Evening gazette, Wednesday, February 19, 1896 · page 6

 

. THE OLYMPIC MOUNTAINS

 

A Splendid Spot for a Govern-
ment Game Preserve.

 

The Reglbn Abounds In Large Game Which
Should Bave'the Protection of the
Law—Cruel Slaughter by

Pot Hunters. :
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F. W. Hawkins, a well-known moun-
tain climber and woodsman, lately re-
turned from Spokane from an expedi-
tion into the heart of the Olympic
mountains. He was accompanied by
one companion, made the trip with
horses, and the only course laid and fol-
lowed was that already mapped out by

 

the broad elk trails which intersect
the country in every direction. The,
trip was fruitful of a great many inter-
esting things, though it had no other ,
object than to investigate the extent of -

the grazing country that lies back of i
the small range of mountains parallel— ,
in g in a way' the coast- line on the south
side of the Straits of San Juan de Fuca.

Mr. Hawkins is now firmly convinced
that the government ought to at once
set apart a large area of the Olympic
mountains as agrand game. reserve, for _
the protection of the big game on the
coast, which is fast being extermin-
nied. There is no doubt that the Olym- ,
pic mountains are the greatest elk
country in the union to-day, and up to
t he present time but little known to the
big sportsmen of the country.

Soon aft-er leaving the lower levels of
the Olympic mountains indications of
bgg game begin to show up in a mest
wonderful manner. Broad trails,

' which are veritable highways, cross the
lower mountains in almost every di-
rection,leading from plateau to plateau,
from grass field to grass field, from
valley to valley. These trails run along
the mountain side and have been so
much traveled that although they may
he on a mountain side at an angle of 45
degrees they become almost flat from
long tramping, and as solid as the hills
themselves. These trails are two and
three feet broad, and so readily trav-
eled that Mr. Hawkins and his com-
panion had no difficulty in following
them on Horseback 50 miles into the
mountains. They are sometimes ob-
: iructed by fallen timber, but it is of a
light kind, being above the regular
1forest belt, and a horse can easily sur-
mount it. One beauty of the country is ;
“I but one cannot get off the trail.

It is impossible to travel long through .I
1 he country without falling in With one
of these trails, and it. always leadsl

_ somewhere. These trails, or elk high-l
ways, are as characteristic of the Olym-
pic mountains as the mounds are in a:
prairie dog village.

The elk country lies above the coun-
try adapted to agriculture, and even
above the forest belt, from which the
merchant-able timber is reduced. It is :
timbered, but the growth is that of the!
Alaska cedar, not large, as timber is
considered in this country. l

For the very reason that to make of!
this a great elk and game preserve.
would not interfere with nor curtail‘
either agricultural or timber interests;
in this state, it is urged that the. gov-i
crnment ought to set it apart as such.

On top of these mountains, which!
reach an elevation of 4,500 and 5,000'
feet above the sea, are to be found great E
areas of bunch grass land several thou- l

V sands of acres in extent. These are the,:
great elk pastures, to and from which
lead ‘the broad paths referred to above.

In reaching this section Hawkins and
his fellow wanderer went in from Port
.\ngelcs, but did not follow the govern-
ment- trail, which strikes boldly across
the mountains that come down close
upon the coast. They took the course
somewhat east of the town, and did, not
5:0 far till the last ranchwas left he-
hind. They edged their way around.
the first mountains, and thereafter laid
a course. toward the Lillian river, a}
tributary of the Elwha. They had notf
the least difficulty after leaving the set-'
ileinent in following the elk paths.
They made camp 45 or 50 miles in the
interior, and every day while out as-
cended one or the other of the nearest;
mountains to explore the elk pasturage
to be found near the top. At- night
they returned to camp, and the follow-
ing day took another elevation. Mount
Olympus, the senior grand of the peaks
in the coast range, stood out in its

grand magnificence a little southwest,
while Mount Constance was in an al-
most directly opposite direction, and
almost or quite as far toward the east.

An area of several hundred miles in
territory could be included in a great
game preserve in the center of these
mountains, and thus protect and per-
petuate indefinitely the noble game
that is there to be found.

The country, as a whole, can never be ‘
put to other use than possibly as a
grazing ground for isolated herds, and
this is improbable. As it is at present,
the land is unsurveyed public domain,
and it is Mr. Hawkin’s belief that con—
certed action ought to be taken to have
the government declare it a public re-
serve, and preserve the game.

Small hunters have long been in the
habit of hunting elk in the mountains .
near the settlements, but occasionally l
are heard instances of shameful l
slaughter on the part of reckless and l
careless people. Last winter one crim-
inally inclined individual slaughtered
:1 band of 30 head of elk which had been ;
driven into the foothills by the excessive l
snowfall on the upper elevations.—
Portland Oregonian.

Stick to One Style.

The woman who cannot afford an as—
sortment of hats and bonnets and who
s also wise never experiments. When
”in has found a shape that suits her
5‘08“ she modifies and charges it. but
':l\\-'::_‘,'s retains its essential :‘tyle and
_' or. formation . the general on tli me which
7.?‘1‘1‘05‘ as an “improveer” never being
lost sight of. She knows that it is the
shape of a but far more than its mode
of trimmingor even its prevailing hue

_ that makes it becoming or othemvise.-— ‘
Chicago Inter Ocean.

 

 

 

. ahead of me;

‘ lit my pipe again;

A FULL . DAY’S WORK.
What a New 111nm Farmer Accom-
plished.

Lest some one should think an
Aroostook farmer’s life too free and
easy, the Parkhurst correspondent of
the Fort Fairfield Beacon gives this
account of an average day's work dur-
ing the potato-digging season: “I went
to bed at 11 p. m. with the conviction
that I must get up at 4 a. m. Glgcal
time). Awoke when the clock struck
2 and dared not go to sleep again for
fear of sleeping over. Jumped out of
bed at 4 o’clock, ran to the barn, dressed
myself as I went, and fed and harnessed
four horses; ran to the house and woke
the old woman (for good reasons farm-
ers’ wives often sleep with the hired
girl through potato digging); ran to
the spring and back twice; greased the
double wagon; mendedfia. check rein;
unloaded four barrels and a basket of
potatoes and dumped 16 barrels; 5,

‘ woke up the crew; 5:30, breakfast;

5:33, ran to the barn again, got the

7 horses on the wagon and started for

the factory; 6, arrived at factory,
horses steaming, two acres 8f teams
everybody swearing;
6:30, lit my pipe; 7, gave some offohe
boys a lesson in careless language; 8,
9, went into the
boarding house and tried to buzz the
cook; 10, told a big yarn; 11, stole a
bottle of whisky;'12:30, got unloaded,
full as a starch factory, and ran the
horses all the way home, arriving at
1; had a row with a Frenchman and
forgot to eat dinner; 2, chased four
Arab peddlers out of the field, then
hauled potatoes to the cellar till 7;
8, had supper, unharnessed and cared
for the horses, went to the spring twice
more, shoveled potatoes in cellar till
9: 30, got a chance to kiss the hired girl
twice; 10, went to bed happy.

QUEEN VICTORIA’S BOSS.

She Had One in Mrs. Mussens, House-
keeper at Balmoral.

Queen Victoria. has just sustained a
severe loss by the. death of Mrs. Mus-
sens, who, from time immemorial, had
been her housekeeper at Balmoral, says
the London News. Though unknown
to the public at large, she was an im—
portant personage in the eyes of every-
body connected with the court, as she
was one of the few who had the cour—
age to “talk up” to her majesty, and
even on occasion to deliberately “boss”
her august mistress. Once when the
queen wanted a certain maid towhom
she had taken a fancy detailed to the
care of her own room, Mrs. Mussens
remonstrated in the strongest fashion,
telling her majesty that it was quite
out of order, and she really must 1.01:
spoil the servants by taking undue no-
tice, of them. The queen, as usual,
gave away, and “dear Mrs. Mussens”
won the day. She. was a typical per-
sonage of her class, gowned always in
black silk, lace-trimmed apron and
white cap, with corkscrew earls. She
and the queen were excellent friends,
and her majesty used to delight in her
conversation. She also stood high in
the favor of the royal grandchildren,
who used to seek her out as soon as
they arrived at the castle. But to the
world at large she was a holy terror,
and with the servants and members
of the household she was infinitely
more exacting and imperious than the
queen herself.

DID NOT KISS THE BRIDE.

Sooner Than Cause a Scene the Constable
Compromised for a Small Fee.

A marriage took place in the office of
a justice of the peace in Columbus, 0.,
a few days ago, and, while amost im-
pressive ceremony to the contracting
parties, it had a very humorous side
to the spectators. The couple were evi-
dently from the rural districts, says
the Troy Times, and were both seem-
ingly covered with confusion at their
having to stand up before the four or
five present. After the form had been
read, the blushing pair standing hand
in hand, the magistrate announced in
a serious tone that, as it was the cus-
tom of the constable to kiss the bride,
she would prepare herself for the os-
culation. The constable stepped bold-
ly out, and, being a good-looking young
fellow, the young woman seemed not
averse to being kissed. All doubts,
of the propriety of the act were soon
set at rest, for the husky groom stepped
before her with an air of determination
upon his face that showed it was life
and death with him. He gave his
hands an imaginary washing and said:
“Squire, this yere lady b’longs to me
now, an’ what she did afore I took her
ain’t my business, but if this constable
is willin’, I’ll give him $1.50 to call it
off.” The server ‘of writs signified his

,assent and the jealous countryman:
i paid the amount, which found its way '

over the bar of the neareSt saloon a
few minutes after the newly-married
pair departed.

 

A Wise Precaution.
The president of a large accident
company tells this remarkable story
and locates the occurrence in Brooklyn:

2 “Some time ago a large policy holder

in my company was run over by a trol-
ley car and his right leg painfully
crushed. He renia-ined conscious after

the shock for three minutes, during,

Which time he pulled out his watch
and called the attention of the crowd
to the fact that it was just 15 minutes
to 12 o’clock. His policy expired at
noon, and his foresight was rewarded

: by’the immediate payment of his week-

ly indemnity without controversy or
litigation.”

A Diplomatic Tutor.

From a French journal comes this
little anecdote of a tutor and his royal
pupil :* The lesson was in Roman history
and the prince was unprepared. “IVc
come now to the Emperor Caligula.

"What- do you know about him, prince ‘3"

The question was followed by a silence
that was becoming awkward, when it
was broken by the diplomatic tutor.

“Your higliness is right,” he said, “per4 _

fcctly right. The less said about this
l'];l]‘:(31'0]')l’ll(‘. better.”

 

‘ troduction of the half-cent piece. Frac-

 

 

: consulate.
‘ for' years had resided in the Parana

 

THE PENNY IS POPULAR.

 

Our Smauest *- Coin Is in Gre at De-
mand in Business.

Bargain Counters in Department Stores
Have Done Much to Make the Coppers
Necessary—An Important Pur-
chasing Power.

 

The 1-cent copper coin of the
United States is enjoying an increased
popular demand. It is a significant
fact that the coinage of this piece has
of very recent years taken up more of
the time oft-he Philadelphia mint than
ever before. Three presses are now at
work there on copper coinage, turning
out 150,000 cents a. day. This rate has
before been equaled or exceeded, but
it is worthy of remark now in View of
the previous great- output of the copper
coins within the past dozen years.
Since the foundation of the mint in 1793
1,066,677,508 one-cent pieces have been
struck, and it is estimated that some
780,000,000 pieces are now outstanding.

But the great bulk of this coinage
has taken place lately. From 1793 to
the beginning of the civil war the coin-
age of thecent piece did not average
much above $25,000 worth a year, or
2,500,000 pieces. Just prior to and dur-
ing the war the coinage became un—
usually larn‘e, but fell off during the
time of inflated prices to a marked ex-
tent. But in 1880 the penny coinage
rose suddenly to an unusually high
figure, and has kept there ever since.
Within the past 15 years almost one-
half of the entire penny coinage of the
whole country has been executed. Of
the amount outstanding of 780,000,000
pieces, no less than 504,700,000 pieces

 

have been struck in the 15 years. And
the public demand for the coin appears
to be unabated and rather on the in- ;
crease.
The explanation of this is doubtless l
to be found in the more general prac- .
tice of. cash payments in the retail 1
trade and the great. fall in prices which
has come about in the past 20* yearsg
Not long ago the smallest coin known i
in the general circulation west of the :
Mississippi river was the nickel 5-cent '
piece. Only within a few days thei
larger St. Louis papers were charging
5 cents a copy for their issues, when 3 5
cents, 2 cents and even 1 cent were the
prevailing rates farther east. Now pa- ‘
pers costing only the fraction of ’a]
nickel are the rule rather than the ex- I
ception in the west. The growth of':
the country and the competition in!
business would of themselves finally
bring the. cent into active use thereql
but the downward course of prices has l
operated all over the country to make
it. a. much more active coin than ever
before. Odd prices are now frequentf
even where purchases are for round‘
amounts or considerable sums. Penny
bargain counters in some of the big de-
partment stores have lately been intro- i
duced. A 3-cent street car fare is not:
unknown; and no doubt is to becomes
better known.
In fact, so closely is the trade of the -
country calculating its prices that a de- .
mand may not be far off for the rein-

 

 

tional parts of a cent are now very
common in even retail . quotations. ,
England finds use for such a coin in
the bronze. farthing, France in the son,
which is, however, more nearly the
value of a cent than a half-cent. OurI
own coinage laws have authorized the,
coinage of a half-cent piece, and from,
1793 to 1811 a large number of these;
pieces were struck. At two other pe-l
riods before the war there was some;
coinage of this coin; but in 1857 it was:
discontinued, and has not been since'
nevived.‘ The 2-cent piece was dropped
in 1873, and the 3-cent. piece in 1890.

The growing importance of the
penny or, more properly, the cent, has
an important bearing on the economy
of the people. It gives to the nickel,;
the dime, and all pieces of money a‘
higher value in the eye of the possessor 5
than they had before, and teaches care
in all expenditures. No one now needs i
to feel ashamed to wait at the store,
for the change to be brought back
amounting to only 1 cent. That penny ’
has come to possess an important pur-
chasing power, greater than it has ever 3
had before. And it is in the way of be- .
ing advanced to second place above the
lowest in the divisions of the monetary j
circulation—Springfield (Mass) Re-
publican.

MATE IS QUITE SCARCEL

It Is a South American Tea and Few Deal-
ers Know of It.

 

“Mate ‘9” repeated :1. tea dealer
awhile ago. “N ever heard of it. What
is it?”

“A tea grown in South America, and
it is drunk more than Chinese tea by
those people,” was the answer of the
man who had asked for the article.

This conversation was repeated in a

dozen offices, till at last, concluding

that the tea trade knew nothing of it,
the man betook himself to the Uruguay
A man was found there who

region, and who, when told of the quest,
laughed and, pulling a little bag from
under a table, said: “I am not sur-
prised. I guess this bag represents
the sum total of mate in this part of the
city. There is no trade in it, for only a
few people who have lived in South
America and havebecome attached to
the tea buy small quantities for their
own use.”

He opened the bag. It contained per-
haps 20 pounds of leaves, ground coarse,
of a dead-green color, having no percep-
tible smell and of a slightly bitter taste.
“I got this,” he went on, “partly for my-
self and partly to send to the Atlanta
exposition. And, you know, we cannot
infuse the tea as we do Chinese; it must
be drunk boiling hot—not allowed to
stand—else it becomes insipid. So we
have these cups and tubes,” and he took
from his desk 2; wood shell cup like a
gourd, holding a scant half-pint, and a
tube about a foot long. Mate costs about
two cents a pound down in Paraguay.
—N. Y. Press.

 

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 " " THE-EVEvNIgN-i‘o GAZETTE

A ROOSTER 1N EVIDENCE.

Brought Into Court and Placed on the
Witness Stand. ‘

In a. stealing. case which was tried
in the county court at Sylvania, Ga.,
3. very extraordinary witness Was in-
troduced—the first of his kind that
has ever'appeared in our courthouse,
says the Savannah News. This was a
dominick rooster: Two negro boys
were prosecuted for stealing chickens
from another negro. The prosecutor
proved that his chickens were missing,
and he claimed to have identified them
in the yard of the accused. It then
developed on the latter to prove their
ownership. One of our brightest young
lawyers was conducting the defense,
and he very ingeniously introduced in
evidence the above mentioned domi-
nick rooster, which belonged to the

‘defendants, in order to show the sim-

ilarity in appearance between his roost~
ership and the. suspected chickens.
This rooster was lord of the barnyard
on the place where the two boys lived,
and the disputedchickens were so very
much like him in color and other ways
that no one doubted they were his lineal
descendants. The rooster, when put
on the stand, began at once to crow
lustily, as if desiring to proclaim the
innocence of the accused, and furnished
much amusement to the court. After
hearing all the evidence in the case
and inspecting the rooster the judge
discharged the prisoners and told the
prosecutor that, while it was perhaps
true he had lost his chickens, yet he
was convinced they had become the
prey of owls or ’possums.

 

THE GOOD SAMARITAN IN CHINA

110 Would Have Been Likely to Get Him-
self Into Trouble.

One dark evening I was returning
home from a call on one of our Eng-
lish neighbors in Taiyuenfu, writes
Prof. C. M. Cady in Century. When not
far from our compound the road
crossed an open space of several acres
in extent. As I was finding my way
along by the dim light of a Chinese
lantern, I nearly stumbled over the
body of a man who had fallen by the
way. My first impulse was to take
hold of the person and ascertain if
help was needed; but for some reason
I did not, but hurried home to get aid.
Mr. X was still with us, and on hearing
my statement said:

“Yes, I know; the man is dead, and
it is fortunate that you did not attempt
to touch the body. Should we now
try to remove it, or even go to it, we
should no doubt be seen, and. at once
suspicion would attach itself to us, and
none could tell the consequences. We
might cause a riot before morning.”

It. should be said that this suspicion
would not have been because we were
foreigners, for. a native under sim-
ilar circumstances would likewise have
run the risk of being charged with
the murder. The Good Samaritan
would have fared hardly in China—
or most likely would have. been sus-
pected of doing the kind deed for some
ultimate gain—while the priest and the
Levite would have been accounted not
hard-hearted, but prudent.

THANKFUL MOTH ER’S BLESSING

Charity’s Reward—The Place Where It Is
Never Cold. '

There is an old lady on the West side,
a white-lu-iired, benevolent-looking
woman,whosc 60 years of life have been
filled with good. deeds, says the Chicago
Times Herald. She is always doing
good, and the worthy poor always find
in her a friend in need. It was during
the first cold snap this winter that she
heard a poor widow, an Irishwoman,
with four small children, who were in
need of clothing to protect them from
the cold. The next day, with a large
bundle of clothing, she visited the com-
fortless rooms of this unfortunate fam-
ily. The mother had gone out, but the
children were there, and this old lady,
whose charity work is of the practical
sort, proceeded to dress the little ones

, herself, beginning with the youngest,

a mere baby. She was just fastening
the last button of the dress Of the
eldest girl when the door opened and
the mother walked in. She was chilled
through, tired, and discouraged from
her failure. to get work. It took but

I an instant for her to grasp the situa-

tion, and when she. looked into the
kindly face of the benefactress her eyes
were filled with tears.

“God bless ye, mum, for your kind-

, ness to my little ones,” she said, “and
, may ye never go to a place that is cold.”

“My good woman,“ replied the old
lady, "perhaps the reason I do this is

5 to avoid going to a place that is hot."

 

How She Spelled It.

Everyone knows how to spell “hard
water" with three letters, but proba-
bly some readers would be puzzled to
spell “yesterday” with six. A Cincin-
nati girl could tell them how, according
to the Enquirer.

She does not yet go to school, but is
taught by her mother at home. The
other night her father was hearing her
spell. One word after another was suc—
cessfully disposed of, and then he said:

“N OW, Annie, I am going to give you
a. hard one. If you spell it correctly
I’ll bring you some candy. How do'
you spell ”yesterday ‘3’ ”

It was a hard one. Annie thought of
the candy, and just. then her eye caught

' the calendar hanging against the wall.

Then she answered, with a smile of tri-
umph: “F-r-i, yester, d-a-y, day, yes-
terday.”

Water Famine in South Africa.

The South African newspapers are
full of abusing incidents in connection
with the Randewater famine. Soda wa-
ter at five shillings a bottle is in general
use for culinary and washing purposes.
The demand for Florida, bay rum, eau
de cologne and other liquids of like
character is unprecedented ly great, and
anything that can be pressed into the
service of the toilet commands a fancy
price. A mixture of ammonia and
lavender water is said to yield satisfac-
tory results, and even Vaseline and ben-
zine-are by no means despised.

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