The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-08-08

Oulaha,- was 10 it. So the newspaper
men in return for the politeness the
Bryan family has shown them have ex
erted themselves to be pleasant.
Mr.. Cleveland would be more popular
With the American people il he had
been able to form the newspaper habit
as young Mr.. Bryan has. But he hates
reporters and they hate him and the i'm
preston has spread all over the United
States that Mr.. Cleveland is disagree
able and there lie no enthusiasm for him
even among those who believe his ad-
ministratiOn has been good one.
Frank Stockton's book "The Adven-
lures Of Captain Horn" might be is
sued as a campaign document by the
gold party as well as by the gold and
silver party. Captain Horn. two wo-
men. a boy and a few sailors are ship
wrecked of the Peruvian coast. They
land near a rocky promontory which
after the vines have been burnt from
ii, shows a face cut in relief upon 1t.
The face is a mask TO a cave which
leads to a subterranean lake. The lake
has a machine in it which is worked by
a lever The lever when pulled down
opens a hole in the bottom Of the lake
and let's the water out. Captain
Horn goes in swimming and ac-
cifentally pulls the lever down.
The next day the bed is the
only part of the lake left. Cap
tain Horn explores the bed and finds
mound in the centre of it ten feet high
projections a foot-step apart lead up
to the top of the mound. He mounts
by these to the apex where he finds
slab sunk into the top. The slab is
about eighteen inches square and fitted
into the joint around it with resin. The
captain dug this out with his jack
knife and dug out another lot of resin
in the middle of the slab which covered
a ring He took hold OF the ring and.
by exer;ing all his strength, was able
to lift il and lay it to one side. He let
his lantern down into the cistern and
saw that it was filled with gold. The
siripwrecked party decided that the
treasure had been deposited in the
mound by the Incas when the Span
iards invaded the country under Cor
tez. After many attempts upon his
life Captain Horn, with the help of two
white men and four black ones. got
the treasure to Paris in a sailing vessel.
There the gold was weighed and he
received for it $500, 1000 He con-
sidered that s4O,OO0OOO or one-fifth of
the whole should be divided among
those who found the treasure, and at
the risk of their lives. transported it
to Paris The rest he was willing to
give to the Peruvian government al
though the owners of the gold had
hidden it there to keep it out of the
hands of the invaders and officially, he
had az much right to the whole of it
as the Peruvians.
Frank Stockton's stories are as real
istic as Jules Verne's fairy tales. This
one is related with such attention to
the difficulties of getting a treasure
amounting to $500. 100000 of gold away
from an uninhabited coast without at
tracing the attention of the govern
ment or of any body whom that amount
Of booty would develop into thief.
that the atmosphere of exploration and
discovery is never once disturbed by
a ray Of the light that never was on
sea or land. The stupendous value of
a ton of gold is given in the labor of
eight men for eight months-not in
earning, but in transporting 1t. The
story has the dash of Wyman. the de-
tail of Verne and the humOr of Stock