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The old Indian woman glanced
furtively at the distant sky line, and
then centered her gaze upon the deep
crystal waters of the lake. The Ong?
she said. I will tell you of the Ong.
The Ong was a huge bird, greater
than the houses of the white men. Its
body was like the eagle’s, and its
wings were longer than the tallest
pines. Its face was that of an In¬
dian, but covered with hard scales,
and its feet were webbed. Its nest
was deep down in the bottom of the
lake out in the center, and out of the
nest rushed all of the waters which
fill the lake. There are no rivers to
feed the lake, only the waters from
the Ong’s nest. All the waters flow
back near the bottom, in great under¬
sweeps, and after passing through the
meshes of the nest are sent forth
again. mal that Every plant and bird and ani¬
gets into These under-cur
rents, and sometimes even the great
trout are swept into the meshes of
the nest and are there held fast to fur¬
nish food for the Ong.
He ate everything, he liked every¬
thing, but best of all he liked the
taste of human flesh. No one ever
heard or saw anything of such poor
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THE GREAT ONG.
mortals as were drowned in these wa
ters, for their bodies were carried to
the Ong’s nest and no morsel ever
escaped him. Sometimes he would
fly about the shores in quest of some
child, or woman or hunter, yet he was
a great coward, and was never known
to attack anyone in camp, or when
two or more were together. No arrow
could pierce his featners, nor could
the strongest spear do more than
glance from the scales on his face and
Icgs,^ afraid, yet for his his craven’s toes had heart claws, made him and
no
his mouth no beak.
Late one fall the Washoe Indians
Were making their final hunt before
going lake to the valleys and leaving the
locked in Its winter snows. The
Chief’s daughter was sixteen years
old, and before leaving the lake he
must seleet the greatest hero in the
tribe for her husband, for such had
been the custom of Washoe chiefs
oyer since the tribe came out of the
Northland. Fairer than ever Indian
maiden had been was this daughter,
and every unmarried brave and war¬
rior in the tribe wished that he had
performed deeds of greater prowess,
that he might be certain of winning
the prize. That last night at the lake,
around the big council fire, each was
to smoke the pipe and recount to the
Chief the noblest achievement of his
life, and when all were heard, the
Chief would choose, and the women
join the circle and the wedding take
place. For many years the warriors
had looked forward to this event and
the tribe had become famed because
of acts of reckless daring performed
by those who hoped to wed the
Chiefs lovely daughter.
* It was the morning of the final day,
and much game and great stores of
dried trout were packed ready for the
journey. Ail were preparing for the
wedding festivities, and the fact that
no one knew who would be the bride¬
groom among all that mighty band of
warriors. lent intensest excitement to
the event. All were joyous and hap¬
py. except the maideu and the hand¬
some young brave to whom she had
given her heart. In spite of custom
or tradition, her love had long since
gone out to one whose feet had been
too young to press the war path when
last the tribe gave battle to their
hereditary had done foes, the Piutes. He never
deed of valor, nor could he
even claim the right to sit with the
warriors around the council fife. 'All
day long he had been sitting alone on
the jutting cliffs which overhang the
water, far away from the laughter
and shouts of the camp, eagerly, pray¬
erfully watching the great lake. Sure¬
ly the Great Spirit would hear liis
prayer and give him the moment he
longed for, yet he had been here
for days and weeks in unavailing
prayer and waiting.
The afternoon was well-nigh spent,
and the he*rt of the young brave had
grown cold as stone. In his bitter
despair he sprang to his feet to defy
and curse the Great, Spirit to whom he
had trusted, but ere he could utter tile
words his very soul stood still for joy.
Slowly rising from the center of the
lake, he saw the dreaded Ong. Cir¬
cling shapeless high in the heavens like ft vast
thunder-cloud, black as the
night tl^ monster swept, now hero,
now there in search of prey. The
young brave stood erect. When the
Ong was nearest, he waved his arm to
attract its notice. He had not long
to wait With a mighty swoop and an
awful rushing noise the bird dashed
to earth, and as it swept upward, the
young brave was seen by all to be
clasped fast in its talons. A great
cry of horror arose from the camp,
but it was the sweetest note the
young brave had ever heard. The
bird flew straight up into the
sky until it became a mere speck to
the enthralled beholders below.
When it reached ah Into great height it
would drop its prey the lake and
let tlie current draw it to the pest.
Such was its custom, and lor this
tiie young Indian had prepared by un¬
winding from liis waist a long buck¬
skin cord, and tying himself firmly to
the Ong's legs. The clumsy feet could
not grasp him so tightly as to prevent
his movements. At last the great toes
opened fall. wide, but the Indian did not
Again they closed and opened,
and the enraged bird thrust down liis
head to see why his victim refused to
fall. In a mighty rage the Ong tried
to grasp the man in its mouth, but
the strong web between the set bird’s
toes sheltered him. Again and agrin
tlie bird tried to use his horrid teeth,
and each time his huge body would
fall through the air in such twistings
and contortions that those who
watched below stared in bewilder¬
ment. But what tlie watchers could
not see was that every time tlie huge
mouth opened to snap at him, he
young brave hurled a handful of
poisoned arrow heads into the mouth,
and down the big throat, their sharp
points cutting deep into the unpro¬
tected flesh. The bird tried to dis¬
lodge gether, him by rubbing his feet to¬
but the thong held firm. Now
it plunged headlong into the lake,
but its feet were tied so that it could
not swim, and though it lashed the
waters into foam with its great wings
and though the man was nearly
drowned and exhausted, the poison
caused the great bird such agony that
it suddenly arose and tried to escape
bv flying toward tlie center of tlie
lake. The contest had lasted long,
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SIX HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS,
How An innocent Man was Sus*
petted.
A little story was told at the New
Willard Hotel in Washington the other
day by a New Yorker who was travel
ing on a Pullman car between St.
Louis and his home, which goes to
show the danger of convicting a man on
circumstantial evidence. The principal i
figure in this incident was not con
victed, but had it not been for a for¬
tuitous circumstance it might have
gone hard With him.
“It seems that oue of the occupants
of the car on getting out of his berth to
dress missed his vest, which was a
rather serious affair, inasmuch as It
contained in an inside pocket a roil of
money which consisted of six brand
new $100 bills.
“A little later he picked up the gar¬
ment on the floor, but ou searching, the
roll of money was gone. It was a
clear case of robbery, and the man
naturally raised an excited outcry,
which drew the attention of all his
fellow-travelers. Early in the game
the proposition to search everybody iu
that coach was made and adopted Web
but a single dissenting voice. One man
stood out fiercely und indignantly
against it, and said that he would
never consent to such an indignity, but
would oppose it with all the force be
could employ. —
“This man was at once an object of
suspicion, and many whispers directed
at him went around. Every other indi¬
vidual aboard voluntarily submitted to
being searched, yet nothing was seen
of the s olen bills. At this point some
amateur Sherlock Holmes cornered the
porter, and by adroit questions and
threats made that rascally employe
own up to the iheft, and also made him
disgorge $000 iu handsome notes that
appeared to be right from the Print¬
ing Bureau. The owner of tlie money
was overjoyed and all hands congratu¬
lated him on recovering his money.
“About this time tlie obdurate gen¬
tleman who had resolutely declined to
be searched secured the floor. ‘Now,
my friends,’ said he, ‘I will tell you
why I risked your suspecting me of the
theft,’ and v. hat did this man do but
go down in his hip pocket and fetch
up a roll of money that lie counted out
in our presence, and, as sure as I am
a living man, in tlijs roll there were
just six—-no more and no less—braml
new bills, each of $100 denomination.
Positively there was no way of telling
them from the bills that had been re¬
covered. Then we all knew why he had
declined to be investigated.”
Brief Thunks to the Indies.
Jonesboro (Ark.) Evening Sun.
The members of the Citizen’s Band
ask the ladies who gave tlie supper
for the benefit of t lie band on Wednes¬
day night, August 9 , to please accept
their sincere thanks. It is tlie wish of
every member that when these good
ladies have done all the good deeds
here that God would have them do,
that they be gathered home to join
the heavenly band, where all be joy,
happiness, and good music, which all
who live as these good ladies have
lived shall enjoy, and may the in ■
fluence of these good ladies ever guide
the members of the Citizens’ Band to a
higher stand of morality and fame,
and may we never cease striving until
wc ha ve reached the topmost round of
the ladder of fame, when God, in His
wisdom, shall call us home, and when
earth, We have played he our last tune here on
may we gathered with these
good ladies around God’s throne, where
,we can play on God’s instruments of
gold, where our music will be sweeter,
through the ceaseless ages of eternity.
and tlie darkness crept over the lake,
and into the darkness the Ong van¬
ished.
Tlio women had been long in their
huts ere tlie council tire was kindled,
and the warriors gravely seated them¬
selves in its circle. The loss of a
young brave could not lie allowed to
interfere with so important an event
us of the'marriage their minds choice, he had and from most
vanished. It
was not so very unusual for the Ong
to claim a victim, and besides, the
youth had been many times warned
by Ids elders that lie should not go
hunting alone as hud been his habit
of late.
But while the warriors were work¬
ing themselves up to a frenzy of elo¬
quence over their bygone deeds of
daring, dling an Indian swiftly maiden and was silently pad¬
a canoe tiie
toward tlie middle of lake. Nona,
tlie Chief’s daughter, understood no
more than tlie rest why her lover had
not been dropped into the lake, nor
why tlie knew Ong had acteVl so queerly,
but she that she could die with
her lover. She took her own frail
canoe because it was so light and
easy to paddle, though it was made
for her when a girt, and would Scarce¬
ly support her to weight now. It mat¬
tered nothing her if the water
splashed over tlie Sides; it mattered
nothing how she reached her lover.
She kept saying his name over Softly
to herself. “TahoeI My own Tahoe!”
When the council had finished, the
old women went to tlie Chiefs hut
to bid his daughter come about and hear tlie
decision her father was to 'great, ren
dor. Their consternation was
nor did the tribe rest until the rosy
craft that over floated on water. It .
was one of the Ong’s groat wings, and
tlie sail was the tip of the other wing!
Standing upon it clasped in each
ors arms, was the young brave Ta-i I
hoe and the daughter of the chief. In
the shouts of tiie tribe,shouts in which
warriors and women and children
mingled tlieir voices with that of the
great Chief. Tahoe knew that be was
The flic hero, decision and that Nona was liis bride.
was rendered, but the
Ong’s day nest drowned siill remains, and to this
the never rise in Luke
Tahoe.
ailCKAMA QUA ANNIYERSAR Y.
One of the Great Battles of the Rebel¬
lion—1 ragic Death of Poet-Soldier
General Lytle.
Forty-two years . ago the _________ latter part r ___
September was fought and won by
Bosecrans , the great battle of Cliieku
Chattanooga, the objective point of
I,’ 4 ' campaign, has been well considered
*,.b' Bragg, er ? in £ command ; 'teway of of the the entire Confederate South,
force, was outwitted and outmu
aeuvred, and the town of Chattanooga
fell into Federal hands, entirely by
strategy.
Chattanooga was then but ft poor,
struggling village, never having been
even heard of by one In a thousand of
those who composed the Northern
army, it is now a wealthy, prosperous
•ity of over 00,000 inhabitants and the
home of many Northern families. An
electric line runs from the city to
Cliiekamngua Park every 80 minutes.
The celebration of the anniversary
of the battle, from the tilth to the 23 d
of September, where the tales of the
campfire ntid the picket line were once
n*ire iijerest recounted, has been of surprising
to thousands of old veterans
add itft their quondum foes.
BRIGADIER-GENE)! ,\U WM. H. LYTLE.
Tlie battle of Chlcknmngun, which
followed Chattanooga, was most desper¬
ately contested on both sides.
Bragg was Virginia, reinforced by a veteran
corps from under Eongstreet,
and Buckner’s Corps from East Ten¬
nessee, until liis forces ou(numbered
Uospcrnns’ by over 12,000, anil yet the
Northern army, by wise and vigorous
marching day and night over moun¬
tains and through passes, and by the
concentration of widely scattered
forces, inflicted Such terrible losses
ihat Bragg was incapable of any but
tlie most cautions following when
Hosecrans fell back to occupy Chatta¬
nooga, for which he had been contend¬
ing.
Among the many brave officers on
both sides who gave up their lives for
their beloved causes there was none
braver, none more mourned than the
Union Brig lier-General, Win. H.
*LvUe. About to give the tlie head order by to
charge, he was struck in a
bullet- and fell dying in the arms of his
aid.
His poem of “Anthony and Cleopa¬
tra,” generally believed to have been
composed tlie night before tho battle,
but which, as a matter of fact, tVak an
earlier production, lias been classed as
one of tlie most masterly, lyrics iu
American poetry.
I Am Vying Egypt, Dying.
I am dying Egypt, dying,
Ebbs the crimson life-tide fast,
And tlie dark, Plutonian shadows
Gather on tlie evening blast.
Let tliinie arm, oh! Queen, support
mo.
Hush tliy Bobs and bow tliino ear,
Hearken to the great heart secrets,
Thou, aud thou alone, must hear.
Though my scarred and veteran le¬
gions high
Bear their eagles no more.
And my wrecked and shattered gal¬
leys
Strew dark Aetium’s fatal shore;
Though no glittering guards sur¬
round me,
Prompt to do tlieir master’s will,
I must perish like a Homan—
Die, the great Triumvir still.
Let not Caesar’s servile minions
Mock the lion thus laid l«Ttv;
’Twas no foeman’s hand that slew
’Twas him,
his own that struck the blow.
Here, then, pillowed on thy bosom,
Ere bis star fades quite away,
Him who, drunk with thy caresses,
Madly flung a world away!
Should the base plebeian rabble
Dare assail my lame at Rome,
Where the noble spouse, Octavia,
Seek Weeps within her widowed home;
Altars, her—say tlie Gods have told me,
That Augurs, circling wings,
her blood with mine commin¬
Yet gled,
shall mount the throne of
kings.
And for thee, star-eyed Egyptian!
Giol . loufJ of the Nile
iliu mphmg in love like thine.
T am ,, ,__„ .... dying!
1 *- fooinan’B cry;
'E ar ° homing quick, my falchion!
,.j T rue ,r ont them ere I die.
Ah! . no more amid the battle
Shall my heart exulting swell;
Isis and Osiris guard thee,
Cleopatra! Home! farewell!
Nursery Nonsense.
Two magpies sat on a garden rail
As long ago as a week;
And one little magpie wagged ids tail
in the other little magpie’s beak
Then doubling like a fist his little
claw hard
otl >er “Upon m.y word,
This is more than flesh and blood can
stand
From magpie or other bird.”
So they picked and they scratched
each other’s eyes
Till all that was left on the rail
tiie beak of one of the little mag
And the other little magpie’s tail.
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