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CiTEHIA ANN I'AlUk£li. k Tragic episode of Early Life In Texas. »Y GSM. GFCORGE 1\ ALFOBL*. Tn 7S33 a email colony was formed in Illinois, moved to the then Mexican province of Texas, and settled in n bean iifal and fertile region on the Navasota jBiver, about two miles from the present Jity of Groesbeck, the county seat of liimestone Countv. The colonv consisted Of nine families,* of whioh £ilJer John Jarkei- was the patriarchal head his .®«ed wife their son James W. Parker, bis wife and four Bingle childien their mr.riie I daughter Rachel and her hus band, J. H. 8. Plummer. and infant son fifteen months old another married 4auehter. Sarah, and her husband, L. D. flder ixou Silas M. Parker (another son of John), his wife and four children Ben B. Parker (another son of Elder jfohn!, unmarried Mrn. Nixon, Sr., Jiiother of Mrs. John "W. Parker Mrs. Elizabeth Kellogg, another daughter of Mrs. Nixon, Sr. Mrs. Duty Sam M. ."Yrost, his wife and two children Geo. wight, his wife and two children in fell thirty-four persons. They erected a block-house, which was .'Jtnown as Fort Parker, for protection •gainst the assault of hostile Indians, {this structure was made of solid logs, closely knit together and hewed down BO •s to make a compact, perfect sqnare, Without opening3 of any kind until it teached a height of ten or twelve feet, "When the structure widened on each side, forming a projection impassible to climb. The lower story, reached only by an in terior ladder, was used as a place of Storage for provisions. The upper story War divided into two large rooms, with portholes for the use of guns, which toorns were used as living rooms, aud reached only by a ladder from the out •iae, which was pulled up at night, after the occupants had ascended, making a iafe fortification against a reasonable force, unless asfailel by fire. These kardy sons of toil tillel their adjacent fields by day, always taking their arms With them," and retired to the fort at flight. Sue cess crowned their labors, and they were rosperons and lumpy. On the morning of May* IS, 1836, the men, unconscious of impending danger, feft as usual for their fields, a le dis. tnnt. Scarcely had they left the in •losure when the fort W(\s attacked by About seven hundred Comanches and Kiowas, who were waiting in ambush. A gallant and most resolute defense was Eulletsmany iade, savages being sent by swift to their "happy hunting ground." but it was impossible to stem the terrible assault, and .Fort Parker fell. Then be- fan the carnival of de.ith. Elder John arker, Silas M. Parker, Ben F. Parker, flam M. Frost and Robert Frost were killed and scalped in the presence of their horror-stricken families. Mrs. John Parker, Granny Parker and Mrs. Duty *ere dangerously wounded and left for dead, and the following were carried into a captivity worse than death: Mra. Sachel .Plummer, Jas. Pratt Plummer, ker two year old son Mra. Elizabeth Kel togg. Cynthia Ann Parker, nine years 2othand Id, her little brother John, aged six children of Silas SI. Parker. The remainder of the colony made their escape, and after incredible suffering, being forced even to the dire necessity of •ating skunks to save (heir live*, they feached Fort Houston, now the residence Of Judge John H. Iteagan, United States Senator, about three mile? from the present city of Palestine, in Anderson County, where they obtained prompt •iuccor, and a relief party buried their dead. We will now attempt briefly, to follow the fortunes of the poor captives. The fir night after the mag-uicre the savages camped on an open prairie, near a water bole, staked their horaes, pitched their Oamp and threw out their videttea. Then f&ey brought out their prisoners xnd •tripped them and tied tbeir hands be kind them, and their feet closely together With rawhide thongs, so tightly as to cut the flesh, threw them upon their faces Mad the braveB gathering around with the Tet bloody dripping scalps of their mar tyred kindred, began the usual war dance, alternately dancing, screaming, •elling. stamping upon their helpleBS vic tims, beating their naked bodies with bows and arrows until the flowing blood almost strangled them. These orgie-s edntinued at intervals througa the ter rible night, which seemed to hava no •lid, frail women suffering and i om- Ettlethese ailed to listen to the cry of their tender children. Mrs. Kellogg, more fortunate th9n the jithers, soon fell into the hands of the Xeochi Indians, who, six months later •old her to the Delawnres, who carried her to Nacogdoches, where this writer then lived, a small child with his par ents. Here she was ransomed for $ 150 by General Sam Houston, who promptly ••stored her to her kindred. Mr. Rachel Plummer lemained a captive for eighteen months, buffeting untold ftgonietj and indignities, when she was (•nsomed by a Santa Fe trader named William Donahue, who soon after es corted her to Independence, Mo., from whence she finally made her way back to Texas, arriving Feb. 19, ISSS. Her son, James Pratt Plumner, after remaining a Srisoner six years, was nsomed at Fort ibBon, and reached his home in Tex .s fci February, 18415, then aged ear3. During Mrs. Plummer's captivity she -f^ain became a mother. When her child *Was months old, finding it in impedi ment to the menial labors imposed upon her as a slave, a Comanche warrior forci bly took it from her arras, tied a lariat around its body, and, mount ng his hor»e, Uragged the inf nt nt full speed around the camp in sight of the agonized mother Btitil lire was extinct, when its niaDgled ttmains were tossed back ito her lap 'With savage duinoiistratiOLB of delight. Such atrocities have forced me to the belief that uall good Indians are dead In diana. This leaves of the sorrowing captives tttly Cynthia Ann Parker and her little 'brother John, 6 years of a^e, each held by separate bantls. John grew up to •thletic young manhood, married a beau tiful night-eyed young Mexican captive, Donna Juanita Espinosa, ©heaped from the aaVages, or was released by them, Joined the Confederate nrmy under Gen. B. P. Bee, became noted for his gallantry and daring, and at latest accounts was leading a happy, contented pastoral life Its a ranchero on the Western Llano Es ttcado of Texas. CYNTHIA. ANN PARKER. Four long and anxiou3 vonrs have f.ssedfrom since Cynthia Ann barker was ken her weeping mother's arms, iring which no tidings had been re ceived from her anxious familr, when, in 16 •10, Col.. Len Williams, an oid aud hon ored Texan, Mr. Stout, a trader, and Jack rry, a Delaware Indian guide, packed ttkuleH with goods and eugtged in »u ex pedition of private traffic with the In dians. On the Canadian River they fell in with Pahauka's band of Comanches, Kith whom they were peaceably con versant. Cynthia Ann Parker was with thi6 tribe, and from the day of her i&pttnd bad never beheld a white person. Colo Bel Williams proposed to redeem her from the old 'Comanche who held her in bondage, but the fierceness of his ODuntenance warned him of the danger Of further mentioning the subject. He, however, permitted her, reluctantly, to •It the root of a tree, and while tbeir Slieatpoorwas reBence doubtless a happy event to stricken captive, who in he? doleful captivjty had endured everything but death, she refused to speak one word. AB she sat there, musing perhaps of distant relatives and friends, her be reavement at the beginning and progress Of her distress, they employed every persuasive art to evoke from her some ftyrpBflioq oiJwi &•&}£«. Xkey tola SSSte'l her of liei- relaHras and her •ud at»k*d wb moMasje of love «he would send them, but PIG hud been com manded to lenci?, .m with no hope of release was afraid to op ear sad or de jected, and by a stoical effort controlled her emotions le^t the terrors of her cap tivity should be increased. But the anx iety of her mind was betrayed by the quiver of hor lipn, showing that shy wa» not insensible to the common feelings of i humanity. As the jonrs rolled by Cynthia Ann de veloped the charms of captivating womanhood, and tl e hearts of more than one dusky wmr or w s icrced by the i Ulyssean dirts of her laughing eyes and I the ripple of hor silver vo'ie, und laid i at her feet the trophies of the chr.se. Among the number whom her budding charms brought to her shrine was Pe-ta to-co-na, a redoubtable Comanche war chief, in prov.ess t»n I renown the peer of the famous "Big 1 oot," who f«ll in a des perate hand-to-band combat w th the no less famous Texan Indian-tighter, Cap tain Shaploy P. Loss, of W :cd, the illus trious father of the still more distin uish ed son, General Sul Ross, now serving his second term as Governor of Texas, from whom and his heroic father many of the details of th'8 narrative were obtain ed. It is a remarkable end happy co incidence that the KOH, emulating the father's contagious deeds of vnlor and prowess, afterward in single combat in the valley of the Wichita, forever put to rest the brave and knightly Pe-ta-no co-na. Cynthia Ann. stranger now to every word of her mother tongue, save only her childhood mme, became the brile of the brown warrior Pe-ta-co-co-na, bore him three children, and loved him with tierce passion and wifely devotion, evidenced by the fact that fifteen years after hor capture a party of hunters, including friends of her family, visited the Co manche encampment on the Upper Can adian River, and recognizing Cynthia Ann through the medium of her name, endeavored to induce 1 er to return to her kindred pnd the abode of civilization. She shook her head in a sorrowful nega tive, and, point n^ to her little naked barbarians sporting at her feet and to the great lazy chief sleeping in the shade near by, the locks or a score of fresh scalps danslin^at his belt, replied: "I am happily we Uled I love my hus band and my hhIA who are his too, and I cannot forsake them." KECAPTTRE OK VNTTTTA ANN PARKER Pr-TA-NO-CO-XA. This brilliant achievement and the thrilling events which preceded it, can best be to'd in the graphic language of the hero who accomplished it, General Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Governor of Texas, and I therefore append his mod eat letter: EXECUTIVE OFFICE, AUSTIN, Texas, AprM 8,1890. J" Gen. Geo. F. Alford, Dallas. Toxas MY DEAR C^R.IIAL: In response to your request, I herewith inclose you my recollections, after a lapse of thirty years, of the events to which you refer: In 1858, Major Earle Van Dorn, with the Second Cavalry, U. S. A., one com pany of infantry to guard his depot of supplies, and 135 friendly Indians under my command, made a successful cam paign against the Comanches, and by a series o? well-directed blows, inflicted terrible"punishment upon them. On the morning of October 1, 18f8, we came in eight of a large Indian village on the waters of the Wichita River near what is now known as Fort Sill, in the Indian Territory. They were not apprehensive of an attack and most of them were still asleep. Major Van Dorn directed me, at the head of my Indians to charge down the line of their lodges or tents, cut off their horses and run them back on the hill. This was quickly accomplished. Van Dorn then charged the village, strik it at the upper end, as it stretched along a boggy branch. After placing abont thirty-five of my Indians as a guard around the Com: nche horaes, some 400 in number, I charged with the balance of my Indian force into the lower end of the village. The morning was very foggy and after a lew minutes of firing the smoke and fog bee a me so dense that objects at but a short distance could be distinguished only with great difficulty. The Coman ches fought with great desperation, as all they possessed was in imminent peril. Shortly after the engagement became general, I discovered a number of Co manches running down the branch, about if*) y.irds from the villagd, and conclud ed they were retieating. About thiB time I was joined by Lieutenant Van Camp, U. S. A., and a regular sol tier by the name of Alexander. With these and one Caddo Indian I ran to intercept them, thus becoming seper. ted from the balance of my force. I soon discovered that the fugitives were women and children. Just then, however, another posse of them came along, and as they passed I dis covered in their midst a little white girl, and made the Caddo Indian seize her as she was passing. She was about eight years of age and became badly frightened and difficult to manage when she found herself detained by us. I then discovered, much to my dismay, that about twenty live Comanche warriors, under cover of the smoke, had cut off my small party of four from communication with our com rades and were bearing down upon us. They shot Lieut. Van Camp through the heart, killing him while he was in the act of firing hia double barreled gun. Alexander was next shot down end hia rifle fell out of his hands. I had a Sharp's rifle, and at tempted to shoot the Indian just as he ahot Alexander, but the cap snapped. Another warrior named Mohee, whom I had often seen at my father's camp on the frontior, when he was Indian Agent, then seized Alexander's loaded gun and shot me through the body. I fell upon the side on which my pistol was borne, and, though partially paralyzed by the shot, I was endeavoring to turn myself and get my revolver out, when the Co manche neai e-t me drew out a long bladed butcher-knife and started to stab and scalp me. It seemed that my time had certainly come. He made but a few steps, howuver, when one of his compan ions cried o it something in the Co manche tongue, and they all broke away and lied in confusion. Mohee, the In dian wno Bhot mo, ran only about twenty steps when he leceived a load of buckshot fired from a gun in the hands of I ieut. James Majois, of the Second Cavalry, U. S. A., who with a party of soldiers ha I opportunely come to my rescue. During this desperate melee the Caddo held on to the littlo white girl, and doubtless owed his eacape to that fact, as the Com 1 nches were afraid if they shot the Caddo they would kill the little girl. This whole *cene transpired in a few minutes, and Van Dorn, although badly wounded, had possession of the entire villa ge, and the surviving Comanches had fled to thi almost impenetrable brushy hil:s, leaving their dead and their prop erty behind them, consisting of ninety iivo good Indians (being deaa Indians a number of wounded and captives, about four hundred horses, and ali the spoils o£ th-ir camp. The Texas troops had fire killed and several wounded, including Major Van Dorn and myself. My recollection is that L:eut. Van Camp was a protege of Hon. Thad Stevens, of Pennsylvania, and had but recently come from West Point. He was a gallant and chivalrous officer, cud though at the time in deadly peril mvself, and entirely bereft of all nope of escape, I shall never torget the emotions of liorror that seized me when I naw the Indian warrior, standing not five feet away, send his arrow, dear to the feather, into the heart of that noble ypung officer. No trace of the paivntape or kindred of the little girl captive could ever be found, and I adopted, reared, and educated her, ?ormerher :iving the nr.me of Lizzie Ross, the being in honor of Miss Lizzie Tinsley, the young lady to whom I was then engaged to be married, and who has been my wife since Miy, 1861. izz e RggSj the oactive ((ill, grew into a hand- young von inn, and maniac! hap pily, but died a lew yeare tince at Los Angeles, Cal. I lay upon the battle field for five days, unable to be moved, when a litter was I constructed and I was carried on the i backs of my faithfnl Caddos ninety i miles, to Fort Radziminski. As soon as able I returned fo my alma ma'er, Flor ence (Ala.) Wesleyan University, where I finished my education, and returned to Texas in 1859, At the period of wh:ch I I write, I was out on vacation. For Borne time after the battle of I Wichita the Comanche* were less trou blesome to the people of tho Texas i frontier, but in 185!) and I860 tho condi tio i of the frontier was axain truly de plorable. The loud and clamorous demands of the settlers induced the State Government to send out a regiment under Col. M. T. Johuson for public de fense. The expedition, thou n of grtat expense to the State, failed to accomplish anything. Having just graduated and Tetuined to my homo at Waco, I was commissioned as Captain by Gov. Sam Ho iston, and directed to organize a com pany of sixty men, with order* to rcp,»ir to Fori Belknap, in Young County, re ceive fiom Col. Johnson all Government property, as his regiment was disb in^cd, and off or the fro!: tier such protection as was possiblA from so small a force. The necessity for vigorous measures soon became KO pressing,however,that I de termined to attempt to curb the insolence of tbes3 impl&c ible, hereditary enemies of l'exa-3, who were gre tly emboldoued by the small force left to confront them, and to i c^ompliah this by following them in to their fastnesses, and carry the war in to their own homes. I was compelled, afUr euittbiinlihig a post, io leave iwenty of my men to guard the Government property, and give tome show of protec tion to the frightened settlers, and i s I could take but forty of my men I request ed Capt. N. G. Evans, in command of the United States troops at Fort Cooper, to send me a detachment of the Second United States Cavalry. We had been in tirnatoly connected in the Van Dorn cam paign in 1858, during which I was the re cipient of much kindness from him while I was suffering from the severe wound received in the battle of the Wichita. He promptly sent me a sergeaut and twenty well-mounted men, thns in creasing my force to sixty. My force was still further autjmented ly seventy volunteer citizens, under the brave old frontiersman, Capt. Jack Cure ton, of Bosque County. On Dec. is, 18(50, while marching up Pease lliver, I had suspicions that In dians were in the vicinity by reason of the great number of buffaio which came running toward us from the north, and while my command moved in the low ground I visited neighboring high points to make discoveries. On one of these sand hills I found four fresh pony tracks, and being satisfied that Indian videttes had just gone, I galloped forward about a mile to a still higher point, and riding to the top to my inexpressible surprise found myself within two hundred yards of a large Comanche village, located on a small stream, winding aiound the base of a hill. It was most happy circum stance that a cold, piercing wind from the north was blowing, bearing with it clouds of dust and my presenoe was thus un observed and the surprise complete. By signaling my men as I stood concealed they reached me without being discover ed by the Indians who were busy pack ing up, preparatory to move. By the time my men reached me the Indians had mounted and moved off north across the level plain. My command, in cluding the detachment of the Second Cavalry, had outmarched and become separated from the citizen command of seventy, which left me about sixty men. In making dispo&itXon for the attack, the sergeant and his twenty men were sent at a gallop behind a chain of sandhills to encompass them and cut oil their retreat, while witn my forty men I charged. Tho attack was so 3udden that a large number were killed before they could prepare for defense. They fled precipitately right into the arms of tlhe si rgeant aud his twenty men. Here they met with a warm reception, and, finding themselves completely en compassed, every one fled his own way and was hotlv pursued aud hard pressed The chief, a noted warrior of great re pute. named Pe-ta-no-co-na, with a young Indian girl about fifteen year3 of age mounted on his horaa behind him, and Cynthia Ann Parker, his squaw, with a girl child about two years old in her arms and mounted on a fleet pony, fled together. Lieutenant Tom Keliiheir and I pursued them, and after running about a mile Keliiheir ran up by the side of Cynthia Ann's horse, and supposing her to be a man, was in the act of shooting her when she held up her child and stopped. I kept on alone at the top of my horse's speed, after the chief, and about half a mile further, when within about twenty yards of him, I fired my pistol striking the girl (whom I supposed to bi a man, as she rode like one, and only her head was visible above the buffalo robe with which she was wrapped) near the heart, killing her instantly. And the same ball would have killed both but for the shield of the chief, which hung down covering his back. When the girl fell from the horse dead, she pulled the chief off also, but he caught on his feet and before steady ing himself my horse, running at full speed, was nearly upon him, when he sped an arrow which struck my horse and caused him to pitch or "buck," and it was with the greatest difficulty I could keep my saddle, meantime narrowly es caping several arrows coming in quick auccesssion from the chief's bow. Be ing at such disadvantage, he undoubtedly would have killed me but for a random shot from my pistol, while I was cling ing with my lel't hand to the pommel of my saddle, which broke his right arm at the elbow, completely disabling him. My horse then becoming more quiet, I shot the chief twice through the body, whereupon he deliberately walked to a small tree near by, the only one in sight, and, leaning against it, w.th one arm around it for support, began to sing a wild, weird song, the death-song of the savage. There was a plaintive melody in it which, under the dramatic circum stances, filled my heart with sorrow. At this time my Mexican servant, who had once been a captive with the Coman ches and fpoke tbeir language as fluent ly as his mother tongue, came up in company with others of my men. Through him I summoned the chief to surrender, but he promptly treated every overture with contempt, and signalized his refusal with a savage attempt to thrust me through with his lance, which he still held in his left hand. I could only look upon him with pity and admiration, for de plorable as was his situation, with no possible chance of escape, his army utterly destroyed, his wife and child captivts in his sight, he was undaunted by the fate that awaited him, and, as he preferred death to life, I directed the Mexican to end his misery by a charge of buckshot from the gun which he carried, and the brave savage, who had been so long the scourge and terror of the Texan frontier, passed into the land of shadows and rested with his fathera. Taking up his acoouterments, which I subsequently delivered to General Sam Houston, as Governor of Texas and Commander-in-chief of her soldiery, to be deposited iu the State archives at Aus tin, we rode back to the captive woman, who^e identity was fht-n unknown, and found Lieutenant Ivelierheir, who was guarding her and her child, Utterly cursing himself for having run his pet hoise so hard after au "old squaw." She was very dirty and far from t.ttractive in her Bcanty garments, as well as her per son, but as soon as I looked on her face, I said: "Why! Tom, this is a white woman Indians do not have bluo eyes." On o.ir way to the ptured Indian vil. lage where our men were assembling with the spoils of battle aud a large cav alcade of Indian ponie which we had captured, I discove el an Inditm boy about nine years old accreted in the ta 1 grass. Expecting to le Ufl legist' M'iLli to cry. but 1 made him mount behind •nd carried him alon?, taking him to my home at Waco, where he became an obedient member of my family. When, in after years, I tried to induce him to return to his people, he refused to go, and died in McLennan County about four years ago. •When camped for the night, Cynthia Ann, our then unknown captive, kept crying, and thinking it was caused from lesr of death at our hands, I had the Mexican tell her, in the Comaixfche lan guage, that we recognized her rs one of our own people aud would not harm her. She replied that two of her sons in addi tion to the infant daughter were with her when the fight begin, aud she was dis tressed by the iear th it they had been killed. It so happened, however, that both esc .ped, and one of them—Quonah, is now the chief of the Comauche triba. The other son died some year* ago on tho plains. Through my Mox can inter preter I then asked her to give me the history of her life with the Indians and the circumstance* attending her capture by them, which sue promptly did in a very intelligent manner, and as tho facts detailed by her correspond with the massicre «t Parker's Fort in 18:36,1 w.tsimpres-ed with the be lief that she was Cynthia Ann Parker.' Returning to my pos% I sent her and her child to the ladies at Camp Cooper, where she could receive the a'tention her sex and situation demanded, and nt the same time I dispatched a messenger to Col. Isaac Parker, her uncle, near Woatherford, Pa:ker County, named as hia memorial, for he was for many years a distinguished Senator in the Congress of the republic and in the Legislature of iue State after annexation. When Col. Parker came to my post I sent the Mexi can with him to Camp Cooper in the capacity of interpreter, and her identity was soon discovered to Col. Parker's entire satisfaction. She has been a cap tive just twenty-four years and seven months, and was in her thirty-fourth year when recovered. The fruits of that important victory cin never be computed in dollars and cents. The great Comanche confederacy was forever broken, the blow was deci sive, their illustrious chief slept with his fathers, and with hlai were most of his doughty warriors, mmy captives were taken, 450 horses, their camp equipage, accumulated winter supplies, etc. If I could spare time from my official duties, and had pitience, I could furnish you with many tnrilling incidents never published relating to the early exploits, trials and sufferings of the pioneers. My father was appointed Indian Acent in 185G. He had an excellent memory and treasured these until later in life I listen ed by the hour to their recital. I remain, my dear Genera], sincerely your friend, But little of this sad episode remains to be told. Cynthia Ann and her infant barbarian were taken to Austin, the capi tal of the State. The immortal Sam Houston was Governor, and the Seces sion Convention was in session. She was taken to the State House, where this august body were holding grave discus sion as to the policy of withdrawing from the Federal compact. Cynthia Ann, comprehending not one word of her mother tongue, concluded it was a coun cil of mighty chiefs, assembled for the trial of her life, and in great-alarm tried to make her escape. Her brother, Hon. Dan Parker, who resided near Parker'B Bluff, Anderson County, was a member of the Legislature from that county and a colleague of this wr.ter, who then rep resented the Eleventh Senatorial Dis trict. Colonel Dan Parker took his unhappy sister to his comfortable home, and es sayed by the kind officer of tenderness and affection to restore her to the com forts and enjoyments of civilized life, to which she had been so long stranger. But as thorough an Indian in manner and looks as if she had been native bom, she sought every opportunity to escape and rejoin her dusky companions, and had to be constantly and closely watched. The civil strife then being waged be tween the North and South, between father*, sons and brothers, necessitated the primitive arts of spinning aud weav ing, in whioh she soon becama an adept, and gradually her mother tongue came back, and with it occasional incidents of her childhood. But the ruling passion of her bosom seemed to be tho maternal instinct, and she cherished the hope that when the cruel war was over she would at last succeed in reclaiming her two sons who were still with the Comanches. But the Great Spirit had written other wise, and Cynthia Ann and little Prairie Flower were called in 1861 to the Spirit Land, and peacefully sleep side by side under the great oak trees on her brother's plantation near Palestine, Texas. Thus ends the sad story of a woman whose stormy life, darkened by au eter nal shadow, made her famed throughout the borders of the imperial Lone Star State. When she left it, an unwilling captive, it contained scarce 50,000 peo ple. and was distracted by foreign and domestic war. To-day it contains three millions, and is the abode of refinement, wealth, culture, and universal prosperity and happiness. Better Empty than Filled. At ft dinner in London lately, Mr. Henry M. Stanley, the African ex plorer, related some experiences of his latest journey, one of which was de cidedly interesting. Several men ol the expedition, he said, received upon starting out a bottle of brandy each. The liquor was French, and the bot tles were ornamental. The first two months of the long jour ney were the easiest of all, and did not tax severely the endurance of the men, who nevertheless found it convenient, having the brandy at hand, to consume it little by little, so at the end of those two months their supply of the stimu lant was exhausted. After that the hard work of the journey began. The men were none the worse for the lack of brandy. Mr. Stanley, after his many African jour neys, knew this perfectly well. On a long and hard march in any country stimulants, except in extreme cases of illness or exhaustion, are worse thau useless. In an African journey, where everything depends upon a cool head, a steady will power which is subject to no fluctuations and a state of bodily en durance without reactions, alcohol is particularly injurious. But Mr. Stanley had cautioned his men, after they had exhausted their brandy, to keep the bottles. They did so, and by and by they found some natives who were highly desirous of possessing those articles. Being in need of provisions, Stanley exchanged the empty bottles for supplies to the value of twenty-five pounds sterling, which sum was very much more than the brandy wa& ever worth the high est valuation. This experience eeems to suggest that while it may be wise to take bo' ties iuto Central Africa, it is lather better, on the whole, to take them empty than filled.— ion. Youth's (Jompan Higher Priced Than That. Counsel (to colored witness)—How much are you paid for giving this tes timony? Colored witness—Well—er—yo' see, sah—I jiss wau's ter splaio p&h—— Counsel—Come—como. Did you not get one dollar from the prosecutor on condition that you would swear to Eomct-hing thiit was not true? Colo.fd witi:e.s iindignantly) No. Sah. Does I look like a man wot win Hwar to a lie fo' one dollar? .Dey gin rue two, tab. Start If Jig ftUfiikv^ry, The dUoovary by the tnhabit*nta of ft locality hitherto uuvislted by tbd •ojurg* 1 L. S. Ross. fever and ague, that ic exists in their very uuJdt, ia decidedly startling. Such discoveries ura made at every season, in every part of the Union.. Subsequently, when it is ascertained, aa it in variably ia at auoh times, through the valuable experience of some one who has boen benefited and cured, that Hostetter'a Stomach Bittters ia a thoroughly efficacious eradicator of tha ma larial poison, and a means of fortifying tho system aaaiust it, a feeling of more security and tra-ifjuillitv reign* throughout tho whole neigh borhood. iiosidoH the febrile forms of ma'ariil difleaso, dumb ague aud ague cake are reu j/ed by the potent action of tne Bittera, to which aclaacc r.lso glvosits sanction &.s a. roniedy for rheumatism, dyap-?peia, oocstipa'ion, liver complaint, debility, kidney troubles, and all diseases impairing the organs of digestion and MHimilation^ PBOFIT on cheap literature in England is said to le about aa follows: A "ah'lling nfcccker" pays its expenses wlitn it has told 4,000 copies a 3 shilling book, upon which grade and all higher grades the price of the cover has to be accounted for, bccomes profitable after it has sold l,5t)0 a 6 shil iu'g hook when it has sold 1.000, a two volnnie library book when it has sold 400, and a three volume book when it has sold 300. COSTA RICA'9 latest scheme for raising money and the purpose for which it is to be raised are novel, to say the least. A new theater is wanted at the capital, and I an export duty has been plac.d by congress on coffee in order to raise the necessary money. However, as only $200,000 is needed for the purpose, the tax will not last long._i A LARGE Belgian pocdie dog astonished promeuaders in the corridors of the Fifth I Avenue hotel, New Vork, the other night by strolling leisnrcly up and down and puffing with apparently intense satisfac tion at a small pipe, which he he'd tightly iniiis mouth. Max^SomerviUe, a wealthy Philadelphian, bought the animal ia Paris i several years ago. AN English gentleman, who, with an Acerican friend, was watchiog the proces eion ot fashionable turnouts on a Newport drive rece ntly, commented upon the? skill with which several well known New York ers handled their tandem teams. "It is surprising," the Englishman said, "how i few otherwise realty excellent whips can drive tandem weii." Says tli» Southern Medical World: "Mother's Friend" is growing in favor I throughout tho south and is highly recom monded by physicians. We consider it in i dispensable to those who know they must pass through the ordeal ol childbirth. Write i liradflcld K«g. Co., Atlanta, Ga.,for partieu I lars. aold by ail druggists. EMPKROR WILLIAM, of Germany, has i bought an estate near Metz. it is supposed, for political reasons. He wished to show I the titizpns of the annexed provinces thut he belonged to them and to make it fash ionable among old German families to own places in the district. I MANY mothers would willingly pay a dol lar a box for Dr. Bull's Worm Destroyers if they could not get it for less. It costs only 25 cents and is sold by druggists. JOHNNY BULL is picking up some Amer ican ideas. Excursion parties now leave London by the London & Western rail road, visit Kenilworth, Warwick and Strat ford-upon-Avon, returning to London by midnight. The price coven carriages, dinner, lunches, etc. When B»by was sick, we gave her Cutorla. Wben she was a Child, she cried for C&storla, When she became Miss, she clnng to C&storia, ¥ben she htd ObUdsen, she gave them CLStcrl:* THE leaves of the pawpaw tree as* em ployed by the negroes in washing linen as a substitute for soap. They have also the property of rendering meat wrapped in them tender, owing to the alkaloid papain which they contain and which acts as solvent. ItKV. H. P. CARSON, Scotland, Dak., says: "Two bottles of Hall's Catarrh Cure completely cured my littlo girl." Sold by Druggists, 75c. A TYPEWRITER manufacturer says that there are 75,000 women in this country who make a living by running the machines. FOP. A DISORDERED LIVER try EEECHAM'S PILLS. THE form of real estate deeds has been reduced from three pages to one in New York and the cost of recording from $1.75 to 50 cents and $1 each. I. L. CRAGIN & Co. of Phi a., tho mfrs. of Dobbins' Electric Soap, say they would rather close up their immense works than to put one grain of adulteration iii their Dobbins' Electric Soap. Would that all were as honest. RHODE ISLAND is afraid of being over crowded, since it has been learned through the census that the population has in creased abont 07,734 during the past de cade. BEST, easiest to use and cheapest. Plso'a Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. 50c. THE corporation of London has made a coutract for supplying electric lights to a large portion of the city. After dinner smoke "Tansill'e Punch. A SUMMER charity in Philadelphia has given a day's pleasure to nearly 700,000 people, mostly children and babies, in thir teen years. FOR OVER-EATING, BEANS. Try "BILE BEANS SMALL"(40little beans in each bottle). Very small— easy to take. Price of either size, 25c. •3TBUY OF YOUR DRUGGIST, HAVE used Smith's 3ile Beans. They are a good remedy for biliousness, sick headache, constipation, dyspepsia, and all dise&Ms arising from a disordered condition of the stomach and liver. F. N. TOKKKV, Druggist, Shiocton, Wis. 88 I EWIS' 0° LYE! 1 POWSESZS AKC PEOTKU). LB (PATENTED.) The ftronqest and purest ittowrttwafaai oi Iflrg mfule. Will make the Perfumed HARD SOAP in twenty minu'es riithwd boiliiuj. It is fENNA.paints, ie b«st for disinfecting sinks, osets, drains, washing bottles, kn-els, etc. SALT MANUPG. CO.* Gen. Agtt.. Fhila., Pa. BORE WELLS!!mow Ou V. c.l art* the iiU'sr fftfl lflwHfcl I [UKAHI. K, sri'CKSSV i T1H t. MOKE OItK am! m»ke UliKATI CKU I'liOI I 1. They 1IN ISH W. ll* wiser Othi-rs FAIL! Any toclie-i to 41 inches dianitiit-i LQOMIS & NYMAN, Tn-FIM. -OHIO. Catalogue FREE I From the "Pacific Journal." "A great invention lias boon made by D% Tutt of New York. He has produced Whioh imitates liature to perfection It a« ta instantaneously aud is perfectly harmless, price, SI. Offlce, 39 & 41 Park Place, N, i» relief icTiiftJA tIDBER'S PASTILL£Si s.S»'dLTH^ .I'M'*'* I. DjJL&itlU yen&isftkm «iag blf beyt# to HttU sleep). I den want to ro to bed, papft, 1 don't vt Ant to «o to bed— Hush, iny little darling." Oh, papa.-whv is it your noso is Sored? Bay. wh-n did OJ lose the last hair oflf yottf head? Did you over hear any one snore that was dead? 1'apa s aby bo v. Has my dog got back home again, papa? Has my dog eot bask hime a^ain 1 Huhh, my little dorling." Oh, pap l, is Mrs. Mulloy an old hen? And do the Mulloys 11TH like pigs in a pen? Well, v,hv did Aunt Kail. tell mamma so, then? Papa's precious hoy." I'm Sorry I've got bawl* gs.papa, I'm sorry I've got bowlegs. Ruih, my precious treasure." Are the stars eyes of angels or bright silver pegs v Bay, don't you think Carlo Is cute wben he begs 1 Oh, papa, -why don't our old rooster lay eggs Does Old N ck wear a stovepipe hat, papa? Does Old ick wear a stovei'.lps hat? Htish, you little nuisine •.' Ob, papa, how long is the tail of our cat? What makes Bister Jons say ber beau ia 'a 11 at V I should rail him a round," he's so little and fat— Papa's silly boy." Can you te'l me why God male files, papa? Can you tell me why God made flies Husb, \oa noisy mappie." Oh, pi, what'-, the usi of our having two eyes? When you was a boy did you tell lots of lie'sV Does a mule go to heaven, do you think, when he dies? Fapa's precious imp." Please won't yon le* sn get don, paps. Please won't you let me down? Husl\ now, or I'll spank you. Oh. papa, ma saya you went painting the town, That you painted it red, hut you did it up brown. Now, wasn't that funny? Ob, papa, don't frown— Sr aan, take yonr brat!" —Oeorge Horton. "LOVE and hardship like no fellowship." You cun ease life by using SAPOLIO. and that increases home happiness. It is a solid pake of Scofiring Soap. Try it. MRS. DR. SPENCER, of Bonrbon, Ind., is 54 years old and has bee:i ten times a bride. Some of her hnsbands died, but she was divorced from the larger number. I'm So Hungry Says Nearly Everyone After Taking A Few Doses of Sars&pariSSm OHB ENJOYS Both the method and results whea Syrup of Figs is taken it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently et promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ao ceptaLle to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities com mend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 60# and $1 bottles by all leading drug* •gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA Fit SYftUF CO. SAN FRANCiSOO, L0UI8VIUL *•/. YJ VQ/7K, N.V* rou WILL SATE MONET, Time. Faio, Trouble, Md wili •_ I cunz Patar?^ CATARRH BY USING ELY'S CREAM BALM. Apply Balm into Mch nostril. BLY BEOS, 56 Warren St.. H. T. PENSIONS! The Disability Hill is a law. KoUlfr* alibied cinc* the w«r are ratified. Impend*:lit ami parent* now dependent whose son* died fr. ni fffe u -m? service are included. If you wish jro5.r-I-u:t -petd ecuted. addres*8 U JAMES' TANNER, X.ateCommissionerofPensions.lKISlllKSiOl. C. ~W m71f IT & o.71 -m JOS Corpora" Bni'.dinsr Wsslunetfn I? pension ammm Ol over :45 years' t'Xpt i ieiue. inucccs^lullj pensions and claim* of all kinds in ebortPBt possible time ftjTKO FEE UNL.'CSS SUCCESSFUL. CAT cm MI rULI\a UL bund Un.id I( siimoiiiala. Addrows. Hit. O. tt i liiUi, 2UL StuAa St., chiefs, 111. Nu'iif this taper when you write. Ji I P*TEMTf,3 AUG. I6, !L-87, i PROVED my 30.181 vEDjuir 30.1889. TiV nwtV 'B TT RNT|J, dilvA^ffc ion? BXIT ,,AWI STT8FLK60RLF WLU WM. W DUDLEY. r.AJCE COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Attorney at Law, Waghfagton, 1).O. (Mention thin lJaper.) PENSIONS S. C. N. V. Best Cough MeJloine. Recommended by Physicians, "ares where all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to the taste. Children take it without objection. By drutryists. S U P.T I 'When slovens get Hdy they polish the bottoms of the p&nsV-Whert oxe gtverr^iSSEHiBrthey. never tired of cleaning up Two servants in two neighboring houses 4welt, But differently their daily labor' felt Jaded and weary of her life Always at work, and yet m'* On the men4 —tte consumptive who's not be reft of judgment and good sense, lie's taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. If taken in time and given a fair trial, it will effect a cure. Consumption is Lung-scrofula. For Scrofula, in its myriad forms, and for all Liver, Blood and Lung diseases, the Dis covery" is an unequalled remedy. It's the only guaranteed one. 'If it doesn't benefit or cure, you get your money back. You only pay lor the good you get. "Discovery" strengthens "Weak Lunga, and cures Spitting of Blood, Shortness of Breath, Bronchitis, Severe Coughs, and kindred affec tions. Don't be fooled into taking something else, said to be just as good," that the dealer may make a larger profit. There's nothing aft all like the "Discovery." It con tains no alcohol to inebriate no syrup or sugar to derange di gestion. As peculiar in its cura tive effects as in its composition. Equally good for adults or childroft. DR. OWEN'S Jonre All BJienaatie Csai* ^piaints. lumbago, Gensral snd N* von* U'biiltJi CoethrsieM, Kiriusj Distatfts, PTerrotigr.ess, Trembling, Sexual Ex* haustion, W*st .nj ft •ciy. Kit xj eues caused by Indiscretion* la Xoctn.Azff Married or Single Life. KFW. (Ig fiSTm« OK BO IUTR TKUfc ers*" OR OWEN'S tL,EuTni(i isbOLEStt Ml* •tui 8c. po»tBS4 for pass! Wrt, IM fflMl, wbtab wIUM BSCt you in pl&iu sesti^il envelop'* Mention j«per. AdqplM OWES ELECTRIC BELT & iVTLlAV 30b North Broadway, ST, LO'JI 36 Broadway. NEW YORK CITY. Dr.WOOD, sMMcTfyjoyM. ngular Graduate In Meaieine—SO -.ruts hotviUil ami private practice— O in Cniaayo and New York ork—E«» tbilshed in 8|oax city Nine 5.fars-u st.il! treating ai'. 1'rlvnt*. Nervous. diseases, Spermalorrhmm,t__S$'S$eeialandChronic •eminai Wc-.'kness might lo»»w Iinpoteoey (h/*& o/ iuaai ,, -.i:ir), and all Jb'etnule Diseases, Trregu'aritifs. tf\ Cures guaranteed or money refunded— Cliargp# fair. Terms CR«Ii. Acre nnrt pxppriero? important, \'n in jurious medicines used—Arofr* tihie loft from woifcor bnsiness-Patienta at a distance1 treated by mail— Medicines sent everyichert free rmn ga*t annhrtakr Mf— state yonr rage and send t. Opinion and tfrms-Consultation su-lrtlv confidential, person* ally ty letter—Dr. WOOD lias the largest Medical and Surgical Institute and Kye and Ear Infirmary in the West—Kooms for pBi'fuw at fair raips. facilities to mwt auv '*mer •enry—A Quiet liovr.e and Brsf care and skill Jar Ladles during Pregnancy ami Confinmnent— Send 4e postaao for Illustrated BOOK and A1EDICA£ JOIRNAL. (jaf Mention this paper.) I f*!1y CA dorn« Big €J 8.S the only spec! ti" 'or s.h* csrtata of OvU iftmm** O.K.IWJBIHALF.LT. D., If r.i ®B1T»f tnu ftuttlalOn AOASTERTMA, M. T. ha*e »o!J Uif 8(M many y««wr», Uil best faction. D. K. OTCBK 4 OO.. Chicago IU. 81.00. Bold bf tADIRS, UP® Dr. Le Dnc's "Peri odical'Pi 11a, from 9kr.j, France. Established in Europe, 1&39, England, WM Canada* JSTi United States, lt*87. Curt* all suppmstoD*, iiregttiCrltiei, amd monthly derangement*. Sale, barml«M} reliable. They mr.tti.otb* taien during pregnancy. The Urge proportion of 01* fc which ladies are liabie is tbe direct mull of a disordered m4 Irregular menstruation. Cootfnued monthly' iupprea»io*» reiuH to Wood poUoa:nj cud quick consumption. $'2 a package, or 3 for per mail, la pl.sin sealed eDvelupe, receipt of price- The can Pill Co., Wholesaler* aad RovaltT P/upriitcr#, Th« geoaloa pill aold by StDGWIC* A DK LO SO, Sim CUj, low% Whnt—b Mil iUoii Agem. for Prices EW~PENSION LAW. THOl'SASlts NOW RSTITtRI) WHO HAVJEXO'S KNTm-ltD. Ad.lcMC toriorius tor application and tuii mtonrutlm OLD CLAIMS Settled nnder NBW Parent* send for blank ag- 1 i if ii :ir i .11. Patrick O'Farrell, 1% .ixli iueton. 0. C. Thousands ENTITY under the NEW Ai Writa immediately ANKS for arpl ST& CO.,Wabhi"Eton PENSIONS: ®L JOHN W ^IOITLILS, Washington, C. 'Successfully Prosecutes Claims. .a': PriuoipHl I S. Pension PurttM. ..ilu-t aUudiuUiiiKciauus. utt v a tot. Oircn'r showing -who 1 ar» entitled under uew law sent FREB. 'i ee $i0 if s uccessful. i J. blew. IU.. .... .... iHjb i'Ai'h-K *.v*iy lime you write. y n y -N|dW IjAuWd.r mooo soidim, n u i v n o w i o w a e a i v e e e n i e rMtl'I.ESonce. AMly .if Blatux and instruction tree. & CO., AU vs. Washington, I). C» ACADEH NORTHWESTERN MILITARY HIGH! VMI F4RK. IU. OOLOKKL LI. 1'. 1A\IDHI -V. Hupcriatendent GradTUtehccin.ii.nl n-Mate M.litia. OPiUfcl itattli. i oa oaiy und «u oar*. Dr. J. »ieDheos. Lebanon. Ohio. was No. 35-QO i one, 'twas The other walked out nightly with her beat!# feut then she cleaned house with SAPOLIO, never done*.. v 'Ti4