The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-04-10
CONQUEST OF PERU.
A Cell Full of solid Gold as RansOm for Capfive-Thc Aged Chieftatn Assa>sinated in his Home and Be fore his Family's Eyes.


 about one-half of whom were mounted. His fellow adventurer was Diego de A'magro, a soldier of fortune, like himself unable to read or write his own name, but confident in the prowess of his sword. The latter soon grew jealous and discon- tented, and las not slow in asserting his superiority.
 The great empire of Inca was dis. tIacted by the wars of the rival brothers, Husacar and Atahualpa The Spaniard cast his fortune with the latter soon after Huascar had been overcome and cruelty murdered. At the head of one hundred and seventeen men he marched to meet the powerful Inca in l532. He en- tered the Peruvian camp with signs of friendship, but treacherouslv made AtahuaIpa captive and massacred upward of 10000 Peruvians without losing a man. The Indian army fled in dismay, and the conqueror made himself master excessively of Cuzco, the city of the Incas, and every place of importance, and then founded the present city of Lima, which he called Ciudad de Los Reyes, or City of the Kings.
 Pizarro possessed the courage of Cortez, and surpassed him in pertidy. He did not long hesitate at the dis posal to be made of Atahualpa, his royal captive. He loaded him with chains and visited him daily in his dungeon.
 "Inca, what wilt thou do for thy freedom?" asked the Spaniard.
 "I will fill this dungeon cell with solid gold" was the response.
 ''Do so and you are free"
 Atahualpa issued proclaim atioRs and collected together all the golden ornaments of his churches and tenn ples and palaces. These were melted down, and the dungeon celia large apartment-wasf filled with solid gold from wall to wall and from floor to ceiling.
 Manatilipa, a beautiful Indian princess, the daughter of Atahual pa, was at this time nving with Plzarro She loved the conqueror with wild devotion which even the treacherous murder of her father could not dissi- pate, and she blindly clung to him through all his fortunes. The de scendants of Pizarro by this woman are still living at Truxillo, in Spain.
 Pizarro was growing old, but he continued the completion ot his con quest with all the energy ot his youthful ambition.
 The revolt of Monco Capac, half brother of Atahualpa, engaged his serious efforts, and after building Cuzco, and at one time threatening Lima itself was on y ended by the dispersion of the Peruvians; in order to cultivate their fields and avoid starvation.
 But the corqueror's troubles were not at an end. Almagro, his disap pointed rival, waged war against him in l53S, demanding as hls share portion of the southern country, in cluding Cuzco. Pizarro marched to meet him, defeated him in terrible battle, June 26, l53S, took him pris. oner, and immediately put him to -death with his usual remorselessness.
 Allnagro had formerly been Pi zaffo's inxiinAfe friend, and. his cow .aTxliy i ksn.s ton seeiiiss to have been '1bS { sos lB ssnst1 ce sitstrn5tio1 so lp;sarfS, isims9 q . srss
 Fortwo yesrs he basisa qiimssfl' with using every means in lis power toward st. engineering his gcvcfh- mant.
 Manzalipa was a woman of genius as well as of personal beauty, nd sho aided him greatly through her knowledge of the masses of the peo ple with whom he dealt.
 But the shadows of death were gathering around the chieftain, and the bell of fate had struck his knell.
 Dlergo Almagro, the son of for mer Almagro by an Indian woman (how strangely these blood feuds were wrought out by the poor wrong ed lndiansD headed conspiracy to accomplish his death.
 Diergo was man of address and ability. His fellow conspirators were about twenty in uumber-part Span iards and Indians, and each was sworn to strike a death blow at Pl- zarro's heart.
 Late in the afternoon on Sunday, immediately after dinner, Pizarro was reclining on an ottoman, half divest- ed of the iron armor he was in the habit of wearing in the daytim".
 He was now seventy years of age, and, though hls head was silvered and his long moustache frosted with the increasing years, he was still strong and vigorous of frame, and retaining the reckless, adventurous bearing which had always distin- guished him.
 One of his little children was ca ressing his knee, when Manatalipa, their mother, entered and said ex- citedly: