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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-06-05

WASHINGTON, June 4.-The Republi-
can representatives went into caucus to
consider the silver question. After a
lively talk, Mr.. Mckinley made compro.
mise proposition. lis chief feature was
that the Treasury shall purchase four
and one.half million dollars worth OF
American silver each month; that the
certificates in payment therefor and
and shall be offull legal tender, quality
redeemable in lawful money and that
silver bullion may be coined to meet the
demand for redemption. Speaker Reed
favored the bullion redemption feature,
which was inserted and adopted.
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Ran Into n Wnshout,

DUBUQUE. a., June 4.-A freight train
ran into washout ten miles southeast !
Of Dubuque. The 6rman was killed and
brakeman fatally injured. ], The track
was covered with water and train trav.
over the road for thirty miles IN tha
water. At the point where the III;nois
crosses, the ties and rails were washad ]
out, and the freight train was tlitchcd -
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GALESA, I'LL, June 4.-During the
fearful storm Of wind and rain which
prevailed throughout this section Mon.
day, night, the Chicago, Milwaukee 4
St. Paul railroad depot at PlatteyiIle.
Wis, and the Smart grain elevator were
struck by lightning and both were TO-
tally destroyed At Scales Mound the
extensive barns OF Newton were set on
fire by lightning and destroyed, together
with several thousand bushels OF grain,
Several other similar casualities oc-
Cured. the total damage being estimated
at SIS, 900. * , i2,gisl : u 551I's.;
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BALTIMORE, Mp June 1.-THE Com
nnittee Of Ways and Means OF the City
Council voted to-day to report iavorably
an ordinance authorizing the sale Of the
city's holding Of Baltimore & Ohio rail.
road stock at no less than par. Par is
the figure already offered for the stock
by the syndicate represented by Mr.tE.
B. Bacon. President OF the Baltimore &
Southwestern railroad, s = =: IS
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SPRINGFIELD, I'LL, June 4.-The Demo-
cratic state convention was called 10
order to-day by. Chairman D. P, Pbelpa.
Of tho State Central Committee. who
read letter from Ex- x-President Cleve.
land: The reading was followed bv
great applause. Joseph Maur, Of Var.
mll!lon county, was made Temporary
chairman. He made speech in onno-
sitlon TO the pending tariff bill and. tho
state compulsory school law and favor
'n9 ny Ine nomination OF General John II.
rainier ior governor. After the appoint
ment OF the usual committees, a recess
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VIg LengIle Gnmah.

Chicago, s; Allegheny l. IN. L.)
Buffalo, 7; Pittsburgh, i. lP. L.
Louisville, 2; St. Louis, 0. [Asso.
Chicago, 4; Cleveland,1. (P. L.)
New York, 4; Brooklyn, l. IN. L.)
Philadelphia, IL; Brooklyn, l2. (P. L.
Boston, O.; Philadelphia. Z. IN. ~
New York, 0; Boston 1. (P. L..
Cleveland, 3; Cincinnati, |. IN. L.)
Columbus, "A; Toledo, o. (Asso.} e'
Rochester, 5; Brooklyn, 2. (Asso.)
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SEATTLE, WASH, June 4.-In the
United States District Court yesterday
Judge Hanford refused to dismiss the
celebrated cases against E1.special Gus.
toms Agent Beecher, Of Pt. Townsend,
son Of tho late Henry Ward Beecher,
upon a report Of United States Attorney
Winston that he had been authorized by
the Department. Of Justice to enter nolle
in these cases, o. a. ~, =. -
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Public Needs Don't Justify It.

WAsnlSoroS, D. O., June 4,-Ptesi.
dent Harrison today vetoed the bill for
the erection Of public building at Hud-
son, New York, on the grounds that the
public needs don't suggest nor justify
such an expenditure as 1t contemplated
BY the bill, ~ lEt e = Z sysi :, y
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WASHED AWAY
bya Cloud dBurat-Uuderwood Under Water
..g- = Other Dnmncc

Other Damage.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA, June 4-Under-
WOOD fifteen miles north of this city,
was engulfed by cloud burst before
daybreak and scores Of houses were
wrecked, while the Mosquito Creek WIS
twenty-five w feet above high water mark.
Ihe lower part Of the city is still under
estimate the damage tonight.
This is the third and most severe
storm OF the week. Railroads are wash.
ed away. The loss in Underwood and
vicinity will aggregate $l50,0OO. Weston.
on o. Mosquito creek, is under five to-
hiteen 1a s,sa ieet o.. Of water, and the loss will
h; teaen sl0o,o0o, and reports OF losses
hlgher up the valley are hourly coming
in, and the indications are the valley Is
81 submerged for thirty miles. No loss OF
life is yet reported. : s'''>
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yYost Ylrriuln PennIopa.
,ecial Dispatch to the Iatellignoer.

Special UlSpdlch % NC 1HeHlOeHcer. 2 Il
WAsnISoroS, D. G., June 4.-Wesi
Virginia pensions we're granted to-day
as follows: Original invalid-John J.
Krantz, Maiden; Abraham Lipscomb
Grafton; Monroe Gross, Parkersburgi
John T. Mays, Ceredo; Amos Q. Scott
Independence; Oliver P. Hays, Shirley,
Reissue-David Damron, Sheridan:
Reissue and ipcrease-George A. Par
ker, Charleston. ~ 3t5 = I
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WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE House to.
day proceeded to the further consider
alton OF the Alabama contested election
case OF McDufIie against Turpin.
Mr.. Wilson, of Missouri, advocated
the claims Of the contestee. Mr.. Turpin
spoke briefly in his own behalf. Mr..
Rowell, Of Illinois, plead for the con-
testant, McDuflie, who was then seated
yeas, $50; nays, 1l3.
Nfr. Mckinley, Of Ohio, presented q
concurrent resolution on Senate amend
meAt in regard to the abandonment OF
goods to underwriters and salvers.
The Democrats did not oppose this,
but. as they had made this case test as
to the power OF the Speaker to count a
quorum, they refrained from voting, and
the Speaker promptly counted u quo.
rum. a5,, ig
L. II Al.
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DeclIueR n EanpininutInn.

WASHINGTON, D. G., June 4,-Repre-
William Vandever, Republi-
can, Of the Sixth California district, has
sent kilograms 10 his friends declining
to enter the field foi denomination, and
asked that bis name be withdrawn. Mr..
Vandever was representative in Con-
gress from Iowa before the war, and is
now serving his second term from Cali.
forDin a. HA HHr
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LONDON, June 4.-Paris is looking for.
ward to sensation in the trial OF Mar
quis de Mores. From intimations which
have leaked out Of official channels Of IN !.
formation, tits expected that the remark.
able history Of the Marquis will be re-
told with new and startling revelations
as TO bis connection With anarchistic and
other revolutionary couspiracies. .-1'"'-,. :
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"A SIca state Of AraIra.

BELGRADE, June "A bloody en-.
counter has taken place between Ar.
nauds and Servians on the Servian
frontier. The Ottoman and Seryian
have sent telegraphic
orders for promised inquiry into the
affairs. I, The Arnauds killed fifteen
Christians, wounded thirty.6ve others,
robbed the dead and violated q number
Of Women. Z. = ). l ..-...,.-
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Can't Find tho Engineer.

: San FRANCISCO, June 4.-Sheriff Hale,
OF Alameda county, and several depu.
ties, have been keeping up search for
Engineer Dunn in order to serve war
rant charging him with napslaughter,
which was issued after the inquest into
the cause OF the drawbridge disaster last
Friday. All efforts to locate Dunn have
been fruitless SO far, and the officers
have concluded he is attempting to es-
cape. Sheriff Hale sent telegram To all
parta Of the State asking for the arreat
Of Dunn, q
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Mansfield Downed.


u. McIkccsport Wins.
Special DispGteh to the InttAigener.
YOUNGSTOWN, O., June 4.-The home
team was defeated to-day. Score:
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I tAssass,nntion A VIII not Rule.

WASHINGTON, June 4.-Representatiye
Breckinridge, Of Arkansas, has notified
the subcommittee, of the House Com
mitteo on Elections that be will not call
the witnesses in his case now in the city
Powell Clayton and others), as their
testimony would be immaterial unless
supported by the testimony Of the per-
sons living in Arkansas, whom the sub.
committee decline TO summon. Conse-
'quently the case may be regarded as f.
ually closed. z ": [
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PORTLAND, 0oN, June .i.-1ucomplete
returns from all counties in the State
give Hermann (Rep.) for Congress,
s.977 majority; Pennoycr Dem for
Governor, 4,446. 1t is thought these
majorities will be increased by the Off
cial counts. MO- b & 4.I. 4 .isHl
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W. VI. W. IT. w." II
The following is the programme for
to-day:
MORNING SESSION.
Devotional :."."......Miss ollic Rasnett, Basuc.t
Reports Of SupcElntcnts continued: A..
Legislation and So.
Er-.E Discussion. @ >. tssF l'li@s,
Railroad workm-Mr NJ. J. Raymond, Grafton
-7rF s.. ,3a7s. Discussion. 81 ~ = =
Miners and Lumbermeu- tt-ssl 4 I. s
Mrs. L. l.. swInburn, West Charleston
Trcasurer's Report. 'ii.l n;
Discussion on Finance. .'
Noontide Prayer, Bencdlction,
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Devot!onal:......Mrs: T. T. Hutchinson, Wheeling
ReailIng Minutes Of last Session, - =
DILL In State Constitution. N5 -
Report Of corresponding Secretary L1s.
..T Miss Maude Montgomery. Pa1kersburg
Reports OF superintendcnS continued: :,
Sabbath School Work. Ea.n
e, ~ -, : Mis-, Jennie Plckeus. Peel Tree
sat. fTs., Discussion. .glg-liI.s
Prison and Jail Work.
5is r7'T Discussion. teEl'-s. ~
Scientific Temperance Instruction SreI
4-,4 Mrs, Addie II. Mcrrck, Patkarsburg
lfEE Discussion. .Jsi.= 81, -,
Question Box. a5s
Adjournment-DcnedIc s7E
4. 7s EVENING SESSION. ~ tfs
Service OF Song. = r. 81 i s5gsg
Scripture Readlng- Il
=. ~ Miss Mamie Cameron, FaIrmont
-ir.-. prayer-Music. -, &. II !
AddTess"..G Geo. W. Balm. Lexington, Kentucky
~ Music-Benedlction = sSsl - -
At the evening session the Y. NJ. @, A,
rkax IN vr,flI fuw H., !
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Letting up on tho lava

LONDON, June 1.-THE Gear has issued
a ukase ordering the abandonment Of
the Russian and anti.Jewish policy for
one year. This measure is understood
to have been taken in Difference to the
numerous protests against the recent
wholesale !expulsions OF Jewish mer-
chants, lawyers, and. other prominent
hebrew outrages which have taken
place in Southern Russia, Russian
Poland and other parts Of the Empire.
and is merely tentative. po' 80
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Springer WIN Spring Amin. /

z sPnlSdflELD ILL, June 4.-The Dem.
ocratic convention for the Thirteenth
Congressional district met in this city
to-day and re.nominated Hon. W. NJ.
Springer for Congress by reclamation.
This is Mr.. springer's ninth nomina.
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The Wool Tariff.

WASHINGTON, D. G., June 4.-Senator
Sherman to-day proposed and had re-
ferred an amendment to the tariff bill
the wool schedule as prepared by the
National Wool Growers' Association.
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AKRON. IE1 MO. u lE.IwlIEELiNG. in II.I0Il
Totals. 5llrls.Il2l . Totals. 6la 50 III
AEron............ l 0 3 0 o O 90 0 o O.
Mheellng... O 0 Q.2 O O q l.

Earned runs, Akron ] Wheeling /. Two base
hits. Moiz, Sweeney, Osborne. Three base hit.
Glena,vlu. Homo run. Pike. Stolen bases,
AKRON J.: Wheeling g. Double play, O'Brien,
by Van Dommcle l.: by Fitzgerald 7. Hit by
pitched balls, by Van DImmcle |: by Fitzgerald
l. struck out. by Van Dommclc ] by Fitzacr.
ald 5. Pas scd balls, Lytle. Wild pitch, Van
Dommele. Time, hours. Umpire, Green.
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Now po.t,nnster Appointed.

Sptsial Dispatch to ne Intt1ioe'ee. - -. ~
WAsnISaroN, D.. c. June 1T. W..
Nine, vice H. u. Shalfer resigned, has
been appointed postmaster at Roda.'
mer's, Preston county. ,S
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45 BROOKLYN, OSr., June 44.-Wm. Muir.
ray d Co.'s tannerys was struck by light
ming and burned to the ground, Loss,
so. o.000i incurred ior SO, goo. 85.:537' -
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Internal Revenue Collections,

NPFe'Ut OF'TUttIs 10 UFF 1H1tl1TItNCtT,
PARKERsBURd, w. Va, June 4.-The
collections Of the United States Internal
Revenue for the month OF May in the
District OF West Virginia were as fol-
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wouldn't Dismiss t,,c f,o.,

At the evening session the Y. NJ, g, A
quartette will furnish the music, a
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In closing, Mr.. GoE expressed the be.
Lief that tho Republican party wanted
such pension legislation from the Fifty
first Congress as would make it utterly
impossible for u decrepit soldier Of the
army OF the Union ever TO die in an aims
house, and such legislation as would
make it absolutely impossible for gray.
haired mother OF dead soldier Of the
army OF the Union ever to know want.
A Annlause. t.JS sft'- y, y i ~ -
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Earned runs. Akron 4; Whceling2 Two base
hits. Ezen, Sweeney. o'Dricn. Home runs,
sweeney 2, Motz, Ilazen. Stolen bases, Akron
.; Wheellng6 Double plays. O'Brien. Gicnnlyip
aud Armitagc. Bases on balls, BY Hall 5; Saw.
yer o. Bases on hit by pitched ball, Akron i,
Struck out, by Hall 9; by SawycrS. Passed bali.
pike l.; Wild pitches, hall l; Sawyer /. Time,
l:5o. Umpire, Green.
Another report says: Sawyer was in
the box for Wheeling to-day, and his
curves suited Akron exactly. Hs was
very wild, giving FIVE men bases on
balls in the first inning alone. The balls
he put over the plate the home team
hit hard and often. Hazcn's home run
in the eighth inning was the longest
ever made on Akron grounds. The
Wheellngs put up brilliant game,
making hard uphill light. They made
great rally at the bat in the eighth and
ninth, but the odds were too great for
them to overcome. Green's umpirinp
was trifle oG-color, and he gave Sawyer
shade tho worst Of it on balls and
strikes. He fined Glenalvin 50 for
questioning strike in the second in.
0IOu
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Buy the 5BEsr-Ohio ya,lev$ ~, ~ 4,
Your grocer has 1t, " @ .e''l ooiteos
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-23
The Struggle of Sea And Land.

We stand on bluff at the sea-shore
The surf is undermining it, That deep
cutting into the bank is its work. An
overhanging mass of earth is thrown
down and becomes the toy of the
waves, which reduce it to gravel. This
in its turn becomes ammunition to be
hurled against the shore. Wherever
this process is going on, the land falls
back before the advancing sea. and
considerable results are evident in a
short time. The Island of Heligoland
has been reduced. within thousand
years, from considerable island to .
mere rock. The strings of rocky islands
along many coasts are remnants of
destroyed shoreland. Thus the land
yields with hardly struggle to the
supremacy of the sea. Loose aIluvial
terrains give way in body. The
Zuyder Zee so came into being SOC
years ago, and Holland, part of which
is below the level of the sea, would
have been likewise oyerllown If it had
not been defended by artificial dikes.
Subsidences of ground have also been
sometimes observed during earth
quakes. In other places the sea gives
way. Rivers carry out masses of de-
tritus aud deposit them along the
shores, causing the land to advance.
by the operation of this process Roman
ports on the eastern coast of Italy have
been left away inland, and whole al
luvial districts of the upper Italian plain
have befh wrested from the sea-
HaDssfar Science Mopth!H.
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A Favorite Legend.

There is favorite legend in Ger
many of certain luck-flower, which
admits its fortunate finder into the re-
cesses of mountain or castle, where
untold riches invite his grasp. Dazzled
by so much wealth. with which he fills
his pockets and hat, the favored NOR
tai leaves behind him the flower to
which he owes his fortune; and as he
leaves the enchanted ground the words
Forget not the best of all'' reproach
him for his ingratitude, and the sld-
denly closing door either desoends on
one of his heels and lanes him for life
or else imprisons him forever. Ii
Grimm is right this is the ori9ir, of the
word forget-me-not and not the last
words of the lover drowning in the
Danube, as he threw TO his lady love
the flower she craved of him. The tradi-
ton, however, that the luck flower, or
key flower was blue is consistent with
the fact that the primrose is the Schlus-
sel-blume (key-fower). However this
may be. there exists in Germany MANY
subterranean passages. under hillsdes,
dating from heathen times, and asso-
ciated with legends of former treas
ures there; and it certainly seems more
likely that the flower was simply
adapted to the legend as readily oc-
curing to the story makers mind,
than that it really signifies the light
ming which opens the clouds, that
primal wealth of the pastoral Aryans,
the rain that refreshes the thirsty
earth, and the sun that comes after the
tempest. -COrRhjU,
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He was u Hero.

A tall, road-shouidered man, with
the bearing of an athlete, walked
through the Michigan Central Depot
recently, timing his strong, energetic
strides to the slow, feeble steps of lit
tie old lady with white hair, who clung
to his arm. says the Free Press As
people jostled rudely by her he drew
her nearer to him, and AL the time he
kept telling her cheerful little lies
about the future, She was To come
and visit them again next summer.
That cough did not amount to any
thing, the doctor had told him so. She
mus be very careful of herself this
winter, and in the spring she would
come out as clipper as lark. And
he kept up the little fiction until she
was seated comfortably in the palace
car Ell route for the long journey to
California and, as he knew. for that
longer one which has no bounds.
Don't watch me out of sight,
George she said in a little querulous
voice; lit will be sure to bring bad
luck if YOU do So he left before the
train did, and as he turned away, after
throwing her a parting kiss, a tear that
did honor to his manhood fell from his
eyes for the mother whose face he would
never look upon again. And as he
went up the street he whistled There's
a land that is fairer than day so sweet
b that people passing turned and
looked at him. but they saw only an
ordinary traveller on the highway of
lie, and went on their way again,
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An Eye to Business.

Il have Just been up in Vermont, "
said treasury clerk recently. The
natives have lost none of their cuteness
The town where ! WAS stopping has
about 4, 500 inhabitants. One of the
selectmen runs d hardware store, and
two weeks ago his dog was bitten by a
neighbor's dog. 1t was Il small enough
matter, but see what happened. First
he had the neighbor's dog killed; then
he raised the cry that the dog had been
mad and had bitten other dogs. The
selectmen met and ordered that every
dog should me muzzled for forty days,
and the thrifty hardware man has sold
nearly 500 muzzles at 81 apiece. Staid
old family dogs travel around town
with leather thongs around their jaws,
which never closed on anything more
human than a beef bone. | saw one
big mastiff that had worked his muzzle
off and was carrying it around in his
month. y Washington Post,
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Thine Own.

You ask me to sing you the song Of my mind
The song with my daily thoughts ever entwln-
ed:
Then hold you an ear. so that no word you'll
miss:
The rhyme of my thoughts, love, hath run
into this:
The stars viii forever their far courses run;
The sweet light Of day is the gift OF the sun.
Til stars and till sun from their stations
have flown.
So long and so CONSTANT, love, call iue thine
own.
You bid me to sing you the song { ray heart
Stili deeper you d pry, where the fountain bath
start?
Well. once again, listen: the burde 1, wis,
OF heart is the same rs the minds love; It's
this:
The bird and his mate in the spring time viii
nest;
The autumn days come, and he quits her
soft breast:
o, not like the bird, with love soon out
grown.
But ever. forever love- call me thine own.
You viii me to sing You the song of my ife-
The one swelling strain in my being so rife
You need not bend down, lest the meaning
you miss,
The song of my life, full and clear, love, is
this:
In walking dreaming in pleasure, in tears,
Through time, through the span of eternity S
years
While ever my soul unto thy soul is known.
The song of my life, love, is-Call me thine
own.
New Orleans Picayune.
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A MARVELLOUS STORY.
Has the Great White Dragon Reappeared
Portending General Smash-Up.

A story which savors strongly of the
marvellous comes to us from the in
terror of Asiatic Turkey. Three
Mussulmen travellers were lately
journeying to point near Poulank.
On arriving 1t a spot called Ahlat, on
the Lake of Van, one of them ap-
preached the water ana began his
morning ablutions. As he was dipping
his feet for the last time he suddenly
uttered a scream and informed his
companions that he was being dragged
into the lake by some unseen marine
monster that was holding to his leg.
His friends rushed to his assistance,
and taking him by the hands and arms
succeeded in bringing him ashore, but
what was their surprise to see the mon
ster also emerge from the water firmly
attached to the mans leg by its teeth.
1t was horrid-looking creature, with
the legs and body of an alligator and
the head of an alligator and the rest
less, lidless eyes of a serpent. Be-
tween its fore and hind legs, on either
side, were large, ribbed, leathery-look-
ing wings. The tail was sealed but
not barbed like that in the picture of
the typical dragon. With the eEcep-
ton of the under part of the throat and
the tips of the wings. feet and tail, the
creature was a beautiful creamy white
and its skin soft us velvet. Knives,
sticks, stones, and everything else
which were brought to bear upon the
monster proved unavailing, and at last
the ingenious travellers bethought them
selves of heroic measure. They built
good fire and pulled the neck and
belly of the beast, bird, or fish across
it. taking good care not to burn the leg
of their comrade in the operation. After
awhile the scorching heat aroused the
animal from its torpor. 1t began to
move its body and stretch out its
leathery wings after the manner of
bat, and suddenly flew into the air,
still holding the man by the leg. After
arising to the height of about 200 feet
took ''header" downward toward the
lake. into which it plunged with
mighty splash, burying itself and victim
out of sight. The natives are greatly
excited, believing that the great white
dragon has reappeared and that the end
of the world is near at hand