The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-12-30
The Deudiy Mo,sve Desert.

A party OF cattlemen out on the Mo-
fave desert recently came across the
trail Of two men and two burros. The
aimless, zigzag course of the trail
showed that those who had made it
were lost and the cattlemen at once
set out to find them. Here and there
along the path taken by the wanderers
holes of from three to five feet in depth
had been dug in the dry sands. Late
in the evening the cattlemen came
upon young man lying under mes
quite bush, beside hole dug six feet
in the sand, murmuring in delirium
and at the point of death. He had
been without water more than three
days and had lain down to dic. A mile
further on they overlook an old man,
who, delirious, was crawling on hands
and knees toward n pool of braclsish
water, beside which stood the two bur
ros. The burros, being released when he
gave up, had found their way to water,
and the old man had followed them in
last despairing burst of strength. The
two men were miners, who had lost
their way week before. Both men
recovered after few days of care at
the ranch, but nummiiicd corpses and
bleached bones often met with in the
desert tell OF many travellers whose
similar experiences have had no such
happy ending.
GLORY SURPRISING SOLOMON'S
London's Lord Mayor IL n Gorgeous Crsa-
ture While Arrayed Ills Robcs.
The fountain Of municipal honor In
E.V,f y1Or nd tho I al !,
undoubtedly springs from the Guild
hall, London, which justly claims to be
accounted the most ancient of our
municipal halls, seeing that the lord
mayors of the last eight centuries are
with justice assumed to have proto-
types in the Roman prefect and the
Saxon fortreye or portgrave. For Q
considerable number of years the robes
OF the lord mayor, the court Of alder
men and the common councillors have
been settled with precision that none,
save the most reckless of innovators
would presume to disturb. The lord
mayor himself has his "gold" robe for
the annual Guildhall banquet and TO,
the times when he proceeds in state
either to tho new law courts or te
men have their scarlet gowns, th,
sheriffs their distinctive and very
handsome robes and chains, while th'
common councillors rejoice in gown
called ''mazarines," it being general,
understood that mazarine is term 70
dark blue color, although, according
TO some photographers, mazarinc ais
means drinking vessel and an oil,
way of dressing fowls. Then. again
when the sovereign comes into the cit
the lord mayor is bound to don rob
OF crimson or purple velvet, trimmc
with ermine. At the time of his in
vestiture, he wears massive gol
choin, but when he Is honored by re
election at the expiration of his terri
of Office he wears two chains. TIL
mace of silver Silt. splmounted by
royal crown and the .rsperial arms, /
carried before the mayor by the nu
thority of the charter of Edward III.
while the city possesses 10 less thal
four swords, one called the Pearl,
presented by Queen less when sh
opened the first royal excl,nNge. an,
80 called from its being richlyfct witt
pearls. This sword precedes the chic
magistrate on all occasions of rejoic
ing and. fcstivity. The sword of stat
u carried before the lord mayor as al
emblem of his sovereignty within tn
city proper; the "blaclr" sword Is use,
on fast days In Lcnt and at the dealt
of any member of the royal family
while the fourth sword'is that place,
close to the lord mayors chair at th'
eAnfral criminel court