THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1908.
MCE UPMTI
The Wonderful Feat of a Gauni
; Kanaka Runner.
SEAT HALF A DOZEN HORSES
tt Was a Ttrrific Test of Endurance,
and tha Sturdy Hawaiian Native
Won Eaeily, Though Two of the
Competing Horte Dropped Dead.
"Did any of you ever hear of a thirty
It mile steeplechase for mau nnd
eeastr Inquired a California man In
a party of turf followers when stories
f queer bets and long shots were go
ing around. "Well, there was an affair
f that kind down In the Hawaiian
bunch In the fall of 1S83. when that
genial gambler, Kalakaua, was king
f the islands. There were no tele
phones joining the islands then, and
state messages and mandates were car
lied by the lnterlsland steamers and
ielivered by Kanaka runners. These
tanners could gallop all day, like
American Indians in retreat or on the
trail, and they didn't know what get
ting winded or tired meant
"Kalakaua thought a good deal of
these runners of his. He maintained
that they could go faster and farther
than horses over the Hawaiian coun
try. In this he was disputed by a num
ber of the white attaches of his court
Kalakaua wagered $5,000 in gobs of
11,000 with five of them that he would
ick out a runner from among the Ka
xakas who'd get from Hllo to the top
f the burning lake of Kllauea, a dis
tance of thirty-five miles, quicker than
any horse and any rider could do the
trip. They snapped the king up at even
oney. It looked as if they had the
good end of it The king and a big
party from Honolulu sailed in one of
the lnterlsland steamers to Hllo, on
the main island of Hawaii, to see the
Irish.
"The king picked up a huge, lithe,
sinewy Kanaka, a man about thirty
years old, who had been employed as
a runner on the island of Maui for a
amnber of years, to try the trick for
aim. Eight Kanakas made the start
-horseback, on native ponies, bred
away back from western cayuses
atrong, sure footed, nippy tempered
little demons, thoroughly used to the
tad roads and the climbing. The king
and his party had gone up to the Vol
cano House, at the top of Kllauea, in
coaches the day before to be on hand
to greet the winner.
"Now. I understand that that road
tnm Hllo up to the burning lake of
Kllauea has been Improved since the
time I'm speaking of, but it surely was
a bad trail then. It was only wide
enough for one wagon, and it was
a forty-five degree affair in the climb
all the way up. The palms that lined
the road used to get blown across the
trail by the score in big windstorms,
and the coach drivers counted it a part
af their business to jump from their
eats every time they came to these
bstructions and shoulder them out of
the way. This work had all been at
tented to carefully, however, in ad
rance of the race by order of Kala
lana, and it looked like a pipe for the
cayuses, all of which had made the
urn up many a time.
"Kalakaua didn't ask for any handi
cap allowance for his man. The ran
ker toed the scratch with the horses,
and they got off together at the crack
f the gun. The horses distanced the
runner from the jump, and he let them
distance him. He was dressed in a
ti string, and he just took up a steady
Jope and let the cayuses get out of his
sight For ten miles the cayuses were
so far above him on the trail that he
couldn't even see them, but this Kana
ka knew how to wait.
"The horses began to come back to
the runner long before the Halfway
Bouse was reached, and the Kanaka
was just galloping along at the begin
ning of the third hour, with the same
big stride he had started in with, his
arms up and shooting out In front of
lint like soldiers on the double time
trill. There wasn't a pant in him
when he fetched up at the Halfway
House. He stooped down there to a
spring beside the road and took a cou
ple of mouthfuls of water. The cay
uses were up ahead a bit, blowing their
leads off, for they had been going at a
clip that they had never been pushed
to before.
"The Kanaka headed the bunch a
anile beyond the Halfway House, and
it was a big romp for him the rest of
the distance. 'He took a position for
the remaining seventeen miles of the
journey about a city block ahead of the
writhing and panting horses, and he
Just stuck to his lope like a man wound
up. He never let 'em get nearer than
a block to him for the remaining three
lours of the trip, looking back at them,
with a grin, once in awhile. When only
three miles yet remained before the
Volcano House was to be reached, the
Kanaka took another drink out of a
spring and began to draw away. The
Kanaka riders whipped and spurred
their horses, but it was no good. The
Kanaka runner disappeared out of
their sight on the tortuous trail, and
when six of the cayuses pulled up at
hotel veranda about three-quarters
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of an hour later the runner was slt-
tlnff on the stens. fanning himself and
drinking saki. Two of the horses had
dropped dead in their final effort.
"The Kanaka made the thirty-five
mile trip over sticks and stones on a
tnirv road in C hours and 40 minutes,
and he looked fit to run for his life
when he got througli."-Washington
rost.
CAPTURED BY A TIGER.
TTii Fearful Experience of an English
Sportsman.
It is not often that a person who has
been In the claws of a tiger can tell
later how the experience seemed to
him. John Bradley, an English sports
man, had the good luck to escape with
his life from such a predicament and
in hte "Narrative of Travel and Sport"
tells what the sensation was like. He
was hunting tigers in the eastern part
of Burma when be met with the ad
venture. Two other Englishmen were
with him at the time:
We marched along carelessly, with
out observing order or caution, and
were not prepared to take advantage
of Akbars warning when he exclaim
ed, "Beware, sahib!" and a full grown
tiger went past us at a gallop.
A straggling volley was fired after it,
and, although evidently not struck, the
beast stopped and, rearing up on its
hind legs, clawed the bark of a tree
just as a cat scratches the leg of a
chair or a table.
Mr. Grant and I fired simultaneously,
but without effect, and before a
thought of the creature's intention had
time to flash through my mind l was
down under Its paws.
Seizing me by the left thigh, the tiger
shook me as a dog shakes a rat and
then, growling horribly, dragged me
at a tremendous rate through the thick
undergrowth of the forest 1 heard
the frightened shouts of my compan
ions and the report of several shots,
and then a dizziness came over me. but
I did not lose consciousness.
As I was jolted through the forest 1
several times caught bold of the trees,
but the tiger, growling fiercely, shook
me free in an instant. All this time,
although quite cairn and collected, 1
felt a strong desire to preserve my ex
istence and never for a moment ex
perienced that apathy with regard to
the danger that some persons have de
scribed under similar circumstances.
How long 1 was in the jaws of this
brute I cannot tell. It seemed to me
:sn age before the creature stopped.
My companions afterward declared
Unit I had been dragged at least half
l mile from the spot where 1 was first
seized. They followed as fast as they
mild run nnd. although I was mi
iware of it at the time, never lost
ight of the beast. To this circutn
tawe I uudoubtedly owe my life, for
tad there been any delay In rendering
ne assistance It must have been fatal
o me.
The moment the tiger baited it re
eased my thigh and seemed to be at
racted by the approach of my con
sanions, although as yet I did not see
hem myself. Taking advantage of
his release. I tried to escape to the
1 shelter of some tall bushes near at
hand.
in an instant and with a terrible roar
the creature pounced upon me. seizing
t.ie this time by the shoulder and at
the same time lacerating my chest
with its claws.
A shot was lircd, and I heard the
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bullet whistle overhead. Fear of bit
ting me had caused them to aim too
high. A second and third shot were
equally unsuccessful, nud the tiger,
again releasing me, began to lick up
the blood which oozed through my
Jacket I begin to feci very faint and
could n t suppress a gronn. Several
times t!;e tiger dabbed his paws, ap
parently In play, about my face, but
did not use Its claws, fortunately for
me.
Presently the beast seemed to be
seized with a sudden rage and began
to spit like an angry cat at Mine one
approaching, whose footsteps I could
hear, but whom I could not see owing
to my position, for I was lying flat on
my back. There was the sharp bang of
a rifle close to my head, a heavy weight
fell across me, and then I compre
hended that my friend was pulling me
from under the dead body of the tiger.
The Gates of Paradise.
Once In a year and at one place in
the world there Is a crush that sur
passes anything else of its kind in the
world. It Is the great fair of Bawa
Farid, which is annually held in the
town of Pak Pattan, in British India.
It is held in honor of the famous St.
Farld-ud-Din, surnamed Shakar Ganj.
or sugar store, from the fact that his
body had become so pure by continual
fasting that whatever was put into his
mouth, even earth and stones, was In
stantly changed Into sugar. The prin
cipal ceremony consists of passing
through an opening made In a wall ad
joining the shrine measuring 5 by 2Vj
feet nnd called "the gates of paradise."
Whoever between noon and night Is
able to pass through this opening is as
sured of paradise, and when there are
50,000 striving to pass through at the
same time the crush is something ter
rific. Women falut, bones are broken,
and the heat is stifling.
Gladstone's Eccentric Attire.
Mr. Gladstone cared little about per
sonal appearance, and had It not been
for the loving care of Mrs. Gladstone
his dress at times would scarcely have
been in keeping with the dignity of his
position.
"During one of the Midlothian cam
paigns," Mr. Lucy in "Memories of
Eight Parliaments" informs us, "when
be was a guest of Dalmeny he daily
wore an ancient, short cut. much fray
ed cape of the kind Shorn, Ham and
Japheth might have worn when they
took their walks abroad before the
flood necessitated the ark. It was
compact, of a cheap, shoddy material
called. 1 believe, vicuna. It was in
vogue, among other monstrosities of
fashion, in early Victorian days. This
was probably the only specimen left in
the last quarter of the nineteenth cen
tury. Even It could not debase or dis
guise tha native majesty of Gladstone's
presence."
To say "every one Is talking about
him" is a eulogy, but to say "every one
Is talking about her" Is an elegy.
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