Show FOH imm ww stems 0 o away ilie long tinier dunings Eun ings KEY of DEATH A vr tipon in lit icinda cf a maa A aal aum rt about agoo a named tebaldo established himell as a in venice he became enamored of a daughter of an ancient house and asking her hand was rejected the young lady already affianced Enrage dj he beet himself ti plan revenge and being a skillful he in vented a formidable weapon this was a large hey the land lo 10 of which pressed sent out from the other end of the key a poisoned needle of such fineness that it entered the flesh and buried itself there leaving no external trace with this weapon tebaldo waited at the church door till tb maiden he loved laeta in to her marriage then duj be sent the blender needle into the breast of bridegroom who seized with the sharp rain from an unknown cause fainted was cabied home and soon died his strange illness the edill of the physicians again cebalo Te balo demanded the maidens hand and was again refused in a few days both her parents died in a like mysterious manner suspicion was excited and on azami nation of the bodies the email steel instrument was found in the flesh there ws universal geror teror no one felt that his own life wag secure the young lady went into a con vent during her mourning and after a few months tebaldo begged to see and with her loping to bend her to his will aishe with an instinctive horror of this man wha had from the first been displeasing to her returned a decisive negative whereupon tebaldo con ta wound her through the grate on returning to her room the felt a pain in her breast and a single drop of blood surgeons were hastily summoned taught by the past they cut into the wounded part extracted the needle and saved her life tebaldo was suspected his house v aa searched the key discovered and he perished on the gallows there is a tradition that duke francis of padua had a poisoned key of similar character which unlocked bia private li biary when he desired to rid himself of an ob noxious member af his household or he would send him to bring a certain volume from hia bookcase book case As the key was turned in the lock out shot a poisoned needle stabbed be land of the holder and instantly shot back again esa ID nation of the hand revealed only a email dark blue pot but in a few moments the person grew strangely giddy and would be found on the a fit in twenty four hours he would bo dead an d a verdict rendered apoplexy an Ui mailed lilter y Y and A lawyer in this city tells a good story apropos of the habit the majority of the male aex have of carrying around iu their clothes from one week to a year letters which the female members of the family may have to them to mail this attorney has in his family who has been with them almost from her childhood and being an unusually bright intelligent girl for one occupying eo menial a position hr relations came as nearly being choto of a member of the family aa it is possible for a servant to acquire last spring mary gave her employer a letter to mail to her it was a most important missive and as she gave it to him she blushed slightly and hurried anav about her work lie dropped it in hia inside overcoat pocket and manlike never thought of it again mary did though she waited and watched and every whistle of the postman for daya and weeks sent a thrill of expectancy through her whole being her future was in the balance but the letter she looked for never came there ia no doubt that the boug about the letter that nover came was based upon this very incident A few days ago the lawyer resurrected his heavy overcoat iu rummaging through it to see if there was 15 in the inside pocket he found marys letter mary he said in a singularly voice for him lie felt as all men feel under such circum stances mary was not used to the strange voice and she trembled a little in the which her mistress had discarded mary repealed the attorney this time in a sort of a plea to the jury tone here a let ler which I 1 regret to eay I 1 never mailed I 1 fiut BO irreparable injury has resulted from the omis i I 1 sion amary took the aelter when the saw what it wag she screamed with joy and would probably have choked tho attorney in her wild delirium of delight bad not her that moment entered the door and been her god biers you cried mary again and again anil when she finally eimm cred down ba told an interesting story A young man had asked her to marry him aud alio letter which bad hung up in the overcoat pocket all was an acceptance for days and weeks she had wailed to hear further from the young raan and when in june she saw by the papers that he had married another the voluntary slight made the blood tingle in her veins too bad eaid the at tomey in a guilty voice it aint ni mary hes feeo on the alfand ever last july for and beating bis wife anil alt r god her employer mp loyer again bof having bared er from a baist the prepared the host dinner the family ever eat lawn to A pulled washington letter in sun general said an aid addressing general schofield a day you aware that you are violating a by secretary which forbids smoking in ho department building build ng that is a joke eaid the genral it is a fact sir said the young officer who allowed the order after general schofield read it be threw hia cigar away remarking well if he can stand it I 1 judge I 1 should much obliged to ou for the information the general felt rather blue over the fact that he had to be told of lie order later an officer appeared before him smoking cigar are you aware sir said the general that there is an order forbidding smoking in tho building no sir sir excuse me sir there wai an order but it baa been revoked the deuce it hail said the now mystified general who hastened into alie Secre room to get full particulars of an order that was an order and yet not one the trouble was that some subordinate had the ill manners to smoke a three cent undertakers hopa in the presence of the detary who is an avowed enemy of tobacco the nauseating oder so incensed the aristocratic secretary that he determined to break up the practice of smoking in the building the secretary however learned that the clerks in the navy and state departments could stand on the boundary lins of the corridors separating them from b u department and could blow the odor of their tubers across the halls alra ho had not considered when he blued his order forbidding smoking in the war department and as the secretaries of state and navy dont care whether the clerks smoke or not the secretary of war was corn polled to countermand his order stories about ike cm ex in the st louis globe democrat if everything should be true that is written about the czar he would certainly occupy n po ilion that no man could envy his bomb prof bedroom secret chambers and passages for escape that are often described in the papers arc mere inventions I 1 remember a liolla over year ago when the last attempt was made by the nihilisms nihilists lists to him he appeared that very night at liis brothers the grand duke at a ball and was as calland unconcerned as an ameri can citizen would be at any fes tidily here I 1 did not know then that an attempt had been made oa his life and none of tle guests knew it the azar did not change his of attending be ball because be came near being killer he is a true representative of the romanoff family and I 1 do not believe he knows what fear is jadu cited as a soldier and knowing the dangers that surround the ruler of russia he has thus far shown a bravery and disregard for hia secret e that can only be admired the idra too that he never ven turcs outside of bis palace without a strong auard is entirely erroneous one day I 1 was walking along the streets of st petersburg with my daughter when I 1 suddenly heard some one near me there the emperor I 1 turned in time to see and bow to him he was in a crr riago with his wife but there was no guard and no retinue of liveried servants from chati learned he often drove about the city almost unattended many wonderful stories have been written in foreign papers about precautions taken at his country palace at matschina Gat to preveat attempts to assassinate him matschina Gat palace is not a bristling armory and the emperor enjoys when attending to affairs of state like adv russian citizen of the higher class friday 7 onam hoohuli times the hollowing lol lowing corbea from the paris library thene arc reasons why men fast on friday it was on friday that adam tinned that har was chased from paradise that christ was crucified that cain killed abel other traditions say this was the first monday in april that etienne waa stoned that the innocents were hilled by herod of them because of chris that it wa crucified und paul decapitated the baptists head was ct oft that the children of israel were chased across the red sea that heaven will close and hell open that marriage was first consummated that lamech took two wives that all but one seventh of the fruita of the earth and of the light of tho sun and moon were taken away that briers spiny and venomous plants u aed from the ground that the deluge covered the earth that tho confusion of the tongues occurred that the tower of babel was begun that the plagues came to the king of egypt many instances arc cited by support of the idea of ill luck in a friday voyage the english turret captain sailed on ibis fatal day and was lost with all her crew the amazon a bodi n packet the troopship troop ship birk and the picket golden gate all tailed on friday and were loit thi bleace put to sea on friday and more recently the bailing of the arctic relief chip bear waa changed ran account of the of the men the united steamship idaho baided bailed from new york on friday much to tho men caught fire three week afeei wardani war dand encountered a terrific cyclone that wrecked her columbus however ailed on friday aly dei ia an vly A 1 cul jan 5 among to this city a few days ago was an aged man with heavy heard as silvery and as long as the beard of kin van winkle air james graybeard ni he termed himself one evening after his arival was to enlighten a number of gentlemen as to who he was and from where he came believe me be eaid when I 1 tell you that I 1 belong to a race of people cl which you have probably never heard I 1 am IIii samper I 1 knew ou all would be surprised ant nearly every man in arizona knows what is there are a great many of us possibly three thousand and we live and have our being on eliat ia known as the creek this is a stream of water sometimes riding to the dignity of a river at others simply a creek it is several hundred in length through the central and southern portion of arizona along the banks of the halamp are located many rich and productive hills and beyond for several miles on each side are located as many fine ranches or farms like the mor mons who made the and plains of utah bloom into flower gardens held of grain and orchards of fruit the Hasa ropers converted their section of the globe into a land af plenty nature helped us out or probably our little band of people would now bo destitute of the distinction we enjoy in the days of 49 when the california excitement was at its lecht I 1 joined the rush I 1 was a that time a student of the louia villa medical college at louisville ky I 1 left home one night on an old fashioned steamer that was bound for cincinnati from which hundreds of people were every week for the new eldorado in course of time the that were encountered in a trip across the plains and mountains were overcome and I 1 landed in ahe country that has since become so rich and famous and in which many an ambitious youth lost his head and eventually died a violent death or became aliat liat to all old associates 1 I lived but my life has been a blank I 1 went to california nearly forty years ago and belong to the great majority of men who were disappointed for two years I 1 journeyed from one camp to another trying my luck at prospect ing and starving one day about one hundred and fifty miles from san francisco I 1 ran against a train of wagons that were bound eastward and I 1 joined them the train was made up of young follows from the east whose disappointment was as great as my own and chev were glad to have their number increased we journeyed for several weeks stopping now aal then to give our stock a chance to pick up in course of time we entered central arizona and struck the creek from which we derive our name the ua amp is an indian name mean ing long or bavius no end the pretty hills and wide valley that seemed to stretch out for many mites attracted our attention and we remained there several months the wallacia Wal lapia and javaris Ini lians were at first friendly and helped us out frequently in the matter of food with the pame that abounded we had no trouble in getting along but by and by the indians became troublesome and wanted us to leave what they their country this we declined to do so many of our party had discovered rich minerals that promised great results and wo renewed our ambitions to 1 ome millionaires the frequent attempts of the indians to drive us out sometimes proved disastrous to us but oftener to themselves we were nin forced by other ful seekers after california gold from time to time and in the course of events hakamp cheek became well settled epou agricultural and grazing lands and he men became farmers and acock raisers these ahinga happened such a long time ago that t scarcely remember them but our little world wagged along and we became fixtures immovable to such an extent that this is my first trip I 1 am now after an absence of forty years ou my way to the old kentucky home yes we are all alike every IIa samper has imlig white beard wears a red shirt and white hat a buckskin coat and waistcoat corduroy trousers and high topped boots married why my boy not a man of us is married its a part of our religion not to do anything so foolish lor its a failures fai lurel we have no chance to marry cx capt among the indians and you expect decent men to do that would you our lodges masonic and otherwise and we are great poker players we dont know much about the civilized tricks of tho great game but we can play equale poker better than any class of people you ever met further talk with the old has amper revealed the fuel that the entire race were in comfortable they take out enough ore or sell sufficient stock to net them several thousands annually each and they visit prescott other arizona towns now and then to get a taste of civilization they loaf around liou sor saloons obber places to miners and when broke they re turn to their anely lira anil skimp until their exchequer in aliea they go back to the fascination of the city towns and abutter themselves to be skinned out cf their bard earnings in my name he eaid back in the states was benjamin ridgley out on the haa amp it ia old james graybeard A good atory is told of larry jerome he was not feeling in the best of Kp irila nd for a little change and recreation he visited a popular resort in the jersey pinea after a aweeka tay lie called lori iaia lull and on baying raying started to when the landlord called una mr jerothe said alie landlord 1 I ft little lauriat benok that 1 keep for my to write iu be fora leaving and if you have no objections would be pleased to have a few conla from you certainly said air jerome taking the book ho noticed the following from the last gentleman registered 1 I came here for change and rest and was much benefited thomas R M new london conn quick as flash mr jerome wrote 1 I aso camo here for change and rest the waiters got the chance and the landlord the rest larry jerome new york getting anier difficulties Tri lune Es senator and ex cabinet mini ister william windom has an idea that the importance of the american nation is not fully recognized by the middle and lower classed in foreign lands ho is lead to this 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