THE DALIES WEEKLY CHRONICLE,' FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1893.
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A PERILOUS VOYAGE.
A YOUNG WESTERN HUNTER'S
THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Caught by "Water Witch" and Carried
Dwn Stream, Sow Sinking, Now KUlng,
Until at Iaet a Friendly Boot Inter
fered to ReKM Him from Death.
"I had an encounter -with a water
-witch' when I was in Utah," remarked
one of a party of young .men who were
seated round a small table the other
evening (no matter where), telling tales
of adventure by land and sea! In re
sponse to the general demand the speak
er told this story:
"In the month of July, a few years
ago, I camped with a party from Salt
Lake City oh the banks of the Provo
river. The Provo, as we used to say at
school, rises amid the snow clad peaks
of the Wasatch mountains, flows south,
and empties into Utah lake. The track
of a deer discovered one morning within
the borders of the camp caused some
excitement among us.
"The next day Mr. F. and I shouldered
our guns and went out to shoot the in
vader. We crossed the river by a bridge
a few miles below camp and climbed a
bold mountain wall. At the end of a
long tramp I found myself on the oppo
site bank of the river about half a mile
above our camp. 1 was alone, having
separated from my companion early in
the hunt. I was in a disgusted frame of
mind. 1 had started the deer, had an
excellent shot and a touch of buck fever,
although the deer was a doe. and had
missed.
"The way I had come looked lorig and
hard, and I resolved to ford the river.'
At the time it was at full bank, deep and
.swift I crossed one arm of the stream
-to a large island without difficulty, the
water not coming above my knees. From
this island the other branch of the river
looked more uncertain. The water was
-certainly waist deep and the current was
-swift. . 1 noticed that at the lower "end
of ,the island, where the two currents
joined again, the water foamed up three
or -four feet high, as if breaking over a
rock. On each bank there was a dense
growth of willow bushes, with long
drooping stems which reached out over
the river, some of the tips touching the
water.
' A TERRIBLE VOYAGE.
"Though no hunter I am a good swim
mer, and have always been accustomed
to the water from boyhood. The thought
of any personal danger in crossing a
stream not more than twenty yards wids
never entered my mind. I thought I
might possibly drop the gun, and wad
quite certain to ruin a box of cartridges
I carried in my pocket. These consid
erations alone made me give any atten
tion to the lay of the land and the course
of the currents.
"1 entered the water and advanced to
.ward the opposite bank, holding the gun
in one hand and high. It was deeper
than 1 thought, the water coming quite
up to.my shoulders. I was about to reach
for one of the. bending willow stems
when 1 made a misstep and was swept
off my feet, the current carrying me
swiftly to the center of the foaming water
at the end of the island, where I went to
the bottom like lead. 1 came up far
enough to see daylight shining through
the water when I went to the bottom
again. I still had the gun. As 1 came
wp the second time I began to spin around
like a top.
"Then I realized that 1 was in trouble.
I dropped the gun, and with the aid of
both arms brought my head above water
and clear of the whirlpool. 1 was gasp
ing for breath when 1 got to the air, but
I had not taken in any water, and al
though much exhausted from the pound
ing I had received by the fierce current
I was congratulating myself on my
escape when, floating easy with both
arms free, I felt myself slowly but surely
going under again, .
"Then something like terror seized me.
I thought my last moments of life had
come. Luckily there came with this
thought the resolve of a desperate man
to die by inches and to cling to life until
the last gasp. There was a great im
pulse at first to cry out for help. 1 could
hear the 'clip' of a Mormon farmer's hay
rake in the field on the other side of the
river and his chirp to his horse. But 1
knew in that awful moment that the call
for help was only to waste the breath 1
had resolved to husband.
THE WATER WITCH.
"1 felt my strength going as you can
feel a pair of reins slip through your
hands. Every few feet, slowly but
surely, 1 would go under. Then, by
desperate exertions with my arms, 1
would bring my nose and mouth above
the water again. The river swept me
under a bunch of those long, graceful
willow branches, but again 1 was steady
enough not to catch hold of them. 1
knew that to do so was to waste my ef
; forts for life in vain. " They were slip
pery, they were small, and would not
hold me.
"At such a time one's thoughts travel
faster than light. 1 have heard it said
that drowning is an easy death to die.
It did not present that phase to me. In
going 100 yards, in spite of every effort
on my part, 1 went under several times,
but never to the bottom.
"As I was shot along but of reach of
the willows I saw an old log lying half
an the bank and half in the water. My.
hopes rose again and I thought I should
certainly save myself there. As I came
to H I went under again and the current
-swept me up against it full length. 1
tried to grasp it, but it was slimy and i
oould not hold to it, and I pushed my
self free from it. The current made a
bend around a little point there, and as
I rounded it not six feet before me a
willow root as thick as my wrist elbowed
at over, the water directly in my path
and 1 caught it with both hands.
. "I doubt if even then I could have
4rawn myself out, 1 was so. nearly used
mp; but as my legs straightened out bo
fore the force of the current my feet
truck against another root. I caught
my wind in a few minutes and then
crawled up on the bank. I was sale out
the embrace of the 'water witch.' "
aatle 8tonr from Austria.
. It is believed that influenza is answer
able for both deaths those of the Arch
duke Henry and his beloved consort
which, as announced, are the subject of
widespread grief in Vienna. The arch
duke knew nothing of the death of his
wife. The archduke's only child, Bar
oness Boineria of Waldeck, who .had
been deprived of both parents in such a
tragic manner, says. that they had a pre
sentiment of- their fate. The baroness'
grief is heartrending. She is being con
soled by the Duchess of Alencon, sister
of the Empress Elizabeth. ; '
The tragedy is intensified by' the ro
mantic history of the union of the arch
duke and the opera singer by the sacri
fices the archduke had to make and by
the exemplary happiness of the pair dur
ing the twenty-three years of their mar
ried life. They were idolized through
out the Tyrol, and in Vienna the tall,
strong figure of the archduke, with his
long white beard and blue eyes, was a
familiar object. He made the acquaint
ance at Grass of the prima donna of the
theater in that town in the drawing
rooms of the Styrian nobility. He pri
vately engaged himself to her just be
fore he had to leave for Italy to fight for
his country, and the girl in his absence
was offered bribes to release him, but
resolutely refused. " .'
At last the pair were married in the
private chapel of the archduke's palace
at Bozen. Large black flags- floated
from the four .corners ' of the Vienna
Rathhaus as a mark of sympathy. Both
bodies lay in state in the archduke's pri
vate chapel till Wednesday night.' They
were then conveyed to Bozen for inter
ment in one grave beneath the chapel in
the archdncal palace, according to the
wishes of the archduke. The Vienna
papers express unanimous regret at the
sad occurrence. Pall Mall Gazette.
HOW TO TBAIN fflCE.
SOME SECRETS OF THE METHOD
EMPLOYED BY AN EXPERT,
The Fever of Gain.
One of the brightest and busiest news
boys in this teeming town stands on the
north side of Park place, just off Broad
way, every afternoon "and evening ex
cept Sundays. He is an Italian, and ap
parently, not more than twelve or thir
teen years old. During the year that he
has been selling papers in that particu
lar locality he has built up a trade that
keeps him busy nearly all of the time.
He is seldom beard to ask a passerby to
buy a paper. A very large proportion
of the men who take papers from him
are his regular customers. His keen eye
discerns them half a block away. He
knows wliat papers they want and has
them ready as the customer passes.
Most of the customers also have the
exact price of the papers ready to drop
into the boy's hand, and it is seldom that
a word passes between the lad and his
regular customers. One of the boy's
Inexhaustible Patience Is Beqnired Tint
' ft AH Jndloion reeding; Moss Bo Ob
served Then One Most Worry the 1.1 1-
tie Creatures. . J. " J
Ferdinand Senn knows more about
raising white mice probably than any
'other man in this country, and Thomas
(Moody knows more about training them.
Before an explanation of how they are
trained, Mr. Senn took a cunning little
moose, white as Bnow, from his coat
pocket and put it on his shoulder. : - The
mouse looked around for a moment,
then ran across Mr. Senn's back and sat
down, contentedly on the other shoulder.
Before setting it at liberty he held the
mouse loosely in his left hand and
stroked its head and back with his right.
"Do they never bite you?"
Mr. Moody answered for him, for Mr.
Moody does the training: "Never, if
they are properly handled. . When a boy
picks up a white mouse he is very likely
to squeeze him tight to keep him safe;
then the mouse turns around and bites.
Rnt tjtliA them nn an trentlv without
squeezing them at all, and they do not ! to.1 a history' of his life and will con
think of biting. See here."
OF UENERAL INTKRK9T.
' The sugar crop of the' island" of Cuba
is 827,000 tons this years.
, There are thirteen miles of book
shelves in the British Museum. 1
Only one couple in 11,500 live to cele
brate their diamond wedding.' '
A gold coin loses five per cent, of its
value in sixteen years of constant use.'
. Twenty-five hundred women in the
United States possess medical diplomas
The annual war of the ocean on the
Cape Cod coast amounts to about eight
teei. - -. . ; , , . ; -.. .. .
The use 'of gas. for illuminating li
braries is .found to destroy the leather
bindings of books.
In India the Army Temperance Asso
ciation nas 141 brancbes, , with over
12,000 members.
. It has been found by actual measure
ment that the pouch of a pelicau will
hold six gallons of water. '
St. Paul's cathedral will told 26,000
people - and St. Peter's in Rome has
accommodations for 54,000.
J. L. Sullivan is writing a book. It is
He took the mouse from Mr. Senn's
hand, held its tail between his forefinger
and thumb and held it above bis head.:
"They do not mind that at all," he
went on. "They are what we call pre
hensile thpy can support their weight
by the tail. When this fellow runs down
a smooth stick yon will see him coil his
tail around it for a brake. But if 1
should squeeze his tail a little too hard,
or accidentally press my sharp nails
against it, he would twist around and
bite me."
i HUNGER AJ.D WORRY.
i "What do you feed them on cheese?
'Hardlyr he replied. . "No food is so
good for them as oats just dry oats.
Some breed-ts bring them up on bread
and milk, bit that is not as good as oats.
On oats they keep cleaner and do better.
The dry oats, of course, makes them
thirsty, and then you can give them a
little bread and milk, squeezed out
pretty dry. But it is well to have them
Jhirsty sometimes, when you are train
ing them and hungry, too, for that
matter."
"Do you mean to say that you starve
them into tricks or drive them to it by
thirst?"
"Not so bad as that," he answered. '
"But if a mouse is hungry and he is to
walk over a string bridge and he sees'
some oats on the other side he will go
quicker. There are two great secrets
about making them do as you wish. The
regular customers observed on Friday I first is patience. A boy can soon learn
evening that the little fellow had no to train a white mouse nearly as well as
overcoat and questioned him about it. I can if hehas the patience. But the
"No, I am never cold," said the news- j boy generally tires of it in ten minutes
boy, his teeth chattering meanwhile. I where 1 keep it up for two hours or
"But you look half frozen,", persisted J half a day. if necessary. I worry them
the customer. "You earn money enough , into it."
to dress warmly and you must take care i "That's the other secret." he went on.
of your health." ; "Worry 'em! Suppose you want a mouse
"I take care of my business.' I got no j to climb a stick, pick up a tittle flag that
time to bother with my health," replied you have put there an'd bring it down,
the boy in a tone that plainly indicated ! You take the mouse when he's hungry
his desire that the subject should be i to begin with; you tie a grain or two of
dropped. New York Times.
A Ghost at the Window. .
A curious story is told in New Albany.
On the night .of Dec. 2 Mrs. Sophia
Scharf, wife of Anton Scharf, died at
her home in East Fifth and Spring
streets, and the funeral took place sev
eral days after. The next Saturday, it
is alleged, Mrs. Frank Zoeller, a daughter-in-law
of the dead woman, residing
on East Eighth and Sycamore streets,
was surprised to observe a perfect rep
resentation of the head of her mother-in-law
at the window of her house. The
apparition was afterward seen by Mrs.
Peter Weinman, Fritz Weinman, twe
daughters of Officer Dennis Gleason and t
several others.
After the second visit a perfect picture j
of the deceased was left on the window ;
pane. Several persons, it is ciaimeu, at
oats to the flagstaff and you put the
mouse at the foot of the stick. He won't
go up. of course. Well, when he turns
around to run away yon set . him back
again with his nose to the stick. If he
runs away fifty times set him back fifty
one times. That worries him. Boost
him up a little; give him a start. You
may eveil have a little twig and switch
him, but gently. He soon sees what you
want and up he goes. , Wheri he finds
the oats he is satisfied and comes down
to eat them. Next time .he will do it
without half the trouble, and after a
while he will run up and get the flag
whenever you put him at the foot of the
stick.
' KEEP AT IT.
Teach the mouse a principle, you un
derstand; not merely a trick. The prin
ciple in this case is taking something up
in his mouth. In a short time he will
take up anything you wish, whether it
pail any-
tain a treatise on prize-fighting.
-'- One million nine hundred and twenty
five thousand one hundred and-thirty
pilgrims visited the holy coat at Treves.
Bullfights are still the popular amuse
ment in Venezuela. Nearly every' city
-nas its ring and its coterie oi bullfighters.
The annual amount of sawed lumber
of -this country, if put upon a train of
cars would constitute a train 25,000
miles long.
The constitution of the United States
has been published in New York in the
Hebrew language, with, explanatory
notes in Hebrew. . '.-".
Although Horace Greeley died nine
teen years ago letters to his address are
still received every how and then at the
New York Tribune office.
A Washington state judge yesterday
decided that there is no law against a
being a liar in Washington. This will
go down in history with the decision
from an Oregon judge that there is no
law against being a fool in Oregon. As
torian. ' "
The New . York Wortd has polled the
legislature of that ' state on presidential
preferences with the following result:
Democrats, Hill 53 ; '. Cleveland 4 ; non
committal 26 Flower 1. Republicans,
Blaine 50;' Harrison 6; non-committal
17; Depew 1. :
It's a pretty hard outlook in Prine
ville for the man who is broke. The
saloon' men have all said he shall not
drink, and Poindexter's restaurant has
said he shall not eat. It looks like get
ting down pretty nearly to a cash basis.
Uchoco lie view.
The south is in the saddle. The ex
Confederates in congress refuse to allow
the use of a naval vessel to carrv food to
starving Russia because Russia came to
aid Uncle Sam and : prevented British
privateers from helping the Confederacy.
The war is over but it is not forgotten.
Chicago Inter-Ocean. .
Professor : Spencer Baird once said
that as a fish has no maturity there is
nothing tp prevent it from living indefi
nitely and growing continually; ' . He
cited in proof a pike in Russia whose
age is known tc date back to the fifteenth
century. In the royal aquarium at St.
Petersburg there are hundreds of fish
that were pnt in over 150 years ago.
DISMISSED THE CASE.
tempted to rub it off, but the picture re
mained until Saturday evening, when ) is a flagstaff or a little toy
Joseph Scharf, a son of the dead woman, j thing he can lift.
who had just arrived from the far west,
having been called, to his mother's
funeral, passed his handkerchief over it,
when it disappeared. The case is ex
citing considerable comment in that
part of the city in which it occurred.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Hydrophobia from a Snowball.
A strange case has come to light near
Cairo, Pa. Howard Davis, aged eight
years, has . for some time past exhibited
signs of hydrophobia. He has been in
bed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George
Smith, who had taken him from the
Fairmont home, and was barking and
snapping like a dog. At times it was all
those present could do to keep the boy
in bed. The boy had been bitten in the
hand by a dog in 1885, while he was in
the family of Ezra Moore.
The present trouble is not thought to
be hydrophobia by the attending physi
cian. He says it undoubtedly resulted
from a snowball, which hit the boy a
hard blow above the heart. The marks
of the blow were visible. The little fel
low is resting easy at present. Cairo
Repository.
A Rock.
One of the biggest rocks ever moved
in the course of railroad construction in
this country was recently excavated on
the line of ' the Mexican Southern by
Colonel Lamar. The giant -bowlder was
120 feet in height and measured 1,000
cubic meters. Six dynamite cartridges
were placed under the rock after the
men had excavated as much earth as
possible, and were fired one after an
other. At the sixth ' explosion the big
fellow rolled over out of the way.
Lower Calif onrian.
Had Been Through Fairs Before.
The queerest deliverance from a pul
pit recently reported was that of the
Bath clergyman who exhorted his fair,
hearers not to get in a quarrel over the
church fair they were getting up! Lew
iston Journal.
. r a, li - . - 1 .
j JNOW, meres wauuug tuo ugui
j rope," he continued. "That looks hard,
! but it is easy enough. You must have
the string tastened to the floor at both
! ends, say four feet apart, and about a
' foot from each end you brace it up with
a stick a foot or so long just long
enough to tighten the string. Use big
twine at first, for that is easier; gradu
ally you can make it smaller, till the
mouse will walk a druggist's string.
They have sharp claws and a great grip
in their feet. You take the mouse when
he is hungry and thirsty and put some
'oats and bread and milk at one end of
the bridge. At the other end you pat
the mouse. He will try to run across
the floor to the food, but bring him back.
Start him a little up the inclined plane.
He is smart and he soon learns that the
only way to get that food is to cross the
bridge. Then he crosses, and it is no
trouble to him. Worry him into it
You must not let the mouse tire you out
you must tire the mouse put" New
York Sun. '
' . ' Makes War on Oysters.
Did. you ever hear of a man who was
a victim of the oyster habit? The writer
was in an uptown cafe the other even
ing, when a gray haired, full chested,
big framed man came in and ordered
Blue Point oysters. He ate a dozen, or
dered another dozen, then a third dozen,
hesitated, as if in doubt, paid his check
and went out Three dozen oysters
right down made-one's eyes open, but
;the waiter said: "Oh, that's nothing.
He comes in here every night for raw
oysters,. Sometimes he eats three dozen,
sometimes four dozen. He's what I call
an oyster eater. ' 1 don't believe he eats
anything else." New York Tribune.
i - . Accounted For.
She 1 wonder why the hair of profes
sional musicians so often stands on end.
' He Easily accounted for. His hair is
trying to get away from the commotion
going on nnder the surface.- ,'"
A Pointer for Police Judge Osbstrn.
It happened in Oregon some time ago.
There wasn't a preacher in the place,
and when an exceedly raw young man
and woman desired to get married the
services of the police judge were called
in. He had never had any experience
in that branch of his authority, but with
tfue western enterprise he agreed to
tackle the job and the culprits were
brought before him.
"Stand up," he said, as they seated
themselves, and they stood up. . .
"Come forward to the bar of justice,"
he continued with a pompous effort, and
they camel
"Guilty or not guilty?" he asked as
they stood before him holding hands.
, 'Guilty, your honor," responded the
groom. , . .
"Is this your first offense?"
"It is, your honorrso help hie."
"Well, there's nothing to dp but im
pose a life sentence on' both of you and
assess the groom for the costs."
"How much, your honor?" asked the
groom, going down into his pockets.
"'Ten dollars."
' The groom handed it over.
'-Case is dismissed," announced the
judge, and the innocent young things
marched out of the room as radiant as
a June morning when the sunlight kisses
the roses until they blush again. ;
A few years ago Miss Cora Belle Fel
lows, a teacher among the Sioux In
dians, made a Sensation by .marrying a
young chief ."named '." Cbaska,. The
match was talked about so much that a
museum manager paid the couple $10,
OOtfto exhibit themselves. Now she is
suing for divorce, alleging that her hus
bank gets drunk and ill-treats her. But
that is not' all. Her father, who was a
Washington official of some prominence,
felt so badly about his ' daughter's
action that he took to drink and was
recently killed on a grade crossing in
South Dakota. Many think his death
was intentional. Probably by this time
Mrs. Fellows-Chaska has made up her
mind that it doesn't do to be a heroine
of a romance of the Roman order.
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