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Show the shore. While tin peopl" een.e.l tli JACKSON OF CHICAGO. in no hurry to get down tie a at fir mov scow ing kept the were about three nmo. 1 have been employed A bj the Great until we -- v f':l of Improvement and Reclaim Company lands certain and map Mobile, to explore in Florida lviug well down on the edge of the great Cypreis Swamp. The 1,000,-00- 0 company lia l purchased iiearJv 1 location in the land wild of acres neoe-sar- y for tf as it and have mentioned, most gome one to veil it and walk over be could put in of tin "round hi fore it 1 been had the mat ket as contemplated. weeks, three having two on the ground meu with me whoa the adventure happened which I am about to relate. One morning the three of u- - left our of the camp b eside one of the lakes for a intending St. Johns tramp, upper to return by evening. d bile I made notes and kept the topography, the men noted the varieties of the wood, nature of the soil, and other details of interest. On three different occasions we had encountered white men in the dense and lonely forest, and knew from their looks and surroundings that they were renegades from civilization. Twice we had stumbled upon rude camps occupied by negroes and they were a tough looking lot. We bad traveled a distance of per1 was stung on haps three miles when the lack of tlm right hand by an insect resembling a hornet, although much larger. In fifteen minutes the pain brought me to a halt, and my Land was fiwolen like a puff ball. After a consultation, it vas decided that I should return to camp, and the men should push on by compass and cover a certain area, and come in toward night, before I had covered the distance to camp 1 was near screaming out with pain, and lav ana was pulled up with the poison. There was a remedy in the medicine chest, hut it was a full hour before the pain was relieved. Then I be1 gan to feel sleepy, and bunked down At about and was soon fast asleep. noon, after a nap of two hours, I was awakened by the sound of a human voice. Say, you! I opened my eyes to lind a whito renegade standing over me, holding one of my revolvers in his hand. Git up! I sat up. All our goods in camp had been packed up and taken away. The man who confronted me was the wickedest looking fellow we had seen in t he swamps, llis hair and w were so long and unkempt that little of his face but his ugly black eyes and yellow teeth could be seen, lli.s clothing was part cloth and part skins, and it was plain that he had avoided civilization for years. Git up and come, he growled. Who are you and what do you I demanded as 1. reached my want? feet. Walk! he commanded pointing to the west. At that moment, a third actor appeared. It was a woman tall, gaunt, ferocious, and dressed in the same non' descript costume as the man. She came out of the jungle to the west and ns soon as near enough to make her words undeistood, she said: "If he wont move, down him and tic his hands and feet. We kin tote two sich as him. She had the other revolver in her hand and I noticed that they both had hunt'ng knives. I was unarmed, still weak from the cfleets of the poisonous sting, and entirely in their power. The woman struck into the jungle, I followed, and the man brought up the rear. After a walk of about a quarter of a mile wo reached the hank of the lake. Tiid to n tree bv a rawhide rope was a floating cabin. The foundation was a rough made scow, and the upper works, as they are termed, consisted of a long, narrow and stoutly made hut. of logs. Thcie was a chimney of mud and sticks, from winch smoke issued, and two persons were on the It. ink to receive us. fine was a boy ot twelve or thirteen and the other a gill, two or three years older. I hey looked more like w ild animals th.m human beings, and talked in n language so strange that 1 could not understand a word. Go ahead, said the man, as I halted cm the bank; and 1 followed tlm woman aboard of the scow and into the cabin. It was a house in which there was but one room, with the hides of cattle thrown over the wild Southern moss for beds. There was no stove, but a sort of t.ro place made of stones, with two or three kettles on the hearth as kitchen furniture All our camp equipage had been removed to the cabin and my Winchester rille stood in the corner. As this was a new tire arm. laid not believe they know how to use it, but mv revolvers were Colt s old pattern, and loaded with powder and percussion caps. Sot thar, said the woman as she ointed to a corner. I went over and at down on the bed. It was not the corner where mv rifle stood, but it was not more than ten feet away. The woman then said something to the children in their own mongrel dialect, and both ef them sat down facing me, and only three or four feet away. Then man'aml wife east off the rope, seizi d long poles, and presently tiie boat moved slow ly down the lake to he north. The lake appeared to he about three miles wide by live Ion ", and was shut in by the d 'lise forest. 1 ho views I lud through the open door and lie chinks between the lo"s showed mo that the craft was kept near rs u-- 1 1 here we had emourhed. made in He moui h ot wa-thlanding a creek, and the -- cow was cut from sight of any one oil the i.J.e Hunters and t mn-t- -, and even up trom the pleasure -- team r conn mam river as far as this lake. when tie b at It was and -- u il.ng fa-- t. The made pain was had now entirely departed --from niy hand anil arm, and the ludpl s f rug which had coni' over nr w hen hr-- ! captured had given way to a determmathm1 If out of the scrape. to help my.-e1 wool mv of rifle, hold could get match for the whole tour of th'n counted them as four, because tie bn and girl bad bunting knives, ami would surely take part in any serimm ig brought on. ilu ir looks and this. They maintained their in front of me, and their directly places eves never h ft me for a second. They held their knives as if they expected an attempt to escape, and meant to cut and thrust if 1 tried it. While the boat w as moving there was no show for me. A score of alligators, some of monstrous sie, followed n in procession, and I had but too look upon the lake to realize that it was full of thc-- lieree reitibs. One who jmupei or fell overboard would be st i.e l av soon as lie struck the water. Not a word w as addressed to me until the boat was tied up. Then the man rill came in, took a single-barrele- d from under the other bed, and after ; few hurried words with the woman outside, jumped ashore and When he had gone the woman entered, lighted a pipe, sending the boy out-ito watch, she sat down in lus plate, with the revolver on her lap. She had a face which betrayed the mind of a beast. Well, what are you going to do with me? I asked after awhile. Feed von to tho alligators," she replied. Where has your husband gone? To kill the other two men. What do you want to murder us for? We have in no way injured you. "We was whipped aud druv out of the settlements, and we want revenge, she growled. But we had nothing to do with it, I protested in a linn tone. Cant help that. You came poaching on our claim, she answered. But we'll go away. I guess you won't. We never let anv get away to tell on us. t said nothing further, but I by no means looked upon myself as a dead man. If worst came to worst 1 would give them a Tight. I could not move then, with knife and bullet ready for me, and deemed it wiser to settle back and bide my time. The man had been gone about half an hour when the faint report of a rille eatne to us through the trees. The woman had been listening for it, and as it came she gave a start and cried out: There goes one of em. Who? I asked. One of your partners. Dan has dropped him for sure. There was such a tiendish, bloodthirsty look on her face that I was appalled, and the same expression, to a certain degree, rested on the faces of the children. Like dogs, they licked their chops in anticipation of a bloody feast. In about half an hour the man appeared. He had a bundle of clothing in one hand and two rifles and a revolver in the other. Git one? the woman asked, as he came aboard the nglv craft. flic place w tie.-il.-- ri lf ilea 1 Yes." Didnt git them both? The other rot away. Ill git the other lie replied. Git much? Lots. He had in his hand the suit of clothe, rille and revolver belonging to one of my men George Sheen, of Motile. There were blood-stainon theclothiii". an as be unrolled the bundle I saw "a bullet bole through the vest, lie had killed the man and then stripped him stark naked, Acs lie had boots, socks, hut. coliar, every tiling. The other nuu was Robert Jackson, of Chicago, who had worked with me for years. He had not got him. Why? Jackson was well armed and a brave man. If he had been pnsont at the shooting of Sheen he would not have rim away. Sheen had an rifle; Jack-so- n had a winchester, lie would in turn have killed the outlaw. The two men must have been separated, and the outlaw must have ambushed Sheen. Leaving the children to watch me. the man and woman now cast tin scow loose and poled her about 300 feet from shore, 'lhe sun was getting well down: and our side of tlm lake was in a deep shadow. When the scow luid been anchored by a stone, the pair inspected the personal property and counted the taken from the victim. The money outlaw then washed the blood from his No. -, 1 A BURNING MOUNTAIN. are. -- We didnt come here to disturb or Strnnze Tale from the Client River annoy vou, 1 said. Region of West Virginia. I m down -- lfsjust the same thing. on all the human race fur the way I ve R en used, and Ill kill whenever I can one of ovt the chance. IV dropped 1 11 Tour feller-- . drop the Iu!ier. and tin n take kcer of you. Git over thar and lav down. Over thar was the far corner, and in- -i entirely out of tin reach of my in 1 down bunked r. my lien corner the gnu was removed entirely, and the family lay down in such a maniir-- t ic r as to hem me iu. lor the three or four hours they were like cats, starting up at tin slightest move, but toward midnight I was satisfied that all firewi re ::decn. 1 could not reach the over their bodies, arms without stepping and they knew that any etlort on my them. part to loo-- n a log would arouse and About midnight, after a long cautious effort 1 sat up. It was a star light nght, and as there was noI door was tiTthe cabin. I could see out to effort an make to determined fully to escape, but when I came to canvass the chances. 1 had to abandon the idea. The alligators were constantly about us, oftenrearing up to paw at the logs, and unless I could get hold of the firearms and begin the fight, I should be wiped out in anv effort I made. I think 1 slept for an hour or two, and what aroused me I cannot tell. I was still sitting, and as I looked out upon the night! saw a human ligure draw itself up"on the hows of the boat. I at lirst supposed it was one of the family, but a moments observation convinced me This figure moved to the contrary. cautiously, as if desiring its presence unknown, and was a long time in reach- A Row of The Y -- W. Ya., correspondent York tar writes: F'our ir e young Baltimoreans, under the gunl-amof Jimmy Bain, of St. George, started out, a wek or so ago, to hunt in the Cheat river district, south of Tucker county. Y'esterday the four portsmen returned here to take the train home. They brought no game but came burdened from St. George with a most marvelous story of a burning mountain in their hunting district, some fifty miles south of here. Their Mills, Fitzgerald, nanis arc M Thomas, and Van Dorn. lluy returned to St. George with the family of Mountaineer Melton, whom they overtook on the way. with all their goods and chattels pitched on a lean mule. The mother carried a sick child in her arms, and two little boys, whose tow toddled on heads were barefoot after her. while the father and two grown sons led the way. Their appearance showed that they were 1 for some reason. hey leaving were overtaken about ten miles south of St. George, and said they had followed miles; that the Cheat for twenty-liv- e the inhabitants were fleeing that region because of some terrible fire somewhere in the neighborhood, and that they had left it the day before for the same cause. It appears from what could bo gathered from the wild talk of the willing but ignorant family that they lived from hand to mouth on a patch of cleared ground on a mountain side, whose base formed a portion of the Cheat rivers bank; that the terrible fire was somewhere over behind or in under the mountain; that no smoke was visible, but that the air was stifling hot and the river at a certain point was so hot that the fish died in it. The first intimation Melton had of the phenomena was this unusual sight of dead fish in the Cheat, wlio-- e ice had earlier than usual broken up in their vicinity above as far as could be seen but to his surprise had remained a normal length of lime below and formed a small gorge at the place they lived. Strangely hot winds also came down the valley, while from elsewhere it came with winter's chilliness. In tracing the cause he found it evidently to lie in subterranean heat in the mountain side which extended under the river bed, and about half a mile up stream became so hot that it heated the water, which ran slowly there, till a steam rose from the surface near the bank. This was faintly noticeable for a short distance further up, beyond which the water by degrees assumed its normal state. The atmosphere was warm, and the slightest exertion brought out the perspiration. At the point mentioned it was stifling, and there also the earth was too hot to place the hand upon. Nothing else was noticeable, the mountain being bleak and bare from winter, but further back upon its sides the heat was absolutely unendurable, and after climbing up its thickly wooded sides for two or three hundred feet the hardy mountaineer was forced to return, the air being unbreathable. Animals had left their retreats, birds steered clear of the locality, and not a living thing was to be seen. The earth was dry and cracked with the heat. Dead snakes and vermin were discovered by the father and sons, who evidently were mentally paralyzed hv the unusual and startling order of things. The heat, instead of diminishing, increased, the cracks in the earth widened and new ones appeared; the locality became uninhabitable and the family, depressed with the knowledge that something strange and terrible was taking place in the earth beneath them, and iiving in the midst of stifling winds whose increasing heat brought to their terrified and ignorant minds pictures of burning forests and volcanoes, held consultation with neighbors and hastily resolved to abandon the uncomfortable w he-te- a lleeee-grow- lnc-til- ing the door. It then leaned against the logs and made a long survey of the interior, and finally sank out of sight. My heart was beating like a and I could not fathom the mystery. Was it an Indian or anotner outlaw? Moving so cautiously, what obHad I once ject had lie in view? thought of Jackson, I should not have dared to hope he had come to my rescue through that water; and, too, I could not have believed he knew of my whereabouts. From the time I first caught sight of the figure to daylight was probably an hour and a half but it soemed to me as if I lived five years. I had no hopes that the man was a friend, and yet I could not look for a new enemy. Perhaps, after all, it was only one of the refugee negroes, of whom scores were hiding in the swamps, who had made his way to the scow in hopes to lay hands on provisions or clothing. I kept my eyes on the spot where I had last seen him, and, as he did not reappear, I began to feel that he had slipped back into the water, and returned to the shore. Did you ever watch the coming of daylight when you felt that with it might come some life or death transaction? The lirst signs came from tho birds. Then afar up the lake came the cries of water fowl. A fox or some other animal stood on the shore near where we had tied lip the night before and barked in an angry voice. The stars paled and drifted out, of sight, and the interior of the cabin began to light up until I could distinguish the forms of the sleepers. Where was the strange man friend or enemy? As if in response to my query he suddenly rose up, stepped noiselessly inside the door, and next instant a revolver began to crack and a voice shouted at me: "Keep down, Colonel; hug the floor! I rolled over on my face and I heard yells, screams and groans. It was all over in thirty seconds, and some one All right. called: Colonel! Ive wiped the varmints out! I sprang up to find Jackson standing in the center of the cabin, and on the floor lay outlaw, wife, and children, all dead. It was as I had argued the day previous. Tire two men had separated in the woods Sheen to return directly to camp and Jackson to hunt for game for supper. The outlaw had ambushed Sheen and killed him, and Jackson had heard the report of the gun and become suspicious. lie hurried to camp to find me gone and everything taken, and had traced us to the lake, lie found indications to prove that a boat had been used, and he followed the shore of the lake down until he found the scow at anchor. Not one man in a thousand would have shown his nerve. He knew of the alligators, could see a dozen of them moving about, and yet he disrobed, tied his weapons across his head, and swam straight for the scow, and trip-hamm- y terror-stricke- n locality. All the men in St. George professing knowledge of the district have talked to Melton, and his story was the same to each under the keenest questioning. I he town of St. George is excited over the discovery, ami on Tuesday a party half a dozen started for the scene of the It is about five burning mountain. or ten miles northwest of the well known large area of volcanic rock in southwestern Virginia. Men, however, well acquainted with the geology of the state declare the location of this volcanic area is fixed to a nicety, and does not come within ten miles of the point in question as located by Melton. The only other tenable theory is that bituminous coal, in which these mountains are known to be rich, has become ignited and forms a smoldering mass down in the mountains heart, a mighty caldron of the Cheat making rivers bed. In several n localities of the state such fires have been known to exist, notably at Cassville, Monongalia county, where the heat from burn-in- " coal that crops out of the mountain side has at some time melted and burned the ledges or strata of limestone above it all out of semblance to rocks. reached it unmolested. He saw that the only way was to wipe out all the gang, and as soon as daylight would guide his aim he began his work. When we had buried our comrade we made a close search of the floating cabin, and we found indisputable proof of the murder of live or six persons. In an old wooden bucket were two "old and three silver watches, several pocket-knive-s, half a dozen rings, and $32, in gold, silver, and greenbacks. As none hands. When they entered the cabin, or of these articles could be traced back to house, the woman produced some cold their owners, and as vengeance had , meat and and threw hunks to overtaken the murderers, we felt no hesitation in taking possession of everyeach one, including myself. It was only for the benefit of Sheen's widow. after the provisions had disappeared I thing The mine with the eating rest, that the man scow last act was to set lire to the and pu-- h it out into the lake. It addressed m Nmyere stranger. he said; what was as merciful to consign the bodies Consumptive patients are advised, by a puto the flames as to see the brought a oil up here? alligators pil ot Lleberg, iu the Apotheke' Verein, to live over fight them. Such human wolves iu rooms where one or two drachms of "Looking over lands, 1 replied. sulphur did not I m! burial. ho be vow? Chicago Herald. are melted on a hot stove. The first ten days I told him. brings increased cough and irratation, then One ilt:le girl was heard to sav to DalnT count on Black Dan. 1 a play- tlieie cease, and the patient Improves rapidly. 1 mate: When I grow up I'm reckon, he sneered. ersons with catarrh and in going to be "a early stages of N I'm goii g Well, 0 j)f consumption apply to enter chemical factories vo'V1'0'1 ls ,u,f(irBinlt fur you. Ive mamma, am! have six children. When tbev "ber large quantities of sulphur are evapo-- ! come to school to me Im killed every land hunter who ever going to whip em ri,ted daily, and are cured in a few weeks by sot futon my claim, and Ill keep killin whip em. You mean thing! What have ' the inhalations. Cholera aud epidemic ia-- 1 they ever done to you! eases are never found in such factories. well-know- de-vr- sohool-teaeiie- r. j the ORIGIN OF p up bn tem p T ort-T0-- One of the 1 ,Pr peculiar popularity having broLVe as applif; 'la chestnut, jocular and antediluvian sth 31 cnee, its origin is : truth is, the phraseRicy" ,e is - as- lor himself, although v8 al lias only been very brief time. Like,. ular catchwords in xvhieh language abounds, 8p lieteil to have lir,t va .. e ? theater. Such, hmvey , J, ease, altlmugn the , flil t was next door to the t nin r-- b r, 1 he. present signiti,,!, ; originated some thirty negro minstrel f'ni!anj)..rncic the best of authorites-p,, im witness and a hearer, p ten T:, particular mntnl sWitexe were a number of funny j of whom Lave, since flu; era, attained cmsideraV tinction. lint at that tin J wandered about the counrv Jig. w vailed a craze for earn irknuts in the pocket as a ta rp rheumatism. This hor-was not unlike the hot wfi- - , cure crazes .of theprpspmi 1R now belief in Js Mipersf Uvi; is said to exi-- t among the; credulous. The " niinstr BOW U the prevailing whim-th- o; te tism was not epidemic in but just for the fun rheumatic individual, ' of those mysterious F' which make the rep r 'vi quacks, was actually curd ble while transportin' n f this shining brown nut. T 1 gj L e u'i J I ttrk o: . 1 fellow, pie-heart- not oven 0 brains, and the company n butt of all its practical ji his cure was edahlishea? l: V the horse chestnut transce fl the good Bostonian iiF51" ! science, and lie recount--- t !.v i to tale everybody i ishing ' induced to listen to him. tonholes stood no kind of y him. His amiable brotLriq fooled him to the top of one took him aside to mat i particular inquiries respevtlg. ? -- I a his nut its shape and its pocket he carried it, and aljintense gravity and interests an- - - , he condensed into a minr nance, lie repeated his over and over again, neveri was being unmercifully guy j ever a newcomer appeared am he was bidden to ask him tot wonderful story, and wind y to be dispatched he vas e' with his horse chest nut " become a screaming joke the company. t j From this incident arose: if. tion. when a story wastraJ;" i thats a horse chestnut!''forij v this was abreviated: of Darr, series a through tions, by which the Iiom f nated, and the chestnut" b vived, perhaps because it n.T. " Naturally enough, the uatod from the minstrel j, theaters, and there it hay, innocuous desuetude" uni" it suddenly reappears, to af the picturesque phraseology i J. to warn credulous people ears open, and never tort I T selves. Boston Herald. i , . ' cun'.- , expr-- s! to an- THOUGH' GREAT The working of the gwi seen or unseen, endures r Car. ever, and cannot die. The good xv e can each i(: this world is small. Tie f men in all ages could they would is vast, hut this may be done each'" must serve his own gmcra his part to render the nex T. D. ILtn more efficient. When you make a nii5ta tl back at it long. Take off the tiling into your then look forward. sons of wisdom. The is - iCTt changed. The future eorj. ,, power. Hugh B Adf of iib Get into the habit fculD silver lining of the cloud, have found it, continue rather than at the lete middle. It will help J j - at 15 p- 1 loo- -' am to hard places. A. A. worn Always say a kindcome I if only 'that it may with singular opportuni some mournful man iirefly. like a beautiful cannot tv he convolutions trout1 w ft. gctlinj his many Helps. fr '' fl rbe Doing nothing , li t doing of one s genwo and kind the best part of cxistf. of iW.Gi thatpgoes outThis is 2 v !L self-posel- ' do We most good doing soruetliir,5 Horace Mann. If you bave built not your work need be cn w where they should 1 tions under themIt seems to me r i longing and oughly alive. he a .qj.i: we feel to be must hunger att - Will- Eliot. s-- . c. - , |