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A Cowboy’s Strange Experience.
PINKNEY, AMIHOS OF “THE SCHOOL
MA’AM OF GOOD LUCK.”
[Copyrighted, 1866, by 8. 8. McClure. 1
A few asgiy words, not tbcorbing ton min'
tries In the laying, and Both Griffith and Will
Maisball had patted, each felt foreTar.
And tho quarrel wia all about Tom Loner*
gan, whom Both wavacarce nearer loring than
waa Will himself, only that he. In hia blind
Jealousy, could not ace it, and the, with her
angry pride, would not explain. For Tom
Lonergan waa the only eon of one of Colo*
xado’a cattle kings, a man whose herds ran
bis wealth up into the million!; while Will
was only a young lawyer, struggling to gain a
footing in Denver, hia income largely made
up of hope. And Tom, though ooeree of man
ner aid unprepossessing of aspect, could en
hance his attentions to his Ihvored lady
friends by a lavishness of expense that
was positively slekenlng to impeounlous
Win, as he taw the torrent of books,
Bowers, and bonboet that sudden
ly began ponrlug into the Griffith
parlor. The happy ton of Gneraa, moreover,
frankly boastful, declared his Intention of es
tablishing bis bride, when he shonld marry,
In a style of splendor calculated to astonish all
Denver, while for more than a year now Will
and Beth had been planning when they might
afford the modest little suburban cottage, be*
1 venture. No wonder If she was tired
of waiting for to poor a lot, nor that she
should wlstfhlly consider the brilliant fhture
Tom Lonernn could give her. True she had
noverhlntM a weariness of tire long engage*
a. '■ —— Os,
moot; nor could Will accuse her of openly
encouraging the riche* lover, but there were
Lonergan’t flower*always fresh In the parlor.
“I am tired of teeing the tracks or that
golden calf!" he petulantly remarked.
“If you mean the flowers, I think they are
very lovely tracks, and I’m not tired of them
in the least.” Beth good nsturedly retorted.
“Nor of the calf itsell-very evidently!” ox*
claimed Will, with Increased Irritation,
"I don’t think It Is very nioe of you to
apeak of Mr, Lonergan lu that way,” playfully
reproving,
1-Vr.n
“Yon cannot yourself speak of him ns a gen*
tleman.”
"He it too much of a gentleman to say hate*
lb), sarcastio things of peoplo behind their
hacks.” flashed Beth, growing angry in turn,
“And sufficiently a gentleman, considering
*-*—jail tho girls In Denvor
all his beef, to have
running after him!” It was a vicious Innuendo
to throw at her, as he realised the instant tho
words were out of his mouth; bnt ho hid
Wrought himself up to a fastens temper and
woul'I not rcIrfjl.aajJiahl*
“What do you mean to imply by that ro-
mark?” the girl demanded, with Icy calm,
although he oonld see her hands trembling In
her Itp.
“I mean that your flirtation with tymergan,
considering that you have beon engaged to
me, hat gone altogether too far,” cried Will
hotly. “Becauso I have said nothing before,
jou sre not by any means to suppose that I
have been blind. I have scon It aU. Hostren
knows what your motive has been. It may
have been a childish vanity to exhibit your
grand conquest to tbo envy of the other girls,
or perhaps it was—” here Will hesitated, turn
ing a llttlo pale—"it may have been simply
J ‘liberate calculation of a meraenary wo-
the drill __
man. 1 won’t insult you by areumtng that
you oonld by any possible chance, flail in love
with the men.”
“Alter I had once owned to falling in love
srith you It could hardly iosult me to assume
anything as to my weak susceptibility!” cried
Btth with angry sarcasm.
“By which yon mean me to understand that
yourengagement to me seas a folly of which
you have repented,” said poor Will, with
iraglocalm.
“Your penetration does yon credit,” the
tartly acquiesced.
“Good-by,” cried he, making for the door.
d*by,slr,” said she, taking op Loner-
“Good-l
hty parted,
As will entered hit room that night ho
found a letter thrust under hit door. It ws,
from the manager of a cattle company with
whom he had been corresponding, trying to
obtain a situation as cowboy during the ap
proaching spring roundup for a young friend
at the east, for whom the doctors had pre
scribed life In tbo open air. A letter
received that morning had announced that the
ltd had gone with a surveying party to Now-
Mexico; and now It appeared there waa an
opening for the proposed cowboy, who was re
quested to report for duty on the ooming 14th
of May. It was now the 11th; and Will per
ceived there wu scant time for the company
to And a subatltote. _ Suddenly he became pos
actred of a strange Idea. Why shonld be not
go as a cowboy In the place of bit friend-
plunge into a new. wild life that might help
“How came you here?" stammers Will,
halting, thunderstruck.
"The tame to yourself!” the other good-
hnmoradly retorted, but srith a certain sharp*
lest of glance that oonveyed no enthusiastic
welcome of hia guest. “I'm the foreman of
the outflt for this trip: that's all. My father’s
the silent partner of the concern; see? Now,
what brought you heret"
Somewhat Incoherently Will explained about
his Mend and the young fellow’s change of
» youi __
plans, and his Idea of going out himself for
strip.
“Good scheme!” cried Lonergan, with
grin that did not team altogether void of
malic*. “Of course you’ve been cow punching
before!"
Will admitted that he had not, whereupon
'But yon’ll catch on all right,'
erccntaglngly.
As Will walked stray he felt that unbearable
trouble had fallen upon him. To go on, In the
company of tbit man he hated, teemed for the
moment impossible. Yet to go back seemed
equally out of tbe question. And, althongh
ho bated Tom Lonergan, he presently re
minded himself, with returning reason, he
bad no assurance that his ngly feeling was re
ciprocated. Hit engagement to Beth had
never been made pnbllc, and qnito likely Lon*
rrgan bad never given two thonghti to a rival
solnslgnldcant. Quite likely, Will told him-
' rlth reviving courage, he should find the
tell wll
outfit. There was a
certain satisfaction, moreover, in the prospect
of thus bavlog the fellow under his own eye
for a time, to be assured that he was not at
Beth'a feet In person. How altogether at the
mrrry of Tom Lonergan he waa to be for the
weeks to come he could not for a moment eon
calve.
He was soon to gain an insight Into the au
tocracy of tbe rattle company; and it w
J iremptly evident thit he was not to be
hvorita of fortune during the round-up of
’8S. When, after a faw days, the distribution
of horses was made, each man, as is usual, re
ceiving seven as hia “string,” It was fonnd
that nobody wst to unlucky as Will Marshall.
That his reven were possessed of seven devils
apiece he was folly persuaded. Time and
again he waa throw*; and, though never terl-
tb* dally victim.
And when any thing poem
Inevitable that Marshall should come in for
a there. He could not accuse the
fortn an of melldcntly nventtng work to give
him trouble. Nothing that the was celled upon
to do but waa a legitimate duty devolving up
on somebody of the outfit to perform. All the
same it was evident that Marshall was no
favorltq. It was as well. Ho would havofolt
like a sneak accosting favors from this man
he loathed.
Tho company moved slowly along tho
courrn of the South l’latte river, camping at
frequent Intervals. Whon in camp, Will’s
a eonplo or others, driving tho hors
11. was''i-k-** i"" w"* when'tho
weather wu fine, with the bcaotlfol Colorado
sky smiling over all, and the dull brown I
plain taking ona tender tings of green In tbe
golden ranihlne.
■ Almost happy then was Will u ha Idly rode
I himself up to thought! of Beth.
A sinalf, sweet hope had stolen Into hia heart,
If Lonergan were her aoeepted lover, why iras
round up? It could not
arable mistake that some day her own sweet
lips might explain away. But hope only be-
...
longed to tbe pleuant days; and;
often rained. Then, cold, wet and wretehed,
lie remembered tbe odor of Lonergan’s rotos,
and her angry eyes as she eald goof-by.
Boon they began “riding on elrole,” gather*
In the country through
lug up tho cattlo
him to forget the therp pain now fogging at
his heart ? Tbe opening seemed providential.
And thns three daye later found our hero
mured as a cowboy to tbo manner born, at a
certain small railway station In Eastern Cri-
credo, Inquiring hia way to the Hereford
ranch.
It was three mIlea away, across a dreary
Wule of sage brush, cactus and alkali. Tor-
K nted with gnats and euihairawad by bis
ivy boots and nnaecosumiod chaparrsfci —
■tout leather breeches with fisgutt up the
aide, generally called “chaps” for short—
three times three miles Will fhnciai ha bal
tolled before tho ranch wu gatued.
Tha croud of cowboys l-mnglog shout the
place all roeaad themselves to look the stran
ger over with good-humored nonchalance,
and one directed him to where tha foreman
wu. And here wu a shock for which our
hero wu wholly unprepared. Tbe foreman
wu Tom Lonergan.
with them u they moved. This Invoi
night herding; and Will's life bora
more of u burden, Tho night
wu divided similarly to tho watches on ship-
Hoard, four reliefs or two men each, following
each other from dark till dawn. Will wat as
signed a place on tho fourth relist, going on
two o’clock, when his day's work now
practically began, alnca his rest for tha night
was ended. After the day of hard labor that
luxury, no fate could
then that which pulled him out in the chill
darkness for those tedious hours of hording
before tho dawn.
A cold rainy day had coma and well nigh
;one.
A cold rainy day bad coma and well nigh
gout. As wu their wont after rapper, the
boys sat smoking around tha camp firs, tailing
stories— 1 “swapping Ilea,” u their own slang
expressed it—and enjoying, with what spirit
“ » jor—
they might, their eoame jokes, whan they
were startled with tho Information that tha
calUa must ha driven forthwith to tha river,
ten mileaaway. As bad coma to bo a nutter
ten mileaaway. Aa bad coma to be a m it ter
of cooree, Will Marshall wu the first man
named for tha unwelcome duty.
It bad ceased raining, but a chill, damp
wind wu blowing, premising a disagreeable
night. There were four to drive, however,
tbe way wu down bill and toward water
with the wind blowing In their flavor, ao that
tho cattlo readily followed the trail, end their
regress wu comparatively euy. But It wu
etc and vary dark whan at length they
reached their destination, and according to
orders turned the cattle loose to bn gathered
up by tha rid ere along tha river next day.
Aa they tamed back toward camp not tha
kteneat of human eras could havs discerned
tba trail, and the wind had died away In a
foggy stillness that gave aa sugges
tion of (ha course they should tans;
but they trusted themselves to the instinct
of their boreet and rods confidently along.
Now and then n glow of lightning wonld Cor a
moment Ulumrss tba arena, disclosing tha
miles of billowy plains stretching drearily
before them, and then tba after dukaaaa
would seem more dense; and sometimes would
would pull their hat brims forther down an-
essay to spur on tbe jaded hones. Cold. wot.
and utterly wearied they rede along with tho
stoical endurance bore of necessity, tha mut
tering of distant thunder and the heating of
their horses’ hoofs upon the soggy ground tho
only sounds.
Scarce conscious of cold or wet wu Will
Marshall, hugging to hia heart hia thoughts of
Both, for it had come about that rarely for an
instant wuaheoutofhlamlnd. Ho was vague*
raa. u it ware, clothed In an
armor, against which tho hard blows of his
MllUUIt MI1MIUU NUIU1 MID IUUU U4UYTB U1 AS IS
daily life fell harmless. Hts whole thonght
now wu of when he might go back to her and
beg again tho love that wu u his lifo. He
dairednot go yet—ho must give her time to
forgot his suspicion and hatofol words
_ words, and to
remember the old-time love. It wu this fen
ded necessity for delay that made tho cowboy
life endurable: ona occupation wu u good aa
another since It wu simply to serve at killing
time until ho might venture back to her. Ana
u he rode along through tho darkness, ao in
tense that ono seemed almost pushing a way
foreman, Tom Lonergan, throwing himself
from tbe saddle, rowerloss Will felt to
stir or utter a sound, only dully staring from
tbo shadow of Ms wldo hat, while by some
fil.sr-oncw power ho seemed reading tho
tbouybm In tho mind of this man who atood
rrgs.Mng him with a look of deadly hatred.
In his hands Loiergan wu nervously twirl
ing h'r "quirt,” tho cowboy’s short leathern
whip, with butt end deadly loaded; and he
Iqnlcfc blow—essy'as killing a rattlesnake!—
and iv Is done with forever! It will soem
S eth':waa thrown—this homo hu thrown
mlvfore. No one will think of connecting
me with it. And slio—ah! I must have her.”
Both strango whlto mist had seemed to bo
forming before Lonergan; and nowilwssss-
snmlw shape uewoman’s garment,clothing
|a_wop.sn’a lorni. Tho vision wu turned from
Will, “it It was strangoly familiar; and, as
tho ctacl quirt wu fiercely raised to strlko, ho
knew tho fair whlto hands that grasped the
murd-rer'ssrm: nor wu ho surprised tosee
the u-id look on Lonorgan’t face u if ho had
cccnra khoot, whllo ho cried aloud In horror:
IXaD’”, The fids shape seemed then to torn
yon and only yon, -1 was wild with my own
pain snd it made mo creel to Mm. I fairly
loathed him u tha caue of onr trouble -but
of course it waa my fault—ell my wretch ad
folly and wickedness!” Will wu softly com
forting her with kieses.
“And tbo other morning I had such a
strange dream, dear. I had boon nervous
azrt wakeful aU night, thinking of tho bard*
ships and dangers cowboy* go through, and
that yon wore enduing all because of my
childish folly. I bad cried until -1 seemed to
bav* no team left, to. think how powerless I
was thit I did not know whore to send a let-
ter to heg yntt to ecme beck, lly and by the
erasy Idea cam* to me that I might go and
find you myself: and so - my mind waa
rapidly wandering, whun at length
asleep. And
then
his lying on the ground aslcop, while standing
over yon, with a look of deadly hatred, was
Tern Lonergan. It wu all ao wonderfully
real. H* seemed to rale* hi* arm to strlko,
and I reeked forward and seised bit wrist,
ROBBERS’ CAVE.
SUlMtliM and auiifnliH A bounding Mrtjvrhmrt
-UMdu oJUudMivouM for Bobbon-Barrio*
Bonn XHMovarFtl Wbsrt U« wu Hid
▲fur Bala# Mordarad by En Blval.
gered l-iirk, calling my namo. And than wltl
a scream I woke up, trembling with fright.
It wts horrible I” clinging to Mm with* ter
rified shudder at tho remembrance.
Aa if he, too, bad boon a ghost, Will Mar
shall was wildly staring.
“When—when did yon say, Beth V’
“It was Wednesday morning,'’ storing la
torn, surprised at histone . . >
“The very day 1” cried Will, amazed. “O
my darling! myangoU” holding her close to
hia hsart, “Thsnk (tod that von went to mo
even If It were only a dream.”
TUB FOURTH INMKWYORK.:
The CltyEaniualastlo—The Weather line and
Everything Joyful,
New York, July 5.—Tho Fourth wu oole-
bratod hero today with the tuual noisy de
monstrations, beginning at an early hour of
uivuatmiivun, IJI £11111 III If up MU VMS Off uwi U4
morning. Tbo weather wu fine, tbongh
warn. The display of flags and banting In
tho city ws* universal. Kzolralges, court*,
federal buildings, the custom-boas* and
wholesale stores were all closed. A very Isrg.
d ths oole
and enthusiastic sssomblsgoattended the onlc-
hratlon at Tammany hall today. Thu chief
speak or* wore Senator Vanco, of North
Carolina; - Congressman Ssmual J. Jltn-
dtll. of Pennsylvania; J. Madriph
Tucker, of Virginia, and Coiigresimsn
McAdoo, of New Jersoy. BenatoVVanoo took
oration to score dvll corvleo reform m un
democratic and unconstitutional, Ills remarks
bring enthusiastically received. Ho also re
ferred briefly to the torlfiT, usortlog that with
freo trade, New York wonld soon ho tho
through it u ho went, hia storing eyes aeemad
looking into her eweet face, not coldly angry,
as lut he aw it, bat luminous with lore and
tender welcome.
A cold splash of rein on hie cheek, start-
touch of a departing soils* It hurried away
from earth, roused Mm U length; and shaking
himself, u It were; awake, ho dug spare Into
his horse end, calling to bis companion! to
hurry, dashed reckleeely stray over the rough
ground.
(Suddenly ho noticed that ho hoard but tha
sound of ono horse’s hoofk. Instantly h*
•topped, londly calling the bon by name;
but tha deathly silence or tho night only an-
swered that ho
was alone, loat upon tha
plains. Absorbed In hie sweet fancies, he had
ct tbe horao carry him on, while tho others,
who know tho country, btd turnod off into
somo other trail—who could say how fu
back f That tbo Instinct of tha hone had al
lowed him to go astray wu almost Incredible,
it plainly one or tbe foolish ono* of hia
ktad;Ynd Will promptly pronounced his rider
another.^®
I Again and again ho halloed with all hi*
might with no remit, and, thoroughly die-
heartened, he toned tho horao’s head and
rod.b^kUara.ff'.^wmri.y^nderluj
ha should do.
bain which way wu the camp nor In what
direction ran the river, where he might hope
> run acrOM some ranch house.
Btmembering presently u bit of Indian cun
ning, he dismounted and listened with his ear
to lb* ground only to hou those inarticulate
murmuring* °f nature that are never sull*d.
To hia strained rentes it seemed that ha oonld
fairly hear the wrowlugof tho grass, but then
was no sound of human kind.
An hour or more went by In profitless wan
dering Ibis way and that, now turned by tbs
fancird direction of the nnpalpahlo wind, or
stain l>y some trail that aeemad to hold oat
hope u revealed by tho 1 Ightnlag. At length
the horse loomed impatient to move faster,
and Will gav* Mm hia head, thinking the
chancuu good on* way u another. Tho ani
mal now wont on at a brisk trot, presently
i nickonlng into a lope, occasionally sniffling
io air and neighing londly as If calling to hia
kind, until after a time It occurred to poor
Will, with a stupefying tenso of despair that
tbe brut bad scented a bard of wild ho race
and wu making toward them.
They were moving over a vary rough country,
quite likely getting further astray with every
moment. Tberewu the choice of continuing
to give the hone hie head, with tha prospect of
•pending the night In the coddle, or of camp-
ing when he wu and waiting for morning to
get his bearings and start anew,
lie chooa tbo latter elternatire. Dismount
ing, therefore, snd searching out with his feet
ed one end of hie lariat around
himself down across the rope, prone upon
stomach, that If tho horse attorn ptod to qat
a««’
ay the dragging of tba rope under hi* body
- old promptly awaken bias—“stooping on
tba rape," in cowboy phrase. Worn oat, u ho
wu, there true (mall sans* of comfort inly,
lag down, even upon tbo cold, wot ground, and
bs was sron asleep.
It waa then that bn experienced tha won
derful dream—if It were a dream—that forever
sided hi* carter u a cowboy.
Ht thonght that b* ahpt HU morning. HI*
hat brim was pulled well over his eyes, but u
be toy heavily on bit ride, coemlogly soaked
tuisbiie pleasantly warming bb chin and
nee, lie could bear lb* satisfied mucking of
- - - m, often
tbe born u he cropped the short gns* <
tugging iusnu’-lenUy at tha rope; sad the
of a meadow lark sounded tweet and elair.
Presentlyb*aumodto hear tha steps of*
Mixed horse, ecu, lens uldly opening his eyes,
flit petrified with Uitaiebucnt to see tbe
towtrd Will, Its fleet foil of love, and holding
out arms with n gesture eloquent ofenreeelnj
tenderness; bnt now tho heavy quirt, dropped
from I-onergan’e nerveless hand, seemed to
toll with a stinging blow upon Will's hoad,
ord the vision wu blotted out.
Tba tun wu high when be awoke at lath
•ittlngnp with a queer pain In hia head, and
a curious sense of weakness. Wu It a dream!
or had h* really been struck with Tom Lon-
organ's quirt! And had hto love really come
in spirit to rave his life!
Practical, presale, Will Harebell fait sadly
at tea and bewildered u he dlully got upon
bis foot and looked about Mm, Tien wu
nothing suggesting mystery or fair spirits
about the dull plains, roughened with cactus
all bunting into bud under the warm June
sunshine. Clearly he bad been wlldlydream-
Ing, end yet this strange pain in hto baud!
lie sectoid curiously stupid and benumbed.
M J MlUpiU MU LA UBUU1UUOU.
beyond tbo power of surprise whon, by and
’ ’ lotleedthee 1
by, be noticed tbo smoko or u camp Are rising
from n gully not n quarter of a mils away, and
mounting hia horao it seemed scares a matter
lor gratutoUon that ho should presently dis
cover tha tents of the outflt and soon bo In
camp, Tha Instinct of the bores bad tod him
right after all, Will duly considered; and he
let himself give up discouraged within * quar
ter of a stile of hto goal. But It did not
matter, ho apathetically argued; nothing
mattered.
He left the ontflt that morning, walking
•even miles screw tbe country, guided only
by tbe broiling ran, to reach ton railroad,
when ho was picked up, more dead than alive,
by a freight train and carried Into Denver. He
vatused npto the verge of richness, and
Beth'a tweet face, te bo bad aeon It In his
dream, drew him to her by an IrrealstaMo
forte. Lonergan did not appear rarpriaadibut
ha waa altogether cool and unembarrassed
when Will announced hto Intention of going.
Purely It-wse all * dream.
A few days later aa bo eat with hto arm
around hia recovered treasure, Bath shame
facedly hid bar face on hia shoulder and eon*
(cited.
“You won right, door; I did flirt with him
' all tha romaaco was dying ou
’i fancied that .
of our engagement; that you had fallen Into
the habit of taking it nil for gran tod, and
era growing cold and Indifferent.”
“I'cold and indifferent!’ O, Beth!”
“And I wanted to tease you Just a little, to
*“’i f n5« r ^”yra?re» sufficiently
satisfied never to'try It again 1” devoutly re
torted tho victim of tbe
periment,
“Tcm Lonergan has .always been fllrtlu^
with two or three girl* at a . time, and
ntvir entered my bead to think bln In
earnest until the day after yea and I
quarreled, when he came and nronouad
BlMWlrfs - .
to ne. And then I h%Ud bin, nod I told
him so* I fclorkd in UUujs him that I loved
fcriofly. ftrnl miilo
Ho that tho
predictions m&do iu tbe cAuip&ifnof lBtil
that democratic supremacy moant dUas*
lor had been pro van fulso,
since the government was now mauaded with
greater economy than formerly. He spoko
Pan Antonio, Tex, July 3.—Another cbtp*
t< r in the Robbers* Cave romance was read to
day. It bus beon tho intention to effloUlljr
exj loro the cave svor since tbe dijoo*ery of
portions of a akeloton, which was idonilled as
that of Frank Harris. Harris was a yonnjc
man living In the Helotes neighborhood, who *
waa hand lit gloves with tire I’itta-Brannon
gang of outlaws. He was ih lovo with Mollsea
Scott, who subsequently married l*iUs, tho
leader of tho gang. Thero wee much existent
Jealousy betwoon Harris end Pitta, And the
foimcr’s suit was disapproved by tho Sootla^*”
father and son.
i On tho 16th of September, 1891, Harris w«e i
seen In company of the two Scottt and Pitta,
llo wu nevor seen again. On discovery of hie
bonea In the cave, the Hcotts, who were
charged with his murder, saw a chain of cir-
OTplfAntta! evidence riveted to them which, .
it is stated, they will have hard work la break
ing.
While officorc have boon preparing to ex
plore Harris’s tomb, Justice Boomer, of tho
Helotea precinct, has been carrying on a pri
vate investigatien on hie own account. He
has kept hia own counsel, and gone ahead
steadily with his work. Today ho showed up
at the oonrthonse looking mysteriously Impor
tant, and carrying under his arm a bulky
package done up In wrapping paper. The of*
floors gathered around him, and, like a ped
dler with hie pack, he spread out his’ ghastly
nans.
MJflSINO LINKS.
They were bones, snd human bones, corn-
portions of a badly fractured skull.
Token ribs, etc.* being most of tho mining
’ • *• * * Harris’s personality. **
links in tho dead Harris's persouulity. Near
tho skeleton was found a heavy quirt, or rid
ing whip, with a load-weighted handle. It
may have boon tho property of tho dead man,
or may have been used in hatmnoring out his
brains. Thu ribs were doubtless broken in
forcing the body down the very narrow chute,
which, from an unsuspicious holo at the top,
herds twenty feet downward into a subterra
nean cavity, which, In addition to the ghastly
intercut which tho llarrlH death fastens upon
it. and tho fact that It wu for yearn tha refugo
or ono*of tho most de*i»erato bands of oriinl-
nals Tcxu has ever known, is a marvel of
natural beauty. Thero waa no light from
above, and all the exploration was done by
allt«m‘ torches. Justice Boomer mjs that ho did uot
i for It tends,
'ekTada r •• '•mil brenr botlkncMi it may have. He,
locrotlo wu* I however, went eareAilly through throe chain-
enthusiasm I *>?*•» lost in th# beauties over hoadlaud
l>y getting the hand to play both “Carry mo I
Back to Old Virglnny/’and' Yaukco Doodle."
speech, ■ * * ‘ * ‘
Letters of regret wore read from President
Cleveland, Governor Hill, Mr. Tilden, and
many other prominent democrats.
PUKSIDBRT CLEVELAND'S LETTER.
Following Is tbo president's lettorto tho
Tammany society:
Kxxctmvs Mansion, Washington, June 2ft, 1M8.
Bon. P. Henry bugro, brand dacinun: My Dear
Hir:—My public duties here will prevent my meet*
1 — -embers of tho Tammany society on ***“
July, to celebrate the birthday of
ing with members of the Tammany society ou tho
6th day of July, to celebrato the birthday of tho
republic. I should be yery glad to Join those u
“ that occsalon, will "renew their plepfts of
lion to the priudplee for whlon tho fail
of tbo repubuo fought." There principle*
had no relation to penoual advantage or ambi
tious rchemes, but were odoptsd and ouertohsd be*
greatness to a freo and victorious people
there principles the fathers of the republic ft
In full hope and expectation that their de<
ant* and tbremrerererefco^fcreMMrerek
land transmuted by thi
pride and noble petit
which had made tboli
y them, would also n
toltlaenahlp which had made (belt country
S Mural In discharge of the solemn trusts
■us told upon us. Is found the only
Suarautiol lb. rsellastlon of *11 thst bssbccu
promised us under our form of Rorcmmenv
lisnser srlslns from • leek of watchfulness and
Tlgllaucola eyer present, sed sbures constantly
Itbresteu lochoka tbe growth of pstrlotlo seulf-
UMDto It Is then most 111 sod proper that si this
celebration of. s day which Inspires such noble
thought., and ou en occasion which suggests such I
lofty senllments, our pledtcs to the principles of
r fathers should he ’solemnly snd sincerely re
wed, sod our loro of oountry he rerlrsd snd
iry truly,
IIGHstl, MiU ISIAs tsg, t, us to
strengthened. Yours veryi
Ohovracutrsugp.
A TAIt^Or A KITE,
Not an Ordinary Kit., but Ous of tb. West
Virginia Variety.
Alpsua, W. Vs, July 8.—Amos Brers
of this village la ths hero of on* of ths most
irmsrksbls adventures which ever fell to the lot
of any roan. It hu been the custom for the male
portion of tbe Tillage to make hugskltu snd lly
them with thick cords This year It wu deter
mined that ell previous efforts should be outdoor.
A monster kite of the following dimensions wu
constructed: Xatreme height, t feet 4 Inches;
width scram the top, 4 foot s laches: width eerom
the bottom, 2 feet; extreme width scram the mid
dle, 6 feet 0 Inches' The framework wu brill of
tough hickory, shaved thin sad stayed with
one-elgth Inch copper wire. A double thick
ness of heavy muslin wu stretched on
itch Hdo of the frame, end the
place for fastening the flying ooid wu doubly
braced with yellow pine scantling s quarter Inoh
thick. Into this wu screwed • ring bolt, which
wu clamped on the other aide with u Iron pin.
The riog Itself wu fire Inches In diameter and
him, snd splashing in tho pools of icy water aft
his feet it is olio of tho graudost formations
of usture ever discovered by man. Too cha._
1-rrii nro connected by chiselled it;olios, as
though* legion of workmen hail fashioned
them. Tho ceilings arc of groat height Croat
the floor, snd tho spaces aro tromoiulous lu ox-
the nEAtmrut. cAvznir.
“In one chamber,” tsya Judge Boomer, “you
might riand sn srmy of 10,000 men, Tho
most remukabls fset connected with it Is Its
utter 100101100. The unpromising exterior
S irs* no indication of tho marvellous beauty
idden within. A hole In tho wall, it would
be called, by anyone glancing at It, One ex-
pension of tbe puugo to filled with s score nr
more of tUIsgullM from two to tun or twelve
feet In height, grouped in eomanymonutnonta
oftho dead, tbe eidoe snd celling - -
wi wisunw, Mv.iun ami ceiling art Of OX.
quislte workmanship, slit setting to tbe mil-
emu snd beeutlfol scene within, which leads
ont to speak In low tones and tread solely as
if cn saertd ground. Upon the walls it sus
pended some drapery in clone thst would be
lbs admiration snd despair of n sculptor.
Double end trll-io folds of stalactite, h quarter
Of US Inch la thlekUCKS Hil l a yard wldo, hang
thirty feet, with no support except from above.
Beyond this to pcrhtpx tho moat beautiful
grotto of hU. Celling, walls, snd even floor,
ore covered with u fretwork of dazzling bright
ness, which reminds one of the finest work of
the silversmith or the window-work oftho
and door .reunited by columns ex clear ami
tisnspurautu crystal. A candle placed aifsr
within ono of these gronps ss tho srm could
reach Illuminated s wonderful fsiry bower,
fihlnlng through sll tho rich drapery of atone
there ere tubular pillars of Immense height
and thickness. They sra porfnotly transpa
rent—ethers •» a cloudy white, sad, under
the shifting torches, lighted np srith s thous
and first.
■TALAOMITXU AND STALACTITES.
In this vicinity also appear quantities of
limestone, coisl formation, great sheet forma
tions, standing like lcavse efs book partly
open, upright. Many steltgmltos, statactltoe,
pillars, psdsstsb snd pinnacles of all lengths
* thickness, snd becoming more transparent
lbs drepsr yon get down. Here, also, are soon
levrral sides array* of tabular stalactite unit
on several a __
stalagmite formations, resembling an immense
chnrcb organ, I fonnd at ths distance of
many yards tha pinnacles, pedestals, columns,
stalagmites, stalactites, mure numerous and
skitee
I Bi tn-foot
with toad. Instead of the,usual
yards of cloatly wound mantis rope, very light hut
as strong ea a double linked chain, were procured.
When the bite waa llutshed there wat S general
Jollification. The kit* wee secured do a use rad
avrrs, who waa prattr drank, watched 11 while
the otbrra were Imbibing. Ktrers, aftora time
Herd of holding urn, rope _ and wound
round hto own body. There was
.tiff bracts blowing at ths lime, and when the
in cameoolof thsgroosry tows was tho klto
Sh in ths sir snd grsr. hanging nuto .hs toll,
i quickly dbapprarsd from rbw and asm trees
him could be fonnd during the Mil few days
’’VTs'bfotoyswIcrhe had token hie flight hewalk-
sd Into Ih. vUtore and told how he trad boon car-
• to Iftlbeek, Hampshire eountyreventy miles,
In hto journe^M
ottoman In
rroned icven river* and
Ij-snlrs. Be wu dltcovered hr two genttomta In
Ms unconscious cozdlttoa, who attended him mod
esenmpenlrd him hack to Alpena. There
doubt about the truth of hto story.
now Had the lto-l Writing Is.
Gall Hamilton In the North American Review.
A great dssl of onr bad writing is so bad
thst nothing can he dons with It but 1st It Slone.
No criticism
rennet bshssCfqr h>Rd^SSroSK^3B
to. Om might indeed tsy to him: “Go back; goto
trbeel; tosra the alphabet; be born sals; die sad
ftnomcsdtnknnt person. Perhaps the next timo
[rro-nd —II bs tree ttaectd.” But It does no
U. lie UkretoUvees wellu too rest. Uellkc*
cab. it dote uot seem to him musby,
very brilliant ss our lights were thrown upon
them. Id this vicinity tbe scens was beyond
description, ss stalagmite* of ths most delicate
•n<l transparent texture were In great strand-
■ncs, and of svsry conceivable shape. Even
race, and of every conceivable shape. Evert
delicate tabes; ths thlcknea of load pencils,
and three end foarfeet In length, whoa broken
token
off were foil of slksllno water, and catting off
pieces of etalsgmltM with s hstebet tho spark*
wonld fairly fly, sad on which overy tuna and
sound could be heard. Many of the larger
•paces there seen by eno would reach from sixty
to slghty feet in height snd ss much across.
The caverns of Lnrey, in Virginia, or tha
Mammoth Gave, In Kentucky,, arc not u cir
cumstance in beauty compared to tha Helotea
cave.”
OTHZR CAVERNS. i
There arc also largo caverns in tho vicinity
whose range snd depth are unknown. Thsro
Is no doubt that they woro long used by mem
bers of the desperado's scattered band. They
will sll be explored, but there Is enough mate
rial in “Bobbers' cavo” proper to keep officer*
busy for some time to come. If there arc other
victims of the pistol snd knife, •a there seems
no reason to doubt, lying in it* cavernous re
verses they will be brought to daylight. Tna
ir.tcrcstof this whole section now centers lu
“BuhUra’ cave,” and the developments which
msy arise from a carefol survey of Its mveu-
glee. Thorough and careful eearch will bo
mide. Judge Boeruer state* that ho w»ido-
temd from further examination partly from a
lack of facilities and partly from s nervous
drrad which ho could not shako off, caused by
the knowledge thst he was walking among
the haunts ofdeed men of crime, snd of whnsa
despureto tempers ho had evidonqq In the whi
tened bones before him,
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