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FOR NEW YORK —— Accommodation
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Accommodation trains at 6. 32, 7.42,
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. A RURAL LYRIO. ‘
1‘ 1'1 (ab-mt your city 11393313111 is it 1:11 1.1::
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Ofsuus'zine gleaming,dreamiug on the '.'3.1
1113's and the'hills ?_
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To the pe.1ch fields where the mocking 111111.-
a: e primping up for spring ?
l‘-1lk .1115 t your city life—what is it to (".3
11g U'ht
That' is tangled in the woodlands. “here the
purple and the wliite
Of sp1111rrt1me s earliest blossoms seem blow
ing into you,
With the rumpled maples bending and bow-
ing “Howd y- -dol”
Oh, th e brightest light is beamingfrnm a
wilder, sweeter sod
“’here the dew-wet violets dreaming send
messages to God!
.——F. L. S in Atlanta Constitution.
[PUNISHED BY A LION i
We had come down off the mount-
ain's near‘ Fremont’s Peak—the six of
us who had been prospecting for three
months—and we had scarcely strt ck
the trail when we ran- upon a mountain
outfit. There were three white men,
two half-breeds, a Mexican, and a
negro, and the party had six pack
mules with them. They had just gone
into camp for the night, and after
hearty greetings all around we pitched
our tents alongside and cooked our
suppers at the same campfire. The
strangers were bound up to Little
Squaw Mountain, 011 a hunt for gold.
The leader was Jim Williams.
There would have been no trouble
between the two outfits but for the
cards which were introduced after sup-
per. And as it was, only a portion of
the men cared to play, as the day had
been a tiresome one to all. Our chief,
Frank Johnson of Nevada, sat down
with Williams, and both were in great
good nature as I wrapped myself up in
my blanket and fell asleep. I had
slept for two hours when aroused by
the sounds of a quarrel. I was the
last man of the thirteen to roll out,
and I found every one of the twelve
with a gun in his h.and It seemed
that the two leadeis had begun play-
ing for money, and luck being with
our man he had won heavily. Then
there came a dispute as to some point,
the lie was passed, and the men of
'both outfits were ready to open fire on
each other. It was the other crowd
which backed down. Williams realized
that he could not depend upon the
Mexican and the negro, and was there-
fore overmatched. After a moment he
'fiung down his gun and said to John-
son:
“The crowd has nothing to do with
this row, and I reckon we are men
enough to settle it between ourselves."
“In any way you choose,” replied
Johnson.
“Well, then, I’ll tell you my plan in
the morning. One of us has got to go
under for what has passed, but to-
.morrow will be a long day. Let’s call
it off for to-nig-ht.”
The men of both camps slept peace«
night, and as we prepared and ate
breakfast nobody had a word to say
about the trouble of the night before.
The two leaders gave each other
“good morning” and chatted about
the weather, and I would have wagered
my all that the hard words had been
forgotten and forgiven. I was look-
ing for the order to pack up and move
on as soon as breakfast was over when
Williams took a seat beside Johnson
and quietly observed:
“You are in no great hurry, .I take
it, and a day or two will make no dif-
ference to our men.”
“Wecan stop here a week as well
as not,” was the reply.
,“Just ahead of us, to the north, is
Jackson’s Basin.”
“Aye! I’ve passed through it,” said
'Johnson. “It is a. natural sink, which
was once the bed of a lake, but is now
grown up with a perfect tangle. What’s
your plan?”
“One of us is to leave here at 9
o’clock. It will take him an hour to
reach the far side. At 10 o’clock the
other will leave. We will hunt for
each other in the basin. The one who
lives to get out will return here and
notify the camps. J Do you under-
stand?"
“Perfectly. We are to hunt for each
other in the basin, and to shoot on
sight. One of us will be left there.
The one who goes first turns on his
trail and returns. We can stick to
the trail or take to the woods. We
may be hunting each other for half a
day or half a week. "
“That’s the idea, and now we ’11 toss
up to see who goes first. Is it heads
or tails?”
“Heads,” said our leader.
The coin which Williams toss-ed in-
to the air fell tail up, and he rose up
and said:
“It’s for me to go first. Boys,'you
all understand this matter. Only one
of us is to come back, and there’s to
be_.11_o‘hard=.feelings about it. If I'm
left "behind you’ll push on with B111
here for you’re leader. What I’ve got
in my packs you are'welcome to divide
between you. I’ve got fifteen minutes
to get ready in.”
1 had heard every word of the above,
as had every other man in camp, but
it"was hard for me 'to realize that the
It was to
he a man-hunt to the death, and they
had talked it over as coolly as if the
subject. of discussion was a bear or
deer; Williams took with him a rifle,
- Lovolvcr, a knife, fifty extra (cart—
rid; es, and seme bread and meat.
‘-‘.-’hen ready to go he shook hands v. 1111
be two white men of his party, nod—
icl to the others and to ES, and said
to Johnson.
‘In an hour I shall reach the far
side and be ready to turn back. Sm :y
the earth isn't big enough for both of
11s, but we happen to be built that way.
it’s a fair Show for‘both, and there'll
be. nothing to kick over.”
During the hourallowed him John-
son cleaned his firearms, overhauled
his pack, and gave some instruw
fully during the remainder of the
as to what should be done wiL. ..e -
'tain interests in case :he did no; 1':
turn. When the hour was up he snot.
hands all around, had a ‘word with in»
men of the other camp, and he w-.‘3‘
whistling as he disappeared from v cw
When Williams had cross-: 11 11.:
basin he turned and headed back I.»
the south, but not on the trail. 1--
'knew Johnson too well, to sup;e_-;-
that he would make his‘way to the
centre of the basin on the trail. lie
entered the woods on his right, and
made his way along through the tangle
and over the boulders with the stealth
of an Indian. As our leader entered
the basin he also entered the woods to
his light. The two men ’thus made a
half circle, and were as far array f.om
each other as the limits allowed The
basin contained about 500’ acres cf
land, and was walled in on every s '.de
The trees were not large, but the un-
dergrowth was very thick, and there
were also many great boulders lying
about.
As Williams circled to the south and
Johnson to the north, each made a
half circle before finding the other’s
trail. The distance covered by this
half ciicle was about two miles, and
such was the caution with which the
men moved that it was afternoon be-
fore they came upon “signs.” Each
one’ s- plan was now plain to the other
and 'both at once changed. That is,
each returned over his own trail, or
within reaching distance of it This
change simply prevented a meeting.
When one had reached the north end
of the trail the other was back at the
south end, and it Was 4 o’clock in the
afternoon. Then each took the trail
and held it to a pomt within 200 feet
of the centre, and Williams left it for
’the woods to- his left and Johnson for
the woods to his right. Without sus-
pecting each other’s presence they
crept carefully forward until only fifty
feet separated them. Then a. wolf
dashing out from the space between
them gave both men' the cue, and each
began to work for a Shot. Johnson
had before him three or four vin-e;
covered boulders, and he crept under
the vines and was so well hidden that
even. the eyes of a fox could not have
made 'him‘ out. ‘ Half an hour passed,
and it was‘growing dark inthe forest,
when Williams rose up alongside a
tree and began peering about. His up-
rising was lik-e that of a shadow, and
for ten minutes the didlnot expose a
finger as a target. Then he either
became impatient or figured that John-
son was not at hand, and his head left
the shelter of the tree to get a better
look. It was too dark for Johnson to
take accurate aim, and the ‘bullet
meant for William’s eye passed
through and knocked the cap off his
head. In a. second Williams 'had fired
in return, taking a snap shot at the
flash, and his bullet tore through the
cloth on Johnson’s shoulder.
Those were the first and best shots
fired. Each man drew away after
firing, and they were probably a mile
and a. half apart as they made camp
for the night. As the sun came up
the hunt was on again. They were
now east and- west of the trail and
more than a mile apart. They seemed
to locate each other by intuition, and
one moved to the right and the other
to the left to make a. rear approach.
At 11 o’clock, as Johnson crept for-
ward on hands and knees. and started
to lifthimself up beside a tree,» he
came face to face with Williams, who
was about to do the same thing from
the opposite direction. Both sprang
up and began firing. The range was
too close, and the sudden encounter
had also upset them. Each man fired
five or six bullets, each had his cloth-
ing perforated, and then each retreat-
ed. Taking :the tree as a common
centre they began circling around it
and must have passed each other at
least twice. Then the circle was
broadened until the tree was half a-
mile from its outer edge, and it took
in a mass of rock which both men had
marked for a strong position.
At about 1 o’clock in the afternoon
Johnson was creeping toward the
rocks from one direction and Williams-
from another, but Williams gained the
shelter first. Johnson caught a glimpse
of him as he crouched among the
shadow of the rocks, but waited to get _
a. better view before firing. He lay on
his stomach, his rifle over a stick on
the earth and his eye at the sights, and
he felt sure of his man. Let Williams,
but move a. foot one way or the other
and a. bullet would find him. For ten
minutes stillness reigned throughout
the basin. Then,'as sudden as a thun-
derclap there was an angry scream
from a wild beast, and Johnson saw
some object cross his line of vision and
descend upon the crouching man. It
took him a full half minute to under:
stand what was happening and
that it was no trick of his adver-
sary. There were growls, shouts and
screams, with two bodies rolling over:
and over in the ~ undergrowth, and
Johnson at length made out that a
mountain lion had sprung upon the
man ' who,was watching and waiting
for him._, As soon as this became clear
he dashed forward, got in two '
shots, and then fiung away his
rifle and attacked the lion with
his knife. The beast had re—_.
ceived seven stabs from Williams
and two bullets from Johnson, and yet
the latter was severely clawed before
the beast gave up its hold on life. In
lighting upon its victim it had seized
him by the throat, and though the
manhad made a. wonderful fight of it
he was dead ere Johnson had finished
the lion. '
Half an hour before dusk our leader
came staggering into camp, his cloth-
ing in rags and his body bleeding from
a dozen wounds. We- rushed forward
for an explanation, and braéing
back against a tree he said:
“It was a mountain lion.
Williams and almost ,did' for me.
Thank God, I am no murderer!"—'—New
York Sun. ‘
his.‘
He killed ,
.. THE NATIVE HAWAIIAN.
In. ! ire (mo of Leisure and Free From
( :1‘1 e'~~nr t or a Holiday Existence.
’11:: native Hawaiian is a gentleman
of 13.313133. Life to him is a perpetual
1301111 y, and, as a. native of paradise,
v. 1-, -l-ot.ld he fret about the dull cares
of Lhis°w0rld? Naturehas spread a.
bounteous feast for him, and like Adam
of old, he has only to pluck the fruit
which grows without toil, eat and
breathe.
The national food of the native is
poi, fish, and pork. Poi is made from
taro root, a water plant, boiled and
beaten to a pulp of the consistency. of
gruel, and allowed to slightly ferment,
when it is very nutritiOus. The na-
tive’s table is a mat spread upon the
floor or ground, on which lies poi;
roast pig and fish are placed in sepa-
rate calabashes. Squatted or sitting
cross-legged about this sumptuous
feast the Kanakas proceed to regale
themselves, scorning the use of knives
and forks.
ya, oranges, bananas, bred- fruit,
strawberries, and. other fruit of the
tropics.
The primitive Kauaka. home is made
of grass. There are many grass hous-
es left on the islands. The home is
very simple, but at the same time neat.
The house fs without any means of
heating or cooking. The former is
never necessary and all the cooking
is done in the imu, or pit dug in the
earth, where the pig, fish and beef are
baked .with heated stones, while the
boiling is done in pots over a camp
fire near the building ‘
About one half of a grass house is
raised to about two and a half feet,
cushioned with a mattress on it for ’a
bed, while the remainder is the bare
earth. The raised part affords a. seat
during the day and a bed at night. Here
the entire family and visitors, without
regard to age or sex, sleep side by. side.
The grass-house is said to be not
only proof against those troublesome
insects, the mosquitoes, but capable of
turning rain.——Godey’s Magazine.
CRAB THAT ACTS AS DOORKEEPER.
It Has the Instinct of a Watch Dog and
Very Rarely .Mnkes a DIistake.
In the West Indies the natives train
a rare species of crab to act as a ser-
vant. This animal is about the size
of a. football. One of its claws is
nearly, as big as the rest of the body.
' The crab has a fashion of raising this
limb1in such a way as to give the im—
pression that it beckons or threatens.
In appearance it is a very formidable
brute, possessing enormous eyes and
feelers. It takes up its position at the
front door of the house, and acts in
every way as a watchdog, and every
bit as faithfully. It is possessed of
wonderful strength, speed and stam-
ina easily overtaking an enemy not
possessed of sprinting powers.
Its instinct is very acute and it is
rarely at fault in. spotting a. person
who approaches the house with any
evil intention. Woe to the intruder if
he gets into the clutches of the merci-
less doorkeeper. - It will require a
sledge hammer to extricate him from
the embrace. '
This crab is of a. very affectionate,
disposition toward members of the
household, and plays with children
with the gentleness of an English re-
trlever. It is highly prized by natives
on account of its usefulness as a house.
defender; and is very costly to buy—-
New York Journal. '
BLACK DEAF AND DUMB WONDER.
Claims to Be a. Hebrew and Writes the
_ Language of Moses.
There was in Hartford recently—5.
young African negro who claimed-to
be a Hebrew. He was deaf and dumb
and black. .He was trying to accumu-
late enough money to go back to Afri-
ca. If he is, what he represented him-
self to be and if what he claims is true,
he is quite an interesting character.
He 'carried a pad of paper and a. pencil
and answered all questions by writing
them in Hebrew and Loschen Khodish;
What incited the most wonder was
that he wrote Loschen Khodish very T
rapidly. It is the language of the books
of Moses, and is made a special study
of, spoken and written with ease onlyi
by the rabbis and highly educated He-
brews. ‘ ' 7’
This negro was sent to one of the!
rabbis of Hartford, who is perfectly
satisfied that he is a Hebrew. He said“
that he came from a. large town in Af-’
rica, where there are a tribe 'of about‘;
3 the spot.
20,000 black Hebrews who speak Los-‘I
chen Khodish and are quite prosper-g
ous. He also said that his father is a,
rabbi in that town and that is why his:
father took the trouble to teach him toE
write these languages, which needed
an extra amount of labor on account of}
his being deaf and dumb, He said his
people do not only write Loschen Ko-f
disch, [but it is their speaking lan-
guage as well. His great surprise was
that no Hebrew knows. of his country- .
men in Africa—Hartford Courant. i
1
' A Canard. l1
Pluggs——_See here, Muggs, what the;
deuce do you mean by going aroundg
saying that I’m a. liar, eh?
Muggs—I never said so, my dear
boy. Not at all. All I said was that
you could be thoroughly depended up-'
on to tell the truth whenever there was
any money in it. ' I!
Selfish.
Perkins — Why do you consider.‘
Vokes selfish?
Jorkins—He thinks that everything
is for the best, and considers himselfl
the best. —New York Journal. I
Wilton—.Do you agree —w‘1th David?
that all men are liars.
Wilby—IIow can I to 11?
of. the number
gawk—Boston Transcript. ‘ j
,zhe valuable pieCe of ordnance.
- arrangement. -
Just think '
of men that I never; ;
HAILSTOBM DISSIPATED. .
}I'ape Growers in Austria Bombard the
CIOIIO In Order to Dispel Them. -
The Ambrican rain-making experi-
.ments are sufilciently fresh in the
memory to lend a. peculiar interest to
a. report recently sumbitted to the
State Department by the consul at
Zurich regarding a. curious practice
that has grownup among the grape
growers of certain sections of Austria,
which is. .in effect, the exact reverse
of the rain-making theory. It is none
other than the prevention of storms
9y aerial explosions.
The owner of extensive vineyards
'ound that his profits were disappear- .
Log with the frequent destruction of
‘11s vines by hailstones. These storms
ire common, and severe in Austria,
especially on the southern slopes of
.he Bacher Mountains, and as the soil :
.s peculiarly adapted to the growth of
.he grape the question arose whether
some means of preventing the falling
1f hail could not be devised. The ex-
Their dessert 15 the papa i ilosion experiment was tried and to
) :he date of the report
it had met with
1nbroken success. The method .is
limple. On each side of the most
nominent summits surrounding the
rineyards the owner erected a station-
built of wood, for the shelterof a bat-
.ery of heavy mortars, ten at each
station. The neighboring.
themselves small vineyard owners,
have been trained to the duties of
manning the .batteries, and at the
slightest sign of the approach of a
storm fire all the mortars simultane-
ously. _ Each mortar is loaded with
1bout four and a half ounces of pow-
ler; the report makes no mention of
1 projectile. The bombardment of the
zlouds is continued until the moisture
3s scattered and the storm prevented.
At the first trial of the system, after
a. few moments’ firing the cloud wall
)pened up in the form of a funnel, the
mouth rising in consecutive rings,
gradually expanding until the clouds
icattezed and disappeared. This pro-
:ess Was accompanied by no hail or
even rain.
During the summer the firing Was
indertaken six times, and always with
the same result. Thus it, appears that
while man may not be able to force-
1ature to work at his bidding, he may
11: least compel her to remain idle for
1 time—Washington Star.
ROUGH ON 'THE CHICKEN.
tome Novel Experiments with the Gath-
mann Shell at Indian Head.
Some interesting experiments with
:he Gathmann high-explosive shell
tave been made at the Indian Head
oroving grounds. One of the Gath-
znann shells exploded in a big 12-inch
run at Indian Head recently and burst
The
1aval officers did not accept this ac-
:ident as proving the shell to be val-
ieless. They have- given it some prac-
Lical tests without any trouble result-
ng. '
In order to test the effect of the con-
:ussion produced by the explosion of
:he shell, four live chickens were
Volaccd in the rear of the'target, 1':-
nch plate, with a. backing two feet
:hick. The 300 pounds of gun cotton
:ontained in the shell were exploded
tgainst the plate. One chicken, tied
mmediately behind the backing, was
nade crazy by the explosion. An-
)ther confined in an air-tight coffer-
lam containing sufficient air to keep
is alive. and placed fifteen feet from
:he target, was killed. The idea of
naving the cofferdam air-tight was to
prevent the chicken from experiencing
the concussion. The head of a chicken
lied 'in the open air thirty-five feet
from the plate was blown off and an
ts feathers removed, showing the ter-
'ible effect of the concussion, whhe
'he fourth fowl, placed in an air-tight
:offerdam thirty-ninefeet distant was
iazed, but not unconscious. It died
the next day. —-New York Sun.
A HAP'e‘r AnanNes‘sé‘Nt.
A Divorced 'Couplo Again Live Together
as Employer and Employe.
After a San Diego‘man got a divorce
from his wife theother day, he went
home and found her there. She asked
him to sit doWn to dinner, after which
she asked him how he liked the new
“Firstrate,” he replied,
"but I can’t understand it.” “Oh,
that’s all right," said she; “we can live
this way in contentment. The other
way we quarrel; Now. then, suppose
you retain me as housekeeper. Twen-
ty dollars per month and board is all I
ask.” This struck the ex-husband fa-
vorably, and the bargaln'was nosed on
The couple have not had a
sign of trouble since, although they
were in hot water for thirty ~two years,
fretting under the marital yoke. They
dare not quarrel much now, for fear
One will leave the other in the lurch.
He must have his meals cooked, and
she must have a place gto-‘stay. To-
gether they are happy now, and the
bargain promisesto last tc the end.—
New York Tribune.
After announcing that a baboon had
,iearned to ride a bicycle, a Western
paper 113111411101}. “And there are
oti;e1's,"w111cli somehow or other seems
a true and good thing to say. in spite
. of its flavor of slang.
peasantry, _
.too much to charge for. them.
SCALING WITHOUTA LADDER. _ :3
A Pyramid of Soldiers Ell-blo- Men to
Surmoun’t a 31-Foot Wall.
Corporal Leary, the llmberest man
breaking his neck and tumbling- the
storming pyramids of fortyjonesoldiers ,
in a bruised heap Saturday as he
sprang upward from the shoulders of
Private Miller, caught‘with three fin-
.gers of his left hand the top of the
high wooden wall behind which lurked
the enemy, hung for one perilous in.
stunt, and then gallantly pulled him-
self to the top, seized his rifle, and
sprang into the midst of the foe on the
other side of the improvised parapet ’
1n the Coliseum gallery.
The human pyramid swayed, but held.
its sturdy place while gallant infant-
rymen swept up the stalwart shoulders
and. over the thirty-one foot wall to
Corporal. Leary’ s support, while a
platoon of twenty-five men kept the
enemy away in front of the wall.
It was at this point that the reg
army officers, who were watching the
buy from the Coliseum gallery, led the
applause, for Corporal Leary and his
comrades had broken the world’s ea-
raladiug record by three feet.
When Corporal Leary climbed to the
apex of the pyramid and stood on the
shoulders of the men in the top row,
the tips of his fingers lacked five in-
rhes of reaching the top of the walk’
The highest wall that ever was es-
:aladed before was twenty-eight feet,
1nd the men who climbed over that in
the military carnival at . New York
broke the world’s record then. The
wall at the Coliseum was thirty-one
feet high, and it took just four min-
utes to scale it. ’-
Eighteen of the heaviest and strong.
est men in the regiment formed the
base of the pyramid, ten mounted on
their shoulders and leaned against the
3 wall, six stood on the shoulders of the
ten, four on the shoulders of the six,
and three on the shoulders of the
four. Corporal Leary scrambler] up
this escalading pyramid of blue, and
stood cu the shoulders of the top three,
braced against the wall.
When be stretched out hisarms, and
found his fingels would not reach the
edge of the wall, he crouched, and
then, as the human mountain swayed
:lizzily beneath his feet, with the
mighty and yet delicate effort of the
trained athlete he sprang boldly five
Inches upward at the edge of the bar-
rier. He tried to grasp the top of the
parapet with both hands, but only
three fingers of his left hand went -
high enough. The pyramid under him
was still swaying. He held to the haz-
ardous edge by the three fingers for
to instant, and then, with a heave and
a. twist, pulling his whole body up,
taught the wall with the other hand.
An instant after he was on the ene-
my’s side of the barricade.;Chicago
' tribune.
Be Stopped the Procession.
A clergyman, who was also a wit.
once preached rather a long sermon
from the text:
“Thou art weighed in the balance
md art found wanting.” ,
After his congregation had listened
for about an hour, some began toget
weary, and went out; others soon fol-
lowed, greatly to the annoyance of the
minister.
Another person started, whereupon
the person stopped in his sermon and
said:
“That’s right gentlemen;
13 you are weighed pass out. ”
All the others waited until the ser~
man was ended—Spare moments.
as fast
Havana Cigar. that: Cost 82 Apiece.
It may interest those who are be-
waillng the forthcoming scarcity of ‘
fine Havana cigars to know that one
retail dealer in New York sells and
oassold for years cigars of a certain
brand at $2 each. He sells on an av-
erage about four of that kind every
‘ week. An old Spanish friend of mine,
who for tWenty years was in the cigar
business here, assures me that they
_ cost-the dealer about $1.45 each when
put in his show case, so that $2 is not
The
main points of their cost are the large
wages paid. to the expert workmen
who makethem, the very large leaves
__used for the wrappers and the duty.
Hut.- s1... Kept mm In Subjection.
While stopping one night at a farm‘
house 'in Missouri 3. traveler was
astonished to see his hostess walk up
to her husband about every fifteen
minutes and hex his ears or give his
113313” a pull. In the morning the guest,
seeing the woman alone, asked an ex-'
planation of her strange conduct, and
'mr reply was: “You see, stranger, me
111311 the old man has been fightin' fox
'ren years to see who shall boss this
a ranch, and I have jest got him
but if I should let up on hM'
.‘ a day he would turn on me again,
3 :1 my work would all go for nothin’."
---—.\'e'x Yer-k Tribune.‘
Ho Was Found.
. 1": 'nveler (to the ferrym-an crossing
' 1- 1 '1ver)-—Has any one ever been lost
1111 s stream?
amen—No, sir. Some professor
_ owned here last spring, but they
C“'€d,
'11 ;;g.ainafter looking for two‘
’ Ins-ends Bl'atter.
4L_
THE ' (ORIGINAL
at Fort Sheridan, took the chance of . ' '
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