i New Orleans W as Saved
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BY CLINTON ROSS.
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HE proper stato-
msnt to begin my
laid is that I,
John Fairbank,
was an artillery
captain u u 1 e r
General Jaoksou
in December,
.1814. That was
the time when
General Jaoksou
came to New Or
citvwhinh was scarcely
In, than Washington had
t British burned it; for
at ships of war of his
esty were standing to-
They were bringing
''Srs, who were mostly
wars fought in Enrope
j.Kn; men who had de
m, bo were ofllccred by
ur-.egy and experience,
u. had seen us run at
r and had burned the
jton,'H yen know, and
neral Jaokson will save
.tnoiuolle, who was the
," I, or any other man,
Mj adomniselle Mario de
jfc'htorof n titled emigre,
.r- r, bad but a slighting
t .-a simple. New England
!: captain of the poor
'"'cry, a I have said,
ihii. flght notVi Captain
you care?" said I, no
j her too lanoh of rny
i.'i' because yon aro a
Viuse a littlo girl down
m.t." She Bpoke very
oy yon know. And she
foot, and her eyes
-as joalous of a huu
uf Lonisiauians.
B) y ahorlly after this T
visiting my friend,
lw at his plantation; aud
o;:r no other reason in
? that the Comto do
Jon was near by. I
. singed enough by the
were ' talkiug, after
h, , two Valleres und I,
of how weak our de
iy; with nothing at tne
' ly the poor littlo fort
"'lilies. .
I' lev gloomy, I can as
the little, thin mulatto
trembling like nu
,,. English!" he said,
iip"'dly risen beforo wo
I j,ey had stolen a inarch
. uogro fishermen had
uir,.o unused bayou, aud
, i ft few miles below the
Mi j of that, I remember
M.'ote, and I know Major
'; about like a hunted
'"the soene, if you. can,
ll!- er day, 1811!
, officer who entered
lt "Jons, and a flue young
m. He wos sorry, but he
; p, for we wouldn't giro
i We were thinking of
rt tckson had said that he
mese Britishers a good
w this surprise) might
,,ilianct.
,jbliged," said tho elder
vu r, as only a gentleman
v tould, "for your offer of
II lieutenant bowod back
" K Up-stuirs they took
'j'.rry; and the major nnd
a, B room together, for the
nlwy. We ahould be
,,,,4 they had timo, which
tly. The door closed;
,,,.,1 the sentinel outside;
l. I Vallere.
,: I.
! king of the city," said
v,:i '
""f act while there's con-
ii.l
6 leaned forwiu.l ami
d from a table where
t in the hurry of our
fi going1 to jump from
Bre they think of it,"
l;h by half," suid I.
tolneoli?"
l he?" said I, catohiug
di imthnaiusm in my
ing out of the window.
Vttter," Huid he.
d remark in the light of
k hioli I will tell you
''r g was a Hue auimul of
u, lovo Jo3 as well ns
fraion? Will you dare?"
, (; to me. "hut e must
( ,1' gouiiral."
,,; first," said I, bul not
I m have said I have no
I wii3 peering out,
tiers at a bare-leggod
ir'
said my Freuoh
the window was wide,
.M'hvongh it, braudishiug
was down on them
'olt of Jove. I thought
1 k a log, or his neck.
of the kind, but lauded
(a ruunlug and rushing
ni.'f.i; aua tnero wus
pti-y dud I saw them
g lux) at his heels.
ull im-e torelleot. The
wiinlow was olear.
ihiu'!'' said T.
J ij'ttt learned at my
Atn! X wttH over the
I (lid tinf. iu,.,n
afau'loti plump ou o stout
1 )lli I frt ....
- - nun
; fpotiia direction from
L,tl u - tL
no mier me In a
Jk. 1 felt the bullets
I UI1 At l,nnrlo.
t to get olear.
aning and even
yoitueluud, I
t,tA 01
res'
I danhed down into the thick shrubs;
I scrambled and sank in morasses; I
heard voices here, there, which
seemed to die, which again guiuod
force. I stumbled and fell on my
face; and then at length I found my
golf on a little path. I had no more
notion tlinn a baby where it might
lead. Yet at last it seemed they had
lost tho trail.
I am no Louiaianian; I didn't know
at all the woodcraft of that broken
land, whilo Vallere knew it all. But
to be sure, I hud to go somewhere.
So I followed that path; and after a
half-hour, although I heard voices and
shouts, I saw no one; and then tho
path opened ou a irreat house.
I know it, my friends; the house
the Oomte tie Maur had bought; tho
plantation where I brought my heart
beats to littlo Mario, de Maur. And
thou again I heard the pursuit, closo
behind. I knew they wonld have me;
while to my dismay, on looking out, I
saw the caps of some of the jack-tars
on tlio road beyond.
Now the servants of the place Wl
rushed out, eager and fearful. Tho
comto himself was shouting Htraugo
French words from bis front door. A
midshipman, hat in band, was ap
proaching him.
I looked about; I can tell you, I
looked about. I saw bow the shrub
bery grew up close nud shadowed a
house, like that of the sorvauts' quar
ters on thoso plantations. I edged
up to it, and saw nu open window.
Out of a window I had come; into a
window I would, go. In a brief
glauce I saw a fat negro woman stand
ing arms akimbo, looking out on the
King of Euglaud's men.
I leaped in. She turned about, as
if I were a ghoct. I thought she
would cry out. As an actual fact, she
did nothing of the kind. Who was
quick-witted, that old soul. Quickly
I explained. In her dialect, half
French, half English, she saw n way,
nud taking some soiled lineu from a
basket, motioned me in.
Ion may believe I understood.
Down I went into that basket, aud a
clean sheet was thrown over me, with
the soiled linen on top of that.
l'reseutly I heard a gruff voice. My
friend grunted as if she didn't under
stand English. She was a wonderful
person, I can assure you.
"Not hore, eh?"
A sword-point touched my shins.
and poked down there till I thought
1 should cry out; but I didn't, as was
lucky, for the owner, of the sword
moved away, and the door shut.
I lay there half-smothered till I
could stand it no longer, and then I
stretched my head up, and the first
sight I saw was the little mademoiselle.
I wasn't a prepossessing sight. Im
agine the situation yonrself.
"Monsieur the oaptain, said she,
with sparkliug eyes.
".begging your pardon," said I, as I
best could.
"I had no notion you were the
man Celeste hid," sho said, with
laughter.
"Or else yon wonld have given me
up?" said I, mnoh piqued. "Where
are thev?"
"They have gone, taking all the
men aud my father. I didn't have
to use my dagger. They wcro very
courteous."
The dagger was a little trinket at
her belt. Every lady of the city and
the countryside wore one that week,
I dnre say thinking that their pretty
solves might have to fight tho English.
For gossip had it there had been a
toast on Admiral Cochraue's shin.
"Beauty and Booty."
"I will sing 'Yaukoe Doodle or the
'Marseillaise,' if I oau get away to
New Orleans," said I, impatiently.
"You must get there," said she,
sobering. "You must let them know.
They've taken all our men with them."
ior a moment she stood thore re
flecting, atid then takincr a sten nearer.
she said,. "You shall go back into the
basket."
"Well?" said I.
"Aud Celeste and another, woman
shall carry you as if you wero "
' wm uiolues, snid I.
"No, a charming, brave gentle-
man, said mademoiselle, clapping
her hands; and really it was tho
vainest moment of my life.
"lUat h kooiI or tou. " said I. "But
what follows?"
"They will take you to a nlauo in
the bayou where thoro's a skiff. Keep
through the passage to the right, aud
you will reach the river near the
city."
"I will try it." said I. cettino back
iuto the basket, where I stood for a
moment looking at her. "You are a
brave lady, mademoisolle." I know
there was more in my eyes than just
wuai inpse words conveyed.
And you, 1 nave said, a brave ecu-
tinman."
"No more?" said I. "No more thau
that to you?"
"Yes," said she. and her eves wore
downcast aud her fuoe crimson. "If
you reach General Jackson, I'll marry
you if you waut to ask mo again."
I spraug out of my basket toward
her, but she pushed mo back. "Our
love-making is not so importaut."
"As New Orleaus?" said I. "Now
I don't know about that."
"Besides, it is only on the coudi
tion that you get thoro," said sho.
Back and down into tho basket I
went, without so much as another
word. Sho threw the sheet and the
linen over me again.
"God help you, dear," she said, aud
her tone made my prediouuient eveu
worth while.
"Celeste?" she called.
Prosontly there was a heavy tread
aud uu explanation in Creole Frenoh.
I wondered if they would be able to
oarry suoh a burden as I. . But for
tunutely I was slight then, and Celeste
not of a heavenly build, like her name.
For the two negro women, big and
heavy, carried me easily. Onoe a sou
tinel challenged; my heart went iuto
my mouth. But the fellow became
satisfied with the women's answers.
Then after some jolts, we stopped.
The linen was pulled away, for
which I was glad enough, you may bo
lieve. My eyes were open on a sunny
place on the fat, complaoent negres;
and her heavy-featnred companion.
The shrubs were thick where we stood;
and in the shadow of the bank was a
skiff, the oars across the seat.
My two carriers went down to the
water's edge, almost nonchalantly, as
if I didn't exist; and then they began
to shout n high, dolorous melody,
with the intention of drowning the
splashing sound from 'be oars of tho
skiff. As I took my p'ace I saw tlx
svnallness of the ehnuce. But agnio
Vallere's quick action fired my spirit,
as it had iu the leap from tho window.
Yen, I was in the skilT. I was pad
dliug very carefully under the bunk.
Tho water in the bayous was high
thon; thore were little unused ohan
nets I could tnlie, and as it chanced I
I knew those waters from my visits to
the De Maurs. I had rowed there
with mademoiselle maay A time, nnd
her talk now rang in my cars hoi
promise. And then I thought of the
good Vallere. Had ho been shot oi
taken?
But I must not tell yon of all 1
thought and fanctud; of how I saw
some rodfioats and avoided thnm. It
would make a story altogether too
long. Yon know that I reached the
cily, and tho cathedra! boll wus toll
ing, aud the air was filled with shouts
and sniig. Yon could hear "Yunkee
Doodle," "La Marseillaise," "Eo
Chant du Depart," altogether, a mod
ley of airs, of tongnes. And then I
knew viy friend, Major Vnllcre, waf
Bafe.
Into the streets, out of nil sorts ol
lodgiugs, wero running that motley
army, somo iu dandified clothes, some
in buckskins, some our regulars, some
LnQlte's swaggering pirate gentry.
Ah, thero never was such a scene
save that when tho cily went mad
after tho battle! And bright eyes
watched and tender voices cheered,
which ramie mo think of mndemoiselle.
Presently I fouud Vallere. Tears
were iu the bravo gentleman's eyes as
ho told me how he had hid in a cypress,
oovered by the moss, and how his dog
had followed him, and had whined
thero at the foot of the tree.
Ho hated to do it, but New Orleans
must be saved. ' He descended from
his perch, and killed the dog not the
least sacrifice made for tho country iu
those days. Then, reascendiug his
cypress, he stayed hidden there until
it was safe to take his way. And ho
had succeeded in reaching tho city
sooner thau I.
And what followed? Ah, my
friouds, the great battle, when thoso
splendid Englishmen as bravo men
as ever lived wero mowed dowu like
a scarlet-topped meadow by the
scythe!
And the pity and the nselessuess of
it, when, if we had known, the treaty
had been signed, peace already hail
been made!
Did mademoiselle keep her proraiso?
Well, you may believe I made her
keep it. Of the events following my
strango adventure, the nhiefest for
me indeed was not tho battlo, but
just my ineoting with mademoiselle.
Youth's Companion.
Iluyor ut Hook Hulen.
"Two things are noteworthy about
the book sales of this city," remarked
a man who has made it n. practice to
attend old book sales. "One is tho
almost entire absence of a middle class
of buyers, such as weiiud in the Euro
pean countries. Abroad, all classes
who can afford it buy books. Hero,
aside from tlio retail booksellers, all
tho buyers belong to one of two
classes; rich men who can afford to buy
anything, nnd poverty-stricken biblio
philes who are willing to give np their
lust dollar for a ohoice volume. Men
of comfortable incomes seem to prefer
to buy of the regular retail dealers.
"The other curious faot is tho
amount of buying done under assumed
names. After a sale is over it is often
impossible for the auctioneer to say
what has become of the volumes he
has sold. He may have his suspicions
that John Smith, the extensive buyer,
is really Mr So and so, but he seldom
kuows positively. Itich men seem to
have been driven to this course to es
cape tho persecutions of tho army of
persons who havo books to sell."
New York Post.
The Lonrlleit )uila on Karlh.
Perhaps the most isolated tribo df
people iu the world is the Tshuktshi,
a people occupying the northern por
tion of the peninsula of Kamskatka
aud the con u try . northward toward
Bering straits.
These people nro practically inde
pendent of ltussia, who appears to
havo reasons of her own for letting
them alone. Tboy have practically
no communication with tle outsido
world, and have only been visited two
or three timos-the last time by Major
de Wiudt on his journey through Si
beria. The inhabitants of the New Si
boriau Islands are also practically
alone ou earth, for they can only com
municate with the mainland, and
therefore with the rest of the world,
onco a year, and a succession of bad
seasons might isolate them for years.
The pygmies of tho great Central
African forests, if they can bo called a
tribe, have also been a people apart.
For ages their existence was little
more than legendary, and only two
expeditions commanded by white men
have ever penetrated into their abode
Pearson's Weekly.
He had been coming every night
for over 700 nights, and a fortune
teller had told hor to stop him off for
one night aud break up the monotony.
Sho loved him dearly, but wheu next
he enrno, she said:
"Thoruwald, suppose you skip to
morrow night just for a change?"
"With all my heart," he replied.
Wheu a night had passed Majoria
looked for him, but he oamo not. Au
other night passed, and another and
nnother, but his old familiar yauk on
the bell was unheard. Then the fair
girl sent ont a general alarm and got
track of 1dm. That one night had
doue tho biiBinoss. He had met and
fallen in love with another girl, aud
had no more use for the old one. Iu
breaking up the monotony the guile
less Maoria bad broken her own
heart. She lingered around for
twenty years, but aa no one seemed
to want hor, she folded her hands and
died. New York Sun,
LASSOING OF A GRIZZLY.
HOW THE VAQUER05 DO IT IN
THE SOUTHWEST.
Tim llxrolu Spurt Inilnlgari In .y Oeron
lino, it Ilia-, roort-?Ciitureil Anph, nnl
Jtl Fellow KntKilipron litlir Hough
in llfinrA Drnmntie Wlnilnp,
NLY one of us
knew when Gor
onimo attaohed
himself to the
ranch, nnd that
one was himself;
neither could we
understand why a
big, good-natured
Indian, with a
face nbout ns savage as that of the
man iu tho moon, should attach the
suggestive name of Geronimo, but
wo did know that he was the best
rider, the best baud with a rope, the
best trailer, iu fact, tho best all
around vaijuero on the range. He
was the oldest luan, in point of ser
vice, on the ranch; had been there
boforo the new owner purchased it,
and employod an entirely new outfit.
No one qnestioued Geronimo; even
tho uow boss, who was not a tender
foot, accepted him along with the
other fixtures, aud f'e Indiau came
and wcut as he pleased. Always on
hand at the spring and fall rodeos, or
round-up, whovo the rush, excitement
and dnuger wero as exhilarating to
him as mescal, and where he was iu
valuable for his knowledge of every
brand iu the Southwest, wheu it came
to tho monotony of riding herd he
would disnppear, eventually return
ing after several months' absence,
ragirod, barefoot and hungry.
Wo did not question him; we knew
where ho had been without that he
had been in tho mountains or desert,
throwing off tho surfeit of civilization
be had accumulated after a stay of one
or two mouths on a cattle range. So,
when ha rode up to the outfit on his
pinto pony aud, with a broad grin ou
his face, mumbled his "Buenos dins,
souors," before renewing his acquaint
aiico with the cook, wo took no uioro
notice of him than if ho had but re
turned from a brief erYand to the
ranch-bouse. There was one thing
at which his prido balkod, and that
was the contraction of his name to
"Bony" by tho Americano vaqneros,
but constant repetition linally accus
tomed him to even that.
It was a day or two after his roturn
from one of his semi-yearly vacations
that he took his ride aud followed the
trail of a mule deer iuto a broad canon
tilled with live-oaks. He had not been
gono over a Hair Hour wheu lie came
bounding bock light and swift as
shadow, as though his namesake was
after him. "A bear, a bear," he said
in his guttural Spanish, as he ran up,
"un graude oso," and began coiling in
his baud the hair rope with which his
cow pony was picketed. Three of the
Mexican vaqueros leaped to their feet,
aud, running to their horses, also took
up their lariats aud mounted., I knew
what was coming; luey were going to
lasso bruin; they had often told ine
how it was doue, and now I should
have an opportunity of witnessing the
sport. "But would the seuor, if he
please, not assist, only sit in his sad
dlo aud watch?" I agreod, and wo
galloped into tho canon.
It was not over u mile to where tho
bear, a big cinnamon , weighing at least
1200 pounds, was quietly rooting
around uncer tho trees and mnnohiug
acorns. Tho soft, dry sand in the bed
of the oanon had given no warning of
our approach, and we were within 100
yards of him before he threw np his
big, shaggy head. Then he lumbered
up the cauon and hadreachel an open
spot among tho trees whoti, yelling at
the tops of our voices, we spurred our
horses in a wide cirole around him;
ho stopped, and, rearing on his
haunches, waited on the defensive.
The vaqneros faced him and rowelled
t'uoir trembling ponies within forty
foot of the big, ugly-looking brnte.
Once, twice, throe timqs ltony's
rope circled around his head, and theu
ho launohed it whistling through tho
air, aud tho loop, settling over one
big, hairy forepaw, was drawn taut.
Tho bear dropped on all fours and
made a leap in the directiou of Bony,
whose pony whoeled as if on a pivot
and bounded away, taking up the
slack. One of the Mexicaus threw his
rope and caught the bear by one of his
hind feet, checking him; up went his
bearsbip again on his haunches, and
a third noose settlod on the other fore
paw. Down he went again on his four
feet aud lunged at the horse and rider
nearest him; theu the fun begau in
earnest, and certainly was exciting.
Growling, snapping, snarling, lung
ing, and rolling over and over, the
boar worked himself iuto a perfeot
frenzy of impotent rage. Sitting up
right on his haunches, he would tug
desperately at a lariat, and theu fol
lowed a veritable tug-of-war between
the bear and the pony, the other va
queros slaoking their ropes. The
pouy, badly frightened, would strain
fearfully, but as he saw and felt him
self dragged nearer and nearer his
more powerful opponent the physical
and pos-ibly meutal strain became too
muoh for him, for with a fearful, half
human neigh of terror, ho would relax
his efforts, and, just as the danger
point was drawing nervously near, the
others would tug the bear over in the
direction ho was already braced.
During one of these tugs a rope
broke and over and over went horse
and rider undor the sudden snapping
of the tension. With a snarl of
vengeance the bear made a lunge at
his prostrate foes, but was checked by
tho others within a length of his re
venge. To those not familiar with
tho use of if lariat it may bo well to
state that as the rope is fasteuod to
the saddle-horn the horse "backs"
and pulls, facing the weight, except
in the case of a dead pull, when the
ridor throws his leg over the rope aud
pormits the horse to pull naturally;
this of course oould not be done in
the present iustanoe, as it would have
interfered, not only with the rope, but
the rider.
The fourth vaquero theu throw his
ropo about the foropaw, from which
already dangled 'a broken lariat, und
another tug begau. The bear again
settled baok ou his hauuebes, the
pony faoiug him pulled in the oppo
site direotion for his very life, and
they tugged like Trojans, when
"suap" went the ciuoh, skinning sad
dle and rider over tho head of the
pony, whilo that animal turned an al
most complete back somersault. For
Ward lunged the bear, and then came
the narrowest squeak of all, for th
vicious blow of his powerful forepaw
broke the tree of the saddle as thn
rider, scrambling to his feet, leaped
to one side, and continued leaping un
til ho reached a plaoe of safety, which
took hiin some littlo timo, for that in
fernal Apsche ind the greaser al
lowed the bear rope enough to maki
him a close socond iu the race, whioli
endod with the winner np a live-oab
tree. There were bnt two ropes on
the boar now, and with tho pnnief
weakening under the straiuaud fright
it was thought b st to end the eon
test, which was gradually getting too
unequal, so the vaquero who wn
stripped off his pony went to th
broken saddle and, securing bis rifle
from its leathern sheath, ended the
fun with a forty-four. St, Louis
Globe-Democrat.
CREATEST AND LEAST RAIN.
One Klnn Wlier It Knlna I'ata nnd Tn(
anil Another Where Almmt None Kail.
An English professor named Fair-
child has recently been visiting a place
ou tho coast of Peru about three hun
dred and fifty miles south of the equa
tor, kuown as Payta. He says this is
supposed to be the dryest spot on the
face of the earth. Another peculiarit t
of this coast is that it has risen about
forty feet within historio times.
I ho average interval between
showers at l'ayta is - soven years.
When Professor Faircliild visited the
place in February thero had been,
somo time before, a drizzle lasting
from 10 o'clock oue evuuing till noon
the next day. Tuis was the first ram
that had fallen in eight years. Ho
found nine species of plants growing
mtne reinvigorated soil or which seven
wero annuals whose seeds must havo
remained dormaut iu tho ground for
eight years. There is one plant, how
ever, that manages to live for seven or
eight years in tho driod-up river bud
and yields a liviug to the few natives
of thn region.
This is the colored cotton of Tern
whose long roots, apparently, onablo
it to suck up a little moisture from the
sub-Boil and keep the plant in bearing
during tho long dronght. Some of
this cottou is imported here, and mixed
with wooleu fibre and is also used in
other manufactures. ..
The opposite side of the world fur
nishes the counterpart to this almost
rainless regiou. It is among the hills
of Assam, whore the elevatious con
dense ihe moisture brought by the
south monsoon and pour a deluge
npou tho Cheranonii station of the In
dian Government. The annual mean
rainfall there is about 620 inches aud
iu the excoptioual year of 1801 it
amounted to 700 inches. Nowhero
.elso does the tropical downpour equal
that which descends upon this district
among the Khnaia HilU. The rains
begin in March and continuo almost
steadily till the middle of November.
That part of the plains adioinina the
rivers is uuder water for eight months
every year. During this period there
is no communication, even betweeu
neighboring villages, and to this en
forced isolution is attributed the faot
that there are considerable differences
of language among the people of neigh
boring hamlets who undoubtedly, at
ono time, spoke tho same language.
Their swamps aud quagmires keep
mem apart. mew Xork Sun.
Mow Soldlure fare In Die Philippine.,
"One is reluotaut to destroy au im
pression, even a false one, when that
impression brings to us a lot of sym
pathy, writes an othoer of tho army
in the Philippines. "It is very nico
to get letters from home saying: 'You
poor soldiers! We often think of yon
sleeping in houses infested by all
kinds of poisonous reptiles and having
nothing to eat, nothing to drink, and
nothing but hard work in a country
infested by a dangerous foe, where
earthquakes aro of hourly ooourreuco
and where typhoous blow down all the
bouse which tho earthquakes leave
standing!' We gain a morbi.l pleas
ure perhaps, iu heariug you talk that
way, nnd perhaps we also dream of
tho reception we will get when we re
turn home after su much 'suffering
and hardship.'
"You don't kuow! We live well,
the climato is not bad, and eveu at tho
front it is not half as black as it is
paiuted. We . have very fow earth
quakes (only oue since 1 camo here),
and they are slight. As for posts, I
have never seen a country so free from
them. Mosquitoas alone are trouble
Borne. "If you hunt for centipedes in n
banana grovo, you may find oue or
two, aud if you hunt iu tho moun
tains you may find a sualio, but all
this rot about flndiug suakos iu bed
and centipedes iu your shoes in Man
ila is the fabrication of a disordered
imagination. Baltimoro Sua.
A Hint For Next Time.
A few evenings sinco a eerUi'i
young man called ou his best girl t.
spend the eveniug. When about to
return home the conversation chancod
to turn to art.and the young lady said
to him that, he reminded her of the
Vends de Milo, whereupon the young
man was dolighted, thiukiug surely
it was symmetrical form she alluded
to. Wheu he got home he consulted
au encyclopedia, aud to his doep cha
grin aud mortitlcatiou fonnl that the
Venus de Milo had no arms. He went
down iu the collar and tried to butt
nut his brains on a soft cabbage. -Berlin
(Ohio) Bee.
Nlchlcapt rr llntlah Soldier..
When tho Ctuadiaii contingent
sailod for South Africa each soldier
got a "housewife" just as our boys
got them wheu they went to war iu
Cuba. Lady White is nppealiug to tho
oouutry to send out Tarn o' Shuuter
caps aud socks to the meu, whilo an
oid campaigner ou the veldt strongly
urges tuat silk nightcaps bo sout to
the oflloers. Ho says that iu sloepiug
on the veldt some head covering in ab
solutely necessary, aud that the differ
ence between- a woolen aud a silk
nightcap is marvelous.
A Curious Aunlrallan Initunti'jr.
Tarantulas are being raised in
Australia for the sake of their webs,
the filaments of which aro m ado into
thread for balloons. They aro lighter
than silk and, when wovec, lighter
thau OAavas. Eaoh tarautula yield
from twenty to forty yards of fila
ment, of which eight twisted together
form a single thread.
NEVADA'S "DEATH SPRINC.
Men and Animal Fall Victims to tht
Poisoned Waters.
The death of Robert Watson, a cat
tie man, after drinking of the waters
of "Death Spring," in the Babbit
Hole mountains, again brings intc
prominence this terror of Nevada
stockmen. The spring is situated iu
Humboldt county, Nevada. Its wa
ters are so impregnated with arsenic
that death results to most creature
that drink from it. Bunnitig from
the spring is a tiny stream, clear as
crystal, which sinks into the ground
about a hundred yards from the
spring. Along the banks of thii
utream are to be fonnd the bones of
hundreds of small animals, and even
of deer, sheep and cattle that have
drank of the water and died.
Stookmon have bnilt a high fence
about tho spring and, so 'far a possi
ble, have enclosed the stream. It
seems impossible, however, to keep
stock from drinkiug the water. Situ
ated many miles from any other water
supply, cattle will get to it, no mattei
what precautions are taken to prevent
them. Hundreds of head of stock are
lost each year on account of it.
Watson had lived in the vicinity
for a quarter of a century and was
well aware of the fatal properties of
the spring. He was out hunting
stock wheu he became separated from
his companions. He lost his horse
aud wus obliged to follow them on
toot.
The second day after his mishap,
after being nearly thirty hours with
out water, he reached the spring, nis
thirst was overpowering and, in his
partial delirium, he drank of the pois
onous water, much tho same as ship
wrecked sailors drink from the oceau
when their thirst becomes unbearable.
His friends, who had expected him to
overtake them every hour, had, in the
meantime, concluded that some mis
hap had occurred, and turned baok
to look for him. They found him
shortly after he had drunk of the
deadly waters. He was still alive, but
suffering the greatest agony. All that
could be done in the desert te relieve
him was done, but without avail. He
died within an hour after his com
panions found him.
A similar spring is to be found be
tweeu Mountain Meadow and Susan
ville, Lassen county, California. The
waters of this spring and the stream
that runs from it are green and nain
vitiug, unlike those of the Nevada
spring in this respect. The bones ot
many deer, cattle, sheep and wild
animals that have tasted of the water
of spring or stream are to be found
in the vicinity. Stookmen have buflt
a seven-foot board fence around the
spring, and on top of the fence have
put several lines of barbed wire, that
stock may be kept from it.
HOW RAISINS ARE 8EEDED.
tniealoas Maehlaes That Tara Oat 1mm
t Twelve Tubs Dally.
Unlike the eastern Imitation, the
California seeded raisin Is subjected to
a dry temperature of 140 degrees Fah
renheit from three to five hours, Im
mediately after which the fruit la sub
mitted to a chilling process, and while
In this reduced condition of tempera
ture la passed through cleaning or
"brushing" machines, which remove
every particle of dust and the cap
stems, thus making It a pure and
wholesome article. It Is then taken
automatically, by elevators, to a room
where, spread upon wire trays. It la
exposed to a temperature of 130 de
grees Fahrenheit, which brings the
fruit back to Its normal condition,
and In this "processing" the berry la
converted Into pectin, that delicious
Jelly which gives to frulta their best
flavor. The raisins having been pre
pared through this alternate heating
and chilling to keep Indefinitely and
resist climatic Influences, are passed
through seeding machines, each of
which has a rapacity of from ten t
twelve tons dally. The raisins at
pressed between rubber or similar sur
faced rollers, which at first flatten the
berry and press the seeds to the sur
face, when an Impaling roller catches
the seeds between Its needles or teeth
affixed to Its periphery, deftly remov
ing every particle of the flesh. The
seeds are removed from ihe roller by a
"flicking," or wblsplng device, and are
sent along to the seed receptacle, final
ly ending their journey In the engine
room, where they are burned as fuel.
Four hundred and fifty carloads of ten
tons each, or 9,000,000 pounds of seed
ed raisins, were shipped from the Fres
no district last year, and a very much
larger tonnage will be turned out this
year. Some estimate can be formed
of the possibilities of the Fresno seed
ed raisin plants when It Is stated that
their aggregate capacity for this sea
son will approximate from 1,700 to 2.
000 carloads, while It Is probable that
1,400 carloads will be the output. Each
seeding plant has from five to twelve
machines of ten tons dally capacity pet
machine. Some of the packing bouses
rover a ground space of 160 by 225
feet and are three stories high.
ECCENTRIC MUTE.
n
His Ow
Invented and Carries
Telephone with Him.
Chicago Chronicle: A walking tele
phone caused considerable merriment
In the business houses ot Evanston the
other afternoon. J. C. Chester, of
Glendtve, Mont., was the curiosity and
he carried speaking tubes and 400
yards of insulated wire wound about
his person and threaded In and out
through bis clothing. A sign up on
his breast which read, "Yell 'hello' and
place the receiver at your ear," made
htm additionally conspicuous as he
Wngnar'a Iilea of America.
Although Wagner nover was in this
country, the possibility of his coming walked from store to store. Chester
over here is referred to often iu his Is an Inventor and Is deaf and dumb.
published correspondence. Iu fact,
he made America a stund-and-dcliver
argument with his frieuds, several
times threatening to forever put aside
his "Bing of the Nibelung" aud to
cross the ocean to earn a competency
unless they contributed to his sup
port. That Waguer regarded America as
a gold mine well worth exploitation by
foreign artists appears from a letter
which iu 1818 he wrote to Franz
Loebmann, musio director at Biga,
whose brother wanted financial assist
ance to go to America with an orches
tra. Waguer advised Loebmann to
assist his brother. He instauoes the
case ot a German musician who went
to America as a poor man and iu a
very short time was iu receipt of an
excellent income; addiug that a whole
orohestra would certainly be still
more lucky, for "iu a couutry where
villages are constantly growing into
oities in five years there can bo no
lack of opportunities for the settle
ment of whole bands of musioiaus."
Could anything be more delicioualy
naive than this last quotation?
American Monthly Be view of Beviews.
He says he is on his way to Wash
ington to secure a patent on his con
trivances, which "assist deaf persona
to hear and. dumb persons to talk." He
needs money to get there and asks for
assistance by means of a little tin
whistle which is connected by wire to
the receiver and through which he
lisps and breathes at the aame time.
The sound thus produced Is very faint,
but the electric current, which Is sup
plied by a battery carried In the hip
pocket, adds to Its volume, and through
the receiver resembles a Punch and
Judy dialect Chester Is a graduate ot
the Columbus (Ohio) Deaf Mute Insti
tute, he says, and carries credentials
purporting to be signed by Prof. C. M,
Fulton of that institution.
MARKETS.
SheSiiTfil KIiib; Front Kldnnpperf .
An interesting incident hupponod
as Queeu Maria Christina drove tho
other day to the station iu Madrid on'
her way to the oourt. Her majesty
was seen to nod and smile aud wave
her band to a wohjan in tho crowd,
whilo tho young kiug, who sat oppo
site his mother, showed sigus of de
light. The woman, who was decently
olod, bowed low in recognition, her
face radiant. It was Alfonso's former
nurse, who, it may not be generally
known, ouce resuued him from kid
uappors. The wouiau had left her
charge asleep in his cradle for a few
minutes, and returned to lind hiiq
gone. Bhe tore dowu the stairs, in tc
the road, and soon overtook two men
carrying what seemed to be a basket
of clothes. She at ouce threw hersell
on the basket and pulled off the oov
oriug, aud thero was her foster child
in a half-smothered state.
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Better Paeillllas.
"Papa," said the beautiful girl as
tho sat down beside the old gentle
rasu and pulled his paper away.
Harold wants to have a talk with
you to-morrow."
"Oh, he does, does he?" returned
the old gentlemau in a toue that was
not calculated to inspire oonfldenoe
in a young man. "Wall, what's the
matter with to-night?"
"He prefers, pupa," replied the
beautiful girl, "to wait uutil you are
at your oflioe."
"And what is the particular advan
tage ot my being at my oflice?"
"He can call you up by telephono
there, and we have noue in the house,
yon kuow," answered the boautifnt
girl. Chicago Post.
Melhnen Descended Krom the Iiateti.
It is interesting to know that Lord
Methuen is a defendant of the Dutoh
founder of the West of England woolen
industry, and that the name of the
oldest sou for generations has been
Paul. He is very popular among the
Guardsmen ot the three regiments
and, what is quite the same thing,
with the Household Cavalry. He is
somewhat delicate looking, but has a
well-knit frame aud a good head on
his shouldeis. He is young for a
lieutenant general, aud is uuderutood
to have theories of his own about t.io
tics, which do not always run ou nil
foura with those of the oommauder iu..
chief, the Adjutant-General "and t.iv
HeUvera Buller.
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