Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-10-25

will. The top Of helmet on which / had
been clinking remained intact, but the lower
part broke away and an under jaw fen from
its ancient repose, shedding teeth on the
spade with the rattle Of ovorripc peas
ave were wrapped in the emotions Of tha
discoverer l stopped down and took hold
Of tho helmet, and can still feel les PEE
culiar metallic thrill The skull was "a
gantic We turned it in the lantern light
The ashen front head had delicacy Of text.
ure which was almost infant like Z
"But you amt te4lin about lnjuua,' CONF
planned Nose, curling himself around ia eF.
other attitude.
"Wait, Moses Their moccasin solcs
make no noise, but stop by step through the
dark woods they arc coming
Nose glanced behind him.
81 whispered 70 the Familiar that bothof
VS. working together could hardly dig out
his length 10 a week
"'You could do H Yourself n half tho
night, Kissed the Familiar 'wnilo / hold
the lantern for you, If you'd only put 10 o.
hope the whole skeleton IS in maui and as
Z well preserved as the head This proves
my theory that Indian tribes buried their
/ dead IN mounds, and somo of them had
reached a high state Of civilization
"Don't deceive YOURSELF said J. This
| proves my theory that an ancient laee made
/ this continent great when the ola world was
! plunged in barbarism
II threw out a shoVelful of earth, aua felt
as if had struck somebody The Familiar
1 lifted his lantern and flashed It around We
/ both saw, standing ia uaWmkue gravity
/ on the ridge Of fresh earth, i@li Indian
who never moved Il mHselc Waile the Fan
tern pierced him. THE iamaar armed our
4 light around the creie 81 tbc ut, snd be-
hold, we were surrounded oN sims 30 saw
! ages. The searching l2utata revealed their
war-paint, their steady elit.clingegea, thcir
I moccasiu thongs and even tnY wrinkles ia
I then skin
! "Eeither the Famtag pr 4 sga'.e wc felt
4 under spell When tnc tnHNar was
pushed into the pie almost em3iAedae me.
| / thought il was Il trick But some hand
took my spade, and earth shoWered baclS
into that hole with terrific swifncas. We
endured the shower Of clay, tgampiug ID
under our feet in a dance $50 rapid, or Hc
should have been buried The ramiar.asit
/ bcwitched, stul moved his lantern around DO
a circle,a and there stood every brave motion
less while the spade clinliod aud The digt
fell in. In "A brief time we stood mt level
earth, sin trumping earth where tAe holo
/ had been. But then the lantern was GOag
against a tree, the Indians seized MS and wo
were tied to saplings before ! could realize
any thing except dcer.hidc thrQng which
cut palpablY into my wrist
"The elder Indians stood ia q group While
timber, young ones collected chunks tWiss,
whole stumps, to wall us ia Cor burning.
Instead Of preparing my mud Gor death,
l found myself Eliminating ga tha Eanihaya
immense capacity for combustion a0d woR-
dermg If he would not burn up richly AAo
barrel Of tar.
GAS our fires mounted So lila the spirits
Of our captors, who were So determined rs
keep from The white man the secrets 81
their ancient land They danced ANA threw
tomahawks awhile, then they paused and
stared then they fen upon their knees m
two circles and oil blew the flames can
still see those aquiline noses bent to
earth, those leathern checks disteudmg and
collapsing as they blew. But that ghostly
fire of the past rubbed in the beginning
out Of two hard sticks, would not take mold
of the breathing present II failed Gwen
10 warm US. And when those Hretchcd be-
ings became convinced Of that fact they
rose with one accord and tomahawlfed each
other and threw each other into tho
fire, in true Indian fashion, until the Faml
lar and were walled about by their charrCd
figures aud not one brave was eftH
II don't believe there's word O truth in
it," commented Nose.
elbow can you be so ncredulousm REL
monstraied Gurey.
why, it dom stand to reason, argued
Nose.
'Imagination,o said McArdle, spreading
his hands airily, "is fine thing MosesM
"Oh, isn't it," murmured Phoebe watch
ing the fire. "Its a Bind Of wonder palace
that you can step into out Of amy thing
May be Lazarus had his head I'D such e pa
ace. Whatever your SELF lacks you wll
find in perfect self IN that wonder palace
SO that it seems as If God gave us 8 sixth
sense with which we can enjoy things we
don't possess"
"What on earth is the girl talkin about''
said Randy Thompson.
"She is tuning her Imagination for She
/ story about the North volunteered Cbrley.
Il thought one out long while ago, said
! Phoebe, ''whon ! was reading Scandinavian
things about Thor aud Sif and Wodm-hut
/ this is about a hill Troll
4 "Now, what's a hill Troll complained
! Randy
He was a little spirit follow, sometimes
4 good and sometimes bad, who lived inside q
/ HILL
"There amt none Of them things, said
/ Nose, with conviction
I "There was this ono Troll" insisted
\ Phoebe 'and he quarried rock And ono
night when nc pat up his qUarrNug Tools
4 a wrinllcd dwarf came and offered 70 show
/ him away down III tho heart IF the earth
( diamond finer than any the gun ever Sew.
4 He did not hesitate 70 follow the dwarf
4 And if find that diamond, u PIT M uiy
( quarrying tools for hundred years. said
the Troll.
4 "They went down and went down until
I the Trou began to distrust ms guide and
called halt They were under the very
RIBS OF the earth iil so ne iurtaet says
the Troll
"Ihe dwarf laughed Don you uear
/ booming sounds says he
/ Yes
| "Wel, that's the sound made By people
! on the other side OF the earth trying to pick
/ this diamond out
"The Troll hurried on again until he felt
4 smothered and stopped again SAYING
! I'm 90 no further
/ Don't you hear the tapping Of waterp
I cries the dwarf
/. .tveli ,hat,s tho ,,,st ~ tl,,. ,,,o,, i'll,