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still standing. A small brook runs along
one side of it, road runs on the bank upon
the opposite side, and upon both sides the
wooded hills rise, the hollow opening out
into the larger valley towards the Pam
handle Railroad. The cut showing the
upper fighting ground is made from pho
tograph taken from the railroad track, and
is the view plainly visible to the traveller
from the cars.
BY walking up by this little low house
few rods one comes upon the fighting ground
where Goss and Ryan fought 81 rounds in
hour and q minutes, for $1,000 and the
championship of America, won by Ryan
after most desperate battle. The Hancock
county sheriff, from Wellsburg, appeared
upon the scene and warned them not to
fight, but to no effect, however, for single
handed he was powerless to do much. He
took his stand upon the road leading up to
the right of the grounds and watched the
fight proceed.
A TERRIBLE COMBAT.
Although Ryan won, he was punished
terribly, his mouth and ear being cut and
his face disigured all over, his eyes black
and his nose swelled up. Goss lost several
teeth and his bruises were chiefly about the
body. Goss was tired out and gave in. He
went down Dy Lne llLCle Bneu, WHICH Stll1
stands at the left of the house as one enters
the ground and to the right going out, and sat
down, feeling pretty bad. Goss went away
in q buggy, Ryan by train. When Ryan
got down as far as the station he lay down
and had quite a sick spell.
1t was upon this ground, also, that the
Hghtweights Dillon and Crowley had
hard fight, won by Dillon. Crowley
changed his clothes down by the little shed
and Dillon his in small shanty then stand
ing upon the hillside to the left, but which
is a now in ruins. Just before the fight
Dillon came up to Crowley in the ring and
offered to bet him $40 that he would whip
him. Crowley replied that he had no
money, but the bet was Immediately taken
by an outsider. He LEFT Dillon blood
blind in one eye, with the other closing fast,
and his face badly swelled. Crowley was
used up a good bit, with one eye blacked,
but his bruises were mostly about his body.
A NASTY THROW.
At one point in the fight Dillon got
Crowley's head between his legs and threw
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this hamlet is the repository of secrets of
which the flowers have no language to tell,
although some of the older residents have.
To one of the latter THE DISPATCH cor
respondent naturally went, and by him was
taken to the location of two Of the most fa-
nous prize rings in the history of the sport
ing annals of this country. Strange that
they should be nestled down into such
lovely scenel But is it? Some people
think that devotees to, and particularly par
Elephants in, the prize ring are altogether de-
void of>sentiment and the fine instincts.
They forget that we are all human, and ''the
man that blushes is not quite a BRUTE"
'Tis said of Sullivan that Just before he en-
tered the ring of one of his most desperate
contests, which was located in a scene of
natural beauty akin to that of Golfers, that
he paused, and, glancing about the lovely
landscape bathed in sunshine, remarked
with sigh as he turned to the ring: "And
now goodby to Sullivan, the poet, as we
face Sullivan, the pugilist."
CONTRASTS OF HUMAN NATURE.
There is dual element and mixture in
the nature OF mankind which attracts as
well as repels to contests of physical
strength. What man can do as he stands
equipped by nature and his God, single
handed, frm-footed and unarmed by any
implement foreign to his person is, after all,
one of the highest tests he can be put to.
When he separates these powers and sa1ri-
fees the mental md moral to the physical,
he undoubtedly lowers his better nature at
the same time, and mars the complete and
symmetrical manhood of which his entire
being was capable of being developed into.
AS evidence OF these savage instincts still
inherent in the bosoms of civilized members
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Chean Labor.

They work all day for what would be the
price Of q drink in America and their
mountain huts would be considered hard
lines for the establishment of an American
pig. Little low huts thstched with straw
and not much bigger than store boxes. They
do most of their cooking out of doors, sleep
upon the floor, eat with their fingers, and
worship Buddha in half-civilized way.
Some of them use the prayer wheel, and
this seems to be the only invention they
have. The prayer wheel consists of metal
box about as big around as one which holds
boot blacking and about twice as deep.
Through il wire is stuck and this is
fastened into handle foot long. Inside
the box there is roll of prayers written in
Thibetan characters, and the worshiper
rattles off prayers at the rate of 100 a
minute by giving the handle twist and
setting the box to rolling. Eachroll records
prayer. Every prayer does away with
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The Monarch of the Jungle.

In rising you pass through the torrid, the
temperate and land at last in the frigid
zone. At the bottom is the jungle into
which you dash out of rice fields and which,
with its thick bamboo, its banyan trees, and
its interviewer masses of foliage, forms the
home of the tiger. As you go through you
can almost see the bright eyes Of this noble
Bengal beast shining out of the darkness,
and the old residents of India who are with
you will tell you stories of the tiger hunts
they have had and of accidents that have
happened to lone travellers. They will tell
you that the tiger is only found where lives
the deer and the wild hog; that if he once
has taste of human blood he is satisfied
with no other. A single one of these tigers
isknown to have killed 108 people in three
years and another killed 80 persons per
annum.
One of the agents of the Indian forest de-
partment tells me that about 1000 tigers are
killed in India every year, and in 1882, 1876
men were killed by tigers. The English
Government gives reward for tiger killing.
and during that year 81 900 was paid for the
killing of 1,700 tigers. In few weeks
there will be an immense tiger hunt in In
dia. The viceroy will probably attend it.
The party will 90 out upon elephants and
will spend some weeks in the jungle.
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him backward over. 1t might have broken
his neck, but he caught the ropes and that
broke his fall. Just at the close of the tight
the Sheriff from Wellsburg, with several
officers, appeared. Everybody scattered and
made tracks elsewhere in all directions and
with all possible speed. Dillon went
hastily over the hill and managed to get
away and into hiding and escaped; but
Crowley who had started up the railroad
track, was overtaken within few rods of
the State line, deserted by his friends and
arrested.
Another illustration shows the fighting
ground in the immediate foreground, with
the little house and shed, just this side and
to the right of which rest some timbers upon
the greensward brought there for the frame
work of derrick to be used in boring for
gas, if it is not abandoned. Beyond is seen
the smoke of rapidly passing freight train,
firing up and heading for Pittsburg.
The ground has also been great place
for chicken fights. 1t has also had it's dog
fights, but the most of the dog fights have
occurred mile and half further up the
valley by Paris roads.
But If we want to catch that train we must
hurry, and cannot linger longer.
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Finest Tea in the World.


The tea Of the Himalsyas is the best in
the world and would advise American
housekeepers to try Indian tea. There is a
tea in Thibet which has the flavor of milk to
such degree that when used it has all the
properties of good tea mixed with the most
delicious of Jersey cream. This Himalaya
tea has the flavor of flowers. 1t is pure and
clear and it is supplanting the Chinese tea
in the English markets. The tea plant
grows wild through these Himalaya hills
and in some OF the regions near here it at
tains the dimensions of large tree. 1t was
probably introduced from here into China
Still it is now only about halt century
since tea culture was commenced in India,
and now there are many Indian tea men who
prophecy that India tea will eventually push
Chinese tea out of the markets of the world
Just ten years ago the exports of Indian tea
amounted to 80, 600, 600 pounds. Five years
later they had risen to 58, ,000, 900 pounds,
and tea planter whom met here at Dar-
feeling, tells me that they are now making
i00, 600, 900 pounds of tea year in India.
The exports of Indian tea to the United
States have steadily increased and we now
take over 100000 pounds of Indian tea
every year.
The lower hills of these Himalayas are
covered with these tea plantations. The
plants look not unlike well-trimmed box
wood hedges, and they rise in terraces up
the sides of the hills. Here and there you
may see gaily-dressed woman picking
their leaves, and now and then low shed
in which the firing is done. The seeds are
sown in nurseries in December and January
and they are transplanted between April
and July. The ground has to be well
drained and am told that the best tea soil
is virgin forest land, which in India is very
rich The plants begin to bear about the
third year and they are at their best when
they are 10 years old. The Indian tea
planters get about five pickings year and
often seven. In China and Japan three
pickings is considered good.
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Jewelry in PrOfusion.

The men are fully as strong as the women.
They are not so tall as the American Indian
and they are very ferce-looking. Each
wears great scymeter-like knife in his belt
and they are just like the Thibetans whom
I saw at Peking, They are notorious as
wife-beaters and the woman of the Hima-
layas has, as a rule, q very hard time Many
of the men wear earrings and the women,
both Before and after marriage, carry their
fortunes upon their persons. They wear
strings of silver coins of the size of 30 and
10 cents silver pieces in rows about their
necks so that often the whole front of a
woman's bust is covered with them and the
poorest working girl has her earrings of
gold and her anklets of silver.
It looks strange to see woman whose
whole waist is covered with rupees and who
has enough jewelry upon her to keep her for
at least three years, breaking stone upon
roads, and I have, during the past week.
seen at least thousand bare feet and half
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with vast valleys between them, making. a
double wall between the North and the
South. You must, throughout this dis
tance, have the mean elevation of your hills
about as high as Mount Blanc, and 40 of
them must extend more than one mile
higher. Every one of these 40 will kiss the
sky above any summit of the Andes, and
in many of these vast valleys you could
drop the whole Alpine range, and at dis
tance Of teQ miles from the place they fall
there would be no perceptible change in the
face of nature. Talk about the glaciers Of
Switzerland There are glaciers in the
Himalayas which are from 80 to 60 miles in
length, and there is one 33 miles long which
is fanked on either side by two giant peaks
over q, 900 feet high.
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A LETTER HARD TO READ.
How Bad Writing Brought a Young Man
Into Unpleasant Notoriety.

How Bad Writing Brought a Young Man
Into Unpleasant Notoriety.
A good story about Nellknown young
Pi.tsburger is going the rounds. A few
days ago the young man went to Cleveland.
He fell in with boon companions, "had a
time, spent all his money, and when he be-
gan to sober up, found himself in Jail. He
could not be released until his fine was paid.
he therefore sent letter to friend in this
city, requesting loan TO help him out OF
his trouble. He is about the worst penman
in Allegheny county, and it happened that
the man to whom the letter was addressed
could read little of it except the signature.
That was plain and SO was the statement
81 am in jail, /" but these were the only parts
of the document that were legible. So he
took the letter around among his friends,
some of whom were experts in deciphering
bad writing until he found Q man who
could read the biggest part Of 1t.
But the letter had passed throSgh 90 or so
hands before it reached man gifted enough
to decipher il. As one of the most earnest
appeals it contained was the sentences:
Don't, for the world, tell this to o living
soul, !" the chagrin Of the youngm man can be
imagined when he got back from Cleveland
and found that every one Of his acquaint-
ances knew about his adventure. He says
he will either learn to write or else employ
an amanuensis hereafter.
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Enr..t nf siIxsr

AS you go up the Himalays this jungle
gives way to huge forest trees, but the
branches have long roots and creepers shoot
ing from them down to the ground and the
trees are often from 100 to 200 feet high.
These trees are clothed with luxuriant
growth of MOSES and ferns and you see
many varieties of orchids fastened to trunks
and hanging to their branches. AS you go
up you note the tree fern, tall, round
trunk from 10 to 20 feet high with fern
leaves jutting out from its top like those of
q palm The underbush becomes more
sparse and as you rise the color of the moss
on the trees changes from green to silver.
This hangs from the branches in clusters,
clings to their limbs like coat, and makes
them look at distance Ikea forest of green
busted with silver. AS you near Darjeel-
ing you find many of the hard woods of our
American mountains; the rose begins to
bloom and there are tea plantations by the
hundreds of acres.
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in color perfect. But overher whole eoun-
tenanee was written legibly the signature
of hopeless grief Her dress was Of some
black material, very plain IN pattern snd
somewhat the worse for wear.
'sBe seated, !" began. "Put yourself as
ease in mind and body. And first Of all,
let me offer you glass Of wine"
ssYou may spare yourself that trouble,
air 4" she replied. 81 do not drink vine"
1WeIl. then, a composing draught. You
are nv patient for the time being, remem-
ber. You must let me prescribe for you-
Won are in a state of excessive nervous ex-
citement, bordering upon hysteria. Drink
this"
sssT assure you, sir, that my disorder is not
Of body" she said wearily. NNo medicine
can relieve it."
this little thimblsful. 1t can't hurt you,
even if it should fail to beneht you
sFor aught I know it may contain
drug"
at certainly does contain q drug. i
should not offer you aqua Para-
81 mean poison"
stDo YOU think I would have dissuaded
you from suicide, Immediately thereafter TO
seek to poison you?"
sI don't mean q deadly poison. You
could do me no greater kindness than TO
give me deadly poison. mean 1t may
contain some opiate to deprive me Of power
over myself, so that shall be unable to
leave your house when the time is mp:
Madam, look at me. Have 1 the ap-
pearance of a man who would wantonly lie
10 YOU? Who would seek TO get the better
of YOU by an underhand trick like that?"
siNo. you do not look deceitful, she
answered, after q moments inspection OF
my face.
81 am your prisoner. I suppose must
obey my Tailor, she submitted sand emptled
the glass which had profered.
"Now, if you are willing, we may talk"
said L
'fWhat is there to talk about? I, at aty
rate, have nothing TO say. But am your
prisoner for the term OF one hour. You, OF
course, may talk as much as you desire.
But at the end of one hour -. Please
look at your watch. What time is it now1''
sit is 20 minutes after midnight"
'sThank you. Five minutes have already
passed. At 115 I shall be free to leave"
"Yes, if you then wish it But I doubt II
you will"
'sYour doubt is groundless, sir. How.
ever, if it pleases you to cherish 1t, you may
do so till the hour is finished"
hNo. I cannot think my doubt is ground
less. told you should be able to show
you way out Of your troubles better than
the desperate one you were proposing to
take; and now will make good my
promise"
''Being more fully acquainted with my
own affairs than you are, l assure you tnas
your promise is one which cannot by any
possibility be made good"
'aTime will prove or disprove that asser-
ton. To begin with, may ask you
question or two?"
'sYou may ask me 20 questions. do not
pledge myself to answer them.
:. "Well, will you answer this oneY Am 1
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CHAPTER I.

Ny name is Leopold Benary. reside at
No. 63 Beekman place, in New York City,
and am a physician and surgeon. On the
21st of next July shall be II years OF
age.
Toward II o'clock on the night Of Friday,
June 13, 1884, was walking in an easterly
direction along the south side of Fifty-frst
street. between First avenue and Beekman
place, on my way home from musical en-
tertainment, which / had attended at the
house of friend in Brooklyn. Moving in
the same direction, on the same side OF the
street, and leading me by something like 100
feet, could make out the figure offs woman.
Except for us two, the neighborhood ap-
peared to be deserted.
Anything about my fellow pc destrian be-
yond her sex, which was revealed by the
outline of her gown as she passed under 3
lamp post-whether she was young or old,
white or black, a lady or beggar-1 was
unable, owing to the darkness and the dis
tance that separated us, to distinguish. In
deed, the probability is, should have paid
no attention whatever to her, for was busy
with my own thoughts, had not happened
to notice that when she reached the corner
of Beekman place. instead Of turning into
that thoroughfare, she proceeded to the ter
race at the foot of Fifty-irst street, and inn
mediately disappeared down the stone stair
case which leads thence to the waters
edge.
This action at once struck me as singular,
and put an end to my preoccupation. What
could solitary woman want at the brink Of
the East river at IL O'Clock, midnight? Her
errand could scarcely be a benign one; and
the conjecture that possibly suicide might
be Its purpose instantly, of course. arose
in my mind. Ny duty, under the circum-
stances, anyhow, seemed plain-to keep an
eye upon her, and hold myself in readiness
to interfere if needful.
After moments deliberation, !, too, de-
scended.the stone stairs.
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CHAPTER III.

I led her into my back parlor, which
use as library and study, and turned up
the gas. Then looked at her. was not
surprised to see that she was very hand
some-nay, better than handsome, beauti-
full. don't know that can explain pre-
cisely what had prepared me for that dis
covery; perhaps, in part, her voice, which
was exquisitely sweet and melodious; per-
haps, simply, the tragical and romantic
conditions under which I had found her.
However that may be, beautiful she indu-
bitably was.
She wore no bonnet; and her disheyeled
hair, dalk brown and abundant, hung like
q rich soft cloud of smoke about her brow.
Her skin was fine in texture and deathly
pale. Her eyes, large, dark, liquid, were
emotional and intelligent. Her mouth was
generous in size, sensitive in form, and
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by the white robes of the other, for nature
is ever prompt to follow the flags of war with
the banners of peace.
And yet (for we are creatures Of imagina-
tion) mankind in revisiting or surveying
historic scenes is quick to repeople them
with the dramatic events of former days,
and their present repose is made to do
service as a neutral background, which only
intensiies the lights and shadows of the
picture his Imagination has reconstructed.
In passing through Golfers, W. Va, by
the Panhandle route, the uninformed trav-
eler would see nothing indicative of the
stirring scenes in its past history. 1t is only
a little hamlet by fast running graveled-
bottomed creek, in a narrow winding valley
into which lateral ravines open, and all are
hedged about with abrupt wooded hills and
cliffs, between and among which the rail-
road has made its tortuous way by engi-
neering ingenuity and liberal use of
dynamite.
PASTORAL BEAUTY.
The traveller last week would have seen
the dark green of the hemlock, which fringe
the hills and cliffs, relieved by the white
tracery and cloud-like bloom Of the service
bush and the wild cherry. If the passenger
train had humored his fancy and
he had stepped from the iron high
way to the greensward and the woods
he would have fonnd carpet of
dandelions and all manner of wild flow
ers and spring beauties waiting to meet and
welcome him to their native haunts But
he would have found more than this if he
had pushed his inquiries still further, for
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HimaIayan Women.

Man here is fully as interesting as nature,
and we have servants and guides who are
more like the people of Thibet than India.
There is no seclusion of women here, and
great strapping girls dressed in the gaudiest
of colors go about with fat plates of gold
hanging to their ears, each of which is as
big as trade dollar. They have gold on
their ankles and bracelets of silver running
all the way from their wrists to their elbows.
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A MAD SONGSTRESs.
An Exfraordinary Discovery Made In nm
Asylum In Paris

An E1IraoEoAuhfJ OiecoVery MADE In an
Asylum In Paris.
An extraordinary discovery has Just been
made, correspondent writes, in the private
asylum of DR.. Dupuis, in Paris. A Young
Russian lady who entered the institution
about Is months ago, and whose malady is
stated to be caused by disappointment in
love, is discovered to be the posssssor of q
voice OF most marvellous beauty. The un-
fortunate girls brain is in such . state that
she cannot understand word that is said to
her, but as soon as music is placed in her
hands her senses seem to return, and she
renders the most difficult passages with the
greatest intelligence and delicacy. If DR..
Dupuis can obtain the consent of the young
lady's friends, he intends to bring her out
at a concert which is to be given shortly in
Paris in aid of a charity.
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the amOrous moon throws her bright trOpi-

the amorous moon throws her bright tropi-
cal rays around them.
The cloud effects and the snow effects of
the Himalaya Mountains are indescribably
grand. They are different from anything
have seen in travels Of hundreds of miles
through the Alps and they are in many re-
speets more interesting. From where I
write the mountains form a semi-circle
about me and there are IL mighty peaks of
snow, each of which is more than %, 900 feet
high. As for mountains of two miles and
more in height can see dozens of them. I
am in the very midst of the Himalayas and
at what the world says is the best point to
view them.
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American Product. in India.

I note some curious anomalies here in
these old Himalayas. Many OF the rude
huts, which are of the same style as they
have been for ], 600 years or more, are rooted
with galvanized iron and the sides of some
of them are sheeted over with square pieces
of tin. This tin comes from PHILADELPHIA
oil cans, and some of the mountain huts are
lighted by the Standard Oil Company's oil.
Calico from ENGLAND is coming into use
among the natives, and many of the idols.
upon being inverted, are found to have
sunken into their brass bottoms the trade
marks of the Birmingham manufactures. :
FRANK G. CARPENTER.