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AN OPPORTUNITY.
We sat at the club la tae nre-lixht,
Aa It flickered aad played oa the wall,
Aad we rbalted of music and Egypt,
Of the opera, art and the ball.
And I talked half the night with the others.
But my thought bad flown far oVr the main.
And were dwelling la quiet eerluitkm
la the halls of my castle In Spain.
In the castle I butUled ao lofty
Which got a hard knock yett rday.
When they told me Tom Jonre 1 to marry
Nell Murray sweet Nellie In May.
Why, Nell Murray has dwelt In that castle
Ever alnce It's been mine, and It's plain
That without her llKht tootatep and laughter
'Twill stand U-nt and lonely In Spain 1
She naed to walk, too, with some children
In the irardeae mo aunny and wide ;
But to-nltrut they bae all of them vanished.
And it iteeme ae thourh some one had died
Well, Jones 1 a good-looking fellow
I think, aince my fancies are rain
And he ha run of? with Ha mietresr .
I'll shut up my castle la Spain. I
And I'll hanir out a neat advertisement. .
Which somewhat as follow shall read.
"For aale or to rent, ready furnished
To meet every possible need,
A mansion of fine, airy structure.
With a wide and extensive domain.
And I'll aell to the nrat maa who offers
To parcha-te my cattle In Spain.
-Emily Alvord, in Harper's Weekly
SAINT JS0G0R0.
True Tale of tho Peasant Martyr
of Soma, Japao.
In the first half of the ae rent nth.
century KoUuke-no-Suke was the lord
of Soma, rich, agricultural district con
taining one) hundred and thirty-six Til
lages. Kotaulte-no-Suke was a hard,
grasping landlord, who oppressed his
peasants by heavy taxes until they
were reduced to the last extremity of
poverty. Year after year the wretched
farmers petitioned their lord, through
the village mayors, to have their burden
lightened, but without avail. Iteing a
member of the Shogun'a Cabinet Kot-suke-no-Suke
spent the greater part of
the year in Yeddo, where he maintained
a private palace and a host of retainers.
Iiis extravagance gave riae to much
comment In the capital, but few of the
haughty noblea who frequented hU
entertainments knew by what means
the Lord of Soma procured the vat suius
of money necessary to support auch lav
ish magniticf nee.
In the fill of the year 1643 the farm
en dwelling on the estate of Kotsuke-no-Nuke
assembled together tt devise
measures for tL-ir relief. That year
the taxes had been heavier than ever
before, and scores of families were
threatened with starvation during the
coming winter. The stoutest beartd
among them were filled with despair at
the apparent hopelessness of their situ
ation. Sogoro, the mayor of one of the
villages, and hima-lf a farmer, had Wn,
throughout all their vici.teitudes, the
stanch friend of the down-trodden peas
ant. He now ad vised them to draw up a
petition to the Shoeun'aCabinet.and then
to select a committee to go up to Yeddo
and present it to that body. When th
. evil doings of thir Lord was known to
but reiiow-councuors their upbraiding
and his own wounded pride might shame
him into mercy. Sogoro" plan wan
adopted, and he was one of the number
chosen to go to Yeddo to present the
memorial to the Cabinet. Knowing the
dangers that attended his mission,
tsogoro, on the eve of his departure,
called his family together and said:
"I am going to Yeddo. and it may be
that I shall never return, for it is hard
to say how I shall be treated by those
in power. I am. willing, hoVever. to
give my life for tha good of our suffer
ing fellow-tenants. Let ti, therefore,
drink a cup of wine together, for it may
be that you shall see my face no more.
If I die, mourn not over my fate; weep
not for me."
Sogoro and his companions went to
Yeddo and there they soon learned of
the riotous living of their spendthrift
Lord, and they wept when they reflected
that all his wanton luxury wan bought
with th life-blood of their famiahing
friends at Soma. In a few days they
had an opportunity of presenting their
petition to Lord Kuze, a member of the
Cabinet, and they all felt elated that the;
great nobleman had oondecend'd to
listen to their grievancea and to accept
their memorial.
The action of Kotnuke-no-Suke's ten
ants created no little stir in Yeddo, and
many observations upon that nobleman
and his style of living were made that
could scarcely be called complimentary.
But It does not do for people living in
glaoa houses to throw btvnes. All the
members of the Shogun'a Cabinet had
at one time or another been guilty of
oppressing their own peasant, and It
would be extremely awkward for them
now to sit in judgment upon Kotsuke-no-Suke.
So it was decided to return,
th petition to the complainants. Ac
cordingly Sogoro received a summons to
appear at the residence of Lord Kuze.
There he was met by two councilors,
who handed him the ill-starred memo
rial, saying:
"A short time ago you had the audaci
ty to thrust this petition Into the bands
of Lord Kuze. Hy his extraordinary
clemency he forgives your offense, but
beware that you do not again presume
upon hi Lordship's forbearance, or ill
will it fare with you.
"His Lordship's censure is just,
humbly responded Sogoro. "But oh!
my U.rds. this action of ours is not
hasty or ill-considered. Year after year
have we suffered untold hardships, until
now wo and our friends are without
even the necessaries of life. Therefore
have-wa presented this petition. I pray
you. Lords, consider our case, vouchsafe
to help us that we may live. Our grati
tude to you shall know no bounds."
"Your request U a ju.t one," replied
the councilors, when they had heard the
words of Sogoro, "but your memorial
can not be received.
disheartened beyond meaaik-e, Sogoro
sought out hia companions and ac
quainted them with the result of their
efforts. It was a gloomy evening which
the Soma men spent together, discuss
ing with tearful voices the desperate
extremity to which the failure of their
plans had reduced themselves and their
friends. At last Sogoro said :
'There is still one thing left for us to
do; we can appeal to our Lord's master,
the Shogun. I know it is a capital of
fene for a commoner to approach his
Majesty, yet, for the sake of my suffer
ing brethren, I shall sacrifice myself
that their wrongs may be mado known
and happily righted. Cm the morrow,
tln-iffure, do you all. except six men,
return to Soma and tell our poor friends
lo haw tout btart?, for tli re is yet
hope for them."
Sogoro had from the first been recog
nized as the leading spirit of the enter
prise, and his companions now made
haste to follow out his suggestions.
The intrepid farmer and his six asso
ciates drew up a new memorial, setting
forth their grievances in a plain,
straightforward manner and earnestly
appealing for redress. Shortly after,
while the Shogun, Iyemitsu, was on his
way to I'yeno to worship at the tombs
of his ancestors, Sogoro contrived to
break through the troop of armed re
tainers that were escorting his Majesty,
and thrust the petition into the hands
of the Shogun. The daring farmer was
seized and hurried off to prison. Iyemitsu
was a just ruler and gave the peasants'
memorial his careful attention. The
result of it all was that Kotsuke-no-Suke
was ordered to reduce his tenants'
taxes to a proper amount, and to return
to them the money he had wrongfully
deprived them of!
The Lord of Soma was a very angry
man, but though he might rage and vow
vengeance upon the heads of his ten
ants, he had to obey the orders of his
chief. And thus relief came at last to
the long-suffering peasants.
But, alas for poor Sogoro! The Irre
vocable law of the nation pronounced
his offense deserving of death, and he
was turned over to his legal Lord for execution.-
In feudal Japan the nobility
held the power of lile and death over
their peasant-vassals, and now the cruel
Kotsuke-no-Suke, thirsting for venge
ance, determined to destroy the whole
family of Sogoro. In vain his tenants,
his Samurai, his councilors, and even
the l'rinees of the surrounding country
besought the lord of Soma to be merci
ful; the bloody tyrant was inexorable.
Sogoro and his wife were condemned to
' be crucified," and their three sons, aged
seven, ten and thirteen respectively,
were ordered to be beheaded in the pres
ence of their parents.
On the day of the execution all the
inhabitants of the one hundred and
thirty-six villages of Soma assembled to
bid Sogoro and his wife farewell and to
encourage them w ith their presence and
their prayers. There w as not one there,
even to the executioners themselves,
that did not call down the blessings of
Heaven upon the martyrs, while curses,
deep and bitter, were hurled against
the hated Kotsuke-no-Suke. After the
parents were made fast to the crosses,
the three boys were led forth and be
headed in their sight. Friends received
the bodies and bore them away to pre
pare them for burial. O Man, Sogoro's
wife, turning to her husband, said in a
cheerful voice:
"Remember, my husband, that from
the first you had made up your mind to
this fate. What though our bodies be
disgracefully exposed on tnese crosses?
we have the promises of the gods before
us; therefore, mourn not. Let us fix
our minds upon death; we are drawing
near to l'aradise, and shall soon be with
the saints. Le t us cheerfully lay down
our lives for the good of our people.
"Well said, wife, responded Sogoro,
gayly. "I am happy because I have at
tained my heart's desire. Our petition
Was successful; had I five hundred lives,
and could I five hundred times assume
this shape of mine. 1 would die five
hundred times to redress the wrongs of
our people."
Then the executioner taking his spear
thrust it into the side of O Man and into
the side of her husband, and both died
there in the sight of the sorrowing
peasants. And Kotsuke-no-Suke's chief
councilor, when all was over, came and
knelt down before the dead body of the
farmer and said:
"Although you were but a peasant,
you saved, your brethren. You bruised
j-our bones and crushed your heart for
their sakes. Honors shall yet be paid
to your spirit, and you shall be canon
ized as a saint; you shall become a
tutelar deity among the people of Soma."
And so it came to pass. The farmers
of Soma made the grave of Sogoro a
place of prayer, and finally came to
look upon him as divine. Finally a
temple aroae in his honor, and he was
at length duly canonized as a Buddhist
saint. W. C Kitchin, l'h. IX, In Y.
Ledger.
AMONG THE PERUVIANS.
Tbo South. American atioa Isxscribod by
a Wlaeonsla UlrL
When lion. John Hicks was appointed
United States Minister to Peru he chose
as Secretary of Legation a bright Amer
ican girl. Miss- Elizabeth L. Banks.
Since being domiciled aX Lima, the cap
ital of Peru, Miss Banks has kept her
eyes open, and, with instinct sharpened
by her connection with various North
western newspapers, she has proved a
good news-gatherer. Writing to a
friend In this city. Miss Banks says:
"Procrastination is the ruling habit of
Peru. Ask a Peruvian when he will do
any cthing and he replies 'Manana,"
which being translated means to-mor-row.
Nothing is ever done to-day, all
things take place on the) manana,'
which never cornea. This 'manana'
habit is, I suppose, breathed la with
every breath of the air that one takes
in Peru, and I am afraid I have drawn a
good deal of it into my aystem.
"This Is a very interesting old "city,
and yet the people and the government
are very much behind the times, their
ideas being those of one hundred years
ago. The city of Lima has been called
'the heaven of women, the purgatory of
men and the hell of asses,- and to the
last proposition I will heartily assent.
The city ia full of donkeys, and the men
and women who drive and ride them al
ways carry a big chunk of wood with
them, which they continually apply to
the ribs of the poor animals. Some en
thusiastic writer has called the women
of Lima the most beautiful ia the world.
There are some pretty Peruvian girls to
be met oa the streets or saying their
beads In some of the many churches.
Their dark eyes are the kind that would
make a man jump off Pizarro's bridge
Into the river Rimac if his suit hap
pened to go wrong. The Peruvian mea
pay a great deal of attention to their
personal appearance and pass away
much of their time ia dress suits and
tooth-pick shoes. They are very gal
lant, but are not half so nice as Ameri
can men from any point of view. Wash
ington Capital. .
Small Boy "Say, pa, I wish you'd
get me a bicycle." Old Man "Can't
afford it, my son. Rent too high, coal
too dear. Besides, I don't want you to
break your neck." Small Boy "Well,
then, a tricycle." Old Man "Can't do
it. But I'll tell you what you can have.
When winter comes Til try and get you
a nice long icicle." The youngster is
jacified. (.Jrij). f
CONCERNING OLD AGE.
Statlattae Baood oa Inveotlaatlona of tho
British. Medleml Association.
Prof. Murray Humphrey has just
brought together a remarkable book on
"Old Age." It is based upon the results
of an inquiry conducted by the collective
investigation committee of the British
Medical Association.
In a portion of it the analysis of the
returns respecting S'J centenarians are
given; of these IS were males and 30 fe
males. Eleven of these were single (10
being females), S were married and 30
were widowed. Out of 50 returns 3 only
were In affluent circumstances, 28 were
comfortable and 19 poor; of these 9 were
fat (3 being females), 20 were spare and
18 of average condition. Twenty-five
were erect in figure and 35 were bent.
Out of SS returns 9S used glasses, 7 did
not; but of these 4. were poor, 8 had used
glasses for 40-50 years, 5 for 30-35, 4 for
10-20. a for 4-6 years, 5 for "many
yeans," S for a few years. From among
these one had used spectacles for many
years, but for the last twelve years had
been able to read without them; another
had not used them for twelve years; an
other "not for many years," but one can
not now get them strong enough.
Out ot 47 returns 40 had a good diges
tion. Out of 48, 36 had good appetites, bad
and 10 moderate. Of 46, 25 were moder
ate eaters, 9 small and 12 large. ' In re
gard to alcohol, 15 took none, 24 a little,
o were moderates and one was used to a
good deal of beer. Of animal food 3 took
none, 10 moderate, 25 little, very little
and one much. Of aperients 22 took
them rarely, 14 never and 5 frequently.
Out of 39, 26 could say that their mem
ory was good, 6 bad and 7 moderate. Of
45, 7 smoked much (4 being women). 2
little (1 a woman), S moderately (1 a
woman).
Out of 40, 37 did not take snuff. As to
sleep, out of 40 32 were good sleepers, 5
bad and 7 moderate.
From 35 returns the average time of
going to bed was 9 o'clock; but 1 retires
at 12 and 1 at IV 5 at 7; 7 are bedridden.
The average time of rising was about S
o'clock, but 6 rose at 6 o'clock, 1 at 5, 9
at 10. 1 at 11 and 1 at 4 p. m.
Out of 42 returns 24 had no teeth, and
from 28 returns but 4 had artificial
teeth; yet in men about HO the average
number of teeth is only 6 and in
women 3.
In 12 returns the average age when
married among the males was 2:1, and
the females 25; the average number of
children is. from the returns received,
V7. Pall Mall Gazette,
SYMPTOMS OF ECZEMA.
A XMaaffrewabl. Dleoae. Due to Coustita
ttonad Iwbllity.
Eczema accent on the first syllable
Is one of the many eruptive diseases of
the skin. The blood-vessels of the
parts affected are in a state of conges
tion, accompanied by itching, smarting
and exudation of serum, or watery por
tion of the blood. The disease varies
greatly in severity and extent, as well
as in its course and character.
Its simplest form is a mere redness,
perhaps on the eyelids or behind the
ears, or near the joints. Some times
there are pimples, either on affected
spots or around them, or more or less
diffused over the body.
Sometimes vesicles water-bladders
are formed by the exudation of serum
beneath the skin, the special seat being
the back of the hand or the front and
sides of the fingers. In a few days the
serum may be absorbed, the swelling
subsides, the cuticle dries up and comes
off, and the skin either returns to its
normal condition or the cuticle is
thrown off in scales.
In another variety there is intense
redness, profuse exudation and the
formation of a thick crust, through fis
sures in which a mucous pus exudes.
The final period of eczema, when
chronic, may be characterized by a com
ing off of the cuticle in thin, fine scales,
or by a tendency of the skin to chap and
crack; sometimes the mere stretching
of the fingers will cause it to break.
Ia some cases tho skin becomes as
hard and tough as leather, with an in
clination to itch and throw off dry and
scaly scurf; more rarely it is rough like
an old wart, in which case the itching is
generally very severe.
Aa a rule, the eczema occurs in limited
patches, but occasionally it spreads over
a large part of the trunk or limb.
There is hardly any part of the body
which It may not attack. It is not con
tagious. The disease may result from a condi
tion of the body from constitutional
debility, or temporary derangement of
the nervous or digestive organs, or even
from unsuitable or insufficient food or
it may have an external exciting cause
cold or heat in excess, insufficient
clothing, or garments that irritate the
skin.
The treatment must be first directed
against that which causes the condition
of which the eczema is only a symptom.
At the same time local treatment will be
necessary. But no general direction
can be given suited to so variable a
disease. A skilled physician should
nave charge of the case. Youth's Com
panion. FADS OF SENATORS.
Statwaaaaa Who lrwea WelL Others Who
Are Slouehx sad Odd.
Aldrich. of Rhode Island, is the hand
somest man in the Senate rather tall,
trimly built and well proportioned, with
brow n eyes and gray hair and mustache,
aays a writer ia the Chicago Times.
Evarts might fairly be called the home
liest if it wasn't for the power In his
face that la almost a sort of beautv ia
itself. 3
Four Senators are eminently well
dressed Aldrich, Blackburn of Ken
tucky, Manderson of Nebraska, and
Butler of South Carolina. Many think
that Butler is the handsomest. But as
to dress it is a close call among those
tour.
The slouchiestof the Senators in point
of apparel is Payne, of Ohio. Payne's
clothes simply hang upon him, his neck
tie is a string, or looks like it, and his
collar is always awry.
Quay's great fad is gray; he never
wears any thing else. You might sup
pose that he always wore the same suit,
but in reality he has half a dozen made
at a time, all just alike and gray the
same shade, too.
Frye, of Maine, is never seen without
a carnation in his button-hole. He is
the dude of the Senate; he looks younger
than he is and dresses younger than be
looks. His hair is parted in the middle;
he wears a bang and a pay necktie, and
although nearly sixty, he is still a good
icai ol a masher.
MY LOVE HAS GONE AWAY.
I used to love the forest green.
Each shady nook and dell.
Where birds were twittering overhead.
Intent their love to tell;
But now it Is a hcunted spot,
Where I no longer stray.
Cor every thing reminds me that
My love bas gone away.
I used to linger on the beach
To hear old ocean's roar.
And watch the summer tides come in
And dash along the shore;
But now I can not bear to bear
The dirpe the billows play.
For they have lost their charm, because
My love has gone away.
The country lane was, I confess.
Scarce broad enough for two.
Unless the arm was round my wa'.st.
And thus we wandt-red through ;
But now it Is a noxious place.
Where not a single ray
Of li?ht appears, and all because
My love has gone away.
The universe is dark and dull;
Around, above, below.
There is nothing quite so beautiful
As 'twas awhile ago;
The birds no longer sing so sweet,
The skies are cold and gray.
And nature mourns with me, because
My love has gone away.
Josephine Pollard, in N. Y. Ledger.
CALIFORNIA GRIZZLIES.
Gams Tliat Old Hunters Do Not
Care to Meet When Alone.
Brula Waa Not Satlstted with Spanish
Rteers A Bear Hunt In Which, the
Bear IMd All the Hunting
That Was Done.
The California grizzly is a most Inter
esting animal. As Bret Harte used to
say, he has but one ungentlemanly
habit, that of scalping with his fore
paw, and this he caught from the wicked
red man. Otherw ise, unless aggressive
ly assaulted, he is the pink- of good be
havior, lie will walk off the trail and
give j-ou the right cf way, he will gather
salmon berries in the same patch, or
dig roots on the hillside whi'e you are
sketching or writing not many y.a-d
away. If it were otherwise if the
grizzly had the temper of the royal
Xiger thousands of the pioneers of
California would have perished at his
claws, for a full-grown grizzly when
roused is a terriVlo antagonist.
When Americans came to California
grizzlies were very numerous. If-neral
Bidwell saw scores of them in the Napa
Valley, General Yallejo saw them feed
ing like sheep in the Santa Roba. In
the acorn season they were found in
droves under the oaks. The- Spaniards
learned to lasso and kill them. The
Americans louna great sport, in wwuuus i
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sourian stockmen came they poisoned
thousand of grizzlies, and the work is
still going on so steadily that the great
Pacific coast bear is very bcarce, and
certain to become very rare in a fow
more years. At present the finest skins
that come to San Francisco are from the
high Sierras and from Alaska.
Forty-five years ago there were griz
zlies in. the Santa Clara valley and in
the foot-hills within twenty miles of
San Francisco. They were in the live
oak forests of Kncmal and the Contra
Costa, where Berkeley, Oakland and
Alameda now stand. They were occa
sionally brought into the old mission of
San Jose and turned iixo rings to fight
Spanish bulls. But they lived for the
most part in contented obscurity.
When the pioneers came few of them
understood the nature of the animal,
and so the early stories that linger in
the valley have elements of surprise
that the later bear stories lack.
Id Captain Valpey, a Nova Scotian
sailor, sold his sloop at an early day
and bought a foot-hill ranch. There was
a deep gulch on the tract full of oak,
madrono and chapparal. Pretty soon
he discovered that a large grizzly lived
there. The old captain went down to
the village for advie. "He will kill
your steers," said old Kester. who owned
a stock ranch. "Buy a bottle of strych
nine, and the first time you miss a steer
go out and poison the carcass." Captain
Valpey bought the strychnine. The
next day he climbed up the hill, over
the gulch, with his old spy-glass and
looked down. He saw a great brown
body moving along the trail, and soon
the bear passed within fifty feet of the
rock where he sat. The captain was
delighted at his appearance. The next
day at the village he declared: "Boys,
nobody shall shoot or poison that grizzly
of mine. He walks like an old salt, and
he's as big as a horse! I ain't too poor
to let him have a five-dollar Spanish steer
whenever he wants it."
Under these circumstances tho Valpey
grizzly became famous and throve for
several months. But one morning the
old captain was upon "Maintop Knob"
with his spy-glass. He saw bis drove
of cattle was in the wooded pasture be
low, huddled up in a bend of the creek.
Before them, marchsng back and forth,
occasionally rearing np and growling,
was the great grizzly. He was selecting
his dinner, much to the amusement of
the captain. Suddenly the bear charged
into the band and struck down with one
blow the only blooded steer the captain
owned. The rest of the cattle escaped
with wild terror. The grizzly made his
meal and went off. The captain swore
awhile, then he got his strychnine
bottle, and, late in the afternoon,
cautiously descended the slope to where
the body of his S100 steer lay with a
broken neck. He poured the strychnine
over the carcass, saying wrathfully:
"Wasn't Spanish beef good enough for
you, ye old native Californian?" So he
poisoned his bear, after alL
There was a family of pioneers w ho
lived in the hills Of Alameda County,
not far from Valpey's. The elder,
Zachariah Cheney, took his son Joe and
a young man named Allen out to kill a
grizzly. They all knew very well where
to find bim, in a wild and broken canyon,
or about the rocks at its head, where
oak trees grew. They had come across
his tracks many times, and had seen
him grubbing cam ass roots on the hill
side when they were hunting up cattle.
So they thought very little of . the
danger. Each of them had a gun and a
revolver. Suddenly they met the bear
at the head of the wooded gulch, who,
seeing their warlike preparations, im
mediately charged them and treed all
three in less than a minute. There was
so little time for choice of a tree that
the elder Cheney and young Allen got
into scrub-oaks hardly larger than re
spectable quince trees. In less time
than it takes to tell it the, l..sr h.i
Cheney on the ground, 8calpd bim w ith j
one. mow, crushed his arm and shoulder
Hade with another, and left him.
Tho lear instantly turned his atten
tion to young Allen, 6ized him by the
boot-lc-g, and jerked him from the tree
so violently that the poor fellow rolled
thirty feet down the guloh and under
some willows, where he lay in silence.
The third man was boyond reach, so the
grizzly, master of the circumstance,
rose to his full height, gave a roar of
triumph, and walked .leisurely home.
Not a single shot was fired by any of the
three men! Yet let no one too hastily
shoot out the contemptuous lip, for ninety-nine
men out of a hundred might
have done as badly. The rush of the large
grizzly from his chapparal shelter is a
terrible thing to face. I distrust most of
the current stories alut successful
hand-to-hand encounters with full
grown grizzlies. There is an oak trte
in Shasta County under which a miner
who had fired upon a grizzly was killed
by one blow from the enraged animal,
and when his companions killed the
bear it was found that the man's bullet
had passed entirely through the animal's
body.
If it were not for poison placed for
him in his haunts the great master of
the California forests would still walk
'alone as a rhinoceros" in almost every
wild canyon of C'oast Range and Sierra.
Men learn to give him the track when
ever they can, aad if they go on the
war-path it is w ith profound respect for
their antagonist's strength and courage.
I once met five or six San Luis Obispo
farmers who had shot a huge grizzly.
They took their guns and went dow n
into tho gulch where tho bear lived.
They found him where ho was compelled
to cross the ravine to get to them, and so
they were able to put over twenty bul
lets into hiui before he died at their
feet. They had just skinned him and
spread the great hide on the ro-k when
I rode up. I asked them how they flt
about it and the leader said: "We none
of us want to tackle another. If he had
been on our side of the gulch instead of
on his own mot of us would have been
killed before we could pump enough
lead into him."' And that seemed to i
the general conviction.
There were two Americans in the
Santa Clara valley at an early day,
brothers, named Howard and Michael
Overacker. They ow ned largo farms,
had a wide acquaintance and were very
popular. They were also the best rifle
shots and the most cool and successful
hunters in tho county-. I have seen
Michael, at a turkey match, kill his bird
at six hundred yards. They used to kill
wild geese, coyotes, mountain quail and
hare on the run with their Henry rifles.
Still, though they had shot hundreds of
eVer, antelopes and elk they never went
grizzly hunting. Ai last, in ISOs, in
the San Benito mountains, Howard
Overacker had his hear adventure, and
the details are very characteristic of tho
habits of the grily.
The eider Overacker was thou in the
prime of life, extremely strong, wiry,
lean ana quick in his motions. His
brother and a man named Ferguson
formed tho rest of the parly. They let
camp and separated, taking nearly par
allel ravines. How ard was slow ly work
ing his w ay through the dense, thorny
bushes, called by Calif ornians chapparal.
w hen he suddenly came upon a large aud
old grizzly at close quarters. The ani
mal was less than twenty feet distant,
and at once, with a roar of rage, threw
himself upon Overacker. The hunter,
with that marvelous rapidity w hich such
men acquire, put a bullet into his foe,
threw out the shell aud had pumped an
othes cartridge into tho rifle when the
giant of tho w ilderness struck him. The
blow delivered with the right paw struck
him on the face and neck, hurled tho gun
into the bushes and felled hiui to the
ground. Tho grizzly instantly caught
him in three places one paw over the
ribs, breaking two and tearing them
loose; the other paw on the ankles, rip
ping and crushing the flesh; the
teeth and jaws closed on the thigh,
mangling tho cth and tearing
it from the bone. Overacker,
though perfectly conscious, lay without
a motion through this terrLZc assault.
The bear suddenly let go his hold ou
he thigh and caught Overacker by tho
shoulder, breaking and crushing tho
bones together. From the time w hen
he rose against the man to the time
w hen he dropped him a bundle of broken
bones and torn flesh, the grizzly had
seemingly put forth but one tremendous
effort. Overacker said afterward that
he was no stronger in the bear's gTasp
than a cat would Le.in bis own. The bear
left him a moment, walked about in a
circle, returned suddenly and bit pieces
of flesh as large as a marble from vari
ous parts of Overacker's body, and then
took his final departure.
Overacker, a few minutes later, seized
the branches overhead and struggled to
his feet, but, to use his ow n phraae, "all
turned black," and his companions
found him half an hour later. For
weeks he was not expected to live, but
his wife's nursing and his magnificent
constitution pulled him through. Two
years later Overacker returmd to tho
same region and shot two large grizzlies
without any assistance. One of them
received eight Henry rifle bullets before
he succumbed. This little sacrifice to
his vanity being accomplished, he hunts
no more bears, and even discourages the
light-minded sneer at the California
grizzly. I asked the veteran whether
he would have used a bow ie if he had
bad it while in the grip of the forest
king. Overacker smiled grimly: "It was
a very large bear as large as an ox. lf
John Sullivan had been in my place,
and had driven a bowie-knife through
the bear's heart, he would have been
killed in the death struggle. As for a
revolver, it would have been suicide to
have tried it. But if the bear had been
fifty feet off when I saw him, instead of
twenty feet, I could have kept out of
the way long enough to kill him."
Charles II. Shinn, in Chicago Inter
Ocean.
A Cause of Moeb I'rofantty.
When a man runs a quarter of a mile
to catch a train, and jumps on the plat
form of tho last ear, "alloutof breath,"
as the locomotive steams out of the sta
tion, he feels as if he had won a great
victory. But when the train stops 1
f ore it has proceeded fifty yards, back's
into the station and waits half an hour
for some unexplained cause, he's mad.
enough to blow up the whole business
with dynamite. But ho simply 'blow-
up" the railroad company with his
mouth. 0 .
A farmer of Templeton. San Luis
Obispo County, CaL. pulled a beet the
other day that weighed one hundred
and fifty-four pounds. It wjj seven
feet long. Tgg,
A NOTABLE CRACKSMAN.
One Leaf from tho Memoirs of Billy I'or
ter. Bank Burglar.
The Anglo-Saxon race produces all
the eminent burglars. The daring of
American burglars and of their brethren
in the allied profession of train-robbing
has a world-wide fame. Englishmen,
in their slow, conservative w-ay, 3liow
but little less ability, though perhaps
loss brilliancy. Whenever on the conti
nent mail bagsare stolen, banks or groat
jewelers robbed, Englishmen do the
work. The famous robbery of French
mails w hich took place about a year ato
was a joint effort of Englishmen and
Americans.
In many cases these artists are Anglo
Americans. Every now and then a
1 heft, usually successful, is made of
postal packages passing between the
diamond merchants of Hatton garden.
London, and the diamond cutters of
Amsterdam. Dutchmen are the losers
by the theft, and some Ihitchmr-n doubt
less profit by it, but Englishmen carry
out the effective part of the work. T' '
conclusion to be drawn from all this la
that only members of the great, world
envelopintr, Anglo-Saxon race possess
the resourceful courarre required in this
method of gaining weulth.
Probably the most perfect type of the
mtnlern burglar is Billy Porter, who has
been engaged in bank-robbing in every
vr.ft r-f tV e.itmtry. He has several
oth- - . ..- s 1 '. r His American
n-cord is i u . ! . V .i-.vn need rejea.
ing. Ho uiiu . .1 i ry ii.i.erestii:r ap
pearance in Lo.ii.'u some t!uio ago,
however, about whi peofle xaay not
have read so much. I'.hly and an ac
complice entered the premises rf a rich
jeweler at Munich, and carefully sw
cured all the stones and jewels of un
usual size an 1 value. What they took
was worth 80,0:0 marks at the lowest
estimate. Entrance to the jeweler's
premises was effected in the most in
genious mann(r, and the thouirhtf mI
burglars loft r"pes, displnced f.ooring,
etc, just as they used them, so as to
provide an invaluable object-lesson for
my of the German youth who mi.?ht
wish to emulate them. Then they
calmly traveled back to England in first
class carriages and berths. The English,
detectives succeeded in tricing tiicrn
and found Porter living with his wifo,
baby and UiOher-in-law hi a nice house
jO a quiet, suburb of London. They
found the liooty there, too. 1'ori.cr and
his accomplice, were accordingly taken
to tho Bow street police court and their
extradition to Gernnny doma.nh d.
Porter is a typical gentlemanly bur
elar of rneloeraiaa, only a little less
flashy. He came into court dresm.d n a
black cutaway coat, trousers or dark ma
terial, patent-leather lioots and dark
rod scarf. His chin was shaven, ai.l be
wore a carefully-trimmed mustache. He
carried a silk hat in his right hand and
a pair of gloves in his left. Althoegh
he was repeatedly remanded from week
to week, and passed the intervals in
prison, he always came into court with
'l o hat and gloves. He is short, loy
fuced and of medium height, and ho
looked like an everyday middle-class
Knglishman.
Ileanswered questions in a quiet, un
concerned manner, never growing angry
or excited. When the various imple
ments of burglary were held up to view
he smiled sweetly.
Tho case ended in Porter's discharge
because tie was a British subject, at. l
he British Government does not exirj
iite its own subjects for burglary
i'orter was lorn in Canada. The j-w-li-r
got his stock back, which was lucky
for him. N. Y. Evening Sun.
ORIGIN OF FRUITS.
Historical Facts Cunrernlnt Some Famil
iar Krults and Yeaeusblee.
What would become of the wanderer
in tho deserts of Arabia and Barbary if
Provider.ee suddenly decreed the ex
tinction of the date palm? Thousands
of human beings would inevitably
perish, for tho inhabitants of Fezzan
live wholly upon its saccharine and
delicious fruit for nine months of the
year. In Egypt. Arabia and Persia it
forms the principal food of the people,
and a man's wealth is computed by the
number of date palms he possesses.
When dried the fruit liecomes an im
portant commercial staph". Cakes of
dates pounded and kneaded until solid
enough to be cut with a hatchet supply
the provision of t"ie A f rican carat ans on
their toilsome joi rney through the sun
lighted Sahara. Tho dau stones or
s--v-ds aro roasted ;is a substitute for
coffee, or rr",nd for tho sake of their
oil, and ti re-i.i it '..m giv?n as food to
cattle. All a;-. !Vi .iiar with the man
ner in which JaLo :i our markets aro
put up. There are several kir.ds known
to commerce, the nnvst imports ut beirig
"Faru" and "Persian." Tho former
comes principally from Arabia, and tho
latter, of course, from Persia. Greet
peas green peas were not used as food
in Franco until the middle of the six
teenth century. Some years later tneir
edible qualities found approbation
in England. Cabbage the cabbage
was highly esteemed by the
Egyptians. and was tho first
"course" of all their repasts. It was no
less valued by tho Greeks and Romans.
Cato pronounced it a remedy for all
evils; Erasistatus recommended it as a
panacea for paralysis; and Hippocrates
as a cure for colic. Asparagus was an
ciently cultivated on a very extensive
scale; its stems in the Roman gardens
weighing throe pounds each. The
cherry originally came from Cerat-us, in
Asia, and came to us through England,
and to England through Italy. Tho
apricot came originally from Armenia.
The plum was anciently cultivated in
Damascus, though certain species seem
to have been derived from Africa. The
apple camo from Asia, according to
some authorities; according to others,
it is African, and reached Normandy
through Spain and France. It is j rob
ablo that the Baldwin is of American
origin. The orange is traced from the.
Celestial Empire, China. The quince
came from Ceylon, in Crete, so authori
ties tell us. The fig is claimed by the
Athenians as indigenous to the soil of
Attica, but it was probably brought trom
a region further East. The pomegranate
is tho fruit of a species of tree belonging
to the order Viyrtaea. The outside rind
is thin but tough, and its juice stains
every thing it touches with an undefined
but indelible bl ue. Tho average size is
about that of-an orange. Within th.o
grains aro arranged in longitudinal
compartments as compactly as corn on
the cob, and they closely resemble those
r of pale red corn, except that they are
1 nearly transparent and very beautiful.
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Tbey aro ripe about the middle of Oc
tober and remain In good condition a',
winter. American Analyst.