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fW STORY OF THE WAR
By Mary A, lAvermore
H(,on Klrr.tlv.uf t.t.ll K VL Ui I'KUiUltll. IIPIKU
I'M K as M list lujluaplula, Cm:., anil on Ilia UatUc-ld.
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XXJ MONT, OVE. 3D.
UP A TREE.
No one in Samamos could over
understand wbnt plcastiro Arthur Pcr
via and I found in taking long walka,
or why wo should do so, wlion wo
might just & well rido.
Everybody else, liko most Cali
(ornians wont on horseback whenever
it was possible, and a stroll to the
poflt-ofllco or along tho beach was the
utmost extent of pedestrianism.
But Arthur and I tramped tho coun
try in all directions, ns wo used to do at
home, paying little attention to tho
mild surprise of tho winters sojourners,
who wonder nt our ccocntrioity, onl
still lcrs to tho scornful astonishment
of tho natives, who can not conceivo
but one reason why ono should go on
foot that ho is too poor to buy or hire
a horso.
Ono morning wo started on nnozpodi
tion to tho Hot Spring canyon, in tho
mountains somo six miles from town,
intending to got our lunch at tho hotel
there, and afterwards to spond tho rest
of tho day in climbing tho mountains
above, towards which we had always
looked longingly during previous vis
its to the place.
Off wo went, at our customary road
paco of four miles an hour, between
tho pepper treo hedges of tho town
and out into tho open country, whero
green grass and growing crops mado
it hard to realize that thu month was a
winter ono, and that our Now England
homes wore smothered in snow, with
the thermometer very likely down bo
low zero.
In fact, it might havo been a littlo
cooler without any objection from us,
for tho warm sun and breczeless air
soon worked their effects, and when
we reached the littlo hotel, precisely
nn hour and a half after Btarting, our
crimson faces, relieved and set off by
yellow dust, gave us a startling Indian
osquo appearance, whioh our tremen
dous appetite at lunch did net at all ill
suit. Ilowover, after an hour or two
wo were ready for furthor operations
the moro so since, the sky having be
come overcast, it was much less warm
than in tho forenoon.
"Looks as if tho fog might como in
later," said tho hotel keeper as wo set
out. "Keep an oyo for it boys."
Arthur and I laughed. We wero
both from tho eastern Maine sea coast,
whero for days at a time you can't see
across the street so thick is tho mist,
and a light California log did not
strike us as very formidable.
"All right' wo replied. "It we seo
a. regular 'Eastport smotherer' heaving
in sight we'll como baok."
And, with another laugh, wo beoan
clambering up tho deep slope, leaving
host gazing doubtfully after as long as
he could seo us.
I must say that a moro deceitful
mountain than that couldn't bo found
anywhere. It hadn't appeared vory
lofty whon looked at from below, but
the longer wo climbed tho higher it
seemed to grow, and there wero so
many ridges and gullies crossimr its
side that, what with going up ono and
down another, wo must havo gone
noarly twico as far as if tho acclivity
bad been smooth.
'This is moro of a iob than 1
thought," puffed Arthur, while wo
wero resting at tho end ot the first
hour,
"I should say so, assented I, look
ing up towards tho top or rather where
I supposed it to be, for another of
thoso provoking ridges barred tho way
and shut off every glimpso of what
might bo beyond.
'If wo don t hurry," continued
Arthur reluctantly rising from tho
bowlder ho had been sittincr upon. "I
don't' believo wo shall got there in time,
tor it grows dark early, you know, and
I wouldn't bo cauaht ud hero after
sunset for a good deal."
"bamo with me: tho landlord savs
thero are no end of gulohes and pro
cipicos all around, and wo might easy
tumble in or off ono. Yos wo must
hurry."
iso oil wo started up tho ridce. find
ing on crossing it, that thero were, as
usual, moro of the Bamo kind yet to bo
passed, running in nil directions and
pretty thickly covered with chaparral
and stunted trees a mixture of rocks.
bru?h and steep banks anything but
pleasant 10 contempiato itr tuoso who
must either get throuch it or else turn
back.
But neither of us being of tho turn
ing baok sort wo plunged into tho
labyrinth, with tho result that after
half an hour's hard struggling, wo
simultaneously stopped and turned to
each other in complelo bewilderment.
"Arthur, I think we're lost."
"And I'm sure of it Sam."
Will, that was just the stato of tho
caso. We hadn t tho remotest idea
whero wo were, nor which way to go.
Nothing was to bo Been but sharp
pinioles or long ridtree, divided bv
deep, narrow gorges, shut in with
busreB, and generally obscure and con
fusing. men, lor the urst time, wo perceiv
ed mat Uio sky was covered with driv
ing gray ecuds, flying 60 low as to al
most touoh the treo tops.
"We'ro dono for," said Arthur, ro-
signedly. Tbo fog's coming, and in
halt an hour we might bo blind, for all
tho good our oyos will do us."
"Oh not so bad as that, said I.
"Theso fogs aro nothing to what we'vo
been used tp."
Perhaps not but you'll find this ono
will bo enough nnd to Bpare. down here
in tneso guicues, with night coming on,
besides,''
There was something in that a
great deal too muoli, in fact, and tho
question arose, what wero we going to
dOT
"We must go down and got as far
as wo can beforo wo havo to stop,
men wo must watt tin wo can seo
again."
"Which may not bo till to-morrow
morning. '
"Wo can t help that. Lot's go back
towards tno base.
"But which way is tbatJ"
"Don't know. Como on.
And, with this unpromising spoccaV
Arthur lod tho way in tho direction we
had come hoping to bo able to rctraoe
our course.
I followed though without any great
conuuenco in his success, tor wo had
become very thoroughly lost beforo
being willing to acknowledge it, and
migni nave travelled in circles over
sinoo getting into broken ground.
Wo had not gono far beforo the
streamers of vapor began floating
around ns lino wreaths ot steam. I hoy
grew longer and moro numerous, until,
without knowing whon or how it hap
pened, wo found ourselves buried in a
fog. And it was growing dark, too.
Arthur finally stopped and said de
cidedly ;
"Sam, it's perfect foolishness to kceji
on in this way. Wo don't know
whoro wo'ro going. Wo'ro only tiring
ourselves out, and tho first thnig wo
know wo may pitch head first off somo
precipice. Let's stop and wait for
morning."
I was obliged to admit that ho was
right. Between dnrknos and fog, wo
could not seo whero wo placed our feet,
and all about us was as black as a clos
ed collar.
"Theso rocks won't mako a very soft
bed," I remarked, after accepting
Arfhur's proposition.
"No they won't j nnd I don't think
it's Bafo to Bleep on tho ground. There
nro California lions around these
mountains, and I've hoard that rattle
snakes aro not very Bcarco either, Wo
must find a good trpo and got into
that."
Finding even so largo nn object ns
a tree is not always tbo easiest task in
tho world, whon ono can't seo anything
whatever, and wo gropod around un
successfully until wo began to think
that wo Bhould havo to tako our
chanocs of California lions, rattle
snakes and any other dangers tho
mountains might afford. But just
then I camo in collision witli some
thing round and hard that gavo mo a
severe bump on tho nose.
"I'vo found one, Arthur I" I exclaim
ed. "Come along slowly till you
touch me. I m standing against it.
Ho did bo, then assisted me to climb
tho invisible tree.
It was twisted and distorted, liko all
mountain trees exposed to hich
winds, extending out at an ancle from
the great rock under which its roots
found nourishment, so that its inclined
trunk and heavy branches mado by no
means tho worst of resting places.
Wo stowed ourselves away in the
first and second forks, glad enough to
rest after our hard day s tramp.
Supposing tho time to bo Bomowhoro
about 8 o'oloi k, wo would havo to stay
thero for somo eight or nine hours till
sunrise, and tho night air, combine 1
with tho fog, was cold and damp.
But, on the other hand, wo found a
a fow biscuits in our pockets; and our
coats wero heavy. Wo wero not so
badly situated after all.
1 hen too, tho mommtr would prob
ably be clear, and with the sun for a
guide wo couid certainly find our way.
"Oh wo can stand this 1" wo acrecd.
cheerily. It'll bo a long night but
that's tho worst of it. It'll do us no
harm, and will teach us to carry com
passes tho next timo wo go mountain
eering." In this frame of mind wo prepared to
tough it out. It was a long night and
a most uncomfortablo one.
At first we could not get to sleep.
try as wo would, and wo talked and
told stories for hours. Then wo began
to feel drowsy, and settled ourselves
as well as wo could to tako a nap.
But tho hard nes js of the rough
wood and tho frequent aches and
cramps which ran through us made
sleeping difficult, and oven dangerous,
lor both of us came within an aco of
tailing out ot tho treo several times
during tho night.
Once Arthur, who was abovo, slipped
and fell directly upon me, carrying mo
with him, and wo both slipped somo
feet down tho trunk beforo wo could
stop.
"Whow! that was a closo shave,
panted ho pulling himself back again.
"It's I. "We'd havo been plumpd
down on those hard rvsckB if it did."
"Well, it is'nt very far to tho trround.
fortunately," answered he. Wo'ro not
up moro than ten or twelve feet, I
should say."
Alter this wo kept broad awako and
passed tho tedious hours somehow or
other, but they wero tho longest I
ever remember to havo spent.
It seemed to us that the night would
never bo over, and wovworo wondering
whether the world hadu't stopped
turning on its axiss when Arthur sud
denly exclaimed :
"Why I can Bee you Sara!"
Aud as looking up I could just des
cry his figure and tho shapes of tho
hrauches near him.
Hurrah! It was really miirninc at
last.
Tho light crow rapidly stronger, and
overhead tho fog was breaking up.
Strips of dark blue showed through
tho clouds, and wo were now able to
soe finite a stretch of tho ground over
wmcn wo nad como.
'Curious that it clears awav faster
on ono sido than tl 0 other,'1 remarked
Arthur. "I cm t too a thing under us,
while out thu other way tho rocks
show as plainly as can be."
1 looked down antl saw nothing hut
fog beneath and further out.
"It is queer," I said. "I never saw
fog cling to the ground bo beforo iu
my life, elill less only in one placo."
Just then tho sun broko through
the vapors aud flooded us witli its
brillianoy. I was looking up to get
my bearings from it, when a sort of
gasp from Arthur caused mo to glanco
at bun, hrst in surprise then in alarm,
He was clutching tho trunk with star
ing oyes, open inbuthed and palo faced,
a perfect statue of terror.
nastily following iho direction of
his look, I caught ono glimpso of what
ho saw, and instantly hugged tho near
est branch liko a madman.
Beneath mo was nn ompty atilf.
going down, down, till tho treo tops at
1110 bottom looked lino st rubs, and
lurougii tno thinning log 1 saw
that our treo grow out of tho very
edge of a sheer procipico hundreds
of feet high, over which it hung liko
tho arm of a crane.
uo you wonder that wo wero
frightened, or that for somo minutes wo
wo ciung more, trying to steady our
swimming heads and brnco our tremb
ling nerves after tho sudden shock of
that sight!
What an ordoal that was getting off
our perilous perch, moving an inch at
a time, sliding, holding on, and finally
making a last pi tin go to tho safety of
tho firm ledge! Wo lay thoro half an
hour beforo wo felt ablo to movo i
again.
"Think how near I camo to walk
right off tho edge I 1 kept repeating,
over and over again.
"And then that timo whon wo al
most fell out tho treo together," Ar
thur said, shuddering. "Supposo wo'd
taken a fancy to jump down ia tho
22, 1889.
night!"
Wo safely descondod tho mountains,
muoh to tho relief of tho landlord,
who was about sending men to tearch
for us, nnd drovo back to town 1 but
it was long beforo wo oared to dwell
upon tho rcmombranoo of that uncon
scious, careless and frightfully
dangerous night wo had passetf up a
tree. Manley 11. 1'ike in Golden
Days.
fOR BETTER R0AD3.
A. MACADAM ROAD l'AT Vti COST
EVEIir TEN YEAtlS.
WILL
Tho following paper was read by
Mr. S. It. Downing, of East Goshen,
inombor of tho Stato Board of Agricul
ture, at tho autumn mooting hold nt
Now Castle, Lawrence countv, Pa.,
October 23, 1889:
A prominent Philadelphia journal
in a recent number asserts that tho
main country roads of Pennsylvania
macadamized within the best standard
would savo their cost ovory ten years
and their interest every six months.
In tho report to this board, 18S8,
Secietary Eigo approaches this state
ment very closoly, I think, in sayiug
that in tho caso of tho worst parts of
township roads a sufficient sum to per
manently improvo them is expended
in temporary repairs every ton years.
Seing these statements falling from
excellent authority and deeming them
worthy of consideration, I thought
that an answer to tho question, "Will
a macadam road pay its cost every ten
years!" might provo both interesting
and profitable.
There is a broad advocacy now by
tho press and our monthly publications
of "good macadam roads." Tho stress
seems to bo for tho best and in what
ever I remember of the argument for
good macadam roads, tho proposition
seems always emphasized that tbo best
is tho cheapest. And yet it is asked
hero and there, under tho idea that
economy means a low price, "Why
should your milo of Btone road cost
S3.000, when 1,000 will build itf" It
may bo a matter of wonder with somo
that a man not overly rich will pay
S8.Q0 for a pair of pantaloons when a
pair can bo bought for three. Of the
two,tho higher pricod.as a lule, may be
better worth tho buying. A sivteen
foot road composed of heavy fiold
Rtono surfaced by a feeble ecum of
rubblo may coat but S800 in tho lay
ing is but tho beginning ot its costs.
As tho S3 pantaloons must bo restitch
ed, rebuttoned, darned, patched, per
haps dyed, so with the low-priced
road, tho heavy blocks will rise, tho
(mail stono disappear and it will ro
quiro great and continual cost ,to savo
tho anatomy and tissues of thoso who
travel over them from dislocation and
disruption. Thero will always bo
complaint as to them, expense, dis
comfort in such roads, and tho only
remedy for tho grievanco thoy impart
is to tako up the roads to the utmost,
grind and relay them Thus it is
pleasant to note that there is a spirited
urging of "good macadam roads."
Tho macadam principle may involvo
the higher price, but then it is an eco
nomic principle, costly at first but a
Bourco of satisfaction, ease, speed, sav
ing in draft and money. Tho maca-
lam road is simply composed of fine
stono solidified, unified by pressure
and bound with stono screenings.
AS TO WIDTH.
The only piko entering West Chest
er is single track. It is parallel within
a radius of ono milo by two dirt roads,
and yet tho pike has paid seven per
cent., simply becauso during winter tho
travel centers on it, notwithstanding
ton anil tno singlo track. In other
words neither toll or singlo track, with
its over-imagined difficulty in passing,
will drivo travelers to tho dirt roads in
winter however constantly tho dirt
roads may be scraped, drained and
thrown to tho centre. But in order to
bo within the lines of popular idea we
will incorporate tho 10-foot width
road in my estimate
A bed of lino Btone, nino inches
thick, well interlocked by rolling and
thoroughly bound will oasily have tho
resistance of a twelve inch bed of
loose, large, incompact stono.
Mr. A. J. Cassatt was elocU d Super
visor of Tredyffrin township, Chester
county, aud again re-elected. Ho
supervised the construction of maca
dam roads during his incumbenoy, and
laid them, I am informed, nino inches
thick on lowlands and six on uplands
an average of bovoii and a half
inches.
AB 10 COST AND CAPACITV OV MACII-
1NK11V.
A crusher that will crnsh eichtv
perch of stono per day will cost, with
ueittug, sauu. A wagon for moving
it will cost S'JOO, making a thousand
dollarB. As a crusher will turn out
stono as rapidly as 11 ay bo required by
four townships, then eaeh of tho four
townships by pooling would be at tho
expense of 250 in the ownership of a
crusher. A crusher set on wheels can
bo transported by a traction engine as
readily as a thresher.
oiono cm no crnsncd at 15 cents a
poroh. Thus turning out 80 perch at
Is cents, tbo carninirs per day will bo
i-, Biuueiuni to meet turoo mens
wages and tho rent of and coal con
sumed by a traction oiitrino.
Traction engines can be rented when
not used in thresh ncr. With Iho ad
dition of a stono car, engines can draw
stono to tno dump and at tho Bamo
timo servo 111 lieu ot rollers.
fatono can bo hauled from tho field
or quarried, if not too hard, for 25
cents. Hauled from yard to crusher
and crushed for 25 cents. Hauled to
Iho roadued for 25 and 50 cents, cor
responding with distance, say an avor-
ago of 37 cents. The sura of these
costs equals tho cost of 87J conts per
perch. But in order to satisfy an
opinion that may provail that tho
crushing and delivery of stono will
cost more, wo will run tho estunito up
10 is uuuar per peron. Again, and in
faco of tho faot that quarrymen are of
icring to quarry and crush stono at
ou cents a peroh, which offor, of
course, inoludes a profit, indioatini?
that stono oan bo quarried, haulod to
tho cruBher aud crushed at a cost of
about fifty cents a perch.
C05T OF ItEl'AIlt.
As to tho Bum of difference between
tho cost of repair of macadam and
dirt roads.
Tho opinion of Maoadara himself
obtains soraowhat in tMB computation
Ho alhrmod boforo a comuutteo of the
YOL. 24, NO. 47.
Houso of CommoiiB that his experience
proved that tho oxponso of repair of
stono roads was almost in tho exact
ratio of tho sizes of stono used. Thus
a road composed of three inch Btono
will cost in repair triple that ot a road
oomposcd of one-inch Btone. Then
again thero is a broad distinction of
saving between a well-knitted, solid,
iron oompact of stono and a looso bod.
Aud still again tho upheaval of largo
baso stones adds a cousiderablo per
centage to cost, so it scorns that a
macadam composed altogether of rub
blo well pressed is tho ono of all least
costly to maintain. As proof of this
.1.- iS -. .1 1 !..!. . .
111U UlHb 1JIUCUUUU1 TUUU UUlIu Ub UOVUI1,
Chester county, somo eight years ago
as not in that timo 1 am told cost
ono cent in repair. Is it not then per
fectly safo to fix tho repair of a "good
macadam road' at $20 per mileT
liy a recent inquisition upon tho
part of our county commissioners mado
nder btate direction, I nnd after de
ducting tho cost of county bridging,
also that of street rcpnir aud construc
tion, that township roads cost in repair
and construotin say within a fraotion
of SI, 800 per township. Tho average
of mileago is about twentv-fivo miles
per township, making the average oost
for repair and construction of our dirt
roads per milo seventy-two dollars.
bhould any township proposo to
macadamize tho roads selected would
certainly bo those bearing tho boaviost
strain of travel aud traffic. Allowing
that the cost in repair of our most
used roads exceed tho cost in repiir of
roads slightly traveled to an amount
verlappmg tho cost of local bridging
and tovnship percentago in cost of
now roads not separated from our Gen
eral assessment, wo still havo soventy
two dollars as tho average cost in re
pair throughout Chester county. De
ducting twenty dollars per milo as tho
annual cost of repairing macadam
roads, and wo havo fifty-two dollars
as tho average annual cost per milo in
ropair of dirt roads throughout Chester
county. Thus tho average ten years'
saving on a mile of road would bo
$520.
AN ESTIMATE.
Thus, upon a further detail of savinc
in timo and draft, which means the
saving of money, and in tho light of
the averago individual saving of farm
owners, 1 think it would be found that
wo would averago from our macadam
investment an annual profit of ono mill
out of tho difference in timo and draft
between struggling through bogs and
gliding over solid roads. But in order
to clear my cstimato from tho imputa
tion of being wild, let us drop to ono
half and concludo upon half a mill
saved per milo annually.
To buiu up wo charge, say EiBt
Goshen township, Chester county :
To milo of Macadam, 16 feet
wide, 10 inches thick, 2845
perches Sl.00 S2845
And credit:
00
By saving in ropair
(5!oa per mile an
nually. 10 years.. S 520 00
By J mill on real es
tate taxable value
S039,12), saving
iu timo, draft etc.
10 years S3197 0083717
00
Leaving unexpended. . S 872 00
in order that this estimate may not
altogether havo a homo application wo
will apply it to Lawrenco county :
By the report of tho Secretary of In
ternal Affairs, 1887, Lawrenco includes
seventeen townships with a total real
estato taxablo valuo of Sl3.309.837.
Deduoting the taxablo valuo of Now
Castle, Wilmington and Wampum,
leaves as taxable for township roads
S10,013,lll. Deduct for bridging,
$13,111, wo have $10,000,000. Divide
this by seventeen, tho number of town
ships, and wo havo say $000,000 as the
averago townsnip assessment. Multi
ply by say two as the averago mill rate
and divido by twenty as average mile
age per township and wo havo $00 as
tho averago cost per milo for repair of
township roads. Deduot $20 for ro-
air ot macadam roads and wo havo
$10 as saving per milo by substituting
uiuuauiiiu iu ueu 01 uirt. wo cnargo
tno townsnip
To 1 milo macadam road, 1G
feet wide, 10 inohea thick. $2845 00
And credit :
By 10 years' saving
in repair S40
per y'car $ 400 00
By mill on $000,-
000 valuation sav
ing in timo and
draft, 10 years.... $3000 0083400 00
Leaving a surplus equal to.. $555 00
11 tneso estimates aro but an ap
proximation, witti a liberal nllowanco
at that, tho statement of tho Philadel
phia daily that a good macadam road
will pay its cost ovory ten years with
interest every six months is reliable.
I havo in mind a verification of
Soerotary Edge's statement in a piece
01 roaa mat cost annually $125 for ro
pairs. 'Iho piking cost $1100 ; thus in
ten yoars tho piko savod fully its coit
IIOW CAN WE r.STISIATE.
.. ...
uut men it mav no said iv snmn
that this is after all but a matter of
figures and speculation, but wo find
that a farmer in tho prospect of a now
1 ... . -.
uarn gets tno oost ot luinbor,stono and
iron, Bits with tho builder, hguros as to
size, number of feet of lumber, adds
up and concludes unon tho basis of
tlgu that tho barn will cost thus and
so. Is this speculation ! True, costs
may overrun estimates, but notwith
standing this wo still figure as to
barn nnd houses, knowing that such
calculations cannot go far wrong. But
uguring as 10 barns and houses is old,
as to roads now, and certain citizens
who guess that tho cost of repair of
tho roads of their rcspoclivo townsh ps
is but $20 whon it is roally forty, easi
ly concludo that an estitnato as to tho
cost of a macadam road is speculation.
Now tiiero aro certainly 5280 lineal
feet iu a milo ; cortainly 24 J oubio feet
in a perch.
The returns of County Commis
sioners aro certainly reliablo as to ag
gregate assessments. A two mill rato
is as apt to bo bolow as abovo an aver
age, and 20 as tho mileago per town
ship is as apt to bo over as under the
average. Inasmuoli as I havo person
al knowlcdgo of a Btono road built
twenty years ago that duriug 12 years
did not cost for ropair that many del
lars, I feol that 20 dollars per milo
will maintain a good macadam road
As to thickness I quote from tho
knowledge of men versed iu rod
atHHHMiglXMaiaaaaawHaOTainvn-i
structure. As to tho cost of crushing,
I quoto from tho statements of throo
parties that now own and now rim
throo crushers. As to tho sum paid
for and tho capacity of tho crushers,
I havo authority from two parties that
bought crashers and tno them, nnd so
on.
CONDITIONS VAUY.
But S2845 is such a largo prlco for
a milo of road as nlmost to discotirago
hopo. Can macadam roads bo built
for less t Mr. Pope, the civil engineer,
fixes $2100 as the cost of a macadam
18 feet wide, and in depth nn avorngo
of 7 inches.
As crushers can readily bo moved,
hauls can bo shortened to crusher and
dump. Thus hauls need not bo ox
pensive. If ono horso and ono man
oosts a township throo dollars a day,
stono can bo hauled a short distanco
for a comparatively small sum. Thus,
exclusive of quarrying, I bcliovo with
out further calculation hcto, a 12-foot
widtli,10 inch depth could bo built for
$1500. Thero aro plenty of stono
rows and banks of stono along roads
that could be utilized. Wlnlo as high
as fifty cents a perch is paid for quar
rying stone, stono in quarries of soft
rock.that I could namo is quarried for
fifteen oents. Or, if n contract is
mado with parties to haul stone, as
hich as sovontv-cents or a dollar may
be paid, but tho prico for hauling per
perch at township rates and by placing
tho crusher closo to tho work, will bo
Burprisinglf low. Tiius, I think, wo
como within Mr. Pope's estimate,
which is that of a civil engineer.
there is another graut that i think
wo Bhould ask of our Legislature, and
that is that tho burden of road reform
should bo shared in reasonable ineasiiro
with real estate by personal aud corpo-
rato property. As an indication 01 tho
drifs of opinion in this direction, I was
glad to hear such a leading, activo
citizen and logislator as Geuoral Gobiu
advocato at William's Grove a Stato
appropriation in behalf of macadam
roads.
Raoe Peculiarities.
A striking salutation of tho South
Soa Island is to fling a jar of water over
tho head of a friend.
It is death to any person in Siam to
mention tho King's uatne. This is a
custom that many other tribes rigidly
adhere to.
At a marrngo ceremony in Japan
uoithcr tho brido nor tbo groom wonts
any clothing of a purple color lest
their marriage should bo soon dissolved
purple being a color most liablo to
fade.
Tho Maoiris of New Zealand, while
at war with tho English, invariably
sent a notice whon thoy wero going to
mako an attack, as if they wero coming
on a friendly visit aud desired things
to bo ready for them. Thoy thought
it very strango that tho English did
not give them similar notico.
We aro informed by an English lour-
nalist that in Paraguay "tho lady of
tho house, as alio comes, clothed in soft
raiment aud flashing goms, to meet tho
stranger traveler with mouth upheld
tor tho formal kiss ot greeting, romoves
from her cheek tho quid sho spends her
days in chewing."
Uno who has been strolling about tho
streets of Honolulu writes of tho nativo
Sandwich Island that thoy havo tho
brown skin of tho Indiau-not tho black
of tho negro bright, intelligent faces,
and straight, black hairj generally ryitn
good forms, easy gait, and graceful in
movement. Tho men havo generally
adopted the usual English style of dross.
Tho wahiues, or woman, dress with tho
loose holoku, or, as it would bo called
in this country, tho Mother Hubbard,
but closo litting around tho throat.
Thoy generally prelcr light colors in
dress and wear flowers in profusion.
Tho Indians ot Untisli tituna havo a
game which resembles tho civilized col-
lego rush or an old-tuno "hold 111. It
was witnessed by tho author ot "Uanoo
d Camp Life.' In tho afternoon tho
youths aud boys of tho tho placo played
a gamo over which they mado a good
deal of noise, and which thoy evident
ly cnioyed, as boys of any raoo
do. Thoy formed a lino across ono of
tho wido approaches to tho village,
wlnlo ono ot tho strongest ot tho num
ber mado an effort to break through, by
rusniug against it at his great speed.
Any man who approachod tho village
had likewise to break through beforo
ho could enter tho placo.
The Frozen Oow-Bjys.
SUKFEIUNO OF THE MEN CAUOIIT IN TIIE
NEW MEXICO riLIZZAKD.
Tuinidai), Col., November 12. Tho
bodies of John Martin and Honry Mil
ler, tho cow boys who wero frozen to
death near Siera Grado in last week's
terrible blizziid, wero brought to Fol
son for burial. Four other men bo-
longing to the samo party aro missing
nnd it is feared that thoy aro dead.
It is reported by parties who know that
at least twenty men aro missing from
this rango aud it is feared miny of
them will never bo found.
Jolly and Wise, tho men who escap
ed badly frozen, tell a heartrending
story of their sufferings Whon tho
blizzard struck them Wednesday night
of last week they wero holding a he d
of 2,500 cattle. Thu wind becamo a
hurricano beforo morning, and when
Martin aud Jolly went on tho last
guard about 3 A. M., tho ttorm was ho
blinding that thoy could not hold tho
herd. Jolly started to tho camp for
help. In tho meantime Miller nnd
Wiso had left tho camp to assist in
holding tho cattle. Jolly could not
find tho camp, and Miller and Wiso
could not find tho herd.
All threo wero brought logethor by
shouts and wandered around until day
light, whon thoy found Martin. Tho
cold was so bitter that tho men entered
a ravine, and, after fastening tho hors
es, took tho saddlo blankets and buried
themselves in a snow drift. About
three iu tho afternoon- and it was bnlv
by tho greatest efforts that Jolly and
Wiso succeeded in keeping awako-they
wero slightly apart from Martin and
Miller, and had difficulty in talking to
t-aoh other. Tho snow piled upon them
to such weight that thoy wero forced to
seek another drift.
About l o'clock Friday morning
Miller called Jolly and Who and told
them thoy had all better go, and whon
thoy crawled out thoy made n search
in tho drift for Miller and Martin. Tho
lattor only could bo lound and ho was
doad. Thoy took tho horses and start
ed, leading thorn. Soon thoy found
Miller on his knees, his horso Handing
in front of him as though trying to
protect him from tho cold. Ho was
asked to got up and go with them, but
ho was unable to riso and was assisted
to his feet, but could uot walk.
Jolly Btarted to get ass'-stonco M-hilo
Wiso remained with their dying com
pardon. Both of Wise's hands an
frozen, and ho was holplcse md u .m
fast becoming inBeimible him if wl v.u
the Mexican sheep-herder found him
and took him to Rhodes ranch a fow
miles distant. Thn men telurned t .
whero Miller had been left and fcim
him lifeless.