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4 OUR WORST ENEMIES. EARLY POLITICS. At last onlv twenty -four hou slay be ton there was an old man, a Pennsylvania Dutchman, named Charles Torrey or To-rey, about sixty years of age, speaking lie ptwlcg fejrltif. Terms-One Year," 2 Six Months. $1 The Invention of Gas Lights.

Tho in-ventor of gas lights is said to have been a Frenchman, Phillippe le Bon, an engineer of road and bridges, who, iu 1772, adopted the idea of using for the purposes of Uluinination the gases distilled during tho cutnbustion of wood. He labored for along time in tho attempt to perfect his crude invention, but it wa9 not till 1799 that he confided his discovery to the Institute. In September, 1801 ho published a memorial containing the result of his La Bon commenced by distilling wood in order to obtain from it Pas, oil, pitch and pyroligueous acid; but The Numerous Diseases Which Now Be gin to Afflict Us. Important A.dlce to Sufferers. The season for our perennial disorders and serious physical disarrangements is now here, and the unadvised are setting up within themselves apothecarr shops with a pretty full line of physio.

There is noth- ng so conservative and tenacious of old time doctrines as the doctors, and with many the restoration to health of a disease-stricken patient through anv other means than quinine, calomel, mercury and stomach-dissecting liquids is worse than death itself. Naturally the public has. iu a great measure, adopted the same idea, and, as a consequence, there is no end to either physio or disease, because one sup- A. A A- L- 1 1 11 i yorts tue otuor. mature is me Dest pnvsi- cian, and what she rejects is littlo calculated to assist her.

Therefore, if you are afflicted with chills and fever, for exam plo don't offend your stomach by crowding it with quinine; cease tating tho various compounds and decoctions which impervi- ate your system with a nausea which is racking In itself. There is no longer any reason for thus abusing yourself especially since more than one million of the most intelligent people of Europe and America, Including hundreds of the most progressive and learned medical doctors pronounce the Holnian Pad, with its auxiliary rem dies tne greatest curative agent ever dis covered. It will positiveiv cure anv caso of malaria, of however long standing: it is also a sure preventive of yellow fever, cholera, and cholera infantum, and Is an absolute specific for all the diseases pecu, liar to this climate, except consumption. and often affords great relief even in this-It is a pleasant application which absorbs disease and at the same time supplies the system wiui invigorating tonio properties that strengthen and cure. Hundreds of our best citizens are wearing the pads with most satisractory results, and giving it their unqualified endorsement.

Pad, Specials, S3. Specials are used In complicated cases. Body Plasters 50 cents. Foot Plasters. 50 cents a pair.

Ab sorption Salt Foot Baths, 25 cents a pack age; six packages, $1.25. Pad and Piasters sent by mail (on re ceipt of price) free of charge. Salt is sent by express at the expense of purchaser. lhe Agency of the liolman Pad Com pany in Kansas City, is under the manage ment ol JJrs. Curtis and Barber, whose office is in rooms Nos.

10 and 12. No. 546 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo. These gentlemen are thoroughly acquainted with the virtues of the Pad, and their advice respecting its use is very important All consultations, either py mail or In person, rree, and all who are suffering in any way are invited to call or send and get the fullest particulars of this truly wonderful principle the cure of disease by ab sorption, it Rhcollect that the Holman Liver Pad never yet failed to cure a chronic case of ague. Seud to Drs.

Curtis Jc Barber, Kansas City, for one. When you come to the Kansas City Fair call and see the elegant fall stock of goods for suits at Messrs. Simon fc Sons, Merchant Tailors, Main 6treet. They have a big order trade in Kansas, because they guarantee fits and satisfaction. Tea Ioe Cebam.

Pour over four table-spoonfuls of old hyson tea a pint of cream; scald in a custard kettle, or by placing the dish containing the cream in a kettle of boiling water; strain into a pint of cold cream, scald again, and when hot mix with It four eggs and three-quarters of a pound of sugar, well beaten together; let it cool and freeze. If you want to avoid a spell of slokness and a big doctor's bill, buy a Holman Liver Pad and wear it a few days In the 6prlng and fall. It is sure as a preventive, for when the liver Is all right good health must follow. The Fair, At Kansas City this year, will be the superiority of the premiums, display and speed ring eclip sa aU its former efforts, and more visitors will com this year than the most sanguine anticipations where to put them aU is a question that causes no little trouble. As on previous occasions, we extend a cordial invitation to our ten thousands of friends to call and see us, shake hands and make our house their home4 during their stay in our eity during the week.

Anticipating large increase of trade, we bare bought a stock in accordance, and we can assert without the fear of contradiction, that we have the handsomest, largest and cheapest stock for Men's and Boys' wear of any house in the State of Missouri. Our goods contained on the ground floor (only duplicate upstairs) which obviates the climbing of stairs (make a note of this) We mark everything in plain figures and seUat okh price. Under no consideration do we deriate. Our list of Prises this year is larger than ever before, con Prises this year is larger than eTer berore, con- eisting in parts, of a wagon, sulky Plow, Grain Drill. Lady's Gold watch, 850, Government Bond, a Charter Oak Stove, and numerous others.

Every purchase of five dollars entitles one to a ticket in our drawing. Wishina all our readers an agreeable week, we again respectfully invite yu to call and see your friends. HAMlf ERSLOUSH Co, The One Price Clothiers, 408 and 410 Main Street, Kansas City, Me. P. 8.

Don't be misled by false representations be sure yon are in the right place before yon buy. The leading colors this fall will be Thiers red, mandarin yellow, and dark blue In combination with pale blue, hazel brown, drab and reseda. his work indicated the possibility ofob' taming gas by distillation from fatty or oily substances. From 1799 to 1S02 ho made numerous experiments. Ho established at Havre his first therolamps; but the gfls wliich he obtained, being, a mixture of carbureted hydrogen and oxide of carbon, but imperfeetlv freed from its Impurities, gave only a "feeble light and involved an insupportable odor, and the result was that but little favor was shown the new discovery; the inventor eventually died ruined by his own experiments.

The English soon put into operation one of the crude ideas of Le Bon. In 1804 one Mr. Winsor patented and claimed the credit of inventing the process of lighting by gas; in 1805 several shops in Bu-mingham were illummated by gas manufactured by tho process of Winsor and Murdock. Among the first who used this new light was Watt, the inventor of the steam engine. In 1816 tho first use of gas was padb in London, and it was not until ISIS that this invention, really of French origin, was applied to Fiance.

Deodorizers. A pail of clear water in-a newly painted room will remove the sickening odor of paint. Coffee pounded in a mortar and roasted on an iron plate, sugar burned on hot coals, and vinegar boiled with myrrh and sprinkled on tho floor and furniture of the sick-room are excellent deodorizers. Don't fail to call on nammerslough, the great advertising Helmbold of the West, when at the Kansas City Fair, and see tho most immense stock of clothing-over crowded into one establishment, it is worth your while to see such a man. GREEN MOUNTAIN COUGH BALSAM For aU diseases ot tho Chost and Lungs.

Used in private practice since 1835. Tut beforo the public in 1800. It NEVER FAILS. Price, 23 and 50 Cents. Sample bottles 10 Cents Try it.

All DruRK'sta keep it THOS. HACKETT, Merchant Tailor, No. 13 NVost Fifth Street, Kansas City, Mo. A Superior lino of Imported Goods on hand of the Latest Styles. Good Work and Satisfaction Guaranteed.

A complete line of Fall Goods just received. CONOVER MOT HERS C13 Main Kansas City, Mo. State Agents for STEINWA KONS.KRANCIl BACH PIANOS, GEO. WOOD ORGANS. Wholesalo dealers in Music luoks and Musical Merchandise.

to thm for Catalogues and prices be fore purchasing. B. W. WOODWARD. FAXON.

J. O. HOHTOK TOODYARD, FAXOX fc WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS! Dealer in Taints, Oils and TJlass. 511 Delaware Street, Kansas City, 11 Dr. G.

W.FITZ PATRICK 522 Main Kansas City. Treats all diseases of EYE AND EAR. Keeps Artificial Eves. Located 12 Years. X.T.

STEAJI DYEIIOVNE! Every description of Ladies' Goods or Clothing cleaned, dyed and finished to look like new. Gents' Clothing cleaned, dyed and reuevated. All goods sent bv express promptly attended to. CIIAS. SCHMACK, l'ropriotor.

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The rOl'ULAH MERCHANT TAILOKS, iuvit" everyone to call at No. 005, Main Street, Kansas City," and examine their immense stock of Elegant Cloths for Suit. Send for samples, prices and instructions for measurement. Orders hy mail promptly attended to and fits guaranteed H. P.

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Mfdical Joubxai sent free. Address Drs. Dickkkkox Staiik, Western Surgical Institute K. Cor. 5th Delaware Sts, Kansas City, Mo.

Before and after Treatment. we could see the Border Ruffians running in all directions with their arms. But it was it was too late. We had got what we wanted. On arriving at Lawrence the box was delivered over to the investigation com mittee, and I was furnished with a warrant for the arrest of MacLean and Sherrard.

I returned immediately to Lecompton but found that MacLean and Sherrard had both fled never to I learned that when John Martin and others of tho better class of pro-slavery men found out the facts In the case they told them to leavo or to blow their brains out, as they would not lift a hand to protect them. They got across the Kaw river to the Rising Sun, and there met a farmer with a wagon and a span of mules coming Into town with a oad of wood. They halted the farmer; took his mules from the wagon, mounted them barebacK and rode for dear life for latte City." From there MacLean wrote back a letter to Sheriff Walker offering to pay $1,000 for Information as to who played the spy on him, declaring that his bare baoked mule ride had worn the skin from his legs and posteriors till he was as raw as a quarter of beef. During the Price raid the late Sam Fry and Jerry Glathart were taken prisoners near the Little Blue, and were token before MacLean, who was then Adjutant General on Price's staff. They were at once recognized by MacLean, who treated them with tho utmost courtesy and kind ness, made many inquiries about Lawrence men, and particularly about Sam Walker, to whom he sent his regards.

The examination of the returns found In the candle box revealed the most as tounding and bare-faced frauds, showing among other things that in addition to all the usual forms of illegal voting not less than three thousand names had been ad ded to the different poll lists, taken directly from the Cincinnati directory, and similar sources. The exposure was complete and conclu sive, and the Lecompton conspiracy was crushed almost without an effort. In the United States Senate Stephen A. Douglas and the lamented Brodenck, of California, denounced it in most eloquent and bitter language, and after being submitted to a vote of the people under what was known as the Bill English bill, which offered a splendid bribe, in the shape of school lands and lands for internal improvements, which bribes were rejected almost unani mously and spurned with contempt, the people of Kansas were left free to work out their own destinies, and to organize as a free State, under the Wyandotte con stitution. The famous candle box was sent to Bos ton and there kept for twenty years as a historio relie, with the other collections of Dr.

Thomas H. Webb, the indefatigable Secretary of the New England Emigrant Aid company, it was brought back to Kansas last spring as a part of the Webb collection, purchased by tho Kansas State Historical Society, and Is now deposited as a treasured relic among its archives. It bears a suitable inscription, commemorat ing its history, with the names of the party who assisted Sheriff Walker in re moving it from it3 hiding place and plac ing it where it could do tho most good in tho exposure of one of the most villainous plots ever concocted against the liberties of the people. Poor old Charley Torey died some time since in City, and sleeps in a pau per grave. Gen.

Brindie returned to Pennsylvania, where he is still living as an honored citizen. The above facts are drawn from repeat ed interviews with Gen. Sam. Walker, in the interest of the Lawrence Tribune, and are respectfully submitted as the true story of the candle box Interruptions. One of the most annoying things that can happen to a refined man or woman is to have their conversation constantly in terrupted.

A man or woman who has anything to say that is worth saying, de sires to say it In his or her own way; and those who have brains to appreciate it will be equally desirous of hearing it without Interruption. Yet it is a common thing for a parlor conversation to partake more of the nature of a Tower of Babel than a conversation among rational beings, who are supposed to know and appreciate what each other says. One begins to relate an incident, and before he has finished two sentences, some parrot in fine clothes chimes in with her senseless gabble, break. Ing the thread of discourse, and compelling the narrator to begin again, or abandon the attempt to instruct or entertain. This Is the grossest Impoliteness; nevertheless, it is as common an occurrence as conver sation Itself.

It is not too much to say that nine out of ten people who indulge this habit are incapable of carrying on a rational conversation on any useful topic, and indulge in these breaches of etiquette by way of covering their retreat and hiding their ignorance. Here is a prom ising field for social reform. Profits of Ocean Cables. The report of the Direct United States Cable Company for the six months ending June 30. 1878, shows a revenue, alter de ducting payments to associated compa nies, amounting to The expen ses were 28,725, leaving a balance of 50,126 profits.

During the year three quarterly dividends of 1J per cent, each have been paid, amounting to A final dividend is now proposed by the Directors, making (including the three quarterly dividends above mentioned) per cent, for the year, or a total of 60, 710. The reserve fund now amounts to 40,000, while to the revenue account there Is a balance of 2,933. The cost of the late expedition by the steamship Minta to repair the break in the cable, caused oy fouling of an anchor ol a Gloucester nsn ing vessel with the same, was 9,659. The Pullman Cars. During his recent trip to Europe, Mr.

George M. Pullman contracted with the East Coast line between England and Scotland, consisting of the London Great Northern and the North Eastern and North British roads, for the services of the Pull man cars, and they commenced running on the 19th Inst. The number of these cars now running in England exceeds those run in this country ten years ago. The cars were manufactured In the piece in Detroit, and were put together in England. They are of the same pattern substantially as the American cars.

The price of sections and state-rooms will be about the same as in this country. Mr. N. S. Roberts, formerly of the Canada Southern road, is Superintendent of the European business.

Railroads in the World. There are in the world 184,002 miles of road, of which there are in America (North and South, including Canada) 83,420 miles; in Europe, 89,430 miles; in Asia, 7,681 miles; in Africa, 1,519 miles; in Australia, 1,924 miles; sundry, 20 miles. In the United States there are 74,095 miles, against 17,141 in Germany, 16,894 In Eng-and, 13,492 in France, and 11,555 in Russia. The total cost of all the railroads in the world is given at $16,313,500,000. The aggregate European roads cost on an average of $111,137 per mile; those of the United States, outside of Europe and the United States, $122,000 per mile.

Two-fifths of the railways in th world are in the United States. Out the total of 184,002 miles in the wor 165.402 were built in a period of twea six years, from 1850 to 1876 inclusive. Back draperies are slightly more bouffant, and there are no perceptible paniers on the earliest importation of fall dresses By the time we reached the bluffs tween her and her wedding dar. She was Dusy in her sewing room on this last day, finishing some ruffles in lace and ribbon, and singing to herself, when suddenly, the house was filled with sharp cries An old servant, while cutting the grass upon the lawn, had wounded himself severely. The doctor was sent for at once, but was not a home, and meanwhile poor Zebedee was bleeding to death.

Sundenly Ida Halifont remembered that Mr. humphries had said that he understood wounds as well as though he had been a surgeon. With this it would have been natural for her to call upon him who was soon to be her protector, in a moment of anxiety. She would call him herself, that there might not be any delay, and seizing her garden hat, she ran along a little path that led from her grounds to those of Mr. Humphries, climbed a low fence, to save time which would have been lost in reaching a gate, and so gained the rear of the dwelling of which to-morrow she would be mistress.

She thought herself terrified and distressed. She felt rather Injured that such an unpleasant thing as the wounding of poor Zebedee should have happened on the eve of her wedding day. Ten minutes after she thought of herself at the moment as utterly at ease wonderous happy for as she reached those windows and peeped half timidly through the curtains, a thing happened that made all she had ever suffered appear as nothing. The room, the window or which sne naa approached, was one that 'opened out of conservatory. She saw Colonel Humphries busy with some rare plants he had just set out in the warm sunshine that fell through the glass.

He had taken off his coat and rolled up his sleeves. Now he left the conservatory and coming forward, proceeded to wash his hands in a basin of water that had been set ready for him. He was close to Ida Halifont. He did not see her, but she could have reached out her hand and touched him. Why did she not speak aad call him by name? Why did she sink down upon her knees and clasp her hands and tremble like an aspen leaf? Alas! the awful reason was this: Upon that right aim, to which she was about to give the right to clasp her In tenderest embrace, she saw a terrible mark a mark she had seen before.

She knew its shape and size, and color. Her eyes had been riveted upon it as the sinewy hand, at wristit ended, grasping her dying husband's throat. She learned it all by heart; she could not be deceived. Though years had passed away, that horrible marked arm was not to bo forgotten or mistaken for any other. Suddenly Colonel Humphries felt himself grasped by a hand that, small as it was, had the fierce clutch of a tiger's claw.

The fingers closed over that red mark a white face close to his. 'You are my husband's hissed a voice in his ear. Then the two stood staring each other. He made no denial. He only looked down at the red mark on his arm and cursed it aloud.

How dare you make love to she gasped. 'You 'Because I loved he said. 'Woman, if I had not fallen in love with you that night I should have killed you also. It was isiilng my life to spare you, with your screams calling men to hunt me down 'Oh, if you had but killed me then! she moaned. 'Well, I am at your mercy he said.

She answered: 'You can kill! 1 wish you would. I pray you do it. You killed my husband. The murderer of my husband must be brought to justice, and I yesterday, nay an hour ago loved you! Oh, God pity me! I loved this man, this thief, who came in the night to rob my husband, and who murdered She remembered saying this. Afterwards a strange drowsiness overcame her.

She seemed to let go her hold on the world. She faintly recognized the fact the Colonel Humphries knelt at her feet and kissed her hands. Then there were blank hours, and strange wild dreams, and she awoke in the twilight and found herself bound Wast to the great arm-chair, long cords about her arms and confining her feet. bo her servants found her; but she was the only living being in the great house. Colonel Humphries and his two black ser vants had vanished, no one knew whither.

The empty bottle of chloroform on the floor the fact that he had left little be hind him, and that he had always kept his money in a form that left him free to leave tho country at any time, all proved that detection had been prepared for. And he was never traced or had the means to bribe those who were set upon his track. Ida Haufont lived through it all. She lives to-day in the quiet house beside the river, but no one has ever seen her smile since that hour. No one will ever see her smile again; and from her deepest slum bers she ofte starts in terror, fancying that she sees uplifted menacingly above her that cruel, terrible arm, marked with the blood-red stain.

There is no hope of happiness for her, for she can never forget that this arm has also embraced her. Pulled Down the Wrong Test. The Oil City Derrick tells the following story of Genoral Carey's last visit to the oil regions. He was making a greenback speech, and to illustrate a point he said: "Here is a piece of engraved paper a greenback," and he thrust his labor-cat loused thumb and finger into his vest pocket. That wasn't thd right pocket and he immediately passed over into the other one.

Although the General's thumb and linger seemed to be making a thorough Investigation, yet they did not come in contact with the sought-for bank note "Here Is a piece of engraved paper," re peated the eloquent apostle of greenbacks, so that the audience might not lose the thread of discourse; "hero is a piece of engraved paper, a greenback, and he new from one pocket to another with lightning- like rapidity. Some bloated bondholders and hard money Democrats on the back seats began to snicker, and one of them said: "General, you have either pulled down the wrong vest, or you have on your other pants. This very poor wit created some laugh ter, but the General was not cast down. Turning his pantaloons pockets inside out, and exhibiting them in all their emptiness, he said: No, gentlemen, I have not got on my other pants. These are all the pants that I possess.

The trouble with me, as with nine-tenths of my hearers to-night, is not that pants are too plentiful, but that money is too confounded scarce! The house eame down promptly, and during the uproar the General negotiated a loan of from one of the vice-r re si dents of the meeting and proceeded with the Illustration. A Warning. Bayard Taylor, of the American Lega tion at Berlin, in a dispatch to the State Department at Washington, warns natur alized citizens of the United States of the dangers and annoyances they will en counter in a temporary sojourn in Germa ny, says: "It would be well if natu ralized citizens contemplating visits to their former homes, were officially advised that many possible annoyances may be by declaring the probable term of thelr stay to the local German authorises on arriving, and by abstaining from irritating political discussions, and by quickly obeying such municipal laws and regulations as apply to temporary as well as perma nent residents." very broken English supposed to be not rnore than haif witted, who was employed at the Survevor-General olnce as janitor. He kept the keys, buiit the fires, swept the floors and did chores of all sorts, was never watched because he was considered too stupid to know what was going on, and to be reliably pro-slavery besides, but he was a3 sly and cunning as a fox as soft-footed as a cat and being from Pennsylvania, was a warm and devoted friend and faithful servant without pay for General William Brindie, he receiver at the land office, also kept at Lecompton Gen. Brindelhwoilea pronounced Democrat and generally deemed a pro-slavery man was at heart a bitter opponent of the pro-slavery programme as was also his brother-in-law Harry Petri-ken who boarded in his family, and so it was that whenever old Charley noticed anything of an unusual character going on among the pro-slavery men at the Surveyor-General's office or elsewhere, he lost no time in reporting his discovery to General Brindie, who if he deemed it important enough to warrant it would at once put the old fellow on horseback and send him to Sam.

Walker with the news. Walker was a Pennsylvanian. and old Charley reposed the fullest confidence in him, but exacted a solemn oath from him that he would never discover his agency in any of these affairs as long as he lived; repeatedly declaring that they would kill him sure if they had the slightest suspicion of the part he was playing. And so it was that old Charley was the connecting link between Lecompton and Lawrence between the pro-slavery propaganda at the Surveyor-General's office, and the Free State Abolitionism of the Historic city between General Brindie and Sam. Walker.

Gen. Brindie was a couslant and profuse contributor to the columns of the pro-slavery paper at Lecompton, and thus held himself above suspicion; while "Old Char-lev," if interrupted in any of his nocturnal ndes to Sam. Walker's, would have drawn his cloak of idiocy around him and jabbered unintelligibly in Dutch till his interrogators were wearied out, it not satisfied. Such was the state of affairs, when, on the evening of February 1, 1858, General MacLean and Mr. Sherrard returned at dark to Lecompton, after swearing falsely at Lawrence that Calhoun had taken the election returns to Platte.

City. They went at once to the Surveyor-General of fice, gathered up the returns, placed them in a candle-box, sealed it up carefully, and went out to where there was a large wood pile containing about a hundred cords of wood, removed a portion of the wood di rectly in front of the window near which MacLean's desk was placed, dug a hole and put the candle-l)ox in it, and then caref uliy replaced the wood so as to leave no visible trace of the work. It was dark before this time, but they used no lantern. Old Char ley saw everything without attracting any attention, and without understanding anything of the nature of the papers, or the object of their secret burial. But he knew it meant mischief of some kind, and as usual he reported to Gen.

Brindie. Gen Brindie was also at a loss for an explanation, as he had been led to believe that the returns were in Missouri, but his brother in-law, Henry Petnken, had just returned from Lawrence, where he had heard Mac iean ana buerraru swear, ana he at once guessed the truth, which once suggested, needed no further proof. Old Charley made a neat diagram of the woodpile, marking carefully the exact point where the candle-box was buried, and then with a message from Gen. Brindie, mounted and rode to Walker's house, where he arrived about ten o'clock in the evening. No ex planations were needed to make Sam Walker understand, and with old Chat ley's diagram of the wood pile in his pocket, he mounted his horse, and in forty minutes he rode into Lawrence, waked up Ewing, and demanded a search warrant for the returns, and also a warrant lor the arrest of Mac Lean and Sherrard.

After some delay he obtained the search warrant, which was issued by the late Jo-siah Miller, then Probate Judge; but Ewing refused to procure the issue of an order for the arrest of the two perjured witnesses, for fear of bringing on a fight; for it must be remembered that Lecompton was at that time like a hornets nest, with not less than 1,200 or 1,500 men in it, nearly all pro-slavery, and all armed to the teeth Eighteen men were employed as clerks in the Surveyor-General's office, and forty stand ol arms were Kept there constantly loaded and reauy ror any emergency. waiKer was aware oi mis tact, and arranged with "Old Charley" to draw the loads and fill the gun barrels with water Armed with the search warrant Sheriff Walker lost no time in organizing his posse, which consisted of Lieut. George Earl, of the invincible and indefatigable "Stubbs," with twelve privates of the company, as follows, viz: Lewis N. Tap- pan, Gates, A. uunther, S.

Hanscomb, J. lv. wnite, J. onepnera, s. Gerrold, J.

King, J. B. Haines and Webster, all armed with sharp rines, which they car ried under their overcoats as they entered the town, to avoid attracting unnecessary attention. Having arranged with Lieut. Earl and "the boys" to meet him at the Land office by sunrise in the morning, Sheriff Walker returned at once to Lecompton, saw old Carley and found he had everything ar ranged and fixed as agreed on.

Gen. Walker says: "By sun up 'the boys' were all on hand, with their Sharp's rines concealed unaer tneir overcoats "We started for the Surveyor-General's ofhee once. "Early as it was, McLean was at his desk with a pair of revolvers before him, and about a dozen of the clerks had already arrived. Old Charley was making a fire in the General's stove. "Placing the boys around the office, entered the office with Geo.

Earl, as brave a man as ever lived. Gen. MacLean salu- tea me in nis grun way, and asked me what I wanted. I replied that I wanted those returns. "Looking me right in the eye, he thun dered out: 'Damn you! do you think I would swear to a lie? Did I not swear yesterday that those returns were gone to Platte City, Missouri! I replied: "That is so, General! But have got a search warrant for them!" Search and be 6aid MacLean 'You will not find them.

"But I know, General, where they are, remarked. Where are they he said. "under tne wood pile, was my answer, "That touched him, and his eye flashed with excitement, 'God damn you! he ex claimed, 'I forbid your searching these premises, at the same time snatching a re volver from the desk. "But George Earl was to quick for him for placing the muzzle of his Sharp's rifle against the back of MacLean's head, Ear; ordered him to lay down his revolver or he would blow the top of his head off. "The General turned vhite and laid down his revolver, "His clerks sprang for their muskets but dropped them again as soon as they saw the water running out of them.

It was amusing to see their blank faces; old Char ley was poking away at the Btove with a broad grin on his face. "Leaving Earl to Guard the prisoners. went out to the wood pile and showedtbe uovs wnere to dig. "After removing some wood and digging down two feet we found the candle-box. The boys thought they had struck box of money, and did not know any bet ter till we reached Lawrence.

"We could have brought MacLean along The True Story of the Calhoun Candle- Box Affair. Reminiscences of an ex-Judge of the preme Court. Su- BY LAWBKNCB T. BAILEY. In Lawrence Tribune.

Kansas has made more history than any of her Western sisters. It is a history to be proud of, abounding in episodes of startling incidents and adventures, many of which have never yet been written at all, and many others have been written inaccurately from inadequate or imperfect data. Of the latter class is the story of the "Candle-Box," in which the returns of the fraudulent elections under the infamous Lecompton constitution, were buried under a wood pile at Lecompton, and from which they were exhumed and produced before the first Free State Legislature of the Territory, sitting at Lawrence, in the winter ol 1853. The situation at that time was critical as a few, words will explain: The Free State immigration of 1857 had been immense and had almost completely overwhelmed the pro-slavery element in the Territory. But under the provisions of a law of the previous Border Ruffian Legislature, a convention had been called to frame a State constitution, and as the Free State men had persistently ignored all the doings of that legislature and of this elec tion for members of a convention under it, the members of the convention were unani mously pro-slavery.

The convention sat at Lecompton, guarded by U. S. bayonets, and under the favor of President Buchanan, his entire cabinet and of the Democratic party generally. It was presided over by Gen. John Calhoun who was at the same time Surveyor-General of Kansas and Nebraska, and who was supposed to be the friend, favorite and protege of Senator Stephen A.

Douglas. He was known to have fixed his ambition on a seat in the United States Senate; and if the new State of Kansas could be forced into the Union under the Lecompton constitution with a pro-slavery legislature elected under it, his a nbition was pretty sure to be gratified. The returns of the election for State officers and members of the legislature under this constitution, were directed to be made to the president of the convention, General Calhoun. It was generally eupposed that the Free State men would take no part in this election, but allow it to go pro-slavery by de fault, while they made a determined resist ance against tn3 admission ot the State under that constitution as an outrage and a fraud. But almost at the last moment the Free State men changed their tactics and nomi nated a full ticket for State officers and members of the legislature, and they claimed to have carried the election; but of this they could get no conclusive proof because the returns of the election were made to Gen.

Calhoun, and he refused to make them public or allow them to be examined. The pro-slavery party, however. oudly proclaimed that they had elected the State officer i and a majority of the egislature, and they only waited for Con gress to pass the act of admission to organize the government as a full fledged Slave State and send Gen. Calhoun and some other pro-slavery man to the United States Senate, and then if any resistance should be made by Free State men they would call on President Buchanan for troops to put down the "rebellion.1' The utter dev-ilishness of Buchanan's whole course in relation to Kansas gave good reason to be lieve that this infamous scheme would be carried out to the last letter, unless it could be defeated in Congress by an exposure of the frauds committed, and by showing them to be too glaring and in for self-respecting Democrats in Congress to sanction. The Territorial Legislature was Free State by a large majority and soon after it convened a committee of investigation was appointed to examine into the election un der the Lecompton constitution ana to make full exposure of the frauds known to have been committed as well as those suspected on the best of grounds.

This commission appointed January 20, 1858, consisted of Messrs. Henry J. Adams, E. L. Taylor, Thomas Ewing, J.

B. Abbott, Dillon Pickering and II. T. Green. Ewing was made chairman.

No sooner had this commission been appointed than Gen. Calhoun, who was head and front of the pro-slavery faction in the Territory, took the alarm and made haste to get across the border into Missouri leaving the Surveyor-General's office in charge of his chief clerk, L. A. MacLean, afterwards Chief of Staff to Gen. Sterling Priee.

MacLean reported that Calhoun had taken the election returns with him and being summoned before the investigating commission he swore that he had done so as did also another clerk in the office named Sher-rard, brother of the Sherrard killed for spitting in the face of Governor Geary, the winter before. Both swore positively that Calhoun had taken the returns with him to Platte City, Mo. Their story was believed for a short time, xud the investigation seemed to be baffled. It was known that the most unblushing frauds had been committed at Oxford, Kickapoo, Delaware Crossing and at other places, but the exact dimensions and extent of those frauds could only be proved by the returns themselves and these two reliable witnesses MacLean and Sherrard swore positively that the returns were not in Kansas but in Platte City, Missouri. That testimony was given in the afternoon of February 1, 1858 and was accepted as true, but before midnight Gen.

Ewing, chairman of the commission, was awakened from his sleep at the Commercial House, in Lawrence, and told that the sworn statement of MacLean and Sherrard was an absolute lie, and that the returns were still in Lecompton and would be produced if a search warrant should be furnished the informant together with some dozen horses for the use of a psse, consisting of Lieut. George Earl, and twelve men of the "Stubb" Sharp's Rifle company, so famous in the early history of Lawrence. At first Ewing was incredulous and insisted on knowing upon what authority he was to act. His informant replied "Upon my authority. I vouch for the truth of the story and I will produce the returns if 1 am furnished with a search warrant." The authority was sufficient and the search warrant was forthcoming.

Now who was the man who waked Gen. Ewmg at midnight to give him this important information? He is a man we all know and respect, a man who knows more of the early history of Douglas county in its minutest details than any other man living. It was Sam. Walker, at that time Sheriff of Douglas county, afteward3 Major of the Fifth Kansas Cavalry, of the Sixteenth Kansas Cavalry and Biig-dier-General by brevet for gallant service. He lived at that time about three miles south of Lecompton, had his house burned by the pro-slavery gang in 1856 and was then and ii yet as reliable as truth and as unyielding as a flint.

Sam. Walker told Ewing, but who told him where the returns were? Thereby hangs a tale hitherto untold, and we believe unsuspected. In all those troublous times while the Surveyor-General's office was at Lecomp- TUE REASON WHY. Our Daisy lay down In her little nightgown, Arid kissed me again and again, On forehead and cheek, On lips that would speak. But found themselves shut, to their gain.

Then foolish, absurd, To utter a word, I a-ked her the question so old, That wife and that lover Asked over and over, As if they were surer when told. Then close at her side "Do yon love me I cried Sho lifted her golden-crowned head. A puzzled suprise fchown in her gray eyes -Why, that's why I kiss you," shesaid. THE MARKED ARM. A Circumstance from Real Life.

Click! In the dead of nhrht the sharp sound wakened Mrs. Halifont. The room was dark. Not even a gleam of moon or starlight fell through the curtains of the windows. It was a very strange sound indeed, but she saw nothing, heard noth-incr more.

She sat up, leaning on her dimpled left elbow, and Dut out her nernt nana ana touched her husband's shoulder. He lay upon his pillow sound asleep, and did not awaken at ner toucn. "It must have been a dream" said Mrs Wall font: and her vouns head she was onlv the bride of a year nestled down closer to her husband's arm and she slept again. Click! This time the sound did not arouse Mrs. TTalifnnt.

It was her husband who awa kened. Ho did not pause to listen, but grasped the revolver beneath his pillow and jumped out of bed at once. In an alcove in the next room stood a safe which remained monev and valuables. It was not one of the wonderful new safes which defy fire and burglars, but an old one that had been the iamuy a ions wduo. m.i TTalifnnt knew on the instant that some nriA was onenins the safe.

A man of courage, who never hesitated In the hour of danger one. too, who had a warm reeard for his worldly possessions, Mr. Halifont strode into the room, where ho knew house breakers were at work, and running in the dark against a powerful man. tackled him at once. The light of a lantern flashed across the room.

There were two more men. Three against one. Tho sound of blows, struggling, and the report of a pistol aroused the young wife once more. Amidst her terror, she bad the good sense to light the gas. It shone upon a spectacle of horror.

Her husband weltering in his blood, wrest ling with a marantic man. whose features were concealed by a mask of black crape; a man, tne upper pari, 01 wuuse yensuu was clothed only in a knitted woolen shirt, of some dark color, with sleeves that left his great arms bare. On the right one, the one wliich clutched Mr. Halifont's throat, was a red mark, or brand, a scar, a birthmark. It would have been impossible for Mrs.

Halifont, even in a calmer moment, to tell what it was; but it indelibly impressed itself upon her mind, as she bravely cast herself into the struggle, and fought with all her might to drag the horrible hand from her husband's throat, screaming all the while for aid. A blow, a kick would have silenced her. The burglar must have known that, but there are few bad men who could not use violence towards a woman to save their own lives. This man could not. His companions had flown with their booty, help might arrive at any moment.

With a given effort ho wrenched himself from th3 clutch of his victim, and let go Ms throat and sped away. It was not too soon; assistance arrived, now that it was too late, 'but Mr. Halifont did not live to tell the story. Ho was mortally wounded. His young wife watched by his bedside uatil ho breathed his last, then dropped beside seuseless.

For weeks she raved In wild delirium of the murderous hand, of the great muscular arm. with the scar upon it, and called up on them all to save her husband's life; but she was young and had a fine constitution. After awhile her health returned, and at last her mind regained its equipoise. She removed from the city and took up her abode in a lonely country place, with a favorite sister for a companion. She had resolved, as all widows who have loved their husbands do at first, to remain widow forever.

And indeed, though many men would nave giaaiy temptea one so young, beautiful and wealthy, to change her niind on thi3 point, sho seemed to care less for any one of them than for the kit ten which purred upon her knee, or the black and tan terrier which ran by her side along the garden path. She was nineteen when her husband was murder ed: at thlrty-tw she was still true to his memory. la anyone forever true to another's memory out of a romance anyone who does not die young? In this, the lapsing summer of woman's life, when she pre tended to believe that antumn had actually come, temptation to inconsistency assailed her. For many years a fine house upon a neighboring estate had been empty, but now there came to take possession of It gentleman not vet forty. A widower with plenty of money and no children, a hand some man, well built and stalwart, with magnificent hair, and eyes that were like diamonds.

Spanish eyes Indeed he call ed himself a Spaniard, and his speech be trayed a foreign accent. The dark eyes and the blue ones met, i few neighborly words exchanged, a call followed soon. Mrs. Halifont felt a new emotion creeping into her heart. She felt pleased and flattered by the stranger's admiration.

Then she was loved and re Jolced and so soon discovered that she herself loved again. At first she was angry at herself, then she wept at her inconsistency, but at last she yielded utterly. After all, it was the love that made her untruesince she loved she could never pride herself on be ing faithful again, and so she listened to the sweet words, that, despite herself, maae ner nappy, and promised to marry uoionei Humphries. When a widow doesmarrv the second time, she generally contrives to make a fool of herself. Mrs.

Halifont had certainly not done as foolishly as some widows do. She had neither chosen a little boy, nor a titled Italian without money enough to keep himself In maccaroni. Her future husband was older than herself, and too rich to be suspected of any intention of being a for tune hunter, but, after all, no one knew him. He came tc the neighborhood with out letters of introduction to any one, and whether he won his fortune by trade, or came to it by inheritance, remained mystery. -l here were those who shrugged their shoulders and declared that Mrs.

Halifont would regret not having chosen some on of whom more was known some retired merchant of fortune whose father had Deen known to her friends. Nothing 10 oe sure, could be said against tho bpaniard or Cuban, with the English name, due who Knew anything to his favor? However, no one said this to Mrs. Hali lout, and II any one had, words never changed a woman fancy yet. Mrs. Hali font believed herself to be a very happy woman, one once more duui castles in the air.

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