Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-06-05

There isno regular path, but he catches
sight here and there of q trodden tuft
of grass and the shredded twigs of ash
laurel that show plainly where the foot
and hand of the daring climber have left
their prints. Then, as he finds it easier
than he thought, he grows holder. Fl
nally, when about 300 feet down a FRO
jecting ledge stops his further progress
Kneeling down he crawls to the edge and
looks over.
1.-THE very placer he cries e1citedly
"and I just know it is down therep'
Bnt the ''down there" is fully a hun
dred and fifty feet beneath him, and il
another projecting ledge, but much
larger, and thickly covered with ferns
and moses, over which a thread-ik
cascade trickles.
As he leans further over tiny some.
thing that glitters in the suns rays
catches his eye.
It is embedded in the soil of the ledge
a foot or so beneath him.
Reaching down he quickly grasps it.
and then with an exultant little cry
springs to his feet. But the next mo-
ment the cry of exultation is changed to
one of suppication and terror, for in the
sudden spring his feet have come in
contact with treacherous tuft that is
barely hanging to the cliffs edge. As
they press against it, it gives way, and
the next moment he goes headlong over
the ledge.
Up at the hotel all is confusion and
excitement, for he has been missed, and
the mother aunt, in her agony Of terror,
is beseeching landlord, clerk, guide,
walters, all to go in search of her darling
boy.
Only too well she surmises that in his
usual fearlessness and alive with the de-
sire to hunt out things for himself, he
is straying along the dizzy edges of the
chasm.
It is twenty -four hours before they
find him, and at least fourth as many
more pass until by the aid of ropes and
ladders he is rescued.
He is conscious and able to tell his
story, though when he is first lifted he
cries out with pain in spite OF himself.
One arm lies doubled up under him and
shattered, yet, with this exception, there
is no other outward sign of hurt.
His descent has been broken by the
various clumps of verdure, and finally
when he has reached the ledge below it
is to fall upon a bed of ferns and NOSES
For time the shock has completely
him. When he returns to con-
sciousness it is to find that he is unable
TO move his body. But he manages to
reach his handkerchief, which he dips
from time to time in the cascade near,
and thus slakes his thirst, and also with
it's damp folds protects his face from the
suns rays. It is the chill of the long
dark night that strikes the greater terror
TO his heart and death like numbness
TO his cramped limbs.
This is the story he tells to those who
rescued him, but he says naught of those
things who passionately clasped
against the throbbing heart; and all day
and all night long has watched and
waited in an agony of mingled hope and
fear on the verandah of the hotel.
There, in the presence Of all, yet
unmindful, overcome at LAST
BY the sight of the agitated loving face,
with its passionate eyes raining hot tears
Town upon his own, he sobs out the
whole story of his hopes and longings
or her, the ardent desires that cling SO
'ondly about the dear, dear book.
Clutched tightly in the palm of his
hand he still holds the pre-
,ious sparkling thing, which, now that
le is safe within her sheltering arms, he
liscloses to the view of all.
Not till the next day, however, when
he brave, loyal fellow is struggling in
he delirium of fever, is the value of his
ind discovered. It is an emerald unusu-
lily large and clear.
II will give him $1,000 for it, uncut
is it isr' declares young jeweler from
new orleans, VINO, 10 90 MIN cred1G is
much more touched by the pathetic story
;obbed out on the mother-aunt's bosom
han he is taken by the probable value
" the exquisite beauty of the gem.
81 lost just $3.50 hard cash by the in
he says to the same friend
rear later, "but assure you I have new
II regretted it."
Aunt Tina's book is out, and sue
,ess. AS to Aunt Tina herself, where
he made pleasure trips Of week before,
he now makes them of months. and she
S never seen anywhere without her at
endant Swan. As to this same Swain,
le is handsome, active fellow indeed,
n spite of the fact that one arm hangs
tiff and almost helpless-an ever pres
mt reminder of the time when he went
Town to Turner'S Point!
DR.. R. Butler, Master Of Arts, Cam
bridge University, England, says st
Jacobs Oil acts Like magic"
Curious Effect of Arctic Cold
london Public Opinion.