, 1870-03-16

4:the cussedest ags1Ava1ingest Jungle / cye
! zee, hunting for it; tut the tree you ehowa
me finally walI't as big around az a beer casl
| snd you keen, that Your Own sell, Mardss."
was reduced that way, but didn't I explain it
AnaEer me, didn't I z: Didn't 1 say wishe
yo4 coulo have con it when first cav it
When yon got mp On your ear aud called m
nanee, and aaid had brought you clever
miles to 'oSk 4t ssPiipg, dida,t I srp1ain {.
had been woodin8 oil it for mora than twenty
| seven yeara7 And did you H'puse tho tre'
could last 1ot-ere7, CON- found its l don't sci
why you want 10 keep back thipgs that Way
trd try to iujuss person that's never dom
IS ;sonehog me- o this mans presence made ME IN.
A comfortable, and I wAs glad when 3 nativs
arrived ht that moment to Say th8t Mucka
Il WOW, the tpoat compApionnbIo and luxurious
n among the war-chiefs OF the ialandp, desirel
us to come over and help enjoy missionary
whom. hs had found trespassing On BIZ
II grounds.
7 4 tbitk It was about ten days afterward that
as finished statement wka- making fol
the instruction Of a group Of friands and &C.
| qualntances. ard which made no pretence OF
beirg extraordinary, familiar and hated
voice chimed instantly in on the heeia Of my
last word, and said:
aBnt. my dear sir, thaze was nothing re-
utnrkable shout that harse, or The clsoum-
stance elther-nothing in the world mean
| no sort Of offence when say it, cir, bat you
! really do not know anything Whatever about
epeed. Bless your heart, il you could only
1 beaHt !--tasre Wis lightning for YOU! Trot
| 1rot il no nnme TOR it-.he few!- How she
-co7tld Whi1l buggy along! I started her out
| once, si1-Colonel W'gaKater, yos; fscolect
| that animal perfectly wel1-I started her ont
about thirty or thirty-d1o yards ahead Of the
I $111 $40 n In INV nd ~
CHASED us upwards Of eighteen miles! It
! did, by the everlasting hills! And I'm falling
you nothing but the unvaruished truth when
eay that rot one eipgle drop Of rain fell on
me@1ot single drop, eli! And I swe.r to
wagon all the way!"
For neck or two i stayed mostly withl1
doors, for seemed to meet this person
everywhere, and be hAd become utterly hate
fuI to me- Dut oDe evening dropped in
had soclable time. About 10 O'clock I
CHANGED to be talking about merchant
friend OF mine, and without reilly intending
1t, tho remark slipped out tbst he WAS httle
mean and patsilnonious about paying his
Horkuen. 1netantiy, through the steam Of =
room, remembered yuice shetland for q
moment t1embled on the imminent verge Of
proEahity: :. :
"Ob, ny dear cir, .really, you expose your
ee'f when you parnde that as + surprising cir
.cu1usianee. Biesa your heart and hide, you
ignorant IL the unborn babe ignorant IL IN
born tpiHs I; You don't know dnyth{ng about
1t! II is pitiabls to See ypu, sir, = Ee1I-spoken
aId prep0ssesti1g stranger, making such IN
enoKmoua pow-wow here about subject con-
Gaining which ruur Ignorance is perfectly
ghastly ,1took me IN tha eye, II you please;
look me in the eye. John Janna1 Godfrey wa8
tbe .eon Of poor but honeet parents in the
State Of Mississip ippi-boyhood friend Of mine
-foeem conrade in lAtor geazf. .HeAyan rest
JOAN James Godfrey VAS hi,ed BY the Hay
blosao19 Mining Company in CALIFORNIA; to do
some blasting Tor them-the Incorporated
Company Of Mean Mept the boys used to call
them. Well, one dnE he drilled hole about
four feet deep and put In Al awful blast Of
down with an iron c1oEbar about nine feet !
long. when the cusaed thing struck spark !
and fired the powder, and ecat! away John I
Godfrey .whizzeo Ike ekyrocket. him and |
bis crowhAs! Well, sir. he kept On going up
In the air higher and higher, till lie didn't |
going on up higher aud higher, till be didn't !
look any bigger than \ doll-Aud he kept on |
going up higher and higher, until he didn't
look any bigger than . small bee-znd then |
ho went out Of s1ght! Presently be came in
sight sgsin, looking like amall bee-and hs
looked as big hs ; doll again-and down fnr-
her and further, till he was as big AS = boy
.galn-and further and further. Till he was
ul-tized man once moro and him and lis
Exactly in the same old tracks and went to
'ramming down, and r-ramming down, and
.raroming down again. just tha same as it
,othing had happened! Nov don't ron know
hat poor cusa Harn't gone only sixteen min
ties, and vet that Incorporated Company Of
Aesn Men pocEEn n1M FOE TEE LOST 1nH!"
I eaid had the headache, and 80 excused
myself and went home. And On my diar7I
inferred "another night spoiled " By this Of
ensire 1oafer- And ferTaut curse WIS set
|own with 1t to keep the item company. And
be very nc1t day I PACKED up, out Of Ill
Almost from the very beginning, I regarded
Tho line Of etars represents IN interval Of
ears. At the end Of which time the opinion
azs1ded in that last sentence came to ba graf
tbo1ly disinterestsd persons. The man Mar
iss WAS found ono morning hanging tor
cam Of his own bedroom (tke doors and
'iudowH Securely fastened on the inside),
cad, and On his -breset, WIS pinned q paper
= his own handwriting begging his friends
bing TO do With his death, for that il
as the work OF his OWL hands entirely.
ct the jury brought in the astouud-
IS verdict that deceased came to his r.
cath "a by the bands OF CONS person or per-
ons unknown!" They explained that the
ertectly undertaking consistency Of Marklss'
for thirty years lowered aloft as
oluesal and 'indestructible testimony, that
hatever statement he chose to make WAS en-
tiled to instant and unquestioning acceptance
9 he. And they furthermore stated THAR !
elief that he WAS not dead, and instanced the !!
trong cizcumatantial evidence Of. ts own
ord that he trds dead-and ~h.s7sehed the
oroner to delsy the funer:! as long aa possi-
innate Of Lsh1iuu Tho cof1n stood open for
sven dArs, and then even the loyal Jury gave
i'm up: But theT sat on him again, and
hanged their verdict to "suicide induced by
lental observation-disclosures; said they, with
enetratiou, "he said he Eas dead, and ho Dds
cad and would he have told the truth il ho !
ID been in his right mind? No, sir.-April
'alary-