THE MEXICAN BORDER
How Both Sides of the Line Are
Watched and Guarded.
UNCLE SAM'S BRAVE RIDERS.
The Work That Is Performed by These
Well Mounted, Well Armed and Cour
ageous Patrols—The Mexican Rurales
and Their Methods.
If business or recreation should tuke
you down to thnt long line which forms
the boundary between the United States
and Mexico, you may by chance meet
a well mounted rider, armed with rllle
and pistols, pacing observantly along
some bypath or canyon. He is one of
the United States boundary riders ap
pointed by the treasury department to
patrol the border on the lookout for
smugglers, cattle runnel's and other
persons whose presence on the Amer
ican side is generally undesirable.
For this position the man selected
must possess courage, judgment and
no little physical endurance, for his
duties may call him forth at all hours
aud seasons, and he may be responsi
ble for a stretch of border land many
miles in length.
For example, between San Diego, on
the Pacific coast of California, and
Yuma, in Arizona, there is but one
boundary rider to patrol a line of over
150 miles, and this is in part over
a sparsely settled mountainous region
and partly through the waste of the
CoioraUo desert.
As opposite him, 011 the other side of
the tine, the Mexican government main
tains from fifteen to twenty rurales
for the same work, it is 11 good illus
tration of tlie trust reposed in a single
American citizen by his government,
it is probable there. Is 110 other man
in the United States whom it would
be harder to find at a given moment
than tlie boundary rider of the Sail
Diego-Yuma district.
He may be down on the Colorado
desert, watching near some water
holes for a venturesome band of cattle
runners,or in some canyon of the moun
tains on the lookout for a wagon load
of prohibited immigrant Chinamen;
but, wherever he is, one may be fairly
sure it is not where the transgressor of
the customs laws expect him to lie.
That he must possess both judgment
and courage the following incident,
which took place during the career of
the former boundary rider in this dis
trict, will aptly illustrate:
For some time a band of cattle run
ners had been working successfully
back and forth over the line in spite of
the boundary rider's vigilance. They
seemed to be able to divine his move
ments, so that while he was watching
a trail through the mountains they
were rushing a bunch of cattle over
the desert.
But at last he managed to surprise
the band and, rifle in hand, drove two
of them into Canipo.
Then, however, arose the question as
to the method of taking them down to
the coast. 110 hired a double seated
vehicle, the only one in the place.
But at once another question pre
sented itself. How was he to seat his
prisoners, for either they must be
placed together on the front or the
back seat or separated, both seemingly
a hazardous choice?
lie finally decided to separate them,
and so, with one on the front seat with
him and the other behind, he started
for the coast.
The two cattle runners managed to
communicate with each other by signs :
and at a rough part of the road made {
the boundary rider, in turn, their |
prisoner. Needless to say, they then !
made the best of their opportunity to j
escape over the border, but as they fell j
into the hands of the unsympathetic j
rurales they would have been better j
off if they had submitted to the law of
their own country.
This brings one of the somewhat dif- j
ferent methods pursued by the Mexi- I
can government in guarding their side I
of the border. From a cursory inspec
tion of the line one might suppose that i
the Mexican side Is not guarded at all. j
You may cross the line ten times at 1
different places and never set eyes 011 1
a ruraie, but it is well known that you I
have done so nevertheless, and 011 the I
eleventh excursion you are likely to |
find yourself surrounded by a pictur
esque group, who will carry you off to
jail if your explanation is not satis
factory.
As a rule, the rurales patrol back 1
and forth in detachments at a distance ,
of from ten to fifteen miles from the •
actual border. Many a headlong dash j
for the American side has been made
by perfectly law abiding citizens, with
the rurales nt their heels, because they
have been heedless in obtaining a per- |
mission to cross the border.
Trne, an American citizen may cross
'he border at will, as far as he himself |
Is concerned, but as ho Is almost cer- 1
tain to carry some article liable to duty j
it is upon that charge that ho may be
arrested.—Michael White In Youth's '
Companion.
Rural Claims.
Through the influence of the daily
press cities and their needs have come
10 absorb such an amount of daily
attention that the importance of tlie
country and its inhabitants to the wel- j
fare of the nation is largely overlook- j
ed; hence the call to do everything that '
can be done to enlarge, to refine, to j
purify and to strengthen the life of !
our country people. And one means
to tills end which has not hitherto
been used as much as It might liav»>
been Is the cultivation in the school
and in the home of the habit of read
ing good books.—Bishop of Hereford
la Nineteenth Century.
Feminine Intuition.
nattie—Tin positive George loves mo
and wants me to be his wife. Ella-
Has he told you so? Ilattie—No, but
he has taken such a strong dislike to
mamma.—Chicago Tribune.
The liaeleasness of Worry.
Sympathy !s loving understanding,
and the expression of It helps a lot
Worry is sympathy run to seed—and
that doesn't help in the least—London
Sketch.
Occasions do not make a man either
strong or weak, but they show wjat
be is.—Thomas a Kempls.
PLEA FORJHE BlßffiS,
Why A. H. Howell Urges That
They Be Saved.
MANY KILL BOLL WEEVILS.
Biological Survey Expert Tells of the
South's Need of Them—Protection to
Cotton Industry the Keynote of the
Warning From Washington.
Protection for tlie birds of the Unit
ed States is being urged by the biolog
ical survey of the department of agri
culture. The economic importance of
such protection to the cotton indtutry
is pointed out in a recent circular pre
pared by Arthur 11. Howell, assistant
In the biological survey, who has in
recent months made a minute study of
the extent to which the boll weevil Is
destroyed by birds.
Something over a year ago the bio
logical survey took this matter up and
sent out literature urging bird protec
tion. It was pointed out that the resi
dents in the northern states could do a
great service to the south by seeing to
it that tlie birds that nest in the north
ern latitudes in spring and summer
and goto the south In winter were
shielded from destruction. Tlie Inter
est awakened in this matter was great,
and there was eager response from
farmers, school children and others.
Now, says the Washington correspond
ent of the New York tilobe, in the light
of more recent Investigations showing
that the boll weevil is destroyed by 1
birds to a greater extent than was at i
first realized, another plea for tlie pro- j
tectlon ol' the birds is being put forth. ;
The region now Infested by the cot
ton boll weevil includes the greater
part of the cotton growing area of 1
Texas and Louisiana and parts of 01. j
lahoina, Arkansas and Mississippi.
Texas and Louisiana produced in 1900 ■
more than 5,000,000 bales of cotton,
valued at upward of $270,000,000. The
loss caused by tlie boll weevil is va- j
rlously estimated at from 10 to 50 per
cent of the crop, or even more in bad
ly infested areas. Even at the low
est reasonable estimate the loss to
the cotton planters of Texas and Lou
isiana from the ravages of the pest
yearly aggregates many millions. As
the weevil extends its range eastward
into the more humid regions of the
lower Mississippi valley, the damage
it does will be proportionately greater
than In the drier regions to the west
ward.
Investigations conducted by the bio
logical survey on the food habits of
birds in Louisiana in January nnd
February, 1908, showed that more
birds were feeding upon the weevils |
and that many more weevils were de
stroyed by them than In any of the !
western localities where birds have j
been collected at a corresponding sea- !
son. The destruction of weevils in I
winter Is much more important than
In summer, since the death of every •
weevil at that season prevents the pro- ;
duction of u highly numerous progeny '
in the early summer and postpones the
date when the Increase will become so 1
great 11s to destroy the cotton squares
as fast as they appear.
"The service rendered by the vast j
army of birds which occupies the cot- ;
ton plantations of the south during j
the winter months," says Mr. Howell, j
"Is only beginning to he appreciated j
During the first season in which birds j
were studied In their relation to the I
weevil only twenty species wore dis j
covered fo feed upon the Insect, and ;
It was supposed the influence of birds |
in keeping down the post was slight, j
Later Investigations, however, carried [
0:1 during several years and at all sea- I
sons have shown that 110 less than I
fifty-three species of native birds feed I
upon the pest, many of them destroy- |
iug largo numbers of weevils during |
the most critical period of the insect's
life—winter and early spring.
Various kinds of blackbirds, mead
ow larks, sparrows, pipits or titlarks. 1
wrens and titmice are mentioned as
useful in the destruction of tlie boll 1
weevil, and many other well ki: e..11 j
birds, such as tin." oriole, the swallow
and the mockingbird, are in the list j
of those thnt feed upon tlie pest ol
the cotton regions.
A Hybrid Sunflower.
In every respect except one :i
leaves, stalks and the name 011 re
package—lt is a sunflower. But it his
no black or red center. It is a 111
of tine yellow petals like a dandel >1
and looks something like a big chr.vsa 1
tliemum. W. F. Johnson of Kant ; -
City planted its seed in his back yar-'
to raise real Kansas sunflowers. Ii r
the result of the seeds was so que m
that he took it to florists to find whit j
it was. They said they didn't know i
that he could call it anything he plea j
cd. So he has named it the "east slf.e j
sunflower."
The Airship.
When our good ship speeds on her soar
ing flight
And long held fear outbraves
Or rolls on tlie billowy
Of atmospheric waves
wi" sing a song as we fl >at along
1 ' <'rr rns come true nt Inst,
iff :i .- -1 that 3 kissed by the cloud borne
Of Joyful antepast.
Tor we labored long on the craft we
steer
Where ] Jumollke mist foam clings
And fashioned it well ns wo fought the
fear
That only hope had wings.
And now we ride on the pneumotido
That swiftly ebbs and flows.
And wo steer our ship where fog waves
drip
And stormy petrel goes.
The Invisible waves that wash our deck
Will fill the leaks they flnd.
From the dread of reef or of sunken
wreck
We're free as passing wind.
And wo spread our sail for the sea or
gale.
For sea and gale are one.
And we ride abreast of the storm king's
crest
And sail to seek tho sun.
—New York Tribune.
Very Desirable.
On rodbot summer dajws
What comftrrt it would b«
To have at hand always
An educated tree
To follow us around the town, no matter
wh«re we strayed.
And furnish us with shade
And, If it were a lemon tree, with lemon
ade!
■-John Kendrtck Bangs In Harper's
Weekly.
fJWA ELK HUNT
AT
pSfMTWO OCEAN
V PASS
BY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
[Copyright, 1898, by G. P. Putnam's Hons.
Published under arrangement with G. P.
Putnam's Sons, New York and London.]
OODY and X started to
hunt over the great ta
ble-land, and led our
stout horses up the
mountain-side, by elk
trails so bad that they
had to climb like goats.
All these elk-trails have one striking
peculiarity. They lead through thick
timber, but every now and then send
off short well-worn branches to some
cliff-edge or jutting crag, commanding
a view far and wide over the country
beneath. Elk love to stand on these
lookout points, and scan the valleys
and mountains round about.
Blue grouse rose from beside our
path; Clarke's crows flew past us.
with a hollow, flapping sound, or lit
in the pine-tops, calling and flirting
their tails; the gray-clad whisky-jacks,
witli multitudinous cries, hopped and
fluttered near us. Snow-shoe rabbits
scuttled away, the big furry feet
which give them their name alread:
turning white. At last we came out
on the great plateau, seamed with
deep, narrow ravines. Beaches of
pasture alternated with groves an !
open forests of varying size. Almost
immediately wo heard the bugle of a
bull elk, and saw a big band of cows
and calves on the other side of a val
ley. There were three bulls with
them, one very large, and we trie!
to creep up on them; but the wind
was battling and spoiled our stalk. So
we returned to our horses, mounted
them, and rode a mile farther, toward
a large open wood on a hill-side. Win 1
within two hundred yards we heard
directly ahead the bugle of a bull,
and pulled up short. 111 a moment 1
saw him walking through an open
glade; he had not seen us. The slight
breeze brought us down his scent. Elk
have a strong characteristic smell; It
is usually sweet like that of a herd
of Alderney cows; but in old bulls,
while rutting, it is rank, puugent, and
lasting. We stood motionless till the
bull was out of sight, then stole to
the wood, tied our horses, and trotted
after him. He was traveling fast, oc
casionally calling; whereupon others
in the neighborhood would answer.
Evidently he had been driven out of
some herd by the master bull.
He went faster than we did, and
while we were vainly trying to over
tike him wo heard another very loud
and sonorous challenge to our left. It
came from a ridge-crest at the edge of
the woods, among some scattered
clumps of the northern nut-pine or
pinyon—a queer conifer, growing very
high on the mountains. Its multiforked
trunk and wide-spreading branches
giving it the rounded top, and, at a
distance, the general look of an oak
rather than a pine. We at once walked
toward the ridge, up-wiud. In a min
ute or two, to our chagrin, we stum
bled on an outlying spike bull, evident
ly kept on the outskirts of the herd by
the master bull. I thought he would
alarm all tlio rest; but, as we stood mo
tionless, he could not see clearly what
we were. Ho stood, ran, stood again,
gazed at us, and trotted slowly off
I pccrctl over the crest.
We hurried forward ns fast as we
dared, and with too little care; for we
suddenly came In view of two cows.
As they raised their heads to look,
Woody squatted down where he was,
to keep their attention fixed, while I
cautiously tried to slip off to one side
unobserved. Favored by the neutral
tint of my buckskin hunting-shirt, with
which my shoes, legglns, and soft hat
matched, I succeeded. As soon as I
was out of sight Iran hard and came
up to a hillock crested with pinyons,
behind which I judged I should find
tlie herd. As I approached the crest
their strong, sweet smell smote my
nostrils. In another moment I saw the
tips of a pair of mighty antlers, and I
peered over the crest with my rifle at
Lacked Relish.
A good many of the Sac and Fox
Indians do not talk much, and when
they are in a store and see something
they want they pick it up and pay for
it. When Tom Hall was keeping a
drug store an Indlau woman entered
It and picked up a can of varnish and
paid for it. A few weeks later the
same woman was In again and Tom
asked her if she wanted another can.
She said no. they couldn't eat the can
»he had.—Stroud (Okla.) Messenger.
Tlie favor of great men and tlie
praise of the world are not much to b«
relied on.—T'repcli Proverb.
the ready. Thirty yards off, behind
a clump of pinyon?, stood a huge bull,
his head thrown back as he rubbed his
shoulders with his horns. There were
several cows around him, and one saw
me immediately, and took alarm. I
fired Into the bull's shoulder, inflicting
a mortal wound; but he went off, and
I raced after him at top speed, firing
twice into his flank; then he stopped,
very sick, and I broke his neck with a
fourth bullet. An elk often hesitates
in tiie first moments of surprise and
fright, and does not get really under
way for two or three hundred yards;
but, when ouce fairly started, he may
go several miles, even though mortally
wounded; therefore, the hunter, after
his first shot, should run forward as
fast as he can, and shoot again and
again until the quarry drops. In this
way many animals that would other
wise be lost are obtained, especially
by the man who has a repeating
ritte.
The elk I thus slew was a giant.
Ilis body was the size of a steer's,
and his antlers, though not unusually
long, were very massive and heavy.
He lay in a glade, on the edge of a
great cliff. Standing on its brink we
overlooked a most beautiful country,
the home of all homes for the elk: a
wilderness of mountains, the Immense
evergreen forest broken by park and
glade, by meadow and pasture, by
bare hill-side and barren table-land
Some five miles off lay the sheet of
water known to the old hunters as
Spotted Lake; two or three shallow,
sedgy places, and spots of geyser for
mation, made pale green blotches on
its wind-rippled surface. Far to the
southwest, in daring beauty anil maj
esty, the grand domes and lofty spires
of the Tetons shot iuto the blue
sky.
That night, as on more than one
night afterward, a bull elk came down
whistling to within two or three hun
dred yards of tho tents, and tried to
Join the horse herd. The moon had
set, so I could not go after it. Elk are
very restless and active throughout
the night in the rutting season; but
where undisturbed they feed freely in
tho daytime, resting for two or three
hours about noon.
Next day, which was rainy, we spent
in getting in the antlers and meat of
the two dead elk; and I shot off the
heads of two or three blue grouse on
the way home. The following day I
killed another bull elk, following him
by the strong, not unpleaslng, smell
and hitting him twice as he ran, at
about eighty yards. So far I had had
good luck, killing everything I had
shot at; but now the iuck changed,
through no fault of mine, as for as 1
could see. and Ferguson had his in
nings. The day after I killed this
bull he shot two flno mountain rams;
and during the remainder of our hunt
he killed live elk—one cow, for meat,
and four good bulls. Tho two ranis
were with three others, all old and
with flno horns; Ferguson peeped over
a lofty precipice and saw them com
ing up it only fifty yards below him.
Ilis two first and finest hulls were ob
tained by hard running and good
shooting; tho herds were on the move
at the time, and only his speed of foot
and soundness of wind enabled him
to get near enough for a shot. One
herd started before he got close, and
lie killed tho master bull by a shot
right through the heart, as it trotted
past, n hundred and fifty yards dis
tant.
As for me, during tile next ten days
I killed nothing save one cow for meat;
and this though I hunted hard every
day from morning till night, no matter
what the weather. Our ill success was
In part due to sheer bad luck; but the
chief element therein was the presence
of a great hunting-party of Shoshone
Indians. Split Into bands of eight to
ten each, they scoured the whole coun
try on their tough, sure-footed ponies
As they slew whatever they could, but
by preference cows and calves, and as
they were very persevering, but also
very excitable and generally poor shots,
so that they wasted much powder, they
not only wrought havoc among the ells,
but also scared the survivors out of all
the country over which they bunted.
Day in and day out we plodded on
In a hunting trip the days of long mo
notony In getting to tho ground, and
the days of unrequited toil after it has
been reached, always far outnumber
the red-letter days of success. Hut it is
just these times of failure that really
test the hunter. In tho long run, com
mon-sense and dogged perseverance
avail him more than any other quali
ties. The man who does not give up,
but hunts steadily and resolutely
through tho spells of bad luck until the
luck turns, is the man who wins suc
cess in the end.
After a week at Two-Ocean Pass, we
gathered our pack-animals one frosty
morning, and agaiu set off across the
mountains. A two-days' jaunt took us
to the summit of Wolverine Pass, near
I'lnyon Peak, beside a little mountain
tarn; each morning we found its sur
face skimmed with black ice, for the
nights were cold. After three or four
days, we shifted camp to the mouth of
Wolverine Creek, to get off the hunting
grounds of the Indians. We had used
up our last elk-meat that morning, and
Tho Reason.
The new dlrectoire gown Is expen
sive, uncomfortable to wear and very
striking in Its appearance, which Is
why the dear women will Insist on
wearing It.
Not So Bad.
Mr. Subbs (after engaging cook)—
There's one other thing I suppose you
ihould know. Miss Flannlgan—my wife
Is a chronic Invalid, confined to her
room.
Miss Flannlgan—That's fine. I wor
afeerd she might be wan iv thlin
cbronic kickers that ar-re confined 112
tb' kitchen, begobs!—Pack.
when we were within a couple o»
hours' Journey of our Intended halting
place, Woody and I struck off on foot
for a hunt Just before sunset we
came on three or four elk; a spike bill!
stood for a moment behind some thicn
evergreens a hundred yards off. Guess
ing at his shoulder, I fired, and he fell
dead after running a few rods. I had
broken the luck, after ten days of ill
success.
Next morning Woody and I, with
the packer, rode to where this elk lay
We loaded the meat on a pack-horse,
and let the packer take both the load
ed animal and our saddle-horses back
to camp, while we made a hunt on
foot. We went up the steep, forest
clad mountain-side, and before we had
walked an hour heard two elk whis
tling ahead of us. The woods were
open, and quite free fro» under
growth, and we were able to advance
noiselessly; there was no wind, for the
weather was still, clear, and cold.
Both of the elk were evidently very
much excited, answering each other
continually; they had probably been
master bulls, but had become so ex
hausted that their rivals had driven
them from the herds, forcing them to
remain In seclusion until they regain
ed their lost strength. As we crept
stealthily forward, the calling grew
louder and louder, until we could hear
the grunting sounds with which the
challenge of the nearest ended. He
was in a largo wallow, which was
also a lick. When we were still sixty
yards off, he heard us, and rushed
out, but wheeled and stood a moment
to gaze, puzzled by my buckskin suit.
I tired Into his throat, breaking his
neck, and down he went In a heap.
Hushing in and turning, X called to
Woody, "lie's a twelve-pointer, but
the horns are small!" As I spoke I
heard the roar of the challenger of the
other bull not two hundred yards
ahead, as if in defiant answer to my
shot.
Itunning quietly forward, I speedily
caught a glimpse of liis body. lie
I raced af tc r him.
was behind some fir-trees about seven
ty yards off. and I could not see which
way he was standing, and so fired
into the patch of flank which was vis
ible, aiming high, to break the back.
My aim was true, and the huge beast
crashed down-hill through the ever
greens, pulling himself on his fore
legs for fifteen or twenty rods, his
hind quarters trailing. Kaclng for
ward, I broke his neck. Ilis antlers
were the finest I e%-er got. A couple
of whisky-Jacks appeared at the first
crack of the rifle with their customary
astonishing familiarity and heedless
ness of the hunter; they followed the
wounded bull as he dragged his great
carcass down the hill, and pounced
with ghoulish bloodthirstiness on the
gouts of blood that were sprinkled
over the green herbage.
These two bulls lay only a couple of
hundred yards apart, on a broad game
trail, which was as well beaten as a
good bridle-path. We begat) to skin out
the heads; and as we were finishing we
heard another bull challenging far up
the mountain. lie came nearer and
nearer, and as soon as we had ended
our work we grasped our rifles aud
trotted toward him along the game
trail. He was very noisy, uttering his
loud, singing challenge every minute or
two. The trail was so broad and firm
that we walked in perfect silence.
After going only five or six hundred
yards, we got very closo indeed, and
stole forward on tip-toe, listening to
the roaring music. The sound came
from a steep, narrow ravine, to one
side of the trail, and I walked toward
it with my rifle at the ready. A slight
puff gave the elk my wind, and lie
dashed out of the ravine like a deer;
but he was only thirty yards off, and
my bullet went into his shoulder as he
passed behind a clump of young spruce.
I plunged Into the ravine, scrambled
out of it, and raced after him. Ins
minute I saw him standing with droop
ing head, and two more shots finishc il
him. He also bore fine antlers. It was
n great piece of luck to get three such
fine bulls at the cost of half a day's
light work; but we had fairly earned
them, having worked hard for ten
days, tljrough rain, cold, hunger, and
fatigue, to no purpose. That evening
my home-coming to camp, with three
elk-tongues and a brace of ruffed
grouse hung at my belt, was most hap
py-
TY~^CF r ~.2
Pyramids.
The largest of the Mexican pyramids,
that of Cholula, has a base measure
ment of 1,488 feet and a height of 178
feet. The Great pyramid of Egypt,
sometimes called the pyramid of Che
ops, stands on a base each side of
which was originally 764 feet long; but,
owing to the removal of the coating, It
is now only 746 fet Its height, ac
cording to WlLkenson, was originally
480 feet 0 Inches, Its present height lx>
tn» 4rtft f»ot_—New York American.
Teacher—What little boy can tell
me where is the home of the swal
low? Bobby—l kin. The home of the
swallow to the stomnrlck.
HIT THE WRONG BANK
Story of the Man Who Wanted to
Open a Small Account.
A WALL STREET EXPERIENCE.
The Would Be Depositor of Modest
Means Found Himself In a Place For
Millionaires—An Official's Courteous
Explanation and Advice.
"When," said the man who writes
pieces for magazines and things, "by
Borne strangeand unprecedented chance,
I had got hold of a matter of $350 all
at one and the same time It looked big
to me. By an even more curious
chance there wasn't anything that I
really needed to do with the money, so
I decided that I'd bank it
"Now, X knew in a general way that
in order to put money in a bank you've
got to be known and give your pedi
gree and look respectable, and all that,
and I hated to approach a bank with
out any sort of credentials. Therefore
I went to the business manager of a
certain magazine which occasionally
prints pieces that I write and asked
him what I'd better do.
" 'Simplest thing in the world,' said
he. 'l'll give you a note to our bank.'
"That sounded fine to me. lie wrote
me the note, and I started for the bank
a good deal tickled over how easy the
little depositing proceeding hud been
made.
"The bank to which I had the note Is
in Wall street. 1 asked the uniformed
man who was standing around where
I'd find the receiving teller's window,
and he pointed that window out to me.
I got into line and watched the teller
take In money.
"I must own that I was a bit stalled
to note the great size of some of the
deposits he was receiving. Why, fel
lows were giving the money to him by
the satchelful. But I had my note in
my pocket, and I remained complacent
enough with that consciousness.
"When I reached the receiving teller
I passed in my note, and the receiving
teller, a decidedly civil young man,
opened it and read it. Then he looked
at me, after which he read the note
again, this time with a sort of puzzled
expression on his countenance. I didn't
see why the receiving teller should be
puzzled over such a simple matter, but
puzzled he seemed. lie rang a bell,
and the uniformed man who'd directed
me to that window appeared.
" 'Show this gentleman to the office
of the cashier,' said the receiving teller
to the uniformed man, at the same
time regarding me with a pleasant
smile, and the uniformed man led me
down the passageway and took me
behind a railing whero there was a
handsome gray haired gentleman sit
ting at a desk.
"The handsome gray haired gentle
man received me cordially and Invited
me to be seated. I handed him my
note, which the receiving teller had
returned to me, and he leaned back In
his chair and read It carefully. Then
he, too, looked puzzled after he'd road
the note a second time. Then he look
ed at me pleasantly over the tops of
his spectacles.
"'Ahem!' said the handsome gray
haired gentleman, not disagreeably, but
In a nice, banker-like way. 'Might l—
er—lnquire, Mr. l'enphlst, without
seeming to be unduly Inquisitive, as
to how—< «• large a—er—balance you
would usually be carrying?'
"Well, that was a civil enough ques
tion, nothing inquisitive about it.
" 'Why, sir,' I said to the handsome
gray haired gentleman, 'I am opening
an account with a matter of some $350,
but I shall no doubt make some addi
tions to that within the next two
months, and probably I shall carry a
balance of—well, say, SSOO or SOOO right
along.'
"The kindly cashier with the gray
hair fairly beamed upon me.
" 'Er—just so, just so,' said he, twid
dling his thumbs. 'We feel compli
mented, Mr. Penphist, we really do,
that you should have come to us. And
it is unfortunate—er—really unfortu
nate, that we are so utterly lacking In
facilities for taking care of accounts
of such a character.'
" 'You see, Mr. l'enphlst, our institu
tion Is of—er —a sort of special charac
ter. It Is used as a depository by—
well, perhaps 1 should put It in a
clearer manner. I say It to you quite In
confidence, you understand, Mr. I'eu
phist, but we have only 1,000 deposit
ors on our books, and these 1,000 de
positors' aggregate balances amount all
the time to a matter of $110,000,000.'
"Well, that was about enough. 1
saw the light then. I'd drifted Into
a millionaires' bank on the careless cre
dentials of a business manager who'd
written me that note no doubt in a
thoughtless mood.
"The gray haired cashier acted bully
übout it. He recommended a fine bank
to me—'one that combines ])erfect re
sponsibility with the necessary facili
ties for handling accounts like—er—
yours, Mr. Penphist,' ho added.
"For all of the cashier's nlceness I
walked out of there into the cold gray
light of Wall street feeling like a good
deal of a human caterpillar.
"I didn't goto the bank recommended
to mo by the cashier; didn't have the
nerve to visit any more banks. I've
got SO2 left now of the $350, but I'm
going to use that as a nest egg, and
muybe some day even yet I'll have a
bank account."—New York Sun. _
Art of the Superior Smile.
The superior stnlle Is a useful accom
plishment for any young man. It Is
much In vogue at the universities,
where It may lie studied at its best on
young Don. Many men who learn
nothing else at the universities learn
this art and And It uncommonly useful
In after life. It Is an excellent cover
for a nuked mind and should be sought
after by parliamentary candidates.—
Oxford Varsity.
Ftocring Papa.
Five-year-ohl Tommy was being put
through a test in numbers before the
admiring family one day at dinner.
Finally papa asked him the question
that had proved the Waterloo of the
older children In past years.
"Now, Tommy," said papa, "how
many are two apples and three pears?"
"Flvtt fruits I" promptly answered
Tommy.—Delineator.
TO RESCUE NAPOLEON
A Bold Plan That Was Matured
In This Country.
IT WAS A DARING SCHEME.
The Enterprise Was Known to the Ex
ile of St. Helena, but Just as the
Preparations Were About Complete
the Fallen Emperor Died.
Even in"the last phase" our coun
try sustained a certain association
with the captive of St. Helena, says a
writer in the Magazine of History.
The English felt that any danger o£
rescue would originate upon the west
ern shore of the Atlantic.
Admiral Cockburn occupied the
neighboring Island of Ascension, avow
edly to prevent it falling Into the liunds
of Yankee raiders. The feeling In the
United States against England was at
that time quite bitter. Napoleon's
landing at St. Helena followed the bat
tle of New Orleans only about seven
months, and the downfall of the revo
lutionary monarch aroused deep sym
pathy throughout the country.
Hut the actual grounds for believing
in the existence of a rescue party and
rescue plans in the United States rest
upon the movements of General Lalle
mand and his associates. This officer's
military record, from the revolutionary
days to Waterloo, had been distin
guished by notable feats of daring.
His devotion to the emperor was
loyal and persistent; he had followed
him until his embarkation from the
shores of France and bad tried in vain
to accompany him to St. Helena. He
was condemned to death by the reac
tionary tribunals of 1810, but had suc
ceeded in escaping and joining his
brother at Philadelphia.
At this time our country was literal
ly swarming with French military ref
ugees, many of whom, like I.allemand,
were under capital sentence for their
conduct toward the Bourbons during
the hundred days.
The Lallemands proceeded ostensibly
to unite a number of these veterans
into a military colony which they
called the Field of Asylum.
Our government granted them 100,-
000 acres on the banks of the Tomblg
bee, bnt as their own project required
their establishment near the sea they
sold the lands and with the proceed*
settled on the Trinity river, in Texas,
about fifteen miles from its mouth.
The second In command was Haron
Rlgaud, whose kindly feelings toward
the ancient regime had been illustrated!
by publicly stamping the cross of St.
Louis under his feet. Needless to say.
he was also under sentence of death by
Louis XVIII.'s court martial.
But the best known of all this de
voted band was the famous pirate La
tltte, who had lx»gun life as a Bor
deaux blacksmith, had killed his lev©
rival In a duel, had become a noted
corsair, the terror of the Antillean
seas, had been the effective ally of
General Jackson in repulsing the Brit
ish at New Orleans and at the time of
the French settlement of old guards
men in his vicinity was established at
Galveston.
This narrative does not require a de
tailed statement of the affairs of th»
400 grenadiers, of the attacks of the
Mexicans on their camp, of their final
removal to New Orleans.
All the circumstances indicate that It
was not the intention of the Lalle
mands to found an agricultural colony,
but to unite about 1,000 old soldiers
for the deliverance of the great pris
oner.
The location of their camp was most
favorable for the scheme, being near
the sea in an unsettled country where
their movements would nut be watched
and, above all, being in proximity to
Lafitte, who commanded the required
ships. Besides these desirable vessels,
one, a model of swiftness, was con
structed at Charleston and eqtiipiied
for its purpose in the most complete
manner.
An Intrepid captain named Boissiere,
who navigated for pleasure, bad ac
cepted its command, and this was the
ship destined to carry awaj Napoleo©
Bonaparte, while Lafitte would land
the guardsmen and engage the atten
tion of the English cruisers.
The enterprise was known to the
captives, as shown by Bertrand's dis
closures. But when the preparations
were al>out complete the news arrived
of the emperor's death.
Words From the Army Mule.
[The automobile has been proved use
less for army purposes.—Extract From
Report to War Department.]
They trr to cllml> a hIU
That Is with a will
As a ruK\
And when Mr. Auto skkls
Clear as laughter of kids
Out of school
Comes a cynic heeltaw note
Prom the ntx Caruso throat
Of a mule.
"They have sought to throw me out
For a bucking runabout."
Quoth the knave.
"I've my faults, I will admit—
I mill kick when I am hit
With a stave-
But you bet when bullets whiz
I'm the mottre power what Is—
I still wave!"
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