The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-27
MODJEsKA OUTDoNE.
The Terrible Dangers That IIenaeeG
Bob Burssegta,


| Wabash tIna} Cor Burlington Hawkeye.
l have suffered such a terrible fright
since leaving Carlisle this morning. One
OF the numerous trsins on which travel
every day was late, of course, and the
consequence was that l hal to wait over
In Peru several hours. This is the city
where all the Peruvian bark used in the
United States is manufactured. | saw
a Peruvian dog manufacturing some.
He had boy up on the fence, and was
giving him Peruvian bark enough every
minute to scare all the sgues out OF
America for the next ten years. But !
digress.
went to hotel in Peru, and took
room with fire, lame window-curtain
an invalid water-pitcher and seine other
portable articles of furniture in it, and
left my baggage carelessly piled up in
great stacks around the room. Judge Of
my dismay, when after leaving the room
for few moments, l returned to discover
that desperate attempt had been made
BY a party OF men, who had evidently
been following me for several days, to
steal my diamond necklace. You remem.
Der the necklace very well, of course il
is the same one l lectured in last season,
and WAS present from Khalil Bey, to
whom it had descended among the family
jewels. 1t wss originally obtained by
his grandfather, who was 8 Buddhist
priest and stole the necklace from the
image of Rhundal-up.Ghud, in the hill
district, Jsbbsl-al>Jal. The stones were
unusually large and brilliant, and some
of them weighed nearly four ounces
when killed and dressed. 1t was valued
at S34, 900. The robbers, four in number,
who had probably seen me wearing it,
and had followed me for several days, were
masked, and effected an entrance into
my room by climbing a telegraph pole
about two miles down the Wabash track.
Thence they "cooned" along the wire
until they got into town, when they got
onto the roof of the station and descended
to the ground, went around behind the
hotel, found ladder probably left there
by some accomplices, got on to the roof
of the hotel, entered the chimney and
worked their way down it into the cellar.
1t was then easy work to come up the
cellar stsirs, go into the wash-room and
wash their hands and remove their masks,
and then they came out into the Office
and asked the clerk the number of my
room, Then the deed was all but accom-
plished, when, by q piece of wonderful
fortune, l returned to my room, having
been out in the back yard stealing enough
wood to make the are last fifteen
minutes, just in time to prevent the
spoliatiOn of my jewelcsse. The rob-
bers escaped, leaving the hotel and the
city in the same manner as they had
entered it. think, indeed, l have been
rather indiscreet, seeing that l travelled
alone, in wearing 80 much valuable
jewelry l inclose necklace herewith.
Hang it up on 8 nail IN the Hawkeye
Office until return home, and don't let
Newt wear. it every time he goes to
party.
A very thrilling accident happened to
the train in which went to New Car
Isle yesterday. We were crossing long
bridge at very high rate Of speed, the
captains chronometer indicating gait
of 2:17f on the first quarter, when sud-
denly the engineer staggered into the
special drawing~room car il which l al
ways TRAVELLING coal-stove in the mid
die, tOol-chest at the end, and long seats
at the sides, so you can lie down and
pound your esr when you are aweary-
the engineer came in with face OF ashy
paleness and said to the conductor: eve
are lost p
"What hes happened ?' eagerly asked
the conductor.
l leaned forward and caught the
engineers agonized whisper: "She's
blowed all the packin' clean out of the
ash-pan p
Few, few of the other passengers real>
lied the Imminent peril through which
we were passing; bnt sat and listened
to the labored sound of the men at the
pumps, and silently prayed that night or
Butcher would come. Night came along
after a while, and we were saved but
Butcher did not put in an appearance,
and afterwards learned that he was de-
tanned by deafness.
1 am enjoying one of the pleasantest
lecture tours l ever made, and Provi-
dence is evidently on my side. l have
nearly lost my diamonds, like Modjeska;
had a railroad accident, like koze; got
myself scratched with a cat, like Cary:
sprained my back kicking over q piano
stool, like Nilsson had row about my
dressing-room, like Minnie Hsuk (iani-
tor wouldn't let me hang my overco. t
on the gas fxtures); eat onions like
Kellogg and spell my name with a ],
like Wilhelmj. The men who plumber
the people from the platform have too
long neglected their opportunities, and
l propose to make the stars of the must.