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CHAPTER1x

CHAPTER xxx.
On my arrival at New Iberia George met
me at the landing. He looked sick, tired
and discouraged There were fourteen per-
sons at the rendezvous. Obed and Mason
had picked these up in different places,
none. however. within a radius Of forty
miles Of us. Some of these had been Sc
GREETED four months. Fever had broken out
among them Mason had been down. Obed
not much better, and they had o nearly
starved. as there was no one except Obed
to go for food, and he was quite weak. 1t
was now well into August, the bayous were
low and the weather intensely hot
Charlie" said he, this is my last ven
ture. We must get these poor devils out
of this l feel as If l had lived all this
time with a rope around my neck. Lucy.
poor girl. is lonesome end anxious. / am
country too well. I will go north. marry
Lucy and await bettcr days Charlie, they
have got to come. Blood will undoubtedly
flow. but the end is near This was in
August 1859.
The next night we took our canoe and
padded up the bayou u short distance to
the mouth OF a little brook. dry at this
season. We had with us about 200 pounds
of provisions. consisting mostly Of ship
bread and dried meats. In addition. We
took few gallons of whisky and 100 lem
ons These Wesner and myself carried up
to the bed of the brook and securely hid.
ing safe. Wesner left me to fight mosquitoes
until daylight and l could see to travel. I
don't think l ever endured much misery
from these pests as l did that night. The
torture was awful and nearly drove me
frantic l built a smudgc. but tho smoke
from 1t only served to nerve them to f1ercer
attacks and moro daring assaults Their
stirgs were like needles, and their buzztng
was like the walls of The dying.
l welcomed the first crack of day. and
as soon 1 could tell a stick from q
snake, started up the brook, bottle of
quinine in my pocket and a jug of
whisky slung over my shoulder. The mud
in the bed of the brook was ankle deep,
and l had to leave that, and iew my way
through the thicket to the higher ground.
The place was literally alive with snakes
and every other species of vermin and in
sect life indigenous to n Louisiana swamp.
/ was too far from the bayou for alliga-
tors. but the frogs beloved all night and
assisted the mosquitoes in their internal
concert.
1t was about seven miles from where I
left the brook to our rendezvous. At noon
l arrived. tired. footsore, covered and
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Copyright. 1900. by $. s McClur" Coz
Five wears before tho outbreak Of The civil
war love Of adventure, hatred Of slavery
and the desire to help my friend. George
Wesn@r led me. Charles Bradley. tiSh
engineer Of AttaEapas country, La. I" p'-
come an agent Of the uI.iergr"und ra'F"dd-
Wesrrr ha,i been rUrscd through the small
poS by Il young slave. Lucy. belonging |"
the Coyerly plantation. He discovered
facts which proved that Lucy was white
and II good family. 4 secret love match
followed. which progressed well until Gov
erlv proposed to sell Lucy to his sor and
refused Ia sell her To- any one else. Wesher
became desperate. agreed to h"1p him
steal Lucy. and went to New York TO ar
range with the Anti-Slevery Socicty for
the care of any slaves we co,:li bring north
We arrange our end Of the underground
railway and establish refuge in my wood
yard several rrilrs MP tho river At home
we divert suspicion by carrying on a gem
eral rnerchands.. business Wesncr makes
The first venture ard starts with ten OF
Cnverlv's slaves Including Lucy. II" takes
them through successfully. delivers firIn I"
the agents in New York and places Lney IN
school In Andover. In the second venture
we encounter more adventures. but hnaliy
succecd in shipping seventy-three slaves
north by sea along with 3 car@" Of cotton.
The following spring collect another i"t
nj the rendezvous ard Wcsncr takes them
north to Cairo over the old route. Lucy Is
recognized hy s"uthern2r in Boston anu IS
BETRAYED Meantime. Pierce. friend or
wesner's hears Of the warrant for IHcy's
arrcSt and he starts out to warn h'r-
Tic-cn and Lucy are overtaken. and the
..+NfS lama
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eoes,o.o 700 o. sAev.A.,,naE

you Id Niger. you scoot out Of this, or
III make you think Jim Myers and 10 Pent-
lands shows are both on top at once
Here he let go at Alec half-pound plug
CT tobacco he had in his hand.
Alec scooted. taking the tobacco with
him.
Hes got the tobacco" 1 laughed out.
Never mind" said Reatham. The will
keep away. and be pretty good niger
while the tobacco lasts. But about these
niggers of Coverly's. Where do you sup
pose the id critters went?'
Il couldn't tell you. Mr.. Beatham." / re-
piled. II was there in the hunt. We found
no trace where they entered the swamp. as.
of course, they must. for there was no
other way for them to hide.
No. said Beatham, there wasn't:
that's plain
Il was there. also. when the others ran
off. and went with old Skew Bill and all
the boys. but with the same result. We
could not find trace of them. WeSner
and myself were on patrol for a week. but
saw no one Every road around that
neishhochuod was watched-resuts the
same. Nesner always suspected a Yankee
brig. that lay a. Franklin. However. l was
at New York when she reported. and, in
company with the Lacroix boys, boarded
her. There vas nothing but sugar and cot
ton on her-no niggers''
II am glad said BeathaIn lat last to-
see one man from that cursed French hole
who doesn't lay the loss to the Oboe man.
Where do you think they did go?
wv ell, | replied. cit seems plausible to
me that they We're stolen and run off to
Texas and sold there. You know the thing
has been done
Yes; Jack Davis, Florida chap knew,
used to steal niggers in Georgia and sell
them in Florida and did a good thing at It,
Spose he would ha' been at it now if one
niger he stole four times hadn't got foot
sore walking back and forth from Tallahas-
see to Miileigevile. so he just took what
Jack gave him his share. bought himself
and two other niggers, and then gave Jack
away. He told his old master he thought
Jack was dangerous fellow to have
around stealing folks niggers. People
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Insects That Get Drunk.
,om the PhiladelphIa Inqu!l

Yes humble bees, flies, butterflies and
beetles are habitual drunkards, If the
statements of certain DR.. Weir are to be
believed. He found that in some of the
southern states these insects alighted on
certain plants (Kosmos diversifolius and
Kosmos bipannatus), drink heartily from
the calixes of the blossoms. fall PROSTATE
to the ground, and after while rise into
the air and fly around like mad, just as
drunken men would do if they could fly.
Dr. Weir then collected the pollen of
these plants, half a teaspoonful, to see
whether 1t would affect man in the same
way. He swallowed this. and after fifteen
minutes found that his pulse beat faster
and there was a slight rise in the tenn
perature of his body. Then he gathered
the blossoms, distilled them In water, and
administered hypodermic injection in his
left arm Almost Immediately the pulse
was accelerated, and after a half hour he
felt decidedly dizzy. By this observation
of the insects Dr. Weir was led to the dis
coyery of an etherizing oil in these plants,
affecting man and insect alike.
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on the Louisiana side Of the Sabine. He
could make very 1berA arrangements with
the Boston pares. . they were much
pleased to get q little freight Honey to
help them out Therewere about ESQ tons
Of the timber. He cDuld make arrange
ments for any number Of lay days, at a
demurraSe Of only SIS per day. after the
first twenty days allowed to load. and he
suggested to Wemer to visit the place ana
see for himself what the chances were for
carrying the plan to a successful termina-
ton; Wesner telegraphed him that he
would go. Whileshe was absent made
visit to the rendesvouss taking in more pro-
visions. All the sick were recovering. and,
best OF all. with returning health. were
growing hopeful. This was a good omen.
The day after Wesner returned we
mounted our hosses and set out for the
Sabine to explofe a feasible route. The
great difficulty would be taking our people
discovered. A part ofteur journey must be
through the swamp and forest. and by
night. Southwest was the grand prairie;
this we would be obliged to cross. but as
was not one chance in hundred OF any
of the party being known. we did not con-
slider this very serious obstacle Some
time was consumed in finding a suitable
route for the first twenty-five miles. but
finally we succeeded in locating the road
to our satisfaction. We easily found the
ship timber. The trees along the river
banks had been cut down and quite
clearing made. This was to let in the sun
light that 1t might dry the timber. as oak
in Its green state will sink to the bottom.
In the woods and at the edge OF the clear
ing stood the camp occupied by the tim
Der cutters during the previous winter.
Here we passed the night.
There was a dimly defined path leading
from the camp away from the river. This
we supposed must lead to some plantation
or settlement. 1t was very narrow, as 1t
had not been travelled for months. We did
not explore it. About seven miles below
the clearing. and one-half mile from the
river bank we located our camp for the
negroes. 1t was a solitary hummock
about an acre in extent. surrounded by at
least a foot Of water and mud, in the midst
of the worst tangled swamp man ever
saw.
Torn from the moist. soft soil by the
winds sweeping from the Gulf Of Mexico
lay great oaks and tall cypress trees.
mingled in wild confusion. Out among
their rotting trunks the water moccasin
glided in disgusting security. the rank Sep
TENDER growth of the semi-tropical weeds
hiding his loathsome body. Picture this
place surrounded by an almost impen-
etrable canebrake, its bayous and brooks
the abode of the alligator and grenouille,
and 1t will give faint idea of camp
upon the Sabine. into whose gloomy re-
cesses no ray Of sunshine ever penetrated.
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Must Do 1t to Live.

From the Philadelphia Press.
"Borroughs has his faults, admit. but
he has the happy faculty of making new
friends wherever he goes"
''Of course. He has to. He owes money
to all the old ones
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ADVERTISED LETTERS.

Tho following IL list Of advertised letters re-
naming In the Washington ID. c. Post Office Sat
urday June IS, 1900.
To obtain any of these letters the applicant
should call for Advertised Letters"
II not called for within two ~ weeks they Will
be sent TO the Dead Letter Office
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1900-10-05
TWENTIETH CENTURY's DAWN
First People 70 Hail Its
Advent,

The first people to live in The twen-
tieth century will be the Friendly is
landers, for the date line, as it may be
called, lies in the Pacific ocean Just to
the east of their group. At that time, al
though it will be already Tuesday to
them, all the rest Of the world will be
enjoying some phase of Monday, this
last day of the nineteenth century (De-
cember 81, 190O). At Melbourne the
people will be going to bed, for it will
be nearly ten o'clock; at Manila it will
be two hours earlier in the evening; at
Calcutta the English residents will be
sitting at their Monday afternoon dim
ner, for it will be about six o'clock; and
In London Zig Ben" in the tower of the
house of commons will be striking this
hour of noon. In Boston, New York
and Washington half the people will be
eating breakfast on Monday morning,
while Chicago will be barely conscious
of the dawn. At the same moment San
Francisco will be in the deepest sleep
of what 10 popularity called. Saturday
night, though really the early, dark
hours Of Monday morning. and half the
Pacific will be wrapped in the darkness
OF the same morning hours, which be:
come earlier to the west, until at mid
way or Brooks island it will be but o
few minutes past midnight Of Sunday
Richie, Jr., in Ladies'
Home Journal.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1900-10-05
SAN FaANesseo. CAL

The Twice-a-week St. Louis
Republic and the FREE PRESS
sent to any address for $3.50 per
year.
Don't forget to register when
you come to town. The registrar
can be found at the Office OF DR..
McDermid every day in the week.
DeWitt's Little Early Risers are
prompt, palstable, pleasant,
powerful, purifying little pills.
DR.. Shesffer, City Drug Store.
Watch your watch, and If il
does not keep good time bring il
to us and we will put it in shape
to do it's duty.-Requa & Dunlap.
Bids will be received at the
Adams postoffice up to Oct. 9, 1900
for carrying the mail three times q
week between Concord and
Adams.
w. F. Schmadeka, proprietor Of
the Big Buffalo Cash Store, ia
making some substantial improve
ments about his residence
property.
L. r. Bright has ordered new
machinery for his planning mill and
will be in position to turn out al
kinds of mouldings for interior and
exterior finishing.
D. Robbins, of Sites, was a
pleasant caller at this Office last
week. He is erecting new hotel
at that place, which will be dedi-
Gated with a ball tomorrow
night.
The FREE PRESS would like to
have q correspondent in every
neighborhood in Idaho county.
If you know of an item of interest
send it in. 1t will help your
neighborhood and be appreciated
by us.
Hon. ]. w. Reid will address
the people Of Denver on Wednes-
day, Oct. 10 instead Of the 9th as
first announced. There will be
q basket supper and free dance
after the speaking. Everybody
invited.
The Goth Century Amusement
Co. played to q large and appreci
alive audience at the opera house
last Saturday night. The illus
trated songs and the complete
reproduction Of battle scenes were
the best ever seen in Grangeville.
The entertainment on the whole
was both interesting and instruct
i've and we'll deserving the liberal
patronage it received.
The several Odd Fellows lodges
in this city have elected the follow
ing delegates to attend their re-
spective grand lodges which IN eet
at Lewiston this month: Mt.
Idaho lodge No. 7; w. 81. Will.
Jams, Levi Magee, Joseph B.
Wade. Camas Prairie Encamp-
ment; John A. Hanson. w. e.
Graham. Mizpah Rebekah lodge;
Mrs. Fannie Hanson, Mrs. Jennie
Williams.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1900-10-05

The progressive nations of the
world are the great food consum-
ing nations. Good food we'll
dlgested gives strength. If Won
cannot digest all you eat, You need
kodol Dyspepsia Cure. It digests
what you eat. You need not diet
yourself. It contains all Of tho
digestants combined with the host
known tonics and reconstructives
1t will even digest all classes Of
foods in a bottle. No other nro.
paration will do this. Itinstaptlv
relieves and quickly cures al
stomach troubles.-Dr. Sheaffer ~
City Drug Store. e'
People wanting pure drugs mt
in. their prescriptions can ha pus
them at the Right Drug Store.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1900-10-05
A Hot Time at Stuart.
Stuart, Idaho, Oct. l, I

OUudFb, ludnO, OcC. i, lOOU.
EDITOR FREE PREss:-A demo-
cratic cyclone struck this COM
munity Saturday evening and as q
result there is not enough of the
republican party left in Stuart to
preach a funeral sermon over.
w. H. Casady, Avery G. Moore
and e. M. Griffith did it. Cas-
ady's name is on everybody's lips
this week.
Griffith gave deep, studied and
unanswerable review and expOsi-
ton Of the republican party's
record on the money question,
which was unanswerable; Moore is
brilliant and a yonng man who can
safely trust to his magnetism to
hold his audience for as long q
time as he wishes to talk, when
ever he returns to Stuart, but it is
Cassidy who was the revelation.
When he was introduced by
Chairman P. w. Mitchell the aud
fence remarked his striking
resemblance to Bryan, and long
before he had concluded they
realized that he could talk like
Bryan and was possessed of Bry-
ans deep convictions.
Mr.. Cassidy talked to u packed
house for nearly two hours and
held them by the power of his
magic eloquence. During that
time the republican party received
an arraignment such as few orators
could have administered. Because
of his visit the republicans of
Stuart are nearly all Bryan repub-
licans. 1t is impossible for your
correspondent to do justice to his re-
marks on finance, the trusts and i'm
perialism, but the state of Idaho and
especially Idaho county is to be
congratulated that Hon. w. H.
Casady is numbered among them.
Those who do not hear him during
the campaign will be unfortunate.
P. w. M.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1900-10-05
For Sale,


l offer for sale at bargain the
old Pioneer saw and planning mill
machinery, consisting Of the fol-
lowing:
One 52-inch Spaulding saw.
One 48-inch lock bit American
Co. saw.
One 36-inch solid saw.
Two 2O-inch solid edger saws,
with arbors and boxing, belts.
pulleys, canthooks, crowbars, ropes,
truck, chains, sled, carriage and
head blocks and track iron COM
plete and in good condition. One
Frank & Co. "a inch planer, with
bits complete for making rustic,
flooring, ship lap, beaded ceiling,
moulding, etc. all in first class
condition and ready for work.
Also the following blacksmith
tools: One bellows, anvil, vice.
drill, dies, hammer, sledge etc
For particulars call at mill or
address G. F. Brown,
Box 81, Grangeville, Idaho.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1900-10-05
Are You a Candidate

For q new fall and winter suit O,
q new overcoat. II 80 we want
you to drop in here and let's see il
we can't fix things up before
election. The Royal Tailors, oil
Chicago, have sent US most in.
viting array Of English, Scotch,
French, German and Domestic
suitings and overcoatings, and, as
Royal Tailoring is built to satisf v
each individual order made up to
fit each individual customer-at
prices positively lower than equal
service can be bought for else
where-it's easy to understand
why we are making q stir in the
merchant tailoring universe. Call
and see us. Needn't buy If you
don't want to, but we want you to
at least know just how we'll we
can serve you, and at what prices.
LONDON's.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1900-10-05

or wholly silicified. The growth
rings prove they were mostly
derived from trees of considerable
size. All the pieces have been
smOOthed ut the sides and we'll
rounded at the ends and angles.
The facts prove that here was
once river Of water flowing
through stagnant glacier that
had become covered with q forest
growth like many Of the Alaskan
glaciers today. No matter wheth-
er the glacial river flowed in q
sub-glacial or en-glacial, or in a
superficial channel during the
time Of rapid flow Of ice, it must
have flowed in an open ice canon
during the period of stagnation.
Into this canon trees that were
growing on the glacier fell as they
were undermined by the melting
OF the ice walls of the channel.
Probably the motion of the ice
helped to break up the trees,
assisted by ice and timber dams
or gorges.
The occurance of wood in the
esker gravels Of Idaho suggests a
comparison of that region with
New England.
In New England there were
many level regions, especially in
Maine to the north Of east and
west ranges Of hill, where the ice
would naturally become stagnant
during the final melting and
retreat of the great ice sheet.
The Idaho facts suggest that if
vegetation crowded close on the
front of the New England ice sheet
the stagnant ice ought there to
become forested as in Idaho. In
this case we ought to End pieces
of wood in the broad osar plains of
Maine and in such portions of the
valley drift as were glacial over
wash. No wood or other land
organic remains have yet been
found in these deposits in Maine,
though Emerson has found in the
Connecticut valley vegetable re-
mains in sediments of glacial age.
The absence of wood from the
eskers and valley drift Of all of
northern and northeastern New
England can fairly be urged as
proving that forests did not press
closely on the front of the retreat
ing ice sheet in that region. This
is supported by another consider
alton. viz, that at the time of
maximum glaciation the ice con-
fronted the sea along the whole
New England coast. When the
ice retreated, vegetation would
have to advance long way east
ward as we'll as northward in order
to reach Maine from New Jersey,
the nearest land then covered BY
vegetataion.
The large valley ice sheets or
Piedmont glaciers of north central
Idaho formed type intermediate
in character between the strictly
local glaciers found farther south,
and the great continent ice sheet
of British Columbia.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1900-10-05
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

A great building to house all the 90
cieties composing the Scientific alb
ance Of New York IL proposed.
The two great material conquests
which marle4he nineteenth century are
the building Of the Pacific railroads and
the digging Of the Suez canal.
A medical paper directs attention to
the curious fact that scarlet fever has
never been observed in epidemic form
in the tropical or subtropical regions Of
Asia or Africa.
In GAINESVILLE, Wis, 10 . pearl button
factory which turns out thousands Of
the finest quality Of buttons. Tons Of
Mississippi clam shells are used in pro-
ducing the buttons.
1t appears from British consular ~.
ports that Morocco offers a consider
able field for the engineer. There are
at present no roads, railways, tele-
graphs, canals nor hsrborA
India has perhaps greater variety of
plants than any other country in the
world, having $4,000 native species,
while the fora Of the entire continent
Of Europe only embraces about 10000.
American bottles are preferred to all
others for the export trade, and espe-
cially in warm climates where Ameri-
can and English goods come into close
competition. American glass is said
to stand tropical climates better than
the English, the reason being that II II
better annealed.
The South Remington museum II
constantly adding to the collection Of
scientific instruments and models Of
old-fashioned machines. We learn from
Industries and Iron that they have now
made large number Of additions of
modern machinery and tools, such as a
coal gas purifying house, a 'Belleville
boiler, launch engine, water-tube
boilers using liquid fuel, transform
er. steam turbine, etc. Many Of the ma
chine models are shown in motion.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1900-10-05

Order TO Show Cause ON Sale Of Real A'
State Of Idaho,
County OF Idaho{ "
In the Probate Court OF said County h..r A.
In the matter Of the estate OF T. ". o's'
ceased. I'm.
Geo. u Robertson, the administrator l a II Il
estate Of 4. W. Grey, deceased, having n IN q
petition herein praying for an order 2, ,ss ~
certain real estate OF said deceden io.a W.
pose herein set forth. II is therefore iuif
tne Judge OF said court, that all peno ossssr h
ested In the estate of SAID deeeased NAV b]
lore the said Probate Court on Mo ls n III
10Th day OF October, 1860, at 10 oclN nam u
forenoon Of said day, ~ TIE cout,' NJ Idils
SAID Probate Court, 1T tae Town o. OH ~ xhy n
IN said County oil Idah'. to show cau IN adnit
order should not be prnu'ed to the ss .s,s :. X
istrator to sell SO niue ri the real ~ tbtt
said deceased, as shall he necessary , n"a II
copy Of this order be published a. rs ~
successive weeks IN the IDAHO CoumShlli,aal
rkEss, newspaper printed ana vTcRN
said County, JosRrH \. w, VIZ uap
Dated Sept Is, lytO. Prooae