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BANDIT LUN-KY.
A Tonquin Desperado and Ilis
Band of Cutthroats.
Captured Frenchmen Pay a Big
Rattsom for Their Liberty.
Lnn-Ivy is a desperado who leads a
bandit horde iu the mountain fastnosses
near Dong-trien, in Tonquin. He is
hardly iho're than 20 years of age, is
of commanding stature aud singular
ferocity, and has operated so actively
during tho last two years as to Live
become an object of terror throughout
that part of the country. It is believ¬
ed that unrequited lovo impelled the
youth to adopt tiiis lawless life, for
two years ago iio was a reputable lad.
apprenticed to a saddler, and assiduous
in his attentions to the daughter of one
of the local magistrates. This girl,
however, suddenly wedded with an
old and rich neighbor, and in a few
days Lun-Ky disappeared from Dong
trien and presently blazed into notor¬
iety as the boldest bandit chief in Ton¬
quin. It is, perhaps, the ambition of
the misguided youth to acquire so
great possessions as to occasion his old
and tickle inamorata severe heart¬
burnings.
At all events, the riches which Lun
Ky has amassed iu two years are said
to exceed the bounds of credulity.
Somewhat of a dandy in his tastes, he
wears gorgeous silks and feathers,
and covers his bosom with a network
of gold; his weapons are of tho finest
quality and include in their category
jeweled 6ciuieters, ebouy-stock car¬
bines, and ivory-hilted poniards.
Two inonfhs ago tho brothers Roque
and M, Costa, three Frenchmen tem¬
porarily residing in Tonquin, were
captured by Lun-Ky’s band. At the
same ti nc a companion, ouo Sing-Yi,
a native tradesman fell iuto the hands
of tho brigands.
As soon as M. Briffand, the French
consul for “rosident” at Dong-trien),
heard of this outrage, ho applied him¬
self industriously to securing the re¬
lease of the captives, hut the brigands,
with whom intercourse was Anally
opened up, demanded an exorbitant
ransom, nor would they accede to any
compromise. One day, therefore, the
consul, accompanied by the village
priest and attended by an escort of
French marines, repaired to the moun¬
tains, bearing tho required ransom.
Having reached a lonely spot supposed
to have been about Jive miles from tho
bandit camp, this little company was
halted before a bamboo post upon
which was hung an inscription saying
that the troops must not go farther
without parley.
About this time Lun-Ky himself ap¬
peared in the distance, and announced
that the consul aud the priest should
proceed together, leaving the marines
behind. It was another Hobson’s
choice. So tho troops remained, and
the consul and the priest went for¬
ward with tho beasts bearing the ran¬
som- Reaching the assigned place,
perhaps two miles distant, the ransom
was carefully inspected and counted.
It consisted of 100 pieces of silk, 12
watches, and $50,000 in coin. Lun-Ky
objected to tho silk, because it was
not, ns he complained, of tho best
quality.
Rut the consul, speaking through
the priest as interpreter, represented
that the silk was tho very finest that
could be obtained in Tonquin, and
finally the chieftain was persuaded.
Then the captives were delivered up,
the bandits to the number of 400
kneeling all tho while in a circle, with
leveled rifles, ready to fire at the first
signal. As soon as the consul, the
priest and the released meu disap¬
peared down the hillside the bandits
struck camp and made off with proper
haste.
The native tradesman, Sing-Yi, who
was taken into captivity with the
Messrs. Costa and Rcque, was not re¬
leased with the others, and it is be¬
lieved that the bandits murdered him.
He had, it seems, identified several of
the bandits aud had prepared a letter
to a Canton mandarin giving certain
important information and asking that
the families of these bandits be held
amenable for the lawlessness of the
bandits themselves. Discovering this
letter and recognizing in Siug-Yi an
enemy who knew too much, the ban¬
dits put him into close confinement,
aud it is supposed that they suhse
aueutly beheaded him.
SPRING PLACE. GA.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 18, 1890.
The ransomed Frenchmen report
that dm ing their captivity they were
kept manacled and that the most shock¬
ing indignities were heaped upon
them. They say that Lun-Ky is rev¬
erenced by his fellow-bandits as an in.
spired being, and that his authority as
chieftain is practically an absolute
monarchy. Lun-Ky has thoughtfully
given il out that as soon as the number
of his followers has reached 700 he
wiil swoop down upon his na'ivo vil¬
lage, capture his old sweetheart, and
strangle her veuerable husband, first,
however, cutting off tho latter’s cars
and nose, that being a particularly
humiliating offence in China, This
announcement has, as you would sup¬
pose, occasioned a distinct feeling of
uneasiness in certain quarters.—[Chi¬
cago News.
Boiling Lakes iu the Sierras.
About 100 miles north of Orovillc,
at the foot of old Lassen, there is a
boiling lake, covering several acres
The depth of the lake is unknown, bui
its entire surface constantly boils like
a huge kettle. The degree of heat we
do not know hut we wore there about
ten years ago, and remember distinct¬
ly that it would scald the skiu from
the fingers in a very few seconds.
Our party agreed that it would boil
an egg in four minutes. The smell of
sulphur pervaded the atmosphere aboul
the lake, and around its borders some¬
thing like sulphur could be scraped up
in handfuls. This lake is near liol
Spring valley, at the base of Mounl
Lassen. Between it and the mountain
there are perhaps a thousand boiling,
bubbling, hot springs, aud in tramping
about these springs the soles of per¬
sons’ shoes become uncomfortably
warm. The North Feather river, al
the base of Lassen, in its trickling
snows and springs, and in a clear, cold
and beautiful stream hut a few feet
wide, flows through this community
of hot springs.
Some of these springs huhhlo up
boiling water within a span of the
river. Standing in tho midst of these
springs a peculiar sensation is expe¬
rienced. At a thousand places the
earth emits a vapor of smoke, while
under the surface ihcre is a jarring,
roaring noise as if hundreds of 6team
engines wero in operation, and the
earth produces a feeling of uncertain¬
ty. A short distance south of the Boil¬
ing lake and near Willow lake, which
is beautiful, cold and clear, thero are
several geysers tliat shoot up streams
of hot water from five to ten feet in
diameter and eighteen to twenty feet
high. That is a grand and rugged
country about Mt. Lassen, presenting
every variety of natural beauty and
affording unlimited fields of study to
the geologist. If it is desired to look
into the crater of an extinct volcano, a
trip to the summit of Lassen will grat¬
ify the wish.
The high Sierras of Northern Cali¬
fornia are little known except to pros¬
pectors and trappers of a past age,and
(heir wonders are yet to be described.
— [Red Bluff (Cal.) People’s Cause.
A Blov Aimed at Oleomargarine.
“The authorities of tho State of
Michigan have of late come to the con¬
clusion” states the American Dairymau
“that it is not right to further feed
tho insane of the State on oleomarga¬
rine instead cf butter, and have there¬
fore ordered a change under the ex¬
pressed opinion that oleomargarine has
a tendency to create a disturbance of
the stomachs of the patients. This,
we believe, is the hardest practical
blow the oleomargarine people have
received, it is to be presumed that
those patients have been fed on oleo
for years past without any possible
suspicion crossing their minds that
they were not receiving the pure arti¬
cle of butter that they probably
thought they were eating, but in tho
end their stomachs rebelled against the
stuff, which was probably given them
in the true shape that the public would
get it if thero wore no laws against its
manufacture. Thus we see, even
without a trial, what would be tho re¬
sult if oleo was given an open chance
to come on the market. This evidence
makes us feel that wo have done no
injustice to anyone iu our theoretical
opposition to a free trade ia the stuff.”
Clear as Crystal.
Fool—“What’s the cause of all this
horrid weather?”
Wise man (with dignity)—“It is
caused by an area of low barometer.”
SUN WORSHIPERS.
A Wonderful Relic of their
Handiwork in Mexico.
A Stone Roadway Up a Mound
1200 Feet High.
Charles ,T. AVimple, one of the
wealthiest miners of Mexico, is a re¬
cent arrival iu the city. To a repre
sentative of the Call he told the fol
lowing wonderful story:
“You have asked mo to givo an ac¬
count of the interesting mountain my
friend, Jesse D. Grant, and myself
saw during our trip through Mexico
en route to this city. Well, that
mountain is at onec one of tho most
gigantic exhibitions of man’s handi¬
work, and something almost beyond
credence were we not already familiar
with the works of the Aztecs.
“Just imagine a valley fo-ty by
thirty miles in nrea, and from its
centre i ising a mound over 1,200 feet
feet in height. Then you can realize
the first effect created upon our minds
when we came before the hill I am to
describe. My foreman was with us,
and had partly prepared us for tho
surprise, but we had treated his story
with incredulous remarks, and had by
no means suspected ho had hut given a
modest description of the mound.
“We gazed to tho top and allowed
our eyes to follow the windings of a
road down to tho base. We went
around the baso and conjectured it
was about one and a half miles in cir¬
cumference. Then ws started for the
summit. The rondway was built of
solid rock clear to tho pinnacle, and
was from thirty to forty feet in width.
A wall of solid rock formed a founda¬
tion and an inside wall at the same
time. The outer edge of the road was
unguarded. These stones weigh all
the way up to a ton caoh, and are not
cemented. The roadway is as level
as a floor, and is covered with broken
pieces of earthenware water vessels.
“Half way up the mountain is an
altar cut in solid rock; in tho niclio is
a bouldcv which must weigh at least
six tons. The boulder is of diflerent
stone from that used iu the walls. The
rocks in the walls are dressed by skilled
workmeni hut are not polished. We
saw no iii^. -iptions; in fact we had
no tiino t< -rein making a searching
investigation. We did look for arrow
heads or other warlike instruments to
satisfy ourselves that tho mound had
not been used for defensive or offen¬
sive purposes. Nor was there any
evidence to prove that tho roadway
had been built for the purpose of wit¬
nessing bull lighis and other sports in
the vadey.
“I could only conclude the Aztec
sun worshipers expended years of
labor on tho hill in order that they
might have an appropriate placo to
celebrate their imposing festivals, in¬
asmuch as tho roadway was strewn
with broken earthenware, and those
scions of a bygone and notable race
were known to carry at sunrise large
quantities of water in earthenware
jars to an eminence, and there pour
out the liquid and smash tho vessels.
“When we descended we brought
with us a number of small sea shells
which had petrified, and if you look
at these on my table you will see how
they have been perforated by the In¬
dians. We again took a long look at
the mountain and saw it was oblong in
shape, and that the upward road com¬
menced on the eastern side. I have
traveled on both sides of the moun¬
tains from British Columbia to Central
America, and on either side of the
Sierra Madres where the cliff-dwellers
have left 6tich remarkable mementos
of their skill and customs, bat I have
never witnessed any tiling so wonderful
and magnificent as the mound which I
have been telling you about.
“The valley is about six hundred
feet above the sea level, and is about
seventy miles from the coast. It is
iituated in Sonora, between the cities
of Altar and Magdalena and near the
Magdalena River. We called the
curiosity Palisade Mountain, and it is
well named.—[San Francisco Call.
A Seven-Pound Gem.
The largest cat’s-oye of which there
is any record was recently found by a
digger of Gaile, Ceylon. It weighed
nearly seven pounds. The finder was
N Moor man who had been very poor.
He has been offered $100,000 by a syn¬
dicate of local dealers.
An Arab Foaudiing’s Career.
The public has been reading lately a
great many dispatches from Franco
and Africa, giving the progress of
the war which the French government
has been waging in Dahomey. Lieu¬
tenant Colonel Archinard was the
officer mentioned as being in command
of the French troops, who, although
merely a handful of some four or five
hundred cavalry, have inflicted great
slaughter on their opponents, killing
as many as a thousand iu one engage¬
ment.
There recently arrived in tins city s
young French officer who is an inti¬
mate friend of Colonel Archinard, and
who relates the following strange
history of the dashing young colonel's
life:
“About twenty-six years ago, at the
time France was engaged in a scries
of petty wars against the lioinul tribes
in Algeria, and after one of these en¬
gagements a certain Gaston Archinard,
then a captain in a cavalry regiment,
was attending to the removal of the
wounded, when one of his men dis¬
covered a little Arab child, who had
evidently been abandoned by its par¬
ents in their flight.
Being a bnchclor, and, liking the
bright, intelligent look in the little fel¬
low’s face, tho captain determined to
adopt him and give him his name. He,
therefore,sent him toalyocc or French
school in Bordeaux, where the lad was
educated, and kter, in 1875, the eap
tain having risen to the rank of briga¬
dier general, he caused him to bo en¬
listed as a private in tho Seventh Hus¬
sars,under his own name of Archinard.
Gaining rapid promotion he was soon
sent to the Cavalry School at Saumar,
from whenco ho graduated in 1880,
only ten years ago, as a sub-lioutenaut
of calvary.
Ho was then sent to Tunis, and
fought through the campaign of 1882,
and the following year saw him com¬
manding a battalion in Tonquin. In
1887 ho was sent to Senegal as a major
in the famous regiment of Spahis Sen
egalais, which he commanded, as lieu¬
tenant colonel, in his late successful
campaign in Dahomey. Although a
pure-blooded Arab, with a thorough
French military education, Colonel
Archinard, it is whispered iu promi¬
nent Parisian military circles, is next
on the list for promotion to the covet¬
ed rank of general of a division of tho
French army.— [Now York Star.
Vegetable Immigrants.
Naturalists familiar witii tiie habits
of the English sparrow seem to doubt
the possibility of preventing its enor¬
mous increase at the expense of our
indigenous birds, aud a similar result
may follow the introduction of a tree
which in the course of tho last twenty
years has effected at least a thousand¬
fold extension of its North American
habitat. It is tho ailantus tree, im¬
ported originally from tho Moluccas,
but now found in almost ovesy shel¬
tered river-valley from Pittsburg to
Southern Alabama. Its fecundity and
rapidity of growth exceed tliat of the
Canada thistle.
In less than five years a small plan¬
tation of the vegetable colonists will
cover a dozen square miles of river
bottoms with their pale green sprouts,
aud in five years more any ouo ut
those sprouts is oapablo, upon tho
slightest encouragement, to develop
into a tall and really beautiful tree.
None of our native arboreal plants
seem capable of competing with tho
vegetative energy of the hardy stran¬
ger, which prospers in the poorest cal¬
careous soils, and appears to flourish
equally well in Southern China and
Northern Ohio. Along the line of the
Miami Canal, north and cast of Cin¬
cinnati, it has superseded sumachs and
willow?; near Huntsville, Ala., its
thickets are smothering both weeds
aud forest trees, and within the last
five years it has extended its conquosts
even to the rocky uplands of Western
North Carolina.—[New York Voice.
Wild Camels in California.
As proof that the camels brought to
Arizona a number of years ago are
not extinct and are breeding rapidly,
the following from the Yuma (Cal.)
Sentinel is reproduced: A large band
of camels, numbering 35, were seen
within a few miles of Harrisburg last
week. Jim Dotcn caught one with a
lariat, and after bringing it into tho
camp was forced to shoot it, as all tho
horses around became badly fright¬
ened at the sight of the ungainly beast.
Vol. X. New Series. NO. 83
FOB FARM AND WARDEN.
ACTUAL COST OK FEEDING COW?.
A cow may be well fed for fifteen
cents a day, and in some cases for
twelvo cents. Winter feeding will
cost considerably more, counting the
market value of the feed—fifteen
pounds of hay and six pounds of meal
is as little as a cow in milk should be
fed, and this may be worth twenty
one cents. For winter dairying only
the best cows should be kept and but¬
ter of tbc best quality only made,other¬
wise the food of the cows will not be
paid for.--[Now York Tribune.
BENEFIT OF BOLLING TUE SOIL.
Here is a reason for using the roller.
It has been found that a rolled soil,
when the temperature of the air is
seventy-live degrees, is eighty-four de¬
grees at the depth of one aud a half
inches, during the warmest part of tlte
day, while the temperature of the
same soil unrolled is only eighty de¬
grees. Three inches below tho surface
the rolled soil is five inches warmer
than the unrolled. After cooling over
night the rolled soil is one degree
the warmer.- [New York Witness.
DISCOURAGEMENTS IN KEEPING POELTUV.
A man starting into business for
himself knows thero is a great deal of
liurd labor bofore him. Naturally he
finds many discouragements, l’ersc
voran c will win, however. There is
no royal road to sueeoss in keeping
poultry. Fowls are liable to become
sick, lay soft shelled egs, or not lay at
all. Young chicks may die of gapes
or 6ouie other ailment; rats, minks
and other rodents may kill them.
These arc all common stumbling
blocks to success. The farmer cannot
expect more than he does when his
crops fail.
No class of people aro so favorably’
situated for raising poultry as farm¬
ers. With plenty of room and grain,
certainly two essential advantages aro
theirs. l)o not blamo tho liens for
lack of success. Determine to over¬
come the difficulty, and tho next ef¬
fort will be a success. Never ask a
farmer, of the far too common kind
that keop no accounts, whether liis
hens pay, for ho will tell you he does
uot know.—[American Agriculturist.
SALT WATER IN THE STABLE.
A most excellent preventive of gall
is to bathe the shoulders each evening
with strong salt wafer, commencing
six weeks before activo spring work
begins, and continuing the bathing
during the summer, An English
veterinary surgeon, who bus tested
tlie above for ten years, sqys: “In the
stable l.keep a small fruit can, in
which I throw a smalt handful of salt
and then add tlio necessary water.
This is stirred until tho salt is dis¬
solved, and the solution is applied to
the shoulder witii a cloth tied around
the end of a corn-cob,
The roughness of tho oob holds the
cloth well iu place. Usiug this avoids
getting tho salt water ou tho hands—
an agreeable precaution, especially if
the skin on your hands is broken.
When tho horses are at work I wash
their shoulders clean with clear water
as soon as the harness is removod in
the evening, and then apply the salt
water. It cools and eases tlio should¬
ers, and tho horses like it.—[Chicago
Times.
CURING CLOVER.
Carelessness or lack of judgement
will cause damage and loss in what we
call good hay woather, as well as when
the weather is showery. For example:
We are now having intense heat, mer¬
cury ranging high up in the nineties
in tho shade and 110 degrees or more
in the suu, and during this weather I
have seen, on neighboring farms,
clover iut down and left all day with¬
out stirring, with the natural result
that it burned until the leaves would
crumble like snuff. To make good
olover hay ic should be turned when
partly dry and put up in small
to stand till near noon the next day.
Then open and air and sun
hours (say from 11 till 1
turn, and in half an hour begin
in the barn. Clover will cure in
weather in one day so as to feel
fectly dry to the hand, but if put
bulk, the next morning it will be
damp, aud if stored in the barn in
condition it is sure to become musty
But if it stands in the cock and
damp, and then is spread and
till dry, it will keep perfectly. I can
cure timothy so as to get it safely iu
the day it is cut, but have never cured
clover satisfactorily without cocking
and a second drying.—[New York
Tribune.
THE CIIEUKV TUEES.
Until recently, cherries were the
easiest fruits to propagate, but now
they are the most difficult in many
sections. This is all due to what they
call the “spotting” disease, which be¬
gins on the leaves, and extends until
the whole tree is stripped of all foli¬
age. Tiie shoots around the trees be¬
come weak and spindling, and the life
of once line, lnirdy trees seems to have
been sapped out of them. This dis¬
ease is still restricted to certain sec¬
tions; but so far no remedy has been
suggested that proves effective.
Even potash around the trees does
not appear to stimulate tho trees to
better growth and production. The
black-knots have made their appear¬
ance upon the cherry trees again this
season, and threaten to kill hundreds
of line trees. This disease has been
mostly restricted to tho choice va¬
rieties, but the malady now infecting
the dessert cherries is of a much more
disastrous character. After growing
well for a few years the trees begin
to die, and no remedy seems to bo able
to save them.
Frequently the hark splits, di sclos
ing tho wood below, and occasionally
the woody fibre is destroyed. The
foliage is only half developed, turns
yellow and falls off. One twig after
another turns black until the tree be¬
comes useless. Tho proper treatment
for this is still unknown, hut washing
and spraying with a solution of pot¬
ash and lime frequently lessens the
amount of damage.— fNew York
Voice.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Needed—more tillage ou less acrcn.
A weak harness often causes. acci¬
dents.
Better thin the fruit than prop the
troo.
Look well to tho pullet crop aboul
now.
Hogs requiro a largo amount of
drink.
Use plaster freely in the horse
stable.
Good pastures increase milk and
butter,
Usiug an inferior sire is breeding
downward.
Tho shortest road to long prices is to
have tho best articles to sell.
•Do to your animals as you would bo
done by if you were an animal.
An acre of clover is estimated to
make about COO pounds of pork.
Put coarse manure where you want a
mulch and lino where yon want it to
speedily mingle with and enrich the
soil.
If perspiration stops when yoii aro
working in tho sun aud your head
feels bad get into the shade and avoid
sunstroke.
When a limb is grafted keep it clear
of all sprouts of the parent stock,
which absorb vitality that ought to go
to the graft.
A Clock Stepped By Sparrows.
Tiie Sarnia town clock stopped at
4.30 one morning recently, and Mr.
Williams, on going to ascertain the
cause, found that the hands had been
securely tied down by strands of twine
and grass. The mischief had been
done by a pair of Engish sparrows,
who liad selected the angle formed by
the hands as a site for a nest. The
movements of tlio hands interfered
with thair plans, and the birds put
their wifcs to work to devise a remedy
that would secure the stability of the
nest. Their first scheme was to wind
the shaft on which the hauds are
pivoted round aud round with grass
and cords.
That failing, they tied tho hands to
each other and to the framework in
such a manner that it took consider¬
able time and a great deal of iabor on
Mr. Williams’ part to remove the ob¬
structions. The engineering skill dis¬
played by tho birds in accomplishing
their object showed that they possessed
reasoning powers of no mean order,
besides an amount of industry and
perseverance in gathering tho material
within the few hours at their disposal
that is almost incredible.—[Sarnia
(Out.) Observer.