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to which Hendricks had directed his
whole energy was the provisioning of
the retreat and the securing of q safe
and hidden exit far removed from the
sanitarium- In carrying out the first of
these precautions, he had managed,
with consummate care, during a period
of eight months, to load into the south
western entrance a vast store of ma
terial, purchased at Cincinnati, Louis
vile, st. Louis and Memphis, and de-
Evered by boat at the Wash bayou,
where there was a storehouse and
whence the goods were hauled for the
apparent use of the two surface hotels.
Other and smaller streams of supplies
were reaching the sanitarium overland
continuously. 1t is calculated that dur
ing the eight months over eleven hun
dred thousand dollars were spent for
supplies. In the lists of purchases ap-
peared two items of unusual import
lone thousand magazine rifles
eighteen thousand dollars" They
were contracted for in the east by q
western dealer ostensibly to be sold on
the plains and were bought in three
lots. But they reached the Wash
bayou without attracting attention,
for they were shipped in pieces at In
tervals and put together in the Laran
works. The other item was-''five
hundred polished nickel steel plates"
made to order by the Corinth Steel
company and consigned to Bradshaw
& Fenning, Memphis, Tenn" These
plates figured in the mysterious Laport
gun which afterwards caused such
CONSERVATION.
Hendricks, during these eight
months, had evidently calculated to
offset the increased probabilities Of
exposure in making such vast pur-
chases by the increased security af-
forded when he got his material into
his fortress-and this alone would
show that he had other and vaster
schemes in allegiance, and that, after
all, the fitting out of the Laran cave
was only provisional step to some
thing else.
Our imaginary visit, therefore, at
this time discloses at Laran an entirely
different condition of affairs. The
sanitarium looks like a rural hotel.
There are several persons on the broad
balcony, but they exhibit only the in
dolence of country boarders. The
warm sun lies peacefully on the lawns,
but there is q simmer in the air above
the big chimney which tells of great
volume of heat pouring into the blue
sky. There are servants about the
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kitchen and there are two Royal Dane
mastiffs with their heads on their
paws asleep on the steps of the main
entrance.
There is not the slightest indication
in this quiet hostelry hidden among the
trees and rocks of the great slope on
which it stands of the activity under
meath its foundations.
The moment we arrive in the lower
domain, we find the place lighted as il
with the light of day; the hum Of ma
chinery and the murmur of voices reach
US. The whole area is encircled with
wooden structures, offices, warerooms
and habitations, some of them lastly,
though flimsily, built. In the center
of the area is pavilion and overhead
is q big electric sunlight. On one OF
the walls is the terminus of Laport's
railway, with its suggestion of little
station and iron steps reaching down
to the stone flooring and a heavy crane
for landing tools. The coal measure
passage has been dug out evidently by
using the coal. But it is when we
come to the rotunda that we shall be
astonished. This magnificent natural
temple is brilliantly lit and a regiment
of men is being drilled on its cleared
and almost smooth stone flooring. The
DEVILS Outlet is fenced in by en- iron
raii-for one morning Miss Endicott
was caught walking on its brink and
looking over with horror pictured on
her face. She was rescued and Hen
bricks ordered the place rallied in.
From the implanted railway station
which here is twenty-eight feet above
men are watching the evolutions of
the regiment which are in some re-
spects wholly unlike anything ever
before seen in military tactics.
The vast spaces beyond the rotunda
and quite up to the lake itself are
packed high with stores. 1t looks like
a series of endless warerooms or mon
strous depots and smells heavily like
one of those streets where all the COM
modities of man obtrude themselves
upon the sidewalks and impede travel.
If we penetrate to the hog back area
we shall find that in its passages are
stables and that there are not only
horses but mich cows there and that
Chc RIedL CudSIu III Cu6 South wall has
been converted into a magazine and
has heavy wooden doors across its en-
trance. The mouth of this chasm, it
will be noticed, owing to turn in the
wall, faces directly north. The benches
of the Laport railway are only two
feet above the tops of the wooden
doors.
Vague rumors were in the air about
the Tennessee sanitarium. The secret
service of the government was in pos
session of the facts which set them
searching for the man known as the
captain and they had traced him to the
Mississippi. Vast quantities of gold
had been paid out for goods sent to
Laran. One fact ELECTED another. But
inquiries failsd to identify Hendricks
with the description given of Kent as
he appeared on the San Pedro and the
Memphis bank said that he had gold
on deposit there prior to the robbery
of the Corinthian. The moment this
sort of inquiry got into the papers,
facts were elected that could lead to
but one conclusion in the end and
events began to point significantly
toward Laran-
iso ~ coxzxuxD.3
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drinking rum. That parsonage greeted
him with sailors cordiality and
swore that it did his blasted mole's
eyes good to see salt water man I'M
derground.
The captain evidently knew him, for
he called him Jack Endicott, as tough
and tight a forecastle man as ever ran
q blockade or drank a pint of rum be-
tween watches.
Whatever else Endicott may have
been he was not proof against the
temptation of good liquor and an ire
sponsible life and he never before en-
countered liquor quite SO good as the
captains, whose well-stoched buffet in
his cabin made a seaman's eyes gloat.
Whether it was part of Hendricks
scheme to dtsarm Endicott in this way,
is not positively known. But he had
told Fenning before that gentleman
left Laran that he could safely leave
the man with him.
II want" he said, Ito know how he
read that telegram"
Four days passed and Endicott had
only seen Hendricks among the men at
work upon the furnace and electrical
thing was all right-he could have all
the money he wanted, but he wished
him to stay longer. Damn it-you're
the only man with the smell of salt on
you that I've seen since I've been in
this subcellar." Then they repaired to
the cabin, filed themselves with rum
and went to sleep spinning yarns.
At the end of a week Endicott in a
sober and sullen mood had an inter-
view with Hendricks and demanded a
settlement. Hendricks treated him
with the utmost politeness and said
shat while he was perfectly willing to
pay him to secure his silence, it was
necessary to think of some way in
which the specie could be transferred
without exciting suspicion.
"You see, my dear SIR" he said, ''I'm
only consulting our mutual safety, I
wish you'd talk to the captain about
it. I'll do whatever he advises. o, by
the way, I got a dispatch from Fenning
this morning in which he says the
police are looking for you. If that is
the case, 1 wouldn't be in hurry to
leave this retreat"
Endicott did not dispute the cor
rectness of this statement, as Hon
bricks expected. Nor did any sub
sequent experiment of this kind fur
nish any clew to his former knowledge
of the telegram.
He went back to the captain-they
filed up on rum and both of them set
out to see the lake which was to be lit
for the first time and upon which the
captain boosted that he was going to
have good clinker-built boat SO that
he could keep his shoulder-blades linn
Der.
It is not known whether they quar-
relied on the way or not. But when in
the rotunda the captain wanted to
point out to him the chasm-one of
those bottomless pits which appear to
be feature of all great caverns, and
which the captain called the Devils
Gullet"-they were seen together in
tipsy discussion about twenty feet
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CURIOUS FACTS.

pounds of highest-purity copper end
500 pounds of gutta percha insulation
to the mile.
WHITE clothing is cool because it re-
fleets the heat of the sun; black cloth
ing is warm because it absorbs both
heat and light
A cArERPILLAR in the course of a
month will devour six thousand times
it's own weight in food. 1t will take a
man three months before he eats an
amount Of food equal TO his OVID
weight
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II An JACK END1COTTS DAUGHTER
from its rim by two of the worl,men,
and ten minutes later the captain was
seen alone.
Endicott was never seen again on
eorth. Whether he was pushed over or
staggered over, Hendricks declared he
never knew. But marked change
came over the captain after this. He
drank more than ever. pnd slept most
of his time away in an alcoholic stu
por. never coming into the daylight.
which he said blinded him.
A week after the catastrophe, about
seven o'clock in the evening, as hIr.
and Mrs. Hendricks, with two or three
other persons, were sitting on the
western balcony of the sanitarium, the
figure of woman suddenly appeared
against the dark masses of shrubbery
about forty feet from the house. She
seemed to have taken form at that
spot. Nobody saw her previous APP
proach, and her slender and graceful
figure was clad in some kind of light
material which caught all there was OF
the departing light and made her look
exceedingly phantom-li'e. All the
persons in the balcony sew her ot the
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CoPTRIsHT. 1894 !
CHAPTER K.


! The visit Of Fenning and his mys-
FERROUS companion to Laran resulted
in a way that neither he nor the visi-
tor could have predicted. Hendricks
met him in the most gentlemanly man
ner, told him to make himself at home
in the hotel (for that was what the
sanitarium was frequently calIed);
gave him to understand that he would
have talk with him and fix the mat
ter up satisfactorily when he found a
good opportunity. He even sent him
down into the workshops, and treated
him SO Hospitality that the man was
outwitted at the start.
He had not been in the cave half an
hour when he encountered the captain,
who very seldom left it, but occupied
all his time in playing cribbage and
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CHAPTER XII.

The reader must go to Laran at the
beginning Of the last half of the
second year of preparation and en-
deavor, not only to get a clear view of
what had been done, but prepared to
view with establishment the still more
audacious projects of this man.
Laran was now q hidden hive OF
energy. The great sanltarium which
lifted it's rude but imposing proper
tions out of the wilderness and poured
an almost continuous stream of black
smoke from its chimney stack, held q
varying population, some of whom
were woman, and all of whom were
Hendricks agents. Sixteen miles
away was another large house, reached
on the surface by an almost impassa-
BILE and tortuous road of rocks, but
accessible to all the inmates of the
sanitarium in less than half an hour
by underground means and connected
by telephone and telegraph of the lat
est and incest adjustment along the
same subterranean passages.
The shaft from the sanitarium to the
labyrinth beneath had been perfected
by the most consummate mechanical
skill of Laport, and it was hidden from
casual observation by the most cum
ming adjustment of materials. That
end of the house which covered the de-
scent had cost Hendricks and Laport
more thought and ingenuity than all
else. The shaft had been enlarged
and fitted with an iron lift down to the
narrow passage that led from it to the
arena. The circular steel cage which
fitted into the shaft could be turned
round from below, SO that its iron
door that furnished an exit into the
passage would be on the opposite side
against q solid wall of rock and the
passengers, if enemies, would have to
cut their way through half inch Of
steel to get into the passage and, when
there, would have to walk through in
single file at the mercy of anybody at
the lower exit, who could pick them
off in detail without any danger to
himself. The exit above was covered
with the hard floor of room whose
mobility was unbelievable by anybody
who was not already aware of the de-
vice. In addition to this, a steel door
had been fitted to the end of the pas
sage below where it opened into the
vast worlS-room, because Hendricks
thought at times he heard in the room
above the sound of the engine and
dynamo.
A sense Of absolute security was
thus obtained when the inmates OF the
sanitarium went below. It was
physically impossible for force of any
calculable kind to reach them in that
direction
The next and obvious consideration
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Home Again I

After brief absence the cheerful visitor,
dyspepsia, returns again. Our traditional
mother in-law is nothing to it. To prevent
repeated visits use Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters. Also seek the aid of this comprehcn-
sive remedy for malaria, liver and kidney
trouble debility and nervousness. Question
those who have been troubled with these
and kindred ailments. They will testify Ia
behalf of the Bitters.
DEACON PARKER-''Did you smell onionsr
Col. Korn-'.Not till you spoke. "-Lifs.
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"DoN'T you," said the summer boarder,
;'sometimes envy the city people who come
Mot replied Farmer Corntossel, II
dunno's do. I swing the scythe tell g1e
right tired an 'magin it'll orn tennis, an set
out on the front po rch ter get bit by the
mersquiters of evepin's, an manage yer
have bout ez good a time ez the rest OK
,em.O-Washington Star.
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A SUBSIDIZED fRESS.
One of Their Number Says That City Ed
tors Are Intellectual Prostitutes.

One of Their Number Says That City Edi-
tors Are Intellectual Prostitutes.
AT banquet OF The New York press,
an editor NWhitelaw Reid of one of the
great dailies responded to the toast,
1.-The Independent Press" as follows:
''There is no such thing in America
as an independent press, unless it is
out in the country towns. You are all
slaves. You know it and l know it.
There is not one of you who dares ex-
press an honest opinion. If you eX-
press it, you know beforehand that it
would never appear in print. am paid
$50 for keeping honest opinions out of
the paper l am connected with. Others
of you are paid similar salaries for do
ing similar things. If 1 should allow
honest opinions to be printed in one
issue of my paper. like Othello, before
twenty-four hours my Occupation
would be gone. The man
who would be so foolish as
to write honest opinions would be out
on the streets hunting for another job.
The business of the New York journal
list is to distort the truth, to lie out
right, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at
the feet of MammOn and to sell his
country and his race for his daily
bread, or for what is about the same
thing, his salary. You know this and
know it; and what foolery to be
toasting an independent press" W.
are the tools and the vassals of rich
men behind the scenes. We are jump
ing jacks. They pull the string and
we dance. Our time, our talents. our
lives, our possibilities. are all the prop
erty of other men. Weare intellectual
prostitutes
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No Material to Work Upon.

Hicks-You must have entertainers
of course, but what?
Mrs Hicks-Why not have a mind
reader?
HiclSs-What! At a five o'clock tea?-
Town Topics.
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There is no more reason for man
being democrat orrepublican because
his father was or is. than there is in
following single shovel pillow when
he can have cultivator. Keep up
with the procession: new ideas are forg-
ing to the front.-Missouri World.
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Both old parties have been tried
and the people have the case in their
hands. Let the verdict be rendered in
November in accordance with the evil
dence, and without prejudice.-Mis-
souri World
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81 PRESUME you funny men Gin - deal
with questions Of the hour, do you notf'
sOh, yes. calculate that there have been
written no less than five Thousand jokes
about the roung man who does not know
when it is time faF him 10 60 home. I'm
iianapOlis Journal,
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Halls Catarrh Cure
Is q Constitutional Cure. Price 75c.

WIFE-'That Few girl sleeps like log
and never can get her up in the morning"
Husband (strucll by q bright idea)-"L1
the baby sleep with her."-Good News.
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GLESN's Sulphur Soap is genuine rem.
edy for Skin Diseases.
Hills Hair and Whisller Dye, SO cents.
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The True laxative Principle

OF the plants used in manufacturing tho
pleasant remedy. Syrup of Figs, has per-
Inapently beneficial effect on the human sys-
tenn, while the cheap vegetable extracts and
mineral solutions. usually sold as medicines.
are permanently injurious. Being well m
formed, you viii use the true remedy only.
Manufactured by California Fig Syrup Co.
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WHEN man plays cards for stake he
sometimes gets q roast.-Philadelphia REQ
0rl
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attacks Of Colds, Fevers, and Inaamma-
lions, with them. They'll give you a per-
manent cure for Indigestion, Constipation,
Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, and Dizzi-
ness. They're the smallest, the Pleasantest
to take, and the most thoroughly natural
remo1v
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and madness, instantly pronounced it
a case of trance and was delighted be-
yond measure. Here the case was left
in his hands as other and more urgent
events were demanding Hendricks at
tention.
But the doctor made q discovery
which proved of great Importance sub
sequently. One morning he found the
woman who was in a trance condition
clasping something in her hand It
proved to be a small packet with
human hair in it. Two more of these
packets containing hair of other colors
were afterwards found in her bed by
Mrs. Hendricks.
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CHER religion is very much like her dress;
sho can put it on or OFF, j,ss as she plcases.
Eyes, and like her ball dress. at that there
isn't very mitch CT it."-Lifc'S Calendar,
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YOU ought to be warned against the mall
treatment of Catarrh in the Head, with poi
sonous, irritating n0struns. They can't
cure it. They simply remote it-drive it
to the throat and lungs. For q thorough
and complete cure Of Catarrh, take IN.
Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
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There is not an iota of difference
between the two old parties, as now
engineered on the silver question.
Neither of them, though both pretend
ing in the west and south to be friend
ly to free coinage. will say so plainly
Instead, so-called silver plank in
republican or democratic platform is
spread all over forty-acre field.
When a party is friend to certain
thing it is found to be an easy matter
to say SO. The legislation of the last
twenty years gives the lie to the pro-
LESSONS of these parties and proves
that their platforms are drawn solely
to delude the voters.-Independen
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"A great many people say they are
in favor of government ownership and
control of all natural monopolies, who
include railways, telephones, water
works and gas works in their lists of
natural monopolies'' but leave out
the greatest monopoly of all-the land.
Land is as essential to human exist
ence as air or water. When a few men
own it they are able to dictate the
terms on which other men shall be per-
mitted to live. Already only one fam
lily in four in this country owns
home free of incumbrance. The rest
are here by sufferance, and at the
mercy of landlords and creditors. Re-
forms to be effective must go tc he
root of the trou ble.-Star and Kansan.
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CHILLLNESS,

CHILLLNESS,
when other people feel tverm
enough, is o sign of bilious
ness, or of malarial poisons
so is q furred or coated
tongue, loss Of appetite,
headaches or giddiness, and
O dull, drowsy, debilitated
feeling. It's your liver that's
at fault. You want to slim
ulate it and invigorate 1t
with DR.. Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets. With every trouble
of the kind, these tiny little
things act like a miracle
The herald., 1894-03-14
oswEeo, N. Y. March 7. 1894.
HAD BOTH LEGS CUT OFF.

A. p. Connolly Severely Ipjured by an
Engine.
Shortly after IL O'Clock last night O
man was knocked down and run over by
the switch engine in the San Fernando
street yards of the Southern Pacific rail-
road, both OF his legs being cut of just
below the knees.
The yard men stated that he was con-
siderably under the influence of liq uor
and had been driven away several times.
lie was standing on the track between
the Capital mills and the freight depot
when struck by the engine and run over.
Several OF his teeth were knocked out
and he sustained q severe abrasion over
the left eye.
The patrol wagon was summoned, and
he was taken to the receiving hospital,
where Police Surgeon Bryant and DR..
Laeher attended him. His feet. which
were hanging by few tendons, were
removed and the wounds dressed.
In the mans pocket were found sev-
eral letters addressed to A. P. Connolly,
all being from Griffith johnson, the
attorney, and were from the Kelley in
stitute at Riverside. 1t is presumed that
Connolly is the injured mans name but
it 10 not found in the directory.
At last accounts Connolly was resting
easily, and if he has sufficiently rallied
from the shock, will be operated upon
today.
The herald., 1894-03-14
roN sALn-olrY PnorrnrY.
r,oR sATrcTrv Nm corNrRy.

T,oR sALE-CTTY AND COUNTRY.
II Lot in Urmston tract, on Clinton avenue,
near Adams St 1870.
Lot on Thirty-irst st., near Hoover, 50x15O,
$500.
Lot on Monmouth st. near Adams, 6ox125
$1,000.
Lot on Grand ave, near second ST., 52xl45,
$1,000.
A choice corner in the Bonnie Brae 1oOx
Lot on Adams ST., bet. Hoover and Figueroa,
50x15O, for $3250; best buy on Adams ST.
Lot on west side of Broadway, near seventh,
with good cottage, 1928 per front foot, 6lxi5O
TO alley. Snap this up.
New s-room house on Flower st., near Sew
enth, bargain at $4500; terms $1,000 cash,
balance q per cent
Fine alfalfa ranch of 100 acres near Chino,
at 500 per acre.
An elegant navel orange grove at Covina; 20
acres; 2lO0 bearing trees years old full
water right; best of SOIL lies level; choice
neighborhood, etc. Price today $16, 600, part
cash; $4,000 is now offered for crop on the
hog ranch OF $50 acres adjoining the
two-thousand-acre tract lately purchased
by Andrew McNally of Chicago. II is
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tulies upon which hogs feed. live stream of
water flows through the property, which Is
crossed by both the S. p. and Santa Fe rail-
ways, the station "Northam" being upon this
land situate about 20 miles from Los Angeles
near Buena Park, now subdivided in 1O-acre
lots, making splendid chance for investors.
If you know good thing when you see it,
take this as whole for $55 per acre. WIN sell
half at $40 per acre.
We have houses for rent and money to loan.
List your property with us for sale or rent
The demand is good.
Tourists with an eye TO investments are re-
quested 10 make our office headquarters.
THE SILENT & BELTS CO.,
3-14 st N. E. Cor. Second ST. & Broadway.