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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1897)
THE COURIER. 9 The Flame of The Temple, In the city of Kangluc something bap ened which caused the greatest exci'e ment. This was twenty years t go and nearly everybody who knew of it has died or forgotten it. Something else happened which, althougii very serious to a few, was forgotten a deal sooner than the other thing. Up on tho hill just at the west of tho town is the trmple in which burned the Everlasting tire. A priest sat night and day by the altar upon which burned the fire and guarded it from profane touch and fed it with peanut oil. Tho story tellers of Kingluc Raid that the flame had burned for u thousand yearp, and at tirst bad been catrird through the forest of Er Rarat, a hundred miles from the tlame at Libb. Hut then they are such liars. You can never believe them. It happened just at noon that the flame went out and the priest came run ning bare-footed down the street, shriek ing and jeiking at his long white beard. Of course as soon as the people knew it, shops and bazaars were closed as by magic, and in a little time the whole people were crowding and pushing up the hill, weeping and howling. ThiB ilame had been burning for a thousand years, you will remember, and to have it go out meant much. Then, too, as is customary in any ex citement, an Englishman was said to be at the bottom of it; and in scarcely ten minutes tho town was threatened by one of the worst riots since the capture of Al Soor. However, the English officials talked and swore, and policemen broke beads, and the men at the club went in to the mob with their polo sticks, and soon the disturb ince was at an end. The shopmen sat calmly behind their wares and no one would have dreamed that such a tuimoil was going on an hour previous. Scarcely was this set' led though, than it was discovered that Mrs. Ormslry's little boy was missing. Ormsley him self was off north and would not be back for two weeks, and Mrs. Ormsley was distracted over the lost. No doubt in all the riot of the afte noon, some one Btirrcd by tho idea that the English caused the trouble in tii9 temple, had spirited the child away, 'ibis was the generally ac:epted explanation and part ies searched through the city for a week but nothirg was forthcoming. Threats were numerous, and a native dreads an Englishman's threat, but still nothing was discovered. These were the two things that happened twenty jears ego. After a while Ormsley and his wife went away, and weie forgotten as we all are out here. Then tho temple was closed up and the peoplo worshipped in another temple on tho othsr side of the town. The English residents changed and moved away, and the native ones died or did the same, and the old temple grew damp and musty, and natives said it was full of snakes and spirits. Last summer Lieut. Bradford and John Camden came to Kangluc. They both bad something of the archeologist about them, and determined at once to go into the old temple. They had worked together up in Syna and Axtam and knew what might be found in just such an old place as this. One aficrnoon they started out, carry ing light swords to deal with the snakes. At first they experienced some difficulty in getting into the ruin for the door bad been walled up. When the flame 13 once extinguished in one of these temples the natives will have nothing more t) do with it, io they wall up the doors. Bradford and Camden climbed over the walls with the aid of vines and trees until at last they found an opening through which they passed, pickicg their way down to the floor. The build ing was lighted by an opening in the roor, and was in many places apparent ly in good condition. One or two foun tains were still running, though the basins were covered with cteepera through which they could see glisten ing snakes. They discovered nothing of any par ticular interest until at last they came to the altar upon which tba llame had formerly burned. Fart of this altar had crumbled and Bradford, probing around with bid weapon, knocked nioro of it down, and lying against one of these inner sides they found a little skeleton. On one of its linger tones was a little gold ting with tho name Ormsley stamped plainly uron the inside. Hardly bad they found this when thera came tottering out from a little alcove an old man, clothed in rags and bearing the scars of innumerable wounds. Camden afterwards related that if it bad been possible he would have gone into the fresh air at once, but not being able he thought he might as well see what was going to happen. Lieut. Bradford understood something of native life and nature and by skillful questioning succeeded in drawing out the account of the fall of the temple. On a certain day many years before, so said the priest, be had been watchiDg at the altar. His vigil had been a long one, and it was toward noon that he fell asleep. When he awoke he looked at the altar and saw the flame was out the flame which had buraed for a thous and years and during his watch also. Close by stood a little English child laughing. Without doubt thi3 was the cause of the terrible disaster. The awfulnees of hi negligence made him desperate and he strangled the child and thrust it into the altar. Ihen be ran forth. That same night he bad been tortured in that very temple and the scats showed what had happened. He bad been left for dead but bad got well again, though sometimes his mind was not clear. That was caused by tho torturing. He lived in the temple still, for he like J te be where the flame had burned and where the child had died. GEORGE C. SHEDD. "A man often says: "My business is different from any other kind; it's almost impossible to advertise my business." That remark shows a misunderstanding of what advertising is. 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