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A COlored Hero,

Just below Natchez, and at about 10 o'clock
in the forenoon, there was a wild shout of
man overheard" and the Engineer at once
got the signal to stop says the Detroit Free Press.
Those of US sitting aft saw black man strug-
Cling in the water few feet astern, and as we
rose up to throw him hfe-preserver a second
woody head appeared behind him. Some one
had jumped in to rescue him, and he did his
work well. The first one was poor swimmer
and badly frightened, but the second had a
powerful stroke, and was evidently at home in
the water. He seized and held the unfortun-
ate up until they drifted down and rope was
thrown them.
"By George!" exclaimed the Colonel, as
they were pulled in, but that fellow deserves a
medal"
We rushed down to interview him, and as he
leaned against a pile of freight, wet but not a
bit exhausted, the Colonel said:
My man, that was a brave act. Did you see
him fall overheard ;"
"Why, dun chased him Ober was the re-
ply.
Howl"
He dun stole my terbacker an was arter
him. OATS what | saved him fur-didn't want
to lose all dat plugi"
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10 Be eontinuedl
oKLAHoMA,s FIRST PAPER.
The Guthrie Getup, a Little Sheet that Lives up
20 its Title.

The Guthrie Getup, Little Sheet that Lites up
to its Title.
The salutatory of the Guthrie Get1p, the first
newspaper published in Oklahoma breathes the
air OF the free and unfettered West.
I've prance into the field at the head of
the procession. Praise Jehovah, all ye good
people, and let the praises resoand TO the
measured stroke of our new job press. An,
there's the rub If you do not give US JOB
work, we must 60 back to our wlie's folks. inns
would place US in a wretched fix, for we are
not married. This last statement" adds the
editor facetiously, is particularly directed to
single women who hold corner lots.
Then the policy of the paper is briefly out
lined in vigorous language: 'Should any man
even as much as kick his dog we will give the
public an accurate estimate Of the motive
power used. Pastors free Of charge, can look
at our devil. and the w. c. L. U. Is hereby
approved. The correct weight Of the newly
born viii be given"
From a peculiar phase Of the situation the
"long-feIt want" paragraph is missing, but the
editor presages much for the future
''Our Washington hsnd-press is IN soak, ana
this accounts for the pOstage-stamp size OF the
present edition, as it had 10 be printed on our
new Job press. The next issue expects TO put
on enlarged and more digniied pants, and then
wei make things hum until Guthrie Is man
ufacturing capital of 100000 people"
A suspicious and lugubrious note follows:
$ Funeral notices will be published at dis
count Of 90 per cent"
The rural localette column fairly teens with
Ecntillating brilliancy.
Our streets are being laid out. Thank
heaven. this cannot be said Of our citizens.
Uncle Sam stopped the selling OF water at
the little village Of Oklahoma. Poor fellows.
They will now have to drink beer.
"a few lying pups are reporting stories OF
free flowing blood and numerous killings. The
whelps know better. There hasn't been man
killed IN Guthrie since the 22d.
The first Sabbath in Oklahoma was quiet
and orderly one. No real estate business was
done, the gambling games were postponed
until Monday morning, and no one was killed.
The first FIRE in Guthrie was the burning OF
Marshal jones' tent The writer had a rife
stock badly scorched. and this curiosity relic is
now for sale. Ali relics of the confagration
now on sale at the GeiHp Office.
@An excursion from Arkansas City Sunday.
That's proper, boys.
We have three banks, but one is a sand
bank. Hai Ha!
35naehan Bowers in the first subscriber.
Lord bless him. Come forward, brethren.
efFuthrie has no flies on her.
East Guthrie boasts the fairest claimholder
in the West. She halls from Chicago, sings
like lark, and viii make it hot Tor jumpers
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A Relic of i,enedict Arnold.

rumor comes from the Dead River logging
camps, Me-, that two trout fishermen recently
resurrected a curious relic of antiquity from
beneath the placid waters of one of the Carry
ing Place ponds The story goes that they
had finished fishing and were about to start
for their camp, when they found themselves
unable to raise the anchor from the bottom.
The rope was strong, however, and, redoubling
shallop, partially filed with stones, which had
caught upon one point of the wooden killock.
The boat is supposed to be one of those used by
Benedict Arnold in his fruitless effort to cap
ture Quebec
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Her Goose Restored After Many Years
TphfIoceJ,absr p,-o.s

GETTYSBURG, May 22.-The members Of the
kpolinaris Club, Of Philadelphia are here on
visit, as also are several members Of the Corn
Exchange regiment-11Sth Pa.
After the retreat Of Lees army, on the night
Of the 3D., this regiment, with portion of the
Fifth Corps, was moved three miles south OF
Round Top, to place known as Greenmount
Here one of the regiments captured a goose
belonging to an elderly lady and carried it off
much against her wishes.
This afternoon the confscator, with his com.
rades, drove to the scene Of his appropriation
and presented the same lady, now advanced in
years. an immense goose, ornamented with
gibbons red, white and blue.
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Rained Knives and Forks.
LHartford Tinles.]

G. B. Plumer, Ex- Chief Engineer of Hay
tian man-of-war, relates funny incident
When they went aboard the La Defence Ora
ham seized a mess pot, in which was about
peck of knives and forks, and stuck it in the
muzzle of the 10-ineh gun, putting the hampton
in after it. That day the Admiral came aboard,
and as the gun was loaded with blank cartridge
they used it to fire a salute. It was pointed
directly toward the town and point blank at
the Grande Cafe. There was rain of knives
and forks against the building until they stuck
ont from the walls like quills on porcupine
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-06-06
SCIENTIFIC CHAT.

DIR. r. II. Thurston, of Cornell University says
that the steam-engine is capable of vast improve
ment, and that it has not vet begun to exhaust its
inherent powers He thinks that the next genera
tion will see it consuming one pound of fuel per
hour for single horse power that ships of 10000
tons will be driven at the rate OF 40 miles per hour
that the American continent can be spanned by
flying trains in two days. and the transportation
between the cities of the Atlantic and those OF the
Pacific Coasts will be so cheap that the general
average of living will be vastly improved upon
what exists to-day.
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"As being appropriate to the OCCASION" re-
marked the Chairman, "and as a deserved
compliment to the distinguished veteran to
whose speech we have just listened, the band
will now play a selection"
where's my hat " exclaimed Gen. Sher-
man, excitedly.
And the grizzled old war-horse escaped by
door in the rear just as the opening strains of
Marching Through Georgia" smote on his
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But this is only one IF the wonderful ruins
about Agra The country is filed with tombs,
some of which have cost millions of dollars,
aud number of which are almost as perfect
to-day as when they were built. At Sikandra
| saw the grave of the Emperor Akbar, over
which a pagoda-like temple of marble and
sandstone stands and on the roof of which,
beside a richly carved cenotaph upon a small
round pillar of MARBLE rested for years the
great Kohinoor diamond. Twenty-Five miles
from Agra are ruins of which never heard be-
fore l came to India but which show the
grandeur of the pleasure city of one of these
Mogul Kings; and here at Delhi there are ruins
covering an area six miles wide and 10 miles
long, embracing temples and tombs, forts and
monuments, and evidencing the high civiliza-
tion and the mighty power of people and
men who were great in the days of Queen
Elizabeth, and whose courts were in full swing
when our halfstarved grandfathers landed on
Plymouth Rock.
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nr1nr INnrA- Anril. 1ss9

WRITE this letter at
Delhi, more than q
thousand miles north
of Calcutta an d
nearly an equal dis
tance from Bombay.
I am in the very heart
of old India, and the
India of to-day moves
on amid the grand
monuments of 1t IS
past. I have see II
the pyramids S of
Egypt, have sat in
the seats of the pea
nut gallery of the ru-
T-11 -.
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Is Learning Fast.

.
yisitor-Well, Tommy, how are you getting
on at schoo2
Tommy (aged s)-First rate. I amt doing
as well as some of the other boys, though. 1
can stand OH my head, but have to put my
feet against tho fence. l want to do it without
being near the fence at all, and guess l can
after awhile.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-06-06
Edith and Her Conscience.
TWfde .A3pdke.1

Edith's aunt said she might get four cara
mels from plate in the closet. am very
sorry to say she took five; but she wasn't quite
happy while eating them. She was very quiet
for some time, and then asked:
"Auntie. does God know how many earamels
I took2"
tYes, Edith"
After another long silence she broke out:
Well! | shouldn't think he would make
such fuss about one caramel"
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has given a very fair
description of it, and
travellers since the day
it was built have gone
into ecstacies over it.
1t is a jewel in archi-
lecture, and to my mind
far surpasses any de-
scription l have yet
seen of it. The poetry
connected with it makes
it all the more beauti-
full, and it is strange
that this Mahometan
King, brought up in a
religion which teaches
that woman is nothing,
and that love is little
else than sensuality,
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-06-06
A shrewd Observer.
[ VaShingion Critic.

How do you know that man is from Massa-
chusetts?" inquired the reporter of fruit
dealer as a stranger went out of his shop.
Easy enough was the confident reply;
he bought banana here yesterday and went
through it for bones before he would eat it,"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-06-06
Knew the Symptoms.

fTd-Bits.l

Wife-Cyrus, am sure young Spoonamore
is becoming serious in his attentions to our
Susie.
Husband Nonsense! What makes you think
so?
HE wears new necktie every time he
comes"
'Do you think Susie cares anything for
him?"
"I know she does. She hasn't eaten an
onion this Spring"
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lie Didn't Fit.
youths Conponion.l

Little Johnny witnessed military drill.
One of the officers rode horse which was un-
ruly, and in some of his antics nearly threw
his rider, whereupon little Johnny exclaimed
excitedly:
ft him 10
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-06-06
Seasick for Home.
fErangeliSt.l

The sensation of homesickness has been va
riously described, but never more graphically
than by little girl who, miles away from
home and mamma sat. heavy-eyed and silent.
at hotel table. Aren't you hungry, dear.?"
asked her aunt with whom she was travelling
90 Nom, "Does your head ache?" No'm."
F." What is the matter?' The child's lip quiv-
cred, and she said, in tone to grieve the heart
+" I'm so seasick for home"
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Couldn't Beat Him.
lBurlinaton Free Press. ]

IBlTllNgtOn FTee FTeSS.
An Englishman has invented a lamp-burner
which extingushes the fame after six hours
burning. An economical couple tried it on
their daughters most persistent suitor, but in
stead of taking the hint he got IL kisses out Of
the girl before the lamp could be lit again.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-06-06

It was nearly 800 years ago since Delhi was
first taken by the Moguls, and there is within IL
miles of the present city great shaft or column
which commentaries the man who took it. 1t
is known as the Kutab Minar. Nearly half the
hight of the Washington Monument it is much
grander and more beautiful. 1t has base AZ
feet in diameter, and it rises, in futed columns,
each big enough to make the bay window of a
good-sized house, upward in five stories to
hight of 240 feet. The two last stories are of
marble, and the whole stands out against the
sky one of the grandest and most beautiful
monuments of the world. The Mogul archi-
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man usually takes about one-third Of what he
asks.
All kinds of work is going on. Here in the
dirtiest and most squalid of holes which would
hardly serve as a pig-pen for America, dirty,
half-naked Hindoos are beating out gold into
long threads, and in the next pig-pen establish
ment these threads are being stitched into rich
pieces of silk of the most delicate coors. This
is the wonderful dress trimming of Delhi. 1t
is embroidery in gold which brings high prices
at the courts of Europe, and which is beautiful
enough for any Queen to wear. In another
cell is ieweler, and the great-great- grand
sons Of those men who made these wonderful
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-06-06
He Didn't yeed 1t.
.[Christian Register. ]

"Change of climate is what you need" said
the high priced physician, after he had listened
to all the details of the patients case.
Change of cimate!" exclaimed the patient
in surprise. "Why, man alive, Pve never had
anything else. I've lived right here in New
England all my life.n
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-06-06
M0GUL MAGNIFICENCE
Our Correspondent Visits the Ruins at
Delhi and Agra. and Describes
Their Oriental SplendOr.

The Wonderful Tai Mahal, and the Palace of its
Bulder-The Kutab Ninar of Delhi, and How
it Compares with The Washington Monnment-
A Look at One Of the Great Business Cities of
India-Indan Jewelry and Observation-Disclosures
Of Noted Americans-Queen yictOria's shawls
and $500 DreSsng-GoHn.
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tects builded well, and
it is as beautiful to-day
as when the turbaned
priests stood upon its
top and called out the
hours of prayer more
than 600 years ago. 1t
is but one of a thousand
interesting ruins about
Delhi, and one of the
Oldest of the Mogul re-
mains. These Moguls
belonged to the same
tribe as those that over
ran central and west
ern Asia under Genghis
Khan. They conquered
China, rushed down in
to Hindostan, and I'M
der Timur the Tartar
took possession of In
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than your little finger, though the stones in
many cases are three inches through. Put win
dow after window Of this marble lace work, floor
the rooms with mosaic each square of which
would form the top of the most beautiful table
with the costliest of jewels and hang the whole
with curtains, each of which would make the
yestmentsofa King, and you may have some idea
Of the pictures which shine out at you through
these rooms. The best parts OF the palaces were
built by Shah Jehan, a King who had an income
of $3.50 000 600 year, and who was not afraid to
spend it. He had 80 wives here in this palace,
and you see ia the marble rooms the rose water
fountains and the gorgeous apartments devoted
to the harem, the paradise OF the BEahom-
etans. He had one court where the jewelers.
came, and the fair ladies looked out through
this marble lace work at their wares while
they held them up for them TO purchase. In
another place there is grand marble balcony,
where the King and his Queen used to catch
fish from great artificial lake below, and the
/ halls in which he received his courtiers are
/ grander than any audience hall in the world.
| i was especially struck with some of the mar
| bic bedrooms of the ladies of the harem and
! their treasure-boxes. In the ledges of the win
| doWs circular holes were cut in the pure white
stone just large enough around for the fair
| ladies' arms, and running down this width for
about three feet. Into these holes the houris
| of half dozen Kings dropped their diamonds
and their barbaric gold, and as thrust my arm
down into them up to the shoulder / could al
most feel my flesh thrill from the contact in
/ the pictures that crowded before me.
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them. The first stories
of these long walls of
houses are made up of
little box-like holes cut
into the wall and closed
at the front with doors.
In each of these boxes a
merchant squats, with
his clerks around him
and his goods near by
him. The customers sit
on the ledges and hag-
gle for an hour over
aaph harOain and tho
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-06-06
A New Southern Drama.

"Poker" is the title of new drama by 3
Southern author. In the hands of compe-
tent company it ought TO win-for one of the
company at least.
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rHR UNION PACIFIC RVS .,

THE UNION PACIFIC RY's "OvERLAND
FLYER" makes twelve hours quicker time
from KANSAS Cry. COUNCIL BLUFFS AND
OMAHA to PORTLAND. than any other Trans
Continental Line Close connections made at
Portland for ali Puget Sound points.
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Contagious Contiguitx.

Aunt Ito niece, seated in the parlor with her
beau)-Why do you both talk so low2
Niece-Herbert has a cold, and think
must have caught it.
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Think Of a man having 90 wives going al
most crazy over one Well, this is what Shah
Jehan did. II you will stand ON one of the
walls Of the fort and look up the River Jumna
you will see. mile away, what architects and
poets say is the most beautiful building in the
world. 1t is a structure of white marble. with
four pure white towers rising from the four
corners of a square platform, and in the center
great white building of many sides, which
ends in bubble-like dome that seems to float
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-06-06

INDIAN FAMILY. ShOnIu HaVe DUIIG Une
most beautiful monument to love ever design
ed by man.
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nUMOR.
The Customary Question.
burlington Free Press. !

=
Lady Customer-Do you keep linen writing,
paper?
Stationer-Yes ma'am.
Lady Customer-Will it wash?
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a DELHI IEMELER.

one from great gold baud or set in euriously-
carved gold. Next come rings by the hundreds,
of all kinds and all settings, from one worth
81, 600 to one hardly worth $40. Then there
are bracelets of gold, the work. upon each of
which must have consumed months of careful
labor, and brooches and curious carvings and
lockets of gold and gems. Here is jade
stone heart inlaid with gold, and there is
brooch which surpasses in its diamond setting
the gorgeous stones which Mrs. Senator Stanford
puts on for the White House receptions.
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at Rome and have wandered through the
castles and cathedrals of medieval Europe,
but l have never seen any ruins which
compare with the mighty remains about
Delhi and Agra. Here at Delhi nations have
risen and faHen; generation after generation,
throughout ages which antiQuarians claim
to be long before the food, have tramped over
the rich soil of these North India plains. They
have built their cities; have had their IN
trigues and their wars; have constructed
mighty civilizations, aud have passed away,
leaving hardly record. Some of the ruins
are unknown in history, and others, in their
youth of three or four hundred years, are al
most as perfect to-day as when they were built.
The majority of the readers OF this letter are
soldiers. I saw at Agra fort which had walls
of sandstone 20 feet high and more than mile
in leBgth. The largest fort in the United
States is Fortress Monroe, which covers 50
acres. The interior of this fort would extend
over 650-acre farm, and its walls reach to the
hight of a good-sized six-storied building
These walls are many feet thick. They have
massive sandstone gates, richly carved and in
laid with marble, and they inclosed the palaces
and residences of the King and his mobiles.
These palaces have remains which show that
their grandeur surpassed the dreams of Oriental
magnifcence pictured in the poems Of Moore
aud of Byron, and they are grander IN their
ruins than any of the modern palaces of Eu-
rope.
Frederick Of Prussia during one of his great
wars was supposed by his enemies to be in
needy circumstances. 1t was thought his
treasury was low and that he would not be
able to carry on the contest. His enemies were
right but Frederick circumvented them by q
game Of bluff which has no parallel in history,
He borrowed secretly an immense sum, and
began the erection of palace at Potsdam. The
interior Of several rooms of this palace he
walled with jewels and precious stones. The
story of his extravaganza went out, his credit
rose, and, if my memory is correct, he came
out victorious. / have visited this jeweled
palace of Frederick, hut it is nothing COM
pared with the gorgeous structures of these
Mogul Kings. In this fort, which Akbar built,
one of his successors constructed palace which
had a court within it of nearly four acres sur
rounded by grand arcades, aud is approached
at the opposite ends through a succession of
beautiful courts opening one into the other.
These arcades still stand, and some of them are
surrounded with a lace work Of marble, and
others have pillars inlaid with marble mosaic.
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1t was in 1926 that Sultan Baber founded the
Mogul Empire, and it was his grandson, Akbar,
who, contemporary with Shakspere and Bacon,
built the great fort at Agra, and established
civilization and government which in every
respect was the peer of most of the govern
ments of that day. He had regular system
Of taxation, and his rule was the taking one
third of the gross products of the land every
year. He got out of the soil over hundred
million dollars year, and he had at times a
bigger surplus than the United States. He was
a remarkable man, and one of the great Kings
of history. Only ii years of age when he came
TO the throne, he soon disposed of the regent
who was placed over him, and took matters into
his own hands. He married HindOo wife,
and one of his other wives was a Christian. He
had police department judicial depart
ment and military department, and he had
his poets and literary men about him, even as
had Queen Elizabeth His son, who succeeded
him at about the time Queen Elizabeth died,
had as his Empress the Nourmahal spoken of
in Moore's poems, and his grandson was Shah
Jehan, who built the TAI.
This Shah Jehan was the most luxurious
ruler that history has ever known. Here at
Delhi he had private audience room of white
marble, in which there was throne with q
back which represented peacocks, the feathers
being made of jewels so as to form the natural
color of the peacock's tail. This throne cost
$3G,000000, which in the then purchasing
power would be worth as much as $3.50, ,000000
to-day. The hall itself was walled with jewels,
inlad in the white marble, and the fort which
surrounded it, now occupied by European
troops, compares in splendor with the one |
have described as existing at Agra.
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against the sky This is Tai MahaI It cost
more than SIS, 900 900, and it was built by this
King as q tnmh for his wife Ravard TAYLOR