trouble.
11’-’’. twuz decided to come ter the mouth
uv the wash an wait tel jest about day.
This wuz done, an’ just about break o’
day the vigilantys come hellity split up the
wash, a leavin’ some uv tlieir number
scattered about among the rocks ter pick
off any stragglin’ rustlers; but,” said
Georgy, between puffs, as he applied a
blazing twig to his freshly filled pipe,
"they wuzzin’t none. The rustlers had
one picket out, but he’d gone in Just ez
twuz gettin’ light, an’ the vigilantys wuz
at the mouth uv this gulch the rust
lers knowed whut 'ud happen. Well,
suh, they wuz u sirgivus oi’ row thon.
The rustlers made a stau,, but they wuz
tuk at a disadvantage and wuz shot down
right an’ left. They couldn’t git away
fer, you see, theys noi outlet to
this place, so about a dozen ur
fifteen uv’em surren'ed. Well,
suh, ez soon ez the shootin’
stopped, they fell me, eight ur ten white
wimiuen tome a crawlin’ out from among
the rocks, a lookin’ mo’ like wild beasts
than human. They wuz wimmen what
hed be’n captured fromemmygrant trains,
an’ ez soon ez they tole ther story, an uv
how others hed been brought thar an’
abused tell they' died, them vigilantys’
minds wuz made up mighty quick. They
say they jest stood them rustlers up agin
the wall down thar whar the rnnles is an’
shot ’em down. They scooped holes thar’
among the ro ks an tumbled ’em in, but
the coyotes didn’t let’em stay long. No,
the story never got inter the papers.
They wuzu’t a teiygraph ur a railroad
within 500 miles of heah, an’ besides, this
air on Mexican soil. Thet’s how come
this ter be called ’Kenyon uv the Dead.’ ”
I did not doubt the story. Those silent
witnesses scattered about there on the
ground bore unimpeachable evidence of
its truth. Although through the entire
narrative 'Georgy interjected “they tell
me,” and “they do say,” yet I conceived
the impression that he was there at the
“killin',” but you could tell nothing from
that bronzed, grizzled, impassive face
hajf concealed by curling wreaths of
smoke.
Wearied with our thirty-six hours’ con
tinuous tramp across tho sand, wo rolled
in our blankets and were soon’ in a doze.
How long I remained in that condition I
do not know, but I awoke to find
myself raised on my right elbow
and peering into the black wall of night,
my rifle at a “ready.” Have you ever
awakened suddenly and had the im
pression that someone was in your room ’
Well, that is the way I felt. 1 stared and
listened, but saw nothing, and the silence
was absolutely oppressive in its intensity.
Rearranging my blankets, i lay down,
and in a few moments was asleep. Again
I was awakened by that feeling of a pres
ence; again 1 found myself in that half
reclining position, grasping my rifle and
staring in the darkness, every nerve and
sense strained and alert, awaiting some
sign from that something back there in
the night. I had slept for some time,
for tho camp fire, blazing brightly when
I lay down, was now a little heap of
smoldering coals. On the opposite side
Georgy was lying quietly, wrapped in his
blankets and sound asleep.
From somewhere away up the moun
tain, a long-drawn, wavering, half-human
cry came down the night, i knew it was
a mountain lion; I hail heard a similar
cry hundreds of times with indifference.
Then why should this one send a “creepy”
sensation up and down my back? God’
Look at that! A skull not twenty feet
away was suddenly illuminated by a
ghostly light and flashed a horrible grin
at me through the darkness. I half
started to my foot, then resumed my po
sition. Pshaw! it was nothing: only a
"lightning bug” that had found its way
inside tho skull. Suddenly there was a
rush of something overhead like a heavy
wind through the gulch, but there was ab
solutely no noticeable breeze. A moment
later the four burros came crowding and
jostling up near where we were lying,
and, huddling together, stood with their
heads turned out and stared, trembling,
into the. dark. Again there was that
“whish” and rush of something through
the air above us; the mules cowered al
most to tho ground and uttered half
human moans. A moment later there
was a distant “thumpety-tump” and rum
ble as of galloping of horses, a quiver of
the earth, like tbo passing of a locomo
tive followed by a rattling sound far up
tho gulch, like the irregular discharge of
firearms. Heavens, that skull has moved ,
it is on the other side now ; no, it is an
other. and there, over by the opposite
wall, is a third, all grinning at me alter
nately through the darkness, in a yellow
ish, ghostly glare. Over yonder is an
other, only its eyes showing, but they are
burning with a round, steady, greenish
flume. Great God! It is moving! Slowly,
carel'ullv circling around, but always
coming ‘closer. The burros see it now
aud crowd toward the fire. As
they move there is a “whirr-r-r directly
behind them ; they had intercepted a rat
tlesnake crawling to the water. 1 was
fascinated by those great eyes creeping,
crawling, circling, but always approach
ing. I seemed to have lost all power of
motion, could only gazo into those globes
of green Are. , ~ ,
Suddonly there was a stir in tho blank
ets on the opposite side of the ffre, and
the eyes disappeared. dim
“Hard, les’ break camp.” By the dim
light shed by tho coals I could sec Georgy
sitting upright on tho ground gazing
across at me. .
Tho miniature ico gorge about iny
heart gave way and the imprisoned bio 1
went bounding through m.v vems. J a ‘
other Instant vve had thrown the remain
lug fuel on the camp tire, and by its
cheery blaze we rolled our blankets, io
SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1894.
packed the mules, and filled the canteens.
Heading the animals down the gulch,
Georgy said:
“Ketch holt uv a burro's tail an’he’ll
steer yer clar uv the bowlders an’ rat
tlers.” I did so, and away we went down
tho gorge through darkness so dense that
it seemed almost perceptible to the touch,
the burros nearly on a run. despite their
packs. Two miles out on the desert we
camped on the sands, and under the
cheerful starlight recovered our spirits.
"I never seed but one man that camped
in that gulch over night, an' he vvus a jib
berin’. jabberin’ ejit atterwards,” said
Georgy, as, sitting on his blanket, he in
clined to the left and striking a match on
his right thigh, lighted his pipe. ’’’Twuz
six yar Sgo cornin’ fail. Me n Ol’ Tex’
wuz down heah, when vve foun’ a man
runnin’ about on the san’, purty nighed
naked and ez crazy ez a loon. Tt tuk both
uv we’uns ter hoi’ him an’ give im water.
After his tongue and mouth got loosened
a little he’d jabber an’ pint towads the
wash, so vve tuk him an’ started. He’d go
along all right tel we'M git purty nigh
ter the kenyon, then he’d break away
an’run. We ketclied him an' tied him
down an’ went inter tho gulch. We
foun'his camp bout whar ours wuz, but
his mules wuz both dead. They hed bln
eat some by vahmints, but if ever ani
mals wuz skeered ter death them wuz.
N cr cud see it in thor eyes. Well, suh, wo
tuk Kyar uv the feller fur two ur
three days, but lie wuz too fur gone an’
died the third day atter vve foun’ him
We scooped a hoi’ in tho sail’ an’ beyied
him off yeh ter the right.”
You drivers into the unknowable, ex
plain it if you can. We were two able
bodied, weii-aruied men. One, lam posi
tive, knows not the meaning of fear- a
veteran in two wars and carrying tho
scars of a dozen Indian campaigns. 1
have seen him tried and T know he fears
neither brute nor man, and 1 have heard
uitn scoff at the supernatural. The other
—well, as a news; aper reporter and spec
ial correspondent ifi the west for fifteen
years, he hud had considerable exper
ience in the mountains and in the desert;
he had stood guard when be knew mur
derous Apaches were crawling around
in the darxn:ss, yet he never felt
as be did in that gulch. Yet
vve had seen or heard nothing that
was not susceptible of a practical expla
nation. Ihe “rush’’through the air was
a gust of wind down the chimney-like
gorge, but high above us. The quiver of
tho earth was a slight earthquake. The
”thuinpty-thump" was loosened boulders
rolling clown the cliffs; the “rattling”
sound was small brooks following. The
greenish eyes were those of some animal,
presumably a wildcat. Y'et we bad ac
tually run from sounds we had heard
dozens of times. 1 have exploded other
stories of the supernatural, haunted
mines, etc., yet I have no desire to further
investigate tho mysteries of LI Canyada
de fas Muertos.
PUTTING UP A CIRCUS TENT.
System and Celerity With Which Each
Part Moves to Its Place.
Front the New York Sun.
In putting up a circus tent the first
tiling the workmen learn is to puy no at
tention to crowds. The spaces that the
boys don’t occupy' the unemployed men
fill, and frequently the nurse girls or the
anxious mothers help to swell the throng.
The workingmen move about as if un
conscious of the presence of the specta
tors, but tlieir eyes are quick and their
voices strong in time of danger from fall
ing poles, and they can frighten a small
boy out of the way four times as quick as
a policeman can. The urchin bolds a
circus employe in much greater awe
than a policeman.
So skilled is the chief canvasman of a
big circus that when he arrives on the
ground where tho tents are to be pitched
that he can tell at a glance just how to
dispose of them. In the Barnum show
the practice is to put up the menagerie
and horse tents first. This is usually done
before breakfast whenever possible, and
then, after a short rest all hands turn in
and with a rush up goes the tent. The
chief canvasman of the Barnum show is
William Kelley. When he determines
upon the location of the tents he sends
for a lot of men with iron pins, to some
of which are attached pieces of blue flan
nel and to others pieces of red flannel.
Kelley takes a long tape line out of his
pocket and fixes the position of his first
pole by a red pin. Then he measures off
the required distance for the second pole
and then for the others, until the places
for all five polos of the main tent are
fixed.
Next Kelley to the end poles, and
with a tape swings a half circle beyond
each. At regular intervals of about a
dozen feet he orders a blue pin stuck in
the ground until both ends of the tent
plan Tire marked. Having disposed of
each end of the plan, lie quickly passes
down the straight sides, and at the re
quired places has pins placed for each
stake to which the guy ropes are to be
attached, and in a few minutes the whole
place is thus staked off. All the measure
ments are in Kelley’s memory, whether
the tout be big or little.
Then comes probably the most interest
ing part of putting up the tent. Stalwart
men have been unloading stout hickory
stakes from tho three stake wagons and
these are distributed in wheelbarrows
ever the grobnds. The sledge gangs then
seize their tools. There are eight men
in a gang and nine gangs to do the work.
One man in each gang plunges a crowbar
into the ground and makes a prepar
atory hole for the stake. The head
sledgeman drives the stake in with one or
two smart blows, and the other six
gather about in a circle. Then all lift
their sledges and each in turn gives the
stake a slight tap, and thus they catch
the swing. The next turn around the
blow falls harder, and by tho time the
third blow is struck the whirling slcdgss
rain down on tho stake with a speed al
most as fast as one can count. Ono
sledge no sooner strikes a stake and slips
away than another takes Us place. As
they go whirling in tho air the effect is
like the arms of a windmill in a brisk
breeze, and the sound of musketry.
When nine gangs are at work at once the
sight is confusing, and one wonders that
the men don’t knock each other’s head
off.
The stake itself goes plunging down into
the turf in a series of quick jump3. One
can see it Jump, but it never has a rest.
On the average, it takes about thirty sec
onds to drive each stake home, and in a
few minutes the whole 250 stakes required
for the main tent are in the ground. Op
posite each main pole extra stakes are
driven, and then the ground is cleared.
The workmen carry in on their shoulders
the five 50-foot poles and place them near
their proper locations. Then twenty-two
quarter poles, each thirty-two feet long,
are carried in and arranged in line, with
their upper ends fronting outward. Then
thirty-four shorter quarter poles are
brought in and arranged the same way,
but further away from the main poles.
It requires a lot of unloading, but the
wagons have boen driven to places within
easy reach, and every economy in space
aud time is studied.
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Two short stakes are then driven at the
foot of each main pole for bearers, against
which it is to rise, and with ropes at
tached, each biff pole is pulled to a per
pendicular and made fast. A wood or
iron ritiff has been slipped over the foot of
the pole before it is drawn to the upright
position.
The ground now seems a confused mass
of poles and stakes. Kelley goes the round
and then a raid is ma le on the three can
vas wagons. Six or eight men carry on
their shoulders a big roll, and by its ap
pearance Kelley or one of his assistants
knows exactly where it belongs. The
men stagger along until they hear the
words, "Drop it,” and then it falls to the
ground. A dozen or fifteen men seize it,
unfold it and shake it out. The two curv
ing end pieces are straightend out, and
then the four pieces that cross from one
side to the other are brought out and
placed on tho ground. The poles always
protrude through the tent where two sec
tions join. The tent being laid out on the
ground the pieces are joined to the hoods
about the standing poles and then the
sections are laced together by a series of
short loops that link one into the other.
Half a dozen men gather under the canvas
at each pole to do the pulling, and the
rest of the men run to the edge of the
tent. They race around and shove 100
small side poles about fifteen feet tall
under the edge of the tent and slip their
tops in the holes made for them. These
are the littlo poles at the very edge of the
tent. At a signal the men raise the edge
of the tent, bring these little poles to a
perpendicular. The lent now looks like
an enormous flattened white hat with the
rim turned up. In a little further the
men dive, and soon they begin to push
the quarter polo to an upright position.
The men at the main poles pull up, and
slowly the tent begins to assume shape.
Teams of horses are soon brought into
requisition and they pull the bases of tho
quarter poles to their places. The guy
ropes which reach from the edge of the
tent to the stakes tighten and soon tho
big tent is taut and firm. The ropes that
held the poles firm while the tent was be
ing pulled up are slackened and the can
vas sways as it feels the flexibility in the
ropes. More canvas is brought out and
the - side walls” are put on. the workmen
using ladders to fasten them at the top.
The tent is now practically complete. It
is 450 feet long and 100 feet vVidc and it is
ready for the seats. These are rushed In
section by section and in a tv-inkling the
placo seems ready for the show Of
course, there is much work yet to bo done,
sudh ns adjusting flags, bringing in and
putting up apparatus forathletes. prepar
ing the track and the rings and tho lights.
All this work of putting up the main
tent and the three large auxiliary tents
can be accomplished in good weather in
two houre and a half. It requires the
services of more than 100 trained men,
not one of whom Is sluggish. It is a
task where the only watchword is
"hustle." The foreman finds it neces
sary to use many other words, some of
them not in any polito category, but the
canvasman. like the Mississippi rousta
bout. expects vigorous urging to do his
work, and would feel uneasy without it.
A certain amount of profanity is required
to keep up the normal temperature. In
the outfit of the tent department ulone
LEOPOLD ADLER,
(SICCESKOK TO A. R. ALTMAVEK & CO.)
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etc., we start to-morrow morning, cutting prices right and left.
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hito. Black and Colored, all this season's styles, regular
price 80c,
Reduced to 89c each.
SAILORS.
Trimmed, Broad Brims. Black. White, Navy, Cardinal and
Brown Pedal and Rough and Heady Straws, usual ;18 and 50c,
Reduced to 25c each.
Flowers.
Field Flower Sprays of every
description, worth up to 35c,
Reduced to 10c Spray.
Beal cis ciia in Mg nil $1.50 am g Ram m 98c.
Trimmed ILits Unit cost us $5 to trim up, at $2.98.
That cost us K*.so to trim up, That cost us 013 to trim up, Thnt cost us 07.50 to trim up, Pattern hh^Trlmroed
Tm—r~i -r tmmmmmm MOUUIS I Uftt I'OSl UN faO,
84*98. 86.98. 83.93. SK).OO.
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mmrn asnnnnnn/’n Fine Stock of Shoes, Ladies’ Oxford Ties (Black
KMil HJ 1 U < J \\- V \ and Tan), Men’s Fine Shoes, Misses’, Children’s and
UUILLII U mUi\ \ Out I 0 Boys’Shoes, Ties, etc., at JUST HALF their prices
we mammary
I adics' Black and Tan Oiford
Ties. sUcs 1 to 6. all widths,
Cotnmol lienso, Flocadilly and
Opera Toes, Butler & Morris
sey so'd them for 01 a pair;
Our price $1.98.
54c
10 yards Fine
Quality Birds Eye,
2 1 inches wide,
usual 79c.
!Cc
Swiss, Nainsook,
Cambric Edgings
and Insertings,
worth 25c a yard.
there are three stake wagons, three prop
erty wagons, five canvas wagons three
stringer and four plank wagons for tho
ordinary seats, fettr reserved seat wag
ons, two jacks wagons, and three pole
wagons.
The tents are taken down much quicker
than they are put up. Big jacks pull up
the stakes, ropes are loosened, aud with
the proper amount of warning the whole
falls to the ground. The canvas is un
laced and folded, poles and scats nro
stowed, and tho wagons move away.
The small boy still lingers, however,
and hovers about the placo for several
days.
TILLMAN IN ATLANTA.
“Conspiring With the Atlanta Consti
tution for the Surrender of the Dem
ocratic Party to the Populists.”
From the Charleston News and Courier.
Atlanta, Ga., April 24.—Gov. B. R.
Tillman arrived here this afternoon on
the Seaboard Air Line train on route for
Birmingham, where he goes, it is sup
posed here, as a veteran of the Darling
ton war. His coming had ■ been heralded
to the newspaper men, aud several of
them were ou hand to meet and Interview
him. He denied himself to all except
representatives of the Atlanta Con
stitution. Evan R Howell nnd
(’lark Howell, of the Constitution,
met the governor at the train
and escortod him to tho Mark
ham house, where they were closeted
with him for a considerable time. As
Tillman has recently declared for a union
of disaffected democrats and the populists
of tho south and west against tho east,
aud as the Constitution has showu incli
nations in the same direction, this secret
conference of soreheads is regarded hero
as significant, though not important.
Pity Among Birds.
From the Globe Democrat.
“I witnessed an incident last year,”
said Oswald Grafton, “that showed that
there Is a strong feeling of pity among
birds, and that sometimes they are as
charitable as men. A pair of robins had
their nest in the fence near by the house,
whilo a pair of catbirds had built theirs
in a bush close by. The two pairs hatched
out their young at about the same time,
and for a short time everything went
along smoothly. Thon the robins disap
peared entirely and I concluded they had
been killed. The young robins, who had
depended on their parents for food, ap
peared to be starving. When the cat
birds came with a worm or bit of food
for their young, tho young robins would
thrust up their heads and make a great
noise. Presently it was noticed that tho
catbirds were feoding the hungry or-'
phans. Every night, too, while ono of
the catbirds covered its own young its
mate performed the same service for the
young robins. In this way both broods
were reared, the robins growing up as
strong and lively as though they had
been cared for by their own parents."
Girl (weoplngi l’m so sorry vou have to go
on tho road again. It almost breaks my
heart.
Drummer—Don't cry. Fannie: I'll manage
to pick up auothtrglrl somewhere.—Sittings.
LEOPOLD ADLER.
Rose Sprays,
Violets, 50c Flowers and 75c
Flowers, all kinds,
Reduced to 25c Bunch.
Misses’ 11 to l
Kid, Spring Heel Oxford Ties,
plain or tipped, Butler & Mor
rissey easily sold them at 01.50,
Our price 75c.
MAIL ORDERS
X.
Receive Immediate,
prompt, rapid attention.
35 ANI) 50 STRAW SHAPES
Blr.ck, White and Spring Colorings, this season's shapos.
Reduced to IQc each.
75c AND $l.OO CHIPS
And Lace Straws, all fresh, this season's styles,
Reduced to 48c each.
RIBBONS.
Satin and Moire, usual2oand 25c,
Reduced to 12c yard.
Black Leghorns.
Ladies’ and Misses’,
Reduced to 25c.
Men’s Siioes, “
Those Hold by Butler & Mor
rissey for $B,
Wa sell at $2.25,
Those sold for 01,
Wa sell at $2.98.
Those Sold at 05,
We sell at $3.98.
44c
10 yards Bird's
Eye, 18 Inches wide,
worth 58c
ANUJARPE TS .
EMIL A.SCHWARZ’S,
129 and 127 Broughton Street.
Refrigerators, Ico Chests, Baby Carriages, Mattings, Mosquito Nets and everything
pertaining to the Furniture and Carpet Trade. Inspect our Stock. Compare our prices.
EMIL A. SCHWARZ,
Broughton Street, Next to Corner Bull Street.
LADIES’ FURNISHINGS AND ART GOODS.
IKIEYER & WALSH.
OWINCTO REMOVAL
-SfeOUR ENTIRE
Will Be Sold at a Reduction.
MEYER & WALSH.
==3®l|<|4f
N. ll.—Will remove about funo I to store No. 120 Broughton street, formerly
occupies! by Butler & Mori Issey.
PA(JES 9 TO 1.
Freud. Flowers.—Heal 1m
ported Flowers, that have sold
up to 02.
Reduced to 48 and 98c.
1U I>l.<>ns.—(*ros Grain, Fancy
Moire and Satins, sold up to
750 yard,
Reduced to 29c.
Lies’ Rissei
OXFORD TIES.
Sold by Butlor & Morrissey
for $1.75; we close otit at
75c pair.
10c
Great Big House
Sponges, worth 25c
each.
10c j
Good serviceable z
China Matting 10c £
yard. £
10c j
Japanese Fans, cord ~
and tassel; regular Z
price 20c. ;
10c j
Tan. Ecru. White and z
Black Fancy Laces; £
usual 15c, 20c and 25c Z
yard.
TTj
India Lawns, white £
satin plaids; usual Z
prioe tsc yard.
in
!3-lnch A g atewaro £
Spoons; worth 20c. £
10c I
Lunch Basket, Ger- Z
man Willow ware,. Z
usual 18c.
10c j
Misses' Kit. tied Vests ~
no sleeves, low neck; £
usual 20c.
10c |
Ladies’Blat k an<lTnn2
Leather Belts, oil -
dlzcd buckles; worth -
15c.
10c
Extra strong, well
madelce Picks; usual:
18c.